skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been thinking about this basic idea a bit, trying to reason how to design durable institutions that can help function as crisis mitigation organizations while also working on problems in a community, or put in terms of the article, how to structure an institution that is morally competent.

One problem to this is that many institution that have a morally competent start soon struggle with many of the problems that plague institutions, things like nepotism, political players attempting to coopt the organization for their own good, institutional survival over problem solving, and the like. While these problems can be mitigated by strong boards of directions who adhere to a larger mission, I think the better idea is to have many small organizations that promote problem solving while being part of a larger network that has the goal of solving the problem, and hope that the morally competent people can be spread about the network enough to encourage the solving of the problem, instead of the working on the problem.
Automated software-controlled shutter is useful. Attacker can’t record without engaging the shutter. Engaging the shutter outs the attacker.

(Contrast with software-controlled LED indicators: attacker can record undetected if they manage to bypass the LED.)

A manual shutter covers still more attack vectors, but automated shutter is better than no shutter.
I've been pretty happy with just the SodaStream. at least after I got the adapters and attachments to refill the CO2 cartridges myself, since buying the refills from SodaStream themselves is ridiculously overpriced.

It doesn't carbonate "like a beer", but it does carbonate "like a soda", which, as I stated, is basically my vice of choice.
That is true. The only reason it works is because they have a commodity that they can sell that everyone wants (for now), that is just dug from the earth and sold on the market with little cost/effort. Such economies are rare (and work because the other economies aren't the same). Also, they have a small life span and can easily not work (Venezuela).
Should all expressions of opinion be given equal weight? Is an average person able to evaluate what's factually correct, and what's not?

Just think of all the assumptions that you need to make when you figure out "should I take a COVID-19 vaccine":

* Is this vaccine safe? What do I know about the companies that are making it?

* What even is a vaccine? Are they all the same? How do the different ones work?

* Is COVID-19 even real? Have I personally witnessed people getting sick? Is there statistical evidence that large amounts of people are getting sick? Is the death rate worse than the average flu?

* How do we even know this is transmitted between people? Do masks work? What even is a virus? How do they grow and replicate?

* Are doctors lying to me? Do they have an incentive to? How do I fact-check these claims when I can't travel around the country and see with my own eyes?

* et cetera

You have to rely on some assumptions to be able to answer these questions, which is the whole point of having an educational system at all, and necessarily prioritizes ones that we have deemed "correct". Is this authoritarian? Should we just let children loose on Twitter after they're born and have them re-derive all information for first principles again?
Offering the UI in the browser versus just the CLI is an interesting idea. Go one step further and just display the results in the browser. Go another step and you got an Electron app, no CLI at all.
There are brokers of .eu domains that allow you to get a .eu address for the purpose. Of course it's a service and subscription, but it's trivial for anyone to get a .eu domain.
It appears they know that; might just want to understand the scope of the data Matt provided and/or how in-depth the Automattic analytics are on self-hosted sites--which is something that I (as someone with a limited understanding of the platform) am interested in learning more about.
I just use Open Shell as a start menu replacement. Works perfectly for me, and I have it configured to behave like the Windows 7 start menu. The Windows 10 start menu being cumbersome wasn't enough to push me to it; it was that the Windows 10 start menu had a limit to the number of items on it, and if I remember correctly didn't show any new programs after that limit, which made it useless for opening any newly installed programs after that.
> FFS, this is why we have to change clocks twice a year. It’s like the left or right side of the road debate. Which side you drive on doesn’t matter. Agreement is what matters.

If my options are to either switch clocks twice a year, or to be at work by the equivalent of 8 am in the winter, I'd much rather switch clocks.

It's not even close, either. I'm scared of these permanent DST bills.
The automakers' behavior makes much more sense once you assume they did their homework, and came out with the same conclusion as everyone else: that the future of personal transport is in battery electric vehicles, and that future implies lower service revenue, slower upgrade cycle, fewer possibilities for brand differentiation, obsolescence of their patent portfolio and large layoffs.

Based on that conclusion, they decided the best overall strategy is to delay that future as long as possible, by any means necessary.
I'd like to chime in and say that I also like C but really dislike Go.

C is simple, to what today is nearly an absurd degree, but it at least integrates well with an enormous ecosystem of existing tooling and libraries. Go, by contrast, feels the need to re-invent every possible wheel, often with a seemingly intentional effort to be different just because.

C ABIs are rock solid on every platform. Any language or tooling in the world can load functions from a C library. By contrast, try calling Go from another language. You will quickly give up and use network protocols or subprocesses instead.

