skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking as someone who was a teen in the 80's in the United States: The only way to stop a school bully (a person who has learned to use force for personal gain) is with a bigger "bully" (another stronger student, or an administrator who has more force). Therein lies the rub: Might makes right. There's no stable system of sheep because the most wolf-like of them will always emerge to take advantage of the others. You see this in behavior across species, there's like an "aggression equilibrium"; too many wolves result in too much bloodshed; too few and a single wolf obtains an outsize share of resources/social/reproductive capital, or what have you (and thus perpetuates their aggressive genes). Witness every communist system put into place so far: What was envisioned was a system of equals, but nature abhors a vacuum so what you end up getting is a bunch of people considered equals, and a dictator above them all.

And truly, I learned this lesson early on only because of bullying (towards me): The school administration did nothing. The teachers did nothing. I was left to fend for myself... and this is what I learned: If you screw up the courage to stand up to a bully ("display your readiness to use force"), they will often back down. In some cases they will ONLY back down if you resort to physicality (the proverbial "fist to the face"). I learned this lesson again and again- I've had my wrist broken by a bully, but at least he never messed with me again. And as an adult, I've applied this, not in the direct use of force but in the fact that your will is what counts- when fighting traffic tickets, it's you vs. the system.

It shouldn't be surprising that 100% of the bullies I knew (who because I'm a peaceable sort, I actually friended on FB years later) became Republicans. But some of them also became leaders in various things.

My main bully, however, was apparently a troubled sort himself, and ended up taking a shotgun to his own head in front of his family. Spent a week in the ICU before giving up the ghost. Before this happened, I randomly ran into him at a bar. I didn't recognize him at first because he had gained a lot of weight, but one look in the eyes (the eyes always contain the identity of the individual when nothing else does, for some reason) and he immediately said "Let me buy you a beer". I accepted.
Unlikely via my Roku, or whatever eventually replaces it. But yes... I dropped cable a few years ago in favor of Plex and Netflix.
> The rest are doing chores because their spouses are not considering them working because they are "home"

I finally addressed this by blocking out the hours of 3-5 on my schedule for “personal time” and then working after that. It meant I could push personal chores and errands into that window no matter when requested.

Actually my schedule is so cross time zone that it wouldn’t matter so much but locking in the time helps manage it (I also have time blocked out for truly personal things like reading HN).
> but that was never actually an economically viable product

There are clearly lots of these buildings. And have been for decades. It may not work "forever" but it has worked.

Your argument reminds me of the economist who steps over the $100 bill on the ground since it couldn't possibly be there because if it was, someone would have picked it up by now.
Well that's because he's a narcissist
sudo $EDITOR launches the editor itself as root, sudo -e launches the editor as a regular user on a temporary copy of the original file, and copies the contents back over to the original file when you are done. The less done as root, the less opportunity to mess things up.
Yeah they problem is that highest and best use is probably also highest risk and longest flow so most builders just opt to put up a McMansion or 2, make their 20-30% and move to the next project
Ha! I contributed the initial classical style guide many, many moons ago.

I'm still technically an automod although I haven't participated for a long time.
Bridging the Chasm Between Quantum Physics and the Theory of Gravity
”Helpful” notification is much less than Microsoft is doing indeed. After all, Mac is commercial OS and Safari is their product so at least a little bit is allowed. But Microsoft is closer and closer banning anything they don’t want.
> People at large don't want to pay for software and would much rather take ads instead.

But that’s not been the deal since the mid ‘00s. The deal is “ads, plus we build a model of you and rent access to that model for anyone who’ll pay, allowing them to manipulate your politics and world-view”.

That’s the deal. But they just call it “ads”.

> 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.

I suspect that people do care about their data, their privacy and such. But tech is so hard, the effects so distant and the public’s ability to affect change so minimal that people guve in to the privacy breach. That’s quite different from “not caring”.

I admit, this is a hunch.
I think the real argument is that we need to pay teachers enough to afford housing
Ah I see, thanks for your answer.

I suppose the levels of grandfathering of old rules varies from place to place, no? Though for public financing I guess they want less "old" stuff?
>I'm not even complaining, at best I'm armchair quarterbacking :)

>I made an observation that mixing local politics with getting approval for an already set rules seems ripe for conflicts of interest, inconsistency, arbitrariness, predictably bad optics when local special interest groups get favorable treatment compared to less special (ie. poorer) groups.

Fair enough. My apologies if it seems I pushed a little hard on that. It's just that far too many people seem to take every opportunity to metaphorically roll up their newspaper and take swipes while yelling "Gub'mint bad! Bad gub'mint!"

