skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since he's having this difficulty on a Mac, I wonder if enabling the "Show Keyboard Viewer" option would have helped him.
Yeah, it is cool, but it feels more like a demo for nix.

If you want to create docker image of your own app, you probably would use:

https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-pkgs-dockerTools

This will produce an exported docker image as tar file, which then you can import it using either docker, or tool like skopeo[1] (which is also included in nixpkgs).

The nix-shell functionality is also quite nice, because it allows you to create common development environment, with all tooling available that one might need to work.

[1] https://github.com/containers/skopeo
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Nothin wrong with hate when targeted at vice, nothing wrong with love when targeted at virtue.
The protocol yes, but don't they use their own implementation? https://github.com/cloudflare/boringtun
Um, yes. A toxic environment is toxic.

Whether someone who isn't as threatened by the toxicity "bucks up" and lets it roll off their back or even participates or not. It's still toxic.

E.g. don't tell me "racism isn't toxic except that you're sensitive and choose to be offended by it."
I think we need age limits. And lower term limits. We cannot have people stuck in an era 3 decades old deciding the fate of our country as it goes into the future. They are simply not equipped to deal with today's problems, let alone tomorrow's.

At 60 years[1], the median age of the Senate is 20 years more than the median age of the US population[2] - if this isn't an example of how broken and entrenched our power structures are, I don't know what is.

These issues are also also an artifact of a societal structure in which we use the winners of a rigged popularity contest to decide the future of our country rather than that of independent academics on a per-issue basis.

Through the lens of E2EE legislation, we are seeing our democracy crumbling because we failed to enforce that our representatives actually knowing what they are talking about.

[1]: https://www.senate.gov/CRSpubs/b8f6293e-c235-40fd-b895-6474d...

[2]: https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/us-demographics/
News, the software behind HN, doesn't, no. The filter for emojis is deliberate.
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Thanks. You should've written this article :)
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Outside of the super-star cities, housing is pretty affordable!
Or they were written as 32-bit apps, which became verboten on iOS not long ago. I had a bunch of games I had paid for and enjoyed for a long time vanish suddenly because their creators didn't deem it worthwhile to go back and recompile them as 64-bit.
Thanks yeah, I've never tried Qutebrowser but I've been curious whether it can do some the things I'm looking for. It sounds like it has some nice built-in bindings, but do you know if it can be scripted? E.g., Emacs can be scripted in Emacs Lisp, Vim can be scripted in Vimscript, and VS Code can be scripted in JavaScript. And all three can call-out to shell commands, including further processing the results of commands. If you know off-hand whether Qutebrowser has these features I'd love to know. (I've done a bit of research myself but haven't found much.)
I think it underscores the ramifications of the bad software.
> "This allowed us to reach different sub-groups of Hispanic voters in ways that were simply not feasible on TV and radio."

This ability to craft your narrative in a more granular fashion that's not observable to anyone outside the target demographic is possibly the most trouble part of internet advertising.

Basically, as long as you can keep your lies straight and your demographics don't communicate, you can tell everyone a different story. Like when that family member tells everyone a different lie to excuse a behavior because they know there isn't one universal story they'd all accept.
I find it amusing to see this come from Glowforge, a company known for its poor communication with customers. They sell $6000 lasers to consumers but have no phone number to talk to them. You order, give them your money, and then you'll hear nothing from them from over 30 days while you wait for your purchase: often customers don't get so much as a shipping confirmation before their order finally shows up at their door. If you email them, you get an auto-reply saying they hope to get back to you within 3 business days, which means troubleshooting an issue with their products can mean multiple 3-day round-trips back and forth to get resolved under warranty. And they have a habit of introducing and pulling software features without any advanced notice, when many of their customers rely on their $6000 lasers as production equipment for their small businesses, so these unannounced changes can be disruptive to say the least. All issues that could be fixed with some better communication. And it's too bad, because I think they easily have the best product in their niche of consumer-targeted laser engravers (ping me if you'd like a $500 discount... I own one).
No personally identifiable data is collected, so the option can be opt-out by default. Not sure about not being able to disable it though.
Very good answer. The botanical illustrator is taught how to demonstrate specific features of different taxonomies in a way that's natural and visually pleasing but conveys three dimensions of information, tactility, color, and biological characteristics (for example, do branches grow opposite one another or in a spiral up the stem, what is the texture under the leaf as well as above it, what does a bud look like, what does a live flower look like, what animals use this as a host plant and how, etc) that would be extremely difficult to photograph well.
But it is the real world now ... People form their beliefs and make decisions in the world based on what they consume online.

