skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My statement about Linux's awfulness included an opinion qualifying phrase, theirs did not. Why do I need evidence for a subjective opinion?

I disagree. I do not read this statement as containing an opinion qualifying phrase about whether the Linux Desktop experience is awful, the opinion being qualified here is that the repo/package manager model is the root cause of it.

> As far as I am concerned the whole repo/package manager model is the root cause of most of the reasons the Linux Desktop experience is as awful as it is.

You appear, in this statement at least, to just take "the Linux Desktop experience is ... awful" as an underlying objective fact that everyone should just accept, and we're all debating the reason for it. I don't accept it.
Terrifying to see sincere replies to this obviously sarcastic comment.
> so-called environmentalists who look at this success and cognitive-dissonance themselves into emitting more carbon and accelerating climate catastrophe because "plastic is bad"

I don't understand what this means or whom or what you're talking about, but regarding your general sentiment:

What you're doing is making some very generous extrapolations that are rather dubious and going to need a lot of evidence to make a compelling case for. Examples include:

- That all plastics are fundamentally recyclable with success comparable to some subset of them if only we care to invest more in it.

- That the rates will increase to be much higher than they are. (Because frankly I do not find it plausible that even 55% recycling globally across all plastics is going to do anything but stretch the deadline for a real solution a little bit.)

- That other countries that are still developing won't end up increasing global wastes N-fold, which would easily eat through any moderate 50% or 70% rate or whatever moderate amount you hypothetically manage to achieve. (And it's not even really a "budget" to begin with, given this stuff lingers around.)

- That if only environmentalists cared to spend time lobbying legislators, you'd see legislators across the world react the same way as they appear to have in BC, and on a short time scale. (i.e., you're basically ignoring differing politics, economics, and competing interests.)

By all means, we should make progress on every front we can. But we also don't want to let that distract us or get deluded by half-baked solutions with questionable scalability (and whether it's physical vs. economic vs. political barriers doesn't really matter here). Frankly I cannot fault anyone for believing we do not have the luxury to keep betting the future of the planet on an asymptotic solution. We need drastic global changes fast, and the average person has only so much bandwidth to spare. Giving people a false sense of optimism about recycling can (and has) made everyone too comfortable with plastic consumption, which has been vividly damaging.
No, he's a some ...
Some deaf people actually choose to remain deaf rather than use an implant.
Touch_Indoor Environment Expansion
Game theory, finally someone gets it.
implying politics isn't a religion in America.
Ok, so what about how many rotations the radiator fan does per mile?

The car will overheat and won't reach point B if the fan isn't running, so does it make sense to compare the efficiency of different cars based on how many rpm's their radiator fans do?
You hold ETH because the blockchain says you do. A hard fork of the chain could say that you do not. There is no external way to distinguish between these two chains; they are equally valid to the people who follow them.

You think this is impossible? Ethereum has already had one contentious hard fork in its incredibly brief life. What stops it from happening again?
>declares plastics toxic

I didn’t see where in the article that plastics in the environment were shown to be toxic. Can someone help point to the study this is based on?
That market segment is already completely satisfied with existing options. The "hundreds of studies" are done for free by academics without meta-epistemic-scruples, and the selling to marketing groups is done for free by marketers without epistemic scruples.
What kind of dystopian world are you imagining here. No, and I hope people make it their life’s work to publish bypasses for such a tyrannical regime.
This is like the xkcd test for weird science: Is some big boring company making billions with it? If so (quantum physics) then it’s legit. If not (healing crystals, orgone energy, essential oils...) it probably doesn’t work.
This topic has been continuously getting flagged for the whole past week. It is obvious that the community wants to discuss it because there have been many submissions which immediately get a lot of interest but then get killed without any reason.
It's frankly eye opening how much censorship there is going on.
Out of curiosity I started reading about it and I was deeply disturbed by what I found. I had not realized the situation was THAT bad. I encourage everyone to do their own research on the situation and not let themselves be mislead by mainstream media, all of which are so blatantly biased it is unbelievable.
It really made me question the supposed free speech we have in this country.
I believe this is the most important line here:

"The judge also hammered Cook over the App Store commission reduction last year, as part of its new small business program, saying it "seemed to be a result of the pressure that you're feeling from investigations, from lawsuits, not competition"
Exactly. So would I.
It's not uncommon to see donations of 5k USD and up in a single transaction. And oftentimes all this person gets in return - that is, if the camgirl.. apologies, streamer notices the sum come in at all - is a "you're so sweet thanks!".

