skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think phrasing it as 3% is a little misleading. Another way to view that same study is roughly 15% of Hispanics (and 21% of Hispanic women) who have heard the word have almost immediately adopted using it to describe themselves. That gives a slightly different picture on its adoption.

I did some quick searching and couldn't find parallels for adoption rates among other groups for new terminology. For example, the Black community has gone through several different self identifying nomenclature changes over the years. Were any of those changes immediately and universally accepted within a handful of years? My guess is probably not.
The company I work for did something similar at the end of last year. We had consultants who went over everything, and made a massive document of all sorts of things they deemed "problematic". Along with a week long of seminars/training/workshops on sensitivity/inclusion/etc.

- Everyone had to list what pronouns they wanted people to use. In slack / our email footers everything. This was not optional. We were also told that referring to people by their names instead of pronouns can be offensive.

- Words such as "master", "owner", among some other ones were deemed problematic and needed to be changed. Ironically they also said use of "CRUD" was inappropriate because it was slang for poop.

- We have a bunch of things where we have an owner of users/reports/etc, and we have a bunch of code with stuff like "listUsersOwnedByUser", which apparently could be construed as offensive by certain groups of people.

- A bunch of verbs such as "see", or "visible" could be ablest, etc.

- Our company had a completely optional get out/get exercising type of thing since everyone is WFH, and apparently exercise could be considered offensive to people.

- Our company of 300 people does not have some sort of LGBTQIA+ outreach program.

Some of it made sense, but a lot of it was frankly so nitpicky and difficult to even understand. Pretty much everything we were told/taught went out the window almost immediately.
>it's not necessarily good to have one person be the house spouse only and then come out the other end with no skills.

I don’t want to speak for them but I think part of the OP’s point is that this isn’t the takeaway we should have, but rather recognize and value the transferable skills one acquires in the role of a stay-at-home parent. It’s not unlike the trouble many military members had decades ago before there were as many resources to help employees and employers understand what skills transfer across domains
Assumed is the model of production: bespoke assets for each game.

This is untenable going forward if the industry continues to have a rising cost curve. Raph Koster's discussion of game cost is a good overview of what's happening and the challenges that result from it.

The step towards an NFT market begins with the creation of viable transfer mediums - assets not optimized towards particular games but with a reasonable degree of retargetability. The market for modding and independent asset creation then writes to that format and some games start to subscribe to it, enacting a "Multiverse". At that point opting in to an NFT market and allowing trade across games becomes a viable way to offer new experiences at lower cost, and the tokens themselves are meaningful for the same reasons that existing microtransaction tokens are - use value in-game, ability to "flex", but probably not an in-game advantage(unless we go full "Barcode Battler" and manufacture a randomized meaning from the token).

This isn't hypothetical - ESPA/Digitalax is an example of an attempt to make this market. It's pre-launch with a lot of unanswered elements on the technology side of things - I doubt the format that they currently propose - but the concept otherwise makes sense, and it's possible to pivot, aim lower, and not go for universal formats right off the bat.
Looks good for a LinkTree clone.

Could you tell me why I should switch to your service? Do you have a feature comparison with the incumbent?

https://linktr.ee/
I think the endgame is machine learning based blocking and Apple/Mozilla disabling API's used for fingerprinting.

I think Google pre-emptively locked down Chrome API to prevent ML based blocking from working. This would explain their fixed URL block list and removing interactive API
In the business-is-booming scenario you mention... could tech support and physical security be done in such a way that it's feasible to pay those people the same comfortable salary as the senior engineers? Such as with help of technology, and making the positions small in number and high in skill?

I haven't thought it through, but my initial gut feel is: possibly, if you did it from the start in an org.

My next question: if you're successful with creating that warm-fuzzy equitable utopia, but it can't be extended to the whole of society (due to scalability, entrenched interests, conventions, or whatever), then what's the moral and emotional situation around hiring going to be like?

For example, if hiring for a particular role would elevate dramatically the economic situation of a typical person with that skillset, how do you weigh that motivation to hire as many of those people as you can, against, say, better profitability?

For an emotion example related to that, let's say you can only hire one person, but there are multiple awesome candidates. This is not an unusual situation, and one normally feels a bit bad, but how much worse will you feel, if you're turning people down for a dream job that's "well above market" that they won't find anywhere else? (I'm not suggesting one shouldn't become a doctor because they'll feel bad when they can't heal all their patients, but the question seems worth considering. And maybe the question helps to better understand or articulate what it is everyone believes and wants to do, and what the scope it. Is it explicit that we think such-and-such is a good model for humanity, and we've decided can best tackle that within our little microcosm and whatever example (and market pressure) it sets, and so we're scoping it this-and-that?)

