skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly right, but it's really hard to see when you're still in the mindset of needing to be part of The Discourse. The people I know who were Twitter addicts and left for Mastodon have become Mastodon addicts. They've kept all the self-destructive attitudes they learned on Twitter and view Mastodon as better precisely because it lets them indulge with less out-group interference.

I see a lot of arguments that Mastodon is better because it lacks various bad things about Twitter (algorithmic sorting, the misalignment of incentives between Twitter-as-a-company and users, centralized moderation/ownership) and it certainly is in some sense, but we're still living in a world where the social norms that were created on Twitter completely dominate any other conception of how to behave. There can be no online space that is "like Twitter but good" because anything that is sufficiently like Twitter to appeal to Twitter refugees will import enough of the culture to end up with Twitter's problems. Mastodon might be a step towards fixing the problem, but undoing the damage caused by Twitter will require the grueling and unpleasant work of changing ourselves as well as changing our technology.

The only option for us as individuals in the short term is to reject the entire model and choose to engage with other people in ways that respect each other’s fundamental humanity. Prefer in-person to online. Prefer one-on-one communication to broadcasting. Prefer small groups to large groups. Prefer local to global. Prefer synchronous communication to async. Prefer video or voice to text. Trust me, I know each of those preferences is difficult in its own way and there’s excellent reasons to choose the other option in many circumstances (like this post, in which I'm violating almost all of them!), but they’re also powerful tools for connecting with others as whole people rather than as simplified abstractions. We should work to make it easier to connect people (particularly across geographical and linguistic boundaries) but it cannot be at the cost of flattening each of us into the most shallow, reductive versions of ourselves so that we fit through the machinery we’ve built and can be easily consumed by strangers on the other end.
Running a denoising filter through ReShade or ffmpeg (or better yet with VapourSynth post processing for non live streaming) can help.

In fact, hardware encoders have excellent built in denoising (and other postprocessing) functions. But they are so obscure that less than a dozen streamers on the planet are probably using them... I cant even remember the syntax now, I would have to go look it up in Staxrip and then see if it even works in OBS :/
Isn't this just an ECR with a phase gate? It seems like a very normal process that's being written about like it's innovative
For quite a while the North American colonies weren't really that valuable economically compared to the ones in the Caribbean or Asia.

British colonies were somehow able to attract massive amounts of settlers and eventually became self sustainable. The Dutch, French and others could never achieve that and mainly relied on the fur trade with the Native populations.
So using the n word is unacceptable, but calling homosexuality a disease is fine? If you're censoring the books, that's a bizarre place to draw the line.
Avatar is the story of a soldier who joins a non-industrial society and fights back against the military trying to mine resources. It wasn't subtle.

How about this: American soldier joins Cherokee resistance fighters and successfully defends burial ground from "liberation" force trying to tap oil reservoirs underneath the land. Okay, now the Cherokee are blue aliens, the oil is "unobtanium", and there are spaceships.
The person that got arrested is New Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister and Education Minister, Manish Sisodia. He belongs to Arvind Kejriwal led "Aam Aadmi Party".

Manish Sisodia is the man behind Education Revolution in the capital of India. He transformed the public schools in New Delhi with an aim to provide quality education to children from less privileged families. His work has seen praise all of the world and his policies has been a part of various studies. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

[1] https://www.educationnext.org/inside-the-delhi-education-rev...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/16/world/asia/india-delhi-sc...
[3] https://www.brookings.edu/research/state-led-education-refor...
[4] https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58944
[5] https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/delhi-education-s...
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I’m kinda curious who these are supposed to be for. Like are there a bunch of progressive people who would just loooove to read James Bond, the sexist alcoholic murderer, but he’s just too racist for them? With children’s books I can kinda see the rationale but with James Bond? Just seems like a desperate ploy to sell more copies that nobody actually wants.
Seems much simpler to just ban tinder than to rework the whole of society to encourage single motherhood.

It's already harder to raise kids with a nuclear family than the extended families of the past, atomizing further into single parents seems like another step backwards.
The original avatar is about indigenous people (with the help of a gone-native soldier and a sympathetic scientist) using their wits to overcome a greedy military-industrial that is attempting to reap all the minerals on their planet.

