skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That’s the great thing about getting older and hopefully wiser. You start to understand you know nothing and use that to learn from people who know more.

When people ask me how do i know the things i know, i tell them "i listened to people who knew".

It brings to mind a quote or two:

"We spend the first two years learning to talk, and the rest of our lives learning to listen"

"When i was 14 i thought my father knew nothing. at 21 i thought, the old man sure has learned a lot in 7 years."
Now do it in Rust!
Thanks to both of you!
Great idea! I wonder if there's anything similar to this in other programming languages?

Would love to see something like this in Ruby or Elixir.
Their rationale was that they didn't want to "exchange one set of authoritarian rules with another", but that's exactly what removing the activity did - it's just that the new set of authoritarian rules was, "no Legos".
That's interesting, I have the opposite perspective. I'm not a power user in the sense that I use it to write documents, but at work we generate docx files from code (not a good idea) and a significant amount of the time we have perfectly fine files that render as we expect on LibreOffice but break unexpectedly on Word. Sometimes it even renders fine on the web version, but still incorrectly in Word itself.

Edit: I should clarify that I don't mean to contradict you. Just thought it would be an interesting perspective to read about.
> we've been run by right-wing enablers and crooks (in the sense of unethical rule-breakers, not people with criminal records) for so long, we've forgotten that the left has been proposing workable solutions to these problems for decades.

Okay, but we've had a Democratic Senate for 10 of the last 16 years and a democratic president 9 of the last 13 years.
Agree, I really like Notion but even after a bunch of great updates the text editing and a few other parts still feel off, e.g. the UI is really jumpy and makes the whole thing feel physically unstable, there's huge margins at smaller window sizes, etc. It's getting there, and worlds better than a few years ago, but it still isn't an extension of myself the way other tools are.
To go completely off topic, whatever happened to free online games? It almost looks like one generation just stopped playing them and the other somehow decided to go with expensive / adware smartphone games. Surely there must have been some people in between who wondered what the fuck was happening? Is this a flash generation gap?
This is the brilliant content we’re looking for. Phenomenal idea.
Businesses gave FB data that matched an email with a valid FB profile, so they stored the data and expose it to you in OFA. That's not shadow profiles, that's exposing the info they collected for your real profile.
> Another example is that Windows still needs a local username and password, even if you've logged in with a Microsoft account, and this can get out of sync if you change your Microsoft account password online, meaning you now have a different local password to your online account.

I tripped over this when I first started using Windows 10. It felt so unbelievably frustrating to be locked out of a local system because I couldn't remember my MS account password anymore.

As a reward for that, I discovered MS was indexing the contents of all my hard-drives, could suddenly look at my local hard drives just by logging into my MS account from any other device.

Even tho I went out of my way to disable as much of the home-phone functionality as possible; Just takes one auto-update to default a lot of these settings without ever informing the user about it.
Perhaps you can just solve this by getting a cheap prepaid SIM? Although that opens up a potential attack vector if the number expires after a while and gets recycled… and having to spend money to fix a problem MS created is stupid.
Hardened criminals they aren't, most of them probably are convicted for having some marijuana on them. They study doesn't say all of them are felons.

And really, does it matter if they personally can't buy guns? It's the US, guns grow on trees. They probably already have a gun, gifted to them by their parents. And it's a moot point once they start organizing.
America’s Power Grid Is Increasingly Unreliable
archived: https://archive.is/hnwNd
It also ignores how the criminal justice system works, especially in the US, on both ends. Money buys all sorts of sealed, adjudicated, pardoned, plea-bargained down to a misdemeanor, etc, type solutions. Lack of money makes it easy to press "accept this plea bargain or risk eons in jail" convictions on innocent people. There's also a myriad of ways to enhance charges that make a relatively minor crime sound much worse.
Ironically, I find the described exercise to be useful, but not in a sense the teachers intended. Rather, the kids got a nice schooling in how public opinion is manufactured in "managed democracies".
If you are lucky that works, but such conversations can also easily end with everyone in tears, “You don’t even like me!” “You don’t want me to have any fun!” “Everyone else was playing nice and it’s all your fault X!” etc. or various forms of subtle nastiness that goes under the radar and doesn’t disrupt the parents [which for some parents counts as mission accomplished]. In my house outcome depends substantially on whether kids (and parents) have had enough sleep the past few nights.

