skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are using 'genocidal' frivolously here.

'I don't think we tried to destroy the notion of "iraq" or of being "iraqi."'

That's not what genocide is.[0] Destroying 'notions' isn't a genocide. (That's without delving into argument of whether or not Putin's actions fit such description.)

"In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

Killing members of the group;
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."

"I don't remember America violently putting down opposition to the war at home"

I don't think there was much opposition[1] thanks to American free mass media[2] and ones who did protest occasionally got arrested. [3][4] Situation in Russia now is harsher, of course, but still.

"I could be convinced that we were worse than I think."

Don't really want to, my point is that Hitler has set a pretty high bar and both Bush and Putin failed to reach it. So far at least :( Look at the genocide in Rwanda, that's what qualifies as a good attempt.

As a side note, do you remember Bush's Freudian slip when he said Iraq instead of Ukraine? The laugh in the audience is pretty disturbing [5]. I'd expect somber silence full of regret.

[0] https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_the_Iraq_War#...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/world/from-the-editors-th...

[3] http://edition.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/17/sprj.irq.antiw...

[4] http://edition.cnn.com/2003/US/01/19/sproj.irq.peace.protest...

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y23mTSviCZo
Wait it's integrated with SystemD? What is a package management system doing with the init process? I now remember that Guix is a daemon, something that made me really wary at the time; but a SystemdD dependency is something else entirely.
I've done all these things on my phone, movie, novel, used Reddit, but not the site or the mobile app. I've tried many times thinking maybe it got better, it never did. I use relay and love it. it doesn't have chat but I don't ever use Reddit chat. I'm also not a mod.
This is literally everything that was needed: fans.

Businesses that upped their ventilation or provided outdoor seatings with plentiful airflow should have never been affected.

Sort of amazing I can still walk into a bathroom with completely stagnant air.
I don't expect it to work magically without effort on my part. What I'm saying is that it's a tradeoff, and that the tradeoff doesn't really work that well for me.

I'm simultaneously pretty gregarious and pretty introverted. Having to take the lead and proactively arrange for social interactions is exhausting for me, but being a mostly passive observer and tactically jumping in is much more manageable, and all around a more efficient use of my resources. Work better in a pull- rather than push-based setup, if you will.
Yes that’s my exact problem - I’m sick of all the damn zooms. I watched as my team went from 15 minutes of standup where everyone was literally standing up face to face and the rest of the day was a mix of dedicated work and ad-hoc collaboration to literal hours of just sitting in online meetings, but exclusively those of the least productive sort. Ugh.

The product reflects it too - in the year since I’ve left no new significant features have come out.
Talking about wallpapers is derailing the conversation. The point was that just as we see the social networks of today and the games of today getting enshitified so will every VR experience get enshitified.

As for writing it yourself, care to talk about the price of the developer account, the approval process, the risk of getting banned, the ever changing API surface, the time you use for all of this, etc. etc.? You are NOT the owner of anything in the "metaverse". You are just allowed the privilege of playing in the platform owners sandbox as long as you pay. When the platform owner will decide it is profitable to exploit users ability to set wallpapers there is nothing you as a user or as a developer on top of the platform will be able to do to counter that.

Here, read this (1) and watch this (2) and tell me you feel confident the same will not happen to any "metaverse".

(1) https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

(2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g16heGLKlTA
Have you never interviewed your team before accepting a position? That seems to be the missing part here. And working with friends and family is fine I suppose, but working with people who you share goals with and can actively collaborate with is better in my experience.
I'm happy to see this. OSCON was such an amazing conference, and FOSCON was such a lovely complement to it. I recall seeing DHH, Matz and _why all in the same room at free geek. I really hope this recaptures the ethos of open source in a way that feels like it has been somewhat lost.
Yep, the article confirms: "Ninety-two studies satisfied the inclusion criteria. Because many of these studies reported data from several samples, the number of samples, 113, was greater than the total number of studies. The total number of participants for the 113 samples was 50,120. A total of 1,682 estimates of change were compiled."
I hope so.

I love the variety of content on Reddit. But many of the subreddits are so toxic and fully of cry-bullies that it's nearly intolerable. I can't wait for the next generation of Reddit to come along, one that will welcome more participation from civil-minded people. (Kudos to Hacker News for somehow achieving that, btw.)
I don't understand. I can access Bing Chat on Chrome just fine?
> where they take a huge cut of revenue

to be fair it was way worse in the 2000. Publisher’s cut, physical manufacturing and the brick and mortar store margin when added together was generally way more than 30%. Of course Apple giving you no choice but to use their appstore sucks and is something that should be fixed via regulation. However generally 30% seems like a good deal for some products (e.g. nobody is forcing game developers to publish on steam).
If you do a search for "python common gotchas" it's almost certain to come up, usually pretty prominently.
How is that working out for Toyota? Hydrogen, or synthetic fuels, has a place where energy density, chemical properties, or ease of storage are fundamental requirements. In other words use cases like: long distance shipping, aviation, fertilizer and seasonal energy storage.

