skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm aware that I am looking at this through the lens of self-bias, but I have definitely found that much of what I know about computers came from being able to (and sometimes needing to) poke around and figure out how to do something.

I am not a software developer and have little formal education in computer software or hardware. With that said, I've picked up enough just by growing up with Commodore, DOS, Linux, etc. to at least have the basic understanding needed to research or just figure out solutions to most common problems.

I work in media production and IT in an educational setting, and while I'm far enough along the Dunning-Kruger graph to know just how little I know, the sort of things I see from students (grad and post-doc at that) definitely give me pause sometimes. Often, the mention of basic things like how to change a setting or search for a file in MacOS or Windows is met with glazed eyes or signs of discomfort. Apologies for how "I'm not really tech savvy" follow talk of anything more complex than pointing at pictures on a screen or doing something outside of the web browser.

And yes, I do understand that the very nature of these students' specialization in other fields can mean they haven't had the need or opportunity to learn much about computing. I just feel like I only picked it up because it was how you got things done or because it was there for poking and prodding when I got bored or curious.

I think in the end it's not just that I have a personal connection to computing and think everyone should share my interests. It's more akin to a basic competency that opens a lot of doors and prevents you from being taken advantage of.

My analogy is usually along these lines: if your job requires you to drive a car, you don't need to be a mechanic or be able to build a car...but you should at least know the basics of how to operate and maintain a vehicle beyond just gas pedal, brake pedal, and wheel.
> Nobody votes to kill these projects because of the jobs they maintain.

Sounds like dirty communism to me. Surely market freedom politicians wouldn't support such programs, would they?
I can barely wait for Trump's insightful memoirs.
This post is outdated. I now use emeramide.

Edit: emeramide is currently in phase 2 clinical trials for FDA approval.
Extending your analogy, I always feel like when I set up my Linux workflow (something I attempt and abandon at least once a year) it feels like someone dropped a car off in my driveway with the engine and transmission on the sidewalk and no instructions on how to assemble. Installing the "engine" always requires hours of browsing through comment threads written by random people on the internet that are years old.

This year is different though! I'm going to make it work. Also looking at Pinephone for my mobile.
Ghislaine is a prolific redditor and has a million karma points or something. I think the OP was referring to that.
If we can redirect from SLS to building Moonbase Alpha (with SpaceX presumably doing most of the shipping), I'll consider that a success.
My cynical take: the alternative is to write freelance articles that are sufficiently tribalistic to fit in with modern digital media. Luckily for the author, freelance writing was carved an exemption from AB5 after AB5 originally crushed freelance writing opportunities.
or you could just set limit which would be enough for 99.99% users and charge the people who don't find it sufficient

but 15GB is what, 1000-3000 photos at best nowadays with zero videos, with videos it will be gone within days/weeks

I would more understand if they would set up 1000 photos monthly limit instead size limit

btw. I don't use Google photos, so I don't really care what they offer
No. He wasn't a political actor. He was concerned with God's law and not the law of man. Not to mention that social justice as a concept came long after Jesus's time.
I'm not looking to stan Obama, but I have to quibble with "Russian territorial expansions".

Losing Ukraine as a de facto puppet state and having to invade to keep critical port infrastructure in the Crimea isn't an expansion, it's a mitigated loss.
For real. My exposure to California news is basically just what I see on HN and anything that hits national headlines.

I had no idea Californians would vote for something like this. Kind of makes you wonder how large the disconnect is between what we see in the media and what people actually think.
People, outside of HN, don't care about operating systems. They are all good enough and have been for a long time. What people care about are applications. If you want to play games, you are probably going to buy a Windows computer. If you want to run Logic, you're going to buy a Mac. If all you really need is a browser and email, you are going to choose by other criteria like price or beauty.
Isn't that their point though - they know it will hurt the earnings they present, and they don't want to hurt their IPO?
Conceptually, it's pretty clear:
For the single person that needs (or wants) its Uber income, the law is good because they get their income as before. However, it's only good because the whole system is bad (e.g. that labor has no power in the US). So the question whether the law is "good" is rather the question: What's the alternative? For as long as there's no alternative for Uber etc., the law is good. If there were alternatives (e.g. jobs that have benefits), it would be the worst. To sum it up: Poor people in America have no choice. The system is bad. You have to take what you get (e.g. a Uber Job) and be happy for it.

