skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The incentives aren't strong enough then.

In Germany it's 25 cents for plastic and aluminum. 8cents for glass.

A lot of people just throw the glass away in public bins, because a) glass is heavy and b) 8 cents is too little incentive.

The 25 cent cans most people return. If it was 1€ a glass bottle you bet your ass people would return them.
What kind of "privacy related information"? This is data on the open internet!
Add Voice Memo app to phone locked screen

have idea, press button to record

use syncthing to sync the memos to your machine

run whisper to have them transcribed instantly

use syncthing to sync the whisper output back to your phone (if so desired)
I don't know of anyone trying to do this, and I looked. I can think of 3 ways to tackle it:

1. "MDM for seniors." Basically, make sure all the stuff we've talked about is installed, running, and current. $x/device/month.

2. Consulting like you described - sort of an "MSP for seniors." I think this would be pretty time-intensive/hard to productize, and thus prohibitively expensive. (There are MSPs which target senior living centers, just not individuals.)

3. A membership/mailing list -- imagine an "AARP Tech Recommendations" with the changes in these HN comments, delivered 2-4x/year. It would be a standalone document with implementation-level instructions, not part of a magazine. "Hand this flyer to your kids, grandkids, or a tech-savvy friend."

To me, #3 seems most compelling. Obviously it relies on someone else to make the changes, but doing so would make it much cheaper.

AARP publishes consumer tech news (https://www.aarp.org/home-family/personal-technology/), but doesn't distill it to a quarterly-or-so cheat sheet. Arguably AARP would be the ideal distributor, and distribution through AARP might be the only way to get the CAC and price low enough.

(If anyone wants to create #3 above as a service, contact me and I'll be your first paying customer. This HN thread inspired me to ask a slightly more directed version of your question on Mastodon: https://mas.to/@troyd/110130476826925592. No replies yet.)
> Or, rather, what's the difference betweeen "helix but with vim motions" and a bundled vim distribution?

Vim/Neovim distribution as polished as Helix OOTB does not exist :D
Maybe racism isn't just a US thing
Same way you would prevent 12 year old with a bank account from getting scammed. At some point you need to arrange someone to take financial responsibilities (and dont forget car keys) away from your parents.
Prettymaps- draw cool maps using OpenStreetMaps data – developer interview
This is a valid read, but it would be facile to ignore that the 'I don't want..' sentiment on 4chan (or more specifically, on /pol/) is heavily correlated with 'Bill Gates put a5g microchip in the vaccine'/'climate change is a lie'/'everything I don't like a Jewish plot' etc. etc.

If it were truly centered on the structural woes of (mostly) English-speaking developed countries, you'd expect to find a wide variety of political perspectives and proposed remedies, vs the seething bigotry that predominates.
You don't have to target each 'algorithm' all at once. You can target them one at a time. Hell you can run A/B test single out the easiest targets.
US-Saudi relations have been strained since the Iraq War (KSA supported Saddam as a bulwark against Iran) [0][1], and faced a further tumble during the Arab Spring because of the US not pushing back against Qatar's support of the Muslim Brotherhood leading to strained Saudi relations in Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan and Libya [2] (Khashoggi was a casualty of the Saudi-Qatar rivalry - it's open knowledge on the Hill [7], doesn't excuse his murder though)

While American weapons do still top Saudi purchases, this is largely in brownfield weapons systems such as the F-15E [3]. For new weapons platforms, the Saudi Armed Forces have increasingly pivoted to Europe (Eurofighter) [4], South Korea (replace the F-15e's munitions and planes with next-gen KAI platforms) [5], and the PRC (UAVs and Cruise Missiles) [6]

In my opinion, all of this is due to Americans - both policymakers and voters - having Orientalist perceptions and stereotypes of the Middle East that are still stuck in the 80s and 90s and which has lead regional powers to hoof it on their own.

The old guard of Saudis who were extremely pro-American all passed away or retired from political life and the newer generation of Saudis have become increasingly disillusioned with the US. Also, the Saudi govt is stopping it's foreign scholarship program and so if you're paying out of pocket, European programs make more sense or Saudi universities which ain't that shabby anymore either due to extremely competitive hiring packages to EU and Asian nationals.

Addendum:

Totally forgot about the Fracking boom in 2014-16 causing a trade war between the KSA and USA [8]

[0] - https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/saudi-arabia-and-the-iraq...

[1] - http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/18/sprj.irq.saudi/

[2] - https://www.jstor.org/stable/48673735

[3] - https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/defense/2015-10-06/u...

[4] - https://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-arabia-agrees-to-buy-more...

[5] - https://www.tacticalreport.com/news/article/8047-saudi-arabi...

[6] - https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/23/politics/saudi-ballistic-miss...

[7] - https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/02/03/pompeo-was...

