skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> First, I appreciate the slippery slope, but at this point it’s behind a Stanford login, and is really only addressed to Stanford IT. Then again it says it’s in line with peer institutions so perhaps the slope has already slipped.

This isn't a hypothetical, these kinds of lists are already being applied in industry. Google even tried to apply such a list to a user-facing product earlier this year, to highlight 'inappropriate' words in Google Docs, but the feature was retracted [0].

It's only a matter of time before some well-meaning do-gooder takes a look at an even broader list like this and decides it needs to be applied to their company's code and documentation, or to their product.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31123323
I mean this is in the "rolling blackouts" kind of scenario - don't see how that's controversial. If you're risking cutting off entire blocks from grid electric cars seem irrelevant in comparison.
Where does it say that? AFAIK these will be voluntary measures.
> "jewed" or "retard" are not appropriate professional words

Real, professional example from the automotive world: 'the knock sensor can retard the ignition timing'

Is that still okay to say?
This is the strong Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and it has been disproved many times. Language certainly affects how you think in the way you turn sentences (a french speaker speaking in english will definitely word and think of things relative to how french behaves), but the theory that using words that could eventually have had a racial history in the very specific context of the United States would affect you on a deep level is utter bullshit.

The issue with "man up" or "stop being a girl" isn't language, it's patriarchal habits having ingrained in many of us that men don't cry, men don't talk, men are strong. It's not the words used that kill you, it's the social construct.
Any particular reason why? You can get a free VPS in many places, for example: micro instances on AWS free tier, Azure free tier, etc. I don't know if they give you a unique static global IP, probably not. But as another commenter said, you can proxy it to Cloudflare with their free service with cloudflared. That will protect you from others knowing your home IP and general location, and also you don't want DDoS interrupting your home connection.
The proposal[1] is a month old at this point and people narrow down on the electric cars. Other things the proposal is banning are game consoles, HD streaming, portable electric heaters, dryers, irons and gaming computers.

[1]: https://www.newsd.admin.ch/newsd/message/attachments/74051.p...
+1 on the Yubikey. I'm pretty good at moving my savings around and getting the best interest rate possible - the side effect is a ton of accounts, which means I'm drowning in 'secure memorable passcode key PINs' and my SMS inbox is full of SMS 2FA codes, and I'm wondering what it would take to get a bank to offer Webauthn/FIDO.

How about a website where we pledged to open an account and deposit £X into savings, or switch current account, if they offered Webauthn/FIDO?
English speakers from the US that is, btw.
I don't get the point of running it 24/7 as you can watch it on demand on youtube [1].

(And most of the people who are interested in it have already watched the whole thing already.)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J_xL4IGhJA&list=PLE18841CAB...
It's resolved and closed as "it works as designed" so dunno why someone even linked it in the first place
Oh! Not only are we past close, but it’s a polished commercial product. AI is stunning. Thank you for the links.
It is a patched wine + DXVK + steam integration.
Mandatory APL demonstration from 1975

https://youtu.be/_DTpQ4Kk2wA
If we consider goals of future cars to emit less co2, microplastics, brake dust and safer, how does modern racing advance these goals? In my jaded view, rich guys are going faster and nothing trickling down to economy cars.
Like .* ?
>Anecdotally it seemed very popular, and loved by the people who bought one. Perhaps the numbers said otherwise, because otherwise I have no idea why they didn't reintroduce it as an M1/M2 machine.

I loved mine, and put a couple of hundred thousand miles in carrying it (even wrote a lot of code in Emacs, but I remember the days when every compile was an excuse to stand up and get coffee, so the speed didn't matter to me).

AFAICT its target market was actually Asia, same as with the ultralight (for its time) Powerbook 2400c which was actually built by IBM Japan. But it didn't sell as well as expected even there.
As a slight variant of this question - how would you host a production site from your living room? Assuming you have a static IP and a business account.
Whoa! That's a rudimentary compression scheme to decrease latency.
Evidence for this? Do we have a breakdown of the visa issuance? Are people double-counting students again?
That website is about project management. Nothing to do with medicine or treating injuries.
> whitespace
> Assigns value connotations based on color (white = good), an act which is subconsciously
racialized.

lmao what? I am 100% sure I've never met anyone who has a positive or negative opinion of whitespace. Maybe of whether or not it should be syntactically important but most people seem to think it shouldn't be anyways.
Found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22323562

Updated to november 2022
Where are you people getting this idea that they will shut things down remotely, it’s not mentioned anywhere in this article, the sources, or official pages
A handy hack for getting around pesky legal protections of human rights is to realize that while the rights themselves are protected, the levers people apply to them in everyday practice are not. So you can just selectively outlaw levers.
"you’re not free or in a democracy. "

Depends. People could vote against emergency laws now, but since most people are ok with that mechanism, it is democratic. And I say that as someone who is not ok with those laws. But I can accept that the majority thinks otherwise.

