skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn’t HN material, is it? Still, I’ll bite. Lamentations that this “censoring” ruins enjoyment of books is fully cancelled by those who think that the offensive material ruins enjoyment of books. I’m not offended by either, but my lived experience is unique to me and I respect others might feel differently.

Ultimately, the publisher wants to maximize the profit from this back catalog, whether by stoking controversy , or by making the product more appealing to a 21st century audience, or by avoiding negative publicity. I don’t have the data to speculate.
>Still regret not taking it with me as I crossed the continents.

It probably wouldn't have worked on other continents due to different voltage and frequency. You'd need a huge and expensive adapter (laser printers use a LOT of power when printing). Back in the 90s, they didn't have adapters that could convert frequency.

Generally, it's best to leave high-power appliances (or sell on Ebay) when you move between continents and buy new stuff at your new home.
Most of what he said was opinion, so there's no correct or incorrect, just whether or not you agree with him. The interesting aspect of this and why it's aged so poorly is that almost none of the things mentioned ended up being a factor in the adoption of Java or, really, any other language popular today. Java is currently #3 on the Tiobe index, behind C. C++ and C# are right behind Java. Javascript is #7, PHP is #9.
These nutcases worked on the Roald Dahl edits
https://www.inclusiveminds.com/
The right censor by banning books.

The left censor by rewriting books.
You are hired for a DEI role, you need to fill up the hours of a full time job. After policing everyone internally such that nothing interesting is mentioned anymore, you make yourself useful by getting out the sharpie and censoring words.
"Translate" is an appropriate term, because pig-latin is a language. I.e. you can communicate with it.

The fact that it is an invented, derivative, isomorphic language doesn't mean it loses any properties of being a language.

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Being precise in mathematical or technical terms to a non-technical newbie makes no sense. They need to grasp some basic concepts of what its all about first, in terms that will make immediate sense to them.

Only introduce formalisms when the need for them arises. That way, the reader is not only prepared for them, but can understand the motivation for learning them.

Unless the intro is going to go long and deep, as in the reader is going to become a practitioner, overly precise formalism or language may not add anything at all - because they won't be ready to understand the nuance.

One novel step at a time.

It ends up being easier for the reader, gives them a series of rewarding light-bulb experiences, and requires less explanation in then end. Win-win-win.
You must be an incredibly stupid person to believe that a nation led by a Jewish person is some kind of haven for Nazis. FOAD.
Yep at this point, the only parts of Bell that aren't reabsorbed into AT&T are the huge chunks that are merged into Verizon.
>The price of goods and services has decoupled from the cost for a while now, and prices are rising at a staggering rate without salary increases.

Almost as if there's multiple supply chain disruptions (from pandemic to ukraine) causing goods to be more scarce, causing consumers to bid up the prices for the goods that remain.
You’re right. Better explain all that to the user of the watch who is laying on the floor.

If they are not laying in the floor then they already know it’s wrong.

"Fall detected. Call 911?"

“Huh? No, I didn’t fall. Don’t call 911”

Or

“I did fall, but I’m fine. Don’t call 911”
Maybe put in some plants?
The same thing is true of your investment account. When you buy bonds you're giving money to a company or the US Treasury who then spend it. That money is gone. You're assuming the borrower will choose pay you back from some future revenue stream. When you buy into a stock IPO you're betting that the company will pay you dividends from a future revenue stream (or do related things that make the stock perceived as valuable.) In the case of Social Security that future revenue stream is taxes drawn from the US taxpayer. None of this is a Ponzi scheme.
There is probably no publicly known figurehead or group demanding this. But this kind of thing doesn’t require that. All it takes is a group of likeminded and ideologically motivated employees at publisher pushing to have it done.
>may be aspects of the service that Apple is unwilling to give away because they involve trade secrets

It's a chat app. It's one of the first apps a programmer learns to make.

The one and only thing separating iMessage from 10,000 other chat apps is the fact it's the default on the most common phone.

