skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This wasn't always the case -- there was a considerable amount of resistance to the idea that choice-based games were equivalent to parser IF in the community as recently as 10 years ago.

There were a few related factors that led to the current state, where if anything parser IF is more on the margins than choice-based IF.

The first is that choice-based IF is far, far easier to write, debug, and release than parser-based IF. The barrier to entry is _much_ lower.

Because of this, the diversity of authors participating in the IF scene expanded quite a bit. Parser-based IF skewed really heavily toward the programmer demographic. Twine and other choice-based options brought in a lot of LGBTQ and minority authors who wanted to tell their stories but didn't have the programming background to do so with a parser-based engine.

Twine and other choice-based engines were designed web-first. They incorporated graphics and other visual features enabled by the browser environment while parser-based engines were still effectively stuck in VT-100 emulation mode.

Finally, choice-based IF is also often better at simulating interpersonal interaction and conversation than parser-based IF.

Parser-based IF stagnated for quite a while. Graham Nelson's Inform 7 programming language was a work of staggering genius, but it was a closed-source one man show for a very long time and didn't update to keep pace with what the choice-based engines were doing.

Inform 7 has just recently been open-sourced, with a rearchitected pipeline that should allow for some interesting integrations and enhancements. It will be interesting to see whether there's still sufficient interest around the tool such that the community brings it into the modern era. I certainly hope there is!
Rosa Parks publicly broke the law and was publicly punished for it, because that's how civil disobedience works. In doing so, she engendered significant public sympathy and acted as a spur to change minds and, eventually, laws.

Comparing that to hiding your financial transactions so you avoid KYC is genuinely embarrassing.
Roundabouts don’t have to take up more room than a stop-signed junction. We call them mini-roundabouts, and they’re often just painted on the ground and slightly raised so that you can still drive over them.
Can't wait to try Passkeys on Safari 16 as I just implemented this "passwordless" flow on my auth server
https://github.com/authcompanion/authcompanion2
>you can't deny that a black woman has had a vastly difference life experience than a white man

Of all the people at my company, black and white, male and female, I am the only one from a poor background. My life experience is vastly different from all of them.

This is the issue with defining life experience or diversity purely in terms of race and sex.

I think the demand for a simple and easy answer to diversity (we have x% from group y!) Is well intentioned but very counterproductive.
Bit by bit, we've got:

> it's all sort of comically smug

Tonal critique, valid but not worth much.

> everybody else in the entire world is wrong, and here is a 7-point axiomatic derivation proving it

What argument doesn't take this form? If you're making an argument you yourself agree with, then yeah, the implication is that you disagree with people who disagree with it. Axiomatic derivations will be involved, because... why wouldn't they be?

> much of it depending on specific definitions of specific words

I think what you must mean here is surprising definitions of certain words (otherwise, again, what argument doesn't have this characteristic?). I personally was not surprised by the usage of any of the major words in the article. Certainly some of the words are really "improper nouns", like "diversity", but it's clear from context what the different sorts of diversity being discussed are.

> Check-mate, atheists!

Maybe tonal critique?
Looking at the OECD report (possibly the wrong one?) I couldn't find any mention of bicycles except as an alternative to cars to mitigate the problem... Given the faaaar lower mass even of heavy bicycles, I would want to see the actual evidence before worrying too much about the bike contribution to particulate pollution.

(rider mass / vehicle mass is a lovely shorthand for vehicle efficiency, as it says a lot about how much acceleration you're 'wasting' on the vehicle. Braking, of course, produces a negative acceleration, so lower mass ratio ~> better efficiency. Aim for a ratio of < 1.0...)

https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/4a4dc6ca-en/1/3/2/index....
Some of the suburbs, some states. Jackson is somewhat unusual in that only three towns that would be considered suburbs are in the same county as the bulk of the city itself. Northern suburbs are a second county, and eastern ones yet a third.

Even then, though, cities cannot usually tax outside their boundaries, and county tax rates will be lower (often much, although you're also going to get rural levels of government services in return for your rural-level taxes - the suburbs generally have their own police, schools, fire, etc., rather than relying on the county).
They certainly seem to have a hand for... uncanny projects.

