skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it's a good political tool that leverages parental and other human instincts to protect children. Because it puts most people in such a thought terminating blind panic you shut down thought and use it as cover for your true intentions, and give token enforcement funding for it while you direct the majority of enforcement funding for your true goals to politically control your enemies. It's old as politics itself.

It's been known for a while that this is a political technique. It is one of the four horsemen of the infoacopolypse [0] since 1988 after all. Or that “How would you like this wrapped?” comic by John Jonik in the year 2000 [1]. It's the next round of the crypto wars.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/PropagandaPosters/comments/5re9s1/h...
Learning to actually use technology "actively" and/or creatively isnt the same thing as the "passive" use that gets pushed on the public through the infinite scroll, constant surveillance and psychological manipulation that people worry about.
There are “strong rumors” that police officers up here in Minneapolis have been engaging in a ‘soft strike’ by refusing to leave the precinct or not answering calls. It’s framed as a defensive action intended to communicate “let’s remind everyone why they needs us”.
I suspect it's just the fact that there are a lot more SJW types doing software than there used to be.
Nothing like spending tons of computer power to duplicate the experience of technology limitations we had to bare with in the past!
There’s a distinction between a take home and a pair programming exercise. I am against the former but for the latter.
I would have preferred that. But many apps - especially banking apps don't work on custom ROMs due to android's SafetyNet.
Do you regret using node/npm on such a high-risk installation?
While I think Eco is generally a muddled thinker with moments of profound lucidity, I really don't think we're ever going to separate fascism from being a euphemism for evil, and Eco's essay elevated it from the woo of theology to something secular critics can tilt at. There's not much to defend about it, it's that the quality of interpretation and criticism of it is never more than an arbitrary litany of its sins. (though he gave it a more than fair treatment before deconstructing it)

He's accurate that Mussolini's fascism was something different from Nazi'ism (which just adopted and co-opted the italian aestheitcs, directly), but it was more of a kind of secular anti-clerical republicanism but with all the awe of divinely appointed monarchs.

The crux of fascism was the unity of corporate and state power together - where Eco takes it in a few other directions, which I think its disingenuous to de-emphasize this core property of it, because I think he's also an elitist who would be glad to have the reins of a unified corporate state. He's freighted an obsolete political system with the countercases to his own ideology and branded it evil. I was going to suggest Eco should have stuck to fiction, but in this case he has.

It was a peculiar reactionary artifact of the nation state, which itself is a modern(ist) post-enlightenment phenomenon as monarchies gave way to republics. It's different from totalitarianism (as Eco notes) in that Mussolini, Franco, and Salazar lacked the imperialist and colonial urges that would define totalitarian movements of Hitler and Stalin (even though the latter two inherited colonial territories). Post war, the word fascism became just a secular version of evil as defined by largely marxist/socialist thinkers, and fascist has become a kind of a catch-all slur against those who assert people should be accountable to principles.

It didn't really matter before, as there was nothing to defend about its vague and myriad definitions, and the people who spat the word fascist at others didn't have enough control of institutions for anyone to care what they meant by it. Today, that it is a euphemism for Evil matters because the people wielding it now are still only as sophisticated as a mob of superstitious villagers, but its nebulous definition has come to envelop some things I think regular people actually value, and instead of Evil being presented as witchcraft, it's wrapped in layers of critical theory, but the mob mentality is just the same. Fascism doesn't have much going for it today as it was a moment of 19th century nation states adopting 20th century technology, but I'd say the people indexed on it now are just as much of a mob as they ever were, and whatever they dress it up in, they're the same people, still just hunting witches.
...steam is covered in ads, even opening them in a separate window when you launch the client. They're only for stuff sold on steam, and publishers (supposedly) can't buy ad space, but they're ads nonetheless.
Amazing book. The guy with the hatch. Understated heroism. Amazing.
I sat in front of those things for the first 10 years of my programming life. I am not nostalgic for them.

If you guys are so into retrocomputing, I might have a teletype for you in the attic. Don’t forget to bring your noise cancelling headphones.
Noted, thanks! Yes, I was thinking more about 2D
How on earth are you calling my comment gaslighting? I merely pointed out that both of our examples are a single person‘s data point, and we cannot draw broad conclusions from them.
* ... not by pumping cool air in, but by pumping warm air out.*

Technically not correct. A heat pump does not pump air in/out of a building. It pumps a refrigerant around in a closed loop. Part of this loop is inside and part is outside.

