skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just news. I cut out mainstream media several years ago, and noted a definite improvement in my psychological well-being.

As of the end of last year, I stopped engaging in mainstream social media. So much better.

I still keep a Facebook account for Messenger and Events, but don't post, read timelines, or participate.

Not only do I have more time to read books and learn new things -- made pita bread from scratch for the first time this week -- but I am in general, notably happier and more focused.

I suspect that information hygiene is going to be one of the great underrated skills of the digital age.

Hacker News is an exception that I indulge in maybe once a week or two -- today's the day! -- as most of what ends up on here is worthwhile, and the moderation team has done an excellent job of keeping the signal-to-noise ratio high.

Quora also tends to be good, between Be Nice Be Respectful (BNBR), and the Real Name policy, although they recently went downhill by interleaving the standard cesspool that is mainstream news in the Quora feed.

Reddit... there are a few gold nuggets (/r/writingprompts), but overall it's just a crapfest.
So, only the wealthy should have kids? Because if you factor everything in that we "should" be doing for kids, only the wealthy could afford it.

Seriously, why don't we leave the decision of who should be allowed to have kids out of the conversation and we as a society buck up and help take care of the ones who need help?
Before programming, you can start them as young as 4-5 on touch typing, depending upon the individual child’s manual dexterity development. Then the programming is not so obscured by the mechanics of typing.
If being happy is your ultimate life goal then it's probably right. Although the quest for happiness should not be the only thing we work for. Personally I think this is a very selfish way of thinking.
Being informed and capable of logical thinking considering your environment is equally important. That said, we should seek for good quality news and I agree with the article on this point about investigation journalism. But this is like research, it is essential, has a cost and not all the time succeeds.

As a citizen it's a duty to be well informed so we can participate in democracy efficiently (Quoting Greek philosophers here).
That is always the question asked. They would argue that things could be voluntarily self organized, instead of structured in coercive heirarchies.

In other words, they would say that people who are capable of being doctors should provide medical care, and organize themselves in a way to make sure that care gets provided sensibly. When potholes need fixing the community should meet and figure out how to get it done. They believe we can do all of these things with out needing an organized state that gets to dictate anything, money to incentivize, or police as coercive enforcement.

I'm sure I'm butchering it a bit. It might not be quite that simple, but it's along those lines.

And yes, it's idealistic as hell. That said, I know a lot of anarchist activists and damn, do those guys know how to get shit done.
I think some sort of freemium would be the way to go.
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From the article:

“There can be no ethical services provided by the government because they are facilitated through the power of the gun,” writes PARC, presumably while flipping the bird like in the top photo. “Don’t get us wrong, we believe that many of these services are crucial for society, like healthcare, education, and maintained roadways, but we believe that the way to achieve access for all is by deconstructing the state and capitalism, as well as other coercive hierarchies that exist in our society. It is this driving philosophy that motivates our actions, not only to fix the potholes, but to take power back from the state, into the hands of the people.”
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While the marketing fuzz might have the tone of self driving car, I doubt the legal material in a Tesla model S as it relates to 'autopilot' has such language - its advanced steering assist and cruise control, its not an entirely autonomous car - but its marketed as an autonomous car.

Functionality that can _most_ of the time drive itself without human intervention and occasionally drives itself into a divider on the highway seems like a callous disregard for human life & how such functionality will be used.

Sure, everything is avoidable, if there's some expectation it needs to be avoided.

The whole point of autopilot is to avoid focusing on the road all of the time. So setting up circumstances under which humans perceive the functionality (autopilot) behaving as expected most of the time, then its highly likely they'll treat it as such & will succumb to a false sense of security.

My point: when a feature is life threatening your marketing fluff shouldn't deviate significantly from your legal language.
There’s a theory out there that a penny on a rail can derail a train. You wouldn’t think people would do such a thing, with such disastrous consequences... but they do. Thousands of times a year.

Actually derailing a train takes serious effort; but people still try constantly. Derailing a Tesla seems somewhat easier, so I guess we’ll see.
It would have been nice to be a passenger on an old-style post mail boats, such as http://rms-st-helena.com/. Alas it made its last voyage to St. Helena earlier this year.
The $100 price and and the effect on battery usage are the limiting factors. These things have to be rechargeable with cheap solar arrays and/or a hand crank.
That is relatively peaceful compared to a world war.
Those are OLPC "laptops", very cheap hardware and open source software (Sugar interface). They have a large resolution, and I think are resistive touch screens as well. Is it as productive as a full-blown MBP? Of course not. But when I was a kid, we didn't have portable computers like these at all. We didn't even have cellphones. I had a Super Mario Watch with Tetris on it. That was mindblowing. And "nerdy". And small. And awkward to use while on wrist.
Thanks, that's appreciated!

