skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many American police are deeply committed to paramilitary cosplay and relish any opportunity to pull out their best toys.
> As a child I never saw ramps for the wheelchairs, and seldom saw people on a wheelchair (only in hospitals). That was part of the culture of ostracising "different people" and making sure "normal" people don't see them.

US had ramps long before wokeness infected the minds. You might be saying that wokeness leaking to other countries helps them become more accessible, but this could be a spurious correlation.

> Branch renaming is not painful, so why not, if it makes someone's experience a bit more pleasant.

How do you know it's not painful and that pros outweigh the cons? All the polls I've seen were overwhelmingly against rename.

The only way to be offended by "master" branch is to choose to be offended. Nobody means anything offensive, but I can twist their words to pretend I'm hurt and make them feel bad for my own benefit. That's a disgusting manipulative behavior, and I have absolutely no respect for people who do that. Accommodating those narcissists is harmful for society.
> Also, I've been fired a few times. Sometimes those were the best times. I shit you not.

Would you humor us with any anecdotes on one of those firings?
> I have a 30-minute walking commute to work

isn't that like 10 mins cycling?
I much prefer the approach of the 60s to 90s of taking back words and breaking their negative power.
It feels like this whole list was compiled by one or very few people with no actual expertise.

Why don't they ever consult the people about what words should make it on the list? I bet you most of the terms on that list are not even found offensive by those who they allegedly describe.
I find this fascinating, largely because it's so alien to me. I'm only tangentially aware of the TikTok culture. At work we have a channel where people share music they like and what they are currently listening to. It's a very wide variety and most does not seem to follow this trend.

Personally, my favourite album of this year is "The End, So Far" by Slipknot. 12 tracks ranging from 3:23 to 6:16 with an average of 4:48.

Last year's favourite was "Senjutsu" by Iron Maiden. Ten tracks ranging from 4:03 to 12:38 with an average of 8:11. Several of those tracks have an intro longer than the tracks this article discusses.
I accidentally ordered a $200 bottle of wine instead of a $20 bottle at a restaurant once, but didn't realise until after the whole bottle was gone. I was not shocked when the restaurant expected me to pay for it, because obviously I was totally responsible.

Why would AWS be any different?
By adding it to upstream GCC, I assume that it incurs some maintenance burden.
So I think the more interesting question would be "Why would upstream GCC merge support for Modula-2, and with that accept some work and risk for little reward?".
It doesn't matter because those who want privacy will use chains that are meant for it. Same thing with immutability. There is clearly a market for them.
This is a solved problem. Money goes in a trust in a state that has no law against perpetuities like South Dakota. Then pull it 200 years later as a bajillionaire, and you have an end run around capitalism.

Also Benjamin Franklin pulled of something like this from 1790-1990 "2,000 be divided equally between Boston and Philadelphia for use as loans for young apprentices" https://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/21/us/from-ben-franklin-a-gi...
The same two books I read every year.

7 Habits of highly successful people
How to win friends and influence people.

Both books seem to be used in thousands of newer books, borrowing the same themes.
And maybe the company will lose the next deal, or the one after that, because the customer won’t give a reference; or because they took too many shortcuts and hosed the product; or they have so much technical debt the next project fails.

That’s the problem with this kind of kick-the-can-down-the-road thinking. At some point you get to the end of the road, at which point your competitors can come and kick you.
> Americans spend tremendous amounts of public money on, for example, extending the life of old people a few months.

Medicaid is extremely stringent when it comes to income and asset thresholds for nursing homes (and in many states receiving social security can effectively disqualify you from Medicaid, even though Medicaid would be more helpful). So in many cases that public money is only applied once hospitals and nursing home facilities have plundered the estate of the soon-to-be deceased until the debt is paid or there is nothing left. Something as routine as old age will often wipe out any potential generational wealth building in all but the upper class.

I bring this up because I think this actually goes back to the original argument in the US that money does, in fact, rule everything. That's ultimately why Americans don't question their legal frameworks-- that's what guarantees the liabilities and debts and who keeps what in the end, not the other way around.
I'd also be curious to see an analysis by a structural engineer. There was a post to r/AskEngineers asking about it last year, which was also discussed on hn at the time, but it was before the tunnel was completed:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/comments/oh0vt0/how_sa...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27792683
All about Houseplants
Take one step at a time, with $25k and an engineering degree you can get a cert, get money and stability, get in shape and healthy, get the girl… and move forward.

