skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Politicians and plebs have the same exact ability there - in both cases what is already happening will just continue unimpeded. That's a principle called equal protection!
I think this varies greatly by industry (maybe what I'm talking about is 20 years outdated). I know quite a few boomers who worked on their Masters / PhD while raising kids and working. From what I've been told it's because their careers were limited by their existing level of education. For example, most K-12 teachers get a pay boost by completing their Masters.

My career is software dev adjacent and I haven't seen college being a limiting factor.
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Someone make this: a plugin for an IDE that pops up a page from a whitelist (probably of documentation, but it could be anything you want to study) whenever you compile.
Nintendo may have put out crap games, but there were a LOT of crap games that Atari themselves put out that were way worse. We're talking about a company that actually thought making first-party video game version of a Rubik's cube was a good idea.
Escape from Rungistan? On the Apple II.
Sorry for the IFLS link, the source is paywalled
Despite the title, they do not actually host the techniques.
Don't keep anything sensitive on your phone, encrypted or otherwise. Keep it on some storage medium whose very existence is secret.

They can't accuse you of refusing to unlock something whose whereabouts are unknown and, indeed, whose very existence is only alleged.
The answer is "it depends on how much work you want to put into making custom protocols for these purposes".

>Is it possible to implement an interaction bound to a global hotkey (e.g. middle click) that takes the current selected text (in any window) and send it to the event target window as keypress events? Without special support from either program? [xselection pasting]

Yes, doing it the way you described is possible. Or you could just use the existing and moderately-well-supported primary selection protocol:

https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/blob/master/protocol/gtk-p...

We should try to get that standardized...

>Can I monitor and/or intercept (block) input events of any program without special (voluntary) support from the monitored program? Can I send arbitrary synthetic input events? [hotkey macros]

Sure, from the compositor. If you want clients to call the shots you need a protocol.
Maybe. I'm pretty fond of capitalism, but I have to admit the "everything has a price" mentality can easily be misapplied.
I love those company parties. They're so...awkward! The big shots up on stage with microphones yelling "OUR STOCK PRICE IS UP 150% THIS YEAR! WOOOOOOOOO!!! PARTY ON!" And the rest of the employees standing around shrugging or pretending to be excited as they at least get some free food.
This I agree with, but it's not going to come from any company. They have a legal responsibility to put their shareholders first, not their users.
I doubt it's that complex. Occam's razor suggests a simpler explanation: there is discomfort in starting a task, therefore people delay starting that task. It's a pain avoidance strategy, which sounds much more likely than some self-referential, future-self theory.
Pre-announcing Solo: the first, open source, FIDO2 security key
You know, if you read the article about Systems and Leverage Points[1] that's on the front page right now, it's not hard to see the entire world as a function made up of other functions. And one of those other functions is you.

The real question is, are you a serverless function? If someone likes you and wants more of you, can they infinitely scale you up on-demand, tuespetre? And if so, what will their AWS bill look like next month?

[1] http://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to...
Got it, this makes sense to me. And sorry, I was rereading the thread, I don't want to think I'm dismissing your whole article, I really appreciate you writing about it.

I think the time is a big advantage. As I mentioned, I'm working with Conor on the FIDO2 security key (actually, update [1]), and we were thinking to an option to create backups, maybe for advanced users. I'll keep you posted if we end up doing something in the space.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17777224
Wow this is awesome! Can you share more about how you've set this up? I'd love to read a write up if you've got one.

I've got something similar going on right now with my phillips hue strips and their new realtime api, but every strip is all the same color.
The paper [1] is interesting, although they spend too much space writing about the purported benefits. The concept here is to exploit WiFi gear's usages of many different frequencies. Measuring the amplitude and phase shift on each channel provides some info about what each channel bounced off of and diffracted around.

Inevitably, they then dump all the data into a neural net. They trained on about 15 objects, which is a reasonable start. They didn't go on to testing with enough objects to be useful. "The results show that our system can detect over 95% dangerous objects in different types of bags and successfully identify 90% dangerous material types." By "dangerous" they just mean metal or liquid. It's not like they can tell a gun from a soup can.

[1] http://www.winlab.rutgers.edu/~yychen/papers/Towards%20In%20...
Has anyone created a mobile OS that has a feature where if a certain password is entered on the unlock screen that it boots up a dummy desktop while silently encrypting or erasing the phone in the background?
I feel like all the collage should be free people are not thinking far enough ahead to what that actually means.

1) A free collage will end up being more like extended high school.

2) At some point new institutes of for pay higher education will pop up. They just won't be called colleges. People who can afford them will clearly have a advantage and top companies will start to seek out people who attended these organizations.

