skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hardware innovation relies on competition. Interoperability can be useful for iteration but true hardware innovation would seem to require being different from the status quo, no?
There is no way most of it is accessible.
This must be a common issue because now that you say it I realized that I have a habit of always Ctrl-C'ing multiple times. Could also be the keyboard, most of mine had a glass of Coke at some point in time.
"As early as 1973, the FBI was running a program aimed at securing information about reading habits of many library users; this program was ultimately called the "Library Awareness Program.... The FBI claimed that one of the major reasons this program was initiated was because hostile intelligence agents had been able to find some information that could be dangerous to the security of the United States. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Awareness_Program
I figured out it. It's due to the Auto-Fit Column Width setting. By default, it's enabled. Most files don't have a ton of columns so it's fine, but for 1920 columns, it can really slow things down. When I loaded the file with the setting enabled, it took about 40 seconds. When I tried again with the setting disabled, it took about 1 second.

For now, I may put a band-aid on it with a popup asking if you want to disable the feature when there are a lot of columns. I have some ideas on how to make it more efficient. I'll see what I can do before the full release.
They check the feed every x min, if a new item appears they use the current time (or the channel pupDate) as the item pubDate. There might be more accurate ways but this is good enough.

How is your thing suppose to work? Are you going to load all the feeds for every visitor? Even if it is just for personal use, how many feeds are we talking about? If you pull 20 per second and have only 200 the 10 seconds delay is going to be more annoying than it needs to be. You should probably consider storing the feeds on disk or in a db.
I think it would be better to spend it on broad social programs. Around 90% of Colombians have some form of Amerindian ancestry. Less than 5% are fully Amerindians.
Creator in what sense though?

Evolution is slow enough that there was never one point at which we suddenly came into being. First we were energy, then we were energy forming into chemicals, then we were chemicals forming into chemicals with rigid structures, then we were chemicals with rigid structures forming more complex structures, etc, until we got to here. Each iteration creates the next iteration, constantly, always. We are always giving birth to ourselves with a teeny tiny change. There is no distinction between a human being and a gas cloud except a couple billion years of iteration.

Since we are always creating ourselves, and whatever created the universe also created us, then we probably created the universe, and are the universe, and are creating it still. We are the creator and the created. It's mobius bagels all the way down.
Is it in Columbia's waters? Then its Columbia's.
>> dischargeable in bankruptcy.

This would quickly fix college cost bloat.
Non-discharge of college debt was put into place in 1998.
https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-budget/28362...

I believe Clinton signed it into law as a perk to the banksters. Imagine having a loan book which can be repaid by seizing a parent co-signer's social security.
Why are you so incredulous about this topic? The OP linked two sources showing that it did clearly happen:

https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/2020/11/05/did-a-dead-11...

https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-54874120
Bad faith?

Seemed like a tongue-in-cheek quip to demonstrate that there are a lot more folks in the world who are trying to come to the U.S. than the opposite, which as far as I know is pretty true.
Is this about the GUI? It's a thin wrapper over the command line program. Use the keyboard shortcuts.

I don't see a contender on the horizon.
Microsoft says it will no longer include noncompete clauses
I’d you like this...

Let me introduce you to Kurt Saxon

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tsxGX5F5SXg

https://archive.org/details/The_Poor_Mans_James_Bond_Vol_1_K...

https://archive.org/details/Granddads_Wonderful_Book_of_Chem...
We Live in a Sad World – Purism Anti-Interdiction Services (2020)
Sounds like a thunderbolt cable. USB C is the connector but it can support a slew of different protocols. It's one of the reasons USB C is a mess.
A piece I wrote on this a couple years back: https://thenewstack.io/49-years-ago-douglas-engelbart-predic...
I guess it isn't, because it's just a transitory state until you "eres (ser) viudo"? :-p
So the "pullback" seems similar to the one that was seen in pre-pandemic 2019.

That about correlates to my impression that this is not the recession.
I doubt 1% of typescript users have/ship output that looks like the code they wrote minus types.

85% of the typescript libraries I have run into output either old CommonJS or es2015. There's other changes too often.
Don’t forget observability and tooling!
Consider the possibility that the team hasn't yet figured out what the correct pricing model should be. Being able to talk to teams and understand how they use it and what they value in the product will help them shape a pricing model that works.
“I bet I could get across this if I had those hover boots” as a voice line from the character can be somewhat less annoying. If it’s implemented well. I think it was the new Horizon Zero Dawn game that I’ve heard constantly does that to an annoying amount? Haven’t played that one.
> Almost 1% of US citizens are in prison.

Gun rights have been systematically (illegally) denied the demographics that comprise the majority of those so imprisoned, which furthers the argument that large cross-sections of the population being armed reduces violence.

