skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have literally never heard any person complain as PG is complaining with this article about being "cancelled" about anything other than an opinion on LGBT rights.

https://mobile.twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/10503916635...

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Conservative: I have been censored for my conservative views

Me: Holy shit! You were censored for wanting lower taxes?

Con: LOL no...no not those views

Me: So....deregulation?

Con: Haha no not those views either

Me: Which views, exactly?

Con: Oh, you know the ones

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I'm not familiar with the details of the Communist party, but today's China is autocratic. It's a mistake to take the democratic principle of "people can enact change" and take it to an autocratic government (and outright contradiction when using the adjective "totalitarian").

Okay, the government is also "people" in some way. But the "people" who can currently enact change are the ones who benefit from the current government, and it's silly to expect that they have a sudden synchronized change of mind.

For the billions of masses, they don't stand a chance against an organized military response. We've had a taste of that in China itself in 1984, as well as in events leading up to South Korea's Gwangju Massacre.

Parent's "only they can help themselves" quip is just a way of absolving any responsibility: "it's not my problem". I'm not saying whether we can do anything or not, but this kind of statements kill any rational thought towards solving the problem before it's even concieved.
Were alive.
No that defines gender role. That’s clear. That is not the gender-as-inherent-property that make it possible to say that one is born in the wrong body.
I just read both of these.

Designing your life is aimed at people deciding what to do with their life, based off the work they did helping college students decide what to do after graduation. If you’re already in a field and enjoy it, or have a family and can’t handle the pay cut from a career reset, it may not be super relevant for you.

Designing your work life is more focused on helping create a career that fits with your life goals, working inside constraints you may have (want/need to stay at your company, in your field, etc). If you generally know what field you want to work in, it’s helping dial in specifically what kind of job you want and how you approach it.
I like to point out the Sedition Act of 1918 here. About 100 years ago, a law that literally made it a crime to criticize the government was not only enacted, but upheld by the courts. Can you even imagine that today?

What people are finally noticing now is that non-government entities can also have negative impacts on free speech. They're not noticing because it just started -- e.g. lots of folks lost their jobs for vocally opposing the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in the early 2000's -- but because they're on the receiving end for once. This could be a good thing in the end, by leading us to a more complete model of civil discourse, but it's going to be painful for a while before that even has a chance to happen.
That's actually a very good point, which I was too caught up in the article to realize. Thanks. Flag it is.
I've noticed that people are increasingly comfortable with the idea of screwing over innocent people so long as the guilty are punished, and don't really value innocent until proven guilty anymore.
You defined gender there by using the word “gender”.
Don't forget that China still tries for a zero covid strategy even with variants that are unlikely to overload the health system like Omicron. So whether it's Omicron or a new variant, their response would be the same.

Sooner or later they'll have to open up like we did (and things are going just fine). But I think it's a PR issue, they've been preaching the zero covid so long.. They care a lot about their reputation.
I don't think that a nation that topples local governments to install dictator puppets [1] is so concerned about making countries more progressive. The idea that we're trading with China to make them more democratic was propaganda to sell a policy that would make the Soviets weaker and certain elites richer. This study sponsored by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation is also propaganda.

I don't think it's wrong, but it's worth noting that their dates to when China openly admitted to sourcing organ donations from execution victims. I wouldn't be surprised if China were continuing this practice, but I doubt that America genuinely cares about these execution victims any more than they suddenly started caring that Saddam's genocide in the 1980s before they invaded Iraq, or that Russia genuinely cares about Nazis in Ukraine.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
I think we’d be way better off if our manufacturing jobs had stayed on our turf. Yes, things might be more expensive, but we’d also have many more people being paid good wages, we would have reduced GINI inequality issues, we would have better supply-line security, we well might have more workers unions, and we would be more incentivized to reduce our pollution.

We would, on average, be richer and more democratic if we had retained our wealth-generating jobs. Instead, we gave the wealth-generating part of our corporations to Chinese labourers.

As a result, China now has a rapidly-expanding middle-class and America has a rapidly-diminishing middle class.

The only Americans who truly benefited from this move are the billionaires whose corporations profited by exploiting third world slave labour.
As opposed to say, "man survival"
> Teach your kid curiosity and general respect for those different from you and let the rest fall into place.

It's worth noting that the Florida law, under some readings and I think under its intent, would make it illegal for a teacher to point to a student and her same-sex parents and say "those two women are married and are both raising this child." It's perhaps the most absurd anti-free-speech law I've ever heard of.

> Except pineapple pizza people. They deserve everything they got coming to them.

