skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, I kind of do the opposite. I have one tiny social circle, basically my immediate family (wife and two kids). I work to make money, then spend that money on my family and my hobbies, which are all solo endeavors. I don’t socialize outside of that, really. I play video games once a week with my high school friends online.

My hobbies aren’t involved in my status because I don’t really talk to anyone about them. I build things for myself, I create things that I never show anyone, just because I enjoy doing it. I play with my kids, and talk with my wife. Don’t really have a desire to do much else.
A single-company union is generally a weak union, unless the company is gigantic. Expanding to other companies is how unions gain power to negotiate more effectively, the same way that companies gain price negotiation benefits by expanding into new markets.
> This makes me wonder, if we have an RSA library as good as libsodium, is ECC really a better choice than RSA?

Yes, absolutely. Compare the key generation process, for example:

RSA: generate two large prime numbers around half the size of your key, then make sure they aren't too close to each other, or share one of the primes with another RSA key someone else generated, or have certain mathematical relations to each other, or...

ECC (specifically Curve25519): take 32 bytes of random data, set and clear a couple bits. Boom, done.

Performing operations with ECC keys is also significantly faster, and constant-time implementations are much easier to develop and verify.
> But random wires end up with impedances that vary considerably from crazy high to crazy low across relatively small changes in frequency, and this in turn sucks.

Could you send a link with a practical case? I'm not implying I don't believe you, it's just that I've never seen such complain. Personally, I don't use random wires. But I never see someone complaining like you about how wildly the characteristic impedance varies. Granted, it varies, but well within the range of most couplers. Besides, this is another source of myths: you often encounter folks excited about how a given coupler "tune everything" and "turn any piece of metal into an antenna", but they are never concerned about things like radiation patterns, radiation resistances, losses from the antenna, the cables, the coupler etc. They just see a SWR close to 1:1, celebrate and go to the internet complain about how empty are the bands.

> And if your impedance is 15k ohms, you're going to need to reach a rather ridiculous voltage to get any power out.

This is another case I haven't faced so far, neither myself or in the literature. 15k ohms? If the impedance really reached that high, maybe it's for the lack of a counterpoise, even if a small one?

In a real-world end-fed, if you don't go high power (low power DX is perfectly feasible on days with good propagation and narrow bandwidth modes), you can keep the voltages at the feed point within the limits of commercial connectors, so that shouldn't be a problem.

> Yes, which is fine as long as your signal comfortably fits in the bandwidth

I can't remember of any mode demanding more than 30KHz (again, I'm not implying they don't exist). Sure, you have Amateur TV, but this mode is reserved for clubs and, if they are really meaning business that hard, they will certainly not use a magloop. Ah, I've also seen some guys transmitting signals to generate pictures at waterfalls of web SDRs. They were using a HackRF and probably a very high bandwidth signal (I'm not sure), but again, if you are getting into experimental modes, you are probably not going to use a small, portable antenna anyway
France? The discourse around islam is insane there, and you have an almost neo-nazi party like the FN getting 30%+ of the votes regularly there. There is no shame in talking about forced expulsion of legitimate immigrants there too( "Remigration" ).
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> without ever being told one is smaller than the other and without being able to visualize both?

As opposed to never having seen or been told about a tennis ball or a keyhole, and expected to know which is smaller?

The idea of aphantasia doesn't imply being blind. Assuming someone is sighted, you can still see objects and internalize an order of "small to large" things without necessarily using mental imagery to make those connections. I'm not sure if I have some "kind of aphantasia" but I also don't generally visualize things in my head, instead remembering logical relations based on my (non-visual) memories.
I'm still all in on these people thinking imagining something is a hallucination. There's no way someone can't picture their mom in their head. Yeah, it doesn't overlay my visual field, and that doesn't mean I can draw it. I really think they are being pedantic/obtuse/silly.
Ah, you are too optimistic about the desktop in general. Landlines and desktops failed in the developing world first. It is contracting back to workstation users of old (STEM academia, IT, graphics) and maybe Adobe will do their hold out again like refusing to properly support windows when Mac was in the hole but they should get pretty desperate as the gateway platforms to their products become unwanted by the general population.
Is it just me, or does this actually look pretty good! You still get the excellent proportions of helvetica with a more casual look. Helvetica on casual Fridays or something like that. It cures some of the worst sins of comic sans, like the slope on the "e"
Such a great idea, is there any way to rank users by their trading skills?
You are 100% spot on. I use Linux for 20 years and I have several Linux desktops around in my household. Rpi, small intel pcs, etc. The desktop experience is a joke at best. We ha to be honest about things we want to improve. Without honesty there cannot be any improvement.
Last I was past the area, they had stuck a JetBlue ad on the Pepsi one. Not huge, but probably noticeable across the river.

