skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm reminded of a lyric from "Mississippi Goddamn."

> Don't tell me, I tell you

> Me and my people just about due

> I've been there so I know

> They keep on saying "Go slow"
the ideal would be no benefits, just cash - and a negative income tax at the lower scales.

catastrophic insurance can be paid by the state.
That sounds hypocritical and deceptive to frame it as supporting being hard on crime in general yet selectively applied
No -- you can't have your cake and eat it too.

You get zero benefits from MAB over A/B if you simply end your A/B test once you've achieved statistical significance and pick the best option. Which is what any efficient A/B test does -- there no reason to have any fixed "testing period" beyond what is needed to achieve statistical significance.

While, to the contrary, the MAB described in the article does not maximize reward -- as I explained in my previous comment. Because the post's version runs indefinitely, it has worse long-term reward because it continues to test inferior options long after they've been proven worse. If you leave it running, you're harming yourself.

And I have no idea what you mean by MAB "generalizing" more. But it doesn't matter if it's worse to begin with.

(Also, it's a huge red flag that the post doesn't even mention statistical significance.)
Most people are killed by someone they know. Due to redlining many minorities live in communities that are, to this day, essentially segregated. Add the disproportionate correlation of violence and poverty, adn you get a volatile cocktail.

You will find it that cities with less redlining have less srong correlation between races of victims and perpetrators than cities that are more strongly, or more recently, redlined.
> You make a new commit every 12 minutes for eight hours?

You only work 8 hours? Your changes are that big? These are bad faith questions.
yeah been off that as long as the news. reddit, HN, github, & usenet are my social now which is funny because only 1 or 2 actual friends probably even know about these sites. i am waiting for aim to make the big come back! I only go on socsh every blue moon for a couple friends that refuse to communicate on anything else and to see pictures of all my cousins and their families -usually around the holidays to spell check their names. haha.
This line of questioning is extremely annoying, and if I can be frank, also sounds very dishonest. You already answered your own question, knowing what it is, but I'll walk you through it -

His core "thesis" or "problem" here is the performative nature of social justice initiatives. He's correct, they often are performative. This does imply, on its face, that some efforts should be done to enact real initiatives that are not performative. I'm sure we can agree there this is what is implied by his statement.

Why then, would a serious author with this problem statement, then proceed to write thousands of words bemoaning the underlying nature of the initiatives themselves (without addressing what about them makes them performative, not even a single time in this essay) or about not being able to say "negro", rather than coming up with even a single conclusion on what must be done instead? I mean, you can just take a random sampling of the comments in this thread, which honestly shocks me it's not been flagged, to see precisely how people with his same viewpoint interpreted it. Lets please not pretend here. I can't exactly get on the phone and ask him what he thinks the answer to this question is - I can only go on a huge volume of discourse that has gone on for many, many years and make some conclusions on my own based on what he spent a very large amount of words complaining about, and shocker, none of them had to do with the ineffectiveness of social justice initiatives or "wokeness" (how he defines it), but rather how it oppresses him.

Does that help?
So many fond memories of this game - it was a really fun blend of railroad sim and economic sim that I haven't really found since. I'll never forget the "ding ding ding" sound that goes off when a train pulls into a station and earns you a bit of cash!
Unbelievable how anti-pg hn has gotten. I don't think what pg is saying is anything new, he's always had the same sentiment around anti-censorship, anti-authoritarian/mob and pro-breaking-the-rules attitude.

It's called "hacker" news for a reason.
Private schools do not play by the same rules. Special education and transportation are a significant cost of public schools that private schools can just ignore.
Extinction is permanently destroying genetic information. An analogy might be spending 100,000,000 years and countless trillions of kJ to train a neural network, and then simply rm -rf the weights.

On the concrete example of corals, scientists are investigating compounds found only in corals that could help with treatment of asthma, cancers, and HIV. This has no value to us? And again, corals. Many mass coral die-offs have occurred over the last several millions of years. Coral species, even sensitive ones, survived without going extinct, because the die offs were relatively slow, taking place over tens of thousands of years. This is not true today, specifically because of the speed and extent of ocean warming and acidification. Many examples like this. It's the speed. Continents moved centimeters per year; temperatures have moved whole degrees in decades.

We have scientific evidence on biosphere stability 1,000 or 100,000 years ago. It was more stable than it is now! It was more stable because we did not have anthropogenic climate change! (among other things, habitat loss, pollution, etc).

People focus on climate change because it is caused obviously and directly by many things we do day to day, like driving and eating red meat.
> And in many cases, e.g. healthcare, it’s unclear why we’re still bundling something into employment that properly should be separate.

This, one million times over.

I read an account describing how things came to be as they are.

Apparently, it all started during WW2.

The Government controlled wages, and so some wages were too high and some too low, and for those set too low, it became difficult to get staff.

