skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem is that partisanship and racism made it OK to investigate left-wing and black leaders on spurious grounds.

The major trend in these comments is the FBI and the government were bad, and are still bad, and the only solution is to dismantle them, but these commenters are too late. Where were these revolutionaries in 1968? Hoover died in 1972 and so did his fascist policies.

But you nailed it. While the Civil Rights Movement was in full swing, institutional racism in executive agencies was still the rule rather than the exception.

I think it is interesting how that contrasts with minority member success stories in entertainment. In this[1] rehearsal take for a track on Franklin's debut album, we can hear fascinating avant garden social hieracrchy.

Remember that in 1960, even though first developed in the 1940's, multitracking was cutting-edge technology, and multitrack decks were still rare. The modern recording process of scratch track replacement and instrument isolation and separation hadn't yet been developed. Music performances were recorded live in the studio with all the musicians performing in the same tracking room, playing simultaneously together with or without being physically separated by gobos ("go betweens"). Franklin sits at a piano, playing and singing simultaneously, with her own single microphone, and the Ray Bryant Combo itself probably only had one microphone, with both ultimately mixed down to mono. There is no monitoring for the artists, no headphone mixes, and everyone still has to be able to hear everyone else, and Franklin has to play and sing above the accompaniment to be able to hear herself. Hammond speaks from the control room over a PA in the tracking room in deference to Franklin.

But what it is abundantly clear is that, judiciously but humbly so, Franklin is in charge. Columbia Records and producer John Hammond put a young 18yo black woman in charge of a band's and her own studio performances in late 1960," while 8 years later the government is still notably racist and paranoid.

In any regard, while institutional racism still exists in government, it is a shadow of its former ubiquity, except perhaps in unsophisticated rural sheriffs departments. In comparison of then to today, the FBI is now one of the more enlightened agencies, even with only about 20% of its agents minority members. Institutional racism remains, but it has become the exception, and racist policy and language and acts are held to scrutiny; participants are held accountable and extirpated from the ranks.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5tYO7eKt6A
> He called the idea of buybacks “ridiculously stupid”, adding that “the people running this event are horribly uneducated about guns, gun crime and the laws surrounding the regulation of guns”.

I can see that offering more money than the cost of production is ridiculously stupid, as it just leads to unlimited production. But how is it stupid when all offers are below cost?
[US specific] I am of the thought process (and I could be wrong) that we'll have a normal recession or maybe a bit worse and then the US economy will do what it has for the past 100 years and eventually return to normal. I think that the kind of people that post on online forums (like this thread and places like /r/leanfire) can be economic doomers and expect things to fall apart completely at any second.

Decrease spending, increase saving. Lower expenses means your savings goes even further. Once you do that, keep it that way even in times of prosperity. You'll probably be able to weather economic downturns. Even if the US economy were to never prosper as it has, knowing how to live on less is huge to a safe financial future.
As an individual citizen, that comparison isn't quite that ridiculous.
> Are displays particularly bad for zoom meetings?

The bandwidth of the conversation is a fraction of that IRL, gestures, mannerisms and directional audio allow multiple levels of communication and meetings are literally over twice as fast as a zoom call where only one person can communicate at once and every interaction has a perceptible delay.

Will VR solve this? Remains to be seen, but Zoom calls are bottom of the barrel in terms of communication and I'd literally rather wait a day and have the conversation IRL these days if that's an option.
A classic work is Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

It is free as in beer

https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/
What if one day we discover that bacteria sent from a distant star over here actually started life on earth?
A critical assessment of extreme events trends in times of global warming
... phone number use, lack of interoperability, keeping server source closed when it fits
Why oh why do you want to drive me away? Signal was and is the only messenger I use (one exception: WA with my mom).

First this wallet thing, now no SMS? Why not try to figure out a way to use encrypted SMS?
Show HN: Code of War – Satirical book about moving up the IT corporate ladder
Hello dear HN crowd,

I love when I stumble upon a developer war story in a random comment here on HN. I love it so much that I also wanted to share some of the stories I've collected over the years working in IT.

I came up with the idea to present the stories in a somewhat unusual way, in the style of the malicious self-help book. The book gives you advice on how to succeed in IT, from the interview phase to the management, by acting like an immoral, unscrupulous person.

The advice is based on experiences with some shady, weird people I met throughout my career. After every chapter, there's a short story about the person who was the chapter's inspiration. I've worked with those people, so everything is a first-hand experience!

This was my first attempt at doing something like this, so go easy on me! :)

One cool fact! I used entirely free and open-source software for the creation of this title. That's why I'll donate 10% of all the proceeds to my favorite free software projects!
> Governments are basically the mob

In exactly the same way that monads are like burritos. If thinking that makes it easier to start learning more about the concept, that's great. If instead it stands in for learning, that's bad.

