skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have an objection to the author's blanket disregard for "pings" in chat - while the request could/should be worded a bit more clearly than just "ping", IMHO they're a valid way of requesting if an opportunity for synchronous communication is available in the (not that rare!) cases where asynchronous communication would be worthless.

If someone's blocking on some unclear thing which requires external input for progress, making an asynchronous request (i.e. writing the question directly) is not helpful since in such a case an answer is valuable if and only if it's synchronous. Writing a chat question that gets answered the next day has negative value, since it has the extra cost of the answerer reading the question and preparing the (now useless) answer.

If the other person is available for synchronous communication, that's great, there's an opportunity for a useful communication.

If the other person is not available for synchronous communication right now, that's fine as well, but then the replacement is not asynchronous communication with that person but instead something else that can actually be done right now - contacting someone else who is available, or doing some redundant experimentation/research, or just proceeding with an assumption that may later be falsified, etc, all of which aren't optimal but still clearly preferable to blocking until an asynchronous response arrives.

Sure, things can be done 100% asynchronously eventually, but that's not an optimal flow, going 100% async requires giving up many opportunities for helpful communication. Especially in international organizations I've far too often seen things delayed by days or even weeks where literal ten minutes of a synchronous comms (no matter if it's a phone call or chat or video) was completely sufficient.

Perhaps I'm looking at 100% async as an optimization on allocating time for communication that has some benefit of throughput - having more efficient schedules for people working - at a horrific sacrifice of latency - having much less effective schedules for resolving individual tasks.

Pings would be useless (and I'd concede that even harmful) in a world where status indicators in a chat app reasonably match actual availability for synchronous communication right now, but I don't live in such a world, people are routinely marked as "active" while they're working in meetings or deep work and don't want to be disturbed, and the opposite way around; so there needs to be some protocol of requesting synchronous communication - are there any ways that are substantially better than "pings"?
Counterpoint, the entire biological reason for life is reproduction. You would not be here without the long chain of individuals who sired you. Sexual reproduction favors the advantaged, and wanting to give your genetic line every possible leg up over other genetic lines seems entirely reasonable and natural.
Nit. Ambiguity.

CC = Climate Change

CC = Catholic Church
There seems to be a problem with the mining. LODA programs are described as being programs "for an OEIS sequence" when they merely match in the limited number of terms given in the OEIS summary, even when it obviously doesn't describe the full sequence.
An example is the entry for an inverse TREE function [1]

A300402 (program): Smallest integer i such that TREE(i) >= n.

which is claimed to correspond to LODA program

min $0,4
div $0,2
add $0,1

[1] https://oeis.org/A300402
That's big news. I'm atheist, but worldwide, the word of the pope always holds a lot of power.

Climate change is mostly a large political issue, much more than racism or inequality, it's a much more large scale issue, which requires that people with a lot of influence need to speak.

Not to mention that the Vatican, even with all the evils of religion, is still a place with a lot of thinkers.
Birth rates are already declining and in some countries below the replacement rate.

You want more?
> If there is likely to be only one social network (broadly speaking), then does that opine on whether that network can choose to be ad+tracking funded and free, or paid?

I think it's immaterial. You can't legislate Power's Law into submission.

Winner take all type market are the dictionary definition of Power's law. They produce the most exhilarating wins (eg. Google, Facebook) and the most brutal losses (Yahoo! , MySpace).

Another thing about Power's Law and this type of markets is that they receive almost all the attention, whereas stuff like constructions, pipelining, ports, airports don't get the same attention
See my earlier comment. Stock gains are often not taxed (retirement accounts, pension funds, etc) . And private company owners can postpone realized gains for a very long time or put it in a trust.
> Nitter.net is a Twitter proxy that mirrors Twitter, but without Javascript soyware and spying.

With "soy" here being an old dogwhistle that refers to the "theory" that men are being feminized through the estrogen contained in meals that have soy as ingredient.
Interesting thing about "embiggen" -- the Simpsons _didn't_ invent it. It was already a thing, the show merely popularized it.

It's a century older.

Merriam may not know, but the OED does:

https://www.lexico.com/definition/embiggen
Judicial precedent, also known as common law... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law
Hands-On with NMAP
I know what rooting means, and I'd kindly ask that you read a comment before replying to it. I was stating that you can already make homebrew apps, and you can already use third-party, on-device app stores. I didn't say it was already rootable.

Further, you can also use a Quest 2 without a Facebook account. I do, myself. It's pretty well-documented.
This is life for most people in the world. I don't see how this is surprising to so many.

