skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To help individuals with delusions, the current findings suggest, it may be more effective to examine their sense of control and choices than to try to convince them with contradictory evidence—which, over and over, has not been shown to work.

Oh god. If that's true, you can't possibly do this at scale like you'd need for coronavirus things or global warming. I'm sure we all have delusions about something at some level. That's why trust in public institutions is critical and those institutions need to be above reproach in their conduct. That doesn't mean no bad conduct but an evidence-based belief that bad conduct is identified and punished. That could explain why American society has been crumbling. It's taken a beating on the trust aspect by abuses from those in power for a long time. More importantly there haven't really been meaningful reforms to address that abuse which has eroded the trust that was built up for so long. The "small government" movement has taken a long time but it's finally winning in America because it identified trust as the weak point & systematically kept attacking it & used media to amplify the fight. A countermovement did not form in time so here we are with so many decades of damage. I'm not sure if it's possible to rebuild that at this point.
Side question do we know why it dipped in brightness?
> What is a launcher?

“Launcher” is the Android term for a graphical shell, the thing from which you launch apps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_float
Malcom X gave a great speech on the dangers of these people and their use and co-opting of black and fringe causes. It's crazy to think that he gave that speech almost 60 years ago, and it sounds like he is talking about modern politics.
Big tech needs new, powerful government watchdogs to enforce real transparency
revenue was $24.3 billion in 2019.
I did a week of intro to cooking classes at ICE[1] awhile back. It was 4 hours a day for a week. I'm no chef, but I can shop and cook for my family with decent result. During the entire COVID, we only did take out once for birthday celebration.

[1] https://www.ice.edu/
Lead Generation Ideas for Your Business
For what it's worth, the USA is very commonly perceived overseas as an incredibly violent society.
Big Tech Faces Ban from Favoring Own Services Under EU Rules
We should try to solve problems, but it's important to understand why the solutions aren't as simple as just "give a hoot, don't pollute!" And I think this is something that isn't commonly understood; I've seen more than a few arguments that corporate greed is the only thing standing between us and a perfectly sustainable climate.
I fully agree. It's really sad. I don't have a high DPI screen (just a 38" doing 3840x1600, but using a "regular" pixel-size, not a retina display) and I'm using a "pixel perfect" font for coding, no AA (a modified version Terminus I made myself, with inspiration from the Monaco font for some glyphs).

You're not alone but we are a dying breed.
Palo Alto has two high schools, and I have not heard that either is being shut down due to low enrollment. Instead, they are so overenrolled that interdistrict transfers into the district are denied.
I think this is great.
> Diversity is a divide and conquer strategy for controlling populations.

it does sometimes look like the left is eating itself by creating internal fractal divisions all the way down. I don't think there is any group of puppeteers pulling strings from the top; it's just a weird consequence of intersectionality.

> Research the topic of how diversity in neighborhoods reduces trust and cohesion.

you probably need to expand on this a bit more to support a conclusion like this:

> Ultimately the concept of diversity is itself racist and sexist, as are those who espouse it.

I don't contest that conflict often arises when there is a very diverse population living or working together, but we need to investigate the causality a bit more. does increasing diversity inherently reduce trust and cohesion, or does trust and cohesion appear to be reduced locally because a bunch of different groups who already didn't trust each other are suddenly living/working together?
I personally can't wait until most crypto currencies move to proof of stake over proof of work. I wish the UN would coordinate some sort of global carbon tax initiative. Want to mine crypto? Ok, but you're paying for the co2. No more free rides!
I submit this PR [0] for your enjoyment:

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[0]: https://github.com/OscarZhou/CSharpTraining/pull/1/commits/8...
Not all homeless people are capable of keeping homes. I know a couple, their demons torment them too much to simply function as a neighbor.

