skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agreed. Based on some of the early comments I went in expecting the article to be a little more purely "woke" but I found it to be well-written and well-researched, and it does make some interesting points.

On the whole though I think the pop-culture understanding rated as "true enough" to merit use of the phrase, and I was not convinced that the phrase is particularly hurtful to any particular group of people, partly because it is so disconnected from that and it's not really a slur or anything but more of a historical lesson or anecdote.
the point is they don't want to so if it's happen it would happen because the US forced them to do so which mean the US would have degraded to be on the level of evil states the world would be far better of not existing

it would have betrayed all of it's core values and it's founders would turn around for shame if such a thing where possible for dead people (EDIT: well at lest some of them)
From the article’s first couple sentences:
> The word "prig" isn't very common now, but if you look up the definition, it will sound familiar. Google's isn't bad:
A self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if superior to others.
If you don’t know, you don’t want to know.
At first, I really thought this was a bad idea. If you don't like reality, shutting yourself away in your own safe shell isn't helpful. The things you dislike will still be there, and by isolating yourself, you not only lose contact with them but also lose any chance to intervene.

However, over the last few months, Twitter/X has clearly become a propaganda tool that promotes a particular worldview (I won't say "a political party" because Elon Musk's project seems broader than just U.S. politics).

I feel like the protagonist of A Clockwork Orange: in one quick scroll, you'll see explosions, puppies, tits, Nazi supporters, and Elon Musk's tweets all mixed together.

Now, i agree it's time to leave the platform. He is going way too far using a social network to push his own agenda, is too evident why he spent 60 billon on this.
If you look at the book section linked from the docs you'll find several PDF books you can download and follow for learning industrial/commercial use of Pharo.
Site seems like it was hugged to death.

My initial take on this is that it's probably just another one of a thousand "let's self-sort ourselves by political bias".

BlueSky has a CP problem (enter "does BlueSky have a CP problem" into your favorite search engine). BlueSky also has a problem with moderation; the pile-ons are trying to eradicate opposing (read: non-leftist) points of view. Don't take my word for it; it's even been reported here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42159454

Facebook is full of ads, but at least finally Meta (or at least Zuckerberg) decided to ditch the "fact checkers" which were just a thin veneer over "suppressing non-leftist points-of-view".

X seems fun to me now but I am nervous that Yaccarino is starting to deviate from Musk's free speech vision in order to appease advertising cartels.

Truth is a right wing echo chamber.

Gab is an anti-semitic cesspool.

Telegram is annoying as its subscription/follow model is spammy.

No experience with Parler.

So overall I'm happy with X. YMMV. Don't put yourself in an echo chamber.
Musk turned twitter into a far right echo chamber. Make a new account and navigate to the "for you" page: all you see is Elon Musk, Alex Jones, Andrew Tate and other far right "role models".

The media moved from hating Trump to Musk because the latter appears to hold more political power over the former, he already got his ways on H1B visas and a few other issues.

Musk also appears quite pathetic/sociopathic to non-MAGAs. He has many children he barely sees and often insults online, he was caught lying about a video game recently, and that's not even bringing up the sexual assault allegations.

He also switched from supporting Obama and considering himself a socialist to becoming the largest donor of the GOP in a few years.

Also, please reread Big Brother, because that comparison is very misplaced.
On the topic of migrations from one social media app to another, it has been very interesting to see the rapid migration from TikTok to Xiaohongshu ahead of the impending ban. I was very surprised to see that Xiaohongshu is already #1 on the US Apple app store's "Social Media" category. It seems that the appetite to use Instagram, Facebook, YouTube Shorts or Twitter after the ban comes into effect is very low.
You are incorrectly assuming there is a coherent thought or sentence that was cut off.

There is a fairly common communication trend of presenting incomplete cynical statements without a logical conclusion. I think they trade more on sentiment and vibe than fact or logic.
You don't really list any criteria, so I would maybe check out Digital Reality .. they have a lot of happy customers and staff, which is the main thing I personally look for.
> I think 100B is even low!

It could be. It also depends on whether there is a moat around the tech or if we'll have a dozen fungible clones.

But I'd certainly expect more signal if these models could do as advertised.
Masterpieces – National Library of the Netherlands
Ah sorry, I should have checked the article before posting
> Making it easy to unlock could make it easy(er) for scammers to get it unlocked

Ahh, if only governments would start cracking down on scammers.

