skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea but it would also be a mistake to just assume that this is the case yet again, especially given that the United States has adamantly refused to put troops in Ukraine and has sought diplomatic solutions from the start. The US government has really pushed against inflaming the US population toward war. If recognizing atrocities, however, pushes people toward war than there isn't much you can do about that besides continue to do what the US has done which is not get into the war.

I went to Iraq. The war was probably misguided (although there is still a democratically elected government in Iraq... so... idk) - Ukraine is quite unlike Iraq and if this generation (which I think includes me?) is drawing comparisons than it's because of a lack of thought and education around world events.
Don't forget the majority of comments in this very popular and reasonable thread [0]

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28087309&p=2
I am a pro Ukraine millennial. I also came of age during our middle east forever war and saw all the lies that went into supporting that boondoggle. The irony is not lost on me one bit. Goat herders yesterday, babuskas today. The great powers play their games and we pay.
> a result of the whole “Russia Russia Russia” thing.

Can you explain who the "boy" was and how they "cried wolf"? Did you read the Senate Intelligence report? PBS: Senate panel finds Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election [1].

"The nearly 1,000-page report, the fifth and final one from the Republican-led Senate intelligence committee on the Russia investigation, details how Russia launched an aggressive effort to interfere in the election on Trump’s behalf. It says the Trump campaign chairman had regular contact with a Russian intelligence officer and says other Trump associates were eager to exploit the Kremlin’s aid, particularly by maximizing the impact of the disclosure of Democratic emails hacked by Russian intelligence officers."

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/senate-panel-finds-rus...
It does, now. NLP sentiment classifiers assign it a positive rating with a very high confidence.

However it may still be use in some limited contexts, or historical contexts, its modern day usage is almost always with a positive connotation.
The number one thing that we do is use an assumed name and address (and phone number) for all online interactions.

If it's not a government agency, it doesn't get any real info.

So, for instance, Amazon has a made-up name and our PO BOX and our "junk" number from Twilio.

As I have mentioned here many, many times:

This is possible because VISA/MC do not verify cardholder name. They make it seem like they do and merchants think that they do ... but they do not. You can just enter "Mickey Mouse" and it will work just fine.[1][2]

Lyft, opentable, Toasttab, Apple ... none of them have ever seen our real names or addresses.

[1] This is not true of AMEX - they do verify cardholder name the way people think they do.

[2] There is a very rare, seldom used "verified by visa" step that some online merchants used to use (mostly in Europe) that did verify cardholder name ... but I have not seen it in years ...
> Support for Russia is not antiwar.

I didn’t say it is?

> Boomers were famously opposed to US involvement in Vietnam.

Then the 80s happened.
Flat Earth News is a good book that digs into why news outlets pushing PR statements verbatim (alongside other problems) became a thing.

Basically fewer journalists with more column inches to fill using syndicated pieces and barely editing them mean the same company release can appear across all the platforms with minimal contextualisation.
This definitely works in a pinch but it's not quite the same. Things never work quite right, for example calendar invites, push notifications for email and Google Sign In. Also, most clients will expose your custom domain AND your gmail address when they receive the email. If you're using it as a semi-professional address, this is probably a deal breaker.
All my job opportunities include on-call. I'm not an SRE/devops either, just everything is a 24/7 service now =\

And hilariously I enjoy the fire-fighting and deep root-causing under pressure. But 99% of it is waking up in the middle of the night for a faulty alarm.
The author meanders quite a bit and never really outright says ‘clickbait is effective’.

It helps that emotions are strong on the subject, I wrote a comment on the post he mentions (I think) that got way more than 50 upvotes which is unheard of for me.
Is there any reason file managers can’t be switched out? It seems like something that would be easy enough to configure, especially in Linux.
Thank you for being part of creating a usable Linux desktop back in the day. Even though I long since migrated to Unity and KDE desktops I really appreciate the work.
I've had a (S1) sonos for many years. That only happens to me if the speakers (or phone) are repeatedly falling off the WiFi network.

Try plugging into Ethernet, or placing it close to your router. If that fixes it, then you have a root cause.
Looking through the comments I'm surprised at how many people it seems are still able to buy them for 99 cents. I haven't seen one sell for the actual can price in years. To the point that it was already a joke in 2016 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMUZ2sVjLfY).
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I haven't seen one priced at 99 cents for a couple of years now. The best price in convenience stores where I live (US) is typically 2/$3.00. The cans don't even say 99 cents anymore, they seemed to start phasing that out after that episode of Atlanta someone else linked.
Boomers were brainwashed with cold war propaganda all their lives and don't see Russians as people. Even millenials were exposed to the same propaganda as kids.

