skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that, it's the fact it's an acronym that only certain groups are familiar with. Calling it Visual and Performance Arts is fine, because everyone understands what it means. Calling it VAPA is inferior communication, because it only signals to those already familiar with the acronym, and leaves the rest out.

Instead they now just call it the 'Arts Department', so everyone understands what it means.

For example, if you're a first generation parent, new to the US, not very familiar with English, clean toilets for a living, not very familiar with the school system, have no network of people who work in schools or go to certain programs, and are looking for a good program for your child, then it's easier to navigate information on a website, brochure or banner that says 'Arts Department' than 'VAPA'. These parents may be unaware of the program entirely, and not apply.

Whereas if you're white, your parents go to broadway shows and the NY MOMA, your brother-in-law is superintendent of an arts school whose daughter studies at VAPA, you'll be more likely to know what the acronym stands for, and more likely to navigate the same information (websites, banners, brochures) that say VAPA just fine, and apply for the program.

I'm exaggerating the examples a bit, but the common thread is: language is a tool for communication, acronyms can be complicating and obfuscating factors in communication in certain contexts (in others they're fine), such as marketing school programs to children/parents from all backgrounds. And as (unintended!) outcome they can thereby happen to filter out poor/minority backgrounds, leaving white/majority/rich groups, who get access to these programs. That observed outcome benefits white people (which is why the words 'white supremacy' came in, which I think is wrong as it implies intentionality where there isn't one... instead I think it can better be defined as unintended extremely minor white privilege'.)

Losing the acronym is a simple and potentially useful and also extremely minor step to take, that got dragged into the spotlight as a symbol for anti-'oppression' and anti-'wokeness' from both sides respectively.
Kiwi Browser also allows to install Chrome extensions. I keep it as an alternative browser with uBlock and other useful extensions.

Also, Vivaldi has a fairly complete adblocker built-in, with custom filter lists and also scores a solid 100% on that test.
That is the point. They have the holy grail of customer emotions attached to them: love/hate.

With a little bit of focus on quality they could have propelled themselves to yet another level. When you built a house or setup a small biz, they are the ones: good hardware, no subscription, beautiful and - with focus - quality.
At that point near anyone will also be able to engineer antibodies against it.
I feel that scanning data that is present on a server the company owns is very different to scanning data that is present on a device that they have sold to a user.
> But if you use human ethnicities as the basis for your games monsters… yeah, that’s a real problem.

But they don't? The concept of an orc (big, strong and dumb) does not depend on the existence of any real races.
uBlock Origin is so incredibly good it should be a standard feature of all browsers. Shame that conflicts of interest prevent that.

Thank you so much for your work, Gorhill. I tell everyone I know about uBlock Origin and they love it.
> So what does he tell them? "That happiness equals reality divided by expectations."

Reminds me of, "I asked for wealth and found it in being content with little" / Happiness is in being content.

طلبت الغنى فوجدته في الرضى باالقليل
By measuring the task load?

Edit: to be clear, I'm not saying any delay that isn't caused by high utilisation is attributable to malice. Just saying that if you've narrowed it down to those two, you've done the hard work. Those to are very easy to tell apart.
I'm pretty sure this is the exact opposite of reality though - there have been clinics for trans children in the UK for decades, and one of the main things affecting the availability of treatment is that the number of cases referred to them skyrocketed recently.
Doesn't everything jump from the elite schools to everyday life?
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Gay & trans people generally aren't woke, in my experience. Only one of the ones I'm friends with is, at any rate.

Being a member of the elite is a better predictor than sexual orientation at any rate.
Yeah, Kniberg has written extensively on this, and has some good video summaries from his time at Spotify:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOt4BbWLWQw
Exactly the same amount of ambiguity as "The politician addressed Other Male Politician. He was shocked"...
I've come to separate travel and vacation in my plans. They are rarely the same for me- I travel when I want to see new things, visit people, explore, etc. Vacation is largely reading, working on relaxing hobbies, or spending unstructured time with friends/family.

I enjoy both, but can understand hating the stress of traveling and spending money.
If you go to YouTube via a CGNAT with all cookies cleared you'll always get one or two top suggestions with extremely well endowed women in the thumbnail.

That is the woke Google who delivers what everybody wants to see. But it is easier to go after the nerds because they are "icky".
What's DoH?
>But I’ve seen unions defending toxic people with seniority.

Welcome to all human institutions everywhere.

Ought we dispense with courts, governments, corporations, nonprofits, clubs, police, hospitals, etc. too because they all sometimes do this?
I have no opinion on the Proud Boys because I have no access to untainted information on them. But in general you should strongly distrust news orgs talking about anything with political or culture war implications. Every single case I've had personal experience with has had massively misleading coverage.

