skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They cancelled Apu from the Simpson’s without understanding that his presence on the show demonstrated a mainstreaming of Indian immigrants, in a similar way that the uncanceled Groundskeeper Willie, Mayor Quimby, and McBain demonstrate the mainstream acceptance of Scottish, Irish, and Austrian immigrants.

The guy who voiced Apu, Hank Azaria, decided to stop doing it. Nobody "cancelled" him. He is an articulate guy and describes why he reached the decision in this interview:

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/29/962031274/hank-azaria-on-broc...

The whole interview, not just the Apu-related stuff, is quite interesting.
You can support the right to be a Nazi while strongly criticising it.

People can say that they really think eBay is doing the wrong thing, and maybe even boycott them, without necessarily saying they should be forced by law to stock children's books that became out of fashion thirty seconds ago.
> Woke crazies try to impose their ideology on others by complaining and shaming on the Internet.

I would argue that what ebay is doing is simply a permutation of this idea. Woke companies deciding what is and what is not suitable for you to spend your money on (shaming you for not spending your earned value on something 'worthy'). Meanwhile they don't seem to have a problem with mein kempf or however its spelled.
What sort of templating support did you find to be scarce with Zola?
Are you familiar with the 'Powell Memo' [0] To over simplify, it makes the 1971 version of your arguments against Reddit, but against the prevailing culture of the time. It then argues that a deliberate campaign of responding to those challenges is called for. I would argue that it was successful in its aims. There is a robust culture of promoting US financial interests that seems to be able to deal with e.g. social websites.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_F._Powell_Jr.#Powell_Mem...
I've heard of this happening across Lake Erie, people in Canada said they could see the color of the traffic lights all the way across the lake in Erie PA.
> In this case, the rightsholder thinks the early books are in poor taste and no longer wants them associated with the brand.

This is an incomplete story. The company convened a panel of outside "experts" to make these determinations:

> Dr. Seuss Enterprises said that it had consulted a panel of experts including educators in reviewing its catalog of titles and made the decision last year to cease publication of the six titles.

> In a statement to the Associated Press, Seuss Enterprises said it is “committed to listening and learning and will continue to review our entire portfolio.”

https://deadline.com/2021/03/dr-seuss-books-canceled-no-long...

Unlike other so-called "cancel culture" stories, the pressure campaign didn't play out publicly. But the language is the same and strongly suggests that the publisher is deferring to the judgment of outside "experts", hoping this will keep them in the good graces of the increasingly woke publishing and education worlds.
Can velocity exist in a snapshot?
Want to bet that scene would be entirely different today with Chan taking a sensitivity class instead of smashing up a black business and beating the crap out of black people who attacked him for his innocent but now “problematic” cultural mistake?

“His cultural appropriation of “that“ word was an act of violence itself, in the movie they were initially defending themselves from Chan. This must be canceled and never aired again. This 24 year old movie is clearly reflective of Chan’s personal beliefs and he must apologize with a sizable donation to “the cause” which conveniently are all ActBlue affiliated charities”
this is a great idea, I'm adopting it.
I understand that, but a person new to the development world might see this as something expected for anyone starting an open source project.

I don't mean to exaggerate or make an unfair comparison, but I had very similar experiences 15 years ago when I was considering being interested in trying to get a contribution (any contribution) merged into the linux kernel. That process is so off-putting I lost interest. Granted, kernel development is an entirely different beast and I understand (better now after a career) why it's partly the way it is.

I think I'm rambling - tl;dr: this sort of attitude is off-putting from open source, even as someone who's been in software a long time.
I hope you don't mean this NLP:

> Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a pseudoscientific approach to communication, personal development, and psychotherapy created by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in California, United States, in the 1970s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming
My dad owned a picture framing shop for decades. I wondered why such an article would be on HN.
I'm having issues with this gradient too. (Though I'm running a fever after being vaccinated yesterday, so my perception might be different than usual today).

It feels like that optical illusion with disappearing background [1] where your brain attempts to re-tune itself, and it's kind of uncomfortable.

My screen width is 1280px.

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/834411-optical-illusion
By "the last bit" do you mean the 32nd bit or the 64th bit? :-)

Many times I've tracked down the place in our stack where a double-precision value from user input accidentally goes through a single-precision variable in some C code somewhere and crashes some Python code later on because the values don't match "to the last bit" in the way that the programmer thought... But that's a bug in the C code - I agree completely the the system SHOULD give the value back that was put into it!
No. The size of our economy is also not people x resources.
Temporal RDO Update Optimization
I’d love to see an AI learn to add all the right historical rhetorical flair to their emails for the country it is currently playing. :) (Humans can’t help but sign off as “The Czar” when playing Russia in 1901, for example.)

