skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Texas isn't the lowest tax or lowest regulation state, though it's a bit lower than California.

I also think the cultural thing is obvious there. Texas is very pro-entrepreneurship generally.
All that's said there is "they have money and still ask for money". That's what I do at my job, too.
That would hold merit if I wouldn’t regularly see people’s insightful comments sent deep into greyed-out oblivion because they went against the grain of the echo chamber.

Be it here, on Reddit, or any site with a content voting system, the vote buttons always end up being ‘this is what I could have said’ and ‘get bent’ buttons.

Funnily enough, imageboards seem to have it figured out: post something interesting, your thread or comment gets engaged. Post drivel - everyone ignores you. Meritocracy.
> I'd assume all of my data has already been compromised without logging in.

Not entirely true. If the site requires your login in order to, say, decrypt your server side data, then even if the site is compromised, your data is still secure, until you log in. I'm making this up as a possibility, I've never seen or heard of a site that actually did that.

Regardless, I'd rather error on the side of caution. There are too many things that I don't know about here that could be possible. Automatically filling in my password somewhere seems like an obvious thing to be cautious about.
Yes, agreed.

One argument for spending time on 1 and 3: Step 2 alone can ignite fight-or-flight responses in people's limbic systems. If that happens, rationality goes out the window. (Even more than usual, I mean!)

If this picture is correct, then I think it's worth some "overhead" to try to get a conversation between calm, rational beings going. A shouting match between two werewolves may not be valuable even if they get right to the point.

Not dismissing what you're saying. Just adding another picture.
I meant in general, not just OP
> tact is simply a form of dishonesty.

I see what you’re saying, and I like the gist of your point for multiple comments in this thread, but for some reason this phrasing rubs me completely the wrong way. It will tend to be inflammatory and escalatory in a bad way in a debate or discussion to think of people who are well intentioned and trying not to hurt feelings as liars. I’m not sure that’s fair or accurate either. Like why, exactly, does a compliment next to a criticism irritate you? What if the compliment is true and the criticism is true, then where’s the dishonesty? Maybe what you mean is that the indirectness wastes your time or lacks clarity?

Does tact necessarily mean spending time giving compliments next to criticism? You can be tactful in the very wording of a direct criticism without being indirect or giving useless compliments, right? And it’s very very possible to be direct and tactless. Isn’t tactlessness sometimes a function of ignorance, not necessarily lack of compassion?

Some people make a distinction between critique and criticism, and this distinction may come down to tact? The critique is viewed as constructive criticism, how to improve, while criticizing is stating destructive negatives, “you’re doing it wrong and you suck.” The more tactful one of those actually happens to be the more useful one too…
Neat trick! I wish I had a reason to you.
Goodbye :wave:
DM3: Truly Decentralized Chat Protocol
I have kept this matter at an arms length, mostly due to the low-quality conjecture surrounding it. After reading this post, I am even more convinced that I should ignore it. Every "source" in the article was just a link to a Tweet, amounting to what is not more than a summary of a bunch of speculative tweets of screenshots. To think that I enabled JS for that...
I suppose if you torture the data enough, it confesses =D. I believe EV ownership is not associated to political orientation, all other things being equal. (source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096669231...)
> “Facilitate” is one of those words of which useless people doing useless work in an organization are very fond.

It also names those activities of some essential people without whom no work ever manages to get done.
The Foundation is my client, but these views are only my own:

This is not to say there's no excess, or that resources couldn't be allocated internally more effectively - I'm not going to put up some kind of strawman - but:

1. I took a 20% pay cut so that I could do more work for the Foundation. Worth it.

2. Posts that say "Wikipedia only has [x] more articles but budget has gone up [y]" are beyond stupid. Any idea how many projects besides Wikipedia are run by WMF - for instance, ever heard of Wikimedia Commons? Any idea how litigious and heavily-regulated the world has got, and how much effort has to be poured into softening some of the emerging laws, mounting judicial challenges against the rest, etc? Any idea how much funding every usergroup and chapter (sometimes more than one per country, e.g. in Spain) is asking for? Any idea how much effort is put into developing features that encourage new people to start editing, not just consuming? Any idea how expensive it is to support and facilitate the big "Movement" discussions (aimed at decentralising the movement!) and the User Code of Conduct discussions? How hard it is to have a viable Trust & Safety team for so many projects, 300+ languages, and people from all over the world to support?

3. After a big outcry about the banners a month ago (that was a long time coming, no denial), the drafting and design of the banners is much softer this year than the last. And guess what, they're much less effective, and now projects are being cancelled, staff departures aren't being backfilled, and jobs are at stake. That may be worth it, but let's at least be honest about the downsides.

