skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The patterns and problems are ancient, but convenience is a significant factor in terms of enablement and resulting harm. Humans and other animals have been vulnerable to addictive substances for as long as we can tell, but the level of effort needed to get high was much much harder before we learned how to process and distribute addictive drugs cheaply and efficiently.
If you see the accounts previous replies, it's many of the same comment on multiple posts.

Perhaps a lazy attempt at automatic comment-karma farming?
Postcards from Timbuktu
We are short $DNA. Ginkgo Bioworks is a colossal scam
target market ... customer experience ... product owner ...

No privileged language here!
> most campaign workers were paid less than minimum wage

This is something really strange. If you work for a campaign, it is very very very very different from working for the Mcdonal's. You work for a campaign because you support its ideology, and you want it to win. You are not trying to make a living by working for a campaign.

I would even say, you are not working for the campaign, you are working for yourself! It's like you are donating to the campaign with your own labor. The relationship between you and the campaign is mutually beneficial. The campaign gets help from you, and you get to use the campaign to fulfil your personal belief. There is no way for you to get the same kind of fulfilment by working in the Mcdonal's. The campaign provides you a platform to express your ideology, a network to find ideological friends.

So, no, you are not exploited by the campaign, nor is the campaign exploited by you. It is a voluntary exchange between you and the campaign for mutual benefits.
Tit for tat or a part of a consistent NATO combat exercises? If this is the new norm for a Chinese excercise, they clearly are overcompensating: a fleet of them versus a trio of bombers.
Cal Newport's digital minimalism the 30 day challenge
very cool! appreciate the recommendation.
Nodejs uses this and I hate it. Tune it wrong and you get no logs, or only in a spot nobody looks. Also you end up restarting sooner than you need because you have to plan for worst case where all processes flirt with the high water mark all the time, so you restart at 1.1/n even though 1.2/n might be okay.
If we assume the average weight of a scientist is 80kg, there are 12.5 chemistry PhDs in a ton.
I'm not saying those aren't a problem. I'm saying that ecological stress is proportional to human population size. Are you claiming we'd have the same ecological problems, of the same severity, if the human population were 1/10th its size?

The claim is so simple and obvious I'm sure you misunderstood it deliberately.
There’s a reason pretty much any real tech company doesn’t use nosql except in very clear explicit cases. Every single “problem “ you mentioned is not a real problem to begin with or also exists on both sides and you didn’t even realize you were dealing with them. Like migrations.
I mean....sure, I guess, if you're only talking about the top 10 or maybe top 200 streamers.

My favorite twitch streamer, 'x5_pig' (996th highest earner on twitch) only grossed $186,000 over 24 months, and lives in a fairly HCOL area in Australia. I'm happy to give him $5 or so to help make sure that he continues to stream an EOL game, Starcraft2.

Sure, he has other revenue streams as well but I can only imagine the risk he takes by sticking with a game that's been EOL'd. When Blizzard shuts down the servers I imagine he'll have no career left at all and will likely have to start over in a totally different career. I'd be surprised if he could start streaming some other strategy game and maintain enough earnings.

I pay him $5/month to help swing his risk-reward balance in favor of continuing to produce the content that I most enjoy vegetating to after my 12 hour day of coding/troubleshooting/collaborating.

Sure, he has other revenue streams (YouTube, announcing for major tournaments, etc). But I imagine for him it may be important to earn enough over the 10 year life of Starcraft2 to mostly-retire in case he ends up without a "real" career.

