skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last year I got into a bit of a habit of eating bhel puri for breakfast - took a while before I realised probably why it occurred to me as something to do, that bhel is basically 'Rice Krispies' or similar. So for someone who doesn't like milk, (on its own/in large quantity like that) but loves spice, bhel puri is the ultimate breakfast cereal. :)
3500 years ago, the Assyrians and Babylonians made it policy to always lie (propagandize) about their victories. They had no official losses, they only won closer and closer to home...

There is nothing new under the sun.
Economist opening line: "Elon musk’s two months running Twitter has been an unhappy experiment".

Latest publicly available usage report from twitter (as you all remember widely and frantically predicted to crash and disappear from the internet):

Conversation impressions surpassed all previous quadrennial events.

There were a whopping 147B impressions of the #WC2022 conversation globally, easily surpassing #WC2018 and more than doubling the number of impressions of the #Tokyo2020 Olympics.

Whether the crowd was reacting to a big goal, watching highlights, predicting the outcome of the next match, or celebrating the star players, fans came to Twitter to discuss all aspects of the game.

"24,400 tweets per second for France’s goal, highest ever for World Cup!"

-- https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/events/2022/2022-World...

Edit: Brave down voters, use your words ;)
It seems like this is partly a case of "Never again" vs "Life happens" thinking.

A lot of people, when something bad happens, like breaking whatever a downtube is, or even a bone, chalk it up to "Life experience" and think it's an acceptable or necessary thing.

They say stuff like "Exceed your limits so you know your capabilities".

It's similar to the "Drop out of college for a 3 month backpacking trip, learn about life not math".

Wheras some people would instead say "I don't need to know my limits. I know where they aren't, and that's enough to avoid going near them".

Trouble is, those people don't hang glide in the first place!
> regular Crusaders weren't roaming thieves either

Absolutely not. From what I've read they were extraordinarily
disciplined. My point was that "knights" more generally until then,
are mischaracterised as "good and noble" but were really freelancers
[1]. The Templars obtained a better defined security role.

[1] just occurred to me there may be some etymology there.

EDIT: Aha! https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/freelance-orig...
If they are being targeted disproportionately among their foreign counterparts I see a case for this.

Otherwise I don't see an issue, this is the case for all work visas in any country.

Trying to change the immigration laws because you don't like them is one thing but this isn't a nationality issue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAKMEM contains some early history but probably not complete. These type of things get re-invented a lot.
I dont disagree, but you literally wrote "I reject the notion that anyone hearing or reading a word from this list could possibly experience anything properly categorized as "harm"." Those were words on this list, so i disagree with that statement.

I also don't think anyone is arguing that the authors of this list intended it to be exhaustive.
Curious question, what would be negative about spade? It's either a form of shovel or a card color? Fairly certain I am missing something here.

Edit: Because it is really fun, in a strange way, to go through the list: Isn't chief also used to address, e.g., a chief petty officer?

Edit 2: The list is just, well, strange. Ghetto for example, in the list it is mentioned as a non-white neighborhood. Historically, it was a jewish one. Let alone to speak about the Ghettos the Nazi's put in place. Karen, bad because it insults (?) people for their behaviour, this just stands out against all the other terms on list because of negative perception around what people are. Pretty lazy list, especially for an instituation like Stanford from which I would have expected better understanding of cultural and historic context...

Edit 3: No surpise, red team is on the list. But doesn't that come from military exercises, with red being the opfor? And blue being friendlies?

Edit 4: While some things are good advice, the majority of things on this list is just rediciulous edge cases. And, on top of that, some things are on the list because racists took it over, e.g. uppity. So basically, extremists, racists and whomever has to use a term for the rest of us normal people (also on the list for whatever reason) cannot use it anymore. That alone raises the question who is in charge of words here.
For the vast majority of words on this list, they would not be used to try to insult anyone. You would have to deliberately misinterpret them to find an insult. Why would anyone do that?

They wouldn't, and they don't. The insult is purely imagined by people who write these lists.
Can you quote the specific bit that supports your point? Because I see some bits that go in the other direction.
Even if the preserved brain is very different from its original state, it might be possible to reconstruct the original state using future technology.

Imagine if I made an origami animal, then unfolded the paper and handed you the paper plus an origami book with the animal I made. With enough time and care, you'd probably be able to observe the creases and refold the paper to reconstruct the original animal.

Supposing technology continues to advance at the rate it has been -- then by year 3000, the problem of cryonic revival is likely one of statistical inference on possible original brains, with the cryopreserved brain as evidence. Hard to predict the difficulty of that problem in advance.
Thank you, fixed it up.
> hip-hip hurray, hip hip hooray

> This term was used by German citizens during the Holocaust as a rallying cry when they would hunt down Jewish citizens living in segregated neighborhoods.

