skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only did Tumblr activity collapse after the NSFW ban, but in the subjects I follow, activity seems to have settled on a niche of transwomen blogging about hobby or interest X, where their posts are mainly about being a transwoman interested in such things and not the hobby or interest itself. I understand that Tumblr has value for those transwomen wanting to express themselves and build community with others, but it has become a network relevant to only a tiny, tiny percentage of the population.
The title suggested by the URL slug seems especially odd in this case, since the article seems generally positive and says nothing about "brainwashing".
Doesn’t it always feel manufactured?

What you are mentioning regarding the case of Stallman’s cancelling is the same pattern I have seen applied against every other voice that has a dissenting opinion of the current culture that dominates social media.
> Boomers were raised in an era of optimism to believe in following their dreams.

It depends on what you mean by "boomers". If you mean "baby boomers" then no, that's not true at all. Baby boomers entered the workforce in the 60s and 70s with an expectation they'd probably work for the same company for their entire working lives. Sure there was the countercultural hippie movement but most of the hippies reverted to the mean.

If you mean GenXers then again I don't think that's true either.

I think the first generation to really buy into this "follow your dreams" mentality and end up with $175k in student loan debt for a theater arts degree but ending up as a barista is the nillenials.
The stock price, of course. Yesterday, in another thread about Amazon, someone described that the reason AWS works at all is the size of their firefighting team. It's the exact opposite of progress, why advance the state of the art when you have access to a large pool of cheap labour.
GitUp uses libgit2 under the hood. GitUpKit is an Obj-C wrapper I wrote at the time to make it much easier to use.

Unlimited undo / redo is achieved by taking a snapshot of the entire repo before and after any operation (e.g. checking out the repo or creating a branch etc...). The inspiration I had at the time was that is it is trivially cheap to take such snapshots: essentially all you need is a list of all the refs.

Then when you need to undo, you have 3 things:
1 - current state of all the refs in the repo
2 - state of all the refs from the before snapshot
3 - state of all the refs from the after snapshot
Compute the delta between 3 -> 2 and apply on top of 1.

The same technique allows to do the Time Machine feature.
I think your frustration is best aimed at Defund activists. The phenomenon of activists exploiting ambiguity in Defund to secure public support was, I think, a far more potent force than moderates attempting to defang it with more headcount for social services.
Reading through this, I don't see any guarantee that your contract would be safe from bad oracles if the stakes are high enough and the attacker has adequate resources. If your attack is successful, you not only get steal the amount at stake in the contract, you steal what the good oracles have staked, and all with zero recourse.
It is not. It is related to ECS which is being contrasted with OOP.
What do those issues have to do with someone who chooses to be a sexual predator?
I don't know but I think we need a "scared sterile" program for the kids (similar to "scared straight").

I didn't realize there were so many reluctant parents until COVID. I feel society has coerced people into lives so unhappy that they'd rather spend time at the place everyone else is trying to escape than with their loved ones.
FileLocator Pro is another nice one. It's handled my Ctrl+F hotkey ever since the early days of Win7. Doesn't index, but uses techniques that quickly scan the MFT.
I think for most people, they would encounter it in a science class early in life (at least for English speakers). And Hg is just the chemical symbol for mercury, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/element/Mercury#section=Ide...
You're obviously not a woman who has had to deal with potentially threatening people in your love life. Among women ghosting is 100% a legitimate way to refuse a second/third/etc. date. In business, companies routinely ghost candidates they're not interested in because of the hassle and risk in interacting with candidates who are clearly no-hires. You don't owe anyone with whom you do not have a solid established relationship an interaction.
No? They produce alcohol and CO2 during rising/proofing, and that gas has nowhere to go: it's trapped in the dough. Once heated, that trapped gas then expands during baking. The yeast dies, yes, but bread doesn't rise "because of the death throes of [yeast]", it rises because heating a gas increases in pressure, and the dough expands because of that pressure. Yes, the heat also kills the yeast, but that has nothing to do with oven spring.

(And of course, the spring only "sticks" if the dough is both elastic enough to permit that expansion -for example because it has a gluten network- and developed enough that, in that expanded state, the dough can set well enough to support its own shape, rather than deflating once we remove the heat, and the high pressure gasses cool down and contract, pull the now baked bread in on itself)
This is exactly why cancel culture is so toxic (and to lessor extent all "political correctness"). It is oppression, repression and censorship. It is mob rule, happy only when they get a lynching, no matter the guilt or innocence.
Sure, I will ask my friend if he wants to write a sworn affidavit and have it notarised. But until then you're just going to have to trust that there are hundreds of people who witnessed Spacey's behaviour.
>We also see this with terms such as “anti-racism” and “equity.” Most people have no problem saying that they are anti-racist or that they support equitable policies. But, as with Black Lives Matter, some people use these words to denote radical and far-reaching ideologies. According to Ibram Kendi, for example, “the only remedy to racist discrimination is anti-racist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.” This makes it difficult for people who loath racism, but disagree with Kendi’s prescriptions for how to remedy it, to respond to a question like: “Are you an anti-racist?”