When used for heating, the efficiency of a heat pump system declines as the outside temperature drops. At a temperature of around 32F, a heat pump essentially becomes useless. As a result, most have an auxiliary fallback heat source.
I think the idea that Facebook is "harmful to teen girls" is just media sensationalism. That's not an accurate representation of what Facebook's internal reports showed. The report had 12 measures of well-being and found that instagram had positive impact on 11/12 and negative impact on 1/12. The media, naturally, sums this up as "Facebook knows it harms girls and does it anyway!!!"

https://about.fb.com/news/2021/09/research-teen-well-being-a...

In my view, it's quite positive that Facebook is studying the impact of their platform on teens. I don't think that's a standard that major media companies, e.g. The Wall Street Journal or The New York Times, live up to. I also think it's commendable that Facebook internally confronts problems with their product in terms of impact on teens. I have some concerns that the media's hysterics will disincentivize companies from studying this kind of thing for fear that it will exploited by the media.
Based on his experience starting new countries?
Real violence is getting harder to find as well. Everything that isn't advertiser friendly is purged from mainstream channels. And it seems like the definition of "advertiser friendly" gets more and more stringent every day.
> Do we want to stop worrying about finicky correctness or pointers and worry about building more complex things? Probably yes also.

Which is why I mentioned the safe higher-level interfaces provided by programming languages.

Yet, I think it's important to learn about the lower level technology to better understand the higher level technology.

And definitely stop spitting on lower level technologies.
Is this not basically conducting an interview over email? One that may or may not get a response. This seems like a huge red flag. I'm guessing these same recruiters also complain about how hard it is to find good candidates. Can someone say is this college submission essay request symptomatic of the culture over at Canonical?
Fallout terminal hacking mode?
STEM professors bring in billions of dollars in research grants, of which the university takes over 50% for "administration". If you aren't aware labs have to pay a big cut of any grant income they get to the school. It used to be that in exchange the school would maintain buildings, fund build outs of equipment, etc. but nowadays it's wasted on DEIABCDXYZ vice chancellors of provosts.
They both use Akka behind the scenes. I don’t know the internal details exactly, but they’re both capable of showing you the processing pipeline you’ve asked for as a DAG visualization. I think what’s happening is something like each node on that DAG is an actor, receiving data from the previous node and sending it along to the next. You don’t write that though, you just write map/filter/etc.
I just wanted to say what a great work you did on that diagram. Thanks for that
I think it was extremely modernist, personally. The narrative, grandeur and mystical destiny make it more modernist than post-modernist. Like a lot of the late 19th/early 20th century ideologies, civilization was inevitably and imminently heading towards the eschaton. Society had to be reformed and restructured to bring about this glorious material utopia.

It’s definitely about feelings and aesthetics, rather than economic or rational concerns though. You saw similar constructions in fringe communist regimes (Romania, North Korea)
Everybody's got something to learn. And the more you think you know, even about yourself, the more you should listen to others. You may be selectively excluding other points of views just because they make you feel uncomfortable with yourself.
Your post sounds like a rent. Have you felt offended by someone else's opinion on you?
Western democracies, Japan and South Korea are politically stable so power plant disruptions due to armed conflict on their territories are likely a relatively low risk.
jq (command-line app)

or you could write a small javascript and run it via node

Honestly it’s hard to beat text formats for viewing JSON unless you have particular queries. There’s just a lot of data no matter which way you try to represent it
I think Steam has pretty much given up on not allowing porn... Outside certain cases.
Show some proof, otherwise it is just an opinion
Steam does allow porn games now, though you have to log in and change some settings to see it.
All I see is eyes
None of this explains why the banking industry blacklists porn stars from having checking accounts, nor why they allow other high-risk industries wholesale access...the gym industry, for example, is incredibly fraudulent and yet the banking industry has no problem letting them use ECH, a system so permissive it's a fraudster's wet dream....or why the banking industry has done nothing to self-regulate payday lenders.
Weird because Ukraine was presumably part of the USSR, that Gagarin represented when he went to space. What if he had been from the part of the USSR that is now Ukraine? Or from another part of the USSR that is not currently part of Russia?
It’s a branding and criminal liability problem too.

Yak about sex worker empowerment, but companies like Craigslist made themselves unwitting business partners with pimps and other low rent types.
Except for it being unmaintained.
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/305332/is-there-...

> overstretched or overblown analogy / reductio ad absurdum
That's not entirely clear to me. Windows on Arm has some weird sort of compatibility layer that could also exist here. It's a different environment but I'm able to run (some) x86 windows programs on an Arm Windows virtual machine, unmodified, under Parallels on an M1 MacBook. Boggles my mind how it all works together, but it does.
Microsoft Enables SELinux by Default for CBL-Mariner Linux Distro
I wonder how much of it is outrage-by-proxy, where you don't have a problem with it, but fear that others will.
According to `kdiff3 --help`, there's a flag --qall "Do not solve conflicts automatically.".

