skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gooey is nice, it could help in a wish I have had since foreveR and is the contrapositive: a way to convert any action I do on my Xubuntu UI into a command line.

Example: I pop the display config, hide the laptop screen, apply and confirm, and whish there was a "log" somewhere with a one line command I can use next time to redo the same thing.

In a way Gooey, if used a lot to make GUI apps, could help fullfilling this whish: I did not use it yet but I hope it displays somewhere the command line it generated from the GUI?
I don’t make many contributions to OSS projects directly, but I wouldn’t make contributions to commercially licensed projects without payment.

How would you manage to compensate contributors?

I am perfectly happy to contribute to open source licenses because I’m trying to improve the community around the project and help users (including billionaires) use it for free. When a commercial entity tries to profit off of software I am not very motivated to contribute.
The article you linked explains why warrant canaries aren't trustworthy.
Yeah this is also why you see things like Reaper moving to linux and Bitwig debuting on Linux as well as mac and windows. With the future of mac and windows desktop computing up in the air I suggest that linux is the future for pro audio computing rather than apple.
Indonesia to Fault 737 MAX Design, U.S. Oversight in Lion Air Crash Report
Extremely interested in an answer to this. I've tried many of the things that people recommend and while I don't have any hand injuries from typing yet, I would like to avoid them. The suggestions that people typically recommend don't seem to do much of anything for me, I can't feel a significant difference when I do the carpal tunnel stretches and when I don't.
From the civility side, interrupting is at best confrontational but more likely a social sin. From the interruption side, failing to interrupt is standoffish. The reaction of each side to the other is unbalanced, but the severity of civility's backlash is easy to understand.
Beyond just interrupting or not, there are norms in conservational turn taking that vary between languages, cultures, and individuals, which are well studied by linguists.

One example is the use of pauses. To me, in casual conversation, pausing for half a second cedes the floor, and pausing for two seconds means we're done with a topic. But I had a friend who would always pause for two seconds before saying anything at all. Neither of us interrupted, but there were still constant collisions.
Actually Los Angeles cut bus service for light rail expansions (which some say severely hurt ridership). So it's a perfect example supporting the author.

Regarding being stuck in traffic: there's plenty of downtown streetcars without dedicated lanes stuck in traffic built around 2010s.
Yup. You’ve got it right. I am far more interested in preserving capital than chasing returns at this point. So keeping it parked while using it to capitalize cash flow from businesses and real estate is more to my liking than making one giant bet on an index fund over 30-40 years. Don’t get me wrong I’m not knocking index funds they have their place.
You mean one of the causes, and there were many. Such as many failed harvests, big earthquakes in critical places along trading routes, migration (see above) that also caused warfare and more...
It's not at all rare. Any building that gets a large amount of post is likely to have its own postcode.
Made me curious: was he an interruptor in high school?
In addition to the basics (decent workstation setup, monitor(s) at proper height, good quality chair), I make sure I'm using a good ergonomic keyboard[1] and a mouse that's suited to my hand size[2]. I'm left-handed, but can use a mouse with either my left of right hand, so every few months I switch my setup over, to even out mouse hand usage.

I also moisturize[3], although not as much as I probably should.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/surface-ergonomic-keyboard...

[2] https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-us/products/mice/co...

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Nivea-Plus-Care-Cream-100ml/dp/B000SQ...
Those are really poor analogies. What you call "using a computer" means using a pre-made application that turns the computer into an appliance. Instead of making inappropriate analogies (IMO usually a redundant phrase), look at where the tasks fit into Piaget's model of cognitive development.¹ Driving a car is the sensorimotor stage. Proficient computer use requires a high capability of the formal operational stage.

The bad news is that a lot of people will never attain the formal operational stage, and what is even worse is that the percentage of people that do is falling.² The results of this study are not surprising.