It's not such a huge pivot. The "one hostname" was checking for interest in this area and it worked well. Putting stuff under a single hostname seems to be something people want to do.

At its core, the previous product was a flexible, globally distributed, load balancer. We built all these middleware, features we wanted and people might also want. In the end it was untenable: supporting such a large variety of small building blocks was going to be hard. Building new middleware all the time was also becoming a pain, changes were required in multiple components for each middleware.

This new "edge app" product gives the same flexibility, but puts the power (and burden) into the developer's hands. You could build our entire previous product on this new platform.

Note: https://onehostname.com still exists and runs on our new platform. However, the article it points to is for the old product. The source for it is available here: https://github.com/superfly/onehostname
My blog uses Postleaf, hosted on GKE.

https://stephenmann.io
It's simply "you touch it, you (might) own it". The same principle applies, for example, to first aid, which is why "Good Samaritan" laws exist shielding you from liability. I generally sympathise with your point of view, because I really don't know how you can actually make a pothole worse by attempting to fix it. But if someone can make such a case ("they fixed it with road-coloured cardboard paper and I didn't see the hole below"), then yeah, they are liable.

The city is just giving advice in this case. If someone where to harmed by one of these fixed potholes, the lawsuit would be between that person and these "pothole vigilantes".
This is yet another platform solution. The problem with platform solutions is that they still present one and only one choice of software.

Decentralized systems can only take off if they are built around standardized protocols - this is why email works. The choice of smtp servers to run, email clients to choose from, that's what's making it resilient.

Ideas like ActivityPub, webmentions, microsub, micropub, while not strictly protocols - all on top of HTTP - could allow us to build real decentralisation, with the weapon of choice on platform, language, client - this is what's truly needed.

Most of the platforms like Diaspora, Friendica, Mastodon, can, could, or already have adopted some of these, thus making a good step towards true federation, when anything can talk to anything.

EDIT ... but the emphasis right now should be on the glue, the protocols connecting them, not just only the software implementing it.
It is like fitness. One just hates it when it aches all over the place and then quits. Or keeps on moving through the pain/grind and grow a lot in all kinds of ways.

And saying that VA or VW give a better user experience when coding vs Pharo, I beg to differ.
And the follow-up question is, how much do they think it's important relative to other things?
I've seen how potholes are fixed, it's not rocket science, plop some material in, Pat it down with a shovel, let the traffic smooth it out.
a) Don't use telegram. At least for crypto it's an utter cesspool of maniac mods on a power trip while no one who is really from the company is ever there.
b) FWIW, my crypterium email never got any spam.
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Social is an adjective. I will die on this hill.
They are provided by the government now, but do they have to be? An anarchist would say "no".

Much as been written about the organization of anti-capitalist anarchist societies. One work on that is An Anarchist FAQ[1], but beware that like any other political group - an especially on the left - there will certainly be other anarchists decrying that text as nonsense and false anarchism and such.

[1] https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/the-anarchist-faq-ed...
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Nah, these days, you can't always be sure that someone's running a grift. The internet sure as hell makes it easy and approaching $0 to scam.

And being cranky as well, I get it. But this is legit.
> If a country like the USA can have its elections manipulated, how vulnerable might smaller democracies be?

This has to be a joke, right?
The USA has been responsible for undermining democracy all over the world more than any other country.

This is a just a partial list that we are aware of.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

It is also implicated (though not directly proved), that USA was responsible for Arab spring.

https://www.quora.com/Was-the-USA-behind-the-Arab-Spring-upr...
I have three children and they all have a OLPC laptop. They are designed for children 6-15 it is easy to forget how physically small people in this age group can be. I think a larger screen would make it more difficult to carry and would result in more broken (dropped) laptops.
How many minutes are there in a day?
Not having a "soul" seems like a poor reason to rejoice in the failure of such an affordable and efficient home, especially considering how many people live in "cookie cutter" houses, bland apartments, not to mention outrageous prices, and the effect on the environment of building such inefficient homes.

"The severest blow of all was that both the national electricians and plumber's organizations said they would have to be paid to take apart all the prefabricated and pre-installed wiring and plumbing, and put it together again, else they would not connect the otherwise "ready to live in" house to the town's or city's electrical lines and water mains. They held exclusively the official license to do this by long-time politically enacted laws."

-Fuller
There isn't just one well-defined crack. Where the plates are separating there is a whole zone of material that is being pulled apart and cracking open. The current crack is just one of many many fissures in the rift zone. And the individual fissures are jagged and ziggy-zaggy, so even if they had clean sidewalls you still couldn't see straight down to the bottom.

