skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this isn't my full time job.
My dad and my grandpa worked for unions for decades, and they are the hardest working people I know and take great pride in that.
Coercive speech is a point of concern, but that does not mean that all speech by people at the FBI is coercive.
Even that might not be entirely safe, as Schrödinger's behaviour has only become widely known in recent years for example. (Although he died around 60 years ago, so not quite 100.)
Lobbying (bribing?) politicians is why they won't fail. They are like IBM, MS wouldn't hesitate to collaborate with Nazis if they have to. They surveil population on behalf of governments, existence of Windows 10 China Government Edition is evidence to why all Windows is essentially spyware.
A competence gap is a very polite way to put it. In Britain we live in
an inverted meritocracy which rewards smug stupidity, elevates
bullshit, while punishing and marginalising our most talented people.

I thought this was going to be another cynical Economist hit piece
like the earlier "Europe not pulling its weight" [1] but was surprised
how on-the-money it is. Some well chosen quotes;

"A family with the wrong members in control" wrote George Orwell of
the English.

Or, a country that "institutionalises lying" ruled "by chancers and
cranks" sums it up nicely. We've had a profound leadership crisis in
Britain for several decades now, and it's not just party politics.
It's endemic to all institutions and industry. We positively celebrate
corruption because we mistake it for power.

We keep selecting incompetents to lead, in all areas, because we
confuse their psychopathic cunning with "leadership". I believe that
the recent visibility of "imposter syndrome" is tactical smoke to
distract from the fact that there really are an extraordinary number
of actual imposters in charge everywhere. Are they're getting
scared? Exposure is coming.

George Carlin put it best I think. He said the definition of real
terror is waking up in mid-life and realising that all those pricks
you went to school with are now running the country. But yes, it's our
fault. We built a system that selects for them. And we continue to
allow it to stand.

What worries me is that, if tomorrow our country came to its senses
and asked genuinely competent people to take the helm, it would
already be far, far too late.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=33992393
> There are a large number of people who would never want to have a private conversation or meeting using Facebook infrastructure

Seriously, this is a really dense comment from previous poster. Sure people don't like the idea of a dedicated hardware appliance with camera and microphones from Meta but the idea that folks are so paranoid that they won't use any of Meta's private communications systems or infra is beyond out of touch with reality.

I had a couple models of Portal. Really useful products but they literally didn't iterate on adding features fast enough and they locked it out from the existing Android ecosystem. Too complacent IHMO. On top of that the built-in browser was a purposely limited version of chromium that seemed like whatever the custom user-agent was would just cause problems with all sorts of web-apps especially Google's (couldn't even sign into YouTube etc, got "unsupported browser" errors all the time).

The Portal TV is still the only good Consumer Home TV based VC system I've ever used (so good that its the only Portal device Cisco wouldn't ship WebEx on probably because it would be too competitive against their own hardware I suspect is the reason).
I have to agree with GP. This feels like an effort that should be led by openstreetmap foundation.

This reminds me of the Mozilla foundation side quests and their inevitable lack of focus.
When lowering the hardware brightness (either through the monitor OSD or through DDC), the voltage of the LED backlight gets lowered and thus the LEDs get dimmer and less light passes through the crystals. Polarization doesn't come into effect here.

What you're describing happens when lowering the brightness through software (either Gamma adjustments or a dark overlay) because in that case you're only changing the software pixels to be darker.

Although even in that case, newer miniLED/quantumDot LCD screens also lower the LED brightness when pixels get darker, because they have more granular control and dimming an LED doesn't cause shadows over a large area of the screen anymore.
Any time I hear the claim that people are against their best interests it does not quite make sense to me. My own observation leads me to believe that everyone is good at optimizing for their own priorities.
I tend to agree but would be happy to be proven wrong by more knowledgeable folks in these comments.

However I assume here we are talking about dotted lists and not ‘proper’ ones?
Unions are anti-immigrant.
So you are saying there is nothing wrong with a country where a few own everything and everyone else doesn't even have access to healthcare?

> In fact, people try to flee countries who implement that sort of resource allocation.

Yes, rich people, lol. People who GET access to things like housing and healthcare remain.
How can closed source software ever prove that the communication on the wire is actually secure?

I guess since gmail is JS on the client side, some smart programmer can unpack the code and show that the crypto is sound.

But until then it's only claims
> What does inequality mean in this context?

Everything going to the top, and nothing going to those on the bottom.

> The USSR, North Korea, and Cuba all have/had lower levels of inequality than the west...by making everyone poor.

Seems like your examples also have things going to the people at the top.

A comment from a few years ago that I saved:

> If we suppose that the goal of society is to produce the greatest utility, and that the utility wealth provides an individual is sub-linear (i.e. twice as much money makes you less than twice as happy), then inequality is inefficient resource allocation.

