skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reality is also a lot larger and more complicated than the simplistic context a small slice of it is placed in, with everyone demanding their particular context is _the_ important one. We dumb down our reality all the time in order to fit it to our agenda, selectively picking and choosing the bits we like, and what else can we do in a world with over 7 billion conscious minds?

My worry about your line of thinking, and the everything is political one, is that it feels a bit like eradicating diversity of thought and experience. To relate it to the start of this thread, plenty of the world outside the US will have so much of their own shit to deal with than the politics that are _important to you_ are not at all important to them.

For anyone to suggest or demand or require otherwise would seem to be quite imperialistic to me.
The Xfce file manager, Thunar, has thumbnails. For casual use at least, it is very similar to the Gnome file manager.
Omg, this is insane, I now realize I automatically memorize the first 3 and last 3 parts of filenames I need in the picker... For screenshots I read the date very carefully and fear the day I upload a wrong one. I was going to the toilet with a plunger, not even realizing it.

Btw, if you work on MacOS (which has been a while for me now), you get very used to hitting space everywhere to get previews. What a feature!
Right, it just doesn't seem that dramatic in context. They are saying a 13% year-over-year bump in the homicide rate is the greatest ever recorded, but there was an 11% bump from 2014-2015 and 10% from 2015 to 2016, according to the FBI UCR. So 13% is the highest but is it really such a shocking figure?
> First of all, how do developers so casually ignore this issue? Second of all, how do users so casually ignore this issue?

Because it’s not important enough to them to force a fix. Hard to believe, in this day and age, but some developers have other priorities, especially when working with free software.

I question if this is actually a bug. It seems to be working as intended, just not the way the author wants. Seems like the quickest solution would be for the author to either take on the job themself, or absent the time or expertise, pay someone else to do it.
In this time and age, do we really need "desktops"? If you only need a full-screen terminal and a full-screen browser (as is the case for many people), the whole desktop thing is unnecessary clutter.
Dissolving the Question
Network connections are getting faster... Peoples typing/reading speeds are not...

One day it will be feasible for someone's phone to receive all messages sent by every other person on earth. They can then try to decode every message till they find one that their private key can decode.

You've now made the perfect privacy messaging system - by sending all messages to all users, no quantity of network packet sniffing/timing analysis/evil nodes can figure out who is talking to who.
The behavior that helped the most educated succeed was being informed. It’s not surprising that they maintain that pattern and in so doing, parrot mainstream media.

Most people have limited experience in managing information that they consider authoritative which turns out to be wrong.

I think the best example of authoritative misinformation for 2020 is Anthony Fauci’s guidance that masks don’t help until they do. I’m looking forward to watching people’s reactions when he inevitably asserts they don’t again.

2020 was a good year for skeptic production, boy howdy.
Sounds like a good alternate toilet.
I recommend that one to my students. I also recommend Brian's new book titled "The Alignment Problem" and it is cited in the book.
> scrum Pope

his holiness will make his presence known in due time
Let's just call them all scrumbags
I always considered it more of a reflection on practicality. There is going to be wine around the monastery, if only because it is necessary for Mass. Therefore, you cannot really ban wine, so are you really going to dedicate a group of monks to the sole task of cellar guard duty?
I'd particularly recommend Kenji. For home cooking I don't know many better at teaching (maybe Chef John from foodwishes.com). He's great at differentiating between the must-haves and the nice-to-haves in recipes, and what the trade-offs involved are. This helps me build intuition, which then helps me with all cooking.

Watching Matty Matheson is fun but damn do I feel ill with some of his recipes. They are food porn - a fantasy not intended for the real world.
I am sorry to be so harsh, but this guide will not teach you anything about cooking, nor will it be of any particular relevance to founders [^].

The blog post is a 3,500 word advertisement to Amazon affiliation links. A selection of "helpful" advice given in the post:

- How to chop food? "Just search them on YouTube"

- "When you are first learning to cook I recommend avoiding complex recipes"

- "Get cooking"

Finally: "The goal of this post is [..] to provide fairly comprehensive [..] roadmap for going from a cooking noob to solid home chef." Sorry. This is not it.

[^] Alternatively, the title might be interpreted to mean "Cooking for founders [who are visiting you]". This is also not the case.
From what I have seen, most businesses explicitly refuse to accept it since it charges higher fees than visa and MasterCard
Sadly with Facebook,you can't be sure they won't install a backdoor application that will reinstall it after you uninstall it. That may just be some phones with Facebook and Messenger preloaded though.
Apple will never bother again with GPL software, while Google would rather migrate everyone to Fuchsia if they could, IBM is focused on making Linux a good citizen for cloud and mainframe computing, Oracle just wants to make it run their database stack, so that leaves out Microsoft, in what concerns billion dollar companies that would care to do that.
> Death by a thousand small inefficiencies, quirks and bugs...

