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> Right, I'm not claiming it's ~cancel culture~,

You have literally provided it as an example of canceling:

> > When people bring up posts like this they never say what the "heresies" are. People aren't getting "cancelled" for their takes on taxes.

> There are plenty of examples... e.g. a friend ending our friendship
Probably anticipating arguments about losing their sovereignty over domestic data. This way they can claim that data bout their citizens is still owned by their citizens and not other nations in the EU?
You're giving too little attention to social context. The latter statement will rarely be interpreted neutrally when uttered in societies where statements denigrating females' capabilities has been (or continues to be) a cultural norm.
Simply calling someone x-ist does not cause them to lose their livelihood by defaming them.

If you know of any instance where someone has lost their livelihood due _only_ to being called an x-ist, please share.
The author is not familiar with Cyberpunk 2020, most likely.
Care being a bit more specific?
The comment you want to read: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30977924
So there are solutions but understand this was done by design. The HN creators fee that back and forth comments can rapidly degrade into a war or words. This appears to be very true if you look at Reddit.

Initially I hated this, now I love it
Too complicated. The culture war was explicitly born of a left-wing power grab through cultural means, and it was foisted on college students starting in like 2014, and has had remarkable success (for its proponents). College kids believe a lot of stuff without knowing what, or why, and cancel culture rules are no different.
That's still a pretty shitty comment, or joke, or whatever, to publicly make. Imagine if you were a Twitter employee and this is how you're finding out that he plans to come for a large swath of you? By cracking wise and half-jokingly putting the decision over whether or not you get to keep your job in the hands of that poll?

I don't care if we all could've assumed he was going to want to clean house, he could at least have some tact in how he goes about it.
It used to be.. 10.4-10.6 were amazing. No question better than any Linux desktop at the time.
Profit is not a sin. On the contrary it is a 1 to 1 match with the good that it is providing its users.

This idea that services shouldn't turn a profit is a massive problem.
> These ways are simpler than the usual gymnastics to implement singletons.

Is this a python-centric complaint? I usually write C# and Singletons are just one of a few different scope types for defining objects in the IoC container, no easier, harder, rarer or more common than any other class type.
Somewhere in the last 10 years a norm emerged that transgender identity is sacrosanct and its doubters are bigots, but transracial identity is a lie and people like Rachel Dolezal are frauds.

GP's brusque language aside, can there be any amount of uncertainty on either of these points? Doesn't it seem a bit arbitrary that these two new norms are opposite to each other?
Emacs is a classic desktop, so not a multi-user environment, of course is perfectly capable of networking but in the classic sense, no central point, no "server" etc.

So org-roam notes are personal notes, your own digital information from mail to feeds, passing through financial transactions, attached files, ... there is not use-case for sharing, it's not a wiki. However you can export certain notes to html (eventually selecting them out of org-ql queries) and such html can be a page of a wiki, a page whose source can be in a git repo with push and pull to keep it up to date, but that's not a pre-coocked thing, it's just easy to do since all ingredients are already made.

You can for instance export toward GitIt wiki, or hack DokuWiki mode etc, being inside Emacs makes things far easier.
Yes, I mention that in the second paragraph. That's his to decide.

If you're interested in hearing the other side in all cases, then of course blocking is counter-intuitive. Wether he wants or not, it's his choice.

However, even if you were to block everyone, you could still curate the experience of hearing from the other side in other situations: by consuming articles, by asking someone privately, by not blocking some of the replies.

I also would disagree 100% that social networks are a proper venue for this kind of exchange.

He still has 100% the right to block and saying this is akin to cancellation is bullshit.
Apparently they are not dead.[0] They posted this a bit after their last update on their website. But yeah, probably got tired of doing an update every week.

[0]https://twitter.com/webshitweekly/status/1450563491069247489
Maybe that phrase can still be used sarcastically where the non-specificity of the victims makes debate inconclusive. But, Europe has unfortunately entered an era where we know precisely which nationality’s children are at risk.
I doubt your dog passes the mirror test ...
* Meritocracy isn't, because merit cannot be easily measured and it is trivial for successful bad actors to build moats that prevent anyone else getting as valued as them.

* Higher economic growth can be achieved by investing in education, but nobody would do that, because it's (rightfully) illegal to sell yourself into slavery in exchange for education.

* Regulatory capture sucks and is super hard to work around. It should be combated instead of being relied on as a future moat against competitors.
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I take issue with the speaker not influencing whether a statement is or is not “x-ist”

There are truths that are empirical (math, physics, etc), but most controversy that includes “x-ism” is about things that are subjective and don’t bucket neatly into a true/false dichotomy.
The irony here is that Google absolutely prioritizes AI-generated content when it comes from Google itself. Sure, infoboxes contain content from other websites written (usually) by humans, but the selection and excerpting process is AI-driven and there are plenty of examples of that process going spectacularly wrong.

