skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Steve Albini captured this perfectly in an essay to The Baffler called "Commodify your Dissent". I highly recommend it, as it described the commodification of subculture that started in the 80's and really swallowed everything in the 1990's (in the USA at least);

Here's the book:

https://store.thebaffler.com/products/commodify-your-dissent

One of his examples is that music and clothing companies realized there was a market for things like T-Shirts with Anarchy symbols on them. This stuff didn't exist at scale in the 1970's, you needed to know someone with a silk screen, or live in a city like Chicago or San Fran that had the first wave of non-conformists. But 30 years later you could walk into a mall and come out looking like you had a personality even though you just bought it.

What's really funny, watch "Dogtown and Z-boys", a movie about the rise of skateboarding with lots of footage from the 1970's. The first "tricks" they do will make you say, "What? Where's the trick? He just bounced on his board", and then compare it with today's batshit insane achievements. Skateboarding was peak commodified in the late 1980's (Thrasher magazine helped) early 1990's, but in the 1960's it was ... a simpler time and the outcasts looked like normal kids having fun compared to today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogtown_and_Z-Boys

You can see how something goes from a "weird kid activity" to "every kid does it".

Like green mohawks on toddlers in the early 2000's. Edgy in 1970's, preschool in 2010.

Man, I'm showing my age. :|
And from people doing the same I got signals that it is clearly stating that china is authoritative regime and does properly describe it.

Got mixed signals about this.

Namely only if I run myself the 671B, won't be able to trust any news about it.
I feel like people would sue the city if they had to walk more than a minute to dump out their trash in NYC. I was there for a few months when the trash bins were being tested out, and seeing people complain about it was… interesting?
That's true of literally every single political movement in existence.
100%. Learning is effort. Exercising is effort. Getting better at anything is effort. You simply can't skip the practice that's the reality. If you want to *learn* something from scratch AI will only help with answers but you still need to put the time in to understand it.
What the parent poster saying boils down to "They have money so they deserve to be robbed." Funny to hear in an industry where most members get paid multiples of the median wage.
Its not going to kill us all, it's only going to make us all very unhappy.
If they pass step 2, the first technical interview is to extend the solution to add/modify features.
> The reason this does not happen is because everyone has a gun. Everyone knows I have a gun. If I see you coming on my property, I WILL shoot you. You don't know if the first shot will be a warning shot, birdshot, buckshot, or a 5.56×45mm NATO. You might get lucky and I might not spot you. Or you might be crippled for life. Without guns, crime is free. With guns, crime doesn't pay.

Your perceived safety might be higher because you have a gun. This absolutely does not correlate with reality, extensive literature has looked at the perceived/real safety measure. Very rich resource linking peer reviewed research: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/debunking-the-guns-...

Anchoring it to your reality though, have you ever shot anyone invading your property with your gun to act as counterfactual? How many people in your area shot invaders? What about accidents and misuse? I do not mean to minimize your experience and how safe you must feel, but it would be naive to close a serious matter like this with just your perception.
There is plenty of space, but most of it is taken up by individuals’ cars.
I expressed the same idea here not too long - the value of any one individual paper is exactly 0.0 - and was downvoted by it, but I believe this is almost the second thing that you learn after you publish, and what seems to confuse the "masses" the most.

You (as a mortal, human being) are not going to be able to extract any knowledge whatsoever from an academic article. They are _only_ of value for (a) the authors, (b) people/entities who have the means to reproduce/validate/disprove the results.

The system fails when people who can't really verify use the results presented. Which happens frequently... (e.g. the news)
> don't demand society bends backwards for them

clown comment from the start. utterly delusional bullshit. go on, what demands are trans people making of "society" other than "leave us the hell alone".

>. They don't have a history of, funny enough, "spreading lies, fear and hatred" like trans advocacy does either.

just outright making shit up, cool.
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Yo rocky, watch me pull a massacre outta my pants...

aaaaa-gaaaain????
Parking spots that currently house individuals’s cars could be used for dumpsters instead.
> Can people sue, and seek punitive damages large enough to be punitive to a trillion-dollar company?

If they can, should they be able to? If I run a website I think I should be allowed to decide what content is on there, and taking space in my DB is not a human right. I should be able to just rm -rf / without asking permission. I would be an asshole, but I'm paying the bills and I decide what my site is. I shouldn't even need a TOS that states that I can, I shouldn't have to keep promises I've never made.

The problem here is using YouTube and Google products that are known for these kinds of shutdowns, with no way to get in touch with a human. They are known to censor and remove access to truths they disagree with, and those truths are subject to change.

