skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sometimes takes more clicks to not respond or they will keep pestering you with email notifications assuming that you “forgot” the last one.

I’m not saying I lie in the ratings on purpose, but I’m not going to do extra work to find the ignore option - I’ll use whatever option is more prominent.

> What situation is it where you're forced to give a rating (is this irl or something) until you're allowed to leave the session?

Email-based systems will often send multiple follow-up ones and the only way to stop it is to essentially submit. If it’s a system I use often I’ll make an email rule to trash them (or passive-aggressively send them back to someone at their company) but if it’s an unexpected one I’ll just respond to prevent the next one.

Some mobile apps make the dismiss option hard to find/reach (literally - it’s at the top corner of the screen on a big phone) while the 5-star option is more prominent.

IRL I would also answer since declining is essentially implicitly admitting that something isn’t right and could get someone in trouble.

Ideally there should be a “don’t ask me ever again” option to disable that behaviour somewhere but I have yet to see it since every company seems to have a “feedback monster” that they need to continuously feed with ratings, even if they are meaningless.
This is a very simplistic article. Having a region with competing states is a recognized dimension in the development of Europe and China, but there are others as well which are presumably more important. As F.Fukuyama writes: rule of law, accountability, a state. And as Acemoglu and Robinson write: clear and stable laws that encourage people to invest and develop businesses. Conquering and pillaging colonies, and selling and buying slaves, must be accounted for as well.
Every rich nation on earth became rich through exploitation and genocide.
That first link is illuminating, thanks. Guess DDG's official policy is "this isn't tracking".

brianstoner said:

> There's no blurring happening because there's nothing to blur. There's no unique identifier or personal information being collected. It's no different from using the search engine. And there's no need for an opt-out, because there's literally nothing to opt out of.
I'm an open source maintainer. I have a different take. Yes many projects lack funding, but I'm hesitant to ask for funding for my projects. Because: what sort of social contract would it imply if people fund me? Should funders be elegible for faster response times? Should their feature requests be implemented with more priority, or must they guaranteed to be implemented? What are the expectations of me? Can I take an extended holiday and go offline for a while? None of this is well-specified.

One can argue that funds are donations and thus are free from attached strings, but psychology doesn't work that way. Funders will feel entitled to something, but what? You can see this pattern more obviously in Patreon: donors get something in return, such as faster access to content. So even though it's a "donation", people psychologically still experience it as a trade.

With Phusion Passenger, I've commercialized a open source project. The contract is clear: if you pay then we both know exactly what to expect from each other.

Formalizing the expectations to funders of my other open source projects, effectively turns those projects commercial. But to me, the appeal of my other projects is just that I can code on my own leisure, as a hobby, and give a gift to the community at the same time. It sucks that I have very little time for that because I work on those projects in my free time only, but I'm hesitant to turn those projects into "work" where I have to give guarantees in return for money.
He's usually on leaderboard (top 100) in Advent of Code. I don't know if he was this past year.
Winter and salt are both hard on roads with lots of freeze thaw cycles putting cracks in the road. So Delaware is an apples and oranges comparison. Delaware is going to have a lot less winter wear on their roads.
Hi HN! I’ve been working on Typebeat for a year and a half, and I decided yesterday to make the code public. There’s also a website where you can download the macOS build and try an online demo:

https://typebeat.kofi.sexy

The project was initially conceived as “vim for music”. All of Typebeat is controlled by the 30 main character keys on the computer keyboard. The result is a workflow that’s a little tricky to learn but fast to use once mastered. (So I suppose I nailed the vim experience in that regard.) If you’d like to see how I use it at top speed, you can check out this 2-minute jam I made recently:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=RT0qUB4gbas
$17 64 bit RISC-V
https://linuxgizmos.com/17-sbc-runs-linux-on-allwinner-d1-ri...

$29 64 bit RISC-V in the same form factor as an RPi CM3
https://www.clockworkpi.com/product-page/copy-of-clockworkpi...

If you never look for it, you will believe it doesn’t exist.

I was very skeptical of ARM back in the day thinking that it was great for crappy little iTrinkets and Androids but not for “real computing”. I was clearly wrong. I was very skeptical of RISC-V until I recently heard Jim Keller explain why RISC-V has a bright future. He was rather convincing. This is especially true given his track record of straight-up magical results. Looking at different RISC-V machines, I think that the greatest advantage is that it is simple and can therefore be optimized more easily than complex designs, and due to being open, it has very low cost which will encourage more eyes trying more and different optimizations.

EDIT: Link to Jim Keller interview https://www.anandtech.com/show/16762/an-anandtech-interview-...
Can I rate your question? Why am I asking permission. 0/100
Yeah… no. I’m working on a pretty important project at my job that needs to be done well and as fast as possible without sacrificing quality. I’m writing code solo because I know exactly what I need to write and having to keep a second person in line would use so much time and energy, I wouldn’t get work done.

