skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think there is a black-and-white distinction - it is possible to feel the things from your first paragraph, yet understand the purpose of the very feeling. It doesn't take a psychopath to analyze human behavior.

> Everything is a transaction, sure they might apologise to you if you can do something for them, but if you can't do something for them, then they can devalue you to where no apology is needed, in order to make themselves feel superior, in that way, they can extract something (self-esteem) from you regardless.

I don't think this would be rational behavior, but rather pathological behavior. Rationally, it would be in one's interest to keep good relationships even with the people who don't "serve a purpose" at the moment, because it is impossible to know when one might need them, and "they serve a purpose" again. The only reason one would devaluate others is that they feel some kind of irrational need to feel superior, even if that feeling costs them good relationships.
How do you plan on making the business sustainable?

Pretty much anyone can make this using Hugo, no?
That stat is well supported, but I wonder what the percentage of failure is within YC, are there any stats on this?
Would be pretty easy to update my NixOS i3 profile to match most of the functionality here. The only part I'm not sure of is the Gnome Flashback integration. Looks there's a Nix package for it, so I suspect getting a clone of this working on Nix would be a single shareable config file.
Yep, it is an odd comment because M&S have a relatively good supply chain. I think people assume that if anything breaks, it must have been made in a sweatshop.

In reality, the reason why "fast fashion" exists isn't related to quality at all. You can buy t-shirts that cost £3 that will be as long lasting as anything 10x or 100x the price. I am not sure how people think t-shirts are made, there isn't some hidden secret of durability known only to companies that charge a lot.

The reason "fast fashion" exists is because most retailers provide terrible value for money. Fast fashion charge significantly less for clothes made in the same factory, with the same materials and labour. That is it.

So it is unsurprising this is occurring in Europe: luxury goods manufacturers there successfully lobbied for exemptions from Russian sanctions, they are a formidable lobbying force in Brussels, the aim of this is to stop competition from non-EU manufacturers (particularly from the UK and China). Classic EU. If you can't win, cheat.

If you want to do more about this issue, just improve recycling...that is it. Done.
Windows Firewall -> Advanced Settings -> change default Outbound to "block" on public/domain/private profile.
I think this is great and easy for most people, but if you are a developer, you ought to host it on your own. There is no excuse.
Do you think they build skyscrapers and two-story houses the same? That's like saying Honda Civics and Abrahams tanks are built the same because they're both vehicles.
> The gap is still 7% overall.

Pure fiction, which is why nobody can present a credible analysis to support it.

Try this instead:

https://hwfo.substack.com/p/graphing-the-gender-wage-gap?s=r
> It sure does work :-)

That you've marked the function `throws E` is an admission it doesn't really work; that's the one exception type it definitely doesn't throw. (Default handling is also still different than the starting point.)

Please just stop trying to show off how much you know when I'm trying to discuss how programs in general are actually implemented. You're very clever, but part of why you keep getting it slightly wrong is because probably you don't even write error handling like this day to day.
I think there's an accessible middle ground for most people.

My first suggestion would be to get every account in a password manager like 1Password. In addition to the obvious security benefits, this creates a record of where all your accounts are. For the average person it'll take time for them to remember everything (and they'll realize ones they forgot) - having a place for it all to get documented is the first step.

Once you have that, the next step is to go through every account and close the ones you don't need. After that, go into the ones you do need and modify the settings to disable as much of the tracking as possible.

I'd also suggest people sign up for deleteme: https://joindeleteme.com/ since these public data collectors can't be stopped without continued effort and I don't think there will be laws to stop them anytime soon.

For more technical users, I'd suggest they get their own domain and use fastmail with aliased emails for each account - but realistically regular people will not do that.

There are also advantages to having a public presence online (both professional and personal) - the issue isn't so much that you need to be 100% dark, it's that your public presence should be under your own control. One of the reasons I'm excited about Urbit is because it has the potential to give this control back in a way that could actually work.

I think culturally we also need to be more understanding of people making mistakes as the grow up and saying stupid things as they learn, but that's somewhat of an orthogonal issue so I'll leave it there.
Ask HN: Any good audio resources on how to write well?
This might be a strange question. But maybe there are some people like me out there who can relate and have some ideas.

I love to listen to audio content. And I would like to become better at writing. So finding some YouTube videos or podcasts about this would be cool.

Unfortunately, when you just use the YouTube search, you get all that cheap, cheesy videos that have no value.

So I am asking here on HN.
Demanding verbal apologies is an curious technique.

Generally I was taught I need to apologize when at fault yet sincerely, and never lie. So in situations where a harm was accidental, or not clearly a harm to anyone, except in the mind of the victim it can be an awkward place. Moreso if the victim has a glass jaw and a habit of throwing stones. Of course every person and situation is unique, so diligence is required to maintain a healthy sense of empathy without reinforcing destructive behavior.
It’s not normalized for any of the factors that actually determine wages earned by any worker of any gender.

