skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assume enough people want the government to regulate certain private online communities like Twitter, so that those spaces can be used for 1st amendment purposes.

This in my opinion is the strongest justification. This is just democracy at play, a large amount of the populace thinks this is important. If you find a way for everyone to agree on regulation, governments can put in place such regulation. It doesn't even have to be about any constitutional rights.

I don't think everyone agrees completely, me as well, I don't want to see these spaces become complete shit-show, full of trolls, bots, duplicate accounts, spam, foreign farm content, etc.

This is where I suggest a compromise, I think what I put forward is a good middle of the road, I think it can please both sides, those who want to be free to say whatever they want can, as long as they do so non-anonymously, and after having been fully verified to be a real legal person, have only a single account, and it's not illegal what they are saying. There might need some rules about the speech needing to be in context and not spammy as well, but that can be ironed out later.

Similarly, this should also limit the platform from the abuse that could come from just arbitrarily allowing everything and force laissez-faire attitude which would come from just say banning all form of moderation.

Now the question is, is there a constitutional issue that would prevent such regulation?

So we're flipping the argument now.

Nothing I can see in the constitution really protects the right of a private platform to not have the government make laws that can regulate how it manages its platform.

So being a private space doesn't really protect them from the people demanding regulation from government and for the government to enforce it on the platform.

That means, if we want, we could regulate these spaces so they can be used as an avenue for 1st amendment like petitioning to the government or redress of grievances, without interference from the platform private owning entity.

It also means, it's probably not currently illegal for these platforms to do so, since like you said, the constitution doesn't really say that everyone has the right to say anything they want about anything to anyone and anywhere. But also, this isn't really an issue, to me, this case isn't about what the constitution says or is interpreted, it's just about what we as people want for ourselves as laws/policies/regulations.

I think this could also be welcomed by the platforms. Currently, the lack of clear rules around moderation often put them in precarious PR scenarios, some amount of agreed on regulation can provide the political stability around their own line of business that could allow them to thrive even more.
The most interesting aspect of Fan-baiting, is how Hollywood executives have weaponized actors and other people involved in movies for profit. They're basically using them as shields against the fans, with promises of leading roles and paychecks.

Recent examples of this are Rings of Power, Ariel, Pinocchio, She-Hulk, and several other shows and movies. Look beyond the racism, which is a vocal minority, and look at how they use these said vocal minorities, to counter valid criticism. Look at how Hollywood utilized Moses Ingram (Reva Sevander) from Kenobi as a shield, to dismiss the very valid criticism of how her character was written and directed, by grasping on to the few racist comments. Suddenly, if you criticized her character, you were a racist.

Think about every single time a show comes out, and a handful of tweets, screenshots from places like 4chan, or some Discord servers, are used as excuses to invalidated any and all criticism a show is getting. All the while the controversy generates buzz, with the media acting like ravenous dogs putting out article after article for weeks and months (look at Batgirl's cancellation and how they milked it for a month without knowing if it was a good movie or not), all the while having the actors take a stand as shields, and the fans who act like knights in shining armor, come to their defense, oblivious to the exploitation by the Hollywood executives.

Again, is there "isms"? Without a shadow of a doubt. Is it the majority of the criticism these shows and movies get? Not even close.

Now think about the professional critics, and Youtubers and such, and how they walk on egg-shells. Look at how shows are getting perfect scores because of their diverse cast, all the while being panned by the fans who are actually consuming the shows. You can't voice your criticism without fear of getting cancelled, getting your access revoke, or worse, people actively going after your job.
You will find that even with a 5.1 setup, you will still want to boost the center a lot.
Archive links (ranked by present VPN friendliness):

1.) https://web.archive.org/web/20220918215025/https://www.busin...

2.) https://archive.ph/CVfOY
> No one should ever confuse kubernetes for user-friendly.

Kubernetes is user-friendly, specially when compared to each and any of its alternatives.

And moreso when compared with systemd.

We live in a day and age where it's possible to get a whole web app up and running in a Kubernetes cluster from a fresh Ubuntu install with a single snap installation and a kubectl apply -k <kustomize dir>. How long would it take to get systemd to containerize a single app?
Good point, eliminating the root cause. I think sodium polyacrylate is used because it lasts 3x longer.
It's always a crack up when somebody clearly didn't read the article.
> There was a transition stretching across Gen X and Millennials where degrees like "social work" steadily lost value as supply of these degrees gradually outpaced demand, and wages slowly stagnated.

