skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can use abundant Employer of Record (EOR) platforms to payroll people located in other countries.
It feels like the PETA example, and the feminist/rape one were intended to be scored as overall losses for PETA/feminists, and that's made more explicity with the ferguson one.

But that feels wrong to me. PETA seem incredibly successful in their mission, for exactly the reasons outlined by the author, and the people reacting to them, including the author, are only helping them, again for exactly the reasons laid out here.

So, did we skip over the bit where it's argued that PETA is actually holding back progress towards vegan/no-cruelty issues?
I don’t think apps will need to implement each others’ features. Rather, apps will need to expose external APIs so that others could implement their functionality if desired.
Can you tell me more about why you are equating the mining of metals for solar/batteries with climate changing GHGs - eg why are they both equally as bad? I’m not disagreeing with you, I am genuinely curious to hear your perspective.

I do generally agree with you on your second point that it might not be the most productive action to take - for the time being it would probably be better for most people to focus on electrifying their homes paired with switching over to 100% clean energy (many utilities allow you to choose this option).
Install, yes.

Sell? Not so much.

There is Amazon's store and you could theoretically sell the .apk on your own site, but still.
It's HBO's Silicon Valley all over again.
Kudos to the developer. This is a great idea. I’m traveling shortly, and always remind myself - don’t bring too much music gear, as there is ALWAYS a piano around somewhere.
>Find (or create) lots of obese people or smokers or alcoholics focusing only on hand strength exercises.

It's clear you don't see it. You don't have to focus on smokers or alcoholics that's irrelevant.

But let's modify your statement to not include the fluff.

>Find (or create) lots of people who focus only on hand strength exercises.

Even when you remove the fluff the statement above still shows how you don't understand the dichotomy between correlation and causation. The experiment in the article can in fact be summarized by this statement:

>Find lots of people who focus only on hand strength exercises.

This statement cannot prove hand strength causes longer lifespan, you are right. However to test for causality is trivial. you simply need to do do this:

>(Create) lots of people who focus only on hand strength exercises.

It is the act of creation that forms the causative proof. Think about it.

If I took a random population and made them train for grip strength. Then I compared that groups lifespan to the overall lifespan of people I didn't make train for grip strength and I find that there is a correlation with longer life span for people who trained for grip strength...

Well I've just verified causation. There is literally no other conclusion. Try to come up with a scenario where the two factors are not connected causally. You can't.

By having the experimenters hand controlling the causative factor, you can prove correlation. If you are simply observing things with no control over experimental parameters, correlation is then impossible to verify.

It is the act of creation or controlling the experiment that allows for causation to be verified.
So a perfect use-case for the obligatory XKCD post about "too many standards, invent one more to try to solve the issue => too many standards plus one".
And regarding excuses. Maybe we should be able to bring up the road blocks and not call them excuses?

Like this in regards to solar that just popped up on my radar today?

https://www.wral.com/rooftop-solar-rate-changes-could-cast-l...

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NC Capitol
NC Capitol
Rooftop solar rate changes could cast long shadow over industry, climate change
Tags: solar, NC Utilities Commission, utility bills, NCCapitol, Duke Energy, house & home
Posted March 25, 2022 6:22 p.m. EDT
Updated March 26, 2022 8:41 a.m. EDT

By Laura Leslie, WRAL Capitol Bureau Chief

Raleigh homeowners Gary and Jane Smith are very concerned about climate change. They added a solar array in 2019 to help reduce their carbon footprint.

"There was a tax credit and a rebate from Duke, and it began to make financial sense to put the solar panels on," Gary Smith said.

The panels frequently make more energy than the Smiths need. Duke buys it back at full retail price. It’s called net metering.

But state law says that has to change by 2027.

"The worst case scenario that we could potentially walk into is a complete erosion of this concept called net metering," said Matt Abele with the NC Sustainable Energy Association (NCSEA). "Obviously, we would love to continue down the path of net metering as it currently exists here in North Carolina. But unfortunately, that's just not the reality of how it's playing out."

NCSEA is one of the groups that negotiated the deal with Duke Energy late last year. It will reduce what the utility pays for rooftop solar power during most daylight hours. And it will add a minimum bill for homeowners with solar panels."

So while we try to change individually, the corporations will see a chance to profit. Duke Energy had a 12% net profit margin with a gross profit of $4.4 Billion in December 2021.

I would say voicing your opinion that these utility companies should publicly owned would be a good start.
We apply "Unknown unknowns", the Precautionary Principle, etc, to things we don't like.

