skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just over a week ago, Singapore executed by hanging an intellectually disabled Malaysian man (of Indian descent), Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam. His crime? He was caught trying to import heroin – I think it very likely the traffickers exploited his intellectual disability in order to talk him into becoming a drug mule.

In this regard, Singapore is a rather extreme outlier among developed countries – few of which retain the death penalty, and those which do largely restrict it in practice to murder. William Gibson's famous phrase, "Disneyland with the Death Penalty", is as true as it ever was.

So yeah, Lee Hsien Loong seems like a cool guy – wow, a Prime Minister who can write C++. But, remember Nagaenthran, and realise he's not actually cool at all, he's actually a rather terrible human being. Whatever the Prime Minister's formal role in decisions about executions, I don't think anyone doubts that he had the political influence (even if quietly, behind the scenes) to stop it going ahead, if he had wanted to.
> What era Di2 did you have that failed?

Whatever Trek was shipping on their Domane line in 2017.
After hearing the tone, I immediately thought the same thing! Such a great song.
Any human grouping/organization of sufficiently large size does not start out as a democracy, this is not the natural organisation form for our species. Traditionally groups are hierarchical with a 'strong' leader who leads in times of strife, often combined with a small group of 'wise' men/women who make more strategic/long-term decisions. The idea of democracy is relatively new, originating in the city-state of Athens some 500 years BC. This Athenian democracy was not a full democracy since only citizens had a voice. While that sounds good it should be noted that women, slaves, foreigners and youths below the age of military service were not eligible for citizenship and as such did not have a voice.

A true democracy is hard to achieve at larger scale but modern technology could maybe possibly eventually - yes, there is that much uncertainty - be used to attain it. Then again, even in a true democracy the individual vote can still be controlled by manipulating the voter towards whatever ideological goals desired by the individual or group in control of the information which reaches those voters.

Wikipedia could allow a more democratic form of content moderation by allowing readers to 'score' editorial decisions, a bit like e.g. the Slashdot meta-moderation system works. This would at least make it possible to weed out activist (groups of) editors who use their 'power' to turn the encyclopedia into their propaganda platform.
That is a technically in terms only. So apologies for using "closed"
[1] instead of "union"[1] shop which are functionally the same thing, and Union Shops still very much exist which is clear from my description of what I was talking about in my comment, (i.e I clearly stated employees were required to join the union post hire)

Right to Work states are a counter to Union Shops, which there is active efforts to do away with Right to Work laws

[1]Closed Shop
A company that only employs union members and requires them to secure and maintain union membership as a condition of employment.

[2]Union Shop
A company that doesn’t require employees to join a union in order to be hired, but they must join within 30 days of employment.
Eh, MMO lingo presumes that a "tank" class is supposed to take damage. Any tank crew that plans to rely on its armor to survive hits isn't going to live very long.
Yeah seriously, that comment is like the ultimate anti-advice.
> “Remove EPA’s enforcement and oversight over the Section 404 permitting process under the NWP“

I don’t ever see that happening unless Republicans control both houses of Congress and the Presidency.

This alone tends to make the rest of the article irrelevant. Not that it’s wrong, just that this is a major blocker that turns the rest of the discussion into a thought experiment instead of an action plan.
I would even go so far as to say cash and physical paper should be supported by any business and government department.

I believe there's laws in some states that require cash to be accepted.
On a side note, the story behind the etymology of “tank” is a funny read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank#Etymology
You can get a similar thing going with frontmatter in Obsidian. But advances features would need custom plugins.
His experience is no unique. Back in high school, my first job was at a supermarket. The union shopsteward was the assistant manager.
"If I was pressed for a hard definition, I’d say that a tank is a heavily armored and tracked combat vehicle whose purpose is to offer powerful direct fire capabilities against a range of enemy targets."

That's nice but what do you keep your tropical fish in?
While it isn't helpful for this person, I'm happy that I read it so at least I know the "correct" solution to this problem now should I ever encounter it.
I read a long list of side hustle ideas. The enumeration was great and very useful, but 90% of the list was essentially really obvious things I would already have started doing if I owned specific non-trivial assets.

Most advice and success stories are too vague, unreproducable, and/or obvious to be useful.

I understand some people need to be told not to spend $5000/year on coffee, but it's exhausting when I've never spent money on coffee in my entire life and 99% of personal finance advice is on that level of unhelpful.
I believe that's precisely why the SG government choose to pay extremely well. They gain candidates with great credentials that otherwise will have gone to the private sector.

Also, having well compensated staff makes the ranks less susceptible to corruption and bribery.
I wouldn't recommend GTK until they figure out their text rendering issues (among other things). I've loved the library in the past, but it's pretty bad from a developer perspective these days.
> tank/not-tank
My college roommate used to joke that in the Air Force, gate guards would draw a picture of a tank on their hands and that’s what they’re doing when they salute people in: “Tank? Not-tank”
My parents had never owned a computer before. My first PC came with an empty HDD, and somebody gave me a DOS boot disk. It was weeks before we tracked somebody down to install a copy of Windows on it.

