skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What is the current state of the web?

Sure. I think the important difference here is the web has _become_ this way; the things you point out are problems to be solved. Whereas, Urbit encodes these norms as a social good.
> Headsets never will,

Not in the current form factor. But in other form factors they could be everywhere.
Huh? The man lies on every possible occasion.
I don't think this thread is an appropriate place to litigate Curtis Yarvin.

If you use the "search" feature at the bottom of the page, with "author:lisper", you'll find what I think are several trenchant critiques of the technical ideas behind Urbit.
After age 40 I did a coding bootcamp to change careers.

Another guy in the camp was doing the same. We compared notes on interviews. One day he gets a call back from a recruiter and he put the recruiter on speaker phone. She told them they liked him but chose someone else because (drum roll) culture fit.

He asked what she meant by that and she outright said: "The other person is younger. You're old." We were shocked and he pretended he didn't quite hear her... she repeated it word for word. I don't think she even realized it was illegal.

The other guy never made a complaint, he needed a job and I could hardly blame him not wanting to put up a fuss / fight over a job at a place he didn't want to be a part of anyway ... it was shocking to hear it made that clear.

Long run we both got jobs and are doing well, but man... that call sticks in the back of my head anytime I think of job hunting.
The real reasons are almost certainly economic and structural, and not a result of silly culture war wedge issues.

1) Netflix has much more streaming competition now.

2) Availability of good content has gone down as networks reserve it for their own new platforms, and as production was halted by covid.

3) Greater scarcity gives studios pricing power to increase Netflix's cost to acquire the few good shows available.

4) Netflix tried to counter (2) and (3) by making their own shows, but a lot of it is trash.

5) Netflix raised customer prices aggressively, while there's not much on their platform to justify the higher prices.

6) Customers are increasingly savvy about binge-watching what good shows there are on one platform, then cancelling it and rotating through other platforms.

7) Loyalty is for suckers. Churn, baby, churn.
Show HN: Visualize MIDI notes in augmented reality using iOS LiDAR devices
Reality Synthesizer utilizes iOS 15.4's addition of the LiDAR sensor to AVFoundation to visualize MIDI notes played on a connected synthesizer. The notes are visualized in augmented reality as the music is played. The demo uses a couple Metal shaders for depth-based visuals.
Seems true as I keep getting a lot of notifications that my friends are joining it.
Why are you consuming the goods provided by "Satan"?
Same here (though not a latino and not in the US, so I wasn't yet under any pressure to use it).

The "-inx" suffix (when pronounced "inks") somehow makes the word sound more objectifying, sexist and even lewd than the original words.
The probability of that income is quite hypothetical. Most of the time, the person would never have payed for it.
I find “Latinx” to be so unbelievably stupid because the English “x” sound doesn’t exist in Spanish. Rather than using the gender neutral form “latine”, some moron decided we should start injecting Anglo idioms into the Spanish language
> For example, there may be individuals who have unauthorized or multiple Snapchat accounts, even though we forbid that in our Terms of Service and implement measures to detect and suppress that behavior.

Weird. If a person is not a bot, you'd expect that when they are making an nth account they are attempting to apply another use case for the service in their life. More time in app.

I'd also expect there are fewer incentives for creating bots on snap versus other platforms. Its a messaging app, people only use it with people they know.
Disney found itself in the middle of a culture war
Controversial suggestion but can the California folks just do their own bay area version of products?

The rest of us around the world never asked for any of this weirdness

Will it suggest "peace be upon him" in Islamic countries next? If not, why not? At least that's an actual religion unlike whatever this weirdness is.

How is it inclusive to export this thinking to places that don't want it? Words are really just words. I never enslaved anyone and neither did my ancestors. Keep the word master and slave.
>women are weeded out

>especially computer science

By choice or by force? N=1, but I still remember teachers saying "all the girls that should be in CS are going to math instead, they think CS is a boys' club" despite repeatedly catering 'women in tech' and such. According to some anecdotes I heard, this also changes outside Western countries, where women pick CS much more quickly.

>statistics about women in STEM

Actual statistics would show women aren't underrepresented in STEM as a whole, or not nearly as much as people claim. This discussion keeps being raised and they conveniently omit fields which are very much science, and have far more women than men coming in. Medicine, veterinary, agriculture, biological science are all fields women tend to compete or dominate to a certain degree. See https://www.hesa.ac.uk/news/16-01-2020/sb255-higher-educatio....
But unlike any superhero movie in the past 10 years, the illiad is a wonderful LGBT love story...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles_and_Patroclus
This is the wrong conversation.

The problem is not discrimination - the problem is that recruiters can do the dirty work of discrimination (or harassment or false advertising) and entirely shield these companies from lawsuit. The companies can simply claim ignorance to have known what was going on with the recruiting firms. The recruiting firms aren't big enough to sue. You wouldn't get anything out of them monetarily and you'd be unlikely to generate much publicity suing a recruiting firm that no one's heard about.