> Your police forces routinely brutalise and oppress large parts of your population even though (or perhaps because) you are all armed to the teeth.

Those are the groups frequently denied weapons. The police generally actively avoid armed confrontation with those they know to be armed (such as we recently saw in Texas). This is one of the reasons it's so easy for them to shoot and kill (mostly unarmed) minorities.
I dropped out of college after my scholarship ran out instead of taking out loans because I knew I had terrible debt habits (credit cards at the time proved it) and didn't want to have any debt. I eventually did three more semesters at a half-load while paying each one while working full time (I couldn't afford more than that, and I was living with my parents to keep costs down).

I dropped out again, then eventually decided to go back full time on student loans several years later. Tuition was meanwhile shooting up like crazy the entire time and more than doubled when I went back.

I ended up taking out more than twice as much in student loans than I would have if I had just done it in the first place right after my scholarship ran out eight years prior.

I would agree I was a chump for trying to stay debt free to get my degree, although I'm also glad I didn't go nuts with my loans like some people did, even the amount I had was a quarter as much as some people I know that also chose less lucrative majors (but more expensive schools, or out of state).

That being said, I have since paid off my student loans, but would still approve some fairly generous student loan forgiveness. I don't have a "well I struggled so you should to" attitude.

These people were convinced by their parents, teachers, counselors, family, etc that they could do whatever they want, take whatever loans out, and not have to worry about it, and ended up making a poor decision with lifelong consequences based on bad information.

Some of these people have been paying their student loans for 5-10 years and their loans have only gotten bigger because of how large they are and how much interest accrues. I know a couple people that have just given up on paying their loans off ever, and are only going to pay the minimum required the rest of their lives.

Those loans are going to effectively be "forgiven" whenever they end up dying, at a much higher amount than what forgiveness now would amount to.

Yes, the root of the problem should be addressed, but attacking only the root doesn't help the people who have been screwed over by the system.
you mean to tell me... the government has always wanted to know what I read? Call me shocked!
Various MicroPython implementations, specifically the STM32 port (which runs the PyBoard), expose their filesystem as a USB mass storage device that you can copy files into directly. So I wouldn't say that it's exclusive to CircuitPython by any stretch.
> I remember feeling that Ted was talking about himself, as he chronically does.

I'm quite confident he was talking about both Doug and himself. Ted definitely saw Doug as a kindred spirit with a great vision for how the world could be different who was ignored.
1. That works fine, for a small group. But I live in a city of a million people, and I don't know most of them. If one of them acquires too much control over the food supply, say, what are we going to do? Not invite them to parties? Their parties will have food at them.

2. Again, what you say is true in the small. But my city shows no such preference, and we're all trying to live together here. So, no, I don't mean "one global society", but I mean something much larger than my ultimate frisbee group.

> Since people hate hierarchy it will not surprise you when I point out that this particular society only exists due to extreme violence and disinformation.

Don't put words in my mouth (or reactions in my emotions), especially ones I don't agree with. This society exists due to much less violence and much less disinformation than the historical norm; I don't think it's fair to characterize it as "only existing due to violence and disinformation". That may be your characterization; it certainly isn't mine. Nor do I think that "people hate hierarchy" is a fair characterization.

In fact, I think you're mistaking your preferences for a universal. And I think you're taking what your ideology says about society as the truth, without honestly evaluating society.
Not sure if you're messing with me, but Beaver Cleaver is the name of a famous sitcom character. Awesome show IMO, you can watch the entire series for free on archive.org

https://archive.org/details/leave.it.to.beaver.complete.seri...
Same guy was also caught in the Abscam FBI sting (the one depicted in the "American Hustle" film).
Thanks, I did wonder as I was typing my comment if it's par for the course. Do you know of recent examples where historical empires/colonizers (basically France, UK, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands or Belgium, do I forget someone?) claimed shipwrecks of locally plundered loot? Granted, it wouldn't make me agree with the position morally even if it's not unusual.

Some Spaniard art or other cultural heritage on board sounds reasonable, but the obviously plundered bounty irks me.
If you've already read the story, this illustrated version is a good adaptation: https://imgur.com/gallery/9KWrH

(Read the original first though.)
The NFT Slump Is Real
>Montessori education

Why do people always mention this like it isn't a niche educational experience that already self-selects for the children of well-off, white parents? Montessori is almost as relevant to the public education discourse as Catholic schools imo.
Sorry about that! It's a player made by Omny, my podcast host. But I'm unhappy with them for other reasons too, so I'll be switching away soon — self-hosting, and using the native media player. So your volume slider wishes will be fulfilled. Thank you for the request.
thanks very much for that

the uploaders' blog entry linked in the description also has more details:
http://cyberneticzoo.com/not-quite-robots/1911-20-chess-play...
I absolutely noticed the gamer attrition between first and second year compsci at uni.
From the second link:

> North Carolina State Board of Elections data shows more than 2,600 voters cast provisional ballots during early voting this year. Around 19% of ballots cast were due to voters--like Prince--who were told they already voted.
Yes, I'm a subject matter person who can code rather than a coder selling into a rewarding market. Someone with better business skills than I might find it more financially rewarding.
> you mean to tell me... the government has always wanted to know what I read? Call me shocked!

