skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This is the doublespeak of modern-day censorship. 'Sensitivity’ is the garb moral censure now wears

It's pretty funny that you never see these complaints when European folklore is butchered because it's deemed to be "unsafe for children", entire scenes are cut out of Leon or even Harry Potter is being attacked for promoting "witchcraft".

Sure rewriting Dahl is silly but it is funny to me to pretend this is a modern invention in Anglosphere culture. The puritan moral panic has a long history
You hit the nail right on the head
Wow, I think this is probably one of those things trying to be funny but just isn't. Maybe you're just totally misguided on what a producer does, which may be the joke you're trying to make that nobody knows what a producer does.

The producer would be closer to the president of the board while the director would be the CEO. The producer and director work closely to get the project off the ground, with the director have say on who is hired for the key roles (the lead person for each craft). These keys then can staff out around them and the director rarely interferes unless there's just something personal going on.

Who the creator/founder equivalent is really differs between projects. Sometimes, the producer has the idea and staffs around it. Sometimes, the director has the idea and also acts as a producer or just staffs the producer out to someone. Sometimes, it's the studio's idea and staffs everything out.
I'd advise against using "exotic" TLDs if you plan to send mail from this domain.
"Hanging out" has been the resting state of humans for 99% of humanity [1] [2].

That is to say, most of our time as humans has been spent sitting around with other people telling stories and sharing our feelings and thoughts. Full stop.

The fact that loneliness is so pervasive is a symptom of the larger social crisis that will certainly be our ruin.

Simply hanging out with strangers, being vulnerable, giving and receiving emotional and physical care in platonic ways with no social expectations, is one of the key things we need to do to get humanity onto a safe trajectory.

[1] Chan, E.K.F., et al. (2019) Human origins in a southern African Paleo-wetland and first migrations. Nature 575, 185–189

[2]Sahlins, Marshall (2009). Hunter-gatherers: insights from a golden affluent age. Pacific Ecologist. 18: 3–8
Sure, I’ll agree that my definition doesn’t line up 100% with the legal definition.

My definition of fraud is: “lying to someone to induce them to do something they wouldn’t have done without the lie”.

I think the hidden pricing lines up neatly with my definition.

What’s your definition? (We don’t need to come to an agreement, just curious how you think about it)
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That is why I said "It's not a %100 solution, and we don't know how long it will take to not be relevant, but it is something you can do today."
Reminds me of a story about Gene Roddenberry. (of Star Trek fame) Apparently he wrote lyrics to the original series theme song so that he'd get half the royalties every time it was played even though the lyrics weren't used. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, 1997, pp 178, 185)
I sort of thought this is what git was designed for. Need to signal your proficiency? Start contributing to projects and answering stackoverflow questions, but with a flag that says you are interested in new work.
Looking at my bank account I can relate :)
Regardless of whether or not you should have a say, it seems clear to me that telling the world someone wrote something they didn't write is morally dubious at least.
There isn’t any time for this in a 500 person public university classroom.
The company Torchbox (creators of Wagtail CMS) are an interesting example of an employee owned company. In their case it was a matter of the founders selling/moving most of their ownership to an Employee Owned Trust (as opposed to starting as a coop from scratch) - EOT is an interesting option in the UK with tax incentives to make it work.

https://torchbox.com/careers/employee-owned-trust

https://baxendaleownership.co.uk/torchbox-digital-agency-mov...

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I mean franchises in high cost areas already deal with this and survive. Or, as written, “at participating locations.”
I don't hear the author complaining about the loss of the first edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

This is where Dahl bowed to early 70s wokery and erased the oompa-loompas' true identity as African slaves who would dribble for cocoa beans.

Film adaptations have struggled with the fact that oompa-loompas are, however you dress them up, slaves.

From this article which is much more interesting:

https://theconversation.com/from-pygmies-to-puppets-what-to-...
No they wont, but they probably don’t care about making money if they paid for a committee of over-educated elite to suggest these changes in the first place.
I seem to recall companies closing stores that voted to unionize. /s
> What humans being to the table over ChatGPT is our ability to create new links between information

I'm confident that "creativity" is a combination of:

1) reproduction errors (when we badly copy things and the wrong way to do it leads luckily to a better way to do it), and

2) systematically or by luck applying established and productive models from one context to another, unrelated context, and getting a useful result.

Just not a believer in some essential, formless creativity that generates something out of nothing.
If it's smarter than the average human it will pick us-east-2.
Oh nice, and it’s an actual browser engine not just another chromium wrapper \o/

Good luck to them - we need more actual engines rather than the modern “new browser” model where it’s just whatever Google want in chrome.
FWIW all of those IP's are in FireHol 30 day netset [1] from the FireHol Repo [2] They are known abusers and safe to null route if you happen to run your own mail servers, blogs, etc...

wc -l firehol_abusers*
7260 firehol_abusers_1d.netset
184010 firehol_abusers_30d.netset

# first grep for any IP's you care about and then:
for Ip in $(cat firehol_abusers_30d.netset);do ip route add blackhole "${Ip}" 2>/dev/null;done

If that cuts down on the noise then create a startup script to do this on reboot. The first time this should be done from a web console vs. ssh in case the list contains your own IP address or gateway. Why ip route vs ipset or iptables? Far less CPU load than netfilter.

