skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Pretending that other people cant affect you and cant harm you is just nonsense.

Yes, that's right. Which is why I mentioned thinking about "others as having more power over you than they do" and acknowledged upthread that "There are situations where you're disempowered, taken advantage of, or abused."

I think you're hearing me say something like "no one is victimized." Far from it. People really are victimized, and they are victims in those situations.

But the question is whether, over time, they continue to engage with the world primarily as victims or whether their victimization is an event that's placed in the past.

I mentioned being cheated on. I do not believe that "maybe cheating was my fault or maybe I remember it wrong." I remember it very well, and I am absolutely confident that my ex's decisions and actions were hers and hers alone. I also spent a fair amount of time in pain.

Now, I could go forward in the world continuing to feel that pain. I could go forward in the world thinking things like "I won't ever be in a healthy, trusting relationship" or "next time, I need to have more control over my partner" or "it must be that I'm an inadequate man."

But I don't. Was I a victim? Yes. Do I have that victim mindset? No.

I was bullied as a child. Well into adulthood, I held on to a number of victim-oriented views, such as: people probably don't like me; other men are threats; I can't be friends with men. That's the bullshit. This painful series of events happened to me when I was young, but I took lessons about how children treated me and overgeneralized from them.

Can people still affect me and harm me? Yes, of course! But I don't need to go around looking over my shoulder and expecting that from everyone. I can remove myself from situations; I can fight back; I can call out the harmful behavior. I'm not in the victim mindset of "other people are hurting me and there's nothing I can do." I'm in the empowered mindset of "other people might hurt me, but there are things I can do about that."

Along with that, I've realized that some people won't like me, but that's up to them, and others do like me. And that some men are threats, but others are kind, and I can choose which men I associate with.

Like I said earlier, no one is denying victimhood. But it's a victim mindset to generalize painful and disempowering experiences, and make those the primary lens in your mental view of the world.

If someone has told you to shut up about uncomfortable things to hear that have happened to you, I'm sorry. That's wrong. In fact, changing your worldview generally requires digging into those things that have happened to you. But a lot of people take and advocate the unhealthy approach of "just suck it up" or telling someone to "stop playing the victim" without recognizing the hard and somewhat lengthy journey it can take to actually develop and reinforce a healthier more empowered worldview.
In reference to the comment two levels above this one, there is no better representation of HN than somebody who has no idea what they're talking about sounding absolutely convinced about themselves and then not only being wrong, but almost diametrically so.
I remember when I was in college trying to figure out what to shoot for in life, I had the realization that if you shoot for "more" it's a goal you'll never reach. There is no end to it.

But if you shoot for "enough", there is a very definite point between "more than enough" and "not enough".

It's a nice goal to shoot for. When you are above "enough", it means you can relax and enjoy life.
If I were to make a spyware app, the apple store and google store would destroy me.
Similarly, google store and apple store have banned apps for political reasons, being right wing or informing people about the evils of the elites.
Yet, when it came to the spyware made by the chinese communist party, they played dumb. A serious investigation should begin against Google and Apple, to see what's their endgame and what are their ties with the CCP and other elements working to subvert the american democracy. Of course a man can only dream.
Well, we have statistics. We all know how most people vote.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/244367/top-issues-voters-health...

Where do you think the following issues rank in the list?

Facebook/Google collecting data. Especially in the case of FB where people willingly give it data.

Amazon - effects on small retailers (disclaimer I work at AWS)

Apple -

A) taking a 30% cut when most of the money comes from play to win games.

B) Or that you can’t sign up for subscription services in the app

C) you can’t sideload. People have been fine with buying through iTunes/App Store since 2003.

We know that many people on the right are single issue voters - religion, gun rights , abortion. There are probably many single issue voters on the left. The only one that I can think of is “not Trump”.
I'd probably throw it at nuclear fusion power research.
He gave those $22 million away. That is the point.
I recently ran into this sort of filtering when trying to share an AI Dungeon .link URL with a friend. It's kind of crazy that entire TLDs are blocked without any indication or warning.
TikTok's Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U.S. deal
I guess I haven’t really considered that angle before, maybe the maintainers love it too much to let it die.