Instead of trying to change companies we don't support, we should help companies we do support get the traction they need. Educate people and de-google.
My 13 year old son's Youtube account (not just channel) was banned without explanation or recourse. Multiple appeals resulted only in generic "stay in the corner and reflect on what you've done" replies but no indication of what he did wrong.

Even if he did upload something questionable, or his account was hacked or whatever the case may be, why ban his paid Youtube Premium account and not just the channel? Why not share the so-called questionable content with the parent so I can help him avoid another strike in future?

Even if opening another Gmail account is trivial, the hassle of setting up Google Family, Youtube Premium, Fortnite, Steam and every other account linked to his Gmail address is a massive pain.

Not sure where I'm going with this other than Google doesn't seem to care about paying customers.
Even more depressingly these works come to be used as a sort of handbook. Ostensibly Snow Crash is dystopian literature, but tech bros liked it and its author even has been co-opted as a "futurist" by Blue Origin. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash
A decorator is run at compile time and it’s output replaces the decorated function. The new replaced function could then have a jit at runtime. I don’t know if that’s what’s happening, but using a decorator doesn’t mean it cant also be a jit.
To note, the original emoji set was half funky and didn't pretend to represent anything political. That's where French oversea depts flags ( Martinique, St Pierre et Miquelon etc.) or UK flags (england, wales etc) are included even as those are not countries.

I think we're taking emoji way too seriously in average. Perhaps we should start including popular flag propositions that got shut down by the officials (like the Australian flag redesign contest) just to make it clear that emoji are just words and nothing more.
I sort of disagree, as we've seen a significant increase in small scope tools like the FlipperZero, Arduinos, and Raspberry Pis. Each one has a slew of shields/extensions/whatever that subculture calls their plug and play option.

That isn't to say the groups are mindless sheep or naturally resistant; just pointing out that the space does have some commercialization happening.
Capitalism absorbs everything.

Just look at the anarchism symbol. It has been turned into a fashion element for edgy teenagers. Even a brand.

https://www.acupuncture1993.com/
I guess there are no homeless or unemployed people in NYC who could be mobilized to work on the problem.

Humans struggle in urban environments to resolve problems because “someone else should”.
man, fuck this site, I forgot how many transphobes there are here with their heads up their asses.

I want to know if you downvoted with zero consideration, or if you looked it up and then downvoted me to assist in your delusional denial.
>It’s very hard to revive a town or city when the tax base is way down. I thought Detroit was going to succeed but they simply have too much ground to manage with their revenue. And there isn’t a way to shrink a shrinking city.

That's one way to look at it. The problems of decades of urban decay make these places unattractive to outsiders, so it's a catch-22.
The volume gets pretty intimidating; for Manhattan, you're talking around 140 cubic yards of garbage per block per week [0.1 yard / person, 1400 people / block], which would be ~4 of the 40-yard dumpsters (the 8 x 8 x 22' ones you'll see outside construction sites, roll-on/off trucks) per block.

That they're able to collect that much garbage anyway means it's not an unsolvable problem, but going from using that much space once a week, in the form of piles of garbage on garbage day [with the remainder of the time it being scattered in smaller piles in buildings' garbage rooms], to 24/7, means you're losing like 12 parking spots per block, or like half a building lot per block, if you're storing them off the street.
That’s a facetious reply and you know it. Agreeing not to say certain things is practically a universal requirement of employment, for example, to preserve trade secrets. And indentured servitude is illegal.

Cut it out.
Where is the state stored? What if I have 5 copies of my service now, and 3 later. What happens to the "embedded state"? Was it on the container? Did it just evaporate? Was it on a volume? Is it stuck in limbo? Even if it was put into s3 it would be stuck in limbo.
You'll get in a failing project with fresh eyes. You'll probably spot a lot problems that people in the project can't see as fishes don't the water. Go for the low hanging fruits and the problems that are a better match for your abilities. Don't try to be a hero, just to improve the situation.

If you are in your twenties, 2 years may look like a lot of time (10% of your life), but as a gray haired software developer, let me tell you that it a very small time. Its boring to work with unsexy technologies, and bad for job satisfaction, but it is interesting to try to understand the qualities of other technologies. In software development we reinvent everything each 10 years.
OpenAI is not relevant in a world where DeepSeek is open source.
Maybe not but even spinlocks logically contend this way. For example the Go and Abseil mutex libraries, which are similar, account cycles spun toward contention statistics.
> Why spend 2-10x as much to live in one of four coastal metros

I think you answered your own question: it’s not (entirely) an economic decision. Weather, culture, nature, civic amenities. There’s a lot in life that money can’t buy. Sure I could own a McMansion on a palatial plot of prairie, but what if the square footage of my house and acreage of my yard isn’t what’s important to me?
Many Americans no longer believe it is taboo to salute him.
"Minimum Legal operation" should probably be the target for many government programs.
It’s part of a cheeky joke. There’s an adage that if you really need to find a correct answer, go online and confidently give the wrong answer. More people will jump on to tell you you’re wrong than would answer the question if you asked.