To make employment more remunerative, employers began to add benefits on the side - such as health insurance - and these were not taxed, either.

The Government eventually noticed this was happening, and moved to tax such benefits, and discontent with this was so widespread the Government backed off.

So then we end up with health insurance as a non-taxable benefit tacked on to employment.
Hanania mellowed (matured? Sold out?) immensely in the last 10 years. If you are a white supremacist wanting to read him because of coltonv recommendation, be prepared to be disappointed:

https://x.com/RichardHanania/status/1878829377338966310

> One way to understand conservative/liberal differences is to think of conservatives as the people who are intellectually limited and lazy.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/08/richard-hanania-raci...

> “I truly sucked back then,” Hanania admits, confirming that, between 2008 and 2012, he posted pseudonymously on several white-supremacist and misogynistic websites […] He confesses he “had few friends or romantic successes and no real career prospects” at the time and was projecting his “personal unhappiness onto the rest of the world.”
> Is that a good thing?

Is it a bad thing? There are plenty of good public schools in the United States. They typically tend to geographically coincide with places with high average household income and thus lots of funding through property taxes, though that's not the only advantage money gives them.

> Why ought that to be the case?

Because society benefits when all children have at least some education from the age of five to sixteen, if not longer. There were times throughout history (up until relatively recently, actually - think prior to WWII) where there was lots of competition for your educational dollars. The problem was, if you didn't have educational dollars to spend, your kid got no education. And now that there's more urban than rural population in the US, you can't even just tell junior to help you with farm chores. You'll just have youths doing... well, it's hard to tell, but when kids don't have anywhere they have to be or anything they have to do, it usually turns out poorly for them and their communities.

> That's what I do, and the sticker price is less per year than the annual per-student opex of my local school district.

I bet it is. The average child who attends a private school typically comes from a household that has more financial resources, and thus, requires less of the social safety net that is often provided through school districts. These schools are also free to tell more "expensive" students (read: neurodivergent and disabled children) to pound sand when it comes to their needs.
I use my glasses case to raise the back of the computer.
It adds a gap between table and computer. The rubber nobben on the underside of the laptop prevent the glasses case from slipping.
This raises the notebook to a nice angle and the keyboard is still usable for me.
MUJI used to have lots of that (20-25yrs ago). Shelves made from cardboard tubes, etc... You could tell, one bump and it would be destroyed. I think they got rid of most of them.
It looks like a slot machine but features no gambling mechanics. The payout is a result of the symbols you collect through a session, not a function related to a wager placed before spinning. In fact, there is no wager.

It has more in common with something like Slay the Spire than it does Ceasar's Palace.

Any game with a paid lootbox (TF2, Overwatch 2, etc) objectively has more gambling than this game.
The article is about the UK.

It's normal for people working temporary jobs (such as factory or cleaning work) to be paid weekly.
It's looking more and more like it's a matter of survival for the massive number of sites that run Wordpress but don't host with Wordpress.com.
> The more general problem — how to prevent similar outbreaks of aggressively performative moralism — is of course harder.

It would help to be a multi-planetary civilization, because seen from afar it's obvious wokeness, or prudishness or what-have-you is a bad idea.

Most people have antibodies to wokeness in the sense that it's easy to see it's performative. People, especially the internet generation, have finely-tuned BS detectors.

But as PG said, the majority are performing not to be lauded but to avoid being ostracized/canceled/fired.

With some physical and societal distance, say 140 million miles, perhaps that's enough of a barrier to let one society deal with the latest prudishness while the other remains healthy, then switch.
> “freelance” retail assistants

How is that a gig at this point? It's a temp agency. Temp agencies cannot do this in the UK right? A cursory low-effort google returns some laws. [0] I'm sure they have legions of lawyers ready to argue their unique and disruptive business model has never been seen on the british isles before but I have trouble seeing this as anything other than a temp agency.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/employment-agencies-and-businesses
Its interesting how doing something is immediately equated with 'removing not far right' free speech.

The idea is he promotes the talking points that benefit the right and the Republicans. Both personally and in changing the platforms algorithms [1].

There have been reports of people disagreeing with that general 'platform' loosing their blue check marks [2], accounts being disabled, followers dropped [3] and so on to reduce the reach of left/liberal people.

He doesn't need to remove speech he disagrees with, he can drown it and amplify the messages he wants to be heard and significantly control the narrative and discussion that way.

[1]https://eprints.qut.edu.au/253211/1/A_computational_analysis...

[2]https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/elon-musk-accused-...

[3]https://finance.yahoo.com/news/big-twitter-accounts-left-los...
Cognitive impairment isn’t an issue. High temp already impairs cognition—air conditioning can fix excess co2 and excess heat — indoors.

The ocean ph is currently 8.08. At 1000ppm (worst case scenario) the ph drops to 8.03. Disruptive to ecosystems, but not as bad as people think. Changes in heat will be worse.

