skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think the proper way to encourage seat belt use would have been to allow insurance companies to not cover injuries to insured motorists who were found to not be wearing seat belts at the time of the accident.

Ultimately that just means we as a society pay for it, since they're still going to get emergency treatment but won't be able to pay the bill.

IMO any of these approaches are unlikely to do much, because most people don't consider the potential consequences when they're assuming something won't happen to begin with. Or IE. If people aren't wearing seat belts, they're already assuming they won't get in a crash, so the potential financial consequences don't matter. If they were actually considering such things they would probably be wearing their seat belt, since the potential risk of death or being maimed is always there regardless of your insurance policy ;)

Also FWIW I'm pretty sure the police cannot pull you over for not wearing your seat belt, they have to be pulling you over for some other reason (Not saying it's not still a problem, but there's some nuance there).
Skimming through some recipes I searched, it seems it is mostly all purpose flour and a ton of oil to make it flaky. It seems to be in the "unhealthy" camp assuming carbs and sat fats are unhealthy.

Also in the cheap camp considering the ingredients are cheap and making it does not seem too time or equipment intensive.

I find working with dough to always be complicated, but the recipe itself seems simple enough, so it might qualify as basic too, relative to other recipes.

Low class is ill defined, but assuming it means it is popular with poorer people due to the lower cost of its ingredients and preparation, then it might also be true.
You can't do much on a destroyed ecosystem ( see the past discussion about Thames). We are starting to live in a world with "forests" without animals, with only one insect which is eating the forest. In a world with rivers without fishes or with introduced species.
Has anyone hired a programming/CS tutor?
I work in embedded and mostly use Python to call underlying C.
I'd like to understand what's going on "under the hood". I don't have a formal CS background.

bottomupcs has been an awesome resource!
teachyourselfcs is a good starting place, but I'd like to accelerate my progress.

My understanding is, in a CS program, courses such as Data Structures and Algorithms - theory, is taken at the same time as Networking, Operating Systems, and Distributed Systems - applications.

I view studying CS as a long term goal.
Short term, I want to build up C literacy and contribute more to my team.

Has anyone tried hiring a programming/CS tutor to help curate a study plan and review code?
If so, what was the experience like? Would you suggest a different path?

I anticipate a high hourly rate for a tutoring service.
Any suggestions for vetting a tutor?
How’s the Weather on Mars?
This sort of story always reminds me from a bit in Seinfeld where Kramer's phone number is one digit off from the Movie Phone number. He would say something like "press 1 for Total Recall, Press 2 for...". Of course he would not be able to determine which button was pressed, and would say "why don't you just tell me the name of the movie you want to see?"

I feel like we are creating really unpredictable, and hard to implement UIs in the name of "magic". Would a button in the UI been better? I think it would have been, at least for me.
Nuclear is not even close to being economically viable atm. Making it economically viable probably isn't politically viable.
For people with Gemini clients, this URL works:

gemini://perso.pw/blog/articles/how-I-ended-liking-gnome.gmi
Way easier to refactor a that statically typed mess.

There is a floor for how bad you can write static typed code.

There is no floor to how bad of JavaScript or Python or Ruby you can write. The madness can descend to the inner most circles of coding hell. Only Perl exceeds it.
iOS already has a built in feature with AirDrop. Everything except apps can be shared through it and it uses a local connection whenever possible.
Briar App and Unlinkability
what do you think of this https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar/-/wikis/FAQ#does-briar-provide-anonymity ??

Don't you think that the Bluetooth address and the most recent IPv4 LAN threaten the user's identity?

Also, why reveal the Bluetooth MAC to a remote contact that we will never meet IRL?
Roblox, Building Out the Metaverse
>I had a boss try to bring this up at lunch last week.

What is the difference between bringing something up and trying to bring something up?

NPr states the last prop gun death was Brandon Lee in 1993, so ~30 years ago. I still wonder how many movie blanks are fired a year. 1 million? 10 million?

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/22/1048295916/props-gun-death-in...
just in time for the removal of dislikes too..
No. There's no objective "good art", only popular art. When we say something is "good" we're saying it's popular, either in mass or in a certain community. I think this is the cleanest explanation with the minimal assumptions and favored by stuff like Occam's razor, because defining "good" requires way too many controversial criteria, and you might have to go through that for every medium, which is infinite amount.

However, that's just my theory / ideal. I still occasionally feel my taste is superior to others, which I'm not proud of. You can say it's another argument (a sociological / weak one), that the sense of superiority in taste is not helpful.
I think there should be more leave but it needs very strong federal subsidies.

I worked with someone from a European company working in the USA. She started her full time job here while she was on an 8 month maternity leave from her old European company (which she didn't plan on returning to afterwards). It would be fucked if her old company had to eat 8 months expenses and then not even have an employee returning back after.
Yes, it's a pretty common phenomenon. Placing ideology before practical results doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Just build the system, please.

