skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> countryside is full of inequality

I think it has to do with more emphasis on physical labor as conviences one would find in an urban environment are not available. Traditional gender roles are more prominent. A healthy culture will mean more peace, happiness, & coexistence with these rules. There are certainly strong women in rural areas, but men have a biological advantage for physical labor.

> drug abuse, drunkenness, etc.

I'm not sure if it's better or worse than urban environments, but a healthy culture & economy certainly helps.

Progressives tend to favor redistribution, which makes sense for high population densities. High population densities tend to rely more on inputs from the outside to support the population. Rural areas tend to be more self sufficient & even net producers of food, raw resources, & non manufactured products. The survival of the people in high population densities requires these resource inputs. A bit less so for rural environments. Rural populations do benefit from urban centers, but there are also costs in supporting high population densities. So rural areas are incentivized to take progressive policies with more of a cost/benefit analysis rather than requiring such policies for its survival.

I think the Hank Williams Jr. song exemplifies the attitude of many in rural environments. Note in the song, he befriended an urban finance professional, who was murdered at a convenience store. If he met the murderer he would "love to spit some beech-nut in that dude's eye"...where even justice is a self-reliant responsibility, rather than delegation to institutions. This attitude would be seen as an anathema to progressive ideology which has more faith in delegating justice to institutions.

"A country boy can survive"
-- Hank Williams Jr
There is LitRPG genre in which tension is not as key an ingredient. Also, there can be consumers of the writeup who don't particularly "buy" a book - so the writeup doesn't have to follow a typical book structure.
My formulation makers fun of typical commercial license agreements.

I can see how Santa Claus can live as a fairy tale, with small kids playing with the idea of the entire thing being somehow real, the same way as Goldilocks or Bambi. This is indeed cute, unless taken too seriously.

It's quite a bit harder with religions: they are not a once-a-year pleasantry, but are things that shape your entire view of the world and the way of life. A faintest idea that they are but a cute tale is literally a destruction of a worldview, a catastrophe instead of a mild disappointment. Knowing, say, Christianity or Islam as a cute tale only works for people who never were believers.
There's tons of free software out and there's tons of paid software too.

Problem is with quality and adaptation.
Sorry for the confusion. I have reworded the question.
Coolchile in the UK will export their masa to just about every country in the E.U.
In this context, stable means that it should not break, not that it will not be updated anymore. The term for what you are referring to is end-of-life.
This proposal does not affect bots producing web content, only (potentially) bots browsing web content.
Yopass: Share Secrets Securely
My dream journal would be blank. In my 50+ years of life, I have never woken up and remembered anything from the moment I fell asleep. As far as I can tell, I experience dreamless sleep.
I already today have a phone dedicated to "important stuff" like accessing banks. I think it's actually a decent solution, and a low-end phone doesnt cost that much either.
But but but that oil based politician says if we get rid of oil then we have to live like we are in the stone ages and that sounds hard so I'll just deal with it until it blows over
They do origin trials (behind flags) for all new features. They still release a bunch of them later without any consensus etc.
There's a difference between being effective and being *good".

Screeds can be effective, but that doesn't make them literature.
Yeah I can't believe this paragraph:

>"For example, if you were told about two conversations – one about guns, taxes and crime and the other about gay marriage, animal rights and abortion – you could guess with confidence which took place among progressives and which took place among conservatives – even without knowing anything about the content of either conversation."

Was written by a real human being. Like... I know plenty of church going Catholics who are happy to talk about gay marriage, animal rights, and abortion, and they aren't conversations that anyone is going to call "progressive".
People living and interacting in close quarters require more "refereeing". Usually in the form of government, but can be something like neighborhood home owner's associations. Referees are never popular.

Working from home can isolate you from people leading to mass media and social media becoming your window on the world. Such media tends to over focus on the scary or the outrageous.
I'd argue with digital distribution there's just more of everything. Within moments I can access rap music from France, Japan, etc. This was nearly impossible just 30 years ago. In the 90s I guess I could ask an importer to sell me a French rap CD, pay 100$ for it. Etc. Or I'd probably just give up.

That said mainstream music is forced to the lowest common denominator to appeal to the maximum number of people
You mean like this?

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/one-dead-cargo-ship-fir...

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230726-deadly-fire-b...
same. a hard workout beats me up and gets me sleeping like a baby.

i'd imagine the blood pumping, sweat, lots of water intake, and boost to metabolism probably doesn't hurt either.
Since I was diagnosed with ADHD last year I've been looking for other lenses to understand my own complex outside of a strictly genetic component. Self therapy, although I could probably use an actual therapist as well.

