skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdote: There was an old lady living nearby who despite being 80+ years still driving around in her 20 year old car. She literally ran over traffic cones and ... a child on a tricycle [1] and never got prosecuted.

She recently passed away ... sad, but the streets around here are definitely safer now.

(This was in Germany just for reference)

[1] The child was fine it was a low speed collision ... but still ...
Which wrongthink is not the issue being discussed here and is beside the point. This is about principle. The issue is not being able to hold any wrongthink beliefs (and discuss them) while also holding a job. If you can't think of anything which may be true but also offensive enough to get someone fired for proclaiming it, you may be guilty of being a 'conventional thinker'.
> The problem is that databases do not include a GUI for data viewing.

Exactly. It baffles me that such a tool still doesn't exist (though elsewhere someone claimed that MS Access is like this; I'm not familiar with it).

Keeping this in the cloud, with a web-based Excel-like interface, where you can share it with anyone you choose, but keep a single source of truth, I think that would be incredibly useful and solve this Excel-misuse issue.
"When the sun goes down, the stars come out."

A beautiful way of signing off reminds me of Bowie's Blackstar album.

"Something happened on the day he died.
Spirit rose a metre, then stepped aside.
Somebody else took his place and bravely cried,
"I'm a black star, I’m a star’s star, I’m a blackstar"

-David Bowie
Both were great
So, the countries that got rich using cheap and dirty energy continue to be rich but the poor shouldn't get the chance to get rich? That's rich!
> A leaf vacuum cleaner would make more sense.

I used one once. It was fairly useless. The bag was too small to collect any sensible amount of leaves and it choked on the small twigs and other stuff that is often mixed in with leaves if there are mature trees in the vicinity.
It's true if you login
This is a Kafka trap. You're setting up a world in which nobody can disagree with you without being in denial.
One of the points that really resonates with me is magic annotations. When I learned spring I had trouble really understanding these magic annotations because all I did was add a comment, not direct code to do something. I've had similar issues with a typescript express JS framework that is slipping my mind. I spend all day trying to tell the code exactly what to do, so it's less than pleasant to turn on annotations that do things automagically without me explicitly telling it to do so.
This is almost certainly a data artifact, despite how often it gets repeated by optimists
https://cryptpad.fr/ should have everything you needed. Open source and end to end encrypted.
> is for the court of public opinion

Agreed,

> with an acquittal

Disagree.

It was the other way round for the Rittenhouse case. (I watched the entire stream. So for once, I can say I know about the case). Bringing their integrity into the conversation was a hail-mary play for conviction by the prosecutor, because they suspected they'd lose.

The Rittenhouse trial had gone from a cut-n-dry innocence case to one that was attempting to make his trial appear as if it was a hate crime. The prosecutors actively tried to make Rittenhouse look like an out-for-blood killer, the victims look like the nicest people alive and make it appear impossible that the victims could've threatened his life (despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary).

It makes complete sense for the defense to counter accusations of bad character with the same when trying to establish plausible threat from the rioters. This was a white-on-white crime, and I still don't understand why the left chose this case as their 'systemic racism' hill-to-die-on.

> mere suggestion that the system is inherently racist

It isn't the mere suggestion is it? It is an active effort to defund and abolish the police. The lasting legacy of the BLM protests was the murders seen in emancipated-zones (CHAZ) and the massive spike in homicides following police defunding. The BLM movement was an ideological package, and I can see why someone would reject the combo-deal even if they agreed with certain aspects of it.

Just because I agree with the general direction of the identified problems, doesn't mean I agree with the solution.

Kyle Rittenhouse's trial occurred alongside Ahmaud Arbery's, and his white killers were sentenced to life in prison by a grand jury of eight white people, three black people and one hispanic person. As long as we are looking at anecdotes, there are plenty on either sides, making grand claims rather hard to substantiate.

___________

The American police system has a problem. It ties into the availability of guns, astronomical gun homicide numbers [1] and the general atmosphere of fear in this nation. I am certain that stereotypes amounting to racism are a part of the greater victimization of black men in 2022 America and that every unarmed killing by police is a tragedy. But, both those issues are nowhere close to the biggest problems in American law enforcement.

Its hyper amplification plays into the current political polarization of the US, such that the only acceptable & amplified opinions are ones on the fringes. It reminds me of Germany's Greens banning all nuclear power in their scorched-earth approach towards imperfect renewables; and that leading to greater CO2 emissions and Russian willingness to invade Ukraine.

Unless American society is willing to accept that their opponents come from a place of good-faith, they will never be able to work towards a mutual-compromise solution. In my experience, those are the only solutions that work in a democracy.

