skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. I've started coding by my own at the age of 9, were playing the old gems of games, saw people developing cool stuff in games like Minecraft.

Got a java book for christmas, started learning and got into Minecraft development. At the age of 14, I started learning cpp, reverse engineering and a bit of ASM. Found a vulnerability in Epic Games by messing around with stuff, managed to report it and was rewarded, then I simply kept going and made security research to my hobby.

My family is not familiar with software, but with hardware, so I got my hands on a PC very early. No pressure tho.
This series is excellent on crossing the chasm from interested to effective: https://lowlyswe.substack.com . Code (not study, code) 50+ hours/week for a couple years.
Given that color monitors were 16 colors at the time of the first Mac, color calibration wasn't going to be of much help. Most people were using green and black monitors, anyway, except for the labs with the amber VT320. The memory requirements for color were just too large to be affordable.

According to Wikipedia, the Macintosh II [1] came out in 1987, System 4.0, with 256 colors--for the equivalent of $17,000. I doubt color calibration is much use with 256 colors (although apparently the Mac II support 16.7 million colors but you could only use 256 of them), but I can't find anything on when color calibration was supported.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_II
Expected this to be a blog post, but no, it's literally just a jpeg.
The list is truly absurd.

That aside, it's also wrong in some cases. For example, under "Gender" they have the phrase "balls to the wall", explaining that it's not to be used because "Attributes personality traits to anatomy." That's just incorrect; I haven't been able to find even one source suggesting it's anything other than a term pilots used. Wiktionary reflects this:

> Perhaps coined by pilots whose throttle levers had round, ball-like tops, and for whom putting the "balls to the wall" (the firewall of the aircraft) meant making the aircraft fly as quickly as possible.

On the other hand, I feel like some terms really do originate in mistreatment of folks, and no one seems to care. So we end up banning terms like "blacklist" (which has little or nothing to do with race as far as I can tell) and keep around terms like "grandfathered-in", which really do have roots in oppression:

> Originally referred to a clause added to the constitutions of some Southern US states that exempted people with relatives that had voted before 1867 from strict new voting requirements, in effect disproportionately limiting the ability of African Americans to vote.
Try using the word "cunt" in america - it still has a lot of power here.
> Non-directional radio transmissions (e.g. TV, radio) would not be distinguishable from cosmic background radiation at more than a light year or two away

this is going to come across as sarcastic in text, I genuinely mean this.

Why don't the authors know this? Why doesn't someone tell them?
A puzzle about rigs (semirings) I don't know the answer to
Which only works if the rate of immigration isn't increasing...but it is in the UK. This year was the largest gross immigration level (and it is widely acknowledged that net numbers are likely not accurate).

You see this in London and some cities outside (Glasgow is one) where there are primary schools with one or two white students (not making a racial point here, I making a point about immigration, Scotland is 99% white so these people have to be immigrants) in a class of 30 students.
Finally, someone has created a true idiocracy.
The word “abort”, as in “abort mission” is on the list. It’s as if a whole generation somehow avoided the concept of words having multiple meanings.
> mainly as a hedge against inflation

...surely there's also the part where, at the end of the 30 years, you have a house, but at the end of 30 years of renting you have nothing.
Yeah, instead they just say "software estimates are totally impossible to make! We can't help it!".

It is easy to make relatively accurate estimates if you want them, but there is very little demand for accurate estimates, managers wants overly optimistic estimates because those are easier to sell.
Aubrey de Grey is the only person I'm aware of who seems to be considering the disease of aging seriously and passionately. He seems to be single handedly pushing the issue forward with multiple foundations and papers.

I suppose there are others but like you I don't understand why there isn't more focus and media attention on the root causes of aging, the ultimate killer.
Staging is dead: The rise of preview environments
> rewrite
> constitution

Yeah good luck
The Secret History is a fantastic book and one of my favourites. Reading it doesn't even feel like reading a murder mystery; the article talks about the first line saying Bunny's dead, but really you're introduced to the whole murder almost immediately. You already know who kills him, so the book ends up being a character study about the people who did it and why.

I'm a bit disappointed that the article didn't talk about the Dark Academia aesthetic/subculture more. It's been floating around the internet well before TikTok (I remember seeing it back on Tumblr a decade ago, and I was actually first introduced to the book through a piece of fan fiction) and, like cottagecore, I suspect has far more influence on pop culture then people are aware of
> how should I prepare to move to project.el? Are there any guides? #

I recently switched from projectile to project and I noticed essentially zero changes. If you're not doing anything particularly custom you might not even notice.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Pr...
Thank you for your feedback — definitely valid concerns with writing or uploading anything into a web app created by 1 person. I will definitely consider what's the best way to keep user data always in user's hands. Some things I can say which may provide some relief:

- I intend to keep Veonid a platform to publish and present things from, not to write and keep things in. I encourage using tools like Notion or UpNote to do all your thinking and writing, and only paste into Veonid what you intend to have public in nicely designed pages/presentations.

