skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I did hear about AIM having a cat and mouse game with third-party clients, but that was before the MSN era, and they eventually calmed down. I don't know about any lawsuits, but the fact that there were companies openly offering multiplatform clients (heck, Trillian even sold a "pro" version) suggests they weren't particularly effective.

_the same companies_ that were alive back then are still offering multiplatform clients as of today...

E.g. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/im-instant-messenger/id2856889... for Whatsapp and many others

Plus the resurrection of Pidgin. Or the new Jabber transports...

No matter how you put it, today's situation with 3rd party clients is quite similar as in the past. If you think they're unreliable today, think how it was in the famous Trillian 0.7x era, when a couple days/week downtime waiting for a client upgrade was _the norm_ (and yes I was a paying customer). When support for features that today would be considered uttermost critical (e.g. server stored offline messages) was non-working or added years later than the 1st party client.

I really don't think users today would have the patience for that. But the situation is objectively better today where 3rd party clients, if anything, miss bells & whistles (e.g. "picture/voice/gif sharing" instead of simple file sharing) rather than core features such as presence tracking, offline messaging, etc. (of course they are core now: they have been there for 20 years....). My last proselytizing effort was moving people to Conversations (conversations.im), so this is based on my own experience. Just look at what the average Whatscrap user will complain when moving to Conversations (and yes there is a Whatscrap <-> XMPP transport).

> and the third-party clients are unreliable enough that they're non-mainstream.

"Mainstream"? When have third-party clients ever been "Mainstream"?

> You needed an MSN account but you could sign up once, log in with your usual messenger program that you use for every other network, and then forget who was on MSN, who was on AIM and who was on whatever else

You are still entirely subject to the whims of MSN and AIM, and you cannot migrate your contacts at all if they decide to do an Elon. Or a GTalk (when they closed down federation). Or an Apple (when they promised federation that never materialized).
Relevantly: I saw (on ACM site) a decades old(!!) heretical essay (="heressay"?) which argued

That there is *NO* gap between theory & practice.

(at least in Computer Science, & not in the eponymous eschew-first-principles Science cults of physicist Feynman's fame )

Sounds familiar?? I cant find it now, someone please help?

:(

EDIT:

And Programmers, unlike Cargo Cult Psychotherapists of TFA's source, do quantitatively try to make deals with the spirits (in the machine)???

"In theory there is a difference between theory and practice - in practice there isn't"

-- Not [Comrade] Yogi Berra
I wrote a fairly similar take on this a few years ago (without having read the original book mentioned here) -- https://explog.in/notes/debugging.html

Julia Evans also has a very nice zine on debugging: https://wizardzines.com/zines/debugging-guide/
I think the problem was that `foo:` is a legal symbol.

That is, there were a potential backwards compatibility problem.
That said, I wish we adopted the `foo:` style back then.

Btw - since `foo:` is a legal identifier and references to unbound
identifiers are rewritten to `(#%top . id)` one can write a custom
`#%top` to any `id:` into `#:id` without making a new language.

This technique is used in `scribble/html/main` for turning
identifiers that end with colon into self-quoting symbols.
> What makes many trans people unhappy is society’s persistent persecution of them in politics and media.

Then maybe they should have thought of that before advocating for males to invade women's spaces and for children to be medically harmed.

This so-called "persecution" is happening because boundaries need to be asserted. They abused the kindness and tolerance of others, and are now seeing the effects of this.
The reason why this will never happen is simply due to things like DRM.

We right now have ENCRYPTED signal going from our computer to our displays, not just computers, but phones too SIMPLY to prevent people from dumping raw data.

All of that extra processing done just so you're allowed to for ex: watch netflix with a resolution higher than 720p. Then comically there's Chinese capture cards that you plug your GPU into, use mirroring mode and completely bypass it.

DRM is just one example, there's many more motivations such as preventing paid apps / pay for currency games from having these things given for free. This is the primary reason why iOS devices make significantly more money than android as it's near impossible to pirate / hack / crack for an average user.
So they don't mind work entering the public domain, but they do mind people making use of that work in an organized way after it has? Seems a bit strange.
>People have always been performative about social justice, it's not a new phenomenon

People have always done lots of things. The degree, intensity, and manner with which they do them varies and matters.

>And it shouldn't detract from the justice itself. People are obssessed with talking about how bad the performative nature is, when they should ignore that aspect and just focus on the issue

They could be already focusing on the issue. Or they could be ignoring it. That's their decision. Perhaps they have problems of their own to tackle first. Nobody has to be an activist about some cause just because another wants them to.

The problem with performative justice is that (when the performative types get enough power) its bizarre demands and rituals are imposed onto and everybody else, with little recourse.

