skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's absolutely and cynically correct. For example: there is a concept of parking tickets with fines. The fines are set to discourage certain behaviors while also not being cruel and unusual. Some people will never park "illegally" while others consider parking tickets to be the unfortunate risk or consequence of how they live their lives and do their jobs. The same is true for all penalties, period.

This cynical calculus should be separated from how we feel about the organizations that commit things that result in fines. It's really easy to hate on banks and believe that every fine is justified and should actually be way bigger. Pitchforks and burning down the barn, ya know? But someone somewhere decided that calculus of appropriateness based on a variety of factors, and it is the lowercase-p political process to push for changes based on outcomes we see. But the pendulum swings both ways. China is an example of a country where if a company goes against government rules it can be dissolved, its leaders arrested and thrown in prison, based on criteria they have calibrated politically. Or in some other countries, you may be beheaded for social infractions. Not trying to reduce this to absurd (but real) logical extremes, but highlighting that this is precisely the difficult balance folks try to find, and our sense of proportionality is often affected by the current popular conception of them as an industry or as an individual company/person. I.e., just as many people hate on banks and think they should be punished higher, they turn around express complete disbelief at "unfair" fines and laws that are broken by innovators that run faster than regulations allow (read: tesla, uber, airbnb, etc). Sometimes we collectively feel fines are justified, sometimes not, sometimes too high, sometimes too low. Your calibration may vary.
Yes, these things will only shake out when someone takes Tesla to court.

However the opinion of a professor of law, who is also an engineer, is not something to so easily dismiss. IMO, it means that Tesla is likely to find themselves in court.
> Virtue signalling is a real thing. You see it often with things like land acknowledgements[1][2], for example.

Of course its a thing. It discredits you because its a term conservatives have been trained to use when they don't like a concept or don't want to think about a new concept. Your land acknowledgement example is actually great. It's intellectually weak to claim that everyone who does land acknowledgements is just virtue signaling. It implies that you have, or generally all conservatives have, insight into the motivations of hundreds of thousands of people. Here is the definition of 'virtue signaling'

"the action or practice of publicly expressing opinions or sentiments intended to demonstrate one's good character or the moral correctness of one's position on a particular issue."

The practice might not be particularly useful, or even an empty gesture, but that doesn't make it virtue signaling. Virtue signals are done for your own benefit. You can project onto folks doing land acknowledgements but you to write them all off as virtue signaling is really just sad. You should get to know some tribal members, because they do it too. I've been to many meetings where tribal members lead the land acknowledgement. Are they just virtue signaling too?

> As far as whether people should be allowed to rot on the streets, stealing from local businesses to feed their drug addiction, and being sexually assaulted by their dealer - there are better alternatives. Behind bars is one option, Lanterman-Petris-Short conservatorship[3] (not the Britney Spears type) is another.

As with all things, solutions to problems are easy to find when you aren't restricted by reality. The War on Drugs didn't work for the first 60 years, I don't know why you think it'd work now. I also think you are greatly over estimating how willing judges anywhere are to institutionalize people, especially when they are just drug addicts.

The only real solution to the problem is to have single-payer health care and massively increasing spending on mental and behavioral health by the federal government. Unfortunately with the republican party more or less in control, I don't think we will see an increase in any spending that helps Americans any time soon.
What possible benefits actually are there, compared to non-centralized identity systems we already have? The only thing you get from a centralized identity system is the bad thing -- it allows surveillance bureaucracies to correlate separate authentication tokens with each other.
Lowest common denominator.
Yes, though to be clear your supposed to get a both.

“It is recommended that adults get a Tdap shot for one of their tetanus boosters.” https://www.verywellhealth.com/booster-shots-1298291

It simply reduces the number of injections when you get multiple vaccines at the same time.
British or American version?
As if Facebook doesn't have an entire division doing this exact thing. We can't name specific names, because there are no specific names. These are institutions, and their orders flow down from the top.

Your comment is 100% disingenuous.
Box – Python dictionary with dot notation
Because they're paid by taxpayers to do their job. And to be clear: their job is to make arrests and allow the rest of the justice system to do its job, which is (1) to determine the feasibility of going to court, and then (2) to determine the innocence or guilt of the arrested party in a public trial of peers.

Police abstention because other parts of the justice system refuse to play by their (cruel) rules is revanchism, nothing more or less.
Double clicking on an icon in windows does one of 3 things:

- opens a folder

- opens a document

- executes a program

I think it is reasonable for a user to assume those icons in the control panel are programs and worry whether they’ll open a dialogue with an “okay” and “cancel” option or just do something.

We have the same problem on the command line. We can reasonably assume that `config-program -—help` won’t execute anything, but we don’t know until we try. However, we are assured that `man config-program` won’t execute anything.

