skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In addition to the great books listed here, a few more that might be of interest:

- Turing’s Cathedral, by George Dyson

- Black Software, by Charlton McIlwain

- Programmed Inequality, by Mar Hicks

The Dyson book is a rigorous and deep historical dive into the philosophical and practical origins of digital computing, and is really great.

The other two are equally great and deep but cover computing history through different lenses. The Hicks book in particular may be of interest for you, as its emphasis is on the history of computing in the UK. They’re less directly about how computers “work”, as such, and more about how computers and society have interacted with one another in interesting and non-obvious ways, and how those interactions have impacted the ways in which technologies have developed.
They use Box.com internally for file sharing, and Jamf as their MDM.
They said distribution. It also skews more male at the lower end, as in, far more stupid men than women. The mean is about the same for each group.
Wasn't the x originally a gender thing? As in "folks" is gender neutral while "folx" actively acknowledges non-heteronormative genders.
The lab leak stuff gave me whiplash for sure. Early on, if you had the audacity to suggest that a coronavirus came out of a coronavirus lab, people would unironically call you a racist fascist right-wing lunatic.

Now it's officially a credible theory[1].

This is exactly why moderating "The Truth" is so dangerous. The people claiming to be the arbiter of the truth are politically motivated and self serving.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/16/politics/biden-intel-review-c...
Because it leads to confusion.

Example: Is the proprietor of a bar the person running it or the landlord who owns the building?
Before everyone gets upset, this is a known fact and it's not a bad thing for women either.

The skew only means the smartest 1% of men are smarter than the smartest 1% of women.

On the other side of the curve the same is true. The dumbest men are dumber than the dumbest women.

That means a larger percent of women occupy the IQ sweet spot.
But white Christian's negatively portraying the rest of the world for the better part of a century is not political? Dr. Fu Manchu, Breakfast at Tiffany's?

Why is it only political when another group is creating the content?
Nice straw white man.
An NFT is a certificate of authenticity. Copies of the associated item don't have a valid certificate. Getting satisfaction from a copy is orthogonal to the value associated with the authenticated original.
Back when I created stuff for hospitals (et al), we had to put our source code in escrow and had dedicated money (an account) to keep misc services running. It seems like these kinds of guarantees should also apply to certain B2C markets too.
Apartment buildings yes, but most single family homes (where people use the term landlord the most I suspect) are usually owned by an identifiable individual.
"phylogeny recapitulates ontogeny"... what is this dude going on about?

I will agree with him later in the article: the "superhero industry" is basically soap-opera for nerds, stringing them along, all the way to the bank. I don't play that game.
> Really? You think there are inherently more intelligent men than women?

Uh, yes. This is a well-established fact.

Women have two X chromosomes, both of which get used [1], and men only have one. So this should be your baseline expectation. In women, that genetic information used to construct the brain, gets, loosely speaking, averaged together.

It is of course also consistent with every empirical observation. E.g. the on the math SAT, 1.6x as many men score 700-800, 2x as many men score 800, despite the fact that the school system is biased against boys. And on grade school and high school math contests (such as the AMC, the AIME), the male/female ratio increases more and more the higher the scores go, up to 89% male before sample size was too small for me to get a read on the proportion. Of the top 10 Jeopardy champions, 9 out of 10 are male.

[1] that both X chromosomes get used as they do in the rest of the body is something you wouldn't want to just assume -- among various ways to verify this, see https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/21/science/seeing-x-chromoso...
Folx is just a way to signal that you are woke. Since they have pushed folks for everything and co-called "normies" are using it now, they need to go a step further to make sure you know they are part of the special group.
The Roku stick is even better because it isn't inherently locked down by Amazon's ecosystem. Far more services that are effortless to install.
I don’t think the NY Times gets a pass here. Look at some of the reporting they do on tech and startups in particular.

Organisations relying on subscription revenue aren’t under quite the same degree of pressure but engagement is still important to them and journalists that can deliver it will be rewarded.
I think it’s hilarious that you think were all white men
> very few open source games that are actually fun to play

you found one?? please share
> somebody had to explain to them there are people in the world who are discriminated against, but aren't black.

As a Russian, this is amusing to read. For me and most people I know, when you meet a black person, it's totally normal to ask them "where are you from" because they can't possibly be local. Our society just doesn't have the concept of racism it seems because of the exceeding rarity of people who aren't European or Asian.

People in Russia are often discriminated against based on their sexual orientation, political views, and nationality though.
I’m not up to speed on the social app market, but isn’t TikTok eating their lunch?
Who is going to speak up? I've worked in these environments before and it's career suicide to object to DEI discrimination.
does this require a sarcasm tag or is this serious?
Yeah, I need to make room for all my new Substack subscriptions, and there’s nothing on Netflix Streaming that I want to watch, anyway.

