skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quoting the article:

> It’s shunning time in Madison County, Virginia, where the school board recently banished my novel The Handmaid’s Tale from the shelves of the high-school library.

Note: a school library. A student can go to a regular library and check out this book, if they are really interested.

If you want to see what real book banning looks like, read the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_by_govern...

This involves removing books from public libraries nationwide (not just school libraries of one county), banning of sale, and sometimes criminalizing and prosecuting private possession of the book.

The US is fortunately quite far from such a sorry state.
Back and forth.

Here's what I see. Spend some time with older people now days (disclosure, I am 54, male, and heartsick). Look at what older people watch. Talk to those that are anywhere near MAGA ideas, you'll find that it has nothing to do with an America that is great again. It has everything to do with "make me great/relevant again."

Now go to Wikipedia, pull out a your favorite scripting language/spreadsheet (you're a programmer, because you read HN, right?). Look at the total popular vote, scroll down to the "by age" group. Figure out how many votes each side got in each group (it will only be a relative approximation, because they don't give sub-percentage values). Now do a running total. You'll see very clearly who was winning by age until the older people in the country showed up (in great numbers) to vote. The people who will be here the least long, and have the least to suffer for the consequences have sold out the country in a colossal fashion.

I wonder if history has every created such a strong case for justified generational angst.
German schools open their windows in winter.

It's the classic German Stoßlüften in action.

However, the air outside also has lots of dusts. Opening the windows does nothing for that, but air filtration can potentially help.
What is "cancel culture"?
This is intentional. You, the caller, get a generic http 400 “resource does not exist or are not authorized” response and message. Providing additional information about resource existence or permissions opens an entire category of information disclosure, resource discovery, attribute enumeration, policy enumeration problems.

The IAM admin persona is the one who gets a bunch of additional information. Thats accessible through aws iam policy builder, access logs, etc.

And no, its not feasible to determine if the initial caller is an appropriate iam admin persona and vary the initial response.
I've got very mixed feelings on that.

I'm not entirely sure that someone should be able to come into another country as a non-citizen and go around drumming up support for our foreign enemies. I can tell you no other country on Earth would put up with that.

Whether or not the first amendment applies to non-citizens, especially non-permanent residents is clearly hotly debated. I can see both sides of it.

The almost perfectly clean split across the Federalist/Democratic-Republican line that the founders had on the Alien and Sedition Act I think makes pretty clear that even the founders didn't agree on whether or not it did.
I've been a hater of Wikia/Fandom for so long that it's been nice seeing people finally turn on them in a bigger way in the past few years. I've ran an independent wiki for a pretty long time, and it was amusing to watch the backlash grow over time, and see our humble little community get featured on Indie Wiki Buddy.

The very first wiki I remember garnering a lot of backlash was the Touhou Wiki, quite a long time ago. It was an amusing case because they decided to leave relatively soon after Wikia forced the ad-ridden theme on everyone, but Wikia decided they were too big to leave, banned the admins and appointed new ones. The community revolted and set the wiki on fire, eventually requiring admins to step in and roll back the vandalism.

Since then, they've just gone further and further mask-off regarding how they blatantly abuse their SEO position, extract money from user-generated content, and manipulate teenagers attracted to the perceived prestige of running "the" definitive wiki about some subject they're interested in. It's very depressing. I'm glad that wiki farms make it easy for people to run community wikis, but I'd rather everyone learn how to set up Mediawiki on crappy cPanel shared hosting again than have Fandom be the future. I think the company most responsible to kill them is Google, because their broken-ass search engine is the primary reason why Fandom works. I know that this is a hard problem to solve, but in my mind it's easy: start punishing large-scale SEO abusers like Pinterest and Fandom. It's five fucking years too late to start now, but that timer isn't resetting. Once you cut off their advantage over independent websites, and force each wiki to at least stand out on its own, it will definitely deal a fairly big blow to the machine they've built.

I'm sure it's been pointed out by others in the comments, but rather than BreezeWiki, you might want to consider Indie Wiki Buddy, which will redirect you to independently-ran wikis instead. (Or you could use both. Whatever floats your boat.)

https://getindie.wiki
Sure, and in the sun I might wear a baseball cap or floppy hat when hiking, or in the cold a beanie or a skullcap under a bicycle helmet, all with athletic or casual clothes.

I believe he had a fedora, trenchcoat, and of course a three-piece suit. Whole other world.
They would have probably been better off without a water filter?

Your local utility should send you water that doesn't need further filtering.
How is this possible when The Matrix: Resurrections was the best entry in the whole series? /s

Does anyone know: Did the dispute with Warner Brothers cause the digs against Warner Brothers in the Resurrections script, or vice versa, or were they both caused by something else, or were they unrelated?
Yeah lululemon is your problem there I’m guessing. I just did the reverse. For the last decade most of the clothes I wore came from target and they were ok. I felt like the fits worked for me so I mostly stuck with them.