Alas, scammers are a feature of modern capitalism. You'd not be wrong if you thought modern businesses are built on scamming people.
In one level,yeah you're right- a) I don't know if it's really super important work and b) the physical payout is probably the same for those folks doing that work regardless of if it's done in the context of WP or not.

You might consider, though, that the context of a bit of work does matter. And to other folks working in that context might take that capricious dismissal as a mark of how their own contributions might be seen.

Like yeah, they weren't getting paid, but that also means it wasn't a big cost to keep them volunteering- there are people up and down the WP ecosystem doing a lot of work for the exact same reasons. It's why- to my original point- I never tried to participate in the larger development efforts: the thing is locked up by one person so ultimately those folks are working on someone else's toy.
> spotify

TBF that's because clicking on a Sonos device in Spotify uses their own special-sauce Spotify Connect, not AirPlay/Cast. So you're basically using the Spotify app as a remote for the selected Sonos device vs AirPlay/Cast which are transmitting (potentially a reference to) the underlying audio stream.
> Damage caused by the customer isn't covered by any warranty anyway

Exactly. We charged the guy for what he did. We gave him 'sa' access to the database and he tried to burn us.

I think you may be assuming people act rationally? They do not. Most will but you will always get 'that guy' especially at scale. People will lie about what they have done. Or not even realize what they did goofed things up. In my example the guy was asking us to pay them back for defective software (millions of dollars). Right up until we proved he had broke it on purpose. I later found out he did it on purpose (confirmed by former coworkers of his 'he likes to mess with vendors'). He was not even alone. At least 3 other people tried that trick on us at different companies.

Most service requests are 'easy'. Small tweak/reship and off you go. But someone who has really broken something can be as easy as 'ship them a new one' to weeks of trying to figure out why a device has suddenly started acting out of spec. That means at least 1-2 people working on something for a period of time. That costs money.

> I'd be really surprised if the number was more than 1 in 100.

It is the time you have to put into looking into why did you end up with a defect that is not a defect. The margin on some of these IoT devices is in the couple of bucks range or smaller. You have to dedicate 2 guys for 3 months to figure out what went sideways can eat the entire profit margin of the whole run.

I was just saying I can see why a company would withhold the info. I did not say I agree with it. Especially for things that are out of warrantee. I think companies are using it to basically have no support and basically leave what would be a decent customer hanging and hoping they can covert to another sale. There is no 'one reason' there is a list.
I'm old enough to have owned a lot of paper books at one point, but as a Kindle owner and person who moves every few years, I no longer own any physical books. For fiction and non-fiction prose, I find an e-reader to be strictly superior to the paper version. I've even embraced e-cookbooks. The UX is markedly inferior while cooking, but the convenience of not having to move boxes and boxes of paper around with me is worth it.
Why would one want to to quit X and move to the same kind of platform somewhere else?
I am sure there are rewrites that were necessary or beneficial. But I think it’s fair to say that usually they are a mistake.

And a lot of “bad code” comes from starting to write clean code and then coming across a variety of assumptions that prove incorrect, and real-world considerations that add complexity.
>DEI was so good and righteous idea that it shifted most of the western world to the right more than dozens of islamist terrorist attacks in previous decades.

If by "shifting right" you mean people in the US voted for Trump because of DEI, the numbers don't really add up. Biden beat Trump by 7 million votes in 2020. Trump beat Harris by half that number in 2024. More than that, the Republicans ran the same anti-woke campaign in 2022 and yet the Dems still gained senate and governor seats then. It's not like DEI was any better in 2022 for that narrative to make sense.

There was no major cultural shift. Trump won because of the economy not DEI. Hell, I would wager half the democrats who worked in STEM fields thought DEI was counterproductive from the beginning and they still didn't vote for Trump because of it (e.g., pg). It's been debated around here since the days of that google engineer getting fired for his anti non-merit hiring criteria memo and long before that.

In AOC's district, the same people voted for AOC and Trump. People said "fuck this, I gotta put bread on the table. something's gotta change."
>I think you are confusing capitalism and democracy.

You might think that. But the kind of people who show up to tear down a system from the inside aren't very democratically oriented, even if that's the rhetoric they espouse to rile up the crowds they need to tear it all down.
It’s simple, if you can do a special rain dance that makes you not have to draw back your bottom line, you will do it every day of the week whether you’re a billion dollar corporation or a 500 year old university
It describes an event in which a flood of new users come online and affect the quality of a network.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
Sometimes it's a marketing stunt, but often recycling is more expensive. I mean, recycling a plastic bag is probably more expensive than making one. The unfortunate reality of our financial system is that it often rewards people for doing the wrong thing.
Neither needed they before. Just needed people who could drive to the destination. The ones who can without GPS, will be very much capable to work with it, and when the nav app. goes crazy for whatever reason, they will be still making useful work for the company. Even everyday routes, when they know better, because of experience. So those who can w/o will be more valuable.