[8] - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-oil-shale-kemp/is-saudi-a...
No, its probably broader than that, but it’s not written very clearly. And it doesn’t matter because every year some new idiot emerges to propose laws like this, that are never approved and often not even discussed in Parliament.
Divide et impera. We've yet to develop antibodies to that as a species.
> The division of electricity production into baseload, load-following and peaker categories is just a historical anachronism.

Since you're obviously some time traveler, would you mind sharing winning lottery numbers with us?
What’s most interesting to me about the i432 is the rich array of object types essentially embedded into its ISA. The JVM “knows” a little bit about virtual dispatch tables, monitors, arrays, but even that pales in comparison to the i432’s user-facing model of the CPU state.

Is there anything comparable surviving today?
Yeah but it's reversed signed overflow shouldn't be UB by default. You should have to explicitly opt in for that.

The reason of course why they refuse to do that if because if that were that case most shops would up and ban unsafe signed.
If you advertise these positions in English, that's fine. But must be Italian in official contracts.
If you're only searching for family-friendly stuff Kagi is pretty good (anything NSFW yields no result), but there's no way I'd be willing to pay that much money for a search engine.

$5/m for only 200 searches (reminder, 1 page = 1 search. So if you hit "page 2" you just burned yet another search from your quota) is insane. [1]

Love it or hate it but Neeva is also on the private search engine market, and you can get unlimited searches for 50€/y. I find their pricing way more reasonable.

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[1] https://blog.kagi.com/update-kagi-search-pricing
Plastic use in commercial kitchens is pretty high too. Taking boiling hot food and putting plastic wrap over it or putting it in a plastic container is pretty common. With sous vide the food is cooked inside a brand new plastic bag. The only way to avoid it is to be fanatical.
I've discovered that referring to it as "LiGNUx" is a really good way to clear up ambiguity and annoy all of your coworkers.
...though "naming things" also qualifies :D
I also communicate this to people I work with since I'm not always in full ownership of what needs to get done. I am highly capable of deeply working on several wildly different things per day but if I get pulled around too much, sometimes for great reasons, then I can't maintain the energy for as long as I would if I fully owned my work. I think it's a compromise I have reluctantly (yet happily) made: sometimes allowing this to happen and being individually less productive in order to remove bottlenecks for the org.

My biggest issue is when I use 100% of that context-switching capacity at work and then have little to give after work. It's cyclical that I do this well, then poorly, then well again. But it does feel like I'm doing this significantly better than I was 3-5 years ago.
There are already several film versions of Philip glass, starting with koyaanisqatsi
Probably never said it [0]. Those kinds of quotes are unlikely to be understood in today's cultural lense, because people don't see the world in national identities and the meaning those identities carried, like they used to 1800-1940.

[0] https://richardlangworth.com/quotes-churchill-never-said-2
But “Italian nationalists” aren’t a thing.

There have been Italian language wars in border regions but they fizzle once non-locals get involved.

For example, South Tyrol has a large German speaking population. The Italian government has historically encouraged adoption of Italian.

But South Tyrol has (had?) a large Sicilian population that supported the local German speakers.
I don't understand what ,,shoddily wire up'' means. I had to create, maintain and monitor a new service that just to add encryption to my simple web server (actually just to be able to connect to my web server from my browser), that should just be a simple function call.

If everything would be implemented like this, next time leftpad should be a web service on my machine as well?
two thoughts i try to hold on to, when my pre-loss anxiety takes over:

1) it's worse worse when parents have to bury their children (than vice versa).
2) there is sadness to having to say goodbye, but sadness is a beautiful thing. it is a different way to celebrate the love you had.
higher risk means that i need to charge more on each client to make up for the losses that i make on others. it doesn't give me higher returns on average.

if landlords earn double over a long period of time then the risk isn't as high as they claim.
My personal hope is that the EU would make a plan to adopt English as the only official language.

Now that UK is gone it can't be seen as unfairly promoting one country.

I think the example of Switzerland shows that there is no problem if spoken language is different from official language.
Seneca - "Make a goal to have already lived enough"

I emphasise, and so some degree agree with the takes of the doctor.

Being sick with some threating disease and then live with it for years or till death is painfull. We should be given a chance to cut it off.
"You’ll own everything, and it’ll be yours forever."

This is overstating it. You cannot "own" a domain name. Domains are essentially rented and eventually (whether on purpose or by accident) your domain name will expire.
It's got electrolytes !
How is this the business of a PRIVACY watchdog?
On a side note, I've come around on cash gifts. I used to think they were gross, as they seemed to put a number on a relationship.