BTW, I'm not so worried about retaining the senior engineers, when the person with the (in some ways harder, some ways easier) job of custodian makes as much money as them. If the salary is good, and the work is good, I suspect there's plenty of highly-skilled engineers who'd want to work in a cultural environment like that. And who knows what all effects that might have, or what other crazy, appealing ideas might be pursued there.
Why would I trust that what FLoC is presented as being is actually just that and only that? Everything google makes seems like bait and switch lies massaged by lawyerspeak to make it legal. Like anyone else who has burned me and my friends in the past, they have to show me they have nothing up their sleeve first
How do these Premium Droplets stack up against CPU-Optimized droplets?

At SFO2 the $130 a month CPU-Optimized droplet I was forced to upgrade to has a slow Xeon Gold 6140 CPU, I only upgraded as CPU steal was consistently above 20% even after stopping all services on the VM, and DigitalOcean support was useless (24+hrs to respond to the ticket or any updates thereafter).

I was about to kill this CPU-Optimized and move over to Linode (already moved Gitlab and a few other resources since they have a written CPU steal policy unlike DO), but these new VMs might be worth a spin.

Details on aforementioned CPU: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/120485/...
I get flagged all the time on HN these days... For pointing out facts typically. But even as you suggested “slippery slopes” etc.

For example yesterday I pointed out everything from the COVID numbers on the CDC website (showing death rates are not as bad as they seem) or that covid vaccines are 100x more dangerous than standard vaccines lol

https://wonder.cdc.gov/controller/saved/D8/D124F787

Frankly, it’s become exhausting posting here. I don’t even want to participate.
The point is that nuclear is indeed capable of being built rapidly. Over the span of 15 years France went from 10% nuclear power to 80%. You claim that nuclear can't be built at speed, and that this isn't borne out by reality. This is not only untrue, it is the opposite of true: it was borne out by reality.

You're making a sharp pivot here, away from construction time to cost. Yes, nuclear is much cheaper when the same design is built repeatedly instead of first-of-a-kind reactors. This is already well known.

Solar and wind are cheaper in terms of raw generation costs, but don't actually offer a path to decarbonization because of their intermittency. Solar and wind are cheap when they supplement fossil fuels. But they need to be paired with storage to be used as a primary source of power, and we don't have a feasible plan to provide that much storage let alone how much it'd cost.
Worth noting that PiHole also resolves CNAMEs and blocks them if they're on your filter list.
> I disagree with unilateralism

I mean, that's my point too. There's a camp of people who will say "don't prematurely optimize! profile and tune the hotspots later" as a blanket rule and I think that's dumb. And I thought you were espousing that.
That's nice, at least everyone can have a secondary backup now. Although this part seems worrying:

> Only the most recent edit of the photo is transferred and not the original version. Duplicates appear as just one photo.

What other caveats are there? I don't think people will like the data loss, I would want to keep the originals too.
strncpy was never intended to be a safer strcpy. It was created for a very specialized use case in the Unix kernel--copying a string-ish identifier to a fixed-size char field that only uses NUL termination if the identifier is shorter than the field size. Because of how the C language and the Unix kernel coevolved, it became part of the standard C library by default. I've seen it used for it's original semantics in only a handful of places, but in general it's almost always misused.

To be clear, strncpy does not guarantee NUL termination. It takes a C string as the source argument, but it doesn't write out a C string; it writes out a very esoteric data structure that is unfortunately easily confused with a C string.

By contrast, strlcpy was intended to be a safer string copy routine: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/usenix99/full_papers/mil... In particular, it was designed to be what people seem think strncpy is. Its return value semantics are controversial, though mostly only among the glibc crowd as every other Unix libc, including musl and Solaris, now provide it. But the semantics were designed based on experience in fixing old C code, and observations about how developers tend to write C code, not based on prescriptive theories about how people should manipulate C strings in C code.
Honest question: how would you pronounce "Latinx" in Spanish?

Aren't we grafting what's, at its roots, a germanic construction onto a latin-based word? It makes absolutely no sense to me.
strongly agree
You're trying to make parent doubt their own memory. The only out you have that distinguishes that from gaslighting is that you weren't being subtle about it.
Crushing Corporate Culture
In all fairness it's only been around a bit over a year (and MERS/SARS were rare enough to have limited data). The dead/non-dead distinction has been the top priority. And I don't think the data is non-existent, but on an educated guess I'd say the top minds have more been on developing treatments, vaccines, and generally reducing mortality and morbity - and the balance of research reflects it. Sadly there will be time to measure the long term consequences. For now what more can they do than tell everyone to socially distance and wear masks, and get vaccinated as soon as possible?
No more than a rounding error thought some of these books were offensive. Even if it was a decent size of the population, just don’t read the books to your kids.
According to Scrum, the manager should not even be present during the daily stand-up.