I'll never be sure how many trials and errors I had before I could do something, but eventually I figured some things out.

Definitely would have been faster with somebody showing me. I probably would have been about 6 or 7.

Watching my 7 year old fumbling around with Scratch makes me think it's not as rare or amazing as it seems. He gets better all the time.
Good point. I was unaware of this tactic, but it makes sense.

Thanks!
The hard part is making sure this random list of things I found on the internet is sufficient to keep the site secure, and taking the blame if it turns out not to be.
"Also, be careful with that hammer, you might trip and fall and break the screen."

Not the same company anymore... not even close.
> That's why you can pick your favourite shell for your user account.

nobody cares about user accounts. use whatever you want on your laptop, nobody cares.

however if a script reaches a production server, it should either be sh, bash, or a real programming language (python/ruby/perl/whatever).

the ugly stuff i've seen is that some snowflake user drops their scripts written in ${shell_of_the_week} and leaves, the script breaks and now i have there's this thing that has to be not only fixed, but possibly rewritten from scratch.
Just before he endorsed slavery on Twitter. "A bad look" doesn't even begin to describe Urs these days.

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-exec-urs-holzle-buyin...
How do you get from:

> And they built his team their own building, off to the side on the campus …

in the article to:

> and built them a trailer or something in the parking lot

in your comment?
I think that ease of use and services that support it are bigger challenges than the price.
> In the USA, a “tank” refers to a “main battle tank”, or the M1 Abrams.

That’s not true, though the only tanks in the current inventory in the US are MBTs. The term “tank” in the USA does encompass light tanks, like the (retired) M551 Sheridan, (canceled just before operational) M8 Buford, and the (in development) as-yet-undesignated product of the Mobile Protected Firepower project, not just MBTs.
If you count that as part of phone-as-password cure, that makes the cure worse than the disease, in my opinion. Now I need to maintain and regularly test a recovery path. (Much like backups, if you don't test them, you literally don't even know they work. Other device needs good working order, perhaps subject to OS patching and data loss--pay attention, or your supposed backup plan might not work at all)
I think it's about writing for one's audience, and being inclusive.

I've got autistic friends who struggle with open questions. They strongly dislike opening greetings without quickly taking the conversation somewhere.

They often miss stuff that's implied in conversation. It has to be explicitly stated.

They suck at gauging tone and intent in written language. They worry about the feelings and opinions of others. It can be upsetting and stressful for them.

But they're smart, capable, fun, artistic and creative, kind, thoughtful and inclusive.

They are certainly not lacking in colour or playfulness. (Possibly lacking in spontaneity to a degree, but I don't think that's a deal-breaker.)

And it's great that you're comfortable enough with misunderstanding things for it to be preferable to an alternative.

I choose to change my language to suit them. If using /s and /nbh or whatever helps them to correctly parse what I write, and assists in me communicating, why would I choose not to do that?

When using spoken language, I denote sarcasm through tone of voice. Does that render it pointless? If not, why would using /s?
The motivation for hiding the history of deleted Wikipedia articles is to minimize legal complaints. E.g. if something is libelous or a copyright violation, they want to remove it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Viewing_deleted_cont...
This means that manager unions do not gain the traditional protections from the law that other unions do. But - if a manager union and employer come to some agreement despite this fact, it has legal weight and the union can sue if the employer breaks the contract (and vice versa).

Managers, at least at the higher level like being discussed here, arguably do not need as many protections in order to be able to collectively bargain: Apple is likely to be much more concerned (and thus much more willing to negotiate) about 20 "Director of X" employees leaving than 20 engineers.
Mergers like you mention have happened early on, and they worked.

Last I looked the decisions were not per-se arrived at by an in-group ("The Cabal"). Instead, a lot of it functions by applying smart-mob behavior. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_mob

Note that -at times (and/or at particularly small scales)- it can be really hard to distinguish a smart mob from a cabal, so I can see where the impression comes from.
I commented on another thread about this FIDO thing. I really don't get what benefit this has fir me.

I use keepassxc, so I'm not reusing passwords. I'm currently forced to use less secure SMS OTPs for some sites because they won't allow me to use TOTP in keepassxc.

Now I'm expected to tie everything to one device that could be easily lost, stolen, or damaged, and back up my secure key to some random cloud store just in case that happens?? Cloud storage in control of companies that at a whim could lock you out.