I don’t know, might have been used that way. Wikipedia says it originated from different militaries using it as a rallying cry, while hip actually comes from the English word.

As a German, I would not use it today, because it‘s rather old fashioned, but I have no negative connotation with it. Did not even know, that it originated in the military.

If this expression reminds you of the Holocaust, you might as well be reminded by every German word and therefore avoid it, which might be difficult speaking a Germanic language like English.
Winding down now, hope it was fun! Will post on Twitter again in a day or so with next iteration. Will try to maintain an endpoint for interested researchers
Might be just me, but this sounds very similar to a rehashed mainframe architecture...or even a Sun Sparc VM design.
> The better players make more money.

Shouldn't the better players qualify for tournaments then? Are you being obtuse on purpose?
It's about the fact that institutions (incl. corporations) hold all the power in the world, and the people within them are recruited from academia. If academia becomes (is) an indoctrination school, it will produce mainly activists and those who don't mind submitting to activists. These people will then eventually rebuild this system in their workplaces (since 'wokeism' is an inherently corruptive and hard-to-resist system). After this, you will start to see the fruits of their labor pop up all around - OpenAI censoring their model to oblivion, movies selecting for overtly activist plot points, social media companies beginning to censor more and more stuff...

You wouldn't see activism in normal everyday discussions, though, due to people being rather agreeable in real-life face-to-face conversations. Political undertones, no matter how strong, are always in the background, not forefront, of conversations anyway. You wouldn't expect people to proactively discuss Putin with you if you went to Russia, for instance.

And yet, if the general public either agrees with or is neutral towards ideals which DON'T conform to real reason, those ideals can be weaponized in the fringes. And they indeed are.

(Note: Below, I'm using the term 'fascism' to describe the societal phenomenon. I'm NOT referencing nazism nor saying that the current political atmosphere is anywhere close to it.)

Westerners are conditioned to think about fascism as originating from one well-defined party, mainly due to the fact that autocracies of the world do indeed operate that way, but fascism is just the blind power-hunger and violence of the human condition enabled by any group of people and accepted by the majority. The hallmark of fascism is that it is never hostile to the majority, but continuously extremely violent to whoever happens to be the edge case at the time. It guides the general discourse through these edge cases, not the center. Thus, if you are in the center, you don't really see anything bad happen to you - as long as you course-correct every once or twice from the edge cases.
Same here. I didn't notice anything. I just read the article without being bothered about anything whatsoever.
Scammers posing as village-level entrepreneurs create spoofed websites of Indian government’s banking inclusion project CSC Bank Mitra
> which would be an inconvenience for most people that they would care quite a bit about.

Well i suppose that really depends on their mental fortitude, how much they let it affect them.
Yes, the use of "hip hip hip hoorah" (with three "hips") in English predates the Hep Hep riots.

Most etymologies attributed to acronyms for words pre-20th century are usually false.
XEO/XFO/XOO/xtc.
"Software company A pays software company B to develop open source software that company A relies on".

Seems pretty good open source success story to me?
> This is a set of interconnecting pretty courtyards surrounded by building

Yes, London is quite unique amongst global cities for having these sorts of treasures hidden right in the centre. Another good example in that area is Linconln's Inn Fields[1] which is a quiet sanctuary just off the horrors of Holborn. Venture up the road to the City of London and there are maybe dozens more.

It is, sadly, an art form that has been lost in the "relaxed planning" era of the New-Build garbage.

Fortunately the older areas are protected from the grubby hands of the greedy property developers due to various legal constraints in place ranging from Listed Building status to more obscure ones.

[1]https://goo.gl/maps/YxAnXeDBsiv9dkRH7
Change means instability, friction, problems. He bought Twitter to change it. So you can't point to the problems right now and call it a failure. Not yet. If the instability continues for too long at some point this might be the case. Only time will tell.
Might have done the world a service. Immortality combined with winner takes all capitalism will just lead to an entrenched race of god emperors that won’t be removed ever except by society wide violence, basically like medieval kingdoms or dynastic empires. Market economies have helped limit that a bit(wealth inheritances still have a problem), but one of the unstated backstops of that system is that eventually the rich people in question do eventually die
We can never know the exact intention of anyone, especially figures long in the past.

I find it hard to believe that wealthy eccentrics didn't (or don't) enjoy things for their own sake. If you have a pile of money and the chance to create something great, that'd fill you with wild excitement I can only imagine.
Video codecs need not support compression.
“The Sapir–Whorf hypothesis has been thoroughly debunked by fact-checkers at the Ministry of Truth and determined to be fake news.”

Well, how reassuring!
>slower by factor of 1000

It's also for generic iterables.
Make it "Assassin's Creed: ExCeL" so we can have a DLR level.
Emacs - getting better since 40+ years.

