skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there exists something in between world-stopping as in healthcare (I want way more than just 'tests' there) and Facebook level (i.e. nobody really cares even though a lot of people will probably scream in "agony" when things don't work).

To maybe put it into examples:

World stopping: Traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS) has a bug that lets planes crash into each other.
Don't care: Not enough vegetarian meals made it onto the plane because of a bug in the meal reservation software.
In between: Thousands upon thousands of people get stranded in some airport for 3 days because of a bug in the route planning software.

This was an example within the airline industry but I'd say there are many more examples of where enough people depend on something for things that do objectively matter enough to warrant "good enough" software and software development practices that don't result in large-ish outages that then need to be fixed. Inconveniences I'll take because we all aren't perfect, even with testing.
Looks an interesting app and does solve a pain point I encounter semi-frequently.
I'm usually not one to comment on prices of applications, but $50/$100 for such a small utility is pretty steep. At 20 dollars I may even buy for it occasional use and not even think about it. At your prices I need to compare it to Affinity, kaleidoscope, littlesnitch and see if I derive a similar value from your application.
> not sure of they actually have rss feeds but my rss reader supports them

Nitter makes Twitter tolerable, and helpfully adds RSS links that should work with any reader.

For example, https://nitter.net/eff has this link at the top: https://nitter.net/eff/rss
Last time I checked, iptables and nftables filtering was done by the kernel, and userspace tools other than systemd existed to configure them.
I have a grudge against CDE. It superseded OpenLook, which I personally thought was the pinnacle of a clean, professional desktop environment. Some screenshots randomly found on the web:

https://www.deviantart.com/sehnsucht94/art/OPENLOOK-SunOS-li...
http://www.martin-graefe.homepage.t-online.de/xview_en.html

I did not only like its look, but also many of its paradigms: That basically everything is started by clicking on the empty desktop, which opens up a menu (you see that menu on the far left in the image); that you can pin menus and other elements to keep them open (even that initial menu mentioned before, it's pinned in the screenshot), that some buttons were "drop down" buttons with multiple actions, and application menus were exactly that (look at the "menu bar" in the File Manager window)...

Meanwhile, CDE is ugly as sin and clunky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPEN_LOOK#/media/File:CDE_2012...
I think you're confusing economists with economic policy makers. Economics is a science. The study of scarcity. It's not about money.
Such a needless dismissive use of "male" word here. Devops guys I work with are very reasonable and I have not seen a female one in my whole career.
how incompetent?

I've worked with people that refuse to do anything in git other than commit, which means:

- new copy of the repo every time origin changes
- spending a week manually rebasing a dozen commits (obviously with many unique mistakes each time)

after being sent multiple simple videos explaining simple things about git, and shown how to do merge/rebase multiple times by the lead using screen sharing

and refuses to upgrade their monitor from 1366x766 even after being given the money to do it, because "it's not necessary"
I wrote a post about this that you should find useful:

https://ivans.io/investing-starter-kit/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporat...
Yes that works too, probably a nicer one for the HN audience as well! If you can learn to read that way, eventually you won't need to repeat any more and you can read without the voice.
> It reads very easily without, as I understand it, taking too many liberties with the text. I'm sure there are retellings that are even smoother, but I doubt you can do much better for casual reading with anything else that's at least fairly faithful to the original.

For something much closer to the other extreme, I have a version by Stephanie Dalley which seems to prioritize being faithful to the original over basically everything else. Here's a (particularly unsmooth) extract:

[Shamash] heard the words
of Gilgamesh, Scion of Uruk, [and said],
'As soon as a loud voice from the sky calls down
to him,
Rush, stand up to him, let him not [enter the
forest (?)],
Let him not go down to the wood,
nor [ ].
[Humbaba] will [not] be clothed in seven cloaks,
He will be wearing [only one]; six are taken
off (?).
Like a charging wild bull which
pierces [ ]
He shouts only once, but fills one with terror.
The guardian of the forests will shout [ ]
[ ]
Humbaba like [ ] will shout.