I wouldn’t believe it myself if I wouldn’t have seen it. The worst bunch of them are the homeless that don’t want to be helped, yet keep causing trouble with their undiagnosed psychological afflictions.
Totally. Just recently I started showing my kid how to get somewhere they goes often. I lead the way the first 5 times and the 6th made them lead. They had no clue where to go, so instead I made them guess and if they were wrong I would correct them. 7th day they took me on their own without any assistance.

I only did this because of what you said; anytime I rely on Google Maps to get me somewhere, I never really know where to go until I find my own way there.

I think it’s similar to how teaching something makes you understand it better.
It is much much smarter compared to any electronic alternative. It is actually the smartest way to do it if done correctly. Only people who do not understand crypto say stuff like that.
I have something similar for PRs but with labels instead.

if: contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'wip')
Sometimes it seems like I'm the only person with absolutely zero issues with USB-C. I have a Lenovo monitor that delivers power+HDMI+usbhub to my laptop, and having to only plug one thing in to access all my peripherals is amazing. I used a bog standard Anker USB-C cable for this.
Small government is winning because big government is filled with crooks
I feel you, there was a book I can’t find at the moment that a coworker recommended to me on the subject of people from poorer/rougher backgrounds in tech/white color jobs and how their learned experience can isolate them in ways they don’t even realize. You could be told you’re argumentative or uncomfortable to talk to because of intense eye contact but growing up you were told that is important to maintain.

On the one hand this saddens me as I realize a level of inclusivity where people don’t feel these little micro-exclusions is essentially impossible. On the other being aware of them in others broadens empathy and aware of them in yourself can help you select better.
Really? I find it to be a game changer for me.

The fact that my laptop, Switch, iPad, and several other devices can all share a charge has made my life much easier. I can just sprinkle a few of them throughout the house and never be without power. Before it was always a hunt to find a cable, or I had to be in [x] room to charge [y] device because that's where the charger lived.

Plus, I can charge my MacBook on either side, so that's basically life changing on its own. :)
I've always been impressed with Theo de Raadt and his OpenBSD team in this regard. Everything in the base OS is routinely audited and fixed quickly.

The link has a section named Audit Process, which is interesting.

https://www.openbsd.org/security.html
Just wait until you have to write an embedded driver for it.
What? Government agencies did exactly the thing privacy advocates warned they would do if such information were allowed to be collected? I am shocked.
That picture made me feel pretty bad...

I am in my early twenties and from Switzerland. My father was born four years after this picture was taken, can't wrap my head around the fact that my country was so incredibly sexist back then. The arguments are laughably bad.

I wondered which parties voted against it, as expected the only one was SVP(BGB back then). Who would have thought...

EDIT: The last canton to allow woman to vote was Appenzell Innerrhoden in 1990.
Yes it is !

I'm part of this super active Indie hacker community since august and I am totally convincing by how its run.

However, you have to sign-up and pays a small contribution to discuss with us. It's worth it only if you are an indie hacker/side-project builder/... I guess.

And behind the paywall, you will find the complete explaination of the project Rise-of-Indies.

(As it's more "intimate" and that I don't want to expose every details of my thought on HN, It's a great choice)
It's a mess, but it still seems much better than the situation before to me. It's true, you currently need to be careful when buying cables, but if you are, you can charge all your devices with the same plug. And usb-c video means your monitor can act as usb hub for keyboard and mouse over the video cable, so you only need to replug a single cable to move video and mouse and keyboard between computers. I use this a lot with my laptops, I find it super convenient. It's not like the previous situation was easier to navigate for consumers. Sure, I'd be nice if usb-c was an even bigger improvement, but it doesn't deserve to be called "total mess".
Chris Sievey (aka Frank Sidebottom) released a single with a B Side containing a "video" for the Sinclair ZX81: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u9ZyV-BHFA

And of course The Thompson Twins had an adventure game for the ZX Spectrum on one of their releases: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAo4dj0O0c4
2019 Saw the Biggest Jump in Real Median Household Income on Record, by Far
I'm not a public repo maintainer. I have just my own personal repos, but I will say that for me Hacktoberfest has been only a positive. I think my first ever PR on someone else's repo was because I was spurred on by Hacktoberfest to dip my toes in. Since then, I've become more and more comfortable with git and Github.