A more generic way to keep many bots out is to redirect anything other than HTTP/2.0 to a password protected listener. This will block Google bots as they still do not support HTTP/2.0 but will also block a majority of the problematic bots.

[1] - https://github.com/firehol/blocklist-ipsets/blob/master/fire...

[2] - https://github.com/firehol/blocklist-ipsets
Oh yeah I should have clarified - I use the edge branch for this.
Can all this pent-up trauma be undone?
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This isn't a new idea. It can be traced back to delay-line memory [1] and many thought experiments have been suggested to use a large network as such. Even some actual demos have been made [2][3].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-line_memory

2. https://code.kryo.se/pingfs/

3. https://www.shysecurity.com/post/20120401-PingFS
Yes, that is the point...
Do you have examples of widespread slave economy that did not require a government framework to support it? All examples from modern civilization i can think of involved laws specifically blocking slaves from participating as equals in the market economy, ie anti capitalist?
The changes I can’t understand most involve calling people fat. Obesity is a fact and it should not be normalized. Any obese person put on a desert island and fed water and a limited caloric diet would lose weight, a scientific fact. Any attempt at normalizing obesity is the same as normalizing smoking cigarettes or alcoholism - harmful to all of humanity.
Higher education will become just an optional prep course for your sit down conversational AI interview.

Once AI can do a good job vetting candidates, I see no reason for companies not to have an open applicant process where anyone can interview and be evaluated. If you are sharp and know your shit, a degree won't matter and the AI interviewer won't care.

But this is an "All else being equal" scenario, my true belief is that AI will change things so radically that there is effectively an event horizon in the near future, impossible to predict whats beyond it.
Can recommend Ghost self-hosted. Really good installation process and fine documentation with a big community around it - hosting with Ghost + Hetzner VPS my blog from my bio.
That's the definition of a regressive tax.
Why is Windows 10 search so bad? Here is how to fix it (2022)
> In my generation it seems like everyone has something they are really into that isn't work or their immediate family.

Not all zoomers. I pretty much confine myself to work, lurking online, occasional periods of HN commenting, drinking, and the occasional walk or hike. Just biding my time and collecting my tech TC. When I get into late 20s and am rich, then I'll think about doing those things.

> Main street suburbia is no longer dead antique shops. There's now an arthouse cinema, axe throwing, duck pin bowling, and a brewery.

I always hear junior tech workers and interns saying how much they do these rock climbing/top golf/etc. type of activities. I always assumed they were signaling. Maybe it's great and more people should try axe throwing.
Living in the suburbs, I'm happy I can host the occasional bonfire, which is a great opportunity to get a lot of people together and do whatever.
Respectfully you have no idea what you're talking about. These half-million dollar devices (often more expensive than that) were the ONLY option at the time to perform certain kinds of experiments. Not exactly a choice.
I read to my 6yo Grimm stories almost like originals ones. I think life is made of both good and bad things, hiding latter won't benefit child growth, you have to explain and give the kid the tools to manage both.
> it was changed by the author, which seems perfectly acceptable.

Yes. It's the author's work, and the author has every right to say what is the "definitive" form of their work. Nobody else has that right.

I think it's fine to alter and publish other people's work (setting aside copyright issues), as long as it's clear that the work isn't what the author intended.
christ can you imagine the raw hubris in 1995 to roll this out and inexplicably make it not only uninstallable by the user, but a core and critical functionality of your entire OS such that any attempt to sidestep or evade it would be met with ruination?

>This is a very strange comment.

In around 2001 when MS was being tried for antitrust, they claimed that IE couldn't be decoupled from the OS because it would break the os. I believe that is what the OP is alluding to. I believe an unassociated professor managed to decouple it later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
If you set aside which particular words, my hopeful/naive answer to the question "will people think how horrible we were for insulting each other so frequently" would be "yes."

It would be wonderful if everyone was more civil and less vicious.

Anyone here who was bullied in high school, say, and enjoyed it? I sure didn't.

I don't think it will happen, but for words that become increasingly only employed as insults, I understand the desire to push back against those insults.
It's certainly a valid option to decide that the books are no longer appropriate, and stop reprinting them. Or to print a warning and let the market decide.