(gap of uncertain length)

As soon as the swords [ ]
[ ] from the sheaths [ ]
Streaked with verdigris (?) [ ]
Dagger, sword, [ ]
One [ ]
They wore [ ]
Humbaba [made his voice heard and spoke (?)]
'He will not go (?) [ ]
He will not go (?) [ ]

(7 lines illegible)

May Ellil [ ].'

It's not the easiest thing to read, but I like being so close to the actual text. If it's in this translation, it's there on a cuneiform tablet somewhere. (Or guessed in a very conservative way, like guessing that "Humbaba [______________]" should be filled in as "Humbaba made his voice heard" when that line is immediately followed by quoted speech.)
> The reason you fire-sale that house at loss, is because you believe market value is unlikely to catch up.

it's a bit tautological - because the expectation of value not catching up is the definition of overpaying!
It’s more expensive, less healthy, and relies on tricking people they’re eating a more nutritious food than they are, who benefits aside from corporations? If you told people which is real and fake, you think it’ll still be wanted?
Redfin also seems to have dramatically better pricing models, a better presentation, and an altogether better product.
> That is, after all, the goal of a human reviewer. To add _another_ layer of gatekeeping is what I'm questioning.

I guess I'm not following the distinction. For most people, that's exactly what happens. Either you, or the someone on your direct team, will be the person with readability for your code. The readability process just ensures that you don't end up with silos where style diverges too much, and that the stakeholder who proposes stylistic commentary has a baseline knowlege of linguistic best practices.

With few exceptions, the thing people complain about is attaining readability themselves, not getting changes approved.

> I don't agree with this perception at all. AWS spends a lot of time building frameworks and libraries which attempt to minimize human gatekeeping to only the necessary areas. So think retries, backoff, timeouts, circuit-breakers, etc.

I think we're talking a bit past each other. These things are all table stakes defined by frameworks and updated by centralized processes as best practices change. Human reviewers, for the most part, are only going to say "why are you diverging from the default".

But importantly, that sidesteps my statement entirely, which, rephrasing, is that amazon carries along more technical debt than Google. Whether that's a good long-term business decision remains to be seen, but the impression I get from ex-amazon friends is that maintainability is less prioritized, and maintainability is one of the goals of the readability process. Global consistency helps anyone understand and improve anything else, and to an extend avoids haunted graveyards (though...not entirely).

> instead gatekeeping is added at the architecture and operations stages, which is where most of the work of keeping a production level service up, available, and fast. Operational level gatekeeping in the bounds of a given organization is a much more neatly constrained problem

I'm not sure what you mean, but if anything, this sounds more bureaucratic.

> My impression from being outside of Google (and having a Xoogler for a partner) is that Google loves bureaucracy and process, and that engineers that continue to stay at Google are fine with navigating these processes. Its answer to problems is to add more bureaucracy, another item for the checklist that a person/committee/reviewer needs to check for. That reflex is hard to shake, IMO.

FWIW I don't get this impression. It's honestly difficult for me to tell what you even are referring to. Like, other than readability and promo, there's very few processes or bits of bureaucracy that are consistent across the company, and those two have gotten decidedly more streamlined since I joined the company.

Well okay that's half true, I can think of a bunch of places where bureaucracy has increased, but they're all spurned by legislation.
Alcohol is legal, sometimes is sold in state-run shops, and has controls to keep some of the capitalist stuff in check. You know, not advertising to children and stuff.

Besides, we already have the capitalist exploitation of addicts in the form of rehab.
I don't understand. The majority of shitty ARM chips in the world come with immutable mask ROM that allows the system to bootload from something like USB. There is nothing you can write here that would make the current situation on Apple Silicon Macs not be an absolute embarrassment and design flaw.
One thing that is missing is the unit economics and customer subsidization. If the company sells a product worth $5, for $1 (essentially subsidizing the customer), then it cannot become profitable just by a decision to stop growth.

