skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> maybe that work itself is inherently unhealthy (which I kind of
believe, but at least until we have automation meeting our physical
needs 'work' seems healthier for society).

You remember the Tom Sawyer story, where he gets the others to paint
the fence for him? Work is very much "in the mind". You can have the
work of Sisyphus and get to love the rock. In the best cases work is
the making of some people. It can liberate you from boredom and self
indulgence. An artist or poet talks about their "work" in an entirely
different spirit. We must not equate indentured servitude, wage
slavery, and pointless anxiety driven makework for "real work".

> without foregoing the actual productivity

Please don't fall for that 18th century factory-owner terminology.
Producing what? Productivity is a slippery word. Unless you're a
farmer most of us can't point to anything tangible we produce. The
best we can hope for is to help fellow human beings in whatever small
way we can each day. Increasingly that is done by subverting the
system. Worthwhile work occurs despite, not through the systems we
inhabit.
Thanks, that's helpful. And I am definitely not a lawyer, but I thought to be considered a "fugitive" in that context that you have to have been previously served.

I'm not doubting that this actually happened, but again, why isn't the lawyer suing the NM jurisdiction, too?
Even the most interesting technical things Yelp is doing probably involve reinventing something hundreds of other companies have already reinvented, because the existing things don’t work with their infrastructure or they’re written in the wrong language or they’re just kinda bad and maybe doing it from scratch will be better.

After 20-some-odd years in the industry... oof.

Sometimes it feels like groundhog day. You might have thought about web application authorization. You may have implemented it a few times and figured out how it ought to be done. And you might think that after twenty years it would be a solved problem.

But you would be wrong.

You're going to encounter yet another web application with a bespoke authorization system. It's going to take a shotgun approach to validation and nobody will be able to tell you if it works the way it's supposed to or not. The tests pass (if there are any). It might have errors in it but we haven't had any reports yet. We hired a pentester last year and they didn't find anything. It's probably fine.

So you add a new feature and you need to extend this authorization system to handle it and you spend most of your time trying to make sure things continue working instead of focusing on what matters. The same thing over and over again. The same libraries, the same mistakes, the same solutions.
Good advice, also done this myself.
It’s easy to overlook one aspect: because of the skill and work history of the retired techie, they have the option to re-enter the industry and earn higher income if needed. That is a big security blanket.
If this is what you believe (and not just rhetoric you're employing to sway people that you know to be untrue) then maybe it's time to take a step back and widen your world view and broaden your sources of information.

It's of course always problematic to oversimplify the thousands of different issues and perspectives into simple "left vs right" or "conservative vs liberal" buckets, but overall, it's completely accurate to say that America has moved massively to the left, or alternatively, that liberals have been winning for decades.

The right-wing ideals of individual liberty & responsibility, of meritocracy and free choice have been completely obliterated from academia, media and public opinion. The entire narrative is owned and controlled by a left-wing view of race-based collective groups (which would have be class-based in Europe, but American left focuses more on race than class), along with an assumption that luck or privilege is the sole or at least primary driver of inequality.

On essentially every issue the left has not just won, but moved the goal posts of debate. You may just not notice it because you either agree with the moves or because which issues get focus aren't the ones you care about. The American left is doing little to solve climate change, pollution, affordability of middle class lifestyle, etc, but that's because they don't "really" care about those issues. They're winning on LGBTQ+, winning on race-based initiatives, winning on government-controlled access to healthcare, winning on federal power expanding and state power receding, winning on narrowing free speech, winning on reducing religious freedoms and winning on government-controlled land use, government-controlled economy, etc.

I was a left-wing radical in college. Without really changing my stances since then, I'm now a left-wing radical on only environmental issues but basically a centrist on others and occasionally on issues of free speech or free association it's only the right defending those freedoms.
Today’s focus on equity indeed fits many, many definitions of far left: radical abolition of class. But if you restrict far left to abolishing private property, then sure.
Mine was just a lighthearted reflection on the issue, but in general I'm supportive of the copyleft ethos. And yes, in this case it would make a lot of sense.

Actually my first reaction was to think, "Why are Microsoft themselves not doing this job?"
Private Access Tokens: Eliminating CAPTCHAs on iPhones and Macs
> killing off the competing product.

