skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Freedom of association is an implicit part of the First Amendment. Are you saying GoDaddy shouldn’t be allowed to choose who to do business with?
> Ironic considering you posted this replying to a comment that you already replied to ten hours earlier.

How so?
"The expected benefits of modular programming fall into three classes: (1) managerial -- development time could be shortened because separate groups would work on each module with little need for communication (and little regret afterward that there had not been more communication);"

-- D. L. Parnas, ON THE CRITERIA TO BE USED IN DECOMPOSING SYSTEMS INTO MODULES, 1971, https://prl.ccs.neu.edu/img/p-tr-1971.pdf
As to shaming, I suspect causation goes the other direction, fat shaming has decreased because the number of fat people has increased.

Looking at the time frame, I don’t think the other things you mention fit either. They just haven’t changed that much since the 70s. And they don’t explain wild and lab animals also being fatter now.
This was not my early education experience in an American public school. The history taught to elementary school students circa 2000 was whitewashed to the point of almost being propaganda for American exceptionalism. Yes, later on in my education career I took classes that emphasized critical thinking and deconstructing ideas and texts, and these had a big impact on my worldview. But as a someone on the younger end of the millennial generation, I think collectively we became critical of our society due to the back to back travesties of the Iraq War and the financial crisis (as cliche as that sounds). For me, I have been completely disillusioned to the idea that social progress is inevitable, so I believe it’s well worth learning how to call out regressive ideas and the asymmetrical power structures that exist in our society.

Yes I believe some people take this way too far (and the media capitalizes on this by cherry picking the most egregious examples and using those as a straw man to represent all of left wing thinking), but on the other hand I don’t think we should accept the status quo. On Hackernews, we usually strive to look for better ways to solve problems or to solve problems people didn’t even know they had, so I don’t see why we should accept the organization of society as either a global maximum or as static and immutable. It’s something that should be hacked and improved upon like anything else. As you can tell, my experiences have culminated in my adoption of a liberal worldview (more moderate on a few ideas, radical on a handful) but I can see how different life experiences could lead someone to adopt a different ideology. My biggest frustration currently is the status quo bias of mainstream American thought where we just ignore the existence of inconvenient problems. If you think less government activity will solve a problem, I’m glad to hear you out as long as your argument is in good faith.
> As far as a peaceful transfer of power the violence that occured leading up to the election assured that a peacefull transfer of power could not occur.

"I was so worried about the glass breaking that I broke it myself, just to be sure."
GoDaddy (at least in this instance) is acting as a hosting provider, not an ISP. As a result, they are providing more than just an IP connection, and their ToS are more restrictive.

If you use just an IP connection, you're likely to find that the ToS cover only actual illegal activity.
If this is your view quit worrying about precedent at all, given that it is no less a social construct.
Mannnnn the nostalgia. I loved programs like this and Sub7c my favorite was DivineIntervention 3 I just liked the interface and thought the name was cool lol. I’d love to see what all the devs of these things are up to today. Pri$m, if you’re out there let it be known that your work on DI3 is what got me into programming!
you have no moral position in this case because your position is not moral.
Historically? What changed? Everything is Javascript now? There's only one Unix now?
We just happened to be lucky enough to exist on the timeline where LHC didn't collapse the universe.
Ah okay I knew about that whole thing, I didn't think C had so many of them.
TLDR: Actually address the fundamental problems (spoiler: sexism and racism are not the fundamental problems, they are aggravating factors) that allow sexism and racism to cause issues for disadvantaged groups.

Most of the discussions around systemic racism and sexism fundamentally boil down to the topic either poverty or violence from police.

Poverty:

Specific groups are over-represented in the impoverished population, sometimes across generations. We, correctly, have identified systemic bias as an contributing factor to these trends.

Imagine a hypothetical society where the means of comfort (good food, safe and adequate housing, new clothing, entertainment, etc...) are available to people that need them, regardless of whether or not one is employed. Now ask yourself, would racism and sexism have the same bite that it currently has? If one's ability to live comfortably is not based on systemic bias, one would be disingenuous if they said "yes".

Life gets a lot easier when one can ignore shitty racists and sexists without fear of losing their means of survival. It would be nice if racists and sexists didn't exist, but if everyone had the means to ignore them without fear of repercussions, that's almost as good.

Violence from police:

A few observations from the last few years of police violence and the BLM movement:

-There is a large portion of shitty individuals within
various police forces that enjoy victimizing victimizable individuals

-Racialized groups are more victimizable than the average

-Police violence, although concentrated against minorities, also victimizes everyone to some degree, regardless of race or gender.

What practical solutions have come out of all of the years of outrage and protests? Instead of using "master/slave" software terminology, my company now encourages "leader/follower", while all of management is patting its back for "fighting systemic racism". Huh?

