skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All of us got deficient humanities educations at TJ.

Perhaps. For those of us who didn't even receive a mediocre STEM education at our take-all-comers schools and still certainly got a significantly worse humanities education than you, it engenders bitterness and anger that you're arguing for pulling up the rug behind you and preventing the next generation of children from having access to a high quality education.

> A ton of my friends who are TJ alumni now share stories (well over a decade later) of how TJ was the most toxic learning ecosystem they have ever been in.

Is it more toxic than having classes where kids turn up drunk and threateningly brandish knives?
That goes against their NAP theology then which means the corporations aren't playing by the rules. Newsflash, that's what happens when a monopoly exists!

I mean I'm pretty selfish, but I'm not so naive to think that total capitalism is good. Your lord becomes someone you can't elect or petition because they own everything. Eventually your money flows to them so you can't fight back at all.
> `_` would cause compatibility issues with existing JavaScript code, which has allowed `_` at the start of an identifier or (public) property name for a long time. -- https://github.com/tc39/proposal-private-fields/blob/master/...
Now lookup what a parable is. There can be great value in fiction sometimes more value than a true story.
Why do people keep bringing up Eric Weinstein? He isn't the one who had his video taken down...
Perhaps as you age this advice is great, and I find myself naturally trending towards it, but I wouldn't give up my past life full of titillations and jagged surprises for anything. It's been amazing so far.
> Besides, Israel's support for gay rights and feminism is hardly universal. Spend some time in an orthodox neighborhood if you don't believe me.

I think you are kicking in open doors here.

But unlike a few kilometers away it won't get you kicked from a rooftop, it will only get you angry looks.
> The best thing for me is that when I click the "Edit" button on Microsoft's documentation, it takes me directly to the latest markdown source file on GitHub and I can immediately submit a PR

We had better than that 10+ years ago: actual wikis. We've regressed quite a bit. Even developer.mozilla.org has gone backwards. Had devmo not been a wiki, I'd have never poured so much effort into the JavaScript docs between 2006–2008.
From the freenode bouncer link:

> freenode is the home of FOSS, so of course it's powered by open source.

Not any more it ain't.
Idleness is rust.
The community still exists, it's just on Libera. Same people, same channel, different network.
I tested this.

tldr;
I could not replicate speed benefits except for heavy stack usage. Python 3.10 is 8% slower than python 3.8. Python 3.10 with said optimization is 3% slower overall than Python 3.10 without it except for stack usage.

Python 3.8
python-speed v1.2 using python v3.8.5
string/mem: 1476.42 ms
pi calc/math: 1817.37 ms
regex: 1984.63 ms
fibonnaci/stack: 1085.79 ms

total: 6364.21 ms (lower is better)

Python 3.10 no optimization
python-speed v1.2 using python v3.10.0
string/mem: 1580.52 ms
pi calc/math: 1796.23 ms
regex: 2110.86 ms
fibonnaci/stack: 1337.18 ms

total: 6824.79 ms (lower is better)

Python 3.10 with optimization
python-speed v1.2 using python v3.10.0
string/mem: 1559.45 ms
pi calc/math: 1821.25 ms
regex: 2387.64 ms
fibonnaci/stack: 1299.8 ms

total: 7068.13 ms (lower is better)

Anything I am missing?
Tested using https://github.com/vprelovac/python-speed
Wow! That law is interesting!

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BIPA) states: “No private entity may collect, capture, purchase, receive through trade, or otherwise obtain a person's or a customer's biometric identifier or biometric information.” unless it receives written consent.

...

Under the BIPA, people can receive up to $5,000 in damages from private entities for each violation committed “intentionally or recklessly,”

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Unless I'm missing something people in Illinois should get Amazon Echoes or Halos which both "voiceprint" users and then sue Amazon to collect their 5k reward.
"Most animals" in the world are the animals we raise for meat. Well, mammals anyway.

60% are food animals

36% are we humans

4% are wild animals

So there's that.
The term Weinstein prefers for himself is "entertainer": https://geometricunity.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/Geometric...

> The Author is not a physicist and is no longer an active academician, but is an Entertainer
and host of The Portal podcast. This work of entertainment is a draft of work in progress
which is the property of the author and thus may not be built upon, renamed, or profited from
without express permission of the author.
There's only one Facebook. Other groups and individuals apart from Freenode host their own ircds, so I consider ircd to be in the category of self-hosted things, even if sometimes it is a large "self" like Freenode.
*424MB drive

I dreamed of having one back then, but not before I dreamed of having a 340MB one and running Stakker on it.
Decided it was best to leave names out.
The UI changes weren't especially popular, but I don't think they were the cause of a mass exodus. I think it's more that Reddit was gaining in popularity. Slashdot posts had to go through their "editors," who were kind of laughingstocks who regularly let dumb mistakes through, reposted old articles, and regularly posted low-quality, flamebaity articles and thinly disguised advertisements. People put up with it since the articles were largely an excuse for a discussion topic. But then Reddit bypassed this and let people submit things directly. And the quality of Reddit posts and comments was a lot higher since it drew a more cerebral crowd in those early days, which made it more of a threat to Slashdot than the more mainstream Digg (which it also replaced ultimately).
Here in Brazil there have been numerous reports of people getting sick from ivermectin overdose, including people needing liver transplants.

