skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think I would ever pay ransom under any circumstances. Not for data or system functionality. I'd throw the computers in the river. I know this about myself because I had to deal with a kidnapping and extortion of my best friend in south america around 15 years ago.. and a few years later a ddos extortion attempt on one of my servers (the criminal was released from prison recently and I won a federal judgment against him for damages). Not a day goes by that I don't wish misery and sickness on those people. But something emerged in me during those crises that was not necessarily something I liked about myself in the long run. I wouldn't negotiate. I'm ashamed to admit I risked a friend's life by lying to the kidnappers. But I couldn't believe a word they were saying or even know if she was alive. I went cold and stopped cooperating. It was terrifying but I was in shock. I played poker with someone's life. It's something you don't really know about yourself or ever want to know until you're in the situation. I still have nightmares about it.
That theory would suggest that the less religious a country, the more religious its politics. But plenty of countries in Europe are at least as irreligious as the US[1][2], yet the same effect doesn't seem to hold there.

[1] https://www.pewforum.org/2018/05/29/being-christian-in-weste...
[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/12/06/10-facts-ab...
It doesn’t work that way.

Recruiters take your CV, remove identifiable information (to avoid company going directly after you), add 1-2 cover/intro pages and send it to the company.

No ones gonna PRINT PDF your LinkedIn page and send it to a company as an application.

Also from company’s point of view, even if you were an applicant with a printed LinkedIn page as CV, it would add more questions than give any you brownie points.

While you can learn about someone’s experience on LinkedIn, it is not a CV replacement in the world recruitment.
> Well this one may differ if you ask a Sunni or a Shi'ite.

Prophets are the same in both denominations. I am not sure why you think otherwise.
Probably. But you can see what would happen - without a new protocol or new document structure, traditional web browsers would work with the system. And because of that it wouldn't have an identity outside "the web, but worse".

Gemini's different protocol isn't important for technical reasons. Its important for social reasons - to make it effortful to move content to gemini, and effortful for users to start using it. The result is that all the content and users on gemini are people who have done work to opted in to it. And the space populated by small community like that will necessarily end up different from the culture on the web. (If they were happy with the web, they would have stayed there.)
Yeah the bitching about recruiters is really boring.

It's also silly and shortsighted seeing posts like this where the poster doesn't understand why we need to talk on the phone. Isn't it self evident? To make a job happen, it requires human contact at every step of the way. Sending out emails hoping people reply results in....... zero.

Who is it that genuinely thinks that jobs are black and white? Who is it that thinks salaries are written in stone? "We're offering $50K", do you want the job? Obviously it doesn't work like that. Recruiting is a negotiation - with everyone - the employer and the candidate.

And talking on the phone is absolutely essential. Things need to be discussed, understood, clarified.

AND, it's a SALES job.... we're trying to catch your attention, interest you in a possible new job, entice you with the positives, lead you to do what we want you to do which is meet the employer and build up relationships on both sides such that the consummation happens, which is an employment deal. None of that will happen without personal talking on the phone.

Really frankly if you're meant o be be an intelligent person, can't you understand that finding someone for a job involves lots of personal communication and discussion and working around grey areas like salary? If you're not smart enough to get that, well.....

And honestly, when people say these two things, I give up on them:

"Can you just email me the details? I'll decide then."

And

"It's all written in my resume, why are you asking me these questions?"

Because these questions make it clear that you're not interested in actually pursuing possible jobs.

The thing that annoys me most about the "how much do you hate recruiters?" posts is that companies pay us alot of money to find great people and they are very happy when we succeed and the job seeker is very happy too when we succeed - why the hate?

If you are bitching about recruiters then you are not the CTO or development manager who is paying them and working with them and wants them to succeed.
I'd love to know if they've ever been tested in reality. If succesful (especially as a first strike), you could theoretically launch from a high apogee using cold gas to adjust your heading, and have plausible deniability.
That's true. Perhaps the solution is to explicitly agree that the Gemini format will expand to a certain goal complexity - so that there's always several implementations, and it's possible to ramp up to something with more flexibility.

> But you can serve HTML pages over Gemini either way.

The important question is what people can read over Gemini, I guess. Do Gemini clients effectively render that? I imagine it would be difficult to take Webkit and make it work without supporting JS.
TikTok are the first people to produce video editing software that ordinary people can use. This is so powerful that even on platforms which have copied the feature ("Reels" on instagram) the videos often have the TikTok watermark on.
I don’t know. I used to think social media has connected people but last 5 years of it - these platforms are creating a new compliance culture that deeply bothers me. I don’t even care about people wasting their time and adtech, fundamentally it’s creating divisiveness and eroding freedom of expression (of course not strictly, but implicitly the chilling effect is real).
Sure when the us authorities want something from big tech, they can just ask nicely. Whereas if other countries wants something similar, they have to ask more forcefully (how forcefully depends on where on the totem pole of civilized nations they are).

