skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If they enforced the rules consistently then by that logic I could get any subreddit closed down by asking for things that are against the rules.

They just change the rules as needed. Look at /r/blackpeopletwitter, they have a rule that you can only post in "country club threads" if you have sent a picture of your skin color in to the mods to verify you aren't white, since they don't want white people posting in there.

When people pointed out the obvious hypocrisy of Reddit endorsing racial discrimination by one of its largest subs, they just re-wrote the rules to make it kosher.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/us/reddit-race-black-peop...
They'd be perfect for playing the rests.
Gradual inflation isn’t bad, but heavy inflation is. People’s savings get wiped out. High inflation can undo a lifetimes worth of work in a few short months / years.
Evolution is what I used for years until severl years ago when they greatly modified the way the email was stored. I switched back to Thunderbird. Now I discover TB is including more and more usage of sqlite (which is great for data, by my email is not data); my email is files.
Learning to drum can help children with behavioural problems
I've been hosting one of my larger sites (multiple frontend, backend and load balancers) on DO for years. This is the first major outage I can recall, and it only lasted 10 minutes. I've had more downtime on AWS.
You're completely right, which is why I took pains to avoid the word "civilizing." Colonization created an industrial base in its victim countries not as an end in itself, but as a means towards wealth extraction.
Ah, yes, thank you, it looks awesome! It doesn't have GPU options (which is fair, since this is standard C++). But I see now I could have figured out the answer to my question in just a few seconds. :)
that's a fair point and that's not what i meant.

partners should be supportive of each other and they should work together to solve problems. but a solution can include bringing in outside help.

the point is that any approach to solve a problem starts with looking at that problem with your partner and together deciding the next steps
> actively resisted allowing it to be modularized

and this is exactly the place where LLVM shines.
That there is no blocker doesn't mean there is isn't one.

I am as optimistic as they come, but let's look at much smaller problem: modeling an arbitrary analog circuit with DSP. The Nyquist theorem implies it's impossible to model such a circuit perfectly. Is there hope for perfectly modeling a physical brain with an electrical computer?
Yeah, there's typically little or nothing. No meaningful sentiments from the deceased. That's part of what the popular funeral poem "The Dash" plays on—everything that mattered in a life, by the time it's nothing but marks on a stone, is expressed in the distinctly inexpressive dash between the birth and death dates. It's rare to actually put anything about the life on there. "Loving father" or something is usually the most you get, if that. Sometimes poets or writers will compose a stanza for theirs, but those are exceptional.
I bet this sounds awesome in person. I hope this ends up in some sort of museum some day so I can hear it.
> Your claim is, given a conversation thread that appears to be between two sentient beings your claim is that one of these beings is not sentient and is only imitating sentience in a way that is indistinguishable from actual sentience.

It's only indistinguishable to an outsider, because one side of the conversation has practiced puppeting the other and is looking for confirmation instead of probing for flaws.

> This is an actual possibility. What you say may be true. The irrationality occurs because this claim is possible for ALL possible conversation threads here on HN.

It's just not worth it to spend much time considering whether every single conversation thread is fake, but sure it's possible. That is not irrational, and it's not a contradiction with dismissing the AI.

Neither kind of conversation proves there are two sentient actors to an observer. So "this isn't good enough" isn't a claim exclusively for the AI chat log.
> The unwillingness to break out of it, is because of the fetishization of car technology.

Careful tossing that first stone. This is Hacker News. Surely most people here have made some technology purchasing choices moreso for coolness than for practicality. Cars are simply one particular sort of technology.
Publish the list of customers - any person or organization purchasing this service is also complicit in a crime, right?
I tend to ship fairly quickly, at a high Quality (but not perfect) level, then go back and clean up, after it’s out there.

It’s important that the first release be extremely high Quality. I’m not a fan of lash-up MVPs.

I work very quickly, and do good work.

I just did that with the 2.0 version of one of my apps. I released 2.0 a couple weeks ago, and it’s at 2.1.4 (I think). I test, and solicit feedback. One of the releases covered feedback on the App Store.

It stops, after a few tweaks.
Sorry, may have been too vague on that point.

I do agree there is not likely to be some sort of mustache twirling excel crunching person in middle management who flips the "anti-party" switch. I do think that a lot of this stuff is the output of working groups who use data to tackle common issues you see in Unis though, generally with good intentions.

However there are certain times when this actually is the case.

