skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To do so, the city struck a deal with an external provider that will be able to set up licenses between Öppna Skolplattformen and the city. “With this solution, the City of Stockholm can guarantee that personal data is handled in a correct and secure way, while parents can take part in the market’s digital tools in their everyday lives”

Licensing does nothing to guarantee that your systems are secure, and the overall law is what enforces the correct handling of personal data by outside parties. But in this paper pusher's head, anything she cannot control through a contract must be a threat. And so she will spend public money wielding the police department against individuals actually building stuff, to force them into signing her safety blanket of a contract.

In 2021, it behooves us to remember that this type of gatekeeper used to be in control of nearly every technology organization - empty suits who knew nothing technical, thinking security is about checking off certifications and qualifications. It was a rare gem to find someone with a clue who held enough organizational pull to set policy.

I remember having a meeting with the head of the campus network at my university, who was concerned about me running Linux on my own machine. He just couldn't understand the point of Linux - he could never trust it because "there is no one to sue". As if suing Microsoft would have ever been a sensible path. But that was his worldview - how do you think he responded to security reports?

But the thing that we need to realize in 2021 is that it's not like these people just left and found honest jobs - their existence was eclipsed by the much larger technical-first community. They're still out there, controlling their little fiefdoms, reacting in the same destructive ways to stop themselves from looking "bad". And with the calcification of technology, they might even be poised for a comeback.
For many years, I worked at the Park Slope Food Cooperative (https://www.foodcoop.com/) several hours a month, which was a great orthogonal use of my mind. I started as a box-breaker, got promoted to an olive processor and finally became squad leader for Olives & Cheeses. The whole experience was like using a completely different part of my brain.

They tried to get me to join their technology group, which i rejected :-)
> Munger Hall could dodge all the bad publicity about fake windows if it sports a "next pandemic ready" ventilation system out of the blocks.

Apparently it will:

"[The building] will provide built-in social distancing as required by COVID. Fresh air, the architect insisted, will be vented into all rooms at twice the rate mandated by existing building codes and will be off-gassed directly to the atmosphere without any transfer to other rooms in the dorm."
> If you believe that financial regulations are the "nanny", you probably only have a child-like understanding of things

Have you heard of the term "accredited investor"? That's 100% a "nanny" regulation that excludes poorer people from opportunities.

> Yet it performs worse in every measurable metric.

You jump to arbitrary conclusions. You probably did the same when it comes to Bitcoin that's why you say factually wrong things like in the comment. For example, do you understand what near-instant settlement means?

> One does not need to be a criminal for proper regulations to apply.

Ad hominem while stating the obvious. Yikes.
Seems like the author is comparing apples and oranges. There is speed and quality, your automation can process a task faster than an human, but lack quality. Automation can be also slower than an human but create more quality work. If the automation is slower and produces less quality, so of course you don't want that
Libre comes from Latin, via Norman and New Orleans French, to American English. It seems to me quite well chosen, as tech lingua franca.
You would have had to go through my personal website to get the email. I'll send you an email.
The religious snowflakes already got you flagged.
October Sky - story of a coal miner’s son becoming a Nasa engineer. It was a big inspiration in my high school.
This book Finish by Jon Acuff is a great book on practicing finishing. He also has Start for the very opposite.

https://www.amazon.com/Finish-Give-Yourself-Gift-Done/dp/052...
> Charlie Munger does not decide "what to build", he decides whether to participate.

Sure, this is a convenient way to look at this particular situation. Yet I google "strings attached donation university" and see many instances of this crap: Koch brothers, John Allison, etc. It's serious enough that Harvard recently issued a "Gift Policy Guide" discourage strings-attached giving. Ironically, only the elite private universities have enough cachet to make such a policy stick.
I genuinely do not see a downside of publicly available salary information. What am I missing and/or not thinking about?
> I don't think it's fear that prevents Americans from moving across the world. I think it's more related to, they don't want to leave their family, friends, and life they've been building

You aren't wrong but it only applies to the minority who could afford the expense of an overseas move.

Moving across town routinely costs the equivalent of 2-6 mos rent and most Americans would struggle to manage that.
This could be solved by a lot of transperancy about what collected telemetry is saying. A user can then check if the users that opted-in to telemetry are representative of his own use cases and thus make an informed decision if he should opt-in as well (if he's not well represented). Telemtry is a lot like voting.
Sweden is something like 20% foreign immigrants and another 5% who are children of 2 immigrant parents. For the past half century Sweden has taken in a lot of refugees and other immigrants, and has more foreign residents per capita than the USA. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Sweden

Taiwan is 3% foreign immigrants, Japan is 2%.
I just watched "Generation Startup" it's a really cool story around the struggles of young tech entrepreneurs.

