skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like toxic workplace problems to me. Those are very not fun.
Mastodon is not decentralised. Never claimed to be. It's _federated_.
With money. A non-profit can still have plenty of revenue.
You say it's both "intellectual decay" and "feeling powerless" but I see no reason that the two are connected, causal, or both happening. Hand people victimized by the past few centuries of American history the ability to fix, say, the generational wealth gap that resulted from denied opportunities and seizure of property, and see if they still only focus on words.
You and me both. Perhaps we're relics of a bygone age where tech people cared more for function than form.
I want to hug this whole thread. Yes, 1. browsers should improve their defaults. 2. web sites should respect user preferences over their own style, if the preferences are set. 3. browsers should make user preferences more prominent and provide an easier way to override web sites that refuse to honor them.

My browsing experience should not be determined by an artist or product designer 1000 miles away from me in an office somewhere.
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Deleted comment about confusing language, since not really relevant to topic of addresses, and probably not adding much.

There used to be a great podcast, LSAT Logic in Everyday Life, that permanently changed how attentive I am to logical constructions in lanuage -- but the reply below is correctly suggesting that it's kind of a drag to point this kind of stuff out except in very specific circumstances.
> Get the fuck out of here with your gatekeeping bullshit.

I object to the rude tone that you have displayed toward me and toward another commenter here. You seem awfully defensive, I've never written that you shouldn't be allowed to use whatever you prefer, just that I don't recommend doing so. If that's reason enough for you to tell somebody to "fuck off", then I don't see any further reason to engage with you.
prose.sh hits a sweet spot for me. Not just in the minimal-but-rich-enough presentation of blog posts[0], but also (off-topic for this thread I guess) the simple interface: just scp your markdown to prose.sh.

[0] example post from my blog https://mvexel.prose.sh/20230227-keeping-osm-database-uptoda...
Interesting. College for me was 2004-2008, and AIM was still the primary means of chatting where I was. I remember people giving their AOL screen names as contact information on semi-official documents. What did start to change was expressing ourselves on our Facebook pages instead of using our AIM "away" messages.

I kept my AIM client logged in and running on my laptop throughout 2009 after moving away for my first job, but that's when I remember things shifting quickly to SMS text messaging. I resisted hard, kept using a dumb phone without a keyboard, and probably missed out on a lot of social connections in the first few years after college because of it.

This reminds me of another recent thread in which I talked about Facebook turning to crap soon after I graduated college. Someone replied that they started college in 2010 and thought Facebook was fun until about 2015.
In other languages, devs build better tools for solving existing problems faster or easier. In no other language, build tools are so broken that the best tool changes every few years.

In the JavaScript world, a significant chunk of energy is directed inwards, solving problems created by using JavaScript!
White people colonizing another language to virtue signal isn't inflammatory to you?
I personally live in the world of smartphones. I also tried VR: both Valve Index and Quest 2 and the second one is a nearest thing to what I'd call a breakthrough. Another couple of years - and we may have something really interesting in that field.
I also doubt the way it is addressed makes a difference.

I doubt my letter was directly read by the minister,

We seem to be in agreement.
No. I don't tip for counter service, only table service or bar service. Counter service is basically take-out. There is no logical reason anyone should tip at an ice cream parlor or a coffee shop, and the fact it's become commonplace is part of what I'm railing against.
I just had a realization:

"Latin" already includes "la" at the beginning of the word-- which is the feminine infinitive. Therefore, LatinA and LatinX are redundant.

Or, perhaps we as arbitors of global culture, should enforce our new inventin:

ElTin and LaTin ...and maybe a LeTin. or LxTin

Actually let's go with all of the above. And any other creations as well. because who cares-- throw in the kitchen sink!

/more silliness
What a beautiful bag of tomfoolery :D
Jobs recruited Tim Cook to Apple, make Cook the COO, and then made Cook his successor.

Moreover, Cook was the main driver for putting all of Apple manufacturing in totalitarian China, which has caused many difficulties for Apple's "progressive" image, because the Chinese government has forced Apple into censoring the App Store and even into censoring the operating systems (removing references to Taiwan, for example). Not to mention the often terrible working conditions in iPhone factories.
Fortunately, Intel ME is disabled and then neutralized on my Librem 15.
> bird

"The term is commonly applied to artificial devices,.."

It seems he figured out that his audience was smart enough to figure out he wasn't deviating from common usage. And was mostly right.

> Lilienthal

Unpowered.