Younger Americans are more balanced so far... and newer propaganda is not as effective to anyone other than the laziest... because anyone interested can look for the information from other points of views just as easily because of democratization of media and information.
Because everybody suffers. Everybody.

It sounds like he's had the idea that if he flogs himself working hard, then there will be a payoff, and having done that for 25+ years, the result of his hard work is that it's brought him to a point that logistically and financially has left him secure and settled, but nevertheless has not delivered the expectation that the end point of hard work would be contentment. Now his complete lack of deep and meaningful contentment has left him feeling empty and he's now suffering because of that.
x.com: the domain name of Elon Musk's second startup. It merged with Confinity and later became Paypal.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com
What I'm hearing you say, loud and clear, is that you no longer have a sense of a purpose in life. Drugs (legal or otherwise) will not fill that void for you. I do not believe that you can rekindle a sense of purpose just by thinking about it. I would advise you to try new things that sound interesting to you, and keep exploring until you find something you can pour your heart and soul into. Probably something different from, or at least not directly related to, tech.
None that I know of. Any system can be gamed. Most of the interview systems focus on some sort of knowledge and learned behavior. But there's no way to truly gage how hard someone will work.

I've been told in the past that I'm smart, have a lot of potential, and work hard. After years of being screwed over and passed over by the company, I no longer work hard. On paper I have the right credentials. I present myself well in interviews. I usually ace the behavioral portion because I know what they want hear and my past experiences provide ample scenarios to choose from. But that doesn't change the fact that I've been conditioned not to trust my employer and that my hard work will be unrewarded. So I probably won't try hard at my next job either.
Is there an easy way to store my KDE environment in a dotfile? KDE seems like it _can be_ the perfect DE given enough customization. How do I maintain and reuse that customization (aside from something like Nix)?
It's a ridiculous idea because it doesn't have any cultural or product fit. It reads like they looked at Substack, thought "ooh, money, gimme some of that!", and rolled out the same thing for their own product – but a tweet is a couple of hundred characters and nobody is paying for that. (Short of the small percentage of pathetic creeps who probably also send money to female streamers just to feel noticed.)

Reddit gold is an example of how to nail something like this, because it was done with tremendous sensitivity to the culture of the site. It's quirky, slightly ironic, riffs on the obvious silliness of a 'gift' that goes 99% to Reddit's coffers, and it's perfectly pitched to the user at the point where they are already feeling the value of Reddit's product & the other user's content. Twitter's, by contrast, is an example of how not to do it, for the converse of all those reasons and more besides.
Amazon imposes 5% “fuel and inflation” fee on sellers who use Prime shipping
I think what would be closer to the truth is that the worth of the product to the customer is independent of the cost of manufacture of the product.
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It's not just any single person.
I don't think this particular clip shows a strong support for the Russian Federation in general. He seems to be saying that a majority of the people of Crimea want to be a part of Russia, having been more tied to Russia proper historically than any independent Ukraine, and they were able to make that switch without much violence.
Seems kind of disingenuous to choose a career (curator and writer, according to the brief bio) which is known to not pay well, and then complain that working for a wage doesn't allow for upward mobility. She complains that the system is broken, but does not demonstrate that anything is broken except her strategy for upward mobility, if that's what she actually wanted. (Except that worked: hobnob among the wealthy and marry one)
> Etsy is the last place on the internet, where I would got looking for quality stuff.

Well, that's your loss. But it may be Etsy's loss, too, if they allow chintzy crap from overseas to drive the quality sellers off their platform. Amazon has embraced the race to the bottom, so I don't see anybody else competing effectively with them without (at the very least) being all-in on Chinesium.
Wow I'm an old man.

With the youth I'd say this generation is more affected by any other by the sheer noise of modern media. It's also one of the first where there was less emphasis on indoctrinating people towards the government's view on the cold war, the first to grow up with a government that lied to them about a significant non-cold war war (Iraq), and the first that actually has the means to cheaply find other views on things.

So maybe it's not so strange that young people think this way.

I mostly blame the Iraq war. Yes, the west has done a lot of bad things in the past. But in recent memory Iraq stands out as where we blew any pretense of moral superiority. (It does happen now and again, but the Cold War is a really good excuse for a LOT of bad things). People would have seen this and seen that whatever our governments say, you gotta take it with a grain of salt.
> I haven't noticed any "spikes" in soft drink prices,

From fountain soda to 2-liter there have been spikes.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000FN1101

Walmart: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Pepsi-Cola-Soda-Pop-2-Liter-Bottl... (1.98)

The midwest happens to have a couple gas-station quickmarts that have deals like
pay $7/month for a free (any size) soda or coffee per day that many people take advantage of, but in the supermarket the price changes are evident.

