skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Demand is price dependent, if the supply drops by say 10% the prices rise aka price X = Supply Y. But, the other way of looking at this if you’re lowering the price below X you need a supply larger than Y.

Sure, economies get used to lower prices. However the excess annual food supply is plenty should some country have a 50% drop in agricultural output you don’t end up with famine just noticeably higher prices. That’s the slack inherent in very low prices and it extends to everything from industrial steel to phosphorus.
They also don't leave PM10 floating in the city as much, by virtue of not being distributed widely throughout the city ubiquitously close to schools, hospitals, homes. So apart from just emitting less, they emit less, specifically close to where people are, compared to trucks
IIRC, amongst banned heroes were key splitpush heroes such as Nature's Prophet, Tinker and Phantom Lancer, which are a known counter to the early-game advantage, mid-game push strategy that the OpenAI 5 executed. Early-game laning and mid-game teamfight combination are micro-intensive, and consequently the biggest advantage the OpenAI 5 had over OG. Against the simple AI that comes built-in to Dota 2, you can be behind by a ton and exploit splitpushing against the AI, because doing any structural damage against buildings will force the AI (who are gathered up for a push) back, and you will still win if you drag the game sufficiently into the lategame. Deciding whether or not to continue to push and which heroes to send back to defend is one of the hardest strategic decisions to make in the game, even for humans. The finals of one of the TIs, NaVi vs. Alliance, was lost on getting such a decision wrong. Eliminating some key splitpush heroes minimized the probability that OpenAI 5 would have been forced into having to make such a decision.

It would not surprise me if the OpenAI 5 would have lost against OG had the entire heropool been available, had the series been long enough or had the prizepool been big enough for OG to take the game seriously enough to warrant picking a splitpushing strategy (which is considered cowardly in some circles).
SPOILER:

It actually drives the climatic finale where Waterhouse performs an "epic hack" while in jail, modifying the linux kernel on his laptop to output the results of his cracking the encryption on the location of a cave full of gold as morse code in the form of his caps lock light going on and off. He also makes sure to write the code that will make these changes via hitting his space bar, which is translated to characters based on the amount of times he hits it, so that again the code to do the calculations is never exposed on screen. The only reason he is so careful about never exposing both the changes he is making to his laptop's code as well as the results of the calculations it runs is because Enoch Root visits him while he is in jail and basically warns him that people will be using Van Eck Phreaking to spy on the contents of his display.

So really, it is actually one of the most crucially import bits of technology in the whole book.
I've found the entropy detection in trufflehog to be pretty noisy. When I've run it I generally disable that.
I cancelled my monthly contribution to the Mozilla foundation.
>and I think you know why

No, I am not being tongue-in-cheek in an attempt to catch somebody out on hypocrisy (though I do believe many people are extremely hypocritical on this topic). Apologies - let me be more clear: I am not implicitly asking, "is this a case of cancel culture producing a good outcome", nor, "is this a case of cancel culture producing a bad outcome". I am not using the term "cancel culture" as a synonym for "unjust social punishment". I am asking: Is this an example of cancel culture, and, if not, what is the distinction? (And don't worry, I'm not stubbornly requiring an objective distinction in the shape of a formal argument, since this is a very subjective topic.)

I appreciate your opinion, but you're expressing it very generically - you're just saying she deserved her consequences, which is fine, and I agree, but are you saying you believe that whether or not the consequences are "deserved" or "just" is the primary/only distinction between cancel culture and "normal" social consequences?

Edit: As others have pointed out, I picked this topic not just because it's a case of social consequences, but also because it has other, more specific hallmarks of what is typically labeled "cancel culture". That is: The crime leaned more toward morality and social damage vs concrete actions; guilt by association; and a sexual topic.
> already have some kind of desktop computing arrangement at home

Sure, but it's your personal desktop computing arrangement -- not the company's.

With WFH, the company is effectively renting that space from you so you can work in it, but you're charging them $0.
> Being a bit of a weirdo - which is really the only allegation so far that has had any real merit, to my knowledge - is not sexual harassment.

Well, sure: if you ignore all the evidence, then put up a straw man, you'll never be able to criticise his harassment.

Again, RMS is being ostracized for sexual harassment, not for being a weirdo.
Seveneves is absolutely depressing, and so stressful! I loved it, but the agonizing sense of balancing on a wire doesn't end until they finally lock in on the peach pit. I can definitely see how it could cross the line from tense to unreadable, especially considering how jarring the third part is.
This post is factually incorrect, it does not send a hash of the application (instead an identifier that can be shared across apps) and the server doesn't save any logs.
"As an asthma sufferer, I went from needing my rescue inhaler several times a day to not touching it for several months during the pandemic."

