skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Nearly every interaction involves putting yourself in between a company's policy and the person in front of you. You're sort of being paid to be a sacrificial lamb for the company's policies."

The grocery store near me has been bleeding workers the past few years and it's reached the point where there are consistently long checkout lines filled with annoyed shoppers even on non busy days.
I could complain about the wait to the workers, but what would that do? I could complain to their shift manager, but so what, they don't do the hiring? Maybe I could find the grocery manager, he would probably want more help, but he doesn't control the budget. Now we're at 4 layers of management, the store director, who could increase hiring, but the regional manager wants to juice the numbers for his bonus so maybe I could reach out to the state director...

What i'm getting at is it seems like corporate bureaucracy at so many places has reached a point where anybody with real power to make changes has been completely isolated from the public. It's just powerless workers being yelled at by a powerless public. I don't really know how we fix that.
I read somewhere a while ago that LE are working on what’s called “intermediate CA” [0] which would solve the problem. Apparently from a regulatory standpoint there are some questions around abuse that need to be answered before they can go ahead. The basic idea is that you can issue your own certificates based on the LE CA that is already recognised by the browsers.

EDIT [0] https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/does-lets-encrypt-offer-...
Since 2018, I've been traveling with a 45L GoRuck GR3 and a small backpack for my laptop. I fly carry-on only (1 bag, plus "personal item") and manage to cram a lot of useful stuff in very small space, including a lot of stuff that many minimalists wouldn't carry.

- Two laptops: A company MacBook Pro, plus a personal LG Gram with Pop_OS!

- A Keychron K3 keyboard, Roost stand, Apple Magic Touchpad and USB/HDMI adapter so I can expand my mobile office just about anywhere

- A 30,000 mAh backup battery with solar charger

- A two person hammock

- A collapsible backpack for day trips

- A sleeping bag

- A rain coat and fleece jacket, which combined with two merino wool shirts underneath makes a perfect winter coat, but each piece can also be used separately in warmer weather

- A week's worth of clothing based on merino wool, 1 long sleeve shirt, 1 pair of jeans, 3 jean shorts, 7 running shorts, about 12 short sleeve shirts for different occasions, 8 pairs of boxers and socks

- Running shoes, leather shoes for nice occasions or cold weather, hiking sandals, flip flops

- Elastic bands and a yoga mat for workouts

- Assorted other things: toiletries, medicines, documents, cables, power adapters

I'm probably forgetting a few things.

Most days, I don't miss anything. The few things I miss occasionally are some toys I'd love to play with more: a guitar, a drone, windsurf equipment, a bike. Sometimes I rent these things, but they're a bit expensive to rent, so I don't do it often. I'm thinking about switching to a van lifestyle so I can carry more of those things, and also some kitchen supplies so I can have more control over my diet.
There is recent evidence that as the end of the civilization drew nearer, the ancients fruitlessly increased the frequency and duration with which they performed these ceremonies. When coupled with geologic records, it's likely that famine and increasing tide levels had something to do with the increase of these ceremonies.
Related to this, I briefly explored the idea of digital secret sharing tech for lawyers/notaries to use as a service in Estate Planning. Certainly not "zero trust" and you'd still want the usual YGWYPF and contract law to back it up. Ran into some huge hurdles. The idea was to be a somewhat safer "digital escrow" ("safety deposit box") in the cloud providing artifacts that could be placed in wills or real world safety deposit boxes. The first and obvious being generally lawyers aren't as tech savvy as they should be and building a good UX for that is likely a very hard problem.

(But the real problem I got into in casual conversations picking lawyer brains to see if there was a viable MVP to try to build was what I felt to be the real serious Digital Escrow whammy that we're going to maybe need decades to fix: digital goods survivorship isn't an established right. Most Terms of Service agreements forbid, indirectly or directly giving someone else your password. Worse, many Terms of Services explicitly are being written between only one specific individual and the company and have clauses that terminate with the individual. A lawyer asked to write a password into an estate plan doesn't have to think about what it protects and doesn't need to know and passwords on paper stored in a safety deposit box are mostly covered/secured by existing contract law and insurance and all that. [But also you can't update that password without the rigmarole of paying the lawyer to open the file in the safety deposit box and updating the document.] But even in just casual conversations, asking if password and digital "item" storage/escrow as a service was useful to lawyers led them down into frightening rabbit holes that Digital Estate Planning is a giant mess, the contracts [Terms of Services] are nightmares, most companies don't want to consider digital goods as inheritable goods, and the legal fights over inheritance rights of things like Steam accounts or Movies Anywhere or Kindle accounts are just waiting to happen and lawyers would generally prefer to ostrich that as long as possible unless someone pays them heavily or someone else sets a good first precedent. I still think about some of these problems and how unprepared we currently are with respect to "digital goods".)
Is that an argument against "don't believe what people claim about Chinese abuse of Muslims in Xinjiang" or against "don't believe claims that China is just defending itself against Muslim terrorists, supported by foreign imperialists, in Xinjiang", or both?
Simple. Fast. Web Components
> When a doctor tells you to keep off your feet and go to x weeks of physical therapy, do you ignore them because it won't make you happy?

