skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, gotcha. I bet there's something to that though. It seems natural that having a very strong sense of gender at age 4 would appear ridiculous to most people given that it doesn't fit with their own experience. I do expect over time mainstream opinion on this will shift much as it has for homosexuality. Likewise there I think it was initially difficult for straight people to relate, because it just didn't fit with their own experience at all—sexual attraction is something for people of the opposite sex; if you think you're attracted to people of the same sex, that doesn't make sense, so something must have happened to you. Over time, more and more gay people were out, more people came to realize that they knew gay people, and those people truly did experience what they said they experienced, and mainstream belief shifted.

Per the original comment here though, I hope it doesn't happen by one 'side' winning and beating the other into submission, but rather through that process of understanding.
You can do this in real life. Obviously you aren't going to be as far from civilization but there are plenty of real places to explore quite alone for days or weeks.

It is worth doing, but start small.
Record labels have been doing similar things since the 1950s, building musical acts on-demand by combining skilled, anonymous "session musicians" with an attractive, marketable image or performers that fit the current trend. The most famous example from the 1960s is the Monkees, but this dynamic played a huge part in the development of a surprising number of famous pop bands and musical personalities. Massive public backlash against the perceived inauthenticity of this approach caused record labels to be much more cautious from the 1970s onward, but it's never gone away. Spotify's main "sin" here seems to be that they aren't as skilled as the big labels in manufacturing authenticity/buzz around their most promoted artists.
Wolf Blitzer was the one who observed off the cuff that the Katrina refugees he was seeing were "so poor, and so black"
Poverty rate has remained fairly flate since ~1970 while divorce rates have come up. If poverty were the dominating reason for divorce, then divorce should have been much more common in pre-1980s and particularly pre-1960s America when poverty was significantly more common.

It's entirely possible the new era of welfare benefits and no-fault divorce open up the door of divorce for many people. If fewer divorces is your goal then recreating social policy and values of conservative earlier America is a pursuit you may be looking into.
Hi Sam, good to talk with you again :-)

Ai Weiwei would definitely count! In reality all western contemporary art, and to a more limited extent also contemporary art made artists in other regions of the globe, is political art. Political art here doesn't mean art related to the institutions of politics, as sometimes it is assumed in some circles. All art that raises questions about how we relate to each other in our societies is inherently political. (We are reminded that the etymology of politics is the Greek polis, the city-state in the Ancient Greece.)

So I could provide you with countless examples of political art/artists, from Claudia Andujar, to Trevor Paglen, to Forensic Architecture, to name just a few that influenced me the most – And I am sure you are familiar with true superstars such as Banksy, don't you? But this is just the tip of the iceberg; there is a galaxy of artists doing politically engaged art. Some of the most recurring themes nowadays are: gender politics, power, and sustainability.

Before leaving, as you mentioned the Ask HN re alternative career paths, I will take this opportunity to tell you that I am a (concerned) cybersecurity technologist by background with 20+ years of professional experience, who has approached, at mid-career, the arts as a way to distill my thoughts and raise questions about the world and time we live in. Some of the societal challenges related to my professional career form one the main thematic areas for my oeuvre. In my practice, I examine the aesthetics and politics of surveillance, traumatic memory, and sustainability. I will leave you below a few links:

* LI: https://it.linkedin.com/in/alfonsodegregorio
* Artist practice website (to be updated): https://www.escapingphotons.com
* Latest body of work: https://phmuseum.com/adg/story/retained-reports-1b29a4727a
JS snow was top-tier, as were flashing holiday lights with transparent backgrounds around the site for the holidays. Bonus points for midi choons.

It was truly a lit time when you could control browser window size and position on the desktop from within JS, even eject the CD ROM! Free cup holder JS jokes freaked out the older folks. So good.
I assume you mean that this is scary for Amazon? Because it sure doesn't sound scary for the workers.
I don't think this is true? Suppose I define "bread" as "that which has a net positive charge" [1]. Can I not put the bread candidate in an electric field in flat spacetime and measure (the direction of) its acceleration in a bounded time? I suppose I might be depending on its mass being finite, but the observable universe supports that assumption.

[1] I don't think this is a very useful definition of bread.
I assume that these projects took time and effort, but the finished results look to me like a half-baked render, like someone just forgot to finish the job.

I'm not a fan of much of Le Corbusier's works, if any.
I did not draw anything. My vascular Neurologist gave me the diagnostic after looking at my MRI, A LOT of tests, including blood, ecocardiograms (form outside and inside my body), ecographies and more.

You are completely right, I don't care about what a random "rootusrootus" user in the internet says, I trust my Vascular Neurologist and his diagnostic after actually reviewing my case. Now I am taking baby aspirin for the time being until I can see how my case progresses.

