skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Every human being on the planet who doesn't want to live in a dictatorship subject to the whims of one or few strongmen, or to be disappeared with no legal recourse for saying or thinking the wrong thing, or to have the valuable things they've built stolen by the unaccountable powerful.

How exactly does a democracy prevent any of that? Democracy gave us Hitler. Democracy gave us Putin.

> There was a brief interregnum to history after the fall of the USSR, where we all thought authoritarianism would disappear if we just all get rich together, and that the culmination of human social evolution was liberal democracy and free markets.

There was a brief time after the soviet collapse where the clever sold the lie to the naive. But no serious person ever believed "it was the end of history".

> Unfortunately none of that is true, and authoritarianism is on the rise again. You can pretend not to see it or that it doesn't matter if you wish, but that won't change the reality.

My point is that india suffered immensely for 80 years as a democracy. It has hundreds of millions of people living in poverty. Hundreds of millions of people without electricity. Not a very good endorsement of democracy. My point is that india needs competent leadership who can develop india. Not necessarily democracy.

> And Russia is no longer a democracy

Democracy must have sucked then.

> the US has never attacked Japan post-WWII

Other than the attacks on japan during the 80s.

> and US has been extremely generous to China

I'd say it is china that has been extremely generous. You might want to read up on some Sino-America history. It's a pretty ugly affair.

> until Xi Jinping took over and began his campaign of regional and world domination.

It isn't china that colonized and occupied asian countries. It is the US. We are the ones occupying taiwan, philippines, korea, japan, etc.

The monster in the pacific isn't china. It's the US. The country causing strife in the pacific is the US, not china. But then again, we cause strife everywhere in the world from south america to africa and everywhere in between.
This reminds me of a Popehat article I finally got around to reading yesterday: https://popehat.substack.com/p/our-fundamental-right-to-sham...

In that article, Popehat talks about the need to define cancel culture and understand how the free speech rights of the first speaker intersect with the free speech and association rights of people that respond.

I think the most useful aspect of PG's article is that he does actually define what he means by heresy:

> Structurally there are two distinctive things about heresy: (1) that it takes priority over the question of truth or falsity, and (2) that it outweighs everything else the speaker has done

PG doesn't give any examples, but I do think that trying to be clear around definitions in order to be able to say "is this an example of heresy at work?" or "has this person been unfairly cancelled?" is a valuable exercise.

FWIW, my main reason for commenting is that I find Popehat's article to be a valuable addition to the conversation because it's specifically addressing the "cancel culture" terminology rather than trying to swirl a new term (heresy) into the mix.
The Mac has this built into its text widget
If people don't perceive your actions as kind, can they actually be said to be kind?

We observe much worse acute and long term outcomes, across a variety of dimensions, when transgender people are not permitted to transition.

Homophobes insist that they are telling "the truth" when they insist that all gay people are going to hell and that marriage should not be allowed for gay people. Racists insist that they are telling "the truth" when they insist that black people are simply more violent than white people and that black people should be treated differently by the justice system. Sexists insist that they are telling "the truth' when they insist that women are not capable of holding positions of leadership in business or politics and that their role is only to raise children.

I see no reason why transphobia would be different.
This isn't necessarily correct. Many modern compilers (e.g., C# and F# compilers) will do error recovery and keep processing as far as they can go, accumulating errors in the process. These same compilers are not different from that used in the IDE - they are one and the same. And finally, modern compilers can also be tuned based on usage, such as enabling batch mode to optimize for speed in a single thread or using as many threads as are available to optimize for IDE scenarios.
I meant that most people would say that most Jewish Americans are white. Given the US racial categories, it's the one that most Jewish people in the US fit into.

Of course, racial categories are made up anyway, but some people seem to care about these things.
That website builder is awesome! As you say, very zine-like. I would have loved to make my site with it.... :(
I hope you don't believe that "things will just happen on their own". Because they don't and won't. It's the same with selling products that generate company revenue - in general products DO NOT SELL THEMSELVES. Ever. And "worse" - even the best designed product that "flies off the shelf" will usually only do that for the first 3-9 months - after that, the lack of awareness for product or problem, the mismatch of buyer/seller knowledge, product features to market need, etc. is large enough that nothing will be an obvious match. All these things are why there are sales people with commissions et al.
Political correctness was an epithet invented by conservatives who opposed things like women's rights, gay rights etc. The fact that advocates can be mistaken doesn't overshadow how wrong the other side is to be unwilling to acknowledge injustice.
Do the old APKs still work? Is there no server verification that they do? I remember trying to get the APK but there were quite a few hoops to jump through and something went wrong.
Reading on a smartphone lowers reading comprehension
Points. On the other hand, how carefully did you read the comment you're responding to?
> master the official Russian language, never express any doubt about the bullshit history that was taught in the Soviet Union

Isn't it the same in the modern USA? Implicit agreement with official narrative can get you anywhere, whereas explicit disagreement with it will get you cancelled.