So therefore the number is virtually useless, except to identify aggregate level choices made by men and women.
Bit surprised no one mentioned using the LTSC releases of Windows. They're absolutely barebones (no clock/news/weather, media codecs need manual install) but apparently significantly faster and less bloated, and they boot faster too. The only catch is I'm not sure how you can get one unless you're fond of the deep seas.
Samo Burja: Societal Decline Pt. I
OP of the article here. You are absolutely correct. The statement in the article is very much a simplification: in the real world, wireless communication is tricky. Not only are there issues such as the hidden node problem (and the exposed node problem, for that matter), but it also changes over time.

It is possible to take these issues into consideration, but as you say, that requires a very different infrastructure than what this article is talking about. The way we do it at Thingsquare is to use a software-based simulator where we can both emulate the software on the devices and have full control of the simulated radio medium - if we need it. Sometimes using RF attenuators and/or cabling is useful.

In the end, what it comes down to that each tool has one or more use cases where it shines, but there is no one tool that fits all.
Overhead service is definitely the cheapest upgrade. No trenching and underground conduit required.
The value of data declines over time, often rapidly. Think about what a business would pay for current user data, data one year old, data five years old, etc.; who buys five year old data? I suppose it depends on the application. Imagine how your life changes over time, an accumulation of small and large changes. Data on your health, finances, social network, interests, politics, activities, etc. was different 1 year ago, 5 years ago, etc.

The question seems like a justification for what many want to do, which is just close their eyes to the problems and not put the energy into resisting the tide toward compliance and giving power to government/corporations; it's easier, right now, to give up, and despair and powerlessness are normalized - instead of quitting being at least a bit shameful, it's cynically embraced, flauted as rebellious.
... "in 22 of 250 U.S. metropolitan areas” - quite far from 50/50 still.
This may be true, but when things break people will look for a scapegoat. So when things break, and you are mostly-responsible for initiating the failure, use collective language ("we" and not "I"), frame the failure as a systems failure when you are talking to management or the executives, look cool even if you are feeling stressed out. Manage the narrative! Sure, you flipped the switch or whatever, but try and survive the event. Just because you think its a system's failure doesn't mean other people share this belief, don't volunteer to be thrown off the bus.
Ah. Yes that's about right for a panel swap. Upgrading the service conductors is what costs $$$.
The most commonly repeated "stat" about gender incomes(84 cents per dollar) also doesn't control for occupation or education.
I don't have a hot-line to any executive branch of government, so I am going off of historical actions presided over by elected representatives of both left/right.
There's quite a bit of that. Pendleton, Duluth Trading, Lands End to name a few in the US. A lot of them offer very boxy fits, but whole categories like workwear are basically "durable and reliable clothing" - or at least pretending to be. A problem arises when you want modern fit + durable + fashionable; that's when you start to see huge price tags.
> the disparity between women and men enrolling in college and completing degrees (more women than men) has been increasing.

Including in higher paying first job degrees, professions, or however you want to make that adjustment?

Not disagreeing, just curious. Many on HN probably studied CS or EE with a very male cohort, for example. Is that balanced by a programme(s) (with well-paid graduates) that skews heavily female? Maybe medicine (not as much as EE/CS though surely)?
I hesitate to add an opinion on this as I know that multiple generations have been conditioned to believe in MAD. I believe MAD does apply to NATO nations and for the most part would reduce the probability that NATO countries might nuke one another.

I do not however believe that Russian politicians and military recognize this concept beyond its application to NATO meaning that they would hope we believe in it. There isn't one document I can point to but rather all of their political and war history suggests they would believe a nuclear war can be won and they don't really care if half their population were wiped out. The political elites can hide in bunkers deep under ground for a very long time. They have been preparing for this since at least WWII. Add to this the evolution of smaller, faster more efficient tactical nuclear weapons and HANES EMP weapons would bolster their confidence in winning. I don't really know what winning means given they would be economically destroyed and the surviving civilian population would be starving and sick. I am just looking at this through Russian history tinted glasses.
I agree, but

> Windows Defender does its job and gets out of the way

WD is easily bypassed [1]. It's all smoke and mirrors - Microsoft has never cared about security. The OS is full of wontfix exploits (this is frowned upon to talk about in the security research community, especially among the big players, wonder why...)

One would benefit in exploring the thought that WD is valuable for MS in the way that it can be used to restrict 'personal computing' - the applications you download and use, the files you download and create, all recorded and hashed in some database, all under the guise of security. DeCSS is a good example [2].

One would also benefit in exploring the thought of the possibility that MS spends significant amounts of money in paying off MS partners, researchers, news outlets etc. to convince the public that defender will keep you safe.