For all other applications hydrogen is a lost cause pushed by the fossil industry.

See the "Hydrogen Ladder" for more information.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/clean-hydrogen-ladder-v40-mic...
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it is? I can reproducibly use it
You mention that your team is profitable and your client retention is high: this suggests a very particular type of business.

Could it be that the nature of your work is well suited to remote work? Perhaps you’re delivering fairly well-known outputs or have really mature processes around getting work done?

It would be interesting to ponder some of the worlds greatest creations and timelines they were created on, if folks had all been remote. Could the transistor have been created if your physicist and mathematician were both sitting at a slack screen?
There’s never been a better time in the US to be an electrician
> naive mistake of citing the company values as a critique of their behaviour

> companies are acting rationally. They are protecting their own interests. Both in espousing values they may not actually hold

A value is only a value if you'll follow it against your own "rational interests". Claiming you hold a value and then ditching it as soon as it's convenient is a form of fraud. Not one necessarily with monetary damages, but fraud nonetheless.

Western society has got quite a lot out of being generally high-trust and it is not good whenever anyone corrodes it by making cynical promises which they do not intend to keep, and it is right to shame them for this.
I think we should start talking about the possible climate impact of waste heat from nuclear thermal power plants too.

I'm definitely pro-nuclear, wherever it makes sense, in the short term. As long as it's never at the expensive of building renewables too. But many nuclear proponents talk as if nuclear is the end-goal for power generation. That we should just replace everything with nuclear. But if we do, it's going to get harder to bring the Earths climate back to equilibrium, since a world on 100% nuclear power would add a lot of heat to planet. Not as bad as greenhouse gases, but significant enough to make reversal harder.

Sabine Hossenfelder has a video covering the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vRtA7STvH4

I think focusing on solar and energy storage will always be a good bet. It will probably be the absolute dominant way to get energy in 100 years, along with geothermal in colder climates. We're just one generational improvement from that being inevitable, and those improvements are arguably already out of the lab and in trial production stage. Given how important solar+storage will be, the amount of R&D flowing into it will be staggering in the coming decades.

When we've completed the transition to sustainable solutions (which right now is requiring a lot of mining and energy intensive metal processing, which will mostly be recycled in the future) and the population growth flattens and then reverses, I'd hope that the amount of energy needed for industry will fall dramatically.

Edit: I'm also hoping Helions approach to fusion works out. If it's combined with panels that radiate the waste heat to space (there should be much less heat per MWh of electricity generated compared to fission, perhaps so little that radiate cooling is feasible), there should basically be zero downsides to their power plant.
> Is it worth the price of mass daily commuting on the wealth and mental health of employees, and on the planet?

That's very context specific. In many cities, employees commuting by public transport to a central location, rather than all individually heating/cooling their houses, is a plus for the planet and wealth of employees. For many people (including me) it's also good for mental health.
I also wonder if there are any readers from Flexport or Amazon Air services who have interesting takes / stories about these kinds of factors in the operations today.
Most advice for life, dating, professional etc, implicitly starts with:

- Be attractive

- Don't be unattractive
So Astronomy is not a hard science? Because there is only observation, no testing of hypothesis?
> I don't think a remote-first approach inherently takes more time and effort, but it requires a culture change.

Culture change requires time and effort.

And without structured guidance shaping the change, progress will not be evenly distributed.

I think the harsh reality is that remote-first does inherently take more time and effort, even if some of that is a one time investment.

The trouble is that this one time investment is difficult to quantify.

I worked remotely for many years prior to the pandemic so I’m not against remote work. But I don’t think it’s fair to claim that it comes at no cost. I did find it incredibly important to still get to the office periodically for team bonding and to catch up on the 100 little hallway conversations that can’t happen remotely.
I find Nix to be very close to the perfect DSL for what it does, and I like it quite a lot. But then I never bothered to look at Guix closely -- is its DSL at least lazy? Are there any honest comparisons wrt verbosity and awkwardness of Nix and Guix for stuff both are supposed to be good at?

