skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO, these parents are often narcissistic people who aren’t prepared or even capable of recognizing what their grown children want from them. Ironically, both sides want the same kind of acceptance from one another:

“Will you unconditionally accept me and my lifestyle?”

“Will you accept that I’m not fully capable of understanding your needs, and therefore cannot respect you as you’d like?”

Contemporary expectations ask that estranged parents humble themselves and become emotionally vulnerable to their child, an already difficult task that’s made harder with age and misaligned cultural values. And after already giving up so much of their lives, they may think their children are behaving like overgrown and entitled brats.

Personally, I don’t believe these estranged parents really, truly want their children back in their lives. They may not admit it, but they’re not looking for a stronger relationship as equals — they want their child to behave as the caretaker they had sacrificed so much of their lives for.

If anyone’s interested, I wrote up a personal essay on my own bout with narcissistic family.

https://www.inherentmag.com/opinion-1/splenda-love

Meta: I’ve seen this comment fluctuate up and down 10 points in less than 10 minutes. If I’ve poked your wound, I’d be happy to hear why.
I wouldn't place one of those in my car if it made the insurance free. I understand why they do it(both parties), but I also think it's disgusting.
> Usually it's in the logs.

That is definitely not usual
Yes. There was a public blog post a few year ago from someone complaining about being fired for this.
I’d note that there are many different kinds of hackathons, which vary wildly in terms of length, ambition and seriousness, so everyone’s answer is going to be different.

At my previous employer, we did 2 hackathons a year. They were structured so that you could go hard on something you cared a lot about if you wanted to, or you could walk around checking out the (often pretty novel and cool) projects that the teams were working on. There was free food, karaoke, one time there was a cover band playing dance music. If you didn’t want to do a hackathon project, you could take a course on Lynda or Pluralsight, or just goof off and hang out. However, it was a sort of “enforced holiday” where normal day-to-day work was halted.

Sometimes people would work on an incremental quality-of-life improvement to the product that normally wouldn’t be prioritized, with the goal of actually getting them into the product. I’d usually start teams doing really ambitious projects with lots of whiz-bang stuff with the goal of getting the product folks to think bigger about where our product could go. It was a lot of fun, and I think more companies should run hackathons this way.
I love nix if only because for a given project apt/yum/pacman updating my host won’t break things, the environment is replicable easily, and cross compile environments are a breeze. It’s like pythons virtualenv on steroids and it’s freakin awesome. The build never breaks until I decide to update something, even the compiler!
It's a design system. You can read about it more here: https://uxdesign.cc/everything-you-need-to-know-about-design...

But basically it's a system how to design and develop applications (mostly mobile or frontend). It contains most of the time some visual foundation, standardized components, guidelines etc.
I, too, used to work at Kiwi.com when Orbit was started. If there was one thing which was consistent, it was definitely Orbit. It's nice to see they're keep pushing it forward.
I like Github's policy where they publish all of the takedown requests to a public repository to be viewed by anyone. I hope this can be a standard for other tech companies as well.
So these "information requests" could be, say, checking a user's IP to track fake news?
Stop the Chain Reaction of Bugs
Editorial control over twitter.com
is Twitter's freedom of expression as well.

Their censorship is abhorrent, but shouldn't be illegal.
I get the hate that Electron gets for it's weight and overhead, but this is a perfect example of why Electron has value.

This app has no dependency on native OS for anything beyond writing data. It doesn't need to compile heavy code bases, it doesn't need fast GPU or other access. It could have very well been an electron app, and it would have the benefit of being widely available on many platforms.

I'd love to be able to use this app, but as a Linux and Windows user, I'm unable to. So I'll be searching for an alternative that runs on the platforms I have access to.

That said, no hate on the author for building the tool to their needs and desires. It's a fantastic looking app, and looks well executed. Wish I could use it.
Questioning the establishment is now completely off limits.
due to the exponential nature of progress, the span between ourselves and our kids will be greater than between us and our parents.
whenever I read about how evil the boomers are, I imagine how we will be getting it one day for reasons nobody would have thought of today
They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another’s throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself.
What you’re describing is literally the iOS (and increasingly, macOS) security model that gets derided by power users for being too restrictive. The system owns the photo picker. When an app asks for photos, you can either give it access to the whole library, or you can choose specific photos to share with it from the system picker. The system owns location services. When an app asks for location, you can either choose to allow it indefinitely, choose to deny it, or choose to allow it once. Even if you allow it indefinitely, iOS will follow up with a prompt a while later explaining that the app has been using your location in the background, show you a map of the locations it has tracked over that time period, and ask if you want to continue allowing it indefinitely or deny access.