The take-away should be that it is pointless and counter-productive to try to dumb down the user interface for applications in domains that require a high level of cognitive development. No amount of picture icons and hamburger menus is going to make up for an inability to reason abstractly. What it will do is make it impossible for anyone to ever use the application efficiently.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piaget%27s_theory_of_cognitive...
² https://oneofus.la/files/flynn2018.pdf
non-vc backed high tech startups, which are the by far the majority of tech jobs?

Citation very much needed. The majority of tech jobs are not at startups of either kind.
Stallman wasn't silenced, he just couldn't meaningfully parse or respond to the criticism.
I use the Kinesis Freestyle 2 keyboard which is a split mechanical keyboard and it has helped me keep my back ache in check as well.

Apart from the above, I ensure that I'm going to the gym/doing physical activities at least 4 days a week.
There's a problem with loading the home directory as a loopback block device from roaming USB disks - untrusted filesystems aren't safe to mount.

From https://lwn.net/Articles/755593/ "Unprivileged filesystem mounts, 2018 edition":

> There's little we can do to prevent people from exploiting flaws in the filesystem's on-disk format. No filesystem has robust, exhaustive verification of all it's metadata, nor is that something we can really check at runtime due to the complexity and overhead of runtime checking. [...] "Go run your filesystem in userspace with fuse if you want stronger security guarantees."

But the same topic is also discussed in many similar articles, e.g. more recently regarding the likeliness of opening new bugs for everyone using automount since the new EROFS filesystem has been merged into the mainline kernel.
> The return flight details are identical to the original Thomas Cook flights (other than the flight numbers, which are similar).

I suspect it's different operators re-using the same flight numbers and airport slots.

ZT is Titan (a short notice lease provider, which makes sense): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_Airways

U2 is easyJet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EasyJet

Titan Airways are confirmed as providing support:

> Following the collapse of Thomas Cook, Titan Airways are working in co-ordination with the Civil Aviation Authority to provide return flights back to the UK for those passengers currently overseas.

http://www.titan-airways.com/
Looking at the first study you point to, I'm not sure why that is the stated conclusion. If you look at the data charts... well, as the article says later: "Both Levin[8] and Lynn [9] argued that the data clearly support a hereditarian alternative: that the mean IQ scores and school achievement of each group reflected their degree of African ancestry. For all measures, the children with two black parents scored lower than the children with one black and white parent, who in turn scored lower than the adopted children with two white parents. Both omitted discussion of Asian adoptees." On the Flynn-corrected chart, the age-17 IQ respective numbers are 83.7, 93.2, and 101.5.

But then there are further arguments and counterarguments; the "Interpretations" section is a full page. One coauthor says, "The results of the transracial adoption study can be used to support either a genetic difference hypothesis or an environmental difference one (because the children have visible African ancestry)." That's not true because "The adopting parents of 12 of the interracial children wrongly believed that their adopted children had two black parents", which at least gives you a comparison point for fully back vs. mixed, but that point is also disputable because "The study showed significant differences in adoption patterns of mixed-race black/white and black adopted children as was noted by Scarr and Weinberg" ("Children with two black parents were significantly older at adoption, had been in the adoptive home a shorter time, and had experienced a greater number of preadoption placements. The natural parents of the black/black group also averaged a year less of education than those of the black/white group...").

It would be nice if people identified the genes responsible for the main visible differences between races, verified that they only affected skin color and maybe a few other cosmetic traits, and were able to manipulate that directly to do controlled experiments. (And to confound actual racists by hiding someone's true race; having a lot of people with randomized racial appearance seems to be the most thorough way to train everyone to not make judgments based on apparent race.) Who knows when that'll happen, though.
Somehow I doubt that he cares much about that. Or at least, not about the money, per se.
I keep away from the mouse. The slight repetitive movements used to control (most?) mice seem to be bad for the fingers.
Office Space and to avoid the same we've been working out of cafes or piggybacking on the office space of other startups while we can (we hope to keep this culture going forward and encourage other early stage startups to work out of our office space once we establish ourselves).
The author says that Modi is Gutting Indian Democracy. But apparently whatever the author described, happened through democratic and constitutional means. Strange.
Core POS is another fun one to check out (it even does credit, debit & EBT)

https://www.core-pos.com/
> ...I highly doubt this will bother you anymore.