I frequently see Twitter memes spoken from people's mouths in person. I mostly abstain from it, but like it or not, Twitter does matter.

I've also been online since 1993, and used Usenet for many years. Back then you could compartmentalize some argument as a bunch of nerds, but now it's just "people".

FWIW I also agree that the wisdom of "don't feed the trolls" has been forgotten. So in that way it's gotten worse too.
Interesting. Well it only happened once so I guess I just got bad luck. Fun demo!
WhatsApp is also quite user-hostile. For example:
(1) There is no way to stop being added to groups.

(2) There is no way to disable their calling service. I don't want people to call me on WhatsApp.

(3) If you've chosen not to give them your contact book, they have worsened the UX over time (for example, it only shows phone numbers now and not the display names they have set).
Billionaire doesn't like what the common people are saying. Nothing to see here
What a great write up. The bill is rather dangerous, and I’m immediately suspicious of anything claiming to help children in the context of legislation.

FOSTA/SESTA is a horrible law and it has done a lot of damage.
He built it, he kept his shares of it, it’s his.

If you don’t like using a platform owned by mark zuckerberg, you shouldn’t use it. He owns it.
I commend you for your idea and vision to propose App-Maker. It is a great low-code solution, offering very professional GUI components and integration with G-Suite; made all the more tragic by Google's short-sighted action to close App-Maker down. It is also why tens of thousands of people now wish they had never heard of AppMaker, myself included.

As a FinTech company in the Financial Sector, we were big advocates of App-Maker and the Google cloud-services, recommending it to our clients. Not any more, not now, not ever. The reputational damage to Google will be long-lasting as the people affected, will not forget.

If you have any sway in Google, try to offer us a life-line; not a spreadsheet-based / mobile app provider you acquired last week.
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How many of the policies and actions Soros disagrees with took place because of Zuckerberg personally, and how many were natural consequences of the inertia of the company's culture and business model? His peers among the leadership of other multi-billion dollar tech firms do not have a dramatically better track record for prioritizing the public good over profit.

If replacing the CEO of Facebook would produce more of the same, this should not be a discussion of who "controls" Facebook- it is of whether Facebook- and companies like it- should be allowed to exist at all.
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As an intellectual exercise,since you seem so passionate about the subject of anti-vaxxers...

Are all vaccines good? If not, who chooses? The government? What about when Gov. Rick Perry tried to force the HPV vaccine on all teenage girls in TX, even though it was suspected he had financial incentive to do so?

Is it ok for the state to force you or your kids to receive a medical treatment? Even when there are multiple demonstrated cases of drug companies breaking the law and corruption?

My point isn't to fall on either side of the debate.

My point is that it's wrong to silence the debate and to label people who are thinking about these things so simply as "anti-vaxxers" and dismiss them.

Reality is complex. As soon as you're 100% sure you're right, it'll bite you.
That's not how it works. Do we need to establish a trial before we can show your innocence in this case too?

If he is guilty, then let it be shown so at trial. In absence of such a trial, he is not guilty. But such a trial will not happen, and was probably never intended to happen. Yet it shows how effective the media campaign against him has been:

The Swedish state spent almost a decade intentionally presenting Julian Assange to the public as a sex offender. Then, they suddenly abandoned the case against him on the strength of the same argument that the first Stockholm prosecutor used in 2010, when she initially suspended the investigation after just five days
Uh, getting rid of pseudo-vectors ?
Maxwell's Equations?

http://www.av8n.com/physics/maxwell-ga.htm
If you like botanical illustrations you’ll love the work of Ernst Häckel, a Professor of botany from Germany who was also a great artist (in my opinion) and who produced an incredible amount of astonishingly beautiful illustrations. I recently gave a book with a collection of them to my wife as a gift and we spent hours just marveling at the drawings as well as copying some of them. Here’s the (non-affiliate) link if you’re interested:

https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/3836526468/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?key...
>I don't support the behavior alleged in this article, but I do genuinely believe Wikileaks was acting very unethically.

The issue is that laws not ethics matter now. So IMO the rape accusations have nothing to do with the ethics of his job.

