skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can hold the beliefs without being "performative"

A perfect example is when gay marriage was illegal and some straight people loudly announced that they wouldn't get married until gay people could.

OK. Your motives are good but how exactly is this going to help legalize gay marriage? And why did the world need to know about it?
Same here. The Spanish edition of PC Mag included Core Linux. It was the most pleasant install experience in much, much time (next, next, next, finish)
Why does a single commodity product company have a stock when that says said commodity is not even the top spot in the category?
I think the popularity of Wordpress comes from the access it gives to non-technical people (plus ecosystem). I am sure someone is smart enough to write a CMS that can effectively do that under the hood, but I don't think it matters to the people who choose Wordpress.
On opens source projects the build system needs to be reasonable enough that anybody can set it up. There are lots of conventions and even tools to help people. On closed source projects it is just Joe the sysadmin who sets up the machines for everybody working on it. Also, open source projects rarely include requirements like "buy a license of this specific version of this proprietary library and install it on your machine".

Doom had the advantage that it was written by a really excellent team with some standout programmers, and it has had plenty of people maintaining the codebase over the years.
You should know that the Treasury is mostly funded by taxpayers. If we break down total receipts into the Treasury 85% come from individual tax returns, 7% come from business tax returns, and 7% from excise taxes.
Exactly, which is why I found it so entertaining. The idea that the Smuckers CEO is paying extra for beautiful fruit right before it get pulverized into jam is laughable. It's the market and price system taking care of the problem and opportunistic brands making up a problem that doesn't exist and charging users a premium to solve the non-existent problem
In other words, a private school gets more money from a student’s voucher than a district gets from having that same student enrolled. The voucher doesn’t just move the same amount of money around. A voucher pulls more money from education funding than then enrolling a student in a public school does.
Soon enough AI will write most of blog/marketing HTML.
I liked PG's attempts to define the perjorative form of "wokeness". I was disappointed that the rest of the essay didn't serve the discourse much.

What I was really hoping for was focused analysis on how to make social media more useful to the earnest helpers instead of the "loud prigs". That would have made for an interesting discussion here.
OP here. Really glad to see others engaging with this topic, I wrote up this post because I felt like there wasn't anything out there that was advocating for unlocked hardware as part of the discussion on "right to repair".

As someone that works in security, I fully understand the need for sane defaults that protect the average user. I even advocate in the article that we should keep these defaults in place for the most part.

What I tend to not understand is the argument that there should be no option for more enterprising users to access their hardware at the lowest levels because we need to protect the average consumer. It may be a footgun for some, but that's sort of the point. I expect to be able to modify something I own, whether it's to my detriment or not.

My argument isn't that root access should be the default, but at the very least it should be an option. I just don't think it's right that we've normalized corporations blocking the ability to load / inspect software, which often is marketed as a safety or privacy thing, but is arguably more a business decision meant to protect profit margins.
An unusually bad essay.

Yes, cancel culture is bad.

But when an entire group of people (eg women, or non-white people) says ‘this thing is a problem’, maybe take them seriously?

(Like pg would like to be taken seriously right now?)

This is an essay against introspection, against discomfort (as much as discomfort intolerance is raised as a symptom of woke), and an argument for maintaining the status quo.
Email has some social scaling problems, but the technical scaling side is almost perfect - you push to the destination. Adding more destinations doesn't increase cost, and it splits the load.

Contrast this with e.g. Secure Scuttlebutt (under a normal setup). Adding more people to the connected graph (implying also a more densely connected graph) means exponentially more traffic and more storage for each member, due to the friend-of-a-friend proxying built in. It doesn't take long at all to reach the point where a normal internet connection can't keep up, and you fall farther and farther behind.

Mastodon falls somewhere in between - adding servers mostly splits load when you add instances, but caching behavior grows linearly and tends to happen simultaneously ~everywhere, and it doesn't take long before it's beyond what hobbyists can handle. It even affects outsiders, due to preloading link previews, which is a core privacy decision that's arguably part of the protocol.

Where does nostr fit in? Because "a protocol" describes ^ all of those. It's a mostly meaningless descriptor, beyond "probably not tied to a single company" (but not more than "probably").
Hugo has been wonderful for me. I use it to host my portfolio website. Only thing I dislike is themes can be a pain to edit if you don’t know where things are spread out in the source.
I would be okay with laws that distinguish between when a worker is expected to make less than $X per hour or per job.
We gave less rights to part-time workers so companies just started making as many part-time as possible. If you create a loop-hole it will be exploited.
I got lucky, I wrecked my car (not while doing a gig) but my insurance company was like "were you doing a gig job?". Had to prove I wasn't. I don't get in many wrecks, had 1 in my life so far that was this bad (totaled car).

edit: I'm aware you're supposed to get some kind of special business insurance but at the time I was not aware of that. Thankfully this insurance company who I had been with for almost 10 years honored my claim.