There is however a way for an industrialized nation to partner with a developing country for such projects in a mutually beneficial manner, rather than using the strict old-school colonial plantation model.

For example, I note that Saudi Arabia's role in the global oil market - which was due to the USA's investment in Saudi Arabia - has done far more to drive local development than the French 'partnership' with Niger's uranium mines has done to drive the development of that country. Niger supplies about a third of France's uranium, but get basically nothing in return:

> "According to the World Bank, around 60 percent of Nigeriens live below the national poverty line. With a per capita income of $420, Niger is one of the world’s poorest nations. In 2016, it ranked 187 out of 188 countries on the United Nations Human Development Index."

I get the sense that China is offering better deals to African nations than Europe or the USA is, but that's very iffy too.
The problem is simple. Capitalists figured out it's better to invest in a monopoly then competition. And you don't go to jail for legalized corruption.
Do you mind elaborating? I obsess over clean code, so any criticism is appreciated.
$65k per year medications are Biogens specialty. They payup a patient's full out of pocket for them when they start on this. Really cools tension over the price for those receiving the drug.
That's a classic flamewar topic, so if your comment didn't have anything new and interesting to say, users will tend to flag it as flamebait. (I haven't seen the comment.)
Many of Twitter’s defining features, such as “@“ replies and retweets, originally began as conventions that were standardized by third-party clients before Twitter natively incorporated them into the platform.

When they restricted access to their APIs and began tightening the screws to discourage third-party client development, Twitter began to stagnate because they no longer had a steady flow of new ideas to exploit. It also prevented third parties from providing the kind of user experience improvements and specializations that heavy users with large audiences relied on to make Twitter manageable. Without these things, the platform has deteriorated badly.

It isn’t surprising that they have circled back around to where they started and realized that they need third-party developers, but given how poorly they have treated the very people who drove Twitter’s initial success, I can’t imagine anybody is foolish enough to give them a second chance.
Since the obvious comparison is to react router, here's a link to a table comparison
https://react-location.tanstack.com/comparison
Said website was originally created for Git by GitHub employees, so presumably that site is also incredibly offensive to those who don't like the blog post.
I think the biggest problem with XMPP is the lack of understanding of target audience, and lack of acknowledgement of past problems.

Even in this discussion, you and zaik mentioned "XMPP" without any qualifications as viable messenger system. Anyone who reads those messages may try it, hit the old/low-featured client, and give it up forever, like our org did.

If the goal to get more users to XMPP, starting with "Try Snicket, it implements right subset of XMPP" will work much better than just saying "XMPP".

And in the ideal world, XMPP would embrace Compliance Suites -- the "getting started" page would mention a compliance level for each recommended client, the "features" page would list which features were added each year, and each project homepage would carry a large compliance level badge. Then in our conversation, you could just say "hey, you want Advanced Client 2016 or later, not the ancient stuff in the Ubuntu repos". Sadly, I don't think this will happen because I think XMPP is focused too much on low-featured clients.
Ended up liking it? Or stopped liking it? I can't understand the title given the text of the post was blank (and confusing when read in the comments here..)
Twitter treats its developers extremely poorly, probably because developing Twitter as a platform is not rewarded internally compared to copying Clubhouse or adding a Stories clone, even though the platform is the one of Twitter's unique strengths that can't be replicated by Facebook or Google.
I am so very sorry for your loss.

As a parent, your post is incredibly impactful.

As a company owner(20 FTE), I've had several staff take leave for catastrophic health issues in their immediate family.

It's been incredibly costly for my small company to keep paying them indefinitely beyond their accrued and used holiday/sick leave, but it's been worth it in the long run.

It has engendered the kind of effort, loyalty, and performance that can't be bought, only earned.

From the company's perspective, it hurts a lot up front but it makes sense ethically, morally, and I think financially as well.

Here in NZ, we have paid parental leave. Mostly taken by mothers, but with some nudging for fathers to take some of it as well.

When we had our children it was 12 weeks total combined paid parental leave.

It has since been extended to 26 weeks combined paid, with up to another 26 weeks unpaid.
Thank you for giving me stuff to read upon. Cheers!
This article is pretty old (2015). As I was reading through it, I got a pretty big surprise that Twitter was still using Storm until I checked the date.
Renters are paying all the costs imposed upon landlords. Many people have perfectly valid reasons to want to rent housing rather than being coerced to buy by bearing the impact of huge taxes on rental property.

I’m not a landlord, but I rented 6 different places for a total of about 13 years after college plus my time during college. I’m glad those places were available at prices I could afford.
I really hope that wasn't one of the Queen's corgis otherwise it's war!
Gnome is pretty good. Started using it again after a while of using kde. I fell in love with it again. Really wish that the top bar was used as a global menu like in MacOS though.
FMLA only applies for companies of a certain size
https://mobile.twitter.com/JvNixon is good
Yeah, a company I've worked got shafted big time by Twitter.