However, life is short and I would much rather give my kids 20-40 bucks to gift to a friend than go shopping for a toy. Moreover, I'd rather get something I wanted instead of 10 things I didn't really want; cash presents make that possible.
Honestly I have no idea why people think we're going to find a safe and equally effective alternative. Most of the PFAS in use are powerful surfactants that change the surface tension of water, break up the lipids in cell membranes, and otherwise interfere with almost all the chemical processes that make life life. Everything from cell walls to capillary action are directly effected by these molecules. The same features that cause them to bioaccumulate so well give them their incredible industrial properties.
Cultural...and economic. I guess in places where there are arranged marriages, or living together is shunned upon, this is true. However as far as I can tell generation z is complaining about the economic situation that disables them from moving out. So it's definitely not cultural there.
Sure, and they are returning to the offices.... Yet another sponsored article trying to set a trend.
I don't consider it a problem, language alone is an extremely superficial indicator of culture - see my other comment.

But japan is a good example- maybe that's what you're driving at - because the language is full of english loan words. That's a big part of what the katakana characters are for - fitting predominantly English words into the japanese syllables.

トイレ

ミーティング

ダンス

パーティ

フライドポテト

Etc. As you say, it doesn't impact the culture.
I'm focusing on the bad actors, who are the ones extracting all of the money from the system as profit. That's what makes this dysfunctional. If they were gone, the people trying to help would have more resources. Notably, these people hold titles associated with the artifices of capitalism. The social worker doesn't need a board of directors. She knows what needs to be done. It's the board of directors who need the social worker -- not to fix anything, but to do the appearance of work while they collect rent checks from the government. It's disgusting.

We can imagine this enterprise organized another way which actually helps people. Fewer Ferrari dealerships would make sales, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
> Taking care of your parents (and children, and children's children) is your life

My life has, imo, been ruined by caring responsibilities and I wouldn't change it. It is unfortunate that so many people do not understand the joy that comes from caring for your family. I agree, there is nothing else in life, no self-interested joy can compare. This also seems to be connected to resenting your parents...I have had massive issues with the people I care for, but that doesn't change what my responsibility is...just like your parents didn't walk away when you had a tantrum as a child. Unfortunate.
> There are more miles of coastline with legally mandated public access in the US than in France.

France has 2,000 miles of total coastline (before considering access); Alaska alone has over 6,600.

A more sane comparison would be share of coastline with public access, or maybe for some purposes per-capita public access coastline. But absolute miles of public access coastline is silly.
There was a protest march in Mumbai against gun violence in the US. That was the only time I ever wanted to punch someone for expressing a political opinion in person.
People who make $400k and have it easy, want it a bit more easier so they convince those who make $40k that the problem is with 0.01% of the ultra-wealthy.
Yore problem is not remote work, your problem is the lack of meaningful relationships
For those really interested in the actual techniques being employed:

Twitter repo + relevant visibility tweaking code at:
https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/tree/main/visibilit...

Still reading through it myself, but if I'm properly distilling the gist out of this, it seems they've implemented an "iptables for tweet visibility" through which the server sends instructions to the client to then run a rules engine against to drop tweets or specifically throttle engagement.

So... if I'm right, and this is the real kick in the teeth from my perspective; they aren't even doing the hard work on their side to sift through the datastream and drop things on their side. They're instead programming your hardware to do their gaslighting/censorship/filtering for them.

Dumb pipe for them, but you're left burning cycles on your phone/client/whatever to hide their material for them. Corollary being that with a sufficiently misbehaving client, one ought to be able to reconstitute an unfiltered stream to get a more accurate representation of the awfulness of those around you instead of only seeing what Twitter wants you to see.

It also means that server-side, there may actually be nothing preventing using a sufficiently misbehaving client from repurposing the Twitter backend as a Command & Control layer. In fact, one may even be able to compose several account provisioning/deprovisioning/visibility primitives to ensure no normal client would see anything, while the message nevertheless gets through. It's technically auditable, but if I put on my blacker hat; I miiiiight see a few ways to get up to some difficult to follow mischief if the system as posted is truly representative of what is there. May do dome net traffic analysis to see if I can figure out where the request is that would return the hypothetical ruleset to be consumed by the client. Not entirely convinced the engine is entirely client side, as that would have tipped their hand much longer ago I'd think. Not sure til I actually audit the full codebasr.

Yet another reason I've never quite been brave enough to pull the trigger on hosting a system like this for anyone but those I personally know and trust. After a certain point, probability goes to 1 that somepne is going to find a way to repurpose something nice no matter the level of good intention into something horrible. I like to think of it as a more abstract form of Rule34. If you build an information transfer system, someone will use it for something illegal somewhere.

Of course, even if I'm totally wrong, odds are that if I'm seeing the potential here, there is a smarter, less ethical version of me with a goatee that's already picked it apart and os likely actively exploiting it.
Caffeine easily creates a negative feedback loop where you consume it, then get less and lower quality sleep, and therefore need more caffeine to function at the same level, so you sleep even worse, and so on.