There's nothing competing about Atom. Its fate was sealed when VSCode started gaining traction, and that happened before GitHub acquisition.
Could this be used for DNS?
"Might be less common now"

It is less necessary now. One of the most important parts of the HTML5 standards, IMHO, is that it specifies how to parse HTML that doesn't conform to the standards in a standard way. In principle, every bag of bytes now has a standard-compliant way to parse it that every HTML5 parser should agree on. I don't use this to know how many edge cases the standard and/or implementations have, but it's a lot better than it used to be, and means that every HTML5 parser has many of the capabilities that Beautiful Soup used to (nearly-)uniquely have for parsing messy HTML.

I suspect Beautiful Soup was a non-trivial aspect of how the decision to implement such a spec was decided upon. It proved the idea to be a very valuable one at a time when most languages lacked such a library. Basically, BS won so hard that while it wasn't necessarily directly adopted as a standard, the essence of it certainly was.
Keep in mind that this is for the open source version of WebKit. Safari builds are different, and for iPadOS and iOS many items/APIs are disabled or handled differently. In my experience trying to debug issues that occur on Apple devices using WebKit builds is just about useless except for the simplest of problems. Even trying to debug iOS Safari issues with MacOS Safari is problematic, you usually end up having to do the debugging with an actual device tethered (same goes for the xcode simulator, especially when the issues are related to media).
/r/TIHI (Thanks, I hate it)
>Abortion is about to become illegal in almost half the country

A Supreme Court decision reversing one that was dubiously made in the first place. It'll be interesting to see how many of those states will roll back abortion from being illegal to something more reasonable.

>Police departments overwhelmingly haven't been defunded

An incredibly far left idea

>Congress didn't pass an infrastructure bill

It's pretty far left to say we need to spend trillions on new projects at a time with high inflation and a shortage of workers

>The federal minimum wage is still $7.25

Which we found out is largely inconsequential in a time when McDonalds is advertising $17 an hour.

>There's still been no repercussions for 1/6

Some people are going to prison for the riot. What other repercussions should there be?

>Trans kids can't get proper healthcare in 2 republican States (and growing)

Alternatively, two states are protecting children before they have the capacity to make completely life altering decisions.

>There's no universal healthcare or student debt forgiveness

Student debt forgiveness is an incredibly far left idea

>And there's still no meaningful gun reform

Most of things you listed, like this one, are things that the left wants shifted to the left. The whole point is that the left has shifted left, and pointing out that things that they want haven't been accomplished doesn't dispute that. It just means the right has been fighting to maintain the status quo - and certainly doesn't show that they've shifted right.
To be honest - the only way I've seen intersectionality used - was as a way to divide not unite, essentially as a weapon.

Broadly with intersectionality in practice that I've seen is its used to divide people into ever smaller groups, sliced up by their differences - it can make it incredibly hard to get people grouped into rational communities of interests, who can work together to fix problems.

As a concept, it shouldn't divide it should instead allow people to acknowledge that everyone is not at the relative same privilege level, and that we need to be aware of hidden disadvantages, but humans being like we are, it never seems to work out that way outside of academic discourse.

This is a broader problem with concepts for academic discourse making it into the broader world, without the intense educational background, they turn into a form of either buzzword or checkbox compliance.
I suppose it's better to say "roots," plural. Nobody knows what lies at the roots of crime for _certain_, but there has been a lot of research into the topic. Several things seem to be strongly correlated with increased risk for criminal behavior, but we can't draw direct causality relationships quite yet. The Wikipedia article on it is informative, and viewpoint-neutral: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_correlations_of_cr...

One of the more interesting possible roots of criminal behavior is lead exposure as a child. It's not entirely clear, of course (socioeconomic status is a confounding factor that is hard to eliminate), but there seems to at least be some strong correlation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead–crime_hypothesis

My point isn't that we should be redirecting more resources to lead removal than to recalling a prosecutor (even though I _do_ think lead removal is a wise use of resources). My point is that deterrence and punishment is "cleaning up after the fact," rather than trying to address problems at their source.

The question "what should society do with criminals" implies a belief that criminality _must_ exist in a society. Perhaps to some degree, it is true. But it seems as though redirecting our efforts to prevent criminality in the first place by addressing the underlying root causes would ultimately be a far better use of our resources, and far more effective.
I am making an Open Source CMS optimized for the cloud, in .NET. I got the domain cloudy.net. Needless to say I'm pretty stoked!
If you look at the lower portion of the full poster, church connections are discussed in a number of them. Look for "kirch" or "kirchl."

From what I can tell from various sources I've read over the years, the evangelical churches were particularly involved in the underground movements in the DDR.
What is the lifetime median salary for an American?