Ripgrep - Fast & exactly the results I need.

Google Chat (!) - simple and just works.
Many of these are just simply wrong. "Balls to the wall" is an aviation reference, and "manmade" is not equivalent to "made by hand" even a little bit.

This list is embarrassing, and not worthy of bearing the name of Stanford.
Done
https://github.com/Infisical/infisical/issues/138
It's not enormous, it's just significant compared to our current production/use, but here's the good news: there's more than enough energy for that available off planet. There's absurd amounts of energy available everywhere around us.

Consider: it seems that we should be able to support a technological civilization of billions of people on renewable energy alone. That means literally on a fraction of the sunlight that Earth captures. Now, Sun isn't focusing on Earth, it's an omnidirectional emitter. Which means there's some 74 000 times more energy than Earth is receiving from the Sun available just in Earth's orbital band alone.

Fortunately, space-related energy problems seem like they'll be solving themselves, in lock step with increased space capabilities.
https://archive.ph/UzgCw
Have you ever felt like there's a trap surrounding that oh-so-desirable "i can vote on a Twitter poll to make Twitter's private owner Elon Musk lose influence over Twitter" bait?

https://i.imgur.com/sZGTW2H.png
Harry Potter and the Now Older Reader
Well, this is the first time I hear "Hipp, hipp, Hurra" (the proper German version, since hurray is definetly not German) being linked to the Nazis and anti-semitism... And us Germans are rather sensitive about that
agree with some caveats. helmets are a must when cycling on roads. but parks are a bit different. also, i remember a study that said drivers are more cautious when they see a cyclist without a helmet. not sure how relevant the study was, but as a driver i can confirm this.

all this being said, summer time + helmet = lots of sweat.
You might want to talk to the Republic of Ireland about that British Isles bit
This is mostly nonsense and FUD. We have virtualenvironments, requirements files, setup.py with extra_requires that can all be used to manage versions without relying on the particular packages installed on an OS. Most people contributing to open source would be familiar with at least some of these methods and if they are not it’s a good opportunity for learning.

And if they are not, then maintainers can pull, run black over the diff, and commit.

CI prevents poorly formatted code from entering main.

The actual changes between black versions of late have been minor at best. You’re making a mountain out of a molehill.

Having a tool that dictates formatting is a lot less oppressive to new developers than 100 comments nitpicking style choices.
Your comment I responded too seemed more general, which is how I was responding to it, the article can eat my ass tbh
Sure it is better. But changing things comes with a cost. Tons of git tooling which could previously just ASSUME master was the primary branch must now figure out what the branch is, instead.

The amount of time people have spent on this change fixing broken tools and workflows makes it a stupid change all by itself.
Why we picked Java
> Mr Musk, a self-described “free-speech absolutist”, had grown concerned (with some justification) that Twitter had been captured by censorious left-wing scolds.

I don't think they're intentionally being ironic here, but "scold" means to speak out about something, and is often implied as feminine. So they're trying to give him the benefit of the doubt, but after starting the sentence with free speech absolutism, his noble aim is apparently silencing criticism from women.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/scold

edit to add: also notable that censorious doesn't mean censoring, it means judging:

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/censure
I'd imagine a lot of that was just same simple operation on a steam of data; there isn't that much to optimize there aside from finding a way to operate on more data at a time
The ends justify the monkey wrenches, eh?
Might explain some of the existential self-loathing embodied in this list...
Is there a source for this debunking? I'd love to read it.
HPMOR [0], sorry. Harry Potter and the methods of rationality. A Harry Potter fanfic that is quite interesting.

[0] http://www.hpmor.com/
You can think whatever you want. But in almost all cases you are wrong.

And you can only choose what makes you feel better in matters that don't matter. In all others you are almost always better off choosing what is actually correct.

You can choose a narrative that pi equals 3 because it makes you feel better but you won't be doing world or yourself any favors if you choose to make real world decisions based on that narrative.
since developing in python should be done in a virtual env to start with, I fail to see how this will be any problem.
The pre-commit documented version of black will be installed in the venv of the project, problem solved.
Why would we make such a mechanism instead of the currently entrenched powers just further solidifying their hold on society?
The problem here is that term was often used with squaw and papoose which are undeniably derogatory
Ah yes, much better, thank you. It's a ripe area for technological improvements. In the same way the video chat is better than the alternative of asynchronous written communication (not to say I don't love a handwritten letter) tech will mostly be a boon in this area.
Anyone with experience of writing both dynamic typed and statically typed can tell you that.

Infact, you could just try it out for yourself.