In fact, both in the Soviet Union and the USA it would be easier to advance if you declare yourself a minority, even if the basis for such claim is weak.
> Most spaces aren't for discussing what's true, they're for getting-things-done. Stating truths in those spaces may, seemingly quite rightly, be prohibited.

You can not make progress in a land of fiction. Propaganda is a stop sign, not a tool for productivity.
Evidently.

These two things can be true at once: Intelligent good people with good taste and good will find an author's writing compelling, interesting and valuable. Simultaneously, other intelligent good people with good taste and good will do not. It happens. Neither are wrong.
Liquid fuel from coal is commercially viable. I guess the same would be true for gas.
Is anyone using Cloudflare's R2?
Curious if people have switched from S3 and what you like/dislike about it
If you can't scroll, you can usually permanently block the overlay with either uBlock origin or ad guard, depending on your browser. Reload the page - cookie banner will never appear again, overlay will never appear again, website is vanilla and functional without ever consenting to anything.

Of course having to do this is hostile, but at least it's permanent.
On HN, there is a good chance that someone else may and will answer a reply to one of your comments. It is good enough for me. I feel like the lack of notification encourages that.
I made a Safari extension (iOS/Mac) that highlights new comments: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hn-comments/id1602932281
It's for new comments in general though, not exactly what you're asking.

Not much interest so far. Maybe the price is too high? Since I made it primarily for myself there's at least one happy user.
In theory fuel taxes and registration taxes on the buses should cover their share of that cost but the math becomes tricky when you start trying to calculate the time and space value of different road segments.
These prompts only control Set-Cookie, right? Maybe a simple browser extension could give a quick setting for “revert cookies when I navigate from this page” so you can accept the prompt without worrying about it.

(Edit: Or a shortcut to convert the current tab to a private browsing one.)
It's straw man after straw man. Facile and reductive. Basically a long form version of "you can't say anything anymore!" Could have been written by Archie Bunker.
Went to New Zealand. My $30 ticket plane ticket from Christchurch to Hokitika was probably subsidized, but the sheer ease and accessibility of the flight was remarkable. I just got on the plane. No security, hardly a briefing. Walked out onto the ramp and got on. The plane was a Q-400, the size of which would make TSA security mandatory in the US. I know airlines like Surf Air in California were trying to specialize in small-plane (Pilatus PC-12, which is less than 12,500 lbs) but I haven't seen them grow much.
Not just you. I either close unknown sites behind cookie wall or use the browser Reader mode. BTW, there is a new rule (EU?) which requires a clear "Reject all" button.
I’m not saying it was in good taste but he’s not intending it to be at the expense of the homeless, it’s at the expense of the “just give everyone $1000” people (who are much more fortunate than the homeless but still less fortunate than Elon).

Edit: to be explicit, the joke as I read it is that losing twitter HQ would be bad for twitter employees and also be a (borderline comically) ineffective solution to the homelessness problem.
I am not exactly sure which tradition you speak of. From Theravada to Mahayana meditation has been practiced via sitting, chanting, walking, and work practice for over 2000 years.

It is this arbitrary separation of sitting meditation from other practices such as walking and work that is exactly the problem with the modern appropriation of meditation.
Reader mode is often effective in evading accept cookie pop-ups, as well as other unnecessary and user-hostile intrusions like Sign up to our newsletter pop-ups.
>sometimes taking up half the real estate on mobile screen

On my Iphone SE the banner frequently fill the whole screen and it's difficult to click consent or reject and even worse sometimes it is even impossible to click on any of those consent or reject buttons.
I liked this post so much that I wrote a short blog post inspired by it:
https://medium.com/@olivbruno8/improving-as-a-junior-swe-322...
I don't. Partly because it's CLI, and I don't enjoy the CLI enough to go out of my way for it, especially not with email, which(Unless you're doing some inadvisable kumar-asshole.sh stuff) is not really automatable.

But largely because I rarely use mail clients at all aside from gmail on my phone. So many jobs don't have their own mail servers, and I'm not particularly interested in running a personal one either.

I do, however, occasionally back up and clear out my old gmail messages. I might consider using a CLI client for that, if it was 5-minutes-or-less levels of easy to get started and write a script for. Otherwise I'd just use Thunderbird.

