skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, until that information is used to give individualized prices and other things. Or used to hide things or show you only things the algorithms decide you like....or should have according to them.

Already i've read things about hotel websites and stuff altering prices based on which device you're using to browse their site.

In a world where your personal shopping information is bought and sold and things become increasingly online, it'll become a game of individualized shopping lists and prices, individual sales. Another perfectly crafted corporate bubble for people to live under where prices, suggestions and sales are individually tailored and at the whims of people siphoning all your personal information.

I don't need my own personal omnipotent digital god dictating everything in my life. Even if it saves me a few bucks.
KubeCon was my last virtual event. We need a better way.
> “We can now confirm that these [...] balls from Yanghai are the oldest [...] balls in Eurasia,” says Patrick Wertmann, an archaeologist at the University of Zurich and lead author of the recent study. “They were life tools, used for play or useful training.”

Sorry to be childish, but it's totally the elephant in the room.

Now that that's out of the way, I absolutely love stories like this because they remind me that there hasn't been much fundamental change in the last several thousand years. Humans pretty much are what we are. Moral frameworks, political philosophy, and technologies shift, but the substrate remains.
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This was my number one motivation for reading "How to Read a Book" (an HN recommendation, I might add). I can plow through texts without even trying (no effort to increase speed), but what's the point if I don't retain anything?

I haven't read Newport's "Deep Work" yet, but I suspect the themes are what I'm aiming for; I like to be a jack of many trades, but mastery of a few (or even serial mastery) is my ultimate goal.
Thank you!

Colorblind friendly red/yellow/green for status for danger/warning/success goes a long way. And it's not that hard.
Do you have real examples of this? Any time I see someone complaining of political blow-back, it’s because they chose to air their thoughts on social media or donate to specific causes publicly.

The one person I know that felt put in this position, due to his lifestyle business, felt pressured by competitors to aim his thoughts, not by his customers. He only faced pushback when his thoughts, that his customers hadn’t asked for, came off as selfish and tone deaf. He shot himself in the foot.
> For the downloadable .dmg, thin x86_64 is
90.6MB, thin arm64 is 90.9MB, and universal is 155.9MB, or +72%. It’s not
quite 2⨉ because we don’t need to ship two copies of resources.
It doesn't? If I write this into a file (/tmp/test.py):

#!/usr/bin/env python

print("Hello, world!")

and mark it as executable (chmod +x /tmp/test.py), I can just execute it as /tmp/test.py like I would do with any bash file.

If you mean invocation as "execute a command that I'm passing", 'python -c' does exactly that.

Even as a complete shell it works including changing directories and using standard python to do file IO, though it won't execute any system executables and doesn't do piping like you'd like from a shell. It's not intended for that purpose so I can't really blame python for that.
I rarely have headaches. But this may help: increase sunlight in room, stop drinking coffee, change color settings (day/dark), increase font size, increase fresh air, use ionizator, reduce stress, sleep more

Some unusual ideas:

You could hack your kindle to function as display. I haven't tried this, but it seems possible https://gizmodo.com/hack-your-kindle-to-use-it-as-a-raspberr...

Another possibility is using blind-computing technology. They have no need for a screen and are able to code. But this may take quite some learning time.

In the past they used a printer as computer output, probably that's not practical these days. But the principle should still work for a terminal. If you do sysadmin work, that may do.
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99% of the time this just means: "If you are not doing something I want you to, I will call that inaction/indifference politics too so I can attack you and not being perceived as a radical"

But no, the guy who sells me nails (as long as he is complying with the basic regulatory framwework for his business) doesnt need to have a vocal opinion on Israel/Palestine, BLM or if the gender balance in Google is OK or not. I even prefer it that way.
one bad thing about this is that if you also like to redshift your color temperature, you cannot have that and the OS-level invert on at the same time (last time I checked). Hence, inverting the pdf file itself allows you to have the best of both worlds.
Regularization might give better solutions, but it’s no more optimizing the stated objective, and often runs counter. In some cases, regularization is explicit and by choice, but it’s also often implicit and not under control.
You can change the max line length in black (the Python formatter I hear mentioned most often). How would you feel about setting it to something really large, like 1000, to emulate having no line length limit?
> No one NEEDS a news 1500$ Gibson.

It doesn't help that with Gibson's quality control, you're maybe getting a $300 instrument for your $1500.

