skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'm also able to observe plenty of speech by people who identify themselves as right-wing/conservative being propagated via Facebook, Twitter, and Google.

As I've repeatedly pointed out, that these opinions still exist on the platform does not imply that they are not being suppressed. Yes, this is a strawman, because I'm not arguing that they are completely banned, as you're implying.

>I believe that every person or institution has the legal and moral right to make decisions about which speech is valuable

It's really odd how you devote about half of your ramblings to claiming that censorship/suppression are not occurring on twitter, and the other half defending their freedom to do so (which I'm not even arguing against, I just think it's slimy and potentially dangerous to society). While also disingeniously rationalizing the behavior by insisting that it isn't censorship if twitter is not a state.

You do not argue honestly.
Programming-only tools are generally easier if you want to do procedurally generated stuff, gameplay patterns that don't exist yet, etc... Engines are easier if you're making a more common genre of game and are hand-placing assets, creating levels, etc...

Also Heaps is written in Haxe which is a nice GC'd language that compiles down to C++ so you get a good combination of development speed and runtime speed.

Is Heaps better? Probably not. But there's definitely a specific type of dev who would prefer this kind of tool.
I am using the word "valid" about how you're using "real", I suppose.

This is probably a dead end of an argument. I think you're making a value judgement about what could be possible -- you're entering the question accepting as an axiom "sex and gender are the same thing and cannot differ", and so naturally the person's reported experience must be incorrect. If you instead think "sex and gender are different things", you'd reach a different conclusion.
What Is Rust's Unsafe? (2019)
This is quite common unfortunately and has been used by billion dollar companies like Airbnb to get traction(1). Back in the days this was just plain old spamming but nowadays it is called growth hacking

Craigslist growth hack —very early on, anyone who listed on Airbnb could cross-list on Craigslist with one click, Airbnb helped by filling out all Craigslists forms with a ‘bot.’ The hack required some technical gnarl to perform, but it was perfect for this early stage. The team also appeared to look for all listings of vacation properties being listed on Craigslist, and emailed the owners to list also on Airbnb.
Yes, it’s spam. But yes, it worked.

(1) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140918020352-142089-airbnb-...
One of the interesting things about this essay is the way it criticizes orthodoxy and heresies, then casually throws in people who refuse vaccines as "extremists" equivalent to people who enforce the concept of heresy.

But that doesn't really make sense because "thou shalt never question the divinity of vaccines" is a modern day orthodoxy, and those who do in fact question them are the modern day heretics, with scientific institutions being the modern Church. Heretics aren't actually set on fire these days but they are e.g. currently banned from entering the United States and many other countries, and just a few months ago they were banned from all public places etc.

A man truly dedicated to the abolition of heresy would recognize that by calling people as "extremists" is in fact (perhaps unrealising) the exact same behavior he is criticizing. After all, has he talked to these people to understand their heresy? My guess is no. Rather, he just feels in his bones that by Following The Science™ he is a morally and intellectually superior creature.

When an essay that thinks it's arguing for the ending of heresy cannot even avoid damning some heretics, I see no particular reason for optimism, as Graham does. Rather this problem will get worse before it gets better, if it ever does.
While true for England, things went a little differently in France with the French Revolution. I'm not sure if it started as you say, but it ended not much differently than a violent overthrow of the ruling class in other countries.
For me there are different kinds of joy I find through programming:

1. Imagining something to make and bringing it into existence. As a teen I programmed my first computer (Atari 400) to draw rectangles to scale dimensions of my room and furniture and I could move them around to see which layouts fit and might flow well. It wasn't very hard to write but a lot of fun to play with.

2. Solving a difficult problem/puzzle that I encounter (usually at work) with an out-of-the-ordinary (or sometimes much simpler than imagined) solution. This fits very much in line with how I enjoyed solving math/physics problems that sort-of seemed like riddles with rewarding punchlines.

3. Making a library or part of a program that exceeds my original design or expectations. This can come as I need to change it for extra purposes not known at the start and they are easy to fit in, or on rare occasion 'just work' with different inputs to my great surprise.

I started out programming as a hobby long before I thought it would be my profession and having programming buddies to show stuff and learn from was a key motivator. Later on, I've become completely satisfied at solving problems to my self-defined level of completion. On one hand I might me more motivated to do more if it was shared and used. But then on the other, then it could become ingracious unpaid work--like some open-source horror stories.