Gell-Mann Amnesia.
This is already the case. There is an actual matrix server reachable @gitter.im and you can join gitter rooms through it
You're attacking a straw man of your own invention here. The Economist has devoted pages and pages to the Capitol attack, the COVID pandemic, climate change, social media, abortion rights etc.

I find it kind of sad that the US is so polarized that everything (like the Economist) that doesn't fit neatly into Democrat/left vs Republican/right is nonetheless forcibly pigeonholed into one of the two camps, with absurd results like you labeling the Economist -- historically a very liberal/libertarian publication -- some kind of right wing Trojan horse.
Plenty in the ocean too.
Totally off topic, and I have no strong opinion on the whole transgender and ROGD thing (i learned that acronym from your comment), but:

> anti-science and anti-fact

This combination of words doesn't make sense to me. Science constantly discovers new "facts" that invalidate old "facts". I understand stuff like "the current scientific consensus", but I don't understand how you can call people who question the current scientific consensus on something "anti-fact". Especially in the context of psychology and psychiatry, where lately the facts have been superseding themselves rather rapidly.

Tldr, if you're pro science, shouldn't you by definition be ever so mildly sceptical of facts?

EDIT: note, I'm not trying to attack you personally nor weasel in some alt right talking point. I've seen words like "anti-fact" used a lot lately, I think I understand where it comes from, especially in the context of American hyper-polarized politics. I guess i wrote.my comment hoping to contribute to slightly more constructive language, at least from the sane side of the aisle.
I have read the Economist many times, although not in the last 5 years. And I would not call it "liberal" at all. I stopped because of the bias.

Did the other topics that the Economist "devoted pages and pages to" get as much uptake here as this one?
I would say that the tabletmag attack piece shared by rayiner is absolutely not reasonable.

It does not really say what is wrong with white liberals but simply shames them and aims to make white liberals seem ridiculous. The repeated use of the term "wokeness" for a liberal attitude is also a key part of the shaming strategy.

The substance of the shaming seems to boil down to three points.

1. White liberals support affirmative action and reparations

2. White liberals are positive about immigration

3. White liberals are more supportive of Palestine than Israel unlike before (anti colonialism and anti apartheid are obvious reasons)

Why should white liberals be ashamed of this attitude?! These are the insinuated reasons in the article.

1. We will call this "wokeness" and laugh at your ridiculousness

2. Oh you have a white savior complex? Hilarious.

3. Umm, do you know that colored liberals are not as liberal as you?

4. Isn't being pro Palestine anti Semitic?

5. You do know that white liberals supported Israel 10 years ago, right?

Rayiner sharing this hit piece, complaining about wokeness in the midst of Republican authored antivax epidemic is par for the course for him. But the audience cant allow him to make multiple cheap shots every day in the interest of sounding reasonable and accommodative. I would like to see him offer one comment of the crazy antivax Republican leadership killing hundreds every day instead of some cheap shots about wokeness, liberals and school administrators.
In Thai you speak differently depending on if you are male or female. Perhaps that’s an idea since I believe you then don’t need to assume anything.
That would be awesome. Brave's blockers just aren't as good as uBlock Origin.
I've just tried brave search and it does seem to be a good product actually - my only concern with all these providers is what is the monetisation strategy will be (Brave has called out ads, but it's not in their product at the moment). Looking at Brave's monetisation strategy for their browser it seems pretty shady (effectively steal the revenue from site owners for referral links and replace the websites ads with their own ads). They haven't tried monetising search yet so - Brave if you are reading this - please please please choose a different monetisation strategy and use the opportunity to be different to Google!

I would love a company like DuckDuckGo or Brave to offer a paid tier where I can just subscribe to an ad-free search engine (I would love Google to offer a 'Google Premium' with this, but let's be real that's not happening!).

i.e. If you are competing with Google by releasing a free search engine with Ads, you have to provide better search results with Ads mixed in than Google which will be tough. If you found a monetisation strategy that didn't involve Ads, theoretically it should be easier to offer a better quality search result and better quality product than Google (because you are actually focussing on delivering the best quality results rather than the right mix of good-results and Ads to optimise revenue).
Something like this is a huge problem with the young Vietnamese generation in Germany. They speak flawless German but bad Vietnamese - so they can't talk to their parents.
Languages also evolve due to political/social movement pressures. With words taking on new meanings so that the old connotations and slogans can be attached to these new meanings.
You are right, but the point remains: If the name almost rhymes with Zyklon-B, you better find another one and fire the marketing dept...
My interpretation was similar to yours as I also thought that this resulted more from her estrangement from her family rather than... anything else to be honest. It is indeed sad.
Brave on iOS only scores 77% for me with the default settings, which includes the "Block cross-site trackers" Shield setting. Do you have some other setting enabled?
material [1] demands.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_materialism
I take it you haven't talked to many leftists, then. We're quite anti-authoritarian and opposed to hierarchy.