Don’t worry about the bus factor, other people know what I’m doing and I have a backup who can take over. Might delay the project a month or two, but the company can manage without me.
It has shown this.

> Even more recently, researchers discovered two "critical" security flaws actively being exploited in Mozilla's open-source Firefox browser. Additionally, the open-source Linux operating system was just hit in "its most high-severity vulnerability in years."

OK, but these security flaws are ubiquitous in closed source software as well. The difference in FOSS is the source is there for people to look at and scan for security bugs if wanted, and is there for people to patch when needed as well.

Closed source has these problems as well, it is all just less public.
This does sound ridiculous. What I saw going through a top engineering school which was also a state school is that they had to accept students from all parts of the state. Many of those students were unprepared and flunked out or changed to business majors. What would have been better is if those students could have instead gone to a community college prior to the engineering school to level up. Or, even better, if the government run schools they went to actually prepared them properly for a rigorous program. These were not stupid students - they were just put in a bad situation by the poorly run schools.

The 'equity' approach to making things better just holds everyone back.
Ask your Dept of Weights and Measures to test the gas. You may be getting more ethanol than you expect
Thanks for trying to provide feedback, but I think all you're doing is harping on non-universal definitions and noting debated historical points, most of which I'm familiar with but didn't think were worth extended discussion in this brief post, not substantively disagreeing. If that's not the case, maybe you can expand on why these lead you to disagree with the overall points made?
He described this distancing from the methodology, and consequently what he considered the salient message, in a preface for a later printing of the book [0]:

> Today, almost ten years after I wrote this book, one idea stands out
clearly for me as the most important in the book: the idea of the diagrams. [...] I
reject the whole idea of design methods as a subject of study, since I
think it is absurd to separate the study of designing from the practice of
design. [...] No one will become a better designer by blindly following this method,
or indeed by following any method blindly. [...] In the process of trying to
create such diagrams or patterns for yourself, you will reach the central
idea which this book is all about.

I think this explains why Inkscape is my favourite piece of software :)

[0] https://monoskop.org/images/f/ff/Alexander_Christopher_Notes...
No, since the previous fast trains aren't run on the old tracks any more. Due to stopping distances etc, you can fit several freight trains in the space needed for one express train.
inotifywait does a decent job of exposing the inotify primitive from the Linux kernel to userspace, but it's, well, primitive. Using that loop, if you change a file twice in quick succession, what happens? It'll trigger off the first change, but potentially ignore the second change if $2 takes longer to run than you can edit a file.

You can improve the basic loop somewhat, but a more thoroughly written program (whatever the language) rather than a 3 LOC loop is going to have more features and be more ergonomic. In particular, to truly be useful, it should be able to kill the command and restart it every time the file is saved.
Can totally relate. I, too, run from boring stuff instead of trying to fix it. 20 years in corporate structures told me its a war of attrition. The departments and people who like stupid, boring games introduced into the workplace have orders of magnitude more time, resources and - yes - perseverance to cultuvate those things. I run and for most of the time get away with it.

Re: not recognizing CEO. Having worked as a senior technical person at board-2 levels in large companies I often failed to recognize the faces board members when meeting them in person. Some people are not good at face recognition, I am one of them. No harm ever came my way for not recognizing some dignitary or other. They truly dont care.
Chat/Meet in gmail can also be turned off in gmail settings.
Ur-Fascism By Umberto Eco (1995) [pdf]
The new "Power toys" are a parody of the old Power Toys. The old ones were really useful, the new ones, not so.
Splitting it by Democratic/Republican is a bit of a trick because nearly all urban areas are Democratic and nearly all rural areas are Republican. So talking about "Republican run urban areas" is a bit of an inside joke, Republicans can't/don't/won't run an area with any concentration of people.

As someone in a very Democratic run city in a very Republican state, believe me when I say, the Republicans who run this place are absolutely pathologically insane. They have lost their minds and our legislative sessions are mostly full of rank conspiracy theory and foreign agit-prop. What little work the Republicans do here revolves around attacking the successful city to placate the poor rural 52% majority, usually through as much wealth transfers and cancellations of urban development as they can.
A big bet to kill the password for good
And the cost of new cars these days with the inflation over the past 1.5 years
Yes, I like this comment a lot. Any true strategy will need to have a specific outcome, and therefore can fail if the outcome is not reached.

On the other hand, if you (or in my case the CEO) listen to any one of the thousand consultants who will tell you that, say, advertising on social media is a guaranteed path to sales, you can’t ever be wrong because you’ve implemented - as you say - “best practice” and “proven techniques”; you did your job but “for some reason” - externalities - it didn’t work. There was no strategy involved, but we don’t need to talk about that.

