skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether people are "entitled" to enrich their lives with art/entertainment or not is an interesting question in this context.

We're living in a society where a huge number of people has experienced a good solution to the demand for that enrichment, and that good solution has been deliberately sabotaged so that a small, rich group of people could become even richer at the expense of everyone else.

Just like you argue people are not entitled to art and entertainment, so I would argue that those who deliberately restrict access to it in completely unnecessary ways are not entitled to the additional profits they squeeze out that way.

As for the comments about luxury of pumping the entertainment to our homes instead of enjoying it at little to no cost at the venues you mention, I'm reminded of Arthur Dent being told that the plans to demolish his house were on display all the time. Suffice it to say that your vision of how the majority of people live is very distorted.
it has nothing I want...they seem to think their algos work which they do not....the political Tinge was a tad too much to stomach after a while, and when they no longer supported deep searching and reduced their catalogue and trimmed out almost all value....it was not a hard decision to cancel.

And....nothing seems to be changing...

TIP. wanna survive. give me a build my own tv service.....with timeslots and my own show cycles that I put together from the content.........that would fix binging and would allow me to have a real value add......simple easy fixes....but they are going to try and market their stuff to look better rather than fix it....

fix it....it's busted...
MDN, for example for web developers, not a primary source.

I’m used to visiting the HTML standard, I think it’s quite friendly considering how much it has grown… CSS2 was still doable for me, but I find the current mesh of CSS standards completely impenetrable at this point. And with JavaScript plus the DOM… yeah, I’ll take MDN as almost primary, an authoritative encyclopedia for web development.
Che is great, especially if you can rock a beret.
Same weird misspelling of the newspaper’s name in two different comments? How does that happen?
> You thought the Europeans were the dry ones?

Actually yes.

Although the teams I worked with were almost all people in Europe, one was from USA, and another was in Canada (though guessing from their name, perhaps their family came from eastern Europe). Those two were people I enjoyed listening to more, and felt if I reached out it would be feasible to have a bit more depth to the conversation. They managed to sound more interesting and emotionally present than the others, both in writing and verbally, and if I had a choice I'd choose them to work with in future.

It may not be a coincidence that they were among the most technically skilled people as well. I noticed a correlation between high technical skill and pleasant and thoughtful people, though by no means was that universal.

EDIT: After thinking over the above reply, I realised that "dry" isn't the right word for the distinction I'm using. "Humourless" and "entirely work oriented", perhaps. There were some Europeans that weren't dry, they had strongly expressed (but dubious) technical opinions and weren't afraid to say them. But that wasn't humour, and tended to imply someone else was wrong/stupid/incompetent, which imho was unhelpful for fostering prosocial work relationships.
Fair, I forgot about inflation.
I honestly don't care about their UX as no one I know uses it.
It's primary use in my "family life" is as a digital camera toy and for that purpose it's UX must not be that bad because my 8yo daughter is able to find the app, take photos with masks and filter she 'tries on' but not send them to anyone.
> She added her new e-mail address to Facebook.

> for some reason they kept her old address.

for some reason? she added an additional email but didn't remove the old one. there are a ton of online services (for example github) that allow you to define multiple email addresses.
if you want to remove... remove.
I never saw an online service which doesn't show you all the registered emails you have.
> somebody had to explain to them there are people in the world who are discriminated against, but aren't black.

blinks in disabled lesbian
Maybe by your lights.

It is a fact that gay marriage is an experiment, never before tried in human history. We do not know how successful it will be in raising children to be healthy, productive human beings -- which is the chief social purpose of marriage.

Likewise the whole sexual revolution and the normalization of sex outside marriage is an experiment.

We do know that "hetero" relationships, and married ones in particular, can succeed enormously at producing children and raising them successfully. Perhaps these various new arrangements will succeed just as well, and I expect enormous political pressure on evidence and analysis to support just that conclusion, but we will see.

Until time has told, the presumption that homosexual relationships are the same as heterosexual is a matter of conjecture and, well, politics.
So I like this and I'm trying it out, it seemingly works OK.

However, the GREEN background is very annoying. I don't need the whole webpage to be green for me to know it's on and working. I can't minimize the browser (firefox) because then it apparently doesn't work. So I'm left with a very big green screen sitting in the corner of my eye. Wondering too the effect of that in terms of screen color burnout (if that's even a thing anymore).

I would definitely recommend to tone down the color scheme. Stay away from green. Just go with grey and darker grey or black for your on/off schemes, including inside of the slider button.