I agree, this is the problem. GUI OS developers like to work on big features and eye candy but forget to fix the basics. I have yet to find a Window system that:

1. Works without glitches in HiDPI setups. Especially mouse pointer glitches.

2. Comes out of the box with fonts that don't feel like thorns in the eyes, including the browser.
> But keeping your head buried in the sand all the time isn't the answer.

It isn't, but I can't see a benefit of dragging unrelated politics into software development, even though the topics might be important.
I wonder if there's automated ad purchasing going on here, bidding against the keywords of the top app names in relevant categories?

It seems that Facebook bidding on Signal keywords is unlikely to gain them much, as those searching for signal right now are very likely going there expressly to escape from Facebook, and are searching for a specific brand name already.
Or you could go from an even more fundamental level with a simple course https://www.nand2tetris.org/

You build up a computer from simulated logic gates, constructing the ALU, CPU, Ram, I/O etc. The opcodes are comparable to those in the CPUs you mentioned, but you have the added benefit of the magic that occurs when it is able to process those opcodes. The best part is, thanks to the courses exceptional guidance and streamlining, it only takes about half a day or so to get it to that point.

After that you can follow the rest of the course to making a compiler, etc. Or you could move to an NES emulator as you mentioned. The nand2tetris halfway mark would also be a good jumping point for the principles, compiler, and RISC equipment mentioned in the OP's course.
Both EU users and non-EU users are required to accept new terms of service or lose access in a month, but the EU terms don't have most of the data-sharing bits that would be likely to violate the GDPR.
You will find lots of such examples of a feature which you personally find very important and wonder why such a simple thing is not supported yet. I guess everyone has such examples. And you will also find such examples for MacOSX or Windows.

For me personally, I wonder why mouse wheel/scroll acceleration is still not implemented. I implemented it a while ago for Xorg, which is outdated now, and also the maintainer was not happy with my approach. It's now a long outstanding proposal for libinput, https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/issues/7 / https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/405 (original bug report from 2010: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29905).

Anyway, I guess there are actually not too much people caring about this feature. And the intersection of those who do and those who have enough free time and knowledge to implement this is just empty.

Btw, I don't quite understand the comment about KDE. It sounds like the the author claims that KDE lacks other relevant features. But comparing Gnome vs KDE, it is quite clear that KDE has much more features. This is never a complaint I heard about KDE.
A random person on a blog is not an investigation. We needed a full audit after 100s of people came out with allegations. This would have put it to rest.

There were other allegations that Dominion machines were attached to local networks for updates during election night. Were they? I have no idea. There as no investigation. Only denial.

I personally have used dead people's names (with DoB and city) in a few of the battleground states and I could see they not only received a ballot on election night, but sent it back. How could this possibly happen?

This was passed off as 'fake news'.

I'm not going to repeat all of the other claims, but we had a bigger investigation on Trumps Russian collusion, which had a fraction of the evidence.

If I could put in a handful of names into a government site and see this, I can't imagine the amount actually in these databases.

The sickest part is that people just aren't curious. They hate Trump so much, they want to win at all costs.

After so much time has passed and state leaders have rejected any and all calls for investigation (and big tech sites have censored anyone that questioned it), even if there was evidence at one point in time, it would be long gone by now. These investigations should have been immediate.

The Democrats are now going to usher in some of the worst laws imaginable for free speech. It has already started with the de-platforming of Parler.

At some point talking time will indeed be over, and it will be a time for action.
Hey HN, I made this tool to start or stop printing a file at a first match. It's pretty simple but would be happy to receive feedback and feature ideas.

Thanks!
Thumbnails are performance hogs
If people are going to make crappy half-baked software that doesn't work, they need to be upfront about it so people stop expecting it to do its job. If they're not going to do this, people are right to expect a basic level of quality and to complain when they don't get it.
So providing a platform for others to incite violence and ending democracy is a good choice?

I do hope you appreciate that this question stopped being a purely academic question four days ago and became the very real death of five people and the closest the US has come to a coup d’detat in a very, very long time?

The decisions to de-platform the United States president and the angry mob is not something any service provider wants or would do lightly. These are the hardest decisions many of these companies will make this decade.

Is it the best decision in this situation? We won’t know for years. Was it a good decision? Yes. And it was one that took courage.

I’m glad someone had the courage to make that decision.
I've been teaching my friends how to cook. Here's what I've learned:

Follow the recipe, then don't follow it. As a beginner, follow the damn recipe. Read the ingredients list, buy the ingredients, and follow the instructions to the word. I know too many beginners who get lazy, don't follow the recipe and then the food doesn't taste good. Then, once you've gotten it down, start to tweak and experiment. Try adding a new ingredient or substituting something you don't have. Once you're not a beginner, you can skip following the recipe.

