skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some friends / former colleagues an awesome app called Finch, which uses a bit of a behavioral tweak. Often, when you're feeling down, it's hard to take care of yourself in a disciplined way (eg mediation apps).

So Finch uses the concept of a virtual pet (with a twist) and, in taking care of the pet, you end up taking care of yourself. It's brilliant. (Also mostly free but with a paid upgrade).

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.finch.finc...
s/gender/religious/g and see how well things go down.
People thought it would be like a joke perhaps. Anyway, it's unflagged now.
How far does this extend in reasonableness though? If my co-worker asked me to refer to them as "your highness" for example?
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> This thing where people want to say horrible things without consequence is just so weird.

Define horrible.
> Its hard for me to know whats a junior engineer error and whats an error I shouldn't be making at all.

I’m seriously not making a joke when I say this, senior engineers are only experienced by attrition. They got to where they are by making the mistakes before

There is no such thing a error you shouldn’t be making. Why does the tool make it so easy for you to ship a big in prod? Why are there no tests to verify the code you made? Why does your company not have a review process for dangerous or brittle areas of code

Systems fail, not people
No. But one definitely gets punishment and rightly so. The other never will. They just say fuck you. We are the good guys, we are exceptional and we have the biggest dick. Look what they promised to ICC should they ever try to indict their nationals.
Title: Stewart Lee - These days, if you say you're English ...

Is a clip from a BBC show (Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, worth a watch if you enjoy British comedy) so copyright block not too surprising depending on where you're located.

He basically takes the piss out of a taxi driver. The stereotype goes that a taxi driver will share their "bloody immigrants" opinions with their fares whether the fares care about hearing it or not.

Cabbie says: "These days, you get arrested and thrown in jail if you say you're English, don't you."

Stewart "wears him down" in the bit by repeating the question back with increasing incredulity and after about 3 minutes the cabbie character eventually just says, "no, you don't actually get arrested."

It's fckin hilarious.
Islamism, as mentioned up thread, is a powerful ideology that is thriving.

There's also social justice and related movements in the West, but that's internal ideological development in liberalism, not something that can be sold to the world.

China's brand of profit-oriented authoritarianism state capitalism is also spreading around the world, though. Including Africa.
How is this relevant in deciding whether a protest was caused by outside manipulation vs free will of the people?
Yes, Starlink is fantastic. So are the Tesla Powerwalls and their roof. I don't have any of their cars, and I'm not sure the truck will end up being the right match for me though it appears more practical than most competition so far on paper, but friends do and love them so we'll see. Regardless of anything else, one of the things about Elon (or figures like Steve Jobs for that matter) is that there is real serious substance there too at the base of everything. That's a very important distinction to me vs the majority of blowhard figures, and something that a lot of people seem to have trouble dealing with vs throwing everything into the same bucket.

I think Elon's Twitter investment, in capital and his own personal time, is stupid in the basic way that he has genuinely vastly more valuable (by his own words) things to do with both. At the same time the products that his vision, luck, and perhaps some level of madness have helped bring into being have directly improved my own life, the lives of a number of clients, and I believe the world. That's far more than most of us can say. And he didn't have to do it at all. As sibling comment points out, he made a solid fortune before SpaceX and Tesla, and could have done a range of other things that most rich people do. Both new startups were very risky endeavors, and very capital intensive very risky endeavors not just software. The classic kind where someone well off loses everything. A hundred someodd million is in one sense a lot of money, but it's not the money where one can just spend billions as a hobby. Those startups' resounding success shouldn't result in 20/20 hindsight white washing that, he was on the brink a number of times and some pride he feels over it is flat out justified.

So sure it's too bad those same instincts and untempered self-confidence seem to result in self-destructive/counter productive tendencies in some spheres. But he has in fact earned it and it doesn't require any kind of "fanboy" thinking to objectively conclude based on his impact on my life and society that between what he apparently says sometimes on social media vs on the ground hard achievements the balance is tipped firmly towards the latter. I much prefer that to the scary "quiet" "civilized" rich barons who quietly, politely and out of the lime light go about their business of fucking us all over with pollution and corruption.
Face recognition is just the beginning. There are a whole array of biometric recognition techniques that are threatening to make anonymity completely obsolete.
If it were only about a hostile work environment, it would only be about behavior/speech in the workplace that is not easily avoidable.

But a lot of these heresies are about behavior/speech outside the workplace, or behavior/speech that you need to actively look for.

So I don't buy the "hostile work environment" justification.
I've seen a lot of cats using those buttons as well, but I don't think dogs or cats are actually expressing language with them.

They understand making a specific sound produces a specific result. It's a bit far from language.
Windows does actually have this. You have to enable it for hardware keyboards in the keyboard settings as it's only enabled for the touch keyboard by default. macOS has it enabled by default, IIRC.