The trade secret is inertia and anti competitive lock-in.
Unlikely.

It's literally Scholastic middle management editors making busy work for themselves and to justify Scholastic taking a percentage on Yet Another Edition Release.

There's a long history of publishers kicking popular works down the road again and again to keep extracting $$$'s and "cleaning up" potentially offensive language is just another manufactured reason to pretend to be brushing up and fettling old works as new again.
Yes and this is precisely why many french economists make this distinction by referring to the term "neo-liberalisme" maybe the meaning is somehow lost in translation.

French neo-liberalisme is what you describe, the worst of both world. A strong state that impose highly impacting laws on both public and private sector.

The difference between left wing strong state policies is that theses laws tends to benefit huge companies and shareholders instead of common people and small business.
Not everyone signs up to the highest speed tiers, but generally speaking 90% of the country has access to 1 gigabit fibre and some areas also have 4 or 8 gigabit fibre infrastructure.
> You call them wars of choice. It would be more correct to call this preventative money.

No, we that served don't.

> They spend this money in order to prevent having an actual war later.

Having spent a good part of my life prepping for Fulda Gap defense against the USSR I know that is incorrect.

The US has spread NATO right up to Russian doorstep, on the cusp of inside their early warning systems for missiles, having fomented revolution and armed the Western Ukrainians in their civil war against the Eastern Ethnic Russian Ukrainians.

Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, the Arab Spring turned Winter - more of American Adventurism than critical national security objectives.

Am all for a strong military, just not it being overutilized for incorrect purposes.
Ah, figured as much, but for a minute I thought I had switched timelines
> which ISP would you select? One that works with most of the sites or one that works with all sites?

Some non negligible percentage of people might choose the one that only works with most websites, due to some other reason, such as they have reduced prices.

That non-negligible amount of people on this other service, could still be leveraged by that ISP to strongarm websites.
This is absolutely of interest to many here. It dovetails with plenty of areas explicitly interesting to the tech crowd, such as IP laws, copyright/trademark policy, DRM and remote editing of eBooks, etc.
You've modified your original comment (which I didn't know Hackernews allowed people to do). So now I look completely weird because it "seems" you only typed one word and I wrote something.

You wrote, essentially:

Why not train a LLM AI on the magazines, newsletters, documentation, etc, and have it generate the descriptions based on prompts?

...and I call this an "unfunded mandate", which is where someone comes along to a project, and tells them a bunch of things they should take on and do, instead of either offering to do something themselves, or pointing to a resource or project that fulfils the need that is being asked for.

The article is about me finding out that certain kinds of activities are jammed in a Catch-22 of necessity but lack of potential funding (time or money). Your idea shifts no needle and makes things more complicated, to no greater chance of success, but plenty of chance (contemporarily) of hallucination and misleading results.

Feel free to delete, I guess, even more.
Yeah - to get a decent idea you'd need to measure $/mbps as well as measuring average speed. And measure best available rather than what people have opted for personally.

E.g.

* Country/ISP A has 4 gigabit fiber for $100/month, and 1 gigabit for $50/month.

* Country/ISP B has 4 gigabit fiber for $100/month, and 1 gigabit for $90/month.

In country A a lot more people are going to opt for 1 gigabit - it's way cheaper and still good enough - therefore their average speed stat is going to be lower even though the actual options are strictly better than in country B.
And in a democracy, you can vote the government out. With a complete monopoly in a totally free market with no regulation, what can you do? Vote with your wallet even if it means you die from starvation? The end game is either complete extinction of humanity or anyone outside the monopoly becoming a slave for it.
"Fall detected. Call 911?"

“Why is my watching asking me to call 911 to get it repaired? My hip is broken!”

I can’t tell if you’re trolling me or not but I’ll assume you’re not.
So useless that Linux, gcc, and all UNIX system commands is written in C. But you're probably doing much more important things, right?
Sure.