If we're going to move forward with this model where recruiters are run out of firms not associated with the company, the main company needs to be liable for any abuse on the part of the 3rd party recruiters they hire.
Congratulations, you will eventually own a house and car. I'm sure you paid quite a handsome price on that house to ensure the people formerly living in it could live off the proceeds for the rest of their lives. What will your peers own when they pay off their student loans?

Banks deemed you creditworthy because you make enough to pay these loans off. We're currently discussing the people that don't make enough to pay their student loans off.

Do you think they should be forever renters? Carless in public transportation deserts?

A functional economy allows people to thrive by participating in it. It is not dependent on an artificially created underclass of people in debt to purchase no asset.
This is why I'm quite bullish the technocrats will fail miserably in their move to homogenize the planet into some freakish, Jim Jones beehive.
I'm pretty sure you'd still call it copyright infringement.
For completeness I would add that a good task must allow objectively rating the performance of participants with [much] room for debate. But given that, the whole setup is self-contained and task-independent. Let participants perform the task and establish their competence by rating their performance. Then let participants perform the meta-tasks of rating their performance in absolute and relative terms and finally check how task and meta-task performances are related.
I find Snapchat app to very complicated and cluttered. I guess it's just me.

FB has almost cloned Snap's features into Messenger and Insta. So, do you think - Snap's UX is still far better?
If you're saying that you cannot find a single example where a white male is portrayed non-negatively, you need to look harder. Longmire on Netflix is just one example. Jack Reacher and Bosch on Prime Video are others.

That said, there's plenty of room to make fun of white male Christians, just like there's plenty of room to make fun of everyone else. It's not like there's a shortage of hypocrisy and foibles out there.
For anyone reading this, I volunteer. My moderation level would be based on words that were considered bad in the year 2005. I won’t have to do much work and you still get to say that you have someone that’s doing the job. Win-win.
>costs nothing

The communication cost of the change is not free. Do you think the internal wiki and new-hire git training materials all updated themselves?

It wasn't a large process change. Most of our git users are competent git users. But I billed hours dealing with it.

I still have people here who haven't touched a repository that uses "main" instead of "master". They have better things to do with their lives than lurk social media focused on programming. They don't know yet. Eventually they'll pull something with "main" instead of "master". Can I get your phone number so you can be the one to explain to them?
What a coincidence, I finished „no sudden move“ seconds ago.
You will now be limited to 1 inclusive language dismissal per week. All inclusion warnings past the first one will be made for you
Caesar Self-Propelled Howitzer
I'm in this right now and one big way this fails is that no one is on the same schedule. It's not uncommon for me to go into work only to join teams meetings anyway. I even stopped going to the room we all planned on meeting in because it would only be me in there anyway. The office furniture isn't that bad (somewhat modern, sit stand, somewhat ergo) so I can't complain but it doesn't compare to my setup at home - that's where the value prop suffers greatly.
As an amusing anecdote, my parents live thousands of miles from me. The last time I saw them I set up a Raspberry Pi with XBMC (yeah, that long ago) and a flirc IR receiver for a remote, hooked it up with local network, and an external hard drive that has a battery-backed power source. I then `dd`'d over the image onto 5 SD cards and left it with them.

Since they're in a low power-security environment, there's a lot of unexpected on-off cycles. Anyway, the whole thing still worked for them until recently and as things started failing (as they inevitably do with this max jank thing I've made them) they just figured out how to work with it.

At first, they ran out of content, so they learned how to go get it on ThePirateBay and find the right mirror.

Then OpenSubtitles (which was integrated with XBMC) stopped working on it for some reason, so they would go manually get srt files and stick them on the USB drive (visible over Samba from the network).

Then as the local external drive started failing, they used the home desktop's samba mounted drive (that I'd set up earlier).

Hilariously, the gradual collapse of the system seems to have worked as a natural training regimen, and now they're fully equipped with knowledge. So now they've got one of our old desktops in the living room hooked up to the TV, a small bluetooth keyboard lying on the coffee table, and watch pirate video on the TV.

The whole thing is positively comical because I pay for all the services so this isn't necessary at all. But availability is not complete and I'm sure it tickles them to be able to do this stuff themselves.

Anyway, thought it was a funny story. They're in their late 60s but they're doctors and last I knew, not particularly tech-savvy, so I am both proud and highly entertained.
IMHO OK if the feature would actually provide explainations and it would be based on some sort of rulebook rather some random decision of individuals. I also would be fine if there is a warning if I use the word 'property owner' because some random internet user says that is deeply capitalistic. In the end I could decide if I want to follow the argument. Just nudging people to get away with a warning is bad and will lead to no warning. I doubt even that it will lead to a more inclusive world because no reflection is involved.

