skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is wishful thinking. The right has its own problems (absolutely appalling problems), and wokism isn’t going away.

It’s becoming more and more mainstream, and there’s no party to turn to in order to help halt this nonsense.
> They don't prevent people from dying eventually.

The paper does not say this. It shows an 11% reduction in spread in the group that was encouraged to wear surgical masks. Masks were not mandated, only encouraged. It also shows that 5 months after the researchers stopped encouraging mask-wearing, compliance dropped by 14%. So masks reduce the spread, and encouraging people to wear them leads to higher compliance.
I don’t understand your overall point. Bringing up anti-vax people the way you did suggests to me that perhaps you have become lost. Being an anti-vax person is objectively foolish and dangerous. We have decades of incontrovertible evidence that vaccines are good. Those who don’t vaccinate are stupid or being duped and led as if they are zombies (to use your parlance).

If this group of people serves as a great example for your point then your position intellectually unsound.
Europe has far greater inequality between countries than US between states. People talk about EU/Europe but they mean developed/rich Europe, they gloss over that poor parts are way worse than underdeveloped parts of US. For all that egalitarianism and social policies they sure like to use cheap labor from underdeveloped countries and box them out of their systems for years/exclude from residential markets with rent contract requirements.
That's because it was spammed to hell in the past couple of days. I wouldn't even call it a coordinated since I've seen people asking to spam that site on Twitter, TikTok, reddit, you name it.
> Other than my agreeing with the moral position in this case, how is this different than a baker not making a cake for some particular customer?

> We can’t reasonably be making “this type of refusal to do business is okay, but that one is not” based on moral agreements of individuals

We actually can. And the difference between this and the baker is in the details you omitted.

The actual baker situation was denying a customer based on their sexual orientation. That type of refusal is not okay and the reason why is pretty well-established in the law. Sexual orientation (like religion, race, sex, etc) is protected from such discrimination.

And the baker was allowed to not serve the gay wedding anyways! Despite that!

Being pro-life is not a protected attribute. You could argue these pro-life beliefs are due to religion..but this isn't about Jesus Christ Himself. This is a political opinion derived from the church that plenty of Christians don't have.
I applied for an internal transfer to product management at a FAANG after a part time rotation for 6 months and interview prepping with PMs throughout. I was rejected without any feedback and told to find a full time 6 month rotation before trying again. But convincing your manager to pay for you when you won’t be doing your job for 6 months is a very difficult sell. And there’s no guarantee you will get the job if your performance is strong since you still need to pass the interviews.

I applied out and had multiple offers a couple months later. It’s a shame really, wanted to stay and felt I had a lot more to contribute and learn but was concerned that I would just stagnate in the interim.
What's <haqrpbqrq:867567715>? Cant find anything if I search
>There's only one Unix now?

Not quite that, but there are certainly a lot fewer with notable amounts of use. Which means, in turn, fewer compilers with unique flags...you can get away with supporting just gcc/clang.

And there are fewer machines that are big endian, or have unusual byte alignment, or have a buggy built-in malloc, or don't have off_t defined, or have unusual flags to link to pthreads. And so on...all the stuff things like Configure test for.
Maybe Texas ought to just host the site themselves if it means so much to them. GoDaddy, AWS and DigitalOcean have no obligation to host your site if they object to the contents of your site, that's been inside the EULA of every VPS distributor since 2005.
How does this compare with astropy's units module? The usage (after preamble) seems pretty similar: see e.g. https://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/units/index.html. As far as I can see, this part of astropy is by now quite mature (it was already pretty stable when I started grad school 5 years ago)
My grandfather was like that. He got worked up easily and the more worked up he got the worse his stutter was, so in a comical way he had to switch to singing his grievances.
> Rape used to mean only the last thing and it was regarded as basically the worst form of assault

No, it did not. That's why you find courts always charged offenders for multiple different crimes when they are carried out together: rape, assault, kidnapping, life threats...
I'm going to somewhat sarcastically link to a dril tweet here.

https://twitter.com/dril/status/473265809079693312?lang=en

For those that don't want to go to twitter:

`the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron"`

I don't want to add a ton of exposition to this, but I also don't want this to be a reddit-level comment where I just link to something and bounce so I will add that clearly someone doing something because it is moral and just like hampering the collection of abortion bounties is better than someone doing something immoral and unjust like hampering access to abortions.

It isn't about what I agree and disagree with, it's about what's actually right and wrong.
I wouldn't use the term "a woke" since wokeness is an ideology not a person. Instead I might say "woke person", "wokie" or "wokist".