I know a lot of guitarists. Professionals. They all are buying new guitars frequently. There's too many niches to fill and variation between instruments. I know quite a few who cycle through a couple of dozen guitars bought and sold every year just to find instruments with the right sound.
To be fair, the solution here would be for the kernel devs to ask the "SCSI council" (or whoever picks the ATA opcodes these days) and the NVMe sig to create a mechanism by which the device can communicate its durability guarantees, if any. If they decline to create one then the kernel devs can just declare one (even if nobody implements it). Failure to implement the API is, of course, equivalent to reporting "no guarantee" for all queries.

Then they could at least say "we're doing everything we can; next time you buy a storage device look for feature X".
>There are many spheres of life and influence within the world, and politics is but one of them.

True, but it is one that permeates all others. You cannot remove politics from any sphere and it is a fallacy to believe you can.

And as you've pointed out, whatever about leaving politics out of <insert sphere here>, politics is inherently linked to the corporate world.
Same here. I loaded programs from cassette tape into a Soviet clone of a Sinclair computer. Each program started with some sort of a loader block that produced a constant pitch. I would use a screwdriver to adjust the magnetic read head of the cassette player and listen for the pitch to be just right during the loader block in order to get the actual program to load correctly. Good memories.
I think that's partly due to market forces and the value produced per developer. A few Webdev's can write software that enables an entire web company in a few months. Due to the poor state of embedded development ecosystem the same is not true in hardware, compounded by the time/effort required to workaround bugs in the hardware plus working in error prone C. Then embedded developers/companies don't share workarounds via open source, so every team must spend time working around already solved issues. Personally, I'm using the ESP32 largely because of the open-source SDK, that didn't require an NDA or some crappy IDE, then I ported Nim to it. But normally it might take 2-3x more embedded devs to create products with comparable profits to similar devs in pure software
brawndo: it’s what plants crave
> often unable to speak English

Friendly reminder: the US does not have a national or official language.[1] They only harm themselves by not knowing English and usually they try very hard to learn so as to not be at a disadvantage.

> while either committing fraud by using someone's SSN or avoiding paying tax entirely

If they use someone else's SSN, the payroll taxes are still being paid, so the taxpayer isn't losing out. In fact, it's free money for the SSA because they'll never have to pay out benefits to most of these people later. (Would you take the risk of claiming Social Security if you were here illegally?)

If they get paid cash under the table, there are two parties acting illegally - the employer is also to blame (and possibly, laundering money, which is an additional crime). I don't see much vitriol directed against employers though. I hear "Build the wall" but never "Shut them down" (for employers who illegally employ undocumented workers).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_United_States...
To Baby Jesus?
If you have money to spend on a $300 bottle of wine, you can probably afford a bigger tip. If you don't want to tip 15-20% on that $300, don't. There's a big difference from owning a dog, and paying for its food, than spending money on a fun alcoholic beverage.
Selling to a general public is not the same as selling to targeted clients. If you sell computers in a store, and an evil foreign dictator buys it from there, you are not as responsible as if that same foreign dictator approaches you and asks for a delivery.

Even selling to a general public is nuanced, as selling toothbrushes is not the same as selling automatic rifles. even though both can be used to kill people, one is optimized for keeping your teeth clean, while the other is optimized for causing injuries.
Even if what you described about current American elections was actually the case (it isn't), it's not the purpose of a business to defend democracy. If you were a businessman in Germany during WW2 you would not have been a brave warrior fighting to preserve democracy, you'd just have moved on with your life and kept running your business, as would have (and as did) most people.

Also, what does Brazil have to do with this? I live here. Are you under the impression that Brazil is under the rule of a dictator or something?
In general, I think so. I like yard work too, but that’s largely because I’ve deliberately chose a small, low maintenance yard so it never really seems like “work”. Those I know with acres of land lament the upkeep but have no problem watching hours of tv. There’s a reason why landscapers and gardeners exist while we don’t hire people to watch tv and give us a summary.

Maybe yard work is a bad analogy, but if you watch tv seated rather than standing, it’s because we have a preference for lower energy states most of the time
Coffin maker becomes millionaire after $1.8m SPACE ROCK crashes through roof
This is a trope we see repeated: back in "the day", they couldn't run the numbers, so for safety margins, they just overengineered. It's usually applied to civil engineering, but I could see how it could be applied to staffing too.

I don't bemoan having a clearer picture of costs or margins of safety. What this speaks to is re-examining our values and perhaps directing our priorities to something other than maximizing ROI at all costs.
Almost 20 years ago GC lost a $7000 order of mine, wouldn't lift a finger to get UPS involved and banned me from ordering after I had to use a chargeback to get my money.

Been a happy Sweetwater customer ever since. I've had 3 different reps and I know them all quite well at this point.
That isn’t an accurate system—so if that’s all they were doing, they really shouldn’t be making claims they can’t support.
What Are Go's Anonymous Structs?
If you have any future topic or guest suggestions let me know.
Used to say I couldn't afford a watch I would wear. Then I got the modified F-91W (https://n-o-d-e.shop/), now I wear a watch.

