skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"clues about their political views based on their choices of reading material"

Interesting. Millions of people have work-related zoom meetings (or publicly posted webinars) while sitting in front of their bookshelves. Many people don't have a problem with that. Some of those books might even be strategically placed so that they are in clear view. You can discern a little about someone's interests by what's on their bookshelves, but perhaps not always accurately.

I wonder how people feel about displaying the contents of their bookshelf online while onscreen? I'm guessing for most people it's not a concern.

Here's Bret Victor's bookshelf from 2015 which we posted himself on his website. Click to zoom: http://worrydream.com/Shelf2015/
Sorry guys, my fault. I just told a hot lead that we've had 100% uptime over the last 90 days.
Advice on self-directed IRAs and SAFEs
For our friends and family round, we've had two investors looking to fund us through their respective self-directed IRAs. Unfortunately, it has been difficult to submit details of our SAFE agreement to the custodians for approval. One even asked for us to get a valuation through a 3rd party agent, which seems counter to the point of using a SAFE agreement.

Has anyone had success in securing funding from an investor using a self-directed IRA for the funds? Any specific experience with Strata Trust? Any advice on other ways to handle?
I've always suspected that obsessive interest in the Dunning-Kruger effect is following an inverse curve of the effect itself :)
Graph: https://twitter.com/fabianstelzer/status/1253647480966852610
Yeah, the M1 will kill whatever CPU they'll put in this, I wish they had also an ARM version.
Thanks for the important clarification; I didn't read closely enough.

My argument was definitely tailored for the mRNA discussion, although the purpose was more to illustrate the broader principle, but, not knowing a whole lot about adenovirus vector vaccines specifically, is it even the case that adenovirus-vector vaccines have been widely used in the general population?

I couldn't find great info with a cursory search (indeed the top result is the CDC which consistently fails to cite anything they ever claim, ugh), but I wonder if the general argument still applies for these types of vaccines as well.

Anyway, thanks so much for catching and pointing out my error there.
Can’t have mafé without peanut butter, ergo peanut butter is essential.
I see it as kind of a funnel. First you decide how much participation you want to allow in the first place, and that's a big lever. Smaller niche communities are easier to moderate because a lot of policies are customs, meaning you don't need to make them explicit.

Another lever is related - decide how much you want to limit the kind of content. A like button is easier to moderate than upvote/downvote, which is easier than a poll response, which is easier than restricted markup, which is easier than allowing unsanitized html/js/sql. (I think there's a lot of unexplored territory between "poll response" and "restricted markup", in terms of allowing people to participate with the generation of content.)

Then there is distributing the moderation abilities themselves. Can users become moderators or only admins? Is there a reputation system? I miss the kuro5hin reputation system and would like to see more experiments along those lines.

And then finally you get to the hard stuff, the arguments about post-modernism and what truth is, creating codes of conduct, dealing with spirit-vs-letter and bad faith arguments, etc. Basically the "smart jerk" problem. I hate that stuff. I want to believe something simple like, as soon as you have a smart jerk causing problems, it means you've given them too much opportunity and should scale back, but I think it's not that simple.
YouTube comments are actually pretty good these days, I find.
Archive link: https://archive.is/dId4T
> People install things and click rapidly thru the startup screens.

While this is true, and there are definitely cases of people not reading the text and accepting whatever, Apple has a long way to go here. On the payment screen, the text showing the price and the recurrence is way too small, and they're both located under an eminently-skippable "Policy" paragraph. It's no surprise that users are skipping this user-unfriendly screen.

This Twitter thread has some examples of how it can be improved: https://twitter.com/rjonesy/status/1358161301973979139
and thunderbold 4
To anyone who types pass in your terminal it looks like.
In this case, they not only didn't update with changes, but didn't address specific concerns about known vulnerabilities in their outdated repo: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server/commit/3432529f9c...
Yes, that sort of thing is why people hate landlords, because they will often throw people out with much less notice than they demand. And there's a significant difference between the sort of landlord that owns a few buildings and can be negotiated with directly, and big corporate landlords that exploit their strategic advantage.
It'd solve things from the technology side, but you'd still need to pay for a developer license, wait to pass the review process, and most importantly, let them take 30% of your revenue.
Wow now you threw lower middle class into same group as "floorboards as kindling". It has not been my experience with renting out flat at all.