Seems like a motte and bailey fallacy

Memes work in so far as they are persuasive, so I don't them going away
Just a tip: when teaching people, the readable alias is easier to remember and understand, i.e.

git switch --create new-branch
Great! Thanks for the links
> The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

This could also mean that the patent troll (the enemy of your competitor) is your friend.
I don't think it matter much, for many people few years in Amazon is worth it, in term of financial benefit/future job.
> If you want to actually make lasting, positive changes to the world? Absolutely worthless.

I think this is an incredibly premature statement to make if this is really a form of activism that's only been around for ~5-10 years or so.

Typical HN though, we love to play the role of enlightened politicos looking down at the unstrategic masses.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2106476/
So in-state tuition at UB would be around $4850 instead of $5200 without sports. Out-of-state would be around $13,750 vs $14,100.

Would life be significantly better without sports at UB, if students were given back a few hundred dollars? Would alumni donations go down without the occasional March Madness appearance? Or Bulls games?

When people make this argument, they make it seem like schools would all of a sudden be able to afford a massively better educational experience. That's just not the case.
>To be fair, meme activism has had its upsides. American and British abolitionists inscribed their slogan “Am I not a man and a brother?” onto medallions and domestic objects, which they distributed to build support for their cause. In 2019 and 2020, activists took to social media with hashtags like #5DemandsNot1Less to generate pressure on the Chinese government to preserve the relative political freedom of Hong Kong.

The author gives up on their point too soon, not realizing that it's possible that in line with their thesis neither of these specific actions were effective beyond rallying support.
Most Americans drive to work. Most people will eat better at home (with plenty of their own groceries to cook) rather than at work (where they either have to prep ahead of time, or eat out). And I've literally never seen a single room in a house with less lighting than any of the offices I have ever worked in.

And if people want to work in an office... let them? I'm not sure why everyone hears remote work and thinks "oh great, businesses will just not have an office at all". ???
It goes all the way down... even the simplest animals (and where it becomes questionable as to what is an animal).

Journey to the Microcosmos - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBbnbBWJtwsf0jLGUwX5Q3g

For example - a Paramecium hunter - https://youtu.be/yXiJ__5-tI8
I also believe that sometimes it'd be better if judge's name wasn't known

e.g in cases like Derek's Chauvin (police officer / G. Floyd)
I don't follow your logic. So like, because I ran through a red light once we should forgive all sexual predators?
The "productivity" of a company by these definitions is almost totally unrelated to the productivity of its employees.

Amazon could downsize by 90% and most of these would still hold up.
Advanced Query Syntax https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/lwef/-search-...

Quite useful
Hey I didn't gave up on it at 80% functionality ;) It had 100% for my needs and it's been rock stable since then - I still use it daily!

But yes, I wasn't really worth actively maintaining it as it was feature complete and I didn't intend to build a business out of it.
Something the author didn't mention: this is ableist and likely illegal? They don't make an exception for medical reasons, and I would imagine that some of the medical reasons for not getting the vaccine would fall under the ADA.
Did Apple just "invent" Webautn? Safari already supports it today, I'm not sure what's new here, except that now the certificates will be synched via keychain.

Also they present it as an alternative to passwords but most sites currently use Webauthn as second factor only, and usually have to support other options such as TOTP (Google Authenticator codes) because Weabuthn is not available everywhere.
windows 10 is what happen when you let clueless people work on an OS
The usefulness of the web was immediately apparent to a certain group of people, even if it was poo-pooed by the mainstream. The difference is that even crypto evangelists who are deeply immersed and invested in it will openly tell you that no, bitcoin is not a useful currency and we never expect it to be (and some will tell you it was never intended to be).
> What changed is that the bulk of human communication now is happening on the Internet. And the Internet itself is concentrated in the hands of few companies.

As opposed to TV, Radio, or Newspaper? Corporate control of media has always been a problem. We are just have less political will to regulate these massive media conglomerates now than we did in the past. This includes the old media companies too. Rupert Murdock has stomped all over American discourse.
There's a whole "microgreens" community now. It seems to not require very much labor and you can harvest every week, give or take a few days. Doesn't seem to consume a lot of space either.
I don't see OP claiming that this is new, just that it's dangerous. He gives a (positive) example from the abolitionist era.
Concur - 'Everything' is one of the first tools I install on a fresh PC. Blazingly fast file-system search with many useful options
Make sure the blockchain and contracts your assets live on are secured at SLSA X.
> He is obviously a troll

My only misdeed in this thread was having missed the part in the OP about that '48 laws' thing.