Surely there must be bodies of dip communications and write-ups available from forums like Apolyton, if nothing else.
It appears you have a very niche definition of "game", one which excludes basically all 3D games.
That’s not the case here. In this case the ship was ‘hovering’ due to an atmospheric effect called Superior Mirage.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirage#Superior_mirage
They can be wrong now and 5-10 years ago. Something that stupid getting traction doesn't make it more valid
It's just a marketing piece. Tesla's FSD is way more advanced than just a 'traffic jam pilot', but they don't market it as level 3. It's a low-hanging fruit for marketing.
Of course it isn't, because the libertarian ideal is impossible on the internet.

Gab / Parler are self-proclaimed bastions of free speech, but they boot left-leaning opinions and have no privacy protection (because they were hacked).

Voat gained popularity when Reddit got rid of the hate subreddits, and it shut down late last year because nobody wants to invest in or advertise on a platform where everything goes.

Sorry for zooming in on your 'censorship' comment, but it's something that just rubs me up the wrong way. No community can do without censorship (or I prefer "content moderation", censorship is mainly used for governments and e.g. journalists; you won't get put in jail for being a prick on the internets) and be sustainable at the same time.
You're talking about a 'job' and 'onboarding' engineers - that's quiet a departure from what I think most people imagine when they imagine an open source project.

Office hours for an office-like job sound totally reasonable.
I’m guessing the (current) HN title was the original BBC title, and someone figured this out and changed it (after it was posted here).
Not the proper thread for this discussion, but I don’t know if I want Reddit to stop it. Do you want free speech and all the speech you don’t like with it? Or you want heavily moderated echo chamber? It seems to me people want neither - they disdain the “ugly” opinions of people other than them, but they don’t want to feel oppressed by Big Corp choosing what is ok and what not.

The solution is having multiple silos, think YouTube channel “Second Thought” (heavily leftist content) or Parler, when we get the worst from both worlds - everybody always trying to find the smallest place that can feel safe to speak with no actual discussion between different viewpoints.

Pushing for more moderation leads to precisely this option. I believe we need less of it, even if this forces us to confront the “other side”.
Note: the author has changed the title. it is now "Open source projects should consider running office hours", precisely for the reasons highlighted here.
It's not just the ads. Do you actually trust the company that has personally identifying information about you? Do you trust the people working at said company? Any time you have information about someone, you can use it for nefarious purposes.

> As described above, FLoC cohorts shouldn’t work as identifiers by themselves. However, any company able to identify a user in other ways—say, by offering “log in with Google” services to sites around the Internet—will be able to tie the information it learns from FLoC to the user’s profile.
Isn't that what caused the PS1 graphics "wobble"? I remember you could just stare at a wall, rotate the camera, and the textures would slightly jitter and move. It's really obvious in some the Metal Gear cutscenes, especially this conversation with Donald Anderson where the camera pans up from the floor (at 15m) or the sweep(15m31s):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLTqIXZ1jQQ#t=15m00s

I never had a PS1 but it always bugged me when playing on someone elses.
Modern Text Features in R
Nice straw man.

Convincing someone that the earth is flat is changing their perspective, but so is convincing them that flat earth is bullshit. People aren't rational by default, they need convincing.
Maybe getting to work should be an incentive for practicing safe driving. You cant get to work if you crash your car either.
I mean what's the alternative? The language companies speak is that of money. How are you supposed to combat this without "fighting fire with fire"?
Wait, hold up, the Parliament is not the government? That's a very confusing take.
There is another option - I understood and did not agree.
/u/spezymandus is partial only to his own views regarding what content should be permitted to present itself on Reddit to the point of hypocrisy. At the end of the day the only reason that r/wsb and it's 4chanesque shenanigans haven't been banned is because it's onboarded so many new users. But at some point it's going to become as clamped down as all the other subreddits if not thoroughly eviscerated. Especially as they start onboarding advertisers post-IPO. It's goodbye Usenet 2.0, hello New Facebook!
I though this was about the wedding registry site at first.

Anyway, I liked this line from the Github:

> Hugo gets ehh for the template engine because while it is probably the most powerful template engine in the list (after Jinja2) it personally drives me insane, to the point of writing my own template engine and static site generator. Yes, this is a bit biased.

This seems to be the life cycle of static site generators (SSG). It works at first, but you end up wanting to design your own custom SSG once you run up against something that goes against your mental model of how things should work.

I did this exact thing when I got frustrated with Hugo. I made my own custom SSG in order to create my blog.

The other thing that tends to happen with SSGs is that it can be a lot more fun to play around with the tech than actually writing blog posts!

If you're interested you can read here to see how I made an SSG for my blog:

https://joelregus.com/posts/blog/index.html
For those wondering, one lecture video is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLdDmeyMJls
Of course they won't mention how it's the most astroturfed platform on the internet with some of the worst communities.
> Your approach makes the range asymmetrical like it happens with integers.