I would be very sad to see Hacktoberfest end.
> Yeah, I worked in the industry for a while based in Europe, so that's the context of my comment.

Just want to let you know that I appreciate the info. Cheers!
Like probably many people here I had my first computer (running DOS) at an early age.

I've never shied away from DIY projects but didn't truly feel comfortable that I'd do them well until I started building up my tool collection.

Equipped with the right tools and youtube as you mentioned, there's usually nothing complicated about it and it's a lot of fun to go from virtual to physical creation.
I’m sure for some it’s a nightmare worthy of writing about, but yeah I’ve never had a problem.

I love that USB-C trivially expanded my laptop to having two DisplayPort devices so I can run 3 4K screens at 60hz
Show HN: VR for Africa: 1-bit videos and displaying vertices instead of polygons
Unraveling 66M years of climate history from ocean sediments
I was around 5, repositioned my webcam because it/my face was askew, and I shot up to 8.7!
While I am flattered, experience certainly does not match that number.

On the other hand, my life expectancy is in the 60's, despite having a normal BMI.
Not often. For what it's worth, I am currently working on a project within a semiconductor company to improve this situation.

Semiconductor companies (in my experience) are finally starting to accept the importance of software, so documentation is the next battle. It's coming, but slowly.
So now the crooks are out of government swindling you through the market in a way you don't even see? Or are you saying people's propensity for taking advantage & criminality only happens in the context of government? Or are you saying that government crooks are more efficient at swindling larger amounts than the private market offers?
seriously, my heart was pounding for a sec. the subject line should really be changed.
I use basically this recipe:

https://smittenkitchen.com/2008/09/best-challah-egg-bread/
This is silliness. This has gotten worlds better by just making chargers that work with everything and realizing that only some cables work for some needs. If you are a big hardware nut, sure you can run into issues, but 99% of the time, the same cable that charges my Phone charges my Tablet, and my laptop and my headphones and my switch and powers a wireless charger, all from the same brick. This is as opposed to the world 6-7 years ago where that would be a littany of cables and bricks.

Is it perfect? No.

Is it better? Yes.
In my case, I don't really need it, but what I read there seems to be a DB performance boost by having it. And finally, if I wanted it down the road, it's already there.

Default sorting out of the box is kind of nice anyways.
Hack: copy and paste this code into your developer console (except the module.exports line at the bottom)

https://github.com/defunctzombie/form-serialize/blob/master/...

then also write in developer console:
> window._form_serialize = serialize
The big problem with Apple is the mentality of "it just works, so you don't need any info".

This means that when I plug a cable into the USB-C port on the MacBookPro, I can't get any info about what kind of cable it is. I can't get "this cable is for power only" information.

And there is no standard for markings on cables and power supplies that tell this.
Well, this is beyond my ability to grok.

Does this apply to ULIDs?
Ouch, that one hits home. My partner is a social worker and her car leaves a lot to be desired..
It's a bit of a mess but it's a net positive and there's worse shit going on.
Strings in Rust
YES! This is why it's SO important to keep this sort of stuff in schools.

Sliding compound miter saw is a magic tool.

Now just wait until you get a MIG welder and a bandsaw, you'll be UNSTOPPABLE and the world will suddenly look a whole lot different!

Sidenote: I'm the program director at a nonprofit where I teach/create curriculum. One of the workshops that I love teaching is a week long where we teach the following skills to a group of 12 kids:

Welding: learn to run a mig welder well enough to make art, furniture etc. Welding is easier than you think!

Woodworking: learn how to use a miter saw, and make 2x4s into smaller pieces and then reassemble them into larger pieces of different shapes!

Arduino programming: make lights blink on and off in exactly the way you want them to, and learn some C++ and core programming concepts in the process.

