skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The harsh reality of life, for the many who tend to be too deep in their thoughts, is that if intellectuals spent more time on their looks (which, when they are good, are per se charismatic and persuasive), their "so good" ideas will have many more chances to appear "so good" to also those hearing and reading those ideas.

Along the same lines, those who are leading the effort in making Science more popular and attract, for example, underrepresented minorities, should focus on making more visible scientists who are good looking, charismatic, and therefore persuasive. It sounds manipulative, especially to the eyes of intellectuals, but it'd work.
What do you mean ‘no escape key’?

All the terminals I have used swap out the suggestions bar for a row of extra keys, with escape in the place you would expect it.
Last I checked, chrome canary on Mac would prompt Finder to open any FTP links, completely removing any FTP action from chrome.
> The power to imprison and seize property is the core free speech issue.

There are more ways to control participation in public discourse than imprisonment and seizures of printing presses. Times have moved on. Instead of imprisonment, we have banning and filtering, with no independent oversight or appeal process. Twitter, Facebook, and a few other companies can do more to restrict the spread of certain information than most governments in the world have ever been able, so why shouldn't at least the same standard apply to them?

Their virtual town squares are nowadays larger than any square ever under government control, and they have absolute control over who can and cannot participate. They are the absolute monarchies of 21st century, more powerful than ever.
Keepa is the best because of not only that, but also the price tracker that shows up on the webpage of the item.
Permanent WFH will allow Dropbox to more heavily dogfood their own product.
You're right about that -- Stripe led Paystack's series A and has also led other series A rounds like Fast's.
This is why I own Facebook Stock.

They have so many profit and revenue levers, this is another example of one.

So many companies would pay for ironclad API access and relationship.

I believe that the lack of transparency around their APIs is by design for political reasons not a lack of engineering know how issues or ignorance issues.
Any monopolies?

It's just like playing along to Google's game (including vague "exact" matches for adwords) because there's no alternative, and no recourse.

It stinks.
Yes, but worth noting that it's not just a matter of education. People who stand to profit from the misinformation are also motivated to believe it.
the two (Prolog and SQL) even have something of a middle ground - Datalog (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalog)
PEP author didn't give a though why the awesome and flexible lisp-like family of languages is in roadside of industry, and Clojure the most popular has 24 place in github and declining. Just think about why this pathetic graveyard has no potence to offer any AI/Data science library. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Lisp-family_programmin...
Certainly. Why rent office space when you can commandeer your employees' private property?
Yes, it's basically a function prologue/epilogue in a single instruction. In practice any disassembly of an AArch32 program will have loads of these. It saves instruction cycles in most cases.

That wasn't the actual design goal, though: Acorn was trying to get away with not shipping a DMA controller, which was quite expensive kit at the time they were shipping the Archimedes. Having an instruction pair that let you use registers as DMA buffer let them get similar performance and save lots of per-unit cost.
Theory Y has been taught in management schools for >50 years.
"... it relies on the belief that there's no fundamental difference between some enlightened, rational circle of censors and the irrational masses."

This is a very excellent point.

While bingeing on HOPWAG, it finally occurred to me that our current food fight (fake news, cancel culture, censoring, trolling) might be due to very different ideas of What Is Truth.

If we can't even agree that the universe is knowable and someone somewhere probably has the correct answer, then the whole fight is pointless.

"In your view some elite group should decide..."

That's the exact opposite of my view.

We'll always have more falsehoods than truth. Even when we're trying to find the truth. The challenge of mitigating the replication crisis (in science) is proof of that.

Plus, I no longer care what the truth is. Because my opponents don't care. So further debate is pointless.

At this point I only want two things.

#1

Unplug the outrage machine.

#2

To be left alone.

I'd like to go ONE FULL DAY without having to think about this stuff. I shouldn't have to completely unplug from the world and actively defend my filter bubble just to do normal people stuff.

"...have to do with the paradox of intolerance? There's nothing intolerant about the claim that the Bidens are corrupt."

Honestly, I'm not quite sure yet. It certainly seems "flood the zone with bullshit" strategy is related to triggering identity and radicalization.
Qubes OS – A reasonably secure operating system
Honestly at this point I would kindly suggest to just fire every employee they have, seeing that every update in the last year made the program worse. Last thing they pulled is making it impossible to pause syncing for more than 24h.
I somehow don't feel sorry if overpaid tech workers, like me, have to buy a desk and chair. It's not like you need new office furniture very often.
RxJS Autorun
It's one thing to have the option to WFH and quite another to be required to. I think the second is a net loss, because lots of people can be more productive and balanced in a professional office environment.
As a descendant of the first Amish to come to the US (now Mennonite), this is the most accurate take on the Amish and their relationship with technology that I've seen online.
The Amish and Mennonite split happened because one group felt the other was becoming too progressive too quickly. The Amish are following the same trajectory as the Mennonite, just much much more slowly and cautiously. There's nuance in there, but that's basically the gist of it.
It doesn't work..
Most of the mediocrely talented but very successful people I know get by with high charisma. Or putting in many more hours than others. I don't know which one is easier to maintain over the course of a career.
(And apologies for the all caps open-ear)
Isn't MJF essentially the same process as SLS that was used in this project?
> Why would you design one from scratch? The hardware out there is excellent and inexpensive.