[1] https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(15)01030-X/pdf#:~:...(
I agree trains are hard to redirect but planes are too, after they reinforced cockpit doors post-9/11. In my opinion that’s literally the only useful thing that came out of 9/11 from an air security perspective.
If you are not familiar with GIMP. GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is not a Photoshop clone, but it is similar in that it is a powerful tool for photo retouching or image editing and authoring tool. https://www.gimp.org/
The thing with X11Forwarding is, it's never designed to be ran over WAN or, slower connections to be precise. It carries X11 commands, not the video itself and is synchronous and doesn't compress anything. As a result it both needs low latency and saturates connections quickly.

When the updates are occasional, fine, but when you call make or run something which updates fast/creates a lot of output, things get hairy, quick. Even on local networks with a couple of connections. Been there, tried that, experienced it all.

X2Go transmits the image, compresses it, and can work with much slower and higher latency network connections. It can also resume sessions.
It was there, the problem is that by default if you open files the way most people do (double-clicking or dragging) then Excel decides you must not want to be bothered by the options so it fills them in for you. "Helpfully" not even using the most basic inference to assign types in a way that doesn't destroy the data.
too radical for me :-)
While I think you have a valid point and I'm 100% behind it, cap and trade would not necessarily hurt "the poor".

The difference in emissions between small and big polluters (them being people or companies) is abysmal, a low contributor could easily double/triple its footprint and still come out much lower than the big ones.

I think a sensible solution is cap and trade at the country level and let it trickle down from there.
Sure the art market (c. $70bn world wide, ie., tiny) is also controlled by a tiny number of players, and the high-end is ran largely as a tax (or, and) money-laundering scam.

It seems no co-incidence that crypto people running their Ponzi scheme tried to hijack the art market.

However art pieces themselves have an "open, efficient, equilibrium" market price, in that, people actually want to own art to enjoy it. If the art market were broken up, and all the tax incentives ended, and all buyers forced to use public pricing -- then we'd see prices plummet... but not all the way, some pieces would still fetch millions.

I think crypto is a pure scam, more radical than art and more radical than MLM cosmetics -- you're not holding anything of value absent fools. There are no people who "want to enjoy their coins", there are only fools. Ie., people who want to pass-the-items-on after rent-seeking (ie., holding it until the fools pile up).
https://go.dev/blog/supply-chain is a very good write-up on this topic too.
The website has no content. No demo or description of how it really works.

edit: Also says: "No phone" and then shows screenshots of mobile phones. Weird. Is this even a real product?
> If it’s 10 days/year, is it normal in the US?

Personally I have never had a white-collar job in the US which started out at 10 days but it does seem to be the average in the US (when starting out) [1]. All of my employers have always started out with 15 days of vacation time with more after a certain amount of tenure. Given the age and experience of OP, I think they are getting shafted with 10 days.

On a side note, the US is truly awful when it comes to vacation and time off from work. The culture here is non-stop work and it's not sustainable.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/05/heres-how-many-paid-vacation...
Resisting Reduction A Manifesto Designing Our Complex Future with Machines -2017
My reasoning is that these taxes increase the price of all goods, including food and energy. That hurts the poor much more than it hurts the rich because food and energy expenses are a much bigger % of their income for the poor.
> I think trying to solve this in every language at the same time would be an exercise in boiling the ocean.

I actually think the opposite is true.

Capabilities are great but limited in their applicability within actual application code. Ultimately, your main application that may require some "dangerous" APIs to do something benign, may be loading 3rd party code to wrap those APIs, and we need a way to trust that code. That's a general problem, and - while it is a very hard one to solve - coming up with novel and unique solutions in every ecosystem is going to reinvent a lot more wheels (& boil some seas at least) compared to looking at software composition holistically.
It is going to be cheaper for poor countries to go directly to renewables. There is no law that says that you need to pollute to become wealthy. The pollute-y kinda tech was just more cost-effective in the past.
The poor will suffer the most from global warming, but they’ll still often be much better off than they are now. For example, there are estimates that global warming will cost Bangladesh 10% of its GDP by the end of the century. That’s a lot, but it would be far worse to try and avoid climate change and risk losing even 1 point of annual GDP growth until then.
Yes, we moved to Tai Hang which is quite nice in terms of noise (much much better than Kennedy Town where we used to live). We actually get bird chirping at night and early mornings and barely any traffic noise.
> This won't prevent packages you're already giving capabilities to - to later do something evil in a small patch update.

True - its not perfect! But the principle of least privilege should help limit the blast radius. How many packages in npm dependency tree need access to the filesystem? Or to the network? I bet its a vanishingly small percentage of the packages in the average nodejs project. Being vulnerable to malicious code in 3 hand selected packages is much, much better than being vulnerable to malicious code in any of the packages in your dependency tree.

And even then, we can be very specific about what those packages have direct access to. Right now the situation is "every package can read and write to any file on my computer". The fine grained permissions I'm proposing in this post would let us say "only package X can access the filesystem at all, and when it does it only has access to this subdirectory".