Anyway, like any analogy, it has its limits, and trying to base the whole discussion in that analogy is not productive
bluesky and other echochambers are not the solution to censorship. bluesky is the left to the x right. both serving different masters.

The solution is true mesh network with financial incentive to "host" the content. Imagine kinda of like bittorrent seeding where the longer you seed the more you "mine crypto". I'm too dumb to build such a thing, but that is the solution.

A true peer to peer network where all content is hosted and nothing can be brought down. you locally choose to "hide politics", "hide porn", "hide violence" and that's it.

the web as it was intended, free information.
I expected the first comment to be by Sabine. Anyways!
> How can the population afford this?

Industrially mass-produced food is cheap.

> Assad was obviously horrible, but can there be some kind of a middle ground?

Ideally, yes. In practice, you play the cards you’re dealt. (And HTS, irrespective of their origins, are looking like a fair gift horse so far.)
I was channeling /g/ more than Reddit, but sometimes something is so stupid it has to be mocked with matching stupidity.

My point is similar to other high-ranked points on this thread, I just didn't feel like gussying it up.
The UK has some really big tides.

See the river Severn, whos estuary tidal range is 15 metres, and the second highest in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severn_Estuary
In my mind, "gems" is pronounced "games", just to mess with foreigners.
Ask HN: Will the US have the most trouble adapting to UBI in the age of AI?
Moving from the achievement mindset of the US to a life of relaxation and leisure might not be easy.
I don't think leaving tweets up is much of a good idea since they will be fed into grok. Additionally, they made it clear in the TOS that they will sue users for breaking the TOS, so imo it's best to get out of there sooner than later.
Hahaha people here got so upset that there wasn't unity of support for quitting X, that they flagged the post.
that's something i never understood: why do they sell peelers with a movable part? like we are meant to peel in curves and expect the knife to follow the curve beautifully? the fixed ones are easier to use and easier to clean!
Unlocking should require a physical modification, like soldering a jumper or flipping an internal switch requiring disassembly. That would filter out basically all scam victims. If a scammer can teach a complete novice how to do micro soldering, they've earned their pay.
If you are going to have a big box, there is no way to avoid all the solar energy, but when you are cooling on the scale of a skyscraper, your cooling towers are cooling more efficiently than a house air conditioner.

heat pump in suite pumps heat into flowing water pipe, water pipe goes up to the roof, heat transferred through heat exchanger to different water, cooling towers spray a fountain of that water into the air, blow fans across it for evaporative cooling; then that cooler water is collected, sent to transfer more heat back in the same heat exchanger, and the now cooler water is sent down to the suite to come around again. Same system us used in the winter for heating, not with the cooling tower, but with very high temp steam from power plants sent underground to all the buildings

NYC has a smaller carbon footprint per capita than most other places with economic activity.
> Unless you're already established

The second-best time to become established is today.
Congratulations Anexia, well done! Pulling this off means you have experienced leaders and excellent engineers.
The name of the Mitsubishi Uni-ball Jetstream is just a coincidence.
It's not hate but unwillingness to support a guy promoting extreme right wing Nazi parties in Europe. That's a no go in my agenda. The only reason I don't delete my profile is I don't want anyone to use my name.
I think the two biggest natural disaster risks around Chicago are tornados and algal blooms. It's rare anyone thinks about the second one, but imagine having no water from faucets for an extended period.
It seems to be getting rave reviews based on what I've seen, and it has steadily rolled out over more of the product line and moved down in price (first it was only a $1,000 option on their 6K display, now it's a $100 option on the iPads and MacBooks). I suspect it will stay.
Nah, far-right: nazi/maga movement.
> because they are open to great candidates even if they don’t have a role open.

Does this count as a fake job? As there is a job available for the right person.
> Given more than 1 platform, with differences that actually matter (i.e. not pure-Python dependencies), you cannot use a lockfile, unless you specify to build everything from source. Because otherwise a lockfile would specify wheels as exact files with their hashes that were pre-built for one platform and will not work on the others.

