skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see your point. My mame cab is also a mame BitTorrent sharer. So not only am I preserving video games by playing and sharing them with friends and family I’m also doing it for the bigger goal. It also takes me ~5 minutes per month to update.
In the early months of 2020, all I read and heard on the news was "no evidence", "no or low risk", "highly unlikely", "no supporting data" regarding the health and transmission risk of Covid. The media's role is to calm everyone down and play the government's narrative.

Now I know better. Approach everything with massive skeptism. I wonder what the next facade is being hid when I see a story like this and if we'll ever come to know given the interests that are in charge.
I rage-quit Google recently -- and my job search involves looking for places that are "doing good for the world", and there's lots of things I dislike about the company -- but this is just a bit hyperbolic.

There are far worse companies for the world than Google -- in the grand scheme of "harm done to humanity", Google pales in comparison to Exxon or BP or Phillip Morris or Lockheed-Martin or Dupont etc.

Facebook/Meta, that's potentially a separate discussion.

In any case if you feel like companies like Google are causing serious harm to the world then you need to have a deeper conversation about capitalism generally [which I encourage you to do]. Is it possible that the whole model of profit incentives as we have them now inevitably creates the things you're complaining about? Why attack engineers personally when in the end it's just "rational actors" acting like mice following the cheese?

PS totally aside from what harm Google might be doing to the world (again mild compared to the above named corporations), we probably should talk about what harm Google is doing to our industry.
13 year olds don't worry about houses, they worry about things shared online by their peers. That's on Silicon Valley, folks. Denial of our own hand in this is real.
Yes, and Golang but I’m wanting to get into Rust soon.
I don't disagree, but it's not an exclusive choice: we can treat the symptom AND we can treat the cause, as separate items. Particularly because the latter is difficult, very individual in nature, and without easy solution.
I was asking because American right wing news has frequently lied about what was happening here in Canada. To my knowledge there hasn’t been a single report of a frozen bank account over a donation except for some debunked tweet by a Canadian conservative politician.

Thus, I asked for a source.
Yes! I found that really interesting. It bemuses me that studies show $VariableName is more readable than $variable_name!
If you injected 2-3 doses of saline into 50M people (or 25M women), how many would have new changes or typical variability in their body and be uncertain whether they are linked or not?

It’s good to track and chase down anomalous effects, of course. I wouldn’t immediately jump to a conclusion here.
Everybody loves parody until they feel targetted.
Well if they don't chase getting as much money as possible they won't be able to pay people mid six (and sometimes low seven) figure salaries to developers. Or afford to become "philanthropic" billionaires.
Moreover, apology refusal also resulted in increased feelings of power/control and value integrity, both of which mediated the effect of refusal on self-esteem.

That's what drives a lot of people these days, the power trip. Of course, it overlooks the long-term damage and salting of the fields that comes with being obstinate, obnoxious, ignorant, or unwilling to accept the facts or their own human flaws.
> Reputable brands that used to make quality products now need to compete on price

I don't think it's just that. Many people (like myself) stopped buying "reputable" brands because they have betrayed their reputation. Nowadays when buying electromechanic devices even when putting 10x the price i have no clue if it's going to last more than 2 years (minimum warranty in EU) and that's a fucking awful problem.

In my view, we need 20+ years warranty (minimum, i personally would argue for 50+) on all products mandated by law, then we can start to see some improvement. This is a public policy problem and as much as i hate the EU institutions they are the only entity i know doing anything about this very serious problem creating tons of waste/pollution.
It depends on what it is. If someone is being physically harmed I would go to law enforcement immediately. For "lesser" legal issues, like harassment or fraud, or anything that could blow back on me, I would get an attorney and document everything, then go to HR or law enforcement.

If you're just uncomfortable then talk to your boss about it and ask nicely. That usually works, but if it doesn't there's always a two week notice (assuming this situation is too bad to ignore).

Best of luck. I hope things work out well for you.
Removing "knowledge" from "data" is how you get faith and confirmation bias; neither of which have a place in talks about public health.
"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"

Believer or not, there's a lot of wisdom in the Bible.
Albini sounds really full of himself. I bet he was the sort of person who doesn't shut up. What Americans call a blowhard. In Utero seemed to lack the rhythm and energy and melodies of Nevermind and Bleach.
True, but I am a little sensitive to a multiplicity of keywords on a line.

Agree about the variable placing being not great. The trouble is most folk use the flexibility to bind the const in the wrong direction, myself included. Then putting it "right" looks "wrong".
Are you sure you can't imagine why the terrible economic situation a family is living in could impact the mental health of a 13yo? We love problem solvers in this site.
So if an author has made a work about something they then can't make a second work criticizing it, because doing so is "defiling" the first?
In what way is Europe becoming like Switzerland? There is no direct democracy to begin with, more like the opposite.
Excellent, thank you! Combined with WAL mode, it sounds like SQLite is eminently usable for most of my use cases.
Not all what he says, but some is. Bezmenov a defector with limited importance trying to compensate by making the boldest possible claims.

