skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My $0.02. Probably not much different...

In my opinion, it's just the "human condition". Like adults, kids want to take the least path of resistance. Since learning is difficult for some/most of us, avoiding school is the easiest path since it requires real effort. This is why parental guidance is so important for young people. Sure, some cities experience violence, some schools have odd teaching mandates, etc, but all-in-all, it's the daily grind that kids want to avoid (just like adults!). Not to mention the pressure from social media.
>To his point, even in the Linux world, DEs have accumulated the bloat of features, animations, complex compositing, front-to-back theming, and other frivolities that have made them large and slow.

I use xmonad for over a decade now on multiple workstations. No bloat here.
According to John Taylor Gatto, american schools are modeled after prussian military academies of the late 19th century - down to the bells dividing the day into periods.

- compulsory

- segregated by age

- passive lecturing

- strict rules and deference to authority

- standardized, inflexible curriculum
The world can sustain the current number of people many times over in terms of food supply. Indeed based on sustainable (vegetarian/vegan) food.

Talking about how many people can be sustained by earth is talking about the wrong thing. It only leads and HAS only lead to the eugenetics part. Because it's always poor people in different countries who gets sterilised.

The real topic is that capitalism and consumerism is 100% unsustainable, right from the start. That is the real debate to be had. That this world is not about human well-being and happyness, but about GDP and growth, making a tiny number of people wealthy at the expense and misery of the majority.

Unfortunately this site - Hacker News - and everything related to it, Ycombinator, Paul Graham, is only fueling the capitalist game.
> and will not be rectified under the "just train it more bro" refrain of AI evangelicals.

You made a good point up until then but this kind of remark incredibly condescending and dismissive of other people's viewpoint. It's also quite possible that you're both right. That we'll need more training and new architecture breakthroughs. You could have left it at that you didn't think it would be solved by more training.
There’s a good discussion of this in one of my favourite books: William Gary Flake’s The Computational Beauty of Nature (1998).
Wait until ChatGPT is doing tax returns.

Until some lobbyists bribe congress to ban that.
It might depend on the organization of course but I hear what you mean here. It does seem somewhat of a phenomenon..
The deadline was the 18th this year, so you made it just in time!
> Basically just something like Magnet/Rectangle built into the OS out of the box, plus two-window resizing (like we already have with the current full screen snapping feature).

On newer versions of macOS, if you hold down Option while hovering your cursor over the Zoom button on newer versions you'll be given the option to split left/right without fullscreen. Not a full replacement for an Aero Snap sort of thing but covers its most common use case.
If the device becomes unusable because it is marked as stolen, disassembling it for parts should not be economic.

One way to do this is spend MORE money to make sure every single part of the device is waste and MUST go to a landfill.

Another way would be to do the opposite, and make the spare-parts readily available for everyone to make the sum of parts less valuable.
The mainboard is already unusable because it's flagged as stolen, the rest of the parts should not be worth more than 60-70USD. But because some of the parts cannot be purchased at all, they are currently worth alot more
These tools really need to support self-hosted model integration. We have LLaMA.
School shooter drills are the modern version of 'duck and cover drills' from the 50's and 60's.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/duck-and-cover
Something tells me that a kernel from 1995 would run on lower-end hardware than a 2023 kernel with "speed improvements" (and an unmentioned million added features)
It's the logical extension
Programs running on your machine have access to much more than the code they are working with.
New 3D scans of the Titanic's wreck site
> "Now an officer was at her house, waiting to take her son to school."

How or why would police be deployed? Is it a crime (for child or parent) if the child skips a lot of school?
We’re talking about the black-background images, right?
I disagree but only because I thought this way and it hurt my performance.
Based on: https://www.mark-pearson.com/airport-distances/

> Half the people in the United States live within 17 miles of a decent-sized airport, and ninety percent of the country lives within 58 miles (about an hours drive). Twenty-five percent of the population lives pretty darn close: less than 9 miles.

it would seem that the vast majority of the USA lives "in or near a greater metro".
Just speculation, but perhaps what triggered relief was understanding that their son was not alone (and thus not "weird") in his behaviour. Giving a name to it makes it sound like a real medical condition and thus something that is affecting the kid, rather than the kid being broken.

IMO the name makes it seem _too much_ like a proper disorder, since the kids' actions are somewhat reasonable. If I could've gotten shot at school or had to deal with as much BS as they did, I might have not gone either. I skipped a large amount of my last year regardless since I had turned 18 and could excuse myself. Not anxiousness -- kids just don't like school.
They're probably only going to sell circuit boards or assemblies for their mice - I've got a G602 (G502?) and the switches have worn out every once in a while.

