skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a follow up submission on the mechanics of art world which imho is even more interesting/informative in terms of art and its production and institutionalization which may interest you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28946017

Here is a taste of Judd’s fantastic rant:

“Panza is also like Thersites (Book II). Nothing stops him or shames him. But also Panza is typical of the situation in art. The other wholesale collectors are not going to understand my objections. Many supposedly interested in art are not going to understand. I think the situation has declined so far that even many artists will not understand, as can be foretold by their work. Panza, many, have no respect for art, the artists, for the integrity of the activity. Panza’s only purpose is to be a rich big shot.This is in art because he thinks it’s a soft spot in the society, an easy place for a soft predator, a foggy swamp full of willing victims and lots of clear loopholes.”
fascinating. Spectors approach at times seems to share a lot in common with the Indian tradition of over-driven vocals in music.

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/2vs20j/e...
I wrote:

> that this is just the natural state of the world (for which they have thousands of years of evidence to point to).

You write:

> And there was a wide range of economic systems prior to that.

That is my point. every single one of those 'wide range of economic systems' (including the ones directly intended to produce equality) produced inequality.
HN like all other social networks has 5% of really smart, intelligent, objective, well-rounded, nuanced commentators/upvoters.

Rest 95% is no different than Woke/Q/Pitchfork/Trump/AOC people
This isn't double jeopordy. If you rob a bank and serve the time for that crime, you don't get a free pass to rob more banks later because you've already served once. You get sentenced per crime.
In this premise:

Europe = Leave little kids out of it, kids with certain comorbidities can have special precaution.

America (California flava) = Vaccinate little kids to protect them (and if that dubious assertion is challenged) actually wait its to protect the vaccinated adults.

Those are definitely simplifications but I think its pretty much where things lie in my slanted view.
haha touche.
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The edge-glued boards at Menards are quite good - they're foot wide "shelves" if you will made from glued 4 inch wide pieces; they work and are roughly as strong as normal boards at a cheaper price - and come finished.
This doesn't challenge assumptions of capitalism in any meaningful way. In fact my impression reading it was how the author seemed to fundamentally misunderstand finance. I'd love to hear thoughts on how it would be done differently, but he doesn't get that far and rather just makes shallow statements.
Well I was setting up a desktop machine as a server. The idea of silverblue is great, only it sucks to actually use. Updates are slow, and everything is just needlessly harder.

I get why maintainers want to push flappypacks, I just don't care, it's a shit solution that leaks all over your users. Find a better way to fix your problems.
> There are plenty of Linux distributions with tons of telemetry and spyware (Deepin Linux is literally run by the Chinese government)

Trying to "Both Sides" telemetry and spyware fails because you can use Linux without either, whereas macOS and Windows are inherently married to it and you can't use them without submitting to their respective surveillance regimes. Oddities like Deepin barely matter and can't be used to honestly say Linux is just as bad as a closed-source OS.
this would really be cool
> What we have now are midrange and low end, and what passes for high end are really mid range phones dressed up with a few premium features or gimmicks.

Ultimately no one can shake their culture, it follows you like your shadow.

Google's is cheap and low-end. They have become the Walmart of tech companies.
I just played Obra Dinn. For years I have been saying “Why aren’t there any games like Sierra’s Manhunter series?” Obra Dinn is the first game that ever reminded me of Manhunter. Also, it was fun and very well made.
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My favorite anecdote about the Wall of Sound technique is the paralyzing effect "Be My Baby" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSPpbOGnFgk) had on Brian Wilson, founder of the Beach Boys:

> "Be My Baby" had a profound lifelong impact on the Beach Boys' founder Brian Wilson.

> When he heard "Be My Baby" for the first time through his car radio, he immediately pulled over to the side of the road and deemed it the greatest record he had ever heard. Carlin describes the song as having become "a spiritual touchstone" for Wilson, while music historian Luis Sanchez states that it formed an enduring part of Wilson's mythology, being the Spector record that "etched itself the deepest into Brian's mind ... it comes up again and again in interviews and biographies, variably calling up themes of deep admiration, a source of consolation, and a baleful haunting of the spirit."

