skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a Chrome widget that flags posters to a set of subreddits (i.e. Trump supporters et al, general rightwingers and dark enlightenment folks) with extra red signs on the posts specifying which 'bad' subreddits the poster posts to. (I'd like to see a wider range of flagging, perhaps different colors)

tumblrinaction is most definitely one of the subreddits marked for 'warning signs'. I think I could propose a set of complementary subreddits for a contrasting color, which uses politically opposite extreme views… to accomplish literally the same effect. Hence my desire for the additional tool, because I've used the 'flagging' tool as a way to not be drawn into argument and outrage. Sort of 'wearing your sponsors on your sleeve' but for reddit posts. Wouldn't mind seeing that extended more broadly.
I've wondered about this as well. There is an "innocent" explanation, aside from incompetence: there's layers upon layers of stuff, designed, owned and managed by a plethora of organizations. If no one organization is liable, they're not likely to be proactive about security.

The cynic in me, of course, suspects this is no accident.
Then what's the point of even posting the article? Most people aren't going to take any advice, but you yourself still can.
70% of america is white. Can you please let us know the exact percentage of white men that is acceptable for every industry?
I also have an ok ear for melody and given a bit of time can usually come up with some sort of harmonisation so I get learning by ear.

But for me that process is about listening to the music or replaying it mentally.

I don't get what this seemingly popular falling note/guitar hero style display brings?

You mention that you use it to tell the scales used in a piece? To me, the "falling note" representation is a poor and indirect way to communicate that information.
Your speculation is not speculation but actually supported by data from Norway, Sweden, etc.

I made that point earlier but it does not go over well with the gender is social constructionism folks.
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.

For example, in the real world, drugs are a serious problem for many people. The libertarian assumption is that all of the problems flow from prohibition. I'm willing to believe that many of the problems do, but it's quite clear that not all of them do. See the prescription opioid epidemic. In many of the cases, there are no issues with the quality of the supply or the cost of the drugs, but nevertheless, the users frequently overdose themselves or abandon everything and everyone in their life in the pursuit of more drugs. I'm quite doubtful that you could give everyone in the world "drug glands" that give them a hit of as much of any drug as they want anytime they want and not have a large chunk of the population die or become catatonic from opioid overuse, or go psychotic as tends to happen with overuse of stimulants like meth or cocaine, or something else.

And of course we have the Minds. Of course everything is nice and easy if you make up the fact that the Minds are perfect benevolent dictators who would never harm a human and always do everything legitimately for the greater good. Humans have never been able to do that, but hey, we made up some super-intelligent AIs that do, because I said so. We've never built a real super-intelligent AI, so we don't know how it would be. Maybe it actually would be a perfect benevolent dictator. Or maybe not. Maybe it'll be just like every human dictator we've ever had, happy to squash anyone who questions its rule. Maybe it'll just wipe us all out for being inconvenient and messy. Maybe it'll go off and do whatever it finds interesting somewhere else and ignore us. Who can say?

Bottom line is that it's very easy to make a fake utopia of any ideology at all, as long as it's all in one person's head. A Nazi could just as easily write their own fake utopia where society did everything their way and it all just magically worked perfectly because of course they're right about everything in their own minds. What happened to all the Jews, you ask? Why they just don't exist in our imaginary perfect society! Don't you dare ask any inconvenient questions, can't you see we're building a utopia here!
I don't know why people keep adding "Only" in front of "Black Lives Matter".
I disagree.

Diversity CAN BE a competitive advantage if everyone else is carving out a strict path.
But if everyone is extremely diverse then heterogeneity could actually be the competitive advantage, allowing a business to specialize more or take advantage of certain economies of scale etc. etc.

Also, I find that more often than not, too much diversity leads to internal conflict because ideas differ too much, which can turn into a competitive disadvantage.
To avoid confusion, the word "pawpaw" means very different things in different parts of the English-speaking world.

Outside of North America, "pawpaw" usually means what Americans call papaya -- and in some countries (like New Zealand) both "papaya" and "pawpaw" are used to refer to different varieties of what Americans call papayas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paw_Paw
Companies often want to release incremental, small features, not major UI overhauls.

Speaking as a product leader who has been in a position to decide on these, I'm not opposed to major UI overhauls, but many that have been proposed to me:

- Are motivated by a design team that wants to justify their jobs or make a mark on a product, with the UI considerations secondary.

- Have major issues and design weaknesses themselves.

- Throw out important aspects of functionality in an attempt to be "fresh and simple".

- Ignore that we had our last major overhaul 12 months ago, and that one was in response to the major ovehaul 24 months ago.