If I cared, I could offer to share my Neurologist contact info. But I really don't.
> This vulnerability affects users working on multi-user machines where a malicious actor could create a .git directory in a shared location above a victim’s current working directory. On Windows, for example, an attacker could create C:\.git\config, which would cause all git invocations that occur outside of a repository to read its configured values.

lol.

“vulnerability”

Neither of these were worth an announcement blog post.
I live in Hayden waves

I was just thinking that this area also seems to have a bunch of references to Lewis and Clark.
> Concrete example: if I print money to build a new port, and that new port leads to a decrease in shipping costs? Then prices go down, meaning each dollar is worth more than before I increased the supply. New money is an investment. It's the liability side of the books. The asset side of the books (what we got for it) matters too!

Only if that new port resulted in value added equal to the money printed. If the port only adds, say, half the value it's going to lead to inflation.

If you just print a bunch of money to give to unemployed people, it's going to lead to inflation.
Smalls was on Chapo Trap House last Thursday. Good interview IMO, if you're into that format.
I think critics always value novelty more than the average person. It makes sense. They probably watch so many movies that anything derivative gets old fast. If I've seen the same trope ten times any critic has probably seen it a hundred times, and it's going to bother them in a way it doesn't bother me.
That ship has sailed, I've never heard anyone call it "jiff". The "Two types of vowels" argument doesn't hold water, because the exceptions to the rule are all so common that they feel like the norm. Also, in the tech industry, words starting with 'g' are usually pronounced with a hard 'g': git, gig, gigabyte, gigabit, and gif.

I think the only people who care about the pronunciation are the few who are clinging to the soft-g camp. On that note, the end of the page clearly contains a bit of self-reflection: "Holding on dearly to that pronunciation because it’s infinitely intertwined to your sense of identity?"
A podcast interviewing someone making this kind of music: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/j4he7lv/183-the-veno...
Larry King went on SNL and did his show as a joke, and one of his mock commentaries to the camera was "Does anyone actually care that Pakistan has the Bomb?"
I wish everyone saw it this way
Does this perpetuate the idea that companies can pollute now and simply “buy” their way out? Isn’t this especially true if a lot of carbon removal technologies are unproven, or proven at a minuscule scale of what is needed?

I’m all for initiatives addressing the climate crisis at this size and scale, but not if this follows a similar path to the carbon credits and carbon offsetting markets we have now.

See this FT article for example: “Carbon offset transactions surge despite environmental concerns”
https://www.ft.com/content/5ca87325-0baf-47fb-85e0-b1e4746f4...
You aren't "investing" in employees by paying them a salary. Employees will get a 10-15% payrise by switching after 2 years. Give them that payrise and communicate why. Even if they leave anyway, you only pay them while they stay so you don't lose much.
Agreed. In fact the authoritarian tendencies of the left actually go back even further. I recommend reading Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg.
Maybe trade should be a right, it was definitely seen that way (by the West) at one point in history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars

How fair is it to force starvation upon a populace in retribution for the actions of an unelected leader?

As a thought experiment, suppose that Russia did not have nukes nor means to retaliate, would you be equally okay with the US bombing Russian cities and killing civilians in numbers equal to those that will starve due to our sanctions?

What if instead of sanctions or bombing we developed some kind of chemical weapon that increased the population's metabolism such that equal numbers starve. Would that not be seen as completely despicable? Yet the outcome is the same.
That's specifically true only for Spiderman I think. Reportedly[1] Sony loses the rights if they go too long without producing a Spiderman film.

1: This is treated as fact in many places, but was very hard for me to source. The most definitive statement I could find was contemporary with the MGM/Sony dispute being resolved:

> The Marvel-Sony contract requires the studio to begin production of a Spider-Man feature quickly; the actual deadline could not be obtained. It also places Columbia on a short leash in scheduling sequels, requiring in some cases that financing for a sequel be arranged within months of the release of the previous feature[2].

2: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-mar-02-fi-13115...
I am very certainly not trying to convince you to read the article: I have told you that your statement about what that author thinks has weak grounds.

I will also tell you here that you should not make statements about material you have not really considered. Taking a sentence out of context is a good recipe for misinterpreting it. This is no language that makes isolated pieces autonomous with any guarantee. Language is there for the recipient to understand it, actively.
> These people tend not to be the brightest. If they were, they'd generally find legitimate employment,

A bit of survivorship bias at work here.

Criminal activity is more so a function of risk tolerance than intelligence. However getting caught is certainly a function of intelligence.

So your impression is that most criminals you read about being apprehended are people that seem to make many stupid mistakes. But this stupidity is heavily correlated with being caught, not necessarily with being a criminal.