The problem is when you change the book, effectively making a new one, but with the same name as the old one - which is not authentic.
Not in the UK or EU: they'd have to have your explicit consent to be legal.
Well just got some more sticks. While I wait for RAM to arrive, will try with compress_weight and compress_cache. If you're in any discord or any other space where people are tinkering with this, would love to join!
Have been running the same blog, on and off, since 2001. It has gone through many iterations, including being nuked and restarted several times, using archive.org as my backup.

The current iteration is optimized around not having it be a source of stress or anxiety for me. Here is my setup:

* I just use self-hosted Wordpress site on a Digital Ocean droplet.

* I made my own theme that strips pretty much everything out: it's one big page with 500+ posts on it, all text. No comments, images, video, anything like that. Minimal markup. Takes less than a second before the page can be interacted with.

* There are no post pages, and no archives (again, just one big page).

* Consequently, you search by pressing cmd-f in your browser, which is so much better than a search widget (and is the main reason I went with this design).

* I make entries whenever I want to, and then queue them up with a plugin that releases 1 post every 4 days, on a schedule. I have 112 posts in the queue, so I could not touch this thing for a year and it would be still running.

* My main goal for the blog is to record things that have happened: diary, commonplace book, repository for movie and book reviews. Not to make money or be a famous thought leader and influencer. I recognize that's not everybody's goal, but with those simplifying assumptions in place, it became super easy to make and maintain a blog.
Probably the "unless" part made it think it was grammatically incorrect
I foresee a time when we'll write BDD tests and the AI will write the app.
that's one interpretation!
What do you mean by writeback functions?
Cloudflare workers?
Example: you don’t need AWS keys to write to SQS because the EC2 instance has an identity (“principal”) applied to it, and SQS has been configured trust requests from said identity for some set of queues. It’s typically cloud-specific in the implementation and the resources being requested
I'm not familiar with them but things make a lot more sense now. The writing seemed pretty off with lots of odd signals about how to think, how to fall in line, and spell out what our outrage should be. The talking points seemed a little too clean-cut and less about a discussion.

Not much to see here. Time to move on.
Irrelevant to any meaningful discussion and being posted in bad faith. Flagged.
There’s a pretty obvious difference between convincing a living artist to revise his work and a massive company revising a dead author’s work.
With all the "recent" talks about 4 day workweeks, I looked for alternatives and stumbled upon this "CGP Grey" video. What do you think about Weekend Wednesday?
One can delegate that to ChatGPT.
Maybe this is how AI will work. Every contributor to the data set gets micropennies per inference century (a reasonable measure).

Of course future industrial foundational models will be bought and paid for (and royalty free) for the companies that assemble them.
I don’t think it should be that difficult to deal with this. If you no longer find it appropriate for children, fine. Don’t give it to your kids then. But books ought to be preserved as written imo, not modified to meet todays arbitrary moral criteria.
It's one thing to advertise something as a modernized version and another to advertise it as the original work of the authors. Isn't it worth preserving how things were in the past? If not how will we understand where we came from? How will we know how to learn from mistakes if they're just erased?
They address the difficulties of doing this in the post.
Yeah, this is a good one - does it matter if you wrote the code, or a computer did? If you can explain how it works, and why it is like that that should mean that you understand it and have learned the important parts.
The real act of cultural vandalism is the copyright regime that keeps these trust fund descendants of the Dahl estate in cash for something they did not do, for however many more decades that all his works will be locked up.

"Updating" these works is gross, but only because it's nothing but a cash-grab for them, selling and re-selling this material to new audiences just by tweaking a few words here and there.
Yes! Happy to support. This is the only workable way to organize in the long run and is exciting to see this as the top comment.

Please let me know how I can help via the email in my profile.

FWIW I'm starting a residential trash/recycling cooperative to roll back the capitalistic accretion of all public works, so anything anarchic-syndicalist I will support however I can.
Is it not a little different when the author changes their own work (as in the 1970s edits you mention) versus when it is changed after their death?
Forgot step 6, layoffs.
How is the number unknown if the website is giving us a number?

The truth is that an overwhelming majority of police homicides are justified and lawful uses of force to stop a violent crime.

It can never be zero because some people are violent and will kill you for your shoes, much less to escape arrest and prison.

Police encounters occur about 65,000,000 times a year according to the DOJ.

1232 deaths is 0.001% of encounters. In general only about 7 deaths were unjustified annually. Average of 3 were accidental and four were criminal, where the cop responsible was fired, arrested, tried, and convicted in every case.

Deaths by police in the United States is a reflection on the outcome of crime, not the application of law enforcement.

Anybody telling you differently is selling something.
I got to number 5 but I’m guessing brevity never features?
Didn't the Victorians (and people before that) rewrite Shakespear all the time to fit the current vibe?