It's a documentary. Worth the time.
This will be solved in the United States, the moment our cities have proper policing. Finland is a lot safer than the united states. Unfortunately, enough of my fellow Americans are dead set on preventing proper safety protocols from being implemented. Thus cities will forever be seen as dangerous, and not wholly incorrectly.

Look, I live in a neighborhood like the one described here and constantly sing its praises. I love walking, and biking everywhere. Love knowing my neighbors. Love having beautiful outdoor spaces. However, when other parents in the neighborhood recount how they've been in random shootouts, have to deal with deranged vagrants exposing themselves to their daughters, etc... no amount of car-free lifestyle or beautiful tree-lined streets is going to overcome those fears.

If strong towns truly wanted to bring about an urban American revival (And I think they do), the first thing they'd support is properly funding, training, and equipping the police. There has been talk in my well-to-do beautiful slice of Portland of hiring our own police force. This is the fundamental cultural gulf between city dwellers and suburbanites. Where my parents live in the suburbs, there is no issue of funding our police. No large group comes out to destroy property when the issue of public safety is brought up. My parents (who are the epitome of American when it comes to home choice) always tell me they love where I live, and would love to live there... but there's not enough police. And frankly, at the present moment, they are right. There are no shootouts where they live. I myself have considered moving. A friend of ours just had to duck under a car with their 2 year old because we defunded our gun violence reduction team.
Where did you get the idea that it doesn't give authorities the power to use force? How is law enforcement etc supposed to work if there is no possibility of using any sort of force?

From Romans 13
1. Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.
2. Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves.
3. For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and he will commend you.
4. For he is God's servant to do you good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword for nothing. He is God's servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer.
5. Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also because of conscience.
6. This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God's servants, who give their full time to governing.
7. Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
Very impressive single-core performance is a little bit faster than the M1 Pro/Max.
Yeah, this is my issue. After a long day of (sometimes pointless) software dev, strapping in for more is draining. So as a contrast, I design board games (not digital) as my hobby. It is very analog and tactile and so energizing partially from just being a nice change of pace.

Your advice to start small is spot on though. I would even say one of the best first things to do is start by making a game mod. You don't have to invent so much, you just get to enhance. You get to something playable much quicker and learn about all your false assumptions.
Sam Vaknin is one of the leading experts on narcissism, he says this all the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzj7wouSe7A might cover this topic. Also, I wouldn't trust anyone on YouTube on the subject of narcissism other than Sam and the channel BorderlinerNotes if you want to keep studying this, there are heaps of trash on Youtube on this subject.
Mostly communications tooling IIRC
The smaller cities in Finland tend to have dedicated bike/pedestrian paths separated from roads, with almost every school age child bicycling or walking to school.

The only way I can understand someone complaining about the lack of such options in Northern Europe is that they haven't lived elsewhere, and seen how bad it could be.

My favorite personal US-is-for-cars anecdote: We once got into cars just to drive across the road, as there was no pedestrian crossing and six lanes of traffic.
I like Musk's framing.

For me it is about insurance and avoiding a possible catastrophic outcome.
I've enjoyed Suits. It's about lawyers, but with an intertwined hacker ethic (one of the lead characters is a college dropout practicing law without a license). There's a bit of cheese that spoils it for me sometimes, but for the most part the emotional drama is pretty engaging, and it definitely inspires a determined, gritty attitude.
Do you know if it's possible to buy a DRM-free version of it?
There is an "ignorance is bliss" argument and a "if you don't know what is on offer, you can't ask for it" argument.

The whole privacy system is geared towards supporting employers and people in the upper echelons of salary.
> you'll find waking up without natural light is an awful experience

Consider I had to wake up before sunrise and got out of classes after sunset, there wasn't much sun to deal with in my dorm.
I found October sky movie to be pretty motivating.
At some point though, not making personal information public does come down to societal norms of what is other people's business. While the cost/benefit tradeoffs may be different, I could argue that making individual health records public probably has some benefits with respect to understanding health and health outcomes at a more granular level than aggregated data. (Which also present issues with de-anonymization anyway.)
The most hilarious part is the official app was built by five different contracting companies. No wonder the thing was a mess.
What does this have to do with ethnicity?
> So any characterization of USA vs Europe positing Europe as some sort of walkable-heaven is really just idealized bullshit.

What’s “bullshit” is using the example of satellite malls, a global phenomenon due to obvious reasons (land and real estate pricing) as somehow proof that Sweden or similar countries aren’t walkable, without mentioning the huge divide in the feasibility of using public transport.

