skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You cannot argue in good faith that both are being focused on. The agenda primarily against guns is quite clear.

Look at what happened to mental health during the pandemic. There were very little resources for those that needed them most.

Downvote and flag me all you want, but gun control isn't going to stop these from happening in a country with more guns than people. Period.

Start focusing on the mental health problem in earnest, the alternative is more of the same.
Another aspect is that your view of the internet, which on its own is incomprehensibly large, is largely shaped by the tools you use to interact with it. It's difficult to become aware of just how much your choice of internet gateway will shape your view of what exists.

If your primary mechanism is Hacker News, the internet is going to look like it's dominated by a bunch of startups and open source projects.

If your primary mechanism is Twitter, the internet is going to be dominated by big-name thought leaders, there will appear to be a lot of outrage and inflamed conflict, maybe some culture wars stuff will stay on your radar.

If your primary mechanism is Google, then a bunch of huge websites are going to be extremely prominent: Wikipedia, Goodreads, WebMD, Pinterest, Stackoverflow, etc. It's also going to look like every blog is just a bunch of spam.

If your primary mechanism is Facebook, then the web will look like a bunch of tabloid news articles, try-hard viral videos, minions memes.

and so on and so forth.
Razorpay acted completely in accordance with Indian laws. They shared this information because they received a written order under section 91 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) of India[1]. This does not mandate a court order to produce the required documents. The order can be given by the officer in charge of a police station as well.

1. https://indiankanoon.org/doc/788840/
Good way to make people switch.
What Is Machine Learning Anyway?
I am still on Fastmail. Their on-boarding is strong. Very other places have a similar on-boarding / import tool built right in.
.. which is why it is such a travesty that Americans tolerate near total secrecy with regards to the crimes of their state. You cannot have an informed vote about foreign policy if you're never seeing the victims of prior policies.
That is fascinating. I've not ever heard of that.

Can you share any more about that? Is there a particular name for it other than "cloth gears?"

I'm having a hard time Googling/DDGing it because "cloth gears" and every variation I can think of returns other things.

It's one of those things people did before
plastics. I have some old Teletypes with a
few cloth gears, and you can see the woven
pattern on the sides
1. Yes, there are a ton of normal 9-5 dev jobs in the west

2. Learn React + any backend technology and you're fine

3. No. People don't really care about open source if you have experience (unless it is a highly notable project).

4. No. Stick with JS.

5. No. Software is the easiest best paying career by a long shot. Doubly so for someone without a degree.

6. Move to Canada
Yeah, you couldn't possibly roll out automatic triggering without also creating laws to uniformize how speed limits are set and data shared about them across the US (I don't refer to taking away agency from the many local jurisdictions that can affect speed limits for the bajillions of stretches of roadway in the country-- just standardizing requirements so that when some tiny little town adjusts the speed limit frfom 25 to 20 on a 2 block stretch of main street, except after 6PM monday to friday, there is a standard way for them to notify a national DOT database electronically and they are required to do that prior to enforcement)

That alone probably makes it a nonstarter in the USA, right?
I'm not a security expert, but my humble view is that if you need plugins for really basic functionality, that's a red flag.
I had a similar interaction with my local government around fence height. I had a small section of fence connected to a driveway gate and the city told me I had to remove both as they were too tall.

I investigated and sure enough the code as written limited fence height to 3' in a large number of cases, however it did not specifically mention gates. I hired a lawyer and $15,000 later I still had to lower the fence. ;). I did manage to get the gate itself allowed due to the poor wording on the regulation, but the fence, which had been there for >15 years had to go. It looks worse now, but looking good was never the intention of the regulation, oddly enough.

During the conversation I actually talked to the enforcement board and brought with me over 150 pictures of other fences on the same road I am on that also clearly violate this. I would estimate there are >10s of thousands of houses in the Portland area that violate this. They indicated they understood that there were probably lots of other violations but did not care. I asked why these other clear violations were not being investigate, and they said they are only required to investigate when there was a complaint.

I'll admit I did consider writing an automated job to file a complaint against every home in Portland that has a fence to make a point, but I suspect that point would be lost.

One of the problems with complaint based enforcement is the ability to use to to harass people. If for some reason you don't like a neighbor because of their race, political views, favorite sports team, or whatever else passes your mind you can start filing complaints that are clearly not enforced across the population.
Inflation of the 1970s was 12%, and in the early 1980s it was 14% YoY.
Sorry, not my experience.

My experience has been that by the time I notice some serious vulnerability is in the news, my servers have already patched themselves. I have never "hated life" or had a "hard to find and undo bug" due to automatic security patching. I pretty quickly found what caused this and had a clear path to resolution.

