skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
School is a flawed meritocracy, but it actually makes efforts to be one.

Corporate is a deliberate non-meritocracy whose purpose is to ratify the inadequate descendants of an existing oligarchy as meritocrats. Mussolini didn't make the trains run on time; he punished people who said the trains were late. Corporate is the same: meritocracy by assertion--and only by assertion.

In school, you learn that hard work is rewarded (with some noise) and that cheaters eventually get caught. The system isn't perfect, and there's definitely some corruption in admissions decisions later on, due to the socioeconomic fuckery that infects everything... but the attempt to be a meritocracy is at least clearly there. If you are treated unjustly by the system, you can at least appeal to the concept of meritocracy, and you have a chance of winning.

Corporate is easier, in the sense that the work is almost never demanding, and the evaluation thereof is invariably political... but if you go in expecting a meritocracy, because that's what 16-20+ years of schooling had you believing you would find... then oh boy are you going to be disappointed when you see what it's actually like. If a professor played favorites the way the average corporate manager does, he'd be fired.

Corporate is also a lot noisier. In school, you might get a B when you should have gotten an A, once in a while, but over time the noise cancels out. In corporate, you can get fired, and have your income turned off, for all kinds of stupid political reasons.
> FreeCAD files are nothing more than zip files containing text documents

That’s good to know. Though the fact that they’re zipped probably means they are not meant for humans to read anyway. Also, I don’t think GitHub or GitLab supports custom diff tools right now, and you would need that to do actual code reviews.
You are probably thinking of EROS <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EROS_(microkernel)>

But there have been several others also based on similar ideas, such as Mungi.

In recent years, there is Twizzler, intended for NVRAM. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ix5DYKxzLI>
I'm fairly certain Salt never enforced any throttling in practice, though it might be in the ToS?

Recent deals from Yallo mention throttling when roaming, but not in Switzerland where unlimited is really unlimited.
Peloton does have a lot going for it. From everyone I've heard, their physical products are well made (with the exception of the treadmill issue..). They have extremely low churn which is hard to do in fitness.

The main problem is that they grew too fast. All the pandemic sales were probably just pulled forward from future sales, not a sign of sustainable growth. They overcommitted and now need to trim back again.
> I never had a TRS 80, but I had the UK equivalent, a Dragon 32.

Not at all an equivalent - 6809 chip versus Z80 - completely different architecture, very different BASIC (Dragon had pixel graphics). The Dragon was a (better) clone of the Tandy Color Computer, not the TRS-80,
Did Neanderthals and modern humans take turns living in a French cave?
We sound like idiots when we talk about technical debt
Still does not fix the initial issue of your phone going off before getting back home..
Athlete Cardiac Arrests, Serious Issues, 387 Dead, After Covid Shot
My Django Journey
When you are in your twenties, especially when you are a technology enthusiast, you get plenty of advice, notable advice. it is problem solving, hence very helpful.

But if you are in you twenties , especially when you ae someone who wok in a web development related agency , there is a challenge that those advice might not work for the reason it seems to work initially.

Feel free to question what people tell you and in return challenge yourself by trying different things , because in the long un what matters is understanding why something works or doesn’t work for you when it comes down to it. In the end , you come to realize that the advice you got form other people didn’t impact you in one way or another.
> So, if you are also a Google Fi subscriber and not in the US 100% of the time - be aware, and you may want to consider seeking alternatives soon.

I used Fi in several countries outside the U.S. in 2021, for a period of over a month, without any issues whatsoever. The service has been very good.
It is the same thing over and over. Founders are praised when the company is growing, and the same founder for the same reasons are criticized when the company is not growing anymore.

If the CEO is so bad, how did he manage to create such a valuable company while almost nobody on earth has been able to do it ?
Or even a lot less if you're waiting for the special offers.