On the other hand, I do have this strange desire to learn Spanish by claiming that Spanish is exactly the same as English. Then I'd take all the critiques as edge cases until I'm able to argue the same point in Spanish.
The comments here are so bizarre to me. I think this must be a USA thing.

I had no idea signal even supported SMS, nor do I know anybody who uses SMS
Over time Houston's land use code has gotten more restrictive to prevent close proximity of nuisance uses[1]. As for churches, they are very often allowed in residential areas regardless[2][3]. Houston's zoning regulations are still some of the most permissive in the country, but that's only relative to other American cities. Ever since the Euclid v. Ambler (1926), zoning in the US grew rapidly more restrictive, far more so than much of the rest of the world. The primary reason Houston doesn't look like Tokyo (with its more liberal zoning[4][5]) is that it still has a lot of the worst parts of zoning as the parent comment points out.

[1]: https://www.houstontx.gov/planning/DevelopRegs/ (see Ord. No. 2020-1092)

[2]: https://online.encodeplus.com/regs/fairfaxcounty-va/doc-view...

[3]: https://library.municode.com/tx/austin/codes/code_of_ordinan...

[4]: https://www.mlit.go.jp/toshi/city_plan/toshi_city_plan_tk_00... (japanese, pptx downloads, my japanese isn't good enough to navigate and find better documents, but if anyone knows of them that would be helpful)

[5]: https://web.archive.org/web/20071223082802/http://www.toshis...
U.K. Navy admiral: North Atlantic ‘salty’, water ‘cold’
The Age of Climate Industrialism
JSX is fair, though ugly. Every programming language has function and they can compose even better in nicer way. Also other ways of doing state rather Hook hack which is yet another external-tool coupling dependencies.
I don't understand.. opening on a new tab should do exactly the same as opening a blank tab, typing the address and pressing enter

In particular it shouldn't change the original page at all, that's the whole point!

Now, if the original page is the kind that updates in real time (due to accesses from other tabs or even from other machines), just use a web socket!
This is why natural language should add support for defining named variables.

Can we get that in the next edition of the standard?
>GuyA can put you down and you will stand and deliver, what incentive does he have to not keep pulling the same move, why would CEO care if it gets results?

Care to elaborate, please? GuyA can't tell me what to do anymore since that incident, I report directly to the CEO right now.
I don’t know why people are surprised by this. Sociology has the concept of Monopolization of Violence. In feudal times violence was undertaken by many institutions, but we as a society decided to monopolize it to reduce overall amount of violence a single individual is expected to face
That is a possibility but the last I checked it was not the case.
I've been a user for nearly 10 years and still only a few people in my circles uses Signal. If they go through with this, Signal is as good as dead.
If you are able to determine orbital parameters of planets we'll enough, that would be more than enough time to get much better pictures of exoplanets than any telescope.
Correct. That's why this game is 3D and not 1D.
Be amazing. Put in the extra work. Communicate delicately but with candor. Then ask for referrals from past roles and colleagues.
I think encouraging healthy emotional relationships among men is probably a better idea for society than the "the world is harsh and unpleasant so you must be strong" sort of rhetoric that I hear men tell each other on this website a lot.
They are enabling the ability to export SMS from signal now:
https://community.signalusers.org/t/beta-feedback-for-the-up...
Plumbing does not get any easier when you lose a dimension's worth of eyesight.
I haven't.

I have heard more republican outcry in response to Biden's student loan forgiveness

> A recent analysis by the Census Bureau said Black and Hispanic women could benefit the most from the one-time cancellation policy, as both groups hold a disproportionate share of education debt relative to their peers.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/09/27/lawsuit-...
Yeah I understand, there are certainly a lot of interfaces out there that are built on the web and because of all the JS they use, they can feel really clunky. The reason why using the web as a platform for this system is because it is — in my opinion — the most viable tool we have at the moment to build cross-platform apps and services that work on all modern desktop computers and mobile devices from the same codebase (that is, without having to go down the React Native or Flutter route).

I do consider performance issues with the web to be quite serious, which is why I've avoided large JS frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue etc. and have gone for a lightweight one that was made specifically for the project (mainly as an experiment). The results do show: the system is rather responsive on an original PinePhone (and I should imagine is really smooth on a PinePhone Pro due to its much better specs), and you can get to the LiveG OS lock screen within 10 seconds of booting the system in VirtualBox.

But yeah, I do see what you mean by the web being... clunky in general. You say about the web being "fragile" and "a house of cards built on shifting sands", and yeah, the culture around developing web services has largely been to use waaay too many dependencies to achieve simple tasks.
Wish it still worked...on a BRAND new VM.