This is the first security update that caused a boot failure in about a decade. It was bad, but it didn't change my mind about unattended-upgrades. My takeaway that if that maybe I should have upgraded my 20.04 servers to 22.04 server sooner.
> Here's the thing about conspiracies: they have a shelf life. The amount of time you can keep a conspiracy secret is bounded by the number of conspirators, how well you can get them to shut up, and how long it has been since the conspiracy occurred. You can take a secret only you know to your grave, but work in a group of ten and someone will confess before their death.

As you effectively prove, any long running conspiracy must have tools to discredit defectors. I’m willing to bet dollars to donuts that if, hypothetically, some WEF flunky went on twitter and started posting about a global depopulation conspiracy, that the prestige media would either ignore or deny (“debunk”) it and any alternative sources would be smeared and delegitimized somehow.

One possible tool for discrediting tales of one’s real conspiracy would be spreading stories of various fake conspiracies and then lumping them all together as nonsense.
I still have my card from the early 80s, in semi rural Oregon. The way I remember it (with a caveat of me being six) was it was the only copy. I don't think my parents would have done it if the government was keeping one.
Luxottica merged with Essilor in 2018. It's now a French-Italian company.

They own: Ray-Ban, Oakley, Michael Kors, Varilux, Crizal, Transitions, LensCrafters, Clearly, EyeBuyDirect, FramesDirect.com, OPSM, Pearle Vision, Sears Optical, Sunglass Hut, Target Optical, Vision Direct, Vision Source, et al.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EssilorLuxottica
you try making shit tier third world pay for 15 years using frameworks from so called hipsters, knowing they make 50x your income

lel
I had exactly the same experience with my 2013 Macbook Air. It is still perfectly fine, but I wanted something that was actually faster for couch surfing. Which took until now.
The Netherlands entire business is to be a tax haven inside the EU market.

Their hobby is telling other countries that they suck because their economy is bad (partly because of NL being a tax haven).
> The FBI is not collecting or storing any photos or information that you enter in the app. All data resides solely on your mobile device unless you need to send it to authorities.

If true, this sounds thoughtfully designed.
I doubt StumbleUpon would be able to take off in the same form today - it installed a browser toolbar, collected a profile of your interests, and collected your up/downvotes to fed them all to an opaque algorithm that took you to the next random page. Who knows where that data went.

Could we come up with a privacy-preserving equivalent to stumbleupon today?
Hi. Not in a similar situation whatsoever but I've worked in both Europe and the US.

1. Yes you can, developers are still in high demand meaning the relationship employer / employee is not as one sided as in other jobs. That being said, if you get a visa sponsored by a company it can change that relationship. There are still lots of good companies out there though.

2. Depends on your specialty, some aspects of tech do evolve much faster than others. Frontend development tooling is one of them and it does require to stay up-to-date-ish. But usually it's not that hard to learn a new framework if you have solid experience in the domain. Backend, infrastructure development tends to have longer cycles.

3. If you are already cash constrained I wouldn't. Can you build your resume from your work experience?

4. COBOL is a niche technology, not dying anytime soon but you would constrain yourself to a small number of industries and companies. I'm biased by my own industry but web development (typescript) or backend development (go/rust/python) seem to be skills that would cover a broader set of companies.

5. Not sure how it is in Iran but in the US / Europe software development is likely one of the cushiest jobs you can get and one that has the biggest chances of being sponsored for a visa. Sure there can be lots of pressure from time to time, bad managers, crunch etc, but overall we have it easy compared to lots of other industries / jobs.

6. If you actually believe that "Iran is on edge of economic/social/life-basics collapse." my advice would be to try to get out asap. It will likely be a couple of years of hard work (to apply to companies, get a visa etc) but will be worth it down the road.

Good luck.
Yeah you can. Just build stuff that's useful, and eventually, you'll build negotiation power
Australia had a mass-shooting problem. Here’s how it stopped. [video]
Whenever I think US politics have gone off the rails, it's perhaps comforting to see other countries are way worse.
Not right now, no. That would be terribly inconvenient.

Jokes aside, I'm aware of my own moral weakness in this regard. The religion I was raised in - and I'm still a spiritual person - holds that suicide is the gravest of sins, but I don't have that high an opinion of my own life and its potential. The closer I am to the situation, and the more urgent it is, the more tempted I am. So I try to stay aloof, for the sake of those who love me, and out of my own instinct of self-preservation, which is a powerful force in most human beings.

If your mind was exactly like mine, and you were close enough to the situation to make the decision to sacrifice someone else for a group of strangers - and being tied to the tracks is pretty damn close - you would likely be willing to sacrifice yourself. But remember, someone must have tied me to the tracks in the first place for my life to be in danger. As I said in previous comments, in most cases I am, though inaction or stalling, attempting to save the life of the single person in the tracks - the person in the same position. I will not kill to save others, and attempting to not kill myself to save others is consistent with this position.

