skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It just seems arbitrary to me and feels like an arbitrary change to give someone the opportunity to seize the moral high ground in a disagreement by labeling you ableist.

It is 100% arbitrary. Languages evolve arbitrarily. they're not planned. The word was a medical term that if you think about the literal meaning is simply descriptive. But that doesn't matter. What matters is usage. It has changed from a descriptive term to a significant insult for many.

It is, by definition, 100% abelist. Its current usage is to demean someone for their limited / different mental ability. There's no difference between making fun of someone for their mental ability or making fun of someone for their physical ability. No one argues that calling someone in a wheelchair a "cripple" is abelist. Why would you argue that calling someone with mental disability "retarted" isn't?
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APE is for αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε [0], a kind of executable bundle that runs from the exact same file on Linux, MacOS, Windows, DOS, BSD, etc.

Cosmopolitan is a libc for that bundle [1], so that you can write your C code just the once, and then you have just the one output executable. No download-per-platform, or that's the goal.

[0] https://justine.lol/ape.html

[1] https://justine.lol/cosmopolitan/index.html
> the bottom line (to me) is that Facebook just doesn't respect its users or care about their needs.

Wouldn't a consequence of this be that Facebook would be losing users in drovers? And yet the data seem to disagree. This is a type of take that feels very "inside baseball" and fueled more by the feelings of its proponents than any kind of empiricism.
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That's an interesting perspective to me, since I'm the complete opposite with detail work. I feel like I am very much a little-picture person.

Most of my career I tend to strike out billable line items, close tickets, and became very comfortable with it. I found it easier to get in the groove of things with feature work coming in and chugging through it at a predictable pace.

It's true that you bury yourself in the details that way, but I didn't mind it.

However, this little-picture focus turned out to be bad for me in the long run.

I avoided small talk with co-workers, there was little to no casual socializing, after work I just want to shut my brain off and turn on Netflix or a video game when I'm back home.

Because of my focus of tallying down complete items being more important, I saw writing code as the only important thing there is to my job and career. I stopped noticing my coworker's needs around me, the company's greater needs, and the industry trends around me.

It included not caring about network building, company meets or other "extracurriculars" that will get you noticed and have a peer put in a good word for you.

I didn't want to manage big things, whether it's my network or my skillset. I just wanted to live in the moment and meet my boss's demands each day without worrying.

Consequently I would have to change focus now that I know how important the big picture is and not to ignore it. If I had to choose an alternative I might go for a ECE career or perhaps aerospace. Both will however require a full degree- you can't easily self-teach your way into those types of careers.
Making this about Pluton rather than about TPMs in general just means that people will believe they're somehow safe from the worst case outcome because they bought a CPU that doesn't have Pluton

They certainly will be, if most people don't have Pluton. If only a minority have it, they wouldn't be able to even come close to requiring it.
I love the ideas here, but...

* if posts are limited to 2217 bytes with no external references then that excludes the richness of images, something I really enjoy about the modern web. Am I misunderstanding something?

* I think there's a pile of room for the client to display things differently from that imagined here. ultimately we would end up with clients that implement their own "algorithm", but that's a good thing because we're in charge of it.

* I always get irrationally stressed about the inefficiency of pinging a server every hour for a resource that only gets modified once a year, one of the use cases noted in the article. That's a lot of wasted 304 not-modified's.
When I started using Facebook it wasn't a newsfeed, it was just a personal homepage with a photo album and a bulletin board attached.

I'd love to have something like that again that everyone uses, but everything is about goosing the influencer economy now rather than letting me socialize.
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Remote workers, how do you stop thinking about work?
It’s the end of your work day.
You close your laptop.
You step away from your desk.
Your head is hurting from eye strain.
You’re telling yourself to chill out but your mind keeps going back to work.

You’re thinking, did I rub people the wrong way with my presentation? How am I going to solve this problem that seems so hard to solve? What if I fail?

What do you do to stop ruminating about work and get on with your life outside of work?
+1, also ex-CircleCI employee.

(high-five!)
> although of course Google will never tell you that or confirm or deny this

this sounds like security by obscurity. Why are people ok with this?
The OS is a small part of the business cost, and switching all productivity products is going to take retraining, lost productivity, and likely compatibility issues. Why would anyone do this to themselves?
I'm already there for McDonalds. No idea how to order what I want from those machines.
Creole language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole_language
The engineering reality is that, much of the time, information asymmetry is a big help when you’re an anti-abuse engineer trying to build systems that distinguish good traffic from bad. It’s not an “undisclosed vulnerability” to build a very effective heuristic that wouldn’t be effective if it were public knowledge.
Why would ByteDance IPO?
> If you are one of the researchers who is in the experimental group with lifetime capped funding ... your career is going to be really impacted

If you believe, as I do, that a functional "science" is the most important force in making the future better than the past, would not this be a worthy sacrifice? In terms of its impact on all of humanity, now and forevermore. I would also think that true scientists would at least be the most likely to be sympathetic to this rationale.
'creole' has developed a linguistic meaning that parallels the ethnic one you may be interpreting.