Not necessarily since you've got (a lot of different) NaNs anyway. For the sake of argument, you could give up one one of them and make it positive zero (since this representation would be unnatural, it would slow stuff down, just as non-finite values do on many CPUs. Wouldn't matter that much since signed zeros would only arise from underflow).

> Another useful property of IEEE representation is that for two intervals [ 0 .. FLT_MAX ] and [-FLT_MAX .. -0.0f ] sort order of floats corresponds to [inverted] sort order of 32-bit integers.

I'm aware, but as you correctly note this only works in the right direction for unsigned values. And it's just not that important a benefit, I'd much rather have my calculations come out right than being able to sort positive floating point numbers with an integer sort routine.
Yes, that's exactly why I wrote:

> some game engines

and

> simple games

A 3D game is not a simple game.
paganel doesn't think it's discriminatory to teach programming. Rather, he thinks orwin describes a class that's too fast paced - a class that wouldn't teach much, and would mostly weed out kids who hadn't self-taught themselves before they reached college.

He fears while a professor might imagine they're weeding out people who lack 'dedication' or 'aptitude' they're actually weeding out people who didn't grow up with a PC at home.
> Many of those people truly felt distress and, indeed, one shouldn’t deny their symptoms.

This is really important. The placebo effect is very powerful, and placebo-induced symptoms are absolutely real symptoms. They just aren't caused by what you think they are.

(I'm not saying that "long COVID" is or isn't placebo-induced, merely that such a conversation is separate from whether it's "real".)
I recently read and can recommend Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years as a deep perspective on the practices and participants in the making of textiles, and their societal and practical reasons. It's fascinating that historically, the practice of hand spinning thread and yarn absolutely dominated available time, and today we know so little about it.
Even for a fluff piece, this clears a relatively simple yet efficient bar: get the impressions of the photographer, bring in an expert's take to explain the science behind it, and that's it.

Note that apparently the expert didn't need to mention the words "fata morgana" either, so maybe that's a stupid focus point after all which just sounds like elitism at this point.

I know who here "pretends to tell us about the world" and it's not the journalist.
> The article also clearly shows in the smart contact that this was premeditated.

It's almost as if having a readable contract that the signers can all understand and a judge who can rule on reasonable interpretations of the contract is a feature, not a bug.

Whatever component of the "smart contract" that allowed them to do this would have been negotiated out, but since it's a decentralized "the contract enforces itself" cryptosystem, people just trust that the contract does what it says on the tin.

What should be the procedure before using these? Pay a security researcher for an independent review, like you would have a lawyer go over a contract? If you have to do that, why not just use a regular contract and lawyers where you have recourse when something goes wrong?
I don’t need to go point by point, but just know that you get it exactly. It’s exactly here what it seems there. It only “makes sense” to a specific subgroup of people with a specific intention.
It is overruled by the "law of the topmost comment" - the top comment is very likely a negative take on some subpart of the topic at hand, sometimes unrelated to the actual article, worded in the strongest way possible.
If it comes to Reddit Inc replacing the mods, that will likely be a relatively unpopular move for at least the short term until people forget.

The stock price harm is less from the site disruption but more for continuing the site's reputation as hard to monetise.
I own a valve index. I use it only on linux (mint) via proton. I can say that it does work. There are quirks. don't expect it to be seemless. For instance, more than half the time I start SteamVR but have to then "restart" the headset. Once it is working it is working.

Not all VR games support linux but many do, probably a higher proportion than amongst non-VR games. VR games tend to come from smaller developers who are generally not implementing the things that bork linux (eg DRM).

IMho now is not the time to get into VR, on any OS. You need a serious graphic card. Whatever you are running now, you will want something better once you plug in a VR headset. Good luck with that atm.
This paradigm only works when looking strictly though the lens of a "software engineer". I like to think about computer science the same way I think about drugs. Excel is a great gateway drug. VBA, Python, powershell, SQL - now you're getting into the harder stuff. Pure C, scala, assembly - now you know that one guy on the east coast who makes the designer stuff, just the way Prince liked it. The question is how deep is your bottom, what you know about going down in the deep end?
Most people just aren't familiar enough with the underlying idea. You can't express or even recognize a desire for your own client if you don't know what a client is.

Because businesses focus on meeting users' desires instead of needs, they are content with the status quo of rigid UI/UX design.

This is why we see BYOC so prevalent in developer tools like text editors and terminal emulators, but not in office tools like Google Docs or art/design tools like Photoshop and Maya.

I've heard a million times or more the phrase, "industry standard" used to defend rigid proprietary tooling, even by users who would benefit from want sincerely enjoy more freedom in their tooling.
Referring to ML is so vague that it’s not particularly meaningful. The answer in general is no. There’s been some work showing neural networks can function with low precision floating point, but that’s still pretty different than fixed point.
Is an Asian child who is born poor less deserving of help than a black child who is born poor? If so, why? If not, why not?