It’s hard to see your future when you can’t tell where you are going, but typically you can take your next step. Focus on the next step.
> This seems more efficient to me, and safer since cars aren't moving at all when you cross - often you have to share the space with cars turning left when you cross.

one of the features i loved moving to London: there's no "cars turning AND pedestrians crossing the street". yes, it does add a bit to congestion, but makes things more safe when walking, as well as when driving (and yes, i do both in London).

and it's still weird travelling thru places that don't have this.
is it really like that?

in europe generally jaywalking is only allowed if there is no marked crossing nearby. crossing at a red light is not jaywalking but a different offence that is still punished.
The lack of "depth" from AI systems is not too hard to understand. Consider some ML network that describes some "problem space". Note that this network does linear algebra to transform input data into some output, and the model parameters are then updated via minimizing some error function or performing derivative calculation.

This is not dissimilar to taking a Taylor series and moving in the direction of most/least change to find some local extrema of a curve (gradient descent). That is, these models can explore some local problem space well, and find extremas around the initial location. And it seems unlikely that some arbitrary deep learning network will ever be able to solve some high dimensional problem space (you need a ton of dimensions for AGI given the problems in different domains are often described by different parameters) that describes a more complicated problem .
Wouldn’t we if we had some prehistoric people in ice and had the technology? The whole world would want to watch.
Worse. The mechanism through which "substance addictions" and "behavioral addictions" happen (and are maintained) pretty much involves the same neurotransmitter paths:

"Preclinical evidence has demonstrated that marked increases in the expression of ΔFosB through repetitive and excessive exposure to a natural reward induces the same behavioral effects and neuroplasticity as occurs in a drug addiction."

(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addiction#Behavioral_addiction)

The way I see it, it is literally harmful to try to make it seem like "behavioral addictions" are any less dangerous than (or significantly different from) "substance addictions", because they are not.
Some further examples that stood out to me as being too far-fetched, fashion, and/or excessive to be part of any reasonable "Elimination of harmful language initiative" (explanations verbatim qouted from TFA):

> abusive relationship (The relationship doesn't commit abuse. A person does, so it is important to make that fact clear.)

> rule of thumb (Although no written record exists today, this phrase is attributed to an old British law that allowed men to beat their wives with sticks no wider than their thumb.)

> trigger warning (The phrase can cause stress about what's to follow. Additionally, one can never know what may or may not trigger a particular person.)

> no can do (Originated from stereotypes that mocked non-native English speakers.)

> yellow team ("Yellow" is often used disparagingly against people of Asian descent.)

> survivor (Using person-first language helps to not define people by just one of their experiences. If the person identifies with the term, then use it.)

> preferred pronouns (The word "preferred" suggests that non-binary gender identity is a choice and a preference.)

> spirit animal

> calling a spade a spade (Although the term has its origins in Greek literature, the subsequent negative connotations with the word "spade" means that the phrase should be used with caution or not at all.)

Also not really a fan of forcing ethnical identity by institutionalizing "Black" or denying individuals to own their sexual/gender/whatever-the-appropriate-word-will-be-next-year identity as a choice ("preferred pronouns")

Some of these terms were even popularized by the same movement with similar motivations and reasoning in the past few years. How many of the "Consider using" suggestions will be considered "harmful language to be eradicated" in another few years? Feels like we're getting to a place where even a person who is honestly and carefully choosing their words to be non-offensive will be chastised because they missed the memo this year. While many of the entries make perfect sense and should be avoided for the sakes of inclusiveness, respect, and compassion, the content and format makes this have the exact opposite effect of the communicated intention...

> Our "suggested alternatives" are in line with those used by peer institutions and within the technology community

Yeah, no, they did not do their homework on the tarball I think. To paraphrase parents other comment: This could have been good but this is executed poorly enough to be completely counterproductive.

The one technical source they quote[0] is a blog post by former CISO of UW-Madison that comes across as fundamentally more leveled and reasonable to the point where I find they (apparently unintentionally) misrepresent it.

[0]: http://web.archive.org/web/20221219233220/https://it.wisc.ed...
I got booked for jay walking in Sydney. It was a $75 or $85 fine. And yes, I'm still feeling salty about it because it seems completely out of proportion for the severity of the offence. But then that's pretty much in line with how all the other offences are handled.
One can be an immigrant and a [naturalized] citizen at the same time. "Immigrant" means that you moved [here] from [elsewhere], and decidedly does not mean "non-citizen"!
Assuming this[0] is accurate, it looks like solar irradiance reaching the surface is pretty flat from mid-blue up to red, including green. I would guess either there are other evolutionary reasons for reflecting green, or no reason at all and chlorophyll happened to be the first/easiest substance to evolve for photosynthesis.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunlight#/media/File:Solar_spe...
Ask HN: When Will Free Research Preview End on ChatGPT?
Benjamin Franklin 200-year-old bequest to Boston and Philadelphia (1990)
The "serial port" setting, not the "tcp port" setting.