That certainly qualifies.
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This seems like the classic large organization small-c conservative thinking at work: a bunch of people in a conference room are trying to avoid any possible risk, so new IP is right out because it’s unproven and nobody wants to accept that the Bond franchise’s peak was in the past and it’s going to keep declining because fewer young people relate to their grandfather or great-grandfather’s grandfather male power fantasy novels.

That kind of corporate group-think is the opposite of creativity and it’s why so much children’s entertainment is so bad since they’re basically doing paint by numbers trying to cover each buyer demographic they’re fantasizing about.
different interpretation of "old" than what I had in mind haha
Right on. This seems fair. I do think it's hard for governments to navigate & pick what are good & bad intermediations. Cory cites how Instagram is absolutely tyrannical & ultra litiguous about anyone intermediating them. These works totally add user value, but that's not how things are regulated, is not is the state sees things.
This is pure censorship, belittling people who call it out means taking the the side of censorship. Nothing overly “dramatic” about it (there’s also something to be said about using the word “dramatic” with a negative connotation).
As other mentioned, Python has already some tools around strong typing.

However they aren’t as extensive as TypeScript is to JavaScript. The community is also not much into types so you don’t have collections like Definitely Typed.

But the need exists and I guess it’s a matter of time until a tool becomes as popular and complete as typescript.
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You’re sort of on to something. The idea is that after hundreds of years of having skin color implicitly indicate a whether a character is smart/dumb, good/evil, etc, people are over correcting and not wanting to highlight art that follows old stereotypes, even if the natural distribution of personalities means that realistically some black people will be awful.

In time it will even out. For now people are justifiably not wanting to argue about whether their poorly educated, highly violent, dishonest, obsequious black character is bravely demonstrating that all races can be terrible, and not just a lazy racist stereotype like we’ve seen over and over for the past hundreds of years.
Is it possible that he's just not good at this? I think this might be the first company he's run in a while where he didn't have other execs keeping him on the rails.

I agree, though, I don't understand what he's trying to do here, and the QoL on the apps have slipped tremendously in the past couple of months. He keeps trying to generate revenue but doesn't seem interested in running a successful business.
I wonder if the Soviet Union had a wider range of suppliers.
I get your point, and they do address this later on in the piece kind of. It sounds like it's perfectly valid to say no, especially after reviewing the document and their architectural meeting where they discuss it more in depth. But they're also not trying to actively encourage saying no in the document, instead encouraging responses that points to how to get to a solid idea.

So saying "no" isn't forbidden, but it isn't the default either. At least that's my interpretation.
Delphi is the best developer tool out there for delivery of functionality to end users.

My only problem is that the compile edit develop cycle doesn't suit my "personal" needs and it doesn't have garbage collection for search needs. You can't be hunting down unfreed memory when you just want a quick and dirty utility.
Man, this comment. We literally have telescreens in our homes. We know that the NSA has monitored every bit of information we emit. We have AI generated propaganda. Algorithms that turn us against each other, that monitor the cameras on every corner. We even had people violently attempt to overturn our democratic elections! And you bleat that it's just a little prudery.
Wikipedia has the “no original research” rule. Unicode really should have had a similar “no original designs” rule.

Too late now — it’s become an annually refreshed collection of fun fashionable clip art instead of an impartial repository of humankind’s symbols.
> I’ll check out fresh and Astro!

Please do - but note that those are typescript frameworks/systems - not php!

I'm not saying "don't build stuff in php", just that for me, if I was going to throw out support for wp themes and plug-ins - I wouldn't see much point in staying with php and similar architecture to wp. But for those comfortable with modern php it might be great.
https://support.startpage.com/hc/en-us/articles/452135059099...
We adopted a very very similar RFC framework for some projects back in 2020 and those project, now three years later, are the ones that have the least problems. Even though they took a little longer to get started.

What's that old army adage? "An ounce of sweat prevents a gallon of blood."
The people old enough to want to program on the c64 are not the same group of younger hipster who want to rustify the world. It would take someone to bridge these groups.
This is just capitalists trying to sell more books. You want the old books? They haven’t been burned or locked away. Nobody is being jailed for selling the old books.

From the article: The word “n-----”, which Fleming used to refer to black people when he was writing during the Fifties and Sixties, has been almost entirely expunged from the revised texts.

If you want your James Bond books that have the hard r n-word, they’re still there for you on eBay, undoubtedly.
> So, i generally considered Pascal a dead language.

