skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an ex midwesterner, it's something I kinda miss. People elsewhere come across as short or even rude by comparison. But you're right, things are definitely slower.
Oh! Well, can't say that's my proudest moment. Thanks for explaining!
The amount of people that don't know what you are suppose to do during a tornado is mind boggling...
Safari has been fairly aggressive in not support spam tech, which is apparently critical to many developers, followed closely by developers who take the view that "whatever chrome does is correct by definition"
I agree. What I should have typed instead of "The school is not intentionally installing spyware." Is they probably did not intend to install the spyware on personal machines of students that logged in with their school Google account. Perhaps there is a management policy misconfigured or the student got confused and enrolled the device.

From my understanding if you setup a personal chromebook you can then login to Google Classroom via the Chrome browser and it should not enroll the chromebook in MDM. At least when I login to my chromebook it does not enroll my device.
My exit interview early in my career lead directly to a job later in my career. It was a clean breakup and the HR person and I had nice chat about all sorts of work and non work things.

Years later they were a consultant helping fill positions at a small company. They happily moved my CV to the top because they remembered me and the fun exit interview. Probably added more to the offer too as it was generous.
> But then there is the tradeoff of the popularity and availability of 12VDC devices due to RV/Boating.

Which is exactly why we need to get away from those 12V old garbages asap. 12V is so bloody wasteful, in terms of both wasted power and wasted conductor material.
The only reason why its still around is people got used to it and don't wanna change.
I don't understand why we expect Amazon to do the right thing vs we should expect in this case all retailers to do the right thing? Unfortunately as consumers we are always looking for the best deal or the lowest price on everything. Which means retailers need to cut costs every way possible which in turn leads to sucking every ounce out of workers.

Let's assume that Amazon did end up making things way better for their workers. That means higher costs and hence higher prices. This will allow other retailers to win markets by setting the best prices.

I think we need regulation that applies to all retailers in this case or all industries that hire manual labor vs constantly targeting Amazon for being the bad guy.
Yeah, certainly a bit overplayed here, right?
This reads like one of the perspectives other comments here lament, ie about Americans disconnected from the miilitary, and not having a clue what it's like.
> We aren't going to make children work in mines

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2021/nov/02/child-labor-laws...

Are you sure about that? Absolutely certain?
I dismissed the importance of copywriters for important one-word labels until Mastodon deemed their posts "toots."

Adoption is critical for social media, and cachet is critical for mass adoption. "Tooting" isn't the radio-friendly Big Bang Theory flavor of dorky— it's Segway-with-knee-pads dorky. I'll probably deploy an instance for kicks and giggles, but I can't see it taking off until it's a little more image savvy.

Dorkiness can be an insurmountable obstacle. Just ask google glass.
all those resources... being destroyed.

what a waste that would be.
Noise-cancelling Airpod Pros + Brown Noise. I have 3x 10-year-olds & this lets me completely not even know they exist.
As someone who’s young enough to have had a laptop during their teen years, a laptop feels more joyful to me, probably because of nostalgia. The family computer station docked in the living room was where my dad did taxes and cranked out spreadsheets. The laptop was the magic portal that I snuck down into the basement to look up game guides during al-nighters with friends. To this day, holding a laptop makes me feel like I’m about to to fun work, not just work work.

Also the keyboard on my MacBook feels way better than any keyboard I’ve tried (membrane or mechanical).
Somewhat. If you say choose to be an electrician, and it’s later found you are colorblind, you will be placed somewhere. When I joined the Navy, I was given the rate of AV, which doesn’t really exist at the lower ranks. After joining (read contract already signed) I found out that I would be an AE.
What's the ethernet chip in the Belkin USB-C-ethernet adapter?

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HJKF2ZM/A/belkin-usb-c-to...
I took 2 years break, after like 4 years of work. Totally worth it if you can afford it.

I don't care if that affects my career, I just wanna make enough money to live and that's all.
If you still have a prime membership this is a great time to cancel it.
Well, that was Feynman.
The feet-of-clay naming principle:

The act of naming anything for a person will tend to generate an equal (or greater) opposite reaction of calls for renaming that thing due to the (now abundantly obvious and utterly damning) faults of that person (and/or anything or anyone associated with that person.)
Last time I tried Eigen, it sucked for 4x4 matrices.
> why even bother with buying a laptop in the first place. If the goal is to hook up two 4K monitors

That might not be a full-time goal. Some want a machine that works on the move but can be expanded to bigger screens and such when at certain locations (office and/or home). A laptop and dock allow this compromise.

It is a compromise, not one suitable for all. But it is the list inconvenient option for many.
>Can you offer some examples of help that is being offered in favour of taking them out to brunch and "being there"?

- Driving 45 minutes out of your way to pick up a friend whose car has broken down.