Another problem is that the performative justice diverts resources to tackle the performative insignificant or detrimental aspects instead of the real issue.

>Annoyed people are whining about civil rights? Okay? Don't whine about it yourself maybe?

Wouldn't solve the issues described in the article caused by performative justice, from stiffling academic discussion, to creating an outrage factory that diverts the press from its mission and polarises society to a detrimental effect.
You’re making the world worse, not better. First, you’re perpetuating the idea that anybody should be offended by anything like this. You’re never going to meet an actual Melanesian cargo culter, and nobody else should take offense to this phrase.

Second, you’re impairing your own ability to communicate with doers because most smart people know what the term “cargo cult” means from Feynman.
I've been using Emacs for 20+ years and counting. Over the years I had all the usual programmers health-related problems, and saw my friends getting the same kind of problems as well.

I no longer have these problems, but I see people around me going full steam ahead towards getting these.

Here's some boring dad-level wisdom:

1. Vim/Emacs/VSCode/favourite editor have nothing to do with the correct, least straining way to use the keyboard. Spreading the load over all 20 fingers is the only way to avoid RSI and related problems. Proper touch typing, caps lock remapping, right hand ctrl pressing... What ever it takes to balance things. Typing less also helps.

2. We programmers sit a lot. Or stand a lot. This leads to back problems, faster RSI development, etc. All the usual workarounds (massage, etc) will only postpone the issue a bit. The only way to counter these is to make sports a routine. Walking, lifting, swimming, climbing. Anything that makes blood go faster - this helps with recovery, and should be a habit.

3. Being overweight kills and makes all of the above problems 10 times as painful. There is just no way around learning to control one's weight. It's not even that hard.

My father (also an emacs user btw) also taught me this but for the usual young people's reasons I had to learn things by, ehm, doing.
Live London Underground / bus maps taken down by TfL trademark complaint
That's true but the internet should be the place where ever human being is allowed. Then it segregates into multiple well-protected communities.
One mitigating control for Hype Of The Year is to use uBlock and add custom rules in Addons -> uBlock Preferences -> My Rules.

Examples change as desired:

# Filter some topics
# top (title / url)
news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing span.titleline > a:has-text(/(lockchain|coin|202[3-9]$)/):upward(tr)
# bottom (stats / comments)
news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing span.titleline > a:has-text(/(lockchain|coin|202[3-9]$)/):upward(tr) + *
#
It’ll probably be cool for the desktop ARM ecosystem and people wanting small inference servers. Not sure about the rest.
My father, grandfathers and all my uncles are here. All deceased. I’m failing to find a use case for social security numbers to be present here. Or any of it to be honest.
Aw, too bad I can't have whey because of my lactose intolerance. :(
Heh...

I remember my 10th doctor said something like: "typing less should fix these". Typing less..!
Computers have sharp edges, and people often throw hissy fits when things break. Manufacturers infantalize consumers to dodge lawsuits. Then companies like Apple take it too far by building walled gardens where devices don't have proper file systems, locking you out of your own files.
What do you mean by "price"? The language and its interpreter are free, but so are most languages from its time, so what are you referring to exactly?
I don't thing a spatial representation is any more necessary here than it is for referring to 25 cents as a quarter of a dollar.
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The original person you are responding to never said they were oppressed, they said calling for the abandonment of the term is woke nonsense.
So what can a corporation do today to promote social change that isn't lip service that won't get attacked as woke? The backlash against these linguistic change efforts is spending proportional amounts of pointless energy attacking them rather than investing in more concrete outcomes themselves. I mean really keep using master branches if you want and push for things you think actually help rather than upping the engagement/outrage on something that you can easily ignore.
In fact, democracy in itself might enable that, which is why it's important to have strong boundaries around all political decision-making, whether democratic or otherwise.
> It's the word equivalent of numerology

I won't say that. As much as I frown upon the holier-than-thou attitude plaguing talks on social justice topics, the words we use do have influence on how we think and act.
Zhan zhuang (站桩) day 3 [video]
> impossible

Finland got to 0 by giving everybody a place to live, not by kicking the homeless out of their country.
Exactly. Also, this _world_ is about money, dude.
I agree it probably isn't a great idea to publish it... I'm guessing some malicious actor could find a way to use this information to fiddle with the remaining benefits their family might be receiving...