The main fixes I’ve found for myself are:

- Get a lot of exercise and sunlight (if possible) to counteract the caffeine’s effect on sleep.

- Resist the urge to have more caffeine than usual when tired. It works well as an enhancer to a well-rested brain, but when used to compensate for sleep deprivation, it’s counter-productive.
I use vim for C++ coding, however it is a bit difficult to set up to make it productive. I use YouCompleteMe [0] for autocompletion, Vimspector [1] with the C++ plugin for debugging, ALE [2] for linting, along with a few other general plugins (such as NerdTREE for file view).

[0] https://github.com/ycm-core/YouCompleteMe

[1] https://github.com/puremourning/vimspector

[2] https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale
What are the warning signs? The paths you described kind of describe things I do. Sometimes they are necessary and I am taking steps to prevent them. At the same time I worry I already shut down the warning signs.

Sometimes I wonder whether "burnout" or "occupational burnout" describes something I have experienced in college. It was not a spectacular or intense thing, just losing interest in my subject completely and avoiding getting started with exercises, even though I was decently good at my subject and loved the hours and hours I spent studying.
Come on. ssh and vim! ;)
There's a reason r/woodworking is full of software engineers
“Employers contend there is lower productivity when their employees work from home. The CEO of the Royal Bank of Canada, Dave McKay, has asserted that two plus years of work-from-home has had a negative impact on productivity and innovation.”

Huh? The best evidence for lower productivity of wfh is a statement from a bank CEO who is de facto incentivized by commercial real estate loans.
Interesting to see this. I’m familiar with one startup that’s received quite a bit of their series a from Andreessen Horowitz (don’t think they’re web3 but rather hospitality/real estate) and it seems like they are pushing their ties to a16z super hard, like that’s one of their biggest “assets” or advantages.

I’m not in the startup space so not really sure about how it all works but just kind of comes across like an appeal to authority to me and name dropping a16z all over the place etc.
Also skeptical of the business in general (and don’t get along well with the founder heh) but that’s another thing.
But xterm and xterm-compatibles have been able to do this for over a decade (CSI > 4 ; 2 m).
Though the same. Too ridiculous to be true.
Same here, except I print way less, so I’m on a dollar per month sub, and just pay for overages sometimes.

I think instant ink is a better product in terms of money saved, especially when you account for the risk of cartridges drying out.

Now, to be clear, when it first came out, I thought “evil capitalists” just like everyone else in this thread. But I think it’s wrong, there’s just a yuckiness factor associated with paying monthly for something you theoretically own.

I think we should just move on as a society from the idea that you somehow “own” cheap personal property like phones and printers and fridges, etc.

Everything is perpetually leased
Your not kidding:

https://www.mise.gov.it/it/
Shouldn't the onus be on local music/movies/books to compete on their own merits?

If you go to Brazil, for example, there's zero worry about American music. Brazilian music holds its own, and then some. If you go to India, their domestic cinema is obviously thriving.

Nobody's "pushing" American media on consumers around the world. Cultural imperialism is ultimately a false narrative -- consumers pick the things they like, as they should because that's their free choice. Switching the TV channel or the radio dial is the easiest thing ever.
There is no objective standard for rich.

Rich people don’t call themselves rich. It’s all relative. Director at Google doesn’t feel rich. Neither does the nurse who makes $90K in a town where most of their friends make $35K or the two teacher couple who brings in $200K working in Redwood City.
That assumes supply chains still exist that can provide all of the necessary components.
"Chrome now handles CNAME aliases _internally_" https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=106309... aka extensions still dont see it
Don't forget National City Lines bus company

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_City_Lines
Thanks, the popping out babies is such a garbage take. It's not designed to argue in good faith, it's just a moron talking point.
> In what way would I be trolling? It's true, look it up.

Actually I did, even if the burden of proof was on you. And no, statute of limitation doesn't "pause" for criminal cases for any reasons as for the reason of their existence is memories and evidence fading over time and to avoid wrongful convictions. Being out of state has no effect on that.

> Besides, I very much doubt that the Manhattan District Attorney would go to all the effort of prosecuting a former president only to have not noticed that the statute of limitations has expired.

That's not the only novel legal theory being at play to convict for the first time a President here.
One thing I have idly considered - what to do with the excess daily solar energy? Presumably the problem is only going to magnify over the coming years. Net-metering agreements are continuing to get worse, so it seems that the surplus electricity will go to waste.

Outside of bitcoin mining, is there any energy sink a residential user could engage to suck up the spare capacity? At the industrial scale - what processes can intermittently engage in production which is still cost effective if the equipment lays idle for a majority of the day?

Fuel synthesis? Desalination? SETI-like computations?