Perhaps that indicates you live in the wrong place - it shows you what is possible! Obviously the world is not ideal and you may be tied to where you are but it sounds like you need to reconsider where you live.

I was a smoker for about 30 years and gave up just over three years ago. I did some damage to my lungs but there you go - mea culpa. In your case it isn't your fault but I have an idea what it is like to have some difficulty breathing. It's different for me and you but I understand: my mum was asthmatic (had some episodes that ended up in hospital) and suffered from awful hayfever - a bit crap for a farmer's daughter but then she still managed to become a Captain in the WRAC (Women's Royal Armoured Corpse! Ok Army, oh alright Corps)

Anyway, why not consider moving to somewhere more rural? I remember after about a fortnight after deciding to give up the fags, I stood outside my office without a cigarette in my gob. The air tasted and smelled fresh and pure. At this point I was trying to enforce positive experiences as an enticement to help giving up. It is quite hard to give up smoking. Then a diesel car drove past nearby and the smell was horrendous, really horrendous. I suspect you know that as well or better than me.

Take care mate.
The sigils are very useful in a language which doesn't play well with IDEs. They're redundant for something like C# but Perl has always struggled with IDEs and is notoriously resistant to static analysis so even good ones will have gaps. I personally have never enjoyed using one with Perl.

It does get a bit messy with coercion like (%{$hash->{$key}}) but I believe recent versions have made that a little nicer. I'm stuck on a decade old one though.
It works well for game music with standard audio tags. The files can be much smaller than mp3 with higher quality.
"To health" I presume means to see a doctor. But if I need to see a doctor, I may not be in a condition where I can walk or bike there.
Yep, that's pretty much what I've described, and it is the reason why I'm certain that there's no technical limitation at play here. Apple just chose to not allow this for political/strategic reasons.
> “Continent” refers to single contiguous land encircled by seawater, that aren’t islands, at least as I think of the word.

To the best of my knowledge, you are literally the only person who uses that definition. By that definition Asia, Europe, and Africa would be a single continent. North and South America would be a single continent. What school did you go to that they taught you there are 4 continents in the entire world?
there's a steady droll of anti-free software going on.

I take it to mean that commercial interests are stronger that potential gains enabled by new technological forms of collaboration. We (as a society) are 'choosing' to keep all gains enabled by digital technology private rather than revising the capitalist apparatus which is strained by these new digital possibilities.
Even brake pad wear is greatly reduced with EVs, thanks to regenerative braking.
Can you share the non-profit organization name?
Guilt by association is probably fair game here...in her capacity at reddit she was working on subreddits that involved younger adults/teenagers. Do you think that would be okay?

If she was a software engineer or working on marketing, I would not advocate for her to be removed from reddit.

Much of the controversy is that this was an admin with control over subreddits which there is clear public information that perhaps they aren't best suited for.
What about the first bit seemed unrealistic? I mean, besides the hand of God smacking the moon into bits. I loved the commitment to rock hard scifi, and the slow decay of relations on board resonated.
> This is a consequence for past actions.

That's what cancel culture is... Retribution for past actions, not justice for current ones.
And there are orders of magnitude more JS programmers. Not every package on DUB is a gem either. So I think overall it's a reasonable proxy for language popularity.

By other measures, like number of committers in open-source projects, it's also small and not growing:

https://www.openhub.net/languages/compare?language_name[]=dm...

GitHub trending struggles to find enough projects to show a full page:

https://github.com/trending/rust?since=weekly
https://github.com/trending/d?since=weekly

And of course Golang dwarfs both in popularity. I'm not saying popular is good, but merely answering OP's question about language's growth.
OK, but we're talking about Free Software culture and whether there's a chilling effect for defending Richard Stallman versus criticizing him. That specifically is the subject of the comment I replied to.
Amazing work, but I can't help but to think that despite all of the effort put into it, it was still cracked by a handful of individuals over the course of a few months using standard statistical/mathematical programming tools.

Why haven't FBI analysts done the same already? Is it conceivable that it was already done, just simply never publicized for whatever unknown government reason? One imagines that solving this publicly unsolvable mystery is actually a standard initiation exercise for new recruits into the elite circles of NSA codebreakers.
This is still a win: it’s easier to replace one centralized fossil fuel burner than a bunch of cars.
>Standardizing testing and certification systems likely wouldn’t be effective in a field as fast-paced as software engineering.

I tend to agree. I would ask: Isn't the individual's capacity to learn more important than regurgitating to pass a certification test?
Betting sites offer software blocks for compulsive gamblers
Go to a car show and get a whiff of some pre-1970s cars driving around. Now imagine if every car on the road was like that. I can't imagine the stench of a city before the introduction of catalytic converters.
Speaking of chip transplants: There are chip-level flash capacity upgrades for some iPhones that can offer storage amounts that weren't available.
My impression is that there’s a huge integration problem where rail freight is mostly set up to work with the sea-oriented container system, whereas truck LTL works on the pallet.