Much better!
SSL cert seems to expired...
Austrian Economics is not a source of scientific truth, since Austrian economists openly reject the scientific method.
One of the worst classes of software is the software whose architecture starts out with "Turing completeness is bad and hard and we'll just ban it", but it turns out the problem space needs it, whether you like it or not, and it ends up creeping back in one step at a time anyhow.

Terraform kinda took a similar path, although the reigning champion of this style of software has to be HTML templating solutions. "Templates shouldn't have code in them! Ever! Any! Totally broken bad bad bad, and that's why I started this new template language that has no code constructs in it at all! Although, uh, we do kinda need to be able to loop through things like table rows from databases... and, well, we need if statements to highlight a particular result... and, well, we need full arithmetic support so we can use the modulo operator on those rows... and we need functions to factor out reusable functionality at the template layer... and oh crap that's all you need for Turing Completeness, isn't it? Well... uhh..." "Hi, I'm another developer and I'm starting a new template language because that previous one is broken and busted and written by dum dums because it has Turing completeness in it! Templates shouldn't have any code in them, ever! Although, uh, I do kinda need for loops for table rows from databases..."
50% of the time my neighbor's maintenance company spends with leaf blowers is chasing individual leaves across the yard and through shrubbery (not exaggerating). They'd save themselves time if they just bent down and picked up the damn leaves with their hands. Or -- novel idea -- left the last couple leaves anyway, because just as many more will accumulate 30 minutes after they leave.
Quite concerning that the lifetime of modern software, even for a trivial tool, is so short. We have to do something about that.
Lol in Florida I looped around a parking lot and parked head in. From there you’re allowed to get on i95… in south Florida. I guess if you don’t die the first time you get on it it’s like passing a test anyway.

Luckily for me I had been driving for a while and I was tested initially in a more rigorous country, I was just getting my license after I moved to the US, but it explains a lot of what I see in the streets.
The short answer is nothing - it would be very easy to introduce a malicious Maven package.

The slightly longer answer is maven artefacts are immutable; the default behaviour is to pin precise versions; and norms among java programmers don't favour using libraries for one-liners like left-pad - meaning there are fewer people in a position to launch a supply chain attack.

The dam still has cracks in it, but there are fewer cracks and some have sticking plasters over them.
I think all we can do as parents is just educate our children on how to safely use these devices and teach them how to spot red flags: intrusive ads, bullying, scams, catfishing, everything else wrong with the internet.

If you block their exposure and/or don't trust them, they're going to rebel and it'll be counterproductive for everyone.

source: have a 7 year old daughter who does the exact opposite of what I ask her to do.
Formulas is a big one for me. As a programmer I often use Excel to generate insert/update SQL statements for example. So I'd need formulas with not just numerical but also string manipulation functions.

Also filtering is essential. So nice to be able to see all the values in the filter dropdown, easy to quickly spot weird values.
It's worse than that.

A system like "cap-and-trade" is sustainable politically precisely because it benefits a few carbon traders who can make huge profits from the system. They can feed back 0.1% of their profits to politicians to keep their privileges.

The rest of us (who depend on this planet to live on) face a collective action problem where everybody has to lower carbon emissions. For instance the US has high per capita emissions but still is responsible for only 15% of global emissions. If the US had a breakthrough and stopped emitting carbon tomorrow it wouldn't solve the problem unless countries responsible for 80% or so of emissions also did.

The structure of it is that there is always (and maybe will be) some major country that takes a contemptuous attitude about climate change (say the US under Trump) that gives other countries (say Germany) cover to talk a good game but take no action.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Collective_Action
Or in Raul Julia's magnificent performance as Bison in the Street Fighter movie.

https://youtu.be/Shxiy7l5b_4
> Because it can't. Even assuming everyone is on board with blockchains, removing the ability of the central bank to increase the monetary supply during recessions makes every downturn 10x worse.

That doesn't mean it can't function as a currency, just that it maybe isn't a good one.

This is an important distinction, because critics have adopted this talking point of "not a currency" or "can't be a currency" as some kind of binary, but then have terrible arguments backing this up. The difference between 2% inflation and 0% inflation is just that - 2%.

Mind you - Bitcoin is currently issuing at a rate of 1.5%. The reason it is volatile has absolutely nothing to do with it's "deflationary" nature.
Reminds me to experiment with tiling on Linux some day. My current workflow used ShiftIt on macOS.

