skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a great amount of ego wrapped up in it. Nobody really likes the idea of being wrong or incompetent, or being seen to be weak or ineffective – despite it being a thing that happens to all of us, all the time, and it not being a moral failing.

Different people do seem to develop quite different tools for dealing with this – some people over-apologise for minor transgressions the point of annoyance; others react with anger at the idea someone might accuse them of being less-than-flawless. Still others have a habit of avoiding engaging in anything with the risk of making them look foolish, or beat themselves up relentlessly, or just live in denial that anything's gone wrong.

I would definitely back up what you say, though. There's probably not much that leaves me with more confidence in a person's competence and character than taking ownership or an error and apologising for the inconvenience.
Von Neumann’s Computers and the Brain should be required reading for any programmer who is even slightly philosophically inclined.
I hate no-question-his because people always assume any response is synchronous after response.
They provide two install methods:
1. Regolith Desktop via Repository (PPA)
2. ISO image with Regolith on Ubuntu
Forgive me if my Gutenberg knowledge is outdated, but when I used it for a company blog a year or two ago, it was possible to type as if you were writing a single document. IIRC you could keep your hands on the keyboard if you used \ to start new blocks.

I also saw a lot of potential in Gutenberg’s blocks back then. It changed our blogging workflow in some very elegant ways.
Remarkable story of maths genius who had almost no brain (2006)
Washing machines continue to evolve—they're gentler on clothes and more efficient than ever, and they use 70 percent less energy than they did in 1990

The most water-efficient models in our ratings use an average of 10 gallons of water, 75 percent less than older models.

https://www.consumerreports.org/washing-machines/best-eco-fr...
The author of this book is also the creator of the fantastic Hedy gradual programming language https://hedycode.com/
Because the 1950 census has just been released, those records are still being indexed and are not searchable yet [0]. I’m not sure if they release records as they are indexed, so it’s possible that it is partially searchable now.

But yes, the service is completely free provided you register an account. After that all the previous census records (and many many more) are searchable. Anyone is welcome to help index!

[0]: https://www.familysearch.org/1950census/
Your WiFi won't have to deal with the neighbors interference then either, so that'll be nice.
> We've lost so much already... the old Flash content, the GeoCities pages, the forums fallen under Facebook's iron curtain, the archives of obscure culture erased by copyright lawyers. The lit windows of the Internet that went dark, one by one, only to be replaced by gaudy commercial signage.

Have we? I disagree. Why not self host with Ghost? [1]

I think a golden age of decentralized tooling (payments, content, etc) is starting to emerge [2, 3], you just have to be optimistic enough to see it. Let's not reminisce about the "good old days," bc the good days could be ahead too.

[1] https://ghost.org/docs/hosting/

[2] https://balajis.com/set-up-a-paid-newsletter-at-your-own-dom...

[3] https://balajis.com/how-to-gradually-exit-twitter/
Well, the body can utilize energy by either an aerobic or anaerobic pathway, but that doesn't mean we'd be fine if either of these pathways were disabled. We'd die without the aerobic pathway and have much reduced capabilities (probably fatal too, I'd guess - certainly if a tiger is chasing you) without the anaerobic pathway.

If a mechanism has been produced/preserved by natural selection, it's hard to believe that disabling it wouldn't lead to death (or infertility), or to serious debilitation (also likely to lead to death, in a non-benign environment).
My parents called green beens "green french fries" when I was younger. To this day they are still one of my favorite vegetables.
This is probably an urban legend but I read somewhere that when Jeff Bezos uses Amazon, behind the scenes it actually routes him to a separate special instance that has all his feature requests in it, so nobody has to say “no” to him.

It’s just believable enough that I remember it. The higher up on the corporate ladder one is, the less possible it is to tell him “no.”
I try to do the same or I'll pair a junior with a senior if the hand-holding required is beyond my capacity.
You're ignoring all of the other things that have happened with the internet in order to specifically attack this nebulous idea of "corporations".

You can make exactly the same argument about the influx of new users (Eternal September memes, "then came all of the normies with their friends, all competing to get the most upvotes on their Reddit posts), the bloating of the web ("then came all of the hipster developers"), sexual content, or any one of another half-dozen side-effects of the internet becoming massively more popular than it was in 1990.

If anything, the web has more independent content on it than it did a few decades ago - you just don't see it because you frequent a small number of platforms, you're not investing effort looking for it, and Google's search results are incredibly gamed.

I have hundreds of individual blogs that I've bookmarked through link-following and reading Hacker News frequently, without even trying to amass a collection. If you were to actually spend effort tracking down independent content, then maybe you'd actually find some.