Because the SSRI stops them from being bothered?
This is the loss aversion fallacy. (The irrational belief that losing something you already have is worse than losing a chance to getting something you don't have yet.)

You can never recover the time you spent earning money to make up for missing investment gains.
A variation, using stronger lines on the boxes than the lines between them, and curving the corners of the lines:

┏━━━┓
╭─────┨ 1 ┠─────╮
│ ┗━━━┛ │
┏━┷━┓ ┏━┷━┓
╭─┨ 2 ┠─╮ ╭─┨ 3 ┠─╮
│ ┗━━━┛ │ │ ┗━━━┛ │
┏━┷━┓ ┏━┷━┓ ┏━┷━┓ ┏━┷━┓
┃ 4 ┃ ┃ 5 ┃ ┃ 6 ┃ ┃ 7 ┃
┗━━━┛ ┗━━━┛ ┗━━━┛ ┗━━━┛

Subjectively superior, though the thick lines can be overbearing in some fonts.

Or with doubled lines on boxes:

╔═══╗
╭─────╢ 1 ╟─────╮
│ ╚═══╝ │
╔═╧═╗ ╔═╧═╗
╭─╢ 2 ╟─╮ ╭─╢ 3 ╟─╮
│ ╚═══╝ │ │ ╚═══╝ │
╔═╧═╗ ╔═╧═╗ ╔═╧═╗ ╔═╧═╗
║ 4 ║ ║ 5 ║ ║ 6 ║ ║ 7 ║
╚═══╝ ╚═══╝ ╚═══╝ ╚═══╝

There are indeed many possibilities!
>> But I don't think that seeing the exclusion of the masses as intentional despotism is particularly helpful.

This may be true of the examples you cited for the more distant era. However post WW2, with the invention of technologies of mass control, this has really become a default case now.

>> Designing good systems that work well for everyone is tough. It's made all the tougher when you want it to serve billions.

If one is aware of this then one should factor that into the systems to minimize the harm or refrain from building such systems. We don't see any evidence for that.
Worth noting that this document was (for whatever reason removed) after initial publication:
* https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20190030475
* https://fortune.com/2019/09/20/google-claims-quantum-suprema...
I can open that link. Try VPN?

But I cannot open the archive.is link, not even with VPN.
Same for the member-wise defaults! Especially in concert with optionals. I hate having callers explicitly pass in nil, but I'm also not fond of provided a convince initializer, as it is one more thing to change when you add a new member to a struct.
It's a personal thing. What works for one person might not work for another.

That being said, definitely invest in an excellent keyboard and mouse. If you are going to spend 8+ hours a day using it, make sure it's comfortable. I can't stand anything which isn't a mechanical keyboard. I have tried various funny looking ergonomic models but haven't found them necessary yet.

Also, don't overlook your chair and desk. They might be forcing your hands into an awkward position.
Every tech company I've ever had anything to do with claims to encourage minorities. But the numbers clearly tell a different story. It would be easy to excuse it all as cultural fit, but that doesn't hold up when there are many more male white foreigners (like myself in several cases) than local women or minorities.
What emergency requires $20K in less than a week? A kidnapping?
I have a daily yoga practice to keep the whole body reasonably strong and flexible. I don’t think it helps much to focus on specific parts of the body while neglecting others. The whole system needs to be in balance.
I have a future holiday booked with Thomas Cook. I paid a deposit, which I expect to get back through either ATOL or my credit card company. The overall cost was going to be less than I would have paid booking direct. They should probably have charged me more :(
I do a lot of walking.

When circulation is poor, the extremities take it the hardest. That includes hands, feet, ears and nose.

Improving my circulation has helped resolve a lot of the hand issues I once had. I have visibly healthier, stronger nails. My hands and feet don't readily get cold like they once did.