And infoboxes are usually the first result in any Google search, before the ads even.
Because freight trains can be really really slow. (I suspect there are a ton of other issues as well--including that you probably wouldn't even cut costs very much.)
I’d recommend you find more compassion for homeless people. This joke isn’t funny.
What is the name for people who call you a heretic? This forum is full of them.
Short-range intercity can be usable, but cross-country travel in the USA is honestly just impractical by rail. Should it be kept operational? Certainly! Should it be seriously considered as a competitor for airlines? Unlikely.

The only way it will come back is if the intercity travel keeps getting better and better, and even then routes on the coast may work but once you hit the midwest the distances get unreasonably far.

Chicago to Los Angeles would be ten hours at Nozomi speeds assuming zero stops. Even the proposed California high-speed corridor doesn't have much to offer.
There's a lot of people and a number of cities along the Mississippi Gulf Coast where the train could also stop.
What is true is not relevant in many cases.

Consider looking at piece of art and saying "I think this part is badly done". This is a very different statement depending whether it is the author saying it, the author's mentor saying it, unrelated person saying it to their friends, or the same unrelated person writing it on twitter. And it doesn't matter whether it is true - it might not even be possible to say, objectively, whether that part is actually badly done.

Same goes for talking about groups of people. Criticising a movement as a member internally, as a member on twitter and as a member of opposing movement is very different, no matter whether it is true or not. And movements are (usually) voluntary - it matters even more when talking about groups of people by categories they can't chose, like cultures, sexual orientations, skin color, etc.
Binary musl self contained release would be great for adoption..
Yes, but Europe has socialized medicine for all. Here in the USA we have no such generalized resources, so triage is necessary. There's a certain fraction of the homeless population that simply needs a period of institutionalization in a managed care facility, and why should the much larger fraction of the homeless population that simply needs basic resources to get off the street be forced to mix in with the crazies shooting up in broad daylight?
I think that Evernote went from an app to becoming a feature, a bit like Dropbox. This happened so some early startup apps 10-15 years ago.

What once warranted an app is simply a feature somewhere in another app. MacOS comes with "Notes", which is perfectly sufficient for me.
Worldcoin (scan scam) discussion 4 days ago at

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30931614
Original C wasdesigned to map as close to one to one pairing between assembler and c statements.

Will also need to understand the hardware assumptions implied in C code being ported.
> - Have we recently had comments on this issue?

wow, interesting approach

I would like this more if there was an easier way to find the other article

Like a moderator linking to the prior comment section similar to how dang does here
Yeah, while I’m not a huge fan of modern radicalization (or perhaps just it’s resurgence) I still find “cancel culture” more tolerable than torture and murder.
Everyone makes mistakes. The trick is to learn how not to make the same mistake twice.

I recommend investing effort in your note taking processes.

I have 20 years of experience at this point, but I only got really serious about making detailed notes a few years ago - and now I wish I'd developed that habit at the start of my career!

My goal these days is this: "Never figure out the same thing twice". If I figure something out, I write it down - sometimes as private notes (I use a private GitHub issues repository for this) but often in public GitHub issues or published to my TIL website: https://til.simonwillison.net/
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The two eras and their initial conditions aren’t even comparable. We have strong state constitutions and the procedural rule of law now. We use science instead of religion to explain mysterious phenomena. Those aren’t being torn down any time soon over spite. We’re simply not going to end someone’s life over a differing opinion; our entire system of government would have to change first.

Your argument is basically a “slippery slope” argument, and this is a good example of why these types of arguments are so weak and problematic.
Most areas of the world have more forest now than they did at the early 20th century. And fossil fuel extraction would be mostly spared from the nuclear attacks.
> Surly there is a solution out there for reducing polarization.

Well, there's compassion. But that's always been rather difficult, and seems to have fallen out of fashion...

Maybe you meant a technical solution though.
Those intermediate stops must be severely limited if the train is to cover the 140 miles in an hour total as hypothesized above.
Entire processor classes ignored, gpus, & now all of Intel will lack support. Not the same really. Even vm acceleration sucks for no real reason.
It has a little too many settings/features for my taste. Unfortunately removing things doesn't attract user - adding things does.

I never used mothra, but heard a lot of good things about the plan 9 tools. They got the advantage, that they could start afresh. I'm curious how much work it would be to port it to a *nix system.
> instablocks anybody on Twitter

This is hardly implicit.
As someone who does an hour of meditation a day, I don't think you need an app. I used to use one of the main ones but no longer do. You just need some kind of timer. What works best for me is actually the timer app on my Apple Watch, which I have set to vibrate instead of making a sound. It's a gentle way to end a meditation session.