That said there's probably also a (negative) correlation between extreme tolerance for risk and intelligence.
This is a bizarre reply if intended for a reply to what I said. I'm not sure how what I said could be construed as "semantic goalpost shifting" (as I have neither explored the definitions of words nor given an original goalpost to move).

In any case it does not appear as though you are open to reasonable discourse. You have decided on your "facts" and any opposing, or merely appearing opposing even if it isn't, viewpoint is catalogued as "delusional," even though you've offered virtually nothing in the way of an actual argument. So, I guess, you win?
Surely nuclear waste is a non-issue - a fully fueled nuclear reactor runs for decades! The volume of generated waste is miniscule.
The entire mobile store is full of garbage. 98% trash. I don't know how Google and Apple let it get so bad. The bar is too low.

What kind of an asshole sells a $39.99/week subscription in a game hoping people misclick on the accept button.
>Formally they actively support it - they endorse PRC "deradicalization" policy since they suffer from extremist problems themselves.

The USA just spent 20 years in the middle east 'deradicalizing' or at least that's the going claim from both these regimes. The USA doubts China because they know they were oh so wrong about that claim, not that they admit it.

99 terrorists on the wall, drone strike one, 105 terrorists on the wall.

>This isn't complicated, plurality of the world does not buy US/western genocide framing - they see PRC policy as relatively peaceful counter-insurgency and actual nation building effort for restive peoples which these regions have to deal with in spades.

I wonder how much the US/western biased media is really the one at fault here.

>It's absolutely in their interest for XJ model to work, and perhaps be adoptable through a neat package like Huawei smart cities. West exports democracy that ultimately destabilize vs PRC exports security for serenity. Of course latter is preferable.

This is interesting to me. I feel like you're saying something different. In a way you're saying democracy is unstable and PRC communist control with security is serenity.

This shanghai situation... brink of a peasant's revolt. Some crazy stuff going on there and the government decided to flipflop on an ultralockdown. The original reason for ultralockdown has actually only gotten worse. This is far from serenity in my books.
The only buddy I want to remember was Bonzi :)

Also, PS1 mod chips and copied games / VCDs were good for selling in school for a couple bucks.
Does media influence people, or is simply an expression of people?

As ever, the answer is “Yes”.
but with the labels mislabeled
In the UK companies pay VAT to HMRC.
LimeChat Raises $4.2M to Expand AI Chat Potential
Obviously both are true, by definition. The ridiculousness of the situation is not about the choices made by the technician and the company, but the fact that the guy that was already there was prohibited from using a screwdriver.
> People like re-watching the same stuff that they've already watched, they're comfortable these days watching reboots of the same superhero movies. They like big budgets and flashy special effects. They don't like being challenged by anything.

Weird, why would mass of people try to escape reality instead of watching more documentaries and getting inspired to change the world for better? This truly is a conundrum.

What could be the common denominator, causing the mental health crisis, mishandled epidemic, ecological crisis, political crisis and economical crisis all at the same time? Shouldn't we be all like seeing it like every day?

It surely wouldn't be something trivial. Like a constant stress from universal competition. /irony
You can "Maximize" the app (to put it in Windows parlance) by Option+Click the green button (you can observe during the hover state for the green button the change from "full screen" to "maximize" by pressing Option).
It's an inherent problem with American unions and how they navigate the law.
React is MIT, which is pretty much one of the least restrictive ones, granting basically no rights to the original publisher.

That Wikipedia definition sounds more like what typically gets described as "Free and Open-Source Software"/FOSS, no?
I do not share your hope of it being a minority. I understand your remark regarding a possible "social shame" of not wanting to be seen in "stores for the poor", but this effect is gone. At least it is over here. Value shopping is acceptable across the classes.

I don't know if this extends to the US, but over here there has been a massive shift in retail. The middle is gone. There's value shopping and there's luxury shopping. Very low-end and very high-end.

Stores in the mid segment, which used to dominate retail, are falling apart. Some of these chains existed for over a century, had stores in every dutch city. They're all going bankrupt or already are.

They have no reason to exist. Their products may be of a slightly better quality, but barely so, as they too go for cheap Chinese garbage. They don't really offer better service because they can't afford to. Their staff are clueless teenagers for being cheap.
Low budget is a breeding ground for divisive genres on both ends of the spectrum - crappy horror movies and arthouse experimental drama alike
I remember when cable first came out and had no ads at all. That was its major selling point besides clear reception without rooftop aerials and rabbit ears. Then ads came showing you what you was going to air later on the same channel, then ads came showing you what would air on other channels, then finally came the ads for cars and laundry powder. Cable TV started out as a great deal, but it became another tech disappointment with animated station logos, spying on what you were watching, and pop-up ads covering 25% of the screen during shows.