Though, I assume people around here tend to work cushy tech jobs that involve staring at a computer all day and know nothing else.
Against 3x Speed
Cromulent yes; embiggen no.
See https://www.lexico.com/definition/embiggen
Don't forget that climate change is good for Russia...
https://pinboard.in/recent/

https://pinboard.in/popular/

https://www.producthunt.com/
The Economist in print would be my recommendation. There's a team of salty meat space professionals behind it. Not an algorithm driving clicks.

It's a case where you get what you pay for.
You might need to quit your workplace If this is the way you feel people take video calls …
It seems Debian Stable is not applying patches to Chromium anymore
It would be good if there's an option in which we can increase its brightness. It's too dark, I can't properly distinguish each continent, and some parts of the world are missing.
This is pretty cynical. The Christian church has guided the way in which many people live for thousands of years, and a cross-denominational, united stance against climate change from its leadership is likely to have impact. Certainly a positive development.
I can use Bitcoin to safely, reliably and conveniently send money to people/organisations the US government doesn't like - eg, Wikileaks.

It is hard to understate how radical that is. Such an act of quiet resistance against the powers that be was somewhere between extremely difficult and impossible in 2005.
"Are we actually seeking the treasure or the adventure that will lead us to that treasure" Adventure 1000%...
By root cause you mean the fact that some people work more than they demand in work back, leading other people to demand more work than they do work.

If people do not spend their full time income then they do not create demand for a full time job on the other side. If everyone insists on working full time while demanding less than full time, then there must be people who are simply unemployed.

It's like household chores. The number of chores goes up with the number of family members but there aren't enough chores to let everyone do the chores as a full time job. So if you assign all the chores to a single person others will get to do nothing. Leading to jealousy and the desire to call others lazy.

If every single person did as much chores as they create the need for chores then everyone would have a fair share of the chores. You take out the garbage you produce.
Same for me. YouTube is for projects like car repair or home improvements.
Twitter finally improves its terrible video quality
I think this strongly depends on how much time everyone spends on the wiki and how much love it is given in the first place.

I’ve had companies where it is exactly as you say. Which is especially frustrating because a search for the term you need yields 19 graveyard pages and 1 actual result.

But also companies where the wiki was a bastion of well kept and up to date information.

What I think it mostly comes down to is structuring. If you have little wiki fiefdoms, where every project gets it’s own page, and nobody gets to edit other projects, then you quickly end up with huge heaps of garbage.

If there is one space that the entire company has access to, which is well organized, it’s much easier to get rid of (or restore) information.
Protip: In some forums, using allcaps makes people downvote and flag your post. It can ruin your pirate marketing campaign.
Billions of people can't afford the effects of artificially cheap energy. Just make everyone pay a tax to clean up the pollution whatever they're making is causing.
They've wanted change now, since the 1970s. And while there have been some wins (air, water, ozone, banned pollutants), there has been little action on the part of the public. Other than an awareness of recycling, which is the least good lesson to take away. At some point, practice needs to be informed by results.

Leniency is distinct from tolerance.

The former allows rules to be broken; the latter formulates flexible rules that still accomplish the overall goal.
Parents and teachers believe digital surveillance of kids outweighs risks
That falls either under "those I love" or "as determined by the State".
I've noticed this too but I don't think it's because of YouTube. I think some people just communicate differently.

There are a few people on my team that won't engage with written communication. Similarly, I have difficulty with video communication. It's just something you need to look out for when hiring and building teams.
Please read my comment again. Perhaps you aren't suggesting the opposite.
Everyone that works in development is literate but not everyone that works in development has good reading comprehension or is good at generating meaningful prose at a keyboard. Many people who work in development just don't like to read and consider it a chore.

I think an interesting interview question would involve reading. "What were the last 3 things you have read to learn something?" "Do you read for enjoyment?" Based on the results you could group people in terms of how they relate to text.
I disagree. If a man were to accomplish something against the odds, that would just be a man being a man. Why is it any different when it’s a woman? This stuff is patronizing.
https://archive.is/mzfWa
We can’t just ignore the fact that a carbon problem will not be solved by releasing more carbon into the atmosphere. We have half a dozen sources of carbon free energy. The EU is right here. Including gas power in the green book is laughable.
I made it through most of my career thus far, including pretty senior positions, where probably most of my days didn't have a formal meeting. It's been so strange to move to a big tech company where I could spend 30 hours per week in meetings if I was not pushing back.

Any they're all 30 minutes. What the heck do you expect to accomplish in 30 minutes? You spend 20% of the time waiting for someone to show up.
Probably around 80% of wealth is stored as real estate of which 60% is probably is stored as the relative proximity of people. So capital control is as simple as forbidding land from walking away and foreign countries not accepting migration of a billion people. basically a solved problem.
Regardless of how often you ship, things still break sometimes though right? And you still need to find out why when they do. Often the issue is some interaction between application and infrastructure which requires knowledge of both to understand. Long before k8s was a thing and I worked in an environment like you describe above I still knew how the infrastructure worked even if I personally wasn't allowed to touch it.
It was part of my elementary school curriculum :/ and that was 22 years ago.

