skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, but you get a whole new word for referring to all the dads in your group.
This is why so many people just can't take this stuff anymore. It never ends. Someone is always going to be offended. That's the world we live in. I know of people who are offended by my mere existence. Shall I submit to their preferences as well? :)
The fact that you can go buy many different copies of Mein Kampf off eBay but not Dr. Seuss is.. interesting?

I suppose they can do whatever they want on their platform but that just seems a bit arbitrary to me.
Yes, people like free stuff better than expensive stuff. But when you offer people a dollar to track them, they happily accept.
I think it's the least clever idea since Person Potato Head.
> I'm starting to get invited to meet in person for business and some are like "I get tested every week". And I just say sorry I don't make exceptions.

Make a list now, so that you remember who the idiots are after everyone is vaccinated.

I've already had to re-plan my reintroduction to retail after finding out a few of my preferred shops weren't obeying mask mandates, or in one case actively flouting them.

It will be easy to forget and put it all behind us. Don't. We're lucky to receive such useful side-channel data.
The original intro song to Aladdin had the line, “where they’ll cut off your ear if they don’t like your face”. Here’s a a flashback to 1993: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-07-10-ca-11747-...

The real racism in that movie was portraying the king and his daughter as too stupid to realize that they could each get wishes from the lamp prior to Aladdin freeing the genie.
"And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street”

“If I Ran the Zoo”

“McElligot’s Pool”

“On Beyond Zebra!”

“Scrambled Eggs Super!”

“The Cat’s Quizzer”

because the books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.

We have truly entered the age of infinite bullshit.
If you make a website selling used Seuss books and your bank cancels you I'll support you.

If you make a social media site that organizes domestic terror and your bank cancels you then that's your problem.
What exactly is Oxide doing? Which parts of Sun is it trying to take after? I'm guessing hardware isn't the majority of its focus, since most people who've publicly acknowledged being hired are software people, but the Oxide landing page makes it seem like it is.

Love the podcast, by the way! Off-topic, but on the note of retrocomputing and Sun appreciation: Would you consider putting that copy of Spring you have on the Internet Archive? It would be a wonderful act of preserving the history of computing: there isn't a single copy on the Internet.
What would it look like if it were real, and you went outside to socialize? Would you expect to see people randomly keeling over?
>It is one thing for libraries and bookstores to decide not to offer for borrowing or sale things that they disagree with.

If the library is publicly funded, then I don't really think this is OK. They might decide to not purchase additional copies of some books they disagree with, but I certainly don't want them to limit lending of what they have.

If the library takes no public money then they can obviously do whatever they want.
Tom and Jerry, you're next: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammy_Two_Shoes
I understand the problem you’re talking about, but the way you said “available evidence” made me think you had something more data-oriented than Steve Yegge’s blog post and HN comments.
People are in fact suffering for not having Fortnite skins:

https://www.thegamer.com/fortnite-default-insult-kids/

This might even be the point of having scarce skins, if we combine it with the causes for bullying:

https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/most-teen-bullying-occurs-among...

I can agree with limitations giving structure to our expression, but the consequences don't end there.
The similar list from ClickHouse repository: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/blob/master/base/ha...
Tell us more. You got fired because you refused to use some batshit pronouns people insisted on?
I don't necessarily think eBay should be forced with legal might to sell these books -- but it's a terribly bad look for their company. Book banning has always felt scummy to me, and I always think back to being a child when many in my community participated in Harry Potter book burning events. Book burning, witch burning, it's all mob mentality and it's terrifying.
History is written by the victors in all cases. If Hua and Deng didn't win against the Gang of Four, you'd have a different history of the cultural revolution. Fortunately, they won.

America's won too much, even when we're wrong or stupid, and our historical frame has suffered.
Sometimes what other people want is dumb. The challenge for smart people to separate their bias from their judgement.
Querides lectores would be an option for Spanish.
Dijkstra probably would disagree, but his isn't a common opinion.
Have you seen the recent article in the NY Times about labour relations at Smith College, where a black woman who graduated from an elite Connecticut prep school managed to get four local employees fired over allegations of racism and sicced her Twitter army on them? There was an external investigation that found no fault with the fired employees and no systemic racism, yet the solution was to implement sensitivity training for the staff.

Me? I was told by a genderqueer woman at a sister college of Smith during a job interview that she does not get along with older men.

My wife? She is a faculty member at another Amherst area college and was told by a colleague that she is held in high regard because she is BIPOC. That is shit so tasteless that you can't make it up, so it must be true.

The atmosphere at colleges in the Northeast is fucked up beyond description, and playing ostrich is just that, hiding from reality. Unfortunately, reality won't change anytime soon.
At my previous job, I used to run "office hours" originally as a way to onboard new engineers. They later turned into discussions on technical topics when someone needed it.