Having a dumb watch gives me one more reason to leave my phone behind or off.
I’d genuinely find the blue and yellow design at the start delightful to use. Warm, bold, readable, tons of personality. My brain almost hurt looking at the drab follow-up.
Er, no. Even Coq proofs are written in an untyped language (Ltac). You've got your levels mixed up.
>the effects of Shimano's inability (or really, refusal) to control pricing from its European distribution was catastrophic to my business and my peers.

MAP is outright illegal in the EU.
> Everything is fine unless someone is sick or wants to take vacation.

That doesn't sound "fine" to me. People get sick. Vacations are necessities.
This is the opposite of my purchasing pattern. I’ll get sticks, strings, picks, and some hardware online. I’d never consider buying a cymbal or guitar without having in my hands first and spending some time playing it.
Well, not everyone, I wouldn't redicule or ostracize my social circle for not tipping.
Print tether, buy bitcoin, sell bitcoin for real money.

Day traders use tether to slip in and out of positions in a volatile market. Unregulated exchanges use tethers in place of real dollars.
This is the same level of cleverness as saying "everything is made of atoms so everything is about physics".
I like (v&(v-1))==0 (is v an exact power of 2?).
I still think it is true, when you choose to create some technology for example, the way you choose to design it will favor some things more than others, and that can have direct impact on society and people. Deciding how the technology will be is politics to me.

For example, say a tech startup is creating a crypto-currency like Bitcoin, choosing to create it like Bitcoin conveys anarcho-capitalist values. That is politics. Choosing to design consensus differently than on competition for something of value (PoW, PoS) like what FairCoin does might convey different political positions. Choosing not to create crypto-currency technology at all is also another one.

Technologies after they exist will favor the world becoming closer to some political ideas, tech startups like Uber convey liberal values with their driver recruitment model. iFixit another tech company rather choose to empower people to repair their things or open their own repair services, that's another political position. They could've started a very successful repair shop franchise and earn lots of money with some kind of monopoly on repair, yet they choose to share knowledge and encourage people to do so with their website.
Bikes that are a few pieces of metal welded together by robots in China go for $100 at Walmart. Carbon fiber bikes that you can lift with your pinky and use to hurtle down a mountain road in the French Alps can be well north of $10,000.
I think it's less that they have never heard of it and more that they are one level farther removed from being influenced by average people.

"Twitter bad. Don't use." is a much easier sell than "Salesforce bad. Other company uses Saleforce so it's transitively bad. Don't use other company."
Yes, but Sam Ash owns Samson/Hartke and has long term contracts with school districts keeping it afloat.

Guitar Center had to sell Harmony Central off to Gibson to cover its debts years ago and basically has nothing else going for it. None of their instrument brands are any good.
I agree with you, but in this case it looks like this article is a reprint from news.com.au - Rohan Smith is the author.
These are great, I'm on my second. One thing that you can do is put an NFC tag within them:

https://www.adafruit.com/product/2800

This lets you do all of the normal NFC things from your watch, like storing contact info, arbitrary text, etc.
I actually toyed with asking for a refund on this book (though in the end I decided not to).

Except the palette chapter, it doesn't help you build an aesthetically pleasing design from the ground up. All the examples are about making "meh" design better - but many of us back-end developers would be over the moon if we were able to make "meh" design in the first place.

It's also really only helpful for designing 'webform'-style applications (where the main purpose is structuring a lot of information). There are no general principles of design that that would be applicable to something like an interactive mobile application.

I'm not bagging the book, I still think it's quite good for what it is and I did find it modestly useful (which is why I didn't request a refund).

But rightly or wrongly, I thought it would be a good introduction to the fundamentals of visual design, which it mostly isn't.
then read them more thoroughly.
Nice to see that N-O-D-E is still around. I could never get one of these watches so I ended up just putting the NFC tag in myself.
the hypothetical posed in the parent comment isn't really a hypothetical. it's the actual situation github found themselves in a while back. i don't think "directly related to politics" is really a description anybody would naturally apply to github's product, but they still ended up in the middle of politics.

if your definition of directly connected to politics extends to having customers who are political entities, then there's not really such thing as a business that isn't directly connected to politics.
> I think it creates a much fuller and more perplexing picture of a person who lived such different sides of his life. In the long run, in the cosmic sense, I think you can say that commitment to a cause always gives you the justification for immoral acts. And patriotism is among the most seductive of those causes because it posits the nation as a value that's so transcendent that anything done in its service is virtuous.

