skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Crystal is the future™

At least that’s what my hope/gut tells me.
> PKD took a long time to develop.

His personal life has some interesting events. But largely he was trying to feed his family by cranking out popular stuff. It's tragic how little he was recognized in his lifetime :(
What a weird ass article. Starts off innocent enough talking about how it turns out recycling plastic isn't that effective, but ends up being a way to launder the author's frankly bizarre crank viewpoints.

But why demonize plastic? Why ban products that are cheaper, sturdier, lighter, cleaner, healthier, and better for the environment? One reason: the plastic scare helps Greenpeace activists raise money and keep their jobs. Environmentalists need something to replace their failed recycling campaign.

But there’s more to it than just financial self-interest. The best explanation I’ve come up with is that plastic bans are a revival of the sumptuary laws formerly imposed on the lower classes by monarchs, nobles, and clergy.

The dull reality is that even though recycling isn't effective, disposable plastic is bad, as it ends up in the oceans and kills wildlife and it takes forever to break down (if ever?). Obviously this would lead some people to be alarmed and to try to think of a way to limit this very real problem.

Everyone involved here in pushing for recycling is well intentioned if unfortunately apparently misguided, but it takes time and study for people to discover that proposed solutions are actually ineffective.
I mostly agree, but:

>Liberal white people are ridiculously easy to guilt trip, and they keep falling for the same old shit time after time. It's pathetic.

More than anything, I wish people could speak/write about social/political issues without the spittle directed at whatever the highest level group is that their "enemy" group is a subset of (liberal, conservative, black, white, men, women, etc).
But only a few of them have taken hold over institutional decision makers.
It's the verified users that make Twitter relevant. Pushing them away won't go well.

There's a large number of people using Twitter professionally and all Elon comes up with is... pay for the check mark? The Twitter saga might be the thing that brings down his image as an entrepreneurial genius.
Just to add a little more context, copy-2-plus could circumvent copy protection.
https://archive.ph/gYSEG
Yeah, pretty similar. The difference would be that a Systems Administrator mainly "Administrates" (maintenance, toil, etc), which doesn't have to involve an Engineering discipline. An IT Operations Engineer would take on more Engineering work and not necessarily "Administrate". And the "Operations" part can relate to either Business Operations or Operations Management.
Yes, you are correct that specific situation require specific numbers.

I think the difference is that you can add evergreen content to the specific numbers.

But I guess if it is a daily 15 minute sales meeting for something like the number of sales made yesterday, it isn't going to require anything but numbers.

But maybe once a week or once a month, the sales meeting could address bigger issues. The "why's" and "wherefores" that are evergreen. These types of meetings can keep people engaged at a deeper level, rather than only look at numbers, where people can become disengaged and not motivated as much.

Does that make sense?
> he would have had to throw out of the window any pretense of clinging to the old ideals and to the rule of law. That would have destroyed everything that distinguished the Federation from an aging space empire that tries to keep itself together at all costs.

That sounds to me like an aging space empire who wouldn't exchange its pompous unearned claims of moral superiority for what could have been untold billions of lives. And apparently, in the end they were saved by the writers from the consequences of that action.
In that neither one is particularly useful, except maybe for immigration purposes? (I've got a patent, but not a masters)
I like physical buttons for many things.

But just to play devil’s advocate here: the benefit of the glovebox being software-controlled is that it enables features like PIN-protecting the glovebox contents, or Tesla’s “valet mode” where certain car features (including opening the glovebox) are disabled when you hand your keys to a stranger.
> Where I live, the ADA is also responsible for some of the large increase in home prices over the last 20 years.

Where exactly are you getting this from?
There's still remnants of scarcity in TNG. For example, technology and resources that can't be replicated and where trade is relevant still. And the amount of habitable planets suitable for colonization is also always somewhat limited. No clue how the Federation distributes "luxury" goods like naturally grown food or, famously, wine from Picard's family's vineyard.
> Because the kids that grew up watching the old Star Trek didn't see that future manifest

On the contrary: those kids are making the tech real (communicators & ever present computer acting as a digital personal assistant using voice communication)
I don't judge scientific letter literature with empathy. I can definitely empathize with animals, and I would even say my own cat has shown some behaviors as a kitten that stayed later on (like being easily scared).

Netflix's cat movie that was extremely narrativistic and meant for cat loving audience had more sound basis and plausible methodology to study actual behavior. (Like attachment tests).

