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Feedbro (a browser extension) might be another option for you to consider[1].

[1]: https://nodetics.com/feedbro/
Actually it was a good joke, I laughed reading it.

And thanks!
Obviously a generalization but it mostly doesnt leave financial markets.

Little bits do trickle out but a huge percentage doesnt. Real estate being the exception, but id pretty much call us real estate a financial market anyway at this point.
> They very well might work in a downtown, but I have yet to see it in the US.

But you see it in Europe. I walk to lidl and buy my groceries, basically every person I know walk to get groceries. Some do big weekend shopping trips now and then to bigger stores, but that isn't the norm.
FAA: No more commercial astronaut wings, too many launching
I don't know what's theoretical about it. There are Debian packages for brotli and it just behaves like a stdio codec, same as the `xz` command.
Police budgets are at their highest levels in history, and yet crime is up. The correlation just isn't there. Wasting money on police isn't solving this problem, which is why you are seeing the calls to move our funds elsewhere.

Also worth noting that MPD engaged in a work stoppage last summer, which may have had an impact on crime. https://minnesotareformer.com/2021/10/20/mpd-cop-says-office...
I don't understand how a targeted tax would help at all here.
I'm not the GP but I also removed the sole video I had in my account and deleted the channel. The video just had birds in it. If Google bans the account for any reason, it might spill over to other accounts that are easy to associate with it. I can't afford to lose those.
I like how the definition of Big Corp has changed.

> Adobe

22 000 employees.

Revenue of $12.86 billion.

They're a literal Fortune 500 company (and not that far off from Fortune 200): https://fortune.com/company/adobe-systems/fortune500/
Leaning the Talmud makes women promiscuous? I'm pretty sure that's not what deep theological learning is supposed to do...
This is such a bizarre post you didn't even point out videos for people to look at? I watch a lot of these and it's not been clear that they've improved much, even the enthusiastic drivers seem to say the newest version does better at this but not as good at that and even a couple versions were such bad regressions Tesla rolled them back. Doesn't seem like at this rate of improvement they will be ready for full self driving in the next few years.
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> Most of my former coworkers were disheartened at these stories. Some individuals actually were very active on the r/youtube subreddit and worked to handle individual cases that came up like this one.

Out of curiousity, is there any actual process that is kicked off when someone posts into the support forum or the subreddit?

Or are there just some employees who happen to browse those boards in their free/20% time - and if they feel particularly moved by some post, they can try to rally up enough internal support to do something about it?

Because with all due respect, that's not support, that's charity.
That's why I like websites that offer RSS feeds by tags, author, search queries, threads, etc. Also, there are news readers that offer different types of filtering as well. Personally, I use newsboat, though it's a CLI program, so probably not suitable for everyone.
> UTM and/or using a Gauss projection, which is an extremely good compromise for whole countries

The transverse Mercator projection is an “extremely good” conformal projection for anything region located within a narrow band around a specified meridian. This describes some countries well (e.g. Chile, Finland, Vietnam, Portugal), but is rather terrible for anything stretched out East–West (e.g. Russia, Canada, Indonesia).

Among conformal projections, for a compactly shaped country the stereographic projection is better. For a country lying along a parallel, a conformal conic projection is better. For a skinny country oriented at an arbitrary angle, an oblique Mercator projection is better. For small enough countries, any conformal projection works fine with low distortion.
This is really the crux and it doesn't get as much attention as it should.
> for a supposedly high tech city the traffics lights are not even close to being syncrhonized

No, it's worse. Every time I have to drive in Santa Clara County, I get the impression that the traffic engineers they hired are sociopaths.

The traffic lights on El Camino are perfectly timed to force you to stop at every. single. damn. one. That is, unless you drive 20+mph over the speed limit. I initially thought this might be to encourage walking and cycling, but you run into the exact same problem on a bike. The infrastructure isn't very ped-friendly, either.

I just don't get it. The stoplights are timed to make travel excruciating no matter how you do it. The problem with El Camino light timing ends when you cross into San Mateo county, btw.

It's the polar opposite of LA, where you can drive 10's of miles (late at night) on surface streets with the cruise control set right at the speed limit, never touching the gas or breaks. Cycling in the valley or on LA's west side, you can usually hit 3-5 greens before needing to stop (and then only briefly).

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And once that takes off, think of Google, for example, they also build another 1000 external products and 10000 internal apps.
We often forget the people desperate for money in the world, many people working on 5 year old cell phones that would be happy to make even a dollar to feed their family for 1 month. These are also the people we're pitted in competition with on these platforms that are too far-reaching to really be helpful. This is why protests don't work. Those struggling people would be happy to replace any of us with (even those of us with very minor levels of success) in a scam-riddled creator economy.