What you claim about reducing gratuitous choices is pretty clearly not how Apple views these things. They have been adding more and more granular permissions with every update, in response to developers abusing the wider permissions. I also have no idea what you mean by the user being reminded they don’t have a say. The user does have a say. What irritates the people who don’t like the prompts is they think they shouldn’t have to click through anything. It’s not a complaint that the permissions are too wide, it’s that they’re too granular.

I will also note that the cryptographic verification (and App Store review) side of things makes these measures a lot stronger, because developers can’t just hack around in private APIs and system-level frameworks to circumvent the restrictions. They are forced by a contract only to access the restricted resources through approved channels. Even though Apple is not perfect with review, the evidence from other platforms and their own data is that they catch the vast majority of abuse that happens and we never see it.
Yeah, except a huge portion of that increase isn't even circulating. The only increase in circulating supply has occurred at the behest of the Trump and Biden administrations, via fiscal stimulus.

As evidence for this, reverse repo operations (in which banks who have way too much excess reserves buy the Fed's assets overnight) are running close to a trillion dollars(1).

Meanwhile, credit offered by banks appears to actually be shrinking.

So Wells Fargo, for example, is over here sitting on more cash than it knows what to do with, and killing ~4% NIM consumer LOC facilities(2) while buying 0.1% NIM in overnight operations.

I don't know if banks think default risk is rising above 3.9%, or if demand for credit is low. But something fucky is definitely going on since February.

1. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RRPONTSYD

2. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/08/wells-fargo-is-shutting-down...
> I'm surprised that this stuff is audit only

These days things are mostly working the way you describe - I need to request permission to view my own service’s logs, and I’m working in backend infra not going anywhere near user data (logs are like “did we hit any hardware errors when trying to install the OS on this host?”)
Indeed the freedom of speech requires the freedom from speech too.

It's as important to be able to not speak as it is to speak.
I think Purescript would fit the bill: https://www.purescript.org/
Really what we need is to stop part one period. That is abuse of power and should be seen just as unacceptable as a governor demanding favorable election coverage from reporters.
For all you know, windex may already be using Mastodon or some other service that's part of the Fediverse.

Your question should instead be aimed at the millions of people who still use Twitter, but of course you know the answer already: They use Twitter because millions of other people also use it, i.e. network effects.
It's a thought straight from my butthole, but The Design of Everyday Things is a book recommended amongst this crowd, and one of the early chapters of that book goes on about doors. Once you've seen it, blah, blah, blah. Or perhaps the book didn't make any difference other than to validate what many had already noticed.
Human playbook: put social agency into enabling invasive private and public power, complain about lack of free agency, reboot social contract.

If you all don’t like it put your agency into dismantling these power structures rather than logging in to the matrix they erect
The US hadn't recently decorated anyone for blowing up passenger aircraft either, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655.
EU launches bold green revolution, proposes ban on new petrol cars by 2035
What's even more surprising to me is that (unless I missed something) MS hasn't pushed anything significant in terms of R integration to Excel. I just assumed that was one of their end-goals after they bought up Revolution Analytics.

I know they've done some R integration with PowerBI, but it's mind boggling how they ignore the two most popular programming languages that heavy Excel users would also be interested in.
flatpak/snap have serious downsides and nix does a much better job of package management. The sandbox aspect is interesting but in practice it’s so far shown to break things in my experience
Thank you for this imagine feedback. Stay tuned
These comment's are all relatively ignorant of the fact that implementing these sorts of privacy controls generally makes your product worse and your engineers miserable.

> Facebook employees were granted user data access in order to “cut away the red tape that slowed down engineers,” the book says.

If we can take a step back, this is a totally reasonable policy. Unfortunately Facebook is facing the reality of the law of large numbers in that once you have 1000+ people the chances of having a bad actor in your system is much higher than 10 people.

Maybe this is a hot take, but I for one prefer that my company trusts me to do the right thing rather than make it hard to do my job. I'm not saying that there isn't a solution for this, but behind the "facebook corporation" there is generally just a bunch of engineers that want to do a good job at work.
Excellent point, but it's important to note that currently the systems private companies use are little better than censorship. We need a non-affiliated govt agency to handle censorship/moderation requests.
The GDPR didn’t give a 6 month timeline.

And GDPR had a long transparent process that in addition to the official implementation time, gave companies a lot of time to see what sort of rules they would likely be working under even before it was approved.