What is Twitter doing to regain my trust?
My kitchen has one of those “pullable” taps on a flexible line. If you drink what first comes out, your cup is being filled with whatever it was set to during the last use.

Then there’s whatever residue is left from washing/rinsing with warm water.

TBH, if I’m making a pot of pasta, I fill the pot with hot water to jump-start too, but I know my system is mostly pex. Maybe that’s still risky due to the plastic, but there shouldn’t be any lead deposited in the heating process.

I’m in the Great Lakes area, so cold taps can be 5C in winter. If you’re making OJ from concentrate (or Tang), it could take a while to dissolve at that temperature.
I couldn’t imagine witnessing this in my life, not for something so obvious and in plain sight.

But is it better than 30 years ago or worse? When I hear the suicides committed upon whistleblowers in France 30 years ago, or the Ustica crash, or the Greenpeace boat bombed in NZ, are we committing more today?
> YAML is a superset of JSON.

That's false. http://p3rl.org/JSON::XS#JSON-and-YAML
> a global "power user" setting.

You can get shockingly far just by holding the "Option" key while taking a lot of actions/looking at a lot of menus. Always the first thing I try.
I have the P65-C1. I had it connected to the internet, because of the built-in Chromecast client. So I was imprecise in saying "OTA", because it was just an ordinary update.

Interestingly, the TV came with no remote, because it included a simple Android tablet, instead, which was supposed to be used as a streaming source and to run the remote control app. So in a sense, it was kind of like a smart TV, but with the brains externalized to the tablet. But when they decided to upgrade it to a proper smart TV, they also mailed me a regular remote.

But yeah, I was kind of irritated, given that I specifically bought it to be more of a dumb TV. I also took care to disable the screen scraping data collection.
I don't disagree with your interpretation of depression, but I do find fault with this statement:

> Depression is not lack of happiness. Sadness, melancholy, even misery and pain aren't depression.

I'd argue that melancholy, sadness, and misery can all be the essential framework of other types of depression. Just because you don't experience that kind personally doesn't mean that others don't.

I suffer from aural migraines that cause temporary blindness. Some people get migraines without the blanking of vision. Even though someone else with a mind-splitting headache doesn't have the classic visual aberrations with it doesn't mean that they aren't having as painful or incapacitating of a migraine as I am.
There is still an awful lot of room at the bottom.
Tuition fees were introduced in 1998, under a Labour government. Sure, at a tenth of their current rate but still, under a different government.
Optimizing Git’s merge machinery, #1
> Even if you think Linux isn't better, it can't be worse!

It could be! The truth is complicated. I’ve been using a ryzen desktop running mint for the last year and I just got a M1 pro. I love both of these machines and I still don’t know which I want to be using as a daily driver. (Well, now mint is set up how I like).

These macos bugs are real - and they feel like amateur hour junk. As well as the memory leak I’m also running into a bug on my M1 where WindowServer idles at 100% cpu after I’ve been using my computer for awhile. I have no idea what it’s doing or what causes it, but the only way to fix it is a reboot. (Or kill -9 the process, which logs me out and closes all my programs anyway).

But Linux’s bugs are different. I haven’t rebooted my Linux machine in ages. But on linux I’m annoyed by other things. Lots of programs have broken smooth scrolling. Keyboard shortcuts for moving the cursor around are inconsistent. I can’t use the Meta key in intellij as a modifier for some reason - so I can’t use my muscle memory shortcuts (and the ctrl+shift+C is awful as a copy shortcut in xterm!). I use a trackpad on my desktop and the sensitivity is way off - so i get misclicks all the time. App distribution is a mess - flatpak, snap, apt, custom dpkgs and manual make / make install? All of the above? I accidentally ended up with 2 copies of discord installed and didn’t know which one was “right”.

Linux does the core engineering work right but often falls down in frontend UX. (Its definitely getting better these days though). Apple makes nice UX but their core engineering is remarkably buggy. Apple please - I know you think the market wants a new OS every year with new features. You don’t need a new font every year to compete with cheap plastic x86 laptops. Please slow down and fix your shit.
It does get a little complicated when you try adding in the middleware components, and it doesn't Just Work. Frequently then you end up at some GitHub readme file as the only documentation (for first-party Microsoft components) with some very brief examples, maybe with some samples that don't quite show how you'd want to do what you want to do. Then you start digging in the source code and learning how the guts of aspnet core work.

