skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your premise is that, rather than free association, every group of people owes a kind of due process to everyone else, presumptive of their right to associate

If you "start a project and not allow [me] to contribute" then you're by definition starting a much more traditional, hierarchical, authoritarian community, with the forms of dispute resolution you would expect there. Now that's okay, but it means that you should probably be upfront about it from the onset. And it also means you should expect pushback and accusations (probably accurate ones) of bait and switch if you change directions midway. They will say "that doesn't sound very egalitarian to me" and they will probably be correct. It shouldn't be a problem if you don't want to court that segment, or power your community through their contributions. But if you do want to court that segment, then I think they will want you to play by their rules.

I also think this is why the idea of Anglo common law was brought up. It is a form of dispute resolution which is pretty amenable to egalitarian, decentralized dispute resolution. What I like about Anglo common law is that it minimizes the need for a fair authority figure in favor of a fair autonomous process operable by a majority of equal peers:

> Does it allow anonymous accusations?

> Is the accused allowed to know the charges against them, before a finding of guilt is rendered?

> Is there a presumption of innocence?

> Is the accused allowed to have a trusted third party - one who knows the rules of the game - to advocate on their behalf?

> Who, exactly, is responsible for deciding matters of fact vs matters of "law"?

> Is there an appeals process to fix possibly incorrect decisions?

All of these concerns must be addressed to create such a system. And I think that a lot of prospective contributors (such as myself) do not want to be part of a community unless it is run by such a system. I also think that such contributors will be particularly incensed about contributing to such communities that say they are run by such systems but which are actually oligarchies. In that case, I would feel like I had originally contributed to the community as an equal, but I am instead now just a cog helping build someone else's dream. This will not just discourage me from contributing to the community, but it will make me regret ever doing so in the first place, and resent the community's leaders for lying to me.

So going back to your original example, I think you are well within your rights to start a project and not allow me to contribute. But if you do that, I think you have to be honest about what kind of community you are really building. It is one thing to say you wish to build a community through benevolent dictatorship. It is another to say you wish to build a community through distributed consensus. It's not really a two-way door. Switching directions midway can cause collateral damage with an extremely high blast radius.
Individuals might have the right to disassociate, but organizations have more power then individuals, and concentrate power in the hands of a small number of people, and thus should have some democratic checks on that power. Elections are one form of democratic check on power, but a randomized selection of peers works as a statistically sampled approximation, which is why the concept of a jury exists.

Any organization without democratic checks to redistribute power to its constituents is generally seeking to hold hierarchical power over those constituents and others, and should be distrusted.
If you're putting the words "secure" and "computer" in the same sentence, you've already lost. There is no such thing as computer security.
Yeah, that transition from a hobby project to a big payout/nice salary/more usage/more resources must really sting. (Obviously it's a big change but I don't think most would consider it a net negative.)
> On Nov 1st, all images pulled from the Docker Hub will be subjected to severe limits, which will affect all Kubernetes users. Learn what solutions exist, and how how to prepare.

I'd also be curious to know what your solutions are, and how you plan to manage and mitigate this change?
Clipboard is handled by Wayland. Global hotkeys also needs to be handled by the Wayland compositor in some way since only the compositor has access to the full stream of input events. The compositor might choose to offload input events for known global hotkeys to some helper application, like kglobalacceld on Plasma.
The question asking for clarification is itself vague. Examples of which part?

Look at JS that's written for serious applications today, identify the stuff that you'd label as "idiomatic", and then look at code that was written 10 years ago for serious applications, and see if it matches what your conception of "idiomatic JS" is. Good references for the way JS was written for high-quality applications without the negative influence of the new idioms (because they didn't exist yet): the JS implementing Firefox and the JS implementing the Safari Web Inspector.

Examples of how "idiomatic JS" is often written by people who are working against the language instead of with it:

- insistence on overusing triple equals despite the problems that come with it

- similarly, the lengths people go to to treat null and undefined as if they're synonymous

- config parameter hacks and hacks to approximate multiple return values

- `require`, NodeJS modules, and every bundler (a la webpack) written, ever

- `let self = this` and all the effort people go through not to understand `this` in general (and on that note, not strictly pure JS, but notice how often the `self` hack is used for DOM event handlers because people refuse to understand the DOM EventListener interface)

- every time people end up with bloated GC graphs with thousands of unique objects, because they're creating bespoke methods tightly coupled via closure to the objects that they're meant for because lol what are prototypes

These "idioms" essentially all follow the same "maturation" period: 1. A problem is encountered by someone who doesn't have a solid foundation 2. They cross-check notes with other people in the same boat, and the problem is deemed to have occurred because of a problem in the language 3. A pattern is adopted that "solves" this "problem" 4. Now you have N problems

People think of this stuff as "idiomatic JS" because pretty much any package that ends up on NPM is written this way, since they're all created by people who were at the time trying to write code like someone else who was trying to write code like the NodeJS influencers who are considered heroes within that particular cultural bubble, so it ends up being monkey-see-monkey-do almost all the way down.
> Some areas in the Southern Alps (Alpes-Maritimes) were never to be inhabited again after that.