"A machine is a physical system using power to apply forces and control movement to perform an action."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine

Cheers.
Here is the poll, which has been repeated for a few years:

https://thinknow.com/newsite/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/thin...

It is not that large, but the tiny number of respondents who identify as Latinx has been stable. It's crazy that this label is still being pushed.
A whole lot of people can be trusted within a reasonable identified set of constraint, and we do, while discounting them in others where they're known to spew bullshit. It's very rarely all or nothing.
the post was to give some additional context to the statement "they arrange dates on empty or far away places, late night and don't communicate where they're going" posted above. That would make it easier to picture what those "empty or far away places" would be
>Yours is a bald-faced assumption that humans aren't constantly innovating on existing technologies.

No it isn't. Mine is an asumption that "white" was just a color before we understood what light is, which doesn't happen until centuries later. Searching for ways to produce "the whitest paint" is unrealisric given that we are talking about objects that reflect invisible light here. Not "white" the color. And there is also a difference between using something and creating something for that purpose. Saying that scientists are now searching for the whitest paint does not imply that nobody was using white paint before.

>This level of pedantry gets us nowhere.

It gets us to the question of whether ancient societies looked for ways to produce paint that reflect more light in order to prevent heat absoption which is what has been hapening since at least 1970.
I would argue that Linux was the first OS to implement an app store and that it predates the other major operating systems by over a decade. It's just that the Linux apps were free.
I think we should give Elon some slack in this case. It's entirely possible he'll be successful beyond our wildest dreams again with Twitter.
I can't watch videos from where I'm at, so I'm curious about the Ukraine claim. Am I supposed to believe that Russia did not in fact invade Ukraine? It's all just a bit of propaganda? Or are you claiming that we somehow convinced them it was a great idea and thus it is somehow our fault they decided to roll those tanks?
I'm the furthest thing from N-word apologist, but it's pronounced the same as the Latin word meaning "black" (modulo vowel pronunciation shifts), and spelled nearly the same. It's clearly derived from a word which did not originally have any meaning as a slur, and I bet you could find early usages in English which were merely descriptive.

There's no reason to use it now, but understanding the fact that was originally a descriptive word is useful for the history of it.
How would you feel if people of another race, especially one that has historically oppressed yours decided they knew better than you and decided to change the rules as to how you were referred and if you objected told you it was for your protection?
I admire the use of php vars in your argument as most of these are Wordpress sites used to funnel folks to the actual software.
The tenet assumes that people are in the large just dense. Following it, you have no airline pilots, mothers, mentors, judges, felons, idiots, and maybe not even proper names. Just "person who is female and has borne living children", "person who judges others in court", "person named Judy", etc.

There might be a worthwhile transition to a new framing that makes sense. I've heard people rip on using the metric system because supposedly its proponents wanted 10-hour days and 10 days a week, etc, which was taking tenets to ridiculous points. The problem now is trying to frame some changes in grander terms because you might well get ridiculous outcomes ( and in current society definitely will).
Gitea had issues a few years back with mirroring many repositories at once, deadlocking and remaining that way until it was reinstalled, essentially. It led me to believe it's not the most stable software but I would imagine it's improved quite a lot over the years.

It is extremely simple and easy to set up, though, and works well as both a private as well as a publicly hosted instance out of the box, depending on how you configure it.
https://archive.ph/zAMSU
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> In my experience, advertising has never worked, always costing more money, never recouping the expenditure

As the old saying goes:- “Half my advertising spend is wasted; the trouble is, I don’t know which half.”
Far from it, the term disregards the history and linguistic heritage of my mother tongue for the sensibilities of white people, who for whatever reason have problems accepting feminine and masculine word pronunciations.

Just because white people like rewriting their history and language doesn't mean they have a right to rewrite mine.

If you find that inflammatory or offensive, now you know how I feel.
Millions of years from now, even the devices we left on the moon will be under regolith or mowed down by incoming micrometeorites.

You are probably right that the most obvious signs will look like mineral deposits. Plastic will be back to oil by then.
Both situations can happen.

I think that ideally you write about a topic you've grappled with and know it well at that moment. I've done this a number of times and am really happy that people comment it's been useful.

On the other hand I've also come across many low quality articles as well.
> I think over time, maybe in just a year or two, westerners will reach tip burnout.

I think it can last much longer. As a European I already don't understand it and I feel you should have reached tip burnout ten years ago. But the culture hasn't changed it went worse. The dark patterns must be working.