Some of my childhood friends with “sane” and “reasonable” parents (and who themselves grew into lovely adults) were incredibly cruel to their younger siblings, but were smart enough about it that adults never noticed.
Why not shift to Fastmail? There have been numerous discussions around here. I don't think that its justified to criticise a company providing services and charging advertisers to give it for free, and people complaining on yet another social media platform about this design choice.
It's perfidious! I stumble on numerous Twitter threads about this.
Leave the platform if it's so insidious.
While it wasn't teaching about capitalism explicitly, it says:

"...the children were building their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys — assumptions that mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society — a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive."
> Just click "learn more" button and you'll see step by step examples of the language features.

I got bored after about 5 pages, everything presented there is the same as in any other language. I want to see what differentiates this language from others, not what's the same.

That is what a landing page of any new language must accomplish - sell the reader on the power of your unique features as fast as possible.
I’ve worked in this industry for 10 years . Without ides it would have taken another 10 years to do the things I’ve done with the help of IDEs
What's an example relevant to the slide?
This is exactly what happened to me. I just had enough with all the anti-patterns emerging for each larger update or Windows iteration. I now do all work which require windows in a VM, and using PopOS as host and couldn't be happier.

If it weren't for specific .Net framework parts and my hate/love relationship with Visual Studio I would have probably moved on from Windows a long time ago
The question was literally asking for critique though.
A very interesting follow-up to an insightful post. I think the answer might lie in why the american business culture is more efficient in the first place.

I believe american business is more fluid, allowing for better arbitrage opportunities that ultimately leads to better arbitrage abilities for its actors.

More law and protection has the same effect as more code: it slows things down because it increases dramatically the amount of requirements you have to contend with. A double edged sword indeed!
Maybe I'm nuts, but I don't think a person's record should be available. Maybe in extreme circumstances, like they're still a danger to those around them, but beyond that, once the sentence has been completed it should be 100% back to normal.
I'm not disagreeing. But I don't know that I agree, it's a pretty finicky line. Crime is super contextual, so you're barring people who have been rung through the system, and probably have a new environment, a new context; I mean assuming they committed a significant crime.

But honestly, in the beginning of "Noise" they start detailing some cases Marvin Frankel reviewed:

Frankel did not provide any kind of statistical analysis to support his argument. But he did offer a series of powerful anecdotes, showing unjustified disparities in the treatment of similar people. Two men, neither of whom had a criminal record, were convicted for cashing counterfeit checks in the amounts of $58.40 and $35.20, respectively. The first man was sentenced to fifteen years, the second to 30 days. For embezzlement actions that were similar to one another, one man was sentenced to 117 days in prison, while another was sentenced to 20 years. Pointing to numerous cases of this kind, Frankel deplored what he called the “almost wholly unchecked and sweeping powers” of federal judges, resulting in “arbitrary cruelties perpetrated daily,” which he deemed unacceptable in a “government of laws, not of men.”

Like those check fraud cases are crazy and having that on your record forever? That's some yellow passport shit. Over damages that could be settled trivially. If we did some criminal law reform, yeah I totally agree with you, but I think it's more complicated than just barring results. I'll grant you it'd be better than it is now, I guess, but order of operations I think would be pretty important, but that's an aside for another day.
Have been reading since the beginning, it's amazing what social media can do but, thank you for all your amazing articles and knowledge! Helped me jump start my IT career and now I'm a Sr. Sysadmin :)
There are settings to disable a lot of that, but Windows updates will often default them without informing the user.

The whole user-experience feels more like an active war against an hostile actor constantly trying to take over your machine.
Well there were multiple ai's that existed in the 90's that could work out who was typing at the keyboard, one of them was about 1-2MB in size, the need for usernames and passwords is somewhat confusing when you know about that and other ai's!

When you consider the level of surveillance that exists today with the mobile phone, smart tv's vehicle tracking, cctv, jobs on computers you can tell when someone is running late and you can probably even work out why. Even if you dont have a mobile and live in a rural location, as you walk around our bodies interfere with wifi signals, we block them, so you could use routers like a phased radar array detecting temporary signal weakness and other anomalies, plus any cctv that is installed can be used to pick you up as many might have seen with crime stories or Edward Snowden. I've had PTZ cctv hacked and I know of other companies with PTZ cctv have had their's hacked because they have spotted them moving around inside their office as they were not hidden behind darkened domes.

I dont think people realise just how much surveillance there is today and the US Military have largely driven this at arms length, just like state assets have been ipo'd to keep them at arms length from the state.