This is simply not it. I don't care if it supports my preconceptions - I try to judge objectively. As should more people. This isn't "pushback against personhood of animals". This is pushback against an increasingly narrativistic science, and the inability of so many people to recognize it.
Why would an elite class of people or government want to collapse its own drinking water supply or financial system?
I would call the GMail situation pseudo-centralization. As it has more actual competitors who aren't just hosting but also actively developing their own platform it'd go back to decentralization.
Archive history (title version not yet archived): https://archive.ph/https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/10/30/w...
I did not mention Norway, or low crime countries, because the same applies for literally every country in the world.

Out of large countries except USA the ones with the highest incarceration rate are Brazil, Turkey and Russia, which definitely do not have "crime rate (and anti-sociality) near zero" but have literally twice as few per capita incarcerated people than USA, and all the moderate-but-still-high-crime countries like Morocco or Mexico or Malaysia have three times smaller incarceration rates than USA.

Unless you can make a good argument why USA has a twice larger proportion of people that simply cannot function in society than the abovementioned countries, I'll repeat my assertion that most people in USA prisons are not there because of this reason.
I loved Crunchbang, there was also ArchBang, which I used a few times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArchBang
https://archbang.org/
I got cold contacted through my public phone # a while back when I was actively interviewing and had my resume public. They had found me by looking up my employer at the time in LinkedIn. Reason being that we had used Datadog in the past but no longer were. It was honestly a bit creepy, but I gave them the time of day to ask me questions so as to not burn a potential bridge.
The subtitle is “Under pressure to generate revenue quickly…” so… under pressure from whom? I though Twitter was no longer publicly traded?
That's not cheap for the millions earning less than $200 a month.
The Common Lisp bindings to X11 [1] don't use C libraries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLX_(Common_Lisp)
I think it has more to do with the way Mastodon decentralised and I imagine the people who figure out to do e-mail as a platform first, will be the next twitter.

The big issue with Mastodon is that your "twitter handle" depends on the server you join, which makes it hard to find you. If it was just your e-mail address, however, then everyone would be able to find you, and keep finding you even if you decided to change servers.
Is this not the same as email? If you ran your own you could use your own domain. If gmail ran an instance you could use @gmail.com . Otherwise you're at the whims of your host shutting down, like when google nearly pulled free google apps, or when microsoft used to reclaim accounts that didn't use the web UI often enough.

I guess what's needed here is an ecosystem of "point your DNS at us and use your own domain with your hosted service" ala fastmail and other providers for email.
The ivy league admissions process is incredibly corrupt and broken.

I worked as the IT person in an top ivy league admissions department when I was younger and got to know the admissions officers very well.

There are many factors in admissions, but race is a very key factor. I remember one choice comment one of the admissions officers said to me ("If I see one more white kid from New York with a 4.0, I'm going to start throwing them straight in the trash").

None of the admissions officers were white, Asian, or Indian (as I was), and all were very comfortable talking about how they tried not to admit such candidates. After all, incoming classes need to have a certain percentage of specific minorities. Interestingly, because these schools look to raise GLOBAL leaders, those quotas must represent global race proportions (with a couple of exceptions).

The other revelation was the vast number of students admitted from "the list". A list of students whose application is pre-approved for admission by the dean. These are children of benefactors, employees, and teachers, and each of their close friends and relatives.

It doesn't sound so bad until you realize it amounts to about 20% of each incoming class!

Such students can only be rejected if the admissions officer writes a letter to the dean explaining why. None of the admissions officers had ever written one.

Of course, since most of the students on the list are white, they become the majority of white students admitted.
Lol being “color blind” went from being championed to deemed racist itself so quickly in the US
The Warren and Burger courts were dominated by liberals. Under Rehnquist and Roberts, SCOTUS has become increasingly conservative-dominated. If that conservative turn is “partisan”, why isn’t the same true for the liberalism which preceded it?

Many view the Lochner era (1897-1937) as being defined by “conservative judicial activism”. If the current conservative period is “partisan”, why not that earlier one too? But if the Lochner era is “partisan”, then partisanship has infected SCOTUS for well over a century.
> He seems to imply there's some deeper level of consciousness beyond just resting without thought or emotion in the present moment.

I’ve come to realize that all paths lead to the same state, including Christianity. Christian worship is a form of Bhakti. It’s all a matter of what fits your personality.
This isn't uncommon in TV series. How many I Love Lucy plots were recycled later on? All in the Family? I can go on, but great writing and plots are often reused later.
> just learn 1 thing (networking) on a few vendors (cisco, juniper, whatever)

Sure, if you're only motivation is money. To a lot of folks that sounds miserable.

> i feel like devops is just a bucket for lost souls who like tech stuff.

I don't understand...do you not like "tech stuff"? We're posting on hackernews here...
This seems very odd given that the previous discussion [1] seemed like adoption was increasing.

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=117805...
> First there was no such thing as race, then suddenly everyone was using race for everything, and now only white people can't use racial terms. WTF?

