skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I'm sexist then I could choose to make such a remark only if it happens to be a female colleague. If male then sleep(). Sexism achieved.

If you're not from the U.S. you have to understand the background of mendacity that flows through nearly the entire culture. That's a big part of the backdrop for fairly deep levels of distrust, whether it's of a company, one's colleague, the gov't, etc.

For example-- I was watching a political show where the question was something about global warming. One of the guests gave a reply that sounded vaguely reasonable but wasn't clear. The host tried to rephrase the question, and the same respondent again gave a suspiciously confusing reply. This caused the host to drill down on a simpler question-- did the guest believe that global warming was real and that human activity has contributed to this global warming? This time the guest answered a different question, addressing the reality of global warming but ducking the issue of causes. This went on for about 45 seconds before the host finally forced the guest to give a response that revealed the guest was in fact a climate denier. Honestly, it was like watching that scene in Blade Runner with the Voight-Kampff test, except on humans.

Being an American myself, I could immediately tell what the guest's purpose was: to sound like they agreed with the other (sensible) panelists, in order to give more credibility to a climate denial talking point that their job depends on. It's a planned strategy essentially of "denial-in-depth"-- try to sneak FUD into an otherwise good faith discussion, and if that doesn't then reveal your crude talking points for what they are.

In a weird way, the process of figuring out someone's level of earnestness makes me think of the "Sie" to "du" journey in German. Except here in the U.S., it's a slow slog of figuring out exactly how a friend spouts bullshit and under what circumstances, and then figuring out if there's enough earnestness left to become close friends.
Yeah, I see the opposite around me too. I literally had textbooks that referred to the Civil War as "The War of Northern Aggression" at the turn of the millennium.
A never before seen coronavirus was found just miles away from one of only two BSL-4 laboratories in all of China, which also happens to publish gain of function research on coronaviruses. I find it amusing that anyone can claim a lab accident origin is “crazy”.
About the point of it not being obvious where you're working: I find using zsh or another shell that prints git information as part of the shell prompt helps immensely with this.
Well over 90% of people those ages I interacted with online are for throwing out principles like Free Speech and innocent until proven guilty -- it just depends on the context for them. To understand those principles, it's necessary to understand their historical origins. Virtually none of the young people in such conversations understood those things and none of them cared. All basically responded to such information as if it was trash. Stuff like, the Magna Carta and The Bill of Rights.
one of my peeves is the ongoing attention that outrage itself has garnered (think terms like cancel culture, sjw, karen, etc.). it's sickening because it's a diversion from the real issues that matter, like economic fairness and equality of opportunity. there is so much we could do to improve the meaningful aspects of our lives, and yet we focus on the bullshit that doesn't matter.

for instance, who cares if someone calls you a (perhaps racist) name, even if they do it incessantly and meanspiritedly? it's meaningless and you can choose to not to let it affect you (yes it's hard, but doable). but instead, stuff like this is where the dominant/popular narrative is spinning its wheels to keep our attention away from substantive matters that can actually alter the dynamics that favor the already wealthy and powerful and spread opportunities further and wider.
Perhaps to clarify, by “constant supply of electricity”, I did not mean a supply that is fixed in either price or amount, simply that it is necessarily greater than zero, which is definitely more than is required to exchange gold, which was done quite successfully long before we understood how to harness or generate electricity.
How does "Project Veritas bad" erase the fact that the NYT argued in front of a judge that what is on its front page should be understood to be opinion and not fact, even when it appears in the form of facts? That claim has nothing at all to do with Project Veritas; the NYT just happened to say it in a related context.
Probably the most forgiving take on the subject.

https://www.newsweek.com/coca-cola-facing-backlash-says-less...

mea culpa. Here I am, feeding the beast.
On the other hand, how many historians say that passive support and wilful blindness by ordinary Germans facilitated Nazi atrocities?

Follow the article to its logical conclusion: outrage is subverted and moral relativism is the consequence. If we fear a resurgence of nazism, for example, then some outrage over recent events is warranted. Acting upon that is even a moral imperative.

So the author is right that we can't mindlessly let it consume us, but misses the point with the question has "outrage made your life any better?" Has fighting for a country or a cause made any soldier's life better? Has it for the healthy able advocating for the sick or disabled? If a better life for ourselves is all we seek then the glue of society evaporates.