The other piece— we can do geoengineering with calcium carbonate! That is alkaline.
Isn't there a metric like 80% of the web is WP. Wonder who will be the new provider if WP does fold/problems affect running sites.
Swatting and doxing aren't ideologically-aligned actions, though. They certainly don't have anything in particular to do with "woke".
I think it's related to the perceived centrality of identity in the world. I see this as a natural consequence of individualism, which itself is championed by both modern capitalist and libertarian thinking, to pick two.

As the focus on the individual's happiness, wealth, values (etc.) have become more and more ubiquitous, the need to define oneself becomes more and more important. As this has matured, many systems have build that reinforce it. Representative democracy - one person, one vote, and welfare systems that address indivudual needs, are positive examples.

With this comes also a much stronger need for protecting these identities, and more weight is given to perceived categories, whether they are superficial, like skin colour, or structural, like religion or class.

So, when people talk about wokeness, they are not only trying to define the social contract, but they also aligning with it their identity, which gives a kind of existential urgency. The idea that we might be wrong about our position carries with it a sense of loss of self, which triggers most people.

Just my two cents.
This is an interesting proposition. Have you tested this with the best open LLMs?
I can make an effort to. Meanwhile, you can explain the empty tomb of Jesus similarly.
Nah. This was much later and in full 3D.
And plenty of parents don't.
Why didn't Ada become as popular as Rust? I think I read that Ada compilers were incredibly expensive.
At this point, I’m planning to move away from Wordpress due to the instability and into a regular wiki based site. Unsure of which at the moment, maybe some suggestions? Prefer static file based rather than host a DB.
What is the difference between a “gig worker” and an independent contractor?

Jason Snell, the former editor of Macworld went independent after getting laid off from MacWorld. He purposefully put together streams of income consisting of podcasting, writing articles for different magazines - including MacWorld, writing for his own blog and writing technical books.

He said out of those, because of the initial laws passed in California, it made it harder for him to be what in essence was a gig worker when writing for various websites.

The little time I did spend doing C2C contracting, I also had net 30 payment terms.

Yes I realize it’s different for the gig workers in the article. But the last thing we need is laws that affect all “gig workers” whether they make $10/hour or whether they are making $150/hour.

On that note, I did pay a third party company $10/hour for a short term contract that I had with a former CTO. It would have been too much work on both ends to get me approved to work directly for the company so I became a subcontractor for an established company to make every thing easier even though I found the initial contract.
It's regulated in such a way that it's absolutely allowed to use it to criticize the political opposition, which is why Der Spiegel can not only use it but show it combined with the German flag:

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr...

... but CJ Hopkins is prosecuted repeatedly for using it on the cover of a book that criticized COVID policies (no double jeopardy rule there!)
Quieter, but more people so less service per customer. The 747 top deck was an island of calm. But, the engine noise and fewer toilets plays to the 380 being better overall I think.

Slower boarding and deplaning as well.
I read Future Shock for the first time a few years ago, on about the 50th anniversary of its publication.

One of the strongest impressions I had were that there were TK-count principle topics in the story:

- The psychological impacts of an ever-increasing rate of change and information flow. Largely a dark view of the future, and one that's borne out pretty well.

- Specific technological inventions or trends. Most of these have massively under-performed, with the obvious exception of information technologies, though how that's ultimately manifested is also strongly different from what was foreseen / predicted.

- Social changes. Many of these read as laughably trite ... until I realised how absolutely profound those changes had been. The world of 1970 and of 2020 are remarkably different in gender roles, acceptance of nontraditional sexual orientations, race relations, even relationships of the young and old. I'm not saying "perfect" or "better" or "worse", or even that FS is an especially good treatment of the topic, only that the situation is different. Moreso than the other categories, the book marks a boundary of sorts between and old and new world. We live in the new world, and the old one is all but unrecognisable.

(Those in their 70s or older may well have a more visceral feel of this as they'd lived through that change as adults, though they're rapidly dying out.)
Maybe. I'm skeptical that everyone doing it is doing it so strategically.
My guess is the latter. The Pentium Pro was not heavily marketed to mainstream consumers...and to support my recollection, wikipedia says this:

Despite being advanced for the time, the Pentium Pro's out-of-order register renaming architecture had trouble running 16-bit code and mixed code (8-bit with 16-bit (8/16), or 16-bit with 32-bit (16/32), as using partial registers cause frequent pipeline flushing.[8]

At the time it came out in 1995, a 486/DX2 was still an upper spec for a consumer machine and a Pentium was high end.
Hypothetically speaking, you can still be MitM'ed.
Yeah, I know that now but this hit me under time pressure and caused me muh confusion for a while.
> If you can’t measure productivity, you can’t do your job as an engineering manager.