As an aside: all these anecdotes about people using Uber as a sidejob and enjoying it are missing the point: Uber might be a good sidejob for you/your friends but that's only because either they don't get a fulltime job or their fulltime job doesnt pay enough. They don't do it because they want to, they do it because they need to.
Get a Thinkpad. I replaced a 2015 MacBook Pro with a Thinkpad P1 Gen2 and love it. The trackpad isn’t as nice. The keyboard is better. Running WSL2 you have a great Unixy development environment in Windows. Or just install Linux. As thin and light as a MacBook Pro. Much better thermals, though still not awesome. Other, somewhat larger Thinkpads have better thermals. You can upgrade your RAM, add 2 SSDs and other peripherals like a 4G card etc if you like. Thinkpads come with fantastic service. Next business day on-site repair including for accidental damage and they mean it. Looks: It’s the design Apple copied for their very first laptops and is IMO better looking. They got it right the first time and haven’t changed it materially. Built like a tank. Not quite a tough book but they will take some abuse.
Nope. Resellers are very hands on and high touch. I'm talking about something more like a pass-through payment processor than a reseller.

Quotes in this case are as trivial as a PDF generator that just inserts the fixed price into a commercial offer template. As it stands, you wouldn't believe how hard it is to pry something like that out of a typical SaaS vendor.
FTA:

> ...someone diametrically opposed to everything we stood for had been chosen as my successor.

It's pretty obvious that Trump and Obama are opposed in many, many things.

But Trump and Obama do have common ground. At least in the broadest of senses if nothing else. Both profess love for America!

Obama predates Trump as a serious political animal. And all this divisiveness predates Trump. I think Obama bears significant responsibility that Trump was even elected in the first place. I think Obama slipping in hyperbolic divisiveness here is a tiny example of exactly why Trump fans were looking for someone like him. It shows a real lack of perspective to not be able to separate political opponents from utter enemies.
Likely the last straw that breaks the camels back for me.

* Have always had to do some mental gymnastics to rationalize the price increases for similar hardware

* MacOS has slowly been more and more hostile towards my user flow

* Butterfly keyboards and touchbar have made it more difficult for me to use

* Lack of memory upgrades (with steep price increases)

* And now we have a phoning home operation that raises privacy concerns and grinds my laptop to a halt :(

Been eyeing a System76 laptop for a while... https://system76.com/laptops/galago
>Enjoy your pizza and dogs. The citizens of the USA will win no matter what you do to try to stop/hamper it.

And you're claiming citizens have no significant role in creating the division?
I don't think that's inefficient as such, that's just the price you pay for data durability. Sure you can buy a high capacity HDD on Amazon for very little, but most people would be pretty sad if/when the hard drive dies and takes the family photo collection with it.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could route the mac’s internet through the raspberry keyboard, strip the surveillance automatically, and continue to use the internet like normal?
[1] Critical posts of China like Tiananmen Square are censored on Reddit. There are many others.

[2] The most influential account and moderator on Reddit, maxwellhill, has been inactive since the moment Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s friend, was detained. Interestingly, the username coincides with Ghislaines life.

Coincidentally, Ghislaine Maxwell was raised in a news family who controlled most of the media you and I have read for decades.

Someone who controls the narrative in mainstream would understand the importance of Reddit.
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wages are a market. "should" or "shouldn't" is irrelevant
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Hey you're deliberately ignoring the cost per person, and the fact that raising prices while storage costs are falling dramatically is fiscally backward.

That extremely uncharitable view of 'free' is getting in the way of understanding. So its a hundred million dollar data center, paid once. At a billion people served, its 10 cents per person per lifetime. So why $10 per month?

Get it now?
or, trust.
> I feel strongly like this law was pushed by people who want Uber to be a full-time job. It’s not.

Does the app give him the contact info for each of his passengers after every ride so that he can own the business relationship with them? If not then he's an employee, not an independent contractor. The number of hours worked per month is a complete red herring.
I upvoted this, along with the story below it.

"The Next Decade Could Be Even Worse (theatlantic.com)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25081438

When life gives you lemons... sometimes the only solution is to trade sides and play for Team Lemon.

Are you doing your part to change could into will?
I just read the abstracts of one of the studies[1] and it's really including TV and general computer time, not necessarily social media time.

It also references a study that seems to focus more on computer time and "information" overload (at least from the abstract).[2]

I think it's a mistake to assume that sedentary screen time is not impactful so long as you're avoiding social media.

[1] https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1291...

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31059635/
Incredible source of material for Calc 1-3
I agree that there's too much focus on hidden motives. The left has its postmodern deconstruction mindset that looks for hidden racism, etc., and the right has conspiracy theory thinking which is just its own spin on the same thing. In both cases it gets taken too far, with the left seeing phantom racism everywhere and the right seeing phantom "liberal bias" or lately "pedophilia" everywhere.

That being said, hidden motives always exist. All human activity is driven by motives that are rooted in the actor's world view and philosophy. It's how our minds work. We are idea-driven teleological beings.