In fact, sometimes I wonder whether income tax brackets could potentially include consideration for short-lived high earning careers. Seems it might be slightly broken to tax someone who has a stable $1MM/year income for 30+ years (e.g. car dealership owner) the same % as someone who makes $1MM this year, but next year might be earning $40,000 working at that car dealership (athletes, streamers, windfalls, etc). Seems like it might make sense to allow people to "defer" earnings to future years, as long as income tax is eventually paid in full. This could allow people who unexpectedly earn $1MM for just one year to spread out those earnings over 10 years and pay a more appropriate % as taxes. Not sure what else this could break though, or how much of a problem it really solves vs. other things legislators could be spending time on.
I would argue that organizations are complex adaptive systems and thus there is no optimal span that holds for all or even most organizations at all or even most levels. As a solution, smart organizations should build in feedback loops and allow rapid experimentation and iteration to evolve the spans so they respond well to the current conditions at each level and each point in time.

Note that setting up an organization to be so responsive and adaptive is itself a difficult organizational design problem.
The onus is somewhat shared. In recent times there has been a massive over correction leading to something akin to the position that the woman can never be wrong. Getting assaulted is bad but if that was preceded by taunting and instigation by the “victim” they share some segment of the blame.
So then there's even more pressure to perform, at a higher level even, to pay for the lives of myself at least one other human entirely. I still don't get it.
A lot of people worked very hard to build that bridge from the flash of the POTUS run to a more typical "movement" structure, but even in those efforts the disconnect between the motives and trust of the volunteers vs Andrew's crew was omnipresent. Humanity Forward couldn't even convince the volunteer orgs to adopt their name or charter without some extreme pushback due to their treatment of volunteers during the campaign. They further picked that network clean during the mayoral run, either disillusioning members with his poor, corporately-controlled campaign, or trying to leverage supporters that had nothing to do with NYC.

The path from A to B has already happened IMO. Andrew gave a certain group of people the ability to rise above their cynicism and feel politically useful for once. That feeling frees people and makes them uppity in the face of entrenched power, which is great. The next step of this whole game is YG ownership of this "party" instead of acting like it's Andrew's property, leading to a distribution of power throughout the network. Then you attack localities, like city councils and mayoral races, and build a new narrative closer to a "people's party" than "Andrew Yang's Party"

The party has to feel like the internet did: Anyone with the grit and intelligence can break through, meritocracy be damned.

Sorry to write a book about it lol.

UBI isn't a pipe-dream for NEETs, which is what it was in 2016.
> I think it is configurable though? Just edit the source file you linked to on your system disk.

Unfortunately it is not :(. The change will get wiped any time HA is restarted.

> If the internet is not working (because general connectivity is lost, or someone blocked the DNS server, whatever) then of course the internet-using parts will cease to work, but local network parts should still be working.

Local network parts stop working as well. A DNS lookup for a non-existing local domain results in the query being sent to Cloudflare. This cannot be prevented.

> The config file is pretty clear that it is not supposed to use DNS servers, cloudfare or any other ones, for the local network connections. If this is not the case, you should file a bug.

Many bug reports have been filed about this: https://github.com/home-assistant/plugin-dns/issues.

If you look at the config file, SERVFAIL and NXDOMAIN responses are considered to be a "failure" and queries are sent to Cloudflare. This is a poor design decision, not a bug.
That chocolate bar doesn't count as a meal. Donuts aren't meals either.
Texting while driving, while illegal (everywhere by now, I assume), causes more accidents than driving under the influence (both in total numbers and, apparently, per capita). Should we tax text messages?
Because it's funny.
The compiler checks syntax - if that’s all a linter did it wouldn’t be very useful.
> the Staten Island ferry cowboy incident

What's suspect about that?

He stopped a guy assaulting a photojournalist and you have issues with it??
Unfortunately we do not. The change will get wiped any time HA is restarted.
> Atheists like me can go to Saudi Arabia (or Uganda) and say and do as we like without pause for the consequences

Honestly, you can. You show the bald eagle in your passport and you'd be looking at a slap on the wrist in all places except North Korea and Iran.
That's what the minimum bar of excellence should be, and it's the same standard for everyone.