I'm emphatically not claiming that's what you were doing, but knee-jerk condemnation of "gub'mint" is far too common in the US these days, which makes me a little over sensitive on that topic.

That idea is, at least in the US (and other democracies), ridiculous in the extreme given that we are the government, or at least we elect the folks who run it.

I agree. There are many opportunities for conflicts of interest, arbitrariness and outright graft, especially in state and local government.

That said, I'll repeat my statement from the comment to which you replied:

You elected those those folks. If they aren't doing
it right, then elect someone else.

If your representatives are inept or inefficient, find some folks who aren't. If your representatives are corrupt (here's a particularly lurid case[0]), then boot them out and prosecute them where appropriate.

>basically separation of powers is missing at the local level. the executive branch (ie. civil service) should be separate from the local "legislature"

Not sure how it is where you are, but we have separate "branches" where I live in NYC[1]. The Mayor (and myriad city agencies) makes up the "executive" and the city council (as well as local community boards -- at least in an advisory capacity) makes up the "legislative" branch.

They are separate entities and, just as it is in the Federal government, no legislator can simultaneously serve in the executive branch or vice versa.

I know that many (most?) parliamentary democracies don't operate that way, with sitting legislators from the ruling party/coalition serving in executive roles.

That's just not the case where I am, or in most other state and local governments in the US AFAIK.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Manes#Downfall_and_suic...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_New_York_City
Chemotherapy again this malignant bullshit:

open cmd.exe with admin privileges

> cd %PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\Microsoft\Edge\Application\[SOME VERSION NO.]\Installer
> setup --uninstall --force-uninstall --system-level

Prevent recurrence with some registry editing:

> create new key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft/EdgeUpdate
> create “DWORD (32-bit) Value” and call it “DoNotUpdateToEdgeWithChromium"

(Source: https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/how-to-uninstall-microsoft-...)
The Science of Production
How to Choose Your Perfume
The job I was doing was all quality assurance engineering and management so I wasn't actually "making" anything unfortunately. I have played around with CNC machines & lathes and they're quite fun so if you're interested in that then give it a go!
17.5B Russian startup cut ties with its homeland
Perhaps we should have a children's union. Maybe then someone will think of the children.
Quebec, a province in Canada, passed a law a few years back. Essentially, the language states that the product must last "a reasonable period of time" for its usage case. This is the new province wide, legislated warranty.

Buy a washer, are a single man, use it once a week? It breaks in 15 years?
Covered.

Are a family of 8, wash 2x daily, it breaks after manufacture's stated warranty? Probably, not covered.

This helps, because it stops parts that are designed to fail due to time, instead of usage, from destroying the product.

There are a few government agencies which will help you with this too, instead of going to court, by merely a form to fill out.
You've already admitted you gave up after a couple of pages.

Which parts are you disputing?
From the first page it reads like this is Scott McCloud writing an update, but this "remix" is actually by Leah Elliot.

There's more context in the introduction pages of the PDF, but the website skips them: https://contrachrome.com/ContraChrome_en.pdf

(Disclosure: I work at Google, speaking only for myself)
You ignored his other point

>Plus, the alternative is far worse: dreadful "stable dystopias" like 1984 and Brave New World, which afford no exit from within, by construction, can only be stopped in this way.
I just spent most of the past few years building my own motorized microscope for automated acquisition. As of yesterday, I successfully trained a tardigrade object detector and used it to do real-time tracking of tardigrades as they move around on a slide, for hours (yes, there is actually a hypothesis).
hard problem. people want to make money -> unethical decisions on a mass scale -> people want to build ethical stuff -> get no reward for that.
the incentive mechanism is broken in the world. I'm not completely anti-capitalist as it can be used for good, but the incentive mechanism is definitely one of the hardest problems I can think of.
It's well known that it is this way around. The construction of a grandiose self (the sort of self that would be above the need for apologising) appears to be, inherently, a defensive formation in cluster B personality disorders.
Not sure what OPs original meaning was, but I think a legitimate statement can be made stating that being queer/polysex (or any other non “standard” sexual identity) comes with a higher probability for mental illness due to discrimination.
Howdy. My name is Dave Martin. I'm the CEO of WordPress.com.

VM (Sorry, I don't know your full name) thank you for sharing your concerns. Comments aren't open on your blog, so I'll weigh in with a few thoughts below. I'm happy to chat more about any of this in the comments below, or you can reach out to me directly via email dave.martin (at) automattic.com.

You're right to call us out. I did a poor job of sharing context around why we are making change, so I can see how they could come as a shock. I'm sorry! That's on me.

Yes, as of this week we've gone from 5 plans down to just 2. That said, we're not done making changes. This was the first of a couple of phases of changes.