And the settlers nearly starved the first few winters in every colony despite that.
Was it Antic magazine? I did the same. And the editor mod was called Typo. Good times back then.
That is the government's problem, not the workers'.
i understand your thought process on science becoming one's religion, but that also does not hold true for everyone. it is totally possible to admit one doesn't have all the answers and seeks those unknown answers without it becoming a religious crusade. one can accept that the answer is unknown, and just live with that. one can accept that the answer is unknown but through scientific rigor find an answer, and then be okay with accepting that answer.

not everything has to be a religious experience. my religious belief is that the need for religion is keeping humans from evolving further. it may not be very sound, but that's the beauty of religious beliefs. everybody is entitled to their own (at least in some countries).
Does it have a python coprocessor?

I guided it to write a program for me, which it did correctly, and then I asked to evaluate it on different numeric inputs. It got correct answers for small numbers and the first few positions of map(thefunction,[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]) before wandering off into bad fuesses.
> Why should middle class in the West vote to allow outsourcing to cheaper countries?

Because you can run but you can't hide. If you institute protectionist policies, you will in turn become less competitive. Hence, you will require even more protectionist policies, that in turn will make you even more uncompetitive. In the end, you will have higher prices for lower quality domestic products.

I don't like gravity, but it doesn't mean I can ignore it and jump from tall buildings. While economics is not an exact science (probably not even a science), you cannot ignore its principles.

If protectionist policies worked, we would have figured out by now. The truth is that limited protectionist policies might work to give a push to a nascent industry in the short to medium term. But it does hurt the country as a whole in the long term.
> That is absolutely not representative of a real workload of mixed reads and writes, different block sizes, potentially different queue depths, all coming in on hundreds or maybe thousands of different volumes.

if you see bottleneck there, it could be that actual SSD speed is maybe irrelevant in your case since upstream software is not optimized.
Sorry. I'll try to avoid rhetorical questions.
> if you do business with brutal dictatorships, you are the enemy too.

Why is the US doing business with Saudi Arabia? Let's see how your moral lines bend around the agenda.
JS-free archive link:

https://archive.today/DQC9o
Unfortunately, the solution that comes up to fix bad government policies is more government policies.
The intentions is usually good, but the consequences are always bad.
And my personal favorite: DEL is 1111111 so it could be punched over any other character to "delete" it from a paper tape.
The point of the law is primarily to allow websites to remove porn and profanity.

If it was repealed tomorrow and Facebook had to choose between these two paths, which would they choose?

A: keep moderation; anytime someone posts something libelous, they're responsible for damages

B: no moderation; they let anything and everything go so that they become a service provider and thus aren't considered to be editorializing or approving the content people post

It's safe to say that 230 being gone would require every single website with UGC to choose between the two options. If you think it could be revised instead, feel free to suggest such.
That was the beauty of it. You had the chairman of the FCC right out there talking pure stuff and nonsense, with everyone mostly carrying on as if anything he said made actual sense. Very disorienting time that was.
Some others would describe it as idiom-orientated.
I mean, having intermediary liability (as you would absent section 230) doesn't mean you're immediately forced to shut down. Prodigy had been around for just over 10 years before the Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co. ruling, after all.

It does however mean that if you do get sued over third party content on your site, you will probably lose, which is an expensive possibility for any small site operator.
Or you just checkout the version that does what you need and leave it alone.
> Last I checked Twitter was under the total control of a right wing troll. Zuckerberg isn't exactly a leftist

You didn't read the post you were responding to closely enough.

The original post was not about who controls which social media website. Instead, it was about whether or not individual people support social media companies censoring whatever they heck they want, and comparing that to supporting ISPs censoring whatever the heck they want.

It should be obviously true that progressives, and democrats these days are more in favor of social media companies controlling their platform, compared to, say, a decade ago.

"its a private company, it can do what it wants!" Is almost a catchphrase now, of democrat-aligned people on any of these topics, theses days.
Maybe you can explain to the user of the watch who didn't fall but the Watch suddenly says "Fall detected".