Discussing these hidden motives too little just leaves them unexamined, and it's very easy to push hidden agendas through apparently rational discourse by strategically selecting what data to choose and what lines of argument to pursue. It's similar to "how to lie with statistics."

I consistently see certain hidden motives throughout the rationalist material. The most common is elitism rooted in a belief that certain people possess biologically innate superior intelligence that makes them effectively "more right" than other people. It's a biological determinist version of the idea that certain people are divinely blessed with special powers that make them superior.

This kind of biological intelligence elitism is a superstition. What you believe and how you think matters more than how big your brain is. It's like saying having a bigger engine in a car makes you a better driver. It doesn't. In fact it means that a bad driver can get into a more severe accident more easily. Highly intelligent people with irrational or deluded systems of belief can delude themselves more effectively than less intelligent people. Your average flat-Earther is probably more intelligent than the average person, not less.

I personally make a distinction between what I call dumb-dumb and smart-dumb. Dumb-dumb is a lack of intelligence. Smart-dumb is intelligence grossly misused, or coupled with a gross deficiency in emotional intelligence or a lack of self-awareness.
Get involved in the local community board. Present to the library council that this is a good investment for education. Purchase 20, lead a community class to teach the next generation of students.
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EOS icons are open source and they are fully customizable. Available as SVG, PNG, font, CDN, NPM, Rubygem.
Genuine question. After a Trump term, are you still supporting him? Also, do you see his refusal to concede as legit?
Oh I definitely agree with you, I just found that workaround above because I was really frustrated as I don't see any advantage to having javascript enabled on my searches and was used to not needing it in Google, Duckduckgo, Ecosia, and other search engines...
Windows is also a shit show. Windows updates have bricked systems for decades.
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Before Uber came along, flexible jobs that you could engage with at any point in time didn't really exist either.

The "glass half full" way to think of it is that Uber bought work flexibility; and as it turns out the labor market values this flexibility with slightly lower wages.

If you think we should out-regulate that, should we ban part time jobs too? How about we ban unpaid time off?

Any barriers to work (i.e. regulation) just accelerates AI taking over all the jobs. Anything that drives up the cost of labour, just means more automation like self-serve kiosks or robo security guards today; and who knows what tomorrow.

If you want to solve societal inequality and provide a safety net, which is something I 100% back, do that through taxation + a universal basic income.
> And you're claiming citizens have no role in creating the division?

Where was that claim made?
Where are you taking Ubers? I'm surprised by this since even low level entry jobs, like hostessing(sp?), working at the grocery store, delivering pizza, all pay better than Uber.

In Houston almost everyone I talked to were - retired, raising kids, had another jobs, going to school, or had some health issues that prevented full time employment.

The vast majority of the economy is made up of jobs where a company tells you when to show up, when to go home, and tries to schedule you for 38 hrs. Why can't we have just one job for people who have life circumstances that require flexibility.
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Isn't it a pattern from "nonviolent communication"? https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Why would employees be buying services individually? With 10K employees there would be a site licence.
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Part of the new trend of scholarship that is critical of methodology in "the new AI". It's about time!
| exploiting the poor

I think a lot of those people wouldn't have jobs otherwise, is something better than nothing?

Also it's not just the poor, I've had many friends use uber as a stop gap between jobs. One of my drivers had a masters in Finance - I don't see anything wrong with gig work as long as both sides know what they are signing up for.
But not too much. I used to sleep 10-12 hours during depressive episodes when I had nothing important to do, it just makes things worse.

Over 7-8 hours of sleep just makes me tired and sleepy the whole day (paradoxical, yeah).

Forcing a limit helps a lot more.
Great, thanks for the reply.
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Could it be that working at a coffee shop benefits from good battery life?
> I feel strongly like this law was pushed by people who want Uber to be a full-time job. It’s not. I understand that some people want it to be full-time, but I wish they would stop trying to make Uber something it’s not.

And this is the case… why? I could just as easily say “I understand that some people want Uber to be part-time, but I wish they would stop trying to make it something it’s not.”
Some people complain that microwaves kill cats instead of drying them, YMMV.
In my case the problem was: High school kid who is good at coding != software engineer (there are many other nuances to SE, including team management/planning/etc.)