The converse is true too: on major platforms, the C library defines the operating system more than the kernel does. (I mean, in a Unix sytem, the entire libc is documented in the man pages. Documentation for writing C is literally built into the operating system.) By contrast, Go decides to avoid the standard platform ways of calling every operating system function, and instead implements syscalls directly into the kernel, basically just because Go hates interoperating with anything that's not Go.

C is a good language not because it is a good language, but because it is a good ecosystem. Unix and C are closely intertwined. (Even Win32 and C are pretty closely intertwined!) I could imagine a Go-based Plan9-like system -- if that existed, and had decades of engineering behind it, I could see the argument being made that Go's ecosystem compares to C's. But while Go may aspire to that, it isn't anywhere near there yet.

And when you start comparing Go with other languages on the basis of language features, I think Go fails laughably more often than not. (I'll give you "C++ is a clumsy mess", though.) But compare Go with Rust, with C#, with Haskell -- for that matter, compare Go with Java and I think Go is a less powerful, less useful language to write real code in.

If I want a lightweight, quick-and-dirty program, I'll use Python. If I want to write a reusable library that gets plugged into other software, I'd go with C (or at least write the interop layer in C). If I want a high-performance server, these days I would probably go with Rust. If I want a pragmatic, well-rounded language to write a large project in, I think C# would probably be my first choice.

What space does that leave for Go? Outside of microservices (where I contend that Rust is a much better choice, and there are lots of other options), Go's niche seems to be command-line tools. I sort of understand that, because Go's static linking makes redistributing binaries relatively easy (although Go by no means has a monopoly on that). But in the space of command-line tools, Go's argument handling is frankly bizarre: it looks at decades of precedent about what users expect from argument syntax and behavior and decides to throw it all away and reinvent the wheel.

I guess that means this comment (rant?) has ended up where it started: Go defies convention, basically "just because". By contrast, C defines convention. "If you like C, you will love Go"? Nope, not at all.
We're talking about millions of people losing their jobs and their privileged positions.

How did the world and society exist without big-brother surveillance?!?
Wouldn't standard time just shift the problem to the morning? They'd have trouble staying asleep after 4am.

Or they could buy blackout curtains or a sleep mask?
Right, if they think your "corporation" is just a shell to shield you from justice, they will just prosecute you instead of going with the charade of trying to punish your shell company. The feds rarely have trouble prosecuting someone when they want to, they've got somewhere between 95-99% conviction rate.
Don't we think the way we handle prisons greatly affects the culture around them?

> Smaller population size tends mean much smaller regional variations in socioeconomic conditions and fewer regions with the extreme conditions associated with high crime rates and pervasive criminal sub-cultures.

Do US regional prisons in non-hotspot areas do much better?

How many criminal sub-cultures extend past a single city?
you've described crimes and bad decision making processes (humans drive tired, drunk, while texting, etc, and sometimes just make mistakes).

The outcomes of those choices are known and have causes which are preventable; they are by definition not accidental in nature.

I know it's not intentional but words matter. Crash is a better word 99% of the time than "accident".
Agreed - my guess is probably making money and donating it, as 80k hours recommends.
I really think that the ruling class should think about this carefully before moving on with this. It is a very popular issue, and I’m sure they would gain a lot of political capital by moving this through, as many people support this. However they need to do this carefully.

There are some health questions unanswered. And some research is needed before they do this. Sleep is important and sleep deprivation is a thing that affects some portion of the working class, and some portion of school children. Before they take this step, they should know the effect this would have on the sleep behavior of this population. If moving to a permanent DST would further disrupt the sleep cycle of this population, the result could be dangerous.

I really hope that the ruling class consults public health experts, and asks for research and goes with their recommendation which is based on that research rather then simply going by what people think they want. Sleep is to important to be messed with and disrupted because of a rushed—but popular—decision.
Fantastic essay. Articulates a thought I've long (in some oblique sense) had but never found the words for.

I hope this term enters the mainstream, because I find the mere fact of there being a term for something helps to anchor the concept in society's mind and help them to be mindful of it. Because we have a term for the Dunning-Kruger effect, we know to be aware of it, etc.

Of course only a small selection of society (the sort that like reading and digesting concepts) ever learn these terms, but that slice of society is very high-impact and arguably the most important slice for where such concepts need to take hold.
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Imagine being a programmer in Israel and hearing that the leader of a neighboring country wants to kill you and everybody you know.