However, I don't think it works everywhere (at least on macOS), like some electron apps.
Sorry, can't guess, not in the US. Care to enlighten us?
> Clearly the sharia is in force in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states, and seemingly with a strong popular support.

I think you might be very interested in this article: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/04/mohamme...

Take it with a giant grain of salt of course as it is an attempted puff piece. The Gulf states are not sharia. They want to be Vegas.

> And I agree that it will wane over time

And wax. All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.

> Regarding Shia vs Sunni, that's right but I don't think it negates my point. There were many rivalries between Stalinism vs Maoism vs Trotksism, etc, but it is still right to refer them as communist ideologies with a common goal.

I don't think that is super accurate. One of them generally wants to be a state religion the other wants to take over the region and afterwards the world.
> See also, e.g. a friend ending our friendship because I gently challenged her fat acceptance rhetoric, "Anti-fatness is more toxic to women's bodies than fatness has ever been." At best it's not falsifiable, but really it is just not a realistic statement.

Is this really a topic you needed to weigh in on? I’m assuming you weren’t concern trolling or playing devil’s advocate, but it’s very easy to imagine how a “gentle challenge” might get interpreted as such if your relationship with the other person doesn’t generally include similar discussion topics.
I don’t think this is true; it’s not a criminal statute. While the law is problematic for plenty of reasons, the threat of imprisonment is not one of them.
Any mirrors? It seems to have crashed and burned.
>Nobody’s trying to put you in jail for having differing views.

>>Man guilty of hate crime for filming pug's 'Nazi salutes'

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-43478925

Turns out they are and will.
If misdiagnosed, gender reassignment surgery is disasterous on a child's quality of life. So perhaps we should be looking at the number of false diagnoses for gender dysphoria?
Perhaps replacing "trans" with "black", "Jew", "Muslim" or any other marginalized minority group, would help you understand why such blanket "I cannot understand X at all" causes people to object?
Yup. If you want trans and gay people, history of racial oppression and female nipples on tv banned, that is just "normal" and "natural". But anything else is horrible attack on mah freeze peach.
> I think you're misunderstanding the point of these apps

Reminds me of the "Why are you trying to do this?" reply that is almost automatic on Stackoverflow, lol
Arguably, using "Mom" or "Dad", or even gendered pronouns is restricted. Of course not using these would upset the very people who wrote the laws, which is another part (beyond the enforceability) that makes them insane.
> why is the suggestion always to reduce consumption as opposed to producing energy in less hostile locales?

Maybe because reducing carbon emissions is something we already understand we desperately need to do?
Remarkable to see the lack of self awareness in this thread. “It’s not censorship when I do it!!!!” It scares me to have so many educated people that aren’t in touch, aren’t even in control, if their own minds. My faith in free will ever diminishes.
> Makes perfect sense to me considering animals have been seeing their reflections in water for millions of years. It's not like they just recently learned what a reflection is.

I suppose. But I think this point is in danger of being overstated. Mostly animals don't see their own reflections in water; they certainly see others' reflections in water. But when you're close enough up to see a full reflection of your face in water, what you largely see is a shadow.

Yes, the shadow has a reflection in it, but I suspect that is quickly disregarded without much contemplation of what it means.

Mirrors are another matter entirely. You can really interrogate a mirror by seeing your own reflection at considerable distance, which is usually not possible with water.

Plus you can do so at leisure, because you are not necessarily prone at that point, whereas a cat at the waterline is at risk of attack.

So I don't know if, in the scheme of things, much about reflection has had a significant impact, until the mirror.

Edit to add: the fact that some intelligent birds are able to pass the mirror dot test might make sense in this concept of how easy a reflection is to comprehend. Birds have after all had millions of years of opportunities to interrogate their reflection in water at different heights, and to see a much clearer and more complete image of their own reflection. For a bird, still water really could be a mirror.
While a little more dangerous than SF, at 5.5 homicides per 100k NYC is still safer than the US as a whole.

Chicago is bad at 18.26 homicides per 100k. I guess citywide controls have limited impact if people can just drive out to the burbs to buy a gun.
The latter is a fairly broad concept with multiple shades and blurry lines within. Which is why people with good intentions can still disagree badly on whether something someone did was okay or not.

Has GP crossed the line merely by expressing his/her/their opinion? This probably depends on his/her/their social status as well. The CEO of a company saying something in an official meeting carries a different weight for all employees than some random employee saying the same thing.

Or does GP need to say or do something personal to someone in order to be considered to have crossed the line? Be careful there: add too many constraints and we will end up giving a free pass to people who genuinely offend and cause serious discomfort to those around them.

These are the kinds of issues about which we as a society need to have reasonable discussions and make consensus-building efforts, but it all descends into name-calling too soon.
It depends.

I know people who thinks like you, but they don't shut the fuck about these things, and take every possible the opportunity to proselytise about it.