- Hosting Veonid does not cost and will not cost anything for the first 5,000 monthly active users, and after that it's only $25/mo. for Clerk.

- I intend to keep Veonid profiles text-only, so data storage is minimum and thus fast and low cost for a while.

- Thanks to NextJS, Vercel and Hasura, updating and maintaining Veonid is really easy.

- If it comes to shutting down the app, I'll notify all users at least 1 month in advance, via email and via app, so there will be enough time to save data.

- In 4 hours since I posted Veonid on Hackernews, 60 new users registered of which 56 created a profile, which is encouraging for a v1 and finding product-market fit.

- I have more than 10 years of experience designing UI/UX of web and mobile apps, and I have launched web apps before, which is no guarantee of what will happen with Veonid, but may be of passion and familarity with the challenges and obstacles of designing and building products.
Debunked, bigot, fascist

All words that have lost meaning at this point.
Facial recognition tech gets woman booted from Rockettes show due to employer
We are indeed lucky.
There are other techno-signatures to look for: Dyson swarms (marked by irregular dimming). Infinitely more powerful transmitters - i.e. irregular pulsars. Oumuamua type fly-bys. "Unnatural" gasses in atmospheres.

All purely theoretical, of course. As far as we know, we might not even notice life on Alpha Centauri planets 4ly away.
I always think of "master branch" in the same way as "master copy", and never associated it with "slave branches" or whatever. Renaming all the branches seems like needless busywork and frankly, people who would be offended by any use of the term "master", including ones like this, will need to understand the context and motivation of the use of a term as part of growing up and participating in a society with lots of other people. If everyone's right to not be offended were taken to a logical extreme, you end up with this minefield where literally no one is free to speak their mind and has to defend against every possible offended take. You can't even use a word that has a specific meaning if it also has some other meaning. It's just blasting holes in language and thinking and conversations.
This is anti-intellectualism. Yes, you have some premise about subconscious bias and your inferred that conscious awareness of skin color is necessary or more generally that skin color is relevant again.

This reminds me of the a John Steward show where someone said they wouldn't see color. The audience booed and pointed their thin fingers with thick accusations. This reminds me of The Wave from Morton Rhue instead of a step towards more enlightenment. Perhaps people are so afraid to not be on the "right side history"-club that their facilities randomly fail. But there are less excuses for academics.

I mean, go ahead, ignore the civil rights movements on your own peril. You know better, you are an academic and surely very smart. You could also just not wear pants tomorrow or accuse people of not wearing them.
They recommend avoiding the word “abort” because it might call pregnancy termination to mind. I think you’re being too charitable.
Yes - good point.
That seems bad? Look for /winnie/i in all private repos. The repo name includes the owner. Then go and arrest them.
I think you haven't understood what I've told you. Please look into pre-commit and using it.
My teenagers consider "retard" to be far more offensive than either of those words.
Curing age related diseases is permanent fix, and makes curing any low hanging fruits trivial.
Like the "person of visible wavelength" armsrace?
Let me hijack this thread for an ASK HN:

Can somebody please explain moderation on Mastodon to me. Suppose I were to start a Mastodon server in my (EU) basement, what do I have to do to stop it from filling with unsavory material? Why did (former) Twitter have 'hundreds' of people in moderation, while Mastodon manages with zero? I don't get it.
Alma Announces Joint Proposal Agreements for JWST, VLA, and the VLT
I'm not sure about that. He also had the "be careful what you wish for" tweet, which indicates he had something in mind if the vote was to step down. Also, I can't imagine he planned to put so much energy into this one part of his empire forever.
Really interesting read, I like the way you alert on failed E2E tests on Slack
It sounds like you might be stuck in a "tutorial loop". Put them aside for now, and try building a tiny project for yourself. It could be anything that interests you; scratch whatever itch you may have right now no matter how silly/useless it seems. The goal is to start writing code for something tangible (instead of learning the basic mechanics of whatever language for the nth time as you aimlessly cycle through tutorials). Your code will be crappy and unidiomatic. That's okay because after you get that first project under your belt, you'll now have a better idea as to which resources to target next to improve.
> a world I never want to live in

I have bad news for you, OP...
There is no point without a human, what's the difference between that and a bullet/missile?
They do expect you to apply your own professional and university level discretion when using words.

I really don't understand this thread or threads like this. Suddenly people are all about using exact lists of acceptable discourse and following Rules and the like.
> During "Independence Days" his dad had to put a flag up in his store window. It wasn't optional. If he didn't do it, the police would stop by and ask why he didn't have a flag in his window.

