skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a big trend on this thread for people to declare themselves the counter culture like it is an aspiration to be so.
> There is a huge non-obvious culture of LQBTQIA

Does the second Q stand for something else than the first? Or is it a typo?
I meant the pre-Microsoft Skype. That one was magic.

It used p-2-p over port 80 so it would always reach its destination no matter the firewall rules on your network, and it allowed file transfers up to 2GB(!) in size, in 2005(!).

Can present day Discord do that?
Not for large DOMs. And for websites which Don't require support for low internet bandwidth this is optimizing for the wrong problem
Yeah twitch chat totally makes this amazing. Also agree with everything else.
A UK Tier 2 Skilled Worker visa takes 3-8 weeks to go through; the US EB-3 visa wait time is typically measured in years (more than 10 for some countries it seems).

That alone is a big reason people move to countries other than the US for tech work. An empoyer can wait a month or two for a visa to come through, they can't wait years. I'd love to work in the US, but it needs multi-year planning and for lots of stuff out of your control to line up.
> this whole "no comments" / "everything should be a unit test" idea

Nothing in this thread says "no comments" or "everything should be a unit test". But the reality is that most code doesn't matter. It is just a means to an end and if it no longer serves that means it's expendable. Explaining why something was chosen doesn't tell you anything meaningful most of the time. In fact, I expect the "why" 99% of the time is "I felt like it and it worked".

When a specific approach is essential in meeting certain application requirements, absolutely you need to comment that. But you also need tests, else how are you going to ensure that you stay within those requirements? Of an application of any meaningful size, you're going to have a hard time manually ensuring that some externality didn't break your assumption on every deploy. Even if it weren't hard, why put in the man hours when a machine can do it for you?
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On Linux, I just tested that if you have a Mozilla Firefox window running on X (I tested on XWayland but it should work just as well on X11) with the Discord tab in view, you can use your desktop's/compositor global keyboard shortcut functionality to call xdotool to send a keyup/keydown event without focusing the window, like this:

xdotool search --name 'Discord.*— Mozilla Firefox' keydown F9
xdotool search --name 'Discord.*— Mozilla Firefox' keyup F9

I configured web Discord to use F9 as the push to talk button since it seemingly doesn't conflict with anything in Firefox, but you can then bind it to any key or mouse button on your global keyboard shortcut settings.

According to some people on StackExchange (I didn't test myself) this doesn't work if you're using Discord on Chromium-based browsers, which seem to reject xdotool events unless the window is focused (which xdotool can do for you, but doesn't work for the PTT usecase). Of course, this doesn't work on Firefox when running native Wayland windows because xdotool is X-only, and ydotool doesn't work either because it emulates a virtual device which would mean you still need to focus the window.
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There's a compelling argument to be made that the furries constitute a counterculture: they certainly fall outside the mainstream, with most external perceptions of them range from see them as "weird" to "degenerates". They create plenty of their own cultural artifacts in the form of art and writing. And they have a disproportionate impact on the tech world relative to their numbers.

On the other hand they are a very small group relative to, say, the hippies, and aren't really framed a being in direct opposition of the status quo. But I don't think the status quo has much support in popular culture. Our current state of affairs is the result of a stalemated tug of war between many different groups who all oppose the status quo.
Yes, and it's probably good enough, but Nvidia's produces noticeably green (ironic) video. It's not a good encoder by any means.
Maybe BestCloud was the OG, usurped by BetterCloud.
I don't think this will really be a surprise to anyone for surgical masks.

But it is surprising that N95s didn't make for a more clear cut result.
A dumb phone, an old walkman, etc. but also some of the following: second hand clothes, a second hand bicycle, a car from the 90s, a cheap second hand watch etc. The gathering spaces include your local library, your small local music venue/record store, and your local print shops and book cafés.
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Yes you are right that there are a lot of catholic people, we are talking about _culture_.

How many TV shows, movies, or songs have come out in the last 10 years that featured Catholics in any way or catholic imagery, or even just general traditional values? Like maybe 1?

How many TV shows, movies, and songs have come out featuring gay people or gay culture?
A huge number.

Compare this state to the 60's when the hippies were the counterculture, how many mainstream movies and shows came out featuring them? Were they the cultural mainstream? The answer is obviously no. Movies of that day were being made by the then-mainstream trads.

We were never talking about representation in government. If you want to have an honest conversation about religious representation in government you will very quickly be labeled an anti-semite.
Not really the same thing. Huddles are voice for channels.
>Not everyone is comfortable advertising their sexuality to strangers.

Is that possibly because of the Traditional dominant culture?
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Because the law of a country (a very populated country) prohibits it.

In the same sense they supposedly would remove whatever violates hate speech laws or copyright laws in some other countries that the ones they operate in.
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I increased by about 20 points after realizing how to apply some of my knowledge of algorithms. That shouldn't happen (measuring knowledge, not IQ). It's quite a meaningless test - probably best understood when trying to apply it to ML systems like Gato or PaLM.
You’re mistaken if you think “liberalism” is the status quo. It might be in the internet, but real life is not the same as Twitter. Just look at the push against abortion, or the massive incarcerated population, or the constant killing of poor people by the police. Or the raising of the interest rate to freeze salaries in detriment of bigger unemployment which won’t target the rich people?