Those 5 older plans that you mentioned were the culmination of like 10 years worth of plans and features sort of haphazardly being added to WordPress.com with no real strategy. With those older plans, it was really hard for customers to see at-a-glance why they should choose one plan over another.

Let me address a couple of the things you mentioned in your post:

- No older sites/blogs have been affected by these new price changes. If your site is on an older plan, there should have been no changes to your billing.

- As you pointed out, we have historically adjusted our subscription plan prices in a number of regional areas to ensure that WordPress.com stays affordable for folks in those areas. We will continue to do so. Looks like we forgot to do this for the new Pro plan. Thanks for calling this to our attention! We will get this updated ASAP.

- Traffic limits will only be enforced on the honor system. If you consistently go over the cap month after month, we will let you know and ask you to pay a tiny bit more to cover the cost, but we will NEVER shut off access to your site, nor will we ever auto-increase the amount you're paying.

- Our mission still remains to democratize publishing. We have no intention of ever removing older sites from WordPress.com. Even if you had a custom domain that expired, your site will always have a default WordPress.com sub-domain and your content isn't going anywhere.

- The Pro plan you see now (at $15/mo) is essentially the the exact same plan as the old Business plan (which used to cost $25/mo). The only difference being the default storage that is available and a cost savings to customers of $10/mo.

- We will be announcing affordable add-ons for both the free plan and the Pro plan to extend both your traffic and your storage as needed. In fact, we plan to also add a handful of affordable add-ons to the free plan to make it easy for customers to pick and choose which additional functionality they want, without needing to upgrade to the Pro plan.

Again, thank you for sharing. I'm sorry that I did a poor job of publicly sharing context around these changes, prior to making them. Please let me know if you have any additional questions or concerns.
Someone do a different study on the chronic apologizers

In my anecdata, its women around me that are apologizing for very benign things, often and habitually, apologizing for basically breathing and other things that I’m sometimes saying “…. You don’t have to apologize for that”

I’ve heard a couple of reasons for why they think they do it but for a studies’ sake:

Could there be overlapping results and motives as this study, despite being an opposite far extreme of behavior? Or could the psychological result be purely negative? something else?
Pretty much everything sold on amazon, which isn't name brand.

(Chinese products with made up brand names don't count.)
https://github.com/ReFirmLabs/binwalk might help, it won't generate the visuals but can give you offsets
> The kind of work most people here are doing cannot be measured in hours.

I feel almost all dev work I do today is bashing my keyboard doing boilerplate garbage and transforming one thing to another and dealing with accidental complexity of the modern 'best practices'.

My work probably can be measured in hours. Good for you if you have something difficult enough to think about, but I am not sure most people have the luxury to work on interesting things.
Please enlighten me on the ‘many single points of security failure.’
amscope compound microscope: https://amscope.com/collections/microscopes/products/b120c
$250US, fits roughly in your budget). Their scopes are solid and well-engineered for the prices.
I'm sure sentry mode is a nice bonus to prevent any vandalism to the police cars.
The second one (one collection has multiple environments). I’m thinking of a situation in which I have the same API deployed to dev/qa/production environments.

I don’t really use much more than ‘{host}/api/v1/dostuff’, but not having duplicate collections you have to make changes in is really nice.
There is some OEM version of Microsoft Windows that comes preinstalled on some computers, and if you create a local account instead of a 'Microsoft account' when setting up the machine then Windows will block you from installing any application that isn't in their app store. Two of my family members are now happy users of Ubuntu.
The AV1 section of the Intel Arc Graphics announcement video:

https://youtu.be/q25yaUE4XH8?t=598
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This looks great. Everthing (at least) I want for a very reasonable price.
Brilliant business lessons in here for independent consultants: how to set a floor for value pricing, and how to clearly scope the work, how to act like a person.
Not just women are serial apologizes: plenty of men fall victim to this as well.
> Everyone can do their own searches and find out the truth easily.

I did a search on "Yuri Bezmenov", and the only confirmation I could find for your claims were a few posts on Quora that had no citations. So if you have some sources that back up what you're saying, please share.
or it is actually right, it's just when VC's are investing they expect huge returns from investments and start to squeeze all of the juice on max levels. So moderate capitalism works, but massive growth and unnatural world scale corporations are always evil?
India is represented by the Maharaja Mac, a chicken burger.
You need to explicitly set the “busy_timeout” PRAGMA to allow concurrent write queries to block under WAL mode. Otherwise the query will return a BUSY error.