If X is 2+ years, and my feet feel fine, and being off my feet is miserable, then yes I do ignore them. At some point you are responsible for your own life, and that point was a while ago. I hope you realize this before you waste any more of it.
> Let's just imagine for a while what UI would look like if we only had Swing (Java) or QT (C++)

I can easily imagine that, because that's more or less what we had before Electron. And it was much better, because apps (mostly) looked consistent across the OS, rather than each and every one coming up with its own custom UI theme.
No--society is ridiculously lenient towards any driving offense.
Person claims thing, may or may not have evidence, claim made in such a way it is not subject to defamation etc and can be repeated without any chance for a reply.
Cool, I was planning on using ubiquity gear, so will look more into this.
I mean.... Cheap Old Houses had a 1000 year old house for sale not long ago.

There's also plenty of timber buildings that last for millenia.
Being a tiny side project to scratch an itch he had, I wouldn't say it was a failure even at 5k.
I don't think I communicated my point well. A first world country is struggling to not decrease its capacity in hospitals, what makes you think the rest of the world won't have similar struggles?
Equity is the only thing after wage comp that matters I'd argue, because end of the day all those other things are meaningless. When the business decides it is time to cut costs and people, your equity is the only thing shielding you. Equity will determine if its worth putting up with the BS/stress/etc. that could arise. If you're not in a position of significant equity (multiples of your wages you're comfortable with), then I'd argue it makes no sense unless you are okay making bad financial decisions when you could earn more to pay for those other things by going somewhere else.
A system that you have total control over is a system that you are totally responsible for administrating.

Most people don't want that. Most people don't have time for that. For them, an Xbox that can browse web , run Office, and play streamers, remotely administered by a company with name recognition and trust like Microsoft, is enough. And that even goes for many Hackernews; if I had a nickel for everytime I've heard something like "Oh, desktop Linux? No thank you, that's for college students with plenty of time on their hands. I'm a professional dev, but I have kids and a mortgage so I need something that Just Works." I could buy a fancy meal for me and my girlfriend with the proceeds.

A big part of Just Works in today's pervasively interconnected world involves delegating the security of your device to a third party, either your company's IT or Apple, Microsoft, or Google for personal devices.
> I have a machine with better specs than a comparable MacBook Pro M1 for less.

…except for display quality, performance and battery life.
No, this is what happens when supply and demand are way out of balance.

There simply aren't enough developers over the entire range, and certainly not enough with decades of experience, for all the work that can be done.

Renting additional servers, etc is cheap and easy compared to hiring additional developers. So we all optimize for that.
> It should be legible - it should be easy to understand what it is and how it works in the absence of drawings or other information

I like this use of "legible"
I had a Knifeless Fuse for a while so I could have something when traveling, but TSA goons are so, well, goony about everything that it became not worth it to explain that it didn't have a blade on it even if they managed to notice it (which was, we should be clear, nowhere nearly half the time).
Well, well. I just realized. I think that apple sets by default that IOS Safari can't use location services without going into settings. Which for a really significant chunk (majority?) of iphone users mean that any web app using location services is "broken"[1]. Which of course means that for those folks web apps are not a thing, but they go and buy an app in the app store. Well played. (#ssholes.)

[1] Due to circumstances, I have needed to demo a certain location web app to quite a few people. I am not exaggerating.
So, security through obscurity?
Did he still have access to the source?
> Personally I'm waiting for engineering salaries in the non-US to catch up to the US because it'll make it easier for me to leave the US if I choose to do so but it doesn't look like it's happened yet.

What difference would it make to your quality of life if you made $60k in Europe instead of $150k in America? Sure, your net worth wouldn't increase at the same rate, but should we define our lives around our net worth?
I think the parent was suggesting HN is a place for thoughtful, respectful and on-topic discussion. Guidance is provided here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Of course, the last one is:
"Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills."
I think many of us, myself included, have been conditioned to be paranoid—just because I can’t think of/don’t know of any way some data could be abused doesn’t mean I’m going to make it public.
I would be really interested to see a rough $/hr estimate from OP. Like, if he really did get $200/mo for 1-2 hours of work a month - that's ~$100/hr! It's a good rate! But any increase in time demands is going to sink this as a productive side gig and obviously it's unfit to use as a main gig.
I've not seen this before but it's so cool! I've lost track of all the ways I've tried to keep track of things I've learned. Maybe this would be a good way to do it.