These principles then provide the wise sounding argument that our Motivated Reasoning brain center needed.
Many technically illiterate users don't like forced automatic updates either. Having your software behave one way one day and another the next day is user-hostile. The only people it helps are organizations that wish to lower support costs.
The one thing I don't like about shorts is the absence of video playback controls. Otherwise, meh, it's fine, I guess.

As far as overall strategy and vision for YouTube, it seems incompetent. They're just copying other platforms' features thinking it will bring them success (remember Twitter Fleets?).

Whoever is in charge needs to have an actual vision for YouTube and optimize for that instead of chasing trends.
Flatpak's benefits:

- Cross-distro packaging (no need to provide N package formats - this one runs on all distros)

- Faster update cycle for each app, if the package is maintained by the original developers

- Sandboxing

- Better compatibility all around, as the package runs the same on all distros (as opposed to some too-old or too-new module breaking something on X distro)

- Some other goodies, like checking new releases of the source on Github etc

Flatpak's drawbacks:

- Modules are not shared, which can result in somewhat larger packages and potential vulnerabilities

- Many packages are community-maintained by people who are not necessarily experts in the Linux ecosystem. Distro-provided packages usually have tighter requirements

Personally, I use Flatpaks for the sandbox. I restrict all apps very heavily.
I seem to remember that he did publicly admit certain policies were poor in retrospect - a bit of googling e.g. finds this, just months after the start of the pandemic: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52903717
Apple will still quite happily sell you a USB optical SuperDrive.

What's 'super' about is is the non-removable USB type-A cable, at a time when all their new machine are type-C only...
My armchair thoughts are perhaps this is happening now because Putin knows it's a last chance to do something "big" due to his age, declining demographics in Russia, and/or aging of their nuclear and military arsenal.

Or perhaps he's making a bet on abandoning the West to instead be Chinese dependent, and there's something in it for him and his cronies. Seems China would benefit from all this.
Many even prefer email or similar clients to be desktop apps. This seems like an important part of the conversation that is being left out: the more complex the task that the app is handling, and the more memory-intensive, the better fit it is for a desktop app.

That said, as web browsers get better at memory management and safe hardware access (e.g. WebGL / WebGPU) I expect this list of tools that "must" be thick to dwindle.
Yep, and sometimes it even works. Now imagine hibernate not even being a feature to fiddle with. It just, is. Close the lid, 0 power draw, open the lid, instant resumption of where you were previously. No wake on sleep (and the quirks that come with it), etc.

Classic example of “but you can already do this by configuring X in this settings menu and then making sure to enable it before you leave and there’s just this other one trade off and yea it can be slow and clunky sometimes” vs a solution so native to the platform that it’s not even a thought in the user’s mind.

Aka the “Dropbox is just rsync” argument.
As someone who probably has dyspraxia(One of those ADHD/Dyslexia/etc type conditions), I often just stop listening when someones idea of a solution involves learning something or doing something different next time..

Remembering and understanding are far too intangible to be part of a technical plan.

"Being careful" is essentially non-actionable or at best a crappy shorthand for working slowly and avoiding distractions, which is not always possible.

Crew Resources Management(Everyone needs to study this) understands that mistakes aren't just a lack of training. They are sometimes "Human error" coming from the fact that people are just not 100% reliable.

Everyone likes to act like you can just train more and get to 100%, and you should just accept the consequences when you don't, but that seems like a fancy way of saying "My natural reliability is better than yours, and I want all these lesser people out of my industry and preferably in a group home".

You may me 10x more skilled than me , but if I delete the wrong file, I just restore it from the trash. If you delete the wrong file, it's gone, because you trusted in your own ability rather than the computer, and used rm instead of a GUI.
Who said anything about guns? Knives or pipes are plenty common, and in some cities its simple overwhelming numerical superiority. One friend told me of being mugged by ten or so adolescents who were not fully grown or armed. But apparently quantity has a quality all its own. Another friend was in Madrid when pickpocketed, and ran down the thief and used force to retrieve it. He was later told by locals that if he had been seen by law enforcement his penalty would have been much more severe than the thief's. That is all amecdata, but something cultural or something in policy seems a more likely culprit. Some south american cities have pretty tight gun laws too don't they?
That is true in quite a few other countries as well, yet that did not stop politicians there. Enforcement and legislation are two different things.

