skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I don't care what others think" always sounds like a coping mechanism, a last resort, an out-of-balance response to past insecurities and people-pleasing, as evidenced in this comment by dated references to designer clothes and fancy cars.

If I have a boss, shouldn't I worry about what they think of me?
If I have a spouse, a partner, a child, shouldn't I worry about what they think of me?

Now, I know, the usual clarification is about "not worrying about what people who are not your spouse, your child, your parent, your boss think about you" or "not changing our habits to fit in." Which, of course, is about as unfair as it gets.

Sure, if I'm invited to a fancy restaurant, I can show up in shorts and espadrilles because "I'm not going to change my comfortable clothes anyway, if they don't like them they can go for a hike," or maybe I could change my ways to fit in because I care what they think of me, not that they boss me around like a dog, but I understand that I live in a society, other people occupy the same space as me, we share what ecologists call a "niche." And I have opinions about other people.

Between being a sheep, a formidable animal by the way, and looking like an obnoxious "I don't care what other people think of me" character, there is a huge space in which one can live a life of independent thought and social awareness. It was called elegance.
Hi aaviator,
Thanks for your recommendation, I'll make sure to check it out.
> Do people really believe this is something that happens?

What do you think the point of making all those TV procedurals was? Jurors have been explicitly trained to care about "scientific evidence" to the exclusion of all else. Look at the Chauvin trial. Dude committed murder captured by a half dozen cameras, but the trial spent about 80% of time agonizing over nigh-irrelevant scientific evidence, because that's what the jury cares about.
They own the app store. The don't allow competing stores or side loading. They own the app certification and charge a fee for it. They don't license any software or permit VMs. They broke Flash and keep their browser a generation behind so anyone trying to deliver a good user experience needs a native app. They block data collection because it hurts Google. They've been anticompetitive for years and everyone just accepts it. They're as bad or worse than Google or Amazon but coast on their brand halo to get away with it.
Intraspecific fight. Small arms are a more difficult target to bite and tear off, so it provides evolutive advantage
>I’m waiting for the stock market to crash so I can hopefully buy a fewer things for cheap.

>Where I live, cost of housing and goods is insane because of big tech companies.

>My former employer is one of them,

This has real "you're not stuck in traffic, you are traffic" vibes
> an open-and-shut linked issue is still better than a bug fix with no associated issue at all

It sounds like your issue tracker is a part time documentation repository.

I think I view this as an anti-pattern because I look at the issue tracker as a shared collaboration tool for planning & tracking, not as a tool to document all code changes.

For example, if I were solo I'd probably never create an issue (or a pull request).
Participation would involve every nation. As a lower/middle income country, China would receive commensurate benefits from redistribution.

Significant collaboration would be required to mandate participation from all countries
So you agree speech can cause actual harm, in other words, and hence the disagreement is only over where the line goes with respect to actual harm.

Germany has drawn in by considering the risk posed of another authoritarian regime as an unacceptable actual harm of allowing certain kinds of extremist speech, other countries consider the reduced feeling of safety and security or mental health consequences of harassment and abuse to be actual harm.

The US de facto considers things like many forms of defamation or false claims to be actual harm given that it renders a free speech defence moot in many circumstances, so it is clear that even in the US this actual harm does not need to be physical or direct.

I don't necessarily think Germany has gotten the balance right, but it's incredibly arrogant to think the US interpretation of harm is the only reasonable one.
in what way are they entitled?
Yeah it's reasonable.
Worth noting that Seth Fiegerman, the author of this piece, has been a Twitter user since 2009. For people like me, who have been a Twitter user since never, it's hard to get past the fact that I really don't care what happens to the platform any more than I worry about the demise of Facebook or Linkedin.
> "obeying the law would not scale"

How can anyone argue against blocking ads when this argument is used literally in court as explanation for why they are unable to police the ads they're putting on their own platform?
just fyi i got very upset and retried again and... it works on https://www.youtube.com/c/JessicaSanchezOfficial/videos. they made youtube slower to load (which broke my extension.. i fixed it) but those queryparams still work.

the thing on the veritasium looks to be a new layout. trying to see if i can modify for it.

update: looks like a very opaque api request so i cant figure it out in the time i have for this. extremely sad.
I used both. Adguard Home is wayyyy better. More user friendly.
I heard that what typically happens in this situation is that one company pays the other a consulting fee. In this case Twitter paying Tesla.
Is that such a big news? we have a earth quake warning system in Japan for a long time. Works well, you receive an message and audio alarm on your smartphone usually a couple of seconds before the earth quake hits.
> if you really believed this you would not be using version control.
> P.S. I am assume you do, since you mention commits.