Honestly saying that being conservative is a counter-culture just shows how alienated conservatives are.
Also Marko, which was on here yesterday: https://markojs.com/docs/why-is-marko-fast/#compile-time-opt...

> Marko will recognize that the template fragment produces the same output every time and it will thus create the virtual DOM node once ... Rendering a static sub-tree has virtually zero cost. In addition, Marko will skip diffing/patching static sub-trees.

> Marko will also optimize static attributes on dynamic elements. [Static] attributes [are] only created once and [are] used for every render. In addition, no diffing/patching will happen for static attributes.
I vehemently hate the "storage component" in any SSL implementation when it is not just "file per cert"

"Just drop a file in directory" instead of "run a tool that checks whether cert is in store and if it isn't then run import" is so much more automation-friendly.
This reads like you ran it through a translator.
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Can't have a counterculture without a culture.
Do you believe that these sites would be fast if built with other non-SPA or non-“modern” libraries?

It’s like thinking that a faster car or a bicycle could be faster in a city with bad traffic light logistics. All of Svelte, React, Vue, jQuery, DOM are equally visibly fast until you attach these 10 megabytes of /metrics-n-spyware/**/*.js.
Here's a concrete famous example. I'm sure I'll remember the details wrong, but the gist is the kind of thing that keeps happening.

A while back, people built a model for medical imaging that learned to distinguish between images of patients with vs without some disease (can't remember that detail). It did well, but failed in the real world. It turned out that instead of learning to recognize features of the disease at hand, it learned to recognize some tiny feature of whether the image came from a specific hospital that collected part of the dataset, or something stupid like that.

Saying "maybe model X does the same thing as humans" is proven wrong for X after X after X. At this point, the default assumption should be that ML techniques are different from humans unless proven otherwise.
I've read Gravity's Rainbow and it's very melodramatic but a good read. What is "winning" in this case? A feeling of liberation through avoiding the main path can be useful for some, even if life is deterministic.

>It’s hard to listen to Rage Against the Machine without laughing.

People like music for all kinds of reasons...and I see what you're getting at, but this example is a little cheesy. "I think you're all sheep for thinking your not sheep and it makes me laugh." is essentially what I'm reading.

While counter culture does get co-opted, it's not like RATM was gonna actually do anything to help us socially since music had already been commodified for a long time. Counter Culture can even START co-opted e.g. Label Music/Industry Plants.

Where this book misses is the failure to ask the question: What is the purpose of viewing yourself or acting in favor of counter culture. To look cool? To feel powerful? If those things work in your life model who cares if it's not the most "punk" thing ever. Some people live their whole lives happy being "posers" and I would consider that successful for them.
Thanks for the tip, I'll take a look.
yeah, if you can do commits per function that would be fine. Most projects don't allow that, everyone squashes commits these days.
Link? His Wikipedia page does not have this text, and it was last edited days ago.

Never mind: You are talking about Mirza. I'm talking about the Nobel Laureate. Two different people.
> Fines and fees are a difficult topic. Fines and fees should never be used to fund the government. They are a perverse incentive.

Perhaps it would be better if all of the fines went into a social wealth fund that every citizen has a share in?
If you already have everything you want in life, I can't sell you on hard work.

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I agree 100%. I have two middle school-age kids, only one of whom has entered puberty but both have extensive thoughts on what LGBT(+) means. I do a lot of smiling and nodding, and just listening, because they really see it quite differently than any adult I have met. It's very much become an entire culture that is only loosely related to actual sexuality.

I am very interested to see how it plays out with my kids as they mature, and as their cohort matures into adulthood. It's fascinating, a little overwhelming perhaps, but not particularly threatening. They aren't at all militant, and I don't know if that's an age thing, or if the culture is evolving away from it.
yeah it's post-left
Being wind sensitive isn't that bad if you can ride the jet stream for better economics. I see google has a patent for adding sails to airships.

To that end, being able to go to a higher altitude makes things more uniform, doesn't it? I guess I'm not a pilot so I don't know what altitudes make things easier, I know they can't do airliner service ceilings, but can they do 5000 ft? Probably depends on the buoyancy.
TorToiSe[0] is pretty good but I agree 11 is currently state of the art. Won't be long until GP is correct though. 1.5 years at best is my guess. The next moat will be multiple languages and maybe something like more control over the tone which is something perhaps more suited to a product.

[0]https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
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Thank you for sharing this story. Good one. You can tell a story too.
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you can change the top end by lowering the temperature of your hot water heater. We have ours set at 120. Using a lower hot water temperature is a way to give you a wider range of useful temperatures.

In texas during the summer we often take showers with no hot water (or very little hot water).
Oddly enough, this doesn't seem to be accurate: check out https://jsbench.me/02l63eic9j/1.

I also would have sworn up and down that using a DocumentFragment would be loads faster than both, but it doesn't seem to be the case. I wonder why that is.