The sidebar brings intermediate users closer to assurance and helps novice users understand where they are.

At least that’s how I see it as a good UX addition to windows. I wouldn’t be surprised if most scared users wouldn’t even look at the sidebar.
The irony is, your argument is the Appeal to Ignorance fallacy.
> Their customers

Which should be pointed out isn't the same as Facebook's users. Facebook's customers are powerful entities that already have nearly unlimited access to promote their messages. What upset them was the ability of others to also push messages, some of which were inconvenient to the powerful. What Facebook's customers are demanding is that only messages they approve be heard.
> in the same way that unlimited vacation time turned into less vacation time?

I think these are both related to culture. My company went to unlimited vacation earlier this year and people have been noticeably taking more PTO than before. I ran the numbers and I've used an extra week so far than I would have been allowed otherwise.

Maybe other teams haven't been taking as much, but as far as I can tell people are taking advantage of this because we've all heard the unlimited PTO leading to less time off stories, we don't want that to happen here.
That seems unlikely, and it's not really how Drop usually works. They collect pre-order payments before manufacturing. This is probably an unlimited group buy.

Pre-oders on Drop.com usually stay open for a month or longer.
"Could you give an example of something that is simple to express in Haskell, but harder and error prone to express in Go/Rust/[other imperative languages]? Honestly curious!"

This is hugely subjective but if I'm writing large data transformation pipelines for example, the type system and the compositionsal power of a language like Haskell, or pure FP scala, makes such a task an absolute breeze. It all just slots together like Lego. You have a high degree of confidence that the thing will work, and you can use local reasoning to understand the parts and, by extension the whole program, since the laws of composition and the lazy eval model make this trivial in comparison to imperative code. The way code can compose, the runtime and the resulting local reasoning, can honestly feel like a super power sometimes. Beware of thinking programs written in other languages are simpler to reason about, they might not be. There's more than the "simplicity" of the code to worry about in software.

Is it better than Rust? I can't answer that sort of question, but I can tell you that full-throttled pure FP can be a pretty damn amazing tool when you need it. Rust seems to be a fascinating language for doing, say, systems programming, with some FP-like idioms built in. Amazing! Comparing languages though is tricky, it's always about tradeoffs, context and so on. I don't believe in a hierarchy of languages.
>Athanasios Nenes ..one of the team behind the new study. *“You basically stop burning wood. That’s the bottom line.”*

If gas and electricity prices hadn't gone up 60% this year, I might be able to afford to heat my home some other way than by using my wood burner!
On issues that matter to the country like climate change, healthcare, education, taxes, womens & minority rights - sure there's plenty.

If you're talking about hot button social issues of the week that right wing commentators care/talk about 1000x more than anyone else, I don't know because I don't care about that at all.
What does brandifious mean? A google search doesn't return anything.
Is "custom protocol" really that bad if the existing ones were insufficient?

Is this question just opening myself up to a cacophony of "what was wrong with IRC / XMPP?"
Ceasing the funnel of endless low-skill, wage-depressing job competitors absolutely would improve the life of the lower class. They also have to deal with increased crime, it's not a uniquely "rich" problem. These parties are growing in popularity because it's a reaction to a real problem that locals are witnessing as their communities are changed for the worse.

Back in the 80s/90s, Sweden was known for bikini teams and ABBA. Now it's known for rape gangs. Sad!
> It became a universal remedy

Since we're all humans with human bodies there are universal ways to better our emotional and mental lives. There's a reason there's no obese 80 year old people.
I hope Web3 doesn't become Web 2.1
For what it's worth I really hate the dinky little F keys on my Kinesis Advantage 2, they're hard to hit, awkwardly positioned and feel gross. F8 and F9 are entirely impossible to hit without moving your entire hand.

I consider this an upgrade. I personally think layer beats any keys I can't hit without taking my hands off home row.

That said my other main daily driver is an HHKB so I'm pretty used to switching layer for F keys.
> What is the pro of manual transmission?

1. enjoyment

2. keeps you awake

3. more reliable

4. more control in stuck or slippery conditions

5. thieves don't know how to drive them

6. the kids are terrified of it and won't ask to borrow it

7. can push start the car

8. can restart the car while moving if the engine stalls

9. can coast

10. can drop the clutch and get off the line faster when drag racing against some teen at the traffic light

11. get to enjoy double clutching and mastering heel-toeing and pretending you're an F1 driver

12. The Cat cannot reach the clutch pedal, frustrating its plans for putting me in the trunk and depositing me in the Kat Fud Factory

13. you can nurse the car home and to the shop with a broken gearbox. With an automatic, it's a tow truck every time

14. the sheer joy of a winding mountain road, a powerful V8, picking the gear for the next turn, managing the traction and engine speed, etc.
For the record here, in addition to the fines, there is an additional unreported price of legal costs to fight this and compliance costs to fulfill obligations as per settlement. It's not quite an iceberg costs, but I guarantee they hired expensive lawyers to fight this beyond usual retainers.
I agree wholeheartedly. I first moved to San Francisco in 1998 for reasons unrelated to tech, and despite becoming a software engineer I cheered the effect the dotcom crash had on the city. The people who made the city great were being forced out and replaced by young tech workers who largely didn't care about anything other than their careers.