> However, we also suppose that some level of inequality can lead to greater productivity, and thus greater utility overall. The question is then what level produces the best outcome? […]

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14505342
It's ironic that crypto exchanges need to use accounting firms for audits when the whole point of a blockchain is to account for things.
Thank you. I get the feeling that MS is not too interested in the desktop at all though.

I can see the money is in the cloud and I don't complain from my KDE desktop, but from a distance it looks quite radical to see them throw their crown jewels into the river.
Good! I’m not saying you cant be a hard worker and also in a union, or even that a pro work union couldn’t exist.

I’m saying my experience with unions is that they’re anti work, and pro PMC.
According to the article, they have demonstrated the generation of a signal with the frequency of 3 THz, and the switching time is under 200 fs (exponential edge with a time constant of 70 fs).
Fair enough. For a startup considering committing to an ISA for low level development, would you say RISC-V is no riskier (har) than ARM? Despite, as you say, very little HW being available?
Great engineering feat but it was a dumb idea to begin with. Just like sending people to Mars. Luckily nobody died, excluding the fish of course.
> It is not only overly polite

this is a deliberate goal of OpenAI's training, not an emergent feature of the underlying technology.

> constantly wrong

how close to right do you think it gets with the "Three Pints of Guinness" explanation?

i would have given full marks for and additional comment like "it's considered funny because the man himself claims to have quit drinking but he actually continues to do so via the tradition"

nevertheless, it does a remarkable job of parsing the structure of the joke and conveying this parsing via natural language.

to me, my "additional comment" looks like just a further iteration on presenting this parsing. i would say it gets very close to "completely right".
I think there’s a tipping point when purchasing articles individually becomes less attractive than paying for a single subscription even if it’s possible to spend less overall.

There’s interface friction associated with making a payment (clicking a button, entering card details / authorising with Apple Pay) but there’s also decision friction: do I want to spend $1 on this article? I think if someone is buying multiple individual articles per month from a publication, and thus trusts the publication is worth reading, then a subscription offers a compelling benefit — no more thinking, just reading!

Subscriptions can also offer other benefits: as you say, bundling is a way to increase perceived value, but it can also increase real value, if the publication understands the needs of their readers and bundles valuable things. Access to content earlier is a very common pattern employed across media subscriptions nowadays!
There was a previous comment about the "native population" that is now marked dead that I wanted to respond to. The commentator really needs to read Defoe's "True Born Englishman". I offer a quote that is a little longer than the usual given:

The silent nations undistinguished fall,

And Englishman's the common name for all.

Fate jumbled them together, God knows how;

Whate'er they were, they're true-born English now.

The wonder which remains is at our pride,

To value that which all wise men deride.

For Englishmen to boast of generation,

Cancels their knowledge, and lampoons the nation.

A true-born Englishman's a contradiction,

In speech an irony, in fact a fiction.
> RISC-V cannot become the dominant ISA

I absolutely want RISC-V to succeed but there is a difference between wanting it to succeed and wanting it to become 'dominant' or a 'lingua franca'. I find it a bit unnerving that to 'dominate' other ISAs is something that is being discussed.
They return the same probability distribution.
Sniffnet is on its way to be a Wireshark clone written in Rust
Why would the CEO be my enemy? A specific CEO maybe but that is a very broad claim to make.
I think this also sums up his weakness though in a megacorp like Meta. He's technically brilliant, and that can go a very long way. But in a large corporation, technical brilliance is secondary to excellence in leadership.

I remember reading an article in the '00s or '90s about how Id worked, and it just seemed not very scalable beyond Carmack.

And while he his companies have had great success, other '90s era peers - Valve and Epic - are on a whole other level today. Technical brilliance brought his company far, but it can't bring you to those heights.
Because those countries have planning systems which put planning authority in the hands of local govt. It is nothing to do with the language they speak but fairly obvious consequences of how the system is designed.

All the UK needs to do is un-delegate authority for planning to local govt. I think it is accepted, amongst those advocate for this heresy, that local areas need to retain control over the design of houses (this is something that doesn't work today btw). But the structure of the system needs to change: if you buy land, you can build whatever you want on it.

Wherever local govt has had a say on this kind of thing, it has created massive societal costs. The solution is obvious.
Personally I feel about Scheme's distinction between false and the empty list the way Schemers feel about CL's distinction between variables and functions.
> But, should some groups of workers be able to impose on everyone that they must join their association in order to be a worker at X company, or an actor, or something? No, I don't see why.