I've not noticed the problem you describe, so can't confirm whether it is solved by that flag - a while ago I mostly switched to Sublime Merge from kdiff3.
"Embedded news" is an interesting term for blogspam. If they find interesting news they should post a blurb and link to it instead of copying its content without adding anything new.
You'll never be wise enough to not consider career advice; you just get better at curating it.
A shallow look suggests that the $100 would have covered traveling to Europe.
I don't disagree, but it's a band pass filter, rather than a low end filter.

You are also weeding out the good engineers who recognize that you're asking them for a huge investment without any showing of good faith. I would honestly be shocked if the interviewers even read half of the answers they're asking.
It has one very useful feature though, that it's not made by Google.
But they've stopped development on it, and it's only a matter of time until it's dead due to Youtube changes.
Yes pointers are hard to get right. No, depicting it as "broken and harmful" is not ok, even with good faith reading.
I agree, I vividly remember how bad some conversations used to get, to the point of ignoring or justifying certain atrocities, and I have seen that the acts of groups such as the-one-that-shall-not-be-named confined largely to certain counties in certain states. I don't know how much of the fervor dying down is attributable to 2020 having come and gone, but I'm at least a little glad that most discussions have remained firmly centrist and any leftover fires are the dying gasps of populist mainstream media wars.
I don't think being chased by packs of dogs on several dozen instances in at least 5 countries counts as a single data point.

Maybe dogs hate the way I smell and love the way you smell but that doesn't make it right.

I do carry defenses (rocks, pepper spray) to deal with the situation and avoid injury but having to be on guard for dogs at every second and ready to pull out these things on a moment's notice is NOT a pleasant way to cope.
How can you be sure that deleting files doesn’t put someone’s life in danger?
They didn't achieve precisely nothing; when the treasury initially sold the bond to the fed, the achieved printing money for the treasury department to distribute to the rest of the government. [0]. The slightly convoluted mechanism that printing happened in imposes an ongoing book-keeping burden I described; but the cost of that additional bookkeeping is marginal at worst, as they need to do all that work anyway in order to:

* Continue funding the budget deficit. (Unless they switch to the fed giving money directly to the treasury)
* Sell government debt as a service to the global economy. (This is a distinct function from selling government debt to fund the government).
* Control the economy by manipulating interest rates

Why go through all the political and bureaucratic trouble of setting up a new mechanism of giving the treasury printed money, when the mechanism we have works just fine.

I do see some political benifits to this approach: the debt boogyman would be move closer to the much more meaningful number that is "debt the US government owes to everyone who is not the US government" [1]; And the debt ceiling stops being a economic catastrophe that, for some reason, we debate imposing on ourselves every year or so.

Granted, the political effect of this lack of a boogyman may be a net increase of printing, which does have an inflationary effect. Although, after the past two years, I'm not sure that this is the case any more. The discussion around government spending has not been focusing on the debt recently, but the money supply. Changing the way the government reports its debt does nothing to change the effect of deficit spending on the money supply.

[0] In a way this is still nothing, as that is just setting numbers in a database nowadays. You have to go through a lot of layers of bookkeeping before any of this actually does anything.

[1] To actually get this, you also need to exclude debt owed to other parts of the Government, such as the Social Security trust fund
They're shutting up shop and pulling all their builds soon. The assumption being YouTube may have finally sent a cease and desist.
With plaintext you can do what you need. For example, with todo.txt context are just prefixed by `@`. You can also add special tag with `key:value`. So for example you can add `location:paris` and retrieve it with whatever search tool.
Karl Voit does it a lot more justice than I would https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only

Also there's a super comprehensive guide if you want to go all in on Emacs side of things. It's written in org itself http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.org and exported to html http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html.
It sounds like you are just trying to make an unnecessary point about gender roles which isn't actually universal.

Among many Native America/First Nations tribes, dressing a carcass was a task performed by women...
I accept the analysis that the Chinese approach will likely be superior to the olden ways of Europe, but I believe you are mixing old Europe with modern China. Xxi century Europe is not fueling wars in Europe nor ruled by unbridled rulers greed like in the 1700s. Last 200 years of Europe are gone in modern Europe. For better and worse. Europe is an elderly continent.

Also even the assertion that there was a reputation loss on Europe, while plausible is actually not true. Most of the colonies still prefer to trade with their old colonial masters. This is true for the portuguese, the Spanish and the French and English. For example Portugal(ex colonial master) goes toe to toe with China as the importer source of Angola. If reputation is so important it has an inverse correlation to what you assert. No way the portuguese can have a negative reputation and still compete with the Chinese. Its the other way around. The only way the portuguese can compete is because there is a past connection and perhaps reputation.