Laser cutting: learn how to take things out of your imagination and create beautiful things on the laser. Lasers always blow peoples' minds at how cool the the things they can make are, and how easy it is to use them.

These specific skills mean that these teenagers leave with a totally shifted perspective on the world around them. The experience you had realizing that the railing you wanted to fix was actually something that you can interact with and modify is what we're doing for these kids, but doing it with: things made of bits (computing), things made of wood, things made of metal, and things made on a computer (CNC). I'm really passionate about it. If you know of a group of kids that would enjoy this type of workshop, please email me!
Sonny vs. Darkside
USB-C charging is truly revolutionary.

USB-C data is a clusterf*k, and worse of all, is not UNIVERSAL anymore.
Start going bankrupt. Losses roll down hill and eventually the skid will be thrown into an Albanian meat grinder.
Off-topic: Do you have any recommendations for books or other resources for such game-dev postmortems? I remember that idTech's Doom and Quake were described in one such book, but I'd really like to read about some other major games.
I think we're past the point of being worth it, and it's now devolved into a political game that's hurting people more than the virus ever could. I can't help but to ponder how differently things would be handled, were this not an election year. It's a sad state of affairs to be sure.
Blue collar work isn't any better or worse than tech if you're young enough for your body to take it. You've got all the same variation, good bosses, bad bosses, slow and steady workplaces vs crisis every day workplaces.

One of the big differences is that being the guy who gets woken up at 3am is for the young people in tech but in the blue collar industries its for the guys who have stuck it out past 40 and are really experienced.

Side projects are just as common in the blue collar world but they're used as less of a technical filter and more of a culture fit filter.
Their refund policy is only generous in US terms - they were sued into implementing it by the Australian consumer protection agency.
Every death is a tragedy, but public policy is a balancing act, you can't spend infinite resources and goodwill (directly or by imposing costs on others) on saving every life, because you'll have nothing left for the next 10,000 lives you need to save.

Don't confuse newsworthiness with importance. The news cares more about novelty than consequences. Something like 700 children drown every year and that fails to make headlines, because it's not surprising.
Many companies pay good money for scanning services like that, so Github adding it to their Enterprise offerings would make sense. (No clue how you get to "harassing" and "automatically making them public" from that suggestion...)
So all issues with USB-C boil down to

- Apple made some different standard that uses the same Plug

- Power supplies come at different power ratings (who would have thought!)

Of course this is not ideal, but it is already better than not being able to get _any_ 3rd part power supply at all.
It is nature: despite of all efforts men still cannot get pregnant.

The society is trying hard to fight the nature and convince women that their primary goal should be a successful career, but so far the nature wins.
> trust in public institutions is critical

Distrust in public institutions is why we no longer live under despots. You need a balance.
In Los Angeles, the Museum of Jurassic Technology has a great exhibit on Kircher and his many exuberant theories on just about every scientific topic of his day. Well worth a visit.
I could charge a phone with a laptop's charger, then charge another laptop with that.

Contrary to other 'messes', this one is worth surmounting.
You got me to chuckle at, "thought terminating thought experiment". I will file that in my cliché attaché.

Are you saying that I am asking for a universal perfect compressor, like I am winning the Hutter Prize [1] ? I don't believe I said that.

To add to the tooling, what if the forum itself "learned you", and took that into account when I respond. It would know everything you wrote, potentially everything you read (on this site), and you in turn would know me. It might help mediate a discussion or prevent folks from talking past each other. What if our systems, could allow us to contextualize communication so that it was grounded in the same basis of knowledge as the receiver?

Might some of those signaling mechanisms be the norms and affectations of each branch of study?