That seems like the greengrocer from V. Havel's essay 'The Power of the Powerless': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_the_Powerless
Probably, I never use GPS when I'm in the city I was stuck in.
Tushy bidet, amazing purchase for being under $100
One idea I've been toying wit (but don't have the skills to implement) is a standard for hardware that's a bit more verbose than things like i2c or serial. I'd like one connector I can plug into a piece of hardware (a sensor, a servo, a keypad, etc) and have it just work. The protocol would have to be a bit more complicated, maybe something like PJON^1, and you'd need to deliver power at a few different voltages.

I've been calling it kitbash in my head, just throw a bunch of components together in various topologies and you're good to go. Considering you can get a very cheap microcontroller for something like 40 cents I can definitely see the appeal of adding a "kitbash port" to various pieces of hardware, even if it means adding a whole new microcontroller.

1: https://github.com/gioblu/PJON
Sounds silly, but do you have the source code for your table tennis game? If not, do you remember the logic you used? Was it using Graphpak?
I am curious as to how one would write a table tennis game without any conditionals.
Let me throw in another name, I think this is essentially just constraint propagation with back tracking and making mostly random choices if there are no more constraints to propagate.

But the idea of extracting constraints from a sample images and using those to generate variants is neat.
Sorry - not saying that Florida or Texas don't have the same experience - just that Stanford should know better being literally in a former Spanish colony.
> and it didn't actually lead to more productivity or more anything

Yes, and this is a demonstration that benefit cuts to starve people into working are not going to work.

> main issue with UC is that it is too generous

People at the foodbank are not going to agree with this.

> scale of the underemployment is probably ~5m people...in a working population of 32m

[citation needed]

> don't invest in skills

This I can agree on.

> The UK has, literally, millions of people who need work

The headline is "labour shortage"? There's no evidence of a vast hidden army of the unemployed, this isn't the 1980s.
He’s speaking for himself, and I think he hit the nail on the head. So he’s speaking for me as well, now.
Totally agree with you on that.
The world always has and always will be dominated by military power, but that power is increasingly wielded by engineers.

2000 years ago, you needed a couple of engineers in charge of sword production and an army of Jocko Willinck types to wield the swords.

Now, you have an army of engineers producing drones, some other nerds remotely piloting the drones, and a couple of J.W.'s to do specialized strikes.

I don't see this trend reaching a stopping point anytime soon.
I wonder why it still remains banned. Surely once all cars can get the same fans it should be allowed?
He'll ignore decisions he doesn't agree with, so it's only a pretend democracy.
To me, happiness as we age is making sure that we still have dreams and goals. My goal is to make my 50s the most exciting and interesting decade of life and then try to top it in my 60s.

Even if I don't reach the goal that is besides the point.

I am also though not acting out a romance novel with a wife, kids and living happily ever after. Disney is not going to make a movie that the prince gets divorced and lives happily ever after being single , no kids, and the freedom to do whatever they want.
Thanks for your message.

"and will easily land a job when the time will come."
Well, that's the thing. I don't want to leave out any opportunities, just because I was lazy in my young years. There are many insanely good people out there and I heard companies more look at years of experience and certifications, instead of public "achievements" like HackerOne, etc.
> For example a lot of people here on HN have no problem using terms like “master” and “slave” in a technological context, but other people have told me those terms make them uncomfortable. I don’t want my students to feel that way so I don’t use those words in a classroom context, even if every single person on HN is okay using them.

I am actually sympathetic to avoiding the master/slave dichotomy when naming software systems, exactly because I have heard actual reports of people feeling uncomfortable with these terms, for somewhat obvious reasons.

The same can NOT be said, to any extent, about user, submit, Scrum Master, master branch, Master's degree, webmaster, white space, black box, and the vast majority of other examples on the list.

> These documents are about others policing their own language, not them policing yours. Your comments about “ridiculing” and “nipping it in the bud” are closer to policing the speech of others than this list is.

These documents are about policing the speech of all members of the organization, not self-censoring by the authors of this ridiculous list. And no, my seeking to ridicule this list is not in itself an attempt at policing speech - as in the old tradition of intolerance against the intolerant. That is, they are a small group seeking to use their position of authority to police the speech of many many others, and I am seeking to defend myself pre-emptively by seeking to stop them from propagating the concept - not the speech itself.

They're welcome to maintain and publish their silly little list, they're not welcome to actually impose it on anyone - including the Stanford organization.

And I should note I am just some atheist gay programmer in a Eastern European nation. Not exactly a member of the American cultural hegemony seeking to avoid thinking about their past crimes.
Tree shaking, ES6 imports, yes to all of the above.