This kind of thinking drives me nuts.

Your theory also helps explain why people buy Exchange, or JIRA, or IBM in the olden days.
I don't think funders should get any more say in or influence the direction of a project than anyone else. That should be up to the maintainer, of course taking advice from the users and contributors to the project. Funders are simply buying sustainability of the project, and that should be enough for them. This is how it works in projects like Inkscape, Krita or Debian.
That fact is certainly a stain on history, but sidesteps the observation that European powers were able to militarily overpower so many other regions because they were already richer and technologically advanced compared to other regions.
I tried the same, gave up after Lot's daughters got their father drunk and raped him.
And yet: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/01/ge...

"In the movies I’ve seen people who try to get out of a traffic ticket by telling the police officer they made a donation to the policeman’s ball, but those were comedies. I had no idea that not only does this exist there are official cards. In fact, the police in New York are livid that the number of cards is being limited."
You mean snitch.ai.of course. Get your own personalised snitches to avoid stitches.
Almost like Goldfinger made it radioactive… but it may be reversible.
> So what's your advice?

Oh, I have a good one. Be less toxic. Works 100% of the time.
Does that actually stop Gmail from making the requests or is it just cosmetic only?
I think we can confidently say it also requires having a flock of sheep or being able to borrow one for a day or so. Sheep as a Service for those of us who don't have a flock of our own?
The comma business model is built upon a car interface created by manufacturers for their own purposes.

Those manufacturers are working on their own autonomous driving programs in various stages.

None of those manufacturers want crash statistics for their vehicles being driven autonomously.

Comma is clearly the unwanted guest in the room... the only positive outcome for them is acquihire when one of the manufacturers realizes how hard FSD is. Their business model standing alone is built of kerosene and straw.
I would suggest using intersections instead of streets. I'm not sure how it determines what segment of the street is correct, but I had some random guesses score higher than the correct street I knew but a part that wasn't highlighted in the result set.
“I bought a one-way ticket”: Inside Russia’s sudden tech exodus
The term Nazi has become meaningless slur for political opponents of any kind. After Putin used it to justify his war with Ukraine I wonder if anyone else wants to use it publicly.

And I wander what the next equivalent will be and how quickly it will become devaluated by being used indiscriminately by everyone against the people they don't agree with.
Good points I had not thought of!
I always thought the reason was that nearly every webhosting offers it, even though it has serious warts.
Societal wealth is more delicate than you'd expect. For example, China has gone from the richest, most capable nation on earth to one of the poorest multiple times in its long history. I think it takes a special reason for a region to not be subject to the boom/bust cycle.
George Hotz has been on Lex Fridman’s podcast a few times https://lexfridman.com/george-hotz/

Hotz has an interesting take on life and tech. If you have time, listen to one of Lex’s conversations with Hotz while you are getting exercise, gardening, etc.

I like Hotz’s idea of generic equipment that works on multiple types of cars.

Off topic a little, but the Honda Pilot we bought a year ago has some driver assist technology, and we love it. I like driving myself, but having safety backups like monitoring blind spots, lane changes, staying inside lanes, etc. That said, I am willing to wait for full autonomous driving until they really get it right.
Interesting, I had not heard of these. Seems like it passed in the house in Feb 2022?
Open source contribution has shifted from bare technological enthusiasm to career and marketing strategy.
Users feels that, and started to show more and more entitlement which erodes contribution satisfaction.

Open source only works if contribution is of selflessness sharing, as soon as it starts to be an investissement, users have the really legitimate feeling that a weird kind of reciprocity is in play, that tatters confidence and candor.
I use it on and off to participate in a few small communities. It can sometimes be frustrating to find a server with the right setup for the clients I like to use, but when I finally do, I have no problems. I have only seen one non-federated server.

I can't speak for the backend, because I've never hosted a server myself, but I find the good XMPP clients to have many more features and to be much more performant than the good Matrix ones.
They aren't intentionally discoverable because they aren't meant to be, they're easter eggs :)
NYC Police Union Reducing Number of “Get Out of Jail Free” Courtesy Cards (2018)
Thanks for this look into a bizarro world. :)
I agree that the burden of proof should lay with the police: to prove that you were < 8' away, that you interfered with a police action, and that the action was a dangerous situation.

But the "I don't get to choose where I am" situation feels like nerd rules lawyering.

If I am sitting right next to someone on a bus, and the police run in and begin assaulting that person, my first action is going to be to get 8'+ away from what's happening. I'm not going to immediately pull out my cell phone while someone is getting beaten right next to me and start shoving it in the officer's face.

The constructed situation requires that (1) the only bystander is < 8' from the police, and (2a) there isn't an easy way to move away (in an environment that isn't specifically noted in the law as an exclusion) or (2b) the action is over before the bystander could move 8'+ away.