Link to the GitHub repo for those interested: https://github.com/simonw/til
Literally first result in google: The broken windows theory is a criminological theory that states that visible signs of crime, anti-social behavior, and civil disorder create an urban environment that encourages further crime and disorder, including serious crimes
- If you travel light and appear low value, you can often also avoid the worst of the taxi touts and thieves at airports. It sometimes helps if you can speak a second language that isn’t English.

- Having a single small bag you can keep on yourself is critical if you wish to use buses in poor countries.
This is a pretty decent cheat sheet. It might be worth noting that not all these commands may be available on every Linux distribution. In fact, there is no set of commands or packages guaranteed to be installed on every distro.

Though I'd guess that most distros should have bash[0], coreutils[1], findutils[2], util-linux[3], procps[4], as well as the usual text wrangling commands such as grep(1), sed(1), and awk(1).

From there on, browsing through man pages is a great way of gaining a deep understanding of a specific command. However, man pages are often too verbose and technical for those unfamiliar with the command. So prior to viewing man pages I find it useful to use cheat.sh[5] to see what my typical use cases of a command are, I then consult the manuals to figure out what each option means.

Eg.

$ curl cht.sh/tldr:tar
...
# Create an archive from files:
tar cf target.tar file1 file2 file3

# Create a gzipped archive:
tar czf target.tar.gz file1 file2 file3
...

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/

[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Util-linux

[4] https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps

[5] https://github.com/chubin/cheat.sh
Compared to ancient beer the yeast of modern beer is killed off before bottling, so you can't use it as a yeast replacement, but instead this allows the beer to be stored for a long time.
Wide Function Pointer Types for Pairing Code and Data [pdf]
WPF had the equivalent of "inspect element" 10 years ago. You don't need HTML for that, you just need good tooling.
Can you get away with not using the yoga mat and just doing yoga on the ground? I love my yoga mat but if you are looking to stay minimal…I wonder if the original yogis used mats? :)
One-bagging has its place, but it's not "all the time."

I love to one-bag it whenever I expect to have multiple destinations and am traveling via transit, for example. Flying to Europe and taking trains between a few cities? Definitely! I have a Farpoint55 with a zip-off day pack so I can leave the main pack (with my clothes) in the hotel/airbnb/hostel/etc and carry my laptop with me in the day pack. I bring a minimal set of light, easy-to-wash, fast-drying clothes and pick everything in my pack with care.

But plenty of trips don't fit this model. If I'm visiting my family or going to a conference, my luggage just goes car to airport, roll to the plane, roll back off the plane, car to destination. Then the same thing in reverse in a week. Weight barely matters - my luggage is rolling on smooth surfaces or sitting in a car's trunk the whole time. And there is value to optionality in what I pack: several different kinds of clothes, chosen to be appropriate at different kinds of events (rather than being super travel-friendly). So I use a suitcase or two and it's fine.

Both models have their place - no need to be dogmatic about either!
If you're doing machine learning, python is a very viable language to actually use.
I think the roofers would have said "oh, and the upstate NY stuff is pretty good too". The slate I've looked at in detail in PA really is pretty bad. It just isn't as dense as the welsh stuff in the UK.
I had an almost-empty container clearly marked 150ml (or something) confiscated because it was.. marked more than 100ml.

Also razor blades, I don't know if they're supposed to be allowed, being only about an inch long, but nope - shaving with expensive junk or growing a holiday beard are the only approved options!
That's awesome! It's a dream of mine to someday design my own home, though more from an architectural perspective and not a technical one like this. Will likely be unrealized, though, for financial reasons. Unless I win the lottery or something, but it's kind of hard to do that when you don't play ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm a physicist in R&D, so most of my fabrication is for one-time or very small run prototyping. But I work adjacent to a real engineering department and am a technical resource for them. I also have a side business making a little electronic gadget for a certain hobby.

A lesson I've learned is: Never assume you know the cheapest / best way of making something. I've especially learned this from designers working in China, who have surprised me many times because they know their local industry way better than I do.

Some techniques to keep in the back of your mind are punched and folded sheet metal, cast / molded aluminum, and vacuum forming. "Soft" mold tooling is cheaper than hard tooling. Vacuum forming is done with wooden molds. There are now some aluminum alloys that can be used for injection molding with short lifetime, but cheaper to machine than hard steel.

Injection molding has a steep learning curve because of the cost of tooling plus issues such as mold flow, ejection, and shrinkage during cooling. You don't always get it right on the first try.

Look for raw materials and parts that are close to the net shape that you want, and only need finishing or modification. For instance, "plate with holes" can be done with plates cut to size by a raw material supplier and drilled using a plywood jig with carbide drill guides.

Try to attend the International Machine Tool Show when the pandemic cools down a bit. Just for inspiration. Bring good shoes.
There is also basalt rebar. Last I checked, some building codes allow equivalent 1:1 tradeoff with classic rebar - even though the basalt rebar is stronger.