I repeat, Microsoft does not care about security. That said, a properly hardened Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC with telemetry removed [3], along with a third-party/router firewall is the way to go, in my opinion.

[1] https://github.com/search?o=desc&q=Windows+Defender&s=update...

[2] https://www.arch13.com/ms-windows-defender-decss/

[3] https://www.bsi.bund.de/EN/Topics/Cyber-Security/Recommendat...
I read somewhere that the number of Excel "programmers" in the world is an order of magnitude larger than all the professional computer programmers combined.
The secret is to not use Safari ;) (which is slightly better than Edge, but just slightly)
Not even wolves are this way.

In their family lives, wolves have lifelong monogamous relationships. In their pack lives, wolves have kind of "situational leadership" where they know that wolf X is the best tracker and wolf Y is the best hunter so they follow wolf X to find prey and wolf Y takes lead to hunt it. Other than that, they are pre-democratic - if most of pack wants to do something, the rest follows.
Yup. Why spend 2x more for a washer when it will crap out at the same rate?
This home page doesn't honor the browser's font-size setting, it sets it to 14px. It should be changed to 1rem so it uses what's set in the browser.

The font-family is sans-serif, so it does honor that browser setting, but if you'd prefer to read it in a serif font, too bad.
Yeah well you have to remember that the mayan villages they studied didn't even have a library. When I first read about this mayan method they had packed soil for floors and huts.

So when I say distractions, I mean all distractions.
Ah thanks for the explanation. Yeah we build our own OS for that specific device.

We don’t use Xilinx’s PetaLinux because it’s too limiting for the SW we want to run on top of it.
It’s more than just how one feels about chores and involves the world view and paradigm.

Indigenous families typically have a world view in which a member of the community voluntarily contributes towards something to the greater community. Some tasks are so important that someone somewhere has to do it, and it is less about individual responsibility. And this extends not just to “chores”, but the care of people and care of the land.

So this isn’t a “chore”, something someone is forced to do, perhaps even a punishment. If a modern family tries to implement this without dropping the individualist frame, there is a tension in trying to get the child to do something that you yourself don’t really want to do, yet must do as an “adult”.

It’s why for my kids, household chores are never done in order to get money. It’s a bit too late to instill this for my teenage step-daughter, but it is something we’re implementing for our 15-month old son.

Carol Sanford has written a book called Regenerative Life that describes the kind of world view and paradigm for this, and it is informed from her being raised by her Mohawk grandfather. When she adapted this to her children, she asked her two children what they wanted to contribute. Her 9 year old daughter wanted to pay the bills, and her even younger son wanted to cook dinner. She didn’t throw them into the deep end, and instead acted as a resource and helped developed their individual capacity to contribute in that way. When they were older, the daughter joined an athletic program and wanted to go on a special diet. She collaborated with her brother about her needs. He gathered the ingredients and cooked it for her, and she worked out the budget for it.

This kind of stuff can go beyond just doing chores.
Doesn't matter, 24 is the highest number anyway.
Useful Set of Bookmark Searches 2.1 for Everything – voidtools forum
It looks just great.
The guidelines, linked at the bottom of the page, say "don't comment about the voting on comments", which is what you did. Please don't do that anymore. That there are a lot of users who would like to see discussions of downvotes is why the guideline is there.
Society needs to pay a competitive price relative to their other options.
Before 2000 or so, every stupid thing you did as a kid wasn't recorded on a phone or online somewhere permanently that you could forget it.

Maybe at school but bullying wasn't possible 24/7 online like now.

You had no idea what the latest news or political drama was as a kid before 2000 because it wasn't in your hand 12+ hours a day. No twitter/facebook or whatever they are using now.

Now being a kid is as depressing as being an adult and you are wired-in to a world that's overwhelming you. Sure they don't have jobs or rents to pay but everything still feels fatalistic to them, like they can't escape the world defines them, not the other way around.
I feel like for fast fashion specifically, this is a move in entirely the wrong direction.

Fashion trends change quickly, a lot of people buy clothes with full intentions of wearing them for a couple weeks until they’re out of style and then just throw them away. Making fast fashion to last years is putting more valuable materials in the dump. Without a major change in peoples buying habits, it’s just making things worse.
> For games, why not just have a console

Why would I want to buy some box for hundreds of euros/dollars that only plays games:

- with worse quality

- with no mod support for basically any game

- requires you to pay extra for basic features (e.g. looking at you, Nintendo, with your "savegames are not on the SD card but locked to the console unless you pay a subscription to back them up online, so if your Switch kicks it, they're gone"; etc etc)

- last I heard basically no setting customizability and locked framerates all over the place, like Bloodborne locked at 30fps with no anti-aliasing

- exclusivity garbage

- almost always controller-only input: shooters and (other) first-person games with controller? No thank you!