Apple's version is better. It's more accurate of what the feature does (guessing based on factors), and it's more human.
Awesome bug. Thanks for sharing
"Able to have kids" isn't the only economic factor. "Incentivized to have kids" is another.

Kids used to be cheap labor plus a retirement package. Now they are an expensive hobby. With privatized costs and socialized benefits (or, if you prefer, benefits that get sucked to the top of the social pyramid), kid production stopped making sense for kid producers and we are seeing a supply shortfall. If we fix the incentives we can fix the supply shortfall. Even a partial fix is probably sufficient -- people enjoy having kids, they just need the personal economic consequences to be less of a flaming trainwreck.
Pex: Python EXecutable
VFD Displays
A few years ago Disney+ added a note to the beginning of Aristocats and a few other movies that “This program includes negative depictions and / or mistreatment of people or cultures. These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now. Rather than remove this content, we want to acknowledge its harmful impact, learn from it and spark conversation to create a more inclusive future together. Disney is committed to creating stories with inspirational and aspirational themes that reflect the rich diversity of the human experience around the globe.”

I appreciated the note, the thought that went into it, and, of course, that I got to watch the movie exactly as I had years earlier.

Changing 'plump' to 'cheerful' without any note to the reader about the alteration feels disingenuous.
"stuff you didn't want" would be accidentally recorded background noise, or code that makes the payload compatible with a device other than the one you're using.

This is data specifically crafted to get your computer to do something in addition to what you asked it to do, without your consent, and not in a way that benefits you

The word for data like that is "malware".
Thanks for pointing it out! It was a typo, fixed now.
we seem to be using astrology and astronomy interchangeably here, and that makes me not happy.
"In fact it's hard to think of a single major tech company run by a leftist"

You aren't trying very hard.
It was ironic reading this comment after another one higher up in the same thread:

> Political polarization has been increasing in the US
Fine, those are topics of interest. However, I don’t see any mention of IP laws, copyright/trademark policy or DRM, or remote editing of ebooks in the linked article.
Idk how I never knew it was phosphorus that made these work, but GOD it makes it so much cooler. Like somehow a fake digital display done chemically is that much cooler than what we have now.
Amazing Idea
Not statically typed, but rpython is a statically analyzable subset of python that is used to write pypy: https://rpython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/rpython.html
For the goals of the application you can push a button in one branch of the tree and it has an impact on many other branches…
Roblox? This Roblox? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32014754
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28247034
Another 10/10 bug, thanks for sharing
Officials believe pro-Ukraine group may have sabotaged Nord Stream
Thanks for sharing that reference. I started out being intrigued, but he totally lost me with some pretty unsubstantiated absolutist statements, e.g. "anyone smart and independent-minded will have views on race and sex well outside the liberal mainstream" and "men are sure to be a disproportionate share of leaders for biological reasons".

The first statement is categorically false or otherwise implies the author's engaging in "no true Scotsman" fallacy; and, in the second quote, how he can disentangle biological from cultural and social causes with such absolute conviction is mystifying. Stating opinions as facts in such a way is a kind of sophistry, and ironically this tendency limits one's ability to reach deeper truth.
We have Nucor in West Seattle and rumor has it running 24/7/365+ because the cost of shutdown/startup is too high. I've seen steel coming out is there everything I've driven by regardless of hour.
I think you may be missing the forest for the trees. The point of FP is that you can glance at a function and say 'this is obviously correct' without having to work out the state and context of every call.
This is interesting. I recently downloaded FreeCAD and abandoned it after just a few minutes. So, I think I can understand where this project came from.

I have experience with 2D CAD programs like LibreCAD and CadStd and 3D geometric tools like TinkerCAD, OpenSCAD, the late ABC 123, and Sketchup. But, FreeCAD doesn’t really seem to work like these tools. There seems to be a lot to learn and I just found myself frustrated. I did manage to create a general shape I was working on but I didn’t feel like I understood very well. Anyway, some simple primer for people without a drafting background may be in order (and I imagine that isn’t too hard to find).

