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> There’s irony to a progressive, fluid culture, dishing outrage in black and white. They’re against incarceration, but enthused to rip people apart, with no due process.

A few years ago, I read Jon Ronson’s book, “So You've Been Publicly Shamed” which examined online mobs (I don’t think the term “cancel culture” had yet entered public discourse). He started off with the belief that social media was a force for good, allowing the powerless to band together and “fight the power” but then saw how it spiralled out of control to become a more toxic phenomenon and hurt ordinary people. In one of the earlier chapters, he explores the history of shaming (a method of societal punishment that goes back a long way). He pointed out that progressives and liberals influenced by Enlightenment values came to view incarceration as a much more humane form of punishment than the stocks and similar public shamings.
Linked receipts seem to be exactly that - receipts. I don't see what the confusion is.
Assuming the oil mostly comes from abroad, what's to stop shell from "achieving" the 45% cut by simply selling the production capacity, contracts, wells etc to someone else?
Doesn't this make the case that we should be building institutions and systems resistant to this type of cheating?

Why should it be possible at all to game Journals in this way? Particularly in Computer Science journals where people think about edge cases for a living...
Less than a third loose access through their current server.
They can sign up on a different server and have access again.
You can't short a car battery by touching the terminals with your dry unbroken skin, anymore than you can short a AA battery by touching both ends.
I downloaded the torrent from KAT and confirmed that the filename and hash match the Ubuntu torrent. It appears that some metadata on that site is incorrect.

93bdab204067321ff131f560879db46bee3b994bf24836bb78538640f689e58f /mnt/downloads/ubuntu-20.04.2.0-desktop-amd64.iso
They all look like from SiFi cartoon ...
Imagine using PrivateInternetAccess and trusting this guy with your logs.
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Sure, but you don't own those. You're renting the hardware from HP.
Ya coming back to this post I saw the other comments. Guilty as charged of not reading the article.
I have already enough talk with my family to explain which charger and cable goes to which phone.

Even more humiliating is them looking at me as if I was complete idiot after me suggesting to them that the selection of cable itself may be cause of their problems. They had some physics at school and from their point of view the cable is just a bunch of copper and it should absolutely make no difference for how fast their phone charges.

Now I have to ready myself to have those "Universal" chargers which can only ever charge a single device but with no indication as to which device they can charge or which cable you have to use for this to work.

Which is pretty ironic because right now we have a bunch of laptops and it is much easier to explain that if the plug fits the socket you are ok and if it does not you need to look for the one that has matching plug.

The only solution I see is labeltown -- dust off my label printer and have every single piece of equipment, charger or cable clearly labeled.
I would love to see a SwiftUI-type system implemented at some point. Not in-place of HTML/CSS/JS (that is probably impossible at this point), but I think it would be pretty awesome both to use and to develop with.
This piece is not new ground for Hacker News, but I find it notable that it appeared in the mainstream press, for a general audience.
Indeed. I wonder if the internet also has something to do with this feeling. In a way, people are looking for justifications to doing things the wrong/illegal way. And in the past the information you got about how the world works is from other people around you. Now you can look up people in the same boat and apply whatever logic they did.
And the tree http://web.stanford.edu/~siegelr/stanford/thetree.html

I know the tree is different, but I mention it because they put out some software, named Dryad, that let you explore the latent space of tree parameters - leaf shape, branch angle, etc. And the default tree was one that resembled the mascot. The software was discontinued and I guess the standard Stanford Tree model never took off.

Edit: I can't find it available for download anywhere, so I put my copy on the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/stanford-dryad It will take some tweaking to get it to run on newer Windows versions. You can see the Stanford Tree model right in the center of the screenshot on the right here: https://news.stanford.edu/news/2008/january9/dryad-010908.ht...
In 2019, the FDA budget was 0.86% of the DOD budget.

As in, not within two orders of magnitude.
Citations aren't facebook likes, the academic world should stop treating them as such. Studies with bad methodology, dead ends and all shorts of flaws are often cited for a range of different reasons. Seemingly unreproduceable studies can be the result of bad measurements, but more interestingly could be because of previously unknown factors ie trace contaminants not accounted for.

Also, papers proven wrong ought to remain published. The idea behind retractions seems to be misinterpreted by some as an attempt to maintain journals as a library of ground truth. That was never the case and it never will be.

The real problem is the metrics we use for allocating funds, jobs and status.
> Unfortunately, if some guy walks up to a woman at an event and acts creepy, this demands that a woman record every moment of her life in case she has to defend herself if she calls him out...

We're throwing away "innocent until proven guilty" with this. I'm sure you agree how dangerous that can be.