It really depends on the nature of your project and knowing the limits of async communication. If you have lots of contributors, it might help.
I agree that lots of HN is out of touch but rsync is a very robust and widely used tool.

Furthermore, i don’t see the privacy implications as it’s a client side tool so while it could fuck up downloading I don’t see how it could leak photos. If it were to break, it would just be another piece of buggy apple software of which there are many.
Futhark 0.19.1 Released
Non pay walled version?
Welcome to the Graveyard![1]

[1] https://killedbygoogle.com/
What's a terminology to replace 'master' in the case of a 'master list'. I've used 'primary' and 'main', but they both imply the existence of a secondary or other acceptable replacement, which is rarely the case. "Single source of truth" is too cumbersome and often the incorrect context. 'Prime' looks like the best candidate going by synonyms. 'Authoritative' has too many syllables, although gets the point across.

Blacklist and whitelist, when looking at the etymology these terms are obviously problematic, and I happily use block/ban list and allow list. Easy. Even "Green list" and "Red list" would work fine, traffic lights won't mind.

Sanity check, never thought about that one. "Sense check" may have similar connotations, but the word sense, itself, has multiple meanings, so that's got a backdoor. Congruity check? I don't want to have to explain the word every time I ask for someone to "congruity check" a set of data.
> "I get tested every week"

right, yeah that doesn't tell you anything, it tells that person whether they need to quarantine for an additional week and is only useful if they hadn't seen anyone the prior 7 days.

I hear many quips like "I already had it last year" or still even people that think their one test once says they were negative and thats that.

The crazy thing, the crazy thing, is that these aren't even the people that don't understand thermodynamics and think seeing hot breath in front of a mask proves that masks offer no protection effective against covid aerosols.
Those are the same people who aggressively tailgate you when you're doing the speed limit in the slow lane.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comstock_laws
Harry Potter Dataset
This is sorely needed. People are starting to get desperate - who knows how many outcomes could be improved with earlier medical diagnostics and intervention. We need clear guidelines to give those recovering a better chance of not slipping into the pit of a chronic illness.

I will say, as I've been trying to tout on every "long Covid" thread I come across - it seems that rest is crucial. Your best option, obviously, is to not get Covid in the first place. But if you do, after you've passed through the 2 week acute phase, rest like your life depends on it. Extremely light exercise only, take as much time off work as possible, and pay close attention to how your recovery is progressing.

The usual caveats apply - not a doctor, evidence is completely anecdotal and based on my experiences, this is not medical advice, etc etc - but scheduled, compulsory rest helped me a great deal at my worst. So much of my downward spiral could likely have been abated by avoiding overexertion, prolonging the rest period after the acute phase of the illness, waiting even longer before jumping back into exercise and full work days (3-4 months as opposed to 3-4 weeks) but that is so antithetical to how we think we're supposed to act after we "get over" an illness.
Ah, it took us a global pandemic for people to finally start talking about upload speeds.

Good though.
Did you scroll down to "Share of children who were born outside of marriage" on your link? Because it's way up.

Is it really better that divorces are down when people aren't even bothering to get married before having kids?
> There's also a lot of "New" versions of older European locations as a way to distinguish them from other similarly named places when there aren't any rivers nearby, I guess

A whole lot of those “New” places (unsurprisingly, given patterns of human habitation more generally) have rivers nearby.

> There's Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA.

And Cardiff by the Sea, Carmel-by-the-Sea, and Corona del Mar, CA.
Just as well, maybe there's just one single consciousness that exists beyond time, taking turns to experience everything for its eternity.
I saw some of the images. eBay's actions seem a bit heavy handed, but I think its entirely appropriate that the Seuss estate wishes to stop producing new copies. If I was a parent and I randomly bought a Seuss book and got the racist caricature I saw, I'd be disappointed in the brand.

Most purchasers of Seuss books are not looking to start a dialog with their toddler about racism.
The Universal Loader for Go
Italy, EU block AstraZeneca vaccine shipment to Australia
I most certainly do! I was referring to this specific annotated version, which also indicates that it was edited... having read the book I just don’t see how annotations would change anything about how racist and anti-Semitic the book is. EBay’s police indicates that they remove racist and offensive items... there’s nothing about leaving those listings up so long as there is a stern disclaimer that the item is, in fact, quite offensive. I perhaps incorrectly assumed some of the more virulent nonsense was edited out.
“folks” can’t be gender-neutrally translated in some languages (e.g. spanish) so folx is considered more inclusive.
That article was probably in a tab that I closed.
Agreed, I don't see how using 'blocklist' is too much to ask, it means exactly what it says
Linux Kernel vs. Memory Fragmentation (Part 1)
Economies are not zero sum. Every transaction has winners on both sides. People need different things at different times.
History is a lot more complicated and varied than the victors writing histories. Actually, it's people who know how to write that write history that writes history. Even then, they are not the final words on the subject.