That’s called Cunningham’s law. The joke (which is actually quite funny) is that GP gave the wrong name for it and proved it.

It wasn’t clear and I understand the confusion but welcome into the joke, my friend. :)
That's a nice story, and completely irrelevant. Different orgs scale different ways, and ultimately hiring is done at the team level. You have a vacancy or need on a team to fill. Big org or small org, the situation is the same.
Here in İstanbul we don't have a rat problem thanks to the huge numbers of cats in the city.
Room would have to be found.

At this point, even massive dumpsters on the sidewalk would be an improvement.
It is indeed a cool idea, but it is likely completely wrong.

For life, it is not enough for the ambient temperature at the surface of a planet to be acceptable.

For life to appear, it is necessary that the interior of the planet is much hotter than the surface, so that this thermal non-equilibrium will be converted into chemical non-equilibrium by volcanism.

When the universe had cooled to a habitable temperature after the Big Bang, if any celestial bodies existed they were in thermal equilibrium, so they could not provide any energy for the appearance of life.

The internal heat of a planet normally has 2 sources, the radioactive decay of heavy elements that have been produced only in catastrophic events that have happened late in the history of Universe, e.g. supernova explosions or neutron star impacts, and the residual heat produced from collisions with other planets.

For satellites close to big planets or for planets close to stars there may be also heat produced by tidal deformations.

Such sources of heat are unlikely to have existed in the early Universe, and even supposing that collisions could have existed, in that case the environment with a life-enabling temperature would not have been correlated with the epoch when the entire Universe had a temperature that now is suitable for life.

Moreover life cannot appear without chemical elements up to the iron-cobalt-nickel group, which are the chemical catalysts on which life depends as much as on the structural elements HCNOS.

The iron group elements are generated only late in the lifetime of a star, so life can appear only in celestial bodies that recycle matter from explosions of the first generation stars, billions of years after the Big Bang and long after the Universe had cooled.
> I've seen reported research bounce back and forth on this over the years. Most recent claim I recall is that neither actually does much directly, with exercise being more critical than diet because it helps compensate for the body oversupplying energy to e.g. the immune system.

Hah, I've understood what I think is the same study you refer to as exactly that exercise does not help because people who've walked 60km a day regularly did not get "sick" because in people who did not "exercise" that much, excess energy was instead used on the immune system responding too aggressively when it didn't need to — basically, you'll use the same energy, just for different purposes. Perhaps I am mixing up the studies or my interpretation is wrong.

And there are certainly confounding factors to one "controlling" their food intake, but my point is that it's not really random with a "40% chance" of you eating so much to become obese.

Also note that restoring the equilibrium (healthy weight, whatever that's defined to be) is more prone to the factors you bring up, than maintaining it once there — as in, rarely people become obese and continue becoming more and more obese, they do reach a certain equilibrium but then have a hard time going through food/energy deficiency due to all the heavy adaptations the body and mind do to us.

And yes, those in "nightmare mode" have their own struggles, and because of such focus on obesity, they are pretty much disregarded in any medical research.

My "adaptation" for keeping a pretty healthy weight is that I am lazy to prepare food for myself, and then it only comes down to not having too many snacks in the house — trickier with kids, esp if I am skipping a family meal (I'll prepare enough food for them, so again, need to try not to eat the left-overs :D). So I am fully cognizant that it's not the same for everyone, but it's still definitely not "40% chance" — it's a clear abuse of the statistical language.
Why nations are looking offshore to decarbonize their grids
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Does anyone know of alternatives to reddit.com and/or news.ycombinator.com?
I caught a podcast the other day, telling the story of a plane crash that hinged on the ambiguity of what the word "clear" meant. One of the fixes was to alter the language, so that they'd only use the word "clear" when things actually were clear. They wouldn't say things like "proceed when it's clear", just in case they mis-heard.

https://timharford.com/2025/01/cautionary-tales-frozen-in-a-...

I'm probably not describing it very accurately, but that's the gist. And it sounds as if a similar error occurred here. I'm a little surprised that such ambiguities would still exist after all this time.
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War with Canada would end up with nukes, French ones, blowing up in US.
I think it's important to distinguish Acts which individuals perform from the culture around those Acts.

