skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, realistically, many of them don't. For many different reasons, like being socialized to not make them. Or, having own mental health or emotional issues that make it hard. Or because, they know the consequences for it in the social group they are in.
I don't know any areas you're describing.

I also conjecture that once you turn a non-governed area into an El Dorado, "might makes right" will push it right back into a government. I don't feel a regular person has any choice if they want to thrive but to surrender themselves to some government regardless of trust.
So now that a little time has gone by, I can read all of this.

I think the most important thing to learning like Feynman is not trying to take motes abuot how to emulate Feynman.

The most important stuff is curiosity. About everything. Even things off limits! Everything meaningful. And don't try to define that - just be curious!

To poke at it or try to trap it or create simulacra are not the same things as being Richard Feynman. It's the intended legacy that matters. Learn from it, sure, but you're not gonna be it. And the unintended stuff - we all have that 'casue we're human. Ignore it.
I agree. Yet I feel compelled to say that the HN crowd is not necessarily representative of the general population. I've missed out on some great ideas I thought were dumb because I made the mistake of thinking my brain and interests are similar to others'.
> FAANG workers are really entering and sometimes fully into "just following orders" territory.

Not entering; we are there. Microsoft/GitHub has among its clients in the USA an organization that runs literal concentration camps down in Texas.

Amazon built a custom airgapped datacenter at Langley for the CIA, who has been known to assassinate US citizens without trial.
It's trivially easy to build one if you have a mac, they even have a demo project
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/realitykit/creatin...
Oh I don’t even get access to it lol. I’m just saying that’s the absolute “best” our NBN offers, and it’s shit
Speaking of cable, if the quality of Netflix produced content would be comparable to the one of hbo or Disney I would even consider paying for it and watch ads. But I think Netflix subscriptions are going down because m, at least in my personal experience, the content is just offensively stupid, banal, childish and poor. Maybe the first step should be to product stuff that makes sense
Indeed, that Zdnet article hints at how they solved that but doesn't provide detail enough to make sense of it.
> When push comes to shove, it's about power. F.ex. the desegregation of Arkansas schools [0]. If don't have force to command, you don't have authority.

I would point out that segregation itself was hold by forces. The particular unit went there, because local ones were onthe other side.
> YouTube with WAAAAYYYY more resources, data, people

Alphabet, Google and to a lesser extent, YouTube, have a lot of ressources, but they might not invest it in this direction. A friend worked on a team responsible for understanding creators, recently, and it was alarming how few people were involved. He left because it was poorly managed. They barely scratched the surface on engagement, not even able to measure the lack of consistency of audience engagement (the biggest point of contention of creators).

They likely have fewer people dedidated to fighting spam overall, let alone in comments, than you’d expect. This is a delicate interaction to highlight because it’s both account creation (accounts that don’t upload videos, so they likely aren’t prioritised) and editing their identity, something no one cares much at YouTube (you get plates if you matter, that’s operations); all the bad things happen off YouTube…

The other comment about adversarial interactions with spam is key --and likely more important-- but we need to remind everyone (including people on HN who likely have experienced this at their job) that “it’s a large company” doesn’t translate to “they have large teams working on this” but “they have many other problems prioritised over this”.
It’s not entirely odd. It might count towards expertise/credibility?
> Bullshit. Who was prosecuted for the firebombing of Dresden or Tokyo?

Neither of these is comparable for what Germans did and you know it.

> How many US military members have been delivered to the ICJ?

US did not signed membership.
>>That can be argued for pretty much any government activity. So by your logic lets abolish police, firefighters, the army. Why can't I choose my own police to protect me? That's a blatant violation of my contract liberty!!

I am not against government. The US had a government, with police, firefighters, an army and roads, in 1890, and no labor regulations that violated the freedom to contract, because during the Lochner era, the Supreme Court consistently struck down such laws as violating the Constitution's guarantee of substantive due process.

That you equate the provision of government services that are pure public goods, with restrictions that prevent people from exercising their contract freedom, shows you fundamentally don't understand the objection to these types of laws, or what "contract liberty" even means. I imagine you see "contract liberty" as synonymous with "anarchy".
The question I like to ask myself in instances like these, when I'm pissed off at what I see as unreasonable attitudes and processes, is this:

Do I care more about making myself feel better by airing my grievances in whatever way suits my fancy, or do I care about a specific outcome?

If it's the latter, then the best thing to do is to figure out who is in charge, and, critically, the right way to talk to them in order to get the response -- and hopefully the outcome -- I want.