And in general, switzerland with their tradition of direct democracy and consensus is certainly more democratic than most other states.
What a terrible article. This kind of snarky drivel adds nothing to the discussion. I don't understand why such obvious flame bait gets voted to the front page of HN.
If anything, their term "ableist language" trivializes the trials and tribulations of the so-called abled people.

It's not just people with diagnosed issues and actual pathologies that have huge problems in their life - or that commit suicide. "Able" people commit suicide all the time.
The rise of data warehouse native apps
That's very rude.
Not the OP, but you are conflating two very different ideas under a singular definition.

C is "simple" in the same way DNA is "simple". There is a small set of very straightforward rules, but that set provides immense flexibility. But it in no way means that any resulting object will not be complicated. Perhaps a better word than "simple" would be "non-complex", making the distinction between "complex" vs "complicated" systems.

By contrast, the features you refer to would increase the "complexness" of the language (I won't even dare use the grammatically correct word "complexity" here, lest we deviate into yet another trap of conflating definitions).

Which, I would agree with OP is, for better or worse, probably far outside C's goals as a language.
so they have a chart that shows the top 1% holding more things like stock/mutual funds as a % then realestate. Of course they do they probably get loaded with it from companies they create or join as an exec.

As a part time real estate investor and someone that started owning when I graduated college its a cheat code to being independently wealthy. How else can one get a bank to leverage 80% of the risk but if I sell they don't get a any of the equity gains.

I also can 1031 gains into more rentals and not pay tax on the sale not to mention depreciation.

I have my kids college paid for and retirement setup thanks to realestate. Not to mention my kids will be given at least 6 units to either collect rent or sell.

Sure don't view your home as an investment but to say the rich dont see the importance of real estate is nuts. While I think homes should be affordable to everyone and housing shouldn't be seen as an investment its the world we live in and I like many many other people before me used to set themselves up for long term success.
Some good stuff in there, but heard most of it in earlier publications. Reading Steve McConnell's "Software Estimation" covers a bunch of it, Cone of Uncertainty etc etc.

Here's where i've seen estimation become accurate:

1) The people doing the work are estimating the work, and KNOW the software base they are estimating for.

2) Technology being used is not shifting considerably for the piece being estimated.

3) Processes being used to go from requirements elicitation to acceptance are not shifting dramatically for the new piece of work.

You have to have probably 2 of these 3 to have any chance of reasonably accurate estimates. I've seen this work on a fairly large (1 MLOC C++) sonar system development. After a couple of 'late' releases, where those 3 premises were not true, estimation became better, and after 3 or 4 releases, teams were getting pretty accurate, such that customer trust went through the roof.

If you don't have 2 or 3 of those ticked off, you'd better add in a bunch of padding, or get some risk $$ from the C-suite signed off.
Which information?

Your wechat tokens, no that should never be public, hence why this feature exist?

That github reports that you leaked your wechat tokens, it was announced just recently, hence the post.

That github is giving wechat your secrets, not that is not what this is about although the article title would make you think that.
This is one of the reasons why I'm personally not all in on electric vehicles. The other is that there are doubts that the grid can actually handle almost everyone switching to them.

See also: https://www.newsnationnow.com/on-balance-with-leland-vittert...
Peta came out with a list of "vegan" idioms. Probably mostly a publicity stunt and some are clunky, but I try and use "feeding 2 birds with one scone" because it's a good pun.
Corporations are going to see this list save start applying it. The new DEI corporate officers need something to do.

It’s not a personal choice and I’m sure it will be enforced in short order.

If someone can’t distinguish in context that words mean different things, they need to change, not everyone else.
FASB addresses crypto asset presentation and disclosure
Space on earth is finite. And even if add more hypotheticals like us becoming an interstellar species (actually I'd wager that's less unlikely than overcoming aging), in absence of aging exponential breeding would eventually outpace even the fastest space frontier colonization imaginable.
It can be more complex than that. My town has a lot of hairdresser salons. It’s hard to make the argument that there’s too many, but that would be my feeling. It’s a small town and the most popular business type on the high street is a food venue followed in 2nd place by hair salons. I’d have expected convenience stores or pubs.

However, there’s actually a lot of demand for hair styling. Maybe even enough demand to fill all those salons given how long my wife waits for an appointment.

But there’s not enough staff to satisfy all the demand. Chairs in the salons sit empty as you walk past.

So what’s happening? There’s already salons with empty chairs, there’s still excess demand and… new salons are being opened!

According to n=1 (i.e. anec-data), staff who used to work at an existing salon are opening their own. Meanwhile existing salon is proclaiming to all customers that no one wants to work. I don’t know how they square this world view with their ex staff opening their own salon.
I've flagged it.
> I fully expect "disabled" to land in the left column of this or similar list in a couple of years.