Really just shows that big tech is us big tech.
To me, it sounds like they really hit you on a sore spot :).

What OP talked about regarding ideology reminds me of the stuff that Zizek talks about. I'm no philosopher, but the thought that ideology has subsumed religion doesn't seem too far fetched.
We, as a species, do seem to have a tendency to form religions and hold different biases.
I've been using SteerMouse to disable scrolling acceleration, which is absolutely atrocious on a Logitech mouse with hyperscroll.
Smallest nuclear bomb (not dirty bomb) made was 23kg, literally suitcase size. However if you have one and want to use it, you're probably better off sending it in on a shipping container or truck (or commercial or private plane)
BerkerleyDB is rather complex and has a dual license (AGPL and commercial).
Voting in most free countries is cheap and easy. Would you like to spell out what you mean?
The fact checking of wuhan lab theory was very well done, wasn't it?
If they ask what you are earning, is there harm in just bumping it by 20%?
> Because these questions make it clear that you're not interested in actually pursuing possible jobs.

Correct, I'm not interested in bureaucratic processes that you pulled out of your ass. If you don't understand how I want to be communicated with, you are not a good recruiter.
Is Sony's 140MB MiniDisc Drive the Next Betamax? (1996)
A friend of mine purchased a cottage from the crown estate and it was not maintained competently, nor in a manner compliant with building regulations. The entire way they went about splitting up the land before sale was complete nonsense... the first draft of the deeds drawn up by the crown would have granted my friend the land he wanted plus half of his neighbour's cottage (as in, a line was drawn right through their living room!)

I think on balance, it seems fairer to say that the Crown owns a lot of land, and doesn't have the resources to manage it all competently. Their view is from 10,000 feet and us normal people are like ants...

(Interestingly, the only part of the law that the Crown does seem to have to obey is that regarding the listing of buildings. They performed some non compliant modifications on the cottage and were forced to change them back! Then again, perhaps the Crown merely chooses to go along with listings...)
> If you believe you are not religious, it just means that you don’t have the cognitive tools to recognize the secular ideology that you have adopted.

Are you saying science method is a secular ideology then? Nothing else is required to analyse, understand and explain the world around us. Nothing.
Yes and when you are CTO, or running your own company, or you are development manager, you'll think "I wonder if I know any recruiters who make the effort to actually get people on the phone and make it happen?".
> Any time I see an application form that wants facebook/linkedin/github details I just close the window.

You might be doing yourself a disservice there. It varies by company but I ask our HR team to offer the option of LinkedIn profile as an alternative to uploading a CV/resume in case you have the former but don't have the latter to hand or prepared. It's still a minority but I do see people come through who use their public LinkedIn profile as their CV.

Github is a complete waste of time as a guideline to anything useful. If there was any doubt about that in the past the recent trend I've seen of people setting up separate GitHub accounts for each job they have and keeping their personal account separate has completely removed it. (Sometimes this behaviour is company mandated, but often it's peoples' own choice.)

I've never seen the point at all of asking for other social networks because that stuff is none of my business.
This isn't really the whole story. Many of the founders were Deist and/or practically irreligious.

The other important distinction is that the Church of England is essentially a state church. In many ways the U.S. Constitution, on which Nonconformists had far more influence, is its antithesis. [1] Puritanism/Nonconformism views religion as a personal or at most a local matter.

One of the references you shared has an interesting quote to this effect stating that when England tried to impose it's unelected colonial official rule, Puritan officials "were of opinion that God would never suffer me to land again in this country, and thereupon began in a most arbitrary manner to assert their power higher than at any time before." [2]

A much more accurate picture of what the U.S. started out as and has become today would be a mosaic or a patchwork of various religions and/or philosophies where one always has a choice whether to participate (or abstain).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonconformist_(Protestantism)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_of_New_England#Dudley...
You can have forms on Gemini.

> if your model is the imaginary "good old web"

Is your assertion that the original cookie free, javascript free web was a hellscape of arbitrary executable code intended to exfiltrate as much monotisable information from the user as possible? Just because someone doesn't like the current situation doesn't mean the past was imaginary.
That's the page - https://developer.bbc.com/login-required
> For some of us from excolonies, this is starting to feel like neocolonialism.

Then imagine how it feels for people in countries that were never a western colony -- quite the opposite, under Russia's shoe.

It's like, if some aliens from another descended upon us and forced their morals.
> And economic liberalism is the belief system that it works for the greater good.

