skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> persistent corruption, mismanagement, and the pernicious influence of public employee unions

Is this less likely to happen in smaller towns?
Then let me rephrase it this way: I don’t see how Jung is more antiscientific than any other psychological theory.
Some feedback:

- From the website it is not clear how users use your product. The only screenshot is on an iPad. Does that mean your product is a mobile app? The video shows a website. Does that mean your product can be used as both a website and an app, or just a website? Your website should make it clear how your users can access your product.

- You mention in the video that there's a chrome extension, but this is not mentioned on the website. Most users will not even watch your video unless they are sufficiently interested from what they read on your website. If there are other integrations your support you should mention them as well.

- In your video you claim that using AsyncGo has allowed you to avoid having _any_ work meetings, but I'm not convinced from the video that I could replicate this on my team. It would be interesting to hear details about the kind of work meetings you used to have, and how AsyncGo has replaced them. It would also be interesting to hear details about how other collaboration platforms fall short. Ex: why not use slack?

- IMO the example in your video is too abstract and not relatable (at least for me). At work I don't think i have ever scheduled a meeting to discuss some internet article. Usually people just post a link in slack and start a discussion there. If there is some outcome, maybe we create a ticket in our bug tracker. I feel like it would be better if you used a more realistic example from your experience using AsyncGo. I would be interested to see the kind of comments people leave and how people tend to use features like search, up/down votes, labels, etc.
> Are they doing this during a fire? They most certainly should not be

I've been in a few situations where a fire alarm is going off in a large building, and it created no sense of urgency. One was a shopping mall, with people milling about, half-wondering what the noise was, thinking as long as they could see an exit and didn't see a fire it was fine. Even being one who generally doesn't follow herds, I stayed in that state longer than I should have in retrospect. That's human nature, and a major reason of why companies do fire drills.

> Maybe your company provides it, maybe you have to figure it out yourself. Point is, always be prepared.

Yes, of course. Ultimately you are responsible for your own safety. Always be prepared. The problem arises if you take this philosophy as a given and assert that a large group of people will be individually prepared, as a license to avoid figuring out the institutional-scale problem. That is what I'm taking issue with here.

Based on what I've read about the timeframe of tornadoes, I think a corporate policy of having people leave the building and go to their cars is a recipe for a mass casualty event in the parking lot. Given how heavily corporate micromanagement directs people at such jobs (security checkpoints, timeclocks, timing bathroom breaks, prohibiting cell phones, etc), I think the scalable way to handle tornadoes is for the same management structure to direct people into designated shelters within the building.

And sure if I were in such a position, I certainly wouldn't want to just trust management to take care of me in a top-down way. But I also wouldn't want management to use my option to individually prepare as an excuse to slack off on their facility preparation.
British Columbia has just experienced substantial flooding that wasn’t related to being coastal[0][1][2]. I think it exemplifies how we need to mind our relationship with the world - everywhere.

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-floods-su...

[1] https://youtu.be/c-zANcnwY34

[2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/merritt-resi...
> I’ve seen some financial discussions about the large pile of cash that Apple is sitting on and what could be done with it.

I believe if it is $200B we're talking about, you have small dreams. IMHO, Apple should first simply pay their damn taxes, and then promptly purchase North Dakota, a steal at $110B. [1]

[1] https://cool987fm.com/heres-how-much-it-would-cost-to-buy-ev...
What? No. There are many kinds of IQ tests. Some require you to complete patterns of symbols. Most do have a verbal logic and purely verbal dimension, which is sometimes worth just as much as completing patterns.
I'm with you. Cash for adults. Toys for kids. If it discourages anyone from giving me a gift in the future, that's all the better. I like give giving, not gift exchanging.
Yes, when Linus first tried C++ in 1992 this is true. But the linked comments were done in early 2000s which by then C++ was very mature. So by early 2000s, C++ was already 20 years old. Rust is only 11 right now.
So what exactly do you think should have been done instead? Do you think people across a half dozen states should have been told to stay home all day Friday/Saturday?
"50% of your marketing works, you just don't know which 50%." I've heard this cliche from several mentors. You just have to do it and hope you do enough of it in the right places.
I don't trust any of the feedback loops, or the good faith of any of the kinds of organizations that would use them. Show me a time when a company was truly accountable for a "computer mistake" and didn't just shrug it off when the damage was done. The fable of the scorpion and the frog springs to mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
I was expecting something worse.

Could the sales outreach be done better? Sure, but I've seen a lot worse and I feel like the initial email setting the tone with "This request is so vague and nonspecific..." was already more passive aggressive than it has to be and set the tone for the rest of the thread.
Build a GUI app in 7 mins from start to store (Lightning talk)
Would you expect megaphone manufacturers to give souped up models capable of drowning out other megaphones to only the most controversial, destructive people?
> That's a problem with a limited imagination

Only if you examine the problem so superficially you can't think of any other cost of personal vehicles than burning gas.