For e.g. when it comes to Greek life you'll see many social/party related rules that are made specifically for/by their insurance providers. These often are things like you must keep a licensed bartender to serve drinks, everyone can only bring X amount that have to be checked in and served back them, every social event must be registered with the university etc.

As for minimizing liabilities, my university had many trainings you must go through if you're part of any student org. The trainings are, at least in my experiance, not useful and only serve as something the university can point to in the event of an issue and say "hey we tried". I'd assume it's standard practice for most colleges, and while there may be some level of true belief in the effectiveness of these trainings I really doubt it considering they mostly amounted to motivational speakers who charge obscene speaking fees.

This happened in dorms too, but is less extensive, and frankly more useful b/c it was student (RA) to student and not a speech.

Also see most COVID policy written related to a uni. Particularly in the beginning of the pandemic.

At my school, parents were forced to pickup their children from across the country in crowded dorms all at once. This was back when it was assumed covid had a huge death rate and was already spreading where we lived.

My assumption is this was done to minimize liability for the university, even at the expense of infecting anywhere these kids were going. I fail to see how this was medically the best move. There was no quarantine period, and no-one was given the ability to stay unless you had a valid reason. (This included greek life and other mixed university-managed + student org housing, which doubly makes no sense unless it was about liability, since they were entirely independent from university in terms of maintenance, access etc)

A bunch of orgs on my campus petitioned the university to stay, especially those with vulnerable family and we were universally told to leave or we'd be arrested for trespass.

Another was seeing that our university police department owned riot gear.

Sorry for ranting a bit, I do admit I have a chip on my shoulder about that.
there are far worse things out there run by shady grey/black-market hosting companies than misconfigured DNS servers.
My threshold for whether a mob is legitimate is looting, I have no tolerance for your cause if your mob starts looting. Note however that police stations and capital buildings are a fair target.
It conveniently omits the debt held by the US on the federal level, which is 133 % of GDP, or more than any of the countries listed except Italy at 151 %. And there is no debt on the EU level.
I don't think this makes any sense if it's supposed to be the same analogy as your previous post.
Cryptocurrency plunges as crypto “bank” Celsius suspends withdrawals
I also chased down a few others that had pretty solid justification: the band seems to have had a reputation of both hazing and trying to cover for or silence sexual assault accusations.

I'm not saying the article has no point to make, but I'm not sure Stanford is the hill to die on for this cause. When many of the examples the article gives fall apart on inspection it starts to look like Stanford had a lot of truly fucked up shit going on in a very systemic way.
I think there's a really interesting question in there of "is it a cause, or an effect," that I honestly don't have a strong opinion on currently.

I would lean towards cause instead of effect, though.

So where you say, "low hanging fruit has been picked resulting in high barrier to entry," I say, "this zero-sum-game of maximizing academic profiles starting in preschool has resulted in higher barriers to entry because the less well-off you are, the harder it is to both know what to maximize and have the time to do it."

I see it as a "everyone's defecting in a prisoner's dilemma resulting in everyone having a worse time" game theory problem.

If you try to be "merit" based but don't have reliable ways of separating "merit" from "grinding" then you're gonna end up with a lot of grinders as people figure it out.
> Nature activities are "endemically white"? Is this a serious comment?

Yes, people seriously say that. Here's a few examples from a quick search:

From 2016: https://www.sierraclub.org/outdoors/2016/12/unbearable-white...

From 2017: https://www.outsideonline.com/culture/opinion/outdoor-indust...

From 2021: https://www.healthline.com/health/outdoor-health/hiking-is-b...
That's typical of governments going through a deleveraging. Ray Dalio's "How the economic machine works in 30 minutes" video on youtube explains the situation quite well. That said though, the money obtained for this stimulus was largely printed by the Fed (a horrible decision IMO).

But I wouldn't put the blame for this mess solely on the Fed and government. Really it's society's collective greed, self-centeredness, incompetence, and financial irresponsibility of overpromising/can-kicking for several decades that's got us here...
People counting and trying to ration how many individual beers this poor guy gets to have on his one camping trip are proving my point. As if that really changes the equation. Also, I'm not sure if you are aware, but they shrank the size of beers.

I listed beer and cigarettes, because its a common vice of lower class working people. Less so than it used to be. But $15 dollars is just for one pack. So the guy is rationing his cigarettes if that makes you feel better.

Also just tanked up, and it was $130. So a $50 would be less than half a tank of gas in my car. It's about a 2 or 3 hour drive one way, if you live in Toronto and go camping up north and/or get stuck in traffic.