I don't think so.
CSS transitions are fairly restricted, but animation in CSS is substantially more capable than transitions if you’re using the animations API instead: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Animati...
From what I hear, policy in general is wildly inconsistent within Amazon. I have heard all sort of stories from people at Amazon ranging from "world's best boss" to "horrific and Dilbertesque".
I either don't sub to high frequency feeds, or have them not appear in the general uread feed, so I can go look at them when I want, but they don't swamp everything else.
>I don't deny any of that either. These matters are complex and I cannot reasonably argue them here without discussing other factors in detail such as changes in life expectancy over the past century, the more fatalistic approach to life pre-war (big families meant survival insurance, pre-penicillin times meant many more [expected] deaths in childhood, harder times financially, etc. etc. The whole social milieu was different.

My grandmas two sisters died before they even reached 16, but I don't know if it was before or after war. Some respiratory system infection. It what just happened to people. Especially if you were poor and lived in rural area.

>Let me say just this: when I was growing up in the 1950s and '60s what I said above wasn't quite 'dead' yet as my childhood was pretty much similar to that—and it was often damn hard times back then (moreover, from where I came from it was so for many of the kids my age, I was no exception). Several weeks ago I gave an account of my own childhood on the HN story Old Enough: the Japanese TV show that abandons toddlers on public transport and there's no doubt that by age six I was an independent agent— that is, walking miles to school across busy roads by myself at that age and so on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30951723#30953588. We had to be more resilient just to survive—and we were.

When I was in pre-school I had to go by myself to it, but it was a rural area. Forests, farmlands and so. But my friends from city, have similar experience(but with less forests and farmlands, but with more cars, streets and public transport). No one was taking kids to school by car, because parents had to go to work early while kids had to start school at 8am. We survived it. But I was, afraid of shadows kind of child. Sometimes on my way I had panic attacks, but I was alone and either I could go back home(not an option) or continue on my way to school. So I went to school every day.

>The fact is I'm old enough to have witnessed these changes firsthand. Leaving aside the reasons (which, no doubt, will be argued about for years to come), there is no doubt that mental health issues among the young have increased substantially in recent decades.

>Edit: Incidentally, during my teenage years I cannot ever recall any mention of childhood or teenage suicide. No doubt it happened, but even the concept thereof would have been anathema to us kids back then.

If you weren't part of family or right circle of friends you just didn't learn about stuff like that. There were negative consequences of other people knowing if someone committed suicide, was mentally ill, was gay. My grandfather committed suicide, but I only learned about it in my thirties and someone accidentally mentioned it. I was part of family and still didn't know about it. Back then Catholic church had problems with burying suicide victims on consecrated cemetery.

What I'm also afraid of, is possibility that with all the chemicals that finds its way into drinking water, we might poison ourselfs and our children literally out of our minds. I should learn more it, but I'm afraid it might be too late to do anything about it.
I think someone already got that domain...
There's SafeSearch for that, which can be enforced at the DNS level.
I don't think that's as unprecedented as you think it is.
More people means more of that carbon locked up in biomass, in the form of humans as well as animal and plant food.
Daniel Ek pumps $50M into Spotify
A taco is mutually exclusive from a sandwich, because it’s made from folded piece of bread, rather than sliced / partially sliced which is what defines a sandwich.

Hot dogs and subs are sandwiches for this reason, as are burgers.

Also, “taco” is a term for a specific kind of folded bread dish - even quesadillas aren’t considered tacos.

A pie is not a sandwich, taco, or quesadilla. It’s a pie.
the morning commute
There’s an “old fart” tool that shows you how many people were hired before/after you.
A shell is a program dedicated to allowing an operator to launch other programs. It can be as simple as a menu or as complex as a COM-interfaceable GUI with graphical desktop metaphor. It's often configured to but not strictly required to automatically launch on user login.

Any user-space executable can issue system calls, the shell isn't special there.
Winamp skins.
Ironically, "group synergy" was given as the reason for cramming people into the open plan offices that everybody was glad to get away from.
Super Tough Resin Is as Tough as Nails
So that you don't have to ship an entire web browser for your application.
I did voice training tasks for Google through a 3rd party I can't remember the name of. I was recruited via /r/beermoney or something. I enjoyed it, and it was easy work that fit around my schedule. It also gave a feeling of improving the lives of users, which was cool.
It's like Tinder but for open source
Help me validate my SaaS idea!

https://lookingforpullrequests.carrd.co/
It's because he is so high profile and a visionary in his field at Apple. Or was. He is merely an early big fish swimming away so expect more as draconian old-school companies try to drag employees back to their cubes.
It’s a Federal law and written on every bill, “this note is legal tender for all debts, public and private.”
Simple: keeping deleted stuff actually deleted / invisibled keeps Wikipedia from a bunch of lawsuits - in particular, DMCA and libel/defamation laws.
I had two phones fail in quick succession and I nearly lost all my MFA. This is not the way to move forward.
By spreading bird feed.

Many species of both animals & plants use the "spray and pray" mechanism of reproduction. Create enough gametes and by sheer numbers, some of them will eventually turn into adults.