Constitutional courts probably have a bit of work cut out for them the coming years to be better prepared for another situation like this.
Snaps are an attempt to move away from the distro managed software concept to the windows/android like vendor managed software paradigm. It removes the intermediate distro layer between third party vendors and users. It can also improve security in theory, but there are a lot of caveats to that currently.
Make updates that are appealing enough that users want them.
The site guidelines for comments begin with Be kind. It's hard to imagine an uglier absence of kindness on the internet than advocating for vengeance against an entire population. If you want to make a policy point you can do it without that level of inhumanity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: you've already managed to break the site guidelines repeatedly in multiple threads on multiple topics. That's not a good sign. If you'd please review the guidelines and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
You learned what irony was in a literary theory class?
I don’t really agree. I had a Xerox 1108 Lisp Machine in the 1980s and loved it, but special purpose Lisp hardware seems like a waste of effort. I set up an emulator for the 1108 last weekend, and yes, I really did enjoy the memories, and things ran an order of magnitude faster than on the 1108 in the 1980s.

Then, I appreciated my M1 MacBook Pro running SBCL, LispWorks, Haskell, Clojure, and various Scheme languages - all with nice Emacs based dev setups. Life is really good on modern hardware.
Running minor tasks with a simple job system in Django
Snap is terrible in every sense, so you should never use it in my opinion.

As for Flatpak, I'd say use it if you need a more up-to-date version of a piece of desktop software than is in your distro's repository or desktop software that isn't in your distro's repository at all.

For example, I use the Firefox flatpak on Fedora to have the most up-to-date version (98.0.2) since the current version of Firefox on Fedora (98.0.0) was giving me some issues like crashing when downloading something and choppy gifs.

I also use it for some proprietary software like Spotify and a game called Vintage Story. Adjusting their sandbox permissions with Flatseal is useful in this case.
Looks cool ! How does it compare to temporal.io in your experience ? I’m evaluating options at my current company, between airflow and temporal.
Well this is not what I'm seeing. I need to add -ldflags "-linkmode external -extldflags -static" to the go build command otherwise the binary doesn't run inside a scratch image.
A user problem that can have a very real impact on your product.

"x ProductX users impacted by Ransomware" will make headlines, your "well yes, we fixed it in v2.7.8 months back" won't.
Wild Crow Has Coffee with His Rescuer Every Day [video]
Yeah, I think you would use other native technology for videos, but for simple UIs? If it can work on an ESP-32, it can work on x86 big-iron. ( I don't have a dog in this fight, yet, so tell me how I'm wrong.)
Sure but the article isn't talking about a "git" server. It's talking about replacing Github with Gitlab which is a fully integrated developer workflow tool with code review functionality. They use "Git server" a lot in the article, but the opening and closing both specifically mention a Github replacement.
A lot of spam, sadly. Flagging functionality needed…
Apathy is the path of least resistance.
So many!

The About page refers to '... to the suburbs of Japan, to the cliffs of Australia', but both links find nothing.

I am surprised there are none in Japan, but I assume that is mainly a scrappping / language problem.
The Screener DVD production process is a curious bit of insanity. The "production" area[0] for this work is in a "secured" area of a "secure" facility. First, to enter the building, you must place any and all electronic devices in a locker. Once your credentials are approved, you then must be metal detector wanded before entering production floor. Once on the production floor, you must then enter a separate area from the rest of your co-workers that is secured even further by restricted access card readers and secure cage (I'm dead serious). Cameras, and I do mean multiple, are everywhere in this area, not that there aren't cameras in the rest of the place. If you've never been through an MPAA security audit, count your blessings.

Once inside, the production is not dissimilar to normal short run DVD production. Standard DVD authoring software. Standard DVD burners. There are a few additional steps during video encoding that includes forensic watermarking and the pain in the arse that entails to ensure each disc is uniquely identifiable. Once the disc is burned, qc'd, and packaged, the physical media is then handled in also ridiculously security theater fashion. Lots of signatures and timestamps.

To leave, you must once again pass through security to make sure you haven't succumbed to the temptation of walking out of the facility with more than you entered. You can return to your locker to retrieve your personal devices before finally being able to leave.

[0] There are more than one company that does this work, but this is the description of where I worked many many moons ago.
i don't get it, is it about buying basically, a stolen account with attached credit card, to steal people's money?
On what basis you say that 'there's almost no resistance'? Have you seen anti-war protests? Do you know the potential personal costs of such protests?
i moved to mailinabox last year and it has been great. i can only encourage more people to try self hosting stuff and start from the simplest of things.
More specifically, it is a waste product from bacteria digesting the food.

The food doesn't turn to methane without the bacteria.

https://jasbsci.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40104-01...
Nothing makes your platform scream "legacy" like disabling cut-and-paste.