Tipping is spreading means more and more people are at the receiving end of it and depend on it, these people aren't going to complain about it.
tweet thread from author here https://twitter.com/YiTayML/status/1631359468675166208
The market decides, which is a collection of signals from an amount of players that outweighs any one individual.

It is a much better method of concensus than regulation when no involuntary third party harm exists. It ensures those that have a stake are able to vote, where the size of your vote is proportional to the resources dedicated. Of course not everyone has equal voting power. Why should they when it comes to privately consumed goods and services?
Why does a taboo have to "eliminate racism" to be considered useful or effective instead of just "reduce the amount of times people have to put up with hearing others call them that"?
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That's a refinement of practices that are decades old. Comment I responded to seemed to imply we got evidence of this tavern due to some recent breakthrough, while before we'd be doing mostly work on temples and translation. Which is false, we have slice of life findings since the beginning of archeology, and ongoing efforts on prominent buildings and bodies of text.
Oh you mean that over hyped mental health app actually doesn't care about my privacy?

Some things are better kept outside of anyone besides you and the provider
When you consider innuendo and not just the initial message, you'll find a lot of communication takes place this way, but innuendo isn't taught to most people so they are oblivious to what's really going on around them and its really quite disturbing.

Throw in a variety of drugs which can make people forget stuff or put them into a chemical trance if its not hypnosis, and people of all ages can be manipulated into actions they wouldn't have otherwise. What age can you start hypnotising kids? Some of these drugs are found in pharmacy and supermarket shelves with no checks if paying cash.

This is why I say people need to have 24/7 unhackable surveillance on them at all times, in order to prove whats been done, as victims, especially those drugged wont know or realise whats been done to them, sometimes for decades if at all.

Drugs/chemicals have been used to hack people for Millenia.

And some parents just see their kids as cash cows, after all the mindset used to be to have a big family so they could look after you when you got too old, and this was before the socialist elements of the state in todays sense introduced things like state pensions and benefits payments.

Thats why I say the state is virtue signalling when they claim to be protecting kids, but dont teach kids how to protect themselves or teach them the law to know what activity's are criminal. This isnt anything new either, its been going on for thousands of years, but history gets sanitised under the pretence of not giving anyone any ideas.
Does anyone use Bitbucket? Do you like it? I struggle to see the use case unless you only need a repo, or do they have CI/CD now too?
Agreed. GitHub is the only one I'd pay for if I had to. They're just too far ahead of everyone else.
Indeed, and someone with money and a desire to prevent actual class conflict can get a lot of mileage out of encouraging tensions in the narrow, purely expressive sense you describe
See: https://2020.programming-conference.org/details/salon-2020-p...

Very briefly: what we currently have is procedures that implement these things, but that's not the same thing.

Just like having a loop implemented by gotos is not the same thing as having a loop. (See Dijkstra)
At least for the neighboring country (Nicaragua) it's like that.
Sometimes the reference points are not even there anymore, as in the case of some old buildings destroyed in the Managua earthquake in '72
Everyone reading this needs to go read the book the Dawn of Everything. That book - long as it is - synthesizes a lot of preexisting research to argue, among many things, that the thing that makes humans humans is our wild and wacky adaptability.

This idea that there is some kind of pre-idyllic Eden state of nature and man is a myth propagated by wildly unsubstantiated guesses that involved very little or no science or data.

I’m not saying your main point, that getting outside does us some good and that we’re social creatures, is wrong. It’s just that it’s one facet of our long history as evolved animals.

We’re literally built for change. It’s that very adaptability that has allowed us to survive and change.
You could look into cheaper batteries, as there is no need to use the latest and greatest technology. Supercapacitors might also be an option.

It's all an economic sum, really: when do the higher connection fees and increased demand pricing outweigh battery cost? We are already seeing grid-scale battery storage being used in practice, applying that to a more local use case might not be that unrealistic.

Besides, if the alternative is no charging station, you can probably charge significantly higher fees.
Iam spanish. I fully support Germany. No more and more surveillance.
If Cramer ever says to buy it, it will segfault the economy.
My dad's Uncle Bill was a quite well-known rugby player at one time, and received letters addressed just to "Bill $surname, Wales".
> The notion that regular people should restrict their lifestyles and submit to mandates indefinitely over a virus with a >99% survival rate was always stupid.

We didnt know that at the time. The statistics at the time showed a very different story.

You can compare the handling of the situation across countries and regions with similar socioeconomic conditions and observe that certain states performed significantly worse than counterparts outside.