However when I have reported stuff to the police, its surprising how MS Windows suddenly doesnt work and makes it impossible to access your screen dumps, thats why you need a basic digital camera with no wifi or bluetooth to capture whats on screen because even cdr/dvdr's along with rw's will get wiped.

I've even had my home accessed and old hard drives used as last resort backups wiped from a locked suitcase when on holiday one time and I only found that out weeks later. But that might be because it had allegations of Jeb Bush & other people rigging the elections in Florida for Bush to get a 2nd term in office. I dont know.
They learn to socialise and to share wealth, to bring about good "karma" and not anger the democratic God's to smite them.

I kinda like it more now
Chrome as well. (The zdnet article above is about Chrome, which shipped this last year.)
When it's the government doing the building, where is the money going to actually go? Are there readily available carbon capture facilities operating right now at commercial scale?
> Isn't the whole world a fixed pie?

Nope. We use energy to transform valueless things into ever more valuable things.
"These negotiations gave rise to heated conflict and to insightful conversation. Into their coffee shops and houses, the children were building their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys — assumptions that mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society — a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive. As we watched the children build, we became increasingly concerned."

Great, teachers enforcing their principals on kids, forcing kids to play the way they think "is right."
Still not sure what you’re trying to say. Are you skeptical that reducing caloric intake works? Or skeptical that counting calories helps to reduce caloric intake? Are you skeptical about whether calories are a metric? What exactly do you think doesn’t work, and why? Why are you claiming that we don’t have culturally independent results? I don’t believe that’s true.

If you’re asking whether calorie counting has been studied and controlled enough to know if it works as a weight loss tool in practice, the answer is yes. You don’t need a study for this part; it’s physics. If you are maintaining weight and then stop eating you will die. If you are maintaining weight and then cut your diet in half you will lose weight. I posted a link to one survey on this somewhere in this thread that should be easy to find that demonstrates the rate of metabolic adaptation to caloric restriction (it’s about 15%). But you can Google this and find out for yourself, there are many many papers in many many languages, and you looking for your own sources will be better than being skeptical of anything I suggest. The health agencies of every developed country in the world publish caloric recommendations and have resources and research information available.

Literally millions and millions of people globally have successfully used CICO to manage weight, and the primary complaint is not that it doesn’t work, the primary complaint is that it’s difficult to implement and make habitual, it requires too much work and/or control. When most people say “it doesn’t work”, what they mean is “it doesn’t work for me because I couldn’t establish a working routine, the habit doesn’t stick easily.” There are no studies showing normal people reducing their caloric intake significantly and failing to lose weight.
I think the problem is that the bad error messages make it unclear whether something is a syntax issue or a nixpkgs issue (this is somewhat worse with the dynamic nature of Nix, although I personally don't actually think Nix really needs static typing all that much, but that would be one viable way of fixing this).
Try LibreWolf
https://librewolf.net/
Yep the world is full of in-experienced, arrogant, self-congratulating developers who thinks they know it all while having zero clue on what is really going on. They are easy to identify. The moment they say things like “all X developers are crap” or “all software developed by super successful company X is crap” or “developers using technology X are stupid” or “smart developers who gets it use X” you know you have identified one. Run (don’t walk) away from them. They are toxic and should be avoided at all cost.
Well, I might be missing the point. I'm just saying this: I don't think schools teach (or even imply) that mathematicians are straight white men. And in fact, schools (pre-University) don't talk about mathematicians at all. They deal in concepts which are not associated with individuals (arithmetic, geometry, trig, algebra, calc). There's only a couple of exceptions where individual mathematicians are named in high school (Euler and L'Hôpital come to mind). It's not until university level that you start getting into theorems, and actual mathematicians show up (Cayley's theorem, Lagrange's theorem, Abelian groups, etc).
You can't subdivide a lot in Monopoly, nor build taller buildings on it.
Netflix itself uses the analogy of a high-performing sports team, or at least used to. So this would be like if the LA Rams say they will drop you from the team if you aren't NFL caliber. It's hard to read a straightforwardly high expectation to match the environment and coworkers as toxic.

Now, it is toxic if a mediocre organization tries to fire a particular good performer because they aren't exceptional, when clearly the rest of the organization also isn't exceptional. That is dishonest, delusional, etc.
That is not an argument against cryptocurrency though. The bank is going to equally ask you the source of the income/funds. If the fund comes from an exchange, it came through an exchange -- there is paperwork. You have to declare any losses or gains from the currency or commodity exchange (depending on the country) to your tax agency. If you go in a back alley and change it somehow with cash you still need to declare the profit or loss for taxes. You of course could skip that but you could equally tax evade with cash or art and it would be less traceable.