The worst government since liberalization, however, makes capricious rules, without input or deliberations, drops them on the world like they are a JayZ album, and then gives atrocious timelines for compliance.

More often than not they will then backtrack on those rules once enough time has passed so people will forget how atrocious those rules are (like during COVID), or in some cases (such as demonetization), they will double down never mind the generational economic damage and direct death toll.
"Ukrainian women in Egypt" sounds like a pretty niche segment to go after.
Ivys are basically majority privileged kids already anyway.
There was a stat that 1% of Americans go to Private High School but 40% of Ivy admittance is from Private High Schools.
Add to that: the % who go to elite selective public HS in systems like NY, the large number of full-freight paying foreign students who represent their local elite and legacy admissions..

If underprivileged kids represent anything above about 5% at Ivy's I would be shocked. One stat from Boston Globe was that only 3% of Harvard comes from the US bottom 20% economically.

The Ivys do more to perpetuate the existing power dynamic than they do to raise anyone up. They are far too small and far too nepotistic to do otherwise.

If you want to raise the middle/bottom up, you need to look at the large state university systems which are orders of magnitude larger.
It's to replicate audio disks - missing the opportunity that a different interface requires different interaction mechanisms.
It’s only two plants, and the article only discusses the US.

GM is probably going to build more plants to be collocates near their auto assembly sites.
The explicit accusation, AFAICT, is that eInk holds certain patent(s) which cannot be avoided if you want to produce an electrophoretic-technology display panel yourself; and so people believe eInk are, through these patents, “strangling the market for innovation.”

They believe that, without those patents (or if those patents were instead in the public domain), companies that produce traditional display panels (like yours!) would be competitively iterating on electrophoretic display-panel technology in the process of manufacturing their own to sell into the market (either vertically-integrated, or as panel wholesalers), the same way they competitively iterate on LCD and LED-based display panel technologies; and that this would presumably produce market efficiencies that aren’t currently there.

There could also be vertically-integrated niche panel+display companies focusing on niche use-cases, targeting a given vertical and doing “market education” for that vertical, creating demand for e.g. electrophoretic billboards, that isn’t currently there, “inventing the market” for themselves where each of these niches can eventually be a high-volume product of its own.

And that would in turn drive additional innovation, as each of these companies would have a healthy margin to plow back into R&D.

I think the intuitional belief behind this is that the blocking factor from this virtuous cycle beginning, is the fact that the entrepreneurs considering starting these niche companies, and the display bigcorps considering getting into this space, both consider that — when per-device patent licensing costs are included — the market is too low-margin to bother entering, even to chase a greenfield vertical. It only becomes “worth it” without the licensing fees.

People’s intuition for this probably leans on analogies like the market for CPU innovation heating up again now that Apple has got away from relying on Intel and is producing their own CPUs. People would intuit that if display manufacturers could “get away from eInk” and “produce their own electrophoretic panels”, the “low energy use, readable-in-daylight panel” market would “heat up.”
Good text and the author gets it. This is how students are actually kept from chances of education which has a significant negative influence on grades and performance. Meanwhile the mentally less fortunate are busy kneeling. And I don't mean black people. The author as a teacher has the task to stand up and their black president needs to be removed from the education system because he has issues and is a racist.

edit: our new director’s career had been ended by a federal conviction and jail time.

Well, problem solved itself... That is good for students of any color, although this probably is an example of systemic racism for once.
I'd say if mentally sound and healthy child repeatedly accuses their own parents of fucked up childhood so much they are cutting all ties, then they really had one thanks to them. If parents refuse to even acknowledge this and seek amendments, what other course is there? Let them poison even your adult life and your kids?

I mean who doesn't know those self-absorbed people for whom the rest of the world is to be used for their own gains. Such people are never good parents, and the confirmation of this is how they children behave and think as adults. The best of those realize this and create their own life path, in which there is no place for toxic people, parents or not.

Often a string of 'friendships' which is more about we're similar and the rest of the folks are weird/hates us, so lets hang out. Often string of relationships, one messier than the other. Then big regrets when old, since all the fuckery eventually pays back, often big time. Or they just compare their life with somebody living without big failures and not being unlucky when it comes ie to health.

I have endless sympathy for those who did all the right things and still ended up miserably. But those who repeatedly dig their own moral grave and then cry when in it are not worth spending much energy. People generally don't change that much.
First there must be products that target the disease.
The obsession with where data physically sits at rest is so amusing to me. Not limited to overzealous governments and financial data; healthcare is singularly obsessed with this. It makes no sense whatsoever, of course. I'd much rather store properly encrypted personal information or financial data in North Korea than storing it unencrypted in my home country.