Username fits i guess.
Keepalive fixed in the wireguard-kmod released yesterday and put into ports today:

https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2021-April/00661...

https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=2ef23d42cbce1ed168...
Well, yes and no. OP was comparing touch typing and hand writing. Which I think are the two major modes of note taking available - few of us lug around extra hardware to do stenotyping.

But yes, it's faster. (So is just recording everything on video, if we just care about speed :)
Would they? Doesn't really happen on Android, Steam is still the go-to on PC
I remember there was a DEFCON talk about anti-cheating measure for counter strike and speaker just noted casually that Valve just scans all processes running on your machine during a match and determines what's a cheating process and what is not via a blacklist. Which begs the question what can't Valve do vis Steam?
If a friendly NSA agent offered to help tidy up around the house, it would certainly be a kindness. But it's definitely the sort of gift horse you want to look in the mouth. After all, they were just "helping out" securing random number generators, but Shumow and Ferguson discovered that they may have been helping themselves out, too.

http://rump2007.cr.yp.to/15-shumow.pdf
Result: running IntelliJ with an external JDK didn't help :/
compared to other password managers which is just an encrypted database.

pass uses normal folders to store your website/username information so in that way it is less protected.
Yeah, I've seen a bitcoin ATM in a headshop before.
Oof why does this blog hijack my browser history?

Gnome additions are welcome as Gnome stupidly strips features to try to tell people how to use a computer.
Yes. It's called Bitcoin.
Python 3 Types in the Wild: A Tale of Two Type Systems (2020) [pdf]
The Women of NPR, When NPR Was a Start-Up
Give you blood thinners like aspirin?
I just know second-hand that something broke the trust between the Perl 6 and Parrot developers around the first Rakudo Star release. And that strengthened the notion that another backend for Perl 6 was needed.

If I recall correctly, that's about the time Jonathan started complaining that the Parrot object model didn't work very well for P6 and wrote his own for PCT, which is still weird to me because he was the primary implementer of the Parrot object model in Parrot. (I don't remember the dates, but he also wrote an object model in C# and another in Java, which you mentioned in another comment.)

I tried for a long time to migrate the PCT object model back into Parrot, but both Jonathan and Patrick told me repeatedly it wasn't a priority, so I stopped offering.

I'm not the only person who had this experience; I remember someone else having a similar experience with Unicode support.

OOC, which official hagiography are you referring to?

The one that says "Parrot dumped P6, so the P6 developers had no choice but to write their own VM".

I was there. That's not true at all.
It is not that surprising having gone through this ebb and flow myself.

All utopias and utopic dreams rely too much on human nature being entirely good.

The comunist utopia relied on the goodness of the people in government. The capitalist utopia relied on the goodness of the entrepreneurs. Online communities and communities in general rely on the goodness of the members.

The reality is human nature contains both good and bad. And as a utopist, being faced with pure destructiveness like you are in content moderation is demoralizing.
nope. Considered creating a budget app that would need a service like Plaid but I just think it's the wrong approach so won't use it.
I'm not sure I agree with some of the key issues. In particular, the points on code/data and user input versus pasted input.

By and large, I like knowing that I am in control of what I send a program on the terminal. It is actually maddening when I go to paste into a word processor and it doesn't just bring over the text. Or when I go to script a program, but it doesn't act sanely when driven by a script instead of by a user. Where sanely is, exactly the same.

There are times when I have taken advantage of eshell to inline images and such. That said, I don't use many tui style programs, other than emacs. And I greatly appreciate that the majority of emacs buffers are textual buffers.
> Yep. GNU Taler should be enough for all needs of a decentralized payment system.