Moreover, the internet never became "less human", because it was never human in the first place. It was a network of computers, a technology - not your neighborhood, or anything resembling a community, because technologies are not communities. Your complaint is basically saying that the median website is more focused on profit than it was a few decades ago - which, aside from the fact that there's no evidence to back it up, is a meaningless complaint equivalent to the Eternal September ones. Sure, even if the median website is more profit-focused - so what? There still far, far more useful information, and interesting people to meet, than there were decades ago - and the internet is available to everyone, as opposed to just those with dial-up (or whatever).
I think that just means it has tendrils into the Ubuntu ecosystem stuff like package management. People have ported equivalent things to other distros though, e.g.:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/regolith-full
Gdpr etc.
Respect for not wanting to take points and being straight up about his idea of a reasonable compensation.
I'm three years into a PhD and during that time have tried some very potent psychedelics (psilocybin mushrooms, LSD, DMT and mescaline). Fearless experimentation - nothing more than science, right? :)

The change I've experienced throughout my PhD (that is, becoming a confident researcher with at least some depth to his ideas) has probably been more intense and almost certainly more long-lasting than my psychedelic experiences. Nurturing an uncomfortable familiarity with the immense limits of my knowledge, as well as regularly pushing myself to exhaustion in order to overcome those limits - inch by milimiter by angstrom - has completely transformed me as a person.

If anything psychedelics had the effect of making me believe that I had become enlightened to various true-natures-of-everything whilst providing me very little concrete understanding as to why this was the case. Much of the personal change that followed my experiences were less due to the substances and more due to my own desire for those experiences to mean something in the long run. Psychs are great and I'd recommend it wholeheartedly for those who have the courage (note: that's not to say that the classical psychedelics are dangerous - they're only dangerous for people who are scared of them). It is my opinion that one should not start believing that these things anything more than chemicals that make you feel a certain way, or help you along the path to doing so.
1. Some amount of yesterday's data is "yesterday's news"

2. Any reduction of data theft is progress

3. As a greybeard, I care more about the next and future generation's loss of privacy and impending totalitarian enslavement.

In a capitalistic system, people should be able to charge what they want for their commodities. My data is worth more than the thieves could pay.
Assembly Language / Reversing / Malware Analysis / Game Hacking -resources
The database might implicitly force a monolingual perspective on the dataset if they can't handle multiple translations of several fields. It's not an easy problem to manage, I imagine.
This is a good book with lot of compelling arguments.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rational_Optimist

The baby will ensure you are both happy and that you lack time to ponder along these lines
“Regality Linux” is misleading. Perhaps should be called “Regolith Desktop Environment”? It’s not a full distro.

“Regolith is a modern desktop environment designed to let you work faster by reducing unnecessary clutter and ceremony. Built on top of Ubuntu, GNOME, and i3,”
I like being able to address and like/favorite individual movements. Beethoven Piano Sonata #14 (“Moonlight”) is a masterpiece, but the second movement is <expletive>. I don’t know if I could listen to it hundreds of times like I have the first and third movements.
Thanks for the other course recommendations! Given how insanely valuable his time management course was for me, I’m absolutely going to jump on that “productive meetings” course.
Unless civillian targets got hit. EMPs kill people and send others into general poverty.

Not only that they have a pattern that would disgust many people.

Your high school bully? He's fine. Old folks with pacemakers and babies in incubators? Possibly dead.

It's a bit of a stereotype, but I don't think I'd want a world ruled by the kinds of people who seem to be least tech dependent. We would get some real life Kaczynski type stuff happening.

There would be riots. Riots are chaos. As per Taleb, chaos seems to be good for those who are already in the strongest positions, so it would be a pretty regressive system.

If it was limited to just military targets that would be a lot better. But I don't think the kinds of people who like useless wars would sign that treaty.
What.cd had a very simple data model and it had the same issue as many music sites trying to fit it into a simple schema (and not a more sophisticated one like MB). The first issue that comes to mind was artist with the same name, these ended up being the same artist (Just like on Last.fm) if not split by hand by changing the artist name.

The schema is here in case you are curious: https://github.com/WhatCD/Gazelle/blob/master/gazelle.sql
This is perfectly highlighting that we've got no way to express our actual preferences, and are stuck treating something as a song when it isn't, but it's the only paradigm offered to us.
Privacy may not be a goal in itself, but it sure would be painful to wake up one day and realise one has given it up for perhaps more trivial and ephemeral "benefits" along the way, especially if this took place relatively slowly over many years. Privacy (among other things like personal freedom, health, etc.) really seems to be one of those things many people take for granted until they realise they have lost it, or willingly gave it up, not able to easily get it back, only then realising how important it was in hindsight.
Simply because it sometimes takes governments years to act on industry abuses (giving time for market correction, etc) doesn’t mean the government should not act.

Information based industries are absolutely abusing their access to our personal information, and they’re refusing to self correct. The governments of the world are now stepping in to correct that.

