skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very concisely: The Media. Every election in a western nation is a huge circus, every referendum a secular holy day. Every elected official speaks of "the people", that mythical monolith who has a True Will that votes supposedly represent. It's a massive dose of ego-stroking deference, it can be hard to see all this and not think you're in some kind of control, after all, you're a voter, and those people speak very reverently of voters, so you must be in charge, right ?

In truth, not only votes are a placebo that doesn't measure anything but the crudest of desires, and not only those worthless votes are further made worthless and pointless by the fact that vast hordes of uncoordinated humans are exceptionally easy to manipulate and control to give their votes to anything, much more than individuals or small groups. The reality is that votes and elections just don't matter. Bush didn't need votes to invade Iraq, he just went ahead and did it. The vast vast majority of anything done by an elected official is due to his or her very own desire (modulo reality, of which you as a voter are not part of untill the next election). Democracy is just tyranny except there are multiple competing tyrants (not a novel feature) and you get an extremly small chance to depose the tyrant every n years.

"But Term Limits" oh you think 4 or 6 years in office aren't enough to form connections and make favors that can last you 20 outside the office ? "But Free Press" oh okay (1) lol, look at who owns the press (2) what good is a voice that can't affect things, you scream and rage and cry and then what ? someone comes along and convinces you they can solve this problem, For Real This Time^TM, and you vote them into office (if you manage a majority) and after an intial 100 days of theatrics, nothing.
> ...a third party does not need to win the president's office or even have a presidential candidate. A handful of senate seats and a dozen or so house seats are enough to make a huge difference.

How is this not the same problem? Are there a bunch of states that have better voting mechanisms for their federal representatives?
> and nonexistent on desktop OSes

At some point, MSN Messenger was the most used chat app, and then it simply... was left to die.

This was the single most anti-monopoly action of MS in all its history.
Google brings Street View back to India following 2016 ban
From studying history, I have the impression the normalization of nudity in public started after WWII in Europe.

Could it be that the precarious conditions (families disrupted, lack of intimate space, moral degradation) to which the populations there were submitted during the war shaped this culture?

If yes, what does it tell about the value of this culture?
What do you expect to happen to these laborers? Will they get to retire in comfort because our society is so rich?

Heck, no. America's philosophy is if you don't work, you don't eat.

The people investing the capital to replace the workers are doing this so they can capture the money that used to go to the workers. And that's what will continue to happen.
it's compulsory to vote. If people start rocking up and it says they have already voted, it will be caught pretty quickly.

Australians are also fairly trustworthy
Lactose tolerance is an evolutionary puzzle
Any particular reason for that? Anyone knows?

Anyone has actual experience using it? Is it hard to set up? Does it have compatibility issues with plain x64? Gains not worth additional complexity?

I’ve really never seen it used or any guides on how to create a system/software built that way.
Redux toolkit does exist.
Enhancing the safety of autonomous vehicles in critical scenarios
Should've had a section about that!

In short it prints more readable code in some cases, has better support in macros and supports a wider range of nightly features.

With that being said the main show here is still the Prettier Rust VSCode extension

Prettier Rust uses the jinx-rust parser, which is unstrict and entirely independent from the Rust compiler. Hence it's capable of formatting half-broken code that doesn't compile.

So while you may be using rustfmt as a postprocess, Prettier Rust is moreover capable of formatting programs as you write them.

I highly recommend at least trying it! The VSCode extension is a 1 click install/uninstall.
I did pleasure in "no ackthually! it's 1024" before it got its own name, but something in my mind also finds it satisfactory that we're no longer hiding two values under the same name :)
You ignore one more thing: white cars are popular because they are often the cheapest. You need to pay more for most color options -> so in poor countries people choose the cheapest model (white paint can be useful in a desert, but in most environments it is harder to clean). Even "boring" colors like silver or black can require an additional fee.

Companies often choose white cars as well for their fleets: you can easily put a big company logo on a white car - and it will probably look good.

I bet lots of people would choose different colors, if this didnt require to pay additional 1000-2000 dollars. (Also again practicality comes to mind: if you buy a car in an uncommon color you will have problems to get spare parts). This additional fee might be not much for a software developer from Silicon Valley who earns 300k per year, but is a big thing for most of the world.

As far as I know, when you want a non-standard color, for many cars it is cheaper to partially disassemble the body and wrap it in those plastic stickers than to ask the factory to paint it (not to mention that it will take few months before you get your car delivered, why you probably want it now). Only a small section of people does this though.

I bet if the prices of uncommon colors were lower, one could see much more unusual cars.