That said I found some nice small brands and they blow target clothes and all those mall brands out of the water. The mall stuff is often exactly the same as target.

Relwen is my favorite brand right now.
yes thanks, I will add it in color pallete
totally agree, there are a few nice books so really no need to repeat,but one covers new APIs from the last decade will be wonderful
If someone is breaking the law, they should be charged with a crime.

How are we at the point where that statement is a partisan issue?
Going by your logic, pulling funds by govt is wrong but students "facing consequences of actions" by getting expelled is ok?
A decision to eject from a failing F-35B fighter and the betrayal in its wake
Til https://parsonsdesign4.wordpress.com/resources/latch-methods...
> Without the right to say something, there is no legal way to organize or to demand any other right.

Americans don't do this, though. They don't demand better. They accept shitty governance and say "at least I voted". And frankly I don't think they ever will.

So I say, fuck it, let's just all accept that government is shitty and mostly exists to squeeze us for money. We can finally stop acting like it's representative of us. When y'all finally have had enough riots will work just as fine as they did before.
I agree. I've gone down the "make Linux look like Windows 95" path a couple times and while it's a fun yak shave, it's tough to get all the little changes and details right on one system, let alone your friend's system who want to play with the same DE for a day.
It is something I can build a business with, without being transparent about the technical advantage. So perhaps I shouldn't have commented here. But it is a milestone moment, a big milestone after a long haul, and the "What are you working on" subject on this particular month hit me in a celebratory way.

On the business side, things seem to be well lined up.

So my apologies for being indirect. Not trying to be "mysterious".

I just favorited your comment. So at any moment I feel I can be more straightforward I will reply to any comment you make in any other thread. That will be a good moment too.
Thanks for the feedback, johng! I appreciate you trying it out.
Good point about the confetti potentially slowing things down, especially when cycling through games quickly.
I've just pushed an update that adds an option to disable the confetti effect. You'll find a small checkbox next to the main action button at the bottom. Toggling it off will disable the confetti, and the setting should be saved in your browser's localStorage for future visits.

This should help provide that "barebones and quick" option you mentioned for focusing purely on the odds.

Let me know if that works better for you or if you have any other suggestions!
I'm somewhat active in spaces discussing more multimedia in wikimedia.

Usually these discussions stall out because once it gets down to details, nobody agrees on what multimedia/interactivity is actually wanted. Everyone thinks it would be "cool", but when it comes to specifics, nobody really knows. There is a lack of shared vision on what good multimedia in articles look like (beyond what currently exists in terms of puctures and videos). I think it is very much a cultural and vision problem, not a technical problem.

> Wikipedia's budget is about $170 million (based on quick search). I don't think their software has any major updates

That would be pretty untrue. I guess it depends on what you mean by "major", but plenty of commits are happening. Its all open source, you can see the commit log at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/status:merged+-is:wip
(Whether or not the changes have a good vision or are meeting needs, is an entirely different question people can debate about). Regardless we have come a long way from https://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomePage

> And needlessly spend money on conventions.

Contributors are largely volunteers, having major contributors meet and share stories once or twice a year provides a lot of value. Its important not to go overboard, but i think its really important for the smooth operation of wikipedia to have conventions every now and then.
Where in the world did you get that unemployment rate?

And some of the things you're listing are similar in scale while others are orders of magnitude different. A giant list like that is a mess.
Professor here. We did not create it, we responded to administration prioritizing profit over performance and prestige. They passed the decision down to us instructors by threatening our employment if we failed too many students. Since tenure is heavily dependent on student outcomes, giving a student a lower grade than what they think they deserved will almost certainly result in negative feedback, which threatens your tenure. For non-tenured faculty it could result in a contract non-renewal.

I failed a student recently. He did no work for the entire quarter, then insisted I tutor him through all the homework assignments until he passed with an A. I said no, you failed. I was verbally harassed and threatened for weeks by the student, had other staff actively harassed and threatened, heard a member of staff get physically assaulted by the student, and the administration ultimately sided with the student. They came to me and said "You will run a private 1-person classroom with just this student so he can make up the work and his graduation date won't be impacted. Also we won't pay you for this, and we're going to 'cluster' the class so it doesn't show up on your credit load. If you refuse, it may impact the future of your program, and your tenured role."

In other words, I was heavily punished for failing a student by being assigned an extra class for no pay, in such a way that they can avoid paying me more later that year for a course overload, and my job was threatened. Why would I fail a student if this is the outcome?