> Think about how much leverage industries like health care hold over people's lives, cause bankruptcies, and then compare that to tech products collecting usage analytics.

Well... healthcare bankrupting sick people is a uniquely American failure, tech being used to spy on everyone allows for far more control over people's lives. Look at china and their "social credit system". America already has it's own version of the same only instead of tracking how good a citizen you are it tracks how good a consumer you are. In china your social credit score could get you banned from trains and planes. In the US your Your consumer credit score determines how companies treat you, what they'll tell you their policies are, what services you get offered and how much you pay for things.

The effects of surveillance capitalism on our everyday lives is expanding all the time, but you're not allowed to know about it. You just see the bill from your insurance company, you don't know that you're paying more this year because people in your zip code spent more money at fast food restaurants. You just see the rejection letter from a job you applied to, you don't get to know that the company reviewed your social media accounts and recent spending habits and thought you spent too much money on alcohol. You just get to wait on hold while calling for service, but you aren't allowed to see that you've been moved to the bottom of the queue because they've used your cell phone number to see that you make less money in a year than the other people calling in.

Benevolence is not a feature of tech, it's a feature of people and so far they've mostly decided they want to use tech to control you. FOSS is the best hope we have right now, but it's still running on locked down hardware and processors that are controlled by a very small number of companies which have been backdoored and used to collect data on us as well.
Kinda like what happens when you bite into a Madeleine.
You can still structure the IAPs to account for that, no? There's nothing stopping you from creating arbitrary bundles of IAPs, and pricing those bundles separately. One's an upgrade and presented to people who've already bought the last version, another's for new users, and priced higher, but includes the stuff from the earlier version(s).
True, back when newspapers were a "every city has one or two" there'd often be a local reviewer writing for that paper. Then it went to syndicated reviews and now I'm not sure I can even name a single reviewer.

Also, you have access to much more information about a movie if you want it, instead of having to figure out if you want to see a movie based on three inches of column.
While I will be the recipient of a decent pension that probably wasn't really on my radar early-ish career, defined benefit private pensions are not really great overall.

They tend to reward long tenures at companies. Even with government sort-of guarantees they have risk of insolvency. And ultimately it's just not your money.
> To take a closer look, they used a sophisticated model that allowed them to project the three-dimensional patterns of brain activity into a more-informative, two-dimensional representation of visual space. And, indeed, their analysis of the data revealed a line-like pattern,...

So are they reading their minds? Is that possible/ What does it look like?
The title here on HN seems kinda misleading; this is a parser library (and describes itself as that in the readme and github description), which isn't the only thing needed for writing a language.
I don't know what your point is considering I never speculated about anything in these comments. Ironically enough, you seem to be speculating about what people might speculate about when they see that headline.
So wait a minute. The situation here is that a directory Alice owns is a subdirectory of a directory Eve owns.

I find it highly surprising that anyone would configure a multi-user machine where a parent directory is owned by an untrusted user different from the current user. Usually a parent directory would be owned by the same user as the current directory, root, or possibly a system service account.

Although now that I think about it, /tmp might be an example -- if Eve is a local user, she can create /tmp/.git. Then if Alice tries to use the git command in a subdirectory of /tmp that's not already a Git repository, she might be bitten by this.

It's still a pretty far-fetched scenario, but I suppose it's possible a non-zero number of users are affected.

Are multi-user machines even that common? I was under the impression that most people don't really use OS level user accounts, and instead use VM's or containers if they want to have multiple people using the same physical box (especially if those people are untrusted). AFAIK traditional Unix shared hosting is mostly in the past.

I use Git regularly but I'm not going to lose any sleep over this one.
Thanks again. Get well quick!

BTW, your CV is down, again due to relying on hidden complexity (Stack Exchange Jobs is extinct). You made me curious so I stalked you a bit :D

https://aaron-m.com/about
Junior engineer here, so got isn’t used for the windows repo? I assumed git was the holy tool or all version control.
Slightly related, has anyone moved off Google Drive and into NextCloud or similar and been happy with it?

I'm losing access to the unlimited Google Drive storage that my uni provided and trying to figure out where I should move to.

A NAS would be great but at this moment I'm too nomadic to want to worry about that.

I'm fine with paying but would rather pay an organization that's very respecting of privacy and less likely to nuke your account without warning if you do something they don't like.

Only need a few hundred GB of space.
A lot of programmers would rather write tools for other programmers than for non-programmer end users. It's the target market that they know best, and it's most prestigious.

I wish more of those bright engineers would try to solve problems for other users rather than re-re-re-re-re-optimizing the life of their colleagues. But writing code for users involves, among other things, knowing something about users, which is more bogged down and less fun.
How did he reach the conclusion that Hara Noda is a fictional character?

I read the whole piece and I couldn't find any evidence to support this assertion.