If you consider US democrats to be "left", you are sadly mistaken.
Not to be alarmist ( then again when exactly does one sound the alarm !?! ), but the Australian army has been patrolling the streets, making home visits & serving "health-enforcement" notices quite publicly.[1]

Other alleged incidents where Australian law enforcement have used force to detain / arrest rule-violating public outdoors and/or at their homes for as simple a violation as not wearing a mask.[2][3][4][5]

[1]
Penrith, Burwood and Rockdale have been put on COVID alert by the NSW Chief Health Officer | 7NEWS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4yv335rykw&t=270s

[2]
Footage of NSW Police Breach of Public Health Orders Arrest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h0_w68Uij0

[3]
Mask exempted shop owners brutally arrested in Bowral for not wearing a mask.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clQZ-Gnn0bA

[4]
Australia - Police brutally arrest a citizen for not wearing a mask

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLqENVI8yp0

[5]
Melbourne Police Choke Female Pedestrian for “Not Wearing a Mask”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8vrYlVIZ2U
Labelling people based on sexuality, gender identity, race, religion is just… arbitrary. Why not label people based on their IQ? If I knew people’s IQ I would simply ignore everyone below mine and only talk to my peers.

“Hello, I’m John. I’m IQ140”
“Hi John, I’m Mohammed, I’m IQ145”

Instatnt friendship.

“Hello John, I’m Peter, IQ90.”
“bye Peter”

I think sorting and discriminating on IQ is the only way to build some form of cohesive society.
I wonder... would that be visible from Earth, and what would it look like? Probably wouldn't show on a full moon, but maybe a new moon?
In this kind of situation I'd say the more realistic "risk" isn't subpoenas or court orders or whatever, at least not standing alone. Instead you just have the government mandate that vendors provide this kind of capability though positive law. Then later legal processes like subpoenas or other orders simply use the capabilities that you mandated.

Think basically CALEA, which required telecom providers to change their systems to better enable law enforcement wiretaps, as existing methods weren't quite keeping up with telecom digitization. You don't need to use the wiretap orders themselves to make AT&T build in your access points.

Content matching by government mandate for various things feels kind of inevitable... It's already out there in terms of plans for requiring it in the copyright sphere, and obviously for CSAM.

Anyway, I don't know that whether Apple actually deploys this system makes that much of a difference in this sense: the idea is already out there. Which is basically what you said.
> The "X" suffix is an attempt by younger Spanish speakers to introduce a neuter gender to their native language

Is it? I mostly see non-Spanish people using "latinx".
Yes, but it still substantially reduces the number of ambiguous situations, which is an improvement to the language.
This. It's amazing what you find in the shadows, in the periphery of our culture, when you simply look. For a long time, we just refused to see what was right in front of us. There's a long tradition of transgenderism, and anthropologists have been writing about it for a while.
Hey everyone! Author here. In order to better reflect my future plans for the project, I have rebranded of sorts. It is now called termdbms (suggestions on a better name welcome), because eventually I would like to become database agnostic. MySQL support is planned for the alpha 1.0 release!
I too often wonder about this. The answer is conflicts of interest. We can't trust Google to maintain an effective ad blocker. Firerox is also funded by Google.
https://github.com/mathaou/termdbms/
Would WifiAnalyzer help you troubleshoot your dead zones? https://f-droid.org/fr/packages/com.vrem.wifianalyzer/

It has visualizations for which channels are used by which surrounding Wifi network and their strengths.
It’s sad that the economist published such a polemical and intellectually dishonest article. One thing that especially stood out was “ And why it embraces reparations-adjacent policies like the creation of a $4bn fund to pay off the debts of only non-white farmers.”

There was a class action lawsuit where the USDA had to pay out tens of thousands of claimants who were discriminated against between 1981-1996. African Americans were discriminated against and were not equitably issued farm loans during this period. However, the majority of African-Americans were unable to get relief through the courts for various reasons (often filing late), not to mention that lawsuits for Hispanic and women farmers never even went ahead.

