skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How do you draw the line between “sensibly taking into account how real people react” and “manipulative dark patterns to literally get people to join your cult”? Perhaps there is no clear boundary.

Hmmm, reminds me of the spectrum of the "Pickup Artist" tricks...
The future is trust networks. Where you trust a number of friends, who trust other people, etc. and you can use a matrix of trust to retrieve review scores, etc.

Imagine trusting HN, visiting Amazon and getting all the reviews from other HN users ...
There's a "solution" posed in Different Kinds of Darkness ( https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/different-kinds-o... ) - some of the background of the world is https://www.nature.com/articles/44964
You see both white nationalism and civil rights as political antipatterns? What do you consider a healthy political environment? Complete stagnation where people who got theirs are OK but no one else can ever rise to that level? Or do you mean something different by "woke" than its usual meaning of "aware of inequities and desiring to fix them"?

Edit: I see the free speech proponents are here to try to make my comment invisible. Come on guys, don't give in to cancel culture like this!
As far as I can tell, the newsworthy part is that they achieve fusion using their "two-phase" which is supposedly different than conventional tokamaks such as ITER uses. I'm not sure how either of those technologies exactly work, but the article seems to suggest this is a cheaper way to build a fusion reactor. Then again, this is a press piece, so not exactly unbiased.
I do have some sympathy for Plex trying to run a viable business based on a fairly niche product, but I agree the direction they've gone is pretty puzzling. People use Plex for basically the opposite reasons that they use streaming services - they want to actually own their content libraries, they don't want to pay subscription fees, they don't want their personal information stored in the cloud, they don't want to see advertisements, etc. Plex's strength was that they offered an alternative to all of that - and I wish they would have doubled down on just making that whole experience as nice as possible, while also maybe adding in some tools to make it easier to obtain content from "alternative" sources.

Instead they've kind of gone down the route of trying to copy streaming services, and done a really poor job of it, and my experience the last time I logged into Plex was basically "wtf is all this nonsense?". To be fair though I was actually able to accomplish what I wanted - which was to be able to stream a ripped DVD from a media server (Raspberry Pi) to my TV - and for that it still worked pretty well.
My opinion about 'Imposter Syndrome' is that it is a 'rite of passage'.

As a person develops and moves up the scale he reaches the level of 'expert'. However, the 'new expert' doesn't have the wealth of knowledge and/or experience that an 'old expert' has. That makes them feel unworthy of their position. As the 'new expert' gains more and more knowledge and experience, that 'Imposter Syndrome' will fade away.

I would estimate that 99.999% of us have experienced 'Imposter Syndome' at some point in our lives.
Even if facebook's methods are a little softer It's not really a good.
I've got YouTube TV and I haven't seen a single non-broadcast ad in my time using it with my newest Chromecast.
As a one man show SAaS with enough customers to basically live my life.. I lol at these achievements.
I once had someone I knew from college reach out a couple of years after we'd graduated with the premise of catching up and talking about "some stuff he was working on." I had no prior knowledge of MLM, but only a few minutes into our conversation, it was immediately clear to me that he was using some kind of rehearsed language, and my skepticism was raised.

At some point, it segued into talk of financial independence and envisioning what that would look like for me, and it was suddenly clear to me what the psychological intent of the exercise was. I politely heard him out, suggested I'd get back to him once I'd had some time to think it over, and did so the next day, obviously declining.

I hope he got back on the right track.
Nope. I've emptied my cart and have it happen. (Note you can see my cart contents on the right side of the screen, too).

This is a new regression. I've had several orders now where I've accidentally bought multiple of something after a long span of no problems.
Navi- an interactive cheatsheet tool for the command line
"Look. We’re not going to beat around the bush" during the _fourth_ meeting made me chuckle
Konsole does this, too
> this isn't a significant one of them IMNSHO.

"You can't have systemd in Debian, what about kFreeBSD"
"You can't use Rust until it supports DEC Alpha"

...there are no shortage of examples where open and free software is held back by hyper-niche interests, where our pet twenty and thirty year old, long-dead projects and processor architectures create absurd barriers to improve anything.
For anyone not looking for a prescriptive answer, but just a way to put words to your experience, and some proof that you’re not crazy, I highly recommend the book _Reasons to Stay Alive_ by Matt Haig.
This is an okay analogy on the surface, but there is another dimension to the student loan debt situation. The borrowers are not the poorest/most vulnerable of the population. They are disproportionately from upper income brackets.
what services are you using from them that are complicating your migration?
Absolutely, I just uploaded the fix.
> Few things have as strong of a humanizing effect.