Hard to pin down a figure but say $2million.

So taxpayers will pay over 5x the normal lifetime income to the victims.

I think there may be an issue with this because I think there is a lot of evil bad stuff that happens and if the government pays for all of it (the trend is to right all injustice), aren’t we risking economic collapse with these massive settlements? If this pays out, there will be more…
I work in finance and this thing is still indispensable for us. A LOT of financial info is only presented on a dynamically rendered HTML page that was last written in the bad old days.
Interesting! But, it'd be helpful to clarify further the strength of the following claim:

> This demo allows private access to 6 GB (~30%) of English Wikipedia. In theory, even if the server is malicious, it will be unable to learn which articles you request. All article title searches are performed locally, and no images are available.

In this demo, the number of article-titles is relatively small – a few million – & enumerable.

If the server is truly malicious, and it issues itself requests for every known title, does it remain true that this "Private Information Retrieval" (PIR) scheme still gives it no hints that subsequent requests from others for individual articles retrieve particular data?

(Presumably: every request touches every byte of the same full 6GB of data, and involves every such byte in constant-run-time calculations that vary per request, and thus have the effect of returning only what each request wanted – but not at all in any way correlatable with other requests for the exact same article, from the same or different clients?)
from the article "This is a tough goodbye. It’s worth reflecting that Atom has served as the foundation for the Electron framework, which paved the way for the creation of thousands of apps, including Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Slack, and our very own GitHub Desktop."
> Might be less common now

That's because it's often deeply buried under more fashionable abstractions.
Funny, I have the opposite experience with Siri on HomePods, especially compared to our Nest Hub which is shockingly bad.
Guerilla Marketing in 2022 for my project
I'm looking for ideas to promote my new project, "The 2hO Network" (https://2ho.ca). 2hO means "To Home Office" - where most of us are working these days.

It's a Peer to Peer VPN which wraps a zero-config admin framework around WireGuard. It coordinates NAT hole punching etc.

I know there are others out there. But it's a big world and I know it will find a niche. I am hoping for a small business and work from home audience.

My question is not really about the product itself. But more about how to get the initial exposure it will need before any serious media outlets will be comfortable covering it.

As the service is mostly free, I am hoping not to put a lot of money behind marketing. At least not until it has established some kind of foothold.

I know PR is the secret to success in this type of venture. But are there any tricks to getting it out there initially. Essentially, the problem is going from zero to one.

Any and all advice is welcome.

Thanks
This is the number they are starting at. There is little incentive to start with a lower number. Lawsuits specifically about this crime have already had $1m+ payouts per victim. $11m isn't outlandish given that context.
I don't agree. Growth is not the only thing valued. Value companies are a big part of the US Markets for example. Dividend stocks are a thing.

But growth isn't about one company ever increasing. It's about new companies innovating and taking over old ones. As long as there is innovation, there will be growth.

Change should be embraced. I personally see no reason to advocate for stagnation of human progress with the same handful of companies serving humans for all time.
To be fair, that's largely the democratic plan too. See NYC/LA/etc. D's and R's alike hate the homeless.
There is a difference between no consequences and realizing that the problems are not solved with draconian consequences

The problems need solutions which are not fully but to a non-small degree independent of classical "crime fighting" decisions.
On the off chance you were not aware, bs4 also supports[0] getting parse events from html5lib[1] which (as its name implies) is far more likely to parse the text the same way the browser would

0: https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/index....

1: https://pypi.org/project/html5lib/
In case anyone is curious, California is one of the (majority of) states with three strike laws: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114301...

(But within the state, San Francisco County is indeed perhaps the laxest with regards to sentencing.)
Lol. I wasn't born yesterday. I know a drawing-out maneuver when I see it.
LSP, better performance, better defaults, better plugins ecosystem, better (subjectively) UI.
I'm doing the weird thing you're describing right now!

I have a miserable high paying tech job that I would absolutely not do if I wasn't being paid so well.

Maybe I'm delusional, but I believe this is my best strategy for buying my freedom.

The way I see it, it takes about $3M to bond yourself away from a lifetime of servitude. That much capital would allow me to pay myself a middle class income without any time commitment.

The best answer would have been to have rich parents with a large trust fund so I could go pursue my interests without worry. I don't have rich parents, but that doesn't change my requirements.

So instead, I'm going about acquiring the funds I need by whatever legal means I can, which in practice means job hopping at tech companies, looking for equity payouts, and buy/borrow/die with companies and funds that I anticipate to be around for 50+ years.