The best generic advice I can give is to make the programming part secondary. Find something that you want to exist and could make. Often this can be a website that organizes certain information that you want to catalog and share. If you start making it and enjoy the creation as it starts forming, then you may be onto something. Anything (web/mobile/vr?) with visible/sharable output is more relatable than something that only a backend dev could appreciate. It's tricky to find a topic that isn't already being done well by others so usually something niche that you have an interest in is easier to find. Sometimes you can take an existing idea you like and put a twist on it to make it new and interesting.
Personally, as someone who came of age during the Bush administration and the War on Terror, all of these cancel culture wars bore me because it’s all I’ve ever known. Since 2003 or so, I’ve never not seen American politics and civil society as a hyper-partisan wonderland of information bubbles and people shouting heresy.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30210730
Discoverability for streams is awful on Youtube. Twitch also has a very different culture surrounding channels and chat. This results in Twitch having a much smaller audience, but far higher engagement.

Right now Youtube is having to write huge checks to lure away big streamers from Twitch. They'll probably do better with that than Mixer.

Atm the optimal strategy is to livestream on twitch then pay an editor to create highlight videos on Youtube.

Live rewind existed on Twitch until very recently, though it wasn't called out in the UX: you just have to click on the person's profile and go to the VOD page. However recently Twitch added a gate where they changed the default "automatically make VODs available immediately" from true to false, as a mitigation strategy against their DMCA volume (RIAA scrapes twitch VODs in volume).
I think it was just a somewhat tongue-in-cheek reference to the fact that he was a don, who don't marry.
Yes. logistics is a house of cards. Small delays cascade and pile up, leading to systemic problems with staffing, spoilage, contract violations, etc. A 12 hour delay means an entire shift of workers doing nothing while they wait for the product to arrive, for example. When you have production scheduled out months in advance it matters quite a bit, which is why contracts are so strict on this in the first place.
Is "honest and forthright" really the only qualification for working at Google?

What about being professional? Meaning... getting your work done in a way that you're not making other people hate you?

I can totally imagine a workplace where "It's not your problem if other people hate you" is the norm. And I'm happy for people who find an employer like that and enjoy that. But does every workplace need to be like that?

What's wrong with a workplace saying "you need to be clued in to how your colleagues are affected by you"?

For me, that's table stakes in being a profesional.
Part of the problem is China's vaccine is substantially less effective than the mRNA ones. "Just make vaccines available" works less for them than it does in, say, the US.
If you use any of the daily notes plugin, you can tell it to always open with the note for today, which is based on a template and can contain anything you want. iIRC by default it just opens the last note you were in.
As an aside, I was in your precise situation, but I ended up telling my SF company the truth. I'm sure they do view me differently now, but it's worth the feeling of value congruence to tell the truth and normalize such things.
Switzerland will not expel Russian diplomats, says president
VsCode is also doing that, buts quite stupid as it just offers already typed words, not a dictionary.
HillRat is not alone it seems:

https://thebulletin.org/2022/03/russian-military-doctrine-ca...
These days, pretty much all money-printing is effectively out of thin air. Few if any have a gold standard or similar backing their currencies. So it's down to trust in the economy. (Not that gold really has intrinsic value, but everybody seem to love shiny rocks:)
That's the hardest part - people will drive 6+ hours even when there are faster/better options if they need a car at the other end.

So transit between cites doesn't work as well until the endpoints are adequately transited themselves (or your destination is something like an airport where you can't bring your car anyway).
Massive Pro-Russian rally organized today in Limassol, Cyprus
How's that? The point being made here is that he is used to people in his position in society having a certain freedom from criticism, and therefore sees any vulnerability to criticism as a loss of freedom. This is an equally valid point whether the commenter is white or black, man or woman, old or young.
Even though gender and race are both social inventions, they’re not really interchangeable like that.

To cite one example: race is considered heritable, and there have historically been harsh consequences of that lineage. In the US, the one-drop rule ensured that anyone with even a single Black ancestor would be subject to the legal discrimination that status entailed (this is called “hypodescent”). So the idea of someone saying “I identify as Black” is… fraught, to say the least.
> and never use your passwords on the phone you are using as 2FA

Notably, this also involves not logging into the same email account that you use for signups - it would allow the attacker to bypass the password manager completely by requesting a password reset.

I guess you could solve this by having one email address for signups and another to communicate with people, but you would still be giving up email notifications (such as “your order has been shipped”) delivered to your phone.
>Historians would point toward a pressure toward democratization of states that occurs as the middle class gains more power.

Historians would be making the classic correlation|causation fallacy. Your French example is apt because China has created a bourgeoisie class which is also the effective monarchy. Historians might say that China has learned from history and ensured that their powerful class cannot be usurped.