The platforms have a responsibility to create better economies of scale so that each community can be more effectively managed and integrated.

One single "front page" or "For you page" (or even a handful of them) is a terribly short sighted idea from a terribly greedy mind... And it's probably the main reason why most content uploaded never finds an audience on most modern platforms.

Reddit had that right at first, but they began to let moderators control each subreddit like it's own single front page, which then also introduced the usual corruption and pay-for-play into the mix.
My friend moved to a little village in Scotland. Super cute, walkable, near the Spey, easy drive to a city or two for a flight back to civilization. Great schools, no healthcare costs. The equity he cashed out from selling his place in California bought the nicest place in town for cash. He’s really liking it. I’ve gone to visit a few times. Makes me reconsider spending so much for my shoebox house in SF.
> The real question is why can't people discern the difference between the idiot and the non-idiot?

And here is the real problem with FB, the algorithmic feed. Normal life is pretty boring day-to-day, and doesn't trigger 'engagement'. Conspiracies, etc... cause an enormous amount of engagement. When a person is fed conspiracies all day by the engagement algorithm, even the most critical thinkers will start to drift. It works for the same reason advertising works, familiarity and repetition. The solution is never use FB, but that ship has sailed for most.
What are some of the online alternatives?
Professional YouTubers get human support. I know even some kinda of the kinda bespoke music production channels with like 25k/30k subs get human support.
I believe speech should be free but people should be responsible for their speech.

People behave completely differently when there are consequences to what they say.

Speech for "everybody but idiots" is not free speech.
Yes. I'd forgotten about that. There is a reasonably-above-ambient-noise fan that is running constantly. Another reason it was banished to the server-rack in the garage.
well for starters: the test instructions are in English - which doesn't seem relevant to the test, it focuses on abstraction as a modality of measuring cognitive capability, test taking, and computer user interface knowledge.

I work with high performing undergraduate students (think top 10 US public university). In one of our classes, they work on global public health design projects. Last year, the project was centered in the country of Chad.

One thing the students learned was that if someone isn't part of a culture that regularly uses paper/2D representations of things then using those modalities to communicate prototypes doesn't work.

Does that mean my students are smarter than the Chadian people? Why? Because they come from a culture where interacting with abstractions and representations of information is normed? The people of Chad certainly can.

If they are smarter shouldn't I be able to drop my students near Lake Chad and let them learn how to navigate without a map and compass? its just cognition so they should be able to figure it out right? They could memorize the map in advance?

It's not that 'some things have bias' its that all things are socially constructed at some level...
Yeah, most novels or movies use ideal characters, or story lines where they have just what they need to get something done. Otherwise the story would end partway through.

Yeah, not necessarily that specific list. The list could really be anything. If the items on it are not mainstream, then there's really no reward to them. People aren't expected to be self sufficient, rather they are expected to buy things and hire people, or otherwise participate in the consumerist economy.
I'm curious how it would work out if you updated the projection center to match the view center in zoomed out maps?

I can see a value in having a "stable" map that doesn't twist around as you move, but I think that would offer a good alternative for people trying to look at places that suffer from the traditional projection centers, and of course different trade offs make sense for different circumstance.

But perhaps constantly reprojecting is too expensive?
Finishing 3.0+1.0, I was met with the same realization. The story is a bit Lord of the Flies with giant mecha, and I think it’s unexpected because we’re used to seeing protagonists in media being young people who are far more emotionally and psychologically developed than they have any right being. The trope leads you to believe it’s going to be one kind of show, but it ends up as something very different.

FLCL, which I’m sure most Eva fans have seen, follows a similar conceit about the ineptitude of kids to cope with circumstances beyond their understanding, and is another show that I hold in similarly high regard. Incidentally, it also references Eva a lot.
> alienation people feel as a result of capitalism.

> Don't attribute causation to what just could easily be the null effect.

Alienation existed before capitalism.

Also, "empty slogan" is kind of ironic in the same breath blaming capitalism for all our ills.
Most of the listeners of podcasts have moved on to technologies that do not rely on RSS. RSS was like podcasting 1.0. Now people consume podcasts on integrated, centralized platforms.
I remember the Club of Rome was the first to do these models, assuming peak oil and the collapse of western civilization based on resource constraints. They would have these coupled differential equations, similar to predator-prey, calculating cost of extracting resources and the resulting declines in food production and thus population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_of_Rome

But I thought all of that had fallen out of fashion by the early 1980s when oil prices fell and it was discovered that you don't have stable relationships or known parameters for most of this stuff.
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>That’s what’s challenging about this situation. We’re experiencing a fairly new problem. It hasn’t before been possible for a member of society to communicate with all other members of society at the same time, nor has it been possible for a member of society to get addicted on a curated feed of random (sometimes anonymous) folks spreading their ideas globally.