(More precisely, in Scrum there is actually no such thing as a manager. But often the manager is a replacement for product owner. However, the product owner should not be present during the daily stand-up. It should only be developers talking to developers, with scrum master acting as a moderator, essentially reminding everyone to keep it short.)

> I've felt the most comfortable where we sat down once a week for an hour, went over the last week, and thought about the next.

In Scrum, this is called retrospective, and is considered the only non-optional part. Ironically, in most companies this is the only part of Scrum that gets removed as a "waste of time".

> One thing I have never enjoyed was the "the big boss wants this project done ASAP, have standups every day to make sure it gets done as fast as possible".

This is what Scrum is explicitly against. The big boss should not even be involved; the developers should be talking to the customer directly. The customer decides what is the highest priority, but the developers decide how long it will take. The entire purpose of planning is to negotiate this; like the customer says "I want X and Y", the developers say "we can't do both in one month, but either of them is doable alone, which one is more urgent for you", the customer says "in that case, I want X", and the developers say "okay, let's meet in a month, you will have X, and we will show you a demo".
Does this imply NoScript just hasn't migrated to newer APIs, or does uBlock do something extreme to achieve it?
no-cache: you MAY store this, but you MUST revalidate with the server before using it

must-revalidate: you MUST revalidate with the server before using this after it expires

They overlap but address different things; no-cache is for cacheability while must-revalidate is for validity. I don't think either of them are named very well.
It does and helps keep oneself sane but that doesn’t make the problem disappear. I think engaging IRL is what will get us out of this mess. I hope
Yeah. Lets become drones and all live in a giant hive. Good plan.
Your own personal COL adjustment is what matters.

If you are happy living in a rented room and you like to order your food in bulk over the internet, the high-cost city will be a better deal. The 10x higher cost of housing isn't much for your rented room, the 2x cost of most things is avoided, and the 2x increase in salary can go toward ordering more stuff on the internet.

If you want some room to spread out, that 10x higher cost of housing will destroy your finances. The 2x higher salary doesn't come close to making up the difference.

I know a San Francisco native who left. On an ordinary developer salary, he bought 11 acres of land. He has sheep, because he likes sheep, I guess. He can even shoot an AR-15 in his yard. Just how much would it cost to get that in his native San Francisco? What salary would be needed? Do normal developers get that salary? (for calculation purposes, you can skip the lobbying effort)

Scaling down a bit, I'm also a Bay Area native who left. (at age 9 though) My house is 3109 square feet on 0.39 acres, just 0.9 miles from the ocean. How much would that run? My food costs are high already, due to a huge family, recently about $48,000 per year. That would double. What kind of salary would I need to get this? Is it normal for a developer?
Had you ever heard of these six books before today? Have you ever read them?

Um, yes, of course. Have you not?
The Ultimate Hacking Keyboard: A long term report
HEY World (blogging direct from HEY email)
>Are you suggesting some of us may be NPCs?

Yes. Although it's of no consequence, since nobody can prove they have a consciousness. It may be a non-binary state as well. (Ever lived for a few days "on automatic"?)

On the extreme ends, consciousness may logically appear anytime between existing in the womb (or even earlier?) and the first years of our lives. (There are anecdotes online of people who remember suddenly being self aware around 3 years old.) It might disappear anytime during the last years of our lives and on or before our death (I doubt any later, but who knows...). (Elderly people who suddenly regress into a purely reactive state, no longer taking conscious decisions, come to mind.)

(Appearing and disappearing could either mean coming into and out of existence, or attaching to our body from some greater or external mass of consciousness.)

>I think there is an observer in your mind, and it is part of your mind, but it tricks you it into thinking that it is not.

That is possible too.

Or the mind tricks the consciousness into thinking it's part of the body.

>So what does the first person experience when it has no memories or feelings or sensory-motor input?

I cannot imagine. Memories are a physical state of the brain, so perhaps any physical shape can qualify as memories. Senses are electrical signals, so perhaps any electrical signals can qualify. Perhaps something else entirely. It definitely would not be anything like the human experience, though.

Lightning striking down a tree is an electrical signal changing physical state.
Comcast was around 1500/128 kbps in 1998, 6000/384 kbps in 2007, and I currently have 300/15 Mbps, so we've made some progress since 1996.
I see mostly pros in agile, especially compared to the waterfall methods it replaced. Of course there is no methodology that cannot be wrecked by stupidity and pretense. Done well I have seen the following benefits from sprints and standups:

* Sprints
- Instill a sense of urgency
- Reduce scope to a manageable set
- Allow for short-term planning and reflection (and short term is the only term that works)
- Align the team

* Daily Standups
- Provide a relatively cheap and high-bandwidth way to disseminate information.
- Keep the team bonded and allow for early course corrections.
Mark’s Twitter feed is also entirely redux based. ;p
The plant was fully capable of continuing operation, but they're restricted in how much they can increase the temperature of the river used for cooling. There has been no demonstrated impact of reactor cooling on fish populations, so this is really just the government shutting down the nuclear plant just for the sake of it.
I'm saying that the Hollywood Blacklist is pretty much universally considered to have been a Bad Thing nowadays, even though, yes, it was perfectly legal.