No idea what "making NixOS compatible with other programming languages" is supposed to mean. On the face of it the phrase is, well, baffling. Would you care to elaborate?
That sounds like the worst of both worlds. You're on the hook for all the costs of an office, not just a small uptick in power and data use. You can't put on laundry or chat with your spouse during a break. And you have lost the advantages of in-person communication with your team.
An office isn’t that alien to anyone who has been to school. It’s essentially a training ground for working in an office.
The fires that erupted in Quebec, Canada, all started at the exact same time
SalesHookup is a platform that saves sales professionals 10+ hrs a month with networking by simplifying the boring part into 3 steps:

1. Select a time slot
2. We'll match you with another member and send you an intro
3. Connect on our video platform and have fun
Please could you consider changing the CSS on the article. At the moment, the web page has "display: block" on almost everything, which does exactly what it says on the tin and produces a blank white page, which does make it a little difficult to read the content.
> They should organize and stop posting until Reddit agrees to pay them a fee. Do you think this will work?

That's basically what we're doing, but skipping the middleman and overhead of paying and receiving money.
No office I've ever worked in had private spaces that were usable on a permanent basis by anyone other than senior management (who are thus oblivious to how the rest of their company actually spent their days). And I've been working since 1992.
Also, it checks the entire system for JARs and injects it’s stage0 bootstrap!, that includes maven and gradle caches. Reading this part sent a slight cold shiver down my back. Am infected mod dev could become a new spreader
any sub can remain private, and only allow posts from a select few, these subs could simply boot everybody and only let a small core team in and post regular updates so the sub is active, then Reddit can't just give it to someone else, not without an even bigger exodus. plus you can't just get a new mod team, especially for subs like askhistorians. They're very thorough, use many tools themselves that use the API to handle moderation and aggregate posts etc...

I mean, at this point they might as well call up Elon musk and ask advice on running a social network.
Might not be far off if you don't have very effective tools (Peking Man had simple stone tools) or you've exhausted nearby suitable wood supplies like sticks you can just pick up or trees you can tackle, so you have to travel out and drag it back.

The original study estimated 10 pounds (5kg) of wood foraged, trimmed and dried per hour of labour. That sounds low with a saw and an axe (and very low with a chainsaw), but might be about right with primitive tools including travel and processing and wood stack maintenance (no tarps either).
https://archive.is/sKb1c
and they are easier to take to the beach
Definitely agree on the hours - I remember the days I’d leave work at 6-7 and not even have the ability to work any more until the next day at 9-10. Contrast that to pandemic where suddenly everyone is expected to have the capacity to be on any time.

But 1.5 hours? Sheesh!
California is a great example of being terrible in most cases.
... they'll still function, but if you've ever had one you'll know that dust does matter. They're a pain to clean and the various crap in your air builds up on every edge. Definitely want it sucking filtered if that's that's an option.
It could happen but that's why they see the oddball measurement from WC if it's their home--maybe it's a weekend or off schedule event. Everything else could be happening first thing when they get to work and have a cup of coffee, five days a week like clockwork in regularity... I worked for the state of Ohio for a brief period in an office job and everyone always joked about getting paid to poop.
Thank you so much, I love when people recommend good books to me.
You say that, but plenty of job adverts are for fullstack developers, e.g. backend experience in C# with dapper or EF, and frontend in Angular or React. It's not an absurd transition for an experienced developer, even if there is a learning curve.
> The same people that would have said that electric cars are impossible, or that climate change is not real 7 years ago, are now environmentalists and are very concerned about lithium battery production. Just endless nonsense.

It is incredibly frustrating, but the realization behind it is infuriatingly simple: they just want to be contrarian. They just want to be right, and to know better than everyone else. The more people have opposite beliefs the better, because it means they are smarter than all of them. This fundamental disposition makes them soak up all of the propaganda, which fossil fuel companies are more than happy to provide. You can challenge them on facts all you want, they will not budge from their positions.

This is also why you will never hear them say "honestly, I don't know".
>very slow to adapt new web technologies

I'm not sure this argument holds water given the shockingly old versions of Electron that vendors ship (WhatsApp is using 13.6.9, Slack 24.2.0, Skype 19.0.9, Discord 22.3.2...)

Separately, is Safari actually slow to adopt new web technologies, or do they wait for standardisation and not simply accept the latest half-baked api of the week that Google builds for Chromium, uses across their websites, and then proclaims a New Web Standard?
what you’re advocating would only increase chrome’s dominance to 95%+.

there artificial limitations imposed by Apple and MS are the only things that are keeping the browser market marginally competitive.
A fun comparison could be driving a brand new (has a payment) fuel efficient car (30mpg) 5 miles a day vs. driving an older (paid off) truck/SUV (15mpg) the same distance. Over the course of a year (5d/week * 50 weeks) you will spend ~$150 more on fuel for the truck/SUV (used a mpg calculator at $4/gal). Its roughly 2x the fuel cost for this example, you could find a more efficient car but lets do some more simple math on payments.