Accountability and criticism are fine - but when absolutely no intellectual effort is put into keeping that criticism balanced and on-target, then all you've ended up doing is making people who work here, rather than raking in the big bucks working for Big Tech, feel shitty. And guess what: you lose extra marks for bringing up cancer (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has...) when many people working here will be dealing with actual cancer, either personally or among their friends or family, at the moment.
This is an amazing project and if you like WLED you’ll also like Pixelblaze which is full-stack including a coding interface: https://electromage.com/pixelblaze
Not OP but I think if you're gonna earn an average salary then tech is a pretty bad choice due to the constant shifting base of knowledge, lack of security (dot com type bubbles) and ageism prevalent in the industry. Being something like a government worker or teacher makes much more sense then.
And unsurprisingly, in Europe a huge part of GDP is created by the government. Software developer roles in Europe are dominated by immigrants for much of the same reason - locals don't see these jobs as such a lucrative career path.
But why couldn't China just keep milking it`s fat cow Russia? AFAIK they are getting mass oil and gas for literally nothing.
I think you're right about the assessment that the world is better now (at least on average) than it has ever been.

Though small caveat about your claim "hunger is almost gone, living standards are high". I hope you're aware of the comparatively abysmal poverty most of the world lives on as compared to the developed countries of the world:

https://income-inequality.info/

80% of the world's population is living on less than poverty level in the US (and this is PPP - purchasing power parity adjusted income). 20% live on less than $2/day.
I trained a model to tell if you were naughty this year
what percentage of the money actually goes to the volunteers?
EVs are extremely expensive compared to the equivalent ICE. Democratic districts tend to be more affluent[1].

This makes sense, in a naive sense. A good deal of Republican votes come from the central states. While these states tend to have a COL that matches the AGI of the residents, a Tesla costs about the same no matter where you live in the country.

[1]: https://www.standingforfreedom.com/2021/04/irs-data-shows-th...
Tolerated by whom? The general public? People occasionally create Wikipedia competitors; it generally doesn’t go well. If you find it intolerable, you can presumably use one of those (though note that the content is generally, well, made-up).
It’s interesting that he notes science should strive towards a large amount of criticism to keep the debate fresh and sharp.

In social sciences today a monoculture has formed and any criticism is frowned upon due to all the new sensitivities.
Yeah, I'm not buying the literal premise of the article. There's a lot of wealthy conservatives in those areas who are in the market for fancy cars.

But the reality might be worse:

A few years ago Teslas were widely seen as really good machines, the hero that followed Car Guys vs Bean Counters, whether that was justified or not. I'm just not hearing that anymore, from anyone. The positive vibes are just... gone.

I suspect the damage to the brand is massive, but not strictly political. It turns out, most people don't like shitposters.
Does anybody know why Randall Munroe (XKCD) has made a mockery of RSS on his site? I thought his joke was funny at first, but he has left it there and now the RSS feed from his site is worse than useless. Here's the content I get from his RSS feed on both my Android phone and my iPad:

"xkcd.com is best viewed with Netscape Navigator 4.0 or below on a Pentium 3±1 emulated in Javascript on an Apple IIGS
at a screen resolution of 1024x1. Please enable your ad blockers, disable high-heat drying, and remove your device
from Airplane Mode and set it to Boat Mode. For security reasons, please leave caps lock on while browsing."

This behavior began several months ago. Previously I could access his content on the same devices.
This narrative is flawed for a few reasons (and I suspect it is an instance of wishful thinking). Firstly, the stock market crash affected all companies, not just TSLA. Second, there's no evidence to suggest that Musk wants to "own the Libs" or that Democrats have actually stopped buying Tesla cars. He is simply in favor of free speech. Third, even if Musk was actually trying to "own the Libs" and it was affecting Tesla sales, any decrease in TSLA purchases by Democrats could be balanced out by an increase in purchases by Republicans.
As someone living in Finland, I would argue the cons balance out the pros. The welfare state also creates massive disincentives for entrepreneurs. There is no free lunch.

In addition to the psychological aspects mentioned below (why try so hard when you’ll be fine either way), there are bigger reasons.

While the safety net makes it less dangerous to fail, it also makes it harder to succeed.

The barrier you need to clear before the business can be successful is much higher, due to:

- 15-20% higher taxes than the US at every level. Cut your profit margin by 15% and you need roughly double the amount of revenue you’d need in the US to pay yourself a good salary.

- high cost of living (like living in NYC/SF but without all the opportunities)

- inability to hire full time employees until you get much bigger (they literally cannot be fired and if one goes on maternity leave you can be stuck paying someone without getting their labor for a year+)

-lack of funding/financing and risk capital (Europe is starting to catch up, but nowhere near the US, especially at the small business levels). There’s nothing like the SBA loans the US has.