At this point failing even a single student can lead to loss of employment. This may sound ridiculous, but my college just slashed 30% of its programs, cut a dozen tenured professors (including me), shut down all bachelor's programs, and killed all computer science programs. They cited low enrollment, but they also said "Even if we ran your programs at full capacity we would be losing hundreds of thousands of dollars."

Process that for a second. About a dozen tenured professors are now unemployed because a school is so financially mismanaged that even in maxed classrooms they are losing money. This is the reality at many colleges, and it's about to get worse with the DoE and other funding cuts.

As people in engineering regularly say, when you use KPIs to determine performance and promotions, your workers will maximize those KPIs. Professors are no different when it comes to moving up the career ladder, or achieving employment security.
Hey, audiences have been hungry for that sort of lost work:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortigern_and_Rowena
Be amazed by learning about tail calls in WASM:

https://v8.dev/blog/wasm-tail-call

the key here is that there are new, different opcodes that can be tail call optimized! Because tail call optimizing the old op code would break the spec.
It all makes sense, but is kind of amazing.
As far as I can see nobody is sticking by the F1 students who are being deported.
Exactly. Let's not forget the real attempts at the government's internet censorship of previous administrations. Nobody seemed to care about that then.

Like give me a break. The previous admin took steps towards censoring real information that would be politically harmful to them, and now we're supposed to feel bad about the current admin who is taking productive steps against antagonist agents within our country?

I get that the law in this country is pliable and a nuanced subject but I'd rather deal with the latter issue - where our government is challenging the boundaries of the 1st amendment against our own enemies rather than their own people lol
How does one go about doing that? For that price?

I'd love to give it a go for my family
> Have you seen some of the books that are being removed?

Yes, and most of them do not fit your description in the slightest.
HN is archived by tens of 3rd party DBs (for better or worse) so requesting a full deletion is a step but it won’t scrub everything
A what do they when they don’t like it?

The once who claimed there is a speech police implement speech police and all what the vocal free speech persons do is don’t like it?

Did the address it at the president or do they fear consequences?
How.

How do we determine when something is true or disinformation? That's what good faith pro-social and pro-truth people ask. They talk process, principles, and reasons.
Journalist has all rights to write about it and perhaps mention enough to prove he's not without proof but not reveal as much as he did.

That's reckless.

Repeat - revealing sensitive info even if you come across by accident or someone's mistake is a crime. Esp national ones not just corporate secrets.
Pretty much. We had one lab period and couple of classroom periods in a week. We even wrote java on notebooks! Can't imagine writing java without IDE autocomplete these days, but "back then"(it was just 7 years ago) I was banging out JOptionPanes and JButton event handlers for a selection sort frontend with pen and paper perfect syntax, all the options memorized. Of course, the salary calculator as well (you enter the different components, it subtracts tax and tells you the answer - obviously a simplistic version)
I think raising the third term was largely about pushing Signalgate off the front pages, and of course it worked.
Free speech has been in retreat for years. The previous administration just targeted a different flavor of 'offending speech' and cracked down hard on it.

As a European, I can confirm it’s at least as bad here, if not worse. We’re just gagged by a different set of taboo ideas.

I bought into Trump’s campaign promise to 'restore free speech' — partly because he’d been censored so aggressively himself. I figured he’d get its value. But I didn’t see the Israel exception coming: apparently, Israel and its actions are untouchable, no matter the cost.
> Based on your comment, the effect could be larger as well as smaller.

The reality of any underpowered study could always be “larger as well as smaller”. This statement doesn’t add anything to the conversation.

The mistake is pivoting around poorly structured and underpowered research.

> All research is met on HN by people who know better and will tell you why it's flawed.

This is a misunderstanding. People who know how to read studies will always be aware of the limitations.

There’s a difference between saying “everything is flawed” and pointing out the limitations. Most early research comes with significant limitations like small sample sizes or large cofounders. You have to understand these in conjunction with the results to know how to interpret it.

There’s a cynical approach where people see discussion of limitations, don’t understand it, and instead go into a mode where they think it’s smarter to ignore all criticisms equally because every paper attracts criticisms.

This is just lazy cynicism, though. There are different degrees of criticisms and you have to be able to see the difference between something like a slightly underpowered study, and something like this paper where the authors threw a lot of regressions at a lot of numbers and kind of sort of claimed to have found a trend.
If using Signal to discuss a bombing was done to evade FOIA, how many other cases do American citizens remain unaware of (and probably can never learn about)?
looked at the toc,so similar to tlpi the bible book, and did not have chapters to cover what's new,e.g. cgroups,io_uring,namespaces,ebpf,etc. honestly i lost my interest immediately
Ok, I asked Claude. It was very helpful!