The reason the Chinese thrive in Africa is the same why they thrive every where else: they have boatloads of goods and personnel and provide it cheaper than anyone. No reputation there, pure economics.

On the contrary, local communities are distrustful of the chinese(which is amazing and defies reason but so the human societies go). How weird are we humans that we privilege relations with our previous oppressor rather than someone who can be better but we know nothing about.

https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/AGO/Yea...
First, you open a port to $DISPLAY...

xlib is quite a pleasure to use though, and it probably doesn't qualify as a "framework" that you don't want to use.
Is San Francisco stuck in a situation where they only want to address the root of the problem but they don't have nearly enough money to do that so they do nothing?
That article also says “There was no actual code to wipe computers. It only puts a file on the desktop.” So what's all the fuss about?
To be fair, cities were burnt…
I think a big part of it is platforms not wanting to get listed as "adult content" by organizations maintaining filter lists.

Facebook wants absolutely everyone to use Instagram, especially teenagers. They almost launched Instagram for kids under 13, whom social media companies in the US are forbidden from offering their standard products to. I've seen public wifi filters class reddit as "adult".
You'd be surprised the saturation in the 12-18 year old market. So many parents bought their kids chrome books.
>...Walmart talk on Node.js and how they vet every single update to every single module...

Most organizations are not as big as Walmart?

However, if the Walmarts/FANGS/etc with huge mega teams would publish their audited versions, that would be something. However, that seems like a liability without any potential gain for the mega teams.
Ba'al is mentioned a few times in the Torah/Old Testament. It was a rival cult to the Judeans and worship of Ba'al was a byword for blasphemy. It's the origin for the name Beelzebub.
We do seem to lay a lot at the feet of police officers and teachers to fix.
Somehow relevant: https://time.com/6158182/vitalik-buterin-ethereum-profile/
The number of candidates far outstrips the time employees have to interview them
That is meaningless to me if the app can't do what I need it to do. I don't need every feature of the YouTube app, but there is some key functionality that I need.
I didn't know that about yarn transitives, do you have a link explaining more about the problem? I assumed a yarn.lock would.. lock, interesting to know more.
I wouldn’t trust a word coming out of his mouth.
Pornhub's problem wasn't sex. It was revenge porn, authentic rape videos, and all the other content you will host if you allow anonymous uploads.

Not seeing that there is a difference between content intended for public distribution and content that is not is arguably part of the problem here. (Or, even worse, considering someone having sex and someone being raped to be morally equivalent.)
You're overstating it, lots of violent content is banned on every single popular platform, including hosting services.
Both what you quote and what you said are both asinine: I've met a lot of female FOSS developers, several of them have worked their ways into management positions at major companies. The era of pretending FOSS is a sausage party is over, and the use of this as a talking point needs to end.
I'll be first to mention obsidian here. I solved my overloading/losing faith in systems issue with it by using a daily template. At the bottom of which are all the tasks in daily notes, generated by an inline script, another dynamic list of tasks for my freelance work. I could add my #ideas or #content lists too, but they are stored elsewhere. I add the #inv tag to my freelance work and that moves them to the "to invoice" list. When finally checked they disappear, but all still stored on their initial log date (all searchable, of course). So long lists of crud don't get the chance to accumulate, and ideas are easily searchable either in dynamic lists or just using search.

On the same page are mental/physical subheadings so a small bit of journalling takes place. I never look back at it, but it's there.

This beats all previous attempts at organisational systems. Obsidian has a great mobile app. Syncthing keeps them updated. Previous systems were Trello (perma loss of everything archived), big single plaintext file (soon becomes a heaving mess), paper (no search and easy for things to sink/not be surfaced). Taskwarrior, which was great for a long time, but tricky to sync and no additional features like journalling, swipe file creation, flashcards, search, mobile app (sync to cli env on Android was clunky). And surely more I'm forgetting.

Side benefits: all plaintext, whatever happens to obsidian. Graph view of all interconnected ideas. Easy resurfacing of old but relevant ideas through search and backlink sidebar. Could import my attempts at using vimwiki with zero conversion required. Much better UX than Vim. Great place to also write content, use wordcount, sprint, wordcount goal, calendar features etc.

For me the days of Vimwiki and org-mode are now numbered. Even most other note taking software tbh, for anyone OK with syncing their own stuff and figuring out a little bit of basic script syntax for the dynamic lists within the plaintext files.
Wait until you see people saying "exceptions are glorified goto".

Basically, every statement of the form "X is broken and harmful" either don't understand X, or have read it somewhere else without giving a second thought.

X exists because it had some use at some point. Y and Z are implemented thanks to X. Now we no longer need to do X by hand. This does not make it broken nor harmful.