My boyfriend was a pineapple pizza person and he is now, no joke, allergic to pineapple. They're an accident waiting to happen.
> They

This embeds a colonialist / Western bias presuming that Americans companies are leading the charge and orchestrating everything, and the natives are incapable of self organizing. This is opposed to American companies being customers, and Chinese companies offering them a cheap all inclusive solution with implementation details ( factories / labor ) already sorted out. Since you pointed out Shen Zhen specifically.
Heck of an admission, there.
I am not trying to fix anything.

I am on the side of excel being used like this, even if it's hot-garbage. The worst that can happen is that it collapses upon itself and then others need to come in and do it right, or migrate the thing to something else entirely.
It was a great side story to the story. Found it very close to large scale top-down controlled "anything".
And both look exactly like the A4 tear-out paper planners my partner has used for years. They're both digital iterations of a well trodden path
this phrase exactly, is sometimes called a "dog whistle" .. the intention is to incite violence against those who "do not deserve peace".. It is important to see this for what it is, and what it leads to, IMO.
It is not open source at the moment but you can email me rahul@modfy.video and happy to chat about collaborating
> Plaintext Promotion Society

I think this was the best of them all :D
> Tacitus or Voltaire are variously credited with the notion that in any epoch, to know who is in power, ask who you may not criticise.

The actual source of this quote is a literal Nazi who was using this quote to claim that Jewish people run the world.

It is also a silly idea. It is considered rude to make fun of autistic people at work, but autistic people clearly aren't running the world through some secret cabal.
Yeah I know but the messages are exactly the part where I don't really need it. It's the channel list that becomes a mess.

It could really do with threaded channel lists too, so I can have my slack groups and discord servers with their channels underneath without bunching them all together without any organization.
Not with reproducible builds, no.
'Covid is over', yet daily case counts are higher than at any point in time except during the first omicron surge. Over 1 million a day, at the moment.

The only thing that's over is the media's interest in talking about it, over other vitally important topics, like Will Smith.
I really would love to see decentralized apps, but I don't see how to get around the "back end storage" problem. If you have a ton of data (e.g., video) how and where does this get stored in a decentralized system? It seems impossible to compete with the fast and reliable infrastructure of the big folks (e.g. Amazon, Google, MS, ...).
I'm the creator of Locutus - happy to answer any questions.
Follow the trail. Are the LA times a reputable source?
Seconded. Such a well done presentation absolutely packed with info and lots of inside-baseball comments which were interesting as well. I'll never be within 10 miles of a fab, but still totally worthwhile knowledge to have.
For me, adding items/tasks to time bound columns/lists does not work for me. Sometimes I have inspiration to clear my list and sometimes I do not.

I made https://easylists.app to solve my own problem. I want to make lists fast and essentially to treat them as throw away (just like pen and paper). Sometimes I have a "today" list. Sometimes I have a "Top 3" list. I change it up all the time.
Or a teenager for sleeping and playing videogames. The only difference is time horizon, which you introduced I suppose for the sake of your own argument? No idea how old these cats are.
It may be interesting to note that a similar design was built and operated continuously back in 1964 for 4 years successfully. There's some material science that needs to be ironed out for commercialization, but it's a viable technology for sure, IMHO.
If you want eternal peace, it waits for you on the other side. Until then, si vis pacem, para bellum.
or that's how people of China like their country.

Some of them are opposing to the regime, but it is possible that the majority of them is pleased for how things are going, also because things have improved a lot for the average Chinese folk over the past couple of decades.

For many aspects China is not more totalitarian or violent than many other countries, it can in fact be considered an average country in that regards, where 1.2 billion people live. that's more than US + Europe combined (almost two times that)

It is very possible that that's one of the few ways to run such a large country efficiently.

Smaller countries like North Korea for example could probably benefit from a liberal democracy and could be run in such a system, but could China?

And would Chinese people want it?

I think it's an open question.
Study disproves the theory that light alcohol consumption benefits heart health
Mate value, competition, sociosexual desire drive Brazilian women's well-being
Exactly. And at least peanut has the word pea in the name. :)

Pretty sure the distinction of fruit is ignored often, as well. Coffee is my favorite example. Bean only in shape.
Is there no registry of common network ports, protocols, and packet leading bytes? Similar to mimetypes...
I think Roku just issued a patch, no fancy blog post detailing the low level bits or anything. That said it wouldn't be anything more than "crappy protocol parser" just not because it conflicts with the signing key like the joke goes. (also I think it may have actually been a different port number).
I used to think so. Now I believe it's a misconception.

Not all your notes can be just Markdown format. You will have image files. And then different apps handle image file location differently. Joplin turns attachment filenames to random strings.