This seems pretty different than the right’s idea of what reparations are and why they may be harmful. Instead it seems like ensuring that people are compensated for very recent (when compared to something like slavery) losses due to discrimination.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigford_v._Glickman for more info
I really wish people would stop sharing trash from the bbc, I have it blocked. It’s such a garbage site and a total disgrace that we in Britain have to pay for it
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Props to this - and I think that I've just found some inspirational writing by Paul Graham on it. The username seems to be a pseudonym, probably because of his typical modesty, but the concepts and style are unmistakable. ;-)
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> We all owe a huge debt of gratitude that gorhill is a principled character and has stayed on to guide uBlock Origin all these years.

Absolutely. Thank you gorhill!
Your own device? That ship has sailed long ago, as you decided to buy it and not root/jailbreak it. You never had any power over that device.
By now it should be clear that WG14 doesn't care about improving C's safety.

A type like yours could be added, just like a string library like SDS, but it will never happen.
It's not. Unfortunately there is little open hardware around.

Though proprietary hardware plus mostly open OS is better than proprietary everything.
I would tell you, but I would get banned.
If it's not a majority it's a very loud minority.
I really would love to get into music. As someone who would describe themselves as "without musical talent," where would you lead me to get into music?
Are these two things different?

Did the fossil fuel industry take part in a decades long, ongoing conspiracy to deny and downplay the impacts of their pollution (we'll just skip over the wars and revolutions and lead poisoning) or do they just like when people give them money?
C was created to port UNIX from PDP-7 Assembly into the newly acquired PDP-11, for the V5 port, and was for many years only available on UNIX.

Just those other languages were only available on their hosted OS.

The symbolic price for the license, availability of source tapes and the UNIX V6 annotated source code book made the rest.
What's your actual goal with this comment?
You will eventually be able to run SQL queries on the database within the application. I hope to blend that with spreadsheet-like user interface so its easy to add or remove rows, columns, values, rename, etc...
One thing I would recommend when someone blames a bug on you -- without hesitation, always say "yes, I will take a look at it".

This way if you have to push back and say it wasn't you, you have much more impact because you have investigated the problem.

Edit: but I agree, that is no way to treat a colleague.
> How do you solve that? We mythologized grit, the strength to overcome this preemptive fatigue.

Grit and flexibility are in tension with one another.

Being able to accept an approach is unproductive and find another is valuable, in moderation (in excess you flit from task to task without completing any).

Grit is the opposite; being unwilling to give up in the face of adversity is valuable in moderation, but in excess it prevents you from realising when your approach will never pay off.
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I think just a walk a day at minimum can help people in so many positive ways. Need to think about a problem? Walk. Stressed? Walk. Need to get more fit? Run.
Spaniard here.

Here, If you are aware of new wokeness trends in the US is question of about 3 months until the spanish left and media start parroting the new word, idea or whatever.

The consumed culture is overwhelmingly US based. Netflix, social media... The local shows that happen to succeed, mostly are created due to legal obligations imposed by the goverment. If it were not for that...
I'm really suprised, it has spread around the whole western world. There is not enough pushback on the foundational philosophical flaws of this phenomena. The biggest flaw of "wokeness" it doesn't try to combat the human proclivity to treat other groups of people as sub-human if they aren't members of their own the "correct" tribe. A couple of days ago I just took a break of the internet for the simple reason that people are celebrating the death of anti-vaxxers. Poking fun of people that are so desperate and scared when they get sick so they use a drug intended for horses. Very few people say anything against this and those who do are dismissed as "anti-vaxxers". Wokeness doesn't try to combat this phenomena, it tries to stoke it by forming their own tribe and treat everyone outside tribe as idiots and uneducated buffoons. They don't see that they are feeding a psychoological mechanism that partly the basis of the social ills that arise when we treat other people as less than themselves. "All animals are equal but some are more equal than others" - George Orwell.
First, this somehow assumes that immigrants aren't doing well enough. And what - poor people should speak the local language at home just in case it improves their economic standing, even though it would lead to missing a lifelong benefit for the children. But if you are already doing well, don't?

If you don't keep poor people suffering like folks do in the US, being poor isn't as big of a detriment and the adults are perfectly able to improve on their own time. And it isn't like being an immigrant means you are poor.
Which do you feel had the most impact on growing empathy?
Per the article, Mahler used fffff the old protorocker.
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I really think this kind of content is probably bad for hackernews discourse and should be flagged.
> if they're addicted (to anything, really)

Like caffeine ?

I'm almost sure they have coffee machines in there.
Any music you can share? (if not that's fine too) what games have you gotten into?
You can use ublock origin with brave in conjunction with shields. It would've made sense to partner though
I go just as low level as C with Object Pascal, Basic, Modula-2, C++, Ada compilers.

Or by using any of the kids on the block from the last decade.
Why, everyone, but in this case I meant the high ups at Amazon.

However the world changes, being able to play the system is a huge advantage.