But he follows the lazy path of attributing it to mainstream media. Pick up an old school western newspaper and it's mostly unsexy, even boring stories about reserve rate predictions, library openings, a corruption investigation into some councilman, some news from abroad about a peace accord or a conflict. Retractions, editorials, classifieds. It served us well enough for a couple of centuries, but now suddenly mainstream news outlets are the enemy. Because Trump said so, because the lazy parroted him, because the quacks promoted conspiracies for their freshly disillusioned new readers.

I call bullshit. What changed is that social media could amplify the few polarising stories coming from hundreds of mainstream sources, with enough inaccuracies on all sides to sew general distrust.

Real, professional journalism is a critical resource, and for now it's still mainstream outlets that that employ the most real journalists. Count the number of retractions for inaccurate reporting in mainstream vs social media. Social media despises the boring truth. Mainstream media grudgingly tolerates it.

That false equivalence, that lazy misattribution tars all media, undermining valid outrage. Outrage that has exposed treatment of Uighurs, exposed Sétif, Operation Condor, vivisection, Katyn, has helped women get the vote, helped emancipate slaves, and helps with progress generally.
The story of how this happened is quite interesting. CGP Grey did a video about how it evolved [0]. I'm not American so I can't judge how likely it is to ever change because it seems to be politically radioactive to propose a government mandated ID.

We had a similar issue in Australia, but our workaround is that your drivers license (or ID card from the equivalent of the DMV) typically acts as your ID.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp8IAUouus
I can’t square this conventional wisdom with the observation that ML-curated Facebook can hold my attention for a few minutes at most, while I have lost a good chunk of my youth to community-curated HN and Reddit. Engagement optimizations pale in comparison to simple popularity contests.
Yes, exactly the latter. Our build system actually blocked any kind of network call to external services. Every dependency and transitive dependency was hosted in house.
That's not the opposite of what I wrote above. That's merely another kind of overcorrection!
Don't forget Flickr, which is still alive, and still has strong support for the Creative Commons.

Here's a picture of clover I use as my background, it's dark enough I can still see my icons, yet interesting.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/---mike---/50131172608/in/date...

Disclosure: I took the photo.
The Community Supports RMS
"possible" does not imply "likely". It was always a possibility, the only thing we know with relative certainty is that it originated from near Wuhan and that the virus is not engineered. But it could have been lab grown. The problem is the lack of concrete evidence for this thesis.

I'd say that it's very likely that you did not present any concrete evidence for the lab theory last year, neither do you have any now. So as far as I'm concerned you're still in conspiracy theory territory.

Here is the real problem, though: It's not really a common sense view. The only reasonable common sense view is to remain agnostic in such matters until enough evidence is discovered. If you have thousands of conspiracy theorists throwing around thousands of different claims around about something, then surely one or two may in hindsight turn out to be right. That doesn't mean they presented a reasonable view or aren't conspiracy theorists.

Just to make this clear, I'm not talking about you personally, of course. Maybe you argued very well and convincingly and presented some great evidence a year ago. But the fallacious thought pattern is a huge problem in online discussions. Sometimes you don't even need to consider thousands of conspiracy theorists, some people are so prolific online that they make a lot of different claims about a lot of of different topics, and then, when they happen to be right in hindsight once, feel confirmed.

On a side note (not related to the above post at all), another issue in online debates I've grown to really hate is that many people online have become extremely dismissive towards experts and come up with extremely obvious counter-arguments as if the experts hadn't considered them. In every single case they have, of course. It's crazy how much stupidity some people tend to attribute to experts but not to themselves.
I think he is referring to this video: https://youtu.be/VVw5XCUxgfk
This is by far the one I use most. Great selection, relatively few dupes, decent tagging, and not too many low quality upscales.
The common thread I see in this is people pouring their heart and soul into a super awesome tool, and then moving on with their lives. The tool was made for one version of one language, and the world moves on, too. But then I think about the tools that I do use.

Package distributions. Good word, I am not happy here. Still an unsolved problem in general, some languages tackle it better than others.

Testing frameworks. It's getting better. Big props to zig, for including tests for free with comptime. But in general, it's piles of code that somebody maintains for each language. Often, there are multiple tools because the language devs don't pull them into first-class components.

Debuggers. There's pretty good tools out there. They're clunky to use, but there are multiple front ends that can handle multiple languages, thanks to a common data format.

Code formatters. Props to zig, go, and rust for building these in. But for most languages, it's DIY.

Common theme here: all of this stuff is fairly generic, but each language tends to do its own thing. Tools aren't officially part of the languages, neither are they generic. Except debuggers! There's a common interface, DWARF support becomes a part of the language, and (another key point) language devs use it -- so they don't rot.