I've seen it happening in workplaces, for example. But also parties, random people on the street.

Not shutting the fuck about it is fucking annoying and if it's in the workplace I'll be complaining the fuck about it until you stop and/or looking for another job.

Now, I'm a 100% neutral part on this, and even me don't wanna hear about your bullshit. Imagine now if you were to use this to actively hurt people.
If you can only fill 7 trains per day between cities with metro areas of 5 million and 20 million, there is something else wrong with your network beyond just how much people like to take trains or not.

We manage to do that between a town of 20,000 and a city of 1 million for comparison. Or if you feel commuter routes are different enough to not count, a city of 60,000 and a city of 1 million with similar travel time as google maps quotes me for Boston to New York.
I wouldn't consider the initial call to starttls to be insecure. It is just a matter of a few static bytes containing an SMTP HELO and the ascii bytes "STARTTLS". This can be used to establish a secure TLS connection without compromising any private information. It is only insecure if the client decides to proceed with the rest of the SMTP transaction if the server (or middlebox) nak's the STARTTLS. Which is no different from a middlebox presenting a self-signed TLS certificate. A few extra plaintext bytes at the start of the TCP connection containing the string "STARTTLS" doesn't change anything compared to a plain TLS socket. It is always up to the client to decide if it wants to proceed in the face of bad or nonexisting TLS.
Yes, which is why i say "corporate correcntess" isnt actually leftwing. But I do think many self-describing "leftwing" people are actually, in this sense, just peddling a certain corporate respectability ideology. Their upper-middle class concerns of who's who in the elite culture, is more-or-less just using the trappings of leftwing thought to beat a path to the top. And corporations gladly play the same game as a branding exercise, today ran by the same upper-middle who delusionally think their use of "diversity" corresponds to something actually morally significant.

As far as where this culture is present, at least: tech, academia, etc. Ie., the places where we do see this counter-reaction. Though the counter-reaction is dressed in the language of free speech -- I think its more just about the capture of corporate policy, in these industries, by a certain descendent of political correctness.

People have to turn up to work in these industries, or otherwise participate in them, whilst holding their nose at this mawkish soapboxing display of which rich idiot is "changing the world" all the while those who are repulsed by this are ever-more seen as inherently immoral for not singing from the same hymm sheet.

If we recast this whole issue as one where previously political activity has spilled over into most areas of life, such that many now cannot espcae it --- then we see what the problem is.

It isnt free speech. Its the lack of quiet places. It's that if you want to work in these areas, you're bombarded with the loud noises of loud opinions that you can't escape.
It gets even worse. Products you've already purchased and enjoyed will be silently replaced with cheaper, shittier versions over time because these companies are betting we're all too dumb to notice.

The last thing I bought before I closed my Amazon account this year was one of those little Honeywell desk fans. It was the same model I had before at the same price. The new one was made of brittle, horrible plastic already cracked out of the box that feels rough and nasty to touch. If you leave it on for 3+ hours the motor overheats. It's not the same fan, but it sure is advertised like it.
I'm very confused as to why you're suggesting that people being disagreeable or unreasonable is a thing that is specific to "the current moment" or is specific to any one political identity. But please correct me if I misunderstood.

Edit: Another response brought up a good point. Your pushing back on body image issues seems pretty tone deaf. Those are pretty personal and the point there is that it doesn't help to shame people for being overweight. Nobody responds well to that, it usually just causes hurt feelings. You can still promote healthy lifestyles without making it about "anti-fatness".
obliterating our technical means would also mean reducing our ability to do damage.
Twitch is more culturally relevant, so they get more attention streaming on Twitch.

I saw when this first started getting attention, and it was from Gen-Z rail fans who thought that it’s hysterical some young social media manager convinced Amtrak to stream on Twitch. YouTube wouldn’t have gotten the same reaction.
Luckily in our lifetime we won't have to worry about this since it's a government IT project so it will be way over budget and way over the deadline before it will eventually be canceled
(char) cast looks like being used for address alignment.

Need to check what address alignment for target environment is and change the cast to appropriate alignment. aka sparc addresses are not 8 bit aligned!

hash_ptr.parm.v.p points to top of sst stack containing an 8 bit aligned pointer address.
p == ---(.....) gets address to pop off stack.
missing a step/statement. sst needs to be in struc address given by p. aka hash_ptr.parm.v.sst
p should then point to the result of fpop(hash_ptr.parm.v.sst
My dog also used "outside" + "water" to express her need to pee. I would be inclined to agree with you if she couldn't use them in the abstract, but she can.
Because heresy.
> What's always interesting to me is that these "free speech absolutists" are explicitly calling out the left here

Looks like someone didnt understand the article, because PG directly addressed that point.
Anarchism also remains.
> You don't get to decide for other people who or what they are.