The real spikes have been in restaraunt/fast food drinks. It's not uncommon to see over $2.75 for a relatively modest drink cup. This has been primarily a tactic for low-margin food businesses to avoid raising their consistently low prices, in comparison to their competition.

Ironically, this has led some market losers (like Burger King) to leap ahead of competition (Carl's Jr/Hardees) as they had to raise prices to survive, leading to incidentally higher quality meals. ie Compare the mc-donalds cardboard quality Carl's Jr famous star to a Burger King burger today.

But that's just my observation.
My midlife crisis vanished once I bought a Mach-E.
Not even kidding :)

Just keep in mind that you are extremely lucky and privileged.
Hundreds of millions of Americans would kill if they could say:

"All mortgages, car notes, and credit cards are paid off and our investments are enough for our day-to-day. I’m really only working for the health insurance."

Maybe you want to explore charity work or helping others achieve what you have achieved.

And, yes, the amount of energy you can pour into things will become lower as you age.
I feel it every day having gone back to coding (from a CTO job) but I'm trying not to focus on it too much.

I recently discovered Stoicism which is very helpful.
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Not really. For regexes, "or" is particularly simple, since you can just
use `|` in the regex. I would do this:

$ grep -l X files/* | xargs grep -l Y | xargs grep -L Z | xargs grep -El 'A|B'

Here's an awk solution that avoids `|` in the regex:

$ find files -type f -exec awk '/X/{x=1} /Y/{y=1} /Z/{z=1} /A/{a=1} /B/{b=1} END { if (x && y && ! z && (a || b)) print FILENAME }' {} \;

Depending on what your files look like, joining the lines in the files may also be an option:

$ find files -type f -exec awk 'BEGIN{a=FILENAME}{a=a" "$0}END{print a}' {} \; | awk '/X/ && /Y/ && ! /Z/ && (/A/ || /B/) { print $1 }'

I imagine being able to write expressions like the one on this last one is what you're looking for.

All this isn't to say that there isn't space for a new tool. Certainly a tool can be made that allows expressing these more succinctly if you really want it.
Peace is the natural human condition in small groups. As the groups increase in size so does competition, insecurity and conflicts of interest. Its this dynamic that gives rise to conflating our own peaceful orbits with tribal or state rivalry; and conversely its often an abused imbalance of our interpersonal relationships that gives rise to individual leaders with power compulsivity.
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You forgot (6) live in a civilized society.

At least in the nordic countries you can pursue whatever passion you have while still living comfortably and compromising very little, even if you have nothing to your name.
…what even is this take?

Plenty of people have positive memories of both Twitter and Facebook.
I started by reconnecting with anyone I could. Many of them are not people that I would previously consider being friends with (hence why we stopped talking). This isn't a great solution but it might put you in good situations.

Try going to social settings like downtown and not think too much about how "These are not my type of people" or "I don't want to be out partying all the time". You have to go out and approach people to meet new friends. It's uncomfortable and awkward. You'll get rejected and need to brush it off. I've even considered going out solo and just walking around and enjoying myself.
> No one else has that power to make changes to the portion of the blockchain that you own the keys to. This is the aspect of ownership that matters.

Well, that's the ideal right? The reality says otherwise for reasons I stated earlier -- which you haven't addressed yet.

So now you're arguing the low level details now and smearing your opponents intention rather than trying to make the big arguments in supportive of your point. That seems to me you have no further big arguments to support your point and are willing to go into minutae to score debate points.
> Some languages have unfortunate misogynistic and transphobic/monogendered built-ins.

This is imperialistic, annoying and misleading. male/female distinction is neither transphobic[1] nor misogynistic[2] nor misandrist.

[1] if you think here about referring to such people with not preferred gender - it is not something enforced by language

[2] why it would be?
No, that is not how that works.
I would and did (in the same room) ... it was more like a hostel though.
I think it is okay to get ones needs from different places. It is ideal when one can find a perfect fit where they all align but it’s not necessary to strive for that.
You may have missed the whole SOS caution.
Not really. When moderation goes away, platforms become rife with racism, spam, scams and less than desirable actors. We've seen this with Gab and Parler.
The typeahead flame war is an interesting case where "user stories" clash with users -- both sides are ultimately talking past one another. The user story is "users can type the name of the file/folder they want and hit enter to navigate to it" which the current implementation satisfies. But the people in the thread want one specific implementation which, while a totally valid ask, has the exact same user story as full search. This way of looking at design makes "how the software feels" really hard to quantify and justify as a deficiency. Although, for me, I think after getting used to Crtl-P, FZF, VSCode, Telescope in Neovim and "Ctrl-K" in lots of apps I'm with GNOME devs on this one and that faster full search should be the end goal but that's just like my opinion man.
It's cultish when people say it's good just because they want to think it's good.