> Music journalist David Dalton, who visited Wilson's home in 1967, said that Wilson had analyzed "Be My Baby" "like an adept memorizing the Koran." Dalton later wrote about a box of tapes he had discovered in Wilson's bedroom: "I assumed they were studio demos or reference tracks and threw one on the tape machine. It was the strangest thing ... All the tapes were of Brian talking into a tape recorder. Hour after hour of stoned ramblings on the meaning of life, color vibrations, fate, death, vegetarianism and Phil Spector."

> In the early 1970s, Wilson instructed his engineer Stephen Desper to create a tape loop consisting only of the chorus of "Be My Baby". Wilson listened to the loop for several hours in what Desper saw as "some kind of a trance." Wilson's daughter Carnie stated that during her childhood: "I woke up every morning to boom boom-boom pow! Boom boom-boom pow! Every day." Wilson told The New York Times in 2013 that he had listened to the song at least 1,000 times. In his 2016 memoir, Wilson recalled playing the song's drum intro "ten times until everyone in the room told me to stop, and then I played it ten more times." Bandmate Mike Love remembered Wilson comparing the song to Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. [0][1]

A personal anecdote: Hearing "Be my Baby" in my parents' kitchen radio, recognizing it as this wonderful piece of music I had heard somewhere before, and listening to it very happily, is one of my earliest childhood memories. My daughter, who is 2, saw the single's cover pop up in the YouTube suggestions on my laptop screen a few weeks ago and specifically demanded this song to be played multiple times (she had seen the cover a few months earlier when we played it to her, and remembered it). So maybe Brian Wilson was onto something.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_My_Baby

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Wilson
I doubt we have the same understanding of what constitutes reasonable behavior, so I'm not sure I can answer that directly.

However, when a mass shooting of some sort occurs there is a distinct difference between how conservatives tend to respond to such a thing and how liberals do. Liberals will want more areas to be gun free zones. They will pressure businesses like grocery stores to put up gun free zone signs or push for stricter gun regulations that would not have prevented the event in the first place.

This behavior is directly analogous to the conservative behavior. The state does not care about Constitutional rights any more than mass murderers care about gun free zones. Hopefully it's understandable why this analogy might be difficult to get for both conservatives and liberals because it is difficult to step outside ones entire worldview.
The FAANG thing was just a reference to the fact that Facebook's userbase is vastly larger than Twitter's - and that's before we even get into WhatsApp and Instagram. Facebook is the social network and nothing else comes close. Twitter's a sideshow. A business is wayyyy more likely to have an official Facebook page than an official Twitter account.

Regarding "politics", I think publicly displaying some principles is preferable to the faux-neutrality with secret behind-the-scenes tinkering that Facebook does. It gives me the willies.
> but how is it bad security practice?

Companies / organizations / team members go rogue sometimes. We've seen this even recently with e.g. kicad, freenode, the timezone database, etc.

Just because you trust the source doesn't mean you should trust all of the scripts they tell you to run. Even if it's a good-faith script, you have no idea if it's making assumptions about your system that are not true and opening you up to sidechannel attacks and the like.

Curl to a file first, inspect the script, consider it within the context of your own system, then run it if you deem it's safe.
AntennaPod and Slide for Reddit. And I raise by Newpipe and uBlock (in Firefox)!
Yeah this same thing you’re saying has been tried. Just newer words for the same thing.

Unless you mean it should be an entirely voluntary system? More likely you’re thinking like the Bolsheviks and you’ll cause 20 million people to stave with your ideas.