Who care about the conqueror and winners of wars if they aren't literate?
Also on the page: a man with a 10 foot beard, a magician, and a Chinese man. Only one is identified with his race, and is dressed up as a stereotype that was already out of date in 1950. It's also not the only racial stereotype in the book. We'll sidestep for now Seuss's use of racial caricatures during wartime propaganda. Listen, I'm not Chinese, and I can't tell you to be offended, but I can certainly look at it and empathize with the people who do find it offensive.

As for the second question, that's a question for Dr. Seuss Enterprises; they made this decision about the works in their custody.
No, formal verification would not help with code being accidentally quadratic due to a standard library function doing something different from what the author thought it did. The lack of a formally verified json parser is also almost certainly not why the author of the code chose to roll their own parser rather than using one the of many pre-existing libraries.
What ideology produced these books?
I've actually been thinking about doing this. Because its the same people that have moved the goal post to new forms of idiocy after their various

"it doesn't exist"

"its just the flu"

"nothing you can do to stop it anyways"

"5G over the air microchips"

"dna-rewriting vaccines"

ideas fell apart and were just led to other wacky ideas.
Cable isn't the only problem, companies like AT&T are too.

I don't think the money has to go to municipal fiber though. I'm currently in a rural city running 1Gbps/1Gbps with no data caps because of a small company got extra funding.
What a cop out. Why carry water for the awful way the internet is heading?

Perhaps it’s because the net of the past used to be a “wild frontier” not owned by a couple companies is why people have nostalgia. Those companies can make major decisions for the web based on solely on securing their own profit.
I have substantial historical evidence that I prefer chocolate ice cream to cherry, alas it is unpublished unless you count grocery receipts. :-)
Ah the typical authoritative propaganda “they are all the same, at least we have order”. No we don’t have in the US a non elected politburo making nationwide decisions on speech issues.
Discord is my most important household management tool
Retribution, vengeance and holding grudges isn't how we're going to build a stronger society. I think we all need to practice forgiving the people, no matter how awful they've been, are, or will be.

Don't get me wrong, I'm enraged at the lunacy of some. But I don't think we're going to be better off in aggregate by insisting on payback.
probably a Judge(?)
I don’t understand the line of logic here. What does nostalgia for the internet of twenty years ago have anything to do with the way big advertising takes advantage of us now?

They use underhanded, arguably immoral, technological tricks that most general internet users might not even be aware of, much less understand how to defend themselves. It has nothing to do with the fact they never experienced the ‘old’ internet, they just don’t understand how or why they are being taken advantage of.

The HN crowd isn’t mad about obscene privacy practices because of nostalgia. They’re mad about it because they understand the actual technological mechanisms behind it, and how they work. And why the way big advertising exploits those mechanisms is so f’ed up.

Edit: Sorry, maybe I’m getting too angry. I think I see what you were going for, about many HN frequenters pining for the days of old. But I don’t agree with the idea that general internet users who weren’t online back then are okay with the current state of big advertising tracking technology. I think they just have no idea how or why it works.

I think many people are confused and frustrated that seemingly every random site or social media app they use seems to be aware of everything they do and look at online.
> You can work yourself into some weird corners because of how permissive the language is, where in a (strongly) typed language, the complier just says no.

Could you share an example?
LambdaChip: Write Scheme on Embedded System
Does turntable.fm actually make money or have a business model?
> Looks like it now can do Ed25519 vs just NSA Suite B for ECC, which was a real irritation previously.

The Nitrokey Start supports Curve25519, though it was (strangely) the only device they sold with such support before the new 3 series. It seems as though they inherited Curve25519 support by basing the Start on gnuk, with their 2 series not having support for it.

Honestly the main thing I'm hyped for is that they finally have a Yubikey Nano competitor. My last NitroKey broke because it stuck out and took quite a beating (sadly it seems their USB-key-like design is less durable than the Yubikey unibody design), so I expect the new form factor to last much longer.
You must eat a lot faster than I do :-)
Good for you that you can close tabs, unfortunately that article is an account of daily life for many academics and university staff. Read it, you cannot discuss labour relations at colleges in the Northeast (and I guess many Silicon Valley companies) without taking this article into account.
Read content from links without having to load the whole page
My wife was friends with Damore during the time of the memo, publicly stated she supported his views and was torn to shreds for it so you are correct.
I came to the US at 20 and was surprised girls used guys to refer to other a group of girls. I stored it like that and sparingly used it and nobody ever got visibly offended but now I can’t be certain. Now i have to erase it from my informal repertoire lest I offend someone or even worse get sued or something. As I i got older I find it hard to change these autopilot things. Again, I am not wishing to degrade anyone but am afraid someone will punish me for it. There are other examples that I could probably have a hard time unlearning as well and this only gives me more anxiety everytime I open my mouth in public. Im lucky Im somewhat a goofy person and blunders are forgiven easier but in these times one never know. Some anxiety is unavoidable these times and frankly I think this is a force that will drive groups of people apart
A lot of it was written in Turbo Pascal, which (among many other things that would have caused Niklaus Wirth to break out in hives) let you include inline machine code (and later, inline assembly language).
So true. I enjoy discussing parenting articles with our 8 year old.