What is more likely:

1. Using a lockfile means you cannot use wheels and have to build from source

2. You don’t know what you’re talking about

(When deciding, keep in mind that every single lockfile consuming and producing tool works fine with wheels)
This will eventually shift. There is legitimately very little reason to use X unless you're a Musk-stan. Case in point: I started using twitter regularly during the CA fires & blackouts in 2017. I was amazed at how quickly I could get a read on a situation and actual on the ground facts at near real-time speed.

For the Palisades fire, I'm struggling to make X nearly as useful as it was. There is a lot of random diatribe and speculation but on-the-ground facts just don't appear.

The juice is gone.
"Freedom - the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints"

When the context is "digital devices", it becomes pretty clear what it means. You should be free to use it however you want, without externally imposed restraints.

Locking down the device so much so users cannot run applications they've written themselves without the approval of the company who made it, isn't "freedom" as the required approval from the company breaks the "without externally imposed restraints" part.
This looks like the kind of thing you get given as a cheap branded gift in a conference and it breaks before the conference is over. As soon as you put enough downward force to damage one of the folds or it gets damp, you're heading directly to rip-city.
No I do agree with that! I assume doctors are working in the best interest of their patients. That includes not running arbitrary tests. But I can also imagine a bureaucrat thinking an explanation for each test to be promoting "transparency". (Read: discourage spending as transparency in this case means you're being audited, reflecting that distrust of professionals from non-professionals.)

Not saying it's a good thing! Just that one team has been told the forms are important by another team, so they pitch automating the filling of the form, rather than the obvious solution of: no form.

The patient choice aspect is interesting. These processes becoming a game played by people wanting to take advantage of the system is another aspect where this form-heavy process fails, but a bureaucrat could argue that it still (however badly) discourages overconsumption of the system from patients.

Edit, I should mention: I am Canadian, though we have similar issues with our provincial health systems. If there is a specific British/NHS aspect to this I am missing, that will be why.
Done... like 10 years ago, but I didn't switch to anything. I'd previously used it for connecting with people at conferences and keeping up with stuff in web dev, but I quit because it was simultaneously too addictive with the drip feed of tiny—and in retrospect usually worthless—posts, and I got tired with the accumulation of moral posturing. I didn't even have any spicy opinions at the time, but it was just so gross to continually be bombarded with top 5 reasons I'm not feeling bad enough about subjects that have nothing to do with me or those of the people I'm following; "don't forget all of us in the in-group agreed to add __ to our desc today"
Unless you build in a flood zone (europe has those too BTW) most of the US is not subject to those things.
> What is PG thinking?

My assumption would be that he's doing a performative hard right turn like pretty much every other tech billionaire this week in order to make nice with the incoming lunatic administration.
I don't think there's anything about Bsky that makes it "left wing" or an echo chamber, it's just that the first people to jump ship from Twitter were by and large, on the left of the US political spectrum. If Bsky ends up with hundreds of millions of people on it then it won't be any sort of echo chamber.

For now it's very much dominated by Twitter ex-pats, and that gives it a pretty predictable slant. Unlike Twitter however this isn't being imposed by the owner, it's organic.
> We can't use chemistry to improve it, just to break it or fix it. That alone should be a huge red flag for the reductionist point of view.

Caffeine and theobromine are both commonplace cognitive enhancers, AKA nootropics. There's plenty that aren't available over the counter, too, like amphetamines.

> Pass the turing test should be enough.

LLMs already do that, and it's a problem because it's a fraud opportunity.

> If we had a living human fluent in Linear A, I believe we could decipher it. Machines have us, living humans speaking a living language, to learn.

How is this supposed to be different from what LLMs already do?

> I can. Open the machine and prove me that there are no tiny humans or human pieces inside.

That reads like an LLM — and not even a good one, I mean like the GPT-2 based AIDungeon — wrote it, given there's obviously no tiny human inside a computer.

What did you actually mean? Be specific, be testable.
I just checked this myself and it isn't accurate. The first post was trump, the second was rich people, the third was pigeons, fourth was about bluesky, fifth cheese puns, sixth ken jennings on shirts, seventh cats/maybe wildfires, eighth work really do be like that, ninth us politics, 10th john woo movies.
You actually can use FreeDoom if you want by loading it as a custom IWAD. If you visit the site's landing page (https://doompdf.pages.dev/) you can upload the IWAD file, and then it'll generate a new PDF file (that can even be saved and redistributed).

However, I chose the shareware version since the file size is a lot smaller and it's more recognizable to people.