From Wikipedia: a stable natural language that develops from the simplifying and mixing of different languages into a new one within a fairly brief period of time: often, a pidgin evolved into a full-fledged language.

I still found the comment to be a bit of a stretch with that usage.
They just posted their first net user loss - so maybe not "in droves" but their username is certainly declining and will continue to do so without drastic change
Thanks for the info, Cosmopolitan Libc looks like a cool project.
> I want the slow web back where I can chew on long form content and mull over large pieces of text and long winded podcasts…

It is what you make it, really.

I watch YouTubers who make long videos, go deep diving on subjects which have no real use in my daily life and have very, very few apps on my phone — all but one are something which makes my life easier than not having it and the exception is because I want to buy a condo.

No Instagrams, Facebooks, TikToks, Twitters, nothing.

I don’t even feel I’m missing out on anything worthwhile either.
One problem is that finance and big business siphon off bright graduates in search of benjamins, and all you have left is academics looking for grants.
What does no equity cliff mean in the context of a layoff?

If you're year 1.5 into a 4 year vest, you get all 4? or 2?
I just assumed (since they're a hackerspace, and most hackerspaces are).

Looks like I was wrong.
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Vlad can't even build drones. LOL.
Basically, if a shareholder somewhere benefits, _it must be a good thing_. Multiply by market share to determine tie breakers.
If you are teachable and motivated only. Otherwise not so much
Or theyd move overseas where they can get more funding.
Where? Every single scraped LinkedIn post is of a civilian who held a civilian role.
Apple brought the sensibilities that made their computers interesting to other consumer electronics. Facebook seems to be doing the opposite and trying to mimic whatever's popular. The only "Facebook" sensibility they ever bring to the table seems to be figuring out ways to over-optimize and over-monetize until the golden-egg-laying-goose dies.
It was a perfectly reasonable assumption!
Sure but we're talking revenue, not gross margins.
Sounds like there must be a few classes required, probably three. Before Covid there were group classes, so there'd be four people paying $25 each, learning together. Then as restrictions eased they started only one-on-one classes, at the relatively higher prices.
Supermarkets crucially already have a customer support infrastructure and you can physically go to them to work out issues. If the burden is simply to have human customer support you can speak to then the burden is already fulfilled.

It is absurd that it is impossible to speak to a human at Google unless you have a loud enough platform. Amazon is similar too in many cases. As an Amazon seller the robot once decided that the price for an item on sale wasn’t correct. I told the robot it was in fact correct. The customer support person who I was able to reach after an incredible runaround told me through text only communication that the solution was to change the price either higher or lower. There was no way they could manually verify it. The robot had decided. In the end it took multiple guesses of adjusting the price to figure out what the Amazon robot would accept. This is beyond stupid.
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Can hn just ban twitter sources. Too much cruft for little information.
Where are you getting this information? AFAIK, 2Q22 earnings (and metrics) are released tomorrow. The whispers I've heard are that any loss of M/DAU is contained to Europe and is caused by Russia going offline.
Users who believe they can get something out of Facebook that speaks to their vanities or insecurities will ignore being disrespected or not cared about by the platform. Moreover, many of those users will accept the terms because their use of the platform is free. Some users might be consciously aware of the fact that the disrespect and lack of caring is mutual, and accept it that way.

"Facebook doesn't respect me or my needs, but I likewise don't respect Facebook or care about its needs. so it's kind of fair. It's free, and I think I'm getting more out of it than it's getting out of me. Plus almost everyone I know is on there, so ..."
As long as you people they will keep doing it?
Yes, I agree that it's the fine distinctions at the upper end that are hard to make. But if we're going to eliminate 50% of the proposals, is that really going to reduce the amount of time people spend on them? It might reduce reviewer time (which would certainly be welcome!), but I'm not so sure it reduces the submitter's time.

It comes down to whether the large amount of time spent is from people polishing and re-submitting stuff that's good but not "great", or whether it comes from the initial stages of getting something to that good quality to start. In my experience, it's the latter. And if that's typical, then I don't see how the lottery helps.
Thanks for your work. I've been using your repos to learn more about bash scripting.
I would recommend Go. It would be easier to learn, and it's syntactically more similar to established languages like C, C#, Java, and the like, so it would be a good introduction to them.