I have sunrise unlimited internet for 5 CHF/month (10 CHF without discount). Includes like 500 MB for roaming per month as well.
I travel freeloader style, ie as cheaply as possible, atm I'm on 10$ a day in Egypt for the last couple of months, half of which is spent on a place to sleep. I walk, hitch and pay for public transport out of big cities, or if possible travel 3rd class with the locals.
My point is that , learning the language, meeting the people, seeing their reality, enjoying the weather (while Europe is stuck in the cold) , feeling lucky because someone stops to give me a lift is a total mind fuck and I mean that in a good way...
The inherent chaos of roughing it and having time to contemplate the beautiful vistas with no one around , the Milky way, the generosity or animosity is a reality check which helps clear the cobwebs from the mind and sharpens critical thought....
I agree with one poster that people don't take enough time to travel, I personally would like to connect more with and help locals in my specialities (music, gardening) and hate what the tourist industry has done, is doing to the environment (cheap jobs for the locals, wasted ressources on "short term" infrastructure, huge amounts of waste and garbage)
I personally think that to combat climat change it would be great to see swathes of the poorer European population, chill out and/or travel(for 2-3 months)in the empty tourist resorts or villages of the southern hemisphere, thereby hitting several birds with one stone : having experiences which lead to increased sensitivity and hopefully more empathy , not needing to pay the high prices for heating their homes , having a well deserved holiday as part of the "proletariat", hopefully sharing and learning to be more "open minded"
I'm not sure of the math but unless we are very lucky and CO2 sucking or free energy fusion technology has a huge breakthrough, the world will, is, burning up and the best solution would be to get as many of those who can afford democratically to stop work to do so, thereby creating a net CO2 reduction (ie work and all the energy consumption work entails + transport and supermarket logistics+ heating and useless paper advertising weekly supermarket discounts (-) travel by boat and cheap living) in warm countries ... we saw this with the advent of covid....

On a side note, reading HN is the best , it downloads fast and caches for offline reading...also I just came across a wonderful book called "Dancing with mosquitoes" by Theo Grutter , totally recommend.
The two aren't even close to being comparable. Rick and Morty has a lot of good ideas, but the two main characters themselves are just fundamentally annoying, there's nothing to balance it out.
I thought this was about when Musk tried to get the SEC lawyer who interviewed him about his "deal done, going private" tweet fired from his new job. But it seems to be another piece of harassment.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-tesla-asked-law-firm...
The Swedish monarchy has only ceremonial power. There is as far as i know nothing in the Swedish constitution that gives the monarchy any real power.

Non of your examples above exist in the Swedish constitution.
Yeah. The problem is that the deck makes a more convincing case that the company is badly run than that Disney might get value from acquiring a loss making niche hardware company to distribute its content...
Indeed 5G had nothing to do: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/02/radio-station-snafu-in-...

Btw nice advice for the antenna... I'll try to remember it the day I'll finally manage to have an antenna again ;-)
Regardless of whether you use this CSS rule or not, it's a best practice to ALWAYS set the width and height attributes of any image.

So even if you use this CSS rule, you should also set those width and height attributes. This allows the browsers to draw the correctly sized box whilst the image is still loading and whilst CSS hasn't kicked in yet.
This video doesn’t start with “hello I am grady and this is practical engineering”, it’s unwatchable (also the sad / doomy music is distasteful, and so is claiming knowledge of causative factors when the incident is under active investigation).
See Robert Griesemer's talk on "The Evolution Of Go"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ReKdcpNyQg

https://go.dev/talks/2015/gophercon-goevolution.slide

> In 1960, language experts from America and Europe teamed up to create Algol 60.

> In 1970, the Algol tree split into the C and the Pascal branch.

> ~40 years later, the two branches join again in Go.

https://go.dev/talks/2015/gophercon-goevolution.slide#29
yeah, on the surface it is a bit weird, Peloton has capital intensive hardware, there should be some interaction as to how much capital is allocated to the technology, product releases etc.
Oh yes, nukemap. https://i.imgur.com/HxIYAdv.jpeg
Good point. I’ve not even tried to hibernate a Linux machine in 10 years though so I have no idea if it works there
I've spent hundreds of hours on OpenTTD, the UI is not great and brings back some 90s user experience.