That's circular logic, at best. This is about the label given to "perfect" commit(s), for which someone has made an arbitrary qualitative list of attributes. The GP has a different qualitative list.
A lot of the mikrotiks around ~20w are actually not providing as many >1gb ports as the used equipment or mikrotiks that also use around 40-50w, so if you actually need many fast ports the older equipment might be a better deal.
Yes.

See that's the thing about actual competition is a price can be determined by the market, especially in the case that you have many players rather than a duopoly. In my case Apple could charge whatever they wanted, 30%, fine. But me the app maker could go to the A+ store and pay 10% instead.
It's just another thing to add to the pile that should make anybody question why on earth people think he is a genius.

The mythos he has created around himself is comical and it's mind-blowing that anyone actually believes it. He literally spends his entire day trolling on social media, yet people think he's out there solving the world's greatest engineering problems.
Twitter is going private Nov 8
Proof is in the pudding. They have like a 40% profit margin. They are not just keeping pace with the cost of innovation. They are charging the absolute maximum the market will allow and squeezing suppliers for every nickel because no one can stop them.
If something else came up is not allowed it means you need a perfect plan that survives contact with reality. This is possible for short tasks perhaps but not an entire team for 90 days.

If they have completely ignored company priorities that is bad but often it is some technical glitch has come up that moving a box 1px to the left really wasn’t as easy as first thought.
MAME has always confused me with its mode of operation. Why is there a game list with specific required hashes built into the code? Why refuse to run an unrecognized version of a game?

Most other emulators seem to just try to emulate whatever you happen to give them.
I leave all the commits in without squashing, but filter to only show merge commits
I'm not saying you're wrong, but it's kind of weird to hold up the largest restaurant chain in the world by revenue as a baseline for what most restaurants can afford.
A predator following migratory preys could need a way to carry eggs and hatchlings, yup.

Another possibility is using them as a safeguard to feel or gather eggs and small t-rexes when laying the heavy body to incubate so they don't crush them.
Most developers add new features by modifying/adding to an existing code/repo most of the time.

Hell even when you create new project, a lot of development environments provide basic scaffolding, that you then modify (or sometimes remove 95% of).
Because if you tried to actually police this then everything in life would grind to a halt. It would be like expecting the government to deal with every single crime.

It's particularly problematic when a business is providing a platform for other entities to post a message. We don't hold the post office liable for transferring copyrighted/trademarked content, do we?
> where he spends an unusual amount of time

Looking at the author on twitter, they've made 20,000 tweets, with only 18,000 followers.

That's more than Musk, with 111 million followers.

Both joined in 2009.
Yeah, I didn't know about halteres but just looked up the image! Here's something on changes during T. rex growth: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3192160/
Yep. There is a cottage industry of exec TC package negotiation.

For high income engineers, I recommend they find a salary negotiation coach and an IP attorney.

I consulted with an excellent and professional entrepreneur behind thesalarynegotiator.com and found a software and patents IP atty in East Texas. Also, UpCounsel has excellent atty's.
Leatherman Wave, amazing little multitool. Would be my EDC if it weren't illegal to carry around an EDC with a blade.
I think so. If apps could do their own payment processing and still decide to use the apple one, it means it was a fair deal. Rather than it being forced on them.

The problem is large companies bundle too much market power together. If you want to avoid paying App Store fees currently you have to pull off a Herculean effort no company in existence is capable of.
The technology behind Twitter, aka how to distribute messages in real-time no matter if it's someone barely a dozen people follow or someone like Trxmp with hundreds of millions of followers, has been long solved. That is the secret sauce of Twitter (in addition to network effects).

Everything else is plainly a matter of presentation/product whatever you wanna call it. And Twitter has been going downhill there for a looooong fucking time.
Though I'm not a fan, I suspect this will be the new standard, kinda like self-checkout at the grocery store. Hated it at first, but now the idea that somebody is going to scan my groceries just seems annoying and antiquated.
So reticence deserves a 20 year sentence taken down to 5? Are you sure it wasn't just inflated to 20 years to push people into taking the 5 year sentence?

first degree and second degree are two different charges, which obviously should have two different sentences. What I am talking about is that the sentence for the same crime goes from 20 years to 5 if you waive your rights. How can the punishment for the same crime vary by that much? Why is there so much written about the trial tax?

How is it voluntary and not coerced to threat someone with 15 more years if they don't sign a plea? If I threaten to lock you in my basement for 15 years if you don't sign over your car's pink slip, is that coercion? But when it's the FULL WEIGHT OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT threatening me while I am 100% under their control and authority, somehow that is NOT coercion?
This is why I follow a rebase-then-merge approach. The commit graph looks like this:

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Each PR is neatly delineated, and I can quickly follow things at coarse-grained level (follow only the left parents; there's even a `git log` flag for this) or at a fine-grained level.