I just opened it up, grabbed the model of the actual switches, did some reading online about the switches (which models have harder actuation forces, etc.) and ordered and soldered new replacement switches from DigiKey and swapped them myself.

I understand a lot of people don't have this skill - I'd like to have some kind of business or side hustle to replace switches for common equipment like mice, xbox controllers, etc.

Especially with xbox controllers costing so much and only having something like a 3 month warranty, I've noticed the newer ones having bumper activation issues after 6-8 months (depends on how aggressive you are as a gamer I guess)
> Nothing you described sounds mentally healthy at all.

What now?
On the flip side, capitalism can enable greed to a global level never before seen, and communism (as in communist states as opposed to "True Communism") can enforce a level of fairness given the limited resources. The former can dominate entire countries and create banana republics, and while the latter can inflict misery, it is not on the level of complete failed states where senseless violence roam the streets.
It is available in Settings under Accessibility\Seeing\Reduce Animation

If you check the enable-animations value you can see it toggles between true and false when you enable/disable the Reduce animation setting.
Exactly. I read that statement and now I think I need to go to the ER because I strained my eyes from rolling them so hard.

I'm curious what he means by this solution harming vulnerable Americans. Are they the same vulnerable Americans that TurboTax tricked into paying for their product after enticing them in with promises of "completely free filing"?
> no way would I use a tax preparation system provided by the government.

As someone who has used government-provided tax preparation systems my entire life, I'm curious what your threat model here is exactly.
It'll be interesting to see what effect telemetry has on the ongoing development of the tools and language, since we don't have another tool / language chain to compare it to.
There’s absolutely zero chance I would trust chatGPT to file my taxes right now
That struck me as weird too, but to be fair, once a disorder is identified then you can benefit from treatment plans that others have found success with.
I own property in some of the “rougher” areas of Chicago. Yes, the pandemic was hard and yes, it had some effects. But “burned down”? Come on, not in the ballpark, not even in the same sport.
> clean it

I meant root-wise - not instances. You work for the progress of civilization. And automated waste is like innocent or malicious waste: you will find it around in copious loads and you have to train the public to manage it.

> That's why we call it the devil's advocate: because nobody should

Actually, we must. You always perform checks to consider counterpoints. We did use dialectics in the context where the expression was born because that is correct heuristics. You do not decide about Attila the Hun (in our context - nor of Louis the Pious, in the historic context for the expression) just on the basis of current prejudice, of somehow consolidated fame. You are mandated to check whether you may be wrong, and you wonder so explicitly.

But this is relevant to real arguments. You are not supposed to expect the bot to say something with truth value or sharpness value. (And this remains the issue with said technology.)
I would. They already know how much I need to pay them/how much they owe me. It should be as simple as a text message I reply “y/n” to.
Eventually they will come up with this. You have to consider Framework being a startup and, hence, not being HP or Lenovo in their production and shipping capacities.

In the mean time, go for a US keyboard and swap it for Scandinavian one when available.
How Tinder Made Me a Better Copywriter
The World Is Full of Sleeping Beauties
He's a really good author, and I think anyone interested in this subject should definitely read him. [1] However I think that the American and German school systems definitely diverge in that they haven't defunded, devauled and destroyed the German system to a point where it's questionable why it even exists in its current form still.

[1] https://www.naturalchild.org/articles/guest/john_gatto.html
I mean, we tell young people it's important to think critically. Well, this is what that looks like. Why is it a given that going to K-12 is somehow an immutable necessity, especially with the current curriculum and experience what it is? They are right to question it even if the answer ends up being that going to school has value.
This is great, I havent heard PSP in a very long time!
Ha! Norfolk's a treasure trove of interesting place names. Wymondham also trips outsiders up.

I was here for almost 20 years before I learnt that Heighham is pronounced as just "Ham".
Ask HN: Why is Germany overrepresented in the cyber narratives?
From sometimes depiction in films to more noticeably HN comments...
I might be wrong, but isn't dotnet telemetry opt-out by default?
And yet, everything is fine.
Show HN: Till.sh, enhanced access controls for AWS S3
Hi everyone, I'm an independent developer who has been building an S3-related project over the past few months: https://till.sh. I wanted to share it in its MVP state to get others' opinions on the idea and to see if anyone is interested in being an early tester.

## What is it

The core concept is that Till provides an S3 API proxy that authenticates with its own custom keys. This enables us to build features that are not easily achievable with standard AWS credentials. Namely, we can add data limits to the keys, time-based expiration of keys, quickly surface access logs, and apply custom billing policies to auto-invoice users based on their data access.