-more severe penalties for failure in the form of bankruptcy, you cannot walk away relatively unscathed in the same you can in the US

-impossibility of building wealth by working a job to fund the business yourself (salaries are extremely low due to the massive social benefits overhead)
This page is no longer available on the independent's site:

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-...

"Sorry – we can't find that page"

Luckily archive.org has it.

> According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become "a very rare and exciting event".
> "Children just aren't going to know what snow is," he said.

And where is David Viner now?

https://www.cgg.com/newsroom/news/cgg-appoints-david-viner-h...

He's been promoted to Head of Environmental Science at CGG where "CGG is a global technology and HPC leader that provides data, products, services and solutions in Earth science, data science, sensing and monitoring."

So - the person who is raising the alarm, is now in charge of data, products and solutions in Earth science...

Should people who essentially shout fire in a crowded theater be rewarded for their inaccurate alarm raising? (David Viner, Al Gore, etc)
I have a 3, and tesla Solar with powerwalls.

I bought the car in 2019 and the solar in ‘20 before Musk went full buffoon.

If I were buying today, I’d buy the solar and powerwalls because they’re unbeatable value. But I would not buy a 3 today due to Musk being an embarrassment.

I did buy some Mazda 3 badges for my car, though, so that’ll be nice.

More importantly, I have multiple homeowners among my friends and family who want solar but won’t consider Tesla anymore because of Elon’s behvaior. They’re literally willing to spend more money on competitors worse offerings just to not give Tesla -and Musk- any of their money.

Worse, I have even more car enthusiast friends- all of whom used to covet the model 3 for its performance and value proposition… who are now buying other cars just to avoid Tesla.

As a tesla product owner and stockholder (bag holder, now?), the best thing Wlon can probably do for me is to step down as Tesla ceo and/or retire from the public eye. He’s single-handedly absolutely alienated what would otherwise be his strongest demographics.

Probably should be the subject of a shareholder lawsuit.
i quit my job at my last employer because the onboarding process was 3 solid weeks of day-long trainings
Only recently the UK government style guide was on the front page:

A simple guide on words to avoid in government - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34104530
Not everyone here is a silicon valley millionaire. Sure there are some, but there are many who are not. Some are even from developing nations where a few USD represents a significant amount of money.

I think the core of the argument is that they don't need the money, but act like they do to keep the site running but actually run a huge surplus.
My guess is that it’s in response to the EU bill that will force them to allow other app stores on iOS, and they don’t want to lose developers.

There is no way they would improve out of the goodness of their heart. That kind of behaviour is worthless under capitalism.
Is it only Apple TV (and not on iPhone for example)? If it's Apple-wide I can imagine it but I'm curious what is the possible reason that BBC can't support having a separate subtitle renderer?
He knows what he's doing. He likes to take risk, move fast and break things. Money is probably something he doesn't care about....
Why would it be distracting to know who’s line it is without color coding? Why would color be the thing that distracts you; wouldn’t the actual captions be far more distracting?

As to why: it’s another datapoint to use to reconstruct what fully able people can do quickly. Sometimes captions aren’t well timed. Sometimes a lot of things happen very quickly and it’s hard to keep track. What if the camera isn’t on anyone’s face? You can probably figure it out by context, but why expend the mental energy when it can just be colored?

Just because you never had this issue (and I’m sure you did, it’s not like we remember the most mundane of details like this years later) doesn’t mean it’s not an issue.
"Every time you go to Wikipedia" meaning "in December, until you click it to go away"?

I tolerate it because I like the resource, and I donate a small amount of money most years.

When organizations ask for money I don't immediately get defensive and start researching talking points as to why they don't really need it. Maybe I should, but I don't. So yeah, chalk one up to a naive rube with a lack of awareness. And no desire to setup custom blocking filters that inevitably are more work to maintain than they're actually worth.
Most people who use a password manager need to sync their passwords between devices. I need to be able to log in to things on my laptop, my desktop, my tablet and my phone. And I need to be able to save a new password into the password manager from any of those devices.

Now I personally could sync those passwords in my own self-hosted Nextcloud instance that's hosted in my house from a raspberry pi. But most people don't know how to, or don't want to invest the time into, administrating their own file syncing service on their own hardware. Others don't have an Internet connection which makes it possible to host stuff.

So I ask again: What is your alternative?
They're free to let go. That's fine. Not a big deal. Good for them for trying. It's the entire presentation of their dilemma that prompted by comment. Did you even read their post?

"I tried everything [I was supposed to]"
"But no matter what I did, I couldn't seem to get anywhere."
"It was as if the world was against me"
"no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't make any progress"
"It was like I didn't even exist in the world of entrepreneurship."
"please don't be fooled by the false promises"

Blaming everyone but themselves. They sound very entitled and they claim that they deserve it. Sorry. That's not how you win and that's not how any of this works.
>After all, what's the alternative?

