skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a gregarious person, but have no problems with meeting people. I started my current role in the middle of lockdown. From my perspective, I'm not sure what the organisation gains 'culturally'. If anything remote working does feel like it better prepares people for tech work, because there's a bit more patience in meetings, and a greater reliance on documentation.

Mentoring does work better in person though, tbf. It's easier to communicate 'concern' and read it in others (for want of a better word) in person, than online.

But this nebulous quality is partly surmounted by responding promptly to online comms, for programmers/software engineers at least.

I think, sometimes, a case can be made for meeting irl, but it should be for something worthwhile. Like a round of tech workshops, or possibly estimation sessions. Beyond that it's just too much of a risk to our health (and others) at this point in time. And a waste of 2-4 hours commuting.

But these are the opinions of an introverted mid office grunt (if even that), with no financial commitment to a 3 year office lease, or a $200 coffee machine.
> Why is it necessary for us to have this authority now when it was not needed in the Civil War or during either World War?

Because now you are an Empire
There are so many things wrong with your comment, I don't even know where to begin. I can trivially extend your argument to:

> I really hope Google takes a strong stance and bans _humans_ from all projects due to their _bigotry_. While a minority of _humans_ might not personally display any _bigotry_ I don't think it's fair to tolerate members of such an intolerant group.
Mao used a policy of "rifle taxes" to disarm the rest of the country, and I shouldn't have to repeat his single most famous quote.
Yea I'm referring to fellow US citizens (I am also an Australian citizen, but the Aussie half of my family could care less about guns).

I grew up rural in US and now live in the city. It may as well be two different countries with respect to views on gun ownership, so nationwide polls won't capture any of the variation (also state to state is massive difference).

> Against what? Other people with guns, or other people with feebler weapons?

Any living threat, which could be a much much larger attacker or mob of attackers. Consider the rattlesnake, it's the same thing- a great deterrent. It's peace of mind, a last resort, something that's better to have and not need than to need and not have.

> who is it that you don't trust and that you need a weapon for 'effective defense'?

Have you ever read about the terrible things people do to eachothers? Or the barbarism of human history?
The article you linked says "The manner of Brackett's death is now ruled as a homicide."
https://nocodeofconduct.com/

https://github.com/domgetter/NCoC
Pirate Bay
France is quite heterogenous. The "homogeneous = less crime" argument is a bit xenophobic/racist at best, and not quite true.

Societies with an impoverished underclass is what causes higher crime rates, regardless of whether or not the underclass is mainly comprised of ethnic minorities. France (heterogenous) and Japan (homogenous) take better care of their poor than the US (heterogenous) and Guatemala (homogenous), which is what causes the disparity in murder rates.
My local ISP injected notices (ads for their services essentially) into my non-HTTPS traffic. VPNs can help bypass hostile ISPs.
No, because for some reason a lot of people take a lot of time off during summer.
“I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.”

-- Tony Hoare, winner of the 1980 Turing Award, in 1982
I'm interested if projects with CoCs ever blow off complainants for being unreasonable. I know for a fact some project maintainers can be rude and verbally abusive, but I also know complainants can be unreasonable bullies with a chip on their shoulder as well.
Yes. Child Protective Services are used as a weapon against non-traditional families here. I grew up in a house with 9 younger siblings, it was crazy, messy, and there were sheep grazing in the front yard. No abuse or drug use, my parents barely drink, and generally a very happy family.

CPS was called on us, and we all gathered outside, I believe I was 16 at the time. The nice social worker lady started asking us some questions about if we were treated well, et cetera, and I ended up getting pretty angry, and explaining to her that I really needed to get back to the college class she had pulled me out of, and then had to take my car—which I'd bought doing some software development work on the side—to the shop, and if asking she could please leave so I could go back to being a productive person.

Thankfully, I was ahead of my age, and able to beat her over the head with it, but she was looking for literally any reason to make me a ward of the state. This is more than a real fear, this is a huge problem.
I've read some of the D archives, and fortunately the D community is way less trigger happy than some of the newer communities that are run North Korean style.
I've heard good things about PeerTube[1]. You can choose to not link your instance to other PeerTube instances, or you can link with them to allow a wider variety of content.

Largely, what you're looking for depends on your definition of censorship-resistant. Do you want "any" kind of video on your platform of choice? Or is it more of a "I have a problem with what specifically YouTube censors?" I think that's an important distinction as to what platforms you would find acceptable. If it's the former, you'll probably need to self-host (as any website that's owned by another person/group could theoretically start censoring at any time). If it's the latter, you can just sign up for whatever PeerTube instance you want [2].

[1] https://joinpeertube.org/

[2] https://joinpeertube.org/instances#instances-list
With a $150 GrapheneOS Pixel for things that matter, you could shut the other phone off and truly "shut off work".
It sounds like you have an overly idealistic view of how this process works.