Also, Markdown format is insufficient. I will need categories and subcategories, etc. And then different apps handle those differently.
You dont. I use iCloud to sync between my devices and its free. I donated to Obsidian team regardless because they created amazing piece of software but just pointing it out that you dont have to for it to work.
This is a pretty shocking fairytale version of the past.
The author seems explicitly to indicate that they're not chiding anyone, nor defending themselves:

> It's not meant to bash news outlets over journalistic integrity. The internet is a difficult thing to document. It's not meant to justify my joke. If you don't think it was funny... OK. Depending on the day I'm sure I'd agree with you.
In the middle of the night, my cat will sometimes open the bathroom towel cabinet. Couldn't understand why until I realized it's a couple feet from the garage door on same wall, and he's actually attempting to go in garage to use the litter box.
I loved Curse of Monkey Island. One of my favorite games as a kid. The animation was beautiful, had great humor, etc. Just an awesome game.
Thanks! I got some fun reading to do!
"COVID will spread until everyone gets it at least once"

Unfortunately evidence seems to indicate that everyone getting once is also not very effective, the reinfection protection of past infection seems to be sub-20% from Omicron. You can find lots of studies with different numbers but none of them are good.

China's behaviour with respect to vaccines is very strange, they could mandate vaccination very easily, they could also relent and import mRNA vaccines but they don't. It seems like even mandating their very poor vaccines would be helping their situation a lot if it had been done months ago - availability has not been enough.
Limits work just fine without dealing with infinity. When you do an epsilon delta proof, you only ever deal in the finite. You can also have continuity while only dealing in finite constructions.

The real numbers are a very convenient abstraction, but they are also a leaky abstraction (edit: when paired with axiom of choice), which is anathema to mathematics.

We can still study the real numbers, they are still valid in some abstract sense, and they are convenient, but an element of the set of reals minus computables can never be constructed, so you'll never actually need to deal with them.
Not just a short, Niven wrote numerous books on the subject.

For example, "A Gift From Earth" was about a bloody revolution on a colony planet where the ruling class oppressed the working class via executions through organ harvesting.
What’s the closest country currently in this regard?
It allows anybody who reads the piece to apply their own specifics to it. It means that if they hold any "heretical" beliefs, they can assume that PG supports them.
Notion has export function that allows exporting your entire workspace to Markdown, HTML, or PDF. I do it once a month so that. (It'd be really nice though if Notion had an automated solution to back up to Google Drive, etc.)
> 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

I think this is the crux of the issue. The internet (including social media/the internet/blogosphere) originated in academia and was first populated by academics. People like PG (and myself) who grew up in that environment still feel like the internet is-and-ought-to-be a free marketplace of ideas, where academically-minded people can dispassionately debate on any topic. In our view, the Internet's virtues are the age-old virtues of the liberal arts, and that it would be a liberalizing and liberating force as it spread to the public.

But the internet has grown organically. It has been September for almost three decades now.

The internet is more representative of the population at large, and we are being reminded why academia is described as an ivory tower and concepts like tenure exist. Fundamentally, not everyone can be an academic, nor can they tolerate the existence of academics. The "towers" and "tenure" exist as a two way shield: it both mitigates self-censorship among academics by protecting them from mob backlash, and it prevents the "think with our gut" mob from getting indigestion and hurting themselves.

So I think both that you're right, and that it is a shame. The internet has not changed the public's unworthiness to engage in academic conversation despite the oceans of information it has made available. The public will misunderstand and misconstrue and mistrust and misuse academic ideas in ways that harm people, and that harm will be the fault of the academics for not knowing better than to keep their ideas to themselves. Just like it is the witches fault for admitting that they thought differently than their community.
Orgmod Orthodoxer! :)
Yes. Yes they are
The current omicron cases are already overloading the health system in Shanghai.
and that are only about 5000 cases.
W/r/t your medical situation, I'm not advocating for just outright telling them, but I would say your trepidation, while understandable, may be a bit overwrought. I think most people understand that some people are medically ineligible for the vaccine.
I spend ~85% of my time inside Chrome such that the only possible tool that could work for me is a Chrome extension. I currently use https://prodtodolist.com/ for general reminders but it's too barebones and something like this implemented as a ~minimalist~ Chrome extension could be very handy.
I mean that "can't use fish because I have to use bash to write bash" makes about as much sense to me, given how I use the terminal, as "can't use fish because I have to use python to write python".

I'm assuming that means you write more shell scripts than I do, or think of the context switch between shells as qualitatively different from the context switch between shell and (some other) repl. All of which is fine.
I get the feeling that the public consciousness in the West may still be underestimating and excusing a dismal regime.