I just can't understand what they're hoping to get out of handing away so much money. Do they believe theirs will be reacted to differently? But why them? It's just so irrational!
Lichess is not for profit, so donating to Lichess means that my dollar goes "farther" for infrastructure & helps subsidize the website (which has many features) for other people who may not be able to pay. The main developer only pays themselves $56k a year, when they could easily be making $300k+ in the valley.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Si3PMUJGR9KrpE5lngSk...

Chess.com is for profit, so they have to maintain some profit margin and lock features behind paywalls to incentivize people to pay. The free experience is worse than Lichess.
How would they get manufacturer played on the vehicle...?
Yep, basically. Very unexpected results are interesting and newsworthy and more likely wrong.
Is plastic still that much less energy usage compared to paper when you include the energy needed to recycle it?
Dark roasts hide a lot. I say this as someone who is terrible at roasting, so compensate.
I imagine you could start with either; if you need the Linux ENA driver relicensed as BSD, I imagine Amazon would oblige. From my experience, the people working on this side of AWS are quite open source friendly.
Graphics are nuts. I did a lot of research months ago into how to build my own CPU, RAM, OS etc. from the ground up. I was able to figure out how a bunch of things worked that I didn't know before, and overall feel pretty confident in understanding at least a high level overview of a modern x86 computer.

I never figured out graphics cards. They are absurdly powerful and absurdly complex. The lack of documentation and open source drivers also does not help. As featured on HN a bit ago, AMD's drivers for Linux make up 10+% of the entire kernel codebase now!

I have no idea how the developers at Unity or Unreal stay sane. The amount of work that has gone into these base platforms we all take advantage of is...unreal.
Except the markup and margins are extremely low because the grocery business is competitive.

Unlike the app store space (within a given device)
They had me at electric, lost me at connected.
> The beauty of the free market is that by pursuing selfish interests, people wind up benefiting others as well

The free market does not encourage pursuing action where the benefits accrue to people outside of the transaction, but it does encourage actions where the harms are so externalized.

A hypothetical optimally regulated market systems with Pigovian taxes and subsidies to internalize externalities would in theory have the effect that pursuit of private gain would at least not be adverse to the common interest, but that’s very far from a “free market”.
Ask Liz Cheney how that goes.

What happened to her is making an example. Tow the MAGA line or else.
Google optimizes for time on site. You have to read through paragraphs of garbage = more time on site = ranks higher. Its all about showing the user the maximum amount of garbage they will tolerate without clicking back.
I tend to trust state policy and political leanings more as an indicator then a self reported study. Can you please dig into why you trust this self reported study on the politically charged mask use question? Especially when the study is performed by academics that is perceived to be too often left-wing activists by republicans and many libertarians? (And according to Haidt have a provably largely left leaning bias)

Self reported results are prone to preference falsification and hidden bias in whom answers. (“Yes, mom, I did my homework” ;) )

Self reported results of politically charged questions are effectively polls. To indicate the problem you can observed how inaccurate polls around politically charged choices has become when compared to actual choices.

The normal problems with self reported results are probably aggravated by how academics, major authorities, media, and tech companies have openly without cover used force to promote the “right” answer and suppressed the “wrong”. The use of force to enforce specific conclusions had been an extraordinary and very noticeable break from western traditions.
Well, the violence in the Levant was certainly lower when the Ottomans were in charge.

https://history.stackexchange.com/a/28531
I remember viewing restaurants back in the early late 1990's on my computer, a Sun workstation we had at the university. If you've never used Sun workstations, they were quite the cat's meow back then - coveted by us in academia and elsewhere. Recipes then were simpler, as the web was a lot slower. Dialup for some, but not for those of us lucky to use the Internet.

But the recipes were quite good then, that is true. Specifically I remember a wonderful tasty recipe for Fettuccine Alfredo on the Epicurious website. If you recall, Epicurious came online in November of 1996! Here is the Archive.org link -> https://web.archive.org/web/19961104042411/http://www.epicur...

I have to say, as an aside that isn't Archive.org amazing? What a fun thing it is to browse these old versions of websites. Isn't it fun to look up old sites? I sometimes visit my old personal website from the 2000's just for nostalgia. Ah those were the days weren't they? When you could just host a website anywhere and hand craft it? You can't beat HTML being written by hand.

Anyway, back to the Alfredo. Such a good dish. I still will at least once try it at every new restaurant. Sometimes I will order it again, other times never again. I can remember distinctly a small restaurant in Eugene Oregon where the proprietor would hand make the sauce as you watched. A handful of Parmesan, a chunk of butter, whisking over the gas stove. Oh that was the best. I still dream of it. He was a real character really. He had a young kid working in the kitchen once, and oh that poor kid - he got such dirty looks from the chef who clearly was a perfectionist. Perfectionist of course which meant his Alfredo was the best!

Anyway... Haha I started another paragraph with "Anyway". Funny how one can do such repetition when writing.