Like a clock that shows you what percentage of your life is over.
Most of China's production is on behalf of the US and other countries. It enriches the political elite and Americans, but does not directly benefit the rest much.
Something that takes PL theory concepts and puts them into practice:

- dependent types

- algebraic effects

- linear types

- algebraic data types

- higher kinded types

- homoiconicity (so it'd have to be Lisp-like, but typed)

- borrow checking, and beyond, such as region borrow checking

- cross-platform, JITed, as well as ahead of time compilation in release mode

- static metaprogramming
(Speaking of the US) Our society has historically created great differences in opportunity. It is unarguable that white males have disproportionately benefited[1][2][3].

Affirmative action / Diversity Initiatives are a blunt instrument that attempts to address these historical inequities. If e.g., a student from a school in a poor area had the same quality of a K-12 education, did not have to worry about tuition (I.e., make university free again) / living expenses to be able to continue at university as the wealthy kid, affirmative action could have been phased out from higher ed.

The problem is that the inequities continue, so what should have been a short-term policy to address historical inequities has become a long-term papering over of deep issues in our society.

Policies to allow affirmative action to be phased out in higher ed might include, funding K-12 schools equitably instead of based on local property tax revenue + parental donations. Changing college entrance policies to accept only the top n students from any school, to create an incentive for wealthy to place their children in "worse" schools which would incentivize those same wealthy to properly fund all schools. Paying the parents of the children in the "bad" schools a wage that allows them a life with dignity and time to spend with their children. Mandatory paid time off so sick children are not just left on their own at home (possibly getting into trouble). Policing that doesn't target certain demographics foreclosing future opportunities-- e.g., a kid with an arrest record is barred from attending paramedic classes at the local community college. Etc.

We need to make fundamental changes in all areas of society to address inequities in opportunity just in college / university admissions. A great side effect is poor rural whites would benefit just as much as other marginalized groups by systemically addressing the issues (one fewer way for the wealthy elite to divide us). But, our society has collectively decided it is easier just to keep affirmative action / diversity programs around.

Workplaces are downstream from schools, so everything that needs to be solved around equitable access to education needs to occur before the "temporary" policies to address the fallout of not addressing our societal issues systemically can be phased out at the workplace.

[1] https://www.history.com/news/gi-bill-black-wwii-veterans-ben...

[2] https://www.nber.org/digest/dec02/gi-bill-world-war-ii-and-e...

[3] https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history...

Edit: fixed grammar
How will the runtime system know to invalidate and recompile the code, if the alert check isn't being done on every call?

At some level, the check for the alert has to be done on every call. If it isn't being done, the one time there should be an alert it will be missed. If it is being done, where is it being done if not in the optimised JITted code, and how is that code even more optimised than the JITted version would be? Why not just put that optimisation in the JITted code?
I have a friend in NYC who's two years out of school and seems to be close to this as an application security engineer at a biotech company in manhattan. Personally, I hate security work like pentesting etc, its the worst parts of DevOps with the most business risk possible duct-taped to it.

Granted, he makes more than I do as a product eng / core dev.

For reference, I don't know exact numbers but he didn't seem too phased paying $3400/mo. for an apt in midtown. Assuming this is maybe 1/3 of his post-tax take-home. For privacy reasons can't go into too much more detail.
We have outdoor malls around Atlanta that are incredibly active.

We also have Lenox where people get shot over shoes on what seems like a weekly basis. It’s still very pretty active, though.
I think the problem is that the title is a multipurpose tool. It might signify an actual change of responsibility, or a way to push a needed salary increase through the approval process. So it doesn't have a single unifying meaning, even within a single organization.
> Plot for a future novel: Project light onto surfaces from a moving vehicle to make another car behave in a way that kills the occupants. No evidence can be found at the scene as to why the car killed the occupants.

Aside, well, the video the car recorded...
The only task queue I loved was beanstalkd -- it's beautifully written and highly performant. Starting it takes seconds and it's been running for a decade:

https://beanstalkd.github.io/
> It might very well be that the escape system saved the crew.

Would have saved the crew, as this was an uncrewed launch. Nice to build confidence in the escape system.
Wow, it's wild to see this here. About 20 years ago, a grief counselor I was seeing after the death of my mom shared this article with me after I told him about how school felt pointless and cruel. I stopped seeing that grief counselor not long after (I think my family couldn't afford to see him) but the impact of this essay was deep. It was the first piece of writing I had read by 14 that critiqued something as mundane and entrenched as the public school system in the United States, and in terms that spoke to my experiences.