Requiring evolution rather than revolution is a hedge against these problems. I'm not generally opposed to overhauls because I'm familiar with the importance of UI. For example, I'm very unhappy with Robinhood as a trading platform, but damn, switching to Fidelity is painful because their UI is so terrible.

I wish I more consistently got to work with talented designers. I put a lot of effort into getting good designers, as poor designers can wreak havoc.
Yes, exactly. Except that we take a picture with no light at all to get an image of the noise from the sensor, typically leaving the lens cap on.
What did your research find?
Here's what makes developer tools hard:

1. IDE dependency. If you have to use IDE X to get the feature, then your tool will live and die by IDE X. A lot of development tools lose their user base when an IDE or editor falls out of favor.

2. Language/compiler specificity. This one is rough, because most dev tools are dependent on language tooling to do the magic. Productivity hitches are different in different languages. In a day, I may work with Python, Go, JavaScript, SQL, bash/zsh and several DSLs. If your tool doesn't work with 2-3 languages I use, I may never even notice your tool. A lot of static analysis based tools work well with C and Java and nothing else. It's kind of the SmallTalk trap: amazing tools, but you have to use SmallTalk to use them.

3. Solving stuff that really doesn't matter to the programmer. As a manager and as a business owner a 15% in developer productivity is great. As a programmer, I'm not even going to notice that I'm getting 15% more done. And even if I do, it may not even matter.
You can also predict number of likes based on number of views

Likes on a video = 71.71084*Views in thousands + 3.34218
I found r4cppp[1] much more useful than any other resource to learn Rust. I understand not everyone has experience with C++, but I found that other resources spent a lot of time on topics that are already intuitive to systems programmers. That was pretty frustrating and put me off from the language for a while.

[1] https://github.com/nrc/r4cppp
> Even an unfounded accusation could completely derail my life and career.

I don't think that treating people poorly because you're worried that not doing so could hurt your career is the right thing to do. It might be pragmatic in your case, but so is taking money out of a wallet you find on the ground.

> I lost my best friend due to a lie I couldn't disprove.

You lost your best friend because your best friend didn't trust you and because someone lied. None of that is your fault. Sometimes the world is a shitty place with shitty people. That isn't a reason to add to that shittiness by refusing to treat women in the workplace as you would men.
The premise is so compelling - you can improve your mental health, free up your time and improve your relationships by insulating yourself from any source of outrage. You, you, you, you. Sometimes we need to think about others too. Of course we shouldn't be outraged by everything or spend all our time doom scrolling. That much we can all agree on. But the solution proposed here - unplugging completely, has consequences too.

Last summer there were tragic deaths in America that triggered massive protests. One of the many heartening things about those protests is that many of those protesting weren't personally affected [1] by the issue at hand - policing of black communities. But they cared about their fellow citizens and they showed up. You want to call that outrage and demean it? Sure. But those people did something good.

If we turn inward and only care about ourselves, we might find that no one cares when we need help.

[1] - One Big Difference About George Floyd Protests: Many White Faces. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/us/george-floyd-white-pro...
I think this is more of a conditioned response. If you continually engage, walking away will be difficult. If you regularly avoid or walk away, it’s easy.
Because it's a dumbass catchphrase made up to make you outraged and you're buying in to it.
I think the mention of specific company policies really weakens the argument here. What Nike does is just irrelevant in scale compared to what Twitter or Facebook do. They are the platforms that threaten to destabilise the free world.
You'd think so, but I have seen this specific idea play out and in one case the "trusted female peer" accused the person doing the asking of expecting her to do his emotional labor.
New York State’s Covid-19 Vaccine Passport Leaves Users Clueless About Privacy
In Dutch there's an expression 'zo rot als een mispel' (as rotten as a medlar). These days this means 'rotten to the core', so I was surprised to learn it originated from a fruit that supposedly tastes wonderful in this state. Although from the Dutch Wikipedia I gather it's more fermenting than rotting that's involved.
I can see your comment in the context of democratic party circles, but not leftist circles, at least in the US. I have difficulty placing it in the leftist circles I run in, which generally view politics in the US as consisting of a center/far right party (democrats) and reactionary fascists (republicans).

> Everyone I know in identity politics circles was critical of her too! Indeed!

I'm quite skeptical of this claim. For the most part the people pushing race and gender identity narratives in the US had at best mild criticism of Ms. Harris, and were mainly focused on her multi-racial identity and its historical significance. Almost as if her terrible politics simply didn't matter because of her identity.
Meh, as if people who argue on twitter all day don't know it's stupid. They know. We all know.

1/3 of Americans are obese, you think they don't know? They know. We all know.

These are systemic problems. If you try to solve them at an individual level of Jordan Peterson aka clean your room or Tony Robbins jump around yelling 'yes' to loud music, that'll last you a week, a month, a year and a life for 0.00001%.