And if your ultimate goal is a society where race is irrelevant and we all treat each other equally, exactly how does doing the opposite get you there?
But the point is that XML syntax is still a thing, supported by all browsers (and it’s reasonable to expect that support to remain as long as HTML remains). See also https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/introduction.html#htm...:

> When a document is transmitted with an XML MIME type, such as application/xhtml+xml, then it is treated as an XML document by web browsers, to be parsed by an XML processor. Authors are reminded that the processing for XML and HTML differs; in particular, even minor syntax errors will prevent a document labeled as XML from being rendered fully, whereas they would be ignored in the HTML syntax.

HTML does use an XML base (elements, attributes, namespaces, &c.), it just doesn’t use an XML parser most of the time. But the XMLness is easily observed in various DOM APIs.
I'm stealing that too. "DM's open" coming right up.
> Round-trips through databases, transmission over network protocols, etc should all give values back that are exactly identical to what was put into them.

Yes that's true... but what's that got to do with using an equality operator?
This. Most of the Windows users in my circles wouldn't even think of writing bug reports, whereas many Linux users are developers, often immediately think of writing a bug report, and are also technical enough to do it[1].

[1] It takes some technical experience to make an educated guess of where the problem lies. Drivers? OS? Game? Hardware? And if you're on Windows: Some gaming overlay? AV?
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found the submarine
A sand shortage? We are running out of a crucial and underappreciated commodity
Fzf really can do everything :)

I will say, though, that a couple things ijq can do that the fzf snippet cannot are autocompletions of JSON keys (very useful IMO when working with large documents) and the ability to read in from stdin, which allows ijq to be used in a pipeline.

That said, the fzf solution seems great for quick one-offs!
Meaning of Spiritual Awakening – Are You Awakening Now?
If they file to go public, they'll have to provide information on how and how much money they make. It'll be interesting to see, because on the one side the public opinion on the awards is pretty bad, but on the other they are being handed out left and right often enough.

Maybe it's one of those whale markets like with in-app purchases, where <2% of the users are responsible for >80% of income.

That said, Reddit has also been giving out free awards that users can hand out, probably to try and get them hooked into the award system.
Im going to picket my library until it lends me a copy on mein kampf /s
Based on papers like this, I suspect that some form of sub-FTL "warp" drive may be at least physically possible. Whether it's practical to build any time in the foreseeable future is another question. The energy requirements would be beyond what we can do today and would probably require highly efficient compact fusion.
I've seen it once and I haven't seen an explanation until now. My wife and I were kayaking on a lake in Northern Sweden and far far away we see a boat that is just moving slowly, lifted up in the air. It was completely calm and we could not hear it (very far away), it was ghostly.
would be awesome if they can pull it off. the only other browser that does vertical tabs natively is vivaldi.

vivaldi is a great browser but unfortunately not for me. it has far too many options and settings. i found myself spending far too much time looking for the right setting.
I found that though not everything runs under Proton, there are enough games that do that I can allow Proton to be my filter of what I play and don't. There are too many games that I want to play but just don't have the time to that Proton let me naturally narrow that list. I may miss out on something I REALLY want to play, but it's okay. There are just too many good games.
Probably talking about the anti-tracking stuff built into safari. It's not exactly an adblocker but if they're tracking you and can't (a typical but not exclusive adver tactic) then it could certainly be dropping their javascript/cookies so it's functionally blocking their ads. Same goes for Firefox which bills itself as antitracking rather than anti-ads
It's a great idea, thanks for writing it Simon.
Eh? At the same time it is (was?) a bastion for Trumpists and conservatives.
Oh thanks esquire. So instead of negative energy particles we only need floating bubbles of spacetime! How did we miss that
ok. it seems our differences here are more in definitions and semantics

I interpret the phrase 'left to their own devices' to mean that there is no central bank and therefore reserves are as a concept are null and void, which then also nullify the concept of a federal funds rate, which would upend the concept of the federal funds rate being 'the market rate' in the first place.

I'll take your word for it about the mechanics of what happens to inter-bank rates under different reserve mechanisms, perhaps they would be driven to zero for the reasons you outlined.

However I'm unclear on what the macroeconomic ramifications would be of letting a small group of banks dictate the federal funds rate; I believe the purpose of this system is to achieve a congressional directive regarding price stability and labor utilization.
> Thus, it is Parliament, not the government, that imposes the tax.

I think we're encountering the "two countries separated by a common language" thing here.

"Government" (in the UK sense) refers only to the current Prime Minister and assistants, yes? In the US sense, Congress is considered to be part of the "government".