Most of Ontario, at least the populated parts, do not have free camping anywhere near, and other places have no trespassing laws.
Cheaper campsites do exist, but really not by that much. $35 is pretty common, at least it was a few years ago. But do you really want to be stuck by the highway listening to cars going by in your budget campsite. I thought Provisional parks were built for the citizens to enjoy nature. And if you're going to save up for camping trip for so long, I hope you at least go to a good place.

You can't collect firewood anywhere you paid for camping. That has been my experience. I definitely would not try collecting firewood in a provincial park. I've read about someone that collected mushrooms in a local park, and they were fined over 5k.
You're also not allowed to bring wood with you.

Also, I just came back from the grocery store. A bag of cherries, which are in season, btw, were $15/kg. Low quality pork sausages (full of fat) are over $10. Salmon or any fresh fish fillet $25+. Real food, or even "processed corn" food prices are sky rocketing in Canada. If it was me going camping, $50 that would even be that much for Friday Evening, Saturday, and Sunday morning.
The administrators have gotten insufferable. In 2019 I co-ran an event for student-alumni bonding that invites alumni from all years, mostly families, to come back to the school and share a large historic feast with students. The administrators did not like that this would include alumni from a dormitory that was closed for 'policy violations' (note: most of these alumni are perfectly functional parents and adults! they have no interest in debauchery with undergrads) so they tried everything to sabotage this student-alumni gathering.

At one point they claimed, verbatim, that 'preparing and serving potato salad presents a liability to the Institute' when discussing the tradition of students and alumni preparing side dishes together. Potato salad liability... we built a wooden rollercoaster in the courtyard the previous year!
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18340693
> that's a fair point and that's not what i meant.

Apologies for the misunderstanding, then. Agree that keeping one's partner "in the loop", especially early on [edit: early on in seeking help for something, that is, not early on in the relationship], is generally advisable.
> more like roommates.

I've semi-jokingly referred to my relationship as 'like roommates'. We've discussed at length that 'this time in our lives' is the busiest we've ever been with early teen kids playing various sports, playing musical instruments, having braces, dealing with hormones and their personalities developing into 'who they're going to be as adults', fuck it's a lot.

I just had a couple of days off sick, and it was like a fucking holiday.

Unsolicited advice: If your long term relationship hasn't yet reached 'pre- and early-teen kids', then make sure you're ready for it. Get your house in order, because it's going to feel like your life and dreams are on pause for five to ten years whilst you develop the best little adults you possibly can. And you will need each other to lean on for the duration.
Bitcoin crashes right after Tether does (which I expect to happen this year at 80% likelihood).
Crypto Billionaire Fortunes Vanish as Quickly as They Were Made
So much awesome here, you having the revelation, taking action to change what needed to be changed, feeling the positive outcome, then sharing it. <3
> Nature activities are "endemically white"? Is this a serious comment?

The Unbearable Whiteness of Hiking and How to Solve It - https://www.sierraclub.org/outdoors/2016/12/unbearable-white...

Why Are Our Parks So White? - https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/12/opinion/sunday/diversify-...

The unbearable whiteness of cycling - https://theconversation.com/the-unbearable-whiteness-of-cycl...

Five ways to make the climate movement less white - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/21/five-ways-to...

(but also Why climate action is the antithesis of white supremacy - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/19/why-yo...)

Why are so many white men trying to save the planet without the rest of us? - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/08/white-...
Please read your sources, Turner did not carry out the assault at KA. He and the victims met at a part at KA and Turner assaulted after leaving the fraternity. The article writes that it was "just outside" but it was out of sight of the fraternity house, some ways away.
$21k now, dropping 3k a day.
What if a customer used the name of a person they dislike?
As someone who is written over 300 articles on my blog I can relate to the feeling of wondering if my words even matter or make difference. Feeling like they don't matter is the easiest way to quit.

Some articles have made a splash, but only for the momentary period it was first published. I always wonder if the next generation of people will ever see it, or will it just get lost in the void.

I've come to terms that it doesn't matter if it helps people or not. What keeps me writing is all the interesting thoughts and ideas I want to share. It's a way to express what's inside of me to the few people that want to listen.

If you can make writing so engaging to you to where you want to play it like a video game, you've cracked the code to being a writer.
why would you want to work for evilCorp when you just be evilIndy (bullwhip and hat not included).
Yeah, in that case the nit I'm picking is just that it started a few hundred years prior to industrializing in the name of religious conversion + greed even without any ability to bring meaningful technological quality of life changes.