Here are some actual practical solutions to this issue:

-federally-mandated body cameras for all overt police officers that are always-on, and record to multiple external and publicly-viewable archives

-police review bodies with actual teeth to punish criminality amongst police officer

-a legal mechanism to permanently bar an individual from any kind of policing, country-wide

-removing "verbal evidence from a trusted officer" as admissible evidence in court

"Wokeness" is just yet another socially-acceptable form of discrimination, where us commoners have been pitted against each other playing some stupid "privilege points" game based on physical appearance. It's divisive, and is not actually moving us towards a healthier society. We should be looking towards our government to solve the actual issues that are aggravated by (and not caused by) sexism and racism.
Since when did "politeness" mean you have to do what other people tell you? If English people demanded that we spell color like "colour" because seeing it without the u made them uncomfortable, the correct response would be to tell them to fuck off. I don't see why it's any different with people demanding their own pronouns
All hail Netbus. It was so much fun. Those were good times. Pranking and harmless fun.
Glad to see I was not the only script kiddie here, haha. I used them all: bo, netbus, sub7... To be honest back in my days it was not as fun to hack somebody, digital cameras were expensive as heck back then, people had just a few pictures on their computers which they usually scanned, no webcams... It took me a week to infect this girl I had a crush on, when I finally did all I found on her computer was a bunch of mp3s. Well, at least I learned her music taste. Not everyone had a computer back then. It was not cannon as it is today.

Soon after I wrote my first chat in Java, that use the same principles of client and server. The server would even work with telnet. Fun times indeed.
I installed Netbus on the public computers at my local community library. They ran Windows 98 and were connected directly to the internet via a T1 / frame relay connection with a public IP for each machine, no firewall. So I could sit at home and keylog people’s Hotmail passwords. Those were the days ….
I've met many people who have survived a layoff. Fewer than have survived being run through.
Probably better access to information these days.

Back in the days you'd have to go out to the right place to meet the right people.

Now they're just a few clicks away.

I guess, we just have to wait until the the generation of woke people is old enough to run the world.
I found the easiest way to think about it, when we were doing caches in computer architecture was to think of it in terms of abstraction.

The CPUs have "read memory" and "write memory" as the only operations programs can see.

The cache policies operate asynchronously (because multiple cores simultaneously executing), to make those happen in the fastest way possible.

There's an endless variety of schemes and ways to design it, with the one huge requirement that it must ALWAYS be accurate.

But as long as you can satisfy that, you can do some goofy, crazy stuff. Might be faster, might be slower, but it will work.
More like cultural imperialism.
Very much exactly my story! I also did mIRC scripting :)
There still could be accounts in the native press though, but it looks like none exist. How come largest shrub wall is non-existent in Indian language press but existent in English press? No contemporary politician has referenced it in his speeches? No politician protested with British against this shrub wall?
to be clear, the position here is “turn in a woman for cash because she exercised bodily autonomy”

this isn’t really slippery slope, there are so many red flags here
Absolutely, common sense is almost always avoiding drastic, often absurd changes (e.g., abolishing police). You might say that common sense is fundamentally a moderate position.
Maybe it's the vigilantism?
People may not remember but the name was a pun on "BackOffice" which was a Microsoft product at the time.

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

Back Orifice was basically a rootkit avant la lettre.
> the more you watch them

aka Media literacy.

> the more you see how most often they are biased

What's the alternative?

> ...here is an awesome video that shows how editing can do wonders for how we perceive things ... https://youtu.be/BBwepkVurCI

That's quite good. Nice point about how better gear enabled the reality TV format.

I did some radio and TV stuff as a kid. (A vocational tech program. Student radio, cable public access, job shadowing, "journalism", etc.)

Transmuted me into a "Kill your television" type crank. I can't watch "the news" without yelling at the TV.

As a counterpoint: Robert X Cringley's NerdTV had the radical notion of sharing all of the source footage. Viewers could watch his edit, highlight reels, and teasers. And then they could also make their own.

Sadly, this format hasn't caught on.

Anyway. It seems to me that Zoomers will prove to be the most media literate generation. And so therefore the least susceptible to ham-fisted narrative techniques. Certainly compared to Boomers.
I ran some training labs full of desktop PCs around the time that BO was released and it was a fantastic tool. It was free and offered a wide range of features for remote administration that win95/98 didn’t have. I could power cycle, re-image, push install .exes, control user accounts, etc all with a free tool. With BO I had complete control of all systems in the lab at a time where that sort of tooling for “legit” uses was prohibitively expensive.
This looks similar to a very entertaining game I played a while ago called Orwell. It’s mostly text based and simulates the experience of being an intelligence/signals analyst in a dystopian surveillance state.
> My understanding is that certain high-THC strains are much more likely to give rise to psychological problems than other strains

Ah, the good ol’ skunk scarecrow.