This isn't just pretty -- this has been actively helpful to me many, many times. I can `git bisect` into a merged PR to more precisely identify where an issue arose, and `git rebase` onto intermediate commits instead of jumping all the way to the end if I find a whole PR to be problematic to rebase past in one go.
It's an idea that its been attempting to get me seriously interested /g for a while now. I didn't wish to assert novelty (but to date haven't found anything).

The general idea is pretty straight forward, you have a ~fixed size chunk of (virtual) memory that active memory objects reside in. Garbage and very rarely used references get flushed to disk. Presumably, if the operating memory requirements (i.e. active objects) are met by available Ln cache layer, this should be a viable alternative to 'collecting garbage'. We're trading the overhead of tracing/ref-counting with the cost of cache mechanism. If cache is tiered, then the 'garbage' & 'rarely used' objects will end up in nice VM blocks that OS will flush to disk. One approach basically requires the use of one annotation at language level to distinguish 'long lived' objects.
Negativity Bias, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down
This is a great statement! I think it’s a privilege to work on something you’d put your own money into, and have conviction about. I’m happy that you have found that thing.
I tried to read this to see the "establishment" view and honestly it's worse than I would have even though. Can you imagine saying "Musk joins the list of rich, white men who single-handedly control social platforms that collectively reach and shape the lives of billions of people..." in an adult conversation. The whole objection to Musk buying twitter is he's introducing an alternative to the mainstream SV tech viewpoint, yet somehow this gets spun as the exact opposite (with some casual racism thrown in).

I think there is lots of room for analysis about why the acquisition could be bad. I don't see any of that here, just some lazy strawman arguments and tired talking points. Even for CNN I expected better
The size and scope of their influence just changed by quite a bit. Don’t try and just pretend this is no different to a month ago.
Danaher, their patent, is many times larger (and significantly more diverse) than Pantone which was acquired for $180m in 2007. Adobe should have acquired them then. Assuming no growth they would be worth around $250m now. Well within the reach of Adobe.
I think politicians might even be willing to try to do that, but I doubt that regular people would be on board with that. This would most likely involve permitting a lot of things in society that we consider immoral right now (or at least objectionable to some extent).
It is, by most accounts a worse vrchat, and on a dying, largely despised url. VR (moreso AR) has a future, meta (in any form similar to how it currently exists) most likely does not.
>Suppose they did support and voted for their representative, and that representative voted against ratification, but the legislature still voted to ratify. Does the ratification then meaningfully represent all residents of the state?

Yes. That is the way some representative democracies work. Your representative may not have voted for something that passed. Your representative may not have been voted for by you.

I understand wanting changes to it, but you still are properly and meaningfully represented in my view.

>I don't think so, but I can see how others might take a different perspective here. It doesn't really matter to the point I was originally making, though - if 40% of the population can rewrite the constitution over the heads of the other 60%, it's still badly broken.

It is only broken if you think people are supposed to be making the decisions. In the past some state legislatures would vote for the president not the people. Prior to the 17th amendment the states were represented by the senators. The states are the ones who decided many of these things, not the people. There has been a shift in the US pushing more and more for the people to directly have more power, but that isn't the way the system was set up. It isn't broken when you think about it from that perspective. The people don't change the constitution, the states do. The states are the ones who formed the Union so they are the ones who can change it. The US is quite unique in that perspective.
Is there a performance/weight comparison between this and Pi-hole? Is AdGuard lighter weight or more bloated compared to Pi-hole?

Curious both about load on the raspberry pi and how long it takes browsers to fetch pages
Yeah I agree. The only person who made total sense was Luo Ji and even he went like completely ballistic by the third book. The female character sucked so hard, I doubted if the author had ever written a female character before. It was Asimov levels of bad.

The societal descriptions were truly amazing though. Coming out of the despair and decline with some false hope that humanity’s physics was good enough to face off and then absolutely getting their ass handed to them in a conflict with what was essentially something less than a messenger probe. I’m absolutely convinced this is what we will do as a race in such a situation.
Here's a good overview of this technique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlL6ZHChhQE
I use WireGuard on OPNsense (FreeBSD-based router appliance) and clients on macOS, iPhone, iPad, Android, Linux, and Windows. It's easy to setup and Just Works(tm). Throw away your AnyConnect, Tunnelblick (OpenVPN), and such.
mitmproxy would not really be helpful for what you describe, this sounds like she is confusing it with some other software/stalkerware.
That is the perfect merge commit onto trunk/main. Branch commits can be chaotic if needed. The commit is then the unit of “walkawayability” a checkpoint where if thing get screwy they are happy to revert to.
Love NextDNS and it is my current choice, but it appears that the big difference between the two is that NextDNS does not provide a way to self-host the DNS server.
The problem I find with the smug tone, is that to me, the story is eminently plausible.

