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hackrnusr··on Why are so many young men single and sexless?
Hope you're also telling that to all of the folks who are demanding jobs be set aside for them under the ever-increasing number of DEI initiatives that are being rolled out.
hackrnusr··on The widespread layoffs are more because of copycat behavior than cost-cutting
I.e, it's more about protecting compensation levels for executives ...
hackrnusr··on AI-generated content is 'hollow and uninteresting'
That's what happens when you sanitize the output by running it through a DEI filter.

Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame, got canceled last week for exactly this same reason.

hackrnusr··on Scientists pour cold water on UK aviation’s net zero ambitions
Actually, I think it sounds a lot better for the greedy companies that stand to profit from developing this "green" (as in the color of money) technology then for the passengers who'll have to take the hit in higher airfares.
hackrnusr··on MIT Integration Bee
Because they don't know how to have any real fun?
hackrnusr··on Millions of workers still missing as the pandemic recedes. Where did they go?
Maybe the "workers" had become a little too alienated from their labor:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation

hackrnusr··on Parenscript
Is this being actively developed anymore?

Asking because the Nyxt browser apparently depends on it.

hackrnusr··on Dilbert comic strip dropped by US media over creator's racist tirade
Are you claiming that black people are dangerous but that they can be fixed or that black people are not dangerous and so there's nothing to fix?
hackrnusr··on Why are so many young men single and sexless?
Fair enough, but then Scott Adams should have also been given the benefit of the doubt since he is a comic by trade.

Hence I don't agree with the firing, especially since it was the Dilbert Principle that helped me finally understand everything that I needed to know about how corporate America really works.

hackrnusr··on Marginalia Search has received an NLNet grant
It's also the name of a useful Emacs package.
hackrnusr··on Artifact – personalized news feed powered by artificial intelligence
Is it open source?
hackrnusr··on Show HN: Exn – Write and render rich, scriptable, and interactive notes
Why not org-mode?
hackrnusr··on ‘A wake-up call’: Meat production in France under scrutiny amid climate change
We need more inflation in the grocery store meat aisle.

So keep up the good work!

TL;DR: an article written by animal rights activists masquerading as climate change "scientists"

hackrnusr··on Russia’s aggression threatens efforts to protect nature beyond Ukraine
Instead of protecting biodiversity, why not let Darwin's law take its course?

The idea that it is human's responsibility to protect the rest of the natural world strikes me as a bit anthropocentric.

hackrnusr··on BeeWare January 2023 Status Update
Can BeeWare access the full Android API?

In particular, is it powerful enough to develop an accessibility app for Android?

hackrnusr··on Consultants: the real reason it costs so much to build new subways in America
Best quote in the thread.

Thanks for reminding us of that important piece of wisdom.

hackrnusr··on Consultants: the real reason it costs so much to build new subways in America
Or how about increase taxes so that private sector salaries get compressed back down to their public sector counterparts?

That way you'll have more money for even bigger boondoggles.

hackrnusr··on Consultants: the real reason it costs so much to build new subways in America
Folks that graduate from schools like this:

https://foundrycollege.org/about-us/team/

hackrnusr··on Consultants: the real reason it costs so much to build new subways in America
"ability to manage a multi-billion dollar construction project"

Some of them apparently graduate with degrees in "project management" from schools like this:

https://foundrycollege.org/about-us/team/

... so don't overestimate the talent here.

hackrnusr··on Consultants: the real reason it costs so much to build new subways in America
Then what are they using instead ... drones?
hackrnusr··on “Doctorate” of Nursing Practice: the laughingstock of academia and medicine
Did anyone find this article racist?

What percent of HN readers are not sure whether it's okay to be a nurse practitioner?

hackrnusr··on Elon Musk calls US media and schools ‘racist against whites and Asians’
The article you reference is a very succinct explanation of why the ideology that it espouses is complete nonsense.

If a purple-skinned person kills a green-skinned one simply because she is green-skinned, that's skin color-based racism plain and simple.

Invoking any "systemic power imbalances" that might be in play here is simply a red-colored herring.

hackrnusr··on Why are so many young men single and sexless?
A recent Rasmussen poll claims that almost half of blacks are not sure that it is okay to be white.

Have to wonder then what percent of women are not sure that is okay to be male, and if this has anything to do with the current "state of our unions" as discussed in the article.

hackrnusr··on “Comfort Bags” for children in case of school shooter lockdown
Had no idea that some states still allow this form of discipline:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5766273/

Wonder if a belt would be more effective than a paddle though.

hackrnusr··on Show HN: Dak – a Lisp-like language that transpiles to JavaScript
Looks interesting. I hope to start using an s-expression based version of javascript after I get more familiar with the latter.

Maybe you also want to consider comparing Dak to other attempts in this direction in order to help generate more interest in your work:

https://github.com/anko/eslisp/blob/master/doc/comparison-to...

hackrnusr··on Google killing its coding competitions
Wonder if the competitions eventually came to be seen by upper-level management as an obstacle in the way of Google achieving its DEI goals.

Here's to hoping that we'll see more 'collaborations' in the future.

hackrnusr··on Anthropic's AI Safety Dataset Contains Racism and Political Bias
Many people's brains contain racism and political bias too.
hackrnusr··on Newspapers Drop ‘Dilbert’ After Cartoonist Calls Black Americans ‘Hate Group’
Does being anti-gay marriage make the Catholic Church a 'hate group' too?

Wonder who's going to be next.

hackrnusr··on Show HN: RunAfter runs a command after a process ended
This can be accomplished without too much effort in Autohotkey as well.

https://www.autohotkey.com/ (open source)

hackrnusr··on Pulsar – A Community-Led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor
I personally prefer sticking with an s-expression based language, but apparently not everyone agrees:

https://emacs-ng.github.io/emacs-ng/js/getting-started/

Maybe this project will help emacs move into the browser someday.

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