- Babysitting a kid that you know is a little shit, just to give your friend an afternoon off.

- Lending someone a power tool (or, more specifically, establishing a reputation for being a good mate that lends others power tools).

- Picking a friend's kids up from school or taking them to weekend sports on a regular basis.

- Inviting someone over for a casual, comfortable dinner ("You should come over for spaghetti on Thursday", not a dinner party) because you know they're working late.

For a middle-class Melbournian in 2022, approaching any of these types of things is difficult. Unless you know someone incredibly well, there's a bit of an unwritten rule that offers like these are more of a "thoughts and prayers"-esque performance than an indicator of actual, genuine willingness to assist.

It makes it incredibly awkward to both offer help and ask for it, and I personally think it's a damn shame.

>I think we're talking about different things.

I think we are too, and my strong reaction may have been based more in your username than the contents of your comment. ;)
Would anyone else be interested in a modular hub / kvm system? Personally I’m tired of buying and replacing so many hubs, both because of new port requirements but also because they tend not to last.
The story of Xanadu, in a nutshell.
I only notice shit sandwiches if the compliments are obviously bullshit. If they ring somewhat true, it’s just a balanced meeting with positives and negatives.

But the second I hear a bullshit compliment, I feel like I’m about to get a sales pitch.
> ...general public doesn't understand physics and makes little use of it.

There's plenty of general science interest in the public and a significant fraction is focused on physics. It doesn't matter if folks don't "make use of it" aside from a bit of enlightenment and wonder. Some physicists have developed quite a public persona and have used that to reach out to the public. Others stay focused on communications within their own community-- both are fine.

The particular kind of autodidactic "cranks" Sabine Hossenfelder (too) generously wrote about are, in my opinion, a very different kind of beast than merely curious folks who want to learn stuff.
It’s not a “normal” situation but it’s going to be better than many. It may even be better than normal if normal is the median. All we hear about the parent’s work lives is

> Trevor’s mother, Angela Matthews, a driven intellectual-property lawyer in her early forties, studied ballet and still carries herself like a dancer. Her intelligence and the intensity of her character can make her intimidating, but she is also given to acts of tremendous kindness. Trevor’s father, Billy Matthews, who works in finance, is affable and athletic. They have a daughter, Agnes, three and a half years younger than Trevor; Billy also has two sons, Trey and Tristen, from a previous marriage.

To extrapolate from this that they are over consumed with work and failed to parent their child seems like an extreme and frankly offensive claim. The term “hot shot” is never used and even if it had been, says nothing about their availability as a parent. You can be a hot shot at your career and still be available.

The problem for this child is, unquestionably, that he was the victim of a sexual predator at a camp.

The prevalence of these super career oriented, damagingly absent parents is for sure much rarer than implied. And probably not even a strong predictor of being neglectful parents
THANK YOU. it's amazing how this point seems to be lost on so many people, it would be one thing if I were able to contribute to a specific conflict or situation that I was ideologically aligned with... it's a completely different thing to sign away my life to the military and give them carte blanche to point me anywhere they choose.
CSAM scanning - comparing content hashes with known hashes of CSAM material, usually provided by a law enforcement agency
I stay awake all night, then work at the morning next day. My brain is too tired to refuse to work at that point.

I do make sure to eat really well so I don't get tired physically.
> They are leaving due to the political BS of the organization and poor leadership by those in command.

I have a brother-in-law (a chief) leaving 3 years prior to retirement for the same reason. Except it’s exactly the opposite. They’re not allowed to yell anymore, have a lot of limitations on punishment, and have to accept things like enlisted being late to work. They’re leaving because they think the military is on a downtrend and can’t control the high schoolers under their command.
You bought a laptop without a SCSI port?

Can I ask why you bought a laptop that doesn't have that already on it?
I've had some mediocre luck with USBC cables, paying premium for stuff that has the same below-spec performance as the bulk I got from monoprice a few years ago at a fraction of the cost. How do you evaluate 'nice' cables before shelling out money for garbage?
You see a similar thing with fantasy television being interpreted as evidence towards non-fantastical elements of medieval life, when they really represent our modern feelings towards the past more than anything else.
> ever publicly changing your mind about any topic

That's pure gloss. It isn't simply "changing your mind," it's changing the social and economic reality of 330,000,000 people. If you fuck up that messaging (science is absolute!) or fuck up plans (flatten the curve! -> eradicate covid! -> lol nvm its endemic now) you and all who support you deserve criticism.