Isn’t the US in the middle of multiple drug crises (opioids, meth) and a mental health crisis?
> real solutions instead of this foolishness

We don't know what the solution for climate crisis is but i am happy that someone is running numbers on potential solutions. No idea however absurd should be left unchecked just because you think its foolish.
main issue with education is that the cost of education is not commiserate with the income potential. for those looking just to learn for learnings sake, there's community college.

for the majority who do it for income reasons, ideally it would be designed to not take you more than say, 8 years to pay off, given the median income for the major and area.

this alone would resolve most of the issues. there is value in someone majoring in English. issue is the median English major, given their inclinations are unlikely to make as much as the median, say, Economics major, in a given area.

these disparities would ideally and should be reflected in the cost.

the result would be:

1. when you apply to college you should apply to a major and that should be part of your application

2. different majors should cost different amounts of money

3. acceptance rates should differ based on major

4. classes of different types should cost different amounts of money beyond some gratuity (say, 8 classes).
Precisely, and this is exactly why we want geo data to be open for using, reusing, remixing, or whatever the common software freedoms are.
The pet peeve of mine is lack of subpixel rendering: if you move from X to Wayland, it's hard to get used to fuzzy fonts.

Then again, recent MacOS versions have also dropped it, and I couldn't stand fuzzy fonts either (and so much for their screens being "retina" screens).

At least this is coming to Wayland :)
Right now, in the Year of our Lord 2022, the BLS says wages are down 2.8% year over year. Maybe some people can negotiate a raise to meet inflation, but society overall just isn’t there right now. It is getting poorer.
It it took me years of clawing out of my poor choice to get into tech. No one would grant me an interview when they saw Psychology as my major. Would I recommend other new students trying the same? No. If you’re going to stay in humanities, then go for it. No one is going to think, “cool, they’re going to thrive with us because of their unique background.”

I was hoping that DEI would be more about inclusivity toward majors and not merely about one’s genealogical expressivity.
Well, Ghostbusters (2016) lost at least $70 million.[1] And killed the franchise. Thus desperate efforts to blame somebody, anybody. Probably for in-house blame-shifting purposes.

Captain Marvel had a different problem. The character is so overpowered as to be unreasonable. Jump in the air and do interstellar travel?

[1] https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/08/ghostbusters-bo...
I was around back in the days that X-servers were still very much a thing, and even then many thought they were an expensive and inefficient way of doing things.

However, there were many who genuinely believed that networks would get arbitrarily faster and compute would not. Of course, the opposite happened, but in that alternative universe X’s design would have made sense.
Don't panic, I was just confused as I followed the "Screenshots" link and was presented with a bunch of interactive views in Emacs. But still, I've encountered this before.
This was great. I experienced much of the name confusion as other people but it only lasted a minute or two so not a problem worth solving imho.

Nothing happened when I reached the win condition though. Shrug.
The screenshot makes it look like they are running something in DOS. So, maybe they can upgrade to FreeDOS?
Lucid and illuminating. Thanks.
I guess programming is just pressing buttons then? No need to pay $100k a year to press buttons.
> The article does not specify which camera, or if its all of them, that is causing the issue.

Notes from the social media threads in the article:

• This "camera panic" seems to be especially bad with Snapchat, less so with Instagram. One person says that it happens with WhatsApp.

• This problem doesn't happen with Apple's Camera or FaceTime apps.

• It's not affecting everyone.

• For some users, closing and reopening the apps solves the issue for a while.
>but the public schools I attended constantly told students that you had to go to college to be successful, no matter what degree you got.

I'm not sure what the exact messaging your school told, but I imagine it's something to the effect of "degree holders earn x% more than non-degree holders on average", which is a true statement. The "on average" part might not been stressed, but anyone with rudimentary knowledge of how the labor market works (ie. some jobs pay more than other jobs) should be able to figure out that earning potential by degree varies.
so just like coding?
You keep bringing up these 500K degrees, but I'm not aware of any schools that charge anything close to that for a degree. The most expensive college I could find wouldn't come close to that after 4 years, and that's a hyperspecialized school for people with disabilities[1].

Having come from a liberal arts program: excellence there is a strong predictor for general workforce competence, including in technical fields (like I am now). I studied 18th century German philosophy, and now I work on compilers. But even this shouldn't be a necessary justification: developing our understanding of history, society, and the human condition is sufficient in itself.

[1]: https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/the-50-most-expensive-colle...
I've tried to use Sway a number of times, and the biggest reason I keep bouncing off it is environment variables.

There's a bunch of environment variables I want set for every process in my desktop session, from basic things like $EDITOR and $LD_LIBRARY_PATH to more complex things like $MOZ_USE_XINPUT2 or $SSH_AUTH_SOCK. When I use i3 under X11, gdm runs my ~/.profile script so I get all my standard login environment variables, then it runs ~/.xsession so I get all my GUI-specific settings. There's also some integration with systemd so that the SSH agent can set $SSH_AUTH_SOCK and have it show up in my terminals.

With Wayland/Sway, none of this works. gdm does not execute ~/.profile, and there's no equivalent to ~/.xsession. Something starts a user-level systemd instance, but its environment variables aren't synced to the compositor, and the compositor doesn't use it to start apps, so $SSH_AUTH_SOCK isn't available in anything I care about.