Sure, I could turn this into a crusade to vote out the school board and replace them with... who, exactly? The kind of people who are qualified and likely to get elected are probably pretty similar to the people there already: not too technically-inclined, and not willing to put up with an aggressive attack from parents. Even if I did manage to find and elect a school board that would take this kind of issue seriously without needing much prodding, by the time I went through this whole process, it'll be... a year? Two years? More? The ship will have sailed, and my hypothetical kid will have leaked all their private data to the school's nanny software already.

So hopefully I'd instead do the smart thing, approach the school board in a way that resonates with them, and get the outcome I want.

> I've heard the same argument used for angry minority communities in the past

I don't think this really applies here. Most "angry minority communities" are fighting for things that are systemically stacked against them, and often the "polite" approach doesn't work. But we're not talking about systemic oppression here; we're talking about an overworked, underpaid school IT department that doesn't have much choice in what they do, directed by a school board that doesn't understand the issues involved.
Perhaps we should be looking at the strongest possible version of Stratechery’s argument (which also seems to be the one they presented).

Stratechery suggests that:

> markets like India have more room to grow, but much lower household incomes, and Netflix’s relatively high prices have been an obstacle.

> advertising-supported or subsidized tier would expand Netflix’s subscriber base, which is not only good for the company’s long-term growth prospects, but also competitive position when it comes to acquiring content.

>This also applies to the company’s recent attempts to crack down on password sharing, and struggles in the developing world: an advertising-based tier is a much more accessible alternative.

>[Ad-supported plans] would provide an alternative for marginal customers who might otherwise churn, and on the other hand, it would create a new benefit for those willing to pay (i.e. no advertising for the highest tiers).
"Knowing what are the most statistically used set of words that a human would say next that are consistent with the things they have said before" is equivalent to general intelligence.

The alternative is to believe that intelligence is not required to generate human speech. At which point, why would I believe anyone on here is intelligent? All I have of you is speech.
I'm not calling it a grand conspiracy, but clearly making money by locking other people and companies into a patented regime is the goal here.
Though, I myself had misfortune buying broken RTL8153 based ethernet NICs.

One of the issues with the RTL8153 NIC is (as a sibling commenter points out) that on M1 Macs, you are confined to the CDC-ECM driver. RTL8153 with this driver usually cap at ~700MBit and cause a lot of CPU load (usually restricted to the efficiency cores, but it's still pretty bad anyway).

For USB docks, I can still understand the choice. But IMO this is inexcusable for Thunderbolt docks. You can tunnel PCI-E, so nothing holds dock makers from hanging a good NIC with well-supported drivers on the PCI-E bus. Some higher-end Thunderbolt Docks do this AFAIK. The Apple Thunderbolt 2 Ethernet adapter uses a Broadcom NIC on the PCI-E bus and can reach 1000MBit without causing high CPU loads. Unfortunately, it requires a Thunderbolt 3 -> 2 adapter, which is more expensive than the Ethernet adapter itself.
Personally I like having a laptop for on the go and a desktop that’s always in one place and use syncing to make it pretty seemless to switch between them.
Just to add to this, I use Nesper (your project) extensively :)

And the experience is exactly as you’ve described
Minor adjustment.

When following this kind of approach I typically define the criteria before the solutions. This reduces the chance of adding bias to your criteria.
I read this and I’m honestly still not sure what Ben’s point is. Needlessly long article that goes through so many irrelevant aspects.

Not to mention the clickbait title.
It's a very simple example and knowing that addition is commutative, it's obvious that there is no ordering.
Can we make code easier to understand and scan?
In addition to making code easier to read typographically, can we make it easier to understand and scan?
I'm guessing you aren't a schumer fan
They are not great. I had a USB-C adapter of theirs years ago. While the adapter itself worked pretty ok (besides only supporting 4k@30Hz), it was so badly shielded that it would reliably drop any Bluetooth or WiFi connection in its vicinity. I browsed through the Amazon reviews and it turned out that there were many people with the same issues (and also later USB-C adapters).

I know that USB-C can cause interference on Bluetooth/WiFi bands, but this was never an issue with properly shielded adapters.
> Removing a logo from my life is one small reprieve from the dystopia.

And a great way to advertise to your peer group that you're comfortable and wealthy enough to be able to choose to disengage from the capitalist rat race!
"How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation." Machievelli

Most people are selfish and act in their own self interest despite what virtue signaling on social media they may do.

You really think people are willing to risk their 6 figure salaries for some anonymous warehouse workers...
This article does not suggest that Netflix should ever show ads to you, an existing customer.

It suggests that Netflix should offer an ad-supported plan for people unwilling to pay current prices.
> For "simply" fighting a war and killing uniformed enemy soldiers

But, that is not how those wars happen. Like, literally none of those wars was limited to killing uniformed enemy soldiers. That might be Hollywood idea of war.
But pretty much all of real ones involved units killing/torturing locals. Sometimes more and as a strategy, other times less so. But it happens literally every time. It is not that all armies are the same, they are not. Some are much much better then others.

