skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"His point is that you have to discuss something more particular than "the right to speak your mind without fear of shame or shunning". You've never had that right"

This is a bit flawed, essentially 'straw man' argument in the grand scheme.

While there might be good reason to critique the NYT article, the response I think missed the bigger point.

Nobody is really making the argument that speech isn't going to have consequences.

The 'Cancel Culture Does not Exist' or 'This Is Not A 1st Amendment Issue' arguments are already tired, empty canards.

The awful failure of the authors argument are clearly evident in his dismissal of the Harper's Magazine moment - he argues 'nobody bothers to define cancel culture' etc. which is bullshit.

Stephen Pinker, one of the Harper's signatories, faced concerted and vicious attempt at 'cancellation' of some of his positions and credentials when he dared to voice the heretic idea along the lines that policing in America is largely much more heavy handed than eslewehere, and that this is the fundamental issues, less so race. God forbid (!).

Thankfully, Stephen Pinker has enough credentials to hold off the cancellers.

JK Rowling is another good pop culture example. People lament that 'she's a billionaire and can't be cancelled' again which is not true. The amount of front page sardonic vitriol about her by ostensibly 'respectable' publications is very directly translated into hesitancy on every popular front: movie deals, book deals, actors fear of 'being in the out club' if they appear in a film based upon her book etc. Her 'cancellation' can be literally be measured in dollars.

It's pernicious specifically because the vast majority of participants actually are probably not bothered entirely by Rowling or Pinker comments - but that the 'fear of association' created by the 'Cancel Screamers' creates a chilling effect on speech and participation.

Ergo the 'consequence' of speech is not legitimate: people are not 'running from Rowling' because of what they think of her positions, they are running from her because of what others might think of them.

I'll step back my argument an inch and admit that there are actually nutbars (of all stripes) who probably believe they can 'say whatever, whenever' - 1 minute on Twitter will remind us of that, however there's a gigantic grey are of obvious areas of public cancellation.
They could just state that there was also a successful login. So far they don't do that.
That patent was from 1979 so it must be long expired.
Buy a Tern (sp edit), better components on a Brompton frame
I'd bet anything that the overwhelming majority of people in the world have never heard of it, and don't listen to psychedelic podcasts either.
I can't find the quote, but Norman Rockwell said that the inspiration for his Freedom of Speech painting was a town hall he attended where a man not much liked by the community was allowed to speak his piece, even when the people did not like what he had to say.

I'm not arguing we shouldn't be able to shame or shun (the NYT itself would be my preferred target). I think the idea is that we should aspire to resolving our differences through dialog. What we have now is a crowd of people who feel that dialog is no longer necessary, and that to even simply engage in dialog with one's political enemies is bad and might somehow taint you.
I got a kick out of the banner at the top of the shop answering everyone's first concern which is "Why is the Kwiggle so affordable?"

A clever way of answering the actual first question "why so expensive?"
A scooter has very bad stability. Your weight is centered, whereas a bike distributes force wider through each foot. Larger tires can handle most surfaces, while a tiny pebble, crack, or wandering ghost could flip a scooter rider into the nearest car or old lady.
Harvey Weinstein?
Not defending the situation of a preStop hook at least in the case of API's k8s can handle it 100%, its just messy.

We have a preStop hook of 62s. 60s timeouts are set in our apps, 61s is set on the ALBs (ensuring the ALB is never the cause of the hangup), and 62s on the preStop to make sure nothing has come into the container in the last 62s.

Then we set a terminationGracePeriodSeconds of 60 just to make sure it doesn't pop off too fast. This gives us 120s where nothing happens and anything in flight can get to where its going.
And this is even more upright, aerodynamics doesn't like to get cheated no layer the size of the wheels. 25 km/h is close to the speed (not quite there, but almost) where people on particularly upright bikes start folding down their upper body to strike a deal with aerodynamics if they need to go faster.
I'll use this I think, very handy. I'd probably emphasis all the text/descriptions more too, lots of important nuggets in there that aren't obvious when glancing, like automating the top portions of the pyramid, humans shouldn't be mis-formatting code and others human comment on it anymore.
Yeah, guilty of that feeling, too. I am used to MTBs, I think I just would feel ridiculus, like riding a childrens or a clown bike.