So in your example, and offer of 13% annual yield but with %400 commission is not a profitable one.
I think everyone has the urge to push their views onto other people once they get a platform. It is something instinctual deep within us. We tell ourselves that it is because we are so much smarter than everyone else, and we are the bearers of the one true truth, but really it is just our animal Will To Power at work. Thousands of years of evolution and the need to dominate other groups is really what is driving us to do this.

Anyway, my point is that "Push" is the natural state of being. One has to work very hard to do otherwise. Someone who doesn't push, or who comes close to this, stands out above the crowd. I can think of very few hosts who do this. Joe Rogan goes out of his way to do this - to get all sorts of guests on with all sorts of perspectives - then he just shuts up and listens and asks questions. Yes he has started pushing his opinions a little, but he is better than most everyone else that I can think of.
> I don't know how anyone produces meaningful research in that environment anymore. It's untenable.

By ignoring the system.

One of the biggest problems in academia is that students don't know their rights, and professors set the culture. It's a power problem. If students assert their rights -- and they have plenty of them -- they usually do okay. It's neigh impossible to fire a grad student for not doing slave labor, and it looks really, really bad for the professor.

Professors can advise students, but they have very little real power to control them, once students are in the program. The power dynamic comes mostly from a mutual belief in that power existing.

Do good research. Take interesting classes. Have fun. Explore. If your professor tells you to do menial labor, politely blow them off.

That's the deal 5-10x pay cut in return for that freedom. Make sure you get your part of the bargain.

Students need to pass their quals, and produce a good thesis.

That's it. Once you realize that, grad school gets a lot better.

And have a BATNA.
Unless for some reason your vendor (Lenovo) has decided to stick a second M.2 slot in your laptop model and you can just buy an expansion drive in a couple of years when they're cheaper without having to swap out your old one. That was one of the nicer surprises about the ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 2. I'm guessing you can get a configuration that uses both slots from the start, but I didn't see it when I bought mine.
It's almost like keeping the messages secure is more important than persistence for the creators, and main stakeholders.
It does feel ironic that he talked about avoiding "push" media sources from billionaires, only to turn around and recommend a "push" podcaster with a 9-figure podcasting contract and a track record of pushing misinformation.
So refreshing to see a MSX machine being featured here. Way before PCs got decent graphics and audio, everyone I did show my MSX (1.0) got impressed by it. Even more so with the "plug and play" capabilities - cartridges could contain software, hardware or a combination of both.

You could have a cartridge that allowed you to play a game - just like a console - while another allowed you to have a (say) disk drive. While 40 columns per line was the standard (this was upgraded with the 2.0 spec), there were cartridges that allowed you to have 80 columns - and would contain all necessary hardware.

Today this is not impressive and "firmware" is commonplace. But at the time the state of the art on the PC involved jumper flipping and installing software from disks...

Then the Amiga came in a similar (although more expensive) niche and there was no contest.

I never really understood why MSX didn't succeed in the US, considering that MSX means "Microsoft Extended". My first contact with DOS was MSX-DOS.
> And there's very little evidence it's any more addictive or harmful than normal amphetamines.

Well, I won't say "just try and compare" because recommending to try that would be a devil's advice but the difference is huge and I don't need any scientific paper to confirm that. For a person having actual ADHD amphetamine can be a reasonable tool to manage it sustainably, at the same time meth would at least cause rapid tolerance build-up leading them to increase dosage very fast and face all sorts of health issues. You also won't be able to return to amphetamine soon after having tried meth, the former is going to have almost no effect until your brain chemistry actually recovers.
There is another way unix allocates memory, and that is with automatically growing regions that are used to allocate program stack.
In a restricted channel that isn't the case. If you see a triple E coming at you and you're in a dinghy, it will be in a channel and you will want to skedaddle; even the bow wave could swamp you. Usually it will have escorting tugs to shoo you away. But I've been in a sailboat and had Coast Guard machine guns pointed at me and ordered to leave the SF shipping channel because an LNG tanker was a mile or two away.

