skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The major (and only?) claim the author has in favor of starting a podcast is that listeners jump in to share free consultation.

I don't know. It doesn't seem like a good reason to start a podcast. But if you have the time and motivation to do a podcast, and make it a good podcast for your listeners, I guess it could be a nice side effect.

The better way to go at it would be to note down the problems beforehand, find an expert and plan an episode around them.
The government can say whatever they want in press conferences or through their social media. Both the government and their employees have as much free speech as they want - and not only that but they spent billions of dollars for advocacy groups especially during covid. (which we know now was used to promote fraudulent science)

The injunction says the government can't urge, pressure or encourage censorship. (yes everyone should read it). You have to be joking you think that is a bad thing.
How many other people's "for you" tabs do you regularly look at?
The load times bro, I could not get on the CD based bandwagon. I played Sewer Shark on the Sega CD and the load times where miserable. I even thought the resolution was abysmal (compared to my PC at the time). No way it would win, I thought. By christmas of 97 I had a PS1 and spent all day playing Tomb Raider. The hardware was beyond any other console and the design was slick and new. And while Sony won, and my Saturn sat in the corner collecting dust, the N64 was the only system that came out when my friends came over. Nothing could compete with 4 player mario kart or starfox. Sega was dead before the dreamcast even came out.
This. A great life can be achieved with so little.
My dude, never has this image been more relevant
https://datavizblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/map-full-siz...
You don't have to look any farther than the wikipedia page about them to get a list of their antics.
Manufacturers already throw their principles out of the window to sell in China, Russia and UAE so I don't think they'll have a problem selling in France after this either.
Both of those use Gtk and Gtk is written by the Red Hat paid Gtk devs. Those devs have already removed the ability to paste a file path into a File->Open gtk dialog without it erroring out. The foundation under XFCE and LXDE and MATE has been and is still being eroded away. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/5872

And there's nothing the DEs can do about the dumbing down and removal of features in Gtk.
> https://yet-another-lucas.github.io/plumbing-adventure/

Nice, I made a version of that game myself following the tutorials of https://www.youtube.com/@uheartbeast

This was a while ago, he recently put out a ton of new tutorials for Godot 4, good stuff for quickly getting your hands dirty. You're beyond that point I'm sure, just throwing them out here for anyone else looking for nice intro content.
You answered your own question. The simple law of supply and demand can create unlivable wages for one. By controlling supply, you decide what types of people can make a livable wage.

Maybe you want locals with families to have the opportunity to drive. So you control the supply until they can afford local rents and still have time to spend with their kids.

Of course, cities often turned it into extortion, but they don't have to do that.
I’d say the reason is clear: the market decides; and the decision is that current amount of bugs is ok.

Although when it comes to software that market is quite heavily skewed by the VC funding effect. If "the market" is getting something free or cheap as a loss leader because it's really the VC money that is paying the bills for a few years then end users are going to be much more tolerant of junk for a while.

In the VC model it's boom or bust so quality and coding for the long term might not be business priorities. In the short term unless you're so bad that it's outweighing the sales and marketing push to drive that rapid growth you can get away with a lot. In the long term you don't care so much about maintaining the early code because by the time a big exit is a realistic outcome you have the resources to throw things out and rebuild from the ground up if you need to.

Of course none of that means you're actually providing a good experience to your users during those early years or that they'd be willing to pay enough for what you're offering or stay with you for long enough to sustain and grow your business independently. You're still shipping junk and your users still don't like it. You just don't care because your bills are really being paid by someone whose interests barely align with your users in those early years and the bill payer also doesn't care because they're only interested in the big exits and expecting to write off all their other investments anyway.

If you're a software developer who does want to build good products and have happy users benefitting from them then this kind of market is toxic. If you're a user who just wants good software to do its job so you can get on with yours then this kind of market is toxic. Eventually maybe the potentially paying customers will get wise to the startup game and start avoiding it in favour of alternatives made by smaller companies that bootstrap and aim to build steady and sustainable products and businesses. But there's been so much money splashing around in VC world for so long now that a lot of people just can't think outside the box.
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> but that's not the point. VCs (and most founders / anyone holding equity) just want to get our before the hockey-stick graph starts turning into an S-graph.

Most efficient system in the world, ladies and gentlemen
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> you can film the police but you can't post it online as they as individuals have a right to privacy as well

This is perverse. What "privacy right" do police officers have when they are on duty or acting under color of law? I think no public official should have a right to privacy while they are actively performing their duties as public officials (this would not apply to their personal life, which is why there should also be very strict restrictions to ensure that all public work is done in public). I also count police officers in this, since they have extra-legal rights compared to the rest of us, being the very embodiment of the state's "monopoly on violence".