The app boom was similarly heartbreaking, only this time most tech workers didn't even need to explore the neighborhoods they lived in -- they could Uber to the front door of any restaurant they wanted, and take tech buses instead of riding their bikes or taking public transportation to get to work.

A few years ago I read that the average tenure of a business on Valencia was less than 18 months, which is nothing short of a death sentence for a neighborhood like the Mission. Long times residents no long feel connected to (or were able to take pride in) their neighborhood, and most new residents don't care to to establish those connections -- why bother if the upscale boutique that replaced a multigenerationally owned family business is just going to be gone in a year an a half?

I mourn what happened to the city I used to love, but I'm optimistic that the decentralization of tech will leave San Francisco a better place.
The convention in Julia is that a package that defines a type Abc is called Abcs.jl. Also, DataFrames.jl provides its own manipulation functions which DataFramesMeta is a wrapper around using metaprogramming, hence the name.
I once left my wallet in a bar in China. I came back for it a few hours later and it was still there.

Also left my bag with my laptop in a bar in Denmark once and it was there the day after, when I came back looking for it.
I think the easiest (?) thing to do would be to create automated tools to help individuals raise the level of debate when they encounter disinformation. Something where you could paste in a comment and get some analysis which included a) a classification about the specific kind of disinformation, b) an analysis of different kinds of sentiment, c) suggestions for how to reach the person spreading the disinformation, and d) other recommended strategies.

Anti-disinformation campaigns are probably more effective with a decentralized component.

I think it's important to realize that it's not a question of facts vs. "facts." In my experience there are grievances which can, until they are heard, make a person relatively impervious to facts and traditional debate.
In addition to all the comments from Advantage fans here, I also wanted to add that Kinesis has been an awesome company. I tweeted about some mods I made to my Advantage keyboard a long time ago, and they invited me to their office and donated a bunch of keyboards to the nonprofit I work for, to give as prizes to students (even before they launched the gaming-focused brand).
The above information is not from "media" but from official government proceedings of the bipartisan Jan 6 Committee. I suppose when your elected leaders tell you that the previous government tried to overthrow the current government, one response is to go camping. You do you.

But in the end there is actual physical evidence in front of us. We all have a choice to accept it, or to sweep it under the rug. To deny what it is telling us. To equivocate and prevaricate. To whatabout or to even outright lie to ourselves.

But the actual physical evidence is pointing to a large autocratic force in our government that intends to take away your vote, in favor of Russian-style one-party rule. It already tried once, and it continues unabated today.

Say what you want about the America electoral system, and by God there's a lot to say about it, but at the end of the day there was a transfer of power last year because the old government lost the election fair and square. Elections do matter. Voting does matter. So if you appreciate your right to vote, don't look away. Go on your camping trip, but when you get back, take a long hard look at the evidence presented by the Jan 6th Committee.
This empire has a long way to fall.

The way I think of the Bay Area is that it is just after the local peak of a form of civilization- the ascendancy of the techno-elite- that is currently taking over the world, or rather, taking its place alongside energy, medicine, and agriculture as major pillars of wealth and power.

We are witnessing a micro-Rome, micro both in time and space. Instead of an empire rising and falling over centuries, the Bay Area rose and is now falling within the period of after WWII to now.

Certainly the Bay Area didn't create the internet on its own, or develop the first micros or personal computers, nor invent all the machine learning algorithms, solely "solve search", or ad revenues. But it played a critical role in all those areas because the BA has, through a number of factors (some intentional, some not) been poised to do this since the end of WWII.

At the end of WWII, the Bay Area was already a technological center with plenty of money about to undergo a population and building boom, but civic leaders and others recognized that the Bay Area's unique combination of attributes (weather, business, intellectual climate) made it ideal for a revolution based on companies depending on heavy technology development and smart well-payed employees funded by VCs. Those combination of attributes have reliably caused people to migrate here to go to school or get jobs or just bum around since 1945.

Unfortunately, while that growth at the beginning worked out pretty well, the Bay Area has a number of limitations (some physical, some mental) that affect its ability to resolve the underlying infrastructural and social problems that occurred due to the "climate" (both political and atmospheric) and which have grown especially bad during a series of unbelievably good economies which have led to high housing prices, congested roads, etc.