I didn’t speak about indefinite mandates either and mentioned Denmark repeatedly, for a good reason.

In Denmark we didn’t have vaccine or mask mandates, and opened well before most countries in January of 2022 while sustaining far fewer deaths compared to say Sweden.
I think it's a bit much to accuse him of being an "applause cow" for conservative viewpoints. He's written at length about how conservatives on the whole are the low IQ and low information party. Not exactly something you say to garner applause from a conservative audience.

I can see why people would find him grating though.
> If someone delivers a take-out order, why is that less worthy of tipping, than if you're in a restaurant?

It's not. If you were at the restaurant, you'd tip the server. If you were home, you'd tip the deliverer. If you picked it up yourself, why then you could tip yourself :)

> you're using to tipping at a restaurant and never questioned it

Now that's a bold assumption :) How about, tipping at a restaurant is part of the culture, and many people do so begrudgingly?

Dissecting this meme reveals that people are comfortable tipping for the act of waiting on them (the so-called service). The person who cooks and the person who bundles supposedly serve the institution, and so they should be paid by the institution.

Or so it would seem. The waiter and the driver also ultimately work for the institution, so one could argue that they, too, should be paid adequately by the institution. Tips should be reserved for exceptional service to you beyond what they're expected to perform for the institution.

So if the cashier at the takeout place made you happy and you wanted to tip him/her for that... you could knock yourself out. It's worthy of tipping because you felt like it.
They're right to drop "American" but not for the reasons outlined.

An "American" is by definition is someone from the American continents (North and South America). Further a "North American" is someone from Mexico, USA, and Canada.

It gets worse when people have "Black Americans", "Italian Americans", "Asian Americans" because that means that "Americans" is only referring to one group of people from the USA.
The problem around here seems to mostly be there is no housing at all for slog-worthy workers. You can con them into taking out crazy college loans they'll never pay off and an individual can remain in denial about astronomical healthcare and nonexistent retirement prospects during their day to day, but workers have yet to develop the ability to teleport to and from work so that no housing needs to be built near these poorly paying jobs.
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Bitbucket was reasonably good 8 years ago, but they have progressively fallen further and further behind.

I've seen lots of companies move away from their stack over the last few years.

The UI is a dog slow , bloated mess of Javascript and is unusable on big PRs, and that's just the most obvious flaw.

I personally would not recommend it.
These wholesale moves to prescribe new language in the interest of social justice are the reductio ad absurdum result of the whole menagerie of post-modern identity theories and movements, from critical race theory to post colonial theory to queer theory. It's all in service to the notion that you can create truth, particularly about identity, by modifying language and usage.

Ironically, it's also deeply counterproductive to the goals of identity theories, because it draws overt attention to language and sensitivity about language, in a way that makes identities appear, and to some extent actually become, fragile and dependent on the language. Where a word is owned and deployed by a group to suppress and control some other group (ni**, e.g.), taking the word away, anathematizing it, can indeed be of value. But most of the targets in modern social justice language correction have very little such power, and are not deployed as tools of suppression or oppression by most people. Take a broad enough run at them though, and you can give them that power, at lead in the mind of those to whom the refer.
Your book sounds right up my alley. Thanks for this list, will be coming back to it as I continue to evaluate my own tech use.
It would probably feature lots of young men crying. My wife would love it.
You’re totally correct in saying this but here’s some unrequited advice: never speak this way to your significant other!
Nissan’s CEO said the batteries are outliving the cars. Old battery packs are usually repurposed as stationary storage versus being shredded and recycled.

Redwood spinning up when the need is low is better than waiting until the need to dispose of packs and for manufacturing feedstock is high.
maybe instead of arguing about what non-gendered term we should call this group of people we should instead admit that 'latino' is a projection onto a wide variety of people that have different cultural backgrounds but roughly share a language and sometimes a skin tone.
The Duke of Wellington's address, Apsley House, was famously:

1, London

Funny story: Back in the 1950s, my father went on a rugby tour to the Soviet Union. One of his team mates wrote a postcard back to his mum with an address of:

Mrs Williams,

Clynderwen

"Clynderwen" being the little village he came from. My dad said, "You can't just put that". He, none too bright, said "Why not? There's only one Clynderwen", and posted it.

6 months later, and about 5 1/2 after the end of the tour, it arrived. All over it were notes saying things like "Unknown in Hong Kong. Try Australia".
CNET is doing big layoffs just weeks after AI-generated stories came to light