skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not because people aren't voting - it's because our votes are not equal. We don't have "one person, one vote" here - we have "one dollar, one vote", and those with more dollars get more votes. Citizen's United infamously set that in stone. Meanwhile, rampant gerrymandering, court packing, and other anti-democratic tactics have been heavily abused over the past few decades of Republican control to further erode and cement that. Though Republicans are not the only ones accountable - Democrats are just as responsible for accepting PAC money, for instance - and the two party system is mathematically guaranteed to be intractible as a consequence of our voting system. Even if every eligible voter voted in every election, the two party system is an inevitable conseqeunce of any election outcome, and both parties are dogs of the rich.

That the average American has approximately zero influence in politics is a mathematical, deliberately orchestrated truth.
yep.. and we see posts of people moving monoliths to microservices and vice-versa as a result. You either find meaning in that or there a salary premium and lots of vacation time for the mindless work. Otherwise, you're probably working "hard"
Goodbye IPTV... it was really good while it lasted.
This story about alignment reminds of past discussions about stress and status. There's the infamous Whitehall study and Sapolsky's research linking perception of status as the driver of stress in workers rather than the effort expended at work. In a sense, people who are aligned have a completely different relationship towards work to the point where it probably can't be considered the same thing. I don't mean that just sociologically, but physically and physiologically in terms of the long term costs to their bodies and minds as well.

I may be misremembering the exact argument, but some insightful commenter here once mentioned a while ago that although Hannibal Barca would in all likelihood have had a stressful life, his relationship to that stress would probably be much different from what we imagine due to our perspective as worker bees whose relationship to work isn't defined by autonomy, glory, or decisions that really have an impact.

When I see Altman's quote:

>It's not entirely clear to me why working hard has become a Bad Thing in certain parts of the US.... I think people who pretend you can be super successful professionally without working most of the time (for some period of your life) are doing a disservice.

It strikes me that for a person to be confused by this, they would have to be completely isolated from the working reality of most people. I'm not familiar with Altman's life, but if I had to guess he was never in a position where the long-term connection between effort and gaining autonomy/mastery/meaning was broken.
But mah dollarzes!

> but abolishing all plastic will probably push hundreds of millions into poverty.

Citation needed. The very poorest people on Earth living subsistence farming and getting all their food from local sources. Plastic packaging is a way of extending the life of food so that supply chains can be lengthened and food can be sourced farther away: read: nice tomatoes in winter. Long supply chains increase industrialization of farming, push the quality of food down, and profits up. Plastic packaging is a western luxury that allows us to live in a smorgasborg of food oversupply uninterrupted by season. While western societies' main health problems stem from obesity, you argue about food packaging, ignoring the fact that the vast majority of plastic waste in the ocean is from one-time use plastics for goodies like Coke bottles, chip bags, candy bar wrappers, straws, etc.
I'm not really a web dev, though I've built a couple small (mostly static) sites.

Could you expand a bit on what makes it appropriate or not for different applications?
Go beat another guy!
It's converting a digital signal (HDMI) to another digital signal. Why should there be any quality loss even if it's a cheap chinese model?
It's hilarious that web servers rendering HTML and sending it to the browser over a TCP connection is now "cool new tech".
This sounds a lot like server-hosted Blazor, streaming HTML snippets though websockets. Am I understanding it correctly?
The locking the bootloader thing should be illegal, by international law, to prevent e-waste. It should not be legal anywhere on earth to fill the landfills with short-lived high-tech devices.
> You lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do and you're not military material.

Try banking, big business, CIA/NSA. We need honest/prudent/righteous cannon fodder!
Ask HN: Do you happens to know the website/course which I losted the URL?
Hello HN,
I'm looking for a website that got posted here, which is a thorough (multi-page responsive html) guide of fondamental CS Courses starting from binary/decimal conversion, 8 bits CPUs architecture, and C programs compiler. It got something like 400 upvotes 1 year ago I think but I can't find it and I haven't saved the URL appart from my phone which stopped working.
Good luck to anyone who wants to try to replace the whiteboard with any kind of screen technology.

For me, nothing is even remotely close to be able to replace whiteboard, brown paper and marker pens. I'm not saying that the void doesn't exist, it's just that the void currently is too big and all solutions are nowhere near filling the void.

With a whiteboard my experience is that everyone can pick up a pen and start contributing immediately.

Some times, to be able to discuss your problem space you need to remove all distractions.

I have had countless amazing meetings where we leave technology at the desk and sit down in a meeting room with a huge whiteboard and map everything out.

Heck, I even asked for a whiteboard to be installed in my office just to draw things out whenever I need to explain something.

It is even good for personal stuff. It's there until I wipe it away and always instantly accessible.
If only it were that simple.