In college I played in a club rugby team. Everyone who was on the team had to pay dues, and one of the things the dues paid for was our coach. Now I understand the big differences between being whipped by an overseer and having a coach make you run wind sprints, but at the same time there is a similarity to outsourcing this unpleasant activity to an outsider who will do it at arms length.
Lead acid batteries have much lower life cycles. Often around 300 cycles at 80% depth of discharge. True, bulk does not matter. But replacing your batteries every year absolutely does. That's why most battery storage projects use lithium batteries.
Crazy idea...

Let them refill ships like these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMA_CGM_Jacques_Saad%C3%A9 at sea! While https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_steaming

Like aerial refueling for military aircrafts, where the tankers are circling back and forth along the traffic patterns in the air!
https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/products/lexis.page

Start reading cases and judgements. I think you will find discomfort in how things really work.
Not really. It only gave really gave an advantage in 2-3 courses. The rest was basically applied math.
Then your business is not actually scalable.
This is specifically mentioned in Buddhism as one of the ten hindrances, "sīlabbata-parāmāso," attachment to rules and rituals. In Christianity, this is similar to the idea of works-righteousness which was the basis of Martin Luther's Protestant Reformation. In either case, spiritual practice would be meaningless without passing through the messiness of life and learning from mistakes rather than dwelling on them.
The advice "I don't know" sounds good, but without further qualification it just sounds good.

Examples are my boss and their boss, who instead of saying "I don't know," would sell you their plan for nuclear fusion despite knowing fusion only in the context of fine dining. Many politicians are also allergic to "I don't know," but they continue to get elected, many journalists have no clue but continue to write for major newspapers. They don't say "I don't know," they write while not knowing, but without mentioning it.
You said this on the HEVC for Chrome thread, and even now I still don't fully agree with it. While some of these solutions may be technically superior in certain aspects, that doesn't mean everyone will drop what they're doing and implement support in hardware and software today because the folks managing these codecs (aka the patent pools) make life miserable for anyone trying to do so. Why bother with vague terms, definitions, royalties, and risk of lawsuit when you can have a solution that works nearly or just as well without all those problems?

AV1 is a great video codec and when paired with a modern software toolset (like SVT-AV1) or, for today, latest gen hardware it's not really an issue. The age of the ecosystem is really the only practical drawback, with a lack of generally efficient software and widespread hardware support that other codecs like HEVC have had for several years. Opus is also a great audio codec that has seen successful adoption across streaming platforms and the vast majority of people wouldn't be able to tell the difference between Opus, AAC-LC, and MP3 without blatant artifacting.

I have no problems with the technologies you mentioned themselves, they are all amazingly advanced and can open a lot of doors for high quality, efficient data transfer and media consumption. But the tech is only half the story; if you have people acting as ridiculous gatekeepers then there's no use complaining about the lack of adoption as it's falling on the ears of people who only care about one thing: money. The patent pools are looking to make money, the implementers are looking to save money. Take a guess which one end-user consumers are going to end up with most of the time?
History is useful because blame often get’s it wrong. So it is a manual blame.
I empathize with this position: there are a lot of people out there who are discovering that they don't really own the content they've paid for, because they're tied to electronic ecosystems they have no control over.

That being said: I don't think the world is necessarily a worse place if (1) everybody's devices are more secure, and (2) consumers are a whole are disincentivized from buying into ecosystems that fundamentally don't respect their rights. At the risk of sounding like the luddite you mentioned: maybe we really could use a little separation between technology and literally every other domain of our lives.
You have just described the whole software industry.
In Chromium-based browsers, you can do it in Dev Tools > "three dots menu" > More Tools > Network Conditions > User Agent > "Chrome - Windows"

This worked for me and I was able to watch a movie last night in Disney+, using Brave Browser on Ubuntu 22.04.

The only problem is that, unlike the one in Firefox, this is not a permanent setting, it's only applied to the current tab.
It's importance is overblown only because Donald Trump made it the de facto nexus for White House communication, because he considered the press his enemy, and because the far-right fringe of his followers turned their bans into a moral crusade against a fictional conspiracy of political oppression being waged against them by the platform and its ostensible Deep State cancel culture agenda, which was then normalized within his party, to the point of driving debate and potential legislation.

Before Trump, Twitter didn't matter much, even though plenty of journalists and other notable people were on it, including former Presidents.
NB if you're just skimming the article's bullets: Grimes is referring to a Morgan Stanley banker, not the artist who is Elon's ex.
Seems to me that's more of a problem with those that convey an inflated meaning to CEO than those using the title.