In Cairo's case: Waaaaay too many projects depend on Cairo as a dependency either through GTK+ or otherwise. You will be breaking heaps of backwards compatibility.
The EFF is a watchdog with no loyalty beyond Silicon Valley
Social justice is no more or less of an ideology than religion iself.
Your husband is very fortunate; I’ve never met someone who drives for Uber and is not doing it full-time. Wishing it wasn’t that way doesn’t make it so.
I half disagree. I'm not trying to avoid financial controls or any of that. What most people that don't do this stuff don't realize is that just working the process to i.e. create vendors in your ERP are incredibly time consuming. This is even if you have full support of the business. We always had 100% support from everyone and it was still a nightmare.
Very good point, and I would add that line can be moved based on individual circumstances. I've seen people complain about issues with a service, but the moment I offer an alternative and a way to migrate (painlessly for me to do, and I typically offer to help them) suddenly all is good with their service and they're sticking with it. I've even pushed a little further in the past to say I will do ALL of the work for you, just sit back and relax and in a couple hours done. Most still refuse and I don't get why once all barriers have been removed.
> There are many open source products that have had huge investments without monetization.

Like what?
I have the complete opposite anecdotal experience.

Your 2nd paragraph is exactly what prop22 added. Now full-time drivers enjoy some benefits.
This is a big conceit everyone holds - that Linux will be an acceptable substitute for MacOS. To be perfectly honest, if Apple shut down their Macbook factories and got out of the computer game entirely, and everyone flocked to Linux, it would be several painful years before Linux would be as usable as MacOS is today.

This is why I try out Linux every few years, and file lots of bug reports when I run into issues (mostly in applications - the core Linux kernel is solid). I've even contributed code to Linux apps that I don't intend to use right now.
I am pretty sure much of the genre from Berlin is from this specific person.
I am currently using Yabai without disabling system protection as my company would not approve of disabling system protection. I wish many of its features were possible without it. It's _better_ than nothing, but it's still pretty bad without disabling it.
>lot of money

I believe lot of money is a relative term.
Yandex disk has unlimited photo storage for now and I don't think Yandex is going anywhere, at worst they will start charging for it.
Could you address the insurance and workers compensation issue? Does your husbands auto insurance have a maximum payout? Otherwise we as a society will end up picking up the unpaid medical bills over that amount.

There are many others, but these two are the most egregious.
The two party system creates it. Cogs of the machine have a role but if they are good cogs they will automatically fall into these roles.
Cyberattacks targeting health care must stop
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Because if governments get involved we’ll never be able to solve the problem.

I.e. if you take away the rights to privately create and distribute software, the current situation will become permanent.
You can send any traffic through Tor, so yes.
> My public sector clients esp. have a hard time buying any Saas

I worked fulltime at my state college while I was also a fulltime student there. The amount of process to do anything was staggering. Buying something like a replacement hard drive required "quotes" from three different vendors (I printed pricing from 3 different websites). Forget about trying to buy 5 or 6 figure server equipment.

> Balancing buyer and seller interests while trying to get a cut.

You're essentially floating them a short term loan. You pay the provider immediately with your credit card and then sending the buyer a PO. Give procurement a portal to see the bills as they are from the sellers and your PO has an added line item charge (flat fee or preferably a percentage of original bill) for the service.

Depending on risk level of the institution, could probably require an upfront deposit to make sure you don't get burned.
If you enjoy traditional magazine in audio format, I would highly recommend The Economist’s audio edition. Every article in read out even including readers’ letters. Such a shame though the app is a bit buggy in audio playback and control.
The storage is a small piece of the Google Photos offering. Good luck searching for a persons name or "sunsets", getting time hops, stylized suggestions and collages, or easy group sharing on a trip in solutions like DropBox or S3, especially for the average user.

That's the weirdest thing to me about this conversation. People act like storage is the main thing Google Photos does, but that's not by a long shot the most compelling piece of the offering.
LOL at mentioning all those things as a factor that "drove" you to Trump. No, you drove yourself to Trump.

Trump is literally worse in every point you listed.
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Module functors and first-class modules are probably the big feature. Those are more akin to allowing functions between classes, rather than just objects.
> So its a hundred million dollar data center, paid once.

In your mind, who pays for the hundred million dollar data centre?
>Accelerated ethanol elimination via the lungs (full paper)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-76233-9
So, you think Obama was a swindler and you voted for Trump? I wouldn't trust your background checking abilities...

But I get it, you made a choice and you tried to find a justification for that choice. I saw this speech and Q&A with Yanis Varoufakis the other day, and at one point he reiterated the "Fuck you, establishment!" motivations of Trump and Brexit-voters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGeevtdp1WQ&feature=youtu.be... .

Voting for Hillary would have meant a continuation of Obama, out of anger or desperation of how shitty their lives had been, many in the electorate thought "Let's just vote for change, it might be shit, or it might be good, at least we know it'll be change.". And IMO Trump voters probably found justification after they made up their minds to vote for him, fooling themselves "He's not shit!" and clutching to empty hopes that Trump will fulfill his car salesman promises...
Sounds like my reseller buddies.
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