If a police officer is doing something heinous, why should they deserve any privacy at all outside of their personal life, where they in theory don't have the right to use their police powers?
Personally I think that "X is an American site" is over-used and doesn't actually make all that much sense when applied to things that cover general world-spanning issues.

But that's my opinion.
I feel like I remember restructured text's visual table format supporting rowspan/colspan cells.

(but I've also read the docs for nearly every minimal markup format I can find, so I might be misremembering... :)
Lol that's cute that they asked.
Time for the hardware makers to start adding physical on/off switches for the microphone and cameras.
Fairly certain you can apply this to nearly any government.
Before anyone gets excited, the landslide occurred in the 12th century or so :(

I was all excited to plan a rock hounding trip to the Himalayas. I even sent out the Sherpa bat signal (it’s a silhouette of me shaving a Himalayan yak), only to find out I’m eight hundred years too late.
Submitted this story [1] earlier but didn't get traction.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36615378
> it's also opening the ol' Overton window to a range of possibilities beyond the usual vague but well-funded "reform". If that's what it takes to get a marketplace of ideas, I'd say it's productive.

Slogans like #ACAB and "defund the police" shut down debate on reform. They're most successful at consolidating the pro-police position with moderates by presenting the entire police-reform spectrum as anti-cop radicals.
Unsurprisingly, the author takes a religious approach to proving his point and leans heavily on assertions and anecdotes.

If anyone has any doubts, the scientific method is the foundation of all science. It is completely incompatible with the overwhelming assertions of religious texts. If religions were evaluated within scientific framework, they would be deemed junk and crack pot theories.
Electron is the single biggest scourge to end users since Windows ME.
Maybe fewer avenues for them to activate the microphone, though.
United States, couple years ago my friend in his mid-thirties was feeling depressed after his mom died. Came over to hang out, and wasn’t responding to his sisters calls.

His sister called in a welfare check on him and suddenly I have three cops knocking at my front door. They ask for him by name, say he isn’t in trouble. I go get him; he asks “how did you know where I was?” and the cops say “we pinged your phone”. What that entails exactly I have no clue.

Later I pulled up the video of them arriving on my cameras, they didn’t approach any of my neighbors houses first. It was just right to my front door like they knew exactly where he was. Kinda spooky.
Binary thinking doesn't lead to a good life. Continua.
The Soviet Union had 28 days of paid vacation, which workers were strongly incentivized to take.

Part of the reason the revolution happened in the first place was the normalization of the work week and time off work.

You can blame the Soviet Union for a lot of things, but preventing workers from taking vacation is certainly not one of them. Doing so betrays a large gap in history knowledge.
> If someone actually thinks that, then where do you go from there.

People who believe in ACAB for the most part do not believe the current system can be reformed and are police abolitionists:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_abolition_movement
I've downloaded many .html articles that I would like to read, without opening "BIG browsers" such as Firefox.
This type of thinking is exactly why our supercomputers struggle to show even the basic text on screen.

And yes, users do care about this crap.
It's hardwired on the laptops, but it must be controlled by software on the phones because the dot is within the screen area.
Great graphics! Cyberpunk-styled gandalf
Can you clarify your belief that code isn't documentation? I'm far more familiar with the alternate philosophy that code is just another way humans communicate with each other (the computer doesn't care; the computer can take a machine-compatible binary from anywhere and execute it with no care as to whether humans understand the how or why of the program). Consider the "Literate programming" approach and tooling that operates in that paradigm (such as Jupyter notebooks).

Comments clearly aren't code, in the sense that they're a specific form in a language dedicated to being thrown out by the compiler / interpreter / etc (usually; I'm handwaving over the metaprogramming approaches like Doxygen that parse comments). But there's a reason we name variables `time_to_completion` instead of just `a`, or name functions (or have functions instead of jump pointers crammed into global variables), etc.
Would putting it inside a microwave work? I think I recall Snowden did that but I'm not entirely sure I remember correctly.

Edit: on the other hand, I'm now considering the possibility that the phone might be recording your audio even without network access and then transmit it later when you take it outside the microwave. So you'd have to be physically far away from the microwave for the microphone not to hear you, which means the microwave and faraday cages don't add anything useful.
Practically this is an excellent point. I want people to listen more than they do, myself as well.
> If the speech the government officials are engaging in is a demand to censor the political speech of citizens, then we are looking at a violation of the First Amendment

"Censor" is doing a lot of work here.

It's important for the government to engage in public speech that may lead another person to self-censor. E.g., a press release saying "FYI: publishing your how-to-build-a-nuke guide is gonna help crazy people bomb US cities, please don't do that."