OTOH, I've been yelled at by Red and White tour boats who were hugging the shore for current relief. That's all nice but I did have right of way and maintained it.
>in the middle of the suburban bits of the metro area

I.e. the rich people who have the spare fucks to give about this sort of thing.

If it were in a crap neighborhood in Newark nobody would care.
> normally starts with whole ingredients rather than extracts

But the extracts come from whole ingredients, so if you think about where the extracts came from then the whole process is again using whole ingredients.
I don't know of any particular studies on this, but in my own experience comprehension is changed by how quickly I read, not whether the voice is used. Learning this just raises the speed limit for when you want to read easily comprehensible texts such as news or comments.
I only knew of them from their consumer business.
This is kind of a straw man… while I’m sure there are some fringe John McAfee-types who think crypto is the door to anarcho-capitalism, I don’t take any of them seriously. So I’m not sure who you’re directing your argument towards.
> or simply fast food?

A banana is fast food.

What do you think it is about fast that makes food bad? If I put my banana in a pot for an hour does it become better food? Nonsense.
Is there any electronic paper that works well and is reasonably priced?
Well yeah, friendliness and trustworthiness are key axioms of efficient communication. Anyone a few years out of school knows that generally speaking communication is more important than raw ability once the team size surpasses 4-5 engineers.

Great article, but anyone with a borderline amount of social competence generally already knows this.
Both can be ordered easily online and delivered to your house.

And needles are not even required
If the taxes are too high or the regulations too onerous, black markets will still spring up. Tobacco black markets are everywhere in NYC to avoid the super high state tax.

Also, only so much good can come from "sin taxes". Take lotto (another "sin tax" of sorts). On paper it seems really good for society because all that money can be used for schools and all sorts of social good. But it also has the negative consequence of putting additional financial strain on the people who already have the most financial strain and it's hard to tell if the added funding to schools cancels out the additional financial strain placed on the lower classes.
Why not just buy wheat gluten to make your own seitan and season it instead of relying on corporations to process your food?
I think everyone dislikes that as a company practice, but I have the impression that most of the people who would complain are simply not using Edge, and thus don´t remember/bother to say anything about it.
No. I am also in learned helplessness mode. The manager doesn't appear to get that the gatekeeper engineer is stubborn.

I have nothing to gain by getting caught in the crossfire.

I would just quit after biding my time.
i believe my company pcs "protection" constantly scans and uploads objects to the cloud.

thats what i assume
Given you’ve received multiple replies to your point saying it makes little sense and isn’t comparable, maybe the last bastion of “you’re upset because you cannot form a coherent response” isn’t the defense you think it is.
It’s an entertainment podcast not an FDA Advisory committee or scientific panel.

I can tune into CNN or FoxNews and hear unvetted stories as well, so why is Rogan singled out?

If someone is tuning into the podcast to get medical advice then they have bigger problems than listening to Joe Rogan.
You're so soft. The solution is to ban all browser-side scripting.
*and the prison industrial complex"
Whom do you talk to if you notice it in the CTOs?
I do not use touchscreens for desktop environments (the post is for a desktop environment) and the overwhelmingly vast majority of touch screens are for mobile devices which need and have their own conventions and UX - trying to shoehorn one on another is a disaster (not that some do not try but this is also a major source of modern UI awfulness).

Though having said that even with touchscreens i'd rather use a stylus (i do that for my tablet actually) and styluses work fine with 90s style UIs.
It's a legitimate point to raise, as page 3 of that report points out:

> Food processing in itself is not the issue. One obvious reason is that nowadays, practically all food is processed in some sense and in some way. The term ‘processing’ (like the term ‘industry’) is very general and therefore not helpful, and so judgements of foods simply because they are ‘processed’ are not meaningful.
Does it matter? If you want to achieve maximum dwellings for renting, changing the distribution of units / owners doesn't seem like a practical way to go about it.