When the system is built to have shit food everywhere and healthy food in select places, when the infrastructure is built to make communities impossible, when you get taught useless shit for 12 years in school and more stupid shit through entertainment your whole life - don't blame the people who go haywire, the system makes you go crazy because it doesn't make any sense.

Look at the developed world - these people are going extinct - they're having fewer than 2 children on average, eating themselves to death while talking about 'social media'.

It's not social media, it's your culture and worldview. Of course who wants to have that conversation - just go read Steven Pinker about how we're doing better than ever.
Quince are naturally very high in pectin, so they were often grown to be added to other fruit as a thickener in jams. These days people just buy commercially produced pectin, or more likely, don't make jam at all.
Hmm. I'm not buying it.

Sure, stand-alone developer tools mighte be collecting dust, but many tools are simply baked into the things we develop with.

* Extensive debugging tools are now built into browsers.
* Most popular languages have extensive linters, formatters, and code quality tools.
* Tools like Hot Loading and Live View simply become part of the language you're using. Heck, Hasura and Postgraphile are essentially just a set of tools with some very intelligent wiring.
* Profiling is basically standard on all popular languages
* Storyboard and component driven design means you can quickly translate a lot of design work to code.

The list goes on and on and on.
I think that tools that collect dust are just not great. The article gives some internal Facebook tool as an example, but it is really a research paper. I asked some friends at Facebook and from my (small) sample I couldn't confirm from anybody to have heard of anybody who used the tool, which means it was maybe just a PR stunt. This is not a problem for research and it is a great paper, but there's just a lot of overselling in the field.

On the other hand, everywhere I worked, developer tools that did their job well were easy to adopt. JetBrain is a great example.
I for one would be quite interested in a separate device just for newspapers, something that has absolutely no other functions (other than perhaps a built-in glossary) and allows me to just catch up on news as a deliberate action, without getting drawn into various rabbit holes.
Acknowledging that we have a lot of work to do improving things further doesn't require us to simultaneously accept the idea that the world is a worse place today than it was a generation ago.

Indeed, noting that real progress has been made made, as the parent does, seems like the first step toward hopefully pursuing further progress—it's proof it can work!
In the series its mentioned that any mind beyond a certain level of perfection would always immediately choose to sublime to the next level of existence. Given the fact that the minds have very strong personalities and they're less than perfect, omniscient creations then mistakes miscalculations and overestimations are inevitable.

I'd always taken the view that Contact / Special Circumstances was where many people wanted to be due to it being a limited opportunity in a post scarcity environment. Coupled with the fact that anyone who really wanted to be in a situation requiring the use of scary advanced weaponry is likely to be a bad choice for such a position, this always made the stories about contact agents seem intriguing to me.
Opinions backed by facts would be fine.
If someone explains why he has the opinion he has then I can agree/disagree/provide a better reasoning for another opinion etc.
But most of the opinions voiced are either not backed by anything or backed by one of the most common logical fallacy.
> Programmers do not like to pay for their tooling.

Eventually they’ll have to. Everything is trending to SaaS offerings and eventually we’ll be paying way, way more. The amount of money people spend on SaaS CI blows my mind and if that’s any indication the move to massively over priced SaaS tooling is inevitable.
"Living in full view of the public on the internet are a small group of individuals who do not have relevant medical expertise and have their own pockets to line, who are abusing social media platforms to misrepresent the threat of COVID and spread misinformation about the safety of vaccines," reads the REPORT[1] from the nonprofit organization, which works to disrupt "the spread of digital hate and misinformation."

[1]: https://252f2edd-1c8b-49f5-9bb2-cb57bb47e4ba.filesusr.com/ug...
The second was a quote from numerous reasoned arguments (which I linked to) posted in similar forums in the ear 20th century. Anyway, this thread is so terrifying (and brings back bad memories from my time in SV) that the natural reaction should be to scream in horror and not make any "substantive points." I am even more worried and, frankly, hurt that you don't see that. The most I could manage is try to hold a mirror up so that some people might see what they sound like to others.
I was taught early on to "question everything", so it comes naturally. But it's really really tiring to do, when everything is at least a little bit wrong (and the things that are not obviously wrong are often the most insidious).

The most reasonable people in the world often end up in a fact-checking loop, where they will never have any real influence on the world. For me that's what sparks my outrage, when I realize everything I'm reading is full of truthful lies. Maybe you're right that this could fuel change; I am less optimistic.
I agree with this a lot. I feel way less stressed out completely leaving reddit, all news, and so on.
I don't see why we should even be trying to make base level protocols like this "secure". Focus on reliability and simplicity, leave security to another level of the stack. VOIP and web browsing services should be encrypted, who cares whether the low level protocol is encrypted or not?