GPG signature is valid.
** INSTALLATION FAILED **

The downloaded package seems to be more than a month old. Please verify that
your computer's clock is correct and try again. It could also be that an
attacker is trying to trick you into installing an old version. Please contact
security@sandstorm.io if the problem persists.

Hmm, installation failed. Would it be OK to send an anonymous error report to the sandstorm.io team so we know something is wrong?
It would only contain this error code: E_PKG_STALE [yes]
Sending problem report...
Submitting error report failed. Maybe there is a connectivity problem.

You can report bugs at: http://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm
An offline locally running office suite has very little value in a post-google docs world to corporations.
I feel old now that no one remembers the media pc fad. We shopped and shopped for one that would fit into our entertainment center and eventually just had to build our own...
I called my boss out for bullying. They held a "process", which from my POV was inconclusive. He had been shouting at me for joking with colleagues in the office - they were not called out. My colleagues all thought he had been unreasonable; when he yelled at me, a deathly silence fell over the whole room, and nobody spoke until knocking-off time.

I think the problem was that he wasn't a techie; he was a slick salesman (this was a small firm). I think I was undermining him by existing.

I actually liked the guy; my complaint was that he was being unfair.

A couple of weeks later, I told him I was planning to retire, which I did 6 months later.
You’re right, it ain’t convenient… but mobile hotspots already have batteries.
This analysis is so shallow it's practically Libertarian. It gets one surface level detail approximately correct: if water or carbon emissions cost more, businesses would work harder to reduce their use.

Analysis depth level 1: Where are the prices coming from? What are the incentives for setting them the way they are currently set? What alteration of those incentives would politically-powerful capital holders accept?

Analysis depth level 2: Is market allocation moral for resources that are needed both for everyone to survive and for a small group of people to become wealthier? How does that analysis change as survival for the non-wealthy becomes more difficult?

You can go deeper, of course. Many have. But just thinking about a few of these questions leads to far more cogent commentary than "capitalism isn't the issue".
> [W]e [...] grew from a small project to the most widely used private messaging service on the planet.

Really? More used than WhatsApp, Telegram or iMessage?
how is this 1d when there is a second dimension albeit small?
Right, your comment implies that you can't use e.g. Webstorm for non-JS development. You can, and it'll be a pretty darn good experience. Webstorm just happens to be optimized for web stuff, and there are other IDEs that are optimized for other things.

So the answer to, "what if my employer has a repo of language X and then a different repo of Y?" is: it's very likely not a problem, because the IDEs are not as specialized as you're clearly imagining them to be.
My favorite somewhat related research is using focused high energy ultrasound with microbubbles to open the blood-brain barrier enough to allow therapeutics to pass through. Ultrasound is an old technique that sort of went out of style but it truly is lot of fun.
This is terrible. Most of my social network is not yet on Signal, but using a single app for all my communication makes my life so much easier. Signal was always promised as the one-app that everyone could use even if their network was not using Signal.

Is anyone NOT inside Signal happy about this decision? Please comment if so, and why.
It's basically a 2D game but they replaced the width dimension with depth. Wolfenstein 1-D [1] is a true 1-dimensional game. The game is represented by a single straight line of pixels, and player movement is restricted to a single axis.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenstein_1-D
Lesser known Apple Watch workouts
> Step 1. Sign in using your existing device

That's possible, unless you are switching device because your previous one broke (or was destroyed/stolen/lost).

I imagine that Apple has very precise data about the reasons why (and situations where) people switch from iOS to Android, and making that switch as unthinkable as possible is part of their user-retention efforts.
Show HN: How to Build a Stable Diffusion text-to-image generator (OSS)
Signal seem to have adopted the "Decisions, not Options"[^1] route way too well, so don't act surprised.

This is why we need at least open source clients that can be forked when these decisions are made.

[^1]: https://wordpress.org/about/philosophy/
And it's still not "ad" free. They show all sorts of material that they can only license with ads in place in that tier.

And that's not even going into the whole "It's not an ad - it's a promotion for another one of our shows" crock of bullshit they pull.
Why, because sexes are not different from each other?

What's immoral is to state things that exist differently than what they really are, as if you know.

The real problem is most people don't have the understanding (or, otherwise, safe conditions) to accurately state the differences, but they clearly exist. Otherwise none of us would be here.
“Climbing a mountain” can include walking up a well-maintained trail at a reasonable grade as well.

There’s a guideline here to choose a charitable interpretation of other’s comments. Not the worst possible.
That's more like publishing a cryptographic hash, and then later when the answer is revealed, others can verify you knew it earlier.