Remember Stalin was as evil as Hitler.
Yeah You’re right, I noticed the same thing but in the video on his site, he’s demoing the script on Windows 11, so it seems the specific tweaks he has apply across both.
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Agree with a lot of your points, but I think you're asking for an unrealistic amount of self-sacrifice. Not to equate film to rl, but we're all familiar with Serpico, right? You think these power-hungry bullies are just going to let you infiltrate their gang and make changes for the greater good?

Maybe you're talking about leadership/management positions? But, even then, you're talking about one of the stronger unions in country and a group of employees who will fight your attempts at progress.

Again, I agree with just about everything else, and there isn't an easy solution, but I think your criticism is either unclear or misplaced.
Here's an idea, capitalism, without the rent-seeking. When someone wants to do something everyone knows is wrong, we don't let them. Instead of making excuses, we hold people with power and affluence to higher standards.

What a concept.
Looks to me like it had commits in June and August of this year. Or do you wonder whether they'll add features like pushing from within vimagit?
This is obviously not true. Which Windows can't you run on that?
I'd bet PC sales are down because of the lack of GPU's. Mining hurts the rest of the industry because they aren't selling as many high end MOBO's, CPU's, cases, etc etc. Sounds like they need to twist arms to preference PC's over mining.
OSHA records show amazon had twice the amount of serious injuries than lets say walmart in 2020. In 2019 their injury rate was in the 7's and it was twice the industry average.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/1/22463132/amazon-injury-rat...

Amazon delivery providers report injury rates even higher but don't get reported by amazon because they are technically hired by other companies.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/01/study-amazon-workers-injured...

> The SOC found that these DSPs reported injury rates of 14 and 13.3, respectively, per 100 workers. Additionally, the majority of injuries reported by DSPs in 2019 and 2020 were severe, requiring employees to take time off work to recover, the SOC said.

Comparing against the industry averages and against competitors is not the media exaggerating anything - its how you would understand what is normal or not.

edit: can't reply because hackernews is limiting my posting rate but for the poster below who asks maybe its because amazon is so good at reporting, the evidence suggests otherwise and there is no evidence to suggest they are reporting better.

It could be but the evidence suggests otherwise, so unless you have some evidence to the contrary all you're doing is conjecture. A higher injury rate is just be a higher injury rate unless there's evidence to suggest otherwise, which you don't seem to have.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/29/amazon-reportedly-downplayed...

>Amazon may also be underreporting warehouse worker injuries. A physician who inspected Amazon warehouses for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration found that workers at some Amazon facilities were being discouraged from reporting injuries and seeking outside medical care, according to Reveal.

>Another company initiative designed to curtail "lost-time injuries," or those requiring time off work, ended up preventing them from being counted as lost time, according to Reveal, directly contradicting Amazon executives' framing that such injuries were down due to enhanced safety measures.
In that case I would question the smarts of someone who spends too much time focused on things they do not intend to change.

There comes a point where "raw" intelligence (if a real thing) must be tempered with the wisdom necessary to marry rubber and road, as it were. If you don't apply your staggeringly large intellect (/s?) to the problem of interfacing with other people, yet you persist putting yourself in situations where you must deal with that problem, what benefit has that intellect conferred?
Spain’s Untapped ‘Liquid Gold’ (Pine Resin)
>I'm not sure if he has moved on to Monogame

>Is it the same engine as Stardew Valley?

>No, it’s a new engine written in C#/Monogame… however there are some areas where I can reuse code from Stardew Valley, so that is nice.

https://www.hauntedchocolatier.net/faq/
sorry not boot, more like the various windows user session startup stage
These things always start off large and gradually get smaller (and often miniaturization is where the really interesting optimizations come), apparently this apparatus can already fit roughly within a human-sized body... which isn't a bad start.
Prop Gun Fired by Alec Baldwin Contained Live Bullet
Well that's the official story. The ulterior is it was basically a ransom payment for hostages released at the same time.

But really I was just noting how we love sending pallets of cash to our adversaries.

We have no way of knowing how they spent those pallets of bank notes in either exchange.