I do like their DVD service, though.
I meant that nosleep.page is basically the example page from NoSleep.js hosted on the internet...
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As a left handed non birthing person, I was very offended by their comment. Also I was a little offended by your comment, please in the future include “L” or “R” at the beginning of all messages.

Thank you for attempting to be a left handed ally.
What is that good reason? The only thing I can come up with is "don't release internal documents", which is a blanket reason and not what I'd consider compelling, but I suspect I'm having a failure of imagination
What an interesting way to view history.

It has nothing to do with how central state planning is utterly destructive to a society or anything like that.

They must of gone all "free market" to fail so spectacularly.
Putting myself in the shoes of a kid learning about computers, I find some of these phrases to be more clear, not less clear.

Two examples:

Allowlist and denylist are much clearer to a kid learning about computers than whitelist or blacklist. If you've never heard of whitelist before, it's sounds like a list of things that are white. If you've never of allowlist, it's pretty obvious what it means - a list of things that are allowed.

Similarly, mainboard is clearer than motherboard. Mainboard implies there's one main board. Motherboard could be more ambiguous to someone who's never seen the inside of a computer. Are there two boards, mother and father? Do boards somehow inherit from one another? Is there a grandmother board that's even bigger? Obvious to us, but not obvious to a kid learning computers for the first time.

Not saying these terms are better (there's a huge switching cost and the terms are less colorful), but do want to point out there are dimensions to consider beyond inclusivity. One benefit is better language precision.
HPPA upwards-growing stack: far more logical when one thinks about it, because in an upwards growing stack, the limit of the stack is the available memory, rather than some arbitrary size decided by someone arbitrarily.

SPARC register windows: once one gr0ks them, they are a feature of wonder! The register windows in an UltraSPARC processor effectively provide 256 virtual registers in a processor with only 32 physical ones, giving one increased performance.
Sadly this would probably work. Bonus points if you tell people your pronouns are they/them, HR departments really can’t get enough of that.
Seems like they purposefully created people now dependent on these government programs in order to secure electorate.
I've been incredulous to this stuff for 15 years, but violating rules I was incredulous about 5 years ago would be fired and black listed from my industry now.

Maybe the pendulum will stop or swing back, but "that's not going to catch on" has been wrong for nearly two decades.
Performance would be another benefit, wouldn't it? Password hashing algorithms are deliberately slow, so doing it for every request adds some overhead compared to doing it once and establishing a session ID. (Assuming that the passwords are hashed on the server.)
For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure Hitler came across as fairly normal over drinks too.
Self worship is also incredibly toxic and should not be encouraged without nuance. Selfishness can lead to a lack of empathy for others and a lack of awareness of how one's actions can affect other people.
Yes this is what bugs me. I and older "white males" were mentioned in DEI surveys as something to fix, by an org full of mostly younger and more privileged backgrounds. AFAIK I was the only person in engineering who had been on welfare as a child, literally lived next to a toxic waste dump, etc. When I was a kid, us "nerds" were picked on/beat up for liking computers. This sort of thing really turned me off on most corporate DEI, as it's frequently not about real diversity.
Netflix stuff has just come to feel so...sanitary. It's like they have an enforced style of wardrobe and cinematography or something. It all just feels kindof the same.

Even shows like Ozark have this very "netflixy" feel to them.

The sense I got when Netflix started going original content was that it was the place for creatives to go and flex their muscles. They could do really weird stuff like Sense8 or The OA (both absolutely top tier stories in my opinion).

But now, I have come to expect that no shows will ever go anywhere (story wise) that is interesting. No boundries will be pushed, just bland kindof all the same background stuff. It's too bad, because some of the early stuff was really cool.
Every totalitarianism claims the opposite virtues, right ? Dictatorship are always named "People's *". Woke diversity is the exact polar opposite of any reasonable meaning of the word.
Exactly equal down to the single individual, yes that would be unlikely. Broadly the same, seems perfectly logical to me.
To play along with this game, one can say that replacing "landlord" with "property owner" is offensive to those with ancestors who were deemed property.
>All that leaves us is morally corrupted dark anti-heroes that are least openly flawed and whose contempt for the other institutions of justice mirrors our own.

Except most modern superhero movies aren't like that at all, if anything much of the genre seems to be a tonal rejection of the cynicism and nihilism you're describing.
That's why I plan to retire at 35 :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg
Shareholders have to step up and get a leadership that can take care of it.
>First-class functions, lambdas, and closures are mostly unheard of in the top 20 programming languages. Aside from JS, you're pretty much out of luck.