No wonder they're getting wiped out by Substack.
> this isn’t work related,

So give them time off to grieve.

Once you say that “they need you [the manager] in a time of crisis” you are putting the tragedy in a work-related context. The crux of the issue is the tragedy that happened. Not how the supposed leader responds to it.

The worker bees can get space to grieve alone or among their peers.
If you keep breaking the site guidelines like this, we're going to have to ban you. I realize the current situation is highly charged, but you have a history of doing this on HN since long before this war, and we've had to warn you many times. It wasn't ok then, and it's not ok now. Difficult circumstances do not make it ok to burn this place down.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29523580 (Dec 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28090599 (Aug 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26537314 (March 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21309680 (Oct 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20900584 (Sept 2019)

Edit: Just so you know, I posted this before I saw https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30812090 and was not intending to pile on.
The whole thing is more or less a joke, so what about that particular part stood out to you?
whiteboard exercise: from the video evidence, tell me how many of them are in tune :)
I love the idea of this. I’ve struggled to get a setup like this to work on MacOS though. Which X server is the “right” one to use? Which is the easiest? Is there some way to make it work seamlessly with built in tools?

As an aside, instead of talking about growth hacking, and OSINT I think this whole thing could be a lot more relatable if the author chose a simple motivation like privacy. Another comment here mentioned subtools (?) which clearly highlights that not everything should be trusted with full access to your system.
In theory one gets better security. Distribution or manual apps can access and modify everything the user can do. Flatpack and Snap tries to address that with a security model similar to mobile apps.

In practice for many apps the security protection is non-existent or very limited for compatibility reasons. So for now the benefits is indeed mostly a store model and auto updates.

If one really needs to run an untrusted app a VM is probably the only practical way. It is also possible to run apps in various containers, but truly secure setup is rather nontrivial with those.
Our company offers its US employees access to a service called Wellthy. It is good to know that when you are dealing with issues in your personal life you can reach out to a dedicated, named individual that has expertise in the area you are struggling and that is there to help you navigate and organize. Even if it's just for the feeling that you are not alone.

Similar programs are available to employees in other countries.
Not just Docs, it's Google Drive that I find hard to replace (Docs, Sheets, Draw, Slide, etc). The recent debacle with Legacy GSuite motivated me to pay for a Microsoft 365 account, and create a sync of my Google Drive to OneDrive, converting the proprietary Google format into Office format. Then I do a 3-2-1 backup of the OneDrive files. (Backing up the local Google Drive folder is no good, because all you get is a stub of the Google proprietary files.)

Then I moved most of my other Google services (e.g. Domains, Gmail, Calendar, Search, Chrome) off to other companies and products (e.g. Cloudflare, Fastmail, DDG, Firefox). I figure that every interaction with Google proportionally increases the probability that my account will be terminated. So I moved off Google to protect my Google Drive, which seems ironic.

The last Google service that I need to move off is Google Voice. I haven't done a lot of research on this yet. If anyone knows of a good alternative that provides SMS-to-email forwarding, I'd be interested.
I work in a regulated industry and I try to keep all problems as open and widely known as possible. There are others who like to keep everything secret which has led to known problems not being fixed for a long time.

I am just a small engineer but this strategy seems to have worked in my small area. We are finally following industry standards, pentesting gets done (some people still resist though. They think it's better not to know about problems) and in general things don't get ignored anymore.
“The beatings will continue until morale improves.”
First, there is no simple western media. That of Poland is different from Germany is different from France is totally different from the US media. Some of those are better than others

Second, we have a classic dilemma. There is a media openly spreading lies and wartime propaganda. Will you teeate the spread of blatant lies, hatred and incitement in the interest of "freedom" when the aim of that very media is not to inform but to incite anger, aggression and sow doubt about the government?
Users are telling the snap team exactly what they want: give us a way to disable automatic updates. Snappy's vision is to take this control away.

This is why people hate snaps. They don't fit user workflows, make extra work and even cause show stopping problems.

Snaps could be great but the team really needs to listen. For me I'm removing snaps from my configs before I get surprised.

(edit: mobile autocomplete typos)
I used to start writing Star-Lisp code for my company’s Connection Machine (version 1, the SIMD one) by using Coral Common Lisp on my little Macintosh. Then I would get on an airplane and fly to the city where out CM was installed.
If were talking about wild dreams, I would like to see a modern Plan9-like operating system written in lisp.

While the Plan9 mouse chording is cool (and could be kept), I would have everything also accessible via keyboard commands. 3 button mouse chording on a laptop trackpad is not fun.