That doesn't describe a lot of police incidents I've seen or seen recordings of. Usually there's zero or 2+ bystanders. And usually the action escalates over at least 2 minutes, in an open environment.

My rationale for why there should be a separate standard for recording is that we should be encouraging more citizen to do it! Everyone record the cops!

But...! Recognize that adding stress to an already stressful situation is unlikely to produce positive results. Most people are idiots, especially when tempers are running hot on all sides.

If I were a cop, having a bunch of angry citizens < 8' from me, recording and yelling things at me, is unlikely to lead me to be a calmer officer and make deescalatory choices. It's going to increase tension; I'm going to make worse decisions; and that isn't going to end well for anyone. Myself, the supposed perpetrator, or the citizens around me.

And isn't that what we should be focused on? Maximizing the chance of good outcomes for everyone?
While many people could reasonably make the effort to enter a building instead. At least as many, cannot due to their economic circumstances.
If you want your software to be FOSS, then you must accept than people can and will fork your work and make more money than you while doing it.

If you don't want your software to be FOSS anymore, then you have to accept that at some point previously the "meat" of your code was already FOSS and you will be effectively competing against yourself.

I still don't understand the problem, it's inherent in the decision to become FOSS in the first place. Or do you mean these folks who are complaining just didn't understand what FOSS meant before they got into it?
Very cool project! Look forward to playing around. Check out JSMdid if you get a chance.
https://github.com/aaronats/jsmidi
> I recently heard Jim Keller explain why RISC-V has a bright future

Would like to hear it too. Can you share a link?
Thoreau, Walden - simplicity, rejection of societal expectations. The chapter on economy is delightfully technical.

Toffler, Future Shock - the danger to societal cohesion and human wellness caused by constant, rapid, paradigm-breaking change.

Kaczynski, Industrial Society and its Future - like the two above, but more modern, frighteningly prescient, and with some unfortunate baggage attached. Still, it's short, and worth a read.

While not originally books, solar.lowtechmagazine.com now offers POD versions of their essays. They routinely introduce dead-end technologies to the reader that are often simpler and easier for a person to create and maintain at home, and which often confer a greater degree of independence than their mass-market analogues.

I don't necessarily recommend wading through countless pages of psuedomythical waffling, but Crowley's Thelemic concept of True Will - that is, the real goal you want to achieve, rather than whatever pure hedonism happens to have caught your brain-corvid's attention at the moment - is a useful framework for prioritizing. Does it further the goal directly, or indirectly, or does it hinder the goal? In this way, you can avoid wasting time and effort.

I found good stuff in Heidegger, but I don't think it's worth your time to grind through it. Just look up the Cliff's Notes for 'Sein und Zeit.'

So what did I get out of all that?

-I started to question what it was I really wanted to get out of life.

-I decided I wanted more independence and liberty.

-I decided I didn't like the direction tech was going, and wanted out.

-I stopped being quite as materialistic. I'm still extremely materialistic, but I'm working on it.

-I refocused my effort on amassing something like "F-U money" (for about ten years).

-I spent a lot of time flailing for what to do next, but eventually became obsessed with small-scale, high-intensity regenerative agriculture, and decided that was it.

-I spent a bunch of the saved money to buy myself a farm in Ireland, and will eventually pivot to full-time farming and part-time anti-materialism-- and away from tech. (At the moment, I'm still milking my Swiss job to fund startup costs and avoid the need to bootstrap or raid my nest egg, but the pivot day is in sight.)

-I have something to look forward to that isn't just constant obsolecence of skills and an ever-accelerating race to the bottom.
It would not be legal for the state of Texas to do what it is encouraging private citizens to do in its stead
I can't think of a better solution, can you? With a lot of WP plugins, the alternative to buying the plugin is writing it yourself.
Approach it as a collection of very different books. There is myths, history, genealogies, law, poetry, short stories, philosophy, deep wisdom and mad ramblings. The books are collected over a thousand years in different cultural environments.

If you just start from the beginning, expecting to read it as one book, you will probably lose interest when it gets into the mosaic law.
I made the same mistake to lose a game of Trivial Pursuit: It's Philious Fogg.
Creating wealth requires peace and stability. Capturing wealth requires war and violence. The fastest way is to do both. The most ethical way is to do the first while appearing strong and aggressive enough to deter others from attacking you.
I haven't yet.
i think the commenter was referring to the absurd breadth of DEEP challenges he has picked. It reveals a level of naivety imo. The kind of naivety that usually gets sorted out after a few years in university.
Although I agree that the radical left is probably on a par with radical right in their "if your're not with us, you're against us" attitude and deafness to any criticism, the correct work here is not fascism, even though some of these attitudes were common to fascists.