We're not unaware of the impact of sanctions. Fundamentally, starving a generation of Iranians of information and experience is worth it if leads to civil unrest and regime change, therefore preventing Iran's current leaders from committing the genocide they've said they want to commit so many times.
Yeah that's a good one. Maybe the next gen of this watch will have that.
I think there might be some truth to this ... observability of the pandemic is very highly non-uniform -- even assuming the input measurements can be somehow normalized in a semi-trustable way (probably not true in general), non-uniform population distribution + exponential makes for much much more noisy measurement than I think is regularly acknowledged.

I feel like there's a kind of built in bias against fully appreciating the effects of the unknowns given the nature of the crisis -- because being the guy who says 'well actually we might not _know_ that' in every policy discussion about the pandemic doesn't actually contribute much benefit ...
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Thought this was going to be about how competence is a moral virtue, which is a more common use of the phrase. However, if you aren't helping anyone, you aren't doing any good, so it's tangentially related.
GitHub is fully available in Iran
Since Heartbleed. Nobody disputes that the library was dilapidated when Heartbleed hit. Heartbleed was the wakeup call.
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> Not wearing pants does sound pretty cyberpunk! But is it securities fraud?
I believe the situation already is covered by the providers right to keep personal information about customers to maintain and fully carry out contracted obligations such as a prescription service.

A user can not have a binding contract and request to be forgotten.
Sure, the impact is different. But on the other hand, I try to follow this rule as much as possible:

“One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Microsoft is no stranger to breaking laws and certainly has the resources to fight this one, or at least to argue that it shouldn't apply in this case.
>The more information is NOT better at all.

Do I take it that this information you are providing me is an exception?
Everything related to the company formerly known as New Vector is now called Element. The company is Element, the official clients are called Element (with suffixes Web, Desktop, Android, iOS) and yes, EMS is Element Matrix Services. This rebranding was done specifically due to the confusion brought on by the many previous names. More info here: https://element.io/previously-riot

The protocol is still called Matrix.
If they published the whole cookbook, or at least chapters, it would avoid looking like the minimum effort applied by content farmers.

I wonder if the same thing would work for you: organize your site with more content per page. You could add value with lists organized by some principle, or just borrow Amazon's catalog tree.

For that matter, would the same notion work for recipe sites? In addition to the main recipe per page, add several other related dishes -- compatible side dishes, similar main dishes, cocktails, etc. Reduce the blurb to please readers, but still produce content.

I'm far from an expert in SEO so I apologize if I'm telling you something you already know (or already know doesn't work). I'm just spitballing.
You can do the same in Google, but a durable option that I didn't have to type into the search field every time would be extremely useful.
My Dell Precision laptop has a manual camera shutter. This seems like a step backwards.
Nah, they'll just add a third option.
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You keep it in your physical wallet until you want to sell. When you do, you transfer and sell at a licensed exchange. I would choose to sell on Coinbase Pro but Gemini, Kraken, Binance.us are some other reasonable ones.
Imagine having to preface such a benign statement of fact with a disclaimer like that. What kind of bizarre culture have we created?
> The more information is NOT better at all. Information overload will cause great harm

Although I appreciate your desire to decide what information I’m allowed to access I’m going to politely decline. Thanks for the offer.
I hope no one was expecting that their custom code would be automagically migrated to Gutenberg.
Eventually they will have to migrate if they are going with the times. The old editor was morally obsolete.

It is like driving Tesla and complaining that the charging infrastructure is not as good as it could be yet. Then wait some years, but you know that everyone will want to switch eventually.

I really like how Gutenberg functions and it certainly was the right call to make and it proved to me that they are not stuck in the past. If they hadn't implemented it, they would probably start losing a lot more users to other platforms with more modern tools.
Personally, I totally agree with you that 12:00 should be roughly when the sun is at its highest. I suspect that's not a major consideration for most people, however.

In the UK we have already tried "permanent DST" (if that's what you want to call it): we were on UTC+1 through three winters: 1968-1971. From what I've heard, the Scots hated it and, according to Wikipedia, "on a free vote, the House of Commons voted by 366 to 81 votes to end the experiment".

I think Ireland joined in the experiment back then. There's a similar problem to the problem with Brexit: it would annoy some people if Northern Ireland were to have a different time from Ireland, and it would annoy some people if Northern Ireleand were to have a different time from the rest of the UK. I think all-year UTC would make a lot more sense and be generally more acceptable for the British Isles (UK + Ireland) than all-year UTC+1.