I worked for a company that sold medical supplies and we got a phone call about a disabled user message on our website.
It has both as exclaves: the France-Netherlands border in the group of islands at bottom left (nitpick: technically not a border with the Netherlands because St Maarten nowadays is an independent country in the kingdom of the Netherlands), just above Cuba, and the Belize exclave at the top of Brazil, bordering Surinam.
Ahh... I was wondering the same thing.

Here's an announcement: https://www.amigaforever.com/news-events/af-10/
Only works as a temporary solution. Eventually you'll run out of wage-slaves even if you hire from the entire planet as young people can't afford having children with those salaries.

What if shareholders were happy with a bit less money, and companies used that money instead to provide a decent wage? Seems more sustainable to me than mass migration of the working poor.
Is the carbon footprint better if I host my own RPI instead of using a cheap virtual server somewhere ? Having a Raspberry on all the time will consume some electricity I gues...
> you can do the same with any password manager. If you don't lock your "vault" any of your passwords are exposed

True, but:

1. People are aware of that, it is an expected threat vector so at least a little less likely to be an issue. The behaviour of the FF password generator function is unexpected (to many) so is a hidden potential problem.

2. Good password managers have the option to auto-logout after inactivity which can mitigate an attack if not performed quickly.

3. Other similar attack vectors existing does not mean this one shouldn't be considered for closure, or if not closing by changing the behaviour perhaps instead adding a warning.
"Word" as well. Better "sequence of characters", although that might discriminate against ideogram centric cultures. Wow, this is though!
The software necessary for remotely disabling vehicle use is already present in every EV.

Whether the state can and will choose to use that software, now or in the future, is a separate question.
Being a small business does not entitle them to exist at the cost of exploiting underpaid labor.
This belongs next to Standfords research into sterilising white males. "Harmful language"? Sounds like a dystopian dictatorial nightmare. "We're enslaving you to protect you from yourselves..." should be their new motto.
Not to mention... electric leaf blowers. It seems oddly specific. I mean the green alternative to a leaf blower is a rake, it's just a bit more labor intensive.
Yes, but that was a design/security choice. What OP described seems like a pure negligence ("setting up authentication is hard, so let's skip it").
Wow that's some full on conspiracy theory level crazy articles on that site...
You folks arent worried about fire hazard?

I'd probably never pick having some device running 24/7 when there are 3$ VPSes
Just a thought, there is technology available today that allows a worker in say in Nigeria to make a bowl of salad for city worker in the UK. Be it a lot slower than a human but perhaps more accurate.

This type of 'teleprescence' technology from what I have seen is evoloving fast, where things cant be fully automated or a human might need to step in, this concept opens up a countries labour market in a whole new way.

Of course the knowedge/service sector has been doing this for over a decade via outsourcing.
286 and 386 were NOT comparable to 68k. Much Amiga development was done in 68k assembly which was an absolute joy compared to x86, and mapped almost directly to C. Plus the PC was starved for IRQ lines, and the Amiga environment lives and dies on interrupts. Because PCs lacked the Agnus and Paula chips that made the Amiga so compelling, AmigaOS on the PC would have struggled, especially during the 80s, had it been written. Most likely the developers of the day would have declared the task impossible.

IBM licensed some Amiga technology for OS/2 in the 90s, which is probably about as good a "PC AmigaOS" as we'd ever get (absent recent efforts like AROS).
I always paste into a text file until ive confirmed everything works as expected
An important point is that a distorted picture is produced through a straight salary comparison between an EU position and a US one. There are a number of reasons, but the two biggest are taxes and healthcare. The EU will likely have higher taxes, but much (much) lower healthcare.

I make $170k a year after 20 years, in the US, and I barely consider myself a success (sometimes I don't - had I not messed up I'd likely be a millionaire today). I messed up early on with college and won't have a B.S. in C.S until next year. I pay roughly 30% a year in taxes, and have around a $10k total deductible for self/family, though a lot is covered with only a minimal co-pay of $10-$50 per visit (figure 2 visits per month, $1000 per year).

Look at the whole compensation package:

- Salary

- Taxes

- Employer 401k contribution

- Vacation

- Healthcare

- Profit sharing

- Etc.
Is that part of 'Assassin's Creed: Office 365'?
It's also intresting that some of these terms were, initially at least, meant to be anti-racist.

"Survivor" is on the list (as in, survivor of SA). So is "Karen" (which, IIRC, was popularized through videos of white people harassing black folks minding their own business).

I can't imagine this list should be used as anything more than an MLA style-guide type list of "these are outdated terms for formal writing"
I'm assuming both you and the GP know that the 'retard' that's clearly offensive is the noun 'retard' referring to a person.
It seems correct to me.