The whole point was our government loves to use cash in deals yet label civilians with too much cash as criminals!
I wonder if all the journalists pumping out articles about Amazon work conditions are taking a sampling from across the country, or are seeking out a single outrageous event to report on.

Actually, I don't wonder that, because I know what the answer is.
Pfizer says Covid vaccine more than 90% effective in kids
Yup! That's not an insult, just reality.
Except few engage in this sort of work. If left to their own devices, most people would simply consume content produced by the 10-20% of people who would actually do anything useful.

This is my observation. People are so weirded out when I tell them all the stuff I want to do. Most people just laze if left to their own devices and provided food. People have this image of hunter gatherer tribes doing interesting things in their free time, but the data show that, unless they're hunting, gathering, cooking, or doing other biological imperatives, most of their time is spent lazing.

That's fine, but if your argument about not working is that humans are going to engage in 'dream work'... well I think that's just silly.

Ultimately, from what I've seen, people with this mentality, often end up becoming quite well off. Those who want to engage in 'dream work' often have the self-motivating spirit that almost inevitably leads to material success.
Exactly. Until people are arrested, the government just basically shutdown a REvil billboard. They'll just pop up with a new one.

No one has actually stopped REvil hacking operations. There's been a lot of drama with their affiliate programs that are probably not government related. This Reuters article is giving the government a tiny little more credit than it deserves.

Here is an article with some more information:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/revil-ransomware-operators-cla...
I absolutely love the soundtrack. The game was great too.
Are you from Tivoli?
Why does that matter? If the New York Amazon employees want to unionize for whatever reason, that's their right to do so. Doesn't matter how you or I - who don't work there - feel the quality of their job compares to Wal-Mart, etc.
Logging with Intent
I always found KDE to be too much of a moving target. Maybe I should have mentioned linux mint xfce over a thinkpad without fancy hardware nor fancy software config.

But even then, the same machine with the same programs on windows would require a lot more care to avoid rot.
That's general principle called increasing returns to scale and decreasing marginal cost.
> unknown software

Looking at the blog URL and header bar, and the script URL, this is pretty clearly a company blog recommending to use the company's own product. I hardly think that context counts as "unknown".
Anything that is on display is going to fade more quickly because of light than something that is kept closed.

When I was a kid in the 1980s I collected many mass market paperbacks (expected to be ephemeral) from as far back in the 1960s, even in the early 2000s I thought these held up pretty well, but circa 2020 I think many of them are getting pretty bad. (Contrast that to trade paperbacks that are sometimes "acid-free" but that frequently break in the first minutes of use because of incorrect and inconsistent construction.)

My house is humid and not a great place to store books, but I went looking in an academic library that follows "good" practices and found that mass market paperbacks from the 1980s and earlier were in bad shape too.
If you use Wine or Proton, try running your stuff using Gamemode and a kernel that supports Esync, like xanmod.
I just finished reading The Coddling of the American Mind by Haidt and Lukianoff. Fantastic book. Here’s the article from The Atlantic that started the idea: [1]. In the book the authors discuss exactly this phenomenon and some possible causes. I’m not going to do it justice, so just read the article.

I’d love to be a professor because research and teaching sounds like a delightful vocation. Things like this give me pause.

1: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-cod...
> A print from the 13ᵗʰ century looks like

It says "ca. 1435–1491" - the 15th C.
Which is nvidia's fault for not supporting Linux properly, right?
Yeah, it’s worth noting that, roughly speaking, advertising supply chains provide 51% of spend to publishers and 7% to agencies, which means the middle of the chain (supply/demand-sides, DSPs, analytics, etc.) consumes 42%, or what GOOG allegedly takes at the high end. Given that they represent a fully-integrated supply chain, this doesn’t seem unreasonable, especially given how many competing ad networks are just bubble gum and duct tape.
Those fools can only vote for whoever is running. Given a slate of candidates, if only one vote is cast by anyone, you will have a winner.