People have been making various grades of hashish for millennia, with THC content many times that of dry flower — you’d think someone would have noticed if it was more likely to produce psychological issues?

Yet, there is no high-THC hash scare — it’s almost if someone wanted you to avoid good quality cannabis and be content consuming whatever ditch weed global criminal organisations produce.
Yea… plus honestly it’s just so un-American. Is this how we resolve problems? It’s gross.

My conservative friends (truly friends) would you rather confront someone in an honorable way to their face, or report someone anonymously on the Internet to the government. Which of these approaches really align with your own beliefs about resolving problems?

If someone backed into your truck or something are you going to work it out like gentleman/woman or would you not talk to them and sit on your phone and report them to the police anonymously? Seriously. Face your accuser and all that.
GoDaddy also hosts crimestoppersusa.org, a site that has functioned as a similar "snitch line" for years, yet they have not been terminated for violating the ToS. The exception seems to be this enforcement action. Also, it's definitely not clear that reporting a perceived violation of Texas statute would be a violation of privacy rights.
Hazy analogy but will do. Buddhism was made to go extinct in India similarly.
Reporting someone of a crime is a violation of their privacy and/or publicity rights?
>I also started using the YouTube mobile website instead of the apps after getting 2 ads before a 3 minute video.

Have you tried NewPipe?
https://newpipe.net
In France it is illegal to have DNA paternity test, even in foreign country. I expect GoDaddy to take the same actions there and in other countries!
it's because you don't have any idea how destructive purging undesirable factions from your body politic are to society as a whole. it is perfectly fine if you remain ignorant of this, the rest of us are not.
> What's the worst that could happen

Given the precedent set by the Supreme Court, probably every gun owner and even people whose politics are deemed as "aiding and abetting" gun ownership being sued into bankruptcy by unrelated third parties, because the Supreme Court position has made it clear that a state setting civil penalties for something it wishes it could ban and permitting private bounty hunters to collect couldn't possibly be infringing on anyones' constitutional rights

Edit: anyone want to tell me how a law constructed to circumvent constitutional restrictions on the state banning something by allowing them to make it a civil offence unrelated third parties can sue for doesn't set a precedent that it would be OK for a state with different political priorities to try this by setting civil penalties for gun ownership or unacceptable speech?
You think it's fun to stalk women?
Apple isn't law enforcement. Of course it's not their place to be stopping the sexual exploitation of children. They're selling storage devices. Has anyone ever suggested that closet and basement makers should install covert scanners to make sure no one is hiding kidnapping victims, that automakers should put scanners in the trunks to make sure nobody is hauling off murder victims to bury, that makers of filing cabinets should install scanners to ensure you're not storing photos of known exploited children in your filing cabinet? Why is this topic treated so differently when the devices become networked? We could just as easily tap every phone line in the world and zoom in on some region where a child was just reported kidnapped and flag all people who say their name over a phone line, but we don't do that, and no one in their right mind would find that acceptable. The police need probable cause and a warrant before they can install a listening device on your phone line. They don't pre-surveil everyone to flag potential criminals before they become known by other means. I don't understand why software services are held to such a lower privacy standard than every other form of storage and communication we have.

And to specifically answer the question of what they can do. When the police come with a warrant because they have good reason to suspect some customer X is storing and/or transmitting child porn, then transmit a covert over the air update to that customer's device and that customer's device only, scanning photos on-device before they get encrypted for iCloud backup. Don't push the surveillance update to every single customer on the planet before they're under any suspicion and this suspicion has been certified by a judge just in case.
But wouldn’t it take a while? I’m imagining a dust cloud of epic proportions. But I guess without an atmosphere, the only effect would be gravity, so it would all have to settle back down somewhat quickly?

I’m imagining a sci-fi plot where you have two competing moon bases. And as one group is leaving, they detonate a bomb which kicks up enough debris to incapacitate the other base.
Quantum Eonophysics
Yes, but propaganda for intolerance requires that you hate something ill-defined, shifting, "other". Examples throughout this thread.
You’ve contributed nothing to this discussion except telling people their understanding of the term “woke” is incorrect. Perhaps define what that term is, and how this movement works since you’re implying in your posts you know and others do not.
+1 to statistics and linear algebra.

Beyond practical uses, I'd say calculus is essential for having a robust understanding of rates of change in different contexts. I remember when my thesis supervisor gave me an intro to three-dimensional fluid flow so elegantly with calculus, then worked statistical mechanics into the equation without compromising its structure or elegance. All the snobbery in the world around mathematics being beautiful made sense in that moment.