Or, framed another way: trucks are just too cheap. Truck operators and truck-oriented logistics firms don’t pay for their negative externalities, so there’s no cost benefit in going to the trouble of routing your load through a rail freight exchange on both ends. It’s pure complexity and schedule risk with no upside.
> Sexual Harassment can mean anything to these usurpers.

This is a complete strawman. Sexual harassment is well defined. It would be unwanted and, especially, persistent sexual attention.
Let's say the company was acting like the thought police. Do you think they would go and publicly announce that "we are the thought police"? PR statements have as much value to me as a pigeon's fart.

As a regular user I don't have any visibility into the leadership, but it's been obvious for years that at least at the level of users and moderators, there has been a hard shift away from free speech like there was in the earlier days. I only joined reddit in 2011/2012, but even then there was still a strong feeling of free speech, which includes the freedom to heinous and despicable (but legal) speech. Maybe the leadership tried protecting free speech in 2018, but users and moderators had long since drifted away from promoting free speech by that point.
Opus is also often just used generally. Youtube uses opus for the audio in videos
How is it bold and dangerous? A decent chunk of people accused any person who criticized this person as transphobic. This has happened with other LGBT people so there is a history of this happening in the past.
Thanks for sharing the link I will submit a ticket !
Cars didn't exist hundreds or thousands of years ago, so your statement can't possibly be true.

Well planned communities can be close to car-free, at least for day-to-day activities. The problem is we haven't prioritized being nearly car free, choosing instead of externalize the costs of car culture (pollution that generations will have to deal with, health impacts on some community members today, depletion of fossil fuels and the impact of digging them up, vast swaths of land dedicated to flat tarmac for car storage).
Hiding stuff under a carpet is never a win, not in a long term.
There is some phoning home from applications, though. On top of the occasional Gatekeeper SNAFU. I like to rely on Little Snitch, and feel nervous when using a computer without it.
Svelte has animations and transitions already built into it, do yeah, it's real easy
Well, once again, you're treating her as if she was the one convicted of pedophilia.

Do I think someone associated with a pedophile should be treated like a pedophile? No.

Our justice system and legal ethics certainly don't believe in a transitivity of guilt like that. We'd consider that extremely unfair. In my eyes, a large component of cancel culture is when we ignore all that because we like the result.
I've lived in multiple places where I could walk to everything I needed to walk to within 15 minutes. Why do you think it's hard for you to imagine this could be true?
Cheese is a legitimate strategy, though.

I'm not sure its been proven that the most successful overall strategy is unbeatable. Besides perfect skill, you still need to worry about all in strategies. In my eyes, losing to cheese could still be possible even if you're the best overall player.

I do think its fair to say these AIs should be able to grow after losing to a strategy once.
Yes, absolutely, and i think that anyone supporting this should take a long and hard look at themselves and ask how someone is supposed to live in society and support themselves when a worldwide mob is actively lobbying to have them unable to acquire/retain gainful employment.

Make no mistake, i have no views on this person, and had never heard of them until this thing showed up.
I also vehemently disapprove of the way reddit handled it (censorship? No!) And will always be up to giving reddit a bloody nose over the crap they do.

But make no mistake this is cancel culture, and this has wide reaching implications.
How Not to Architect a Social Network on Its Way to the Proverbial Moon
Yep. In the terms I use, it's another instance of "the medium is the message", and if the medium is an edifice of mechanisms to configure the medium - well, you have trouble communicating a message. So in an actual workflow, most of the DAW will go unused at any moment, for the same kinds of reasons that most of Excel is unused most of the time. The process will traverse and pingpong various paths that loop outside of the software. The tools don't make the rules, but they suggest a path of least resistance.

It's an old problem within software itself and not really addressed until the individual puts their foot down and says, "This. This is the medium, these are the restrictions, this is the way I structure everything." At that point it's possible to define perfect software, but we're too fickle to really get there.
> The least a leader of an activism organization can do (assuming he does in fact care about the activism) is to figure out when he's alienating people and figure out how to stop, or to step down and let someone else take the leadership role.

Which he did, and pretty quickly at that. And then the FSF evidently wanted him to return, hence his reappointment to the Board of Directors.
For what it's worth, Apple has refuted this here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202491

"We do not use data from these checks to learn what individual users are launching or running on their devices.

Notarization checks if the app contains known malware using an encrypted connection that is resilient to server failures.

These security checks have never included the user’s Apple ID or the identity of their device. To further protect privacy, we have stopped logging IP addresses associated with Developer ID certificate checks, and we will ensure that any collected IP addresses are removed from logs.