(It's a fun way to back yourself into being pro-military-spending, this history... the technological advantage of the Europeans was really just in military tech, because the continent had been far more war-ridden than the states involved in the more-recently-quite-peaceful trade around the ocean. And so if you don't have the weapons, you might get screwed by another country that does.)
Sponsor Block is another good one.
I noticed whole foods seems to have has labeling wrt how the chickens are raised. That said, aside from eggs the chickens are eaten in the end. (and I wonder about eggs, I've heard some are fertilized)
The article well documents that they have come for the coops. It’s not speculation.
wouldn't say it's a miss, I thoroughly enjoyed the article :)

There is a warranted high emphasis during technical discussions in setting up frameworks / architecture for the objective measureable metrics, but not enough for the developer experience. Though it seems subjective, I do think developer experience has a direct correlation to employee retention and velocity. When I was at Meta, the dev ux there has to be one of the best i've experienced in the industry, it almost nails every point laid out in the article, errr except documentation, but with the consistency of tech used in the monorepo, you can figure things out really. As an IC, you do feel empowered to just build and create, the architecture supports such behavior and guard you from making dumb mistakes, guards such as static typing, code reviews, automated tests, etc.

I stayed longer than I should because not only it was fun to build in that environment but with great dev ux, you will also have a higher baseline expectations of other engineer's work in terms of building tooling for other devs, self feeding loop, you'd learn to design your product in with dev ux in mind.
I don't think your disagreement with a couple points in the essay really merits a knee-jerk conclusion that the whole thing is untrustworthy.

You didn't show anything the author said was dishonest or egregiously wrong. You just have your own ideas on a couple of particulars.
Wow this was prophetic.
> Apple provides decent advice on writing.

> Right-wing snowflake is offended that they can't write sloppy shit instead.

Truly this looks like a parody of American mass politics.
That’s a fair point - I guess they probably don’t have a good list of user/company names.
This was wonderful to read.

I lived in a similar beautiful mess, but it still exists!

https://pika.mit.edu/
One thing I've heard about even modern compilers is that they don't really release memory during compilation, as it's faster just to use the memory and release it all when the process exits. How true is that?
> how is that not putting code in the driver's seat?

Because humans enter into them.

What you're describing is not a problem of the code making decisions for people, it's a problem of people not being able to back out of something once they've made the decision.

I think there's definitely an argument around if this is worth it or not, but it's a different issue. An issue that's akin to many decisions in real life. To take a dramatic example, this is akin to firing a gun. Once fired, a bullet cannot be taken back, but the bullet is not in control, but it is a situation created entirely by human agency.

I suppose the devs who create the software we're talking about would have some agency in the previous scenarios. But I wouldn't be nearly as concerned if the people in, say, the train car were entirely the devs that wrote the train car door automation software.

I guess the distinction I'm trying to make is people being forced into a situation vs people voluntarily entering a situation (even if they might not be happy with the situation later). In the former situation, I'd describe that as people not being in control, in the latter I'd describe the people involved as being in control.
> They each consider themselves “the one true society”, and generally try to expand as much as possible and make everyone else second class citizens.

No, that is imperialism. You're trying to eliminate the option of a society that doesn't try to expand, but also doesn't accept all outsiders, by shifting definitions.
Not that it matters to most, but as a K9 and Thunderbird user, and a user who often jumps on the complain/concern bandwagon when acquisitions etc. are announced: I'm pleased with this news.

Wary of future problems? Sure.

But I don't think I could imagine a better set of news for my two favorite email clients. Well. Unless some big moneybags company started investing in DeltaChat. But let's do one pipe dream at a time!
Wow FAANG waited 5 months to finish this PR masterpiece
a methodology for detecting exposed open source products such as nginx, apache, microsoft-iis and lighttpd
No, I think we completely disagree, you're just misreading my statement.

I say that inflation was too low 1990-2020 not because they mismeasured it, but because the Fed kept the rates too high.

The CPI basket undermeasures volatility, but it's not bad at measuring inflation. Not great, but every alternative basket I've seen proposed has been worse.
Even without computers there was an overwhelming amount of information available in 1970.

(well, computers for access, I guess they had some impact on publishing and such by then)
Bro, it's not the job, it's you not standing up to your oppressive wife.

The longer hours mean you spend less time with her so you're happier, the pay rise means she can spend it so she's happier and the decision making you get at the job gives you a sense of manhood which you are obviously lacking at home.

Give it time and your wife will again become unhappy with the status quo and demand more and once again you will be unhappy and blame your job.
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