Not that I particularly like thunderbird, I'm really not a fan of the UI, but it works.
If you disable Javascript, you wouldn't see most of those cookie banners.
+ the added side benefit of not seeing ads (without the need for an adblocker)
I don't want to have to separate my notes between work and personal. Sometimes in my daily journal I will think about work things. That would requires me to pay $50 a year for an editor to edit Markdown files. That seems steep even if mostly I use it for personal use.
You can actually use multiple security keys on AWS I found out. It requires you to use the yubico authenticator app though. Essentially your security key stores the MFA secrets on it, and the yubico authenticator app accesses them for TOTP. You can register multiple keys in the authenticator app. So even though you can only have one MFA virtual device in AWS, that one virtual device is backed by multiple keys.
I only listed a few of the hot button heretical positions without attempting to prove or disprove them.

You seem to be a very unaware person of the costs of heresy today.

1. Truckers in Canada were labelled as racist, removed from donation platforms, de-banked, etc.. because they were against vaccine mandates. How does body autonomy not contradict a medical mandate?

2. Much of the left, and leftist orgs say that the US should have an open border

3. Biological sexes then -- many on the left don't agree with this and saying it like JK Rowling for example got her on the heretic list

4. LOL you are plain nuts if you think the common position from the left is the US is not structurally racist

5. data is data, blacks are kills by cops at a lower proportion

6. LOL are you even aware of the "don't say gay" stuff happening in Florida?

7. LOL many have said math is racist including BLM and other leftist groups. The whole construct of logic, match, cause and effect thinking, etc.. You really aren't paying attention.
I can only add my anecdotal observations for whatever that is worth. When I left California in 2021 it was impossible for me to get equipment from U-haul, Penksy and Budget. I eventually gave up and hired a moving company despite having downsized my assets considerably. Even that was a challenge and the coordinators were spread extremely thin. Every company I spoke to said that they've never seen so many people leaving. I don't know what that translates to in real numbers. I also experienced something odd and unexpected. I would call a friend to say I was moving and they said they were too. This happened several times. Of the people in my circle that didn't leave it was either family or work obligations that was keeping them from relocating despite many wanting to.
And a 100 billion dollar line of credit from the treasury. The FDIC describes itself as being “ backed by the full faith and credit of the United States government.” If there was a systemic issue, the government would likely need to intervene.
I still play video games
> If you're breaking new ground and doing someone no one in the company has done before then a senior should be working out how to solve the problem with you - how is anyone going to review the code or accept the solution if a senior hasn't help work out a good approach?

Yup, or, just have the expectation that this problem may take longer than whoever is making projections thinks. What else can someone do if it's completely new territory, and apparently no senior dev wants to touch it?

On that note, I'm wondering why a senior dev isn't doing these stories. I suspect it's because the seniors don't know themselves, and they're just throwing someone else at the problem to avoid dealing with it themselves.
An ML model like DALL-E can only generate something that looks like what it has already seen. It is literally trained to do that. Best human artists try to make original art, something that is unlike anything else out there. But yes, there are plenty of artists who don't need or want to make original art, and those are in trouble.

On the other hand, we still don't know how to teach AI to distinguish between good and bad art. So perhaps a lot more humans will become professional art critics.
Test. (Please downvote me).
The Quest to Upload Your Mind into the Digital Space
It just puts things in perspective; I'm not saying it's not something to be worried about, but you can both worry about something while also keeping the historical perspective in mind.

There is also a lot of hysteria going on; that Maus "controversy" which your CVS article cites (among others) is a good example. The concerns were over some nudity and profanity. You may think that's prudish or a bit childish, but fine, it's not really something especially unusual to be concerned about, or a very new "taboo" to be concerned about. It certainly wasn't an attempt at removing any education about the Holocaust from the curriculum, yet that it often how it was framed. With the author of Maus going so far to openly question whether these people might have neo-Nazi sympathies in an interview.

That there are some instances of unfounded hysteria doesn't mean there are also things that are not; but again, it's good to keep some perspective.
You can test if it’s a boogeyman by saying something awful and true about a ’victim’ group at your job.
For good measure you can also say something awful and true about white man.

See what is the response.
If I'm following you correctly, you're implying that in order to debate with others to determine what truth is, you must have the freedom to say things without being bound by how the act of saying them would affect other people, right?

And I'm disagreeing and saying that, unless you have some sort of prior agreement with the people involved (which social media/the internet/readers of your blog don't have), you don't get to avoid consequences for the potential harm saying something might cause. Ultimately you are always talking to be heard by someone else, and all human interaction involves the risk of harming/angering someone else, but every day we control for that risk in how we say things and who we say them to.
We pretty obviously don’t demand that. Amtrak has lost money every year since it was created in 1971.

https://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-amtrak-train-rail...
This article states that the most recent measurement agrees with others over the last decade. That is simply not true.

https://non-trivial-solution.blogspot.com/2022/04/do-we-have...
What do you think about week-counting dates? They are quite popular for project planning in nordics.