And so it goes.
I said specifically our fear of people, and I said "somewhat" tuned to reality (not perfectly).

General risk perceptions are all over the map because we have no instinct to process risks like flying in an airplane.

But people have needed to judge the safety of other people for a long time. It would be weird if our sense of fear was not somewhat aligned with danger in that area.
Why? Surely you agree that different people have different tastes. I couldn't get through the first chapter of Infinite Jest, but I don't think people who say they love the book are being insincere. There are large numbers of people who would find the tech jobs that many people on this site enjoy to be incredibly tedious and boring.
Yes. Watch a stream from arrest: https://therecord.media/two-members-of-a-ransomware-gang-wer...

They had the opportunity to search within unlocked computer and devices. Found money.
Hahahaha no, Alabama is not doing well...at anything.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/quality-of-...
>So yeah, thanks for nothing -- namely for stating the ideal theoretical state of things -- but a lot of people out there need actual real-time protection, on the spot.

I don't understand why you would be upset that an organization that spends most of its time with court-related battles is, once again, dealing with court-related things. Should the EFF be putting boots on the ground in some sort of vigilante project that defends people in real time? What is the alternative you're suggesting the EFF do, if doing things in court is only worth a "thanks for nothing"?

>Until there's true accountability and 100% transparency

Where would this come from do you think? Because I'm thinking we start at the courts, but it seems like you might have other ideas.

The EFF can't fix everything, especially not in airport backrooms of other various countries. But that does not mean there efforts are a waste.
> Hint: some cops are really good in the skill of inflicting pain to people without lasting medical trace to prove it afterwards.

What a useless statement. Some? Out of how many? Do you have a source?
Being so willing to look dumb is a luxury much more easily afforded to the highly intelligent.
Rough rides are an example of a fairly well documented practice [0]. I personally know someone who was taken on one.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough_ride_(police_brutality)
Machines don't learn from experience and repetition.
That's weird because I ran a tool to disable it in Windows the day I installed it. I'd wager it was even easier than disabling it on those Linux distros.
> The share the Alphabet Inc. subsidiary takes of each advertising transaction on its exchange—a marketplace for ad buyers and sellers—is typically two- to four-times as much as the fees charged by rival digital advertising exchanges

If I understand this correctly, this is about auctions/exchanges (middlemen which have little to do with ad targeting and quality), not ROI, as some commenters have suggested.

Correct me if I’m wrong, my adtech knowledge is limited.
Also, there are middle-man "security companies" that you can pay to "help you decrypt your files" and what they do is simply pay the ransom under the table for you... So you can't really tell if a company paid the ransom or not.
Willingness to look stupid is a luxury much more easily afforded to the highly intelligent.
It's not every day that I see a site using a bathroom drain hairball from hell as its background image
Ok let me try:

Our current approach to curing cancer sucks and everyone should be reminded how many people die needlessly each year.

Do you disagree? Of course not. Did I contribute anything worthwhile? Not really.
Kind of hard to do that in front of the coppers though, especially if they have already taken it from you.
PandaDoc Launches API for Document Generation and eSignatures
Still their cash cow. They may have been the first company to build a useful internet search engine but they are also mostly an advertising company.
> to simply force people to spend most of their lives doing meaningless activities as a form of social control.

This is a human universal. Even uncontacted hunter gatherer tribes spend most of their days doing absolutely nothing useful whatsoever. They sit around and talk shit with their friends. This is not social control. Humans doing nothing useful for most of the day is the norm.
It looks like everyone is opening a fab in the next couple years ( for many reasons, one of them is political ) so I would guess in the next couple years ordering chips will be "cheap" because most fabs are desperate to recoup at least some of the gigantic investment and margins will be razor thin.

So my guess would be in the next decade, the real money will be on the design and IP not the manufacturing. ( excluding the bleeding edge half-a-nm stuff )
Coding for non-programmers: Why we need better GUI automation tools
Weighted Random Algorithm in JavaScript