But, in general, worldwide, "simply" fighting a war and killing uniformed enemy soldiers is not what war is.
The fact that subscriber growth slowdown is a reason for panic, is the reason that so many cool products and startups get worse over time.

Why not take the revenue they have and provide a good, sustainable service for that income? Why does it always have to be growth or bust?
What I’m not getting is how you get from “making damn sure screwups won’t reoccur” to “you don’t need more than a simple apology” when a screwup occurs. These seem like opposing sentiments.
So, the point here is to offend everyone before we even get a chance to read the article?
Show HN: Easy to reference database of HTTP Status Codes
This pretty standard, somewhat irritating theorizing, was discovered last year by Jyllands Posten in Denmark and it made them angry, I guess because Danes quite like French cooking.

I became familiar with it this morning when I got this quora question in my email - https://da.quora.com/Hvad-synes-du-om-juraprofessor-Mathilde... - with the top answer by some guy named Peter Rasmussen (probably no near relation, just about all of us must be descended from some guy named Rasmus)

It was quite a strong takedown of the paper which led me to be interested in reading it, just to see what an abysmal trainwreck it must be. But then I found that while I found much of it sort of ridiculous and overwrought, it had been quite clearly misrepresented.

The paper essentially argues that France used its culinary culture, which is important to them, as one of their tools of colonial and racial oppression. Which frankly is sort of a no, duh argument because obviously any culture that had racist goals would combine those goals with the parts of their culture they found most important.

So in short: in France food is super important, France is racist, France uses its super important food culture to bolster its racist culture. No, duh?

Whereas the Quora answer takedown of the paper says the paper claims that the food of white cultures is intrinsically racist and that it supposes racist food causes racism, colonialism etc. etc. Which would of course be farcical.

So all this lying made me find the original slightly silly paper more fascinating than it would otherwise be.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/amy_schumer_growing This? I don't have netflix anymore for a couple of years, so I wasn't aware of this.. but I would say that if I did, I wouldn't be a fan of this ;o
Looks like there's enough room for USB A ports to me. They're not massively thicker.

HDMI would require curving the bottom differently but would easily fit in a laptop of that thickness.
This is a surprisingly well-written report that an intelligent reader with exposure as an end-user to the mobile phone ecosystem should be able to comprehend, that summarises the risks around malware and app stores and a possible approach to opening up side loading of apps structurally.

Masterful communication on top of solid analysis. I’m going to keep a copy just to review when I’m writing my own reports to stakeholders.
Or maybe his work/life situation is different than you imagine? I’ve been working as a solo freelancer for the past 10 years and for the majority of that time I used a laptop connected to external monitor as my primary machine.

You get all the benefits of a desktop environment plus the convenience of being able to work remotely and carry your machine with you when needed.

I don’t have a company telling me to work from an airport. And as for ergonomics, you don’t get those with a desktop machine either when moving so I don’t see what different does that make.

A laptop offers you options. That’s why for some people is appealing.
to be fair microsoft does exactly the same thing.

I have intune on my personal ipad. And the idiots from our IT department accidentally wiped the entire thing. Just because I wanted to be able to read outlook mails. My iCloud was even blocked for a day or so. Despite their claims they can only manage the app itself and despite my protests that the fine print clearly indicates they could do so and that they should change their configuration.

At least I got an apology letter, but all these devices are desigend to be locked down by centralized IT departmens. Be it ChromeOs, iOS or Windows
> I read this and I’m honestly still not sure what Ben’s point is

It’s in the title

> Not to mention the clickbait title.

Why do you think the title is clickbait? It accurately reflects the contents of the article.
>In any case, as I explained, the mother invests more into bringing the child to life than the father, so doesn't it seem fair if the father tries to even the scales by providing other things?

>Sure, but they need food and shelter to succeed in raising those children.

So it is work when a woman raises the children, but when the man raises the children, they are providing nothing? This premise seems to be the cornerstone of your argument that men who take care of children are freeloaders. You think that women deserve payback, and these men are not providing it.
For one thing, I care if Iran threatens Israel. That is the present tangible danger I address.

I admit to being generally ignorant of the situation in Kashmir. I know that Pakistan and India have been fighting over that beautiful land for decades, that both Hindi and Muslims live there. I assume that the Gawkadal massacre was against Muslims, though it is not stated specifically in the Wikipedia article. I would actually appreciate hearing more about your situation there, I have never met a Muslim from Kashmir and I'm certain that the popular media portrayal of the area is not accurate. My Gmail username is the same as my HN username. رمضان كريمط يا صديقي.‎
while keeping its functional state and by modifying color or the types graphics in some form?
The CEO is mandated by the board to make profit
In my company setting up the office email on our personal phone is optional. But if we choose to do that, they install this entirely new 'profile' with work apps and controlling software on that in the name of security. I chose not to install it, but some would surely do it. Probably no case can be made against them as they don't force their employees to install mail on their phones.
> The laptop isn't ruined and can be reset whenever the OP wants (as they already established).