My use case is that I have the "nosleep" computer on the side of my desk. It catches IM/chat messages (from Teams, etc.) and email (from Outlook). I don't like my primary development machine bothered by these notifications, but I do like having that machine "awake" and alert to chat/email notifications (and I can't (or shouldn't) change the default policies on that machine).
Tab is your friend
People who harass celebrities deserve the treatment Tyson gave this idiot. Dude, chill and leave Iron Mike alone!
> This concept of "programer is generally dumb, so languages must have features to prevent them from making mistakes", with strong typing falling under those features, is solely an academic exercise that is taught in academia, and perpetuated by people who just wanna fit the mold in FAANG and other big players.

Ah the classic "I don't make mistakes" delusion.
Yes, I think that's right: black is logically linked with darkness, and human beings, like other diurnal lifeforms, don't like the dark. The association is found throughout literature, from the biblical outer darkness, where there is wailing and gnashing of teeth, to the Black/Dark Riders in The Lord of the Rings, via traditional fairy tales in which a beautiful but evil sister is described as fair/white of face but black of heart.
Hell, even those browsers only get 720p...
I'd say this is more industry-specific than STEM. In software I can jump back onto a project I left behind years ago and get productive immediately. This is something I've done with multiple projects. But there is a difference between some of those and other kinds of projects where the deadlines are tied into hardware cycles, like, automotive engineering. And generally in engineering, childcare is affordable because your salaries are high.
You're conflating two issues: discrimination and self-selection.

Discrimination is never ok. If a woman applies to a job as a developer, she should absolutely not be discriminated against because of her gender.

Self-selection is always ok. If women in aggregate are more interested in biology than computer science, that is fine.

This paper is evidence of discrimination, not self-selection.
"I'd like to steal things because I morally disagree with the rules to society that I am currently opting to live in. I could choose to move, address the change at a governmental level, or simply find my entertainment elsewhere but no. It is everyone else who is the problem. Therefore I take great offense to being labeled as a thief."
Chinese Drama's. Interesting thing about them is that they usually dub over their local accent with Standard Mandarin.
>Do you mean female lead characters, or female leadership on the movie project itself?

Female leadership on movie projects isn't an issue. Female lead characters aren't an issue. I think girl-boss is a type of narrative in a film where they write unlikeable women that don't register as real people for the purpose of creating "powerful" female characters that aren't interesting or successful.

Examples - Rey/Admiral Holdo/ from Disney Star Wars, Wonder Woman 1984, Captain Marvel, the female terminator reboot, the female ghostbusters reboot, the ocean's 8 female reboot, etc etc etc

I fully expect the newest Thor movie with new female thor to be another girl-boss film, and from the trailer same thing with the upcoming Miss Marvel movie. The new Indiana Jones movie is at risk since it seems to be about Indy passing the torch to a young woman and Kathleen Kennedy is involved - we've seen her record on star wars. We'll see if any of that happens.

>Apart from that, I'm not sure Disney really cares about social policies themselves one way or another. I think it's much more mercenary than that

I disagree. The leadership and many of the creatives in Disney are the people who want to push particular political opinions on to other people.

https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1508912865293619202

>Unfortunately for Disney, a different part of their audience doesn't want to see them take a stand on issues. Or if they do, that it should be a different stand. Disney is finding out right now that it simply can't satisfy everybody.

Disney thought there was nothing anyone could do about it - since they're a private company and they can do what they want. They forgot the government they were picking a fight with also had the ability to take back privileges disney had that allowed them to be their own government in their district.

They don't need to satisfy everyone, but they want to be political activists with a direct line to your kids eyes and ears in your home. Disney is a platform for their politics.
Based on what are they winning?

They haven't even captured 1 big city and they needed to regroup.

How can you even claim NATO sees them as Russians. Look at the military assistance ( now even heavy equipment)
No clue. I actually can't give blood because I get too dizzy and it would not be cost effective for them to have to babysit me for 30 minutes.
what isn't ? to steal an example from fullshark...
'skibum' definitely wasn't compliment where I grew up.
Doesn't the answer to this question always have to be "no?"

(Granted, it did seem to be down for a few seconds but it's working now.)
Cupping
I'm in the same exact boat. I haven't found any good alternative, but Sketchup in the browser is a much worse product than the old free Sketchup app was.
> It's a woman in a position of power. Isn't that what everyone says they want?

Wouldn't it be equally problematic if they banned are male words and allowed all female words? If you're going for it, removing gender (from computer terminology) seems consistent. No one is saying to remove it from the world, but mainboard is just as if not more descriptive (to someone who isn't familiar with the word to start with), and things like allowlist/blocklist are much more self-descriptive than whitelist/blacklist.
That's another strawman...