This comment could have been taken more or less word for word from the diary of a monk who lived in the 1500s.

We've been through this before.
The HN guidelines[1] say:

> Don't solicit upvotes, comments, or submissions. Users should vote and comment when they run across something they personally find interesting—not for promotion.

I believe that means that asking people to leave positive comments on a post is something the guidelines ask you not to do.

But I would agree that, for instance, just posting on your social media "I posted this on HN, check out the comments" by itself should probably be fine, and might result in the same behavior, it's kind of a fuzzy line.

Please don't actually ask people to leave positive comments though. Or post something that you hope people read-between-the-lines the same way.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Since tacit knowledge can be gained experientially, watching videos on social skills where the actions are demonstrated can build your social skills just like being instructed on how to ride a bike can make it easier for you to learn how to ride a bike.
So, for example, all those news stories about DACA immigrants are fake news?

"With the granting of work authorization and the imminent threat of deportation removed, DACA recipients have experienced pronounced upward mobility in their socioeconomic status."

https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/deferred...
That is untrue... I will be continuing to work for myself and hopefully increase my income, but the safety net is there if I don't quite hit my mark. This is the same with anyone. Trust me: I WANT money. I LIKE money. But if I cannot earn enough, I'm more than happy to take from the benefits I have spent a lot of money to fund. I also vote regularly to increase taxes and to expand funding for the social safety net, so that it is available anytime ANYONE has to pull from it.
I don't know the specifics but most suppliers don't want to deal with the hassle of retail and marketing, so it makes sense for distribution / retail gatekeepers to charge a fee. And smart contracts aren't going to magically guarantee someone will buy your corn.

Moreover, ETH transactions often run in the $100+ range now, mind-bogglingly expensive and inefficient. Those fees pay miners to waste electricity, hoard silicon, and scorch the earth. Ethereum has been switching to proof of stake "any day now" since it's inception 6 years ago. And even if they actually pull it off I don't see why staking $20k of crypto to participate is somehow better or more fair than spinning up a $4/month cloud VM to manage a 1000x more efficient, fast, and effective supply chain database with digital signatures.

There's a lot of utopian handwavey BS around crypto, but it seems to be turning out like other magic utopian solutions in human history (gurus, communism, etc.). Wish people would divert this time and energy into things that actually benefit society.
Presumably, this is in an area where you have a big population without cars.

In the US, these are few and far between. And Aldi/Lidl are going to optimize for their costs, which means not paying rent in a downtown if they have the option to build on cheaper land 5 minutes away from downtown. Which makes no difference to them, because 99% of their customers have a car.
There is some back and forth going on. Apparently it's quite a divisive opinion.

That is ok!

You can disagree and just downvote.

You can disagree and explain why.

You can disagree and explain why and downvote.

You can leave a nasty, offensive, insulting message at your own peril -and I can take it.
Jobs are trade offs. You get to choose which one you take.

If you love making video games and one video game company has worse working conditions than all the others, quit that one and go work for one of the other ones.

If you love making video games and all the video game companies have poor working conditions because too many people love making video games and therefore the market is saturated, this a thing that only you can do anything about. The company you work for is already trying to maximize profits in a competitive market. To improve your working conditions they'd have to make more money, but if they could do that so easily they'd have done it already.

You, by contrast, have an actual choice. Do you love this job, working conditions and all, better than your other available alternatives? If the answer is yes, you've made your choice. But for some people the answer is going to be no, and it's those people, choosing something else, that establish the floor for working conditions. They can only go as low as you're willing to put up with. So don't put up with less than you find reasonable.

It's the thing that creates change. Less people are willing to do the job, so less video games get made, competition is less aggressive so each company makes more revenue which allows working conditions to improve. Other solutions will have results no better than this and most of them are just roundabout ways to achieve the equivalent result with higher transaction costs or some kind of perfidious rent seeking or gatekeeping.