To be blunt, the corporations have only themselves to blame.
Same, except mine is JS-free.
> sites like github.com which do not allow code running from bookmarklets

I tried a variant of it on GitHub.com. It worked fine. This one turns text red, but you can change it back to black. You can select the text below and drag it to the bookmark toolbar to create the bookmarklet--at least on Chrome/Firefox on Windows. If that doesn't work, you can copy/paste.

javascript:document.querySelectorAll('*').forEach(elem => elem.style.color = 'red')

This one uses a different approach, it adds a dark mode style sheet.

javascript:/* /Dark Mode# */(function () {document.head.appendChild(document.createElement('style')).innerHTML = '* {background-color: #121212 !important; color: #888 !important;}';})();
This is maybe what you're looking for -- https://neuron.zettel.page/
This is a cool article. I like the narrative of "Change to a life where you are in control of your direction."

I am probably the most privacy conscious person of my friends (not that I do a particularly good job of it), so I spent lots of time thinking about how to communicate about privacy in a way that is effective. [We're all mid-twenties, for context.] The main issue, I find, is that people just mostly don't care.

That being said, most of my friends do relate (and dislike) the loss of agency that comes with giving your brain to an algorithmic feed that decides what you eat. The narrative of "control your life and decisions" would be an effective piece of rhetoric, I think!

The other argument I've found really effective is one that convinced me after reading Edward Snowden's memoir Permanent Record. A sketch of the point:

Person 1: privacy matters.
Person 2: I don't care about privacy, because I don't have anything to hide.
Person 1: Historically, the folks who were hurt because of a lack of privacy weren't us (young professionals), but rather the civil rights movement in the 1960s and the Vietnam anti-war movement, etc. Privacy is about protecting those people who the government/institutions/etc already squash down.

It's an argument that comes from Permanent Record, pretty much, and I think for me it is the most compelling reason that I care about privacy! Not as much for myself (although that's nice), but mostly for the people that privacy protects who really need it.

In my experience, it goes over very well, as people can see that privacy isn't just about doomsday preppers not wanting anyone to know where they bury their gold, but rather about protecting those people who need/deserve/would benefit from protection!

P.S. I'd recommend reading Permanent Record. I was only 15 or so when all that stuff went down, and really didn't know anything about it except "Snowden good or bad idk," but the book is a fantastically interesting and well-written story. I think he's kinda awesome.
> But having to return something is an impact on me

So, in a much bigger way, is having to file a lawsuit.

> and they know that statistically most of I will probably not bother.

That's even more true with filing a lawsuit.
Built in Puerto Rico fabs if I’m not mistaken
Seems like a spiritual successor to "Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware"[0].

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Thinking-Learning-Refactor-...
Aka correct usage.
Albert Einstein reported working 60 hours a week at age 71. That is a lot for that age
Those are different marketing techniques with the same goal of increasing browser market share.
I agree, but I only have windows machines as exclusive gaming boxes.

No password on login, no web browsing period, no access to NAS/media/files, no cloud access etc. just has windows and steam/various launchers and peripheral software.

I’m are things like proton exist, but there are a million issues with gaming on Linux that I don’t feel like writing a book about in the comment section. Maybe in a few more years…
How will you stop the countries on the losing side of an EMP war escalating back up to stuff that kills people?
I've switched recently from WordPress to Jekyll on GitHub.
This project is beautiful.
Hmm. No idea why. I'll take a look, this should work.
Curtain: WIP sandboxing mechanism with pledge()/unveil() support (FreeBSD)
Is this true? Manufacturing a new washing machine sounds resource intensive.
Are finite state automata turing complete? No. But any normal person would say that programming them is indeed programming.
Visualizing Complex Numbers Using GLSL
Hi Dave, I just wanted to say that I applaud this response. No excuses, just ownership of mistakes and a plan to fix them.

This is leadership.
I tried Regolith and it is nice. But ultimately I found MATE with i3 set as its window manager is better. It's a truly excellent combo.

For anyone curious, here's how I set it up: https://mattgreer.dev/blog/mate-and-i3/
Be sure to take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30714647
Why do you think there is so much outrage on the internet these days ? It's a consequence of 2 decades of optimizing for engagement, because they make money not by providing a product people pay once and use at their will, but a product that gets a minuscule amount of cash any time someone does something with it.

And this ad based system only works if you spy a lot on people.

Everything is affected by this: the vaccine opposition in the covid crisis, the presidential election... Everything.
So Google broke the internet – but they have no one to blame but themselves
The Python docs¹ include an implementation of Allen Downey's algorithm:

from random import Random
from math import ldexp

class FullRandom(Random):

def random(self):
mantissa = 0x10_0000_0000_0000 | self.getrandbits(52)
exponent = -53
x = 0
while not x:
x = self.getrandbits(32)
exponent += x.bit_length() - 32
return ldexp(mantissa, exponent)

¹ https://docs.python.org/3/library/random.html#recipes
Microsoft doesn’t install McAfee.
Oh boy.We have this onboarding buddy system where the new hire get paired with someone HR just send out an email to connect the two of u and then that's that.Last month we got a new guy, and I was assigned as his buddy. I had a rough week and that email got buried. This man went a whole week under the radar, besides HR and group onboarding called he's had no communication with anyone. He didn't know what Dept or team he was on, or who his direct report was. It was only when I was cleaning up my inbox that I saw the email and reached out.