What I'm seeing in this whole mess is an admitted 'sexual predator' (his own words!) trying to portray himself as the victim, and I'm disappointed that so many people here are buying it.
I have never been a sexual predator and will commit to never being one in the future. This is something I would wager the vast, vast majority of the public can commit to too. This is not something weird or out of the ordinary.
Looks like dictionary writers have that covered. "murder" only covers unlawful killings by definition.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/murder

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/murder
What's so wrong with var? And it's a shame in Swift it's {var, let} vs JS {let, const}!

My motivation for learning GraphQL is directly tied to Amplify/AppSync. It is actually speeding things up for me considerably. Sorry to hear that you haven't had a great time with the tech~
Also... Amazon likes to say they hire "the best." And I think they do hire reasonably good people. But I saw a lot of situations where people were just plain in the wrong job. Like people who were DevOps experts getting shuffled into DB programming jobs. Or one guy from Romania who was an excellent coder -- would crank out reams of well documented, clearly laid out, well architected C++ code. But most of what they had him doing was writing shell scripts to set environment variables for containers as they launched. I don't think he minded -- he was happy to have a job. But I kept seeing a lot of things like this and thinking "damn, what a waste of talent."
In his apology he also referred to himself as a "Sexual Predator" and said that he pressured people into sex... These are pretty loaded terms to be throwing around and no surprise people on Twitter took the worst interpretation.

He might be worse than Prince Andrew at PR.

https://www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2020/06/noah-bradley-admi...
Twitter and similar advertising-supported platforms encourage it though. Their algorithms promote divisive content (even if libelous, plain stupid or dangerous like health-related conspiracies) as they generate a lot of "engagement" and they don't have any rules against mobs for the same reason.
And the member banks (genuine question)?
Ooh, rerere looks really nice. I have a few cases where I've needed to repeatedly rebase long-lived branches. (Feature branch A depends on feature branch B, but some small aspects of feature branch B are still under discussion. Feature branch B needs to be occasionally rebased onto main to avoid conflicts, after which branch A needs to be rebased onto B again.). Something that I try to avoid, but that sometimes happens anyways.

Can you explain what you mean by git merge breaking bisect? I've never run into that problem at all. And sure, it might bounce between the branches as you bisect, it still identifies the commit that introduced a bug. The only issue is if one of the commits on the branch fails to compile/test, which is poor commit hygiene, but can be excluded from the bisect.

I still need to do more research, but I think I'd lean toward having a merge workflow, but with no fast-forward commits. That leaves a clean history on main with --first-parent, but still leaves the details available in the branches as needed.
I work as a freelancer with some specialized skills that command a high rate, and I live in a country with low cost of living. That means that I typically only work 2–4 hours per day (and not even every weekday), and the rest of time can be dedicated to research. Over the years I have managed to scan virtually every publication relevant to my field, so I don’t even need to make the expensive trek to an academic library very often.
My up-to-date Windows 10 on a 3 years old desktop takes 9 seconds to boot (I just benchmarked it). I don't remember it being way faster before.

So I wonder how OP gets 34 seconds, and how he went from 13 to 34 seconds over a couple of updates. Mine definitely didn't get 21 seconds slower.
I don’t know if that’s always the case here. Look at the price of everything, and think about how people don’t just up and move when the cost of living is boiling them alive.
The original complaint claimed that he was a groper. That's sexual harassment. It's illegal. It's incredibly toxic and creepy, and people who do it are out of touch cretins who make everything worse.

Citing that no one officially lodged a criminal complaint isn't a counterpoint. Most sexual assault isn't pursued. Serial creeps are plying their trade right now.

But yeah, if he's associated with a brand and he's going to important trade events for that brand and being a despicable creep, in every dimension that is grounds for being fired.

Mob mentality and so-called cancel culture are deeply unfortunate, often doing more damage than the things they are angered about. However creeps have negative consequences when they come under scrutiny, especially when it encourages others to note other creepy incidents.
I would like to introduce my new political slogan, "Cat Hat Mat." It might seem baffling at first, but after you find someone to explain it to you, you'll find out that it's a coherent proposal for housing reform in the Bay Area.
Thunderbong with an excellent link!

Chris Seaton is one of the most influential programmers out there for me. I'm so interested in just about everything he's touched. What a guy. Ruby will never die so long as people have ideas like his, though not all can follow through and create such cool things!

I'm curious to see where performant ruby goes in the midst of Crystal. I quite like Ruby for exploring, Pry is an unrivalled repl experience, but then Crystal is very fast and quite efficient for big things. I like the idea of types guiding me amongst a big large codebase that I might not be familiar with.