Essentially it's dead. Though, looking at all the people trying to learn programming using dynamic languages with managed memory, I really regret that there is no good low-level language targeting learners as ubiquitous as Pascal was. I still advice those who can't grasp basic concepts and data structures (like reference, identity, passing by value, etc) to spend some time with Pascal and some old school-level Pascal books. For some reason that usually works better than K&R and C. I guess it's just about the language being lot simpler and not enforcing extensive pointer operations.
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The point is more that it's reaching a point where true history is hidden/questionable/edited/rare/debated.

It's not too the next step where totalitarianism comes into play.

Especially when it gets to the point where having stepped over these boundaries in the past can lead to being targeted by the government / powerful corporations / employers.

But it's 100% relevant to be bringing into the conversation.
The Dutch did though and they later kickstarted the industrial revolution in Britain.
Which is strange coming from ~Go~ Google. The community loudly demanded features for years which ~Go~ Google said were unnecessary (dependency management, monotonic time, etc). Weird to think that telemetry would do anything to change their opinions when the project has always done what it wants.

Edit: fighting the markup trying to get strikethrough to work
All these frameworks for managing people matter much less than creating a team of quality people. Think of it like sports. Sure a good manager or coach can get the most of the players on the team. They might even add tactics and play above their level. But when it comes down to it, what matters the most in the skill set of the players. The best coaching in the world isn’t going to help me and my friends beat a pro sports team. Same thing for teams inside companies. Strategy does matter, but quality matters much more.
But that's the point... These drugs simply make you less hungry. They take what was the herculean task of eating less than your body urges you to and turns it into feeling totally stuffed after 1000 calories a day. It's no longer a question of willpower or suffering all day feeling hungry.
You’d have to assume a conspiracy among all historians both amateur and professional for that cliche to be true. The people that write history are humans and they all behave and believe in different ways. You’ll never find an unbiased version of history whether it’s written by the victors or the defeated.
George Orwell's book 1984 was written in 1949 to warn against totalitarianism. It was modeled on Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia.

I can think of nothing more anti-Nazi than showing a little respect for people of color in our popular fiction.
I bet it'd be more work on the side of the game developer and streaming platform, but IMO Zoom, Google Meet, Jitsi, etc. aren't a ton better at streaming text than it looks like Twitch is from TFA. Even in the absence of effects (just small text on a monitor of differing resolution), things can be plenty hard to read.

I suspect that it should be possible for at least the streaming platforms that have native applications to tie into the OS's screen-reading APIs to grab text and provide it out-of-band, e.g. by streaming rectangles of the background color and render text over it on the viewer's client. Then it'd be copy-pastable by the viewer too, and their own assistive technologies could work on it.
Makes me laugh, because it reminded me my first interview with a company developing games.

"Wait, you don't understand, your ideas are cool, but the publishers don't want revolutionary concepts, it's too much risk. It's better to take Call of Duty II, Fifa 2008, or Doom IV, this is why here we are only developing franchises"

Awwww, they were right....
Can you add https://biztoc.com/search ? (Real-time business/finance News) Zero Tracking/Cookies.
I’ve been using Zed for a couple of months. It has replaced eMacs and VSCode for writing Rust. The integration is so well done, it’s like a constant conversation with the compiler. I’ve got ten invites by the way.

One thing I worry about a little is the business model. They want to target teams and charge for the cooperative features. But as a single user I’d love a way to just buy a lifetime license and feel that I can expect at least five years of use. I don’t like when software I love treats me like a casual fling.
And if you cannot donate money, donate time. Bug reports, documentation, helping other users, pull requests (if you're a coder), even just spreading the word… If you love any given open source project, you should try to find some way to contribute to helping it improve if you're at all able.
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Why not a Mac Mini?
Boy, do the censors have their work cut out for them...