Why do you imagine non-disclosure agreements are standard after an out-of-court settlement? It's because "pay me or I'll badmouth you" is essentially always one of the implied threats.

You can call it blackmail if you want (and I'm being deliberately glib here, because I also think it's at least blackmail-esque), but your lawyer and the company's lawyer will absolutely understand that this is how things are done.
Will?
Searching for ‘chocolate’ on this search engine turned up a surprisingly large amount of chocolate based recipes.
There's really no way of knowing for sure, because you can't deny that many of the Talibans fought so fearlessly because of the certainty of their faith and religion.
Hm interesting, yup that is exactly the kind of program that might get "too big" for bash, and running it under Oil is a good idea. You can then incrementally upgrade to Oil -- no big bang rewrite required!

Other huge shell programs here: https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/The-Biggest-Shell-Progr...

And yes Oil should be suitable for writing command line tools (although it needs a modern flag parser, not the ancient getopt builtin that shell has.) Often the right thing to do is to write a tiny bit of C to interface with the kernel, and then call that from shell. That is very useful for Linus container syscalls, and I can also see it being useful for low level networking. I would love to see a project in that direction :)

I'm writing some posts now about project plans! Thanks for the support.
>There are so many things wrong with your comment, I don't even know where to begin. We can trivially extend your argument to:

>I really hope Google takes a strong stance and bans humans from all projects due to their bigotry. While a minority of humans might not personally display any bigotry I don't think it's fair to ask people to tolerate members of such an intolerant group.

I suspect that was the reason for their comment in the first place. More of a demonstration. Your reaction, however, is a great example of just how much nuance is lost in the medium and how easily it can be for someone to be labeled offensive when in-fact the intention behind the statement was anything but.
Sort of, there are still laws against it in almost every state.

https://apnews.com/article/803cf0e75e924afbbbe9c77f15517da5
That's true for every sufficiently-large section of the world. But different places have different statistical properties.

Look, my grandpa took me shooting when I was young. I remember doing target practice under a bridge when I was like 7, using a freakin' magnum revolver of all things. It was next to a very small river, and someone further downstream was trying to fish. I asked gramps "Do you think he heard us?" and he laughed "I don't think anybody didn't hear us."

That's the kind of culture I come from. I suspect in this thread there are at least three factions: the pro-guns, the anti-guns, and the undecideds.

As someone who was raised from an early age to be pro-gun, I do see the merits. But it's important that we acknowledge the downsides. If, statistically, America is so screwed up that you need to compare to Brazil and Mexico before the numbers start looking sort of reasonable, there may be a correlation with gun ownership the way that smoking may be correlated with cancer.
SKS rifles cost over US$600, a $200 licensing fee isn't infringing any rights compared to the right to a fair and speedy trial.

The term 'assault rifle' is used loosely by us, but in terms of law there are definitions:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1296...
I'd love to say "I would never install windows 11!"

But microsoft already decided that for me. I don't have any TPM chips.

And I'm definitely not going to upgrade hardware for an OS upgrade that doesn't really add much.
What's wrong with the comment section? Everyone is discussing respectfully and sharing opinions.
> Well, I can't say they will actually take up arms against social workers but it is a fear

It's not the social workers who are dangerous, it's the people who come with guns after they check certain boxes in their report.
> Promoting willingness to kill as a path to a voice or Liberty in personal relationships or society is utterly immoral. That is not the kind of society we should be aspiring to build.

Statements like this remind me how lucky we are to have created such a safe space for people to be born, raised, and live so that they can maintain this view. You’re lucky and hopefully people like you can help us build a better society.

Some of us weren’t so lucky. We experienced violence, we went to war, we have actually seen the chaos and terror that people can cause.

I am here to tell you that terrible, malevolent people exist. They don’t care about hurting other people. Now, you don’t need to spend every waking hour worrying about them, but don’t pretend that they aren’t there and a real danger to you either.

So, please stop trying to take away the right of an individual to protect themselves because of some hand waving about criminals with guns.
Wow, you're right. I looked the term up out of curiosity and I would be legit offended if somebody talked to me like that, to the point where I'd absolutely leave over it. I wonder how it's handled when this is somebody's preferred way to communicate but others absolutely hate it.
Mexico is trying to sue because of that:

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/28/1031965159/mexico-sues-u-s-gu....
> Missionaries go to the far ends of the earth and vaccinate children without any idea that overpopulation will result in a famine that will kill off the next generation. Reality is that which, even when you don't believe it, remains.

1. Has this ever actually happened?

2. Why is letting them die of disease superior to famine? You solve disease and then solve famine. Most places have neither.
I agree it feels unprofessional. It would be like adding a hashtag.
Scientific computing has the reputation, perhaps unfair, of being write-only programming. True?