Developer tools can be magic, but unless they're generic, I expect them all to rot.

Edit: Oh, I forgot documentation generation -- like debugging, there's been some convergence around some generic tools and it's pretty easy to build support into / on top of a language. And newer languages use these tools internally to build their docs. Great!

And how could I forget compilers! LLVM might save the day for all of this stuff (except versioning and distribution... ick). Build a tool that can grok LLVM-IR, and you've solved the problem for most languages out there.
Where you get these thoughts that you imagine moderators think, I don't know, but I don't recognize any of them. I don't give a shit about tone. I'm simply trying to support an internet forum in not going to hell and asking you not to make that job harder.

What I hear you saying is that it's already gone to hell, so it doesn't matter what you do. Actually it matters a lot what you do. Every user here needs to abide by the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Bringing up "Jewish Question" is singularly unhelpful and more gratuitous provocation. It seems to me that you're the main person framing this thread as "Woman Question" to begin with, then using that to justify pouring kerosene of your own. That's not cool.

What I've noticed is that users with strong ideological passions tend to describe as "putrid" and "cesspool" and so on, any discussion in which their own ideology isn't imposed as the dominant one. That's understandable, but it's not a realistic demand. HN is a large forum which is as divided on ideological topics as any other large population sample—moreover this population sample is all over the world, which unfortunately makes people far more prone to interpret others' statements as "putrid" without it even dawning on anyone that that's a factor.

Much as I might wish it, we don't have the power to change how divided this community is. All we can do is look for ways to nudge users into having thoughtful discussion despite divisions. Everyone has a different sense of what that might look like, and we can talk about how to do that, but we don't have the power to make people agree.
Xenophobia isn't productive
You are a wiser person than I if you can tell the difference while it's happening.
I'll play the weeb card for this one. I like danbooru, which mainly categorizes fan art for anime and such, and is the gold standard in community image indexing and categorization. Their main site is NSFW, but you can access an SFW version via safebooru. Here's an example of a search which yields some wallpapers:

https://safebooru.donmai.us/posts?tags=ratio%3A16%3A9+scener...

The images are available in their original quality, and they have detailed tags. You can search by aspect ratio, width and height, and details of the image - "colorful", "scenery", "cityscape", and so on, or by the artist, copyright, or featured characters. You can search up to two terms for free, or pay a one-time fee of $20 for 6 terms, and $40 for twelve.

The search features are documented here:

https://safebooru.donmai.us/wiki_pages/help%3Acheatsheet
> Because in 2021 developer tools are fundamentally not profitable.

Interesting...

But monetization might not be the root of this since we have very sophisticated tools delivered as open source. The question then would be why the "dev comunity" is not interested in building tools like those mentioned in the article?

My guess is that tools like Reflexion Models doesn't ring any bells for junior/mid-level developers. They don't know exactly what to optimize when it comes to long-term maintenance. That's why we have so many parsers, linters, etc. and now typed languages (again!) and not Reflexion Models.

The other day I was looking for something similar to Reflexion Models: a tool that I could describe high level modules and its files (like a package), describe the dependency hierarchy between then and check if there is any calls between modules that break the hierarchy. For instance: getting a alert if there is a call to a repository from the a controller (DDD). It's a common problem for big teams with junior developers that could be solved by automation.
Josh Rogin has been misrepesenting these diplomatic cables for a year now. If you read the actual cables (which Rogin refused to publish when he wrote his first story - they only came out later due to a FOIA request), they did not warn that the lab was unsafe. The cables stated said that the lab did not yet have enough technicians to run at full capacity. As of the time of writing of the cables, the lab had not yet opened.

The cables were simply arguing that the US should continue to fund its training program for the lab's staff (they're trained at the premiere US high-biocontainment laboratory, in Galveston, Texas). The cables did not point to any safety problems with the lab. The people who visited the lab and wrote the cables wouldn't have known how to identify safety problems anyways - they were just diplomats. They simply stated that the US training program was important and to emphasize that, they stated that the not-yet-opened lab did not yet have enough technicians.

Rogin has been trying to spin this into some sort of dire warning, but that's simply a willful misreading of the cables.
What if it’s cheaper to keep these people safely isolated most of the time, but they have a cozy small place with some [limited] tv, radio, computer/tablet + internet access.

You still achieve what you want. Unless you want to be cruel for the sake of it.
Social media "vacations" are a good idea, "engagecations" or "disengagecations".