But here is your internet source for this blatantly obvious fact: https://games.greggman.com/game/dynamic-typing-static-typing...
On the other hand, advertisers have been turning away (at least for some time) and Twitter now has to pay a lot of interest. It will really be interesting to see how this turns out.
> We have partnered with Tencent WeChat to scan for *THEIR* tokens
There's like, one of those "3 only" in my entire neighborhood in San Francisco, and I want to have a talk with whoever at the department of public works who decided this was a good idea. I'm sure they're likely dead by now and no-one has changed this from the 1960s though.
I honestly can't find the article that cited the sources right now, so it's gonna have to be a trust me on this one. My google skills are failing me right now.
Maybe to get 256kB address space with 16bit pointers ? Edit: 4 times error
2008: "The UK-based IT department of the fifth largest bank continues to dwindle as more jobs go overseas... This round of cuts, starting in June and lasting 12 months, involves up to 250 permanent IT roles and 200 contractors from the bank's technical delivery division, responsible for software development and design." [1]

2018: "Timeline of trouble: how the TSB IT meltdown unfolded". [2]

It's probably more complicated than that, but perhaps not much more complicated.

[1] https://www.itpro.co.uk/197982/lloyds-tsb-cuts-more-uk-it-jo...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jun/06/timeline-of...
They are not very consistent. It uses harmful term "users of wheelchairs" when according to them it should be "clients of wheelchairs".
Well he did put up a poll saying he would step down based on the results so I assume he'll be honoring it. Though I would rather he didn't as it would have been more fun with him in charge.
That's how it works in a lot of countries. The flashing red seems to be an exception.
>So it’s a discussion about permanent residency, not visas.

This is false, by definition. Permanent residency IS a visa. It's just a more permanent one than a normal work visa. It's still a visa affixed in your passport. And like any other visa, it expires as soon as you leave the country, unless you get a re-entry permit before you leave.

The only thing that's not a visa is citizenship.
i remember this. for at least a week people couldn't access their money. it was chaos. the bank lost lots of money and customers due to this botched transfer.
US immigration law limits immigrant visa (i.e. green cards) to no more than 5% of the annual total per year.

It's an effort to add diversity to the immigrant population. Similar to how the green card lottery "discriminates" against immigrants from countries that already have a high immigrant population in the US.

I mean it sucks if you're one of the people who are stuck waiting for a green card, and I agree it's dumb to allow people to start a process they can't reasonably finish, but I don't think the goal of the law is unjust.
> Language absolutely affects how we think, the brain makes links subconsciously and learns all the time from all inputs, so I don't think it's sensible to dismiss the idea of language making small differences to how we think.

This is true enough, the problem is going from the conclusion that these negative associations will have any real-world impact. Recent reviews of implicit association tests (IAT) suggest that they correlate with nothing but brain activity.
Yes and most twelve year olds don't have photo id but since he has moved from China to the US he might have a passport.
Stanford also contains "Ford", a possible reference to the notorious anti-semite Henry Ford.

I propose renaming the institution after a more acceptable historical figure, one whom most undergraduates don't think did anything wrong: Stalin.
> “Microsoft is bad” is a mindset that restricts many opportunities. Consider avoiding “black and white” ideas about things.

I agree. Microsoft is "50 shades of Black".
The internet is still growing :-)

For a while, the fact that Major Event in YEAR + 4 has more views than Major Event in YEAR is not impressive on its own.

For all we know Twitter could be sitting still and be carried away by the current.

The trick question is: how are their financials, and especially what's their growth rate compared to their competitors? (Google, Facebook/WhatsApp/Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, Telegram etc).
Hanko: A passkey-first approach to authentication beyond passwords
curmudgeonly?
Point-E: Point cloud diffusion for 3D model synthesis
> Isn't it upon those wanting to change...

No. It isn't anymore. Because the loud minority now has the means to globally and publicly destroy you if you say something they dislike. You might lose your job or even your personal safety because of a statement that can be interpreted in some way that someone doesn't like.
It's interesting to me how people will react to something that seems over-the-top ridiculous with responses along the lines of "omg, this has to be satire"---seemingly without considering the possibility that it is, in fact, satire. Poe's law is a real phenomenon, but I'm fairly convinced this site is a joke.
Feels an apposite thread in which to share a link to the Cloud Appreciation Society: https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/

(my copy of The Cloudspotter's Guide, their first publication - written by one of the society's founders - is in the bookshelf next to me as I type)
If and when the friction stops, it will not be because Elon Musk's ideas were successfully implemented. It will be when things go back to the way they were. It's fair to say that all of Musk's free speech experiments have failed to have the intended impact on twitter. If that's not failure then what is?
Agreed. That said, ‘they’ has been “on duty” as a singular pronoun since at least the 14th century
https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they...
It sucks, but every country has the right to set their own immigration laws. If Indians don't like US laws, maybe they should emigrate to countries that don't put so many onerous restrictions on them. Lots of countries would be happy to have them.
You connect to it via BT first and then configure WiFi details.