Additionally there are physical meditation bells which make wonderful, rich sounds. My wife and I often use one when we meditate together; she rings it at the beginning of a session and I ring it at the end after my watch timer goes off.
> 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.

This is a great point. I’ve seen the same with attitudes towards homeless people where they can harass people on the street all day long and get treated like they’re a poor victim who has no agency, but a “normal” person can get fired over an awkward compliment. It makes no sense to me.
It actually does have undo, something I know about from it frequently detecting waving my phone around as an attempt to undo.
I've gotten a lot of Headspace. A 20 minute meditation really helps calm down my runaway brain. Do I need an app to meditate? Of course not. However, my crazy brain can manage to open the app and start a meditation session and the audio keeps me on track.
I'd argue that what you describe is seniority, which should be reflected in job title changes - with related salary increases. If your title does not change, you're effectively expected to carry out the same job as last year, so it makes sense to keep your salary static after inflation.

If your title does not change after 3-4 years, you can assume that management has no real intention to help you with career progression.

If your job title changes but you don't get a salary increase with it (apart from inflation matching), then that is probably the time to go to the job market and see what that title is worth elsewhere.
I’m fairly sure, it looks very similar to the cams we use in the security industry. And the colouring matches what I’d expect in a thermal cam. But I could be wrong, I’m just going on how it looks!
The culture on com.lang.lisp was pretty toxic at times. I remember having Erik telling me to have a late abortion (I was 13) in a discussion about '() being false.

The people that looked up to him were worse.
1984, here we come. I'm glad the UK got out of the EU because of things like this.
Personally, I’d rather not be murdered for my resources, thanks.
> The two feet differ by about one hundredth of a foot (0.12672 inches) per mile [...]

> In one case, in a certain city that Dr. Dennis declined to name, the construction of a downtown high-rise that sat in the approach path to an international airport was delayed while the building was redesigned to be one floor shorter.

How could that make sense? Seems like an absurd claim to blame the difference in measurement. There had to be some design buffer to stay under the height limit so other errors had to dominate. It's a curious situation but I suspect not nearly as critical as presented. We don't do rocket science or engineer medical devices in US survey inches.
This can also be interpreted as an interesting piece on perceived martyrdom and persecution fetish.
I’m not exactly sure what you are trying to say. Can you rephrase?
I just look at the threads tab every day. Or more often if I'm engaged in a responsive thread.
It's not his job to give anyone a larger venue to reply.

Someone popular being in an echo chamber causing problems for society is a larger issue that maybe we should address separately. It's not on him to solve problems created by social media at large. Maybe limit reach of Twitter accounts.

Even if it were kind of his responsibility, that doesn't preclude him from being fully in his right to block people when he doesn't want to interact directly in a social network. That should be an inalienable right.

You can criticise anything you want, and I'm not saying you're not in the right to do so. But saying this is a problem comparable to cancellation is making a gross exaggeration.
What country and ISP do you have? In the US, Comcast gives everyone a /64 for free (and I think a /56 or /48 for business).
Just trying this out for the first time.. Posted from vim inside w3m. Just took an 'apt install w3m' and 'w3m news.ycombinator.com'. Many of the default key bindings are vim like, took me a while to realise i had to use 'enter' to edit a form field rather than 'i' though.

Only disadvantage I can tell for HN is lack of comment indentation beyond one level... which might be a deal breaker.
Ah right; I never do that kind of stuff.

I wonder if you can set "$$=$pid" in some hook in fish (I don't use fish, or even like it for that matter, albeit for different reasons).

Longer names like $status and $pid are actually nicer in scripts IMHO, I typically use those in zsh (which often supports for csh-ish long names and Bourne short names) scripts as it's just a bit clearer. Same with short (-q) vs. long (--quiet) flags: short is great for interactive CLI, long often nicer in scripts. especially with lesser used flags.
Broad ideologically motivated dismissals of entire avenues of problem solving seem suspect at best
A simple one is that evolution doesn't stop at the neck.
Typically, not in any way that has elements like: an external requirement specification about what the ball should do (or that there must be one), and tests that validate that the ball is moving correctly.

It's basically art. Art of all types has internal technical challenges: specific problems to solve which are even testable. E.g. how do I get this paint to dry slower to have more working time for the intended style; how do I get these two materials to adhere; what fingering can I use to play this passage fluidly; ...