I am glad I'm able to drive on the side. Turn it on and go nice to have extra cash. I am aware of the instant pay (fee) but I also like that vs. waiting for ACH to clear day(s) later.
Supposedly China has already reached peak oil due to their rapid uptake of EVs, but hard to tell globally as some parts of the world are not adopting EVs as quickly as others.

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/10/11/chinas-oil-gas-giant-si...

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Is-Chinas-Demand-for-O...

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/CNPC-Chin...

https://newatlas.com/energy/sinopec-china-gasoline-peaked/

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=709&t=6

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/primary-energy-source-bar
They are required by law to provide the data, and freely give it to Ancestry.com and the like.

You could argue they also shouldn't spend any money on computer security, investigating internal sexual harassment cases, or patching holes in their parking lot because that is just taking away money that could be used on veterans.
Anybody know if Mullenweg has recently purchased property in Belize? I'm curious how far along the McAfee curve he's gotten.
This is a double-edged sword. There are often cases in real-world systems where the "reward" the MAB maximizes is biased by eligibility issues, system caching, bugs, etc. If this happens, your MAB has the potential to converge on the worst possible experience for your users, something a static treatment allocation won't do.
Yeah basically. The idea is that somehow this is the data-optimal way of determining which one is the best (rather than splitting your data 50/50 and wasting a lot of samples when you already know)

The caveats (perhaps not mentioned in the article) are:
- Perhaps you have many metrics you need to track/analyze (CTR, conversion, rates on different metrics), so you can't strictly do bandit!
- As someone mentioned below, sometimes the situation is dynamic (so having evenly sized groups helps with capturing this effect)
- Maybe some other ones I can't think of?

But you can imagine this kind of auto-testing being useful... imagine AI continually pushes new variants, and it just continually learns which one is the best
I guess a person could be pro-racist, neutral on racism, or anti-racist. Is there another category I'm missing?
On the one hand, capitalists and business owners want people to have more children in order to keep the economy functioning. On the other hand, they want to make work as inconvenient as possible and want work to encompass the life of the employee.

It's becoming increasingly clear that there is a trade-off and an inverse relationship between career growth and family formation.
I’m happily enjoying my move to Denon and HEOS. It was that bad that bad that I liquidated all my Sonos gear.
Sure. The leaders within the Democratic party are not especially good advocates for the homeless. They are similarly not terribly good advocates for a lot of suffering groups. Despite all the hay about "defund the police", it didn't actually end up materializing as policy and we saw Biden explicitly reject it in a State of the Union.

It is not true that the establishment left is using "woke" advocacy to avoid having to talk about class. It is also not true that if the left stopped talking about "woke" concepts that the right would suddenly get on board with class advocacy.
> No reasonable person is so psychologically fragile that the mere mention of slavery hurts them

And yet, weirdly to me, there's a lot of people acting like it costs them personally to switch words.

I never gave this topic much thought when it first came up, because it never mattered to me in the fist place if the default branch was called "master" or "A1" or "πρώτα".

Someone wants it called different because of aesthetics? Sure, have fun with the new name! It's no more significant to me than "jif" (the cleaning fluid) being renamed "cif", or Marathon, Snickers.

Of course, if anyone were to have suggested to me that the name alone would be enough to solve racism forever, I might have pointed that the Berlin Wall's official name translated as "anti-fascist protection barrier", as an example of the way people use words to divert from a complete lack of real action or worse to act in direct opposition to the normal meaning of the words.
From his perspective, after everything he has done, others are getting the financial gains and many in the community turned on him and his company. It must be a horrible feeling.
How a vinyl record is made (DE audio, EN subs) [video]
I recently watched an interesting video on the subject of corn syrup. Which led me into the fascinating rabbit hole of sugar chemistry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY66qpMFOYo

If I might summarize.

Your body can absorb three types of sugar into the blood, glucose, fructose and galactose. glucose is directly used by cells, the other two have to take a trip through the liver to turn them into glucose.

Table sugar is sucrose. a complex sugar. which can be best thought of as a fructose and a glucose linked together.

Corn syrup is a mixture of ~ 45% glucose 55% fructose

Sucrose is quickly broken apart into glucose and fructose in several environments, high heat will do it, but also acidic environments. like your stomach, or a soda. a soda will be slightly acidic due to the carbon dioxide dissolved in it(carbonic acid). And some formulations(like coke) add additional phosphoric acid.