In the 60+ years since Fortran was invented, enormous strides in computer languages have made source code more readable, and 99.9% of new programmers learn on only those languages.

If you ignore all that and continue to write Fortran, you've guaranteed that almost no one except other scientists will ever want to look at your code. And probably not even them.
What to Do at University?
Hi. I go to high school, when I graduate I would like to go to university, but I still haven't figured out what to do. it seems that almost everything seems to be moving into web app. So what should I do? Progressive Web Apps(PWA), AI, Software Development or anything else?
I think he is disappointed that so many people here are supportive of firearm ownership.
Every time this comes up, people fail to realize that it was a shtick designed to generate hype. Their platform at the time (Rap Genius) primarily catered to annotation of rap and hip-hop lyrics, so (imho) the shtick fit.

I dare say was even funny at times, especially when contrast to the tone of most startups back then espousing generic faux-humble feel-good bullshit vibes.
For any camera that provides an rtsp stream, you can use frigate[1], which has some excellent detection algorithms (it differentiate between people, dogs, ...). It also has hooks to integrate with HASS. I use it with a LaView system to monitor my external cameras and get notifications (including push to my iphone) through HASS.

[1] https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate
And how does one see revolution going against the world's most-funded military (by a long shot) staffed by lifelong professional soldiers wielding an arsenal almost all of which is extremely restricted?

I'm not saying revolution would be desirable (heck, I wouldn't have supported the original American revolution - why kill people over taxation?), but the concept of revolution is some weird persistent American fantasy just because it miraculously worked once three centuries ago against an adversary across the ocean during the Age of Sail (and when France immediately tried the same thing, it devastated their country). It doesn't even bear mentioning today.

Anyway, undermining corporate feudalism seems more likely. People just have to sacrifice convenience and support ethical small businesses. Corporate behemoths rely on the masses for profitability. Cut that off, and they have no legs to stand on.
> the consumer would not be protected by default.

Then make it set to "on" by default, and if more than 50% of customers switch it off then change the default.

I also think that this should be a requirement for social media. You should be able to opt out of separate filters for "spam", "misinformation", "breast-feeding", and whatever other reasons a social network has for banning legally protected speech.
I dunno, that doesn't seem convincing to me.

Talking about parts of a mechanism in terms of "agency" is always a metaphor: A cogwheel or a transistor or a microchip doesn't "know" either what it's supposed to do. However, what is the case is that those parts are designed specifically to emphasize or to suppress particular physical effects.

And this kind of "design" can be found in cells and proteins as well - not by any kind of designer but through evolution of the whole organism and storage in the DNA.

I also believe this is the fundamental difference between an ecosystem and an organism: In an ecosystem, each part evolves on its own and the whole system is simply the result of all interactions. In an organism, the evolution of individual cells is constrained. It's only the oragnism as a whole that evolves. This means that all the chaotic interactions between the different parts of the organism aren't completely random either, because all those parts have a common playbook.

The evolution of the organism has tuned the interactions between the different parts in such a way that they result in particular outcomes - which increase the fitness of the organism as a whole.

E.g., from the POV of a white blood cell, it really may just be a selfish predator, however the way it is attuned to particular kinds of "prey" and the way other molecules and up- or downregulate its aggressiveness is not simply by chance.
Well I see your point... but I just want to automate a few lights and blinds, and this stuff seems totally peripheral to that.
Beware, I got the impression straight away that some sites were censored from the results for no good reason.

For example, if you search "jehovahs witnesses", all pages from jw.org are missing.

Exactly the same thing happened when I searched "mormons" - the official website is missing and it only brings up sects/hate/conspiracies against mormons.
And even more so when those trolls are government bureaucrats and policy makers, doing the bidding of those who are profiting from child exploitation.
> if a military goes rogue, they'll go for the gun owners first

How? There's no national registry of gun owners. Many new guns are built at home, and the government doesn't know about those at all. You can even 3d print them now, and I don't mean crappy single-shot ones, I mean things like the FGC-9.
ESR didn't get cancelled for microaggressions. It was because he has a long history of being utterly vile towards black people and women, amongst other very much not "just a microaggression" behaviors.
How do I keep my friends from sharing means. There are a lot of them.
how much non-HTTPs traffic is there these days?
I recently had the feeling of those early home-computing days from the Ben Eater's "8-bit computer from scratch" videos/kits. Really fun project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyznrdDSSGM&list=PLowKtXNTBy...
Yes, exactly! This is the point I was trying to make and you've even added the follow up on the logical conclusion of these Code of Conducts.

Thank you.
Comparing the US to lawless, poor countries doesn't help make your claim.

The more rational 'New World' comparisons would be Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and guess what: very low murder, very low rates of gun ownership.

"Does this mean that France should adopt some aspects of Japanese law, for instance, by readopting the death penalty? Or does it simply mean that France and Japan are different countries?"