That doesn't mean this approach will be successful for artificial reforestation. The numbers are fairly different for ensuring that the total number of seeds cast off by a maple or pine tree over its lifetime results in one successor tree, vs. trying to recreate a clear-cut forest from seed stocks delivered by drone.
Gas stoves emit greenhouse gases, even when not in use
> One thing ignored is the ingredients inside - a “taco” with one huge piece of chicken or steak would seem more like some other type of food.

A taco with one huge piece of fish inside is typically called a “fish taco”. One with a whole frankfurter inside is, apparently, a “taco de salchicha”.

So I’m not sure that your theory holds up.
Why is reading a scathing review such a satisfying experience? The reviewer’s esteem for Pym animates this entire piece, but having encountered precisely zero Pym novels to date, I can’t say with any certainty who’s actually in the right here - the reviewer, or the author of the book under review - but the reviewer’s facility with language and erudition are so, so convincing. If nothing else I plan to read a Pym novel soon. Does anyone know a good starting point?
DF is getting a UI overhaul for a Steam release. I will be trying the game again after it reaches Steam. Worth keeping an eye on.
Poor animation design has exactly the problem you describe. Animation in general is a very useful affordance, though: it allows you to convey the relationships between the various nodes and modes in your UI. That ranges from being able to do more than hard toggles on colors of buttons for different modes to actually being able to do push/pop on “stacks” within the UI, which is a concept mobile UIs in particular make heavy use of. Overuse of animation can be an accessibility problem, but having no animations or transitions can actually also be an accessibility problem because it can make it hard for people to build a mental model of what happened when navigation occurred.
I know, but the vast majority of gifs render at least workably in the vast majority of renderers. There are edge cases that fail but I think they're still worth it.
He’s absolutely not a visionary.
some people have a life outside of the office and found that the commute takes a very large toll on that. they didn't know previously, but now have two years of experience that they'll never forget.
I didn't take it to mean that, exactly. GANs are a very impressive trick. But their social cachet is not, as far as I'm aware, in proportion to people's success at using them for practical applications that generate revenue. So the implication might be, "Don't expect a brain drain in Apple's GAN department to have a significant impact on their business fortunes."
NPM for compiled frontend JavaScript. The resulting code only gets run in your users browsers, but the post install script could be run on your Jenkins/whatever box.

In general, anyone who gathers dependencies ahead of time before deployment, so they can just copy them over. So most people deploying to multiple machines/containers would be at a greater risk from a post install script
I don't think the Git issue framed it well. Pinning this on a single meeting or interaction makes it easy to trivialize

As someone who uses Ansible a lot, I giggled. Once.

Afterwards I figured out how to disable it because the novelty was gone. The output this creates is a slog.

Now I 'have' to remember to create Ansible.cfg files across countless projects because someone thinks this is that funny.

That's the most portable approach; it's the best way for contributors. Otherwise I'd set the environment variable on all of my shells and call it done.

I forget so often that I've been trained to cancel a playbook as soon as I see a cow from fact gathering.

It's more of an annoyance than a real problem.

Anyone with cowsay installed on their controller (this isn't always a workstation or human) is initiated in the 'know how to disable this' crew, and gets to regularly attend meetings

I feel the feature would work better randomly appearing. Maybe make it visually useful, automatic on the slowest-known run.

It retains the novelty because it isn't a constant.
You're a rare parent who doesn't think their first kid is some kind of future genius.
The Seven Different Types of Jerks at Work
Or ... "you better join a union quick"
> But yes, you're onto something with the neighbour hypothesis too -- egalitarian and hierarchical (or beaurocratic and violent) societies often come in pairs, right next to each other.

This is going to sound sarcastic or something, but I'm actually curious -- do they? I would tend to assume that they appear to come in pairs, but this is largely because we happened to find history books written by the self-professed egalitarian society, and not their rivals, to whom they allocate every vice.
The companies realised that "security" is a great way to persaude, so they market that way while spreading paranoia and FUD about everything else. They've already been fighting right-to-repair with the same talking points. In reality it's just a power-grab from Big Tech and the security they're really desiring is security against the user (and ostensibly attackers, which includes users in their thinking, since they don't want to let users do things they don't approve of...)
Ok, your comment just convinced me to give my DE another go. For the last few months I've been using cheap plastic 2-blade disposables because they're cheap enough, and easier to use than the nice razor I've been ignoring. Just ordered some oil and balm from that site.

ALSO: That order page is a breath of fresh air. As soon as I added one item to my "cart", I was presented with their full list of SKUs, enough info to know which is which, and a quantity box next to each. So simple. I wish more ecommerce sites did stuff like this.
Glorious, glorious loneliness...good one. Even introverts know that being alone sucks. Medical studies show a correlation between poorer health and loneliness.