You have given me some things to think about [2]

[1] http://prize.hutter1.net/

[2] http://users.ics.aalto.fi/pkaski/kca/

[3] Looks like they have some thought provoking books and interviews https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Chaitin

Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RLdSvQ-OF0

[4] A physicist looks at linguistics through a complexity lens http://www.its.caltech.edu/~matilde/LinguisticsToronto7.pdf http://www.its.caltech.edu/~matilde/MOL2019MathLinguisticsSl...
Same for me, also that I can use the same docking station for my work and my private laptop is awesome. Of course the support for the (quite complex) standard is not fully there yet, so one cannot blindly buy or connect new stuff.
The simple fact that USB-C usess a rotationally symmetrical connector is a huge improvement for me. Everything else, well, it worked for me before.
Very much not my experience. In fact USB-C is one of those technical advances like adaptive cruise control that I just can't imagine going back from. My only pain point has been the dongles needed to connect older USB devices to my MacBook Air that doesn't have the ports -- but I would rather deal with that than not having USB-C at all.
I'll be waiting for a long, long time then.
Did you not read the article? Because your response doesn’t address any of the issues brought up in the article. Mainly that all the usb-c cables you sprinkle across your house might not have the same functionality. And if you plug your switch in to one it might charge it, while another will not.
Don't worry. USB-C and associated standards are five+ years old now. Some new standards will be along soon enough. Then we will all have to buy new chargers/cables/devices again, continuing the cycle of chasing the universal bus nirvana.

https://www.pocket-lint.com/laptops/news/intel/147329-usb-4-...

>> The USB 4 specification was published in late 2019 and will probably appear in devices in late 2020 or early 2021 - it usually takes around 18 months for devices to come to market once a new standard is published for the first time.
It definitely could be better but overall I think it’s a win. The only thing I am missing is that there are no USB-C 4-1 hubs like you can get for USB-A. Some of the cables also seem pretty finicky.
>it will need to decrease its unreasonable demands down to other similar careers for both men and women.

Which unreasonable demands and which other similar careers?
I rather like my Shield TV (2017). Nvidia has been pretty good about keeping it up to date, so I wonder how this changes things.
So that's a HIPAA violation right? We going to see some prosecution?

Edit; OK it's in canada. So they have some strong laws about misusing medical records too right??
The extreme right party is called Chega (stands for Enough!).

I'm saying it's extreme right in the context of the portuguese political spectrum and some of their stances/party program.
Except the switch doesn't actually use usb-c pd, it's a different proprietary thing that uses a usb-c connector.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21383889
How to Use Push Notifications: 70 Ideas to Help You Get Started
Quickly generate default beautiful avatars on the fly
Aha - you may find that your Switch CANNOT in fact share a charge - Nintendo's port is not necessarily safe to use with anything but its supplied charger. And I've just learned this lesson with a $60 bill from Nintendo repair after the port went pop and couldn't charge the device. I only have reputable chargers in the house from Apple and one from Anker aside from the Nintendo's own.

All my apple kit works fine off the Apple chargers, but I do have an external hard drive that has mixed Thunderbolt 3/USB 3.1 ports, which are absolutely not the same.

I love the port, but the standard just hasn't caught up and when a company like Nintendo flouts it anyway, you have a big problem.
Trillions are at stake over who controls the federal government, or even pieces of it. There's a reason why nobody spends $100 million a year to lobby Google but they do the government. The biggest crooks go where the biggest opportunity is, that's all.
My prof said to go into database systems if you wanted to do something in tech that changes the slowest
Cloud was never a safe option
I've had some start to twitch and it's usually a bad connector. When I first installed my LED lights the connectors were actually a destructive type. They would pierce the strip to make the connection. The resulted in shaky connections that would fail easily. I then upgraded to non-destructive connectors and they work much easier.
USB C is amazing. Seriously it is one of the most day to day “simple” things that reduce friction in my life.
I could see it being great if all your devices are on it. But when you have usb-c, usb micro, usb mini and usb-b devices, the cables are a total pain. On top of the special pain usb-c brings onto itself. I have a cabinet that is basically dedicated to usb cables, using organizers to keep them all accessible and searchable. That does help a lot. But I feel like having to go that far is a sign usb was not as well thought out as it could have been.