Robin DiAngelo, Ibram X Kendi and Kimberlé Crenshaw are pretty much canonical examples of wokies / woke people.
This isn't a slippery slope because it's the bottom of the slope we slid down.
> "The fact that you were intending to send that data to iCloud is almost irellevant to the entire discussion since apple has clearly built a system for scanning your files on your device"

This is a very dishonest take. They already have a system which runs on your device and processes all photos in the photo library, tagging categories like faces and pets and food and so on. They could have added this new system into that one with much less engineering and design effort using a system which scans all your files. They didn't, they went to a lot of extra effort not to. They already have system services e.g. location awareness or device monitoring and diagnostics, they could have built this new system as something like which would run 24/7 and access everything and be a simpler design, and they didn't.

What they did was put it into the iCloud upload feature to be matched by additional code on the iCloud server side. Something which took them more time, more effort, more complexity, and gave the whole thing less power and less flexibility.

If this system is as dreadful as all the complaints say, it should be plenty of ways to show that without having to make stuff up. If describing it accurately isn't scary enough, maybe it's not as scary as y'all want people to think.
Lack of proper remote desktop and a subpar experience with substitutes is what does it for me. My home network is full of Windows machines, and it's simply easier to be on the same ecosystem.

I have a Linux VM for dev work where Windows won't do (certain Ruby gems for example)
> It'd be sad if the DNS system becomes political

There's already precedent for this. Cloudflare de-listed a major neo-nazi website a few years ago if I recall correctly.

As much as I might loath one website or another, I think basic web infrastructure, from DNS to certs to even cloud services should be treated as common carriers, and it should only be by legal order that they're allowed deny services to a particular site.

There's so much consolidation going on that we're not so far from a situation where a hand-full of corporations are the defacto gatekeepers of online life.
You're not "correcting" anything. You're misrepresenting the intent to try to reduce the scope of it. Popper did not target just authoritarianism, but intolerance in general.

He's arguing that, sure, being prepared to use force is a last resort, but he's also arguing that the intolerant must be met by arguments and kept in check by public opinion if possible.

I'm sure some extremists would like to use violence against those they deem intolerant, but when discussing "wokeness" most people fall firmly in the camp of using arguments and using the power of public opinion to keep the intolerance in check.
I was about to jump in with the term "cognitohazard", from SCP lore. Imagine a future where you'd hear something like "Welcome to the Antimemetics Division. No, this is not your first day."
(@qntm is a terrific story writer and also brought us hatetris)

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub
I agree that good engineers can learn most tech fast, and that that is due to experience and not them being inherently smarter than others. If this is true though, how do you measure (non specific) experience? Maybe asking for 100 relatively easy but totally random knowledge crumbs? (some web, some unix, some networking, some functional programming, etc). It would be impossible to score high, but well rounded engineers could get more of them right. This might actually be a better approach than asking a few hard questions.
Yeah, I imagine the snitch data isn't so useful now that it's spammed with fake entries.
That is an out-dated depiction of Marxism.
Portability libraries like glib are better at hiding the differences, at least for simpler C/C++ programs. Also (sorry BSDs), there is kind of only one "Unix", which is Linux. Even if you consider Linux + BSDs + macOS, that's a lot fewer combinations than in the good old days when you might have considered a port to Solaris, HP-UX, SCO, AIX, OSF/1, ... all of which were very different.

Porting programs to Windows still remains a challenge.
I don't think mimicking someone's Tourette's, which is what these children are doing, makes them mentally unwell.

It's very possible that they are simply attention-seeking or enjoy the idea of being special. It reminds me of the relatively new phenomenon of a community on YouTube where kids faking multiple personality disorder upload videos displaying their "systems", and each persona in the system has some time on the camera before being taken over by other competing personae.

Most people are in agreement that these kids are faking it, and it doesn't necessarily follow that they shouldn't be deemed "sane". It's more likely that they don't value the time of medical doctors and are willing to mimic a YouTube celebrity's tics for self-serving reasons, even if it is wasting their parents' money and the time of others.
But this assumes you trust Google. Why would you trust an entity whose business model is against your interests and who has the ability to hide their misuse of data (given how many factors go into ad targeting, it's impossible to prove whether a particular ad was targeted based on data collected legally or not) and is big enough to successfully fob off privacy regulators (their consent flow is still not GDPR compliant)?
My guess is that many countries in Europe (all 3 I have been in for significant time) have their own internal payment circuit. I two of those debit cards also worked on visa/mastercard, while in 1 (the netherlands) there was a much stronger separation (most stores only accepted the national circuit, bigger stores sometimes had a special register you might have to ask to use)
'ch' raises an eyebrow.

Edit: mah3sh noted the weird '<haqrpbqrq:867567715>' just before me.
Functions in C++
No. It works, but it's painful. Let's say m4 and sh are not the most comfortable tools to work with. These days, there are better ways. (CMake or Scons fe)
>You’d be hard pressed to design a scanning system which implements behaviors such as “scan your whole phone” without detection

On this point I greatly disagree. Apple has control of the entire stack and shares nothing about it. If you jailbreak an iPhone you still don't know what happens when you send bits of data into any block of an SoC or modem. There are computers inside Apple devices that have no avenue for being audited.