Americans are more illiterate overall and have a level 5 rate comparable to the global average (which is low compared to top-performing countries). America's literacy problem has nothing to do with IQ and everything to do with poor education stemming from anti-intellectualism.
Would you prefer CS algorithms in papers to be written in English prose rather than pseudo code? Would you notice if your neural network diagram has its arrows reversed? I do not understand HN's superiority complex when it comes to notation. Every thread on music in this forum devolves to complaints about music notation rather than the essence of the art itself. It is disappointing.
In Helsinki turn up at Mass at the Catholic cathedral. You see workers from the Philippines and West Africa.
Couldn't help but contrast this to another item on the front page.. the irony of video game streamers making many times more than the lifetime earnings of Nobel Prize winners :)
I wanted to use this linter, but they don't support many things that are used in real production code.
By example, a simple postgres function like this one can't be parsed:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.setof_test()
RETURNS SETOF text
LANGUAGE sql
STABLE STRICT
AS $function$
select unnest(array['hi', 'test'])
$function$
;
> As a society, the US has shifted its values from intellectually sound principles, to what ever rich people shout out.

Nothing exemplifies this as much as the whole situation surrounding public transport in the US.

A topic that's generally scoffed at "Everybody has a car, why would the US need a high-speed rail network?!"

At least until some billionaire presents his newest "innovation" by putting people in some pipe or another and allegedly making them go 600+ mph with magic inertia dampeners, then everybody loses their their collective poop about this amazing idea, by that amazing entrepreneur!

Then they end up with a bunch of cars being driven trough a tunnel, still no high-speed rail, but can't wait to chase after the next billionaire promising them to shoot people trough tubes at deadly speeds.

Would be excellent satire if it wasn't actual reality.
Ok. Obviously 1e11 tonnes is 'a lot', I just have no handle on how much is used in food production etc.
We used a different three point system. 1 point means we know exactly how to accomplish this work. 2 means there is uncertainty, but we are confident it will completed. 3 means there are unknowns that require more digging. A 3 pointer is a good candidate for breaking the story/task up into smaller chunks.
Spanish Military Postcards
There are probably close to a hundred different boards already.
Here is a somewhat complete list: https://pipci.jeffgeerling.com/boards_cm
Hydrogel Tablet Can Purify a Liter of River Water in an Hour
hence the irony ...
The traditional distribution for costs and dates is Beta-PERT. Douglas W. Hubbard uses log-normal distribution. I am a pessimist, so I like Beta-PERT with a fat, fat tail.
I am really new to this AI game and I hear it from many people that it is the future and some say it is the hype.

I think the future is on middle ground, but I'm not sure what that middle ground it can any one tell from their experience and/or expertise what that middle ground is ?
Yeah it would just be nice to buy a single piece of hardware that had it baked in.
What is HN's policy on sharing magnet links?

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:N5BLZ6XECNEHHARHJOVQAS4W7TWRXCSI&dn=twitch-leaks-part-one&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.stealth.si%3A80%2Fannounce
Snacking throughout the day is very US specific.
I'm a reddit mod for a 100k+ geographical sub.

I volunteered when I thought the mods did a poor job on something and DM'ed them, and one invited me to help.

So every day or three, I hop on and help clean out the report queue if it's stacked up.

Being a decent person, modding can be difficult because the internet is full of bad-faith people and idiots. Applying a consistent standard in a way that keeps the sub clean while allowing real conversation is tough, so it is a lot of judgement calls.

I could go on, but it is a tough job. I do it because I want the "chatroom of the city" to be as friendly as possible. I tend to let "merely stupid" comments get downvoted to oblivion, but name-calling or straight-up disinfo (I tend to look at their profiles for context) gets deleted quickly.

And yeah, I step away from it a few days a week, simply because caring too much will keep you steeped in horrible comments and stupidity far too much.
SDF recently started hosting a Plan 9 bootcamp.

https://sdf.org/plan9
You don't think the largest streaming platform on the planet wants to keep their intellectual property a secret? This isn't about being embarrassed over some comments, it's about completely revealing the algorithms that move streams to the promoted views, limitations of their filtering systems, the time it takes for someone to count as a 'viewer'... there are many pieces that are no longer secret and can now be manipulated by people trying to promote content or game the recommendation system or bypass filtering.