Though, as you point out, recording every moment is not feasibly or desirable. Do you have any ideas on how we could solve this problem?

Making it easier and cheaper to file defamation suits wouldn't help as in this case there was no evidence.
The women clearly aren't unrelated if they are referring to each other in their tweets about why so-and-so is a creep.

If he is only showing the positive side in his defense, wouldn't it be super easy for anyone who received his creepy side to show it? If he says "these are the only DMs we exchanged", and then someone can show more DMs that were exchanged, wouldn't that destroy his defense? Yes, clearly the messages can be photoshopped, but if none of the accusers are pushing back against the claims, which would be simple to do, one could assume they are true.
Nice try angel investors. On a more serious note, investors need more companies to invest in. What does this post spread but propaganda? Why exactly should we take more money early when the real question is efficacy and speed of growth? Throwing more money at this issue likely won't fix it, so a headline like this is misleading. Less angel investors is better, and it's better to be picky about them and get better terms if possible. The opposite of this article.
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For anyone interested in learning how to use Open Telemetry for distributed tracing in go, I recently made a demo app to share with some friends: https://github.com/michaelperel/otel-demo . To run, clone it & docker-compose up
How would your perspective change, if it all, if the accuser came forward and said that those were in fact the only DMs exchanged?
They cause harm when they're wrong. Not when they're right. A mob went after Harvey Weinstein because after the first few accusations they rest realized they weren't alone.
After the acquisition of Joyent by Samsung, who here is interested in buying an extremely locked down hardware that seems seems to be a next-gen SmartOS (provisioning etc), i.e. rethinking networking and nodes all in holistic sense.

proposition is good, history is bad
> 'if you ain't cheating, you ain't trying'

I'm a US expat and escaping this culture is one of the things that's made me happiest - I tend to call it the bullshit culture because my favorite example is... writing a good paper for class is admired - but what's really praised is writing a paper that gets good marks without ever having read the subject matter. Being able to spin lies about a topic you've no understanding of and turn that into a marketable skill is a dark potent for the future of America. I think it's always been somewhat present, but since emerging strongly out of the business world in the eighties it's gained a lot of steam.

We are a society that can benefit from cooperation where everyone gets a fair slice of the pie, but that society is eroded if we praise and not shame those people who betray societal trust and cheat the system.
YCombinator seems to encourage this. Here's what they say about their dinner events:
"Talks are strictly off the record to encourage candor, because the inside story of most startups is more colorful than the one presented later to the public.
Because YC has been around so long and we have personal relationships with most of the speakers, they trust that what they say won’t get out and tell us a lot of medium-secret stuff."

Anecdotally, I've heard stories about Zuckerberg confessing/bragging about all sorts of nasty things at these dinners.

Really, this stuff should just be shamed. Sadly, too often calling out bad behavior just gets you called a "hater"...
> what is told about Russia here on HN slowly kills me with its striking primitivism.

I can believe it! I do judo with a Russian and it's interesting the difference between how others talk about Russia and knowing even a single actual Russian. I should be clearer that I'm describing the Russian government, not actual Russians, my apologies.

As to the point - the only explanation offered that really makes sense to me is that it's an extension of the arguments that a number of governments are having around the various vaccines. The Russian government is in conflict with e.g. Brazil around the Sputnik vaccine. The Chinese government has been suggesting it will only allow travel to China from people who have been vaccinated with a Chinese-developed vaccine, not any others. And, of course, there is the ongoing argument over the patent status of a number of the European and US vaccines.
Ha! So I'm not the only one. My wife thought I had fired up a video game.
I’m curious why Dropbox is on the not recommended list here.
I think the big problem with this is that very few people actually want to be moderators, and the people who do want the position are often least suited for it.

Smaller communities can rely on simple upvote/downvote, possibly with some intelligent logic to notice who you tend to agree with - I think Slashdot was primarily this?

But past a certain scale, just dealing with spam is a huge deal. Plus you need 24/7 coverage, and you want mods to be reasonably responsive. Assuming each person can put in 42 hours/week of moderation that still means you need four moderators.

And of course you need a default for people who have just arrived at the site, so that they're not buried in spam or attacked by trolls on their first post.
This is very interesting. Is there any more information available about the smartphones?
Thanks for the detailed explanation!