I made the comment so that people don't just listen and accept. Everyone can do their own searches and find out the truth easily. The truth on this is not deeply hidden or obscure.
There's a considerable difference between intentionally sharing your content with your extended network / the world and then having your entire TV watching history being logged by your TV vendor.
See КоАП РФ 20.3.3 and УК РФ 207.3, passed in March. You won't be jailed for a single tweet denouncing the war - but you will likely get up to a $1k fine if you are reported (and since around half of Russians support the war it isn't that unlikely you WILL get reported). If you are more politically active, you can get visitors irl (police coming to your house, or just random pro-government activists doing vandalism around your house/flat). Additionally, spreading "fake news" can get you up to 15 years in jail (but most people "only" qualify for 3 years). By the way, I'm Russian, so feel free to ask me further questions about the overall situation.
Well, fuck. Any recommended alternatives? Self-hosting is a non-starter, I'm more than happy to pay someone else to keep PHP/MySQL etc patched, just not $180/year (!!!) worth.
If anything that got worse as clocks got higher, but there is more abstraction in terms of things like tooling to help you get around that. An auto-router from the 80's wouldn't stand a chance to route a modern computer motherboard, essentially every trace is a transmission line, so while nominally it is all digital you are deal with the analog parasitic components all of the time unless you have tooling that will take care of that for you.

You could build a 2 MHz computer on a breadboard and expect it to work. The main analog parts in old computers were at the periphery, the sound DAC, the video drivers (the hardware part of that), TV modulator (usually a module to allow for easy NTSC/PAL/SECAM adaptations), joystick interface (ADC, or switches, depending on the model), cassette tape interface and so on.
Can you prove that without Google we wouldn't have seen more advances in society? Perhaps people just jumped on the wrong bandwagon because they didn't know any better? Perhaps Google got big for the wrong reasons?
It doesn't seem very obvious that any of GrubHub, Ticketmaster, Yelp, eBay, Microsoft, Tesla, AirBnb, Amazon, Oracle are "morally superior" to work at than Google.

I think Monsanto, Goldman Sachs, Palantir, Comcast, Juul, Uber, any defense contractor, Nestle, Philip Morris, etc are at least arguably less ethical work than even Meta, and get less flak just by being behind slightly less visible to users.

While there's many legitimate serious criticisms of both Meta and Google, I think many of the concerns are misdirected or overexaggerated. The omnibox thing mentioned in the comic is a pretty concrete example to me of a false criticism: the Chrome feature is that it fetches query suggestions for what you've typed so far, which means it's going to be sending what you've typed to a server. Firefox also does exactly same thing and continuously sends what you are typing to Google or Bing to fetch query suggestions, and I don't see people writing this same comic about how Firefox is somehow evil to implement such a feature.
It was Space Wars. I don't recall ever seeing any of the others variants in the wild; though it was a long time ago and I use to go to quite a few arcades and some pretty big arcades so it's possible I did see, say Computer Space, just don't remember.
The economy is not in terrible shape though. And even in horrible economies like Venezuela, we don't see a teenage depression trend that follows GDP chart. I just don't think there is a meaningful correlation.

As a matter of fact, I would hazard a guess that there is more teenage depression in America's wealthiest suburb (Loudoun County, VA) than in inner-city Detroit.
Actually we have solved nearly all technical problems. Just look at how the HN content has (not) changed over the last 10 years and how many times you have read: "... is a solved problem"?

From the elite's point of view, the function of big tech companies nowadays is to keep the consuming masses in check. It doesn't matter if this means not executing anti-cartel laws.
That looks great, thanks. I didn't realize it wasn't on by default, but it sounds like it'll greatly benefit the web app use case, where all web workers are on the same Linux machine.

Sounds like WAL is the way to go in most use cases, unless you want shared access from different machines.
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"Personal rant"? It is just describing in an easier to undertand way what a basic Chrome installation on any OS does out of the box. Why do you find it disgusting? Because it mocks the original Chrome comic? That's it?
There exist MR studies on cholesterol levels vs. longevity as well: https://bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/bcp....

These nits really aren't worth picking over when you haven't presented any RCT or MR evidence for your alternative theories.
This is a really personal opinion that comes based on a decade of life as gay and trans so if emotivism is your moral framework you really shouldn't try to tell me anything on this

Best to just make statements instead of validating mine against your power ranking
I bet they never make mistakes, huge boon for self esteem
...are we deliberately reenacting the original Dropbox thread here?
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I invite you to actually look at the housing market in CA and show me all the older construction that’s affordable. My friends in LA (not even nice parts of it) are buying houses that are literally 100 years old for over $1M.