Or more rationally, they could just completely ban firearms and make them totally inaccessible to anyone, as they are in Japan.

(And also create a super conformist, rule-following slightly authoritarian culture)

But at least the gun laws themselves in Japan are extremely rigid which hints pretty strongly that restrictions definitely work.

Wether those can be pragmatically applied is another question.
This is helpful. Regarding your question of "definition of censorship-resistant", where can I go to learn more?

I can see how this is important, but am not sure where I'm at on it. Do I support videos of murders on such a platform, as a simple example? That's a tough one...but my sense is the platform I'm advocating for would indeed allow any kind of content. It's just too hard to trim out objectionable content without catching plenty of other content with it.

PeerTube seems roughly the same as YouTube in terms of censorship. There's still an "organization" that can choose to censor content. I guess you could create your own PeerTube instance as another option.

Are there any good tools for managing self-hosting? i.e. some kind of self-hosted YouTube, complete with play controls, thumbnails, upload interface?
I would never, ever, work somewhere with unlimited time off. It's a total scam. There's no way that doesn't come with unspoken expectations, guilt trips, peer comparisons, and all kinds of shit I want none of. I want to work what I've agreed to, and take no flak from anyone when I don't want to work.
Buy low, move around, sell High?
If WSL2 is your killer Windows application, then upgrade to Windows 11 whenever you can. WSL2 on Windows 10 suffers from some FS corruption bug [1]. The bug is currently fixed only in Windows 11 Insider Builds. It is uncertain if/when the fix will be backported to WSL2 for Windows 10.

But other than that, Windows 11 is mostly Windows 10 with a different shell. So it's not like it will disrupt your workflow or something.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/5895
Ah! I'm glad my density was useful for once.

Regardless, lesson learned.
It doesn’t do anything. War is inevitable.
What rights of mine have gun owners protected? The 2nd amendment has protected the 2nd amendment, through compliant courts that have turned gun ownership into an entitlement.
Original link didn't work for me. This worked for me: https://themountain.news/news/russian-war-games-sees-unmanne...

Looks like they switched the title to be "unmanned" instead of "AI".
I try not to judge the guy too hard, considering:

https://www.fastcompany.com/3021564/how-a-brain-tumor-made-t...

https://jewishjournal.com/culture/health/240270/how-a-second...
The slippery slope fallacy is exactly that: a fallacy.

There’s an obvious distinction between “I disagree with the merits of your PR therefore I’m going to claim that I’m offended” and “please do not misgender me.” The former is a strawman argument.

Everything needs nuance and discretion. The world is complicated. But throwing our hands up in the air and saying “this could hypothetically be abused” is not a reason to remain paralyzed in the face of hostility within a community.
> Have you ever read about the terrible things people do to eachothers? Or the barbarism of human history?

We live in a tiny window of prosperity and safety. WWII was only 76 years ago. Syria is a short plane ride away. Afghanistan is a contemporary product of our own hubris.

Yet people still assume, for reasons that I genuinely cannot fathom, that this tiny window of privilege that we're lucky enough to inhabit will last indefinitely, and never backslide.
It’s misleading and counterproductive to frame this as “America has a high gun homicide rate”. It mostly affects black communities. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/02/23/young-...

Any intervention with the serious and actual goal of reducing gun deaths must take this into account.
I'm just curious: What exactly is seen as being new or remarkable about the failure of some leaders during this pandemic? I share the frustration about these failures, but are your friends/family too young to know about other spectacular failures like Watergate, or Iran-Contra, or the Iraq War, etc? (I could go on)

Edit: I just realized my second question is somewhat US-centric so if you aren't from the US then I apologize, please disregard that comment.
Self soldered my first computer ever from a ZX81 kit.

They were available as bargain sellout at the time(1985).

When other people already used Commodore64 or the first Amigas
or Atari STs.

But I've been sceptic and low on funds :-)

Wasn't that difficult because there weren't much parts. And no SMD.

Scale was almost like electronic breadbording.

And it worked for the first time!

Regarding the Handbook, compare this image of the cover

[1] https://i.imgur.com/0WarG.jpg

with

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaxxon

I felt so very, very Zaxxonized!

Anyway, it lasted me about half a year, where I got a 16KB RAM extension,

learned how to duct-tape this so I don't get resets,

a data-capable cassette recorder for reliable storage, which my ghetto blaster didn't do,

learned Z80 assembly including illegals,

replaced parts of the ROM with RAM to get glorious 256x192 pixels

in black & white instead of block graphics,

and finally got an Atari 520stfm with flicker free 640x400 pixels on 12 inches,

because why not? I've already been used to BW from the ZX81.
The arguments are built on hyperbole. People who are concerned are compared with people burning off their fingerprints and anti-vaxxers. For passwords, it's possible for "any kid anywhere in the world with an internet connection to grab troves of them with ease."