Yesterday it was one about "yelling less and praising less" [0]. We had a great discussion about the concepts. Then some fun trying out faint praise and faint yelling.

I think discussing with kids how things used to be, and why we try and do things differently now, is super powerful - that notion of historical change helps kids think at a higher level. Yes, things were not always rosy, and they aren't even now.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/03/hunt-gath...
This is just an honest feedback from someone who lives in the Bay Area.

This will work for literally anyone who doesn’t live in the Bay Area.

This might work for Bay Area people who retired early or without a mortgage responsibility.

But for folks who do have a mortgage or other big monetary responsibilities in the Bay, $175k cash without equities is simply too low. Especially considering how many unicorns are popping the last one year.
Photos of Russia in 1941
Honestly, I think most of these things are essentially tribal. A great source of data to support this idea is the 2015 table of physicians by gender and subspecialty [1]. Why are neurologists 28% female while neurological surgeons are only 7.8% female? Why are women 5% of orthopedic surgeons by 11.3% of vascular surgeons? You can come up with all sorts of just so stories (oh it's the hours, it's the blood) but then oops women make up 26.6% of emergency medicine specialists, so guess it's not hours or gore... What I see in math is that people flock to people to either are like them, or are nice to them, or to people who'll hire them. If you're deciding on your surgery specialty and the vascular surgeons will talk with you and the orthopedic surgeons snub you, you'll probably go for vascular surgery. It's certainly what happened in math grad school; if the numerical analysts were mean to women and the combinatorists were cool and said grad students only had to pay $5 for seminar dinners and weren't mean, magically combinatorics had more women (and more men, too, because this also applies to dudes!). If you get your first software dev job out of college and all the guys sort of avoid you and won't talk to you and wonder why you're there instead of raising your non-existent family, maybe... you'll end up somewhere else. Life is short.

Women make up the majority of house cleaners. It's not because women are so in love with cleaning, it's because it's a flexible job you can get into through another (often female) contact that will sometimes let you bring your five-year-old kid along so you don't need childcare. Longhaul trucking won't, in general, let you bring your five-year-old kid along so you don't need childcare (you really can't stop for potty often enough), and many blue collar jobs men hold are also gotten by family and neighborhood contacts.

[1] https://www.aamc.org/data-reports/workforce/interactive-data...
AI learns to Speedrun QWOP [video]
There is no scenario in which Google should be trusted.

They’ve squandered that trust over the years. Frankly they should be broken up.
This is a fantastic point I don't think I've ever seen brought up before. I'll need to think on this.
For me, the way to consult with open-source maintainers has always been through their projects’ Freenode IRC channels.
I meant Chronic Fatigue. So, we're in the same place on this.
Most billionaires are rich via stock. Forcing stock sales will cause markets to tank. Markets tanking will destroy retirement funds, pensions, teacher and public pensions, and more.

Capital flight will empty markets, similar to all the countries that got this dumb (see the swedish financial transaction tax as an example). With investment gone, payrolls will fail since lending will fail, rates will skyrocket from uncertainty, and so on.

To stave off riots, the Fed will print money, and if we're lucky we'll be another poster child for hyperinflation.

All so people who used to make 50k a year can have another 6k.

Now we're all poor, but at least we're equal, right?
regarding smell, some research says it is olfactory support cells and not neuron damage.

just have a conversation bro

you know what would be even cooler, a US health agency investing $1B to investigate
Someone in the comment mention they care about how Chinese illustration portrayed in Dr. Seuss book.

Then I think about those old European drawing(in the age of colonialism) of Asian country around 1600s. So outrageous when you see it today. That is not how my country and people looks like! Should we ostracize those too?

Point is, I don't think everything is intentionally racist.
Ok, sometimes it is, but many time it's just the limited understanding of different culture(and the rush of deadline that you need to produce some imagery NOW)
> Working with strings in Pascal is relatively safe, but painfully limiting. It's a dead end. You can't build anything on top of it. Can you imagine trying to make a run-time for a high level language in Pascal? You need to be in the driver's seat regarding how strings work.

I doubt string representation is really the blocker here since C-strings are now pretty much just used by some but not all C programmers. QString and GString and C++ std::string and Rust strings and Go strings and Java strings and so on are not null terminated