Not really:

> The FBI was particularly interested in learning this type of information about foreign diplomats or their agents.

> ...The area of greatest concern was the information at academic libraries that could be accessed through sophisticated databanks used for research. This point was illuminated by the report that a Soviet employee of the United Nations had been able to recruit a college student from Queens to obtain information at the library that was described as sensitive.
>You can't just make people up! Every vote is tied to a specific registration. We do same-day registration, but those votes are cast provisionally, with a paper log; there aren't many of them, and they can all be set aside and audited after-the-fact.

> You certainly can't just make up a final tally. The numbers from the individual voting machines and the paper ballots have to match up; we had to stay an extra 2 hours after the polls closed last time I did this (in 2020) because of an equipment screwup that kept us from doing the final certified count/reconciliation.

Honest question: what if the final count _didn't_ match, or people _were_ made up? If all of the judges were corrupt, and they gave a false count, whose job would it be to step in and fix it? The police? The current (potentially lame duck) government? Ideally the regulations would be enough of a disincentive that no one would risk it, but if the set of people who finalize the counts blatantly lie, who has the authority to overturn them? And what's stopping that authority itself from being bribed to overturn legitimate results?
Anti-Crypto Media Personality
Nice! I made a hexwords mode on https://www.lazycolor.com/
I haven't really touched the site in a decade... maybe I'll update it next decade.
What do you think is the actual future of the managerial society?
Do you think it forms a separate and distinct political economy from liberal capitalism?
I love LTSpice. Its UI has quirks, but it's really been a joy to use.

One gripe I have with the team that built it: it's typically a tool that would immensely benefit from being Open-Sourced.

It would also benefit the company that owns it.

But, it's yet another case the traditional HW guys mentality, a world where everything is IP, everything is secret by default, even when it doesn't earn you a dime.
Breast Cancer Drug Trial Results in ‘Unheard-Of’ Survival
There isn't one election judge. There's a team of 4-5 of them.
Kubrick is one of those men who looked at Lolita and saw a romance, when it is plainly and clearly a story of appalling abuse and rape. Watching a movie adaptation will not tell you anything at all about the book, because the movies are made by men who did not understand the book in any way.
This 3-day old comment, quoting a description of his time at Tymnet, fits all too much what I'd expect of a starlings middle/late career, of talent being unsupported.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31633395
> It's alarmism that is giving kids no hope for the future, and then we wonder why they're so depressed.

Got this one backwards. Climate denial is the dominant force today. People are losing hope because of the dominance of denial and inaction. Depression follows naturally from such a scenario.
What is the sinister material that they’re trying to teach or jam down children’s throats? The fact that they’re preparing material for a specific age range does not seem sinister in itself
The "quiet part" is the US' long history of using ID requirements and other tactics to suppress and disenfranchise black and other minority voting[0,1], especially in the South, for example in North Carolina[1] and Texas[2], going all the way back to poll taxes[3].

If considered in a vacuum, completely absent the context of historical precedent, voter IDs seem like a simple common sense solution to the (practically nonexistent) problem of voter fraud. Unfortunately, we are talking about the US, and it's simply not possible to assume good faith.

[0]https://time.com/5855885/voter-registration-history-race/

[1]https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/new-...

[2]https://www.npr.org/2021/09/17/1038354159/n-c-judges-strike-...

[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_taxes_in_the_United_State...

[4]https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/22/politics/ted-cruz-texas-voter...
Dead links, and how to handle them
An elite education: Discovery of an ancient Athenian ephebic list
Has anyone optimized for the feelings of web developers?
What if all the citizens are bribed to vote for someone else?

Really, all these systems rely on humans so they have inherent weaknesses.
But the object is the story. All the stories are about creating and playing those objects. It's hardly irrational to want to own one if you're excited about the subject matter.
Part of what is "cool" about managerial society is how it captures other forms of economy, so that the economies of firms, states, universities and so many other institutions all become subject to rationalization.
Because this is not a power granted to the federal government, it is reserved for the states.

IANAL, but I believe that something like this would require a constitutional amendment, unless it could be squeezed in under the umbrella of the ICC like most other federal overreach laws.
The crux seems to be who belongs in this "genius" club or should we eliminate the "genius" club altogether because it creates animosity.