- the list goes on and on

Nowadays, with Proton I can play basically anything I want on Steam on my Ubuntu PC with minimal if any added effort (actually none in recent memory) with no problems, parity in frame-rate and stability to when I was gaming on Windows years ago.

Granted, I mostly stay away from the garbage that is regularly barely warmed-up and churned out by those greedy MTX-peddling bloodsuckers known as the "AAA industry".
I wouldn't call TheThingsNetwork "failed", and it's the same: open LoraWAN network, except without blockchain incentives.
I'm not pretending these differences don't exist or don't affect individual behavior. I'm saying using them to justify inequality in our society as innate or inevitable is fucked up. A lot of behaviors can be accurately described as "innate" and "biological" but nonetheless the entire project of "having a society" depends on us not acting on them regularly.

But there is a very big leap between identifying inclinations in primate infants and determining that the unjust structures of our society are caused purely by that. Especially when there are so many other easily observable factors in that inequality right now.

That aside, why even focus on it when there are more powerful incentives already at play? Let's get the wages evened out then see what people do, rather than decide in advance what we think they will do.
Wisdom from 50 years in software [audio]
Women don’t like Shellac because Steve Albini wears his guitar as a belt, true story.

My March 2020 Shellac tickets are finally going to be used in May, I’m excited!
Scratch is really just a visual representation of a programming language's AST. It's like programming in LISP but using drag-and-drop blocks as opposed to parentheses. And the more general your programming language becomes, the more uniform the corresponding graphical representation as well - you get no help from the "block shapes" encoding different AST forms, everything turns into a soup of equally-shaped blocks where "anything goes". So, pretty much the same as LISP with its soup of parentheses.
They don't exist in isolation, once inequality in capital gets large enough, it is impossible to accomplish equality of opportunity, or of anything at all between:

1- a child of a billionaire that had private tutoring and connections

2 - a child that grew up in poverty and was malnurished, didn't recieve proper education or attention from parents because they were working two jobs or perished in some kind of tragedy
This is often touted, but I just doubt that electricity, water, and sewers are more expensive outside of the city.

My father managed several factories in the LA area. Upgrading the electrical for new equipment in the close to downtown factory was going to cost something like a 6 to 7 figure sum. The factory in the boondocks upgrade was a quarter of the price.
It being your fault is a good way to go through life.

It focuses your mind on what you could do to avoid those situations in the first place.

If it’s your fault prod broke you can fix the process or you can look for a new job where the process is already fixed. Or you can find a role that doesn’t involve pushing code to prod, maybe in R&D, etc.
There's some things that the $150 goggles might have that the cheap ones don't (anti-fogging, UV protection, durability etc). Or they're just marked up, who knows.
If the quality goes up - prices will probably have to go up as well, which means potential behavioral change, i.e. can't buy clothes every 2 weeks anymore.
I check the screenshots and there is something that got my attention, no Minimize button

How do gnome users minimize their windows?

https://blogs.gnome.org/christopherdavis/files/2022/04/nauti...

Or is that the mobile file manager app? i guess it is since their focus seems to be mobile platforms?

Looks like moving forward Gnome will be a desktop environment mainly for mobiles?
It actually happened to me yesterday while I was installing Firefox on an old laptop I have lying around. I think it triggered the pop up when I ran the firefox installer or when I clicked on download not sure.
Their argument: "The great man theory is wrong because [actual reasons]."

Your argument: "The great man theory is right, you're dumb if you disagree."

Sure, I'm pretty dumb, but why should I believe you?
What build of Windows are you running?
Nice. Almost what I want: simplicity, images (for plots), and no adds or tracking. However, I want to author pages on optics, and I want to use MathJax (https://www.mathjax.org/) for equations. Please let me know how I might use MathJax with Mataroa if I've misunderstood. Or, please suggest something similar that supports MathJax. Rolling my own static site (as many NH postings describe) is enticing but beyond my ability. I am not a Web programmer, and Mataroa's simplicity is perfect for me.
Extremely unlikely there will ever be a will to do this considering the long term value to be compensated (hundreds of thousands of dollars per child, if not $1MM). Society is too short sighted and short term financially focused.

The world already has almost 8 billion people though (with population momentum landing is at 10B-11B by the end of the century), so I’m hard pressed to argue for more children (and the necessary policy and financial support) when we, in aggregate, already don’t take care of the ones here (no subsidized child care, limited parental leave, half a million kids in foster care at any one time [US], ~120 million unintended pregnancies globally annually, etc). Also consider that in parts of Europe where pro natalist policies are very robust (subsidized childcare, very generous leave policies, and “baby bonuses”), the fertility rate continues to decline regardless. Kids might be valuable to society, but the data supports the idea they are not as important to individuals (opportunity costs, life choices, etc).