The “fix older stock” strategy really only works in areas where people aren’t all that keen to live. Ex. It’s easy to do in Pittsburgh or Detroit. Not so easy in SF or Austin.
Yeah -- it absolutely is headed in the direction of being a website builder with luxury competition (Squarespace; Wix is no luxury, it's a torture).

And I must say, even though I have developed themes in the past, I'd prefer to see Gutenberg succeed in making most themes irrelevant. Themes that can be customised without PHP entirely seem to me to be a good solution to a lot of people's complaints about the untidy boundary between plugins and themes.

I am only familiar with Webflow from people who say "I've been trying to do this in Webflow but I'd prefer if we could do it in Wordpress".
Just anecdotally, my parents divorced and one of my parents took their own life, the divorce was harder
Yet we still collectively prefer conformity behavior shaped by media and politics.

Decentralisation and community is future.
Yes, there is.

Including John 8:7
Sounds about right. I think it would help a lot, but my SO would never do it.
Yeah no. That's the logic of someone who is telling you that rain has always been a part of nature and that you should embrace rather than fight it - while they are stealing the tiles from your roof.

What I mean is, on the one hand, you're correct: Loss in some sense is the default state of the universe, there will always be loss and there are far worse things than losing some stuff on the internet.

On the other hand, it feels hypocritical to talk this way about instances of loss that we have control over. The current mass extinction is not simply some natural event that came over is and that we have to accept like Tolkien's Long Goodbye. It's a decidedly unnatural event that we know the causes of very well.

In a similar way, the loss of information on the internet is not "natural" either, it's the result of deliberate business decisions that come from a specific trend of monetization.
It's called redbean.
"In two empirical studies, we examined the unexplored psychological consequences that follow from a harm-doer's explicit refusal to apologize."

In most cases there is no single harm-doer. In one-on-one relationships, one party can nag for a long time until the other party explodes verbally.

In group settings a group can harass, obstruct and libel an individual until that individual explodes.

You need the full background, which is missing in modern mob justice, because the individual is de-platformed and shamed without an opportunity for clarification.
> Thanks for agreeing that the teacher's union pursued an agenda contrary to the needs of our children.

That’s the (far) reaching conclusion from the NYP, that not going to school made kids depressed.

The reality is that the only obvious consequence was that schools were closed during the pandemic for health reasons.

Now, children mental health treatment have been on the rise for the past 30 years or so. Teen suicide grew by 60% between 2007 and 2018. I doubt that you can blame that to the pandemic too.

> It won't be shocking given this activity to undermine our children's health that parents will work to re-orient the teacher's union to a mission that is actually useful to society.

Here’s the thing: teachers didn’t sign up to be expendable babysitters. They are supposed to teach, not to risk their lives or keep your kids under supervision. If you would like that, schools may be as well served by the National Guard.
It is not, as proved by the EU case against Internet Explorer what? 15 years ago? I hope they will get fined again as well.

Is Ballmer CEO again?
Why do you want to be optimistic?
People at large don't want to pay for software and would much rather take ads instead. Not a lot of people care that much about privacy either, so unless data collection has a direct consequence --that they are made aware of-- on something impactful like being rejected when trying to take out a loan or insurance because of it, they don't mind either.

So yes, you would have to look at laws to "fix" this, but you will find out that there is no way you will be able to get it passed in a democracy because almost no one wants to have to pay for social media, a web browser, search engines or other such commodity software.
The Huawei bans have also helped.

There are times I can't help feeling that the Huawei bans were to help Apple.
> So I know you can add Blade or Twig templates on top of WordPress to at least make your own code contribution a bit better (e.g. at least some automatic escaping, saner templates), but at what point is it a lost cause and it's time to move to something with a better foundation? I've seen people use WordPress as a headless CMS but I don't think the admin interface is particular good either.

I would say, if you have a choice in the matter (many do not have that on the job or when a friend asks them to help them with their blog or shop built on top of WP), that at the point, where you start using a proper template engine and switch from the WP-assumed concattenation way of building things to a style of using composition, you are well beyond the point, where you should switch to something more appropriate for the job.
So much of the Meta hate in tech circles comes from same cope psychology of engineers thinking “if you build it they’ll come” and failing at acquisition.

Ads help SMBs and larger ones so much. Sure there’s issues here and there but meta has probably pushed GDP forward pretty hard and enabled awesome amounts of product discovery, and this is just on the ads side. Think of everything people have learned on FB/IG. I’ve met so many valuable people.
Software engineering is one of the few middle class jobs available these days. Understandably it's now packed with people desperately trying to live a specific lifestyle, buy a house, etc... rather than a passion for tech for tech's sake. (Not placing blame.)