But if I would live in a big city, I might get over that feeling, since it does seem practical.
I hypothesized that after 3/4 very different languages you start to build a different, more abstract model of linguistics (syntax, phonetics, semantics) that helps absorbing more. Just like music.
As others have pointed out, AdaFruit likely cannot raise their selling price for these Pi's due to prior contractual arrangements. They're essentially forced to ration their supply, and all they can do is make the best of a pretty bad situation by at least trying to act fair (i.e. limited buys only) and rewarding their existing customers with preferential access.
Did you use a conversion kit? I have an older Dahon I'm thinking of converting. Any tips?
They want to compete in the AAA space. The reason Unity has little usage in the AAA space is because in the past Unity hasn't been good enough performancewise. They need to show to developers and convince publishers that Unity is a safe and viable choice for console development. If they fail at accomplishing this they're ceding a huge amount of marketshare to their competition.
We use twig templating syntax as an agnostic language that allow contributors from different coding backgrounds to help us build the SDK templates. Then we use our API spec file to auto-generate the source code and push the relevant code to the SDK repos and package manager, it works really well and help us maintain a big amount of SDKs with little overhead after the core templates are done. We actually plan to have a talk about, it's really cool!
I think the niche of "personal vehicle that you can take on the metro" is better filled by PEVs. Shrinking down a bike's drivetrain size is harder than just putting together a single wheel, some circuit boards, batteries, and an electric motor to make an electric unicycle.

A big advantage EUCs have is you don't have to bother with folding like a bike, just hop off, grab the trolley handle and walk on.

Electric scooters have similar advantages but they have to compromise range, performance, and compactness for their ease of learning.
Used to be I'd leave home at 815 to get to work at 9, and leave work at 5 to get home at 6

Last September I decided to start going into the office one day a week again. Except my new schedule was go upstairs at 9 and go downstairs at 5, so I left at 9 to get to work at 945 and left work at 4 to get home at 5

I immediately went back to full time WFH. If I commute it's gonna cut into my 8 hours, not into my personal time. That's the new reality, and it's not worth it to the company to cut 25% of my time so they can have me in the office
Lapsus$ has released data from Microsoft, Nvidia, Ubisoft and Samsung over the past few months.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3vk9x/microsoft-hacked-laps...
I was willing to accept the title until I read this. And now I agree with the GP.

You're clearly creating a strawman, stretching the meaning of automation into something nobody thinks it is so that you can proclaim it a myth.

The title should be "Total Automation . . ." or "Complete Automation . . ." so as not to mislead like this.
Sorry to hear that. For a different perspective, my grade nine world civilizations teacher delivered this perfectly to us as an in class reading exercise where we first critiqued the society of the Nacirema before the big reveal. I'll never forget how surprised I was to realize that my own country was something that could be criticized.
I like my Beixo with shaft drive. A bit on the heavy side, but can carry it close without getting dirty.
Can't deny there's an aspect of that to it, yeah. But to the ravers and clubbers, this was a lifesaver.
Oh, he hates the statute normally. He just failed to even express mild criticism of it when it was abused and he was discussing the trial, which stood out when he was literally discussing the merits of a trial centered on one. Maybe he made up for it on some episode I didn't listen to, there are a lot of them and there's no way I heard them all, but I was kinda surprised to see him fail to mention a hobby horse of his in a discussion of a trial centered on said hobby horse.

> The heckler's veto isn't really the right term to use when talking about cancel culture or shouting down speakers. The heckler's veto is more about the government shutting down speech under the assumption that it might cause a riot or disruption in the future.

You say that as if nothing got shut down or forced to pay huge security fees due to other people being moved to violence against the speakers, but there were and have been lawsuits over the same. One of which I think even involved Clark, though I didn't follow that particularly closely.
Absolutely, so does external storage (optimized note taking) btw. If you try to cram data on paper in succint way, you'll have to find redundancy, structure which ultimately is easier to store in your mind too.
Montague makes various full sized folding bikes. I’m quite pleased with the Navigator, but they even make a folding mountain bike, the Paratrooper.

When unfolded, you can’t tell at all that they’re folding bikes.
I don't know why you'd be happy having the investigation cost orders of magnitude more, in a functioning democracy that's just straight up more money on your tax bill. Oh wait...
> (assuming that's a typo there, the things people don't like/the things people criticize?)

Oops, yes, sorry.

> Java 6 and prior were very very verbose and very very slow.

It's kind of verbose, when looking at it from today's perspective, but at the time I didn't think it was that bad. I think they deliberately tried to be less cryptic and more wordy than C/C++ (which can often be impenatrable). I think they overcorrected for that, but I don't think the language is interolerably verbose.

Performance was definitely bad until Lars Bak and company showed up and wrote HotSpot. But almost every managed language at the time had poor performance. It was certainly painfully slow compared to C and C++ but... what wasn't?

> I couldn't tell you off the top of my head the exact code to open a file, read each of the lines, and then close everything, or the right way to open a JNP connection to RabbitMQ or something.

I mean, I couldn't tell you how to do that off the top of my head in just about any language. Except C. But, of course, the code I would write for C off the top of my head is simple and wrong because it doesn't handle all of the various ways IO can fail.