There's two major reasons I see why that doesn't happen. First, a 'no' vote is still taking a position. It requires additional explanation to differentiate "no because I couldn't understand it in time" and "no because I think it's a bad idea." That's a fair bit of nuance, which these days is... well often difficult to accurately and easily convey to others.

The second reason is that it's not just a matter of one vote per issue. It's not one massively complex issue that requires 5k+ pages to fully flesh out. It's a bunch of different stuff all jammed together, and votes can only cover the entire thing. Some of those things are often simple enough, and some are very time critical. Do you want to hold up the time critical bits for the rest of it?

If you do, can you get constituents to understand why, and agree with your decision to hold things up? For every voter that you can't convince, your political opponents now have an easy in. Can you afford that?
It worries me that one day Google is just going to decide to remove that feature from a future version of Android for "security". 99 percent of users won't notice or care.
You're kind of right. I don't believe Thai's fail to check their blind spot because of laziness. It's ignorance.

Not long after my then gf, now wife and I came to Thailand, we went somewhere with her mother. I had a Intl. drivers permit and she asked if I wanted to drive, so fuck it why not. Within a few minutes, she asked my gf "why is he turning his had, can't he see in the mirrors?".

She is a retired school teacher, and she had zero clue about the concept of a blind spot in a car. I can count the number of times I've seen her wear a seat belt, on my fingers (in 8 years).
That's fair, and perhaps I could have described it in a different way, which is that purpose aside, the education system is eminently hackable. One such hack is to let your friends take bird courses while you take meaty courses. Another is to find a way to learn from the bird courses while your classmates sleep through them.

In the same terms, one could say that higher education has emerged to produce empty signaling as a widespread outcome, while allowing itself to be hackable enough to produce other desired outcomes as well. Empty signaling is the prevailing hack, but not the only hack.
> Russia has no capability to act outside it's borders in high intensity warfare

What you are saying is laughable to anybody with a dime of military education.

I didn't laugh, but I did raise an eyebrow. I just kind of chalked it up to the lack of military officers who comment on HN.
I'm intrigued here. It clearly isn't the work of script-kiddie-type hackers, because of the research required and the subtlety of the phishing emails.

But equally, it does require some thorough-going technical competence – particularly to have got away with it for so long – so it's hard to believe that it's simply an unscrupulous insider/agent/scout within the publishing industry.
> being below the pack is probably the worst mistake you can make

This entirely depends upon your life view. If you believe the most important thing in life is the accumulation of wealth and material possessions, then your argument may well be valid.

If you believe there are other things to strive for in life and that happiness can be obtained through other measures, then being 'below the pack' matters almost not at all.
Did you go to page 2. There are several pages, with lots of benchmark numbers.
Russia is declining power unlike China.

Russia struggles to maintain and repair their existing aircraft. Even increasing the rate of intercepts in the peacetime increases the attrition rate to unsustainable level.
When CoreData first released, forums were full of people using it incorrectly, then complaining that it was buggy. It's good to see nothing has changed.
Yes. I've received numerous emails thanking me for my public criticism and saying directly that they didn't. It's extremely easy for people to fall down the rabit hole of only reading content authored by people pumping it.
The best relationships are where both parties are willing to give to each other.

Great companies are generous to the employees and hire the kind of employees that go above and beyond for the company. I've seen this at all the places I've worked, it really is the best setup.
In my experience federated learning gets talked about a lot more than actually used.
Most webcam's I've tried do "just work" with *nix since they use USB UVC. And most linux distributions come with or can easily install the qt v4l2 package which can show you a live feed and let you adjust all the webcam's parameters that are exposed over UVC - for my current Logitech that's the common stuff like resolution, FPS, brightness/contrast/saturation, but also hardware-specific things like exposure (or autoexposure), pan/tilt/zoom, and focus / autofocus.

I'm pretty sure the situation is the same on ChromeOS and Macs. And I've seen that webcams these days also tend to be pretty plug-and-play on Windows.
My laptop lid is as thick as my smartphone. I think there is enough space. I think the technology from smart phones has not swept over to laptop lids yet.
To be clear, Voat was billed as the free speech alternative to Reddit, when Reddit banned subreddits with names like /r/shitniggerssay and /r/neofags. Nobody was under any pretenses as to the type of person voat was catering to.
I think the two questions being considered are largely a matter of public opinion. You can use something of sci hub etc to justify your opinion, or try to change someone’s mind (esp in this example with the trans athletes). But unless others have already held this discussion somewhere google won’t help you gauge what people think.
(Obviously these particular topics have been done to death, but someone has to hold this discussion for the first time on a given platform).

