skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
also, as Stephen Fry famously said, “It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what."
> So which was it, mass panic or hyped-up hysteria? Something in between?

Neither! It was a cover story for the incident when the Lectroids from Planet Ten smuggled their team (John Parrot, John Bigbooty, John Nolan, John O'Connor, John Small Berries, et al) into Yoyodyne. Saw a doc on this [1] back in the eighties. Welles was hypnotized for the coverup.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Buckaroo_Ban...
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The Sliding Window Pattern
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The Times as presented in the medium posts was pretty clear about what they wanted: they wanted the story to quickly go away. They judged (likely rightly) that the fastest way to do so would be for the journalist in question to issue a broad apology that admits to some wrongdoing without any kind of detail. This could then be spun down into a non-story (some kids were offended by what this guy said, you know how kids are; he later apologized for the dumb stuff he said, you know how old people are). The Times didn't care in any way if the reporter would remain with a reputation of being a bit of a racist, and the last thing they wanted was to give a point by point rebuttal that could in turn be rebutted point by point and endlessly discussed in forums and articles.

I'm not in any way claiming they were right to want this, that they were right to fire him over not agreeing with this plan, or that anything that happened here is good and normal. I'm claiming that the motivations are pretty transparent, though.
> significantly cheaper compared to a samsung or apple phone.

Shouldn't that be a huge red flag? Any time someone offers something too good to be true, it never is.

> Also it is likely the Chinese are spying on me indirectly

Why?

> I really have nothing significant on me that the Chinese would want to be concerned with me.

It's not just about you, dammit. [0]

By accepting their offer, you validate their actions. You give them bigger reach and make it easier for them to get people that might be of interest.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument
Passion seems to be an effect judged as a cause. If you work with pure pointless tedium for boxchecking, are micromanaged, have your inputs ignored and are 'not paid to think', or have to print and physically file a TPS report with a cover page for every Git revision the pointlessness grates which leads to not expressing passion. Cynical exploitation aside employers prefer peo

Someone offering a salary reduction for passion clearly isn't going to provide motivation any more than a suitor who just asks about how much money you or your parents make and how much is willed to you would love you.

But "work on a small team without the bueracracy on something neat but we can't pay AAA salary" does pull experienced employees from the big guys who want a change of pace.
Well. I said he was known. Not publicly known.

From his hand: “To stay anonymous, I wrote it under my first and middle names – Scott Alexander – while leaving out my last name.”

This is hardly a major attempt at anonymity.

Not that it matters but I’m very much in favour of remaining anonymous. I also am a fan of his writing.
I believe they're required to comply if asked. In theory they could have not been asked...
If you want to do something about it look into UBSan. Turn vague concerns into bugs, and then into commits :).

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer.html

UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer (UBSan) is a fast undefined behavior detector. UBSan modifies the program at compile-time to catch various kinds of undefined behavior during program execution, for example:

- Using misaligned or null pointer

- Signed integer overflow

- Conversion to, from, or between floating-point types which would overflow the destination

GCC has similar features.
Perhaps he wasn't "canceled", but he was repeatedly slandered and bullied by these "dumb people" who have outsized power due to the current state of identity politics that grants them a certain amount of power in modern society.

They slandered him unfairly, then prevented him from responding unless he met their demands of sending cash via Venmo for some supposed slight against black creators.

They did this in a semi-public forum without any concern for him or his reputation. They did it with zero fear of repercussions because they are emboldened by the fact that our current society makes certain people completely beyond reproach due to the color of their skin (or other identity characteristics).

It was wrong, and the fact that people won't call it out when they certainly would if the variables were changed, is exactly why these "dumb people" will continue to do it. Stop giving them a free pass.
I was really lucky to find the 5800X for sale directly from AMD. Looks like it's out of stock right now, but was definitely available for purchase even like a week ago. Just poor luck! Buying PC components right now is an absolute chore.
That is the case.
I think this is a general trend in China based discussions. Problem does exist in a vaccuum. Xiaomi phones have nothing to do with Google or any US based tech.

I am highlighting the absurdity of evaluating US ad-tech to 2 million people in concentration camps.
This sounds like Chinas social credit score but on a lower threshold.
Congrats on the release! Fish is a wonderful piece of software and keeps getting better.