I don’t follow your first assertion. Pretty sure that an “Act concerning Servants and Slaves” aka the original Virginia slave codes first introduced “race” by way of limiting length and terms of indentured servitude for “white Christian” indentured servants. Under these terms, the acts then categorized “servants important and brought… who were not Christians in their native land” as slaves unless they converted to Christianity.

If that’s not explicit enough, the acts pretty distinctly name conditions for “negroes”, “Jews”, “Moors”, “mulattoes”, “Mahometans” and “Christian whites”.

Technically you are right that there was no such thing as race in American politics. But it was literally created by elites to divide working class former indentured servants, natives and Black freedman, ostensibly in response to Bacon’s rebellion where these groups found their common enemy in elites. So really it’s not that weird that things are as they are today in our political system.
It's important to say that if you fail to vote, the fine is R$3.50 or around US$0.66.
> 100% statically typed and explicit API using code generation.

Whenever I have to do code generation in my language of choice, I feel that the language should be able to do that without having to generate code. It's annoying to inspect and maintain and usually has quirks that I have to work around.

How do Go developers feel about that?
I’ve found the solution to this problem to be to attack the underlying physiology that is responsible producing these emotions (or lack thereof) without using any form of medication, ESPECIALLY anti-depressants.

Like many of life’s problems, my solution is simple but not easy. I drastically changed my nutrition (strict keto diet), exercise routine (1.5 hours of exercise a day, half of that high-intensity aerobic), disciplined sunlight exposure, and sleep optimization (no screens for 2 hours before bed, earplugs and sleep mask, no alcohol/drugs, 8 hrs minimum, usually get 9)

It sounds like a lot all at once but I found that incrementally adding things worked for me.

I used to contemplate suicide daily for a span of about 2 years and then eventually my feelings subsided naturally. Now I’m the happiest I’ve ever been and a lot of the external forms of gratification are coming along with it.
This article includes nice tours of SunView and OpenWindows.

Note that all screenshots are in monochrome. SunView on color monitors looks the same except for spot colors. But Open Look on color monitors switched from the crisp monochome line art here, to using shades of gray for more of a 3D bevel look.

It might bear mention that most of the OpenWindows tools seem to be done using the XView toolkit for the GUI controls, which was pixel-based, and crisp. PostScript of course could do vector drawing, but the vector-rendered Open Look controls didn't match that. When you only have a million pixels to play with, and and it also has to work on a monochrome monitor, pixel control is important for some things. So you might have the pixel-based usual GUI controls, but a subwindow in which you did vector rendering.

One noteworthy OpenWindows thing not mentioned here is that it started to support drag&drop. Tools (programs) had explicit visual drop targets, to indicate that they could receive a drag&drop.

The pinnable menus were an Open Look thing. The idea is that you'd have something like a Mac or Windows menu bar, and user could pin a pull-down/pop-up menu, and drag it to anywhere on their screen, to be like a flexible what later became called a toolbar. (We later saw things like that evolve into dockable toolbars, sometimes including in a return of MDI interfaces (one big window for an application program on the host desktop, and that program manages multiple "document" windows within it and dockable and customizable toolbars and persistent property sheets).)

It's sad that NeWS didn't become bigger. I heard a rumor in the early/mid '90s that Frame had invested in a NeWS-based implementation of FrameMaker, and got the rug pulled out from under them. But at least, as Sun was later dying, Linux and the open source around it (a different beast, but good) arose in its place.
> The practice of associative kingship – where rulers had their sons crowned during their own lifetimes – meant that many other boys became kings during childhood, even if it was several years before their fathers delegated any real power.

I wonder why they'd do that? I guess they aren't doing it to exploit the Crusader Kings
"prestige" mechanic.
The US has been recycling for a good 30 years now. How much more time should it take?

At some point, you have to question why we are separating our garbage when it all winds up in the same place anyway. Is it just a ritual to make us feel better? the article's conclusions are only logical.
The average wage gap is driven by billionaires. Poor blacks and whites are all....poor. And theres no need to measure the tallest midget even if theres a slight difference after you net out the .1% who drag up the averages for whites.
Yes. All of Earth would have had peace had they merely accepted the rule of Khan and his supermen.

... of all the deviations from Roddenberry's vision one could criticize Discovery for, I think this criticism fits least.

(They didn't "reverse" it so much as Osyraa died in the subsequent events that season and since the Chain was authoritarian, it collapsed without its mafia boss at the head. Dictatorships are such fragile things).
This is a digression, but in reply to:

> Twitter's original win was that it was staggeringly simple, just asking new users to post about 'what they're doing right now' and offering simple controls to reply, repeat, or express approval

Twitter originally was even simpler than that! Replies were just new tweets prefixed with “@user” and retweets were just copies of the source tweet prefixed with “RT: “. As these conventions arose Twitter eventually turned them into first class features. Also it was originally named “Twttr”, though that didn’t last too long.