I wrote up some tips/caveats on the Litestream site with more explanation. https://litestream.io/tips/

Generally there’s just a few settings you want to set when developing with SQLite:

PRAGMA journal_mode = wal;

PRAGMA busy_timeout = 5000;

Also worth setting STRICT mode and setting SYNCHRONOUS to NORMAL but those are less important.
I use c-mount web cameras. Look for a scope with a trinocular head, and then get a c-mount adapter and a c-mount web cam (super-cheap on amazon).

DSLRs are nice, excellent image quality, but quite expensive and heavy for the job.
Works for those that can work from home. Lots of people can't though.
The PowerPuff Girls with CSS and JavaScript
A few years ago, we started working on a platform for classical music [1] and took great pride in our metadata and our underlying schema which basically covered 99% of all the weird edge cases classical music has.

Unfortunately, we couldn't make it work economically even though we tried several approaches for monetization and had to shutdown a while ago.

[1] https://grammofy.com/
Yes, there is something more to it, a quite extreme personality disorder.

The idea that they don't suffer from self-esteem issues, I think, is what is up for debate. Clearly if he wasn't a billionaire, he would have some pretty bad life outcomes as a personality disorder that severe would be completely debilitating. However, even for a billionaire, you have to think that the fragility of their ego, the instability of their self-image, their vulnerability to external indicators of value, their lack of self knowledge, must lead to a quite unsatisfying life experience? But who knows, I don't doubt there are limits to the ability of a normal human to empathise with one of these people.
To me the differences matter much less than the fact that after about a minute and a half you've basically heard the whole song, and then I just get bored.

Which is funny, as there are many very repetitive tracks I like with long running times which never bore me. (Random example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXbdzLgwME0 .)
> 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.

Sure, but it’s not just querying based on what you type in. It takes what you typed, adds it to the model of you built from your past searches and web history and tailors the results to match a mixture of

A) what it thinks today-you wants based on yesterday-you

B) what someone else is willing to pay to inset above the results of a)

It’s way less benign than you make out.

They also aggregate all the similar searches and correlate that over geography and demographics, and probably sell that. They can predict infection progress through a population from search terms.

Admittedly, that’s useful… but it also feels “underhand” in a way that simpler “product->fee->customer” relationships used to work.
Wrong. Don't get me wrong Overwatch is a well done game but there just isn't nearly the level of freedom and community you had with UT2k4 and Q3. The nature of the game itself is so so much more prescriptive. I played OW enough to get some faint shadow of 2000's era gaming (scrims, a regular team, loads of time to dedicate to it) but it's trash compared to the experience of hopping on a clan server.
I second this; unless you're trying to look at chromosomes or detailed cellular organelles, 10X really is great. Excellent image quality, cheap, less likely to damage the objective or slide when you inevitably try to focus too close.
Why to care about privacy after years of sharing data
It IS basically Github's CoPilot, but for plain text, no?
Because its annoying and ridiculous? They also do it WHEN you open another web browser. Imagine if your Acme fridge had a camera that noticed every time you opened your non-Acme oven and bleated out "Try the new Acme Oven! You'll love its efficiency and design!". Is that okay?
Chromium should be OK if you use either the Ungoogled-Chromium build or Iridium Browser. Both of these aim to clean up all dependencies on Google services from vanilla Chromium.
I also think this is not at all a gender-related issue - if any, an age related or a zeitgeist related one.

When there is no more fast fashion, people will just look in their wardrobe instead of shopping site xyz. And instead of "look what I found on xyz", they will say, "look what I found in my wardrobe".

After a short time of friction, this fast-fashion behaviour will be unlearned. Especially if the new situation applies to everyone, so there is no peer pressure going on.
Right. More than ever you’re just paying for the brand, the quality is just as bad (or inconsistent) as the equivalent H&M selection.
They do it for Chrome as well, which makes sense. Doing it for Firefox feels a bit petty, though?
On the other hand, I find Firefox 's behavior annoying as well.

On one of my Firefox installations, when I start it, it always asks me to become the default browser. Which I don't want, so I set the "don't ask me again" checkbox. Yet it will ask me again. The Firefox support forum mentions several workarounds, none of them working.

Also, there are additional random /modals every once in a startup, asking me to try out new design feature X. I'm never interested, I just want to use a web browser.

All in all, I'm more annoyed by Firefox than other browsers.
Yep. Their argument is "it's already based on Chrome, but improved™ by Microsoft".

Obviously, they want to add their own telemetry, advertisements, and "helpful suggestions" like this.
> I think people are absolutely sleeping on gutenberg for wordpress

This is how I see it.

I'm not sure why people believe there aren't smart people working on Gutenberg, which is an obviously challenging transitional strategy from blobs-of-HTML-in-a-database to a modern layout tool.

It's forward-looking, decade-scale development. There are loads of challenges.