3) The quality of the education will drop. It already has at a lot of schools with the introduction of loan for everybody gig.

While this will reset thing for a while. Maybe even a generation of two. We will end up again with people wanting the next level of education free.

EDIT: now that I am not trying to type on a tiny phone.

The problem with free is it will then need to cater to the LCD. Right now we we have a filter on the LCD because there is some effort and risk required by the person going to school. There is something special about buying something, and owning it. You tend to tend for it better, give it the attention it needs and ensure it last a long time. If we bypass this step we will end up with masses going to school doing the same thing they do in high school today. This might be hard to visualize as the HN crowd is a fairly smart crowd and probably took advantage of the offerings of their high school, and likely were not aware of those who did not.

This won't be as big of an issue for those who are "gifted" as they will be sheltered in their special classes slotted away with like minded ilk. But for the less "gifted" student the expense will be dragged down to the LCD. So if you are not lucky, smart enough, or had the right coaching from parents to get into those gifted classes you will be left with a much worse education.
Lots to like here.

> RethinkDB is a wonderful db. Did you guys use Horizon on top for streaming? Or something custom?
> Wonderful design asethetic

Seeing as you're based in Frankfurt, I'd recommend reaching out to events hosted locally as live polling is a pretty common ask.
I have a hard time understanding if this is bad.

Economics says that things are designed to work this way. You have felt the economic indicators and made changes accordingly.

The economy(you, your friends, your community, the world) benefits when you make profit. If your prior path was burdened with massive debt with little way to repay it, it sounds like a bad decision.

I cant imagine too many situations where doing something that pays significantly worse and puts you in more debt is better for society.
Watching the renewables and nuclear proponents fight each other is interesting, isn't it? Divided they fall.
Are there any efforts in Estonia to move to renewables from their petrol fired generation?
yeah that would be very clear in Vietnam or Indonesia for people not familiar with exchange rates
I once looked into reading some of DFW's books after reading some essays related to some of his ideas, but something along the way stopped me, I think it might have been that I didn't get the sense that his books and the ideas within were as directly pragmatic as the essays I'd read, but were instead far more abstract. Do you think this assessment was wrong, and if so could anyone recommend a big that doesn't use a metaphorical approach too much?

And I will also piggyback another question I had with respect to this article: does anyone know a "pro-sumer" level router that has awesome access control capabilities, so I can easily blacklist a collection of websites? I know there are some alternatives for the desktop, but I didn't find anything I liked, and I want blockage at the router level, but there's no way I'm going to get into standing up a pi-hole box or anything remotely as complicated as that.
https://github.com/simap/pixelblaze:

> Pixelblaze itself isn't open source (yet)
Sounds promising but I'm not going to count my chickens until they're in high volume production. Lots of cool technologies never make it to the real world at scale because they can't be manufactured cost effectively at scale because of some little thing that doesn't seem like a big issue at first.
Per your first argument, even granting that admissions is meritocratic / fair for the sake of argument, the education you receive, networks provided, and simple prestige of the school all provide advantages that you will not find to such a degree at a lower tier school. Tuition subsidies adds an additional major advantage of not having the drag of loans slowing your future economic growth. Again, I understand that society is full of these self reinforcing advantages and that I benefit from many (including a public academic scholarship); the critique is merely incremental.

Per "it will make more of a difference to those who are not "fine without it"". Sure, but it would make more of a difference if needs based and scaled broadly (not sure what restrictions exist on the funds for this aim). Although this line of argument admittedly unravels into base utilitarianism when followed.
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That has always been the biggest turn off for me as well. Setting up everything takes too long and I like just jumping straight into the project.

My gym is right behind my desk, I have 0 excuses to workout almost everyday
The definition of “host”, in this case, just means “many”.
I've heard of one technique to fight akrasia which relies on your theory.

It's an exercise where you contemplate you future self as a friend, whose is immediately benefits from your actions. So if you're trying to not eat an extra serving of cake you imagine your future self as a friend who gets fat when you eat that extra serving.
"This, Jen, is the internet."

https://youtu.be/iDbyYGrswtg
Why does a socio-economic background disqualify someone from having drive? How about dreams? Should poor kids flush those for the good of the class? Because they MIGHT have bad apples in their social circle? For circumstances they don't control- we ought to prevent them from being able to change those circumstances via opportunity and hard work?

How common do you think this is? I would bet it is no more common than other shitty circumstances regardless of socio-economic status.