Zero-knowledge proofs let others perform that verification before the full answer is revealed (and it might never be).
I mean I want to launch into the next phase of digitalization, I just don't want it to be this stupid.
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> Hell if you have a few dozen friends with guns you can actually stop the mafia from fucking with you for as long as they stick around.

Go try this in the favela near me and report back. The last group of locals that tried that were beheaded.

I'm beginning to think there's a time limit on relatively fair and effective states, as citizens slowly begin to become almost unbelievably blind to what actual criminal states are like and start dismantling their own institutions.
That's all well and good for the DOJ, which has virtually unlimited time and funding with an army of lawyers. No so much for regular Joe who is caught in the position OP discussed.

The threat of legal action alone is enough to scare _most_ people in this country because they simply can't afford it.
New applications would not target GTK 2, obviously. But that's not what you asked.

GTK 2 was EOL'ed many years ago, and hence will never have Wayland support nor CSD. But there are dozens of existing applications in Debian's repos that still use it.

Wayland is going to have an X server for the foreseeable future, because otherwise the overwhelming majority of GUI applications for Linux will not run there.
Democrats Spend $46M to Expose ‘Extreme’ Election Deniers
If a VC finds importance in a specific song and dance you find silly, I would take that as a signal of their market and technology understanding.

Some topics can be deal breakers, you don't have to marry the first VC you talk to, or court them all.
Morality gets grey with growing anti-consumer practices and shrinking regulation. Legally protected doesn't equate to moral. Sure it's good for the content creators to get paid, but by and large, they aren't the ones getting paid.
Flux (digital-receipts-to-bank) app is shutting down
Flux just emailed to say they’re shutting down. The app was an interesting concept, integrating retailers and banks so digital receipts could be viewed against transactions in banking apps.

The sad news comes just months after their CEO was replaced with Veronique Barbosa, who stated at the time: “Less than 5.6% of fintech CEOs are women, globally. That's insane. I'm proud to nudge that statistic forward in the right direction and to have a strong team of diverse leaders around me within Flux helping to do the much needed rebalancing around these stats."
This. I do have a Netflix Subscription because of family and I just got tired and got back to downloading stuff.

Now I just have a folder where I can find everything fine, and double click stuff.
Show HN: Managed hosting for open-source web apps
Why Apple Removed iPhone's SIM Card Slot [video]
People are raising really good points here, but I do find it interesting how negatively this news is being received vs. when Apple said the same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31643917
I agree. I've had employers that were sociopathic, weren't sociopathic but were such a mess that it was like being in a relationship with a heroin addict, and weren't sociopathic and cared (with actions, not just words) about my well-being beyond just my productivity.

Businesses are made of people. Businesses do bad and good things due to the decisions of the people involved.

If my bosses treat me with compassion and fairness, even in the face of hard choices, I'm going to reciprocate. If they don't -- and they treat me like a vending machine, for instance -- I'll also reciprocate (and might strongly consider switching employers, if I can.)
That doesn't seem that extreme if it is a large project. JetBrains products are more than just a text editor and tend to be pretty aggressive with RAM usage.
Yes, via an FD-302
lol it doesn't work this way. one person can't take it away from everyone else if it's, say, MIT-licensed.

person A taking code private causes exactly zero harm to person B.

this is why I say that viral licenses restrict freedom of users; they do not guarantee freedom to users.

The GPL actively prevents users from taking certain actions -- actions which do not and can not take anything at all from any other user of that code.
I suggested the parent consider the data shows bias instead of choice and the parent responded with an obviously outdated and generalized stereotype.

There was not reason in the parent's point, and I believe such arguments have no right to be treated as serious.
But it sounds like OP wants the flaw. If the company fixes it then OP will no longer have "full local access to [their] wireless security cameras without the cloud", so disclosing is directly against OP's interests. In that case it's probably best to just keep the flaw private to yourself.
I see the value in crypto, but as a chronological consensus, not as a currency.

I see the value in the metaverse, but as a cheaper lower fidelity alternative for the real world, not a more productive version of it. The metaverse as a replacement for the real world, IMO, will always be a cheap copy, and only suitable for things which in the real world are uneconomical, impractical or impossible.

Neuralink-style HMIs on the other hand I see as a potential alternative to working with computers. Who needs goggles when you're part of the machine?
This was one of the core features of using Signal for me. I wish they had implemented RCS and more features for SMS instead of removing it. I'm very disappointed with this feature.

As a side note, I'm on the beta, and recently got "Signal Stories". This immensely annoyed me, and had to dig through to remove it (since it wasn't obvious). After the whole crypto thing and these decisions, it might be time to find another secure messaging app.