This primer also seems to be over my head, getting into language I don’t understand right off the bat. Seems like the author has a bit of background I lack.
I think lost in all of this is the fact that Twitter had a very healthy business before the acquisition. Were they as successful as Meta? No. Were they sustainable and growing? Yes. It's the debt that Elon took up, which he unloaded onto the company balance sheet, to buy Twitter that ended up forcing Twitter to cut costs.

If you read the Twitter comments whenever Musk blasts ex-Twitter employees, you'd think that Twitter prior to Musk was on the verge of bankruptcy. Quite the opposite. It's Musk's loans used to buy Twitter that is causing Twitter to be on the verge of bankruptcy.

Everyone came out as a loser in the deal - except shareholders who sold Twitter way above its actual worth.
No argument here. I believe that a loss of NN will have tragic, avoidable, predictable outcomes. It is, as you say, not a high-effort policy, so an argument-from-undue-difficulty would not support its dissolution.

That said, you don't seem to be interacting with my claim -- I'm not saying net neutrality is unimportant, I'm saying it's undervalued right now. Because of the wars/permacrises.

I think upon closer read you'll find our views are relatively aligned.
My normal chain is a noise gate, followed by a comp, a little emulated tube drive, an SVT amp model, an impulse response modeled cab simulator (of course running a 8x12 SVT cab), a plate reverb, and a limiter. I've got some crazier ones, but as a beginner bassist, that's all I really need. There are literally hundreds of effects to choose from though.

Convolution reverb is an option, but it ended up being a little more than the Pi4 could handle iirc. I didn't tinker with it much though.

Latency is under 10ms, I'd have to go back and check my settings to confirm exactly though.
Common Lisp type declarations work sort of like assumptions: if you DECLARE that a variable is of a specific type, the compiler is permitted to trust you on that.
The rule is that it must be powered, have a keyboard connected, and have an external display plugged in. It is very confusing especially since everything cuts out if your power source turns off, but this does allow some monitors to provide power+USB+one display over a single C cord to enable clamshell mode.

Kind of unrelated but it sucks that Macs don't do multiple displays over a single cable because Apple refuses to support it in their GPU via the built-in MST hub (that otherwise is put to use for driving the Pro Display XDR).
Maintaining an AC signal strong enough to drive the filament seems to be a tough goal. Most solutions I've seen hacked together a small audio amplifier to push and pull the electrons; I've resigned to just using a step-down transformer since I'm driving my VFD designs from mains anyway.

Would love to hear alternatives!

I've also seen the listings for cool displays on ebay dry up lately? A few years ago I could find a selection of older/NOS stereo VFDs in a number of arrangements, but lately it's been just generic 20x4 POS displays and the odd nixie...
Okay. But is it against FP principles to write software that runs in web browsers then?

Because web browsers exist, and they work in a nonfunctional way.

So to interact with one we need to do a little bit of imperative code.

And then react lets us figure out what to do when the web browser responds to that imperative code by letting us run a largely functional program.

Which is pretty neat considering we’re doing so in JavaScript.

The thing that we’re after here is not a badge that we can slap on our code saying ‘certified 100% functional’. We are trying to write code using patterns that help us reason about and structure what we want the computer to do, avoid bugs, and ship software.

If react managed to squeeze a surprisingly functional pattern into a JavaScript library to that end, can’t we just applaud the audacity and enjoy using it, without nitpicking that they didn’t actually reimplement the lambda calculus?
A capitalist company changing books to make them as inoffensive as possible to sell as many books as possible doesn't exactly scream Marx to me.

I'm guessing the main motivation for both the changes to R.L Stine and Roald Dahl's works to keep selling them to a new generation of children more than fight the 'culture war'