I do actually agree that most people that most people making a fuss about these questions online are doing so in bad faith or “mostly bad faith”. But I still do think both questions are nuanced, and I think a lot of bystanders might benefit from intelligent responses to these questions from the progressive side, but maybe at some point it’s too exhausting.
That definitely has resonance for me.

When I think back to the times I was putting in a lot of extra hours, I wasn't getting results in proportion to the time spent. Partly because being tired your capacity declines. Partly because, in retrospect, we were all performing hard work as a way of impressing clients, bosses, and each other. And partly out of some phenomenon related to "revenge bedtime procrastination" [1] where I just ran out of self-discipline and would secretly take the breaks I should have been taking anyhow.

Some years back I hired movers. Previously my experience moving had been the casual thing with friends and family. We took our time, joked around, took breaks, kept entertained. But these movers were relentless. They never rushed and never seemed stressed, but if there was work to do they were on it until the work was 100% done. And when there wasn't work to do, they were perfectly chill.

I keep coming back to the memory as how I want to work. No bullshit, hard work when it's time to work, and really letting go of it at quitting time. It's harder to achieve for software, but I will keep iterating in that direction.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20201123-the-psychology...
> one of the top five regrets of the dying is ”I wish I hadn’t worked so hard”

I look forward to contributing to the reversal of that
“the right question to ask is not whether a particular test is flaky, but how flaky it is”

Yet again, a problem is not solved but paved over by a new level of indirection, and the house of cards grows taller.
Biden during his tenure along with Obama displayed a propensity to utilize the "heavy hand of government" approach whenever necessary, in part due to the lame duck Congress, but nonetheless, the precedent has been set. If anything, we have evidence to believe he will intervene wherever he can.
Not only people dying are saying that but also people at the age of 60-70. Some of them still working but now their children are adults and they missed too much and regret it.
I've interacted with teams that would commonly get messages in their slack channel asking to review PR's or whatever and the team would simply point at the channel status which was a link to their ticket submission page and the expected turnaround time, with a message like "Hi, please open a ticket and we'll get to it within the SLO", and then they strictly stuck to that. They also always linked the documentation if it might be in there, but with the note that if its not covered in the docs, to let them know. Usually it was in the docs.

Sure, people don't like it, but after a few attempts to bypass the system, they learn and stop doing it. (This is in a software company)
Every time this is posted, I go against the grain and agree with something like this.

I think having general principles written down and available for your team or especially your manager is good.

- How do I like praise?

- How do I like criticism?

- What makes me feel appreciated?

etc.

Your manager's job should be to keep you happy and productive. Knowing what makes you productive and happy at a company is their job.

Maybe I am just a weirdo Millenial who hates corporate places but if my manager or colleagues laughed at this or anything in that sort, I would leave since that signals a poor environment that is not about teamwork and being caring of others.
I'm a veteran as well, and it fits perfectly that officers get a slap on the wrist, while if a junior enlisted solider did something like this, they'd get fucked up big time.
I wonder why Signal's locking/password feature is not enabled by default or at least hinted at.
Yes! But only if you think of deep work as holistic problem solving rather than fetishizing some technical aspect (which is hard to avoid for certain flavor of programmerly personality).
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Wasn't 8chan a containment board as well?
VPN Safe-Inet has been taken down by Europol
1 or 2 or 3.
Turns out, the minority is right FWIW.

But you still can't stop language from changing no matter how "right" you are you.
This article from 2016 explains the problem: https://bjango.com/articles/macexternaldisplays/

Basically, the ideal PPI of mac displays is a multiple of 110 PPI. So, for retina quality you need a display of roughly 220 PPI, which is what you get from 5K at 27 inch. A 27 inch 4K display is around 160 PPI. If you use that in 2x mode, things will appear too large. If you set it to scaled mode to make things appear the proper size, there are display artifacts (like shimmering when scrolling). In fairness, it's not super obvious unless you know what to look for. But if you're already spending money on a high end screen, why should you have to compromise?
In fact, having FSF validation doesn't prove anything but rather may be detrimental, because the FSF validation has built-in backdoors, and Purism took full advantage of them - reducing user freedom in the process.

Thread on how the Librem 5 is explicitly designed to hide proprietary blobs from the user in order to gain RYF certification (where having those blobs readily accessible would be strictly an improvement in freedom, as it would mean you are free to verify their contents, audit them, and potentially replace them with a free version if you develop one):

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1040626210999431168

Make no mistake, Purism has gone quite far down the freedom marketing religion path laid down by the FSF. They no longer care whether you're free or not, they care that you believe you're free.

If you have blobs, stick them in /lib/firmware. Don't go hiding them in separate flash chips that I can't audit or rewrite just so you can slap the FSF's meaningless "the main CPU didn't touch any blobs (except the bootrom but we don't talk about that) so it doesn't have the digital cooties" rubber stamp on your device.
I agree with the notion that everything is related to governance, and free markets are not anarchy. But it is a proposal of a system that requires a set of rules, some nowadays unavoidably performed by government, but the key are the rules not the government.