I can buy that patriotism was used to sell MKULTRA to some of the rank and file who carried it out, but if I'm to believe that it's what motivated Sidney Gottlieb, Jolly West, and all the rest of its leading lights, I find the idea naive in the extreme. Even their stated motivation for originally undertaking a mind control program (after U.S. pilots supposedly came back brainwashed from Korea) is mendacious. Those pilots didn't need to be programmed to testify that we engaged in germ warfare in Korea because we actually did it!
> American politics has long since ceased being about policy and idea's, it is now a contest of identity

We have confused being politically active with being partisan.

Even this article conflates the two. Yet there is a world of difference between taking a policy stance and promoting a candidate or a party.

Companies have a legitimate stake in policy that commercially affects them. Nobody reasonably holds Uber and Lyft and DoorDash’s recent politicking in California against them. One may disagree, but it’s coherent. (Hobby Lobby taking a stance on gay rights, on the other hand, is incoherent.)

Companies must be politically active because nothing is apolitical. But companies shouldn’t be partisan. And when you are doing your work, the partisan affiliations of those around you should not matter.
I would recommend not doing that. Just use the initializer syntax, or write an inline function.
> It could also be helping you find the products you need at an opportune time, increasing the value for all parties.

This always comes up. But perhaps we should also ask the opposite question: what if we banned all ads, how would that affect overconsumption? It could theoretically be the best thing that ever happened to the planet.
Korg and Gibson and other brands you mentioned were floating them billions of dollars in inventory a decade ago. That's what enabled that.

Once it looked like GC was in trouble in 2007-2009ish, those large brands worked on other sales channels and stopped extending GC so much credit once they were established.
Don't we already put a price on freedom of speech? Isn't that what an non-disclosure agreement is?
This doesn't create any net demand for Bitcoin, though, right? It's in one end and out the other.

Or is the theory that Tether is actually backed by Bitcoin, in a sort of circular way that is sustainable as long as the Bitcoin price goes up but would unravel disastrously if the price were to come down?
People are the stakeholders in society. The CEO, board, management, and investors of every company are people and are by and large residents of a democratic state they can vote in.

That should the extent of their legislative and electoral influence. As soon as corporations have any voice in government beyond that you are left with a facsimile of democracy where the amount of power and money you control directly correlates to your influence in the purported democratic institutions of your government.

A corporation involved in politics is exclusively behaving to the whims of its controlling interest which is almost always an investor class numbering between one and a hundred persons. Their interests are obviously and profoundly over-represented in the legislative agendas of practically every government on Earth and its due to the double edged sword of their personal wealth directly buying them political will and their ownership of business giving them a mouthpiece and apparatus to also influence politics through. Both are destructive to civilization, whose their influence has waxed and waned for half a millennia. Where their peaks often bore a prelude to catastrophic events in history.
C99 made it official with "type foo[];" syntax. Better than using "type foo[1];" and potentially adding unnecessary padding.
> virtual auditions

I don't understand? Don't you audition an artist, not a piece of equipment?
Uh, We moved away from postgrest and went back to regular db + rest-service architecture.

The project (postgrest) has too many disadventages at that scale for us.
Any design should make sense in black and white and color should be the cherry on top.

Handicapped accessibility guidelines mandate specific contrast ratios but even normally sighted people see better resolution for changes in values than changes in hue and saturation. That is built into many video standards. So if you want to make the best of your eyes and the reproduction chain, do it!

Ansel Adams popularized a "zone system" to get the most out of photography but some of the best illustration pays close attention to value. I've made a bunch of receipt printer prints of Pokémon characters and they look great printed on a bad printer because they were designed that way.
I’ve not been dismissive of the power argument.

But the more I see of what underpins politics, and it’s at essence the highest level of communication.

It’s signaling status, credibility, threat, etc.

Nothing is done which isn’t a message or resource for future messages to achieve better negotiating outcomes.

So while earlier I saw it fundamentally about power, I now see that the mechanism of politics as the ultimate evolutionary form of communication.

I hope that shows how our points aren’t exactly in opposition.
They're not talking about whether companies should give money to politicians' campaigns, in hopes that the politician will then support their interests?

Those who think companies should under no circumstances "do politics", are you bothered by that too? That's the most popular form of "doing politics" across the entire economy I think, and it probably has an affect on legislation and policy that effects us all.
One ugly trick for unreachable branches is this:

assert(!"You gave an invalid letter");

The string literal is a pointer, so !pointer is false. And then you get a nice explanation message when the assertion fails. I wish all assert gave optional explanation messages.