Between developmental theories of ADHD, complex PTSD, and even going back to old foundational texts (Karen Horney's Neurosis and Human Growth from 1950 was great) – I've found a lot of alignment on the theories of childhood abuse and neglect that lead to developmental disorders, in my case ADHD and depression.

As a child you have no basis for understanding what's wrong, or that the pain you feel is unusual. It's been a lot to process, and I'm not sure what to do with it yet, but at the very least it helps alleviate the weight of my rocky adulthood being "all my fault".
> On the one hand, you can live in the moment and hope the government or your family will give you enough for a modestly comfortable if frugal lifestyle in your old age.

Living in the moment does not equate to "have 0 savings" or "spend everything you make on experiences". There's a whole spectrum of middle ground between the extremes.

I understand the argument you're trying to make, but viewing it through the lens of extremes is a baby mistake (maybe a consequence of polarized american politics?). As an adult, you should be able to find a middle ground that works for you.
I can't say for 1.0 but in 0.9 hands get fairly often rendered perfectly. It's not always right but it's way better than any other earlier release (where it's usually consistently wrong).
We now need two things. First, an antitrust breakup of Google, separating search and ads. Second, a tax on ads.

It must be made against the economic interests of search engines to show too many ads.
Online Safety Bill and Encryption
We're going from 10% to 25% wind and solar in three years. And those projects were committed without the incentives of the IRA.

A decade is very feasible for the electricity generation part of the problem, which is what I was referring to.

Other industries may take longer.
> Now you need to read new code

And most times it's code that you really don't enjoy reading because it was dragged up from the slurry pits in Beelzebub's own septic tank and mangled over the years into a horrific totem, a paean to insanity, screeching out its perverted agonies the only way it knows how - through JIRA and Kanban boards containing decade-old bugs that you are asked, nay expected, to fix in your first week.
This is also how you know the "this won't impact extensions" talk is likely nonsense.

If you can still run extensions you still need captchas. So one possible road this takes is Google launches it, everybody still uses captchas because extensions in desktop browsers still make automating requests trivial -- and then we lock down extensions because "we already locked down the hardware and we really do need to do something about captchas..."
Grow it where? You'd need to cover significant land mass, where food is being grown.
This is the opposite. Because Boeing has no culture of innovation, their capsule was conservative in every choice. Slow development, bad software practices, lots of established slow contractors. That why it is expensive and behind schedule.

And the are continuing to build it not because of innovation but rather because it would be an utter and complete embarassment for them to give up. They would lose all credibility as a space contractor and would have little chance to ever bid for another big NASA project again.
if you look at coca cola with an IR sensative device [most camera modules] under a wash of mostly IR light the cola is transparent like water.

same issue occured a while back with clothing.

the window tint is transparent to IR.

Also:

in alaska this would be thrown out, tinted windows demonstrate expectation of privacy, and artificial means, are being used to observe private property in violation of curtilage. private property on public place, does not become public, particularily when expectation of privacy is demonstrated by obstruction of access.
I live in Oregon and that 5 step plan isn't working out.

I agree that addiction is first and foremost a health issue. However, relying on addicts to voluntarily enter treatment isn't working. We're seeing very few enter treatment - last I heard it was well under 10%. I think in the case of highly addictive drugs like opioids/fentanyl, and meth they should be made illegal again (Remember, Oregon essentially did your #1 above) however, instead of incarceration in a prison, we need some kind of treatment hospitals that are involuntary - something between a prison and a hospital with emphasis on treatment.

We need to take a much more nuanced approach: some drugs are highly addictive (fentanyl, meth) - people can get hooked on them after only 1 or 2 uses, you want to prevent that as much as possible and that requires that they be illegal. Other drugs are not addictive: marijuana, LSD, shrooms, etc - making those legal is fine, but in the cases of the psychedelics you really want to encourage people to have guidance as much as possible.
None of those definitions fit the original blog post. It's not satirical or ironic, it's not aggressive, it's not trolling, it's not off-topic, it's not even a "comment". It's not poor quality (imo). It's an opinion piece.

My definition was from urban dictionary btw, the first entry, maybe it sorts differently for different people.
Remember that if one of your team members has a good idea about how to improve the codebase or the process that you should acknowledge that it's a good idea and tell them how much you like it. Then you should always remember to tell them that it's "not the right time" so you can then move on to demand status updates on features.
Not just native inhabitants, people like to forget the whole "slavery" thing.
They are double slaves, one for the platform, the others for the corps/ngo/etc. they shill their products/ideology/etc.
Who is calling it a new phenomenon? The only thing new about it is the name.
If the only reason you are kind to humans is because it's practically useful to you, I can understand why you don't care about animals. While I'm sad I have to exist on the same planet as this kind of thinking, I'm glad someone is at least saying the quiet implied bits of the human-centric mindset out loud.