It’s not equal if a mall is kilometers away from the city center, but in one case you have public transport available and in the other it’s for all practical purposes impossible to get there without a car.

In addition to that, even locations outside the city center are often safely walkable, if you would want to. This comes down to a difference in city planning and the assumed value of pedestrian traffic. I seriously don’t understand how that can be a contentious point, it’s well known that city planning in the US is more car-centric than that in Europe, and that consistent public transport is almost unheard of in the US outside of large cities. That doesn’t mean all of the US is impossible to access without a car, nor does it mean all of Europe is possible without one, but the difference in planning is completely obvious.
I haven't kept up to date. Is Chromium hostile towards ad blocking?
City officials are just upset because it has the potential to disrupt the flow of their corrupt / dirty money. Simple as that.
I see what you're saying, and will check them out, but I would argue setting expectations straight would be demotivational. As long as you know a given idea is not delusional, I think there might be a benefit in keeping your expectations unmanaged, something psychological that says the more you entertain the idea of things going wrong, the more likely they are to. I may be wrong but I intuitively feel like success for a given goal is to a large extent about being stubborn and headstrong in the pursuit of it.
Why do you assume it's necessary? FWIW, I'd rate quite a bit of what it does as "not necessary".
My daughter (3 years old) plays on the Nintendo switch. I never even considered tablet games, as a parent I raise the bar for harder things so she learns. The games she play are Kirby Star Allies and Yoshi's crafted world.

She is not in trance like other parents described, she actually describes to me everything she does (which turns frustrating when you are focused). She also shuts the game down "after 1 level", when asked. Or immediately if necessary (we don't want to use that card, we want to respect her time).

I think there is a big difference in the type of videogame. She has the best hand-eye coordination of her class (games are played with a controller) and she developed concepts like "background vs foreground", as well as aiming and an enormous amount of other things.

That being said, after a certain amount of time, she will get unsettled. If she doesn't move away by herself, you have to remind her. What I think I see is "unrecognized boredom". She doesn't realize that yet, although she is getting better (I saw her pause and go do something else more than once lately).

Finally, I play videogames with her. That has been amazing so far, I'm glad we did.

All of this to say: toys gets boring way faster, but it's also easier to detect boredom.
Creative toys do help, that's basically why duplo/wooden train/magnets are the top 3.

I play with her and we have to buy new toys mainly because I get bored to play always with them (keep in mind that we talk about many, many sessions). Given that, yeah, I can see her getting bored faster. Videogames have way more content and variation.

Do remember that paper, glue and colors are very cheap and can create a lot of stuff though!
Yes. I 100% support the national vote for all aggressive 'war' actions, where a yes vote is also registration for selective service for that action.

I understand that system becomes vulnerable to bad-faith actors who can use PR and other means to turn public opinion against US interference to then get away with whatever they want.

But I also believe it is important.
Thanks, I knew about Tiled at the time. The project was kinda of a learning project so I didn't bother to use an external tool. Now that I look back, that's probably how I approach all projects (not work-related): I just want to learn how it works superficially, and once I do I'd lose motivation and drop the project eventually.

Very nasty mindset I have to admit...
I highly recommend Pulling Power from the Sky: The Story of Makani [Feature Film] available on YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qd_hEja6bzE .
Whoot! Hope you find it useful :)
It's All Gravy
At the risk of sounding too ghoulish, I wonder if the right lens to view this through might be that of alienation from one's work. TFA's executioners are technicians, dressed up in the gloves and scrubs otherwise associated with people who save and preserve lives. Saudi executioners use a fucking sword, you know, like we always have! Of course, that cultural factor helps too.

Not that dressing up in a black hood and hanging people would necessarily be less traumatic, but maybe we'd think differently if there was a cultural continuity of hangmen hanging people which we were all casually aware of as a consequence of growing up and learning about the world.
Are Entrepreneurs Happier Than Everybody Else? Yes
Notes on a Remarkable Finding from Finland
We are talking about living right in the centre of Amsterdam. No one is stopping you from buying something with a much lower deposit at a cycling distance from the city centre or a much smaller deposit with a 30 minutes public transport commute for 2 years so you can then afford to live in one of the most desirable areas of a main city with a sizeable tourist industry.

That’s 2 years saving to then live where you want and then an extra 2 years to live where you want in the apartment that you want which is oversized for a single person.