This, unfortunately, is EXACTLY what high pressure religions/cults/MLMs use to their advantage.

I was a mormon missionary and one of the things we were taught to look out for is things to humanize ourselves. Literally "If you see toys in the yard, ask them about their kids. Are they washing a car? Ask if you can help. Was there a death in the family? Talk to them about mormon heaven." etc.

The key, here, was all about conversion. You find an opening and then try and wedge yourself in (with the ultimate goal of getting a new convert, because you are "saving" them).

Other cults are certainly worse (NEVER go to a "private" meeting!), but it's something to realize. Cults are successful because they try and use genuine humanizing effects to bring in new members.
I would say closer to Thomas Edison - at least Jobs didn't go out stealing other peoples work.
Super cool. As someone who knows nothing about drones I would love to see a write up on how to do something like this. Where do you purchase that many drones cheaply, and how do you tell them to coordinate like that? How can you get the positioning so accurate?
2022 - 2006 = 16
> I think this is an error, trying to map our understanding of race onto the past like this.

Isn't that what Ewell is doing, by declaring that a 19th-century Jew born in modern-day Ukraine is actually a white German?

And Ewell isn't a Schenker expert - he focuses on Russian and modern music. He does self describe as: "I am an activist for racial, gender, and social justice in the field of music theory."

And he writes stuff like:

> Beethoven occupies the place he does because he has been propped up by whiteness and maleness for two hundred years, and we have been told by whiteness and maleness that his greatness has nothing to do with whiteness and maleness, in race-neutral and gender-neutral fashion. Thus music theory’s white-male frame obfuscates race and gender, one of its main goals….

Has there ever been a worthy white/male composer, or have they all been problematic racists because of their demographic information?

This guy is, basically, a clown. He, like many social-justice minded people, epitomizes Maslow's hammer. Writing in an academic style or in journals doesn't mean you have anything interesting to say. I did not agree with the author of the original article one bit, but I don't think they did any kind of disservice in their brief take on Ewell's paper(they even linked to it, which is at least a sign of good faith in my opinion).
I'm explicitly not recommending it. I want to like it, but it doesn't give me any reason to
The RTX is really slow for FP64.
It might be helpful to know that the author, Laura Kipnis, has made a career out of critiquing sexual harassment policies on American university campuses and the broader #MeToo movement. Her 2017 book titled "Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus" compared the Title IX process against philosopher Peter Ludlow a "witch trial". The book also offers an anecdote of an undergraduate student woke up next to a male student after blacking out, and then laughing off any suggestions that what happened amounted to rape -- Kipnis frames this as how female students should ideally react in such situations, and argues against the idea that men alone are responsible for rape when it happens, arguing that modern feminism "enables stupidity".

Personally, I find these arguments objectionable for various reasons I don't care to get into, but either way I think it's probably a good idea to be aware of where people are coming from when engaging with pieces like this
I could link some drama and bad press on him, but it's beyond that.
Just like you only need to listen to Trump for a few monologues to know it's all rotten inside. With Musk, the "benefit of the doubt" period is probably longer, as he targets a more educated audience.

But for me it's now clear he's not a good person by any mean. He's filthy rich and not anywhere close to satiation, now he's throwing his money at twitter "to defend freedom of speech". That's gross, he's obviously after more control over twitter to better push his personal agenda. I don't pretend to know what it is, but it's certainly not about human rights, freedom of speech or democracy...
UAW is corrupt, encouraging them is a bad idea.
Unions are symptom of corporations where employees don't have enough equity.
Also a symptom of incompetent governments.
If you fix the government or give employees equity you don't need unions.
Tesla aspires to give employees equity.
There are many who became millionaires after joining tesla early and working the line.
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> Of course "moderate" is relative. But relative to what?
Relative to your ideology.

Incorrect, not relative to one’s ideology, but relative to the implicit political context (such as “US politics” or “Saudi politics”. If it were relative to each person’s own ideology, then everyone would identify as a moderate: “My ideology is moderate relative to my ideology”.

> You'd be a moderate in the US and a radical in Saudi Arabia relative to the prevailing ideology.