This entire sentiment is nonsenical IMO.
I read that the fork is from an older version of Chrome so it could work with XP.
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Just in time for Burning Man, working on my bikes today - and I've got a TON of WS2812's - definitely gonna give this a shot.
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Diazepam is definitely useful, and 5-10mg ought to be enough to let you have a decent rest on flights between 6-12h long, I've found. But you'll probably be a bit groggy on arrival, so depending on your immigration status and the target nation, this may be something to consider ;)
I pulled the list from the internet, it was probably incomplete. I sadly can't amend it anymore. The defensive claim is from the source I used.
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> Our system is rigged to require people to work

That is a very strange thing to say following a comment about natural law, considering there is nothing about nature that guarantees you a right to live.

Rather, specialization of economy and and social safety nets means that it's a hell of a lot easier to survive working even a low paying job than it is to try otherwise.

As it stands right now, even if you taxed 100% of the income reported by the top 1% of earners, we might not close the government's budget gap, let alone expand the government's budget to guarantee survival for all citizens (not to mention the economic chaos that would result in taxing 100% of all income earned by anyone).
Censoring is done by states. Facebook or google removing trolls, tools and pedos isn't censoring.
To an extent, this is what's already happened. If you actually look at a lot of college curricula - including at the top schools, but especially at the rest - a lot of that is dedicated to making up for the failings of K-12 education, particularly high school.

To a degree, expecting college education of people is really just filtering for the baseline that we would like a high school degree to guarantee, but which it isn't.
And their website: https://wholeftopenthecookiejar.eu/
I've been in many different socio-economic backgrounds.

First school I went to was the lowest performing school in Georgia, in which I was the only white child. By high school I had moved to the highest performing high school in the state, where the senators sent their kids, etc. "Real Housewives of Atlanta" was from my school district then.

Drugs, alcoholism, bullying, and domestic violence happen in every environment, and in my experience they trend towards those with the means to sustain those habits. The rich kids had been doing coke and molly since they were 13 and have been buying it from their classmates. In the richer burbs, the cops are present to keep out people who "shouldn't be there", and less to keep the citizens who "should be there" from breaking the law. The huge emphasis on "upstanding members of the community" having a "traditional household" hides high levels of domestic violence.

I agree that kids from the poorer backgrounds don't even start on first base, but it's not because of any life choices they've made in a lot of cases.
I love how he bothered cashiers for months before it occurred to him to pick one up and look at the label.
From the article

> Other epinephrine injectors have been approved before, but they struggled to gain market share against a brand that used lobbying and marketing to establish a virtual monopoly on the market.

This got me thinking that consumers are at fault as well. But then I read the following from the linked article[0].

> “Their most brilliant maneuver, clearly, was giving them [EpiPens] away to schools and making it the thing that they could say, ‘Well, the nurse knows how to use it,’ ” said R. Adams Dudley, a pulmonologist at the University of California at San Francisco. “What are the parents afraid of? Their child will be away from them, and they won’t be there to use it. If they can say the school nurse knows how to use an EpiPen; she’s never seen an Adrenaclick ... It’s just a fear thing.”

With such (understandable) absolute risk averseness what is the way out?..

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/2016/08/25/7...
That’s an important point that not many people realize about unions.

Unions are great, when they are great.

The West Virginia teacher strikes were wildcat strikes, meaning they did not have the support of their union. The union was against the strikes but the teachers had the support of their community, which is far more important.

In short, and due to the recent Janus Act, unions in the US are not going to be very helpful for a while. But, more important is building a popular consciousness ready to articulate these struggles within a capitalist system.

DSA has a few very positive tech-focused organizing efforts underway in SF and NYC. I recommend starting at http://dsausa.org
I just learned about this recently during the Udacity SDC! They go over an algorithm called A* hybrid which was super neat too. Instead of the discrete decisions of up, down, left ,and right, you define a set of state space equation (e.g. x(t+1) = x(t) + vΔt). This way, your results ends up being continuous and smooth which a car can actually follow. I think this was invented by the Sebastian Thurn's team during DARPA challenge.
The company just changed its name to "Redcore" after the ZTE ban earlier this year. There is a demand for software/hardware that is "homegrown" not subject to US control.
>For one labor unions represent people across all companies.

Not true, you can have a labor union for one company.

>one can deal/negotiate directly with companies individually.

Also not true, I have zero ability to deal/negotiate with my company and I'd say this is a period where workers actually have less rights and less ability to negotiate other than simply quitting which isn't really sustainable for many people since 80% of the country is living paycheck to paycheck [1]. As we approach full employment workers should be gaining more ability to negotiate, but it's not happening.

>Also, nothing is preventing one from founding a startup which elects its leaders democratically.