It inspired me to start honing my writing skills with intentionality, and sharpened my interest in activism.

I have mixed feelings reading this article now -- it's not quite as well written as I remember, although I still agree with many of the critiques.
ah, I mean something closer to the kinesis advantage styled split ortholinear keywell boards
I actually don't have big problem with the 30%, especially for a small operation, but I do have a problem with both the 30% AND the ideologically-driven requirement that my software be open source. You just didn't provide a compelling alternative to other platforms. Your platform actually demands more of me, the developer, than Apple does, amazingly.
I'm not arguing who's responsibility it is. I'm just pointing out that in practice, when you force an ideology on people + take away any outlet for them to express dissent(through deplatforming/censorship etc) then this is the kind of thing that ends up happening. That being said, whenever someone enacts a policy that affects others it is important that they consider the effects of externalities. While they may not be directly responsible for those externalities, it's irresponsible not to take them into consideration. Pointing fingers after the fact doesn't bring people back to life.
A teacher can learn the curriculum far faster but any educator will tell you they do a better job of teaching a lesson when they’ve already taught it before. Looping literally means every lesson you teach will be your first time teaching it. It’s silly to give up on all the advantages that come from adapting a lesson after seeing what works well and what doesn’t. The challenges from having a different teacher in grade two and grade one aren’t larger than the benefits of having a grade one teacher who’s delivered the same lessons many times and constantly improved them.
> Both Intel and AMD are providing huge efficiency gains, too. Rumors show the new i7 13700T Raptor Lake part can have a 35W mobile TDP and still outperform a Ryzen 7 5800X: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-13700t-raptor-lake-a...

Don´t let the TDP of T-models fool you. Power consumption to reach boost clocks can peak up to 100W for T-models of the previous generation, and the 13700T probably needs to run close to that to outperform a 5800X.
I’m kind of curious if Microsoft Surface makes money. I always thought it was more or less a loss leader. Unlike Apple, Google or Microsoft does not have control over the hardware. Microsoft surface IMO really pushed PC OEM to design out of their typical status quo designs. I thought Pixelbooks were the same idea but I guess Google was looking for the same success they have with pixel phones.
Point, not points.

I don't believe any of us disagree that such programs are ineffective under optimal conditions. Aside from that, what are the "lots of" other sharp, critical comments to be made?

I would think, given the over the top snark you had in your previous comments, you would have more to say on about on the topic. Right?
My understanding is that schools are run for the convenience of administrators, who want metrics based performance to look at like butts in seats, test scores, cost per student, etc
Typically, schools that loop do so in fixed-size windows (often 2 years, so K/1, 2/3, etc). Often, teachers for the looped grades plan curriculum together. This tends to minimize the effects of unfamiliar subject matter and the kids' changing social/emotional maturity.

(Source: I helped to start and taught at a charter school in the early 00's. For better and for worse, that school grew into a fairly large charter management organization. Classroom management - which boiled down to convincing a lot of very jaded kids that we actually cared about them - took months at the beginning of each year, and no substantive academic work was possible during that time. Looping in two-year windows struck a good balance between amortizing that cost and preserving teacher expertise.)
We had the usual cadre of Teenaged boys, but we also had an Indian Couple behind us, I'm not sure if that one was cultural or not.
Maybe. I might have to try it out some day.
Remember those platforms in Super Mario World that would start out with a number on them, say 5 and the number would count down each time you jumped off the platform?

Each time you install something that isn’t conflicting now you increase the odds of a conflict the next time. Worse yet, you aren’t going to get that says ‘you have a conflict’ rather you are going to get some random error which is irreproducible so you won’t get help when you go to stack overflow or wherever you go to get bad advice.

It is cruel to give beginners instructions which might work but are nearly certain to break their environment if they go at it long enough.

Probably the best thing you could do to make Python easier to use is lock down all the footguns like ‘pip —user’ and pip outside of a virtualenv, ability to configure a charset, etc.

You don’t argue about plugging a keyboard or mouse into a computer or getting a cell phone plan for your phone, if Python didn’t give you so many footguns you wouldn’t be complaining about how hard it is not to shoot yourself.
When I was a cab driver I picked up a guy first thing in the morning and took him to the airport. He told me that he worked for an insurance company and they were flying him out to somewhere in India to train someone to do his job. I pointed out that when his job moved overseas he would be made redundant. My customer told me that it wasn't important because of two things. One, if he didn't do it someone else would. Two, he got the free holiday anyway.