Since then I've completely lost my ability to explain the del operator. I'd probably fuck up a lot of working techniques solving calculus problems (integration by parts with trig, etc). But the intuition for quantities changing and moving in different dimensions, and often in higher orders, sometimes randomly, has been immensely useful for understanding abstract systems and the world around me. Great carryover to grok office politics, the flow of football plays, networked systems, power transfer in biomechanics, etc.

Unfortunately it's a real pain in the ass to explain the intuition, so it tends to serve primarily as foundational knowledge. The key is though, the foundation is rock solid.
Parent said in his comment, the teachings made his brown skinned child feel inferior, and he didn't feel this way as a child with the old way of teaching.
The Wolfram Language (i.e., the language used for Mathematica) supports units by default through the Quantity object [0], but the software is somewhat expensive for general-purpose use.

[0] https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Quantity.html
Because these are massively different and we have to be fucking happy that when the courts have failed us there's at least some basic decency in companies.

Anyone working with the abortion ban of Texas should be publicly humiliated and BDSed.

This is to an extent what dual power in the US looks like.
Even worse, we're supposed to follow the example of forgiving our enemies while they murder us. ("For they know not what they do")

this leads to controversy even among Christians, but the cross is scandalous (Greek skandalon is literally a block that causes stumbling) foolishness when encountered face first.

God acted first, forgave us before we repented, even forgives those who will never repent ("causes rain to fall on the righteous and unrighteous"). But there is judgment, krinomai, discernment of a heart's response to that forgiveness -- God allows us to reject him in the end, and if I ultimately reject the source of life, I die.
I tend to see it the opposite way: If it adds fuel, then that is evidence it's not pointless.

If people just disagree and find it silly (and I did myself at one point), then that's their business.

But using someones preferred pronoun is no different from trying to get their name right. It's basic respect and courtesy. That so many people take offence at being asked to show basic respect for others is the reason why so many people who have no personal use for putting our pronouns anywhere increasingly do so, to help normalise it.

People don't need to like that.

But if that's enough to fuel a fire, then let it burn.
Is ‘Jordan Peterson-ism’ a reaction to wokeness?
A “fell off the truck” version of Delphi :)
Yes but even then it’s not “I don’t date trans women” it’s “I don’t taste women who can’t give birth”
For a non-native english speaker "throwing pottery and giving it away" sounded like more fun for you than the recipient.

But I learned a new phrase today!

And sounds like fun. Also for the recipient!
> I will not pay the bill on a multiple levels to be monitored and classified.

You already do. It’s called taxation.
Upto last month America was trying to commit cultural genocide against the Taliban. The idea that all cultures are equal and worth preserving is ridiculous. Noble savage trope is tiring. Not only were the multiple tribes that inhabited North America in constant warfare with each other. They also employed undeniable barbarity and torture on their prisoners.
The world needs to progress. On the macro level its better that the more technologically advanced culture wins and takes over. Unless you think Taliban winning out is some sort of objective positive, because they were there first.
I'm amazed that AWS doesn't let you set billing limits, that seems like a good reason to use a different service to me!
Perhaps it's a cultural thing. [Hi from Argentina!] Here most people marry where they live because their friends are nearby, or where one of the couple members was born because half of the family is there. But my guess is that this kind of people somewhat know the local weather. For example, some days use to be very rainy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Rosa_storm (note that most of the times the storm is a few days before or after the official day).

Perhaps your users are mostly people that wants to marry in a fancy place, and they don't know the weather there. In that case, fancy places are probably more concentrated in fancy areas, and each city has it's own fad about the fanciest place in the planet.

I'm trying to find the correct article by patio11 in https://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/#seo IIRC he recommended to build a custom landing page for each big holiday (because his business was somewhat holiday oriented and it was good to have a "Halloween page", a "Christmas page", ...). In your case, you can try to build a custom page for each one of the most popular places. One for the "Most rainy days in the Niagara Falls" and another for the "Most sunny days in the Niagara Falls". I'm not sure how different each page must be before Google gets mad about the cookie cutter abuse.
Sub7 was hilarious with all of it's UI features like custom skins.
I’m not sure why there would be a backlash. Why would anybody else care if I identify as male, female, or nonbinary? And frankly, why should I care about what those people think?
> how is this different than a baker not making a cake for some particular customer?

very interesting question! what sort of "term of services" are we implicitly agreeing on when ordering a cake or any other food?
It’s embarrassing and shameful behavior by the author, and even more embarrassing that he was willing to share it publicly. If it’s the culture of that startup that this kind of stuff is just typical day-to-day employee interaction, I don’t know who would want to work there, especially given how hot the job market is now.