There is also the issue of security. I'm sure people will be combing through the source code to find anything they can exploit, even if it's a simple XSS attack. It could either be sold/used for malicious actions or submitted to the bug bounty program for the reward money.
Wow, you are right[0]! I don't think I would even call him rich.

[0]https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-politicians/democr...
Comparing bridges to a streaming service is nonsensical, frankly.

People die when bridges collapse. People get mildly inconvenienced if twitch is slow or down.

Accordingly bridge construction takes security & safety much more seriously throughout the project. And it's orders of magnitude more expensive to build and check bridges for safety issues, etc.
You're talking about privacy from other users, generally when people refer to privacy problems and Facebook it's about privacy from Facebook (most people have none).
I think thee assumption is that the investors have likely stolen from people, through perfectly legal yet ethically dubious means many consider theft but isn't defined in law as theft (deceit, disproportionate reward of effort, etc.). Often the type of theft uses indirection or is difficult to quantify.

You tend not to get investment level rich/wealthy without playing in the ethical grey areas, skirting laws, and/or taking calculated risks of breaking laws to capture more than you actually directly produce.

Not always the case but it tends to be the case from many peoples' world views. As such, it's viewed more as a thief stealing from a thief, where most have little pitty for either thief.
On a total tangent, in my opinion many countries in Africa would benefit from a benevolent dictator like Paul. Unfortunately getting a truly benevolent dictator seems to be a one in a million possibility.
eMMC is flash media, typically with a very minimalist FTL. Of course it's going to have a write count.
> America is a country ruled by the wealthy. Both by wealthy politicians and wealthy corporations.

As much as that statement is usually decried as "edgy teenage take", it's actually backed by political science [0]

[0] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
I’m also subscribed to a few channels. I’m pretty sure that is a far stronger signal that I’m not a bot than getting my phone number. And unlike most people, I only had 2 or 3 spam calls, and maybe 10 spam SMS on the number I’ve had for almost 20 years.
Why wouldn’t you start a business, and pay blue collar workers what they deserve?
The chair of Mozilla is overpaid.
Money, and a lack of understanding of the tragedy of the commons. That's the pure and simple of it.

I need to be able to exploit [resource a] to be able to feed my family. For example, take fertilizing a field or crop. So it runs off into the water. Well, that has never been a problem on my farm. I don't have algae blooms and my pond is fine. They don't seem to understand that they are just one small part of the larger picture of all of the nitrogen and phosphorous flowing into streams, rivers, lakes, etc. Source: The Obama era watershed protections that everyone was up in arms about.

They are very willing to express their concerns in their own backyard. Whether that is fostering native species, eliminating invasive species, or even adjusting farming/other practices to ensure the sustainability of their own soil. It just falls apart when it translates into policy across the board.

I feel like it's a lack of common definitions and something basic, but I don't really get it, to be honest.
That's a selective reading. In fact, I wish more politicians would actually read the Prince, and explicitly incorporate the overall lessons. Machiavelli mostly advices leaders of not surrounding themselves with yes men, not letting their vanity cloud their judgements, lead modest and exemplary lives, be prudent with finances, prefer predictability and stability in all things, known their own limitations, not be greedy.

The popular readings for The Prince focus on the passages about scheming, ruthlessness, the palace intrigue basically. It's only a blip in the actual book.

If you do come away with a cynical reading of the Prince, it's not only about the supposed celebration of the amoral ruler, but also (maybe more) about the stupidity and fickleness of their subjects, or the gaggle of untrustworthy sycophants and rivals at court.
Indeed. There is some downright grotesque "malice" in Twitter cancel-culture efforts. It's really strange they are not self-aware and call 4chan (~last bastion of free speech) toxic.