In fact in some ways the manufacturers are the ones who set the palette (probably based on market research), some colors come in unusual colors straight from the factory. So you 'have' to choose the fancy color, since the car does not come in boring ones. Or at least the unusual color is cheaper (few hundred dollars -> still a lot for many people). For example every now and often a manufacturer comes out with some variant of orange, or orange-red: https://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2021/12/orange-cars-you-...

In many ways car color is an illusion of choice: if you dont want to pay 2k dollars and wait few months, you have to take one of the boring colors that are available on the lot for you -> and those 'boring' were selected by the manufacturers, since their market research showed that they will sell. Tons of people cant afford to pay more to have a car that looks different. But judging by the amount of stickers you see on cars, perhaps they would.
You're decrypting data on Amazon's hardware using software provided by Amazon. Of course they can access your unencrypted data if they have to.

It comes down to the details of the legal obligation they have under U.S law. Are there limits to what they have to do to help U.S law enforcement, and what exactly are those limits?
Have you looked at QGIS? You can drag OSM files onto it and add layers from loads of different data sources. It's a GUI app that runs on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
When I redo a room it gets the colours we like. I don't care about the next owner of the house beyond keeping the house well maintained and gradually improving things like insulation and wiring. Don't like a colour? Change it after the sale.

As it is, the housing market in the Netherlands is completely overheated (seller's market due to a housing shortage), so I could paint every room hot pink and it won't affect the price one bit, but even when that settles down I won't choose boring colours just to push up the price a few thousand Euro.

My kitchen: red walls matched with off white cabinets and shelving; living room: bespoke teal wall filling book case matched with patterned wallpaper (in grays) and an oxblood red sofa and seat (a complimentary colour to the teal); and so on.

I have to live in it and maximizing the joy I get from my house is important to me.
I've heard that whales, which might be a thing in casinos, isn't really a thing in video game markets.
Not to mention those software engineers picked up the worst habits. They would be a total drag on a small company, creating overcomplicated, unmaintainable systems, instead of solving the problem at hand.

"What do you mean you don't have 50 microservices!? How is this even going to WORK?"
This sounds like a bad experience. I find Wikipedia pretty daunting and I'm not surprised you got tripped up trying to edit.

But as a lay person reading your post, I do not know what "Deaf Cultures and Deaf Educators" is. Is this a book? I tried googling for it but didn't find it. Wikipedia does have an article on Deaf culture (lowercase c): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaf_culture -- it was created in March of 2004. I am not sure about "Deaf educators", but Wikipedia does have an article on Deaf education: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaf_education and on Dead studies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaf_studies and on Schools for the deaf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schools_for_the_deaf (this one is in notable need of expansion). It looks like the separate article for Deaf education sprung into being in the early 2010s and previously redirect-merged to deaf culture.

I think it's at least possible here that you were not discriminated against as part of an anti-diversity agenda, but rather that you misunderstood some of Wikipedia's needlessly complicated rules or maybe didn't present what you were trying to add in the right way.

I went back through the articles for deletion discussion for all of 2004 and could not find a discussion about deleting an article by the name you said. I went through the full list of deleted articles in 2001-2004 -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_log -- and searched for "deaf" and didn't find anything relevant ever. If your pages were deleted after 2004, they're only visible in the modern deletion log and that requires an exact title match unless you're an administrator, which I am not. So unfortunately I think without more information it's going to be hard to help you 18 years later.

But I'm pretty sure it was not because Wikipedia editors were anti-diversity.
Believe concept you’re missing is Opportunity Cost:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost

You cannot say all things are equal, then x5 the total revenue of a company with significantly lower margins and say you’re comparing apples to apples.

Like to like comparison would be six companies each making one billion of which half have a 90% margin, other half having a 50% margin. If you only have the capital to invest in three, which would you pick, assuming all other factors were identical?
Are there a lot of people using screen readers who also use or care about Instagram? Seems incompatible.
Just accelerating the existing EV transition would help, here's someone who's done the numbers:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/electric-cars-sales-in-the-us-co...

> A faster shift to electric vehicles (EVs) in the US would avoid around 10% of the global cropland expansion expected over the next 30 years, according to a new study.

> Instead of growing maize (corn) to make biofuel for US cars, modelling in the Ecological Economics paper suggests large swathes of land could be left to absorb carbon dioxide (CO2).

> This land sparing would bring “substantial” emissions savings, in addition to the direct benefits of electrifying US road transport, the researchers say.
The Pandemic and the Rise of CSR Are Fueling Competition in Advocacy Tech
I'd speculate that knowing/discovering/finding the answer to that question is at the very core of why he built the service.