If gov speech is inherently coercive, then the gov is NOT allowed to make that request. (which feels dumb to me) In reality, it's more likely a court would hold they can say that; they just can't imprison the publisher (or audit their taxes more aggressively) as a result.

So the gov can def say things that would lead to self-censorship. They just can't be dicks about it.
Well... industry taps into all your mic, gps and image library to send you personalized ads, and no one has really called it out, except be surprised when the ad shows up a minute after mentioning a product.. this to me sounds like tapping into the existing frameworks. likely the app providers giving access if not the phone manufacturer themselves.
That's implying that it is actually off and not just pretending to be off, and that it requires a command to start recording instead of just constantly recording and only uploading when commanded to
I swear majority of these "economic" stories are hyper generated by some LLM they have access to, with very little or zero basis in reality.
In which case any other windmill could only be more meaningful. :)

I do get what you mean, and self-closing tags makes parsing HTML a royal pain... but it's been the status quo for decades now (self closing tags were in HTML 1.0 IIRC). It's not like they'll change it and break >90% of the internet† just to get rid of an oddity in the HTML spec.

† I do literally mean >90% - self closing tags are everywhere. They're in generated HTML, they're in manually created HTML, they're created by templating languages, and so on.
I mean, I freely admit that sometimes when I'm lazy it's like 15%, but that's higher than zero! If I focus on active listening and cognition and try to write down or discuss key points afterwards (driving with a partner is great for this) I can get a lot more information retention.

Back when I was commuting I would start my working day by summarizing the podcast that I had just listened to in a text document - good way to sort of boot up my brain in the morning, without coffee.
Courts say a whole lot of things.

The large majority of what the government is alleged to have done sounds entirely appropriate to me. The CDC, Surgeon General, and NIAID are responsible for publishing health guidance. This means they will say some things are true and some things are false. They have no power to censor third-party sources and I don't see evidence of even informal pressure. Yet third parties believed this information and used it to determine what posts are true, which sounds to me like these agencies did their job by publishing trustworthy guidance.

Some of the things this court said were factually incorrect. For instance,

>Dr. Francis Collins, in an email to Dr. Fauci told Fauci there needed to be a “quick and devastating take down” of the GBD—the result was exactly that

Yet in context, you find that the "take down" in question was a published rebuttal, not censorship. This is a lie, plain and simple.

> The FBI’s failure to alert social-media companies that the Hunter Biden laptop story was real, and not mere Russian disinformation, is particularly troubling.

The "story" is that Hunter Biden owned a laptop. The "Hunter Biden laptop story" was very much fake. None of the supposed evidence of corruption existed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter%27s_law

> Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Are you talking about the European Union that wants to permanently dismantle end to end encryption and full access to any and all texts sent between any number parties?
I am not sure if the latest edition covers pfsync and carp, but there is a book on this subject, "The Book of PF" by Peter N. M. Hansteen.

https://nostarch.com/pf3

OpenBSD's PF firewall has been adopted by Solaris, and I believe it is an option in FreeBSD and Linux.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PF_(firewall)
We have the technology to solve global warming right now. We have basically unlimited clean energy in the form of nuclear fission.

There’s enough fissile material to last humanity for hundreds of years and even more untapped in the oceans.

If we were actually doomed by climate change, we could and would fix this problem. For now, most of the doom/anxiety posting seems like political tactics to me.

I’m on board with switching to renewables and investing in new technologies like EV’s. Which is happening in the private sector regardless of politicians. But I will never support using climate anxiety to restrict freedoms.

(I see restricting meat consumption, changing speed limits like on the autobahn, etc as restricting freedoms)
"In denial" and "catastrophe looms" are exactly what I was talking about in my original post. Evangelical protestants will be happy to tell you why you need to change your ways today or else you'll go to hell along with every other non-believer, and that Christ is going to return anytime now and then it will be too late. It sounds very similar to me. Doomsaying just tunes me out, and I suspect that's a widespread pov that's not widely spoken because who wants to engage with doomsayers.
> Politicians demand censorship all the time, as is their right.

Sorry, but that just won't fly.

> A federal appeals court in Manhattan says President Trump cannot block critics from his Twitter account, calling it "unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination."

In a 29-page ruling on Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a lower court's decision that found that Trump violated the First Amendment when he blocked certain Twitter users

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/09/739906562/u-s-appeals-court-r...

Trump may have wanted to silence criticism, but he didn't get away with it, even on his own personal account.
They're already allowed to shoot you if you don't stop your car, all in the name fo fighting terrorism, so I'm not surprised they can snnop at your camera and microphone.

I'm quite sure this is linked to the recent protests.