Cars burning gasoline isn't the only or even the smallest problem with everyone needing to own a car. Think of the supply chain required to produce, deliver, and dispose of personal vehicles for everyone. Think of the civil infrastructure required to enable everyone to have a personal car. Think of the human cost that humans being terrible, irresponsible drivers takes on society. For starters.

> There are things called towns that exist in suburbia and can be reached easily by bike or walking.

There is a thing called weather in much of the US and world that makes this unrealistic. Further it's disingenuous to claim it's feasible to walk to a town to do your groceries from a suburb. You're going to need to walk at least 2-3 miles (best case) to a grocery store and you're not going to be able to carry more than a couple days' worth of stuff, less for a full family.

The suburban way of life is going to crash and burn, spectacularly. It is running on credit it can never pay back. At least 2 generations have covered their eyes and ears and yelled "naaa naaa we don't believe it". It's time to acknowledge that we can't carry on that "tradition'. Either we voluntarily adapt, or our surroundings will force the change.
I don't see a gift card as much more thoughtful than cash, but there's at least the slight push of "use this to spoil yourself" when it's something indulgent like Starbucks, the liquor store, Steam, whatever. Versus cash where you may have given it with that intent, but it just as easily ends up folded into the general pot and becoming something boring like gas, groceries, whatever.
I think that it sounds harsh to say "I don't take meetings with no agenda", but is the right thing to do. Everyone wants your time, and it's the most valuable resource you possess, so being protective makes a lot of sense.

I wouldn't reply to someone's email and accuse them of "low-effort sales" or whatever. I'd just say "thanks, not interested" and then be internally mad at the low effort.

From the other side, I think that sales should be aware that these emails can read like "hey, we're going to shut you off unless you chat with me for 30 minutes" which is annoying. It would be nice to clarify that up front, to avoid the negative emotion associated with that prospect.
I agree with 1 below, but 2 seems strange -- a man who is generally feeling OK is not going to spend a lot of time and money on therapy.

'1. Turn yourself into a project that you can work on and get better at, in ways that are going to help you date better but are good even if you don’t.

2. Go to therapy. It’s much better than you’ve been told and it will probably help. This isn’t because you’re crazy or weak (no more than the rest of us) it’s because talking about your feelings with a professional who is there to help you out is really good and useful and almost everyone would benefit from it.'
> Of course, damage done by flooding does depend on how big waves are. So you need levees and seawalls long before you get a groundwater problem.

Actually Germany and Netherlands experienced massive floods this year with increased river volumes in the Maas due to excess rain and ice melt in the Alps. At least 200 people died, 10s of thousands relocated.

My point is not all your flood threats are downstream from you.

> Finally, plenty of Dutch houses are built in swamps below sealevel. The technology exists.

The dutch have centuries of know how and an entirely separate body to oversee all water management the Rijkswaterstaat. To assume that their model can be easily copied is a massive underestimation of the problem/solutions.
Police in the US are under no obligation to protect the citizenry. SCOTUS has reaffirmed that over and over again.
Conversely, here's really "All you need to know about gift cards": think about the interest being generated from all that cash sitting idle on some issuer's account while the recipient of your gift card decides how to spend their money.

> Most retailers do not have sufficient gift card liabilities and do not have sufficiently sophisticated treasury teams to make a meaningful amount of income off an investment portfolio.

This assumes that the retailer is the one holding the cash and not the issuer of the card. I'm by no means an expert in the industry but IIRC there's a whole lot more that goes into this than the author implies.

> Also, they have a much better option. Unlike insurers, who must maintain reserves by regulation, most businesses issuing closed loop gift cards are not required to maintain reserves. They can simply use the cash as a source of working capital for the business, similar to other sources of working capital, except substantially free. Even in a capital-drenched economy, it is tough to beat free.

Agreed, except it would be much better for it to be either me or my recipient who benefits from said "free money".
This makes me pine for IRIX.
They give you the keys now. They could change that overnight if they mandate the same "Secure Boot only with a Microsoft key" that they mandated on early ARM devices. Don't be mistaken. They are very much the Don of x86, and when they choose to alter the deal, you'll be SOL.

That's why I consider alternative ecosystems (that don't have exorbitant prices) like RISC-V and Raspberry Pi to be critical to the survival of general-purpose computing. Once your ability to run on bare metal disappears (via Secure Boot or otherwise), you're in grave danger of simply not having physical hardware to convert new users.
Hot shot businessmen, investigative journalists and prestigious academics make some of the worst failures as politicians in Turkey too.