(Just in case you edit/delete your comment later... my current favorite quote is "Please note that if torture pigs made the bacon even 3% tastier, I'd be calling my senator right this minute to demand that he allow farm workers to tasering them for shits and giggles.")
Also twitter can't even pay its offices landlord or google.
The lowest drug use rates are in Singapore, China, Japan, Indonesia, etc. these are countries that execute dealers and drugs are very illegal and socially taboo. There are two sides to every coin.
My brief search indicates that is wrong:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/05/nasa-chief-says-cost...
Google can also decide at any time to put those web properties behind forced logins, or paywalls or just shutter them altogether. If Google doesn't want them to be part of the open web they won't be, regardless of whether this particular set of things is implemented or not. If we're all dependent on them enough that that's a problem for us, then that dependency is the problem.
People have an obligation to be productive to society. If they check-out and use drugs all day, they are not creating the value needed to feed, clothe and shelter themselves. Therefore if we allow people to live in this state, the work of other people is sustaining them, and we (society) have become enablers.

Sadly, just look at the god awful “linkage centers” in SF for how your ideas play-out in reality.

These “harm reduction” ideas are more like life-support for addicts. Yes maybe there are fewer deaths but I think there probably is more suffering.
I'm not disagreeing with you, just adding a historical perspective.

I grew up in rural Indiana, during the implementation of bussing (https://blog.history.in.gov/tag/forced-busing/). It generated so much hatred in the people around me, and had a lot to do with my decision (as a queer white person) to get the hell out of Dodge, ASAP.

In our middle school, Black boys were put into home economics class with the white girls, while white boys took shop class, where they would learn skills that they'd use to find jobs in the community. There was still segregation, lots of those boys ended up in "Special Education" where they'd be moved to outbuildings built for those "special classes". It was warehousing people, plain and simple.

Some of those boys were my friends. They were intelligent, curious, funny, creative young men, who were fully aware their ticket had been punched. It was a waste of human potential that America is right to be ashamed and in denial of.

Denial is one of the steps in the healing process. It's ugly, and everyone outside of the sufferer is right to have feelings about it. Sometimes it's frustration, sometimes pity, sometimes it's rage. "How can you be so blind?" we exclaim. I was a victim of the system, same as them, but I'll be damned if I don't have complicated feelings about it. We all do, I expect, though none of us feel quite free to express them in totality these days, if we had the safe space to express and process them. Instead, we have this.

We live in a better world, though. Even Indianapolis and the rural towns that spoke and wheel connect to. Even people in Knox, one of the towns I grew up in, where the town's head of the KKK worked at the local Sears. We all grew up a little bit since then, though, maybe not so much as we still need and deserve.

HN is best, not because of the articles that get posted, but because we have a place to discuss them, with honest inquiry. I'm grateful for it, and grateful for your comment. It is 100% true and it concurs with my anecdata.
You're right, I was mistaken.
Yes. My point is that Google's done an excellent job stacking incentives against the user, here.
"We belong to Allah, and to Him we return."[1]

[1] Inna Lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inna_Lillahi_wa_inna_ilayhi_ra...
Apart from the fact that you seriously overestimate the amount of science being done in industry, you seem to also underestimate the amount of government assistance industry receives for doing this research (and more development), either through tax breaks or direct grants.
Probably blue origin. NASA wants more than one supplier, for as much as possible.
> And the flaw here is that the proposal doesn't do enough. If that signed blob allowed you to uniquely ID the device it would help solve a lot more problems.

This is more or less what the proposal does? It's akin to the same shady stuff seen here [1] except this time some third party gets to sign it.

> That would end DDOS for the most part and make managing abuse a lot easier.

Not every bot that I'm defending against is a DDoS but I can probably figure out a way to overwhelm the "pre-content" filter that's trying to figure out if a token is legit or not.

[1] - https://fingerprint.com/demo/
> Any browser choosing not to implement this would not be trusted and any website choosing to use this API could therefore reject users from those browsers.

If we are serious about protesting this, let’s do as follows: We implement code in our websites that checks whether the user agent implements this API. If the check passes, we tell the user that their browser is not welcome and why that is.

#BoycottGoogle #BoycottChrome #BoycottBullshit
The Intersection of DAGs, ML, & Complex Code Bases: An Elegant Solution Unveiled
The same could have been said when photoshop or CGI tools like blender replaced hand sculpting and hand painting but I think it hasn't been a net negative across the board (I think rather the opposite).
This doesn't mean much if you consider we may have just gotten better about predicting and avoiding human loss during extreme weather events.