I should know better than trying to discuss this sort of topic as it's obviously always impossible.
Corporate DEI has laws backing it, but I don't think that's the full picture. Corporations have a genuine economic interest in diverse hiring even if those laws didn't exist: 1) Diverse hiring expands the labor pool, which suppresses wages. 2) Diverse labor organizes less effectively, particularly if the workers can be kept on edge around each other.
What do you expect from someone who wonders if old people are teachable?
Agreed. For me, the course was eerily able to hit my exact sweet spot of difficulty. Almost every project had me in the "I'm about to give up" stage just long enough before I had a breakthrough and kept continuing.

>and you will see huge performance problems in almost all software from them on, because none of this (I gesture vaguely at everything everywhere) should be as slow as it is. none of it.

Hah! Yes! After finishing, the first optimization I made was to add an "inc" command to the high-level (Java-like) language you implement. It annoyed me that any time you have "i = i + 1", it translates into VM code of "push 1 onto stack, push i's value onto stack, add, pop stack to i's location", each of which translates into several machine instructions. Especially given that the CPU has an increment instruction!

So I added the inc keyword that would ensure you bypass all of that, if you just want to increment a variable, and thus use significantly fewer cycles. It was really thrilling (well, as much as a technical project can be) to have the level of insight and control needed to make a change like that.
unless you're applying for a job in HR, I don't see how HR's feelings on your pronoun use would make a difference to your job prospects.
This is underrated.

I recall hearing a discussion on the extreme desire humans have to hear a story's ending, even when they aren't that interested in the story. There is simply a need to know how it ends. I've caught myself to often watching something I think is a waste of time but needing to know how it ends. This is as much of a weakness as the reciprocity rule.

Netflix burned me to many times on this. It's bad taste to re-use the same story time & time again to pump out tons of content. It's unforgiveable to not finish the story though.
It does not affect your ability to make a living if I consume a copy of your IP that I was not going to pay for in the first place. You have lost nothing you would not lose otherwise, and you have gained nothing you would not gain otherwise.
Supposedly they hate imperialism.
I've never had a spam call in my entire life, maybe he just has a non-American phone number?
> A recent survey by Junior Achievement conducted by the research group, Engine, showed that 9 percent of girls between ages 13 to 17 are interested in careers in STEM — Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics — which was conducted from April 16-21 to about 1,004 teenagers.

> This is down from 11 percent from a similar survey in 2018. Teen boys’ interest in STEM careers increased to 27 percent, up from 24 percent in 2018.

https://www.govtech.com/education/Female-Interest-in-STEM-Ed...
You may find the history of the first large-scale digital computer interesting.

https://www.amazon.com/Colossus-secrets-Bletchley-code-break...

It was used by the British to break the Lorenz cipher (which the Nazis used to encrypt high-level strategic communications.)
There's certainly a market for AI generated art. But, of all of the AI art that I've looked at, it all lacked "soul". It feels like writing I've read that was generated by GPT-3 - it has a very pleasant way of saying a lot of nothing.
The surprising climate cost of the humblest battery material
I don't think maturity is a function of one's hobbies, and I believe that to do so is to use a poison-the-well fallacy, where the poison is the emphasis on the association of the hobby with children as a means to argue that there exists a common component (=immaturity) shared between the two classes of people that has a causal relationship with the hobby in question.

Maturity is, in my opinion, a function of one's perception of the consequences of their actions and how they weigh said consequences. An immature person, regardless of their hobbies behaves like a child when they don't consider e.g. the feelings of other people or the harm they impose onto others. As we get older and accumulate more experiences through interactions with other people, we tend to take into consideration a far longer and wider horizon. This usually happens by increasing one's responsibilities as they become older.
I caught "inclusive" in the list of things Gmail will "suggest" "better" words in Google Docs. The scary part of this that this enables enforcement. That may seem far fetched now, but in the future?
If the database is a shared resource across multiple teams, it makes sense that there is specific ownership of it. It could be devops, but someone needs to be looking at the larger picture. Development teams/individuals tend to be myopic when it comes to the consumption of shared resources; “my app”, “my feature”, etc.

Also, I’ve worked with some excellent DBA’s that taught me a thing or two about PG query optimization, and scaling a cluster to the needs of the business. While I’ve also dealt with some awful ones that only stood in the way of projects by creating incredibly contrived security roles. Make sure this individual is a true expert whose skills add value far surpassing that of the managed cloud services.
I dunno, you're not providing any evidence to back up the assertion that "we" talk way more about inclusivity than "powerful elites." Who is "we?"

HN? Are you talking about in the news? A specific news outlet?