Apple having total control of their devices is deeply ingrained in their technical identity. It only works if you trust Apple. Apple has shown that trusting them is a bad idea. That's why this is news.
Yet walls prevent immigration from being pain points.
Yes but they were still higher paying jobs than the server at your local eateries.
Why on earth is this comment here? It has nothing to do with the article or the thread, and it's not the first comment I've seen like this. (The other recent one was a random rant about Tesla self-driving.) Is this comment the product of a bot, maybe? Or is there an HN client application with a bug, appending comments to the wrong place? Just human error?
But they do make you stupid.
Could you share the list of websites that you remember having problems with?
And on the bit about it being on your phone (rather than their servers), I think it opens the door to an entirely new phenomenon that either companies or governments want people to begin accepting: you no longer own your phone, but rather, rent it under certain conditions.

Those conditions would undoubtedly be tied to social credit scores, required viewing of ads, required on-demand "checking in" with the government, and direct access to local phone data on demand to catch and prosecute political dissidents sharing critical information and memes.

Example: Australians are now required to install an app that has them taking a photo of themselves and sent to authorities to enforce COVID mandates like staying in one location, even if you're not sick:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/pandemic-a...

Semi-related - social credit score system:
https://thepostmillennial.com/watch-australian-government-pl...
It will probably not stand up to serious legal scrutiny, simply due to the implications.

Part of me wonders if they were inspired by the Obama care rulings. Basically the enforcement mechanism was taken away, so removing the law was seen as moot, however the plaintiffs wanted to see Obamacare dismantled. The truth is even without enforcement people use it voluntarily.

It’s sort of like a twisted revenge to use the same concept, but in such a new and nefarious way.
I’ve been noticing a lot of anti-trans rhetoric on HN recently. I wonder if there’s an astroturfing campaign.
It seems you've been living ... two lives, Mr. Anderson.
What are some concrete examples of the ruthlessness you mention?

More than a few people that identify as Christian are more than willing to ban abortion, as an example. They could care less about what anyone “believes” but will gladly force others to live as they want. How is that any less ruthless than someone losing their job because they went on a racist tirade and let it end up on Instagram?

Lgtbq+ have a long history of not even being allowed to acknowledge their nature for fear of violence, actual violence. Losing a job due to anti-lgtbq+ views that are expressed and recorded, and nobody forces anybody to express their opinions, just doesn’t seem ruthless in comparison.

I get it that it sends a chilling to those that share those particular ideals but it’s not like they are trying to have civil discourse either.
> The west, capitalism and meritocracy are not beyond criticism.

This is a really good example of motte-and-bailey argumentation.

The motte (minimalist position that is uncontroversial and easy to defend) is that the west, capitalism and meritocracy are not beyond criticism. 99.9% of people beleive this.

The bailey (much more controversial position, that is hard to defend but stakes out more territory), is something like this: the west, capitalism and meritocracy are evil and must be destroyed.
Not at all. I'm saying all people were not treated as equals, and when they asked about it they weren't given an answer. The school didn't know how to talk about it at all so it didn't.
The problem with TikTok is that it promotes the silly and the stupid. At scale, that makes society silly and stupid.
so downvoters would be saying that minorities are inherently … disadvantaged, no?

Even in a nation of law completely voided of minority-specific preferences or rules?
There’s a Kei fire truck in San Francisco that’s becoming increasingly well recognized.

https://abc7news.com/localish/this-fun-sized-fire-truck-conn...
Reminds me of this sentence in this post about ‘Elvish technology’ https://essays.georgestrakhov.com/elvish/

> The Elves do not imitate nature, they let nature do its magic and try to help it as best as they can. Allowing nature to solve a problem is extremely effective and efficient. The only downside is that it usually takes a lot of time - precisely the thing that the immortals have plenty of.
>I went to a very white, quite red Virginia public school 30 years ago and nobody ever told me about brown skin being bad.

Then you got very very lucky. It has been an issue for a very long time.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/apr/09/coloris...

it was a problem long before the modern era.

https://www.naacpldf.org/ldf-celebrates-60th-anniversary-bro...

Preparing kids for the real world seems like a good education strategy to me...
to me the most interesting part is "contexts" https://pint.readthedocs.io/en/stable/contexts.html
where you can define relationships to convert between things like wavelength-frequency or time-frequency.
> The "X" suffix is an attempt by younger Spanish speakers to introduce a neuter gender to their native language.