The telnet protocol is not just raw data. The 0xFF byte is an escape code for commands (and a 0xFF needs to be repeated twice pass an actual 0xFF). There are a few commands including those to send a rs232 break signal or to negotiate options such as serial port baud rate (serial ports don't negotiate a speed, so you have to be able to configure the right speed on both ends of the communication)
How dare MS to block VS Codium from the extension marketplace.
From what I've heard (and a quick DDG search confirms this) the switch was actually to get away from the fact that killing oneself has actually been a crime (that one "committed") in the past.
> no one will take this seriously

But git branch names now say "main".
But then there’s Hofstadter’s law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter%27s_law
Where are you getting the idea that 90% of South Australia's electricity is coming from renewables? Fossil fuels still account for ~35% of the state's generation [1]. You mention "for a week", so it sounds like this was under ideal conditions in the middle of the Australian summer. I could also cherry-pick data from the middle of winter to show a particularly bad week. The only state that has more renewable generation is Tasmania, and they produce it mostly through hydropower. Again, the constraints of intermittent sources energy continue to surface themselves. Australia has not found a way to escape this.

> Looks like about the same level of investment for similar targets to me. Could it be that was another example of blatant lies?

As per your links, Australia merely has targets while Sweden has actually produced and delivered green steel. In fact, again as per the link, Sweden has made the world's first delivery of steel produced without fossil fuels. I'm struggling to see how you conclude this is a lie when your own sources explain how Australia has no plants or production, while Sweden has actually produced green steel.

1. https://www.energy.gov.au/data/australian-electricity-genera....
I mean, at this point I would take the neutrality of a ChatGPT comment over the cynicism of an average, spiteful Hacker News comment lol.
Sorry, there is no heated discussion, the issues are very clear and using ENV is a thing of the past, a bad practice that should not be propagated. Simple.
As a non-native English speaker this page is gold.
No it isn’t? It says cook them in the same way that you cook popcorn, not that they actually pop
Amazon believes all software developers are fungible.
How do you know what a non-wasteful allocation of those valuable resources is without truth?

An accurate understanding of reality is certainly not the only factor in achieving fitness & status, and I'd even believe at a certain point increased resolution when it comes to understanding reality has diminishing returns (and am aware of some research that supports this).

But absent understanding of reality, there is no effective sustainable fitness or status (or effective allocation of resources).

I don't know what you'd call that understanding but truth works for me.
What a wonderful list of words to start using more frequently.
Well by making weakness a virtue you get a populace that is much easier to control
Ask HN: What Happened to Pinboard (Dec '22 edition)?
Well here we are again... it appears that the archiving function (to which I subscribe) is degraded - URLs crawled since about May 22 that landed on cache5.pinboard.in just return 404 (or in one case, garbage) when accessed; perhaps the drive is full? Anyone else noticed the same? Older links still seem to work OK.

I notice that idlewords is recently active on HN despite being impossible (for me at least) to get hold of by email - if you're reading this, would you resolve the above issue at least? Then I can finish manually scraping the archive I have built up, since I've been unable to persuade you to prepare a backup of it for me and I'm now concerned the site will go offline without warning.
Binance's former CFO had no access to the full accounts during his tenure
Dubious about the value of these conceits, it may be imperfect, though autobiographies are not popular.
Photos are still on > 50% of resumes I see at a medium-sized Berlin tech company. Age is also common. I can't imagine this is less common in the south and I know it's more common outside of tech. Both are still on most "how do I prepare a German resume?" guides for foreigners.

I think the photos are awful but they don't present any special PII issues. Resumes already contain names, addresses, and phone numbers and therefore need a ton of scrutiny anyway.
Please, no ChatGPT in the comment section.
When I realized this about 1990-ish after reading some contracts that they had to sign, I completely stopped buying music from stores. The only music I bought since then was directly from the (small) artists.
Workstation GPUs (Nvidia Quadro[1][2] / AMD Radeon Pro[3]) can emulate/force an EDID in the driver settings and the OS will "think" a display is attached. At least in theory that should get around the handshake.

[1] https://www.nvidia.com/content/Control-Panel-Help/vLatest/en...

[2] https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3569/~/m...

[3] https://portal.7thsense.one/user-guides/MC264-display-config...
I ended up playing Elden ring on Linux rather than windows as it seemed to stutter a little. Hard to believe how far gaming on Linux has come.
edit:

this seems to be a better match ('grain popcorn')
https://global.11st.co.kr/glb/products/4169934568
You've also got changedetection.io ->(https://lemonade.changedetection.io/start), which can be selfhosted on a pi etc. I've used it myself to snipe the cheapest kimsufi server.
Yes, a closely related issue is domain knowledge (or lack thereof). Just when you think you’ve finished the job, some non negotiable domain rule comes along and ruins the rest of your month.
> OCD