Echoing my point on messaging, the director of the CDC says: “I have frequently said ‘we’re going to lead with the science’…I think public heard that as ‘science is foolproof. Science is black and white. Science is immediate and we get the answer and then we make the decision based on the answer'... and the truth is science is gray".

https://mobile.twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1499810656056397...
If it's true, it's means that they probably can do much better than others by simply not being a fraud?
yes, for example it would take about 55 times more energy to get something to the sun than it would to get it to mars
Well hey, in this case it seems that Elon musk has purchased 9% of Twitter and is likely going to use that influence to make Twitter's moderation promote open discourse more.

I hope you don't complain about this ever in the future and just accept that Elon is allowed to pressure Twitter to change it's moderation policy to support the principles of open discourse more.
If you're looking for obfuscated code to refactor, nroff[0][1] is pretty notorious.

[0] http://dtrace.org/blogs/eschrock/2004/07/01/real-life-obfusc...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6XQUciI-Sc&t=1h28m35s
Google Glass didn't fail because it was dorky, it failed because people understand Google to be a surveillance and advertising company and the prospect of Glass serving as an always on, always streaming, always interpreting Panopticon was too much for people to take.

You're right about "toots," though. At least "tweets" make sense for a site named Twitter, but what is a "toot," a mastodon farting?
The AC/DC debate has raged for over a hundred years because each side has some merits over the other, but overall the differences are relatively minor compared to the cost of ripping up an existing AC or DC system and replacing it, or even switching to one system or the other going forward. PG&E isn't going to scrap all of the transmission towers they have on order just because DC might save them a few dozen watts.
Oh, I wasn't aware of that. That's certainly worrisome considering Tailscale's default configuration for the ACL and authenticating new machines. Fortunately I updated my settings to change the default ACL policy and to manually approve any new machines.
Washington Examiner is not known for its accurate reporting. [0]

[0] https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/washington-examiner/
Netflix runs Java heavily on the backend to scale their platform. Twitter ditched Ruby on Rails and moved to JVM (Sala) for the same reasons. Any benchmark comparison for programming language performs will show Java beating Ruby on Rails, Python etc by huge margin.
AFAIK all MacS that support Thunderbolt also support DisplayPort alt mode. Is that different on the PC side? That’d be quite surprising.

What Macs don’t support ist DisplayPort MST. So the only way to power two monitors with one adapter would indeed be Thunderbolt.
The hubris of framing it that way is kind of wild.
The deterministic view also removes blame. If success is due to luck than so are failings - a killer is also a victim of nurture, nature and luck.

Based on the title, my interpretation is that the author would like individuals to discount their own success and be more empathetic to those less successful. However, an individual's capacity for empathy and their views on success factors, etc. are also luck based by this rationale. So it seems that the logical conclusion from this line of reasoning is an individual can't do anything other than what they're already doing, so can't ultimately be held responsible.

To be clear, I'm not suggesting the argument is wrong, just that the moral of the article (based on its focus on success) seems at conflict with the logic it is based on.
That can be trickier, but Gemstone/S did it transactionally.
Socratic questioning involves questioning, not unexplained assertions. You definitely don't come off as a modern-day Socrates when you use the latter.

I'm not against something like a 64k or 4k intro competition, because the results are generally that you get to see someone take advantage of every inch of their machine, like in https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/, filing down an executable byte by byte until it does what they wanted it to do. That's rad as hell.

The results here are that... someone has filed down their Python program in a way that makes it smaller. Not even in number of bytes, just in number of lines. In a really uninteresting way. It's not even like the Python examples on StackExchange's codegolf in that sense, because we could go the complete opposite route and merge most of these statements together with semicolons. It doesn't become more interesting as it gets smaller, or less interesting as it gets bigger. It's the same program regardless of how many lines it occupies, which makes it that much less interesting.

So, yes, to some extent we agree, you can just run this through automated tools and it will be as many or as few lines as you like. I see that as pointless because other restrictions would be much more stimulating, and not restricting yourself so heavily would probably lead to better (or at least more legible) results.

But sure, that'll just be this fuddy duddy's opinion.
Update: the video has been restored. I did not receive any further correspondence from YouTube. I still have no idea why it was classified as "harmful or dangerous" or why it was restored again.
> “spyware” is not something non-technical understand. Just invoking spyware is going to make people think you’re crazy, not motivate them to fix the problem.

It's also vague. Make sure parents know exactly what data is being gathered, and who gets it. And point out that this is being kept hidden from both children and parents - if the spying is above-board, then why doesn't the device give a big "All your chat messages and internet activity is being monitored by XYZ, even outside school hours" notice at log-in?

Was the existence and extent of this spying communicated in any clear way, by the software or by the school, or buried deep in a click-through agreement?
Yeah, I don't really know how the Chicago school board meetings go, but I watch the MTA board meetings. (The MTA is New York State's public transportation agency.) They have a public comment section where you get 2 minutes to say whatever you want. These rants are usually completely incoherent and I doubt any board member could remember a specific point from any one of the commenters. I watch them all and I certainly can't. The law requires that you be allowed to speak. The law does not require the board to take any action on your comments, or even remember a single point you tried to make. ("I've said it before and I'll say it again. Democracy simply doesn't work.")