When ivermectin is used for it's original purpose, the treatment is usually a one-time dose. However for covid people have been taking higher doses and for a prolonged period of time, in the misguided belief that it protects against covid.

https://oglobo.globo.com/sociedade/ao-menos-quatro-pacientes...
Mi preskaŭ ne interesiĝis pri tiu artikolo ĉar mi preferas uzi Markdown aŭ HTML depende de miaj celoj, ĝis mi agnoskis, ke la nomo estas el la internacia lingvo. Bele!

I was almost uninterested in this article because I prefer to use Markdown or HTML depending on my goals, till I realised that the name is from Esperanto. Very nice!
I don't think I've seen a more succinct display of this as in The Daily Show, when Jon Stewart was lambasting Sean Hannity.

"You know why America was so great to you when you were 12? BECAUSE YOU WERE 12!"
You seem to suggest that few giant companies are optimal. If so, why not take that to the full extend - have just one player in the market by the government nationalizing all tech companies and merging into one?

(I am not suggesting that as a credible alternative).
I maybe didn't put it quite right - western governments have much stronger political links with Israel. Hence, I think it makes sense that current events in Israel and Palestine would be reported in western media. As I said initially though, I don't believe Israel gets a disproportionate amount of coverage.
What phone platforms you mean?
The difference is that

* IRC is interoperable and easy to change servers, unlike apps with proprietary protocols. If Yahoo started doing horrible things with their email, then people who notice would switch to GMail or another host.
> What would society look like with a generation where 99.75% of people are infertile?

I can think of at least one fictionalized exploration of that idea. A couple of books and a TV series were made.
Please, see the Animal Welfare Section on the Wikipedia page for slaughterhouses. There is nothing here sensational, just facts. It's important that those who choose to eat meat understand the contract they sign when financially supporting the industrial animal processing system.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterhouse#Animal_welfar...
For some reason, search engines are now promoting video results over text results, at least for “how to” type searches.
It also had a much bigger user base.
In fact, we eat more animals every year than are alive at any one time. E.g. 50B chickens are eaten every year, but only 19B are alive at any moment.

Its essentially true that the only animals that matter are the ones we raise. By the numbers anyway.
I have yet to hear a plan to end poverty which might work. UBI and "negative income tax" will fail the drug addicted and mentally ill, most of whom will continue to make bad choices and remain homeless.

Raising minimum wage shows some promise at improving things, but it seems rents for in-demand cities simply increase to match the median income of workers in the area.

Re-shaping tax laws has a much better chance of improving matters for low-income workers. If capital gains wasn't so low, running business would again become better investments than stock markets. If dividend stocks were tax-advantaged and became more common, then stock-holders would have a much greater interest in long-term stability of a company rather than short-term returns. If the taxes on property weren't so low, the ultra-wealthy wouldn't be buying up every cheap bit of it and holding onto it for decades, perhaps renting it out rather than ever selling it. If there weren't so many tax law loopholes, huge corporations wouldn't have as much of an economic advantage over smaller businesses.

I don't subscribe to the notion that impoverished workers are required by our economy, either. While the Wal-marts and Sam's Clubs keep people barely surviving, the Targets and Costcos out there give their workers a reasonable standard of living and don't need to sell lots of expensive luxury goods to pay for it.
"Science and technology" are a vague abstraction. What people mean when they describe science as becoming a religion is more specific - they're using "science" as a shorthand for academic institutions specifically and the various maladies that go along with that, maladies like:

- The reproducibility crisis in social sciences

- The floods of BS coming out of public health research, a crisis for which we don't even have a name yet

- The journals who only care about impact and not about scientific integrity

- Politicians who appear to be completely controlled by modellers who never validate their models and whose predictions are always wrong

- People who are instinctively loyal to that whole set of power structures and rituals, such that they dismiss any claim of scientific misconduct as conspiracy theories, as ignorance, etc.

and so on. The fact that certain fields of study and other parts of society have been able to use the scientific method to produce concrete things doesn't automatically imply that all (so-called) scientists do so, and given the proliferation of scientific fields that produce nothing concrete, doesn't even imply the majority do.
As long as Congress, in its great wisdom, makes health benefits correlated to employment, then yes, job shopping for better health plans is a thing.
> If you've seen most other consent forms, rejecting cookies (if possible at all) is usually done via a small link next to a prominent "Accept all" button and other such dark patterns.