Networking and file systems are honestly just kind of grungy. You can paper over it with simple APIs but what you end up with is code that looks pretty but can fail in obscure ways.

> try/catch, and mother. fucking. IOException. thrown everywhere.

Yeah, checked exceptions were simply a mistake. I don't fault them for trying to fit exceptions into the static type system. It was a cool, ambitious idea. At the time, no one really had a sense of how the ecosystem would settle around using exceptions. In practice, it ended up being more trouble than it's worth.

> The other quiet boost that people don't talk about is Android.

Android is definitely keeping it popular these days, but Java was huge because of server development before Android came along.
UE is gaining traction in the film space. Unity wants those people to know they're also an option.
I got my brompton in 2006. Still bike it almost daily.
Greetings and thank you for your feedback. I would love to take a gander at your primer if you still have that handy.

I don't feel discouraged at all and I appreciate your feedback and thank you wholeheartedly for it. First off, I have been told already on another platform that I did actually refer to Expected Value in the book prior to introducing it - so yes, that is absolutely in the change order for the next version on Tau Day.

I was in a rush to publish this last week for Pi Day. I had reorganized the chapters at one point and moved Expected Value way to the back because I saw it more in line with making a prediction rather than it being a parameter. Originally I had this book organized like a traditional textbook, but one of the points I would like to drive through is the, "workflow" of using probability to make a prediction, meaning, you 1) Calculate Parameters then 2) Find relationships between Sets and finally 3) Then and only then, make predictions, which involve a value and a relationship statement.

Part of this is because there is such a huge ongoing trend in wanting to make predictions, gain more certainty over the future, work higher end jobs leveraging statistical computing and machine learning, etc. - so I'm thinking there are a lot of folks out there who want probability described from yet another standpoint. That being said, if I have just repeated what has already been said, then I have failed.

On the bright side, with LeanPub I can just clean it up and release a new version of the book.

In most textbooks, Expected Value is taught way at the beginning, I think because it's, "easier" and perhaps there isn't a lot of thought put into the workflow I have described above. What it sounds like I should do is comb through and remove references to Expected Value earlier on in the book. I could also certainly clean up any technical terms like that as well...not sure if you had any other ones you identified?

Yes you are right about stretching the lemur abstraction. To a certain degree, we really can't teach lemurs any of this stuff, it's more of a motif for making things visual for humans, not lemurs. On the other hand, I do offer somewhat of a rebuttal to the idea that, "lemurs could never learn X," in this YouTube video I produced a few months ago on Bayesian Statistics.

As to your criticism about statistics vs. probability - to be honest that one confuses me a bit. What are you referring to specifically? What do you see as being statistics and what do you see as probability and where do you draw the line?
Open source Designer Component like Wix or Webflow, new Version(new Toolbar,)
Get fired is "their own feelings get hurt"?

The boss situation is a lousy experiment because its result tells us nothing about what the result should be in the situation we're discussing. (For one, my boss isn't going to fire me by threatening the business if I call him a fatty.)

For example, it's relatively easy to figure out who the person is behind this account. The mob could decide that I've "done wrong" and go after my income. That's no where near me screaming at my boss that he's a Nazi or a fatty.

FWIW, "free speech" might not be the right hook - toleration might be more accurate. After all, many of the cancelers justify their actions as "we tolerate everything except intolerance."

The answer to "must my boss tolerate me calling him fatty?" is probably different from "should my fellow employees lose their income because A says that I called B 'fatty'?"

And then there's the fact that the cancellers go after everyone who might employ me. My fat boss doesn't have that kind of reach.
Basically the lack of cloud functions (need a place somewhere to run my backend code ) and the Hook Events being in alpha. I know you're working on it but for my project these features are critical.

When Supabase Functions are live and Hooks are stable then it will definitely work for the app I'm working on.
Hmm, will have to dig into it and do some research as, if it is expired, why has no one copied the design?

Edit:

It seems to have been proven in court that they have copyright (rather than the old patent) of the design. A bit like the coke bottle design I suppose.

https://www.farrer.co.uk/news-and-insights/brompton-puts-the...
so i bought a folding bike from decathlon about 1.5yr ago and never been happier since. its following model:

https://www.decathlon.fr/p/velo-pliant-oxylane-120/_/R-p-120...

they actually went up in price since then. swapped stock tires because they were rubbish and also bought better seatpost from upper model. removed all the unneccessary stuff like ringer or mudguards and this thing flies. im getting average speed about 18km/h on my rides and done about 4000km so far without any problems. this is perfect city bike in my opinion. if this thing had disc brakes it would be even better.
I think it was Anton LaVey, but I'm not sure, who thought that the parallelogram was a most evil simple shape, and pointed to how it makes people feel uneasy.