Yeah, 4chan is toxic and savage, but at least they are honest and humane in a candid kind of way.

The cyber-bullying's of 4chan is trash though...
Compensation is great. You can afford to have a good standard of living.

I get paid much more than soft devs get in many cities in the US, of course, much less than SV and similar tech hubs, but I believe that those extreme salaries are mostly because of bubbly economics rather than something perenial. It won't last.

If you can leave behind all that inequality and problems has, and only think of yourself, those tech hubs look like a good alternative, but personally I find it quite sad myself. I'd rather live in a place where my pumbler has good living conditions, the bus driver and so on.

Also that has good public transport and more collective thinking. Driving a car in those big american streets would make me very depressed.

It's a matter of choice(for some), but anyhow... here in Europe the situation is fine. :-)
Most of the cases I've seen either involve leaks of sensitive info (think diplomats, their governments, and the like) or well-known individuals who value privacy (CEO's, celebrities, etc.)

Most of the Gatekeeper protections in macOS are baked into the design of iOS, but I wonder if they will eventually need to surface them so users have more direct control over what runs.

If sideloading from the web ever comes to pass, I would expect this to be a fundamental building block of how it would work.
I've had a small number of sites break when not sending any referer. Can't remember any concrete examples off the top of my head though.
The full paper is online, and very readable, with some nice images and details:

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2021.176...
Some people are shallower and less humorous than the others, and can't get the reference and joke where others can. I am fine with that, not that I want to be king of HN with best karma of them all. I just like to hang around bright humorous people, not shallow smugs.

The discussion was about some people getting offended because some other people don't have whatsapp accounts.

I selfhost xmpp (ejabberd) and matrix (synapse) servers for my friends and family. When someone asks - and this happens fairly often - how come I don't have [insert evil big tech IM company here] account, and how can I be contacted, I say I can be contacted by means of open federated protocol like xmpp or matrix, using open source apps like conversations or element, having account on one of many xmpp or matrix servers, including ones that I administer.

Most people say 'ok whatever man', but some say tell me more and get to get in touch with me.

Because of my knowledge and skill to avoid Evil Greed, and because I am actively working on liberating people from it, I think of myself as a better man than those who argue whether Signal is better than WhatsApp or Viber or whatever. And at the same time I remind myself I am no better than anyone or anything else in the Universe. And I am quite auto-ironic about it.

Is this enough lines of explanation?
Apple to face EU antitrust charge over NFC chip
True, that is the subtle bit -- but I think most people misunderstand (I'm not saying you are!), and don't realise you can always split an infinity into two -- this is just about splitting a sphere into some 'point clouds' such that you can cleverly stitch them back together into the same original space. In particular, the 'cutting' really makes no real-world sense (at least, as far as I can understand).
I am curious if there has been any progress on the removal of all binary blobs from the Pi's?

My understanding is that the GPU is used to boot ThreadX which then allows for Linux to be booted, is that right? Only the embedded-focus Pico chip does not have this.
So glad they mentioned the Cobra Driller Toggle. These have saved me much frustration. I wish I’d discovered them sooner.
This is a good move when the cost of printing another copy is extremely low with today's technology. I think the old policy was created when the book itself was valuable or priceless.
Desktop systems last even longer than laptops. Except, of course, Apple's desktop systems because they'll stop letting you upgrade the OS.
what is the irony?
That's interesting. I thought this was something everyone has experienced, to the point that it's possibly a Dilbert strip somewhere.
Many moons ago I purged everything I could, left a generic profile picture and barely logged in since. That way I 'own' my shadow profile and it is harder for someone to pretend to be me via a facebook account (I operate a 'plant your flag' policy for security as much as anything else on these public platforms).

Nobody is holding a gun to your head to log back in to the account any time soon. I think the last time I actually did log in was > 12 months ago.