I don’t really know where I stand now. Maybe they should just leave it alone. I just stare wistfully at the hole PHP has dug itself out of over the past decade in terms of modernizing the language, and its 2020 and I can’t even have subroutine signatures without experimental flags. I feel like opportunity was missed with Perl and I don’t know if it can be reclaimed.
(Repeating one of the comments from the post):

> Has anyone (EFF?) considered the aspect of destroying evidence
of prior art in the public domain?

I think there’s a case to be made for stewardship of these groups for that reason.
Cortana is now a standalone app that can be uninstalled and updated separately from Microsoft Store.
> OOP makes people agree on "where should we put this block of code" in a way that's "intuitive" and scales.

This is the opposite conclusion of Brian Will's Object-Oriented Programming is Bad video.

Since it forces you to think about everything as a real-world "object", OOP often leads to philosophical debates like

Should a Message send() itself?

Should a Sender send() Messages?

Should a Receiver receive() Messages?

Should a Connection transmit() Messages?

With more and more abstract OOP constructs with more and more interaction with the rest of the program, knowing where to put the relevant code becomes more and more difficult. FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition[1], while it is satire, is quite similar to a lot of large Java codebases that have been through the wringer of alternating cycles of OOAD and code rot. Try to find the right bit of code to edit if you wanted to add a new feature to FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition. Not very easy.

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[1] https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
For a functionalist, this and every other "more general AI might need X also" is expected. Like, humans need sleep, pain, anxiety, social mediation, etc to achieve our high level of generality. IMO, our base case should be that a sufficiently general AI will need them as well.

I'm very excited by the budding neuromorphic phase of generality research for these kinds of discoveries
The article mentions that Apple once booted the same app for the same reason, and BlueMail made the same accusations in response at the time. I think this strongly suggests there's more to the story here.
> Academic email (.edu), to verify your affiliation.

Uh, why? And since it's just a free text field, what makes it better than me just hosting something on my own?
This is just pressure to ensure Bytedance sells to Microsoft
Rinsing the rice and letting it sit for 30-60min absorbing some moisture then a 1:1.25 ratio is by far the best method I’ve used.

I also let it steam in its own heat for the last 10min or so of cooking since the temp won’t rise it won’t overcook the rice but it will prevent any rice from being undercooked or from the rice at the bottom form burning.

If I don’t have the tome to rinse I usually increase the ratio slightly and cook it for 5min longer and let it sit covered for 5 additional minutes but the result will also be a much more stickier and starchy rice.

People also for some reason stir rice which you should never do unless you are making glue or rice pudding (which tbh is the same recipe minus the sugar and flavorings).
I guess you never heard about what happened with Huawei?
>>For people that regularly eat rice, buying a decent rice cooker is really a no-brainer.

I use Instant Pot. It's not as good as a rice cooker, but most of the time the difference isn't noticeable, and the benefit is that you can cook a LOT more things in it than just rice. Great if you have limited counter space in your kitchen.
Wikipedia disagrees:

>Derek Sivers transferred ownership of his company to a charitable remainder unitrust for music education, and had the trust sell it to Disc Makers. This agreement requires the trust to pay Sivers 5% of the trust's value annually (hypothetically $1,100,000 pretax, based on a sale price of $22 million as reported by Sivers)[4] until death, while upon death the remainder will ultimately go to charity.

So he actually earns around $90k per month. The foundation was also probably a tax dodge more than some altruistic thing.
Once the gear is available for purchase, people who need 5G in particular places will install it themselves without interference from the Daughters Bell. (This won't just be rural users; more typically it might be industrial or commercial users who have lots of Io-Things.) Backhaul, where required, typically will be over fiber, as it should be. Eventually, since spending on radio equipment will be tied to how it's used rather than how ATTVZN would like to distort the market, 5G will be as normal as Wifi.
Well, it's not like you don't have enough money with Island et al...