I would be useless as a soldier!
I don't think anyone would say that. But many young people were quite recently thrown into a situation where they're feeling like even after they did everything right like they were told to - graduated, went to college, got a degree - they're hopeless slaves to student loan debt for the rest of their lives and have no hope of ever owning a home, being able to afford to raise a child, retire at a reasonable age, or live as worry-free as the past few generations.

Meanwhile majority of the mainstream political discourse is banal, pointless arguments over stuff that doesn't matter. So obviously nothing is going to change.

I wouldn't be surprised if that contributed to people losing their minds and shooting up parades.
Or people just didn't take the quiz seriously and clicked the joke options every time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban

> The ban applied only to weapons manufactured after the date of the ban's enactment. It expired on September 13, 2004

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Total_De...

All of these mass shootings are using long-guns, because they are more accurate than pistols. Furthermore, when a mass-shooter is using a long-gun, police (see Uvalde) are less willing to engage, because the police know they're outgunned.

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If we cannot stop the mass shootings, at least we can mitigate their damage and improve the odds of local Policemen of having enough of an advantage against the perpetrator, right? No one needs a long-gun for self defense, its too awkward to carry around.

The only people using semiautomatic or automatic long guns are mass shooters. Hunters use simpler reload mechanisms and are fine with it (its no longer a sport if its a 30-ammo magazine in that gun).

Who else needs a highly accurate long gun with high-reload capacity (over 5 shots per reload) ??
Steve Jobs wanted to anthropomorphize the devices. It’s already in the Lisa manual: https://farm2.static.flickr.com/1413/712113879_a7079d8cc8.jp...

Or here for the original Macintosh: https://www.flickr.com/photos/peterme/1253692391/
This, plus remember about the slowly boiled frog, which is exactly what such debilitating sanctions do to an entire population.

The (good?) news is that the OP seems close to a typical burnout snap, after which they might be able to take the necessary risks required to improve their situation. It's not a fun time while it is happening, though.
Loss of tradition through communal, in-person gathering sounds about right to me.

Maybe what we need is a version of the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer?
If IRC were designed today, it would probably be with E2EE. But it's not the end of the world that it wasn't, it just limits what use-cases it's appropriate for. Asking about kernel config options in #linux does not really demand particularly high privacy, and TLS between you and the server is generally sufficient. E2EE is also pretty difficult to get right and dramatically increases the complexity of the system -- Matrix's third-party client ecosystem is hamstrung by this requirement and very poor compared to IRC as a result. E2EE is nice to have and essential for some use-cases, but I don't think that IRC is invalid because it lacks it.
>I'm told it's creepy to point that out. But those are some of the cases that gave redhat this reputation.

Yes, I think it is creepy. Don't you think it would be creepy if someone was in a completely different thread in a conversation with someone else who had nothing to do you or with your decisions, started going through your 10 year old comments looking for disagreeable things, and using them as an excuse to discredit everything that you might have been slightly involved with? This person isn't a GNOME developer and he doesn't even work for Red Hat anymore.

>It's impossible to have a straightforward debate, it will get derailed into a bunch of minutia.

Please don't try to make this into a debate. This is not a constructive way to approach anything. If you look at this conversation as something you need to "win" then that would be the core of the problem. It is perfectly fine to express a negative opinion, but what is not okay is when you start saying things along the lines of "I am going to prove all the developers of XYZ are permanent irredeemable assholes". That is just furthering the flamewar, it's not moving past it into the actual issues.

>Tell me, have you been paid to work on systemd/gnome/redhat in the past?

No. This also is a somewhat trollish question that is unnecessarily making things personal and leans on a stereotype, in the future you shouldn't lead a conversation with questions like this. In particular, people can change their mind on all those things despite being paid in the past, or could be paid and still have a bad opinion of them, or could not be paid but still have a good opinion, or any number of other things that are outside the preconceived notions. A much better and friendlier way to phrase this would be something like "What is your experience with these projects/developers/companies?" Then the other person can divulge their employment status at those companies at their own accord, if they have a positive view of the employment then they probably will.
Canada's gun laws are significantly stricter than MA, and we have wayyy less guns than the US. And we still have a mass shooting every year or two.
Also, torrent clients, anything that could perhaps be used for piracy, anything even just very slightly pornographic or considered that by Apple.
Element.io adds Video/Voice rooms
> Like $1,400 is less than one month of childcare for one kid.

Say you're married and have 3 kids under 6 and 1 kid over 6. With the fully refundable child tax credit, in 2021 your household would automatically receive 1400 x 2 + 3600 x 3 + 3000 = $16,600. That's more then 10% of Americans make a year at their jobs. That's not including any other benefits such as unemployment and food stamps, which you'd certainly be eligible for if you didn't have a job in 2021.
I’d assume there were more readily available guns post ww2. If not for guns they’d be making pipe bombs or other weapons.
Nobody cares about solving the hard problems. Just throw a label on the wrong-doer and advocate for feel-good security theater.
Don't sugar coat it. Call it what it really is: gentrification.