Commodification of a subculture is spoken about as if it is a binary a purity test but that isn't reflective of reality. You can pay $500 to watch some aged punk rockers perform in an arena, but that doesn't mean that there isn't an illegal Warehouse show going on at the same time in the same city.
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Rehearsing how to teach something is not a bad thing.

And I'm sure you're going to get different questions about different aspects of the things you're trying to teach from different interviewers. The wonderful thing about this is that it models trying to teach a concept to a fellow coworker. How you handle the questions during the teaching time says a lot about the candidate.
I would rather a JIT just built into the reference implementation. a JIT would help way more programs than removing the GIL but everyone thinks the GIL affects them for some reason.
Same tip here. We did this with Chicory: https://github.com/dylibso/chicory

I'd follow on that, the earlier you can get this test-suite running the better for the iteration speed and correctness of your project.

It took a bit of time to make everything work, but once we did, we very quickly got to the point of running anything. The test-suite is certainly incomplete but gets you 95% there: https://github.com/WebAssembly/testsuite
I don't get to Detroit much but do live in another rust belt town in Michigan and things do seem to be looking up a bit. There is noticeable investment downtown and property values in the city limits (as opposed to the surrounding white flight townships) are rising for basically the first time in my life (though another way to say this is that housing is becoming less affordable).

There is still a long way to go though, and while I moved back from Austin once my job went remote during COVID, none of the other bourgeois high achievers from my public magnet school have done so -- as you'd expect they are all in NYC, Chicago, LA, Atlanta, etc. Brain drain is a real problem and WFH doesn't really seem to be helping.

I don't think people outside the Midwest understand what a disaster the last ~50 years have been for the industrial heartland. I don't know what the answer is, but even if it's whatever is happening in Detroit, it will be decades before these cities feel anything like whole.
This just in: huge country has a pluralistic cultural identity
> Also, the core of systemd is not even particularly big. People often mix into completely optional modules

So how "optional" are those modules in practice -- how many systems run just the init core of systemd and not the whole shebang?

> that run under the wider systemd project, but that's a false conclusion that "systemd eats the world".

Isn't the very fact that there is what you call a "wider systemd project" at least a fairly good indication that systemd indeed is attempting to "eat the [Linux] world"?
At the same time "know your location" notification is less it seems to ask (ask lawyers), also portals
An SD card removed after boot is not mounted at all.

There is nothing in the slot to "fail", for whatever alleged reason.
Yes. It supports group chat
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we are doing in person interviews, I just interviewed someone a few days ago that was VERY CLEARLY using chatGPT audio to cheat. You could see his eyes jumping from word to word and the things he was saying was clearly gpt output.

Its a sad world out there these days.
Well let me throw stuff into the fire:

The only real subculture is addiction, those people literally die in that culture.
thank you for your service.

> no one in academic publishing gets paid anything

How come none of those crypto and or VC bros are closing in on this issue? Better and more peer-reviewed research means more areas to raise economically viable ideas in and so the gravitational pull would get stronger in coming generations.

And those chain-guys talk a lot about trust, verification, decentralization, (proof of work) and so on ...

It's a "boring niche" that needs some ruckus, if you ask me.
There's a major issue in American cities that is unmentionable in polite society: the so-called Curley Effect [0], named after a Boston politician who drove the old Boston Brahmins out of their city by taxing them out of town and pandering to Irish immigrants, making the city as a whole poorer. It turns out that politics is not so straightforward as to reward politicians who improve their cities: instead, a politician can leverage group (ethnic, racial, whatever) differences to reward supporters with largesse designed to render them dependent on the politician, while driving out those who, by nature of their independence, could oppose the politician. In effect, there is a substantial likelihood that American cities decay because politicians consolidate power through the kinds of high taxes and poor services that drive away high earners.

WFH workers are very independent: they could move to a city or from it with no regard for the job market. That makes them prime targets for eliminating from a city under the Curley effect.

[0] https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/shleifer/files/curley_effe...
When will the woke nonsense stop. /s
> So why not use Windows PCs?

If "the operating system doesn't matter", there's this thing called Linux. You can still buy Dell computers and have their enterprise support, and run RedHat or whatever, and have their enterprise support.

So, other than habit, why should Windows be the default?
Honestly I would be happy to be able to keep doing technical IC work. At my current company they keep trying to talk me into switching to the manager track and I can't think of any worse punishment and keep saying no :-)
That is at odds with the fact the article says they are using bins and picking them up 6 days a week, I don't see any union complaint here?
> Is it the british flag?

obviously the British flag is for the least controversial option, Ulster Scots.