If he wants to make a game, which is the reason I picked up programming when I was 13, I strongly recommend giving him Godot and having him learn GDScript, which is basically a dialect of Python 3. It would be enjoyable for him, and he'd have something tangible, fun, and hands-on.
If you don't much on it that seems right. That seems like generic content. I used to get a lot of that, now mine is the stuff I follow. Mostly art and people I know in real life
> Did Facebook ever really need to become such a behemoth?

How many non-behemoths survived and are still used by real people?

Even something like IRC is pretty much dead these days because it is too simple.
They're hired for the people that don't understand why they'd be hired.
Even if so, the point here needs more information: are they going to a different platform which respects them and cares about their needs? Or just some different-but-same thing?
Yes, I use a card to pay YouTube Premium and the same card is "not supported" to pay Google Workspace.
>Facebook is reckless with data. Just read up on the Cambridge Analytica scandal. They were even sharing facebook messenger conversations with third party data consumers.

I did, and it says that they gave message access to users that authorized it to. Saying "Facebook is reckless with data" because of this makes as much sense as saying that google is "reckless" with your data because people are constantly downloading shady flashlight apps and granting them location permissions.
Know your coworkers enough to manage expectations. Know who to ask and collaborate with if you're stuck.

Have a separate space for work. Don't go there unless you're working or cleaning it.

Have engaging activities and hobbies outside work. Exercise. Cook. Meet with friends or family. Play a game. Watch a movie.
>msan requires rebuilding the standard library or something

Yes, which is a PITA. But even then, macOS is not supported anyway:

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/MemorySanitizer.html#supported-p...
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I suspect something was miscommunicated to you somewhere, and, as a to-be-former community resident, I would like to apologize for that.

I'm not what one'd describe as holding my breath over what's happening, but I'd like to do what I can to prevent this from unduly disrupting my anonymous-to-me companion's campaign.

While the monthly membership fee is actually a little higher than you remember, all the classes I've taken were either $20 or $40, and probably $60 today; I just haven't taken any recently.

I just asked the front desk. Our priciest equipment class is/was [e: less than half the aforementioned figure] for a two-hour session for members.
Sounds like we're on the same page. The only way a government can truly function is by indirect rule by its people.
That depends on how much those supposed 50TB hard drives cost in four years.

Though even if hard drive prices stay completely stagnant at $14/TB during sales, I'd still get a hard drive for videos and backups rather than pay $25.
> It’s sad because that type of person to person social connection is being relegated back to instant messengers which still function more or less like the ones from the 2000s.

What about mixing forum-like experience with open messaging? That's what we're doing over at https://sqwok.im
I wrote a Lua script to do the same thing once.

Mentioned it to an old Unix hand, she replied "hmm, what about `xxd -i < file`"?

Live and learn.
As an old hacker and daily Signal user, I have mixed feelings. I want my freedom, but I recognize centralizing controlling effects can help the “network” with quality issues. As maligned as Nintendo’s NES era policies towards third-parties, there was a direct historical reason for it. Shit quality tanked the industry.

So imagine a world of half-baked, likely insecure clients popping up, creating confusion and chaos around what is a great tool / protocol.

It’s… hard.
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Picasa died a long, long time ago. Must work offline.
Is there an example of the redesign? I was hoping to see screenshots on the article. I haven't had an account since 2018 or so.
Bring on Matrix protocol.
Fwiw I've literally worked with Nicholas (but not on valgrind) and I only learned this today somehow.
I want the slow web back

Here you go: https://jakeseliger.com/. Scroll through and note the most interesting or useful venues. Then, there are an array of RSS readers available; I've been using NetNewsWire but think that Feedly seems to be the most common.

The "slow web" never left.
Sounds exhausting and unhealthy to never take a day off
This article could use some peer review. Not the author's peers, who appear to be "science pundits," but from people with experience in managing research portfolios.
I sometimes try to use Facebook to find events and such. Finding an old invite to my friends event was quite impossible since it was drowned out by spam. It feels like it could have a lot of utility but the incentives are very misaligned.
I could use VNC-watch. Which does nothing but shows a copy your phone screen. Or some part of it.

Or even better -- you could have full access of your phone, you could start apps and zoom in.

And some apps could have special corner for VNC-watch viewing and the watch would automagically zoom to that area. Endless possibilities.
If that's true, then it doesn't make sense for the public to invest so heavily in it. Humanities research also is valuable in ways that are immeasurable and is also a good end.

The public got invested because it had a lot of useful outcomes in the 20th century.
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Curious fact I discovered a few years ago: land use by airports and railroads in the US is roughly the same.

Airports tend to be large sprawling regions of urban land. Rail tends to be linear.