I recently watched a 2005 guest lecture[1] by Zuckerberg, it hit me then, why facebook became the success it is/was. The core insight, was the "people you may know" feature, even though that's obvious when I say it, and think about it.. It never struck me before, that, facebook could have been anything (and, was indeed very different back then) and still have succeeded because solving that problem in a seemingly more efficient way at the time then nobody chocked on it.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFFs9UgOAlE
Hey, can I request to be held in "friendly contempt" if they ever show up with a warrant to search my house or phone or laptop? At the airport, can I skip having my bag searched yet still fly and suffer no real consequences because "friendly contempt?"

What a fucking awesome new legal principle invention that I am sure everyone will get to enjoy equally!
Interestingly, I’ve been using Clojure since 2009 and I’ve never once used STM (outside of playing around to learn how to use it). I’ve used agents on occasion, I’ve used atoms, I’ve used core.async a lot, but refs and STM, to me (ie YMMV) seem like one of those things that seemed like a useful great idea, that in practice just wasn’t really necessary.

Maybe others have had a different experience, of course. This is just an observation about my own code and the libraries I use.
I don't see conflict between your facts and mine. The old man I knew clearly had a number of "traditional, Catholic bigotries". He was also clearly pro-Catholic & anti-protestant when talking about the history of England, France, Germany, etc. And far too admiring of Germany's National Socialist movement of the 1920's - 1940's. And other "clearly not PC" opinions.

If you're not familiar with this cluster of memes, give a quick read to a far-better-known example here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Coughlin Though my old acquaintance differed from Fr. Coughlin on a number of points.

Vs. any IRA leader, speaking to a wider audience in the media, would have obvious PR reasons to downplay the religious aspects of the conflict. Nothing special about this.

Also worth a read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectarian_violence_among_Chris... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwellian_conquest_of_Irelan... The history of Ireland has very clear, hellishly brutal Catholic vs. Protestant roots for the more-recent Troubles.
So does ripgrep... Which is written in Rust. So how exactly is Rust a poor fit?

And that isn't Assembly.

So I guess what you said earlier, "grep inner loops are coded straight in Assembly," was a misrepresentation. And that "Rust was a poor fit" is just empirically wrong.
The charge back is only important because people have to give away their credentials every time they make a payment.

In the context of the existence of cryptography (and cryptocurrency), this is laughable. (Credit cards were invented before public key cryptography.)

Advanced cryptocurrencies enable a much more robust and diverse set of credit options.
Organic Maps and OSMAnd both have on device route calculation and navigation.
Ford is not legally allowed to state that. However I think they are strongly pushing the dealers to that.
> If you think armed cops are the obvious danger

Yes, I do think that.

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/26/1101496374/chicago-police-13-...

It seems to me that to think otherwise is a "the omelet requires breaking eggs" argument.
Journalists who are not good at playing games are approximately the complete opposite of the real problem with games journalism.
Stable is released every 2 years, so <=2 at most, and yes on purpose? Isn't that kinda the whole point of releases like Windows LTSC, Red Hat, etc.? That you actively do not want these updates, only security fixes?
principals -> principles

(very different words)
Should a programmer also know about FS block sizes? About ethernet size? About Multithreading? Memory access bandwidth? CPU architecture? Stored procedures in a DB? Current encryption schemes?

I would say it depends totally on the tasks of the coder. If you fiddle around with some ASP: NO. If you are squeezing every last bit for Netflix performance: YES.

Our domain is so incredibly huge, deep, wide & divers that I do not expect regular coders to be familiar with most details.
> If anything that video claims that "leaving no one behind" and "decency and compassion" are what makes America America.

Well, I kinda think those claims are mostly lies. We all know that Americans are not well-known for their compassion.

American culture used to emphasize frankness, family values, freedom, and individual responsibility. Now, it's rulings class has decided these cultural values interfere with their interests. So, they have decided to pretend these don't exist.

> And in the context of movie ratings, every war/gory movie/videogame will be rated 16/18+ in most parts of Europe.

Interesting, are those ratings taken seriously?
Tangential to this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31885615
I don't believe he's a good dev.

Sorry..

If he's been re-writing large swaths of code he sucks, and he will cost you way more than you can afford.

I worked with a dev who convinced the boss to let him and rewrite a large bit of our app. While he did this new features for the existing app were on hold and bugs were on hold. We pissed off clients and management.
Eventually a few devs went behind the upper managements back and fixed bugs in the old system, and added minor features.

6 months later he had finally finished.. It was loaded with bugs, and the best part he was the only one "smart enough" to maintain it.

Then one Wednesday at 10:30 am he closed his laptop and walked out.