It's cultish when people say it's bad just because they want to think it's bad.

When the person you're responding to makes a strong assertion about a person's intentions[1] and you respond suggesting that anybody who might not think this way is part of a cult, it comes off very much that you want the assertion to be true.

Unless your belief is truly, "Anybody who might possibly agree with {{some specific person}} is part of a cult," then this comment does not do your thoughts justice. There's more to be said and you did not bother to say it.

[1] > Musk doesn't really care about Twitter's role as a tool for good, he cares about his ego.
Mnemonic: L for Location
You say that you feel like you have no plan going forward, but it sounds more like you lack a purpose, which is more fundamental. There’s the old adage “be the change you want to see in the world”. Maybe there’s something you’d like to exist in the world and that you could work on to bring about? Just a suggestion of a direction to think about.
If someone offers to purchase your home or other property, the decision to accept that offer lay with the property owner(s), not the municipality, county, or state who may or may not consider impact to humanity. In what utopia do you think we live?
Banning a platform outright isn't as easy. Some countries like Russia are absolutely willing to do that, but a lot of smaller illiberal countries still need to curry favours with their own population and banning a popular platform will cause some unrest.

For example, Turkey banned and unbanned Facebook several times.
What's the chance of him just polling off a dogecoin? Price went up, he sells, then says "sorry for rejecting my offer" (which of course had "secured funding" and all that).

Would be a great way to make a few extra billion and of course the SEC won't do mcuh
"Shit happens" is a universal when it comes to computing. SLAs describe what is a normal background level of shit happening vs. what demands immediate attention and action from the team.
Edge of peace. I like that phrase. I may end up borrowing it.

I think overall I agree with your post. We truly do suck as a species. The past few decades were a massive aberration in our history ( and even that relatively peaceful -- for a westerner -- period saw some horrifying conflicts that just did not make the front pages ).

I do not wish for another major conflict. No sane person does. We should do what we can to prevent it.

Still, I personally see one on the horizon. Best I can do is talk to my social circle, but even that seems futile. The actual decisions about matters like these happen way outside those.
My company (~30 people, healthcare field, engineering, software) uses Google. I have heard complaints about the ads, but I use the sheets on a daily basis, and we all use the drive to share and collaborate on most files. No complaints on that front.

I really like sheets because I learned how to use AppScript to automate a lot and I can't imagine working on anything without that functionality. Same goes for docs, slides and the rest of the suite.

We do have a guy who handles all the support and set-up though so I don't have the full perspective on this.
Think they are calling on Bezos? He bought WaPo and that worked out in their mind.
So again, you’re down with people disseminating child porn and sexually harassing their coworkers? Unmoderated Viagra ads and phishing scams on social networks? Because those are direct consequences of free speech absolutism.
In Ruby `"Foo" == "Foo"` returns true. Whereas `"Foo".object_id == "Foo".object_id` returns false: They are not the same object, but report being equal.

OTOH, symbols return true for both: they are the exact same object.

It's not just about speed though: symbols are somewhat limited in what they can be made of. They follow the same limitations as methods and variables. So often symbols are used when dynamically calling methods or assigning variables.

"Foo".public_send(:strip!) ¹. Which is slightly different from "Foo".public_send('strip!'). Not in outcome, but in calling. Because this is invalid syntax: "Foo".public_send(:one-two three) whereas this isn't: "Foo".public_send('one-two three'). Technically, I guess Ruby can have a method that is named "one-two three" but that would be really nasty to call. Symbols protect a lot against this.

And therefore are used in this context a lot.

¹ The exclamation mark can be a part of a method and symbol in ruby. As can the question-mark and some other sugar-ish stuff like [].
I check out some of these forums too occasionally, out of morbid curiosity.

Within the last decade or so, many of various unrelated political fringes have sort of loosely joined forces together and organized, but instead of being organized in service of a goal, it’s just in service of vague contrariness for the sake of contrariness.

These various groups, no matter how far apart ideologically they are, have sort of all coalesced on “If the ‘Mainstream’ is for it, we are against it, even if we can’t articulate why!”
This is so true. It's not easy but the quality of the therapist makes all the difference
No. Leaders are a small factor in the success of a business. Other, bigger factors usually include:

- luck/timing

- investor enthusiasm (longer runway)

- regulatory environment

- early hires

- later hires

etc.