You sometimes see them written like 22w10 or even 22w10.5 (2022, week 10, day 5, which is Friday).

Outlook etc support showing week numbering if you opt in.
Temporarily becoming intoxicated doesn't fix this.

If your IQ is very high or very low, you likely have not spent a whole lot of time practicing things and pursuing things that typical people have. So the shared social language and thread of common experience that people depend upon to relate is limited.
An old-timer professor at my university used to tell the story of the university's use of the PL/C compiler from Cornell[1] which promised to automatically correct syntax errors in student's code. This was back in the days of punched card and next-day compilation times, and it was hoped that the PL/C compiler would reduce the amount of compute time spent compiling bad code. Instead, it would end up turning poorly thought-out code into code which would crash the system or cause endless loops. Its use was quickly discontinued after a short time using it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/C
Yep. Same here. I also check the first page of my profile's "comments" page a few minutes after replying something, but that's it. Probably a bad habit. (I just discovered now that the "threads" link on the top also does that, lol).

Recently I've even been considering using a client stylesheet to hide my karma at the top of the page.
My biggest concern with that article is some of the assumptions, such as most the warheads will go after random army bases in unpopulated areas. I feel like that is a very “conventional” war attitude from an armchair tactician. My guess would be a strategy of annihilating all key US & EU population centers. Utterly destroy DC, NY, SF, LA, etc.

After spending a decade in the military, I saw a consistent theme of underestimating opponents and making plans on how we want them to act. War isn’t rational and never plays out how you want it to. The people trying to make nuclear war seem like a reasonable outcome terrify me, especially when they make assumptions about how the opponent would act that best aligns with what they want to happen.
Compute rich vs. compute poor companies (AI race)
Hello Savo, thanks for writing this up - just bookmarked for future play.

Emacs continues to interest me as an environment. I also spend huge amounts of time in VSCode and the LispWorks IDE, but I think I have been using Emacs for about 45 years, old habits get more entrenched.
Should all software be licensed as public domain or the closes available to PD in countries that don't allow public domain software?
I usually accept without thinking about it, assuming something somewhere on the site might break if I don't, and it won't be worth my time to figure it out.

When I do take the time to think about it, it's generally in the form of being angry at that EU law, for training people the world over to click on prompts without thinking, and reducing the effectiveness of any other prompt for things that are more important.
Who manufactures it? I think TSMC and Global Foundries both do 12nm?
By reading comments here it seems like racists and sexists think this blog is written with intent to support their agendas.

I wish PG clearly spell out that is not ok to say that other people are less of a human. And with “heresy” he meant “vax mandates”, “gun control” and other general issues.

I’m ok dicusssing gun control, taxes, etc. but I (and anybody I know) are really not ok when somebody says “evolution does not end at neck”.
> I think this needs qualification: I don't think that treatment of individuals on the basis of gender (or sex) is just in the abstract, but I do think there are social policies that are inequal in scope that are justifiable on the basis of making all individuals more equal.

I pretty much agree with that. But I think that most people are thinking about rights being as assigned to gender in the abstract. It seems to me that the reason there's so much fuss about statements like "trans women are women" is because the assumption is that "women's rights" are assigned to women in the abstract, and that who gets them is therefore determined by who counts as a woman.

> the stigmas and cultural pressures that cisgender men are subjected to don't generally induce people to kick us out of our homes as teenagers, to threaten us in bathrooms, &c.

That's only true if you accept that cisgender men won't want to act in ways that we associate with trans or cis women (e.g. wearing dresses or make up (and if you define gender in terms of identity then you could even include making changes to their bodies here)). And IMO that assumption is pretty sexist. I also think that there is a tendency to assume that such men are trans women, but identity doesn't work like that, and if we want to talk about assigned-gender-non-conforming people in general then we should talk them instead of trans people. I guess I don't really accept that that trans women are under more pressure to behave in certain ways than cisgender men are. But if you have a good argument as to why you think they are, then I'd be interested to hear it.
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Hey, Thats great Idea I will work on it this week.
Hmm, I think it's possible to raise your IQ by practicing and applying certain thinking strategies. Especially given that IQ is an artificial measure of intelligence.
Are you using the old(er) versions of the app, or did you upgrade it to whatever was the latest? If you're on Android you could likely go back to an older version.

I think GBoard supports multilingual typing on iOS as well, though I can't comment on how good it is.
Well, no. Multiple plants around this country process crops for multiple end-products. These plants are fed by the railroads and need to keep running. Delaying a passenger doesn't shut down the airport, but it could shutdown a plant. There are large classes of freight that are not shipped by planes and trucks are a feeder for rail in those situations.
Things to hate about HN: the large number of nearly-nothing responses like this. I wish people would instead suggest something constructive like 'make some vids and put them on youtube so we can judge for ourselves'.