Yeah, but neither do they. There is such a thing as objective truth. I have no right to be treated as four-legged, because I do not have four legs. Neither can I claim a right to be treated as the Queen of Englang, because I am not the queen of England. Nor do I have a right to be treated as a member of the opposite sex because I am not in fact a member of the opposite sex.
One of my cats, who is going on 13-14 years old (he was a stray, not sure of his exact age) has a specific pitched meow for when he wants me to do something for him.

He'll use that, combined with lifting one paw off of the ground to "ask" me to do something for him.

Once I follow him, he'll nudge his head in the direction of what he wants. The sink? He wants to drink out of the faucet. The counter? He wants treats out of the drawer. The pantry? He wants food. If he just sits there and cries I know he wants to be pet.
Indeed. But I do not feel like the wolves care about the distinction, or they just don’t attempt to figure out that nuance before they descend.
Yes. New Orleans to Texas cities like Houston can make sense but not Mobile. Also public transit isn't great in either New Orleans or Mobile. It's not much more than a two hour drive. People will just get in a car.
Re-writing all the software, in short.

It is all a steaming pile of garbage.
ISP here. Just ask. You’ll likely get a /56 or /64 for free.
The poster perhaps should have noted how they intended on treating their coworkers. Instead we are left to infer that their intent was to lean into their ideology against basic decency.

And in the end this is what the “culture wars” are about: the right to not be decent to certain people.
As far as music is concerned I expect AI to become a producer's and engineer's assistant. Instrumentals for practically all genres will be trivial to generate. Lyrics and rhymes will be co-written by algorithms, though authentic story telling will be hard to impossible to fully automate. Actually I'm wondering we don't really see this yet - the music generation process is waiting to be disrupted.
My main issue with Notes right now is that somewhere along the way we became OK with software having no Undo at all, combined with the power to instantly sync your typo everywhere so it is truly gone forever, combined with UI that basically encourages accidents. So if I am perfect when typing with a tiny virtual keyboard, nothing goes wrong; otherwise, I could lose things in ways that are interpreted by the software as me choosing to lose them, which is bogus.
You can put Gboard on your iPad
It's been flagged again. What a mess.
> who insta-blocks anyone who even mildly disagrees with him about _anything_ on Twitter.

Does his block makes you lose your job? If not, you are missing the point.
I think this is an important part:

"Fortunately in western countries the suppression of heresies is nothing like as bad as it used to be. Though the window of opinions you can express publicly has narrowed in the last decade, it's still much wider than it was a few hundred years ago. The problem is the derivative. Up till about 1985 the window had been growing ever wider. Anyone looking into the future in 1985 would have expected freedom of expression to continue to increase. Instead it has decreased."

Many people proclaim that "free speech is dead" and all of that, but it's still at an all-time high if you zoom out a bit. You don't even need to go back a few hundred years; look at the number of people persecuted by the government (both through the courts and outside of it) for things like blasphemy, subversion, civil rights, sexual deviancy (homosexuality, among other things), etc. just a few decades ago. In the US burning the flag was illegal in many states until the late 80s when the SCOTUS declared it was legal under the 1st (and only by a 5-4 majority).

Yes, there are some developments I am not especially pleased with either, but it's also important to remember the historical context.

Anyway, I liked this piece of nuance.
I’ve used Headspace for years and it changed my life. Guided meditation and learning how to work with my emotions has gotten me through some rough times and PTSD. The amount of content in the app like daily videos, exercises, sleep aid and more keeps me there. Headspace is expensive, but I renew every year because it works for me. The only negative I have to add is they they need to make a decent iPad app.
Depends on the split between the other ones. Worst-case is 61% (assuming apparel makes up the other 39%).

The possible range is between 61% and 63.5%.
A much better article on this topic: https://www.nist.gov/pml/us-surveyfoot

nytimes slogs through boring narrative before describing the actual definitions of the two types of foot.
Read some more this morning. I missed this gem the first time through.

"Unlike Hatcher’s goals, I choose to privilege the view of a Nepantlerx—seeing the
interconnectedness between Indignenous and Whitestream knowledge of mathematics. I choose the term Whitestream instead of European American to highlight the role of global White supremacy in the enterprise of mathematics education."

Current mathematical education is white supremacist. Of course.

I looked up the author's salary at UIUC -- 122,438.00. Impressive!
I don't know about Intelligent but I had a cat that was bringing me mice every so often in the morning and was knocking the door for like 10 minutes with her back leg!

The first time I got scared cause I didn't want the mouse to get in the house and I didn't know who was knocking on the door but I think it was half-dead...oh yeah I forgot to mention that all the mice were still alive.

I'll never understand that behavior..she was well fed.
In case anyone is genuinely confused: this is the kind of bigotry people expect to get away with sans consequence, and complain about “heresy” when they’re called out on it.