A very similar debate can be in sports. Should we have a single league or a tiered league?

I've seen siblings with very different performance and outcome from the young age. Obviously they are both genetically close and were raised by the same parents.

There are certainly differences in people but the reason might not always be some "genius" gene. It could be very circumstantial. For example they were grouped with people who happened to do poorly in whatever was being measured so they were always the top of their group (academically or athletically) in their formative years. That provided them with a lot of self confidence throughout childhood which led them to believe they can achieve anything and always spent countless hours making sure that's true unlike their sibling who never developed the self esteem and settled for less all their lives. Maybe they didn't get too stressed when faced with challenges due to genetic or childhood differences.

So IMO there should be separate leagues (just like sports teams) but also some mobility across these clubs in case someone possesses the skills and has the motivation to compete at the higher level.
lol, coding interviews are truly absurd
I believe community fiber is a for profit private company, despite what their marketing may imply.
I could probably convince someone to barter me some food for Pokemon cards, but that doesn't make Pokemon cards cash.
Did you stop using vehicles and electricity, or are you just posturing?
This is really nice, thank you very much!
>>You call that user friendly?

User friendly is what most users find it easy to use.

Your argument is more on the lines that you are a legacy user who does't want to move.

The whole idea of using vim/emacs was when intellisense/autocomplete was in its infancy. And programming general required using typing skills as a autocomplete mechanism. The only real use of all that edit-commands-as-a-mini-language philosophy of vim is to write keyboard macros. Which again was needed because people lacked decent autocomplete features. Besides typing fast itself isn't connected to coding productivity these days.
DRUPS - Dynamic rotary UPS. It provides enough energy for your ride-through period until your gensets are up and the power quality is good.
There is an allusion to this in a recent YouTube video on the end of the universe, and the vanishingly small timeframe that life can exist within it as we understand.

Maybe this is a comfort.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA
>I found that the more I delivered and the happier I made senior people, the more I could ignore the rules and process and friction and get stuff done.

Yeah, I agree with this. My strategy has been to figure out what my boss wants to do, figure out what I want to do, and figure out what my job duties actually are. Then focus on the intersection of the first two and doing the minimal work necessary for the third. This means trying to get around process for your boss's pet project or to work on what you want while making your internal customers go through as many hoops as your organizational structure allows when they want you to do your job duties.

This probably comes off a bit cynical and I do have some pride in doing a good job, but this is kind of my basic corporate strategy.
The more urban, the lower your risk of death
Yeess. Recommendation, drop everything & go read Matt Webb on the computing that could have been, talking SAGE & multi-user workspaces[1]!

> Right now we’re in the era of personal computers. Collaboration, social use of tools, togetherness: all of these are hacks on top of something that, at its core, was designed for the individual first.

> But there’s a particular photograph of group computing from the 1950s, from before the PC was invented...

I wonder how much if at all Engelbart was aware of SAGE. Webb poonts out Engelbart got started working on computers out of SAGE.

> As an aside, the whole "meta-verse" craze might pull these ideas through to the mainstream again.

Heck yeah, right on. Even if the immersive modes fail, I really hope some embodiment survives. Constructing space & environments in which being & event can occur, manifesting processes... I have a lot of hope we can start to better ground & make real computing.

[1] https://interconnected.org/home/2021/12/21/sage https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31665364 (12 points, 10 hours ago, 2 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31535139 (14 points, 12 days ago, 1 comment)
all the more reason to compile it oneself. it was the only way i could get ffmpeg encoding to work properly.
According to his personal wikipedia page (which are never entirely reliable):

> "Engelbart slipped into relative obscurity by the mid-1970s. As early as 1970, several of his researchers became alienated from him and left his organization for Xerox PARC, in part due to frustration, and in part due to differing views of the future of computing. Engelbart saw the future in collaborative, networked, timeshare (client-server) computers, which younger programmers rejected in favor of the personal computer. The conflict was both technical and ideological: the younger programmers came from an era where centralized power was highly suspect, and personal computing was just barely on the horizon."

Now both concepts have become more-or-less fully developed with a wide variety of small personal computers from RPis to desktop powerhouses, as well as rent-space-in-the-cloud client/server approaches. However, you do need to have a lot of faith in the overall power structure not going down some authoritarian rat hole to rely solely on the latter.

His ideas are certainly interesting and still relevant today:

> "Consider a group's Collective IQ to represent its capability for dealing with complex, urgent problems – to perceive and understand them adequately, to engage the stakeholders, to unearth the best candidate solutions, to assess resources and operational capabilities and select appropriate solutions and commitments, to be effective in organizing and executing the selected approach, to monitor the progress, to be able to adjust rapidly and appropriately to unforeseen complications, and so on."

https://dougengelbart.org/content/view/194/