Another comment mentioned in this thread is "enragement is engagement" and really that is true with most algorithms. The algorithms and addiction patterns are created not necessarily for nefarious reasons but from a macro level look nefarious, human nature just reacts to salacious/divisive content more probably for survival reasons. Too much fear/division/misinformation out there.

Repeat after me: "social media is not reality".

The problem is it is leading people to be real world divisive and dividing themselves. For instance, Facebook has broken up many friends and family over some post or opinion, everyone knows people that this has happened to. We're almost too connected and tuned in.

Nintendo had a feature that if you played video games too long it asked if you wanted to take a break, "You've been playing for a while. Why don't you take a break?". That is a feature that will be more seen in the future from platforms that do care about their users and the dopamine addiction cycles, less is more sometimes.

Much like privacy, cool down periods or engagement "vacations" will be a popular feature in the future.
Amazon started a Twitter war because Jeff Bezos was pissed
Mmmmmm the problem I have found with feminist literature is that it often talks about the advantages of men and the disadvantages of women (which is all fair enough) but it doesn't really talk about the advantages of women and the disadvantages of men. To generalise, it doesn't attempt to critique its own model. I'm all for encouraging equality etc. and do my best to avoid identity politics discussions but at the back of my mind this is what I'm thinking when I over hear a woman/man complain about sexism. e.g. Are you really sure that this is true?

Yes things can be improved. But at some point will critical thinking and the benefit of the doubt be encouraged in society?

Or are we doomed to the media/twitter blowing up things out of proportion and people looking through prisms of victimhood.
My concern with subrepo is that I have no idea who is developing it and how much resources they have. I'd hate to learn to use a tool central to my development workflow and then have it discontinued.

Is git-subrepo good enough that it's worth the risk of using something not built into git (and the hassle of installing something extra)?
That's not at all the way I interpret the article. The author empathizes with the male investors, and justifies their behaviour. If anything, she's blaming society, not men.
I'm fully aware of Navalny's history, all politicians are flawed in some ways, and Navalny is even moreso. Do you think that assassination is acceptable for that? The evidence for the poisonings is ironclad by any world measures except RT. Remember, this is about the Russian government's abhorrent "evil" behavior. Your whataboutism is a weak defense.

I don't know how you can dispute them literally catching the FSB agent admitting it:
https://youtu.be/ibqiet6Bg38?t=349
The problem is that this is proof that the slippery slope of social media censorship already has a causality. Twitter banned ZeroHedge, an irreverent but very well known financial website, for months just for pushing this theory. Yesterday’s crazy conspiracy theories become today’s plausibilities.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/twitter-bans-zero-hedge-coronav...
This is the grave that has been dug. Why would I give advice for no benefit to myself, AND open myself up to downside risk?
The rise of the Scythians et.al. at about/just after the time of the 'Late Bronze-Age collapse' and the 'Sea People' makes for a tantalizing Gordian knot in history.
> I've read all of the Culture novels and do enjoy them. However, I can recognize it as a single-person utopia, which IMO makes it inherently unrealistic. I mean that it's a utopia which exists entirely in the mind of one man. That means it has never had to face the issues of dealing with real people and real problems. Assumptions and presumptions that person has about how society works and why people do things are encoded into it. Many of these types of assumptions have been found wanting when they go up against real people. It's even more of an issue with sci-fi, where you can make up any technology you want, and have it work any way you want.

Exactly: the "utopia" works because its backstory and mechanics are a series of biased non-sequiturs (of varying levels of audacity, often conflating goal with outcome).

Its a pretty safe to assume that almost nothing in a speculative world would actually work the way it's depicted, and forgetting that can sometimes screw people up (I'm reminded about the John Rogers qip about Atlas Shrugged and Lord of the Rings).
“Vaccine passports” are on the way, but developing them won't be easy
This is commendable. The rest of society also needs to be compassionate and understanding and not ostracise someone just for a couple of edgy tweets from a decade ago. But now such messages are a time bomb, and can be used against you at any point if you cross someone.
The additional fat loss due to increased lean muscle mass is minimal, comparatively. All of these things like “afterburn” effect (EPOC), etc are all to give people the illusion that there are easier ways to lose weight than eating less.

I’m not a keto maximalist, do whatever works for you. But most people looking to lose weight would do wonderfully on 1,250 calories per day of high protein, medium fat, with the odd day of fasting and plenty of water and coffee. Refeed every couple of weeks to keep leptin in check.