I figured if this is true, it might be because it's the shape you see if something square is about to fall over on you.
Note the CPU cores in that design aren't designed by NVidia.
If someone has access to your email account, they more than likely will be able to password reset quite a few accounts (I'd start by searching your inbox for which banks/stock trades you use and take it from there).
That's what ASCAP does too! Scummy!
There are millions of people undiagnosed, burdening healthcare systems and leading to preventable deaths or poor health outcomes.

OSA hardware is a chore to use, and many simply give up on using it.

I guess it depends on your definition of solved, but by most standards it is not close.
> In the past I had an A-bike[2]

I've had an A-bike in the past as well, and while I like the idea in principle, it's essentially a scam, due to the extremely low-quality materials - some components in the transmission are made of plastic, and they're bound to break rather quickly (I think it took me just a few months, even with around 20 km/week).
Was looking at those.

How's the trackpad and keyboard?
I think both you and Ken and the New York Times are getting tripped up by the phrase "free speech." What the New York Times is actually talking about is "ideological pluralism." When elderly Millennials like me were growing up, you could have--at least in educated circles--a broad range of heterodox opinions without anyone getting too upset about what you said.

And that's just not true anymore. I've got in trouble with white progressives in my social circle (which is mostly white progressives) for saying we should carefully scrutinize refugees from Syria and Iraq. Meanwhile my dad--whose grandfather was an Imam and who has worked in Afghanistan--expressed the exact same opinion after we withdrew from Afghanistan and there was the question of Afghan refugees.

Ken is absolutely correct that conservatives used to do it too. But I didn't grow up in the deep south where being in favor of same-sex marriage in the 1990s would get you socially ostracized. I am alarmed, however, that in blue America in 2022, I can't even discuss how my Muslim family members feel about marriage, divorce, etc., except to condemn their views. Saying "rural America in the 1990s was just as bad" doesn't actually score any points with me.

I think the New York Times editorial is confused and inelegant. But kudos to them for actually speaking up. Because I don't think we're all just having some collective delusion that something has changed in "liberal society" and that change isn't a good one.
I agree that’s there’s a pattern for what gets you cancelled, but there is absolutely not a list published somewhere that tells you what subjects to avoid.
> It doesn't matter if it was done by a guy in a black and white stripey t-shirt, or if it was done by a rogue internal employee, a bank robbery is a bank robbery.

I have to respectfully disagree.

Yes, the end result may be the same, but even in a bank robbery, the how matters, and will drive different behaviors from everyone involved: the bank, law enforcement, and customers of that bank.

If as a customer, I learn that a guy in a stripey t-shirt holds a teller at gunpoint, my conclusion goes something like "that's a terrifying situation for the teller, and I hope they're ok". I'm probably not going to stop using that bank.

If on the other hand, I learn that there are systemic issues with bank security, and internal employees have been embezzling funds somehow, I'm probably going to think hard about whether this is a bank I want to do business with.

> Security isn't just about technical security - it's the whole process involved in making sure these things don't happen.

Yes, and when factors are involved that are out of the bank's control (e.g. a crazy person walks in with a gun), it might be fair to ask why the guy got inside to begin with, but the conclusions you draw about such an incident are far different than the conclusions you'd draw if internal employees were involved.

In case this wasn't clear from my earlier comment, I didn't mean to imply that an internal process issue makes any of this ok. But it does make it different than other types of breaches.

Bottom line: the how still matters, not because one type of problem is ok and the other isn't, but because the actions a customer should take / consider will be different depending on how the breach happened.
>Donald Trump

Trump was banned from twitter after he already lost the presidency, and banning from a mediocre low-IQ forum is not how most cancel culture opponents define it, the dominant conception has an essential material aspect to it, such as firing from a job, harassment or extra-legal violence.

>Plenty of politicians and celebrities have been cancelled for racist, sexist and otherwise abusive behavior, but I don't know what your line for "genuinely powerful" is, either

Not OP, but I suspect his\her line for "genuinely powerful being cancelled" is that the cancellation is not planned and catalysed by a "more powerful" entity. When and if "cancelling" is ever used against a powerful person, there are often extremely obvious marks of an equal or superior in power person(s) behind it. When this doesn't happen, the cancellation attempt fails (e.g. Sexual allegations against Joe Biden failing).
Have you had problems with Nix on macOS? Nix works great for me, but I can't use it much to deal with installs or synchronize dependencies because the devs on macOS can't get Nix running.
You're right. The mouth movement was awful. I have no idea what OP is on about saying it was good. Maybe my uncanny valley is also steep, but nothing about this demo struck me as good.

The tech maybe is good, but I wouldn't know it from this video. The animation and lighting are just awful.
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