Working for UBER in any capacity is self-harm.

This company is bent on taking VC money and subsidising the workers who are paving the way for their own redundancy.

Not just UBER, others too. When robots/ai/automatons take all our jobs, how do we earn money to live on?
> Ditch HTML/JS/etc. altogether and invent a new way to create, deliver, and execute ANY content natively on any platform

Sounds like you want WebAssembly.
Second the recommendation for Flutter, very robust dev environment.
Here in Germany, "Mandibular advancement splint"[1] is a popular device recommended by doctors for less severe apnea cases. I was diagnosed with a light apnea and now I am getting this device as my test results showed that a CPAP treatment would be overkill but this could help. I am afraid I can't share more experiences as I am waiting the device to be prepared after 2 hours of dentist visit where they took some measurements.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandibular_advancement_splint
Its hard to derail a train.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=agznZBiK_Bs
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He told TikTokers he was AI – he didn't expect so many to believe him
Agreed. I typically copy whatever text and paste it in the address bar and copy it again to lose the formatting. It also loses any line breaks but still worth it.
I have no experience with it, but generally my view is that a home server is NOT a “devops” project, its more like an iPhone. You want backups, and you want whatever is running to restart if you lose power (whether that’s a new toaster tripping a breaker or the weather killing power, it happens), but you dont need “infra as code” and all sorts of automation. Just update as you go, and move on. Docker et al. have enough tooling that you can run everything as its own container (basically a phone app) and you’re done.

If you want to try out <insert tech here> to learn something, then just learn it, don’t try to fit it in your normal life and eat at your existing stuff. Don’t replace your mac with a chrome book just because you’re learning webdev, and don’t replace your home server with terraform just because you’re learning it. What if you learn it but stop needing it or never use it professionally? You’ll now need to maintain that skill to maintain something at home.

If you want something more than a blank Linux box for your home server, check out HASS.io, synology, QNAP, TrueNAS, or one of the many “hold your hands” distros/tools designed to make it less work. Even Portainer/Proxmox will give you a bit of a GUI without being too opinionated. I use a blank Linux box primarily, but only because I live with other SWEs who all want to mess with the shared server, and everyone wants their own thing and we couldn’t agree on anything else. We plan to switch to TrueNAS and give everyone a VM but haven’t coordinated the switch yet…
I think what you’re saying is that if OP were to test your site from Helsinki they would see the server speed you’re talking about. Is that right?
And astronomers thought Starlink was a problem.
Contigo – A GPT-3 powered tool to help learn Spanish through conversations
Contigo is a tool that provides voice to voice conversations powered by GPT-3 and Azure speech services. It corrects your grammar in real time and will support a number of role play scenarios with goals that a classifier will determine if you have succeeded
> not tell the customer that their transaction is flagged

The teller is not allowed to disclose this to customer.

> Any numbers you will see might be from the government

In my experience, the board of directors of the bank get a monthly roll-up of the numbers.
Right above that line, the site notes that the code is available here [1]. It looks like the majority of it was written by Drew DeVault, who runs SourceHut [2], where the code is hosted.

[1]: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/useplaintext.email

[2]: https://sourcehut.org
> Diversity doesn't only mean race.

Yes it does. It's an imperialist code-word for state sanctioned racism against the majority population of the proletariat in order to pit the proletariat against itself. Absolutely no one is fooled.
To me what stood out most starkly was how few black and hispanic people are found in older cohorts. It seems to imply they die much younger.
> and I am even okay with going as far as saying "walking into a convenience store, talking to a clerk in a human language to retrieve items in exchange of paper currency" is an API.

I think that is a bit far. Social customs define some sort of interface we use to complete transactions, but it is not programmable nor dealing with applications.
I mean, you now have told a lot of people that you can just get a tool to derail a train easily, that I'd guess most (I didn't) don't even know it exists.
It sounds like your problem with my argument about the poor reasoning here is that I made it in too few words? I'll say it again: he hasn't actually managed to engage with the argument for DEI, even institutionalized DEI; he thinks instead that he's checkmated it by attempting to reconcile a dictionary definition with the rationale the Supreme Court used in the 1970s to defend Affirmative Action.
You keep presenting this as fact when it really isn't. Nation states, Brands, businesses, and influencers would have a field day with this. What other sources do you have for this?