Perhaps also anarchism, due to its focus on having the minimum amount of hierarchy possible.
That's a very reasonable position, on the other side: as a hiring manager you probably wouldn't work with the new hire on a day-to-day basis, and you wouldn't be involved with his performance review.
Nice article. I wonder how difficult writing a technical book is. I have a few ideas in my mind and it would be great to have them released as books.
> It just means they're better at bullshitting engineers to their face.

They're also better at detecting bullshitting from engineers.
Ultimately, we basically wallpapered over massive deflation with money printing in 2020.

What is interesting to me given what we have done is how much inflation we still don't have. Right now, the break even inflation rates were still higher in 2008 and 2005.

Of course we were always going to have a surge in the rate of change compared to a year ago when people were are on lockdown.
The real depressing part about this is that work is so hard wired into our brains that most of us hold this perspective. Like at this point we wouldn't even know what to do if we weren't a 9 to 5 wage cuck.
Speaking of copy paste, what happened of the toolkit row?
Whether the objective was good or bad, should the people actively trying to trend things be called "IT cell for XYZ"?
It feels a bit hypocritical
Untouchable status is flat-out illegal in India, and the Indian government has gone to huge lengths to help former pariahs/untouchables (now properly called Dalit) improve their education and social status. To the point where the formerly privileged non-Dalit are now complaining that they don't get anywhere like the same attention from government and are at risk of being left by the wayside. These complaints might be overblown for sure, but the underlying efforts to redress these wrongs cannot be denied.
It’s astonishing to me how little international competition there is in the social space (outside of China). You’re complaining about US platforms while implicitly acknowledging they are the best place you have to find interesting discussions online.

It’s like the internet came along, offering opportunities to build these businesses to anyone in the world at super low cost, and most countries stuck their heads in the sand and said, “nah, this social media stuff is a fad, let’s stick to car manufacturing.” 10 years later the world is somehow under the “control” of US platforms? Huh?

Did you know HN/Twitter/Reddit are websites you can just choose not to type into your address bar?

Instead of complaining about the world you helped create, why not try changing it by starting a social platform for your local market and in your local language? These are all just simple CRUD apps.

There’s about 600 “build a Reddit clone” YouTube tutorials you could follow to build the same thing as HN/Reddit/Twitter from a technical perspective.
It is funny to me that people found this useful, as it defeats the supposed purpose of a signature. A signature is supposed to be a difficult-to-forge indication of a particular person having read and approved something - of having been physically present. But with the teleautograph, there is no guarantee - none at all - that you are signing what you think you are! You could even be signing multiple things at once without knowing. What's interesting is that clearly this wasn't a practical problem - implicit social contracts held everything together for the most part. Which means that the guarantee of a signature was never really required in the first place - social contracts would work as well for that too (and for that matter, signatures are not difficult to forge either). The whole thing is just an elaborate ritual!
Imagine this scenario:

I offer you $10,000 to maker a phone call and ask someone if they might like to do something. There's a 1 in 50 chance you'll win the $10K.

Would you do it?
As far as I know it's the standard way in Python.
And as I mentioned to you earlier: non-religious have been even (and is) even worse.

Just because you aren't evil doesn't mean the rest of us will happily accept that you can argue from a position where everything bad a religious person said or did is held against us while simultaneously nothing bad that non-religious people did can be held against you.

Choose one option.

I know this is hard but this isn't young atheists debate club.

We are real humans and some of us have experienced too much good to just let you or others try to tear it apart.
I think you will like this gemini site, then: gemini://geddit.glv.one

It's a Reddit/HN cone for gemini.

cf. https://github.com/pitr/geddit
AFAICT no.
Windows does this sometimes, it causes mysterious excessive cpu usage attributed to ‘memory compression’.

I presume in theory this would be using idle time only but in practice it’ll slow down your system a lot.
Why does current scientific knowledge preclude it? Is a simulation of the entire human body impossible in principle, or alternatively is it known that such a simulation won't be conscious?
I set it up with a autohotkey client and a python server. I did that because I am actually a linux user now and I intended to write a linux version later. The ahk client uses WinGetTitle to figure out which language you are working on. I wont lie, it is pretty cheap and dirty, but it works smoothly in vs code.

The python server handles the search logic and it is mostly relying on the howdoi project which already did most of the work in this area. So I send a query to howdoi and that does a normal google search (or ddg/bing if you wish) and returns me the results which I further filter down to try and be more useful.
Stablecoins have 4-6%apr yields. much better than my other savings.
Just had one reach out with "I really love your IoT skills".. of which I have none.
There is a lot of free, cheap and easy things... It is not interesting to point them out.

Accomodating and feeding people are among the most expensive things that exist. Refugees are very expensive for societies that take them in!

Unfortunately your wishful thinking does not match reality. I know everything could be so nice, but in reality you will steal, when you have nothing/little putting those around you at risk.
Is Your Phone Hacked? How to Find Out and Protect Yourself
>The fact that most people in a given civilization were Christians //

It's somewhat orthogonal to your argument, but I'd doubt that most people in "Christian countries" (which is a heterodox notion) are/were Christians. Mostly people in the past seem to have followed a societal model, largely imposed as a firm of control.