In addition, over the the next year we will introduce several changes to our security checks:

A new encrypted protocol for Developer ID certificate revocation checks

Strong protections against server failure

A new preference for users to opt out of these security protections"
Exactly, European cities have been designed around public transportation, the way sane cities should be designed. American cities are the result of an experiment where everyone needs to have one or more cars to survive.
I don't know - I'm also not the person that was arguing that.

I have pretty high confidence that if you have the vaccine you won't transmit the disease - I suspect the scientists are just being overly cautious because they don't have the data yet (though it is now starting to prove this out).

They don't have the data in part, because the trials did not test asymptomatic people. This means it's possible that some of the vaccinated people in the trial caught the virus, but at a reduced severity that was asymptomatic (but still transmissible).

Pretend that the vaccine reduced severity, but most people still caught it and were just asymptomatic. In that world, the vaccine wouldn't be enough (and the trials would not have revealed this). Since we know that some people who get the vaccine do catch the virus, but just have a mild case - it seems like a plausible outcome that others catch it without symptoms, but can still transmit it.

That said, it's looking like that's not the world we're in - and the vaccines do just stop you from contracting the disease in addition to reducing severity in the rare case you catch it anyway.

mRNA vaccines are new and given the asymptomatic transmission of the virus is why we have a pandemic, it's a reasonable thing to be cautious about (which is why I was surprised the trials only tested symptomatic patients).
Strangly fixated on how "free software" is not a metonym. I wonder what the author would make of free speech, let alone the fact that grammer is completely irrelevant to the point at hand.

It then marshalls enough other bad arguments in a short enough period to be a gish gallop, and I gave up halfway through.

Honestly I felt the presise had some promise, software has changed and the FSF not so much, but this article does not convince or educate me of it.
Apologies for breaking seveneves for you:

Why do they need to generate artificial Y chromosomes when there is a whole bunch of perfectly good ones in the last man alive who just died with them; and thousands upon thousands in the scattered genetic material in the frozen tin cans floating about in various orbits between earth and the shattered moon? And why does that have to lead to essentially speciation of the survivors?
In a VM, yes. As the only OS, not quite yet.
> This is a purely developer perspective, not a user perspective. Not all software exists merely to give developers something to do. Not every user wants every update.

this basically sums up what made me realize the value of why Richard Stallman pushes for free software. I detest the idea of some other entity controlling my software on my machine and making decisions for me like when to update, etc
One problem with this is that we've distributed our families and social circles. I would love to ditch my car, but then I wouldn't be able to get to my parents, siblings or friends.
I enjoyed Reamde a lot, some twists of fate left me cackling with delight. However, it felt much more meandering than other Stephenson novels. Is Fall better in that respect?
I think that's actually a question worth examining. I'm a little uncomfortable that the protests got him fired.

The initial problem wasn't that the employee was hired, it was Reddit's heavy-handed filtering, censoring, and autobanning. Firing the employee doesn't fix the actual issue.

Between Reddit and the employee, there's stuff we don't know and won't ever know. Did he hide info during the hiring process, and so on. Maybe the firing was justified, maybe it wasn't. He was never charged or convicted of a crime, and the idea of continuously punishing him just because of suspicions or associating isn't right. On the other hand, I think it would have been sensible to Reddit to have avoided hiring him in the first place.

We might have to see whether the opprobrium spreads to future employment, social media accounts, and so on. That would definitely be cancellation, and wrong.
> every time such "bright idea man" comes

You're ignoring everything I'm saying. (Probably because you don't want to consider the idea that emperor really isn't wearing any spiffy new clothes.) We're not talking about bright ideas. We're talking about dumb, dead simple ideas. Dumber than UPS's fabled "let's try to minimize how much time we waste on left turns".

Go watch that Dave Cutler clip and pay attention to what he says near the end of the video about being a leader and about there being no task too small when it comes to getting the job done.
I agree and would go further to say that's obvious. Why would a company not say whatever's safest and most beneficial to their image?
Just like the automobile displaced all those employed in the horse and buggy businesses, which was apparently massive given pictures of 19th century cities.
>...stealing each other's wives in the most literal sense...

...With four guys in balaclavas and a van?
I think I agree with that. "cancel culture" is just the catchy phrase being used today to imply that the past actions weren't so bad and weren't deserving of the subsequent response.

In this case...I don't think someone who has definitive links to pedophilia and already been kicked out of two organizations for those links probably shouldn't be employed in a position at Reddit where they are working with youth.

Should she never get a job again ever? No! But probably not one with children or youth...
It'd be a logistical nightmare to setup validated testing and so on for tens of thousands of participants.

The studies coming out that did regular testing focused on easily reached populations (medical workers) that may not have been representative of the wider population (so not suitable for the trials).

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2102153

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2101927