My point in this thread is that some people might be motivated into programming if they stop thinking they have to solve some external problem, other than the vague requirement of making something beautiful or entertaining.
I used to make the trek from Dallas to LA a few times a year. I have tried flying, I have tried driving, but I've never taken the train. Travelling solo, the flying can have you in the other city within a few hours. Driving solo takes about 24 hours. Booking a train shows arrival in 48 hours. Just not even in a realistic time frame.
The alternative to "evidence based medicine" is "biological plausibility", where you'd construct a model (say "humans have 4 humors") and reason about how the symptoms are caused via the model.

So you might say: oh, high blood pressure causes the heart to be stressed, which causes heart attacks. So if we have the person eat less salt and drink more water, their blood pressure will go down, reducing their risk of heart attacks.

In evidence-based medicine, the mechanism doesn't matter. You just need to show that X has an effect, it doesn't matter _why_ X has an effect.

See here for more info: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/8blgcc/has_a...
Was it not clear from the main point? Actively reducing the innocence of typical children at the target age. You can show them things that are different and in an exciting format without doing that, but when you don't prioritize their right to their innocence, your content and delivery is harmful.
The problem with the whole free speech is dead argument is that it gets tangled into plain stupid lies. Flatearth, holocaust denial...
Yet, you kept feeding a neighborhood full of cats in the way they had trained you.
Sounds like C alignment mismatches. aka fetch value from struc, where value is not stored aligned in struc. Use value without aligning value and/or aligning on byte boundary (*char) when hardware requires 64bit alignement.
I'm sorry, I honestly don't know, I never had a need for it. You might want to ask in the corresponding boards on Reddit, though.
aw, good old sensei. That’s a blast from the past
I thought this until I tried to book a ticket recently and found that megabus had cancelled the route I wanted to use entirely.
The Pascal compiler on our CDC Cyber (used by undergraduate courses when I went to NYU) would do this, too. Yeah, was a long time ago :)
As I stated in my comment, I use this in tooling made for myself only.
Are you saying returns are costless? At the end of the day, someone's shrink rate is expanding, and this had a direct impact on consumer prices.
It also becomes tricky because adding more trains (or more train cars) at different times does different things.

A train every hour is convenient for some purposes, but for others you just want a bunch of trains early in the morning and later in the evening.
> The culture war was explicitly born of a left-wing power grab through cultural means

The current culture war got stoked in the early 90s by conservatives because it got them votes, and has been escalating since then because it still does. Or are you going full Buchanan to claim black and gay people getting equal treatment in the civil arena is a "left-wing power grab"?
How does that relate? In my scenario the costs are focused on bad suppliers. So their costs go up relative to good suppliers, the bad suppliers go out of business, good suppliers remain unharmed.
It just means not having the right opinion on the current issue of the month. Or anything about the groups of people you’re not allowed to criticize.
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His political views are, how to say it politely, interesting.
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True enough, recently my Scottish Parliament pardoned those condemned of witchcraft (and fwiw a lot of Scottish ex pats formed the US constitution)

I think a lot of the issue revolves around us celebrating our differences rather than trying to polarise them.

But clearly scientific evidence (ie lack of witchcraft) also play a part.

The vibe I get from the post is just that, being OK with people having a different point of view without having an adverse reaction. Maybe another component to it is the black box algorithms of major platforms that may magnify differences of opinion or 'filter bubbles' as it were.
What the comment is remarking on is why so many adults let obvious trolling affect their mental state so deeply. Independently of judging the troll for his behavior, it's reasonable to wonder at people's fragility, particularly in the face of such light trolling.

This is also why the specific form of speech (tweets) are relevant. Letting your guard down in front of friends/family/colleagues is completely normal, and people would naturally be more vulnerable to inflammatory comments in this context.

But Twitter is not any of those contexts: there are a functionally infinite amount of people saying every manner of dumb or otherwise inflammatory things, which means the only leverage you have is over your own reactions.

It's just such a self-own: "I'm going to let my mental health be temporarily controlled by any of the millions of people choosing to be cheeky or trollish at any given moment". I share GP's bafflement.
I didn't mean to imply that fish don't breathe.

The part as it rained down from the sky, to me, means that they were breathing the particles while they were falling from the sky. Not possible unless they were above water (which, granted, is possible for short periods), which would go against the fact that they were fish.
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Sure you can?

Someone can be affected by things and still end up with false beliefs. It’s possible to still be kind to someone and argue a belief they hold is wrong.

What’s true can be in conflict with deeply held beliefs (and often is). Part of the core issue is when one side won’t engage in actual discussion of the content and only argues at the meta level about identity.

I think roflc0ptic’s examples are good ones - thankfully it seems the discourse around this kind of stuff is shifting back to being more moderate.
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