I have an irrational love for that game, I discovered the original (TTD) as a teen so it will forever be "that game".

I also really love Cities Skyline, but I've got a grip about how car-centric the game is.

It's not possible to create a city that mostly bikes for instance, you _have_ to allow cars everywhere (or go into mods territory, not my thing)
Same. However, you can just hit (command/ctrl)-shift-N to create a new Incognito Window and view those pages that way.
So if you turn off your phone for 5 minutes while staying at home and turn it on again, does your garage door open?

EDIT: Or do you need to go press a button on a webpage before going out for a run to make this work? The last part seems to suggest so.
In my one of my MBA classes, we were discussing, whether Peloton's original super optimistic slides were reflective of reality ( most of the class agreed, it seemed more like a niche product rather than a gym replacement or even a $300 boutique training replacement as this presentation claims ) and were comparing it to AT&T Time Warner saga. We never touched on Peloton's management, but if we did, the quotes are pretty stunning.

You absolutely do have a point about streaming, but the presentation argues that Peloton's assets may be valuable to some streaming services ( they are dying and fighting for content now ).
A post is just a suggestion, a proposition. If there was no place for it, or interest, then it would die in oblivion. But apparently people like bill hicks here!
How? Luck, really. I think we give way too much credit to people for being "visionary" or talented when really the large part of their success is just luck (particularly around timing). For example, I think the situation with Peleton would look very different if it hadn't been for the pandemic.
I have a hard time seeing an analogous scenario in the spacefaring species case.

1. You are barely space capable meeting advance civ. Its like modern country meeting tribe. They hold cards but dont really care about you or maybe help you.

2. Opposite of 1, but the outcome is the same. Why destroy them if they are technologically inferior.

3. Both equally advanced, if you were both capable of fighting would it make sense to actually fight?

The dark forest holds true if there were a lot of civilisations out there and if you can have magical tech that can wipe a star system or fold it into 2d, but if all you have spears you can at best only threat the guy on the other island - or trade with them.
My feelings about these kinds of projects are a bit mixed. I certainly understand why, writing code that controls something in the real world is so much fun. However I actively avoid any kind of smart device in my home, beyond my vacuum cleaner. Having a computer control lighting, heating or access to my home is out of the question, I simply don't want to deal with it. I trust keys, switches and knobs.
Swiss to vote on becoming first country to ban animal testing
> How can you do Marketing without looking at the curre t development to Merker the new features?

Marketing shit that’s not out is just barely better than marketing shit that’s not even planned.

> How can you do sales without feeding customer feedback back into development?

Surely you have normal channels for doing that and it doesn’t require the CEO to talk to the CTO?
I really can't do anything about it, so my fear is particularly useless.
Someone has to compromise on an imperfect solution that works now. Someone else has to keep pushing the boundaries of what can be done without compromise, and that’s what the FSF is suited for.
Yes! Shadow Plan! I used that, too. Used it to organize my learning material. Then, I converted the outline to flashcards in SuperMemo.
I studied some persistent object store databases in the past - which seemed like an incredibly good idea and I think the AS400 used such a database and was very popular.

It removed the need for a filesystem or any of the usual patterns for retrieving data like SQL so a whole class of programming that people think of as "normal" today just vaporised.

Persistent programs seem like a logical-ish next step but I wish the first step could have been taken because it was very nice to program in.
Agreed, apart from the fact that their treadmill kills kids, their products are exemplary.
I commented elsewhere in the thread but wanted to add my own 2 cents.

> Here’s the simple truth I’ve heard from many men: We need to be needed. We imagine ourselves as builders, soldiers, workers, brothers — part of something bigger than ourselves.