(In the Netherlands, and of course we used typewriters, since we didn’t have that many computers yet)

Edit: modified for clarity based on comment
Doesn't that only really work if you like the current society and it's direction? If you don't, why would you support it with effort you don't need to expend?
Hopefully, having the hardcopy within arm's reach will motivate me to actually buckle down and get through it. It looked like just the perfect resource to quickly bring me up to speed when I first found it.

Congratulations on the release!
I feel like Discord can work OK for a small team. People can answer things asynchronously in the chat, organize in different channels or threads. And usually it is possible to sync up every now and then, and that can be useful.

I think its easier for people to start putting things in an issue tracker and then forget about them, and the other person doesn't even know about it, or dismisses part of it, writes a comment, the first person doesn't see the comment, etc. So people often need to discuss things directly and tools like an issue tracker can make it too easy to avoid resolving issues or talk past each other.

It depends though. I am talking about really small teams.
Conversely, thinking that it must be easy just because it is for you is an even more well-known bias.

I can even think of an entire industry dedicated to countering this bias.
We don't ask this question when it comes to murder. Why would we in this case?
This is not unique to Cloudflare, Level3 or any of the other networks I've seen mentioned in this thread. The entire internet scans all the common ports and this should be expected to continue indefinitely. If this is causing alerts from your logging, there are a few options:

- Implement a firewall on your instances.

- Implement port knocking for sshd.

- Move sshd to a non standard port to avoid the nmap/bot noise.

- Only log successful logins.

- Any combination of the above.

There are pros and cons to each item so you would have to decide which combination is the most appropriate and least friction for your organization. If leaving the port exposed consider enforcing key based authentication and disabling password authentication. For high risk accounts such as monitoring accounts that use passwordless unrestricted sudo, you can even restrict what networks the keys are valid from.
The gas infrastructure currently deployed is already far sufficient to serve that purpose. It is a good argument for not tearing it down, but not for building more. Conflating these two has been a great success by the fossil fuel industry.
I think they refer to terms like consoooom and soyware which are not political, but can be connected to 4chan and therefore to the alt-right. It's a bit of a strech if this is the first time you heard of Luke Smith, but generally he's not shy to express his political opinions on the far right of the spectrum. Which is a shame, because otherwise there's a lot I can agree with him on.
I read the page and did not find anything worth labelling "disgusting alt-right vocabulary". Either put up or shut up with the "disgusting alt-right vocabulary" nonsense. This type of accusation without examples and explanations just why it is "disgusting" and "alt-right" only serves to poison the well from which ideas are drawn, it serves no good purpose.

So, show us some examples of that disgusting vocabulary so we can respond to it. If you can not just keep your fingers off the keyboard until you have something constructive to add to the discussion.
Over 100 unpatched security issues in Debian's version of Chromium.

Many of them are several months old and classified as high security risk.

What is going on?
You are offering significant interpretation here. Note the adjaceny if 'o' and 'p' on the QWERTY.

'Soyware' is possibly a simple 'spyware' typo.

I know neither you nor The Famous Article's author, but your remark does not instill confidence in your judgement.
That quotes simply means that you shouldn't write spaghetti code, and that another _programmer_ should be able to read it.

Quite clearly, it doesn't carry a meaning of: "hey, every user now has to become a proficient reader of whatever languages this software is written in."
No shit. Bitcoin is both a technological, economic and a political project. Nobody who understands this would mistake Schneier for a likely candidate to be the creator of Bitcoin.
Geographic Spice Index
The US has no business at all regulating how a Chinese company trades with an Iranian company or attempting to enforce their demands through having CFOs snatched in foreign countries.
> In my experience, people don't read documents.

I think this is true too, but I don't blame folks.

I recently started a position which is the first time I ever worked as a non-freelancer. Previously I always wrote documentation for myself and my clients in self contained Markdown files.

But at this new place they use a combination of Confluence and Google Docs for any type of docs that don't necessarily belong in a repo's readme file (like ancillary topics, general knowledge and guides). It's not easy to find stuff unless you already know where to look. Confluence's full text search is also pretty lackluster.

Turns out keeping documentation and knowledge up to date when you're dealing with a handful of folks isn't easy. Especially if you factor in everyone contributing their own docs with their own writing style and patterns. It makes for a pretty inconsistent feel.
It’s noteworthy that religions are extremely slow to change and that, on average, this has had very positive impacts for humanity. While I agree with your premise I agree more with the values of pluralism, and that it’s good that different groups are living different lifestyles, and that some are slow to change which gives society a means of comparing old with new.