And setting up global hotkeys on Linux has been a mess. I use QuickSilver for that on macOS.
I eventually gave in and gave my toddler a tablet to watch cartoons on YouTube. I noticed a few things:

1. She keeps it way to close to her eyes (even after I move it further away)

2. She gets way too much blue light

3. She doesn't get tired of watching cartoons if given the chance (e.g. on long road trips)

4. She now wants cartoons to be playing in the background while she plays with toys

I didn't see any improvements after some time, so I decided that the tablet medium must go away. I now cast videos on the TV from my phone and that has solved most of these, since I have better control over what, when, and or how long she's watching cartoons.
> It should catch the issue and exit cleanly with an error message.

Probably not. As the author describes, LLVM has to tool to check for invalid IR, which they used to investigate the issue and generate an explanatory error message.
Being buried alive was probably more likely in the past when it was harder to tell if someone was dead or not. Holding a mirror to someone's face and looking for breath leaves a lot to be desired.

Advances in modern medicine have mostly solved this problem.
It's still unreasonable to suggest Linux as a mainstream gaming OS when more than half of the top ten per [1] (so, statistically, the games you likely want to play) are either totally unplayable or have moderate-to-severe problems, with precisely zero having a platinum (perfect) rating.

This is changing, but we're not there yet. When Linux gamers can expect an experience on par with Windows, rather than a degraded one involving glitches and arcane tweaking, it'll be safe to recommend in good faith.
We already have Providers for that.
This comment is hilarious. I've known like a dozen people who have experienced the exact scenario you mentioned.
Is there a good reference as to what a "parameter" is in this context? I've looked a few times, but the explanations don't make any sense to me.
They might be worried but suck at risk evaluation so bad that the worry doesn’t really help.
some of whom are psychopaths and to whom tools like jira are a wet dream for micromanaging people, so your statement is only partially true!
Struggling to find something worth discussing in this article: my takeaway is that we can preserve the life and property of our neighbor by making our homes look nicer. :)

This principle plays out in small ways, too. Be diligent about picking up trash in your neighborhood and over time, the rate of littering will decrease. Park carefully on your curb and fewer will park haphazardly or on the wrong side. And so on.
It's interesting, of all the points being made in this thread, "making kids be more resilient with (and even enjoying) time alone" feels like an area of opportunity that hasn't been mentioned, not something to shut down and banish.

My circumstances were a little unusual (only child with physical disabilities) but not once did I feel like a social pariah what with books, games, books again, one or two loyal friends, pets, exploring the accessible parts of the backyard and digging up insects ...

There's a happy middle as far as giving into Big Tech vs not, basically.
Got tired of constantly being the one to patch upstream problems, ended up deprecating the majority of my (alt)JS problems.
I'm with the majority of economists who say "tax carbon". Still complex technically and politically, but more effective in solving the problem.
Couple of solutions (some already mentioned):

- SSH remote editing (e.g. ssh + remote Emacs/Vim)

- VS Code + Remote SSH

- Emacs TRAMP

- JetBrains Gateway

- mutagen? (I haven't played with it, I'm not sure if it's suitable for your case)
Old unix tools like vi or emacs and "make" were built when nearly all computers were remote, and work really well for this. Especially when combined with something like "screen" to preserve multiple sessions..
... I gave money to some Democrats a few years ago and I regret it now because I started getting 15 spams a day for Beto O'Rourke, some with headlines about "Why we send so many emails" and "Our fundraising isn't working..."
Swift Visitor Design Pattern
This was kind of the starting point of my thought process. It's somewhat readable without rendering too. So I thought it'd be a really versatile alternative to a lot of other formats. But it doesn't seem relevant outside of the web. So that's where I came from..
Contractor Who Was Awarded $34.5M and Provided No Masks Pleads Guilty to Fraud
I don't get why this happens to node all the time. They have a very extensive code of conduct that forbids this /s
Ansible won out because Puppet had scaling issues. OpenStack infra at one point was using Ansible to orchestrate puppet pulls, until everything could be re-written in Ansible
This is not exactly irrelevant, but there is some indeterminate weighting factor that you would have to apply for the bad taste of algorithms killing people vs people killing people.

Not that I'm an impartial judge... At the end of the autonomous car rainbow waits more parking, more driving, and fences to keep people out of streets.
I switched all but two active machines (I have five) from Debian to OpenBSD from 2017 to 2019.

If you can live with everything OpenBSD+ports can't offer in comparison, then switch, you won't regret it.

If you don't have the right hardware for OpenBSD then aspire to change it in the future, you won't regret that either.
SpaceX “Donated” Starlink Terminals to Ukraine. Taxpayers Paid SpaceX Millions
> My reasoning is that these taxes increase the price of all goods, including food and energy.

If you do a cash transfer to low-income individuals funded by the tax, it is entirely possible to make the tax progressive or neutral instead. (and it still does all of the important market-pricing action things its supposed to)
> I would say this is a decent policy by USA standards

Going to be terse and just say it's not a decent policy in the slightest. Don't be afraid to negotiate for more.