I thought the discussion was about open source printers, not about open source printer firmware? Sure, you could probably reverse engineer the interface to the actuators and sensors, which would allow you to write open source drivers, but you'd still be stuck with the printer manufacturer's cartridges.
Sternum provides greater visibility into IoT network security
If they ever get to the point of enabling audio folks to run windows audio apps with a low-latency pre-emptible kernel, they'll get big adoption in that world. Right not it's ridiculous how crappy the options are for low latency given how fast our machines are.
Secure Scuttlebutt might interest you.
Please fix atm!
Conversations about Muslim integration are sensitive enough that you wouldn't mention them in your workplace in fear of being labelled racist and possible repercussions. Not quite illegal, but its going that direction.
Didn't Twitter and Google already stated they want regulation? They are one of the few companies that actually can facilitate any form of large scale content scanning. Such mechanisms take years to develop if you even get the critical data needed.
I'm saying that one secret to developing the presence aspect of charisma is that competence is upstream of all the effects you have described, to clarify.
> I also do believe there is a system to allow countries to do identity attestation

not sure about the rest of the EU, in Poland there's a thing called Trusted Profile ("Profil Zaufany") where your bank serves as an "identity provider", i.e. you basically use your online bank account to verify your identity. it's kinda weird! but after that you can use your TP to sign and submit most (?) government forms/docs so it's pretty nice
I recently connected my online store to facebook (for ads, selling on facebook, etc.) and the whole process was a such a mess. Multiple confusing business UIs that you only get between by magic clicks or knowing the URL. Then they don't tie together or tied to the personal account instead of the business page or some other random insanity. The initial UI is clean and simple but then there's a cliff when you try to do anything more complicated. Then again when I tried to place ads on Twitter it wouldn't show me my tweets in the list so I couldn't promote them.
20 years ago i wrote code for MicroChip PIC series and we're developing using Assembler for maximum performance and minimum codesize.

Merging code between different devs there was... challenging!
That’s disturbing.

Still, unlike in China there are lawmakers publicly trying to stop it, and we are free to speak & write about it and say that it’s wrong
The legal system provides the mechanism to address that specific category of speech.

“Defamation is an area of law that provides a civil remedy when someone's words end up causing harm to your reputation or your livelihood. Libel is a written or published defamatory statement, while slander is defamation that is spoken by the defendant.”
>> We now know that 297mg of LSD will kill an elephant.

The facepalm I'm having at the moment would make Patrick Stewart jealous.

I misread that as μg and had to do a double-take.

That's...that's like several entire music festival's worth of LSD.
> Which is why I see professions that deal with the real world (engineers, doctors, lawyers to some extent) remaining more grounded in their thinking when compared to those that focus on people's opinions (politicians, media, academics, professional moralisers).

I very much agree. However, a largely unrealized ~fact is that people from these professions (well, ones who hold the "right" ideas) are regularly portrayed by politicians and the media as flawless, omniscient, beyond reproach (which is increasingly being physically enforced on the internet, with a net that grows ever larger). The downstream consequences of this likely well-intended behavior are extremely complex - sure, censorship will provide a setback to conspiracy theorists' ability to speak their ideas freely, but how much fuel does this provide to their resolve, and how many mainstream people will see what is clearly happening and dip their toes into the pool, and have their eyes opened even further when they discover the vast amount of actually truthful information that doesn't make it into the "trustworthy mainstream news" (even further reinforcing the idea in their mind that the public is lied to, and illustrating that this is done regularly)?

A meme war approach to governance seems like not the best approach for the sole (for now) superpower on the planet, and they have a very delicate balancing act to truth-proof the internet without the mainstream masses noticing and starting to ask questions.

We've been warned about this behavior many times throughout history by people wiser than ourselves, perhaps as a species it might be an opportune time to pause for a moment and consider where the path we are currently heading down at stop speed eventually leads.