Where I grew up in the UK the village vicar was not a Christian according to most definitions (they didn't believe in central tenets of the faith as espoused in all the main creeds).

Catholicism has a lot of things that are contradictory to biblical Christianity from basic things like having "special" people, to indulgences which are so contradictory to biblical teachings the only possibly way they were accepted is because most people were ignorant to Scripture. And of course those in power keenly maintained that ignorance.
No he doesn't?
https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/jditu9/what_do_gene...
> You can have forms on Gemini.

Oh interesting, had missed that when I took a look at it.

> Is your assertion ...

Obviously not, and responses like this from its proponents are a main reason I'm not interested in it, despite quite a lot of ideological overlap. Saying that not all was as perfect in the past as it's sometimes presented is not asserting that all everything today is better.
According to this chart, "only" 22.5% of the M2 circulating USD supply wass created since the start of 2020: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/money-supply-m2#:....
I can think of NY, London, and maybe Sydney. Not sure if I'm missing any
Ugh,.. same with Facebook. They reach out to me every 2-3 months and every time I tell them that I live in Germany and I'm only looking for remote jobs. "Thanks we'll update that in our system"
Exploring ‘resolute restraint’ as an alternative to liberal internationalism
> So the total amount of money hasn’t increased, it’s just the amount of physical dollar bills that has increased, as digital money becomes physical.

Isn't this just splitting hairs?

The amount of money actually circulating has increased then. Money that was previously just sitting in the bank, not circulating in the economy now is. Doesn't that have an impact on inflation? It might not be the sole explanation, but given the jump from 6.75 trillion to 18.4 trillion from Jan 2021 to Feb 2021 in the M1 money supply, it would seem odd if there wasn't any.

And the salient point of GP was that this isn't even being discussed.
The technical reason is that devaluing a currency and inflation are defined by economists to be different phenomenon. A currency can devalue without any inflation being measured (eg, currency value drops 2%, productivity increases 2%, roughly 0% inflation and devaluation simultaneously).

But you are right, 35% devaluations are large enough that it would be quite difficult to pull off without causing inflation. Especially when simultaneously the economy partially shuts down.
Factory functions don't mean using the (admittedly ugly) IIFE syntax or accessing __proto__ fields. This is an example of factory function

function NewObj(n) {
let myPublicInt = n;
let myPrivateInt = 0;

function privateIncrement() { myPrivateInt++; }

function incrementPrivateInt() { privateIncrement(); }

function printPrivateInt() { console.log(myPrivateInt); }

return {
myPublicInt,
incrementPrivateInt,
printPrivateInt,
};
}

let obj = NewObj(5);
console.log(obj.myPublicInt); // 5, because myPublicInt is a public field
console.log(obj.myPrivateInt); // undefined, because myPrivateInt is a private field
// obj.privateIncrement(); // exception, because privateIncrement is a private method
obj.printPrivateInt(); // 0
obj.incrementPrivateInt();
obj.printPrivateInt(); // 1
But how will you finance this? Oh. Just borrow the money ... from whom?
You have envchain to store secrets as ENV variables in your keyring and execute commands:

https://github.com/sorah/envchain

Not really something you would use for production web apps, I think envconsul covers that usecase:

https://github.com/hashicorp/envconsul
Simpler scheme for deduplicating strings in Python: use `sys.intern`. It also specifically increases hash performances because interned strings can be compared by address after a hash collision (and furthermore hash caching means interned strings almost certainly already have their hash computed and stored)

for s in strings:
s = sys.intern(s)
# Do something with s

Depending on your application lifecycle you may want to shove the dedup'd strings in a set (or in a list, after checking if the identity of what you got from `sys.intern` is different than what you put in) in order to keep them alive: `sys.intern` does not do that.
Then what do you replace this line with?

s = dedup.setdefault(s, s)

There's not an obvious way to get the object in a set that matches a value you have.
That's accurate:

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+/8b2bb8a5d1a0/zirc...
While this works for dedup'ing a single set of strings, it doesn't work for dedup'ing string identities across the application lifetime because you don't have a fast way of fetching the deduplicated version from the base.
One more reason to just use Typescript.
„Don’t complain about hard to change tires! Build your own car!!!“

Do you even know what it means to run a social platform?

Germany has had multiple social Platforms before Facebook.

StudiVZ
Kwick

And even local ones like “Team Ulm”

They are all dead.
Because social platforms live from scale.
agree with NY, London and Sydney.

i would add Hong Kong. so many cultures, absolutely amazing. unfortunately it seems like things are changing for the worst lately…