That said, the _typical_ things an SSN is used for would not be terribly useful for someone that's been dead >2-4 years... Automated checks should flag e.g. credit applications as being for a dead person :-)
Just let a LLM create even better bugs for you -
Erik Meijer
https://www.youtube.com/live/SsJqmV3Wtkg?si=MUoiNbWpsunsZ39y...
Rule #10 - read everything twice
From the article: "Twitter, which was arguably the hub of wokeness, was bought by Elon Musk in order to neutralize it, and he seems to have succeeded — and not, incidentally, by censoring left-wing users the way Twitter used to censor right-wing ones, but without censoring either. [14]"

Then follow to the footnote: "[14] Elon did something else that tilted Twitter rightward though: he gave more visibility to paying users."

This is puzzling to me because: if you give more visibility to one group of people's speech, that means you are giving less visibility to another group of people's speech. Which is just another way of saying you are censoring their speech.

Again, the author asks: "...is there a way to prevent any similar outbreak of aggressively performative moralism in the future?" But preventing somebody from expressing their moral values again is censorship.

No matter what kind of media policies there are, the fact that there is limited bandwidth means that some views are going to be emphasized, and other views are going to be suppressed.
Thanks for your original post as well. Petitioning anyone else to understand GGPs list and attempt an explanation of GP’s observation of the Bullet Cluster.

Cheers all. I think it’s interesting how many of us are seriously interested laymen on this topic. I think it’s fun and fascinating.
My thinking is that if I have device that doesn't allow me root access, then what I have is more than likely a device designed to keep making money for the company that made it or wrote the software for it.
Q&A with Marvell CEO Matt Murphy – By Dr. Ian Cutress
> It is also a good indication that DEI doesn't really make money

Can't argue with that, but wanted to point out that this (ostensibly at least) wasn't the point. The point of these types of schemes was always purported to be for some kind of social justice.
> the fact that UI/UX was actually scientifically better[0]

Your link doesn't go to anything scientific.

And people who could never figure out Windows are totally comfortable with iPads.

So no... the UX wasn't better at all.
IMO this is a self inflicted wound that won't ever heal.

There was an article recently about deepseek which is an example of what happens when you limit access to technology. People find more efficient and better ways to do that same on older hardware making it more competitive and lower cost.
It’s the recency that bothers me the most. These aren’t veterans from “some distant time” where we’re merely trying to better understand history through the lens these people provided in their private effects, mostly donated by private individuals or museums.

These are people who still have young children today, people who’s widows may still be grieving. Now their parent’s or partner’s VA history is up for display, for people to use for whatever means they want? That doesn’t make sense to me.
It's kind of amusing that you present "keplerian rotation curves" as a "prediction" of MOND, given that the whole point of MOND is a kludge to produce non-Keplerian rotation curves. That is, by definition MOND cannot produce Keplerian rotation curves. This is why the (small) number of dwarf galaxies (not "elliptical and lenticular galaxies"!) which apparently lack dark matter -- and which do not follow the Tully-Fisher relation-- are serious problems for MOND.
Why 202[3-9] though?
Your comment seems so extreme and ridiculous to the point of Poe's law (can't tell if it's satirical or sincere). We would have to make every language very dull indeed if that was the kind of critera for acceptability of words... And how far back in the etymology would somebody have to go to determine whether it's sufficiently non-domineering??
Look, I won't try to convince you're wrong. But if you come to a website with thousands of active users and ask: Do you agree with me? Don't reply if not.

What do you expect? Might as well ask an AI to generate that text, same level of information you'll be getting.
> Portuguese has the word "mestre" from the same Latin origin.

I don't think this concept is unique to Portuguese. Whenever anyone talks about, say, the dutch masters, they are not talking about slavery.
It seems pretty straightforward to me that if you want to reduce false or flimsy take down requests that there need to be actual costs when those requests are found to be fair use, parody, what have you. In the current environment there is basically zero reason for a rights holder to not claim content on YouTube (cited both because it's what I'm most familiar with, and because it's rampant issue on the platform) and literally claiming copyright on any video by a rights holder is a completely risk free action:

* YouTube seemingly does not weight the claim based on previous claims, i.e. if you've made hundreds of claims that have later petered out into nothing, you can still make claims that still have the same weight and assumption of good faith applied to them. So if one of your interns flips through a video and sees a frame of your show or game or whatever, claim it.

* As I've complained about here previously: videos make the vast majority of their revenue in the first few days of publication, so if you manage to snipe a newly posted video, either by way of keeping an eye open for yourself or via automated tools, you can claim it, have the video's monetization redirected to you, and again, even if the claim is later found to be bogus or unsubstantiated, you keep the money.

* Lastly, there is NO mechanism whatsoever for the creator to seek any form of justice on the platform. In theory a creator could sue an IP holder for filing a bogus claim, but there's little court precedent for that, and to even attempt it would require them to retain their own attorney. Any attorney worth their money would tell them not to try it because it will be an uphill battle with an organization who's legal account dwarfs their own.