And to spoil the video. Even if you put sucrose into a soda, that is not what you are going to be drinking. I was unable to figure out why it tastes different, are the ratios off? additional trace chemicals in one source?
> “People feel that science is this powerful source that is jerking them around and telling them what to do and making them feel stupid.”

> More than half of Americans get their health information from social media, with Facebook especially popular in rural communities.

> “If you take those same topics and you try to be straight about it, you’re going to immediately turn off a lot of people,” Flanary said. Truth is often more boring than misinformation

My take on this: most americans actually are stupid.

I mean, how else can trailpark denizens think that a billionaire brat child slum lord is going to improve their economic situation?

This is why we had a thing called "public education", and it's why that thing has been under siege, pretty much ever since it was instituted.

It seems that emo, irrational content is largely attributed to the woke-nuts, but I would argue that emo manipulation has been the power of the wing-nuts for decades (since the southern strategy at least).

NOTE: woke-nut-ism is NOT left politics, and wing-nut-ism is NOT right wing. These are both misinformation echo chambers guided by invoking a sense of "identity" among the participants.

This is why the power brokers of the right have always attacked public education. Their power primarily derives from an uninformed populous, incapable of rational analysis.

No one anywhere sees that situation improving anytime soon. This is only going to get worse as more people consider some meme illiterate influenza as an authority figurine.
That's not how it works in recent Ubuntu releases. If there is no match, the command runs with the wildcard chars not substituted.

# echo foo*bar
foo*bar
A standard formulation of MAB problem assumes that acting will impact the rewards, and this forgetting factor approach is one which allows for that and still attempts to find the currently most exploitable lever.
The real "mind virus" is the fragility of mind required for people to be so damn bothered that people unlike themselves exist. This essay is as much an example of that fragility as those who cannot find any merit in critiques of "wokeness's" loudest proponents. A world where those on the end of the political spectrum better understand each other is something worth working towards. This essay doesn't get us closer to that world, nor does lording one's perceived moral superiority over others. Maybe it's time to reset.

A good portion of the comments here are people talking past each other, with seemingly no interest in mutual understanding. We've gotten so very lazy about disagreement. Its harder and more useful form involves conceding that your counterparty probably has a point, even if very small. And if you can't see it, you might not be trying.
> The company said it would cost between $20 million and $30 million to fix these issues and decided to cut about 6% of its staff.

> Spence, in October, had acknowledged mistakes surrounding the app's release and said that he and seven other company leaders would forgo their bonuses.

People out of a job because of you and you're gonna forgo your bonuses.

> Spence, whose total compensation was $5.19 million in fiscal 2023, took a roughly $72,000 cash bonus.
There is a particular way people should conduct themselves. For example, they shouldn’t murder other people, damage public property, or systematically discriminate against other people based on gender or “race”. We aren’t “quiet” about the first two.
> In my city, school district administrators are multimillionaires.

In many more cities, they aren't.

Furthermore, I don't necessarily see what the problem is. Are public employees necessarily supposed to live as paupers? Government agencies can't just tell the people they want to work for them that they have to do so. They have to offer a competitive salary and benefits package. Many school administrators are operating organizations with hundreds, if not thousands, of employees and hundreds of millions of dollars in assets, with heavy regulatory requirements. Many have masters or doctoral degrees.

The same would be demanded by other schooling providers, because that stuff doesn't magically go away when you let people compete for tax dollars.
Reading and understanding the article beyond the title, it's just a term that used to be called something else before, and will be called something else in the future. I think you're focusing too much on the actual word, rather than the "movement", which is what pg's article is really about.
WordPress is a very mature project with a long legacy but I'm surprised that there hasn't been a larger profile attempt to make a spiritual successor to it that can shake the baggage of being PHP and the long history of vulns that have come along with it.

I'm imagining some very pluggable and template driven runtime that you can ship very declarative packages for. The spicy take would be to use a Scheme for the templating around some robust Rust core, but that's probably not the widest appeal. Maybe there would be some clever way to bootstrap it out of PHP so that you can keep using shared PHP hosts and they wouldn't have to bring along a new software distribution.
I suppose I would ask where you've seen or heard this sort of ultimatum about Latinx.
Uninstalling a library - no. But I specifically mentioned trying to upgrade system Python, which is a quick way to break e.g. apt.
Did he drink that psychoactive wine?
That's not even close to what I posted. Please re-read. Thanks
Could you describe how you see it commonly used? I'm unsure what you mean here.
Hadn't heard of this but looks like a pretty nice tool. Thanks for sharing :)
It is like a dedicated version of Qubes with a browsing VM that uses a Tor VM as a proxy.
Corn Syrup and Sucrose are chemically identical from the standpoint of human metabolism, especially in solution where sucrose will have already disassociated. The only difference is that the ratio of fructose:sucrose is slightly (~5%) higher in corn syrup.