The map shows the country "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" (UK) without separating its constituent countries. This is what most political world maps do.

Ireland does border by land to the UK, at the border of Northern Ireland. This is shown with the black line.

Also it borders to the UK and all of the world's ocean bordering countries which is shown through the surrounding blue.
A house is only an investment if you can sell it and still have somewhere to live. For most people this is not the case. You know who it is the case for? Landlords who rent out housing.

If most people rent, then most housing is now investment - just not for the people living in it. If the goal is for housing to be treated as something other than investment, making more people rent instead of buy achieves the exact opposite.
It amazes me how Apple completely screwed over Final Cut Pro. They went from ostensibly 60% market share in video editing to low double digits, maybe?
I'm sorry, but "figure" is obviously offensive to a huge number of people, starting with anyone who's ever suffered from anorexia. And "speech" is clearly a slur against mute persons.

Please self-censor in the future, or the Stanford Brain Police will be forced to take appropriate measures.

/s
Put the 10 lines in a Lambda and invoke it from a schedule in EventBridge. Done. If you follow the default settings you'll get Cloudwatch logging as well.
... and it's not like the M1 Pro and M1 Max MacBook Pro or Studio machines are low end. They're blazing fast. It's very much a niche market since anyone demanding even more power can easily just build a Linux box with 2X the power for 1/4 the price or use cloud.
This should not be a surprise in a world where electricity demands are sky rocketing and municipalities are asking people to conserve power. If you have internet connected devices that can be controlled remotely by someone who is not you, like your car, then at some point you may find yourself with a disabled device until the crisis abates. IMO this makes a great case not having so many devices be so "smart." Wouldn't it be great if you could just have a dumb old car powered by electricity and not an iPad on wheels?

During a big freeze in the states a couple years ago power customers in Colorado discovered that they couldn't bump the heat in their homes past a certain temperature. It turned out they had all bought thermostats from their power company that allowed the provider to control the thermostat under certain conditions. People were pissed and doubly so when they realized they had agreed to it in the contract. I don't know what rules are in place in Switzerland for EVs but this feels like a similar scenario.

This is an interesting topic of conversation, however, this article is mostly garbage though (as are the rest on the site) and should probably be flagged.
You could name them, because I have no idea if you're referring to modern-day bankers, the lawyers who took over their premises, or some other organisation.
I use netlify for serving frontend assets and have used fly.io's free tier, supabase's free tier, and all the major public cloud free tiers (though the latter is the most difficult to manage from a cost perspective).
Worth noting, Switzerland has awesome public transport. I went there as a tourist and criss crossed most of the major urban centers without a car. You can even go to the top of mountains without a car! It's a little funny to see people suited up in ski gear on the subway. Even funnier to watch them hop off and ski away from the mountaintop station. Next time I go I will be one of them.

I also recall there was a way to get a discounted yearly pass for citizens, far far less expensive than car ownership.
It is (mathematically) possible for individual people to work fewer hours with the workstation being manned for exactly the same amount of hours. It just requires paying salary to more people and higher administrative overhead. And slowing down creative types of work.

Whether it’s possible for enterprises to suck up the reductions in profit – that’s a different question. For developed societies being all about The Economy.
Big...deal...? That wouldn't be a "you" problem. That would be an Apple problem. If you pay for cloud service (say 100GB), Apple has no business "optimizing" or de-duplicating anyways. If you want it as an option, sure.

But let's not pretend this isn't a subtle backdoor that can invalidate the entire "E2E" implementation. I believe that in the US, having the filename and/or hash/checksum is most of what is necessary to trigger the Foregone conclusion doctrine and force the person to lose their 5th amendment protection and be compelled to decrypt their data to be used against themselves.

I'd like if someone with legal knowledge could comment if my understanding is correct.
> A democracy functions under freedom of movement, speech, self-defense, self-reliance, etc

Not to nit pick, but while I'm picking nits. What you refer to is liberal democracy. Karl Popper explained this very well in his book Conjectures And Refutations:

> The difference between a democracy and a tyranny is that under a
democracy the government can be got rid of without bloodshed; under a
tyranny it cannot.

> Democracy as such cannot confer any benefits upon the citizen and it
should not be expected to do so. In fact democracy can do nothing—only
the citizens of the democracy can act (including, of course, those
citizens who comprise the government). Democracy provides no more than a
framework within which the citizens may act in a more or less organized
and coherent way.

> We are democrats, not because the majority is always right, but
because democratic traditions are the least evil ones of which we know.
If the majority (or ‘public opinion’) decides in favour of tyranny, a
democrat need not therefore suppose that some fatal inconsistency in his
views has been revealed. He will realize, rather, that the democratic
tradition in his country was not strong enough.

If people in Switzerland choose a government that restricts their movement, this is what they should get, and if they don't get that, democracy is broken.