PHP, Perl and Swift all have first-class functions, lambdas and closures although I'd agree that that's not "most." This is probably getting too much into semantics, but aren't functions in JS just objects themselves? ;)

>People stress about "writing unit tests" because technically correct types doesn't mean your program actually works. In my time writing JS vs TS, I've seldom found that type errors were the problem aside from making the type checker happy. Most errors are in what the code actually does or does not do. The instant feedback from the entire system is far superior to unit tests because it can catch things that your unit tests might not be testing for.

I don't think having a "live" system like CL precludes the need for unit tests. Sure, it's beneficial to be able to play around with code right away, but unless you're planning on manually running through the same tests again and again, how do you know you've not introduced a regression at some point?
same company a day ago

>Binance crypto exchange forced to scrap swastika-like emoji

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-61166276
Thanks.

That's the culture-warrior's way of saying, "we're cancelling Disney because they protested that we were cancelling gay people."
I disagree but am sympathetic with creating new regime of allowed/probibited sharing. I wish he saw things differently but I dont dock him for his view, per se, at least not at this point. He doesnt seem to have a real ask, a concrete notion, so it feels premature to judge, although I have vast doubts.

Phrasing anything so starkly as "get on my side" is, otoh, a jerk move. Not even trying to argue your position, using emotional leverage to radicalize & polarize the situation... it's so against the idea of hope & change, such a degrading & unnecessary push for clash, that steamrolls over anyone not totally onboard.

And to make such a pick a side offer when it's so unclear ehat the sides are, when there's no proposals, no suggestions, nothing concrete,... no one should be eager to take up any side that comes at the world without terms, just demanding surrender. This is not how values are established, thus is bullying.

There's definitely irony to the free world contracting & writhing, becoming so afraid of seeing itself, afraid of the din of humanity & seeking quiet & order. I personally think the way out is theough, is getting better at being good, is espousing speech & building more constructive forms & patterns of online speech, not dawdling in the muck of the gross sides & clamping down. It's brutal days seeing democracy loath itself like this.
There was some discussion[0] on HN a few weeks ago organizations (like the Red Cross[1]) not accepting donations from patients who require therapeutic phlebotomy (hemochromatosis patients, for example) because their donation provides the donor a benefit (and therefore isn't strictly altruistic). That sent me down an interesting rabbit hole of reading (link in discussion).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30808856

[1] https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/blood-donation-pr...
No, the idea that ancient paintings were designed to look animated by firelight is not a new idea.
Yeah this plus the cloud privacy nightmare are what's kept me away. I don't fancy having my entire house go braindead because a company goes bankrupt and shuts down its cloud, gets hacked, or experiences a gigantic devops mistake like Atlassian just endured. "We're sorry, your house is now bricked." The entire thing is madness on lots of levels.

Cloud use is an anti-feature for me in anything that does not objectively benefit from cloud compute offload, rich collaboration, or access to large amounts of data. It doesn't totally rule it out but if I see that it has to call out to the cloud that's a ding against it.
why not just get regularly blood tested? blood testing also extracts blood. but on top of it, you get information
I'm going to delete my Google account today. I'd rather watch YouTube without ads, but I can take a little brainwashing for some praxis. Corporations only speak the language of money, outrage and morals are foreign to them.
Why?
The Penal labor exemption is the one case where slavery or involuntary servitude is still permitted in the US constitution.
>the girl-boss

Do you mean female lead characters, or female leadership on the movie project itself? Or something else (or mixture of those trends?)

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. A large part of their audience really wants to see them (and corporations in general) take a stand on certain issues, and Disney doesn't want to lose them by keeping silent. 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.
It's kind of ageism-adjacent, but I wonder if some of it is a bias that expects that past 40 you shouldn't really be needing to apply to jobs by resume drops any more. So like, seeing that type of application is in an indication that the person's first twenty years of career haven't yielded the kinds of achievements and contact network that have bumped them out of the hustle and into the world where they no longer beg for jobs because they're being actively head-hunted.

Obviously, there are loads of reasons why this might legitimately be someone's situation, including midlife career-, locale- or industry-changes. But it could be another vector for bias.
There's some hope in Matter... if it doesn't keep getting delayed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter_(standard)
Obligatory mention: "Secret History of Silicon Valley" by Steve Blank [0].

[0]: https://steveblank.com/secret-history/
>George Washington isn't running for president anymore and slavery has been abolished for more than a century. The past is the past and this is the present: there are some commonalities but also a lot of important differences.