I would understand if they demanded both storage and processing be done in India. Then it's just about control, and the ability to sever MC's India operations from the mother ship in case things go really sour and the US tries to cut India off from the global financial system or something. But since it's just about data at rest, it's nonsensical.

Or am I missing something?
Yeah, I am sympathetic to people concerned about inflation right now, but the basic Econ 101 explanation you give is just too compelling to alarm me (and apparently the Fed and others who do this for a living).

There is a clear mismatch in demand and supply. Supply is booming and its taking time for supply chains to catch up because of the structural damage that was caused by COVID. It takes time to fix that. This is short term angst, not a monetary crisis.

If there's a monetary crisis occurring (asset inflation?) its been going on for almost a decade now, and its not reflected in the CPI.
Yes and Twitter, FB, YT etc. pushed us on it by firing the first shots. When they decided to impose censorship and de platform as per their whim, they should have understood the consequences.
I believe they dont allow you to access peoples public profile while at work.
I agree... I don't relate to these articles at all. My parents are religious, and yeah, in some ways they're out of touch, but they're not so out of touch as this article makes them out to be. All old people tend to be slightly out of touch with the younger generation. My grandparents didn't always understand my parents. Such is the way of the world.
Tell me when Twitter throws a flashbang into anybody's home in a no knock raid at 3AM. The monopoly of legitimate violence is a huge difference.
> PI is the same in a flat space in any universe

pi is the same in _any_ space, flat or not.

Indeed, the space we are in is probably not flat, but pi is unchanged.
Somehow missed this but yes https://nanos.org doesn't have great docs right now. The best docs can be found on https://ops.city which is the front-end user facing website that shows you how to actually use it with another tools 'ops'.

https://nanos.org which is for the kernel itself, is indeed not Linux. It's a custom kernel we wrote from the ground up.

The basic premise is to run one and only one application as a vm - typically in a public cloud environment but can run on things like rpi4 as well. Doing so allows us to run things like go/rust workloads 2x fast on google cloud and 3x fast on aws. Takes ~20 seconds to deploy.

One of our principal kernel engineers discusses some some of it's salient points in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v21hGvCDPY
> due to the exponential nature of progress, the span between ourselves and our kids will be greater than between us and our parents. whenever I read about how evil the boomers are, I imagine how we will be getting it one day for reasons nobody would have thought of today

Which supports the argument that such rapid change should be slowed down, because it's anti-human.
Not the author but I think in general the ethos and technical design of Bitcoin is doomed to end up attracting scammers (bad exchanges, tether-like debacles, etc) no matter what. You just cannot have anonymous, irreversible value flowing in large amounts anywhere near humans.

Bitcoin has exactly one real use - transferring money without pesky government oversight, effectively money laundering, which it doesn't even do that well. Everything else is either speculating on the value going up (it's not actually a Ponzi scheme as such but it could be called I-can't-belive-it's-not-a-Ponzi due to the way the exchanges pump the price) or some kind of idiotic banking-the-unbanked scheme that is doomed to failure.

The price remains high due to Tether and the abundance of real money flowing around at the moment. But as soon as that money dries up Bitcoin will be the first investment class to be wiped out.

Bitcoin will always be worth something - in 50 years there will still be some oddballs running nodes in their garden sheds. But the investors and scammers will have moved on to something else.
Here's the SMS thing for the curious

> Biden allied groups, including the Democratic National Committee, are also planning to engage fact-checkers more aggressively and work with SMS carriers to dispel misinformation about vaccines that is sent over social media and text messages.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/12/biden-covid-vaccina...
>"No one has ever had a “freedom to demand others broadcast my personal speech at great technical and financial cost”."

Twitter's business model is to get as many users as they can and to have them tweet prolifically. The financial impact is minimal. Scale matters. We aren't talking about coercing a cakeshop. Twitter is a de-facto public square and looks a lot more like infrastructure than a publisher.

>"It’s authoritarian af to believe everyone else is your tape recorder."

Why are we so concerned about being 'authoritarian' against a massive corporation when said corporation is making editorial decisions and silencing journalists and citizens? We should not be putting the 'rights' of a corporation above the liberties of human beings.

People are down voting you, I suspect, because you appear to be vigorously defending the ability of corporations to infringe on personal liberties while appearing to champion liberty itself.
Vesy good