I think it much more convincing that social values determine the direction in which a country allows government to rule them. Chinese values are miles apart from French values, and their citizens are just much more comfortable with submitting to authoritarian rule. I base this on living in the country, as well as cultural research such as this: https://www.hofstede-insights.com/country-comparison/china/
I like to think there's no such thing as "basic" questions. What does that even mean? If a question is "basic", then the answer must not be complex either, so what's wrong with asking a basic question? All people who I've worked with that were subpar usually tend to ask too little questions, not too many.

Also you'd be surprised how often basic questions actually are not basic at all, when instead people are all assuming everyone knows the answer and are too far in to ask the question.
When I was a boy I regularly played against myself. You should try it, it really helps for learning how to defend.
How do you travel to another country, and come back with new kidneys specially when you are already of old age and so not so high on a donation waiting list?
I think it is kind of cheeky.

You cannot use the progress in manufactoring technology if you insists on creating a single (or few) threaded computer like an x86-machine. To really progress computing your have to go massively parallel.

In other words. Moore needs to quit his job at Intel, and go and make GPUs or AI-co processors, if he still wants to see computing power double every 18 months.
I haven't seen yet why China is going into lockdown again. Is there a new variant?
In making this argument, you should clarify that you think it's important to not limit "freedom of speech" to its legal definition. Currently, you only make an allusion to that distinction.

To fully make your argument, you need to convince people that the overall philosophical point of "free speech" is worth societal value even beyond that which we have accorded it via law (assuming you're in the US).

Coming from someone who doesn't agree with you, but who doesn't agree with your opponents either.
Everything a hacker needs to know about getting busted (1998)
> At the same time I'm not wearing any clothes made in North Korea or Venezuela, same as pretty much everyone.

No. Some of us have principal and is willing to pay more as to not support China, especially if we are going to speak about how evil it is to support the regime.
As a junior you essentially have no responsibilities other than trying and learning. The seniors on your team bear 100% responsibility for coaxing useful and quality work from you. Now if you’re failing to learn after multiple time, or you’re not making good faith efforts, those are on you. Otherwise the most important thing you can do is ask for help when stuck.
Jonestown-level control strategy.
How can we tell if Zimbabwe/Venezuela style hyperinflation is a real risk in the US? I used to read ZeroHedge 10 years ago where every day they would point to an increase in the Fed balance sheet/money supply/deficit/debt to GDP ratio/something and proclaim hyperinflation and the end of the world as we know it is right around the corner.

Obviously that didn't happen (and after a few missed predictions, I abandoned all "doomer" media). But what are the warning signs that stuff is seriously going off the rails and it's really time to worry?
The about section is: "Get a GitHub user's email. "smiley sunglasses face emoji" Use this responsibly." Is the smiley face for the first sentence? (look how cool and clever I was to find this data) Or the second sentence? (lets all have a laugh that there's actually a responsible usage for this data.)
It certainly isn't. Doubly vaccinated people are getting reinfected within a month. We just decided to roll the dice on the long term risks of such a disease.
You are confusing social norms with capacities to manage harm.

Innocence means that the children are allowed to operate in a framework that let's them understand and learn about things in a way that they can manage.

Hell, some autistic kids can't even manage seeing things that are perfectly unnoticeable to the average kid even in the same city, let alone in another country.

But just as we don't run every televsion network for the autistic, we really don't want to be running pornography on regular kid programming either. It's very telling that you jumped to books, at any rate. I don't know the ones you're talking about or at exactly what age they are targeted, but a book is a much smaller and telegraphed source of content for kids.
Nothing makes me believe they don't support the government. Just like nothing makes me believe they could enact any change if they wanted, which is what the parent implied.
What's more telling to me is that I wouldn't be surprised if this turned out to be true.
For my three cats, there was only an interesting reaction to themselves in a mirror the first time (or the first time in a long while; or sometimes the first time they experienced a specific mirror) they approached the mirror; then they seemed to ignore it (not sure if any picked up the use a mirror skill, as some cats in the article appear to have; I didn't notice it anyway). If you miss that first encounter, you missed it.
According to the Florida bill, it's when the students are 3rd grade or lower. The bifurcation point between "OK to talk about" and "not OK to talk about" is between 3rd & 4th grade.
They were still alive...
Is there something about being old that prevents you from traveling on planes or receiving organ transplants?
Germany has very little private competition in the longer distance sector (>2h) and almost no private infrastructure. Both are controlled by the state owned DB and there are ambitions to make the infrastructure part even less profit oriented and talks about moving it out completely into a separate, even less private, entity. In the regional rail sector there are more private actors, yes, but they work routes tendered by the state with pretty strict requirements as to frequency, vehicles and branding. It's a bit more like contractors in housing construction (and most of the infrastructure is still directly or indirectly state owned).