In any case, I see the same corruption you see, and the question is how to go about it. If the state is powerful and corruptible, I want a smaller state, with less surface to be corrupted. And it is surprising how you can reveal most corruption by just the simple application of freedom: that's whats appealing of the free market framework.
> First, we're talking criminal law here, so the state has to argue their case and prove your guilt, not you have to prove your innocence

Although factually correct, this is not how the system works in most circumstances. If someone in power believes you committed a crime based upon the current law and you get charged for that crime, fat chance you will be arguing semantics in court. You will be taking a plea deal unless you are extremely well funded.

I’m mostly wondering why we need to make these explicit laws to give more ammo to prosecutors. Is this really something that needs to be addressed now? Do we need to further criminal liability because the copyright enforcing industry can shift the expenses of policing their content onto publicly funded mechanisms?
I'm pretty sure voat turned out exactly as he intended. While "Free speech" is laudable goal, he wanted a platform that allowed for racism, conspiracies and threats. I don't think he wanted only racism and conspiracies, but he wanted them to be allowed to flourish alongside and within mainstream conversation.
WiiU graphics is a low bar given its hardware graphical capabilities are on par with DX 10, a 14 year old API.
What's extremely frustrating is that Apple makes an excellent 27" 5K monitor in a nice housing for $1800. The only problem is that it comes with an iMac...

So clearly, Apple could sell a monitor for about $1600, that would be perfectly compatible with Mac Pros, mac mini and as a secondary monitor for all the various MacBooks.
Oh I agree, I've just found it counterproductive to hold others to my personal standards for precision in communication :-)
I am doing this now with my wife. We are aligned on many areas relating to the business but, as you can imagine, we don’t align perfectly all the time. Usually we can work it out but not always.

Example: Our company is a small retail business in my hometown. I want it to be more than that and my wife would be happy if we kept things the same, so long as finances allow (they should, barring some unforeseen catastrophe).

So we are aligned on nearly every “important” aspect of the work except this one. It’s tough because one of us either has to become aligned with the other’s views, or has to work without that alignment if that’s not possible.

I feel very privileged to have this kind of problem as opposed to not being able to pay the bills etc, but it still feels bad at times. I think that’s life though, where you need some of the bad to appreciate the good.
In 'Cyberpunk 2077,' the Only Truly Punk Move Is Not to Play
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The amount of plastic in use today, I feel, is unreasonable. It's so carelessly and thoughtlessly used in everything. The grocery store -- what happened to bringing your own containers, baskets, and bags? Every entertainment, convenience, appliance, and device we use: plastic. Want to buy a birthday card? Chances are it will come wrapped in plastic. We even wrap the plastic in plastic.

I can't imagine a world where we don't depend on oil and plastics because we've come to a point where nobody can imagine living in a world where things aren't build to be disposable, convenient, and last practically forever.

This article just continues the trend. The plastics don't simply disappear. Eventually we'll just be drowning in the stuff. It already inhibits plant growth in soils and plastic is in almost all the soil around the world. I won't be surprised if it also inhibits human growth.
Downvoted? But I'm not being sarcastic, really!

Let's say hypothetically, for whatever reason, all of the metal in a society could no longer be used (hyperinflation, scarcity, factories are shut down, Act of God, Zombie Apocalypse, you're trapped on a desert island, ?) -- OK, so then, the next question then is

What can you make simple forms of transportation out of?

Well, you'd never think that bamboo could be used to create bicycles -- until you saw this article!

So I reiterate, a brilliant idea!
For 2, if it's a password that the user chose, the site should never email it, because the user likely reused that password across many sites, and someone who snoops on the user's email (say a housemate) can get the password to a ton of sites.

If it's a password generated by the site, then it's actually fine to email it. Although you likely don't want it too early in the email that it would show up in a phone notification or in a body summary in gmail.
It also controls the Bosphorus, hence cutting off the Russian Black Sea Fleet from the Mediterranean, and is a handy staging point for operations in the Middle East. Nobody else can do the first, and alternatives for the second are less palatable.
An E4 cheating on land-nav at PLDC/WLC/BLC whatever it's being called these days gets treated more harshly.
The free Fira Code [0] has them.

I don't have the knowledge to respond to your second point.

[0] https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
I think we are mostly in agreement. I agree that there are societal factors as well and that these are not good and we should work to address them.
The first step to reform is to not be so alienated that you praise those who profit the most from the status quo for throwing the occasional breadcrumb. Organizing democratic nation-states first came from people questioning the divine rights of kings. In our era, this would be questioning the divine right of "value creators" and the trickling down.