I take it that it's fine that I install a microphone with a transmitter in your ceiling fixture so long as I do 't damage the fixture itself.

> Don't immediately rush to assumptions of malicious intent

Is there a good reason to doubt that the intended purpose for installing the software was to use its advertised functionality?
More or less, yes - the googlable term for it is 'photosphere'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosphere

there's also a bit of an illusion of scale, you're looking at bumps and protrusions that are multiple-earth-diameters-sized.
That's the cheap plan I think. I've seen it many times.
A Thunderbolt dock or adapter that puts the NIC on the PCI-E bus, like Apple's Thunderbolt 2 Ethernet adapter (which annoyingly requires a Thunderbolt 2 -> 3 adapter). I know that some Thunderbolt docks also use Intel NICs, but I don't have one of these, so I cannot recommend any model.
I wonder that so often, and the answer I find myself landing on is... greed.

It's greed. Investors want to make more money, they don't care about the product, or the experience in using the product. They just want more money.
That's how the whole system is set up. It's sadly just how it is.
Ukraine war: Biden calls for Putin to face war crimes trial after Bucha killings
A-A cables do exist. I came across it with a USB 3.0 hard drive. But the version 3 micro-B connector was notoriously fragile, so this one had a sturdier A connector instead.
He even answers trick questions from seemingly Russian supporters.

Also, this was well answered:

> Do you support the Nazi soldiers? ... a lot of bad Nazis in Ukraine!

> There’s no good Nazis anywhere. They're all bad.

Then he points out that Azov battalion is often confused with the far-right national corps party (which currently has no representation in parliament), while in fact it is a military unit that acts on orders from Ukrainian national guard and is comprised of ethnically diverse members like Georgians, Chechens, etc.

Speaking of, I wonder if Wikipedia is wrong on this. It straight up describes Azov battalion is "a neo-Nazi unit".

I support Ukraine and hate this war regardless, but this aspect has been confusing me for a while
Mmmm a little embrace extend extinguish of the cable world, what a new concept

Netflix stomped the breath out of cable and then became the thing it sought to replace
As much as I think the other replies to this question hit the nail on the head, I think there’s more to it than just tool obsession.

Software developers are in the fairly unique position where most of our tools are software defined. We are experts in the discipline required to improve our own day to day work lives.

How many other professions have this liberty? Woodworking does to an extent, carpenters regularly make their own jigs and clamps but rarely venture into the realm of sharpened tools.

Contrast this with anyone working in the medical or retail(?) industries. People working in these fields are close to powerless to improve the tools they use every day.

Embrace the tool improvement life, there’s still a long way to go before software tooling is “finished”
> point out that relying on foot soldiers to become conscientious objectors at the spur of the moment against the structural pressures against that is well documented to not be a great strategy for reducing war crimes

Nor is excusing all those as a result of them all being scared of forced to do them. A lot of those are committed, because soldiers on the ground in fact want to commit them. Sometimes you have no choice and would be shot otherwise. And many times you do have choice and can choose to not rape or not kill that civilian. That is something that former soldiers report on too - if you read their accounts.

> but if I do, the US has pledged to literally invade countries that try to investigate us war crimes, and don't have a great track record of internally policing war crimes" is pretty clear.

For all US faults, US actually has better track record that ISIS or Russia or China. They are not bunch of angels, plenty of sociopaths all around.

But specifically in US army, you are unlikely to die or be tortured of you don't commit war crime.
> Why would you use a work-provided chat app to discuss things the company may not like?

In a digital company like Amazon, I can imagine that it is very hard to reach your co-workers in any other way.
Most likely there will be no public list of email addresses or phone numbers, so what other options do they have if they want to bring up unionizing to their co-workers? Nowadays you cannot just catch people at the factory gate.
Can you have more than one account on there? Can your kid have separate accounts for school and non-school?
I've used direnv for a few years now. Especially combined with nix, it's magical how seamlessly you can navigate between very different environments!
I’d go an order of complexity above again. The real comparison is to the browser, particularly for general purpose engines like Unreal and Unity. I’d hazard most game engine teams are bigger than most browser teams.
When you unironically say that resources like housing and education are scarce, that shows how messed up our world is right now.
Dude video over these hubs - even the good ones - is so hit and miss. It's really frustrating actually.