Not really. Unfortunately GNU Taler has distinct customer/merchant accounts so it is more alternative to specialized service-payment systems like visa/mastercard, than to general peer-to-peer payment systems like bank accounts.
It’s not, I posted these in another thread but check these out:

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https://cdn.yjc.ir/files/fa/news/1396/4/5/6417989_951.jpg

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these counters are installed in every city in Iran.
Is this the price Fauna pays for its consistency guarantees?
Old folks don't download Chrome, their sucker children do. Those who are too frail to lift the koolaid cup to their mouths shall be aided by their brethren.

But also Chrome isn't super hard to install anyway and the dark patterns "help" with the process. Go on Google.com with MS Edge and it'll tell you Chrome will give you a faster, more betterer Internet. It must be pretty convincing to hear that from the de facto arbiter of the world wide web and all you have to do is follow the pretty blue buttons. I was able to install Roblox when I was 10 with less guidance.
You get 4K for rendering detail, not for screen estate.
For me, it's this half-full half-empty cup. Depending on what angle I look from:

It is good to help underprivileged people...

It is bad to assume that race and gender are the only sources of privilege, thus throwing under the bus e.g. all the poor disabled people guilty of the sin of being born white and male...

I guess it's better to help some underprivileged people (and throw the others under the bus) than to help no one... but when you put it this way, it reduces the happy feeling.
Nuance spun out their automotive business into Cerence in 2019, so they presumably have zero business with carmakers right now. There should be conditions not to compete with Cerence in the automotive market.
The biggest example I can think of projects that worked this way was how WebKit and Android would publish code dumps with every release. You can't go longer than that: if you put out releases without updating the source you're not open source.
That I can't answer. My guess is it's to meet some sort of contract they have together, like Microsoft sells laptops with AMD processors and gets a better deal on Xbox components. The AMD SKUs seem to top out at 16GB of RAM and smaller SSDs, which signals to me MS doesn't expect to sell as many.
Productivity hit and frustration, I would say. Motor learning is hard, since it takes a lot of repetitions. Motor re-learning is arguably much harder, since you have an interference of learned and new patterns. Keyboard familiarity is also heavily depending on motor learning - distance between keys, their position, height and so on. So you just have more to learn at the same time.

I also have another warning, based on my experience: it is for many people difficult to keep proficiency in QWERTY after they completely switch to Colemak or Dvorak. It is hard to describe: like you've been touch-typing on QWERTY for 18 years, and you know where the keys are, because if you look down, you immediately find them... but something is blocking you from finding them while typing. If you switch completely at work, find a week or two without much stress. New layout can be infuriating enough :)
I continue to be surprised by the so-called "S3 Bucket Negligence Award" which feels like the intersection of IAM and S3 configuration ugliness that result in so many public horror stories like:
- https://www.upguard.com/breaches/attunity-data-leak
- https://www.lastweekinaws.com/newsletter/reinforce-meant-lea...
Ukraine is important in tech industry, given crazy amount of outsourcing and strong tech sector which are mostly american companies (e.g. Lyft, Snapchat, Oracle, Google, Ring)
Some experts have said that it's probably an immune reaction to the adenovirus which is used as the delivery mechanism in the vaccine. Wouldn't the side effects therefore be limited to the first weeks after the injection only?
>But I can't help thinking, what if my daughter wanted to go to this with say a black friend, she wouldn't be allowed.

I don't think that's the case. Quoting from a description of one event hosted by Black Girls Code:

>Who can participate in the hackathon?

>The Hackathon is open to girls of all experience levels. All are welcome and encouraged to register, whether a participant has previous coding exposure or is new to coding and app development!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bgc-and-nike-virtual-hackathon-...

If your daughter wants to go with her friend, I don't think the staff at the event would mind. Heck, they might love it to know a little girl in their target demographic had a coding buddy.

>I'd prefer kids were taught that they can try anything they dam well please. They just need to try.