That's exactly how this one works for me. The prominent "Continue to site" is "Accept all" in disguise, and to opt out you need to click on the little "Preferences" button/link. It's the same dark pattern as usual, not a UX improvement.
For any of our friends outside the US, this is not normal. As someone with a similar income (single - not married couple) but 0 children, 0 "special" government deductions, etc, here's a breakdown of my 2020 numbers:

- Income from employer: $168K

- Investment income: $41K

- Total income: $209K

Deductions (rounded numbers):

- $19.5K (private retirement 401k)

- $12.5K standard deduction

- $3.5K health care savings

- $3K MEME stonks losses :(

Approximate taxable income after deductions: $170K

Taxes paid:

- Federal Income tax: $32K

- Federal Social security (gov't pension / disability insurance): $8500

- Federal Medicare (gov't old age health care): $2500

- State Taxes: $10K

Total taxes: $53K

So I'm looking at about 25% taxes due. Also, my employer had to match my federal Social Security and Medicare (which is essentially taken out of my pay), so it's closer to about 31%.

That's certainly better than what (it sounds like) you guys pay over in the UK, EU, etc, especially as my salary over there would be taxed in one of the higher brackets, while in the US, I'm in the "middle", though I have very few deductions that larger families will have (especially if they own a very big house in an expensive state).

In high tax states like California, you would add another 4-5% or so - you'd end up at 35%.
For anyone else not sure what phrenology is, the article says:

> In the early 19th century, some scientists became convinced that they could predict someone's personality and behaviour based simply on the shape of their head.

> Known as phrenology, this pseudo-science accelerated notions of racism, intellectual superiority, and caused many to suffer just because of what they looked like—some people were even imprisoned because the contours of their skulls suggested "criminality."
Albert Einstein was a Physicist and an Entertainer...

edit: Richard Feynman wrote a book called "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surely_You%27re_Joking,_Mr._Fe...!).
> ... but (with my consumer hat on), I don't really care about ad buyers that much.

Ad buyers are the consumers. You are the product.
Korea created a kpop generation with a government grant.
> The suspicion that the poor are lazy.

Yeah, the idea/ideology that "If you work hard, you'll be successful" has the flip side that "If you're not successful, you haven't worked hard enough, i.e. you're lazy.": https://youtu.be/bTDGdKaMDhQ

Most people who are successful got lucky once or twice along the way too...
I think this is the way your brain decides things: by replaying events slightly differently, and choosing the best option.

And if that is the way the brain works, then that is the way you would make sense of the world.
For me, it's very simple. There are certain things that I must have in a desktop environment (DE) --- for example, having a 3x3, 2-dimensional workspace. As far as a DE is concerned, I want to be a user of the DE, not a developer of the desktop environment.

The problem is that the extension API is fundamentally unstable, and so extensions which provide the functionality that I consider a must-have, are unreliable, and may break in future versions of GNOME. I don't want to be in the position of debugging an extension which stops working in a future version of GNOME. I may be a kernel programmer, but as far as the desktop environment is concerned, I just want to be a user of it. And if an extension breaks, and I have to figure out which other extension might have the feature that I want, but which might require painful configuration somersaults after successive new GNOME versions, the answer is very simple. I'm just going to say, "No Thanks". KDE/Plasma supports what I consider to be fundamental key functionality, and I don't have to mess with it. And so GNOME is just not for me. If it works for you, great! But an extension API which is not stable, and when what I consider core functionality can only be provided by extensions which are resting on top of quicksand, is not going to be persuasive answer.
I don't understand the use of apocryphal in this context
That would probably depend on what percentage of scrolls contained illustrations in the first place.
Old internet had a bit RTFM and show your work to solve this before asking questions culture too. And were pretty curmudgeony back in the 90s on irc. Tbh its reasonable to ask people to bother to search for a minute before askinf questions, and if you tell people i tried searching with this before asking, they’re a lot more friendly.

That sense of community is there with discord, you gotta use that.
> In marketing strategy, cannibalization refers to a reduction in sales volume, sales revenue, or market share of one product as a result of the introduction of a new product by the same producer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalization_(marketing)
> It would destroy the company into absolute dust.

I honestly don’t think it would. The Twitter mob is a bunch of loud voices, that’s all. A bunch of people using online. I doubt they could arrange an actual effective boycott.
I can’t believe intelligent people don’t see crypto for the ponzi scheme that it is
IoT is the 21st century version of bloodletting
Like Ada, C++ is standardised by ISO. With I suspect much the same consequence, ie there is a big gap between the ambition of the language's most important architects and what they can persuade the committee to sign off on for the standard.

It is informative for example to review talks Bjarne gave about C++ Concepts in 2015 compared to the C++ 20 feature Concepts. That's five years to get something similar in scope into the actual language standard, and of course since this isn't exactly what Bjarne designed, you then to have transition compilers and codebases to the actual standard feature...