I would agree that bailing on dogmatic 2000s OOP has been an improvement.
The argument is that I can distinguish them, but not rank them, because I distinguish them with respect to their essential character. Grilled cheese's essential character is something I view with derision, and its rank increases only by shedding that essential character. Grilled cheese with sourdough bread, or with veggies and barbecued meat, would rank as "better food" precisely because they rank as "worse grilled cheese."
I suspect that "very well off" people in the US most likely have only one breadwinner and one stay at home parent more or less full time. And/or a nanny.

The upside like I said, is that you save all that unnecessary work in the bureaucracy around the parental leave systems. Just look at sweden for example, it's a huge mess around the parental leave, they have a centralized agency now to micro manage every single household in the country with exactly how many days here and there, they will stay home with their child. It's basically central planning for child care.

And there are tons of edge cases and contradictions and bugs in this, of course. It's even become somewhat of a virtual currency now these "days" that parents are given as a gift from the state. Every single family in the whole country is now basically a welfare case that has to be processed through this machinery, with all the applications, paperwork etc, regardless of how well they actually manage on their own. It's incredibly costly, inflexible and inefficient, compared to just giving people higher salaries and letting them manage their family time themselves.

Edit: and, surprise surprise, it's also abused and people game the system. Many parents for example use their parental leave at the same time, to make extended vacations abroad of several months.
The Twitter platform was very open. This is why it grew like wild fire in tech circles. Then over time the Twitter company became predatory (claimed it wouldn't have it's own app, but then launch it's own), at first nobody cared because the v1 api was solid and anyone could make a client or a bot. Then over time they started going after clients and at one point said third party clients are outlawed (this was immediately retracted, but this didn't stop them from iterating in ways which broke clients).

As a cry to stop this tyranny things like "app.net" were proposed. Then few years after that mastodon and a bunch of others which are not around anymore.

When I was using Twitter the most, I finally installed the official app after using a few clients over the years. Now when I use Twitter it is only to broadcast tweet and I just use Firefox on Android using the official mobile site.

After messing with Twitter in a number of different ways over the years I decided it isn't worth it. There are a graveyard of open source clients which talk to twitter over api v1 in all languages.

Also did you hear they can just ban presidents?

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/08/tech/trump-twitter-ban/index....

https://www.remarkbox.com/remarkbox-is-now-pay-what-you-can....
But in a case like this, dual use doesn't result in a nuclear bomb exploding. Sure it would suck if a satellite was destroyed but it's not literally the end of the world.
You basically need a license for X86 from Intel for this.
Do you think x86 is open source!
Just because someone has a different opinion than you doesn’t make someone a troll smh.
It may be "terrible"¹ (even it works for me, and a lot of other just fine) but it's not broken beyond usability at least! And even if it would be as broken as macOS it's free and supports much more hardware—compared to something where you pay even a premium to be bound to only one vendor.

So the main question remains.

¹ https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.t...
Laxis, your intelligent meeting assistant! Capture what is said, intelligently
In theory they might be a great solution, but it’s still very experimental. That said, the technology is currently much worse than generally described. Going from 25% to 50% AC to AC efficiency is straightforward, but getting 70% requires a “low grade” heat source in other words it’s not actually 70% efficient it’s converting a stream of thermal energy into electricity alongside the stated 50% efficiency.
So yeah, the nuance to my comment is that the first things you list are important for social reasons - keeping your same position in the face of these additional burdens. I admit that my above comment is addressing the social problem purely through economic means (if an employer doesn't engage with your needs, walk away and find a new employer when you're available again). Unfortunately what we're offered in the US is mainly this economic lens, both policy and politically.

I don't know that I agree with the specific optimism in your last paragraph. Apart from the basic death toll, I think most of what is driving the "labor shortage" is people knocked out of situations where they were barely treading water, and retreating to lower rent areas and living with family. So wages will only rise enough to get people moving back onto the rent treadmill, and won't necessarily give away surplus wealth to increase their bargaining power. I'd love love to be wrong about this, of course.

IMO what is really needed to fix the economy is for the government to stop feeding the asset bubbles (aka giveaway to the upper class) through this ongoing combination of ZIRP plus austerity. Raising interest rates would lower asset prices, making home ownership more obtainable (despite the short term pain). And government-spent stimulus will cause distributed price inflation that will hopefully make the Fed raise rates, as opposed to the past few decades of runaway asset-only inflation that they've been able to conveniently ignore.
So nice to hear, thanks a lot!
While feral children are stunted they still have human level intelligence and self awareness even with understandable quirks from very different models.

For lack of better words "institutional knowledge" occurs even in deer - transplants and their descendants had worse survival rates than those who had grown up there but eventually survivors "caught up".

Feral children are also a real fringe case not comparable to a pre "full language" humanity as they by neccessity would still have models of learning via observation at very least.
They aren't very evolutionarily significant because like other vulnerable orphaned young mammals they almost always died.
KDE connect is actually really fantastic at this.