Put another way, birth control is an important topic and without groups that disagree with you we don’t get Alpha/Beta tests.
Ah but you see, in coding, before you write the test, you need a software developer and/or a team lead who gives a shit about writing tests.

So it all comes back to the good ole "give a shit" factor.
I second this. IMHO it’s a great publication.
And... informal communication has to be in a video call? It can't be in writing?

On video calls and in meatspace, you get to see peoples facial expressions, their smiles, they can move their hands and make gestures. I much prefer that to text.

As for the human contact, I do recommend having a social life outside work. Distributed or not distributed work.

You are correct but, personally, I think spending 8 hours a day without seeing faces is too much.
Yes, and 25% of the US population is Catholic, half of which group votes Republican (i.e., against reforms designed to prevent or slow climate change).

If more people come to believe that they have a moral obligation to do what they can to prevent climate change—including by supporting government interventions and investments, and gracefully accepting higher energy costs and energy taxes—then maybe we can hope for a break in the political logjam that is preventing energy reforms from being implemented in the United States.

Papal infallibility today doesn't seem to be what it was in the past in the minds of many American Catholics, however. There has been a surprising amount of direct criticism of the pope among conservative American Catholics in recent years, many of whom seem to place their political loyalties ahead of their loyalty to the church (which I have found surprising).
Twitter with an RSS feed is a waste of crawling traffic.

Suppose you follow 1k accounts, you have to subscribe 1k RSS. What a waste. Twitter's core functionality was based on how to aggregate all 1k updates into one feed.
You can't effectively legislate competition, but you can legislate monopoly behavior.

And I think it would be a hard sell to convince me that saying "If you run a company with greater than Y users / market share / etc. then you must offer a paid option that optionally disables all tracking."
Replacing existing approaches to social media needs a two way protocol like activitypub https://activitypub.rocks/

RSS plays well but is not sufficient
As was stated elsewhere in this thread, researchers are often halfway done with something before they even write a proposal.

> Two, their proposal was for genetic manipulation of an existing virus, which research on the existing corona virus shows was not the case.

I think that’s invalidated if your first point is valid right? Since the proposal wasn’t accepted.

Doesn’t mean they didn’t go on to do it anyway (possibly in slightly different form), someone was clearly thinking about it.
there are many packages and maintainers of such who just dont give a damn about the formatter or the style, some people just *want what they want*
You could import the RSS feed into a tool which allows you to comment to specific entries with your comments being served through RSS to interested others...

...upon which you'd have re-invented something resembling Mastodon, GNU Social or XMPP, give or take few bits.
Thanks a lot, I didn't know! I just edited that. What do you think about the concept of marketing pirate otherwise? :)
>disgusting alt-right vocabulary

I am unconvinced that a "dogwhistle" that is a word play on spyware is truly disgusting and clearly alt-right. And with all due respect, why make a personal snarky attack because of 1 word?
Since I know someone will ask for a source, here's one: https://www.investigate-europe.eu/en/2020/the-gas-trap-repor...

> Silvia Pastorelli explained that companies “have been consistently over-estimating the need for gas and basically, ENTSOG members have received something like, just short of 90% of the EU’s gas infrastructure subsidies which is a lot of money, and the fact that they basically can decide gives them lots of power.”

> But according to Global Energy Monitor’s (GEM) report, ‘Gas at a Crossroads‘, the EU already has a large excess of gas infrastructure. The EU gas import capacity is nearly twice as high as EU gas consumption – according to the report, “The utilization rate in 2018 was ~60%, with ~40% spare capacity.” And GEM’s survey found €117 bn in new EU gas projects are in development, including €52 bn for gas pipelines, €12 billion for LNG import terminals, and €53 bn for gas-fired power stations.
We don't know more than we did. We have a strong belief that our cumulated knowledge, tools and infrastructure are leading to more accurate knowledge. We accomplish technological advancements that comfort us in the idea we know better. That's all.

Science could be made a verb, but like wisdom, calling something science doesn't de facto make it so.
The difficult part is replacing the comment section and the network dynamics that make those sites grow.

I think all alternatives to youtube fail because of the dead comment sections. Not sure if there would be some way of creating distributed comment sections without them turning into pure spam and . Maybe chains of trust where you only see messages by users that have been "whitelisted" by someone you trust.
Is whether or not they're neutral ground something you wish to test with your freedom? If you have reason to avoid stepping foot in China, you have reason to avoid stepping foot in Chinese airports, even on international stopovers.
It doesn't really matter whether you trust Google or the government more with your data, because either way the government gets it.

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
Financial speculation surrounding coronavirus drug developed with taxpayer money
Sure, but there's a standard formatter, they become a small minority.