Of course, I don't get to have kids with this strategy, but ethically I wouldn't want to birth a child into a life of bondage under capitalism anyway. It happened to me and I'm not particularly keen on how it's going. At $10M+ I may reconsider, but I don't expect to get there in my lifetime.
Note: don't let "anarchism" put you off because Bookchin's argument applies to other social movements such as environmentalism, religion, movements to improve the food supply, etc.

(I think of Kushi's book "Macrobiotic Diet" as a good example of how one can see the universe in grain of sand. Half of the book is a meditation on how eating a diet appropriate to your bioregion (personal change) can change everything, even prevent nuclear war. The other half is about how Japanese people can and should eat like the people in Gintama. A person in Upstate NY who follows the same logic should eat beans, squash and corn, not seaweed.)
It's not unusual for large investigations to take a year or more. It's arguable about whether that makes sense in many cases, especially when damage continues to happen.
No, 737MAX is not a fly-by-wire aircraft. The controls are physically connected to control surfaces via actual physical cables.

But, the computer can yank on those cables, and it can also run the elevator trim up and down, and does. So, no, I am not just talking about "the MCAS". There is no such thing. That is a software feature that is part of the autopilot system, not any sort of hardware. They could have pulled the circuit breaker on the whole flight computer, and flown without it.
The pattern of splitting within the revolutionary left is notable, and perhaps similar to similar patterns within protestant christianity. And perhaps just as various protestant consciousness patterns became universalized, so too are the ways of thought of the old revolutionary left.

And perhaps in the vision of society splitting and splitting, there are more revolutionary possibilities than widely understood...(https://deepsocks.substack.com/p/galtzerdiakbolo?s=w)
I come from an era where the more fully featured your IDE, the less likely you were to truly understand what was going on under the hood.

I strongly recommend everyone spend their first ~5 years coding in vim or some other basic text editor (preferably through the terminal), before leaning on an IDE to solve their problems for them.

That said, VSCode is now my go-to IDE, and I haven't opened WebStorm in probably ~6 months. It's lighter weight than the IDEA suite of IDEs, and gives me ~80% of the functionality, so it's been a pretty good tradeoff.
VSCode ate everyone's lunch. It is SO GOOD
"Diablo Immortal: The search for more money"
How pervasive would police have to be for them to catch a person “fleeing” from a house in the middle of the night in a city of even 200K people?

The most police ever do is take a statement so you can file an insurance claim. Which isn’t bad. It is just stuff. But if I’m in the house, that’s a different story.

I’m much more concerned about police targeting me because I as Black person am “suspiciously” walking to the pool in my own neighborhood where the city is less than 4% Black.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/28/ving-rhames-...

I’ve never once thought “I have an issue. Let me calm the police and have to deal with the ‘justice’ system”. Now I just have more problems
Repetitive Stress (2021)
Progress toward fusion energy breakeven measured against Lawson criterion
Muscle memory is a powerful motivator for sure. I was configuring vscode locally on my box so I could then send instructions to this other developer and my hotkeys not working was enraging. I use GitHub Copilot on IDEA and have quite enjoyed it as well.

It's funny how we have such opposite feelings on config (you enjoying the json config and me preferring UI). I have nothing against vscode and I'm glad it exists, likewise I've very glad IDEA/Intellij exists for my own uses. Thanks for the feedback.
Ah yes, the myth of the swing voter.
> why is Germany supporting the construction of a woefully and inadequate technology when they have a much better alterative: Nuclear power?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-nuclear_movement_in_Germa...

The Green Party is a result of the Anti-nuclear movement in Germany. They need to do a 180 first, before nuclear in Germany can happen again. That probably happens in the next three months...
That’s really just not true overall. Bernie Sanders policies would be considered far left by even European standards, and he almost won the nomination. The abortion and social justice positions are also far left compared to Europe
I may be able to help with recreating the app logic faster than usual, so that you keep the growth/marketing momentum. How can we contact?
I've heard https://github.com/gocolly/colly#readme mentioned fondly, but I've never used it
Founder of Atom here. We're building the spiritual successor to Atom over at https://zed.dev.

We learned a lot with Atom and had a great time, but it always fell short of our vision. With Zed we're going to get it right. Written in Rust, custom native UI framework, engineered to be collaborative. Just starting our private alpha this week, so the timing of this announcement feels quite fitting.

Here's a talk I gave last month: https://youtu.be/wXT73bBr83s