I don't miss zsh and the pages of configuration at all.
We're going to have sea level rise in the region of 1-2 metres by end of the century, and 5-10 longer term.

Levees are expensive, and not always viable. It depends on the geography, the wealth of the city / county, the porosity of the ground, etc.

Some places will be sure to use levees, some won't.

With regards to crops, we don't know the outcome. If the Gulf stream stops or some regions dry out it could greatly affect crop yield, especially over the short-term. And that's all that matters for starvation to occur. The term year average yield isn't as important as this year's harvest.
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Maybe this is a very stupid question, but what's your business plan by starting with the second stage?

First stage reuse clearly aims to bring down cost and increase cadence/volume of standard launches (people and cargo to ISS, satellites).

But a reusable second stage doesn't offer any of that without a reusable first stage. It will certainly make a cool demonstrator, but who is going to pay for that? If SpaceX wouldn't bet on Starship, one might consider running on top of a modified Falcon 9, but the savings here aren't that big anymore.

So what's the plan? Acquisition by Blue Origin? Special down-mass missions for the military (But they have dreamchaser)?
There's reason to be concerned about all software.

But I agree that software from significantly non free nations is extra concerning.
"Russian Oligarch" has a more specific meaning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_oligarch
Four Arrested on 150 Counts of Voter Fraud
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I remember some story about the Soviet Union. People whose records had been lost could end up completely shut out from the system. Can't get a job, housing, etc.
> Most obviously in C, we note that a malloc() implementa- tion is usually written in C—or rather, in a subset of C that lacks malloc() since malloc() is mandated by the C standard.

Not always. Google’s tcmalloc is actually written in C++.

I actually would have agreed with a lot of this in 2017. However, in the past several years, I think Rust has been a game changer. It can interface with the C ABI. It can access the same low-level abstract machine that C can. It doesn’t have garbage collection or virtual machines. And it provides memory safety out of the box. In addition, features such as strong types and pattern matching help less logical bugs as well (like the compiler checking that you did not forget one arm of an Enum).

This is born out now that a lot of security facing software is starting to do at least part of their internals in Rust, where they had been in C before.

I think Rust is and will be even more in the future a game changer in how we write the foundation programs and libraries that the computing world is built on.
"I don't trust his writing style" is a fallacy of mammoth proportions.

Being a writer, he probably comes from a culture where people write lots of words and has many friends who respect people who write verbosely.

Someone's level of articulateness provides no information whatsoever of how truthful their writing is. There are countless extremely articulate lies told by people with mastery over their medium.
You mean a toy LISP or Scheme? Any serious LISP system uses a compiler. It compiles and runs strings. The "eval" creates native binary executable code.

No decent-performing system totally skips compilation. You just don't notice that it is happening. Even a web browser compiles the javascript before running it; that is what a JIT does.

I mentioned the syntax "(+ 1 1)" because you're trying to disqualify C++ homoiconicity on a superficial syntactic basis. If you can do that, then it is equally valid to say that LISP can't do simple addition.
There's a right balance, and expert coaches know what that balancing point is.

Another thing I forgot to mention is that in "ancient" societies, other mothers with experience would often help feed a new baby themselves until the new mother got up to speed.
This, this, this a million times.

Anyone you hear complaining about it is the very kind of person who needed to be on notice in the first place.
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Not super relevant, though. The average standard library from another language is a lot more hardened than the function written by Joe Sixpack in C last night.
This is a great idea! Thank you for sharing.

I noticed an issue for lines that are referenced by links. When I insert a new line above the linked line, the diagram loses linkages.

For example, in the example at flowchart.fun, inserting a new line above the first will destroy the diagram.
I have often thought something like this would work much better than those extensions which block websites outright. Sure, you can watch that youtube video, but you have to wait 10 seconds first.
A deluge of articles would have then followed, debating each of these points, corroborating with stuff the kids wrote etc. What you're saying makes sense if the purpose was to defend the journalist. But if the purpose is just to help the sorry die quickly, this wouldn't have been it.
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>> C and C++ can not be secure at scale without unreasonable amounts of effort. It can't be secure at any non-trivial scale through sheer discipline alone.