This is correct, but it contradicts your earlier claim that the definition of “moderate” is itself ideological. It’s contextual but not ideological.
It's not like the Germans had any monopoly on casual racism back then - consider the Dreyfus Affair, which occurred at the peak of La Belle Époque France. Of course Germany was where these attitudes had been festering for a long time due to a generally authoritarian social environment (which went hand-in-hand with opposition to bourgeois modernity), and where they were taken to extremes.
I bought a nice truck in a bold color. Since then every few days total strangers come up to me and we start talking about trucks.

Completely blows my mind, but they have all been super nice people.
Because the nix store is global per system, it would be unsafe to allow any user to write to the nix store in a multi-user system. So the daemon instead mediates writes to the store.

I'm not sure if there are other reasons.
Even if that was the case they were still being manipulative. The whole "you can't talk about this stuff with other people" shtick is pretty transparent. I don't think you can say they're /just/ socially inept.
macsales.com

If you just want stuff that will work and be supported I just go there.
Speak for yourself, man. Most of us aren't like that and don't habitually think that way. You're just a bigot.
William Gibson actually saw Blade Runner before he finished his final draft for Neuromancer. He almost didn't publish it because he was afraid people would think he was ripping off the movie.
The absence of support for a stronger solution is an argument for improving support for a stronger solution, not an argument against criticising the existing solution.
Why would I care that it's written in Rust if I can't even download the source code? I have a Rust compiler but I can't run this terminal. This is a stupid project and false advertising.
Then MSSQL or PowerShell are technically not Windows-centric since they have native Linux ports? While cross-platform, the .Net ecosystem is decidedly Windows first. Zero of the .Net developers I know develop on a non-Windows machine.
Incredibly underrated series. As is his Gap Series.
Interesting work. The "animated run" feature is beautiful.

The language resembles https://esolangs.org/wiki/Funciton
So I really like this book and reread it every other year. High octane fun that tickles my programmer's fancy.

I like really well made books, so the edition I have is the Easton Press https://www.eastonpress.com/signed-editions/william-gibson-n..., from Ebay although mine is unsigned.

There is an a Suntup Editions version that is to drool over https://suntup.press/neuromancer, especially the Numbered Editions. Completely impossible to get except for thousands of dollars on Ebay. I have a Suntup Edition 451 Fahrenheit and it's amazing, so I can only imagine what this one looks like. And the circuit design has an Easter Egg, although I don't know what it is.

High quality rare books can be an expensive hobby...
DNG is an open format. RawTherapee reads DNGs natively.
That last line must be the best one in the whole book. It has remained with me for years. Thank you for sharing this.
Oh, I don't know how many of the bots were actually using the API, versus just userscripts running in TamperMonkey/ViolentMonkey. The ones I saw were userscripts, so they were browser based.

They did try _some_ prevention, there was a guy running 20 accounts who had his timers escalate up to like 18000 minutes, and also if you placed too many black pixels in sequence you'd get errors for a while before you could place again. But it definitely didn't kick in until way too late.
"The FRED Team has collaborated with the Scientific Knowledge in Extra-Terrestrial Content Hub, Youngstown (SKETCHY) to integrate some of the data from the NASA Mars exploration rovers."

April 1 from the Federal Reserve. I like it.
You can disable all of that though. I do.

I've considered switching but I have a very large and disorganized media library that Plex does a great job of organizing. About 10TB worth

Edit: NVM, this is pretty neat. Just loaded it up alongside Plex and it's surprisingly good. Going to use it for awhile and see how I like it.
If the problem is that it's difficult to learn to fly a fighter jet, and the documentation is not making it simple, the real problem is that the documentation is not fine. Simple as that.
I'm using Fish with vim mode and something seems to have gone wrong, where the prompt displays the currently mode of vim (here [I] for insert) your terminal seems to interpret this as a command, so nothing works unless I delete the [I] at the start of the line.

[I] [I]ls
fish: Unknown command: '[I]ls'
If you are open for suggestion, there is a software that would work for you. Shoko Server[0] would be best for managing Anime. I like them since they made my anime folder easily to be managed. And they uses AniDB as their anime lookup. Basically it is a cataloger, file manager, file renamer, database lookup, file tracker software.

They have a plugin for JellyFin, ShokoFin. And I believe they do have a integration with Plex.

This replaced my previous setup and it works amazing with my Kodi.

[0] https://shokoanime.com/downloads/
The same way anyone else does. By subjective observation and opinion of the subject

This isn't "The Good Place" where an objective arbiter of the net good or bad we put out into the universe through our entire existence can be measured
It does not seem like the solution to the problem would be change the mission of the mainstream platform. It would undoubtedly fall victim to whatever these mysterious forces are.
Fifty million dollars would change my life. I would take a guaranteed fifty million dollars payout over one in ten chance to get a billion dollars.