I don't think I can respond properly and ask the many more questions I have in a HN thread that's already this aged, so if you'd like to talk more, feel free to hit me up (my contact details are in my profile).
A resistive electric heater can be PWM'ed to provide variable output. If you want to maintain a narrow temperature band, you can do that better by feeding the water temperature into your PID loop and have it control the PWM duty cycle, rather than to a simple on-off thermostat.
Could you expand on XMPP being over engineered?
(Just curious)
Thanks
Does anyone have experience with Angelists RUV? Is it worth the costs? Does it make it in any way harder for an angel to invest?
Don't judge people on what your emotions tell you is most likely what that type of person usually has a reputation for doing according to the selectively reported news. That's how racism works, or in your case, it's sexism.
I am not sure the right for a company to exist, is a real thing. These are artificial entities created by the government that give groups of people liability protection and the ability to act as one entity legally.

It is not really a right, so much as a practical privilege we have set up. As such they should be open to whatever democratic will of the people. If the people arbitrarily decide they can only have so much power or size, then so be it.
I would like to see some hard science behind these claims.
How is this any different than buying the wrong cable in the past? You used to have to choose USB2, USB3, USB3.x, micro USB, mini USB, DisplayPort, Mini DisplayPort, HDMI, mini HDMI, VGA, DVI, thunderbolt, and more.

I think people are either too young to remember this disaster, or have just outright forgotten.
Yikes! Sorry, the only reason I mentioned it is that it's an RNA virus like the flu. Is there a study showing immunity to SARS-CoV-2 in people who had SARS-CoV? Can you point to a peer-reviewed study showing lasting immunity to SARS-CoV?
Ah, related to #clasp:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X69_42Mj-g Clasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Molecular Metaprogramming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbdXeRBbgDM 2018 LLVM Developers Meeting: C. Schafmeister lessons Learned Implementing Common Lisp with LLVM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rSMt1pAlbE Clasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Designing Molecules

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HXfvT85EFE Modular Polymer Catalysts - Chris Schafmeister

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQDwvatwjD8 10S6P4 Christian Schafmeister 2010 UNTT 3rd Annual Conference Session 6 Presentation 4
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Just unfollow all the default subreddits and follow ones tailored to you

Also its all sides astroturfing because there are more than two
Smaller teams will always win the communication overhead comparison even without thinking about organizational trees and therefore indirections too much. Communication is one of the biggest problems in organizations and the society, so more direct and therefore clearer communication can make the organization more efficient and keep the spirits high. It also doesn't hurt to have a team made only of extremely senior engineers or other professionals in their field. Even better, if those engineers are great personalities too. There is only one culprit: you have to have a very capable driver to put this powerful engine to good use so to say. If you drive the powerful engine in the wrong direction, you are actually putting more, not less distance between the destination and your current position. It seems, the goal for Oxide Computer is clear and I wholeheartedly wish you the best of luck.
From the wiki article it sounds like it just refers to extremely improvised engineering, something akin to "bubble gum and baling wire" or "MacGyvering" something. Something like a kludge, but a bit less pejorative.
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Been using it with mailjet. Since it's open source I just have a job in it that pulls my clients/subscribers from my main app and segments them automatically. I also define some number goals and can send out deals, updates automatically and just check in when I want. Really good tool, I also updated the template previewer so it's more realtime without the preview click.
In a vacuum where there was no need for legacy vim support (lets say vim integrated lua), I can't imagine anyone but a small minority preferring vimscript over lua. My argument isn't that nobody programs vimscript, it's that hardly anyone does it by choice.
They are going to have to get their employees to stop burning down federal courthouses first. They'll never get a FCL with that history.

Steve is a well-known outspoken anarchist that applauds violence for his politics and Bryan isn't much better with his woke agenda.
> They want push notifications on hilights.

Huh? Pretty much all mobile irc clients have that though?

And if you are running weechat anyway, something like weechat-android might be an better option for you? That connects back to weechat using the weechat relay protocol.
Academia WAS designed to be an insulated castle from all that, that's why Newton lived in a shitty apartment while getting money from his mom. The institution of research was supposed to be a rich man's game, people who didn't give a shit about practicality, just one upping each other. Once people realized academics could be leveraged to do cool shit like build A-Bombs, it was over.
academic cliques are so old that they’ve spawned their own subfields of meta-science just to analyze them.
Don't forget the big one, "no one knows what they're doing anyway ", a veteran structural engineer has some gaps in his understanding, so that's no different from me, so I should have doubts about launching a skyscraper startup.
I really don’t understand how people get the nerve to just dox someone so publicly. They must really be hoping an individual will somehow remain sane and stable enough that they will not suddenly show up at your house or place of business and just kill you with a few well placed shots to the chest, especially if they’ve already been pushed so far to seriously consider suicide anyway.
Reinforcement Learning with Game Theory - precisely what Littman, the author of the article, specializes on.
IMO the closest thing to that is WAI-ARIA, the concepts apply anywhere.
For me, the best part is that we very well may have stopped the pandemic in its track, with vaccines. I don't think we have a precedent.