Why not? You could feel productivity instead, which is also arguably the better approach as it more emotionally appealing to those paying the bills than measurement is. That is how people do it in the real world. Nobody is measuring productivity in this business, even if they want to pretend to themselves that they are.
Fraud is a pretty clearly defined crime. Fact checkers weren't demarking scams and bots.

Bot activity is best handled through system pattern matching, not correcting political cartoons.

You also assume that the people doing the fact checking are better informed or otherwise better people than those with the access to propose and vote on community notes. This is unsubstantiated at best.
I thought that was a statistic about PHP. Though WordPress is almost certainly a significant chunk of that.

Some quick searching seems to indicate that the web is about 79% PHP, and that ~44% of websites are using WordPress.
Nvidia showers Trump with praise as it bashes Biden's new rule
> Mullenweg framed the account deactivations as giving people the push they need to get started [in forking WP]

Ha. IDK buddy, be careful what you wish for.
Mercor AI grew 6,400%
What would it be ? IPX ?

Didn't that have TCP/UDP/IP emulation already in the DOS era ?
I moved to Azure free static hosting. Push a commit and automatically triggers a deployment via Github Actions.

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/use-cases-and-examples/de...
I know what you're trying to say--But also, the (unintentional?) irony makes me chuckle:

"Sure, my group sounds self-righteous, but our view is justifiably superior."

Nobody wins a shouting match.
Books aren't considered special cases, as the prosecutions in Germany for using one on the cover of a book about politics show.

Your hypothetical spray painter could be using the symbol in many different ways and contexts, of course, including criticism or analogy. Whether you'd avoid it or not would probably depend on what the rest of the painting meant.
I genuinely wish them luck and I hope it works.
This is a politically charged discussion but I think it demonstrates some of the problem. Left arguments, just like the right, devolve into a theme of you are with us or a racist. There is no middle ground. I am no longer in the Bay Area but I still remember one of the depressing defining moments of this during the BLM protests. Shop owners would throw up signs that literally would say “We are minority owned, please don’t destroy our shop”. In my mind it’s the wrong way to think about it, does that mean we are giving the ok to destroy non-minority businesses? If you were to ask that question at that time, you would get labeled quite quickly as a racist.

The shame about everything these days is you cannot have a discussion anymore, maybe it never existed. I am not a republican but I also cannot stand the outspoken left shouting over everyone else in CA. Does that mean I am antiwoke?
https://ghost.org/ perhaps?
This story is from the UK where we healthcare is not bundled up with being employed, so it's even more of an outlier.
Huh, it looks very similar. Smaller in size, it fits a phone but otherwise very similar in my opinion.
A notebook would need a much larger and thicker sheet I guess.
Hopefully… geocities.
I'd suspect that there is. That kind of ruins the point of Sonos, though - their appeal was their ability to do a lot of different things, automatically, with just a wifi connection. Having to set up some sort of alternate source of audio means that I really should have just bought a cheaper speaker back when I bought my Sonos products.
Mullenweg is in trouble, WordPress is gonna be fine.

https://gist.github.com/adrienne/aea9dd7ca19c8985157d9c42f7f...
Interesting. But that shouldn't surprise us. "Performative" means you're doing something to be seen, not because it's really "you". Well, when the power shifts, then who it's worth being performative for also shifts. I wonder if that's what we've been seeing in the shifts since November.
Id wager we could do the same with the word "quarter". Whats your point exactly?
I’m not going to buy a knock off good from Aliexpress for a product that I have used everyday for the past two years across over two dozen cities.
I at least write blog mostly for its own sake. I do not even bother checking statistics about page views or such, there are no ads, and I am doing it simply because it makes ( public part of ) my journal have sometimes bit more thoroughly written down notes about things I am doing anyway.
That's sure a lot better variation than "those Other people are just Bad" that seems to be current on both the left and the right currently.
I don't refuse to fly Boeing, I'm observing what choice plays in deciding what to fly. And, like all the other frequent flyers since we're all still here we are not blind to the stats. Vibes aren't facts. But thanks for a rationalist take although I think the table of hull losses tells a more complex story than you think. Especially the Max.

Word salad is normal.
"Maybe a good analogy would be “a runtime assert”."

The first example if found when googling "python invariants" was a BankAccount class that did exactly this

class BankAccount:

"""

A bank account class with a representation invariant: balance is always non-negative.

"""

def __init__(self, initial_balance):

self.balance = initial_balance

assert self.balance >= 0, "Balance cannot be negative"

def deposit(self, amount):

assert amount > 0, "Deposit amount must be positive"

self.balance += amount

def withdraw(self, amount):

assert amount > 0, "Withdrawal amount must be positive"

assert self.balance >= amount, "Insufficient funds"

self.balance -= amount
yeah basically the only reason we have the current system is due to tax preferencing and any attempt at reform (like Obama’s cadillac tax) is opposed by broad interests