One of the bigger issues with Amtrak is the lacklustre infrastructure, that is mostly owned by freight companies (with prominent exceptions like the NE corridor). I wont say that Amtrak is great, but infrastructure is the bigger problem. No freight company is interested in upgrading, electrifying, speed increases or even building new lines. There are few private actors interested in the passenger rail sector (with exceptions such as Texas Central and I wish them the best).

I also can't imagine great results with new private actors, since non-high speed rail suffers even more from the competition with the car due to a lack of attractive or in many cases usable public transit option near the start or destination. And high speed rail is really expensive to build, so I have my doubts that private actors will be able to secure funding without any previous examples.

To fix passenger rail in America, in my opinion, you have to at least have a major rework of how rail infrastructure works.

Canada is also doing a lot better with rail than America, with a major priority being the independence from freight companies in regards to infrastructure.
> They build their own.

No they don't. The only airliner they build is the small Sukhoi SSJ-10, which uses French engines and a ton of Western avionics and systems.
Why can't these plants float a 12 hour buffer of stock?

This sounds like a JIT failure more than anything else.
> a country that is in the process of reversing much of the last half-century's progress on women's rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and disability rights

If this is intended to refer to the United States, it is highly exaggerated. I doubt you could find a woman, disabled person, or LGBTQ+ person who seriously would rather spend their life in 1970s America than 2020s America. The normalization of rights and tolerance for these groups has been so total and swift that it can be hard to to put things in perspective and imagine what life was like in the relatively recent past.
Another part of the problem is that China forbids Chinese citizens from getting foreign made vaccines. They’ve acquired them, but only allow foreigners to get them.
No mobile version is a bummer :( I almost always want to add events on the go.
The Cyber Social Contract
I think you are thinking of "redundant" in terms of information. A syntax does not carry any information on its own. It is a frame for information to reside in.
> Meaning... getting your work done in a way that you're not making other people hate you?

"Making other people hate you"? Blaming a victim of vicious abuse for what his abusers were doing is very much not cool.
Yes, the expectation nowadays is that every free open source project comes with professional 24/7 support.
Anecdote, but I met a random cat on a neighborhood sidewalk in a random town and stopped to love on him for a moment.

When I would walk away, several times he would anticipate my path and run in front of me and lay down to block my path, apparently to receive some more affection.

I’ve had some super affectionate and at least not-dumb cats, but I was still really surprised by this guy’s apparent intentionality. And all for affection - it’s not like I’d had any cat treats on me to give him.
The Sinovac vaccine isnt effective against recent variants, so it's 2020 all over again until mRNA tech becomes available. Also many older people aren't vaccinated.
Spammers have been harvesting email addresses written on the web in plain text since the dawn of the web. We've all seen older websites where the author obfuscates their email address like "author [at] domain.com" or "my email is firstname at my domain" or even use an image in place of actual text. I could say that my email is my hacker news username for both the name and domain, on the dot io TLD. A bot couldn't scrape that, but you could figure it out.
> I want this essay to work in the future, not just now. And unfortunately it probably will

It doesn't work now; it might work better in the future when the current claims (which are right-wing propaganda) are irrelevant, and only the vague, not particularly actionable, generalities.

> Back in the day (and still, in some places) the punishment for heresy was death

It still is. Did you miss 1/6 and the “hang Mike Pence“ chants? Did you miss the Pizzagate lies and the violence they instigated? Did you miss the current “groomer“ propaganda directed at the LGBTQ+ community and allies from the right for merely existing openly, including the Disney “bring ammo“ shirts being marketed? (All of which—at least, promotion of the ideas, if not the actual execution of the violence—is not limited to the fringes of the right, but mainstream major party political and media figures.

> The reason the current wave of intolerance comes from the left

There can't be a reason for a thing that isn't true. Falsely portraying the intolerance as primarily a left-wing phenomenon is the central element of the persecution propaganda that is the common underlying foundation of all of the right-wing violent intolerance efforts going on; while PG is pretending to be above the fray and neutrally negative on the left only because of the dynamics of current condition, he is actively participating in the things he is criticizing by knowingly validating the false premises underlying the most violent, dangerous anti-“heresy” movements.

> There are many on the far left who believe strongly in the reintegration of felons (as I do myself), and yet seem to feel that anyone guilty of certain heresies should never work again.

“Many...seem“ is pretty weaselly, but I (and I bet I have more experience with the far left than PG, despite not being a far leftist) know of no one on the far left who believes in reintegration of felons for whom there is reason, at least negative, to believe are reformed that does not believe that for non-criminal moral wrongdoers.

Those who have neither reformed nor even acknowledged their acts or the wrongness of them are...not the same.