Learn the basic science of searing, emulsions, salting and temperature (hot & fast versus low & slow). The Food Lab/Serious Eats is a great resource for this. Salt Fat Acid Heat is also good.

Gain intuition. Learn to taste the food and see what's missing. You probably need to add more salt. Maybe a little acid? Or you could slip in some butter.

You will need to use more fat and salt than you think. When beginners watch me cook, they're shocked at how much salt and fat I add. It's still a fraction of how much you eat at a restaurant. This is especially true if you're blanching or boiling something, as the water needs to be really really really salty. Pasta water needs quite a few tablespoons of salt. Don't worry about it.

I read a theory that the whole bacon wrapped whatever craze was due to bacon being essentially fat and salt. People became obsessed with adding bacon because they weren't adding enough salt and fat.

American food tends to not have a lot of vegetables, but a crapton of carbs and meat. Try to learn Indian, Chinese, Korean or Mediterranean dishes. Beans are a great meat substitute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DZfUzxZ2VU

Both the video for interviews and the bibliography links in the description.
> Those are transnational private companies.

If you're going to sell your services and goods here, you need to comport to the cultural norms HERE.

> What is stopping others from claiming they have been behaving in an un-Chinese manner or an un-European manner or an un-Russian manner so far?

Nothing.

> How is a naive notion of nationalism of capital an argument of how such entities should behave when they operate in most recognized nations with different ideological and regulatory frameworks?

They can and do change business practices to fit the region.
Logic is great as long as its not based on flawed assumptions.

The capacity for love also seems like a protective immune response to mind viruses that are so commonly rooted in hatred.
If it's a company as big as Facebook, I think those charges are drops in the ocean of their entire revenue, so you waste more of your time and nerves on doing that than the money they lose.
Someone is living in one hell of a computing bubble.
I have used Tails in the past and found it quite usable for browsing and communicating without much additional configuration.

That being said, I have not used other OSs that claim to be privacy focused for comparison.
> Google is a top 10 contributor to the Linux kernel. By your definition, Linux is not "entirely free of Google" either.

Google does not decide how Linux kernel development proceeds, so it's not comparable.

> This is about as "Google free" as it gets.

No, it's not. Have a look at https://puri.sm/products/librem-5 and https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/.
I didn't write it very clearly, I guess "unmoderated" would have
been a more fitting term. Especially as my main point was about
the need of moderators so the community doesn't turn into a
toxic pit.
Twitter bans things like calling people racial slurs, threating violence against people. If I wanted to do one of those things I would hopefully go see a therapist to understand why I'm acting that way.
Hollywood executives get paid more than most actors. Only the absolute elite talent are making above scale let alone more than what the executives are making, and their managers (aka recruiters) are negotiating that for them.
I like Orwell, his fears are well justified, but it's statements like these which make me think he stopped short in his realizations (along with most people).

I think Plato's arguments presented in his Allegory of the Cave, paint a clear picture of "the truth" and the nature of the human condition. Particularly by showing that "finding out the truth" always relies on perception/observation of the truth (science is no different BTW). Which is to say what we come to regard as the truth is subjective to our perceptions of the actual truth. Which brings up a problem: How can you ever be certain that our perceptions are nothing more than "a shadow of a deeper truth" and thus not the real truth? The only way of resolving this trust problem (at least until further evidence comes along), is by taking a leap of faith (ie to adopt a belief). Thus ultimately, anything anyone regards as the truth, stems from adopting at least one or more beliefs/assumptions whether they realize it or not.

Fully realizing this, makes it so much easier to understand society, and why you can't always convince people using what you deem as "facts". Unfortunately, you may also realize how deep the rabbit hole really is...
Everyone always needs a bunch of "special case features". Always. If you're not doing something new, why are you bothering to write code?
Are there any German companies that work like this?
Sure thing! We wanted to get feedback from the broad community so that we can make it as awesome as possible before it goes to print. ;-)
Terminals are probably never again going to be the primary computing interface for most people.
The key to understanding roasting is that every cookbook and Google result is lying to you. Roasting doesn't mean just putting something in the oven on high heat, the things you're roasting need to be far enough apart on the tray that there is space for air in between them. Otherwise you're steaming, not roasting. The point of roasting is to make the outside super crispy, while keeping the inside moist and chewy.

E.g. how to roast chicken thighs:

- Preheat cast iron pan in oven until the oven has been at 450 for at least 10 min.

- Place four chicken thighs in the cast iron pan with a good amount of space in between, after tossing them in a gallon ziplock bag with olive oil, sea salt, and pepper.

- Roast for 20 min at 450, then pour out excess fat. (If you don't do this, then again you're just steaming the chicken.)

- Turn down oven to 400, and cook for another 25 - 30 min.