I was raised on Asterix[0] and Tintin[1] graphic novels. Not to mention the 1940s-era Tom and Jerry cartoons[2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tintin

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry
They're using their own fork: https://github.com/lapce/lapce/issues/2177
Good rationale and I agree with all of it. Looks like Mastodon has become the self reinforcing echo chamber of the far right for any group. Never to be challenged again. In fact that's the point of why so many people go there right? There's a feeling of safety in that lack of challenge. A lot of people will say twitter is an abusive place and I don't disagree but to never have your points of view ever challenged again is incredibly dangerous. It's the path towards ignorance. We as humans are imperfect and constantly learning. Part of that means accepting that maybe our opinions or viewpoints could be wrong and taking a step back to think about it when someone does question the things we say. Now there's communities on Mastodon where that will never happen again. It'll be something that creates a new type of privilege. The privilege of choosing to be and believe whatever you want without anyone ever telling you you're wrong.
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I agree with most of this comment, but I'm struggling with the conclusion.

What I find deeply concerning is not the distortion of the pristine original state of James Bond. What I find deeply concerning is the whitewashing of cultural artifacts and the implications of both the intent of such actions and the potential outcomes. The quality of the content itself does not reduce the cultural popularity and impact that the content had in its time, and altering the content can only cloud any modern examination of the past.

Old content that ages poorly should do just that - age poorly. We should look back at it and roll our eyes and wonder what we were thinking. We should draw conclusions from this more modern examination that help guide the creation of future content that doesn't perpetuate the same problems.

There is no progress without reflection and a place from which to move forward. And this quickly turns into a "First, they came for..." type of scenario, IMO.
That's not at all pleasant to hear, thanks sharing. It is most likely just fancy & wouldnt have gone anywhere, but I had sort of hoped to play with this & find some way to be useful, contribute some code. Very rebuffing having that association.
> I wonder how happy these people were if the homes next to theirs constantly had same issues as these communities suffer from

Or even if they just live on a normal income in a city acutely affected by it. That's what really turned my opinion on the matter, when I tried to move to Galway city in 2016 to find out that a lot of the housing was taken up for tourists. Now I'm in Dublin, and it's even worse, in the midst of the largest housing crisis the country has seen (and it's not due entirely to lack of building - during the pandemic the number of long-term lets doubled, mostly as AirBnB owners fled back into the market). It's absolutely awful what it has done to cities as whole, not even talking about actual neighbourhoods.

But I suspect most people here make a really good income, and can afford to live in other places that are generally insulated from this, and don't have to worry about competing with others in the lower-end rent market.

There's also a lot of weirdly libertarian "I should be able to do what I want with my property", ignoring all negative social externalities that we already regulate against. It's quite funny, from people who (I'd assume) would generally be more left-leaning/liberal.

> There seems to be certain lack of empathy. Or they feel superior in sense that we bring money, we should be served as some type of royalty for that.

God, I see this attitude way too much. Hotel owners also exhibit this in Dublin, as they demolish cultural and historical institutions to make way for more hotels to cater towards tourists. Tourists are not a viable way for a city to thrive long-term.
I am loving using coda.io for small data. It's easy to create tables that reference each other. Tables are part of a document and you can write text and make them a little bit interactive with slider controls, etc.
Jukebox the Ghost in 2012,

In my lungs I still feel young
But my body won't play along
I'm thinking this must not be where we
Belong.

Alan Kay was talking somewhere, but I don't have the link, about how a lot of his success in his youth had to do with the research community around him, and I think he was asked a question about how that sort of thing changes as you grow older... He replied that the combination of growing older and not having that generous funding for whatever experiments they wanted to do and the dynamic research community, meant that he had to stop looking for validation at the "quality of my results" and instead had to feel pride at the "quality of my effort." Something I have kept in mind.

The other thing I will say is that I am getting to an age where a lot of people really get set in their ways, and I am noticing that I am not. Like on a recent project I was trying to get team buy-in to move from Java to Kotlin, and the people who were super excited about it were 5-10 years younger and the people who were like “but why” were my generation and carried the day. I told this struggle to my wife and she attributed it to neurodivergence, she thinks I might have a mild or high-functioning ADHD that essentially gives me perpetual mid-to-late 20s enthusiasm with sime mild drawbacks (difficulty “cleaning as I go” when cooking for example, not handling the taxes until April when it becomes urgent, that sort of thing).
There have been a bunch of major security vulnerabilities due to mistakes involving GOTO in C, being used as suggested by the article. Here’s a memorable one: https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/02/22/applebug.html
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Does anyone use OKRs for themselves? How does it work?
Yes but the MBA, Management Consulting, Agile Coaching industries are based on this not being true. So there will be an endless stream of propaganda to convince people otherwise.