Use keepass and don't upload your password in cleartext to someone who just tells you they are encrypted.

Trust someone else with your passwords is 99% the weakest link.

>Your risk of a targeted attack might be lower with offline storage,

We don't talk about targeted attacks, but a breach of every user who uses the service, are you from marketing? Because you really try to justify uploading your passwords to a 3rd party with proprietary software is a good thing, are you absolutely out of your mind??

If you have told anyone in the year 2000 to upload all your passwords to a service, in clear-text but who tells you it's absolutely safe and everything gets encrypted, you would have been laughed out of the room, so you should today.

>to self-host their password manager.

Gosh, are we really that far from commonsense that we think we have to host a personal password manager??? It's an encrypted file basta. It's like unix never existed and now we need an oracle database and php to "host" our 20 passwords...bravo. Hey why not install github-enterprise so we can use git?
We're long past the point where the rest of the world "needs" timely and accurate aggregate data from the government of China.

The most pressing concern is for the individual families that must live with the lifeless body of a loved one for days while awaiting their turn at a crematorium. That's really sad.
This is the best reference site I've found: https://en.cppreference.com/w/c

There's also man pages for all the libc stuff. Try `man 2 listen` or `man 3 printf`.

The VSCode plugin for C is pretty decent as well, the Microsoft one called 'C/C++'.

I'd also recommend doing a readthrough of the GNU Make docs. They are succinct and full of useful stuff: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html
From most people's perspectives it's just a preorder (Sanderson is so consistent in output there's essentially zero doubt he'll deliver), so nothing to get outraged about.

Some people complain that he doesn't 'need' the kickstarter -- which is true, sure -- but he's not hurting or tricking anyone, so why would anyone be incensed?
Your point is? Various methods exist for running OCR on PDFs and then parsing the data and transforming it for structured input into other systems. Could be a periodic sync to the middleware; i.e. daily or at user's preference via emailing the doc.
I'm ok with paying too, and I did many times. Then I found out I wasn't actually paying for what I was getting (wikipedia) but actually only a small fraction of my donations were going there and the majority was a bait and switch.
As a Brit, I would never use 'dialogue box' (and don't recall ever seeing it)

Some of us distinguish between program (software) and programme (a collection of projects)
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In a long time horizon, it's probably in Apple's interest to migrate away from ARM just so that they have one less company to negotiate with or receive restrictions from
I'm a creator myself.

Why would I want to build an audience on a platform with no monetization possibility, ever?

Even sponsorships are not possible, since I can't reliably count reads (which I can even in email).

It's nice to think of the "classic" internet, but it's a naivety that will keep RSS on the edges. And I love RSS idea! I want it back! I hate subscribing to email newsletters in a way that makes it hard to manage and organize.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...
yeah, and i plan on cancling my co-pilot subscription after the free trial
Their spending grows commensurately with their fundraising. The cost of maintaining wikipedia is more or less constant. It's a cancerous growth pattern.
Company towns come to mind :

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama
A Chinese company operates in the US, obeys local laws while doing the same sketchy things that home-grown companies do all the time and it's a 'national security issue'.

US companies operating in the EU are expected to follow local laws and ... this is unfair because the US is pursuing its own narrow internal interests in Ukraine, like it always does, and Europeans are supposed to be grateful?
I use Dropbox on Ubuntu, ipad, iphone without any trouble. I tried Google Drive a few years ago, but it could not even do the initial sync (I know because I waited 30 days for it before giving up).
I deliberately avoid startup porn and hustle porn.

Otherwise, my impostor syndrome would get 100% worse. I would feel that my salary is terrible, my skills are dull, and I'm lazy.

Some days, even just scanning the headlines here on Hacker News makes me tense...
But generaly, I'm happy with me.
>I'd rather that not happen. I donate every year.

Wikipedia has far more money then they know what to do with, their entire foundation is very affluent and there is no risk of them facing any hardship. Your donations have exactly zero influence on Wikipedia staying up or even staying independent. Your money goes into a web of charities (undisclosed which exactly), at best some poor people might profit of a few percentage points of your money, why not just donate to some real charity instead.
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Great project! I have wanted to do something similar with my hummingbird feeder to determine what time of day the birds tend to visit most often.
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A URI ending in .php is not cool (never was), and this advice is most important for content (articles etc.), not necessarily for account management pages.
It’s just silence for me on an iPhone 8, with the ringer enabled and volume to its max. :3
Criticizing progressive speech codes is carrying water for the other side, because it’s the only side criticizing it.

It’s not like the other side is wrong about 110% of things(although this statement may be against progressive speech codes currently).
It may be a language barrier thingy, but then we are talking about different things. Also, that is architecture dependent.
Ideally you use both, as both can find some more obscure issues the other may not. At least in the past. Either in isolation also works well, though Valgrind is really a suite of many tools.