Having an SSH agent seems like such a basic feature, but it doesn't work for me and I can't even imagine where I'd begin to look for the problem, or for documentation to learn more about it.
Suppose someone wants to spend the posited $500K on that degree. If not them, who should pay for it?
Even on a good calibrated 5.1 setup the dialog is still way too quiet, so in your analogy the Electron app is still crappy on the best PC.
The US economy grew from $14T in 2009 to $21T up to 2019. Printing money during an economic boom is not like printing money in a static or shrinking economy.
This is quite thought provoking. Whether you buy this analysis depends on your faith in human nature, and to what extent you think egalitarian pluralist utopias are feasible. It’s a bit like religion. There are obviously many terrible aspects of religion, but perhaps the alternatives are worse.
Were they imploring people to get degrees with poor career prospects, or just degrees in general?
That’s not what I read…

1. Some recent franchises have altered the demographic of the cast

2. Some portion of the public doesn’t like the film, for various reasons

3. Accuse the haters of an -ism, push the narrative hard, and build the controversy through it

4. Find the worst behaving people in the new controversy, and give them a speakerphone. Construct a toxic controversy

5. Accuse everyone with a negative opinion of being part of the toxic controversy, and shut them down
Maybe if you had gone into psychology instead of tech, the degree wouldn’t be useless.
Yep, fully agreed. I had a dilemma when getting my first bike whether to go with a carb or a fuel-injected one. After seeing the kind of hoops I have to go through to deal with a carb one, it became a complete no-brainer of a choice. Going with FI pretty much gave me one more thing in a vehicle that I will literally never have to worry or think about with no practical disadvantages, and that's worth a lot to me personally.
> it should be obvious that there is much more to learn about writing or communication

Are those skills valuable enough to warrant a 500k usd loan? clearly not, or else they should have no problem repaying it.
That's the very dangerous game that Biden is playing with the SPR releases to buy Democrats votes, while simultaneously being very hostile to domestic oil and gas.

If there is any sort of supply disruption in oil domestically, it's going to be the perfect storm. OPEC+ will be all too happy to have "maintenance issues" that same week and boom, $300 barrels of oil for the US, a functionally empty SPR, and we get to witness that mix of incompetence, desperation, and power that results in catastrophic ideas.

For maximum devastation, this happens close to the Presidential elections.
As others have said, you're in a precarious position: working with pure tech debt for a business that clearly has no interest in addressing tech debt.

First thing would be to use source control and get some sort of code review/release process in place.

Contrary to other suggestions of "then write tests for everything", I think that's bad advice. It's far more likely that you'll pigeonhole yourself and your team on complicated and unhelpful tests, particularly with dead code and trying to enumerate all the features that aren't documented. 3 things you could do in a short amount of time to radically increase the code quality:

- Lint all the code (php-cs-fixer is a good tool, rector can also help)

- At least start dependency management (with composer), even if it's empty.

- Introduce static analysis into the code review process (phpstan/psalm, in a CI preferably). Baseline suppression of existing errors are easy to generate.

Then personally I would try and aggressively purge dead code, which is easier said than done. Tombs (https://github.com/krakjoe/tombs) is a little awkward but can be helpful, especially if all there is is production. It requires PHP 7.1, I'm assuming you're below that, but the good news is that every route is in nginx; you can upgrade PHP piecemeal.

Again, handling tech debt sounds like it will be nigh impossible at this company, but modern PHP is really enjoyable and I hope you're able to experience it.
Interesting observation. Need to reflect on this.

What else busdines does Meta have beyond FB, Instagram, Whatsapp?

I guess they are somehow wurnelable to search market problems(including regulations), but that won't make them collapse, just less wealthy. And they can start monetizing WA and Insta more agresively.

Perhaps your concerns are one of reasons why they are investing so much in metaverse.

Google on other hand has bigger hold. They have Hosting business(which is not profitable currently, if that is truth), and YouTube. If something happens with search business, YouTube would feed Alphabet. Also money from play store and licensing fees from android vendors. I bet, Google's investment in Android was great move. It makes them more secure than Facebook.
If they modify the COLA, they can let inflation take care of the social security bomb. I'm guessing they will adjust this next year, due to the elections this year.
which schools cost $500K USD?
Thanks for the alternate perspective. Haven't seen it yet but I always seem to contradict these bandwagon opinions on shows.
Can you imagine a degree that would be useless? Any degree?
My POV is that it's mostly corruption. They have plenty of money but are set up in service of the employee unions and bosses, not the riders or cities they service. Bart employees make obscene salaries and the system is very protective of their monopoly.
Humanities is not "reading and writing".

It's largely the process of developing and practicing critical analysis and how to effectively communicate it.