It's also a suggestion that perhaps one might want to think about what could happen should the "cancellation" shoe suddenly be on the other foot, as it well might. These things can change, sometimes faster than people expect them to.

Robespierre was pretty surprised when the mob showed up at his door, you can bet.
I think I wasn't fair in this comment, because it suggests that it is easy to do, when it actually isn't. For example, a cogntive control task might have an easy and hard condition. You'll end up with significant activation all over the brain for either of them, and their contrast will still have significant differences between the conditions all over the place too (e.g. SMA, pSMA, Anterior Insula, Anterior Cingulate, Posterior Cingulate Cortex, visual and motor cortex, cerebellum, etc. etc. etc.). Because the brain is doing all kinds of things during the task, and any "subroutine" is still going to involve communication between lot of places. But if the idea that function isn't localized, i.e. going back to a naive connectionist paradigm, then, sorry, no. The distribution of activations we get are often quite stereotyped, and if we are more careful and specific with our models we can localize function often even better.
74% of American families own a computer. The other 26% do not. Incomes are also highly clustered- chances are any given cohort of high school students either has 90% or more or 10% or less kids with computers, without a lot in between. Relatively poor districts may have a very general computer literacy class (typing, word processing, spreadsheets) but won't have a programming class, because the logistics of getting them adequate time at a computer to complete the work is impossible.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/756054/united-states-adu...
Club houses inability to turn off alerts in the app is an example of this. The best is to minimise alerts and pause them for a week. There be other dark patterns in there to get you hooked. I’ve set my account to counteract these.

My prediction is like all popular new things it’ll turn shitty in 3 years time. Sad but that’s what I expect from SV. Facebook Google Amazon Atlasssian etc have prepared me. I’m vaccinated!
Exploiting model's ability to read text robustly
Hispanic means Spanish speaking. Spain is Hispanic but not Latin. Brazil is Latin but not Hispanic.
You've heard something three times on one of the most popular podcasts in the world? Well that settles it, his friend definitely can't have said it then.
People sometimes just highlight one or more key quotes from the article, as a tl;dr or to emphasize something of interest
“very racist books“

Really? Very racist? You don’t think you’re exaggerating with the “very”?

If “what I saw on Mulberry street” counts as “very racist” where do you put “Huckleberry Finn” or “To kill a Mockingbird” with their colorful language?

I mean you have two great American classics unapologetically using the n-word vs a cartoon of a Chinese kid dressed as he did a few decades before the book was written.

N-word vs. kid dressed as he dressed.

Don’t you think “mildly discomforting depiction of a foreigner?” is more proportional?
Well this is very interesting. Congrats on the marketing, I’m going to check this out
And how many of the people using Firefox use it with uBlock? I know I don't :)
In essence, discipline.

Motivation is fleeting, sometimes it's not there. And in those situations, discipline helps you continue doing what you do.
How do you define doublethink?
It's interesting that the "dreadfulness" of OS seems to perfectly correlated with number of users (Android, Windows, iOS, macOS, Linux).
The most disturbing thing about this phenomenon is its encouragement to essentially attempt to destroy and rewrite history. I am more offended by that than anything else. The past may not have been very nice to certain groups, but it is what it is --- a historical artifact to learn from and remember. The other comments here comparing it to the Cultural Revolution are very relevant.
A lot of nostalgia for me. Early in my career I frequented turntable with my all night coding sessions. Was really disappointed to see it shutdown.
Wouldn't you prefer to pay less?
If that were true, than paying any satisfactory wage at all would be highly harmful to society; in fact for optimal societal benefit, all persons should be kept under severe duress at all times, to ensure sufficient and continuous motivation.
https://twitter.com/colbertlateshow/status/98899180972331827...

Hank literally agrees with me. Of course I'm not saying that in general, but in this specific case its absolutely the right thing to do.
At first I was going to say that I wasn't arguing for anything, but really everyone has dropped the ball here.

The same places that did the tests had the infrastructure to follow up with people and could have been doing this 6 months ago, and that has nothing to do with the "top minds" at all.

That, alongside the failed, poorly implemented or nonexistent contact tracing methods have made getting this metadata much more difficult to do.
Virtue signaling is such a great descriptive term for a lot of behavior. It's such a shame that it got politicized.
Not at all -- you're using a very specific word to refer to someone that they could consider inaccurate. If in AAVL there's some word that would refer to me as a woman or straight or a diff identity than I have, I wouldn't like that very much.