I think the policies from the 60s and 70s have way more impact today than people realize and without understanding that context, "deep knowledge of current events" gets you nowhere. The seeds for an event like 9/11 were planted almost 50 years earlier and without understanding that it's easy for people to get swept up in takes like "they hate us for our freedom".
So your social circle looks down on all forms of entertainment unless you are creating something of value? That is definitely not the case for society at large (and sounds pretty miserable to me personally).
Netflix says it lost 200k subscribers--but I have to wonder, is that 200k people who were paying for a subscription, or is some percentage of that number actually people who were sharing an account, stopped watching when Netflix started threatening people who share accounts, and are now being counted as "lost subscribers" (because Netflix expected them to start a new account)?
In the US, male nurses are highly valued. I am not sure why this is not so in Sweden. On the other hand, people are wary of male preschool teachers. These two fields seem to be equivalent in Sweden.

In the US - Cleaners are not well paid. I am not sure why men want to join this field. The best cleaner I ever had left as soon as she landed a better paying job. I see plenty of husband and wife teams where the wife does the cleaning and the husband does the gardening. The husband is typically paid at least 30% more than the wife. Maybe this is a higher status job in Sweden?
I heard that there is indeed an option to do that, with help of some apps. You keep your real contacts list in these apps. Presumably this also means that you have special dialer and sms apps integrated with this contact list app, since otherwise you can't just tap a contact to dial or message, and would have to copy-paste phone numbers around.

Dunno what to do about messengers and such, which integrate with the contact system to show their correspondents in e.g. the ‘share’ menu. Not sure if these contacts are available to other apps—but if they are, it seems impossible to hide them.

Also there's e.g. a plugin for the (non open-source) Xposed ‘framework’, to feed fake data to apps that want to access the location and other such info. Seems to be able to fake the contacts, too, but afaiu requires a rooted phone: https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacyLua
I've been publishing writing far outside consensus progressive attitudes since the pandemic began with zero issue so far. Don't make your workplace your audience or invite controversy around your workplace and you're very unlikely to have a problem.
The last time I checked it was an TLS codec mismatch error, but that seems to have been resolved so now it does work without Cloudflare.
It's definitely sarcasm -- parodying "lean in" kind of advice
Ask HN: How to deal with challenges that come with pursuing your own vision?
Founders, independent researchers, etc., how do you deal with all the challenges that often come with pursuing your own unique vision?

It's a very big question, but here are some of the things I've struggled with myself, or can imagine happening:

- general lack of guidance and trying to figure out everything yourself

- self-doubt and dealing with criticisms, failures, disappointment

- staying motivated and maintaining progress

- staying true to your vision, while being open-minded to feedback

- navigating big shifts in direction

- feeling isolated/alone because no one else understands your vision
I generally avoid any service that even has an ad-supported tier because in my experience it starts out as "ads are to subsidize the cost for people who can't afford or don't want to pay for the premium service." Then it becomes, "We're contractually obligated to have ads in certain shows regardless of which tier the viewer is, but they won't show up in others, and they'll be short and unobtrusive." Then it's "We're keeping rates low by having ads in all show, but they're ads that are relevant and very short, and only at the beginning and/or end of the show." Then it becomes "We're removing the premium tier because not enough people signed up for it. Also the ads are going to be longer and more intrusive now." Forget it. I can just skip the whole thing and lose nothing. If you even have an ad-supported tier, I'm out.
This reads as very sarcastic but these policies are just as bad if not worse for Asian men as well at this point. It’s Asian men who are suing Harvard over it, not white men.

And to be frank many women, Latinos, and others have expressed their frustrations about this to me as well. These policies are inherently toxic and divisive.
"Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller."

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/450328-don-t-you-see-that-t...
Look at the abutments on the west camera - the new bridge is obviously wider.

I suspect they're adding a lane in each direction.

Ah I was wrong (or not completely right, the new bridge is wider but adds shoulders):

> Problem: The Veranda Street Bridge carries Interstate 295 (I‑295) over Veranda Street (U.S. Route 1) in Portland, Maine. The existing bridge was built in 1961 and, after 60 years of heavy use, its condition has deteriorated. A 2017 inspection of the bridge determined it’s in satisfactory to poor condition and is structurally deficient.

https://verandaplan.org/project
Does this mean we should never make progress or change anything?

Also if your tutorials are using a base repository to work from, then you can still have the branch "master" it's just not default. So your existing repos should still work. And if you changed your repo then you should be responsible for updating your documentation to reflect that. It's just good practice.
Back in the 90s you would have had to pay $3-5 per movie at Blockbuster. Drive to the store, hope the movie you want was in stock, drive home, watch movie, remember to rewind the movie when it's done, drive back to the store to return it before the due date.

Now, for less money, I don't even have to get off the couch. What a world!
It's nearly 100% conflict theory (https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/01/24/conflict-vs-mistake/).