Not true - Latinx was invented by English speakers and the vast majority of "Latinx" people don't use or like the term.
I disagree that Latinoaméricain follows convention. Most other contracted demonyms in French do not use -o- as a connecting vowel; hyphenation seems to be more common.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:French_demonyms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_adjectival_and_demonym...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_adjectivals_and_demony...

In the case of néozélandais, the -o- comes from the Greek neo-. I do not know why neo- is the convention rather than the Latin novo-.

Is -o- is the connecting vowel you would expect to see used with the word Latin? There are other french words that use -o- as the connecting vowel (e.g. démocratique), but those words usually have a Greek origin. Since the word Latin does not have a Greek origin, I would expect the connecting vowel to be -i- as in latinisme.

The origin of Amérique Latine is not necessarily related to the origin of latinoaméricano.
"This is the next batch of folks who will be doing your IPO paperwork"

You have to read.
In case you'd want to try it: NewPipe is open source and it's on F-Droid which is a very safe place to get apps from.
Most people want the new and shiny even if a select few prefer the stable, safe choice. Mainstream preferences overwhelm the tech savvy. Already I see forum threads on Slickdeals where people are talking about how important it is for any computer you buy to be Windows 11 ready...
It's unfortunate the top level comment was flagged so I can't check exactly what it said, wasn't it about feminization of _society_, not men?

My point was just that being feminine isn't inherently a bad thing, and also not the right word to describe society being overly sensitive. Not that men should be expected to be feminine or that that would be a good thing.
International investors don't care where you put your roots.
It would probably be upvoted if it was astroturfing. Hacker News doesn't have a huge commentariat, I think it's just a few people with an axe to grind.
What we know about this software company: Topicus.com
Yeah, impossible, or like, so totally "impossible"
Baking. Though it’s often a means to an end — I really like desserts. I enjoy bread making and pastry making. And have a lot of affinity for laminated doughs.
best comment on HN ive ever seen
If you have some pull here, it would be really nice to have popups added to the grid in the middle of the dropdown where the colored boxes are. I use these very rarely and can never remember which column of colored boxes do what.
For instance that these teachings are racist and racism is a despicable ideology that deserves no serious consideration or even consideration in any form or shape.
No, that's not what taxation is.
> In reality....they are unreliable little shitboxes, and I hate being stuck behind them on a hill, or on the expressway, or saddled with one as a loaner when my daily driver is in a shop for maintenance. They are often geared such that driving one at any speed over 80kph feels like you are risking Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly.

I disagree with this pretty strongly. While I agree they aren't good above 80, that doesn't equate to them being "unreliable little shitboxes". They're very very reliable (rarely need any maintenance).

Also, everything except expressways have a speed limit of 60, so you can use it no problem. Going up the mountains they can do fine if you rev a bit high, just makes them fuel inefficient.
In the 2000s, I worked for a company that shipped an HPC NIC (think precursor to infiniband). We had userspace software AND DEVICE DRVIVERS that supported Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, DEC OSF/1 (Tru64), AIX, Windows and Mac OSX.

The device driver code had a shared component that supported the hardware, via an OS abstraction layer over top of the various OS specific ways to do things. The driver did fun things, like pin userspace memory for RDMA, which was often outside of supported driver interfaces.

The Windows, and the closed source commercial UNIXes were a PITA to bring up initially (AIX was the WORST). But once supported, they were easy to maintain because the interfaces never changed. Linux was fairly easy to write, but a PITA to maintain because the kernel interfaces changed so much. We had a configure style shell script to probe the kernel headers and detect how many args certain functions took on this particular linux version, etc. That script by itself was larger than the entire FreeBSD driver. (and FreeBSD was as easy as linux to write, and as easy as a commercial UNIX to maintain, since the interfaces we used didn't change).

One interesting thing that fell out of it is that we used ioctl interfaces everywhere (even Windows and MacOS). Since this was an HPC device, latency was critical and the Mac ioctl routines were painfully slow (like 4x slower than Linux/FreeBSD on the same hardware). So I tried switching to the Mach based IOKit IPC that Apple wants you to use, and that was twice as slow as ioctls!
I love how anything happens in America and they look to quickly blame communism. The propaganda worked. Did you know communism is the most popular ideology in the world yet these clearly liberal tendencies and hate filled individualist concepts somehow sprout in the heart of capitalism.
Gender Dysphoria is considered a Mental Disorders and is in the DSM-5 from the American Psychiatric Association.
It can certainly break if YouTube changes something on their side, but I've never had huge issues, so it's probably not something that happens very often. But the mobile site is a good fallback option.
I used to do the exact same thing to friends over AIM and various computers at my HS.

I now manage a massive HPC cluster for a world renowned university. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A site:reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/ search with a plugin to redirect www. to old. if you're not logged in can replicate a lot of what Memory Alpha has from all the discussion. At least until Reddit finishes alienating everyone interested in weird niche discussion in favor of clickbait.