I don't buy any of this. They just don't want to say politically that cryptocurrency makes it harder for them to seize assets or apply bank controls.

People in countries with uncertain futures or bank controls do hoard cash as is well known. And the banking system is known for assisting getting money to notorious and less than stellar organizations.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17202827
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19983153 (read first comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12346437

(Just from a quick look at hackernews archives for expediency.)
Yeah - hence the liability issue. There’s have to be some sort of bonus but is should be workable - something like if the company follows procedure and hires an excon who later commits a crime they’re not liable.

Or just let the state hire them all as they can immunize themselves from prosecution.
It is workload dependent.
My general way of thinking about it is containing a unit of work.
Sometimes that is a single process, others it is a bunch of things.
Sometimes I may want to run a database separate from my application code, sometimes not.

How do you scale it, how do you manage it, how will it get deployed, all questions that go into the answer of what should go into it.
while I don't necessarily agree with the extreme negative view of crypto (though I definitely don't have a positive view), this is already a commonly practiced thing called Pigovian taxation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax
Yeah, I like the idea, but have a feeling that if I was a teacher having to deal with the social and emotional aftermath, I might like it less.
Massive red flags:

> I've spent over 500 hours creating an entire Notion org, including all wikis, databases, and templates, for you to copy.

This guy spent quarter of a working year building a second version of his fancy wiki, rather than work on his startup.

> We were one week away from onboarding our first employees, and we had started creating onboarding docs in Google Docs when it started to seem messy.

It doesn't sound like they've ever really used anything else.

This article (and knowledge/data stores in general) has all the hallmarks of the tribalistic fad that plagues note taking. In particular there is no hard data, no specific problem exploration, no notion of tradeoffs. Its all fanbasing and salesmanship of their wonderful concepts.

I've never worked at a truly huge company like many of you have, my biggest was around the 150 people mark. I've rarely been without access to information that wasnt being politically kept from me, and maintaining the relevance of documented data has been a significant challenge everywhere. Notion doesn't solve the first, and it doesn't seem to make maintaining easier either (in fact all the cross linking seems to make it harder). I expect it'll perform about the same as the other systems - that is to say the benefit comes from the disciplined use over time, without this they are all messes in a year.

Regardless of my dismissiveness, my current company has just embraced notion. When the co-founders are on the hype train there is no going back, so I'm hoping to harness the momentum for some general improvements in comms skills across the team.
It had like and dislike keys. Clearly ahead of its time!
Yeah, sometimes you have to rely a lot on context to understand if they're talking about Nix the package manager or Nix the language, but the documentation does mostly do it well by strictly saying things like "Nix package manager", "Nix Expression Language", "Nix Packages collection (Nixpkgs)" and "NixOS Linux distribution" so it's mostly clear, I think.

The first guide you come across (https://nixos.org/guides/how-nix-works.html) also shares the differences between them all.

> Nix is a purely functional package manager

> Packages are built from Nix expressions, which is a simple functional language

> We provide a large set of Nix expressions containing thousands of existing Unix packages, the Nix Packages collection (Nixpkgs).

> NixOS is based on Nix, a purely functional package management system. Nix stores all packages in isolation from each other under paths

> In NixOS, the entire operating system — the kernel, applications, system packages, configuration files, and so on — is built by the Nix package manager from a description in a purely functional build language

Lastly, the learn page (https://nixos.org/learn.html) links to three different manuals in the bottom, titled "Nix Manual", "Nixpkgs Manual" and "NixOS Manual" respectively.

I'm sure if you find specific places in the manuals/guides/wikis where it's unclear which one is being referred to, they would really appreciate your help in fixing it, or at least pointing out it's not clear. They tend to be really responsive in the IRC channel the times I've talked with Nix people.
not verbatim but elementary OS seems heavily inspired by macOS
The games market for Linux is tiny. Usually not worth the cost for developers.
I already knew about these, but thinking about it, it's not less surreal than remote controlling a robot in another country for pennies. Even has a wiki on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_farming
Maybe Nix but with Lua?
Hopefully you are doing this securely :)

BTW, no need to expose DOCKER_HOST, you can connect to docker over ssh, e.g. `DOCKER_HOST=ssh://1.2.3.4`.
So? That has no bearing on any ideology.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26881799

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9050666