But that might also be due to the end of the warm period and the start of the little ice age. For reference: Its about now that the norse have to abandon their Greenland settlement.
> What happens if I torrent a movie and buy a license on Prime? Is the torrent still illegal?

Not legal in any country of the world I can think of.
Yeah, most of the addresses where I grew up had no postcode of any description. Remember sticking forms of "munster", "mun" or "mun001" in there (the ones that validated it by UK Post code logic were the worst).

Later I moved to Dublin which had postcodes but they were more postal districts. So my postcode was "Dublin 8", which again was rejected by a lot of validators.

now we have eircodes so my postcode at that same address is d08 xxxx. We're getting on some sites the US style autofill of address based on Eircode as a result. but not everywhere's used to it. Just Eat, the largest takeaway ordering site goes sets my address to <house number>, <Street name>, <County Dublin>, but if I leave that as is, some local takeaways, including some very near to me see that as County Dublin as opposed to Dublin City and cancel the order thinking I'm out of delivery range, so I need to correct the final field to Dublin 8 anyway.
> Why do you need a Code of Conduct to prevent people acting like jerks? If someone acts like a jerk tell them to stop, and if they don't, take action.

There are lots of reasons.

Ideally forces you to think ahead of time what kind of conduct you are OK with or not OK with, so you don't have to decide at the moment when someone you actually have a relationship with does something.

Ideally you think ahead of time how you would respond if someone did one of those things.

Ideally you think about a process for people to follow that balances several contrasting goals: Namely, to avoid doxxing or blaming the victim, but also to prevent the system from being used against innocent people (which it seems what happened here).

Ideally people who are prone to act like jerks decide not to act like jerks at all: Either they behave themselves, or they don't join your community.

If you don't do a Code of Conduct, and just "tell the jerk to stop, and if not take action", then it's a crap shoot whether you overreact (as happened here) or underreact (as has happened in many cases). If you deploy a Code of Conduct properly, there's at least a better chance that you'll respond constructively.
I'm not a lawyer, but that's what confuses me. Section 230 doesn't need to be changed; twitter violated it quite obviously.

Blocking the NYPost article was not in good faith. It wasn't obscene. It was harassing or violent.

Twitter should by this definition lose their Section 230 protections. Good luck operating Twitter without those protections.
NASA Scientists Discover ‘Weird’ Molecule in Titan’s Atmosphere
Indeed. Or even make sure to integrate Patreon (or other donation applications) to any privacy-friendly video application.

I have a Twitch account just to have a paid subscription for the Critical Role channel, despite the fact that I never open Twitch and download their videos from Youtube using youtube-dl. It kind of feels ridiculous (especially knowing Twitch will put me in metrics of "their users").
It might well be that he sees something like that, but (at least here) the frustration would definitely increase, not decrease. In general I could imagine a job like that, I mean, I applied... but there is a trend in this company, it seems ;)
Hey Adam, the content itself is great and the tips are bang on. However, I think you should proof read the article again. An article on 'Improving Your Writing' loses a lot of credibility when it has sentences like:

> The character, 'hotel' has does an action 'wanted'.

which should be:

> The character, 'hotel', has an action, 'wanted'.

It also seems like you rely on a single source, Williams and Colomb (1990). Is this your personal summary of that book? Do you recommend reading it, or do you believe your post captures the most important points?
>hey you're saying the quiet part out loud

In some parts of the world it's folklore already.
Sweden and Switzerland seem pretty great IMO. I think the trick is proportional voting instead of first past the post.
I don't think this is all that strange, because even within the English language there's a difference of interpretation of what the "first floor" really is. British English uses "ground floor" for the floor that is at ground height and "first floor" for the first floor you need to reach by stairs. American English often interprets "first floor" as the first floor entered (the one on the ground). Of course, the British rule has left the American continent these days, but in other countries this could very easily become a problem.

In a country with different cultures, languages and systems of writing it's only natural that the Chinese representation reflects what a Chinese person would call that floor, with the English representation next to it converted to whatever level of language compatibility someone might choose for international mail.
Clickbait headline. This is how it works with nearly all content you “buy” (music, movies, software, ...) You’re not buying the thing, rather you buying a license to use something. That license has terms. This is nothing new and nothing specific to Amazon.
That's a stupid definition, and it's wrong.