That said, my advice here would be to keep it short and non-emotional. You can speak for two minutes, but you don't have to use all two minutes. Say what's wrong, what action you want the board to take, and how interested board members can get ahold of you.
> 54-46 was my number. Right now, someone else has that number.

Dorkiness does not legitimately enter into discussing "Toots" no matter Mastodon's intent.
It might clobber Jamf... however, compared to Fleetsmith or Small Business Essentials, Jamf is a Massive PITA to use and configure. If they had a better product, honestly, we might not see Apple making moves to replace a messy supplier that does plenty to embarrass Mac in the enterprise.
See, that's crazy, because Sonnet "makes" an identical board. Same case too. Only difference is the logo.

https://www.sonnetstore.com/products/echo-11-thunderbolt-4-d...

And $40 cheaper than the Kensington branded one.

So even though it's thunderbolt and it works for you - it really is the same thing TFA is talking about.
I can't find the date this article was written. Is it 20 years old or 2 days old?
As in "to toot a horn". Like a trunk. Of an elephant. Or a mastodon.
My understanding is that people voted for this, that's what I'm told anyways.
> Following this advice and using a tone that even resembles the tone of the comment or the original post will make you look/sound crazy.

Thank you. Also, please ignore every comment in this thread suggesting you lawyer up or go to small claims court. The laptop isn't ruined and can be reset whenever the OP wants (as they already established).

If you go in guns blazing to the school board, the school is going to go into full defensive mode. Once you've established yourself as the aggressive parent with an axe to grind, they're not going to be interested at all in working with you.

If you actually want to get anywhere with this, start with a friendly e-mail to the school's IT staff. Ask them how your child can do their schoolwork without putting the laptop under school control. If you go in with a reasonable approach, you might get a sympathetic IT person who will walk you through the situation and explain the options.

> Realistically what probably happened here is they have slightly clueless people who installed standard-issue software without thinking to check if the student actually owned the chromebook

That would be my first assumption. I would even guess that they aren't keen on having yet another license tied up on a student's device somewhere.

Don't immediately rush to assumptions of malicious intent, don't think that making a scene at a school board event will further your goals, and definitely don't take any of the suggestions here to lawyer up or otherwise waste a lot of time and money on a legal fight that you will surely lose.
> a mastodon farting

While that's not the true meaning behind it, "a mastodon farting" is a good summary for the branding around all these "fediverse" social networks.
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Pixel 6 and Chrome, it's borderline un-scrollable.
Personal anecdote but I’ve found many thunderbolt or USB-based displays seem to suffer from the plug and unplug issue. I’ve had the most success historically using the DisplayPort over USB-C spec with an 8K-compatible cable (that means it’s the latest spec version): https://www.displayport.org/displayport-over-usb-c/

Outside of that… some USB-C based docks likely use the above standard internally, plus USB-C spec support for driverless Ethernet, hubs, etc.

That said, there’s always something to complain about with these accessories and cables, it seems…
The Gemini app by Macpaw (paid) does a great job of helping me cull my 40k-sized photo library over the years. Especially duplicates, blurry shots, and the hundreds of photos of restaurant menus that I never want to see again.

One big thing to be careful about with these massive photo libraries is making sure you aren't collecting an unfortunate pile of PII like passport copies, drivers licence copies, credit card photos, etc. If the wrong person were to get your phone, it's not ideal they can get that level of detail on you. Use an encrypted password manager or the like for those.
The thunderbolt protocol is backwards compatible, so a USB-C dock should work when plugged into a laptop’s Thunderbolt port. CalDigit has a USB-C dock and one of the biggest “features” they push is its compatibility.
Or your cellphone contract, or apartment lease, or the terms of use for every web site, or End User License Agreements. They're all totally "meeting of the minds" mutually agreed upon between parties of equal power, open to negotiation by skilled end-users... LOL! Most contracts/agreements that end users are subjected to are far from freely negotiable. They are take-it-or-leave-it rule-making written by some company's legal counsel and enforced by the courts. Agree or don't do business with.

I've never been presented with an employment agreement where any of the terms could be negotiated. Salary and benefits? Yes, sometimes. But other terms? No way. I always try, but in every case, you get a stern message from corporate legal basically saying "Sign it unmodified or GTFO." I don't know who these HN Captains of Industry are who negotiate the terms of their employment, but that's the exception, not the rule. Maybe at the VP+ level, these things are negotiable (parties are more equal in power), but at the "5th grunt from the left" level, no way.