We then get into:

> In the social sciences, the free-rider problem is a type of market failure that occurs when those who benefit from resources, public goods (such as public roads or public library), or services of a communal nature do not pay for them[1] or under-pay. Free riders are a problem because while not paying for the good (either directly through fees or tolls or indirectly through taxes), they may continue to access or consume it. Thus, the good may be under-produced, overused or degraded.[2] Additionally, it has been shown that despite evidence that people tend to be cooperative by nature, the presence of free-riders cause this prosocial behaviour to deteriorate, perpetuating the free-rider problem.[3]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-rider_problem
Not the OP, but the mishmash of icon styles in the default installation and the oversized titlebars I find amateurish to say the least. It really puts me off. Bizarrely, as a Mac user, I prefer the look and feel of KDE.
"publishing public radio data" could mean just about anything. Your phone constantly broadcasts it's serial number and location to everyone near you, would you therefore consider your location to be public information whenever you move around with your phone?

Some people still use unencrypted wifi networks, is their traffic "public"?

What about baby monitors? Do you think that unencrypted baby monitor traffic is "public" in any reasonable sense of the term?
Where can we follow the development of this new project?
That’s just not true for every child. Children are not so reductive.
Better title (which I attempted to submit) might be “Couple in Car Survive 300-Ft Fall Into a California Canyon (iPhone 14 satellite)”

The couple in question are insanely fortunate.

Aggro driver in white Mercedes should be prosecuted if she saw couple go over cliff’s edge.

> Mr. Zelada, 24, a Honda sales consultant, said he was not sure how the couple had survived. He said he remembered gripping the steering wheel as the car plunged into the canyon, and Ms. Fields said she remembered him saying as the car fell: “We’re OK. We’re OK. We’re OK.”
I remember when I wanted to get into C# desktop app development years ago and it was either WinForms or the newer WPF. I chose WPF and it took a while to get a hang of it (mostly I had to either import some libraries or create some common ones to handle variable updates through UI bindings). Unfortunately, WPF always felt unfinished and missing many QoL features. I was hoping they would further refine and make it easier to work with but I guess it was never meant to be.

Windows 10 was coming around corner with UWP being pushed as the big desktop app SDK. Then they ditched that because people just didn't like Windows Store and how they did the apps on it (I also wasn't big fan of it). Then everything went to extremely resource-hungry Electron. Now there is .NET MAUI and and some general WinUI framework [1].

I am utterly confused what is happening with UI development on Windows ecosystem. On rare occasion I want to develop desktop app, I have used Avalonia UI [2] which seems to be something more stable than what MSFT churns out every year or two, can highly recommend that.

Either way, they are really destroying Windows ecosystem by pushing out new framework every few years that always feels half-finished before they move on to the next one. This is, of course, on top of Windows versions in general with how they pile new half-finished UI reworks that just keeps piling on insane amounts of technical debt and legacy for future maintenance.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/winui/
[2] https://avaloniaui.net/
What? In fact, crypto is the easiest thing to audit - require the person that claims to own a wallet to sign a challenge you provide with the public key, and check if the signature matches with your challenge and the public key of the wallet and the wallet's balance from the public blockchain matches the claim of the auditee. And you can completely automate this without having to involve a third party like a bank.
Is Slack really the problem? To me it appears that you need to agree on a more structured process on how to manage workload and communication, i.e. a ticketing system with clear expectations upfront.
I mean Americans are paid far more highly than Europeans, so I don't see how this is correct.
I came up with 15 million acres of panels would provide all the US energy needs. We currently have 39 million acres of corn dedicated to putting ethanol in our gasoline.
Drupal is great and gets better with every release! It was a tough time making the technological leap from the D7 to the D8, but now it just evolves.
Hasn't your bet already been beat in concept by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r ?

He is a chess teacher who decided to train his daughters in chess from a very young age. What do you know, two of them became the first and second best players, with the best being considered the best woman chess player of all time. Unlikely that they somehow just all got chess genius "genes" from him.

It really does seem that heavy investment from a young age by a good teacher can work wonders.
You want empty lists because you can't iterate a null. So an empty list should be an empty list, otherwise it will require special code to check for the null case.
Back in 200X, a graduate student acquaintance of mine had, for a research project, written a browser extension which transparently (as I recall, GPG) encrypted your emails in Gmail to people and decrypted those from them. I recall how pleased he was demonstrating it to people, and how much smoother and simpler it was than integrating GPG manipulation in your separate mail client.

All that to say, this is something at least some people have thought would be useful for some time, and it's nice to see some people getting access to that functionality.

(Now work for Google, not on anything remotely related to Gmail, remarks are my own, etc etc.)
I don’t know, I see it with the children around my family all the time. They’d rather play with one another then sit around on their phones. You’re
not giving the children enough credit :)
Do you slap down a 20 when you come into the gym or when you check out a book from the library? Are those employees not in the same boat?

How do you feel about business owners dodging payroll and taxes by foisting those payments into you?