None of the other devs who knew his chosen stack would touch his steaming pile of Not_made_here code. Not willingly at least.

A year later the original app was once again "the app", and we had a party when we finally killed the project.

He's a shite dev. A good dev makes the least amount of changes they can get away with. A good dev makes the customer happy because they pay his/her wages.

My suggestion.
Get rid of him, before you lose other devs.
> You can only email. If you email, you get robots.

Their dev support on discord is S-tier, but every now and then some issue has to be moved to email support; where it dies. It always takes months for something to be resolved, if at all.

My only consolation is that every other provider is just as terrible.
I think your examples are explicit incentives, not nudges. From what I’ve read, a nudge is typically something much subtler that works on an emotional level. For example the tax office might A/B test different wording for a tax demand letter template, finding that it’s more effective to say “Get a £100 early-filing discount if you pay before $DATE” instead of “An additional £100 late-filing penalty will be charged if you fail to pay before $DATE”. A strict logician or economist might point out they amount to the same thing, but the different emotional approach nonetheless makes a measurable difference in the aggregate response. That’s what is usually meant by a nudge.
Experiences are highly mixed. The Tesla mobile services is a joy for many people for any kind of smaller issue. They just show up while you work or when you don't need your car.

The software support in terms of updates is very good, and you still get updates to years old software.

Where they struggle is not enough service capacity and parts shortages. What you would expect from a car maker growing 50% and the service capacity has not grown as fast.
Sorry, I didn't save the numbers.. But yeah, sounds right - based on reports that we can only expect 1/5th of the output per panel in winter.

"Passive houses" are not going to happen in the UK for the vast majority of the population in my lifetime!
QGIS is not really meant for generating basemaps (as in: what OP wants to use will be more optimized).

It can, however, be used for any lightweight overlays (with QGIS Server). I remember someone from the Polish community set up some OSM data QA that worked quite fine.
I did look at QGIS but it seems to be limiting the custom functionalities we want to add on top of the map layers which is easily available over a JS library like openlayers.

I ruled out QGIS simply because of the fact that it's a native app and not a JS library.
I understand the objection to the general "why write X when I can see X" point. Obviously not everyone who can read some text can also watch a video.

In this specific case though, is conveying the color of the sweater to people who can't or don't watch the video important? Why mention the color of his sweater, but not the color of his eyes, his hairstyle, or any of countless other unrelated visual details?

Trying to put myself in the shoes of someone using a screen reader, maybe these little details give some extra context which, while irrelevant to the topic, help to give "color" to the story which I, as a person who is able to watch the video, am taking for granted?
From what I understand the legal exception to process personal data without consent is written down in Article 6 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL... (paragraph b)

"(1) Processing shall be lawful only if and to the extent that at least one of the following applies: (b) processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract;"

This is ok for GDPR complaint data processors. The reason why US companies can't be GDPR complaint is because of Article 5 and the conflict with the Cloud Act: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL... (paragraph f)

"(1) Personal data shall be: (f) processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, using appropriate technical or organisational measures (‘integrity and confidentiality’)."

See also Schrems II: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schrems#Schrems_II

It doesn't even matter if you asked for consent or have other reasons to process the data (Article 6) if you are not complying with Article 5.
I said "offending", not "offensive".

You think you just added an impartial characterization to one part of the comparison, but it's not impartial.

Here, let me play the same game:

Mrs. X who refuses to get vaccinated dies of Covid vs abysmal education for tens of millions of American school-aged children and reduced convenience for them and their families.

Am I impartial?

And just to declare upfront my own biases. I have school-aged children, and they go to public school. Fortunately, their school opened early to as much a degree the Department of Education would allow (i.e. initially 2 days per week, later 2.5, later 5 but back to remote as soon as one kid had Covid, etc). For that I'm thankful. I wish more families had my luck, but I know that many, many families did not. I also have a high risk mom (cancer survivor). I advised her to get vaccinated as soon as possible, and she did.
> Their dev support on discord

This is also a red flag
> white LEDs use a "phosphor", just like fluorescent lights

Wow. I didn't know that. So I guess the junction actually emits UV
which is converted to visible spectrum? Does that mean they're bad for
your eyes if some UV leaks out?

How I thought it worked is that different doping materials are blended
in the junction to get a mix of frequencies. Maybe that's impossible.

And yes, sure for RGB clusters the spacing is obvious even to my eyes.
> The charge back is only important because people have to give away their credentials every time they make a payment.

What? A charge back is important so that a dispute can actually be resolved. What recourse does a regular person have if they are defrauded by the other party. Or if the other party didn’t hold up their end.