Let's say I want to accumulate wealth, and I play the lottery and win, then, by your definition, I'm smart.
Maybe Starlink one day?
They're pretty tightly clustered, but each have their own connotations, rhetorically.

Remember that the original liberals and republicans were (arguably) conducting conflicts within this overall cluster. In France it was the sans culotte vs the old nobility and clerics. You could argue that zuck or murdoch represents either side.
Time to de-digitize, BSG-style. Back to paper records for anything remotely sensitive.

And no networked computers for processing anything important.
Plus Codes (or Open Location Codes) are simply mappings from latitude/longitude to an alphanumeric string [1], and there are open-source implementations in many languages [2], which means the effect of the project being abandoned would be limited.

[1] https://github.com/google/open-location-code/blob/master/doc...

[2] https://github.com/google/open-location-code
Makes me wonder if it's worth buying up things like that now (with the expendable income) and leave it in storage / attic for twenty odd years. I don't know, I don't really see something super popular doing the rounds right now, and I doubt there would be interest in Fortnite cards or merchandise in 20-30 years.

But I could be very wrong.
It would be spectacularly difficult to do for videos:

first there's lossy compression, which means that there's no guarantee your injected pixels survive the encoding pass.

Then there's the additional hurdle of motion vectors, which will most likely be misaligned between the original video and the injected one.

This would result in hard to predict artefacts after encoding.

Finally, each decoder handles scaling slightly differently, so even if your embedded video trick works on one software/hardware decoder, it might fail on another (sometimes even depending on just the version or additional settings/filters being enabled).
protomolecule?
The pro-Tesla view is that this is like comparing an iPhone to feature phones in 2008 on the basis of sound quality and keyboard action (unfortunately I couldn't find their actual review from that year in a quick google). The question being: do you compare products on the basis of what they aspire to be, or what they offer today?

Clearly the iPhone's touch centric design and App Store turned out to be a paradigm shift in computing, and Tesla's Autopilot hopes to be the same for driving. The difference as I see it is that the App Store not living up to its hype wasn't going to kill anybody, and choosing an iPhone is a much less weighty financial decision than choosing a Tesla.

That being said, I think Consumer Reports could have done a better job of comparing the actual systems (or explaining why it chose not to), along with the exhaustive analysis of the ways in which use of the systems is curtailed for safety. What a lot of people care about is "how good is it at self-driving", even though the more important short term question, which they tackle, is "how well do its driver assist features holistically contribute to the safety of the car". Under this mode of analysis my decade-old Prius actually would do pretty well -- it has no driver assist at all, but at least it doesn't let you turn on driver assist at dangerous times, and tells you clearly when it's off (which is always).
>Canada has $5-$10/gb wireless pricing

Well, if you are counting overage charges I guess.

My (national) provider has an all-in, bring-your-own-device plan with 9GB of data (recently with a 2GB bonus, for a total of 11GB) for under $60/month. I'm sure the competitors are similar. So, while not perfect, it's not as onerous as you describe.
never been detected in any other atmosphere

may be a precursor to more complex compounds that could form or feed possible life

Astronomers have so far found C3H2 only in clouds of gas and dust that float between star systems — in other words, regions too cold and diffuse to facilitate many chemical reactions.

Titan’s atmosphere is made mostly of nitrogen, like Earth’s, with a hint of methane. When methane and nitrogen molecules break apart under the glare of the Sun, their component atoms unleash a complex web of organic chemistry that has captivated scientists and thrust this moon to the top of the list of the most important targets in NASA’s search for present or past life in the solar system.
I am glad to be wrong; this makes batteries an even better idea than I already thought!
Thomas Sowell writes about this in depth in several of his works.

In Intellectuals and Society, he notes that many "intellectual elite" have been cheerleaders for some of the worst (economic) disasters and human rights abuses of the 20th century. In 2020, we can see this vividly with the coronahysterics causing untold and immeasurable damage to societies with arbitrary and poorly calculated lockdown rules.

Sowell argues that these intellectuals believe their excellence in one field gives them the legitimacy to talk in depth about other fields in which they're not so excellent - perhaps most notably economics, which is Sowell's own field of expertise. In A Vision of the Annointed, he describes how these intellectuals have concocted a fantasy world view which is inconsistent with actual evidence, and the academies work to insulate themselves away from this evidence when it conflicts with their world view. This is true in economics, where the current leading school of thought (MMT) pretends they're not just kicking the can down the road, and ignores the works of the Austrian school.