However, in this case maybe there’s a chance because his post seems quite domain specific and not very policy heavy.
Unifi systems is a pretty bad one
If you were to remove the sim card, would that void your warranty with either of those manufacturers? If so, that is not a long term solution, unfortunately.
Mac gets SharePlay in macOS 12.1 but Universal Control delayed again
> In either car I can just remove the sim

For now!
I see they went to the USB school of standardisation
Ask HN: Web App Environment Recommendation?
I am working on a webapp, that needs this environment setup:

-------------------------------------

Public Routes:

- API (nodejs / 1+ instances)

- WebSockets (nodejs / 1+ instances)

- Object Storage (proxy)

Private Routes:

- Redis (docker / cluster)

- RabbitMQ (docker / cluster)

- MySQL (standalone / cluster)

Hidden (connects to Public/Private routes):

- worker1 (nodejs)

- worker2 (nodejs)

- worker3 (nodejs)

-------------------------------------

In researching environments for hosting, I found 3 options:

1) VPS/Docker for each service

2) All services in a single Bare metal server

3) Kubernetes

There are downsides to each. But, looking at costs, bare metal server would be the most economical, and Kubernetes is way outside my budget.

My budget is roughly $100, and my time is just as limited.

The webapp is scale ready, but that's not very important if I have no users on launch day.

What environment recommendations do you have that would let me run such a configuration for my webapp?
Youtube could use this problem to their advantage by allowing users to validate algorithmic based flags. Youtube could present a user a video on their feed that has been algorithmically flagged for reasons xyz. You could be one of several folks that agree or disagree. If enough disagree, the ban doesn't go into effect.
If we are referring to IQ the median and average is supposed to be the same by definition.
Yep.

But search used to be rock solid and Google used to be a driving force behind the open web.
So the biggest obstacle to solving anything about this world is stupidity of the general population. People can't stop choosing the most stupid things with their wallets and attention.
Image Processing: The Simple and the Complex
> blaming it 100% on Facebook is not fair.

The problem is that humans are never 100% rational. If the audience for Facebook was purely rational robots, then sure, you could make the argument that since they should just be able to stop caring about these problematic things, and the issue will go away, it's not Facebook's fault that they haven't done that.

But given we are talking about humans, once Facebook has spent considerable time and money studying human behavior and society in general, exactly in order to figure out how to maximize their own goals over anything else, I think they should take the blame when there are negative side effects to doing so. Saying "well if society just stopped caring about (e.g.) negative content it'd be fine, so it's society's fault" is misdirection at best and ignores both the concentrated effort Facebook has spent on achieving this outcome, as well as the hoops they've spent the past few years jumping through to defend their choices once people started calling them out on it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trauma_center

Being near a level 1 trauma center can make a big difference in extreme circumstances.

Not that it is objectively worth giving up whatever benefits not being near a level 1 trauma center bring, but it does provide a material difference in the level of healthcare and hence probability of outcomes you can expect.
Senate Bill 8 is still in effect. The above is SCOTUS disinformation.

https://www.kvue.com/article/news/politics/texas-this-week/t...

"So, essentially, the Supreme Court left the law in effect. We were expecting to possibly see them limit the enforcement of it because that was the biggest concern that Supreme Court, Supreme Court justices seemed to have. And that enforcement, of course, is allowing private citizens to sue, under the law, anyone who aids and abeits an abortion for at least $10,000 damages, if won. And so, that's where it kind of was being targeted today. And the Supreme Court essentially put that back on the U.S. District Court, allowing that lawsuit to resume to determine the constitutionality of the law."

Or TLDR they left it to the states. Can't wait to see how the states run with that concept.
Patch suggests Rust may be the next frontier for Linux kernel
It's only half a joke though. I have a Roku TV where they didn't bother putting some of the advanced picture controls in the OSD. You have to use an app instead. Guess what? The app doesn't work on my Android phone and I wouldn't be able to adjust picture settings on my TV if I didn't have an iPad to use instead.

What happens if they turn that app into a subscription service because they don't like the cost of maintaining it?

I'm pretty cynical and I didn't even consider the possibility of needing an app to control my TV when I bought it. Now I know to watch out for it, but device manufacturers aren't exactly going out of their way to advertise cost cutting measures that make you dependent on something you have no control of (ie: apps).
"Drivers are probably the first place for an attempt like this as they are the 'end leaves' of the tree of dependencies in the kernel source. They depend on core kernel functionality, but nothing depends on them.", says Hartman.
>Once again think long-term. Short-term the externalities does get pushed around

Congratulations on the most bloodless hot take I’ve read on HN by a country mile
I thought all the 'ban killer robots' talk was way too soon. Robots are coming faster than I thought.
JetBrains IDEs are probably affected.
The key for me is to have a solid backup/disaster recovery plan in place and to first assess what rollback would entail and to verify that backup data is not corrupted. Rollback is more of a final (nuclear) option, but I always need to verify that it is an option...

Data loss from rollback is far better than total corruption (if it ever gets to that point, God forbid).