(Yeah, I'm joking)
Would invest almost of it in my medical charity of choice: SENS, and after that public outreach.

Some people would accuse me of making medicine only for the rich, but that is not my intention. The disease of old age affect equally both billionaire and the poorest of grandparents, and everyone in between. To have new medicine only available to the rich and only the rich would be a total failure of my aim.
ByteDance reportedly reaches deal to sell TikTok American operations
That is only because it’s the view of some peope this will be of net benefit to the world, flossing over some of the more obvious problems we are seeing the Internet cause today. Surveillance, disinformation, interference in democratic process to name a few.
What if, learning to be happy with "enough", is how people get filthy rich?

https://sivers.org/richand
the intersting bait and switch that always seems to happen is people point at billionaires and then use their wealth to justify raising taxes on dentists that make 200k. Whereas the billionaires can just offshore their wealth.

they are used as scapegoats but the damage is done to working professionals like family physicians
That's actually one of the best cookie banners I have seen. You don't even have to deselect everything, just 3 boxes.
He didn't give it away, he put it in a foundation that pays him 5% per year and probably avoided paying taxes on it as a result.
> That’s partly testament to long-standing advantages vast wealth affords. Bolstered by years of strategic diversification and family offices that can rival investment banks in their scope and sophistication, the 0.001% can weather economic and social turmoil.

Interesting how this article points to their tactic being some kind of sophisticated investing strategy, and not the federal reserve bailing out stocks and lowering interest rates to prop up property prices.

The whole article reads like a desperate attempt to keep people from realizing our own government props up these rich families at taxpayer expense.
Thousands protest in Berlin against coronavirus restrictions
It's bitcoin.
Virtualbox is shit, agreed. Try Fusion, specifically the Technical Previews. They are free, and run like a dream(you can turn off debugging).
https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2020/07/fusion-big-sur-t...
I like this idea very much. I've thought about making something similar.

The example in the readme isn't idiomatic Python. It would be better to use enumerate.
He didn't, he siphoned them in a "charity/fund" for tax purposes. That's a rich man's move 101. It only becomes an actual charity if he (knock on wood) dies young from my understanding...
No. A single long exposure would only show maybe one or two of those satellites. That's numerous exposures stacked on top of each other, such that every satellite visible in any of them is in the final result. This is completely backwards from how photo stacking is meant to be done (it's meant to remove satellites not visible in all of them.)
Honestly, to me a completely faithful representation isn't necessary. I want to learn to drive a car, or enjoy a very realistic car driving experience in simulated traffic. While having a one-to-one representation of the world would be great, it's not strictly necessary for that goal. To that end, car physics, different driving condidtions caused by weather and surface, and realistic modelling of traffic charachteristics (including law enforcement and the odd drunk driver) is far more important to me.

(But ummm.... Right now I just want to say sorry for hijacking this flight sim thread with car sim posts... :p I never thought it would get this much traction. No pun intended.)
Multi-threading and concurrency books which are worth reading
I think "pop" music ( which now very much includes hip hop) by it's very nature has been this way. I can't think of a the when it wasn't.
Early Disease Detection, Storytelling, Enjoying Being Wrong, Talent, UBI
I have run into a couple of people like that, while consulting.
No need to disclose anything: plausible deniability is enough. And "bias" can be fixed by ad-hoc quotas.
That proves nothing. Those products would not have failed if they were not in Walmart because there are plenty of other outlets instead of just two.
Gotcha. That's my misreading, and I apologize for that.
People want to work somewhere to earn money. I assume you're one of those people that likes to ask "Why do you want to work here?". I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but unless you're a charity or doing something groundbreaking (e.g. SpaceX), the only reason people want to work for your company is money.
Incentivized Guardianship
yep, i just add more water and the brown rice turns out fine. though i’m sure fancy 200 dollar zojirushi ones probably do it better, i’m happy with simplicity
Oxford / AZ C-19 vaccine study begins US recruitment
This makes complete sense, I guess it’s hard to suppress Epstein and black lives matter content when it’s on tiktok. We need to go back to communicating on the tedious YouTube experience and getting 2 views a month if we aren’t linking to a amazing baby stroller that our video unboxing is about. All hail FAANG.
Something I've really struggled with is when people who enjoy working more than I (perhaps addictively, perhaps not) then exclude me and others from participating. They've often earned the control but I've often produced higher quality work and only prefer a different work life balance. However, unless I'm willing to project onboard-ness with the culture and act accordingly, I'm excluded from participating.
It's so beautiful. Muaah delissimo!
in what sense are they realistic?