When he refers to 'intellectuals,' he doesn't just mean anybody intelligent or accredited with degrees. He is referring to people whose results are just ideas, and not products, inventions or scientific breakthroughs. Many "idea people" ultimately face no consequence upon themselves for their poor ideas; they have no skin in the game and are eager to inflict their world view upon society even if there is collateral damage.

A slightly older of his works, A Conflict of Visions, suggests there are two prevailing visions: an unconstrained and a constrained vision. The unconstrained vision is that held by many intellectual elite and largely ignores some aspects of human nature. It believes that people are innately good and well meaning (The just-world fallacy). They don't believe that humans should have constraints because given the opportunity, they will act in their own or others' best interests. The constrained vision is one in which humans believe that man is not innately good and has some bad inside of him. In this vision, it is necessary to have some constraints (laws, fears, etc) so that they act in a manner which is in the best long term interest of themselves or the wider society.

In the study of economics, it is not possible to ignore human nature because all economic activity is the result of people taking actions in their own self-interest. Praxeology studies how humans behave, without consideration for their thoughts or speech, but merely how they act in the real world. It argues that what someone does tells you far more than what a person says they will do, and even what they tell themselves.
That following is untrue:

> Second, most research projects are funded by grants not from the state - it comes from industry and places like that.

It does not imply everything should be owned by the state al all. It however imply that people really like to lie about this point for ideological reasons and in order to demonize everything state.
U.S. GDP booms at 33.1% rate in Q3, better than expected
Nice! I am also fortunate in this regard: my 99 year old father still does video production for an international organization as a volunteer, learned 3D animation, still travels and is active.
This. I'm lucky to have made it from a medium Eastern European city to a software engineer job in UK, but I can only imagine it would've been so much more difficult (if not impossible) if the pool of people with the same level of knowledge and interest was 10x bigger. Spending many years studying/working to end up in a job with no growth prospects would be a very bitter pill to swallow.
1Password. I love where we can share accounts within the company, while I can also share some with my wife, between our computers and iPads.
> An increasing number of older, community-dwelling adults have functional impairments that prevent them from leaving their homes…In total, 5.6% of the elderly, community-dwelling Medicare population (approximately 2 million people) were completely or mostly homebound in 2011.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...

> Older adults are the least active segment of our population, and are likely to spend less time outdoors than other age groups…One study in a large US national sample found that leisure time [physical activity] was related to higher Vitamin D levels in older adults [43]. Vitamin D deficiency is related to many chronic conditions including cancer, heart disease and bone health [36]. If older adults spent more time outdoors they may be more active and benefit from a healthy dose of Vitamin D.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3546779/
How does this instance suddenly being thrown into gender and pronoun political correctness ?
Imagine this for DVDs.

A lawyer representing the now-defunct Virgin Megastores is obliged by Warner Bros to contact you and insist you download a firmware update for your DVD player to disable playback of the Lord of the Rings disc you purchased 5 years ago.
Rotting trees (and the leaves they drop) add carbon to the ground, creating organic soil.
Clickbait headline. This is how it works with nearly all content you “buy” (music, movies, software, ...) You’re not buying the thing, rather you buying a license to use something. That license has terms. This is nothing new and nothing specific to Amazon.

Go watch that text that flashed up on your old VHS tapes. You didn’t own it, you merely had a license to use it in a certain way. Invite too many people over to your house to watch a movie, you broke the license as now you’re staging a “public showing” and you don’t have a license for that. Schools used to get in trouble for this sort of thing when some kid brings in a home VHS tape and plays it at “school movie night.”
I wonder if this experience scarred Freud and that's why he attributed most psychological dysfunction to sexual experiences people had as children.
So you're saying the 1990 shitbox Passat I drove for a while is worth more than when I drove it? Damn. Though, to be honest I miss that car...

Might be time to pay my parents' basement a visit...
Interestingly, the comment you are responding to imply none of what you said.

It simply states some facts and corrects parents misconceptions about how research is funded.
MakerDAO issues warning after a flash loan is used to pass a governance vote
> When the Guardian reached [the buyer] shortly after the broadcast ended, he said he was still “in shock”. But he noted that he still had his money. “We took extreme precautions,” he said. “I feel worse for the seller. This is going to shake up the Pokémon collector world.”

Note they didn't actually lose the $
> big payout/nice salary/more usage/more resources

if you get the actual payout and your project doesn't just get AWS-ified. :)
>discover that there’s a bunch of exceptions?

Periodically the downloaded videos become unavailable offline if you don't have an internet connection to refresh them. Maybe once a month or something. Which means you can't hold on to a video through their service indefinitely.
There's a few that are used, but Google's shrewd marketing combined with natural selection have done a very good job marking those as the "terrorists and crackpots" youtubes.

And like all self-fulfilling prophecies, those claims are now largely true.