The problem for me is particularly that the combination of monopolies combined with AI that will learn from data largely filtered by those monopolies will generate some questionable gradients. So, yes, this might ultimately change language very quickly without much of human discourse over it. This will lead to language with less variation and arguably to a world that does not encourage variation and will be in effect less inclusive.
For a liquid asset, ROI should be the same (excluding taxes) either with or without dividend:

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/stocks/07/ex_dividend....

With a dividend, you have to pay taxes now. Without the dividend, the stock price remains higher so you sit on higher unrealized gains. But assuming you can sell it anytime (it is liquid), the ROI is still there without the dividend.
What’s new for LHC Run 3?
This is literally Brave New World stuff. Not exaggerating, the word mother was hugely offensive to the people in that book. Unfortunately we don’t even get the Orgy Porgy parts. It’s like the worst parts of 1984 and Brave New World mixed together.
> It has nothing to do with intelligence curves.

Agreed. A vast majority of supposedly "high tech" jobs are solidly average intelligence, including coding, so if anything women should be rewarded in such positions because males' wider variance in I.Q. cuts both ways. It's only pure delusional thinking that keeps up the "muh I.Q. is one of the highest" attitude among "tech" bros.
The west will win the second cold war because the communist party will not be able to release its iron grip on its populace. The Chinese people only accept that iron grip now because it's carrying them up from a low place, but once that stops the constriction will become suffocating, leading to civil unrest and diaspora of the upper tier of Chinese society.
You assume people are going to pay for it. If you provide a good service, they will, as shown by Steam and Spotify and, at least initially, Netflix.

If you don't, they won't, as shown by the proliferation of shitty streaming services and the gutting of content on Netflix.

It's got to suck to feel that people are stealing from you because you have no control over the content distribution mechanisms in the industry you work in, but I think you're largely engaging in fallacious argumentation here. It's pretty much the 90's version of piracy rhetoric. One pirated watch != one watch worth of income lost.
I think they are claiming a savings on a register file, which is not nothing, but not exactly a ton. Also they save on register renaming and scoreboards, which have some gate count.

The biggest thing that they seem to have is that they can compute an enormous number of instructions per cycle without blowing up the size of the bypass network.
Not really sure how it's infantilization. Do super powers make a movie more infantile than not having them? Does it change the moral challenges and difficulties encountered? Is an action movie or heist movie better or more mature without such things? Are sitcoms and reality TV somehow less rubbish? Perhaps people should only spend their time reading and discussing serious philosophers and political policy.

I have a liking for the current crop of superhero stuff because its light-hearted. The tone is hopeful. (It's ironic, honestly, that the article goes on about the mature/miserable nature of current superhero stuff when the flagship Marvel stuff is all pretty positive, with the exception of the ten-year culmination of the Avengers storyline they cite). It's a nice break from worrying about the real world, which these days seems to have this constant, vague, oppressive feeling of inevitable doom. (An exaggeration, perhaps, but the universal problems around corruption, collective action issues, personal wealth above general good, etc. is tiring and depressing.)
This is the thing. The only thing that come to my mind is that the attackers knew previously his wife. Since the email is not a common one like info@... or contact@... it sounds difficult to me to find.

Another possibility is that some bot is buying discarded domains and trying to restart password with different combinations
Votes from different locations and that came in by post vs. in person get counted at different rates. This is common knowledge.
Yeah - I have to admit, I was impressed with your list of credits...
I live under a rock and haven't seen many of them, but I really enjoyed 'The Accountant' and I'm a sucker for anything Spiderman/Marvel
>why fight

because you give them an inch and they'll take a mile.

look up "menstruators" and "birthing people" to see what else that kind of people fight for.

>objectively clearer

then it wouldn't be necessary to force the change. nobody had a problem with these words until very recently, and only in very narrow circles of very loud people with disproportionate amount of power

>especially for folks who's first language is not English?

that's a very slippery slope
They want your platelets anyway, they are almost always in demand. Some types are more useful but anyone should consider!
Don't go to london then if you're scared of that. No one is social distancing in London.
> Using a pirate streaming service such as stremio is literally no more difficult than Netflix.

Nope. Just tried it. Literally not. It gives me the option to play movies, but nope. Can only play trailers.

There are addons, but they seem to use Torrent. I have no interest in streaming up to other people and redistributing the data. Is that set up automatically, or does it reuse my internet connection without informing me?

Also, with Netflix, I don't have to worry about copyright issues. Does streamio make that as easy?

None of this sounds literally as easy.