You can apply the exact same technique to most vegetables and mushrooms, but understanding and nailing the principle is key. This recipe for roast maitake mushrooms also explains it well: https://foragerchef.com/simple-roasted-hen-of-the-woods/
In a purely democratic event, the majority will impose its will on the rest of the population (eg. think about Brexit).

I think you're conflating democracy in general with social democracies.

Social democracies are much more complicated - but they have a corruptible government which pretty much guarantees that the richest minority will be able to get laws that appear to satisfy everyone while benefiting them.

A clear example is progressive taxation - it sounds fair to a laymen. Then you see that all the rich people use tax loopholes to pay close to zero while middle class people struggle to get rich because of the extra tax hurdle.

I think the situation is slightly better in Switzerland because it's a semi-direct democracy and the greater use of referendums gives the population a greater chance to shape their society.
> Then the answer is extinction.

Then why don't you sign up to be the first to sign up for that then?

For all of Humanity's flaws I think its an amazing thing and worth preserving; Humanity is in dire need for it's incentives to be properly aligned as they have gone so far beyond sane levels long ago. But I firmly believe it's worth doing and have dedicated a significant part of my adult life toward that end.

We already built an immutable ledger that relies on distributed consensus with Bitcoin, now what is neede is to build off of the layers into a self-governing system that rewards participants for playing by the rules/parameters.

Having arbitrators for certain truths alleviates a massive amount of the burden for other mechanisms to solve the more sticky issues in Society, but their is good reason for hope and I feel deep sorrow for anyone who cannot see that despite all the horrible things that have occurred as of late: it's an amazing time to be alive and I don't think I would want to be born in any other!

If you don't mind me asking: what do you do in tech, and why are you on YC if you are so averse to it?
That's the French for you.
Every nation on Earth in 1800 had that same fundamental demand.

The US had untilled praries, virgin forests, mountains of iron hills of coal, oceans of oil, a network of rivers and harbours (supplemented with canals and railroads), and no credible foes on the continent.

Russia at the time was not quite as advantaged, but strongly comparable in many regards.

The existing Great Powers of 1900 had extensive agriculture and coal energy resources (Britain, Germany, France), and at least some colonial holdings for further raw materials. But all were more constrained than the US, as well as knocked back by WWI.

WWII promoted an explosion in US industrial and resource extraction capability whilst Europe was again set back

Post WWII, the US retained its advantages, an intact (and substantially recently built) industrial infrastructure, and no international competition, as noted above. The Martial Plan and Japanese and Korean reconstruction helped.
Tools and features have ergonomics and affordances that suggest a certain way of using them, and desktop filling just seems to encourage people to make a massive mess. Even when I was a Windows user, desktop icons were the first thing to go. Not having quick access to a dumping ground meant that I had to go out of my way to make a mess.

As for a lack of system tray icons, the practical upshot is that my system bar isn't littered with multiple special snowflake applications, each with their own unique icon art style and mismatching proportions.
>So now you're moving the goalposts and saying that it being extremely unusual precludes it as an option

Well, what I should have said was "ACH rarely completes inside 24 hours to a new account", which doesn't move the goalposts.

>(Amex) It does not require going in person at all. You can get qualified for a card online and they'll ship it to you.

Not sure this has anything to do with the ability to pay a 3rd party. They would need to have an Amex merchant account or an equivalent proxy via an intermediate payment processor, and my impression is that when Visa/MC drops you, the 3rd party will too, even if Amex didn't.

> users are absolutely not going to learn how to use Tor just to access a site

Parler had no privacy (and from what I read, very lax security), so I don't think that a Tor-accessed site is a part of the replacement for what they had. They just a hosting site that can run some moderately but not extraordinarily complex backend stack.

The "lack of app" question goes back to a comment I made here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25719115
I didn't try it out yet but Kalliope is a similar project (RPi voice assistant) but has an API where you could input a text order via HTTP:

https://kalliope-project.github.io/kalliope/api/synapses/#ru...
So in order to build a controversial but legal social media system you must first build your own hosting company, own payment processor, own debit cards, and own ISP.

I think it’s fair to say you just can’t realistically run a website of the majority of tech corporations are against you.
No shit. WhatsApp IS Facebook. As soon as they find that out, they’re too late.
The LSP implementation for VS code is part of VS code OSS.

Not all LSP language servers are.

Just as the C# runtime can be open source, but not all C# programs are.
Thought experiment: There are 7e9 people on earth. Say they send 10, 100 byte messages per day, but that compresses 10x (modern text compression using big neural networks is amazing).

That works out to 7e11 bytes per day, or 8 Megabytes per second. That is nearly feasible today...
Skip the nonstick pan and get a "black steel" (high carbon) pan instead. Matfer is a good brand but there are others. Fairly inexpensive, can be seasoned like cast iron, but is much lighter and more responsive. Super response on induction too. These are not pretty cookware but are real workhorses.
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