I'm not sure that the comparison is entirely fair: rail accounts for a small fraction of total passenger travel (though commuter rail is a surprisingly large portion). However there's an astounding amount of freight rail.

It's also possible to dual-use land near rail, especially where it counts (urbanised regions), through elevated, trenched, or subway routing. Mind, even then there may be noise and vibration issues, so you'd probably want to keep rail at some distance from residential areas, though I hear airports may have similar issues as well.

Freight rail also has a history of very large switching yards in areas. Compare the CSX yards near Chicago Midway Airport. Net direct land use appears roughly comparable.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=41.7813916%2C%2D8...

Mind that other transport modes also have large land-use demands. Private automobiles command a third or more of all land in many cities through streets and parking.
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You deserve to get killed for protesting. Edgy stuff.
Wait till they hear about all the people who pretend to need money for money.
The feelings you described are totally normal. One day you will know that you can solve the problem. One day you will know that you won't fail. One day you will collect feedback after the presentation and continue to learn how to do better the next time.

Also, maybe this job just isn't the right fit for you if you are constantly doubting yourself and feeling unsure. It may be a good time to start planning toward the next move a few months from now.
The incentives need to align with the users for it to work on the long term.
Well under normal conditions (no degenerate matter)- the material with the lowest molar volume should give a good idea. At least on earth, this happens to be diamond: so ~1.7 * 10^20 atoms / mm^3.

With one bit per atom: 20 million TB.
It should have been "sysadminless", which is equally accurate (sysadmins still exist) but truer to the purpose of these technologies.
It can even lead one to the Pits of Despair.
Hum... Just like any SaaS company out there.

I wonder if somebody will create a "keep track of your friends" application again. There is obviously a need, but there isn't a channel that enables it to appear anymore, unless Google allows (hum... that's how industries die).

Anyway, user hostile is how any software acts nowadays. From becoming difficult to interact with, exploiting the user on unexpected ways, all the way into refusing to fulfill its primary use case. Users don't seem to care.
I like it too especially for the reusable hardcovers. But glue bindings are quite more portable and could take more abuse. The punch holes take in some stress if you fuss a lot with the pages. For smaller booklets I just staple them together on the margin with like 12 staples 5mm from the edge. I often double side print myself a few articles or tutorials to read on the go and stapling never let me down.
Stuff in ~/.ssh/config which complements the git config in OP:

Host foo.bitbucket.org
HostName bitbucket.org
User git
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/foo_id

As in, for using bitbucket.org with the private key ~/.ssh/foo_id, you'd instead clone from foo.bitbucket.org:owner/repo.
This is such a naive take on this issue. Just because it is possible to live without Google doesn’t make it easy. Even if you try to actively avoid all of these companies you’re still going to most likely end up with your data harvested via third parties fed back into their machine meaning you’re still padding their bottom line. People are not going to suddenly switch to Linux on the desktop or Google-services free android forks en masse because they’re demanding better services.

Maybe they die and get replaced but in between that happening you are still having to deal with the realities of the situation you are currently. People just want shit that works and for most of them it does most of the time. But some people get absolutely fucked and there is no good excuse for it.
I would say that, while exercise is important, I wouldn't try and regiment it from the get go. Part of getting healthy mentally is just not guilting yourself about... anything. Forget about the things you have to do every day for a while, and this person might already be exercising anyway. I would recommend to continue that if they're already doing it, and exploring some new physical things if they want, but you kind of just need to give yourself the space to do what you want.
people have tried this with various ideologies (Christianity, Islam, communism, Nazism, etc).

I am not aware of a case where structuring a whole society around a single belief system or value system has worked out well.

Maybe diversity is actually a good thing.
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Good luck. TikTok is amazing.

Facebook tries so hard to push junk and noise content at you it’s ridiculous. They’ve become a parody of themselves, and the obvious knockoff of TikTok looks pitiful.
It's not an opinion; I'm simply stating a fact about the cultural background from which I come (British middle class). It will sound snobbish/arrogant. I make no apologies for that - I'm just offering it as a data point in case it's helpful to the conversation.

In British middle class society, where people have attended "good" universities, you don't use a thesaurus. It would be looked-down upon.

Incidentally, what do you use a thesaurus for? Is it when you've forgotten a word, or when you want to discover new words that might be apt?
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That 'fire the bottom 10% rule' was true in the 80's and 90's and was pioneered by Jack Welsh at GE, and notably Microsoft did a similar thing with their 'stack ranking' system. It's a lot less popular in management today because it breeds a divisive and political employee base that is more concerned about saving their own jobs than productively working towards the company's goals.
Agreed. "actually portable" carries special significance in the context of αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε.
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