They should also be taught that, but they're only human like the rest of us. Discouragement is often irrational, but that doesn't make it irrelevant.
You don't ever lose productivity or knowledge on a tool when a new one comes out though. A new thing that people like becomes popular and people start using it, old one becomes less used but it doesn't dissapear.

You only really "switch" to a new tool if that's what you like the most, not because that's what people like now.
The man pages on FreeBSD are a lot better than on Linux. And you can read them without network and/or browser.
Wow that's amazing. I had no idea that existed anywhere, let alone for years now! Thanks for pointing that out... I wonder how many sites now actively support that, how it works with 2FA, etc. I have hundreds of passwords, many not from big shops. Hopefully 'it just works' with these.
Egypt Seizes Ever Given Ship in Suez Canal, Demands Compensation
If there is solid evidence that a vaccine will kill people, it should not be used. It's intolerable that people die taking a prophylactic.

It's much, much worse to kill someone with a vaccine than to allow that person to perhaps die of a virus.

Thankfully, in this case, sanity prevailed.
Just think of the headlines we will write!

NOSE KNOWS BEST!
> China, maybe, since they admitted their own vaccines aren't working super well.

Despite what the press has reported, that's not really what happened. In a conference talk on vaccines, the head of China CDC made a general statement about what to do about "low vaccine efficacy." That's been blown up in the Western media into an "admission" that all Chinese vaccines supposedly have low efficacy.

It doesn't even make sense to talk about the efficacy of "Chinese vaccines." Chinese vaccines run the gamut, from inactivated whole virus to protein subunit to adenovirus vectors. There's even a Chinese partner to Biontech, which is going to manufacture the latter's mRNA vaccine.
Haha no not really, i have tumbleweed installed on my laptop and love it BUT it's NOT traditional.
Last I knew, this requires OpenSUSE on btrfs. It's a pale shadow in functionality compared to ZFS... not to mention stability, too.
Nor does it excuse a descent to mob justice (from either side).

Our law is based on procedural justice because it turns out that societies run on mob justice are fucking terrible.

Basically - I'm on this tangent because I find your line of reasoning distasteful. The answer right now is that we don't know.

Unlike both you and those you disagree with, I don't think it's appropriate to make any judgement on this from our armchairs on the internet.

At best, we're in the "trust, but verify" stage of this with regards to a single accusation with no confirmed time or location (or any other detail, as far as I'm aware) - Yet I see a whole lot of folks happy to be judge, jury, and executioner (again, on both sides). With basically no one suggesting that maybe we should do our due diligence first.

He might be dead, but his wife isn't, his friends aren't, his memory isn't. And while I sure agree that RMS is one tonedeaf motherfucker, I have at least some empathy for the impulse to defend a close friend (although lord knows I wouldn't have gone about it the same way...). Particularly given it happened when the friend wasn't around to defend himself.

Now - having said that, I chose to comment here because while I fault both sides for jumping to conclusions, I find it MUCH more ethically troubling to jump to a conclusion of guilt. Mobs don't lynch people they've decided are innocent, they lynch the ones they've decided are guilty. I judge that much more harshly.
1. Good unit economics can come from various sources. The idea that Slack has little lock in and hence can't have good economics is misguided. Coke has little lock in, yet amazing economics. Google has little lock in, yet amazing economics. Sources of competitive advantage aren't restricted to lock in. Scale is a source of competitive advantage, for example.

2. Your point is hard to refute and may be correct - it isn't obvious they will do well or poorly over time.

3. This is almost certainly wrong. If Uber had no moat there would be more than Uber and Lyft in the US. It's going to be impossible to enter this market for a new player short of having self driving all worked out.

4. Yep, it wasn't/isn't clear on Amazon's retail biz, I'll agree with that.

You have some examples which are correct - there are specific situations where you are right. But the statement cannot be generalized.
Pass user for many years, always loved it.

There are a number of ways to integrate it into rofi too, so with the press of a few keys I can navigate to any site and login instantly.