Add: protectors

This need is a very powerful piece of puzzle that is a man, IMO. It is, to me, completely inate, and something that emerges as you accumulate more of the traditional constructs of life: romantic partner, marriage, kid(s), dwelling. But it's also difficult to control and can cause unwelcome side effects like anxiety, tension with family, and etc.

One solution: I can't recommend therapy enough for everyone out there, especially the guys reading through this thread. It doesn't need to be therapy because you think you have a problem. Just a session per week or every other week that gives you a place to export your feelings and emotions.

I've talked with a therapist once a week for almost two months. It wasn't because I was feeling depressed about personal life or sad about a job. I just felt that it could help me balance some of the ups and downs in life, and it has accomplished EXACTLY that goal. Example: my therapist helped me better understand that some recent blood-boiling-level anxiety was caused by my desire to feel like the protector of my recently expanded (kid #2) family and desire to be the primary helper.

Therapists help you unlock connections between things that currently bother you and your past and provide you with epiphany-like moments. Very difficult to produce those moments when your coping mechanism lives entirely in your own head.
I think it depends on the complexity of what you want to model. Lots of 3D printing prototyping is relatively simple shapes, in which case OpenSCAD is quite nice.
T-Mobile in Poland uses it so send ads.
How and why Linaro builds, boots and tests over a million Linux kernels per year
Can also use our auditable terminal so no need for an SSH client: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ssh-raspberry-pi-400-cloudflare-...
> sun exposure, particularly among white people in the United States (which is much sunnier than Europe), was rarely avoided or mitigated, particularly among the working class

Sure farmers in the 1930s had more sun exposure than your average office worker does today. But it was certainly not rare to avoid or mitigate sun exposure. Look at the pictures. Notice the bonnets, hats, and long sleeves that the people working outside are wearing.

My great grandmother (working class, born in 1912) always wore long sleeves, long pants, and a hat to do work outside. Even in the middle of July in Georgia. This was normal.

https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Roy-Stryker-...

https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Roy-Stryker-...

https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Roy-Stryker-...

> these are images that the government did not want to show people, of course there's a higher prevalence of unattractive people!

Read some of the comments above by ars. That’s not actually what happened. Almost every picture has another slightly different version that was published.

These weren’t censored, it was just an editor editing.
It makes the assumption that a buyer could run it more successfully. Which I think is fairly reasonable.
Resetting the state is a necessary step when the state is corrupted. You can’t work around this with “don’t corrupt the state”. So many developers are running the other way: isolate state; reduce dependence on state; eliminate side effects; crash only software; etc. The state doesn’t need to be preserved because it simply isn’t that valuable.
Uber says its business is bouncing back from a pandemic-induced slump
Musk was born wealthy. So I'd say he grew up with more than "the American Dream"
Considering 92% of strikes were done with the defaults, I'd expect it to roughly be a list of English speaking cities by population. With the remaining 8% I'd expect NYC and some Japanese cities to be overrepresented.
"We had them almost defeated, at least on the cultural front, in the 1960s and '70s."

Not even close. A relatively small amount of people with an outsize cultural influence were imagining a less stifling and less cruel world but it will take a lot more than just eliminating capitalism to do that, and nothing indicates that capitalism itself is the sole, or even main cause.

"We have to remind people at every opportunity that, not only is capitalism not sexy, but its reason for existing is to funnel disproportionate sexual access to repulsive men--I'm talking 400-pound oil executives with body odor--who otherwise would be unlikely to get any."

I assume it would be okay if said oil execs were fit, or women? As opposed to fictional non-elitist commissars? No, with attitudes like these, no one is any closer to curtailing the excesses or cruelties of capitalism and industry.
Not having to think about how to use a certain tool or software application means you free up time to think about more important matters. It's not about not thinking, it's about not needing to think about needless trivialities. Also, in some cases, you might be in a hurry or an emergency and your brain isn't thinking right. In those situations, an interface that requires one to think might result in dangerous accidents.
The hypothesis that links the increase of hate crimes to the idea that the virus was intentionally created and/or spread by the Chinese, is also “plausible”.