Yes, most humanities degrees involve a lot of writing about things written, but it's wrong (and patronizing) to say that the takeaway from the degree is merely the ability to read and write.

Effective communication is a thing a lot of STEM students have a deficit in, to boot. It's not a coincidence that they're the ones often brandishing the humanities as wasted effort.
CBDC (a type of State backed stablecoin) is one of the hottest topics of cryptocurrency today.
> While on the road, you can use your notebook to open a Gimp session on your home machine and edit an image stored there.

Have you ever tried this? I've never had X11 network transparency be a good experience.

It would be cool but to be good all apps would have to be designed with it in mind. And they are not.

The software moves on from X11 as a protocol for remote computing.

Even well before Wayland, all the things you'd use X over the network for were moved to web browsers.
All mirrors on a motorbike are for admiring your elbows.

To be fair, bar end mirrors, triumph style, work well.
Unless the originating IP address is a Google-controlled one, using Googlebot as a User-Agent header is (IME) generally no better than not sending a UA header at all.^1 If the goal is to make a server believe a request is coming from Google, then the request needs to be sent from a publicised Google-controlled IP address.^2

1. For many years I have had great results with not sending a UA header. It is also, IMO, an effective means to discover the true number of websites that refuse to fulfill a request in the absence of a UA header, which IME is extremely small. For that small handful of sites, one can send a "fake" UA header of one's choosing. sec.gov is an example of such a site.

2. http://developers.google.com/static/search/apis/ipranges/goo...
> Was the government going around saying how much money you could earn from a humanities degree?

Obama 2015:

"the single most important way to get ahead is not just to get a high school education, you’ve got to get some higher education. That’s why all of you are here."

"But you’re also here, now more than ever, because a college degree is the surest ticket to the middle class. It is the key to getting a good job that pays a good income -- and to provide you the security where even if you don't have the same job for 30 years, you're so adaptable and you have a skill set and the capacity to learn new skills, it ensures you're always employable."

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/0...
Wrong. A long phrase requires the user to keep the entire meaning in their head until the end.

Can you show us some "long readable phrases"?
It’s math. Imagine you are the SSA. There is tax revenue, and there are payouts.

Both are controlled by policies enshrined into law by congress.

One of the things that can and has been done to control expenses is raising the retirement age.
My father worked in addictions counseling and basically it pays nothing, is rampant with corruption, power tripping and general toxicity. So while the US does have these problems, unless you find it to be your calling to help folks like my father did in the second half of his career, the majority of competent people will steer well clear of these types of fields. It leaves a particular set of people behind, abusers and people who will be abused. My father is a good man and generally fell into that second category so as soon as he hit retirement age he got out.
> No one is going to think, “cool, they’re going to thrive with us because of their unique background.”

I think this, and it's something I factor into my hiring decisions.
> You should learn that in grade school.

Do you really think it’s reasonable to expect eleven year olds to write and communicate at the same level as a fully grown adult?
That’s true in general. There was a lot of disagreement over the scope of things like the Commerce Clause, Necessary and Proper Clause, etc.

I don’t think that’s true of the Second Amendment specifically. It was written by a bunch of men who had just used guns they had lying around their farms to form militias and overthrow their government. I don’t think it’s a great mystery what they meant when they wrote the Second Amendment.

Insofar as the prefatory clause causes one to stumble, it was a common construct at the time tk have a “why” or explanatory clause prefacing an operative clause: https://www.nyulawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/NYUL.... You read it exactly like you would read the following:

“Free political debate being necessary to the functioning of a free state, the freedom of speech shall not be abridged.”
To a certain degree that's revealed itself to be true (if self-fulfilling). Many jobs that don't require a college degree hire college grads because they can get them and these days not having a college degree is, similar to not having a job currently, a red-flag.
Apparently very useful degrees lead to the highly satisfying career of barely living wages as a post-doc with limited job security and work life balance, but do preach on about how useful the existing system is because $500k jobs are in finance and oil and gas, not STEM.
But psychology clearly don't pay enough to pay the loan back, so the degree is overpriced.
Enough sunlight falls on the earth every 2 minutes to power humanity for a year. Your assertion has no merit. Even if you have to desal or atmospheric extract water and then heat it, there is plenty of clean energy potential available.

https://www.ku.ac.ae/two-minutes-of-sun-enough-to-power-a-ye...

> “Every two minutes, the energy reaching the earth from the sun is equivalent to the whole annual energy use of humanity. All the energy … the cars, lighting, and air conditioning of the world … in one year is equivalent to two minutes of the sun,” said Dr Lamya N. Fawwaz, vice-president for Institutional Advancement and Public Affairs at Masdar Institute at the 22nd SolarPaces Conference.

(There are 525,600 minutes in a year)
In the past I've always found that the easiest way to bypass Cloudflare was looking up DNS history of their domain. Majority of servers will continue to respond off their IP directly.