Etc.
The fall in fertility in developed countries (whose populations are responsible for the majority of resource use) definitely had a lot to do with it.
This is a great example of an important and valid use for plastic! For the number of lives this saves - and one is enough - this is an achievement to be proud of.

With promising new startups such as Commonwealth Fusion Systems (this is the talk to start with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4), I'm not going to worry about the garbage problem. My bet is that we'll see proof of fusion's viability within the next decade. In the era that follows, people will be literally mining landfills for raw materials to separate into perfect piles of feedstock. A 1e8 C plasma will strip the electrons off of any atoms you place inside it, and you can magnetically separate the charged nuclei.

And if I'm wrong about any of that, a few more decades of landfill use isn't going to change anything anyway. http://jmc.stanford.edu/commentary/progress/index.html
Calling me a racist stinks of accusatory witch hunting. You can lose a job for this kind of thing and you dare to call me that? You don't go around accusing people people of smelling like a nazi yet you can go around saying that I smell like a racist?

Let me be utterly clear with you. I am not racist. Not one bone of my body is. And it is an extreme and personal insult to suggest that I am. There will be no further communication between us.

You second paragraph seems to continue onto an informed discussion that's not going to continue because of the immature comment in your first sentence.
CD, T-bills, bonds?

Also, the stock market doesn't disappear overnight.
California Is Investing $95M into Clean Transportation
WeWorks next finance round was supposed to be $4Bn IPO money + $6Bn loans contingent on the IPO succeeding. Another SoftBank-sized mountain of cash, which is now looks unlikely they’ll get. It’s interesting that it’s the same amount. Maybe this was SoftBank’s planned exit?
Somehow both my hands and my eyes are fine as they've ever been (in particular eyesight seems way above average, no glasses) in spite of total computer abuse pretty much all day every day since I was a teenager; I'm 36 soon.

Not to brag, just a data point. Also I'm kinda curious how common or uncommon it is.
I met him twice this year (I'm a patron and that gives access to his Happy Hours).

His views are pretty extreme but I suspect they will become more mainstream as the time goes by.
Not that he will change his mind, but most of us will realize many of the things he says were right.
Yes, we are in full agreement here :) The parental role model part won't override the Big Five in most cases. Parental behaviour does help in expanding the possibilty space a bit, though (e.g. an extravert can - to a certain degree - learn to relax while being alone and vice versa).

The other caveeat I conveniently ignored is that parents are usually adults, so the image they provide is for adult behaviour. Kids won't necessarily transfer that fully into their current situation. It does shape their inner image of adult behaviour, though (which starts to become more relevant as the kids enter the early teenager years).
If Condor operates as an independent company, as long as it is a going concern, it will likely continue to fly. As an asset, it will be sold by any administrator in order to help recoup money to pay Thomas Cook's creditors. It is (most likely) worth more money as an operating airline than if it were to be shut down.
How Peloton made sweat addictive enough to IPO
What about software that comes with a license key dongle? Now you're buying hardware as well. :-)

> Also, as you seem to acknowledge, when you purchase software, you are technically acquiring a license.

That's really just semantics.

When you buy a mainframe with some CPUs disabled, you're not only buying the hardware, you're also buying a license for the OS, which includes the ability to use a certain number of CPUs of the machine.

You're commenting earlier that you'd price the higher SKU the same as the lower SKU, but I think it's just as likely that you'd simply not make a higher SKU because there'd be no extra profit in doing so.

It may seem perverse that hardware is being sold with capabilities deliberately crippled, but doing so if often one of the only ways to justify developing these higher SKU capabilities to begin with. This kind of product differentiation makes it possible for customers to buy a higher SKUs that otherwise simply wouldn't exist.
From what I understand, the problem with gates and other philanthro-capitalists is that they have the power to shift focus of organizations (research and administration) from what’s actually needed, to their own priorities.

Ie giving money to malaria which is not a priority rather than NCDs, which are. The whole field then re-orientates itself, breaking apart public health long term objectives and priorities.