The reporting of harassment and hate crimes usually involve the aggressor’s statements at the time of the occurrence, thus it is perfectly possible to link a physical or verbal attack to a motivation.

There isn’t a concerted effort anywhere to stop the debate about the lab leak hypothesis, and proof of it is the widespread coverage in media, from MIT review to NYT.

There is though a more unified push of such hypothesis made by right-wing outlets, like this one, FOX, or NYP, among others. And, if anything, that should give us pause, as this is more about shaping public opinion than informing.
We are doing exactly this at neural.love, I will check what we could do about it too
> I was really disappointed not to see the OneCoin cover for example.

I don't know if the article was updated, but you can see that covered right at the end.
No, sorry, opting out of cookies is an instantaneous thing that 1) warrants no waiting time, and 2) is something that can happen in the background while using the site.

There is absolutely zero reason to artifically force the user to wait 30 seconds other than to coerce them into enabling predatory advertising cookies, which Forbes did (does?) and they know it.
Yeah, it is major. You are correct. I want us to be more specific in the way we talk about geopolitics because there is much room for improvement. My real point is that if you don't want to polarize an entire ethnic group against your position, then don't refer to the ethnic group when you mean to attack their economic or political ideology.

It really depends on what one is optimizing for. If one is optimizing for ethnic division, or just not at all optimizing for change in the future led from within said country.. then sure "China" or "Muslims" not "CCP" or "Wahhabism."

How would an American react to a foreigner saying "America is evil and not trustworthy" vs "American leadership has done X and therefore is not trustworthy?" I have been largely abroad for years and I would still process the information in the latter statement with much less emotion.
This is a deck from a tiny activist investor that were angling to get rid of the CEO for a while. They are not "their investors".
Constructivism shares a lot with Bauhaus, but for some reason constructivist buildinga usually look OK and in some sense are the last generation of modern (but not post-modern) architecture
You could enable predatory advertising cookies instantly without waiting.
I rode in a live Peloton class yesterday that had more participants than that.
My last two interviews were just chatting a while. I also showed some code (of a personal project) from my laptop at the other interview. Both companies offered a job.
Isn't supposed to be: "Good news, everyone!"..?

Kind of a bummer that the article got that one completely wrong....
Moore’s Not Enough: New Laws of Computing
Thank you for the link.

Do you have a Cloudflare on first page of HN alert?

And will Cloudflare Tunnel stay free and included for free accounts?
Ask HN: How should I store important documents (IDs, etc.) in the cloud?
Hi,

I've been scanning a lot of personal sensitive documents such as IDs, banking information, etc. in order to have backups available easily, and I have been wondering about the best way to securely store this information in the cloud.

The main requirements, in order of importance (in my mind at least) would be:

1. Security. Even if my cloud account is compromised the data itself should not be accessible without entering a second password.

2. Availability. It should be accessible from a computer but also a phone or any other (i)device.

3. Not limited to storing sensitive data. I should be able to have in the same service some other documents that I don't care about having "stolen" such as some random ebook or video that I wanted to backup. It means that it should have a high storage capacity available for a reasonable price.

Right now my best idea is to store a file encrypted via VeraCrypt on any generic cloud storage such as Dropbox, but it causes issues with availability.

Thanks for your suggestions!
I absolutely understand your POV, I've worked crap jobs too (dropped out of uni), and I have kids who have to suffer through the classist UK education system. But my point is that this was not inevitable, it's the result of societal and individual choices made over the last 40 years.

> if you've ever worked in the trades you would know that a large portion of them are ignorant and uneducated

Yes, and that's why there used to be a view that adult education was to be promoted and encouraged.

My point is that at some point, we just stopped aspiring to a better tomorrow and accepted we're all doomed to live in hell. Which, inevitably, condemned us to a life of pain.