Also, the crack is not filled in all the way to (near) the top. There are gaps and voids all the way down. The "bottom" that you see is just the first filled-in part. If you dug down you'd probably find more gaps. (I'm not 100% sure about this. I know about the mechanics of slip-strike faults because I live in California within walking distance of the San Andreas, but the African rift is different so I could be wrong about some of these details.)
I feel like USB-C is on the rise. Nintendo Switch uses it and there's a whole bunch of new android phones starting to use come with it. I bet in a year or two, most new devices (e-book readers, phones, tablets) are going to be USB-C, probably with Apple (ironically) being the only exception. It's neat to be able to charge my Switch from my MacBook charger and vice versa (though the Switch charger barely charges the MacBook)

I don't mind so much being part of the forefront here. It's a pain to dongle, but that's the price of progress, dammit!
It would appear that a large part of the problem is the person's finances are in such bad order, they cannot afford to buy the diapers in bulk. Could the local church or community organisation not buy the nappies in the bulk and then sell them at the lowest item price possible ?

When in such poverty (and potentially from a less educated background) I know finding solutions is difficult. But this is where community should help. Having a baby is super expensive and super stressful, but there are some things which can help e.g. consider cloth diapers, encourage breastfeeding to avoid formula costs.

I don't know how much support someone like this gets. But I guess not enough.
Dabbling is easy.

Doing serious work is demanding.

But so is serious work in any environment.
They are currently providing one of the services that the municipal government is expected to provide. Presumably, they would like to expand that and provide the rest using the same volunteer model.
We used a combination of disposable and cloth diapers. Disposables for daycare or when not at home, and cloth for when at home. And this saved us massive massive amounts of money. You buy a couple dozen cloth diapers for $40, and then it is $.50/day for an extra load of laundry. My son still has his cloth diapers as rags he plays with and he's been potty trained for years.

But on weekends and evenings, cloth diapers were basically free. And word of warning, they are disgusting to shake into the toilet before throwing into the washing machine with a cap of bleach, but you get over that.
Because the color of your skin matters. African American babies are cheaper to adopt but stay in the system longer because they are harder to place in adoptive homes.
I've seen the converse by using grafitti and drawing obnoxious penises around potholes.

Sure, it defaces public property, but it's with the goal that the potholes will be taken care of quicker. Unsure how true that is in practice.
Honestly it might have just been a first impression tripup. When you first visit the site it looks extremely busy then you scroll through the FAQ and they have a competitor to and "far superior to" slack, a competitor to Google Drive/Dropbox, obvious one is a competitor to Facebook

I'm going to give it a try but for the sole reason Tim Berners-Lee is an advisor[1] and seems to still vouch for it[2] 3 years on

[1] https://twitter.com/timberners_lee/status/590726480696573952

[2] https://twitter.com/timberners_lee/status/976553383564840962
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There's an argument to be made that engaging in murder-suicide is of absolute interference to one's life and ability to function.
I don't see any (although "FB is free and always will be" has plenty of wiggle room). Also, I don't see any explicit mention that Tesla's Autopilot is actually an autonomous Level 5 system - and yet people assume that. Are you saying that people should only be angry about things they were promised explicitly? (If so, I would agree - but 1. people are not 100% rational, 2. expectations are important for PR, even if not legally binding. Going from "SV doesn't put this in big bold letters on the front page" to "it's a conspiracy against SV, not because they're an easier media target" is a bit too much of a leap for me.)
Whether Jews (like myself) are an ethnicity/religion/culture/nation/etc is a complicated question with a lot of strong feelings involved.

These Wikipedia articles have a lot of good material for those who aren't aware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_peoplehood and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_is_a_Jew%3F
Yeah, it absolutely stuns me these people who dream up of a better world have apparently zero historical insight into how human societies have organized themselves.

"We are going to offer all the services the state offers now but only better" is the silliest argument ever. You run into the exactly same resource and distribution problems as the government has, and you are going to start instituting the same sort of structures sooner or later.

Hierarchical systems are not enforced on people by malificient power hungry lords. Humans self organize into hierarchical system. If you are planning this "total-decentralization" you better have a plan on how to negate this natural "follow-the-leader" instinct most people have.

The second is the historical example. The only time anarchists come to power is in time of great trouble. Mainly because the dominant political force has fallen, and everything is in chaos. Another political force has risen sooner or later, only to install hierarchical power structures. With great misery to most involved.

Doing anonymous good deeds is one thing.

Speaking of a revolution is another.
>Night & weekend guards (almost universally!) do not carry firearms or even non-lethal weapons. Their job is exclusively "observe and report", and they are not permitted to physically intervene -- as a matter of policy to limit liability.