Brand new vs paid off makes no difference on fuel efficiency. However, the average car payment for new cars in 2023 is $716 (holy crap!), so that payment for 5 years ($43k) is going to far outweigh the $150/year you'd "save" by driving a more fuel efficient vehicle. Five years of the fuel for this 15mpg truck example is still only $750 more than the cars fuel, a little over 1 monthly payment. An older vehicle is going to have higher maintenance/repair costs but not $40k more.

I assume larger numbers, but similar ratios for planes doing short daily trips.
Can you jump on a zoom real quick
National interests: Enforcing the prime directive and expanding the Federation through the discovery, and inclusion, of planets and civilisation. Also, diplomacy seems to mainly handled by starfleet, so soft power is handed over to the military. This also covers the aggressive expension bit.

Starfleet is portrayed as the defining element of the Federation. And throughout history, the military handling all aspects of civil admin was a very rare exception. Even just the majority is extemely rare. Once the military controls it, well, we are beyond a militaristic society and squarely in military dictatorship territory.
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> Those people who say that they're much more productive at home must be a minority of a minority, and the rest of them just lie because they want to slack off.

> As for myself, I do prefer the adhoc discussion of issues, brain storming and silly what-ifs during coffee breaks et cetera. I'm much more in the zone in this environment.

You prefer to chat with your colleagues during work, and you work well collaboratively with interruptions, but you can't envisage that other people have both different personal preferences, and different skillsets. Instead you accuse them of slacking off.
and 4, when things are going well companies in general avoid firing anyone who isn't like harassaing people or something like that. Because it gives a bad outlook and the ones who can start to look for something else

Now they just use the old "never let a crisis go to waste" to let those who isn't good enough or overpaid go anyway
Authy is a nice alternative to google's Authenticator

Was bought by Twilio, but still rocking.

I love the plugin for raycast.app for it

You set a master password and can login back with your phone number/master password in any device

Much easier to not fuck up 2FA with it when changing phones
They don't explain anything beyond mentioning the large door. Your comment is already 10x more insightful than that video.
> when there's a lot better tools to measure disk or network usage anyway.

Only if your system is working fine.

Only if you are okay with switching the context.

'Flashing lights' aren't the best troubleshooting tools, but they are OOB and works constantly. Frantically flashing HDD LED would say you about why the system froze for a couple of seconds way sooner when you oculd launch some performance monitor things.
would it be acceptable to you for me to force you to give a pint of blood every day to keep alive someone in a coma who could not live but for your blood?

Apt if the creation of the fetus wasn't your choice, but inaccurate if it was. If someone loses their balance and you grab their hand to stop them falling off a cliff, is it murder to deliberately let go before they regain their balance? Why can a person be legally compelled to sustain the life of a child after birth but not before?
So should the needs of the child be left unattended, then?
And in which you have personally audited every line of code for extra confidence. /s
Unfortunately the best work experiences I’ve had are in micro-small scale startups in SF/NY where I walk to work every day, sit in the same office with a couple/handful of people who I know are passionate about the same problems I am, and we all have the opportunity to brain-dump in person at will. Arraigning zooms will never compadre to the fidelity of a face to face interaction.
Most old people would love to be young again.

I tend to find, if you want to be young, act like the young.

Famous Warren Buffet quote, "I looked up the actuarial tables, and I saw that 6 year olds had the longest life expectancy. So, I decided to eat exactly what a 6 year old would eat."

Seemingly, it works.
I didn't realize the N ones dropped all those! I thought it was just that WMP wasn't installed by default.
District based voting isn't democratic. Proportion representation is the only real democratic choice, the district based voting simply doesn't work.

Cheating with elections is so much easier with district voting than proportional representation. The founders of the constitution hated parties but ended up with the game that leaves only a two party competition. That's hardly a choice, it's a single bit.

A real democratic system allows you to grow a political movement naturally over the years to take over and replace corrupt parties peacefully. But district voting system allows two party system to remain in power indefinitely. It completely prevents the entire point of democracy of allowing peaceful transition of power and replacement of corrupt power structures.

There's an additional problem, which is why isn't even harder to replace district voting, that those in charge of counting votes are local to each district, which is letting the car guard the cream.

In proper system with proportional representation, you need to ensure that each location doesn't abuse it's power to count votes and to fabricate population counts to gain an advantage, and you can only do so if you bring random people from different locations to count the votes in each place.