## Why I built it

Till was born out of having built numerous custom data portals for clients in my professional work. These were typically organizations that have large interesting data sets (e.g. ML training sets, satellite imagery, etc) and want to share access to their data but needed some guard rails to prevent run-away costs, needed fine-detailed access tracking to analyze data access, or are looking to recoup costs associated with the creation and storage of the data. It felt like these needs were common enough to be turned into a project to allow people to start sharing their data within a few minutes. Being that Till provides an S3-compliant API, it immediately fits into many of the existing workflows and clients that end-users are already using.

## What I'm looking for

So that's the pitch. I'd love to get thoughts and critiques. Does this seem like a product you or someone you know would use? It's a bit niche so I'm admittedly struggling to get an estimate on the size of the market it could serve. Any obvious needs or use cases that I'm missing? At this stage, I'm trying to get as many people using the project as possible, so let me know your GitHub handle if you signup and I'll happily up your key-limit on the free tier.

Many thanks. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
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My parents had a pretty genius solution for this. You're sick?, sure you can stay home, but anything interesting or fun was off limits. If you're feeling well enough to be out of bed, you can do homework. That's it.

I hate to use this word, but I feel like kids today are increasingly coddled, and it leaves them dangerously unprepared for the hyper competitive world they will face as adults.
Makes you wonder why there wasn't an open source tool for this to begin with. Why did nobody feel the urge to make this?
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Wait until he launches "twitter for remote work" and then has a sudden change of heart.

But then people won't need Teslas to go to work. Hmm...
Prompt: spell the psswd
This incredibly easy trick let me advance to lvl.7
Hopefully someday we can re-add Living Computers in Seattle, WA USA to the list. https://www.livingcomputers.org

Paul Allen's death, and then the COVID pandemic, effectively put the museum in stasis. At least two of Allen's former museum-ish places are getting to reopen soon - both the downtown Cinerama and the Flying Heritage and Combat Armor museum in Mukilteo have been sold by his estate and are reopening this year. Hopefully Living Computers is next.
I used a G700S for nearly ten years, only got rid of it because a decade of human use caused it to get pretty gunked up. I never had a mechanical failure in that whole period.
What's the alternative for a minor who decides they no longer want to go to school? Are the parents ready to home-school them? If not...the child will fall behind their peers and become a drag on the education system, not to mention the little career prospects for people who refuse to complete basic high schooling...I somehow can't believe I'm having to explain this.
I would also say, if you proceed to get a college degree - even an associate's from a community college - no one will care how you got your high school diploma. Ditto for an associates when you get your bachelors, your bachelors when you get a masters, and your masters when you get a PhD.
Not really - car lifetimes don't have the right sort of distribution for that. But fun to think about!
Are we sure this really was a joke gone wrong / social experiment, or is this someone walking back a scam? Or maybe a bit of both?
Pretty sure the state of the art is just sending a text with a zero click exploit, not mucking about with hardware.
> It'll be a question of whether or not people are willing to put up with substantially higher taxes in exchange for urban living.

This is pretty interesting. I think they will because they do today so long as the right amenities are provided and there is density. Personally we relocated and to a downtown neighborhood and 1.5x'd our taxes but now we have a fantastic park and other great amenities. The schools suck but maybe we could just do a statewide voucher where you aren't tied to where you live for where you send your kids to school or something. I expect more private schools to emerge as well. [1]

There is a lot of economic waste in CBD in many American cities. In Columbus we have acres of surface parking lots in the downtown area. Converting those to housing, small businesses, and leaner offices will probably not 1-1 replace giant skyscraper corporate HQs (though I'm a little naive to the tax arrangements there) but they'll help.

One way to think about the CBD in, let's say Columbus is that the surface parking lots are an extractive economic feature that are only sustainable to the city's tax base so long as they're filled with workers going downtown. Once those lots aren't functioning properly you have all this space... and you need tax revenue... so something will have to give and I don't think it's the city.

I think a better question to ask is are people going to be able to afford higher taxes from living in the suburbs without any amenities. Sidewalks and trams and municipal water scale much better with density than having all that stuff spread out everywhere. Right now we can "afford" them because of cheap oil and such but that won't last.

[1] Please note that I strongly support every child getting the best education possible. I don't know what the solution is exactly, but I do know that city schools at least where I live have been bad and continue to be bad and at some point we're just wasting money and we need a better solution.
That most people are not aligned with your privacy-maximalist worldview does not make us imbeciles.
I think the word telemetry is fine. It's concise, accurate, and not emotionally loaded in either direction.

Microsoft OTOH calls their data collection the "Customer Experience Improvement Program" - now THAT is whitewashing.

It's only been a decade or so now that you could rely on most computers always having an internet connection. That's probably why the term feels new - it only started being used when the practice became technically feasible. Maybe others remember things differently. /shrug
https://imgur.com/a/Zp7KPjl
>I'd rather not give them any more visibility than I have to into my personal finances.