I tried a game engine some time ago (sadly I forget what it was called) but it bundled the entire library as soon as you tried to do the basic thing. If I recall it was over 1MB. These days JS transpires have incredible functionality for slimming down payload sizes and it's awesome to see more and more libraries making use of it.
but how is said monitor stand a "differentiated good" ?!
You asserted the show had "an engaging pilot episode with only a back of the napkin roadmap for the rest of the show", which clearly isn't possibly the case for a show whose entire first season was adapted from a novel.

The third season was written as a final season. Regardless of whether the mystery is resolved, the show's plot and character arcs firmly concludes in the finale. Professional tv critics nearly universally view it as one of the best seasons of any television show ever made.

Yes, there are unanswered questions. This is obviously intentional (although the theme song you reference was only used in season 2 and the finale in season 3). Similarly in real life you'll never find out which religion, if any, is correct. Or why the pandemic happened. You can still ask, and writers can still explore these topics, even though no one ever knows.

If you didn't like the show, or ambiguous art/media in general, that's fine, it's not for everyone. That doesn't mean it's all part of the same capitalist formula to produce bad art.

As an interesting counter-point, consider Twin Peaks, a show where the network demanded that the creators promptly resolve the core mystery at the end of the first season -- much to the show's detriment.
Makes sense if you vote Twitter as a private business (which it is). Prioritize the needs of paying customers who have skin in the game. Like any business would.

On the other hand, it makes less sense if you view Twitter as a public utility (which it is not).
I wonder how many FBI they have if staff? Maybe that only happens once you get big enough. If so, maybe companies should report it to increase funding. Instead of MAU they could do FOS (Feds on Salary), like, “last month we hit 5% FOS FTE and expect to reach 8% by end of Q4.”
- Brave: none/do not use

Even Orwell couldn't picture the animals as the timid cowards that they truly were.

First they came for freedom of speech, and I did not speak out. Then they came for freedom of thought, and I did not speak out. Then they came for all, and there was nothing left to speak for.
In today's world, that's no small feat. Not the patting on the back, but to be honest about it and not do anything untoward.
I was lucky when I worked in Augsburg there was a former US base nearby so most locals in the shops had some basic understanding of English but were terrible at speaking it.

The folks I worked with (IT) understood and spoke English rather well.
Their two main COVID vaccines aren't terrible as far as I can tell but they're not great. Against classic Wuhan and I'm not sure about pre-Omicron variants. Which we've got some data saying is as bad as the previous ones to the totally immunologicaly naive (although per another paper 30% tested had general protection against all coronaviruses due to their adaptive immune systems targeting some of their most basic functionality and the four strains that were endemic prior to COVID).

There's theoretical reasons to believe they might hold up better than solely spike protein focused vaccines; a greater problem could be low uptake, especially among the elderly (the PRC doesn't have a great record overall with vaccines). See this recent HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34053879#34054893 which covers other issues on the ground.

An even bigger problem is, aside from the measures people are themselves taking, Xi has in effect done an all or nothing approach, first Zero COVID then when that became unsustainable and regime threatening "let it rip."
They would be better off with a class on sensitivity training, that basically boils down to "stop being a dick". Besides lists of acceptable discourse or newspeak, they should teach students to be civil.

And if people still need a list or a class to be taught that e.g. the N word is offensive, they have no place in Stanford.
A cashmere hoodie
In a huge portion of these cases the only harmful history is in the imagination of the author. "Tarball"? "Red team"? "Submit"? "White paper"?

All of these have very clear etymologies that don't have any offensive history whatsoever. The idea that we should avoid any term that uses the words "white", "black", "red", or "yellow" on the grounds that they once were used in some contexts to refer to people is absurd.
>You’ve got to be quite the gamer to understand the hierarchy of XBOX consoles.

I have the feeling Microsoft intentionally sought to create this confusion so they can move the old stock as well. Example: Young Billy wants an Xbox for Christmas so clueless parents/grandparents go to Walmart and purchase something made by Microsoft with Xbox written on the box, preferably on sale and at a cheaper price.
Not sure the best idea, but it's the same in the stock market - only shareholders can vote.
Let's not pretend Musk plays a 4D chess game we can't understand. Musk admits he makes it up as he goes. He repeatedly demonstrates an inability to plan or make meaningful predictions, or to deliver on promises. He lacks the planning ability and patience to play even 2D chess.

Musk craves constant attention. If he can get that by flirting with the right and pissing off some segment of "the libs" he'll take it. A person tweeting nonsense at 4am just wants attention, in whatever form it takes.
Yup, I think it's pretty well-known by now that only white, affluent, powerful people doing virtue signalling use "Latinx" for instance, and that this very word is rejected as meaningless, stupid and/or offensive and condescending by the vast majority of "Latinx" people.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/many-latinos-say-latin...
To try and push you towards the Steam Deck side of the coin, you can escape to the desktop and use it as a normal computer, using a fairly simple USB-C dock (not apple’s, though).