Don't worry- the bay area will muddle on in this state for some time and won't just crash immediately into a post-apocalyptic wasteland. But, unless we change our ways significantly, the relative importance and power of the Bay Area will wane, being replaced by other areas which have found circumstances leading to rapid growth of a techno-elite.
> Additionally, you need to be in New York if you want to "play in the big leagues" in the world of finance, fashion, art, etc.

I'm still a little worried about these (less finance); I keep hearing about people moving back home and not looking back because broker fees + rents shot up to where they used to be. Currently only 60% of jobs lost in NYC came back, vs ~90% nationally.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/14/nyregion/nyc-economy-jobl...
A analogy, you can probably find full schematics of a Tesla, or close to it, but that isn't the problem. The car factory is the problem. How do you get one of those? If you have the resources to obtain one, you also have the resources to hire engineers to design a car for you.
What are we calling a small business? For a 1-4 person outfit, $100, combined with the administrative hassle, may just be enough to get the business to amend some process. Even the moderately wealthy usually don't intentionally leave their cars parked where they'll get a ticket, because it's annoying to have to deal with it.
The Wikimedia Foundation has released its 2020/21 audited financial statements.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/1/1e/Wikim...

Total assets (p. 2): $240 million (not counting over $100 million in separate Wikimedia Endowment).

Increase in net assets over previous year (p. 3): $51 million

Total support and revenue in 2020/21 (p. 3): $163 million
Are you assuming that those people were hoping their innovations would only benefit Apple and their customers? If an athlete comes up with a new technique to boost their performance it will be quickly copied by competitors and the higher bar of performance becomes the new normal. I don't see why you think it would be soul-crushing to know you've had that kind of impact.
I can't believe for one second that LIBOR was only manipulated for one bip at a time.
+1 I really do like my new Moonlander, which I purchased in November. However, as a former Kinesis Advantage user, I miss the contoured shape, I think it helped a lot with carpal pain.

That said, I'm not sure I can justify another keyboard.
Honest question: why do you care how? It does circumvent it quite efficiently.

But I've seen somebody here in this thread mentioning that yt-dlp emulates the YouTube Android client.
I love Nim. I been using it professionally for more than 3 years now. At first I started with it just as a faster python with types, but it so much more! You can run Nim everywhere regular places such as backend, frontend, mobile, but also in crazier places like GPU shaders and imbedded.

I also like the community. It's not so big that it feels like you only see people once but not so small that there are no useful libraries written. Just the right size for me. You can always get people to help you out on stuff, reminds me of old IRC days.
AFAIK there's no requirement to work with the DoD, but if you want DoD consultants they want a say in the movie.
Pharmaceutical companies used all inclusive "conferences" to influence doctors to prescribe more opioids. It was effective enough to be banned.

> Accepting a free trip to a drug-company-sponsored conference guided doctors to write more prescriptions of the company’s drugs, a spike of 80 to 190 percent

https://www.drugwatch.com/news/2012/01/18/pharmaceutical-com...

America is generally good about limiting things to legal graft. I can't offer an elected official money in exchange for a vote, but I can donate millions to entities controlled by the elected officials that are my "friends" and make sure they know about it.
This is a great comment. But I'm going to push back on your last paragraph, because it is not completely reasonable for a contractor to say "I'll supply screenshots instead of running this agent". Screenshots work for your team because you set up and documented a process for managing them, and then taught your auditors about it. This contractor's client might not --- probably didn't! -- do that work. It may be logistically tricky for them to do so after the fact if they're already doing consistency audits; also, regardless of where they're at, it might not be worth building and documenting and teaching a whole new screenshot collection policy just to placate a contractor (it will doubtlessly cost more for them to do that than to simply supply the contractor with a company laptop for the duration of their project).

For what it's worth: a nit I like to pick with Vanta is that it sets a very ambitious bar for what a company should be doing with respect to IT security, where SOC2 does no such thing. I worry that things like Vanta lead teams into doing all sorts of stuff that might not be a fit, and certainly isn't required to pass a Big 4 SOC2 audit. What was your experience there?

(I ask because SOC2 is sort of looming over us, though obviously it's not something we're jumping to do preemptively).
I didn't suffer from carpal tunnel but I'd get a lot of tension in my back and shoulders leading to sharp pains and deep aches that would last for days. Started using an Advantage2 and trackball in my non-dominant hand at work and within a week the symptoms were gone (and have stayed gone for a few years). I still use a normal keyboard and mouse in my dominant hand at home but the time spent that way is much less.
If we're being serious, I'd say we're living in a hybrid system with competing sources of power: oligarchy, indirect democracy, direct democracy, guild system, etc.