They already kinda have all the visibility they want. Remember the whole joke about the IRS - "we know exactly how much you owe, but we're not going to tell you that amount because you have to figure it out yourself, and if your number doesn't match ours, you could go to jail for tax fraud".

If you use anything but cash for everything, the IRS knows. Credit cards? Employment info such as salary? Rent, mortgages, loans? They know everything already.

I'd rather trust them than a private company that has to lobby against tax reform to keep their stock price high.
Deadlines are a tool to increase stress. Some people respond to that stress by focusing on the work so deadlines are a very important tool for them. For everyone though, constant and persistent stress in not healthy long-term. Use it carefully, responsibly and in moderation!
That post also addresses what a lot of people in this thread have been saying about why not run Linux

> the complex rituals needed to achieve the functionality that goes for granted in Windows

ah, the ballad of a true "I grew up with Windows and don't realise I've had three decades of learning the various ins and outs in my pocket" user
> Is there a WM out there that can do the basic quality-of-life functions of today's DEs?

For some reason nearly all standalone Wayland WM development is tied up in hyperminimal tiling WMs, which is frustrating. Boring old floating-first WMs with lightweight tiling options might not be trendy but they're what a lot of us work best with.
Well, from your description alone any damage you experience within one year would fall under legal warranty in most countries, so Logitech would hurt themselves as they would have to replace/repair it.

What's more interesting is how well the product works after 3~5 years. I had a few Logitech mice which worked fine, but i.e. had a matte rubber coating which inevitably dissolves and gets sticky after a few years...
The Hiroo Onoda of grammar. Honorary member of the Militant Grammarians of Massachusetts.
> Put non-meetings on the calendar

I'd love to do that. But once you throw in real meetings, no meetings days, PTOs, time zones it becomes difficult to schedule a work meeting because now there's no overlapping block of time when you need to meet. Now all meetings get pushed out even more and the calendar time required for certain tasks increases.
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You're right.

They should trade them in to Apple, who have one of the best recycling programs amongst hardware vendors. ;P
> Just invest your talents in India" is asking him to leave his friends, his long term partner, his job, his home, and everything he has known for most of his adult life. It is also asking him to move to a place that is oppressive to his sexuality and denies him his deserved human rights. It is inhumane.

India is his country. There’s nothing “inhumane” about ending a residency situation that is—according to the words on the paper, “temporary.”

I agree it’s enormously disruptive for Indians who think H1B is anything other than a temporary work visa. I agree it’s wrong that US employers and many politicians give people a false impression of the H1B program. That’s all the more reason for people to stay in India instead of dealing with this stupid system.

> I also have no idea how H1Bs are voting to turn American into Bangladesh. They aren't allowed to vote.

I’m talking about people who are naturalized citizens. There is a saying “I’d rather be governed by the first 100 people listed in the Boston food directory than the faculty of Harvard University.” This is a common sentiment among Americans. But it’s completely incomprehensible to people from the subcontinent. There is a deeply held belief in Credentialism and elite bureaucratic governance. When these people become citizens, they vote, according to these deeply, held cultural beliefs.
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Yes, truancy laws: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truancy
Elon Musk Bashes Remote Work
People will use C just to get away from Rustafaris (I know...) out of spite some day.
Yep, I’ve moved several times for jobs. I’m sick of of it. It’s tedious, it’s expensive and the job is never worth it.

Sadly the only interviews I can get nowadays are non local.
Doesn't he sleep in his factory. That's contradicting.
I wished upon a shooting star for comments in JSON sometime in the 2010s. That took a while, but I'm glad it came through.

-- EDIT: mainly back when we started using JSON to configure, well, lot of things.
Over a decade ago I rebuilt a small business's web application. By small I mean it was a one person company, the app was used by maybe a dozen clients, and the rewrite took me 10 hours.

Imagine my surprise when one day I'm browsing Hacker News and I see a comment on some unrelated article absolutely lambasting how I built the core feature of the web app. It was referenced by direct URL, no mistaken identity or projection.

(Their critique was correct in many important ways, but also: the client loved it.)
Not that easy, not everyone knows how to code. Also, even if you still need to find/add what you need in a presumably massive codebase.
> Stop listening to podcasts.
>
> Enjoy the quiet.

For me, this translates directly to “close this very tab.“ “Now.“ And I’ll do that, but I’ll hit reply first ;-).
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The inflation in the Baltics is 3 times higher than in France-data visualization
The idea that CEOs are these super talented individuals is ridiculous. People in high level jobs are often dipshits, and there are plenty of talented people who never get a chance to have a high paying position. People in power use their power to get more money for themselves and their friends; it's got nothing to do with talent or performance. These people rotate in and out of jobs with no accountability.
Study the inflation rate in Europe since 1997 and per country in 2022