"A liar should have a good memory." - Quintilian

"If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything." - Mark Twain

"The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later thousandfold." - Aristotle
No, that would infringe the 1st Amendment. What we really need is a conglomerate of mega-corporations to fill that role and decide what is real and what is misinformation, that way we achieve the same result without the letter of the law being infringed. /s
"That's racist"
The PLA print isn't any good, but the SLS print looks great IMHO. I don't think they needed to do much sanding on it at all.
it's a bad precedent when workers pay the company they're working for
Yea screw scanding, but I tthink you've got to accept that this is always going to be prevalant purely down to how 3d printing works.

Acetone vapor chambers are where it's at, closest you'll get to a injection moulded piece without doing the injection moulding.
That is basically a 'super SSN'. With the same sort of issues that SSN has. It is a decent idea but even that you should be able to change if needed. Remember there are nefarious players out there.
When your market and customer base is _that_ big, maybe you have scaled past what you are reasonably capable of supporting with actual humans.
Don't look too closely at daily content creators... Most of them end up rehashing the same advice in slightly different ways. The information is fresh to new viewers and repeat viewers are not likely to watch their content every single day.
Dropbox, like all other tech companies where I worked, was already completely informal about office hours. Some people would arrive at noon, others would be leaving.
>Sealioning (also spelled sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with persistent requests for evidence or repeated questions, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity. It may take the form of "incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate".
It's not a zero sum game. WFH can simultaneously save money for the company and for the employees.
Got any example of country where you saw this happening?
This.

Youtube, fb & such have monopolized online media. Then these problems "crop up," many as side effects of their own antipatterns.

Now they have the public and politicians lobbying beseeching them to please do something... They're being handed the power to censor us, to deal with problems that they themselves create.

There is a big difference between facebook and a Standard Oil or a Bell. Those companies were necessary. Post breakup, we still needed shards to produce oil, phone lines and such.

If facebook was crushed to dust, there would be no shortage of social media.
A friend and neighbor sent her son through The German School in Potomac, Maryland, through eighth grade. She said that in the earlier years, most of what the kids did seemed to be to run around outside. Obviously, this did not go on all the way through, and got into the magnet school of their choice for high school.
A lot of it comes down to what you mean by coding and what you mean by sewing (as an example).

There is much more to sewing clothes than threading a needle and guiding it through a button hole, at least if you want to make something that will fit and will last. The complexity of the product also plays a strong role.

Much the same can be said of coding. Being able to issue a command in a shell or compose a function in a spreadsheet is probably the closes analog to sewing on a button, but how many people can even do those things?

We live in a world where our phone's calculators are typically as powerful as a four function calculator from decades ago, perhaps with a subset of functions found on a scientific calculator. How do we expand our minds beyond that limited scope if vendors are afraid of creating software that allows us to compose anything more complex? With the status quo, we have to seek out options and those options are mostly targeted at professionals.

Similar things can be said for other domains. While writing of coding, I was actually thinking of graphics design and word processing and databases and the many other domains that have been over simplified by modern consumer applications. For the most part, their functionality has been simplified to the point where you can perform a very narrow range of tasks and have very little scope of the imagination. For example: that database that backs your address book cannot be adapted to catalogue your books, or the online word processor that is fine for writing reports is poorly suited for preparing a book for publications. Sure, there are professional alternatives out there. On the other hand, it seems as though people has a lot more flexibility with the software of the 1990's than the 2010's.
https://twitter.com/Nick_Craver/status/1316514823820193792
They spent 200M for the one they now know is successful. It does seem likely they could've had > 10% chance of success for under 20M, but that might just be me being way too optimistic / not understanding the expenses of trying to deal with a banking system.
Are there any examples of C++ text/streaming libraries implementing fusion in a similar way?
I am not even from the US and here almost everyone knows by now.
I tend to think of the junior engineers, who might not have a ton of disposable income.

In the before times, they would be put at a workstation with a $2-3000 desk, a $500+ chair, reliable Internet and power, and usually a new(ish) computer, monitor, keyboard, and mouse.

Those engineers don't have the income to get all those pieces for home use; they'll get a cheap Ikea desk and chair, a middling-quality monitor and keyboard, and if they're lucky, their workplace provides a reliable computer at least.

But even for 'overpaid tech workers', there are some tools of the trade you invest in for your own good, but the company should also provide the basics (e.g. reimbursement for things used primarily/exclusively for business).
Rather than more effective, I'd wish 3D printing were faster. My main grip with 3D printing stuff is the time it takes - and, depending on the printer, the noise it makes.
Indeed. I would gladly take a pay cut to not have to commute if it were an option at my company.
Clown Core
My company did internet reimbursement.

But most people don't know that there are massive tax benefits to working from home (at least in Canada) you can write off the percentage of your house you work in of your rent and stuff like that. That alone can equal a $1000 a year or so.