The imbalance of power between the ultra-wealthy and the rest of us is in the news all the time, at least that I watch and read.
To be fair over counting users will affect ARPU as well, no free lunch (and we sorta saw that in the numbers this quarter tbf)
I guess what I mean is that I believe this will become a political issue again & the backlash will be strong enough that cultural & media elites will no longer be able to maintain it.
JustWatch is good for this, but it mostly reveals how sparse most of their catalogs are. It confirmed for me, at long last, that the reason I couldn't find anything to watch is because there wasn't anything to watch. Paramount+ at least has all the Star Treks after pulling it from every other service, but it seems like all they have other than that is 30 seasons of 5 cop shows.
In your example, getting a third party to provide a digital copy of a good you already own is not theft. I would argue it's a lousy way of doing things, opening you up to many more problems, but it's not theft.

Taking a good or service that you don't own is stealing. That's piracy. That's theft.
There is the saying that if you borrow a hundred thousand dollars the bank owns you, but if you borrow a hundred million dollars you own the bank.

At this point, by that logic, the US owns the world a few times over.
File under white gay males, and women who no longer find themselves at the top of the minority totem pole. You didn’t pull up the ladder fast enough.
Obviously if you this post it is not down. But I couldn't access it for 2-3 minutes.
> I don't really keep in touch with many coworkers due to time.

It's not hard to connect with people on Linkedin, even if you haven't seen them in years.
So are you saying DEI logic is overly simplistic and doesn't take the complexities of the real world into account?
Take up mountain biking.
OpenBSD 7.1 is out, including Apple M1 support
Code models get better when prompted with “I'm an expert Python programmer”
I'm waiting for the moment when the woke realise that everything they despise revolves around christianity in one way or another, and for this reason they'll proudly declare themselves as not only anti-racist, but also anti-christian.
Respectfully, I disagree and I don’t believe this article is written well. An entire essay cannot stand in for a thesis statement, or at least not without disregarding the reader’s time.

I think what especially frustrates me about this article is that there are good portions. Justin makes some good points that would do well with another round of editing.
Mispredicted how people would read his essay. I asked him if he honestly didn’t see it coming. He said he honestly did not. That’s very naïve.
What about "redlist" and "greenlist"? The association between "red" and "stop", and between "green" and "go", seem more arbitrary than the associations with "black" and "white" but almost everyone in the world is familiar with traffic lights. (And the inhabitants of the North Sentinel Island probably don't need to configure mail servers or whatever.)
I do think that fierce competition from competing services with way more IP's to leverage is a big factor. But yes, I think in some extent the world is simply starting to open back up slowly, and this will naturally affect any industry which surged due to the pandemic. Whatever restaurants remaining will surge, indoor entertainment will deflate down a bit.

And I also agree that the internet sentiment of "omg too many services, I'm just gonna pirate" is such a minor part of the equation. Social media loves overrepresenting its just world fallacy and thinking that everyone is as invested to screw over companies as they are on twitter or whatnot.
I've been waiting for the Giving Plague to become real:

https://www.davidbrin.com/fiction/givingplague.html
You are right. I tried not to make it to clickbaity.
Not an easy task.
Should have left the original title
I was a failed dieter from age 7 to 57. It took me that long to figure out that this body works best on animal products. I was never a particular meat eater and had to be forced to try it by an inability to move my bowels on anything else. But it has reduced and stabilized my weight like nothing else has, while all but eliminating my cravings for SAD food. I really like eating this way now, and get as much or more pleasure from food than ever.

When I switched it was in despair over failure. They all (but the last) stopped working, though I continued to follow them religiously. For years I was an obsessive food diarist, and have books full of logs on what I ate, with charts showing how my weight gradually stabilized well before goal, and started going up again. This followed the trend of my appetite. When I switch diets my appetite goes down, and it recovers gradually over that half-year.

I think going sugar-free is a great move, but from sources like https://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/ have come to think that avoiding seed-oils is even more important, over a span of decades.
if you don't need history, have a look at https://github.com/juji-io/datalevin
Just to piggyback on, I'd be interested in the pre-computer history of computing. That is, a survey of how they handled all the computation problems before (electronic) computers. Like, storing large amounts of data, having "databases" that need to answer queries over a large geographic area, how they replicated "databases", how they indexed information, how they did backups, and so on.
But what if that older dev is only at par with the younger one: will she or he be treated equally, if everything else was equal? In other words, is an old person expected to compensate for her or his lack of youth by an excess of wisdom?
As I posted to a child: Language also adapts over decades so that words are computer/IT terms & have no other connotations. Like most of the stuff in this thread. Have a think about that.