Anything that needs to be standardized and stable for decades needs to be simple, and it shouldn't matter whether there are vulnerabilities, because those are inevitable.
> I used to think the lab accident theory was crazy

Accidents happen. Even if it was a lab accident, it's not a reason to be outraged with the Chinese government.

I think in parallel to searching for the origin, they should also look into the reports that Chinese government tried to hid it under the carpet and only admitting that it couldn't control it after it was already spread all over the world.

That's the real crime of the Chinese government in regards to Covid and that's what people should be outraged about.

But yeah, good luck getting an unbiased report on that.
Good points, thank you. It just seems like in this case, whenever the topic is discussed everyone points to "it is known" style twitter mobs, and the actual examples of twitter mobs that do show up tend to not be as unreasonable in general.

E.g. the cancelling and uncancelling of RMS seemed to me mainly...reasonable? Like, he says some weird stuff and defended ~~Eppstein~~ Minsky (sorry, memory got messed up, thanks
skissane) in a tone-deaf manner (I have had the joy of exchanging emails with RMS and interacting with him at talks he gave at my alma mater, and he always seemed like a thoughtful and kind person whom I respect and admire, but I feel like "tone-deaf" is a fair description), maybe that's not a good thing to do if your job is to be a public figure? And very little twisting was needed to make his discussion of what really is rape reasonable? So if this is an example of what people are afraid of, it seems a very...specific fear
I'd agree, but that doesn't explain why not only is the big picture absolutely broken, but so is every single detail. The indivisible parts are also broken.
My theme is basically: no, statistically, they are lemmings, and they can't. An individual human can resist propagandization, can resist bad faith, can take responsibility for their perspectives.

Get access to a large enough population and humanity, viewed as an aggregate, can't. The capacity for individual choice is real and it's not enough.

It's great to be one of the exceptions: I totally endorse it, as an individual. It won't matter, which is why we gotta find collective solutions for collective problems that absolutely will not be fixed by personal responsibility.
Local news is just as subject to the same nonsense just at a smaller scale, how many local news stories are "this local business did something outrageous" or "local gov't regulations are hurting this business" for example?
I've been on the search for the perfect Piano VST forever and I absolutely found it with Pianoteq 7.

Unlike all the other ones I've tried where I get ear fatigue after a few minutes due to some issue I can never consciously identify, with Pianoteq I can play for HOURS.

Not trying to shill for them, honest. I just really really like it.
Absolutely, but it's more effort than knowing an SSN and being immediately able to get a loan in the name of that person. That would be ridiculous in Europe.
I think top-tier law is still overwhelmingly male. Read up on the double bell-curve for the legal industry, which is quickly becoming a problem for tech as well. Though for the legal industry, there's gatekeeping in the form of school pedigree.

For medicine, it's easier to balance the ratios when you can fully control the pipeline, and also control the total number of new practitioners entering the workforce regardless of demand.

If you only have 28,000 residency slots a year, institutions can pick whoever they want, and get the diversity numbers that they want. They decide who eventually gets to work in the field. Employers and customers don't have any real choice. They're going to get whatever the schools provide, and if they don't like it, they can go without doctors.

Modern tech is nothing like that, but it could be someday. Imagine if schools decided who could be professionally employed as a software engineer.
then don't use them?
> Doomscrolling caused by "engagement" metrics.

And then they ban the comment section because people engage.
yeah nearly every developer I encounter does not want to pay for anything. Yet they love to get paid to program. An odd disconnect there for me.
I'm not even a tiny bit convinced that "engagement metrics" are actually a useful measure of the experiences that people typically care about when they use the word "engaging" in a positive light.

In fact, I'm not sure how much I believe that such metrics even represent an attempt at such a measure.
it is of course good to get confirmation that taking a stimulant that is also a diuretic increases fat-burning - as I believe most people would suspect - but I don't think that confirmation is headline level good.
Over the past few years I've definitely been addicted to outrage porn and anything related to SJWs and cancel culture. Now I impulsively read YouTube comments to feel like I'm right. None of this has added any value to my life, if anything made me more antagonistic and feeling like the world is screwed. Meanwhile there are probably plenty of people out there who aren't caught up in the culture wars and are just working away at their craft, getting jobs they want and paid more.
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> Why make everything about identity; where has the traditional focus on class gone?

that's the point of identity politics, to take away that focus by distracting and dividing the working class

https://i.imgur.com/wusW5Rn.jpg
I'm really looking for examples here. Nobody seems to be able to provide me one investor who is left in the lurch over this sort of thing.