I'm dubious about the value of conformance testing as a deliberate exercise. In practice real world implementations will definitely be defective and it's important that defects are cured when identified, mostly by changing implementations but sometimes in reality by changing the specification to reflect what is implemented. But I don't know how much value I believe there is in somebody sitting down to try to construct a test suite starting from the standards documents, rather than gathering minimal samples of real world code that did not do what the standard says it should do so that implementations can check they get those right (and where appropriate the standards body can reconsider whether the standard itself is wrong here). It appears to me that ACATS tries to do the former, right?
Israel is considered extremely important to the US because the US cares a lot about having influence in the Middle East. Being extremely important to the US gets them a lot of coverage in US media.
We also have decades of experience with Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, and other repurposed drugs out of patent. Ivermectin in particular looks like it's working quite well in practice. Isn't it funny that we will hold those to ridiculously high standards, and devote resources to get much newer interventions like Remdesivir, the upcoming Molnupiravir [2] and others, that are still under patent, through requirements? Especially when every second counts, and when people are actively dying?

[1] https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/05/india-just-became-la...
[2] https://news.yahoo.com/merck-says-u-govt-buy-110024197.html
How to Sell a Startup
I read that book also. I believe in both modalities.

I can go for days without human contact, code, "ideate" (sensory deprivation that leads to daydreaming, new product designs, and new writing ideas)... but I can't go indefinitely.

I also have ADHD and need lots of stimuli to get a rush. I don't "party hard," but I engage in copious adult activities, decadent cooking, have people over to listen to blast vinyl at annoy-the-neighbors volume and let loose like it's the last day on Earth, and extreme sports.

Your body may age, but never give up the joy of life. YOLADO (you only live and die once).
Good form, is for the recruiter to tell you before they submit, so you can de conflict. Specifically tell them you are working with more than one recruiter, and need to avoid problems.

Between a recruiter and me submitting, I prefer the recruiter, as they should be pushing to get the job, its in their interest. If I get the job, it is no skin off of me.
This is also not at all Root Cause-able to just coding error. The entire System Architecture, corporate incentive structure, and regulatory structure all made possible the lapses with 737 Max.
I decided to start a career in programming and IT oneday at 21 on a LSD bad trip from hell. It was really an eye opening trip and just realized this would be the best possible career path to take. I have never looked back since.
I was being ironic...
Sorry, what exactly do you think is wrong with shutting down cranks and conspiracy theorists?

You may hope we live in a happy world where everyone can evaluate information fairly and detect nonsense perfectly but I'm afraid we don't. Go and have a conversation with my aunt who thinks that the government (there's only one I guess) created Covid in order to kill all the old people and save money on state pensions. Guess where she learned that.
You mentioned not trusting Google, but FWIW, Google Authenticator added support within the past year for multiple devices: https://www.theverge.com/21410260/google-authenticator-2fa-h...
That comes from changing economics. Youtube pays, blogs with ads do not
Why Is L.A. Facing a Devastating Homeless Crisis?
They get pretty embarrassed when I complete their assignment in 2 hours after our meeting an assignment which should have taken them maybe one day but they have supposedly been working on for the last 8. It’s a very effective technique and so far has been applied to more junior employees with great success.
When the web was there, it had no historical record to rely on, everything that happened was unprecedent in history because it was the "killer app" of the internet, and by virtue of being the killer app it made the internet something people want.

Now in 2021 we have a lot of historical records of how things shaped and get in the way they are now. Everything that you are saying about the Gemini is exactly how the primary web was in the beginning and yet it changed because a lot of forces happened.

I completely agree that the Web now is a whale and its too fat (BTW this is the point that Gemini is getting right), but i don't agree with the approach at all, as its not possible to have a time machine and make the technological status-quo get back to were it was in the nineties so a project like Gemini can be a successful branch of WWW.

A "skinny web" standard would be much more useful, and here i think that Tim Berners Lee is missing the point by creating something like Solid instead.

Anyway, its a chance missed to point to something for the future, pointing to the past instead and making a lot of good folks lost by following the wrong way.

I consider Gemini part of the "retro technology movement", that while cool and while having its heart in the right place, miss a nice chance to help us all change a very dark future ahead of us of digital feudalism imposed by the big tech goliath monopoly.

We, the tech crowd need to step back and stop following them into that bleak future, Gemini is subversive in that sense, but while the goals are great, its alienatory nature negating the status-quo and forgetting to learn with historical events its not a step into the right direction.

But if at least take some people away from the WWDC's and Google IO's, at least it will be a little bit less people into this army that is leading us into this dystopic future we are heading right now.. and i just hoped that Gemini with a little more contextual knowledge could be at least a stone in their path.