What is the difference between Russia where journalists are killed and "the west" where journalists are tortured and pushed into suicide.
if teenagers wanna get wasted, they will find plenty of junk on the streets. That's why kids should have parental oversight.
You may fill the prescription with opioids - but you dont have to use them. I went to dentist couple times, and filled the opioid prescription once just in case, but never used them.
Free, accurate feedback isn't always fawning or even especially kind. It is certainly better than the alternatives, however. Thanks.
The actual abstract [1] is much more informative:

> In a representative sample of Finnish car owners (N = 1892) we connected the Five‐Factor Model personality dimensions to driving a high‐status car. Regardless of whether income was included in the logistic model, disagreeable men and conscientious people in general were particularly likely to drive high‐status cars. The results regarding agreeableness are consistent with prior work that has argued for the role of narcissism in status consumption. Regarding conscientiousness, the results can be interpreted from the perspective of self‐congruity theory, according to which consumers purchase brands that best reflect their actual or ideal personalities. An important implication is that the association between driving a high‐status car and unethical driving behaviour may not, as is commonly argued, be due to the corruptive effects of wealth. Rather, certain personality traits, such as low agreeableness, may be associated with both unethical driving behaviour and with driving a high‐status car.

There is also this...interesting sentence in the paper's discussion section:

> The present study was motivated by the authors' everyday experience of most traffic violations being committed by male drivers of high‐status cars.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31797376
I suspect it may be down to the use of the Caret key on typewriters and teleprinters as a modifier on other characters. Often the caret was a ‘dead key’ that did not advance the carriage, so you could then type another character in the same location, which would be accented by the caret mark. If you wanted a caret by itself you had to then press the space bar. The control key is also used to modify the meaning of another key, and does not advance the cursor.
This is an unserious argument. ED and property taxes aren't comparably unpredictable. An obvious illustration of this would be the fact that most places in the US don't have California's cap, and people manage tax planning just fine. If your real argument is, essentially, "taxation is theft", that's a coherent position, but since most people don't agree with the premise, you're not left with much to contribute to this particular discussion.
This how I think too.
I'm familiar with different implementation in FAANGs. (I cannot disclose the names.) They are hardly as bloated and vulnerable as Docker+Kubernetes.

> It's awful in all of the same ways IMO.

> So one point for your claim, two against.

It's awful but at the same time it's a claim against... interesting.
Whats GP here are you referring to me?
> More moderation.

Agreed. However moderation power is something that needs to be considered carefully. I think moderation power should be distributed broadly to the users who have shown good stewardship of the community via their participation, and not to a few chosen individuals.

> Higher barriers of entry.

Yes this is the key. It should take work to occupy mind-space. Your first comments should be shown to very few people, probably experienced users in the community, and their approval or disapproval will determine how much visibility your next comments get.
The fundamental reason is that photography is based on a single individual specimen, whereas illustration can be based on hundreds or thousands of specimens. Thus, the illustrator can draw attention to the defining characteristics and ignore the "noise".
I don't complain, it's the FB devs that probably complained and had to do a complete rewrite of this joke at some point.
RCS reduction specifically targets X and S band radars because those are the ones which are precise enough used for firing solutions. You need those bands in order to either direct a missile onto a target or have a active seeking missile find it's target. What you're talking about is L band radar, which has existed since the 40's. But it's use is as a early warning system. The problem is that the resolution of it is orders of magnitude worse. For it to be actually useful today you need to build a massive radar which is very power hungry. That's a perfect target for a first hour cruise missile strike.

And that's not even getting to the part that the only reason why L band can even detect F35's and F22's is because that they have features like vertical stabilizers which are too small relative to the wavelength. B2's and B21's do not have this issue.

Finally the idea that one F-117 shot down somehow invalidates that fact that the F-117's stealthiness provided it protection with 99% effectiveness is absurd. The reason why it was shot down was because of USAF's arrogance in flying identical flight paths day on day and a SAM operator realizing this and succeeding in targeting it the moment it opened it's bomb bays, when it's stealth was degraded.
Benchmarking and profiling are both built into the language, which is pretty nice. But you’re right, Go is designed for safety over control. High performance Go comes down to avoiding allocations; there’s not too much else you can do at the language level.
> If replacing the CEO of Facebook would produce more of the same, this should not be a discussion of who "controls" Facebook- it is of whether Facebook- and companies like it- should be allowed to exist at all.

Yes, they should be allowed to exist. It's not the government's place to determine what businesses should and should not exist unless their core business presents a clear, imminent, and obvious danger to the public or requires committing a crime (and speech by private individuals cannot be a crime).