I would be happy if they were on time, but it seems BO missed their milestones quite often.
Serious question for better programmers than me: Doesn’t it violate seperation of concerns that something like the start menu that has a specific function and has been around for decades get smashed into the Cortana code and renamed. Cortana is clearly not core to the functionality of the start menu and if it became so it surely wasn’t out of necessity right?

It reminds me of when Microsoft was dead set on conflating the file manager “explorer” and Internet Explorer.

Can someone justify this?
I found that changing my keybinding to start alacritty with this environment variable set seems to work:

WINIT_X11_SCALE_FACTOR=1.0 alacritty

https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/commit/93780ef0929e08...
But why? The test to see if you can actually program takes ten minutes or something. Why is spending ten minutes on something so upsetting?
Windows Phone was hostile to both developer and OEM though. By comparison publishing apps on Play Store on Android only requires one time fee and Android was free and open source to OEM except with Play Store, which can be free if several Google Apps is preloaded.
I wish slack seemed fast for me. It's like typing into molasses.
> The definition of "arbitrarily" states: "on the basis of random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system".

Here's what OED says. (b) looks interesting, especially with the 1st amendment complications.

(Unless I'm missing something and arbitrarily is defined in US constitutional documents??)

---begin---

arbitrarily, adv.
(ˈɑːbɪtrərɪlɪ)[f. arbitrary + -ly 2.]

arbitrarily, adv.
In an arbitrary manner, at will;

arbitrarily, adv.
a. merely at will, without sufficient reason, capriciously;

arbitrarily, adv.
b. unconstitutionally, despotically.

a1626: Davies Quest. Impositions 131 “This power of laying on arbitrarily new impositions.”

1656: Hobbes Six Less. Wks. 1845 VII. 394 “The point F is not to be taken arbitrarily.”

1754: Edwards Freed. Will iv. 2 (ed. 4) 279 “The meaning that they arbitrarily affix to a word.”

1769: Junius Lett. xxxv, “Their rights have been arbitrarily invaded by the present House of Commons.”

1849: Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 126 “The Bishop of Dunkeld..was arbitrarily ejected from his see.”

1882: A. Macfarlane Consanguin. 1 “The arbitrarily chosen names of substances.”
Damn, John-Boy made good...
At least the Chinese system is out in the open.

Many private companies surveilling everyone without anyone's knowledge is terrible. Companies using these scores are really only targeting a group of people that allow the collection to happen.

My car insurance company would sure love to put a tracker in my car but there is no way in hell that is going to happen. I'm sure my driving style would qualify me for higher rates, yet I've never caused an accident or made a claim where I was at fault.
> No, that's unfair, you are saying all of tiktok content is low quality noise, which is wrong

I mean, just list the top 10 tiktoks ever, or even top 100... rank them on metrics like content, depth, purpose, knowledge. Then compare them to other platforms or content formats. It'll rank quite low.