The usual way we dealt with pandemics was to let people die, a lot until things settled down. We could "flatten the curve" but we didn't really have a way to fight back.

Vaccines helped fighting diseases that were already endemic. But here, it looks like we are beating covid before it has reached its full potential.
> At some point we to start thinking about strengthening our libel laws to act as a deterrent to this type of online behaviors.

I am unconvinced that there is anything that could be done to strengthen libel laws that would have this effect short of also shutting down essential freedom of expression, given that Western regimes with stronger libel laws are not free of it, and our libel laws tend to go pretty much right up to the limit federal courts have found the First Amendment to impose on them.
The nice thing about buildings which last a long time is, the good ones can be kept around. It's the good side of survivorship bias.
I got the beta and didn’t do anything special, just applied relatively early. I’d just be patient, their community Slack is constantly growing.
Speaking of Scott Alexander, this kind of thinking seems exactly like the kind of virtue signaling he writes about in "I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup". As the priest in the parable says:

>It seems to me that you only pardon the sins that you don’t really think sinful. You only forgive criminals when they commit what you don’t regard as crimes, but rather as conventions. You forgive a conventional duel just as you forgive a conventional divorce. You forgive because there isn’t anything to be forgiven.

And as Scott continues:

>Actual forgiveness, the kind the priest needs to cultivate to forgive evildoers, is really really hard. The fake forgiveness the townspeople use to forgive the people they like is really easy, so they get to boast not only of their forgiving nature, but of how much nicer they are than those mean old priests who find forgiveness difficult and want penance along with it.

I think about this a lot when I see the perennial discourse on canceling. Scott talks about this argument in terms of people being canceled by leftists, but I think it applies almost as well to people on the opposite side handwringing about cancellation. There are lots of great points to be made about the corrosive effects of cancellation mob rule, but I sometimes wonder if most of the left-right difference on this issue comes down to how strongly they feel about the infraction in question, rather than any level-headed consideration of what policy would lead to the best society.
> The people who feel gaslit over a USB-C cable not working would probably also feel gaslit over buying the "wrong USB C cable",

They might feel deceived or mislead by the packaging, but they won't have to wonder if they are somehow using their computer wrong. Particularly for people who lack confidence with computers, this means a lot.
The article skips over the obvious point that each investor = an additional chunk of your company you have given away. Cash from 40+ different individuals might be essential to get your company off the ground, but realistically it probably isn't.

In the current environment there is an unlimited number of investors with large pockets and a tiny population of capable founders. Use that to your advantage as much as you can.
It’s because virtually no one outside of Hacker News seems to have these problems. The rest of the world seems to love the singular port.
Agreed.

You almost forget now days that "getting a PhD" or "getting a tenured position" has nothing at all to do with the process of scientific research.
One could speculate, albeit without any basis in evidence, that the motives of the PIA owners might be malicious. The combination of IRC and VPN logs could be useful for historical and real-time session deanonymization.
Oh boy. It really does. If, for example, you've got a pile of non-accredited on your cap-table and then go to the next round, those bigger dogs may (read: likely) won't want the smaller players around. So, they get an exit but your raise is not as large cause some of the money goes to them not your company. Lots of variables in there but "zero bearing" is not correct.
> Most games are made for consoles first, rarely other way around.

Except in the actual case I mentioned with the list, where almost all of the cross-platform ones are made for PC first, from Divinity to Hades to Undertale to Inside, Steamworld, Shovel Knight, Hollow Knight, Ori, Bastion, Dead Cells, Into the Breach, Fez, etc etc etc.

Seeing how basically all games that aren't first party or specific exclusives are lighter (hardware wise) PC games actually speaks to a huge market for those games on a portable device.

> Anyhow, you can play on your screen with docked switch. You can play on your couch with steam link, or pc hooked up to tv.

Playing on the couch would be competing with Xbox and Playstation, not Switch, which as you said is already a solved problem.

This would be for anywhere you play your Switch undocked, and you don't want a Switch for whatever reason (likely more indies, emulators, "apps").
I think cheating-culture requires more than just a lot of arbitrary rules. You need to also have friends who can help, role models you can see getting ahead while cheating and so-forth.
They added lambda functions to excel so it's pretty much there.
This was a snippet of a whole report. Here is the full report https://stanford.app.box.com/v/Stanford-Tech-History-Project
Engagement-optimizing media definitely are a part of it. That means both social media sites and classical news media. Both feed us a heavily warped view of the world - one in which nothing works, and everyone tries to cheat. That's because people being good, following the rules, helping each other and accomplishing things together is not newsworthy, and stands no chance against outrage-inducing stories.