You have a fundamental individual right to run a service like Facebook, without government interference. This is like free society 101.
Wait. People used to complain that putting everyone in the same bucket was bad because of “homogenization” and targeting stereotypical aspects. Now targeted advertising is bad too?
I don't understand how any the cracking tools work on any of the modern handsets. Are they extracting the key (DEK) from memory? Have they exploited a vulnerability in (Google) fscrypt, or LUKS? Or are these unencrypted phones? Or unencrypted cache partitions?
> This ability to craft your narrative in a more granular fashion that's not observable to anyone outside the target demographic

This is not in any way new. That private remarks would get broadcast all over the place because of cell phone recordings is a historical aberration, not the norm. People have been tailoring and modifying their communication based on the audience since the beginning of time. It's why gossip exists (as a countermeasure).
A good first start would be to teach the old maxim, "don't believe everything you read," in schools more. Most kids have only heard this phrase a few times in their lives and never really process it in their everyday lives. It would do a lot of good.
Odin seems rather similar to Zig: https://ziglang.org/

It would be interesting to hear from anyone who has spent time in both about the differences in experience.

It’s a trend of “Better C than C” languages that don’t go as far as Rust or C++ in terms of either complexity (or safety) but are more opinionated and modern than C. I think Nim can squeeze into this category, too, but maybe not? Nim is confusing to me.

Jon Blow is also working on one of these, but it isn’t released yet: https://github.com/BSVino/JaiPrimer/blob/master/JaiPrimer.md
>You can’t find something if you’re not looking for it, simple as that. //

That does sound simple; and wrong. Have you really never found something you weren't looking for, my wife for one.
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No, but it's obvious a lot of developers thinking of new languages haven't heard about the weird thing called 'not the US'.

Swedish keyboards don't have those dedicated keys either and it's always a dance of hitting a random option among ({[ when trying to type fast.
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What accounts are tied to your real name? I don't use any facebook products so don't know about that, but don't know of any other that are tied to my name.

Enforcement of community standards has backfired in the form of weaponised censorship.
I find the opposite. UI issues dominate too much since The Web murdered client-server stacks. Client-server was like parking a passenger car: you aim the front wheels where you went to go, and then you are there. Web stacks are like driving an 18-wheel truck: you have to plan in advance your multi-point swings and move carefully and slowly because rework is expensive.
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Pipe written in a night. The good old days.
The unnamed "popular and widely-deployed application" appears to be Firefox and Thunderbird: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=949644

There's more discussion here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1607902
I'd buy that.

Disagreeable people tend to get what they want more often. The most disagreeable people tend to be men.

Also luxury car drivers tend to be worse drivers just by driving those cars alone.

https://clark.com/cars/study-expensive-cars-road-manners/
I know I know, I didn't mean to imply that it is some innate ability some are born with and that's the end of it (nor are most intuitions).
I think, the problem is actually deeper in the society. From what I could observe, once the our basic food/shelter needs are satisfied, we humans have an inherent need for long-term goals. Like slowly progressing one's career, or growing one's small business. Self-actualization, something to put your passion into.

For instance, I myself am running a bootstrapped software business, draw immense positive energy from seeing satisfied customers and feeling that I'm the person that made it possible.

As far as I can see, due to commoditization of most labor (better organization, moving of production offshore), it is becoming harder and harder for people to self-actualize professionally. It's hard to draw personal satisfaction from driving Ubers all day or being a cog in a corporate machine. You perfectly know that one day you can be replaced by a fresh graduate with a minimal training who would do just as fine. You can no longer have a self-identity as "the best baker in town", because most people buy bread from a supermarket. There are certainly artists, video bloggers, etc, but it's a tiny percentage of the population and it pays a fraction of what the soul-crushing corporate jobs do.

So, since people cannot self-actualize professionally, they seek it elsewhere. Since the West has a culture of openness and acceptance to all kinds of minorities and subcultures, many people's self-identity becomes their belonging to a certain social group and their feeling of self-growth comes from having others acknowledge their point of view. Except, this is a zero-sum game: instead of creating value for those who need it, people begin competing for other's attention and alignment.

For instance, if I am selling ice cream and the guy across the road is selling chocolate cakes, we're at peace with each other because whoever wants ice cream will come to me and whoever wants chocolate cakes will come across the road. But if I go on a crusade trying to convince everyone that ice cream is the only correct desert, while my neighbor does the same for chocolate cakes, we quickly become political enemies intolerant of each other.

To sum it up, if you want to fix it for yourself, put your passion into something that creates value rather than aims at redistributing it, and you will feel much better. This would be extremely hard in the current economy though, and yes, it feels sucky because the previous generations sort of had it for granted. I've no idea how to fix it globally.