You would want to make more units, as many as possible.
CoV–2 Spike Impairs DNA Damage Repair – Inhibits V(D)J Recombination in Vitro
Actually last time I tried CDE, maybe a few years ago, there were multiple areas where it was not possible to configure something with a GUI. Not just fonts. In fact there were buttons in various settings panels that when you clicked them, would launch a text editor in an xterm window to edit a config file with no explanation of what you're supposed to be doing. I thought that was totally ridiculous. Sorry I can't mention something more specific but it was a while ago and I could be remembering it incorrectly.

For a modern desktop I would also expect wayland support, and integration with networkmanager, pulseaudio/pipewire, udisks, things like that, which also didn't seem to be implemented last time I checked, but if any of this has changed then please let me know. Systrays and desktop files are like 15-20 years old so that's not really a compelling case for modern features...
> to get all sorts of guests on with all sorts of perspectives - then he just shuts up and listens and asks questions

Hard disagree. That may have been the case when he started the podcast but it's famously not the case now.

Even the Joe Rogan fans are upset about Rogan talking over experts and forcing his own biased opinions over the evidence: https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/pg3edl/im_not_gon...

For a more recent example, apparently he mistook an obviously satirical video as actual government media and criticized the Australian government for it, before somebody pointed out that it's [obviously] a satire video: https://www.instagram.com/p/CVvyYXzgrD2/

This stuff isn't "just asking questions". Viewpoints are being heavily pushed, but Rogan does a good job of pretending he's "just asking questions".
The Golden Bough
There is no standard for a federated or distributed metaverse. I run a server, you run a server, a user enters the world on my server, walks through a portal to your server. How do you represent links/portals? How do you maintain your visual representation across servers? How do you take objects across servers? Is there a realtime communication system? Are there standards around styling? Graceful degredation with weaker hardware or low bandwidth? A non-proprietery object/scene representation format that can be inspected and shared across domains?

What exactly are you arguing against?
Electricity, lack of physical hardware (which in turn depends on electricity, raw materials, labor, transport), lack of security...

the dependencies are all entangled and circularly dependent, like Facebook's data center ;)
I'm not sure what's supposed to be confusing here but one thing I don't know is why it was called the heap. Did they use heap data structures or something?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin#Routes_of_administratio...

Wikipedia is surprisingly thorough on most drug articles. But you may even have seen such pipes for sale in stores... it can be smoked. Smoking various substances is pretty well accepted by society, even.
algo vs algo with boom and BUST cycle and the net effect people get fired. AI is NOT the holy grail. AI will not have ALL the answers , humans still have value and will continue to adapt to the new world order. Innovation should not come at the cost of people. We still need to survive reproduce spend time with our family / friends and put food on the table. And have a lil fun on the way. -2cents
I've never looked into it except some paid application which I didn't feel was worth what they wanted at the time. I might try that when I finish my current story.
Fuchsia looks interesting to me. It has POSIX, but it seems to be a veneer over better ideas. Some of that is described here: https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts/system/libc?hl=en
Exactly, that's why the corporate media is so threatened by this average Joe.
Man, will this lack of self awareness come around to bite USA hard. FWIW, WA state, of which I am a resident, only acceded to US statehood in 1889. Two years after Taiwan became a Chinese province. Before that being just a prefecture subordinated to Fokien province.

https://apps.leg.wa.gov/oralhistory/timeline_event.aspx?e=8
I tend to agree here. I've been on teams where being too nice has lead to slipping deadlines and crippling miscommunication or more generally unmaintainable code that leads to dozens of bug tickets months down the line.

For real though, how on earth did that org hire a front-end dev who didn't know js?