Typically I hear, "but the CCP lifted a billion people out of poverty!"
There’s an unsettling lack of skepticism from the commenters here. If you do the most surface level digging on this, you will find that the author of the study is a shill for anti-China propaganda, usually with a guise of anti-communism. Writing like this is all produced through Washington thinktanks and then pushed to media outlets en masse. Given the source of money and political bent of this material, it’s hard for me to earnestly believe it.
The Fed currently has about $9 Trillion in assets (and corresponding liabilities). $100 billion from the Treasury for the FDIC is a rounding error. In 2008, the Fed doubled their balance sheet practically overnight from $1T to $2T.

The Fed can do that any time they want by buying bank debt with newly created dollars, which effectively socializes the risk in the banking system, so it doesn't fail, hopefully at something resembling market rates. The Fed then runs the risk that they don't get paid back instead of an individual bank, but the modern Fed cannot fail, that sort of thing can only affect the currency as a whole, by weakening it generally speaking.
"Censoring future speech" seems like a decent working definition.

I.e. anything that restrains an individual's ability to make future speech in a manner equal to that of their peers

Another useful distinction in the argument would be between "commons platforms" and smaller ones.

It feels like past time that we recognized market realities and codified them into law to distinguish rights and regulations. If you are Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Microsoft, Snap, or ByteDance (or any subsequent arising entity with a large enough market share in some public/social market) then you the public should have different access rights to your platforms, on the sole basis of their public ubiquity.
Relevant tweet: https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/105039166355267174...
> Not the employee's fault...

Agreed. I happen to work for an imperfect company, if you can believe that.

I did my post-mortem homework, and certainly concluded I could have done more and sooner about the situation. I was too busy trying to code for both of us to put my management hat on when I should have. Lesson learned!
Russia poses a larger threat to our base needs such as not being shelled by Russian artillery. Many countries are under serious threat, but more importantly, I and many others have a sense of outrage that I don't think has been felt since the second world war. This kind of outrage allows people to make sacrifices to punish the source of the outrage, this has been established in psychological experiments. Personally, as a Swede I'm very much willing to turn down/off the heat if that can force an end to Russian aggression, as I'm sure many others in Europe are. We can still live comfortably by for example heating one room instead of five. The important part is that industry is not affected.
No, I said “gender role” in quotes for a reason — to group it together as a concept. If you want I can rephrase it to “societal role historically associated with a particular set of physical traits”, but I thought that was apparent.

The argument isn’t that sex and gender are entirely unrelated concepts. Just that they’re not inherently equivalent.
> pushing back against those dangerous radical ideas are not going to lead to "roll back" of any rights.

I am referring specifically to Thomas looking to overturn Obergefell [1], TN trying to legalize child marriage [2], and current Republican efforts to reduce the effectiveness of the ADA. These are concrete examples of the right attempting to roll back certain rights.

> do you agree 100% with critical race theory?

It's an academic framework, not a set of policy goals, and I didn't study that in my CS curriculum, so I can't really speak to it. Can you?

> do you agree 100% with LGBTQ activists?

The vast majority of the policies they propose seem quite reasonable, yes.

1: https://www.educationviews.org/clarence-thomas-signals-willi...

2: https://www.wlbt.com/2022/04/06/proposed-legislation-could-l...
> They’re wrong on the scale but correct in the essence. 3 miles away, no bike access, that means you’re driving. No shops, restaurants, or anything lives in the suburban housing area.

I'm still curious where all these suburbs are that have nothing but houses for 3 miles or more?

Was trying to find some examples and looks like Mesa,AZ is the worst in this sense in the USA:

https://www.planetizen.com/node/92835/americas-largest-subur...

Looking at it in google maps it is indeed sprawling with houses. But I couldn't find a spot in the various neighborhoods where one would be more than 3 miles walk away from a supermarket. The worst I came up with was 2 miles to a supermarket. But then I zoomed in and saw a restaurant only 1 mile away.

Not a thorough research for sure, just spent a handful of minutes on it.

But assuming the article is correct and Mesa is the worst of the sprawl and given I didn't find it easy to find houses more than 3 miles away from (food) businesses, I'm thinking the OP statement that "In American suburbs it's typical for there to be nothing but houses within a 3 to 5 mile area" is quite an exageration.

Am I wrong? Can anyone name a handful of these neighborhoods?
Yes. I almost settled on Microsoft OneNote. I just don't like several things of it. The writing and reading experience is not great. And I constantly find I really need one note to belong to multiple categories, but OneNote forces me to think where to save a note (which leaves me writing fewer notes).
Death penalty is China is, I believe, a bullet to the back of the head.

Does this study suggest that they removed organs before that?