To squash a few concerns:

- Leaking data - If someone types "pass" in your terminal it will show a list of sites that you've stored. I don't find this any less obvious than if someone had LastPass installed on their machine.

- Trusting different app developers - This can be true, but if you stick with the CLI then there's only one app to trust - and one person! You don't rely on a company to safegaurd your data, you trust yourself.

YMMV, thoughts are my own. I happen to very much enjoy pass and I think others might too if you like owning your own data.
Isn’t lemur pro 14”?

As I’m mostly working on the terminal, reading/writing text, I’m also not seeing the lower DPI as a downgrade, having done the same switch as you.
Built for MS Teams .. closed it after I saw that
One surprising thing to keep an eye out for is that many web servers do not use the content-type headers when receiving json data; they simply parse the text as json regardless of its stated type and go from there. This means that requests encoded and mime-typed as form data that also parse as json can be sent to servers without triggering a pre-flight request. This can result in CSRF where it's not expected.
I'm running Arch on mine, 2.5 years old, everything works fine, and I love it. I get dells at work, and also have a mbp, but no contest - surface laptop 3 is the bar for me.
Likewise I've wanted one for a long time but at this rate will probably never come to pass. One reason are the reportedly weird but very persistent bugs as OP mentioned.

Bigger reason is uncertainty about the Windows platform. ChromeOS and macOS both run mobile apps, which bring a vast library and a level of integration (especially macOS + iOS) that seems increasingly hard to overlook. Add to this Microsoft's goal of switching to ARM and fragmenting its ecosystem, it becomes an even harder buy.

In general, the Surface lineup seems to be ~1 year behind in hardware compared to the rest of the industry, e.g. only now switching to TigerLake and Ryzen 4000 series CPU. Hardware itself is well packaged but a hard sell for its premium price. Furthermore Microsoft is delusional to sell RAM and SSD upgrades from 8GB to 16GB and 256GB to 512GB respectively for +$200.
How does it work?

Doesn't iOS inform the user when they are about to authorize a paid subscription?
You're missing the whole point of 4K at 14". Everyone uses it scaled but there is more detail, most importantly with fonts. You don't need any stupid sub-pixel rendering stuff.
Typically it was because PowerPoint slides makes it easy to cram a lot of information in a small space. It also makes it easy to make something which is not note-writing friendly.

Of course I did recall some things, but after a few semesters I found PowerPoint-oriented classes to be barely worth attending. This was in stark contrast to the blackboard-oriented classes, which I found immensely valuable.
True btrfs is BS, i have XFS with tumbleweed and pretty happy (on the laptop), everything else freebsd all the way..if i can.
They actually do have USB-C power in many models.
To me, XFCE feels like a visual evolution and refinement of Windows 98 - and I mean that in the best possible way. Windows has three or four separate and inconsistent visual styles that get mixed nowadays, macOS has UI style changes in every single yearly update for seemingly no other reason than to change things, and Gnome 3 threw any good sense in usability out the window, but XFCE is still trucking along with a single style that stays consistent and highly usable without being ugly.
> "Chrome OS is literally Linux" is about as accurate as "Android is literally Linux". Chrome OS is not just some rebadged Debian distro.

It's not rebadged Debian. The default Linux in Chrome OS is literally Debian. It has apt, bash, Wayland, X11. And of course the Linux kernel is there. What more do you want before you call it Linux?

> Do all chromebooks support linux apps now?

According to this page all 2019+ Chromebooks support Linux apps: https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chrome-os-systems-suppo...
In this case, a better solution could be to organize the activity at a place where black people live, but allow anyone to join.

Okay, this addresses the race, not sure what to do about gender. Maybe choose a stereotypically girly topic and make posters in pink color, but again allow anyone to join, I guess. Send a signal, don't close the door.
I love the idea of Pass, but from what I've seen of the UX (not talking looks) it doesn't really compare to the ease of use of products like 1Password (which I suspect was the catalyst for this being reposted). Does anyone have any contrary experiences when shared across iOS, Linux, and macOS devices + browsers?