The real "problem" is that people want fun and interesting jobs that everybody wants to pay as much as dull and dirty jobs that nobody wants, but that's not how it works. At the same skill level, the shittier job pays better. Because if it doesn't, you quit.
I'm not the OP, but I took their comment to mean "on the command line".
RSS is by far the best and easiest way to keep up with sources you want to follow. Using RSS to get updates from curated Twitter lists is the only way to just get updates from accounts you want to follow on Twitter and maintain your sanity. I recommend NetNewsWire.
Obviously worthwhile, but if you claim to be able to do this in a couple of hours I’d like to know your secret.
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Do you support shutting down businesses for the duration of any Tornado Watch?

It would depend on the severity -- and shelter capabilities at the business site -- of course.
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Only Google people can view the back-end of Content ID... I'm talking about a service that we as normal people can use to see where our own music is being used across the Internet... Right now the only thing content creators can do is use metadata to search for their own content, but if there was a method to search for the footprints of music and film, then we could work on overall fairness better.
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I always liked the pseudo-realistic stack traces in Evangelion. Like, when an error happens a literal stack trace runs through their digital screens. It's realistic enough to be immersive and nostalgic, but sci-fi enough to not warrant deep examination or to poke holes through.

The UI is pretty timeless in that regard.
> Personal financial columnists and comedians do not understand the jobs that gift cards do. They are not cash-but-worse-in-every-way. Closed loop cards allow a giver to personalize a gift to the recipient. A Barnes and Noble gift card to a favorite niece tells that niece that you remember she is a reader, unlike those uncreative family members who would just give her cash.

The article doesn't actually explain the job being done by gift cards. The job is the one the giver is expected to perform: the ritual of gift giving. The gift card is hired by the giver for that job. But how did the giver get this job?

Far more interesting than the mechanics of gift card management would be an exploration of this ritual. Where does it come from, and why has it morphed into the economically-essential activity that the former religious holiday of Christmas has become? Are gift cards the last stop before the holiday returns to its roots, or will the next phase become even less recognizable?
How do you manage medical care?

Of all the things I have planned, this is the only variable I don’t have an answer for because Medicare kicks in at 65.

The market-based plans are either useless (few hundred dollars a month); or expensive (a couple
of thousand per month).
totally agree with this post, I used a simple example where many more complicated ones exist.

The problem is how do you disentangle Differential Item/Test Function being from cultural purposes as compared to 'we expect this group to perform worse'.

The larger point is that culture, intelligence, and measures of culture developed in a particular culture are difficult to disambiguate.
Oh wow, he just died on November 7, 2021.

RIP. Fantastic performance
The medium is the message as the saying goes, the technology we interact with shapes what kinds of interaction we have. Blaming 'people' makes no sense because 'people' cannot be changed, unless we genetically reengineer humanity to be more accommodating to Facebook's algorithms, which they would probably prefer compared to having to actually fix the problems of their platform

>"At some point the onus is, and should be in any meaningful democracy, on the individual"

Viewing systems issues that are macro at scale through an individualized lens is great for dodging responsibility and Facebook's bottom line but it makes about as much sense as thinking that dealing with climage change will be achieved by everyone voluntarily shopping greener on amazon rather than creating systems that are, collectively and at a mechanism level oriented towards social good
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Hmmm....did you mention lasers? That might have triggered their "sketchy" Algo. How do they know you are misleading anyone? People clicking "misleading" because they saw your ad in the wrong context?
Also NodeBox has a successor in PlotDevice: https://plotdevice.io/ (although I have not actually used it myself).
When I was a kid in a suburban/rural area I used a bicycle to solve all those problems, besides groceries, which my parents took care of.
Because it is a loaded question and there is no good answer.

Social media exist, they are part of our world, it is not a factor we can isolate, which mean answering that question would be science-fiction. It makes as much sense as speculating about a world without Hitler, yeah, it can make great stories, but that's it.

Maybe the answer would be "no, because a world without social media would be a different world", but in which way? No one knows.
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> most of humanity is... challenged

Most, no. Everybody is blind to one perspective or another. Also, time is limited and attention is limited. Do not think that others are just stupid because their focus or knowledge does not overlap with yours.

"Those people" does not exist. It's just an illusion of your own limited perspective. We are on this together and calling people stupid not it is true, not it helps.
> not really an option for me, since i want downloadable software, which is also why i use Thunderbird instead of web mail clients

> How is RSS supposed to survive if there is no good software for it out there?

There is good software for it out there. Most people don't want to use/run/download/install local software, they'd prefer an API client on their device and a service that does the heavy lifting for them.

I don't like that model either, but most people do, and they've chosen it, for better or worse. I don't think that the claim that there's no good software out there is a valid one - it's just software that you personally have disqualified. SaaS is still software, and much of it is very high quality. You just don't get to run or modify it.
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