Roald Dahl also changed his own books so they would stay current.
Both of these examples are collections of folk tales. Arabian Nights in particular has no authoritative original at all, and there are many variations of the collection in many languages, many of which which are still available today from a variety of publishers. The Brothers Grimm similarly collected and adapted folk tales (and bowdlerized _their own work_ in subsequent editions), but reprints of most of these editions are still available, and versions of tales or collections that were not written by the Grimms are not published under their name. By contrast Dahl stories are original IP with an authoritative source who is now dead and can't revise his own work.
Yes. Google laid off several very high level engineers. Engineers that were likely making 7 figures.
The Disney Channel has a short warning that appears before some Muppet Show episodes.

I was surprised, but I liked the approach. Disney gets to say that someone might be upset, but we the viewers are empowered to see the content and make our own decision.
I think this is put rather bluntly, and I've still got a bit to go probably to where I would call myself my ideal weight, so I say this with a certain empathy... but I really agree that obesity falls into a different category than most of what might be called "woke".

What I perceive as a general normalization of obesity feels... very corporate, or certainly too convenient for corporate interests. Americans fail to consider many aspects of their lives regarding their health because they're trained to trust brands, and that doubly/triply extends to ignorance around diet and nutrition.

Food, sex, alcohol. All vices that Americans glorify and demonize in nearly exactly the least effective ways.

IDK, I don't want to preach but my body now, compared to with an extra 80-100lbs on it? It's hard to put into words how many aspects of my life are markedly better.
"Maybe means no."

If you are seeing red flags, skip it. Don't take a risk on joining up with someone when you're seeing red flags from day one. I've done so before, and always regretted it.
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You speak of my country with disgust and it offends me.

You know what's kept those wages outside London so low?
Does the US provide targeting information to countries that are not allies?
There's a difference between the US Treasury and an FBI slush fund. Although one wonders the extent to which the usual difficulties in moving that much gold would or would not apply to the FBI.
because that only appears if that's what was studied. which it wasn't.

this study and many others aren't checking patients to see if Ivermectin is by coincidence being used for what it was approved for - tapeworm treatment. they are doing studies on people with covid.
We will look back on these times and feel terrible for the words we used because of the Euphemism Treadmill:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism

> Frequently, over time, euphemisms themselves become taboo words, through the linguistic process of semantic change known as pejoration, which University of Oregon linguist Sharon Henderson Taylor dubbed the "euphemism cycle" in 1974,[17] also frequently referred to as the "euphemism treadmill"

> Mentally disabled people were originally defined with words such as "morons" or "imbeciles", which then became commonly used insults. The medical diagnosis was changed to "mentally retarded", which morphed into a pejorative against those with mental disabilities. To avoid the negative connotations of their diagnoses, students who need accommodations because of such conditions are often labeled as "special needs" instead, although the word "special" has begun to crop up as a schoolyard insult.[
I have lived in areas with sales tax all my life, and with the exception of gasoline, prices being shown with tax is exceedingly rare. At least these could be covered!
Frankly, if we ran cruise missiles on Python and JavaScript, I'd feel a lot safer.
Co-ops can work however they bring a lot of problems. My kids are in a co-op run school where I'm the treasurer (all families are co-op members). Only the teachers are paid.

There is so much drama and you always have a share of people who don't pull their weight and the resentment that comes with that.

Another thing people never remember is that depending on your country you are on the hook for your share of the looses incurred if the co-op runs with a loss. Your are not insulated from the losses in the same was as if you are just a shareholder.
Historically, I seem to have an accuracy of about 60% in determining when something new on the scene will be important or not. Better than chance, but not by much.
So if I’m reading this right Microsoft expects a ten trillion dollar a year return on investment if they can get the most powerful AI on the planet fully focused on manipulating people
I've heard one idea of adding weights to words. The idea being if I someone hands in a essay with a higher frequency of certain words, there is a very good chance its come from a language model.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZJc1p6RE78

I'm not sure this helps with coding though, maybe variable names?
> What does it matter if a link submitted every day has never caught on yet?

You don't want to reward that. Then the front page will be entirely filled with things that people have submitted every day until they caught on, and those will be exclusively financially-motivated posts e.g. ads.
My goal is moreso to have publicly accessible services as I run some things for friends to use also, but thanks for the feedback!
Where does the "woke mob" come into this? As far as I can tell there hasn't been a public campaign to censor the books. Rather, these changes came from the Dahl Story Company and Penguin Random House, so this is good old fashion capitalism through-and-through. No one asked for a reason to repurchase novels that were already 50+ years old besides the people who own the rights to these books.
AI-generated music is Russian roulette for copyright law
This is the first time I've seen Arduino ASM. The multiple next-line jumps are ... interesting.
I’m not hearing concrete evidence of a gulf that can’t be bridged by money.
Why do you believe that the regulations for the onsite manufacturing of chlorine or ethylene are going to be any better?

The issue is that the companies have been playing fast and loose with safety. If you don't choose to reverse that, it doesn't matter whether you transport the chemical or manufacture it on site.