A better indicator IMO is the amount of property damage from extreme weather events, which has been trending up sharply since the 80s: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/summary-stats#temp...
And she made exactly that point by saying that doing that didn't hurt her career, it hurt the careers of the people who wanted to make money from her.
Using something like Medium vs. blogging on your company site
We need to start publishing blog posts for our company to drive traffic and establish thought leadership, etc. We could start a medium account and post there or we could just add a blog section to our website. How do people normally decide which method is best for them? I understand there is SEO advantages and wider distribution advantages but im looking for some more nuanced takes. Any thoughts?
>But if we're talking about plain old regular software, something that needs no server to operate, and functions perfectly fine offline

The main product at work is a desktop application. That means that every OS version / hardware configuration of every platform that any user might install it on can have its own bugs. It means that we support multiple major versions rather than being able to just always deploy the latest version. It means that a user might want to have multiple versions of the software installed side-by-side on the same machine. It doesn't change the fact that more users means more use cases.
In the US, the majority of people (even the majority of Republicans) support policies for fighting climate change. https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2020/06/23/two-thirds-of...
Ratzinger / Benedict absolutely deliberately prevented investigation into, and facilitated (by moving rapist priests into new parishes), child sexual abuse.

No, not really at all, actually:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI#Sexual_abuse...
This is a phenomenon that I’ve consistently had across multiple JetBrains products going back to ReSharper. The functionality was powerful enough to keep using, but each release was incrementally slower and buggier. At least then I could simply choose to disable problematic features that I used irregularly or even just shut off the plug-in if I needed to.

Now that I work primarily on Java and Kotlin projects, I’m using IntelliJ, where the entire IDE is subject to the JetBrains effect. The only tactics that keep me productive is to significantly delay updates, keep plugins to a bare minimum (the fact it is not very rare for plug-in updates to brick your environment is really frustrating), a losing battle of identifying and disabling unnecessary functionality, throwing more hardware at it, or restructure large projects into smaller bits and import as modules. Rapidly approaching the point of it not being worth it, but I hate pretty much all the Java IDEs I’ve tried.
IANAL...but I'd give 100:1 odds that the NASA/Boeing contract does not give Uncle Sam the power to do that.
my serious prediction of this country is 20 years does not look good
It's easy. Hire one bad narcissist. Keep praising and promoting them.
How to Deal with Largescale Enshittification?
Enshittification is defined as the phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. [1]

Enshittification has emerged as a viable business strategy because companies have realized that the value they offer is big enough that it prevents them from being shunned at large.

e.g. Reddit has reduced the quality of its platform because it knows its zombie scrollers are going to come back [2]

Airbnb has reduced its user experience with hidden charges and commercializing because it knows that people need places to rent when they travel.

Youtube once it realized its value in the market, started to shove more ads to force its users to pay to increase revenue. It also started to shove shorts everywhere to invite zombie scrollers, to improve engagement and hence revenue.

LinkedIn became cringe (I don't understand what design decisions they made) hence inviting more influencer-esque posts to drive engagement and hence again revenue.

There are many more examples of prominent companies in the past who have enshittified their offerings and it is safe to say many more companies will follow.

So my question is what can we do as users to keep the quality of our lives up to our indivisual standards.

In my opinion,

- we can make many decisions that improve our indivisual quality of life but,

- there is very little that we can do to improve the standard of living of the society as a whole because of network effect.

e.g. I as an individual can refrain myself from using tiktok to value my time, privacy and mental health but there is very little that I can do to help other people fall into the same cess pit. Writing a blog to educate people will reach out to a few 1000s of people a month but I am sure tiktok recruits more zombie scrollers than that each day. Network effect for them is so strong that it is hard(impossible?) to prevent them as a whole unless you are a law maker or a person rich enough to influence the companies.

My conclusion:
In these modern times or what indian people call kalyug [3], the most we can do is look for ourselves, make sure our own mental health is maintained, your own privacy is not compromised and we are not exposed to polarizing and/or fake news.
Even looking out for your loved ones is a dubious proposition at best, let alone the society as a whole.

I want to start discussion about this and see how you all perceive this phenomenon and how you think we can deal with it (if you think we should at all).

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enshittification
[2] https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/13/23759559/reddit-internal-memo-api-pricing-changes-steve-huffman
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Yuga
I've reached new browser fatigue. I already use several different browsers, all for different purposes. Every week a new one comes out. Mullvad's new browser[0] is brilliant though, and I use it, but I won't be trying Arc. What is Arc's unique selling point?

[0] https://mullvad.net/browser
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