Edit: and you mainly searched on hash tags (#tags) since full-text search wasn't very far along. Amusingly their search index on hash tags worked a bit like hash tables! Though I assume that’s entirely a coincidence.
For "Picard", I wholeheartedly disagree.

Supposedly, Picard was kicked out for a "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" level speech that pissed off EVERYBODY in Starfleet Command.

That they never showed.

You have an actor practically synonymous with Shakespearean scenery chewing and you never have him deliver the actual speech that supposedly kicks off the whole series?!?!?!

That should be an unending shame to the series writers.

Furthermore, had the writers created that speech, it probably would have created a much better series as it would have set up the boundaries of the world properly for the series writers to operate within.
Feels like we need to spread more awareness of more traditional, offline methods of organizing and protesting en masse, to avoid these kinds of exploits.
I don't usually have code that tests arguments and raise exceptions, in my code and in my customers code. As those code paths don't exist, we are not writing those tests.

If a method accepts only values >= 0 (eg, square root) we test that we handle negative numbers as the documentation of the API says. That should be the same in C++.

When we refactor the implementation of a web app endpoint we only test that the request still yields the response. Apparently this approach worked well enough.

If somebody sends a foo instead of bar, baz or quux they'll get a 500 with the error message in the documentation and that's it.
> By the time of the second gulf war, the F-14D cost 20% more per unit than the F-18E, and some 80-100% more to maintain. I'm not sure how you're concluding that the taxpayers were ripped off by that.

He/she isn't concluding that, they are repeating what they were told at the time.
Can you expand on b)? I'm not sure I understand why this would be difficult. If you already had a list of instances, as it seems like asynchronous clients could probably handle the scale of instances (source below list about 4k, which isn't out of scope for simultaneous async tasks), and processing the results is probably fairly simple. Especially if you were to cache that list and just do an updated request every few minutes (so not a new full-network request set every query) it seems like this wouldn't be too crazy complicated. Have I missed something?

[1] https://fediverse.party/en/mastodon/
Brings back memories of 35 or so years ago compiling C with Turbo-C 1.5 using the Tiny model to create an .EXE and then running the DOS command:

EXE2BIN program.exe program.com

Apps were super tiny doing this. Nice to see someone taking it to the extreme with Assembly.
You will be looking for jobs pretty often then.
Show HN: Alternative Tab Manager for Firefox
This is an addon.

I'm using it exclusively for tab management.

I removed the bar bar with css to rely only on this.

It has a bunch of convenient features that you might like.

So far I find it very pleasant to use.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/grasshopper-urls/
It's presumed legal unless there's a law against it, and since it's speech, protected by the first amendment, the bar for outlawing it is very high.
Although reading and mulling over it, trying to understand what it means within yourself, is a form of practice. It’s a kind of Jnana yoga.
At least in Brazil, not nearly to the point it's been in the last 6-8 years though. It's actually violent now.
Qbasic Gorillas Game
I do a version of this when cooking without knowing if it actually has a significant effect: In summer I pour leftover hot water from cooking down the drain right after I finish, while in winter I leave the hot water sitting in the pot so the heat can warm the kitchen.
It's pessimistic because most of the recycled materials goes right to the landfills with the other garbage. Meanwhile, we are consuming twice the resources just to collect the garbage.
Developer happiness, plus minimizing "pain score" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32216786
ahhh a bit of time travel to the mid-1980's ....love it
Is it fair to say that now if I follow you on any instance and then you are banned from that instance, I will continue following you and seeing your posts because your identity is owned by your self-hosted instance?
> Discovered 0 Twitter users on Mastodon
I use my 50mm on a Canon full frame SLR for video. It's really great for "interview-style" videos.
At the end of the article there's a little note: "This piece has been updated for clarity. An earlier version included an explanation that was off-base". I got curious and looked up the initial version on the Internet Archive, and it was that paragraph that changed in the most drastic way. The original said:

"AT THE COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW, we capitalize Black, and not white, when referring to racial groups. Black is an ethnic designation; white merely describes the skin color of people who can, usually without much difficulty, trace their ethnic origins back to a handful of European countries."

As you've noticed, this became:

"AT THE COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW, we capitalize Black, and not white, when referring to groups in racial, ethnic, or cultural terms. For many people, Black reflects a shared sense of identity and community. White carries a different set of meanings; capitalizing the word in this context risks following the lead of white supremacists."