Why do you need a 3 bed as a single person and what’s your ideal scenario? Do you want to be able to afford a house without a deposit, is that it?
Hadn't heard of it and am very interested. For people who have seen it and like it, is it representative or summarizing of current thinking and modern progressive worldviews?
Nope. Again, context matters here. I never use emacs in a terminal; all editting of files on remote systems is done in a local X11 emacs over ssh. And this is not because of circumstance but because making that choice opens up more doors. I can have keybindings not just on C-z but ones that aren't representable in the terminal at all (e.g. I like to put end/beginning-of-buffer on C-. and C-,)

Would I submit my choices as good defaults for new emacs users? Hell no. But they remain good choices nonetheless. That's the essence of my point, not the minutiae.
mass appeal is overrated. being able to use terminal mode over ssh is more useful to me than rounded buttons.
I see many people on here (likely non-emacs users) claiming that Emacs is obsolete/outdated/dying by completely misunderstanding its position in the ecosystem.

Maybe it's easier to understand via analogy. Let's consider cars. Of the global population of car users, relatively few of them are F1 racecar drivers. Furthermore, you can easily make the case that the particular features (aerodynamics, speed etc.) that make the F1 a good racecar, would not be useful for the average driver - the time they spend honing their skills to handle such a beast, you could argue, would be better spent on other things. But, at the same time, the F1 car has and will continue to have a place in the car ecosystem.

In the case of developers, you might be right that, for the average developer, working on your run of the mill, mundane, forgotten-in-a-few-years, CRUD web apps, a normal _average_ car (M$ vscode) would be a better investment, but no matter what, you will never be as fast or flexible as an F1 car (GNU Emacs).
Note that the original article's title was "They executed people for the state of South Carolina. For some, it nearly destroyed them." and not this, if you'll forgive my language, wishy-washy 'both-sides' thing.
That is actually the line where I stopped to make that comment.

Sitting in your office hundreds of miles away is nowhere near the same as being in the room, looking the condemned in the eyes.
I have done something similar - building a game while working full-time. But my approach was the complete opposite of this article.

No real process, no plan, no scrum method, not even a trello board to track progress and todos. Personally, I enjoyed the "fun" of it being very spontaneous, yet still passionate. I didn't write to-dos and tasks to be done, because there is always something to be done. And intuitively you feel what's important and what's not. I also didn't want it to "feel" like work.

For context - the game took me about 6 months to create: https://yare.io
I agree with the point you're making, but there are far more humane methods than firing squad. Firing squad causes trauma issues for those doing the firing, and could easily be botched as well.

Asphyxiation by another gas such as helium is generally considered to be "better" as far as I understand – it creates a feeling of euphoria for the subject.

This is not an endorsement of any method of execution, I'm strongly against the entire idea.
The Free Java License
Was it this? https://beneinstein.medium.com/no-you-cant-manufacture-that-...
I personally found the mitochondrial-centric viewpoint discussed early in the article quite interesting. Do they serve us or do we serve them? High quality thinking material.
Facebook’s facial recognition announcement doesn’t apply to the metaverse
The Elementor Pagebuilder
What happens when that singleton has dependencies? And they have dependencies? Not unrealistic once you have a config block that sets stuff like language direction ltr/rtl or API endpoint at runtime based on test/prod env.

Not saying that these are impossible, but at some point you either end up reinventing dependency injection, or you end up with all the problems that cause people to invent dependency injection.
> I find that most photos from an iPhone can be scaled down to ~400KB in an image editor and be indistinguishable from the original.

What do you mean by "scaled down?" Scaled down implies reduced size. Are you reducing the size (fewer pixels) or increasing the compression with the same effective size (same number of pixels)?

How do you judge that it is indistinguishable from the original? If you zoom in on the original vs. the scaled down image I expect you will see a difference.
Also open to recommendations from any other world industry, including Japanese anime.
For the record I love Homebrew. I even use Homebrew to install regular applications whenever possible because I love how easy it is to update them. I appreciate the complexities of dependency management and yes, it sucked a bit when I installed postgresql. That isn't a problem with Homebrew though, that's just the nature of the beast.

Anyway, I just wanted to say you guys are doing a great job!
That's irrational. She's probably 100X more likely to be hit by a car than be a victim of crime. And more likely to be victimized by someone she knows than random street crime. Not to mention the risk of serious illness or injury via accidents. A reflective vest and health insurance will do far more for her safety than a gun. Not to mention, no one is really saying that personal weapons will be ever be gone. She can protect herself with pepper spray. Or really she can kill whoever she wants with a small caliber revolver and we can still ban military-style weapons (or we could if voters were rational).
Not everyone has live rounds in a firing squad to reduce the trauma
Chaos Engineering of Ethereum Blockchain Clients
I not seeing it.

Could you, or someone, help me and contrast Musk's framing with the more traditional framing?
Read it on paper and it plays very differently.