I've always been dismayed at the misdirected fury around corn syrup as if it is somehow worse than any other sugar.

If you want to go down the rabbit hole, try to find an actual proper double blind academic study that demonstrates a taste difference between sucrose and high fructose corn syrup. I'll be here waiting.
But it's not just minorities who are being harassed and killed on a daily basis, so why should they get special consideration? That's the problem I have with it. It puts people into buckets, and then claims one bucket is more important than the others, even when that bucket is statistically insignificant compared to the others. Wokism is simply racism rebranded.
I find markdown to be a more productive way to write prose than HTML. It also shouldn't be too hard to port from one generator to another, given that the content is just markdown.
AFAIK this is still mostly forbidden by Apple

> 2.5.2 Apps should be self-contained in their bundles, and may not read or write data outside the designated container area, nor may they download, install, or execute code which introduces or changes features or functionality of the app, including other apps. Educational apps designed to teach, develop, or allow students to test executable code may, in limited circumstances, download code provided that such code is not used for other purposes. Such apps must make the source code provided by the app completely viewable and editable by the user.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

So except for education you can't code on an iPad.

That said, you could access a website like stackblitz or codepen or codesandbox. No idea how well those run on iPad.
I think RTO mandates will be the straw that broke the camel's back, for a lot of Americans. Workers in sectors that previously wouldn't even think about unionizing, are now having serious discussions.

Going back to commutes, wasting time, for no obvious reason - yeah, that did wake up people.

EDIT: I'm talking about rigid 5 days a week RTO policy. As other have pointed out, having a flexible WFH policy is often "good enough" for most people. Not all want 100% WFH, but taking away the flexibility of WFH a couple of days a week, if you want, feels like a shitty deal.
The left is lucky in this regard because they get to complain about the same two boogeymen all the time: white males and Israel.
The principal use of Wordpress IME experience is so people can add content without learning markdown and git and so on
Is there a good technical article for why casting has become unreliable over time? Is there like an issue with standardization across Manufacturer's APIs or is it more of an issue with Client SDKs being spotty in implementation?
You’re getting downvoted. But one of my pet peeves is when people use “jive” instead of “jibe”. Fair is fair.
> phrase that means "nonwhites" without being defined in terms of white people

That does sound quite oxymoronic. (I’m not American.)
> This country is built on shared civic ideals, values, and vision.

Sadly I think that died many decades ago and now we're just an economic zone
I mean he has a point. Things are incredibly complex now adays, I don't think most people have time to "understand the system."

I would be much more interested in rules that don't start with that... Like "Rules for debugging when you don't have the capacity to fully understand every part of the system."

Bisecting is a great example here. If you are Bisecting, by definition you don't fully understand the system (or you would know which change caused the problem!)
Note that it is possible to apply a [draft] option to some LaTeX documentclasses so as to avoid that appearance and encourage folks to treat as not-yet final/finished.
I haven’t seen these particular shortcomings before, but I certainly agree that if your data is bad, this ML approach will also be bad.

Can you share some more details about your experiences with those particular types of failures?
In the Metaverse, no doubt.
Points one and two are both functionalism, not constructivism. This is Sociology 101. The idea that all parts of society have a function, even the bad parts is not constructionist, it's structualist.

Constructivism would be that we created the idea that they are legitimate social objects (ie: they exist) and two that they have an essential moral characteristic (eg: they're bad).

Marx was a conflict theorist whose main point was that economic structures and social structures are inexorably linked. The point of Capital Vol 1 was that through a series of implications, the difference between exchange value and use value ultimately results in conflict between owners and workers.
And how do you decide whether someone you're considering supporting is or isn't racist? Do you, by chance, use the way they talk about black people or other minorities (man that's a mouthful, maybe just shorten it to BIPOC) as a way to gauge it?

For example, if someone said the N word in front of you, or made an uncomfortable joke about a Mexican, would you decide not to support them? If so, then does that make you one of those roving thought police? You'd obviously be censoring free speech if you decided how you treat them based on what they say!

On the other hand, people are clever, they know not to be too obvious or it may cause them social issues. So, as long as they don't do something too untoward right in front of you, does that mean they gain your full support?

Of course, I won't be surprised if those proponents of free speech decide to censor me by downvoting instead of engaging speech with speech
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