The consequences are catastrophic and very frustrating.

Mind you that’s the same gates which held back the tech world for at least two decades with his shity OS, so to protect Microsoft’s monopoly from open source and Linux.

But the world is trained to admire rich people no matter how empty or dangerous they are.
It will look for what you typed, and find top hit of "German concentration camps in occupied Poland" and second is about naming controversy.

Predictable behaviour of a simple statistical debiased algorithm. PageRank is not really an AI.
A long time ago my wrist started hurting after long PC use. I switched the mouse to my left hand and haven't had problems since.
Love the guy's almost anti tech stance. From his fb page:

>I am apparently no longer fit to live on this planet.

Over the last month or so I have received some disturbing emails. When summarized they say that they love the POS software. It does everything they want and more, they could not be more pleased with it and if it was not free they would have been more than happy to pay for it. However they are going to have to dump it and go find a different POS program that will probably not be as perfect for them as DHPOS and will have to pay for it to boot.

The problem is that their younger employees hate it. Either they cannot figure out how to use it because it requires input from the keyboard or they are appalled because when they swipe the screen nothing happens.

Cry me a river.

Apparently smartphone use makes one useless for any other function which is yet another reason to avoid them like the plague that they are. I am increasingly distressed that this page has become an endless rant about smartphones but it does seem as though they have become ubiquitous with the only exception to my knowledge being my pants. In the last month my only co-conspiracy relative has gone over to the dark side and I am now alone.

Over the last week I built a cart to hold folding tables (photo below) for the 6 Corners Association that did not in any way require the use of a smartphone, no swiping required, no cat videos attached, and my attention was focused on reality as evidenced by the fact that I still have possession of all of my fingers. Plus I had buckets of fun to boot. I am quite proud of it and since it is real I have no worries of someone accidentally deleting it or of it being hacked and remotely being sent to scoot down Milwaukee Avenue as a hazard to the populace.

I find real life to be endlessly fascinating, plus if I leave my flip phone at home or the battery dies or the phone gets crushed by a plummeting cement block, I’m good, not a problem. I know where I am (since I never left reality) and I can get anywhere I need to go since I pretty much know where everything I might need is. If I need to contact someone I have a printed list of phone numbers in my wallet. However when I am with someone else and their smartphone dies the look of panic on their face is alarming. I try to console them.

So please do not even think of holding a tag-day to purchase a smartphone for me because I am more than fine without one and it would only make me wonder why you hate me.

https://facebook.com/daleharrispos/photos/a.408929929488156/...
Consider this fact: 70% of the adult population of the United States is overweight or obese.¹ An uncharitable interpretation would be that 70% of adults in the United States cannot manage to feed themselves appropriately.

¹ https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statisti...
List of Extremely Hazardous Substances
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Or is that too simplistic?
> can you be an angel investor by investing as low as $5,000

Yes. Not so much on your own, but as part of a friends&family pool of investments.
I've heard others with that same fear, and sadly it stopped them from taking advantage of a medicine that could significantly improve their quality of life.

Depression and anxiety, even when mild, can be pernicious in their self-preservation. Self-identifying with a symptom, and avoiding a potential cure because "it could turn you into an entirely different person" by removing that symptom, is often the disease talking.

SSRIs don't turn you into a different person. When working properly (i.e., right dose, right med), they simply give you more mental space to deal with and work through problems. Who you become after working through your issues is entirely up to you.
If profit was a motive for me, then I would not keep doing this job for so long ;-) Good luck, anyway. I occasionally try to reach out if I think it might be useful to the person writing. It seems like I wasn't successful this time.
Yes, this. Agenda with a “last call” before taking up next topic.
I think the "Repetitive" part needs attention. Introduce variety, mindfulness and health to everything you do: posture, eyesight, exercise, what you consume (both corporeal and intellectual. It isn't just hands.
And yet it works for Tokyo, London and Copenhagen to pick three random cities.