Shame we allow this to landmarks. Granted it was temporary, but... eh... kind of tacky.

https://libn.com/2019/08/22/jetblue-addition-to-pepsi-sign-l...
lol self driving was supposed to save Uber and make it actually profitable.
So they are functionally doing the same thing, reducing the amount of data used. I find the debate about what we should call it useless and pointless.

Understand what it is, what it doing, what it s limitations are, and use it appropriately based on your needs. Done.
I’ve got an old Newton eMate that I keep thinking would make an excellent raspberry pi casemod.

Space for a decent 7” touch screen and plenty of batteries, friendly handle for portability and looks like something from a Cronenberg film.

The only thing that’s stopping me is that it feels wrong to break a perfectly functional device. (If anyone’s got any broken eMates knocking around I’d be very interested)
Or persistent labor strikes and disruptions. See France
[Replying to multiple commenters with the same questions]

>SC has the lowest union membership in all 50 states - there's a lot of ingrained bias against unions there,

>South Carolina has anti-union laws [...] the least unionized state, works to prevent workers from organizing there,

Anti-union bias does not fully explain the South Carolina Boeing factory rejection vote because the workers did previously have a union.

Fyi... The original South Carolina aircraft factory (formerly Vought doing subcontract work on Boeing fuselages) was unionized in 2007. Then in 2009, they voted to decertify the union as they no longer wanted IAM (International Association of Machinists) to represent them for collective bargaining. (75% voted to get rid of the union.) This happened around the time Boeing acquired the Vought factory. For various reason(s) (see below), the Vought/Boeing workers didn't feel the ~$1000/year union dues were worth the benefits the IAM union negotiated for them.

Since being being voted out, IAM has repeatedly tried to re-establish union membership at SC but multiple elections have voted against it by wide margins. The last 2017 vote was 74% against. In 2018, IAM tried a new approach of establishing a "micro" union of 175 subset of employees instead of the entire ~3000 employees. The IAM won that micro vote but the Labor Board invalidated the micro union as a collective bargaining unit.

Boeing workers' (current) anti-union stance is based on their real-world experience and not ignorance. The SC workers already know what collective bargaining benefits they had with the union. They got rid of the union anyway. Maybe someday, factors will change and Boeing workers will vote for union representation again.

> Do you have evidence to support that the strong union in Seattle negatively influenced the SC voters?

>, but in your calculus "The strong union at the Boeing factory in Seattle WA negatively influenced the Boeing workers in South Carolina"

No, not my calculus. The SC workers reported it. One example: The workers in South Carolina didn't like the IAM directed union strike in Washington. Excerpt from https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boein...:

>Another sore point that affected Thursday’s vote was that many in the Charleston [South Carolina] work force were laid off last fall during the two-month IAM strike in the Puget Sound region due to the lack of production in Everett.
I'm not talking about noise. I'm talking about a spike in the frequency spectrum.

If you can build a protein that can tune to e.g. 3GHz (or whatever frequency a phone uses), thus behave differently at that frequency, then basically that proves that radio waves can theoretically alter the reactions in the molecular soup that is a cell. All I'm saying is that I'm not so sure that this can't be done.
I mean you're basically echoing my point - the Democratic party at the national level doesn't have the willpower to get pro-worker legislation through.

And it's not just because they suck at winning elections, but also because they actively welcome anti-labor candidates into their ranks and crush the more progressive primary challengers even in safe blue districts.

Not to mention that the executive branch has the power to go after labor law violators and for the most part just doesn't.
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The parent comment hints at another interpretation of status, which is also used in improv. The status you “play” in your interaction with others, which can be different from your social status (https://www.respect4acting.com/status1.html)

This kind of status is much more dynamic and it’s also something you can choose to give or take, balance or clutch (although the latter might end up having the opposite effect).

It’s more uplifting to me to think of a “status game” this way. It’s a bit of a competition but we’re also the judges. Status doesn’t just manifest, it has to be granted by someone who is also playing the game.
That plus all the 1x engineers can clean up the messes made by snap decisions by 10x-ers.

Not my personal philosophy but I've seen it used.
> You know I'm right. The year of the Linux desktop isn't right around the corner, just like it wasn't right around the corner last year, or the year before that.