From what I understand, basalt rebar does not have the usual problem of regular rebar where oxidizing (rust) expansion can cause cracking in concrete. Additionally, the temperature expansion rates are much closer (rebar vs concrete).

My main hesitation would be that it is relatively new so we don't have that much data on how well it ages. Overall, it seems better than rebar classic by far (other than cost - which hasn't been scaled) - but I don't build structures for a living.
This is 4000 deaths spread statistically over I do not remember how many tens of years.

Check for yourself: https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub913e_web.p...
There has never been a time in all of human history where cities cordoned themselves off politically from the rural areas they rely on that did not end in rebellion, bloodshed, and/or collapse.

If you want rural America to rise up in rebellion again, I mean, I guess go for it. But there's a specific reason the vast majority of state capitals are in comparatively rural areas: to prevent exactly the kind of division you're advocating for. This was a hard-won lesson in the aftermath of Shay's Rebellion.
Why? We can hypothesize anything, but we shouldn’t just assume everything. The manufacturers made changes to the RNA sequence to reduce the ability to leave the cell, and then tested it in animal studies to confirm.
Safari is missing features and has its own quirks so I wouldn't say that.
My argument is literally as stated. Verify media claims and come to your own conclusions. Be aware of what interests are at play and be skeptical of them.
For developers Safari is like IE in the past.

- Missing features, supper buggy to a absurd point where you need to wonder if Apple isn't intentionally
crippling it. But hey, because some many people in management use it companies tend to work around all this bugs spending millions on it.

For users Chrome is like IE in the past.

- Having all kind of new features no one else has and people developing sites which only work for it correctly.

Still that has little to with the original comment.

I mean how is Apple outright banning competition (for example like Steam) from a marked coverying hundreds of million of people not a massive abuse of power which needs to be stopped for all the same reasons a monopoly is bad.

To just name one point (((there are other like absurd cuts for something which is just a payment service (in-app payments after paying for an app), often abusive/absurd behaviour on publishing apps, stiffing innovation (if not made/controlled by them), intentionally hindering repeatability and repair-ability regulation, including creation of an repair program where they pretend to help but actually just make sure you can't provide a proper repair service under it (let's see what will happen with the more recently announced program), intentionally vendor lock-in for developer all through their eco-system, surprisingly bad software quality for many parts facing developers at least parts which are not iOs, a whole bunch of subtle things which forces people to write apps instead of e.g. just providing a website or similar service, etc. etc. etc.))) Oh did I forgot to mention how they use the marked power to push down the prices of suppliers that they basically only can make profit by employing bs. like inhuman working conditions
or resources mined with child labor and similar and then pretending it's not their problem because they also forced the supplier to sign a contract that they don't do that.

Just because it's "per definition" not a monopoly doesn't mean it hasn't the same bad effects and other equally bad, not monopoly specific effect.

Also tbh. the problem with Safari isn't that it's slow in adapting standards Google forces through. The problem is that it's complete unreasonable buggy including on many old features with absurd bugs sometimes, and that they also lack behind on features which widely agreed to not "have been forcefully pushed through by google", like WASM. Often they support this things on paper but so buggy that it's unusable/very expensive to support them. And guess what most of this problems are focused on more "web appish" features instead of classical "web siteish" features, but that is surely a coincidence that this greatly benefits them by forcing people into the app store.
You should watch "American Factory" on Netflix. It is about a Chinese company opening a factory in Ohio. There may be economics behind the different work cultures, but the cultures are hugely different at this point. The Chinese managers are actually baffled that workers only want to work for the paycheck, and don't work hard for pride. They have to take courses about how American workers need to be coddled and treated as special.
Part of it might be transfer payments, part of it might be the wealth effect (stocks, house prices etc and everything bubble might have pushed people into retirement earlier). Probably affects behavior on the margin and has people pull away from the work force (and I think the Federal Reserve might be starting to realize that).

Also about half of the boomers have / are hitting retirement age and are retiring en masse, which will shrink the available labor supply quite drastically (especially since they were very productive workers in late career stage)
What Happened to the Faker.js Project?
Google will spend 2022 trying to match Apple’s ecosystem integrations
I'm not saying that pulling a gun on anybody for this reason is in any way reasonable or proportional. What happened to your sister sounds horrific and her former-employer sounds awful beyond words.

But I have to say, I understand why people asked to mask up in some cases flip out. Does it make sense to anybody that society has somehow decided that the way to be safe in restaurants is to put on a mask so a host can walk you 10-15 feet to your table for 10 seconds where you then proceed to take your mask off for over an hour? The mask ritual especially in this case is dehumanizing performative theater that doesn't make a lick of logical sense. Most people wouldn't be so uptight about the Covid rules when they make any sense: but many of them are beyond nonsensical.