Je suis Charlie > je suis la gendarmerie > l'etat, c'est moi. Back to 1655 in three easy steps.
If you want to leave all your notes unencrypted on github, then sure that’s an option.
Most of Facebook is built on PHP. I’m surprised they didn’t choose Laravel.
Agreed, I run regularly and it's great thinking time, I find it so much more valuable to just have rote exercise to keep me physically distracted and let my mind wander. I'd consider it counterproductive to listen to anything.
We do the same with "up to" too. I have no idea how non-native speakers learn the English language.

> Count up to 20

Is a prompt to count up to, and include, twenty.

> Describe the events up to WWII

Is a prompt to describe the events leading up to WWII, but leave out the war itself.
To be fair, the analog hole is effective and easy to 'exploit'.
The slippery slope argument can be overused.

But any surveillance capability results in “good” as well as bad actors, frustrated with the current limits, asking for just a little more formal power or finding ways to justify informal drift in practice.

The only way to stop surveillance creep is openness and clear principles more coherent than a recursive “well they have been responsible so far, so far as we know” argument.
It's not, but you hit the interesting point that we're already at a number of public holidays where employers don't automatically grant all the federal holidays. (I have seen employers make holidays "floaters" and let people choose which floaters they want to take off. Implicit is that they can't take all the floaters without using vacation days.)

So adding another 10-20 would likely not change actual PTO all that much.
It's not just the landing page, actual posts don't load either, e.g. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36610844

I had to turn off tracking for the domain to get it to load, looks like it needs the "Social Media Trackers" to load from https://statc.xx.fbcdn.com
The HTML spec is bigger than the web, and consumed by other specifications produced by standards bodies like W3. So for example, ePub expects well-formed XHTML, which includes closing tags.[1] The HTML spec to this day still has XML-compatibility sections.[2][3]

Of course, feel free to do what you want on the web.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-33/#sec-xhtml

[2] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#xml

[3] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-xhtml-syntax
I recently bought X4:F on sale from a small recommendation. I like it so far after about 8 hours. But already I am wondering how deep the galaxy actually is - like, what will I actually do, other than keep getting more money and more ships for their own sake?

What goals do you pursue? What drives you to keep going back?
Seems like a lot of these replies are skipping over the “almost” in my comment. I was not being literal. I was pointing out that they simply assumed that all users would want this. There was no “provided you agree” disclaimer in their comments. If anything, the specifics of it being 100 years actually implies that consent isn’t even a consideration since we can assume that nearly all Evernote users will be dead in 100 years. It is a strange reminder that so few people were concerned about this sort of thing in 2012.
Not everything needs to be a serverless SPA, that's the point.
no one implied that, stop being silly
I'm not clear from the post-mortem why the outbound packets were having issues. Was it cloudflare? Did someone accidentally delete an outbound route? Why couldn't they see the issue themselves? I only have more questions now.
All that was needed to make a Selectric into a terminal was essentially a box to take the electrical signals of hitting the keys (that triggered the correct letter on the ball to strike the ribbon) and amplify/send them to an interface into a device that could take TTY. Early word-processors and cold-type machines used this since those Selectrics were ubiquitous and dang durable.
I was never able to get encrypted syncing working with Joplin. I tried every year or something for a while but it never worked. I kept looking for an Evernote alternative for years. The closest that got there is Leanote, which is a Chinese company's open source product. (https://github.com/leanote)

I finally gave up the search. Switched to unencrypted plain text md files synced with syncthing. On Linux I use Kate. It has a directory tree view and recursive search in said directories. It works great. On Android I am using Markor to point to the same shared directory. I don't think I'll ever start looking for a note taking app again. I also found I don't really take notes much. So there's that. :)
I've done both the official 2D/3D game tutorials in the official documentation, and although the 2D game tutorial wasn't that bad, the 3D tutorial was quite disappointing as a learning experience. It's still not ported to Godot 4, and they use some weird hacky code to achieve some basic gameplay stuff. (And the finished game itself isn't really that interesting...) Even the 2D tutorial leaves something to be desired, since it just dumps heaps of instructions/code at you without explaining you a more general picture first (which wouldn't be a problem for more experienced programmers, but beginners would definitely struggle)

That said... it's still the most comprehensively written Godot tutorial to date, so I recommend at least trying out the 2D tutorial.
Yes. https://godotengine.org/article/godot-4-1-is-here/

> Note that as of this release projects made with C# still cannot be exported to mobile and web platforms. We are working on providing the support as soon as possible, but the resolution of this limitation will likely depend on the release of .NET 8 at the end of 2023. This means that the work on enabling mobile and web platforms can only truly start later this year.
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