I don’t think you’re wrong, I think you’re missing the point. I can’t speak for the elementary developers but I don’t think you'd start a project like this hoping to take over the world. You start a project like elementary because you think something like elementary should exist.
The second one, but this is a false dichotomy. If you are smart, educated, wealthy, or have a prestigious job you have claim to high status, no matter how humble or boastful you are about it. If you don't, you are faking it until (and if) you make it.

True status doesn't rely on how much you flaunt it.

This is the problem with the dreaded humblebrag - it's usually when people try to combine the two - complain about their expensive vacations, how much their dream job sucks etc. - they try to appear down to earth while at the same time rubbing in others' faces how much better they are.
I think we reached a good point for the conversation. You're correct in your assessment: I do place a lot of faith and values in empowering individual freedom and agency, so any brush with authoritarian entities usually leave me grumpy. I hope for humanities sake that public opinion of unions in America never devolve into something like that of HOAs.

Thanks for engaging, and have a good one.
Well one way that comes to mind for why it could be considered a burden is breaking down internal documentation into public and private, and making sure that the private one is never exposed. As much as we don’t want to imagine business constraints on some manufacturers, they could always come up with reasons.

> And if I want to abuse some piece of hardware, such as making a musical instrument out of a pile of floppy disk drives, what business is that of the manufacturer?

As an example (maybe not a fair one) we can ask Tesla why they don’t want to expose some/all APIs that Tesla owners might want access to. I expect they would bring up a thousand reasons why, maybe safety related, maybe not.

I generally agree with you though, you paid and own something, and you wish to use it as you see fit. Unfortunately it seems like what we think we own and what we actually own are in some cases two separate things.
The 'privilege' is just a trick to divide you and make you fight each other. If it was't black vs white, it would be a 'privilege' based on subtle shades of skin, hair, eyes or even height. Anything works to distract masses from the fact that the only real privilege is hereditary wealth. Having the right family name is The Privilege. It's unbelievable that the relatively smart people fail to see this elephant in the room and instead fall for that shallow and self contradictory "anti-racism" doctrine.
Yeah I considered doing something like this but ultimately balked (maybe it was my inner prima dona) at the idea of needing to support undeployed adapter code (outside of Docker containers or build scripts), even if rarely. Might be easier with Python and Django, but the best typescript solutions I could come up required me to diverge from “normal-looking” express.js
It’s simple geography. Russia wants the narrowest possible border with NATO, and so it views the area between Belarus and the Carpathian mountains as essential.
As the OP, I regret you got downvoted. Because this was a really helpful comment for me. I voted up your comment, for what ever that's worth but I don't think it will help you much.
ARe there even any valid reasons for implementing your own ?
Okay, buddy, we have this thing called the Internet now. It's a magical place where you can be anonymous and say whatever the fuck you want. The cat has left the bag.

All restrictive speech laws do now is push dissidents underground into radicalizing echochambers like 4chan, while at the same time rapidly expanding the scope of "dissident" to include anyone who says anything remotely offensive to anybody. Is that what you want?
Powerful in their ability to control their members without helping them!

They end up being another source of control.

That’s likely why there were a slew of wildcat teacher strikes.
That's the meaning of "wire" or "protocol" compatible. It's saying that the language is the same, not the features. It's similar to how Redis uses RESP which has been implemented by other systems.

You can even move the abstraction down a level with non-relational databases like Cassandra and Elastic offering SQL interfaces. They don't offer relational features, but let you express queries using a relational language.
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Crime statistics are not well-known for following GDP. I am not sure why you would use that as a comparison point. Population? Sure. Surface area? Sure. Total local government revenue? Sure. But GDP?
Well, let's just say extinction is not the first definition of "nature righting itself" that comes to mind for this scenario.
Reading that headline, I was thinking it might be like a specific graphic death threat against someone, or just some vile racial epithets but no its just the kinda edgy stuff you see all over social media. Upsetting that this is even a thing and sets a very bad precedent.
It's why I follow the "wake up early, work-out, get something done" organizing principle for my day. My day is usually in pretty good shape by 9am, even if nothing else happens.
I do not think I echoed that. I said that Democrats have not had a majority by more than 1 for a long time. That is just numbers, it has nothing to do with willpower. You cannot realistically expect every single party member to toe the line, so effectively, as a party they have to compromise heavily just to get the things through that they have.
Great move, you got a wonderful keyboard and help protect our environment my using the laptop longer instead of putting it to electronic waste.
The dilution factor is the surface of sphere centered at the emitter, not the volume of the sphere. EM radiation is not like gas diffusion.
Not really a bug though. That's operator error. This week I've seen multiple people stumbling over that, and it's gotten to the point I question whether people understand filesystems anymore.