Lack of funding, lack of credit. This is always the 'easy answer' for capitalists 'just start your own company', but it's really not that easy.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/24/most-americans-live-paycheck...
Related philosophical work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasons_and_Persons

Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit
And actually, most people have nothing to say. See China, for an example. Most people want peace, security and to create a home in which to raise children. They care, but not very strongly, for the rights of minorities the environment and other things you might need freedom of speech to advocate. Freedom of speech and civil liberties are luxuries that can be sacrificed, as we see each time a new dictatorship is cheered forward by the masses. Most people are not idealistic, and have higher priorities than freedom.

If we want to preserve these rights we can't just appeal to their utility for the individual.
Step one would be for them to lean what a Union actually is. It means something completely different in the US than the rest of the world.
his example is 2 lines of application logic + 40,500 lines of library logic
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Holy cow, in Smalltalk? I thought it was considered exceptionally bad form in Smalltalk to write a method that didn't all fit on your screen.
This video needs to go viral
There were absolutely pirates around at this point. Complete with groups (MPG, Apple Bandits, etc.), warez sites (The Safehouse, The Curse, etc.) and whole distribution networks.

Admitted it was more computer centered, but pirates still are.

There were even distribution networks for pirated movies via VHS. I remember E.T. being passed around LONG before it was released on tape.
I’m totally with you. I couldn’t imagine having to live for 20 hours in a plane.

Of course, this wouldn’t be a thing if we had supersonic flight.
If you have status with an airline, then stopovers become more relaxing with access to lounges (food, drinks, internet etc.) plus many have areas where you can get some sleep, so economy might become more feasible.
Often! I journal daily and use a G2 0.38mm that's kept with it at all times. I'll go through two or three journals a year and three or four of the G2s. Once you get in the habit of keeping the pen clipped to the cover when it's not in use, losing one is quite rare.
like the other poster said, a few times a week is not recreational at that point. Recreational use tends to be at most every other month, but for many more folks is going to be much less than that - 1 to 3 times a year.

I've known a person or two that simply didn't know how to space out their use, and did wind up with depression as a result. But this is the sort of thing that you can teach so long as you are honest about the rest of your drug education. It is something you can teach when you sell it to people. You can limit what folks can buy and keep a record of when people buy it - we already do this with some decongestants, after all. It isn't that there is not risks, but your comment is misguided on what constitutes more common recreational use of this particular drug and the things we can do to avoid this situation.
That's actually a myth.

https://www.networkworld.com/article/2891297/cloud-computing...

But still brings us back to my original point, they have shown success in two markets. Not really everything they try. They have some tough competition in ups, FedEx, USPS. And the stories I've heard so far of Amazon handling its own deliveries aren't sounding promising.
Unless TLS 1.3 includes built-in stenography, it will do nothing for censhorship. Oppressive regions have historically used simple throttling/DoS to make encrypted protocols unusable.
While there are other epinephrine auto-injectors on the market (auvi-q and adrenaclick) the big difference here is that this is considered a "generic" version of the EpiPen. The significance is that pharmacists can recommend that a prescription for an EpiPen be replaced with this, where they cannot with the others on the market. I will also note that the cost of the EpiPen is not due to the drug, it is the patent on the auto-injector which is set to expire in 2025. If you wanted to actually improve this product, you would follow the SpaceX model and allow replaceable cartridges for the auto-injector instead of throwing away the entire housing when the medicine expires every 18 months.
As I see it the problem is that profits from speculation and rent seeking results in concentration of wealth providing even more leverage for speculation and rent seeking. Thus forming an accelerating feedback loop.

A particular elegant way to address that is to realize that most of this wealth accumulation is expressed in terms of property. Fundamentally a relationship between two parties, the non-owners, and the current owner. The former who takes the opperunity cost of not having, and the owner who extracts the rent-value from having.

So one way to adress the fundamental issue is to compensate the former group for their opperynity cost cost by taxing the owner. The difference between the opportunity cost and extracted rent can be seen as the unique contribution of the current owner, but the rest could be distributed fairly among the non-owners as a dividend.
"Biggest untapped market in the world" is a phrase that you'll hear a lot if you listen to the financial news networks. That's the long and short of it.

MBAs vs humans. I hope the humans win.
"they still spray as much pesticides you want"

Organic labelled produce cant, it is subject to greater restrictions of pesticide use than general international farming regulations. Honestly, if you dont acknowledge this very basic reality of organic certification then your arguments against it are besides reason.

Organic certification is not a "meaningless marketing term" like for example "family farm" can be. It means the farm has been advised and reviewed to follow restrictions on pesticide, fertilizer use and other practices which are applied in addition to regional and national farming regulations.
Ramen Ventures, an angel fund with their thesis in a GitHub repo