Maybe they should ask actual OCD sufferers whether the term offends them when used to mean “detail oriented” because if they had asked me, a bona fide obsessive-compulsive patient, I would have responded with “meh.” My OCD has caused me untold misery, wrecked relationships, and made work difficult, but we all have a subtle sense about when people mean us harm or are just using a term as a shortcut. Almost never is “OCD” meant to cause personal distress, nor should it.
The dictionary sez: "a North American Indian warrior"
Is it known about when OpenAI is closing ChatGPT? Any ideas if they are going to release a paid version or some subscription based approach? I genuinely don't believe that this is going to be free to use at least for now, when there is no competition on the market.
> I know the best of my life is behind me

My friend, you can have the best of your life starting now. I’m a decade further along than you, and I look back at my 43yo self with a mixture of envy and admiration. 43 is not too old. You have time, and talent, and some money. Time to shine.
After MS bought GitHub for sure.
Hanlon's razor applies. I don't believe that most of the people doing this are motivated by malign intent. Some are, some people really get off on telling others what to do, getting people fired, etc. But most truly believe they they are doing a service to minority groups.

In your example of "Latinx" for example, if you are a white person who doesn't speak Spanish but you really want to help improve society, it probably sounds like a great idea! Put women and men on an equal footing. It's very easy to walk through a field of landmines if you don't know there's any landmines there. It's very easy to be an activist if you don't know anything at all about the world.

It's better to attack the idea than the people. Push back on that Overton window. Rename your main branch to master. Call someone a Karen.
I don't read it as conflating, they just say these are all harmful, not that they are equally harmful. A hangnail is harmful and a car crash is harmful, I try to avoid both. I'm less put out by a hangnail and I go to great lengths to avoid a car crash.

Any list like this should be read as: "you are causing harm somewhere between a paper cut and a gunshot wound, you may not realize it. Be advised you might be causing that harm, in case knowing that would cause you to take a different course of action"
Wouldn’t 99% be good? Why are we celebrating shitty efficiency?
I don’t doubt that this is happening for some people, but it hasn’t happened to me. I have a similar set up. All my devices always use an Algo VPN with an IP address in the US, which I’ve never changed. I use Google Maps on an iPhone with location services enabled. I’ve been in Mexico for most of the past three years, and yet Google has never considered my VPN IP address as being located in Mexico. Google’s websites always show me as being in the US.
> If there are enough for a scramble, then there are probably enough to build a pedestrian layer _above_ the car layer entirely.

What a lovely and fair idea. Make the ones who use muscle power to climb up and down, while not even sligtly inconveniencing those who can accelerate by just changing the angle of their feet.

I wonder if people who think this is okay walk sometimes or become one with their car already.
Infant mortality is quite different: we know that infants are supposed to live. Extending life is the opposite: death is the normal, even unavoidable end. The comparison is misplaced.

> I could spend a lifetime in each trying to develop mastery

No, you couldn't. You would still be your aged brain, not capable of learning hundreds of professions, and your frail body, not capable of replacing its cells any longer. It requires more than a better way to heat up a corpse to extend life.

I'll leave you with this (paraphrase of a) quote: millions long for immortality, but don't know what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
I'm quite surprised that there isn't some kind of monthly budget control. For every new project I set the budget to be 4-5x my expected expense.
But it is a good analogy for anything dangerous, where the odds are in that 100-1 to 10000-1 range so that it seems safe enough case by case but the stats hit you when you do it regularly .

The article talks about culture. It if it is OK to have a crash landing - and call it a normal landing because no harm to body, then more
accidents are likely.

Imagine people crashed their car every day but “meh just needs a new bumper!”
Lambda function, scheduled by eventbridge

the simplest and cheapest
I think this is a decent feature, however he has completely soured the general publics view of him and any of his ideas, with his erratic behavior and laughable understanding of engineering, with videos showing him mocking Twitter engineers since the Blue Check mark was "trivial", inability to understand how large scale systems need many engineers for optimization, QA, and responses to emergency events.

Perhaps all the drugs he did while performing sexual intercourse with essentially Hollywood escorts has made him extremely confused and delusional.
Moreover, the same "hip-hip hooray" rally cry was used by the Red Army, who (while not specifically siding with Jewish people) liberated quite a number of people from the death camps.
Yeah if they want to go full political correct that is probably the best place to start.
My friend's stove has an app... "Oh shit the milk is boiling over, quick get the phone, unlock it, tap the app icon, wait until it's loaded, navigate to the proper submenu and turn it off!"

Best thing it's he didn't even know at first. He bought a new washing machine that had app support, so out of curiosity he installed the app and scanned for devices, but the app only found his stove.

Technology was a mistake.
If that's all you need checklyhq.com (not affiliated with them) free plan should do it!
It's often used in a wild west sorta way, "we were surrounded by braves". It's super outdated, for sure, as are most words that mean "my enemy's warriors".
This has already been done in the movie Wargames ;)
Clearly a reference to "white savior" Robinson Crusoe's manservant Friday, a highly offensive stereotype of a subservient BIPOC.
This absence of evidence is proof of a need for genuine study.