Half the reason for them is to provide an abstraction that maps a spacelike addressable quality to data to be operated on. It's an extension on the more general concept of namespaces. What's the difference between data HERE and data THERE. different path.

Even with stuff like git or other VCS's where you fudge the spacelike mapping with an extra layer of time-like addressing...

This is the content HERE from 3 revision's ago vs. the content HERE now vs the content over THERE either now that or 3 revisions ago...

I have to train people to break them of the habit/hubris of thinking they are "smarter" or more "accurate" at computation than the computer is. If you take the meaning of compute to be "creatively navigating to a solution in a problem space, humans win hand down.

If you define it as reliably doing the same thing over and over again, give up. The silicon has you beat. Always check your assumptions against what the machine is actually doing. Checklist if necessary. That puts you on a footing where you can actually outdo the computer in both realms.

Or don't and be reminded once again of why being human is the most pitiable form of cognitive logic, where it takes hard work just to ensure a consistent response to similar classes of stimulus over time, and where remembering and recalling things is totally non-trivial. In the quest for staying alive in a dynamic world doing it's best to kill us, our brain does great. In a world in which it'd be nice not to be reminded by my equipment of my own idiocy on a regular basis, not do much.
And going to another extreme - I know couples who have lived together for years before deciding to get married, and the marriage really didn't last very long at all. A lot of sociological explanations but the point I really want to make is you can't always look at something that doesn't work out and assume that you would have made a better decision with more time.

We could double the size of our interview panels and still get people that weren't right.
To illustrate the effects of administrative suppression of free speech one can observe that Russian propaganda freely blossoms on the platforms where free speech is significantly administratively suppressed, ie. for example FB, Twitter, LinkedIn - the places where speech violating various "safe space" rules is handled by getting administratively deleted. Russian propaganda is a product of a free speech suppressed environment and easily thrives in such conditions. The rebuttals to Russian propaganda on those platforms gets reported by Russians as harassment and bullying and thus frequently gets deleted, and as a result the Russian propaganda stays there unchallenged or weakly challenged at best. One of the main point of Russian propaganda is rationalization and normalization of the actions of their fascist regime, and such rationalization/normalization naturally fits the "safe space" rules of those platforms, while denying "safe space" to that propaganda is one of the most important thing in fighting it, yet those platforms in many cases de-facto help Russian propaganda by allowing it to highjack the free speech suppression machinery on those platforms.

Compare that to for example HN and Reddit - the places where free speech has much less administrative suppression and where the speech is mostly moderated by the community. There is much less Russian propaganda in those environments because any time it appears it gets strong rebuttals which stay together with the propaganda. As a result anybody exposed to that propaganda here gets also exposed to the rebuttals, and that is naturally net loss to the propaganda, ie. the propaganda can't thrive in the environments where free speech isn't suppressed.
I agree. I can understand that the article is focused on pointing out that everyone seems status in some way or another, but I think it is fair to say that somethings shouldn’t really be considered status. Working for money, fame, influence. Those are pursuits some people have no interest in, I don’t think it’s fair to say someone who cares about their family, or hanging out with friends view those activities with the same lust people chasing money, power, etc, do. Maybe there is more to be said about how individuals view their “status” pursuits then labeling everyone as animals pursuing status.
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So do they remember the size of things in terms of numbers then do some sort of mathematical algorithm to compare their sizes?

I'm trying to understand how things can be compared without some sort of internal visualization.
As a Coloradoan I think the answer is simple: Break the Colorado River Compact. We might as well tear the bandaid off now because it isn't going to get any easier. No more winter salads.

If that sounds flippant keep in mind that breaking this compact will be a footnote compared to the actual water wars that are going to be happening by 2050.
I also used a foot pedal for a normal toggle and neither as toggle nor as clutch did the trick for me. I wouldn't use it again unless it was attached to my shoe in some way.
I agree that they would. It's so disheartening to see how quickly people have been convinced to abandon a freedom people had to fight so hard in order to assert just decades earlier. The folks involved in the Free Speech Movement who have died already are certainly spinning in their graves, but those still alive have to just look at the kids today and wonder where we went wrong.
Yeah, Netflix appears to do it in a reasonable way. I would be perfectly fine taking an offer to work there.

But I've more frequently heard stories of others who see "fire fast" solely as a way to save money and also avoid having to ever train or mentor. That's bad for the employee, and not a place I'd work, if I knew it in advance.

If you're looking to structure your employees' comp with a heavy equity component that takes a while to vest, "fire fast" becomes especially dangerous for the employee.