What are the chances that I cumbents will stand by idly as the "next Google" just takes over? Best case I can think of is the incumbent imitates the upstart and becomes better.
Interesting idea! Even if Actions will follow a submodule though (I doubt it tbh, it happens before any actions run of course so we have no control over that) you can't point it 'at trunk' as far as I know, they're always at a specific commit.

(E.g. if you git submodule foreach git checkout master, your diff if you have one will be updating commit hashes, not -whatever +master. This is good for a lot of other reasons but doesn't help here.)
“The fact we're talking about shell scripts for something critical means that the battle for reliability was lost a long time ago.”

Except that when replaced, the new thing is usually even worse for reliability. Case in point: Jenkins. Or anything “enterprise”.
Telecom Infra Project (Tip)
OP here.

You make a great point, and I am that careful with my photo collection. I didn't put it in the article but I do copy my full photo collection into a USB hard drive about once a year when I visit my parents. This way they have my photos and I have yet another backup. :)
nerds like nerd knobs... not sure customization has a mass market appeal. I also fundamentally disagree with the sentiment that the general public cares about privacy... though nerds do.

Good luck!
You don't need a destination when the walk is the goal.
I once went to discuss "business opportunity" with someone, sounded odd but I was fresh freelancer and would take any work. Right away I knew it was about me and business was mlm. The guy emphasized how we are selling vitamins. I was like great, vitamins is indeed big biz but online world is bit of a winner take all, how much does it cost and then asked him to search similar product on Amazon. Behold half the price. Enjoyed watching him fold and act dumb
The "no more walls of text" thing is huge! Thank you! (I don't care about it phoning home to report I opened a new tab while it's in beta.)
One of Amazon’s buildings in Seattle (Doppler) uses a data center next door to reduce their overall heating costs during the winter.

Source: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/sustainability/the-super-ef...
> Still, what I really wanted was to get back to work. It felt rude to say that outright, and they didn’t seem to notice how my eyes kept drifting back to my notebook.

This is very hard for some people (I am not being facetious here), but cult weirdos or not, it’s really important to be able to say something like “Thanks for chatting but I’m going to work now.“ No apology is necessary. Nothing equivocal in the words they can grab onto and argue with. No lying, polite or or otherwise.

You may need to practice this in the shower or the car. You may need to practice it on people even when you don’t necessarily need to go. But you need to practice it if you are a born and trained people pleaser like me.

I regard not being able to do so as something close to life-threatening, because when you are raised to put other people’s interests before your own, you can spiral into incredible depression and self abuse.
There seems like there's a presumption that already successful companies are not subject to the same forces as other companies, despite all the evidence (including Twitter's experience) to the contrary.
I have to disagree, Snow Crash is interminably long, like most of Stephenson's books. Neuromancer's whole Ocean's 11 Straylight run job is a very clean story.

edit: A lot of Gibson's stream of consciousness writing style can be attributed to the effect of beat writers like Burroughs on him. It's unique but it's also an intentional stylistic decision. Not really an attempt to capture the aesthetics of logging into the net. And as you may know, Snow Crash may seem pulpier but Gibson grew up on pulp like Edgar Rice Burroughs and it affected his work a bit.
No data on this but instinctively it seems, given alternatives, most people abandon some buggy software rather than patiently reporting problems and waiting for it to get better.
I don't understand what you're saying, please elaborate.
It is a little bit unfortunate that alacritty is licensed under Apache, which means it can be forked into proprietary software like this. If it was gpl like kitty, the authors would have had no choice but to make it fully open source from the start.
This is a bad assumption. I often do this because I’m an extrovert and find other people interesting/fascinating, but want nothing from you and, to my knowledge, am not mentally unstable. :)

To be fair, I don’t lead with “have you ever done therapy?” or “what does it mean to be alive?” haha
New GUIX user here. I've found the documentation to be good and the "zealots" seem very friendly - maybe take another look.
^meant thinner margins of PC industry.
TwilioQuest is quite good. It teaches JavaScript and Python, including setting up the runtimes and some basic git stuff.

https://www.twilio.com/quest
Oh, bullishit. Corporations will take every inch you give them, right up to the red line. Then that becomes "normal". And then you'll cheer them on for it, probably.
> Too often people hijack threads about a topic to discuss something related but totally different and off-topic

And what are you doing :-)