Of course if you rank it on other things like stickiness/addictiveness, fun, humor, aesthetic, novelty etc, it'll rank perhaps quite high for what it is (3-10 seconds usually)

I think in the end it really depends what you're looking for when deciding whether something is low-quality noise.
It does bring into the mind the image of "a hell of a lot of money"....
Synfig Studio 1.3.15 Released
This is totally irrelevant to the discussion but I found it amusing that the author of that articles name is Jim Halpert and actually very mildly looks like Jim Halpert
Show HN: Plugin to add persisted GraphQL queries to WordPress
It just links to the redhat info which doesn't work on centos 8.2 (error message is that those packages are already at lowest versions).
Show HN: Postead – A fast-moving imageboard where your votes matter
Not at all like systemd then. I had hoped by now we'd be using something that took the arguably good qualities (simple unit files) and none of the complexity (why does it implement DNS?) and we could have the better subset.

It will continue to bite until enough people petition it's replacement.

Don't get me wrong, some of the features are good, but the kitchen sink is not.
Ok. So, clicking on the submitted link just takes me to a Gwen Ngwenya 'Who is' link. A) This has no tech link. B) why submit it? This is partisan news with absolutely 0 tech or other industry related information. Please provide a better link about who Gwen Ngwenya is & why their voice matters and how it impacts on the Tech Industry.

'k thx.
Man, personally, with Python, programming with the language seems to be the easy part.

I have struggled with virtual environments and runtime executables across various OSs.

What are current best practices?
NIMS ("not in my sky")? Yes that would be an escalation in this already tedious boomer tendency.
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23897779
Every decent app should support copy paste with ctrl+insert/shift+insert and doesn't conflict with terminal use of control characters... The alternative is to stop using terminal emulators.
If you go down the route of something being a right, but having oligopolies is _really_ bad, then it would seem that we should globalize space based internet. And why not? Civilization could transform in amazing ways if you can form a digital stream between any two locations on earth.

We already globalized highly accurate time and location, why not data streams?
Hi folks,

I wanted to share a quarantine project I’ve been working on and finally just released on Google Play Store. Any feedback on the app functionality or the idea itself would be much appreciated as I plan to continue improving the project. Also feel free to ask any questions and I’ll do my best to answer them as well as possible!

What is postead?

postead is a fast-moving imageboard where your votes and participation matter. With every refresh, the user is shown 15 posts which were most recently interacted with (submitted or commented on). This means that only the most relevant and engaging posts stay at the top, while others get lost forever to the flow of time. Users also have the option to upvote/downvote a post. If a post's upvote/downvote ratio falls below a certain point, the post gets deleted forever.

This gives the users a democratic power over the content that stays relevant. While every post is assigned to a channel, nobody owns the channel itself. This means channels don't have moderators, just the community moderating itself. Use channels to form communities and find people with similar interests.

Another important feature of postead is that posts that haven't been interacted with in over an hour get deleted from our servers forever. An automatic system deletes all of the images and comments associated with the original post, as well as the post itself. Only flow remains.

Flow is the is the postead equivalent to Reddit's karma - it's a way to score posts, comments and content in general. After posts and comments get deleted flow remains and users can keep track of the total amount of flow they have accumulated over time.

https://postead.com/

https://www.reddit.com/r/postead/
Hmm I suspect this could be related to Branch links, because their default deep link domain is app.link
StackExchange Performance Stats
Show HN: These startups share their numbers in public our HEROS our INSPIRATION!
FWIW I had googled whether hostnames may be entirely digits before asking this, and this SO answer suggested yes. Perhaps that doesn’t apply to URLs? But to be clear I meant hostname not a FQDN, because obviously there is no ambiguity once a dot is present.

https://serverfault.com/questions/638260/is-it-valid-for-a-h...
I am honestly disappointed, I think Raku is a much nicer language than Perl 5 or 7

And I really wish, if those working on Perl 5 would have switched to Raku, but sadly i think CPAN for Perl 5/7, have a lot more activity than the equivalent at Raku

Most new and modern languages are Compiled, Functional or targeting the JVM or .Net frameworks

Raku is I think the last and only modern scripting language , it could have used the helping hand of the Perl 5/7 community