Agreed. That is why C and C++ should be replaced with more reliable alternatives.
I'm pretty sure that you either see the same thing as I do when you close your eyes, or you don't, and that it's very difficult to communicate about what "seeing" something in your mind actually means.
Cuomo Hires Criminal Defense Attorney
Good! He knows he is guilty - now send his ass to jail!
>I still find it quite bizarre that the mere utterance of the epithet, even in a sentence like "You should never call someone a <racial epithet> because that is extremely offensive" is considered itself racist by younger people.

It isn't, it is found offensive by crazy people.
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This has always been the case. Do you imagine news barons ever allowed journalists to publish stories that didn't suit their narrative?
I would also recommend listening to the 'Nice White Parents' podcast. I'd also add to that the 'School Colors' podcast https://www.schoolcolorspodcast.com/

Both of these podcasts explore the issues that inspire changes like these. If you've already made up your mind, you may not be convinced that abolishing gifted programs is the way to go, but at the very least both of these programs are entertaining and present a perspective that many people don't have. Especially for people on a forum like HN which includes many people who graduated from such programs and don't know what regular schools are like.
It was due to this:

A student asked me: “Do you think one of my classmates should have been suspended for using the N-word in a video from two years ago?”

I said: “Well, wait — what exactly happened on this video? Did she actually call someone “nigger”? Or was she just using it in passing, like quoting the title of a book?”

Because when he asked for context around how the person said “nigger”, he didn’t self-censor when making reference to the word.

That’s it.

That’s how bad this juvenile cancel culture mob has become. They let some 15 year old activist wannabe complain to the paper and get him fired.
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Definitely agree that it's frustrating to offer to teach someone to code or something, and they act like "Who the F are you to think you can teach me?" or "Nah, seems boring" but then they turn around and resent you for your success.

Some of the advice I wish friends would take is this: accept help wherever you can get it, as long as it won't distort your relationship or create an untenable dependency.
People choosing to no longer read content from or associate with a person who expressed a controversial opinion isn't new and it isn't even bad. That's the other side of the coin of free thought: people don't have to agree with you or listen to you and they're allowed to speak out against you if they want to.

Public and professional consequences have always existed and they always should. The idea that people should be able to do anything and never suffer repercussions for their actions would lead to an unhealthy world.
> Suspend or close your Account

I guess account is one whole system the way they built it so it includes his iCloud and whatnot.

This should be last resort solution for Apple. I’m thinking well past 3 months of notifications or something, maybe even a year, considering it goes beyond just the card itself.

Or just not have it affect other services at all.
Germany completely botched their distribution and storage systems, dropping clean nuclear without a plan in place to ensure that its replacement would work. The nation of Germany, however, did not invent the concept of installing solar panels, nor do they have a monopoly. I propose building more solar panels, ideally by subsidizing clean energy. What works best for that is, of course, best left to the market to decide.

Beyond that, why would adding more generative capacity deprive a billion people of electricity? Are you imagining that I think that tomorrow should mark the end of fossil fuels? Regardless of the fact that yes, non-emitting generation could provide power to just about everyone on Earth with capture to balance out the rest, that is just not what I was suggesting.
Not even 40 years ago, because exactly in 1981, C.A. Hoare stated on his Turing award speech,

"Many years later we asked our customers whether they wished
us to provide an option to switch off these checks in the interests of efficiency on production runs. Unanimously, they urged us not to--they already knew how frequently subscript errors occur on production runs where failure to detect them could be disastrous. I note with fear and horror that even in 1980, language designers and users have not learned this lesson. In any respectable branch of engineering, failure to observe such elementary precautions
would have long been against the law."
I grew up in bright red land, the sort of community where one is obligated to go to church when visiting home and folks notice if you don’t. Shooting clay follows the Easter egg hunt. Gay marriage is sinful and we all learned in Sunday school that Rome fell because of the bathhouses.

I know well what a wide variety of political viewpoints looks like, because I’ve lived in at least three extremes. Have you?

Harvard’s faculty is left of center in aggregate (did I ever say otherwise?) but they aren’t uniformly radical and there are a lot of moderates and conservatives in the ranks.
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Australia has similar laws also.
Considering the current target of deplatforming is the far-right, and given Germany's history specifically, they have a lot of reasons not to trust local hardware and software. The same goes for the Le Pen crowd in France, a somewhat adversarial government on the other side of the globe is often less risky than the status quo across the pond allied to the current French establishment.
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