I also think Spain should consider switching to UTC. Some poeple claim they only switched to UTC+1 in the first place because of Franco's friendship with Hitler.
What I don't understand is why not blocking access to those regions which are affected by US sactions (in this case Iran). The current situation in which you can access the website, but if you do, your account will be banned immediately is more like a detective scenario than respecting the laws. You can simply block all Iranian IPs.
I am not sure if I disagree with your main point. But the conviction rate is only proof that they don't prosecute cases when they do not have the evidence to win.
This is not the case at most large companies (FAANG) - no special permission is required to take a laptop with you across borders. They'd generally rather you have your laptop with you so you can get work done.

Regardless, this person logged into GitHub, which could have been from any device including a phone.
GitHub secures license from the U.S. government to offer GitHub to devs in Iran
how do you manage so many? how do you manage all those websites, logins, admin rights, etc?
this was hard to read nothing of substance. the author is defining terms to attempt some philosophical justification for their pivot and falls flat. good for you, one of many.
There are many places where times are hard coded into the law. For example, in my city, construction crews are only allowed to work from 7am to 7pm. By changing the clock time, that law will still work, but if everyone's work times changed, that law would need to be changed too. And that's just one example of thousands.
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About the only thing that people truly synchronize on is that lunch is around noon, but practically there's an hour of flexibility on when people actually eat. When is the official time for work to start or end? Maybe 7, 8, or 9? Office work seems to end around 5 or 6. School starts sometime between 6 and 10 AM depending on grade and locale.

My point is that there already is no standard wake/sleep schedule. Noon may be the tightest bound on when people all want to be doing the same thing, but importantly that happens after everyone is already awake so picking DST or ST is arbitrary.

People who want sunset or sunrise to occur earlier or later in the day have a conflict coordinating with other people in their life, not a problem with official timezones. Maybe pick your job and school district based on start times instead.

I'm happy to jump on the first bandwagon that gets rid of seasonal changes to timezones.
It's both pretty easy and insanely hard.

Insanely hard - from an engineer prospective - because there is a big gap between software disciplines and, ughm, "the real world". When you're pushing bits, today it's easy to forget about the times when computers were quite unreliable, from the hardware point of view. Bad contacts? Unreliable memory bits? Overheating parts? Magnetic tape which loses data and paper media which breaks? Today most of this is factored away and engineers largely operate with logic. Try to do hardware projects - even easy Arduino-based designs will give you a glimp of difficulties you're going to get with space technology, and if you're trying something modestly interesting...

Pretty easy is because "rocket science isn't rocket science". It's technology invented more than a century ago - converging-diverging nozzle was invented about 150 years ago, about 120 years ago Tsiolkovsky wrote about liquid hydrogen fuel and multistage rockets, more than 90 years ago Goddard flew his first rockets, almost 80 years ago von Braun was already working on V-2, and this year we're celebrating 60th anniversary of Spootnik. A great deal of efforts went into perfection of rocketry, and now we know a lot - that's a big part of the reason why SpaceX moves so fast - and can do a lot.

Now you can have a nano-launcher startup for less than 100 million dollars - may be way less - which just couple of decades ago is unheard of. More, there are competitions - X Prize for flight 100 km up, Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, Google Lunar Prize, and now, say, NASA's https://breaktheicechallenge.com/ - where you can participate with much smaller barrier to entry. The webinar from this last challenge - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXgdEDBTPJE - contains references on other competitions NASA is hosting.

So, to conclude, if you're an engineering mind, especially capable of working outside of applied math of programming, the possibilities are certainly there to try in growing space industry.
> And all Asian countries, without a single exception, have outperformed Europe, US, and SA by more than an order of magnitude

We may be playing out a new chapter of Guns, Germs, and Steel, where the germs source from East Asia instead of eastern Europe and the Middle East. The death toll may be a pale comparison to the % of lives lost among First Nations people during the colonial era, but we aren't fighting many territory wars these days. It's more proxy wars now, and economic wars.

Over the course of say 3 epidemics in as many decades, the differentials in economic harm could compound substantially.
> Ticketmaster has agreed to pay a $10 million criminal fine

Live Nation is worth $16 Billion. This is like a person with a $100k net worth having to pay a $62 fine, basically an expensive parking ticket.

They might as well tell them to write "I will not hack my competitors" on the blackboard 100 times.
> Does this data include other VW electric vehicles

Yes. Volkswagen owns 12 automotive brands: https://www.volkswagenag.com/en/brands-and-models.html

So it includes BEVs from VW, Audi, SEAT, Skoda, and Porsche. Scania and MAN also produce heavy electric vehicles like buses and trucks.