We'll just have to keep hacking and see what happens!
Auto debt has ballooned in recent years. Seems like lots of people are buying more car than they need because it is "only $x more per month".

https://www.investopedia.com/personal-finance/american-debt-...
What? In ECS state is managed seperately from logic and there is no inheritance. How is it a variety of OOP?
> Cryptocurrency technology has utility which has not been fully exploited yet.

Such as? Name one thing.
And I actually mean the question seriously and thoughtfully, although the downvote barrage wants to take it as flame bait. Jeff’s calibration towards firings is unquestionably different than the rest of industry, but how different? And how much training / preparation did he really have? Important questions for any org head. The thing here is a lot of current and past Googlers seem to agree Jeff messed up. I’d like to understand why through the lens of evaluating what bar we set for the people-managing skills for engineering leaders industry-wide.
I find it a little odd that in the original apology he refers to himself as a sexual predator but in this blog post he was a “womaniz[er]”.

The term womanizer generally refers to people that have lots of sexual encounters with different women, and has a strong connotation of “I’m very attractive to the opposite sex and am sometimes careless about which sexual advances I accept”

“Sexual predator” on the other hand indicates the use of force or coercion in order to initiate sexual contact, the use of professional or financial pressure to obtain sex, unwanted sexual behavior directed at folks that don’t want it, etc.

The wording in this article kind of seems like he got canceled for being too cool and getting laid too much, which is what he meant to say but accidentally wrote “shitty, creepy sexual predator”(0) in his apology instead. What a typo!

0 https://www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2020/06/noah-bradley-admi...
I built my mom a moderate Windows PC for her accounting work a few years ago. Pretty standard Intel build, no graphics card cause it's not like she needs that.

And for the most part it works fine, until every few months it'll slow down to an unusably slow crawl and I'll have to hop into task manager, see what rogue Windows service is bugging out this time, Google it, and find some forum post somewhere telling me what registry edit I have to do to disable some service that restores it to full speed.
Any lentils from the supermarket or do they have to be somehow untreated to sprout?
By those metrics, IKEA fits the bill as well. But at what point do we qualify productivity with some measure of quality? You'd be hard pressed to argue IKEA produces quality. For all the laurels and new features and gadgets and gizmos have produced, very few AWS offerings or new Amazon products are considered best in class.
> My background should have nothing to do with what I'm talking about here.

You say: "I am a researcher in the field, so I'm more informed than most..." and then your background has nothing to with what we're talking about? Yeah sure, whatever...
Not exactly a 1:1 comparison but the idea of a struggle session comes to mind..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struggle_session

I've seen to a lesser extent this behavior done (sans the physicality of in-person shaming)
Better yet: you have to trust the people you hire. You're trusting them with your trade secrets, you're trusting them with your reputation and brand, you're trusting them with your customers' data... etc.
Yeah, no. Peterson is conservative in literally any country in the world. Advocating for traditional gender roles, saying women might not be suited for the workplace, advocating for strict hierarchies and so on is deeply conservative. His belief in genetic predeterninism of societal structures and of thought patterns - masqueraded as Jungian archetypes - is indicative of a worldview just one logical step from the far right. I don't know if any country in the world where he would left of center religion notwithstanding.

I say this as someone who watched at least 150 hours of Peterson and who used to follow much of his views.
I'm waiting for this to be repealed because it's thought to disadvantage minority students.
hdd were never fast. the quick boot/startup times really started with SSDs.
> That's not really how the financial system works. Money enters circulation when someone takes out a loan. It leaves circulation when that loan is repaid. It is low interest rates that cause an increase in asset values.

But unlike me and my credit lines, the US Gov has no credit limit. It's akin to printing, since it takes out new loans to service its current debts and operational expenses.

The FED is mandated to purchase US bonds.

I do think you make a good point about Tether artificially inflating the price, but I do see that as Tether's issue. Not that it won't tank crypto prices, just that it's not Doge that's fraudulent.
Thanks, that was the first thing I tried. I didn't want to go into great detail about my troubleshooting efforts because I don't think it's quite relevant to the overall discussion.
All of the major slowdowns seem to pop up in build 1809, which is where the first Spectre/Meltdown mitigations were introduced, which is to be expected.
> Here, I’m using the original definition of meme: an easily replicated unit of cultural knowledge or information that is spread by imitation.

Would "I'm standing with the people of Israel" count? Because it is a complete throwaway statement, made by US politicians so routinely that it is absent of all meaning. Israel is a democracy that upholds property rights and rule of law. Unfortunately, rule of law that successive civilian governments have put in place allow settlers to simply take, by decree, land that belongs to Palestinians. That's not 'property rights' it's Manifest Destiny.

Andrew Yang did not get cancelled. He propagated a meme statement and had to clarify that his actual opinion has more nuance, as does the situation he referred to.