Anyway ;), here is a link to the...

Oh. Oh dear. It looks like Archive.org does not have my recipe saved! Well perhaps you will enjoy the simplicity of there original site on November 3, 1996 at https://web.archive.org/web/19961104042411/https://www.epicu...

Bon Appétit!
> Technological shifts have tended to be framed in political terms, as was the case with open-source software, which initially had an anti-capitalist impetus.

This is not true at all. The idea behind free software was always that if you bought it or it was given to you, you should own it entirely. This is very free market. It was anti predatory in nature, and overall political motivations to support it ranged, but the bent was very libertarian. It was opposition to abuse of customers or users and opposition to monopoly and cartel formation, and where it was focused on community building it has always been based on the principle of free association, a foundational libertarian value.

Beyond that gripe, I think the reason for the push against politics at work is because people are tired of being immersed in politics 24/7 whether they like it or not, being and just inundated with every conceivable political anything all the time. Party politics, ideological politics, a constant demand to pick a (very particular) side or face professional repercussions, it is exhausting. More specifically, there's a certain political ideology that has a mantra "everything is political" and I think people are sick of appeasing them and playing their game because they vehemently scream at the top of their lungs every chance they get that they're the super good guys and call everyone that disagrees with them evil.
The reason is because "woke" is racism in reverse.

As long as there's racism (in any direction), color matters. You can't treat or think of people differently on the basis of race without knowing who is in what race.

The last thing "woke" people want is for discrimination on the basis of race to disappear, or for the color of people's skin to no longer factor in to how they are judged or treated.

Edit: agreed with a below commenter, and thanks for the correction. There isn't any such thing as "racism in reverse", just racism.
Just try and jam that genie back in the bottle as hard as you possibly can...
Really thanks for your suggestions :)
More improvements in next release
Yep, total brain fart. I totally read terrorism. That definitely changes the discussion since were using a different word.
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This is probably the best explanation I’ve seen.
I assume you're thinking of N-Rays and Blondlot, but there is another phenomenon that more or less fits your description.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray_visual_phenomena

It's interesting that according to the Wikipedia article it's not entirely certain whether the radiation is producing actual light or just the sensation of light.
Unfortunately, none of the links there go to anything, unless you have a username/password to sign in.
You're effectively saying that once someone decides to grow potatoes, apples are no longer scarce, because people might instead grow potatoes and trade them for apples. The secure, easy to use, non-wasteful, distributed calorie problem can only be solved _once_, so ALL potatoes are apples.
It is a misunderstanding that Israeli settlements are a mainly religious thing. Yes, there are ideologues for expansion who believe in a God-given right to that land and they make a lot of noise and appeal to (some) religious voters. However, a lot of the political support for settlements is based not on religion, but on the idea that Israel is too narrow in its current borders to be easily defended in the long term, so it supposedly has to take the West Bank.

Also, the actual residents of settlements are often non-religious or even outright anti-religious Israelis who were simply priced out of homeowning in Israel proper. There are entire streets in settlements inhabited by families who immigrated from the former USSR for better economic prospects on the basis of Jewish ancestry, but who have absolutely no attachment to Judaism the religion, and they certainly aren’t going to claim a Torah-granted right to anything.
so basically this: https://xkcd.com/882/
The claim "National hiring experiments reveal 2:1 faculty preference for women on STEM tenure track" is not only unproven, it is not even examined. Instead, one small part of that complicated hiring process is examined.

Indeed, one possible explanation is that every woman who participated preferentially selected women because they want more women in the workplace, and every man who participated preferentially selected women because they definitely don't want women, but want to claim that they do, and this study offered them the perfect opportunity. "Look! We're not biased! This survey, which, thank god, didn't require that we actually hire one of these insane harpies, says that I love hiring women! Baaah! Cigars all round!"

An extreme possibility, I concede, and yet one which would explain the findings.

What do you think the paper proved?
I'll modify my wording but that doesn't change the overall point.
My Mercedes has this. Except the knob isn't on the screen, it's where the right hand would rest.

In my humble opinion, It's superior to touch screen experiences, at least while driving the vehicle. That said, dedicated knobs (such as a knob for a/c) are still the best for some things.
While there are all kinds of radical opinions, in USA there are two quite clearly established camps of mainstream opinion, and it does seem reasonable that if roughly half of the country (or your state) vote for one candidate and roughly half for the other, then it should imply that the opinions of both of these camps are roughly equally valid from the perspective of the society.

One gets a bit more votes and gets to decide policy, then another gets a bit more votes and gets to decide different policy, but ultimately both groups are part of the society and the workforce, and they should be able to coexist and cooperate while working in a single company. Whatever your stance is on the "left" and "right" topics, people who hold and express the exactly opposite stance, an opinion that you consider invalid and who likely consider your opinion on that political topic invalid in return, those people may be your neighbours and your colleagues and they have the same right to be there as you do, what's sauce for goose is sauce for gander.