So moral of the story is to not be shy any take initiative to reach out. We have chats and emails and internal forums message boards, so use all of them. If you're nice, ppl will be nice to you and help out. I've noticed that most new hires are not comfortable with messaging people they don't know, but this needs to be overcome. Even couple years in I DM people knowing nothing but a keyword, and I get a lot of help, and I get to have a nice chat and bitch about the lack of documentation etc .

You are completely correct, orgs need to do a lot better but I don't have a lot of hope but you can totally take it upon yourself to be more forward. Also bring it up with your manager maybe they can find you a dedicated mentor
> This is all part of a larger phenomenon I like to call the "Amazon syndrome".

Say what you like about Amazon, but their no-quibble returns policy is second to none, even in places like Europe that have high-levels of consumer protection enshrined in law.

From my own personal experience:

Amazon: Bought an IT component on Amazon (sold by third-party, not "sold by Amazon"). Item that arrived was not as described (lower spec than promised). Filed a return on Amazon, Amazon paid for the return shipment and refunded me as soon as the courier scanned the collection barcode.

Third-party: Bought a new PC from a reputable reseller (with whom I'd dealt with before occasionally over the years). PC arrived, hardware was OK but the BIOS was completely FUBAR (corrupted beyond salvage). Requested a return and a refund. Despite consumer law being strong in my country, the seller made it so painful and was dragging out the process so much (no doubt so they could push me past the consumer law deadline) that I gave up. I now have an expensive doorstop that is completely unusable.

I still buy from third-parties, but generally only low-risk stuff or higher-risk if I've got recent prior really good experience (or if there's no choice, e.g. things that have to be bought from "authorised resellers"). Otherwise for random stuff, if Amazon stock it and its not outrageously above the going price, I'll just buy it on Amazon for the peace of mind.
Can it block DoH?
Thanks moralestapia, looking forward to hearing any feedback from you!
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Representation matters when it's the result of discrimination. You're assuming that any deviation from proportional representation is due to discrimination. I see no reason to assume that.
The one I work on, https://ossia.io has ways to express loops and conditions in its visual syntax, which can get pretty close.
Yes that one and a bunch of others are coming from ASUS
IMHO after being a landlord and homeowner: home affordability is doomed. Homeowners vote to stop new construction to prop up their investment. Homeowners pretty much own local legislation: mayors, supervisors, boards etc. There is really no hope. People don't want affordable homes in their neighborhood - they want affordable homes in your neighborhood. The only way to stop this madness is to inversely tax homes based on their share of affordable homes in their area through state laws. Good luck passing that.
Not only that, but I suspect if you offend 1 big tech player, they all talk and others will start ignoring you too.
This is a trade-off like for everything else.

Fashion changes fast and therefore does it make sense to sell more expensive clothes that last? Many people want what is fashionable this season, not wear the same things for years.

In terms of environmental impact and use of resources I suspect that there is a sweet spot between not lasting at all and very long lasting (like there probably is for appliances and about everything else that people will replace after x months/years anyway) Likewise, "fixable" may incur overheads that actually negate the a priori benefit.
It shouldn't be baffling at all.

The methods of decentralization already exist and would be known to people that frequent this forum.

"Web3" is a marketing term created by venture capitalists that want to fuse a tokenization layer to it from which they can extract perpetual payments.
Class action normally means you get even a smaller nothing than you would get in a direct action, but, if you win, your lawyers, despite the reduced per-plaintiff recovery, get many times more than they would in a direct action. (It also means that, for N plaintiffs, the defendant, if they lose pays an amount x where 1 << x << N times the amount they would pay with one plaintiff.)
I actually love Windows (although I haven't used 11 yet and probably never will).

Maybe it's just what I grew up with, but all the native widget interactions feel perfect, even after the Win 8 style transition. The mouse acceleration is exactly what I expect. The taskbar behaves precisely how I want a taskbar to behave. The filesystem layout is refreshingly straightforward compared to the Unix/Posix FHS. Windows Defender does its job and gets out of the way (remember Norton/McAfee and Spybot?). And there are a ton of nice graphical "power user" applications available.

Part of the reason I like KDE so much is that it feels so Windows-like. But every time I boot into my Windows desktop, I feel a bit sad knowing that there is nothing quite like it in the GNU/Linux world.

There is that one Windows-API-compatible OS, but I have no idea if that will ever be viable as a daily driver.