That fact along with the average piece of consumer software having such low perceived value (try getting people to spend 99p on the app store) and consumer software has become this awful race to the bottom of lock-in and advertising. I suspect business software is much healthier for this reason.

Economic pressures are why we've arrived here.
Great job with this. The rain sounds are really nice and peaceful

Pretty cool you can draw sounds and you've made it sound melodic with the background music. I don't have any music background but I imagine this wasn't straight forward
Should I disclose everyone I hire to the rest of the company and prospective clients? Maybe hire a PI to make sure everyone I hire is of a good character for my prospective clients?

I don’t want to develop that kind of culture in the place I work
Does that mean "All parodies are good"? Please.
What products are you talking about?

From my experience over the past 15 years, most electronics that were high quality and high price remained the same, however the cheaper alternatives have gone up in quality by a lot.

Imo, the midrange is still there. However the number of manufacturers have gone way up and it's really hard to find something that's quality.

You can't just look at the brand name, which seems to have become a worthless concept, companies will sell their name (and long term reputation) for pennies.

You need to look at the hardware itself and know some basics about what makes it good and what not. The vast majority of people can't do that.

Over time I found myself thinking "I gotta get a new one" more often than "I need to fix it" because there's an abundance of stuff.
You also can't find Zorn's music streaming anywhere. I've heard of one store that offered digital purchases, but not for the whole discography.

You can fill a large closet collecting just his stuff so I'm not sure why digital is off the table.
Don’t be a scummy business and you have nothing to worry about. Plus he didn’t break the NDA as he found the docs outside the relationship- so all good.
I don't understand how this kind of petulant child behavior isn't the first topic for any journalist in contact with a Microsoft representative for any reason. It's as if Jeff Bezos was walking around with his weiner hanging out but somehow only got asked questions about Amazon's fourth quarter numbers.
I work at a FAANG. I know many people that immigrated across the world to work at a FAANG. Who am I to complain about driving across town? So I go into the office. I may not like it but reality is that promotions come easier to those that go in. So I burn 2 hours a day and $300/mo in gas driving in.
Road maintenance is paid for by property taxes. You have to be a home owner to pay property taxes. The costs don't disproportionately fall on those who are least able to afford them, but on those who have the most invested in a local, tangible asset (i.e. homeowners, business owners, landowners, etc.)
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> Did the plantation owners create the value? No, the slaves did.

I am 100% against slavery, period.

Who invented the incandescent lightbulb and the iPhone? The mass market automobile? Who built the railroads? None of these things can be fully credited to the small number of people at the top of the corporations responsible, but we can say fairly confidently they wouldn't have happened without a visionary leader aggregating the efforts of many into a final product.

I agree slaves were deprived of freedom and wages, which is not right. And that wealth is stolen.

That is different from the fact that it's been passed down through generations. I don't quarrel with the children of entrepreneurs having wealth passed down in the same way.

Conflating two arguments makes discussion more difficult.

Money and value are directly related. Money is just score keeping for value created. People pay money for things they value. That's not always going to be the case, but I think treating it as a rule with exceptions is a better heuristic than... what is your definition of value versus money?
That's not even close to being directly comparable

Since when does programming carry the risk of suicide or death in some other fashion? I would argue its exceedingly rare, as opposed to suicidal tendencies being amplified by depressed individuals using psychedelics. You're comparing apples to shoes
I’d rather keep those two hours for something enjoyable in my life
> That doesn't excuse injustice and inequality(!) but the absolutes matter, esp. given the context of parent's "things are just bad and getting worse" comment.

You make a very good point! Yet the metrics you measure also matter. For example, it's fair to say that in terms of "free time" or "environmental pollution" things have absolutely gotten worse over the past centuries.

I definitely think it's possible that some communities/States collapsed in the past due to local climatic changes or environmental pollution (for example desertification due to over-exploitation of wood, or water pollution due to rejects from metal workshops falling into the single available source).

But in the past this was the exception not the norm. A few weeks back on HN frontpage there was a survey of hundreds of water sources worldwide, only two of which were unpolluted by medicine (the study did not consider other forms of pollution), and some time later was a study about 1/3 of the world population drinking lead-polluted water.

In that sense, everything is fucked up because even if your local community respects the environment, you can be sure there's a damn industry upstream polluting everything, or a neighboring chemical agriculture field killing the insects that keep your own food sources available, polluting the water sources...

I don't think the "are we faring better?" question can be answered in binary terms, but i think the "negative" side of things is shocking enough that it requires no less than an actual revolution to fix: as long as the people fucking things up for everyone else will profit from it, nothing good can come out of the system.
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