This is basically a system that is directly incentivizing bad actors. It's no surprise at all that it's being abused by companies looking to manage their image/PR by quelling criticism, by organizationally inept companies who's left hands can't keep track of what the right hand is doing, and by companies that see it as a cynical way to juice their revenue in an ethically dubious but also basically risk free way. And we now have a new strata of yet more middle men organizations: companies that manage the IP of other companies and make claims on their behalf, sometimes even using shoddy AI recognition to manage it.
More-so: time-wasting, petty, controlling, slightly more unhelpful than helpful.
Sometimes I am actually happy when there is a obvious bug. It is like solving a murder mystery.
Do you mean that your plugin can get stolen?

Well, you can ask plugin owners to upload a particular file with a particular key to their plugin on WordPress.org. That way they can prove they have access, and they should be allowed ownership of the plugin on the fork.
Just understand if you’re the one forcing language, hiring based on race, and forcing people to take part in medical experiments — you’re the regressive one.

There is nothing progressive about any of that.
It is mostly a marketing gimmick. Tech companies want people to believe that their models can do "anything", even become conscious. Anyone who understands the technology can see that this is nonsense. But they'll continue to repeat this while the money is coming, so unsuspecting investors will poor more and more money into AI companies.
I've got one few years ago - sister was using it for a bit till something else could be managed. It came with a replaced hdd and removed airport card, and old battery. I managed to install Lubuntu side by side with 10.4 but mid-pandemic decided to try some retro fun and deployed dualboot with MacOS 9.0.4 and dug thru Macintosh Garden depths. What's interesting is that machine managed to download updates for 10.4.
Step 10, add the bug as a test to the CI to prevent regressions? Make sure the CI fails before the fix and works after the fix.
Make sure you're editing the correct file on the correct machine.
> With LLMs, we can give the exact same instructions, and not be guaranteed the same code.

Set temperature appropriately, that problem is then solved, no?
California's Climate Time for Choosing
Nobel prizes are strongly correlated to the educational institution (research school, supervising PI) where research is done. The best predictor of winning nobel prize is whether your academic supervisor/lead have won Nobel prize previously and you are continuing his line of nobel winning research.

The connection of Nobel prize to race/ethnicity, as well as a claim that jews are supposedly smarter than everybody else (to the extent of dominating nobel nominations) is incredibly racist and is false.

Its basically the same ubermensch/untermensch argument made by adolf hitler in Mein Kampf about "superior Aryan race" but this time applied to jews as ubermensch.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3190562/
Python was first released in 1991, and PHP was first released in 1995.
A chainsaw does not introduce an opportunity for thousands of remote criminals to steal money from your bank account.
btw I'm not trying to defend LLMs here, I'd make the same comment if you flipped your question.
Mastodon is on the right track. They’ve been doing so much right, the UX has improved considerably.

I think there’s some mainstream appeal, but there are also ecosystem issues that aren’t solved easily, as well as a lack of algorithmic curation, which a lot of people deem very important.
Wellspring (N.)
I remember having a conversation with someone around a decade ago about whether "social justice warrior" pointed at anything real. My contention was that every popular moral system has its prigs and its fanatics - social justice no less than Christianity, environmentalism, socialism, etc, etc, etc.
Thanks for that! That gives me more hope that this hype train is going to die down like the others did.
Windows used to have that habit of making the processes CPU starved, and yet claiming the CPU was idle all the time.

Since the Microsoft response to the bug was denying and gaslighting the affected people, we can't tell for sure what caused it. But several people were in a situation where their computer couldn't finish any work, and the task-manager claimed all of the CPU time was spent on that line item.
But you know you don’t have root access before buying. Why would you buy it if you want root access?
https://archive.is/uuVNc

subtitle: Sacramento tilts at reducing temperatures while its cities burn from failure to adapt to a variable climate.

'The Los Angeles wildfires are awful to behold, and perhaps they are bad enough to cause some rethinking by California’s political class. Instead of trying like Don Quixote to change the climate, they could spend their money on mitigating and adapting to the effects of climate change.

Democrats blame the L.A. blazes on the changing climate, which is a convenient excuse as citizens rage against the failures of state and local government. The evidence doesn’t support the climate explanation since (among other reasons) California has had a dry climate and Santa Ana winds, even with hurricane-force gusts on occasion, for centuries. If the Democrats who run the state believe their own advertising, why not spend money in useful ways rather than on a green-energy transition to nowhere?'

...
I use Quassel because it's a so-called "split" client, where "quassel core" runs on a VPS, and then I can run actual clients of the quassel core on several different devices, including Quasseldroid on Android. It's a much better experience than sshing into a screen session.