But from a company point of view, getting rid of the office is a massive save in money, so I suspect some will increase salaries or offer other perks such as skipthedishes accounts or what not. Most will just pocket it though.
You don't even have to watch a political video. I have crap popping up all the time, "Watch this professor get destroyed by <screamer>!"

I know youtube is a shithole and yet it still surprises me. My son's favorite kid's show is only on YouTube so I created a new account, subscribed just to their channel and still inappropriate content shows up. How hard is this?

I also can't block it for my daughter because she has school assignments that involve watching YouTube videos. Sooner or later that's going to bite the school in the ass.
Put two superconducting fibers next to each other with a thin insulating layer, or many fibers in a bundle.

Have the supercurrent in one direction matched by the same supercurrent in the other direction, alternations as closely spaced as possible.

The magnetic field will be confined, at least.

When the fiber breaks, join the entwined superconductors together (equivalently: have the insulator break down), and the current in the rest of the transmission line can continue flowing.

Coaxial variant also available.
what did you do about the minimum monthly requirement?
Those who receive bad support and stay probably are more desperate and in need of FB so you would expect the bad support group to be higher value customers on average (those who stay).
If you have a basically bulletproof monochrome HP 4000 series or similar that has cheap cartridges that last 5-10k pages, easy/cheap maintenance (a whole new set of rubber rollers costs $30-50, and is basically the only part that wears out), and a low printing volume, I can totally see having a printer for 20 years.
First Hacktoberfest
We give people $5k for setup (includes PC, though), reimburse cell and internet (and ask them to upgrade) and basically spare no expense on webcam, lighting and ethernet setup.
It does more than that. I have heard of youtubers simply discussing it or sharing memes about it and their video getting demonetized.
Is this a description of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s behavior lately?
Crazy. And IV users and gay men could get it just by going to an enclosed indoor space?

Are you locked in your house?
Researchers typically present findings in journals (or conferences in computer science). These YouTube videos aren’t research, they’re some mix of unscrupulous money grab and deliberate misinformation from Republican-affiliated groups trying to mitigate the political damage of the administrations abdication of responsibility for stopping the pandemic.
We converted to a paying account after having an inactive account for a year, some automated system turned off our account AFTER we started paying, the API accepted all of the emails and didn't send or save anything. We had to go in and rebuild all of the lost emails on our backend (eng cost > total Sendgrid spend per year). Support was unresponsive until we escalated via a sales phone number. Typical large company automating dangerous behaviors and then not having a good support system to deal with the fallout.
This has completely rejuvenated those of us struggling along in the African tech startup scene.

And quite a contrast to the #EndSARS protests that have been ongoing in Nigeria, where young men exactly like this are being brutalised and killed by a corrupt policing unit that pretends to assume any young person with a laptop and iPhone is an internet fraudster.

So happy for these guys.
Thanks for not just downvoting me. I appear to have kicked a hornets nest, but as you say downvoting to show disagreement is just how things work here. For what it is worth, I did not down vote you either :-)

Your son reminds me a bit of me. I hated middle school, I went on in high school to to be a 3 sport varsity player and ultimately got into and through university as a D1 athlete. Post graduation I as a military dog handler. I hated middle school with a passion but that did not seem to hamper my career at all.

Your son sounds great, I was in the Army as well and I know and respect what he had to do to overcome the challenges of the Ranger crucible. Your son has already achieved far more than most could even dare.
Wouldn't it be easier to compensate for these costs via salary increases? Not everyone will have the same needs, and attempting to track everyone's expenses seems more complicated than necessary.

Although, come to think of it, it might make sense to mark some amount of money as an "equipment stipend" or similar on paychecks. That way, it's clear to both parties what the funds are intended for, even if there's no actual mandate on how to spend them.
Remember this [1]? What happened?

[1] https://cypherpunks.venona.com
How does this work with different versions of Windows? I know a few apps that are broken on Windows 7+ and it would be nice to have a modern OS that can run older Windows apps without having to have that actual OS in a VM.
When I worked for travel company (still exists as a captive marketing brand of someone else not a real company) booking flights was very complex as the name the user gave had to match their identity presented to the TSA exactly or they were likely to be refused entry. This was made more complex as the reservation system we had to call used EBCDIC on ancient mainframes and often failed to properly encode a person's name with non ASCII letters like Å often resulting in tickets that could not be used. The name would look fine in our booking flow and email, but the actual ticket data would be wrong leaving the customer angry at the time of flying.

So supporting names is not only an issue with changing them, but preserving the actual spelling through all systems you call. I actually spent 4 years in college (long ago) with no vowels in my name, and never could get them to fix it (even my diploma had it spelled wrong).