> Someone is trying to make a point about edited interviews without explaining what they believe the edit was and why it's important.

To get someone to better explain their point about edited interviews:

1. Ask directly what specific edit they're referring to.
2. Request time stamps or examples from the interview
3. Ask them to describe what they believe was removed/altered
4. Question what impact they think this edit has on the message
5. Inquire why they find this edit significant
Theres no such thing as a free speech absolutist.

Supposed free speech absolutists demand reversals of bans from platforms for people due to hate speech.

Not 1 is demanding the same for spammers or fraudsters.
Venezuela, known for telling the truth
They deserve that for Matrix Resurrections.
This was my general experience as well. The very best quality education I ever received was in my 7th grade math class, followed closely by my 7th grade English class.

I did have some very excellent university classes (including ones that were so good that I audited them without receiving credit), but I also had a lot that were positively abysmal, taught by professors who were experiencing severe mental health issues (one who'd had a stroke and could no longer comprehend the material, another who was going through a mental break and stopped teaching us altogether, etc.) or extremely stressed grad students who were not fluent in English and spent class time trying to catch up with their PhD workload.

My best university-level education actually came after I graduated and got a job working in a lab at my university. During that time, I worked closely with the professor and grad students, and it was such an amazing learning opportunity that I will never forget for the rest of my life — sadly cut short by the 2008 financial crisis.
> It probably wouldn’t have seemed plausible to them

Or more like there is no solution to this besides telling people to be vigilant about protecting their democracies.
>Inflation...1990 in the US

There are many things this statistic masks. How many households were dual income vs single income over that same time span? This also doesn't take in to account cost of living changes, which I'm confident have risen more than 20%. Sorry in advance if I'm wrong. Inflation erosion, how CPI is calculated to make things look better than they are (too much to get in to), but my point is that statistic is not the holy grail of progress.

>unemployment is lower

Won't argue that one

>life expectancy is higher

As would be expected with 35 years of progress in medicine? Plus, that statistic hides we've actually plateaued and even declined compared to other OECD nations.

>Air pollution... gay marriage is legal

Won't argue with those, though I wonder how much longer the air will be cleaner when the current admin has severely weakened the EPA and clean air/water regulations.

>The living standards...30-40 years.

Are you deriving that from the median real income? Even assuming it's true, why are a growing percentage of american's living paycheck to paycheck?

>Housing affordability is worse...local

That's... a pretty big one... I'd argue it could be greatly helped by federal policy against oh idk, stopping private equity from buying up homes and apartments, severe taxes on 2nd or 3rd properties, unoccupied property, etc.

All I'm saying is, there's a reason average americans aren't pickin up what you are puttin down. I don't think it's just a feeling.
It's the authors choice to make it a current affairs discussion but it being an important constitutional, free speech one as they argue.

When there's two big parties both enjoying power in cycles, pretending that issues started on 21st Jan 2025 is not a clever way of convincing anyone other than the already converted.

As I mentioned, be my guest.
> For their fix, they disabled debug logs

For their quick fix, hopefully not for their final fix.
The right is now at loss because they are the party in power. Yet they try to hang on to their hate of Biden and Hillary and even Obama. But people can see that it doesn't matter how bad previous governments may or may not have been. What matters is how "good" the current government is.
> You can just make it implementation defined

No you can't. Let me repeat again. One very possible implementation is to crash on signed integer overflow (`-ftrapv`). But if it cannot easily detect it, then it must either: a) check every integer add. b) use some less reliable detection method (random sampling, etc).

To be well defined means the implementation will reliably do the same thing. A procedure which sometimes does one thing or another, is not well defined.

> Unsigned integer overflow doesn't have any conditionals either.

That's because there is no detection needed. The instruction set for unsigned integers is designed to do that.

> -fwrapv

Here is the documentation:

> This option instructs the compiler to assume that signed arithmetic overflow of addition, subtraction and multiplication wraps around using twos-complement representation.

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Code-Gen-Options.html

What this means is that if your hardware wraps on signed integer overflow, you can tell GCC that you are perfectly happy with that behavior. Then GCC understands and will handle it just fine.

If your hardware does something else, `fwrapv` will not help you.
The defund police advocacy wasn't really anything of note until George Floyd. You are saying the same movement that caused a reduction is the exact same movement that stopped the reduction? Also George Floyd was in 2020, a few select cities making some minor moves for a few years doesn't make up for decade after decade after decade of rampant expansion of police powers and armaments across the entire nation. I don't see any significant reduction in our prison population despite the consistent drop in crime, a prison population that dwarfs basically most of the rest of the world's prisoner-to-population ratio other than a few small countries that are either notably oppressed or completely politically unstable.