And the main criterion for the eligibility of a discussion IMHO is not the relevance of the political topic to workplace (IMHO the target of employer's political dollars are just as valid topic as employer's religious mission, i.e. not at all, and specific discrimination of specific employees in this company would be on-topic but general discrimination issues in the country are exactly just as valid as general immigration policy or general tax policy) but the impact the discussion has on inter-employee relations and conflict. A political topic where strongly opposing co-workers can express their opinions, disagree, shrug, and go on working without the disagreement affecting their cooperation is obviously okay to discuss, but if the discussion of some topic results in employees conflicting for those non-directly-work-related political reasons, or in some employees not expressing their opinion because conflict would be imminent, then that topic is harming work and it would be reasonable to require to put it aside. Because letting it be (or, worse, the employer taking on one of the sides) would be de facto creating a hostile work environment for one or the other groups (whichever happens to be the less dominant at that particular workplace, it definitely cuts both ways), and that's simply not acceptable.
They do: they see how their buddies get away with increasingly more brazen crimes and become more brazen themselves.
OpenBSD 6.9 Router Benchmarks
> why bring race into something

Because making everything about race is how we fight racism... somehow...
But we're talking about expanding the color palette on a set of icons. If no one is angry about it, why do people keep complaining about it?

>The point is that no one should care about race, but everyone all of the sudden is.

This doesn't read like the opinion of someone who isn't angry about something.
Do they fall for email/sms scams?
Aerion supersonic-jet developer goes bankrupt
Where do you draw the line between "personal politics" and "fundamentally wrong?" In the 1950s and 1960s some people felt the line was segregation.

The problem is when human decency is equated to "personal politics" (or vice versa). Some of the lines are obvious to me, but others are more blurred. At the end of the day, reasonable people can work around those fuzzy boundaries without issue.
Nathan Fielder?
This is the real question. Especially for vaccines that mimic the spike protein to make another attenuated virus look like a coronavirus.
I need to cycle back and update voice2json. Rhasspy (the full voice assistant) supports DeepSpeech 0.9.3.
especially more dangerous when they've been retrofitted with even higher steel off-roading bumpers.
I mentioned Space as it’s the one I’m used to, but now I think back on it, all the other navigation keys get messed up inside a text box too (Up, Down, Left, Right, Home, End, Page Up, Page Down), so it’s not actually just about Space.

Dunno why you’d consider Space for page navigation anachronistic. Space has always been a flexible “do all kinds of different things as useful” key, and Space/Shift+Space scrolling in focusable caretless content areas has always been popular and universally supported. But if we were talking about troublesome old key behaviours, I’d be with you on Backspace to go back being bad, which some browsers still do. (And in file managers, it goes up a directory, which is a useful operation, but you can use Alt+Up for that too. All up, if it weren’t for muscle memory, I’d say nuke non-deletionist Backspace behaviour, but muscle memory is a serious thing, so we’re stuck with Backspace being weird like this.)

The php.net front page should certainly not have autofocus, though perhaps https://www.php.net/search.php could.
I always find myself amused at how the people who are involved in the political, social, and other flame wars in the workplace find time to do actual work. Just looking at the threads from earlier this week, I see a couple dozen people posting 50+ posts each every day for at least 2-3 days (each post is anywhere from a half-page to two pages of text with links, images, etc). It would take me at least 5-10 mins per post so we are looking at 6 hrs per day on average. Honestly it’s on low end since they also read other posts I would guess ;)
> Just stop to think about it logically for a minute... is the workplace the best place to circulate a petition condemning something that has nothing to do with work?

I don't think that is very persuasive, because it is quite common in most other places petitions are circulated for the petitions to have nothing to do with the activity at that place. For example, of all the petitions I've been asked to sign outside grocery stores or inside shopping malls I don't recall a single one being about things concerning grocery stores or malls.

A better argument would be that when someone circulates a petition at work they are circulating it among people they know, and those people know that they know the petitioner, and that the people who will be offered the petition after them know them.

If I sign a petition at a mall, probably no one I know will notice. If I don't sign the petition, no one I know will know that I was offered the chance and declined.

Not so at work. A petition at work as a side effect is essentially asking everyone to publicly declare their stance on the subject of the petition.

I think a good argument can be made that at work there should be a right to not contribute to discussions not related to work, and to not have such non-contribution held against you. A petition essentially forces you to contribute, and it is a bad form of contribution because your contribution is not accompanied by an explanation greatly increasing the chances of it being misunderstood.
> I have not raised children

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