It also depends greatly on the availability needs for a system of course, but everyone has to be reasonable over things they can't pre-conceive or control in these types of situations because there's no way anything can operate flawlessly and without failure.

1. The Titanic

2. The Hindenburg

3. The AWS-East Service Outage This Month

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The problem is that there is no path to forgiveness for someone that makes an honest mistake. “Terminate account, lock out from all content (email, calendars, videos, whatever), and refuse to communicate” is something akin to using the death penalty for every violation of the law. In many cases there are teachable moments and bringing out the banhammer + silent treatment for every infraction creates a suboptimal society.
Gift giving on Christmas is derived from the wise men bringing gifts to the birth of jesus, and likely to earlier pagan rituals that predate Christmas. It is extremely unlikely that Christmas reverts to a banal religious thing. People like Christmas. Some countries, like Japan, have culturally assimilated it, without any of the religious tie ins.
After using a tiling window system for a few years now the screenshot on that page is an affront to all that is good and holy.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/trunkmaster/nextspace/mast...
> If it’s insanely overfunded, how come a career in tech is many multiples of income vs teaching? Good luck buying a decent home on a teacher’s salary in attractive areas.

Engineers ship results.

Pretty sure many parents would be ok with a result based comp for their kids teacher.
If I were mailgun, I'd be okay losing Evan as a customer.
Actually this is fantastic for someone like me - assuming there are no security holes of course.

I don't want my next car to have remote start or remote anything. If not paying the subscription allows me to make sure that that feature is not enabled, it's great news, for me.

Of course, different people have different preferences and needs.
Shoot me, works well for the average desktop (=Electron) application then.
There is one more possibility (relevant to solo devs) - lack of trust that marketing professionals can deliver results. Personally, I do realize how important marketing is and how inadequate my skills in marketing are. But at the same time, my experience contracting out marketing taught me that there are very few good pros and i am much more likely to at best hire someone who has about the same level of experience as I am.

If someone has tips on how to weed out pretenders (who themselves do not realize they are pretending) - I would love to learn about it. Unfortunately, my budget typically is too small to keep hiring until i hit the gold.
you could probably fire a bullet in any direction and hit a company with hundreds of apps or appliances affected.

I recognize this probably isn't helpful on its face, but the best way to think of it is: if it's a Java app (or heck even possibly just an app running on the JVM) that uses the most recent major version (2.x before 2.15.0, the patch) of the most common logging logic, it's affected.

And that list in the enterprise space gets exceptionally long. Maybe not so much on client machines, but servers/etc absolutely.

Even companies not known for using Java for their own apps are probably relying on appliances or systems which run their own vulnerable Java apps.
> And the infrastructure costs more to maintain

Wouldn't this be addressed by economies of scale? If you have 400 people living in a building, even if the complexity of the infrastructure is greater, isn't it more efficient than having 400 single family homes? Not that one can directly replace another, but I'm talking about the number of people being the constant.

> The main impact comes from needing less transport of goods and people, which is an environmental plus, but not something priced into the cost of living.

Transportation I think is especially huge, but I imagine there are other efficiencies of living in a dense urban area. And I think that regardless of whether or not external costs are priced in, they should be counted towards efficiency of infrastructure.
Nope, just watched the Thanksgiving special.
It's true there are bad-faith actors, but there are definitely lots of idiots who don't know they are wrong.
Analogies are nearly useless in making an argument Facebook is an online platform with real time access to users communications and metrics and analysis of how it's used which allow it to make reasonable predictions on how it's going to be used in the future.

Comparing it to dumb hardware is ridiculous.

Their ability to predict the negative effect of amplifying crazy provides a moral imperative to mitigate that harm. In case you don't understand there is a difference between the platform allowing Bob to tell Sam a harmful lie, and letting Bob tell 200 people who tell 200 people ..., and different yet from algorithmically promoting Bob's lie to hundreds of thousands of people who are statistically vulnerable to it.
In a similar sense to how if you've experienced a low-pressure shower you've experienced Niagara Falls, sure, we've been through this before.
Property rights, one of the bedrock principles of capitalism, easily handles externalities.

Dumping waste/co2 is a violation of someone else's property rights. Try dumping waste into your neighbor's property and see what happens.

The reason why externalities happen is because government is not enforcing property rights
Generally, anytime US land ownership changes hands, the prior owner might choose to retain mineral rights, and maybe discount the price accordingly. When you buy a house lot you are not typically interested in fracking under it, so you would not expect any discount.

What constitutes a basement would be spelled out in the contract terms of sale.
I feel this ignores human nature to engage an in conflict. Or in other words, humans like to debate so we will.
t.rotate (a, v); // Original

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t rotate by: a around: v; // Who needs ambiguity?

t rotateBy: a around: v // This is Smalltalk