And again, literally cannot play a movie I can easily play on Netflix.
How about Mr Rogers. Sharing water with a black man was intensely political when he did it. On a childrens show no less.
I had a script that broke because someone changed master into main, put in an equation the 100 people that got satisfaction from this change and the tousands of people getting frustrated because of it.
If your objective is to make it harder for folks to parse what you're saying then you're succeeding. But you're not a "troll" so I don't think that is your aim.

If language is a system of communication, you are not using it actively; quite the opposite in fact.

Which leads me to ask, why do you choose to express yourself this way? For the fun of it?

Do you speak this way too?

I'm really curious. Your comments almost seem AI generated.
"Your margin is my opportunity."

Is this behavior significantly reducing the startup's competitiveness?

If so, this should be exploitable by a competitor. Assuming you don't have the bandwidth to directly work for or advise a competitor of this type, you might still be able to benefit as an investor.

If not... I have a hard time getting worked up about this. It's contrary to the dominant narrative, but if this female-dominated organization is actually doing a good job, I'm inclined to leave them alone and pay more attention to biases that actually harm businesses, because it's not like there's currently a shortage of those.

[additional note, in response to comments: I agree that this behavior still constitutes an injustice. However, among the numerous injustices in the world, one has to prioritize what to fight. My main point is that, as a practical matter, there are plenty of instances of biased hiring that ALSO reduce overall economic efficiency; let's fight those easier and more broadly profitable battles first.]
We need Clippy back, with webcam functionality. That way he can suggest ending the word in an “a” if you’re black. If you’re not he’ll report you to HR.
> There are plenty of examples of words and behaviours that were commonplace and then over time evolved to be unacceptable to use in polite company.

Cmon man, there's a big difference between the natural evolution of language and some radical-run company forcibly jamming their desired changes down our throats through an instantaneous and global software update.
A worse one is to me is that they aren't allowed to say "Quantum Supremacy", because it reminds some people of "White Supremacy"? Nevermind that you actually give that concept more power when you make it so that even discussing it or inadvertently bring it up is stigmatized. Things are starting to get kind of Orwellian.
No I’m pretty sure I don’t. But what would I know. I’m from a place where everyone gets to vote and nobody is prevented from doing so for BS reasons.
I'm pretty skeptical of labor unions in the U.S., but I can see how they could help with this kind of issue.
There's also been some recent evidence that donating blood can increase lifespan in men, with lowering serum iron levels suggested as the causal link.
If only there was a framework for making choices about actions.
I share these concerns as well, my advice to anyone that will listen is to save everything you can because this industry chews people up & spits them back out a lot faster than you would expect. And if you want longevity you had better try and get into management at a larger corporation.
As a user of Snapchat since high school (now 25), I’m noticing a resurgence in my friends using the platform. I never left because I never joined Instagram due to my distain for Facebook. Snap is a great app to keep in contact with “real” friends. I only have groups with true friends and only watch my friends’ stories.
Interesting - it’s completely anecdotal but several people I know have cancelled due to lack of interesting content.

And when people get invested in a show, Netflix cancels the show in year 2 or 3 before costs increase to retain talent.

I’m sure tightening spending will help with EPS but wallstreet is obsessed with growth and for Netflix that means subscribers.
> There's also the psychological part that HBO Max allows me to pay for the whole year upfront (Netflix doesn't) so I can close my eyes and just pay them $100 and be done with it.

Interesting. My behavior has been that when someone recommends a show on Netflix and I decide I want to watch it it subscribe and cancel which means I pay for 1 month. I watch the show. I've tried browsing for others but hate browsing on Netflix. I'm happy that "I'm done with it" immediately and that I'm not billed anymore. Netflix makes it super easy to start again, and to cancel and also like that having it cancelled provides a tiny hurdle against binging random stuff.
I agree that promises from these companies mean nothing.. but how much of a problem is this in todays gaming market though really?

many new games are free and rely on in-game transactions tied to an account outside of steam

There are no restrictions on the games I bought through steam that actually get in the way of me playing them - and there are a lot of conveniences offered like having access to my entire library on any machine with steam installed, or playing the games installed on my machine pretty much indefinitely offline. And being able to verify my game files and have them automatically fixed / updated

The games i bought a long time ago and still play have more than earned the money i spent on them anyway. if steam dies and i need to buy them again, i will and i will be happy to. if i cant find them anywhere because the games themselves died, ill make an image of my PC before upgrading it or uninstalling them and play them offline in a VM

there might be an itch here or there i cant scratch for whatever reason, but i can always buy a new game inspired by the same genre which is usually more fun than trying to recreate a nostalgic feeling anyway
> On a more extreme end, if someone intends to be racist, sexist, or exclusionary in their writing, and wants to draft that up in a Google document, they should be allowed to do that without an algorithm attempting to sanitize their intentions and confuse their readers.

The author does position themselves against algorithmic sanitization generally.