I'm 100% in favor of proper compensation and living wages. I'm 100% against the idea that patrons should be guilted into being the ones to be responsible for that.
I wonder how feasible would it be to support a fork that added that feature. It seems self-contained enough to not require any public API changes. Just building the GTK source with some flag would turn on that feature, and dynamically linking against that GTK lib.so would make the thumbnails view accessible to the user.

Did anybody care enough to try?

(I personally don't; I use the file manager for any views I want, and drag the files from it onto an app, or onto a file chooser dialog. That feature, which is also present in macOS, was very much worth reproducing.)
> I want to get up early, set big goals, work hard on them, and then see the fruits of that hard work.

You might see the fruits of your hard work, but it's your boss who reaps them.
Dozens of headless CMS systems have far better content models than Drupal.

Often Drupal is used because it has been used for x years and change is hard, non-technical managers are hired on account of their years of experience “building with Drupal”, and everything is shit.
If you review and reflect on the output, and if you are consistent with that work, the new tools will indeed help you become a better writer. Good for you!
It's not a societal thing. Men are more risk tolerant. I believe there have been studies to show this transcends societies and cultures. That doesn't mean women aren't risk tolerant, or that they can't be taught to take calculated risks. Think of it as a distribution curve--men's curve is shifted a bit to the right. The median man is more risk tolerant than the median woman, but there are still lots of women who are more risk tolerant than the median man.

This means there are more male extreme athletes and entrepreneurs, but also more inmates and gambling addicts.
There's probably more people using WhatsApp securely in authoritarian hellholes and nightmarish war zones around the world than many of the alternatives you are thinking of combine.

Personally I wouldn't use any chat service for super sensitive conversations about company comms and IP that didn't have strong encryption as well as limitations on how messages can be backed up as well as disappearing messages. I think Signal is the only system that is semi-popular that does this where by default backups don't leave the device unencrypted.
I think your point about "feel better off" is critical, but I wonder if that stems more from comparison across generations or across the current population.
JSON, as used in VSC, can be defined as "plain text file containing an object", as configuration files have a hash map as root-level object.

AFAIK the difference between JSON (as used in VSC) and a Javascript object are minimal (no quoting for keys, possibly minor other differences) and using a JS object should have significant advantages in order to replace a de-facto standard.
Very happy to see this happen and be open-source. I'll probably stick to OpenStreetMap and OpenMapTiles to generate my basemaps but they'll most likely benefit from the "competition".
Ah, so AR. I remember Google Glass, and it was not a great success.
The root problem is that this number of people is considerable relative to the productive potential of Earth-based resources.

Possible solutions include raising the productive potential of those resources, like the effort described in the article, and acquiring more resources beyond Earth. Neither of those two requires reducing the human population. So I think you're being inexplicably hasty in offering a drastic anti life solution.
I agree. It’s been my default for years now, and I don’t even have Google maps installed on my phone any more. GMaps feels like it’s pushing me to businesses that advertise with them, as they get highlighted all over their interface.

I can’t stand nowadays when I get an email with an address that links to google maps. All of our OSes have default handlers for addresses as they do for phone numbers, so just let me use my preference already.
Even if that's all they are doing, it is too much. The FBI is not the enforcement arm for Twitter's TOS. Their job is to investigate and prosecute crimes. If the FBI is attempting, in any way, to remove legal speech it doesn't like (even if the removal process is itself also completely legal) that is overstepping its authority as a government law enforcement agency.
The way this works is, the part of a CAA record in quotes can have parameters added to it. These have been little used until now so many may not be familiar with this syntax but it's always been in the CAA spec. The examples at the end of the linked RFC are accurate.

For example:

;; Must match account URI

example.com. IN CAA 0 issue "letsencrypt.org; accounturi=https://some/acme/account/uri"

;; Must match account URI -OR- use dns-01 validation method

example.com. IN CAA 0 issue "letsencrypt.org; accounturi=https://some/acme/account/uri"

example.com. IN CAA 0 issue "letsencrypt.org; validationmethods=dns-01"

;; Must match account URI -AND- use dns-01 validation method

example.com. IN CAA 0 issue "letsencrypt.org; validationmethods=dns-01; accounturi=https://some/acme/account/uri"

I also just put up an article with some more explanation: https://www.devever.net/~hl/acme-caa-live
Oh, please. These issues were not about child exploitation. It was the heavy hand of governent coming down on citizens over jokes. Parody and satire have always been given wide interpretations in the courts.

The fact that you point to the FBI website as proof they were acting in good faith shows a remarkable faith in the government you have. It is not the governments job to protect people's rights. The gov't violates rights all the time. It's the job of the third party institutions like the media to expose and for the courts to render judgment.
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