Yep, and those are generally called not "security guards", but rather "night watchmen" or "night guards".
It's pretty common for newborns to be on a highly regular 3 hours schedule for diaper changes. Happened with all three of our kids. Like clockwork, basically.
> I think it used to be like this for a lot of people in the developed world as well when computers were new and most people did not have computers and those that did had only one in the whole household.

Heck, I'm not that old and I remember playing plenty of games with my dad and brother on the family PC.
I'm a parent of a fully potty trained 24 month old. Mostly potty trained by 18 months, with lots of reminders. It's not easy, takes absolute commitment. The moment you look at your phone your 16-18 month old will be hiding behind then couch peeing (at least ours did).

That being said, it's nearly impossible if you don't have a parent doing full time caregiving. No daycare will do it. My wife used to do it as a nanny, where she learned about it, but that's an outlier. Really not easy to navigate between you and your family or friends who have similar age kids!
Well, at a minimum we certainly know Jesus was a word. In the beginning, at least.
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This was always the problem I had with the idea of having liability for cleaning the ice off the sidewalk in front of your house. The province/city/state isn't responsible if your car crashes because they didn't salt the road/bridge in time (or at all), so why is there a double standard?
As we're talking business and long lifetime...

First point: nothing Microsoft. Done that show for 20 years and been through all the marketoid schizophrenia promoted rewrites for no business value. Now the new "start again" is .Net core and a big chunk of stuff just isn't portable and never will be. Plus the price gouging, licensing hell etc when you have to scale up. Entire ecosystem is a wasteland of unmaintained crap and automation prospects are terrible. Forget it at this point. I'm done.

At this point, I'd pick Java + Spring + Postgres + CentOS. Does most of the stuff you need out of the box, good support available, long product lifespan, well maintained, possible to automate everything. No SPA, just old fashioned dynamic pages with light weight in house JS framework that does partial page replacement, simple validation etc via DOM. Not even jQuery which has been nothing but hell to upgrade so I'm loathed to pick anything more complicated.

PaaS: none. Either in house or old fashioned colo, with HP hardware. If you have to go PaaS, then AWS which seems the most glacial in deprecation so far.

Edit: also desperately avoid any non portable abstractions and vendor specific features. They will ruin you. For example when someone suggests a database engine, hide it behind hibernate and only use the hibernate API!

Edit 2: it is important to assign an exit cost for every decision as well. What's true now is not going to be in a decade.
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I've actually made a map of the Jewish Bucharest buildings that were nationalized by the communists after WW2 (available here: http://bucuresti.maglina.ro/nationalizari/# - works better on desktop, not so sure about mobile/tablets), you can see that while there was a concentration of buildings in what people now call the "Jewish neighborhood" (which was not called like that back then) those properties were quite largely spread over the entire city (the Jews made 10% of the Bucharest population before WW2).

> beside that "integration" ended up in violence anyway even before wwii, when romanians started persecuting them.

WW2 and the 1930s were very difficult times (and not only for the Jews). I like to look at those times as the exception rather than the norm.
For the most part why does it matter?

98% of news is of no import. The tiny fraction that will impact our lives to significant degree or have global effect will be almost impossible to miss.

You didn't need to watch the nightly bulletin or check a news site to hear of climate change, the US presidential election, Brexit and so on. You'd get to hear of those almost regardless of where you hang out on the internet.

The rest probably makes no difference to your life.
I don't know what you mean by "capitalism's paralyzie" but yeah, it seems like things similar to this should be covered by Good Samaritan laws.
I'm guessing that you don't drive much on e.g., 6-lane freeways during rush hour. Slowing down in confusion is pretty dangerous behavior on a freeway.
I like your term 'information hygiene'. Very relevant to staying focussed.
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Our pediatrician explained that the frequency of changes varies. Some children go more than others, some less.
I'm guessing defense in depth is a foreign concept to you?
Ok, so what do you do with a gerrymandered populace, a government that wants to cut as much tax revenue from companies that it can, and then cuts public service?

Sure, Portland isn't likely that. I'm thinking of places like Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky - you know, those flyover states.

These governments don't represent us. The winning party, at one time, "won" the right to redesign the boundaries. And they did so to their best benefit to keep them in office. So yeah, its working for them.

EDIT: Gotta love the -1's over a factual statement and a legit question of "what do you do?" Cause these downvotes says "stfu". Quite sad, considering how many gerrymandered districts and areas there are.
The stack should be chosen based on the requirements, not just "needs to be a long term application".

Honestly I echo the Java suggestion plus a rdbms. You have a big talent pool, it's well supported and "enterprise stable", and it's multiplatform.