2000: creating content and fostering an online community in private was seen as super nerdy.

2022: binge watching TikTok in public and grown-ass adults fighting over Internet Points is "normal."

And, yeah, the content is much worse. It's a lot of overly-socialized people taking care to say the things they should say so the great Algorithm gives them more Internet Points. And those Internet Points warp the process of creation, especially when they're tied to money.

Like the article said, it's all taken way too seriously, and there's no going back.
Ah yes.. Chaebol's

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol
You could imply that this uncertainty also exists in the trolly problem or you could imply that it does not exist there.
I built my first one in 1995, so yeah, it was very much teach-yourself, but the good news was that, back then, view-source would give you everything you needed to know about how any given page worked, so you could learn a LOT by finding sites you liked and figuring out how they worked.

By 1997, I was working in a consultancy doing custom sites and early Internet-style applications, which was back then insanely lucrative. Like, we pitched $moviecompany a web site for $1,000,000, and got the deal (it involved DB integration and more active behavior, etc, all of which was novel at the time).
Great Content Marketing Doesn’t Depend on Luck
That has always bothered me, and I swear no one ever seems to notice. I see it everywhere, and it clearly must work, since you can even see it being said by owner of devices.
Democracy just decides who rules.

Economy can be weak or strong depending on how the person that rules - rules.

So these things are orthogonal, at least in short term. Long term democracy cuts down on very bad rulers (because they lose power before they can do too much harm). But that's about it.
I think your primary issue isn't that you live in Iran. It's you.
"E2EE" is not really basic functionality.

I believe it is hard to get right, and only worthwhile on 1:1 communication, it doesn't work well at all on large chat rooms, which is what IRC is.

Regardless, if you don't want E2EE to be handled by a plugin- it is possible to make a client with it baked in.

There is no company that will stop you creating a third-party client unlike slack/discord which are extremely hostile to those endeavors by comparison.

EDIT: If you downvote without replying I'm just going to assume you're ideologically opposed to open standards, because I'm not sure what else I can take from it.
Oh yes you did, the list here stretches back into the 1920s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_...

But because there's so many, people barely remember anything before Columbine.
Focus on both. They are both obviously the issue but one is easier to fix than the other at a large scale.
>In fact we could simplify your statement further; The ends always justify the means., and so endorsing all terrorism and war, even genocide; whenever the ends is enough peace to make a net positive

On the other hand, you seem to be arguing that the means justify the end. So you'd let all the terrorism and war, even genocide, go ahead if it took not having to stain your hands to stop it

On the killing 1 person to save 5 lives example, it seems like your answer is "I wouldn't do it", which for the people actually being killed is equivalent to killing 5 people to save 1 person ( but what really matters is that you weren't the one personally killing the 5 people )
The Future of System Memory Is Mostly CXL
You shouldn't use IRC for low-traffic communications, or more precisely it shouldn't be used in the scenario where you want people to be able to receive messages while not connected to the channel. Email is the appropriate tool for these cases.
I work as a consultant and spend five out of eight hours a day in Excel, and I want the features in this app so bad.

Sadly, the only way I’ll be able to use these features is if Microsoft bought them out and integrated them into Excel. It’s ubiquitous at almost every workplace you go to, but the only innovation of the past 20 years seems to be PQ (which is awesome), and xlookup.
> That doesn't follow unless you consider "developing a software that becomes popular" to be a method or a choice.

THIS doesn't make sense unless you consider that to be the only thing that happened.

If it had been, this story would never have made HN in the first place.
Those GUI tools spat out AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL HTML.
Had to check, but one of the top questions on a google search:

“Is Tim Apple a billionaire?”
If China was an example, then their Deng years were ones of liberalization that led to tremendous economic growth. However, they were ended by the rise of the Xi years of a strong leader promising to reign in the corruption of the Deng years.

There's also a parallel in Russia with the post-Communist shock therapy leading to a new level of corruption. This led to Putin coming to power to reign in corruption (under his control) and bring about some stability against the shock therapy. Even now against the punitive sanctions for the Ukraine war, he's managing to keep the ruble stable and even increased its value.

I think US leaders like Trump will be the first among those who want to strongarm stability even if it dampens a liberal economic model. He reoriented the US economy towards a trade war with China as opposed to free trade, which did incentivize domestic development as opposed to outsourcing to China.
I'm in the same boat and opting to wait. Sure it'll be a nicer machine, but I don't think we'll really feel the upgrade.
GMaps WV on f-droid is a self contained wrapper for Google maps. It works great!
thanks for sharing your individual lack of experience with a broadly systemic issue (overconfidence in FSD, believing their marketing, etc)