skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Direct democracy is easier to buy than representative democracies for two reasons: first, voters have other things to do with their time than become experts on every bit of law that comes before them. And second, they don’t have the ongoing interest in rule-making, implementation & enforcement an interested legislator does.

Reading the book Street Level Bureaucrats was eye-opening for me on why seemingly “common-sense” solutions like Direct Democracy end up either just not working or having the opposite of the intended effect. Laws are less like writing software for a computer and more like designing processes for a team writing software.
What kind of time pressure do you put on candidates? Do you expect them to sit there live for 45 minutes and complete something that reflects what it would be like to work there day to day?
It was a 5 day trip. Hertz didn't deliver the car until late on the second day, so that's 4 days. I think I charged on the second and fourth days? I don't know, believe it or don't. I'm not going to put in effort to convince you.
Yeah I could easily afford that but I haven't spent $250 on phone apps in my entire life. I don't think I've even spent $25. $250 is more like what I'd pay for the phone itself.
Statement by director of Pentagon's UAP office criticizing UAP hearings
You can also get a digital TV antenna (< $100) since most of them are still being broadcast, somewhere. This gives you the FULL experience of having to know when the shows are "on." /s

Of course if you live in an apartment that may not work.
Good riddance! Sysvinit shell scripts are a pain to read and maintain. Developers that perpetuate systemd flamewars have gone from mildly entertaining memes to being a serious red flag and not anyone I’d ever want to work with. systemd and its ecosystem is proven and always getting better.
The duck walked up to the lemonade stand, and said to the man, running the stand “put the lemons in the bag badabing”
I have had it happen in real data from real systems - but it’s not good — “true duplicates” are a sign that something is missing from your schema or something has gone wrong earlier in the pipeline.

Trying to delete duplicates (but leave 1 behind) is tricky in itself. I recorded notes on it one time here — using “row_number()” to act as the iniquitie, https://til.secretgeek.net/sql_server/delete_duplicate_rows....
Tech lead.
> competence is often inversely correlated with charisma

Source needed. I've been working in tech for 15+ years, alongside highly charismatic and competent people, terrible engineers with less charisma than my coffee pot, and everything in between.

You do not need to be charismatic to be a good engineer, but also it certainly doesn't hurt, and friendly teammates make for a better team atmosphere. If I'm considering two candidates otherwise similar, I'm going to go with the one that's more pleasant to work with.
Custom controls make a huge difference. I remember playing the Atari "Assualt" tank game in college.

It was fun. 2 joysticks, one for each tread (forward and back). You could roll the tank using the joysitcks left right together, or turn the tank up by pulling the joysticks apart. The fire button was on the joysticks. Sounds weird but was pretty intuitive. I tried it emulated, even with 2 analog sticks it wasn't the same.

Tempest has the spinning nob. Centipede had the trackball. That sitdown helicopter game with the elevation control at your right hip. Or intellivision with that wierd 16 direction disc and the keypad. They don't work as well without. analog sticks help some (robotron for example).

There is also the chance that memory of those games has given them a more rosy glow. For example I can't imagine grinding up ulitma3 levels today.. But I did so fairly happily in my youth.
Yeah. The 8 stores are far better. There's competition. There's variety. Employees can move around. I can get to know the shop owners. I can take a wonderful stroll.

Instead. You get to enjoy one corporation, that does anything it wants, pays horribly, employees have no choice, you have no choice in what garbage you buy. And your downtown now consists of 8 banks.

Yup. You're living the dream!
Roughly speaking:

If you have a hard time contributing to starting on projects or resolving problems, AND you have a hard time contributing to finishing projects or resolving problems, you’re a junior X (where x is programmer, engineer, sysadmin, etc).

If you can contribute to starting on a project/problem but have a hard time finishing it, OR you have a hard time starting on a project/problem but can contribute to finishing it, you’re an X.

If you can contribute to starting on a project/problem, AND you can contribute to finishing a project/problem, you’re a Senior X.

Not sure the current term of art to being able to start and finish projects / solve problems and your work regularly being good and reliable, maybe Architect or something like that.
Please consider making it available via F-Droid, too.
It seems I did misunderstand. In that case, my answer would be that I think you can support both IP infringement and free and open access to scientific knowledge even if that is not my personal position.
Exactly this. Expecting people to have a bare minimum of civilized behavior shouldn't be controversial.
They guarantee even less stability than Linux, what are you talking about ?
Yep they could but companies usually don't do it.

I've done it. OOP is OOP, there are only different flavors.

I wonder to what extent an OOP person would be able to do a Haskell job (or a similar functional language).
The NES doesn't load levels into its tiny RAM. It renders directly from the cartridge ROM.
I dumpster dived the IBM offices in North Jersey in the 90s. They would trash brand new in the box model Ms, plus huge piles of more esoteric keyboards, equipments, manuals, etc.
I think the term here to describe him would be 'megalomaniac' ?
I think he's just out of touch. Here's another example:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d9y5n/the-people-building-a...
I've used tossabledigits.com for years... great service.
Ah, now it makes more sense to me. Thank you for the clarification.
This is not really true, because of how centralized the web is. From Google fonts to jquery and the million in between endpoints, most sites you visit are going to be reporting you to Google. Logging into a single identity verifying site or even just viewing a distinct set of sites can all work as instant deanonymizers.

A VPN that has multiple users using the same IP simultaneously can help on this front, but I don't know how common this is? Basically emulating how Tor exit nodes work. Though even that is also almost certainly possible to break.
Which crypto judgment are you seeing that’s so damning?
It’s in Settings.

It’s there for people like you and me who want to change it. It’s buried enough that my older family members aren’t likely to do it on a whim, which is good.
I don't have VP-level handsomeness or social skills, nor the desire to put in those hours.
Why does the tool even matter? They already have no-fingerprinting rules. They can point at that, no need to have every dev on earth explain why they want users to stay logged it and not get the onboarding screen every time the app is opened.
"will be removed in a future release"

So this is not even planned to be removed for some releases. TBH I'm surprised it wasn't already deprecated.
Everyone? Nah that's Hyperbole.

In my experience about 40% do.

I've never had an issue simply showing an open source past project I created, going through my portfolio of other project examples, and my resume.
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I think the issue is more about the systematic destroying of the small town.

They open multiple Walmart's, the small town stores go out of business, then they can close some percentage of the Walmart's to consolidate into a few stores in central locations, now all of the small town people have to drive farther to get anything at all. And the small town dies.
How is a laptop a substitute for a work phone? The whole reason for work phones is that people carry them everywhere. I am confused by this entire concept, I guess. I mean, I understand what it does; I simply don't understand why.
Describing KiwiFarms as "people we don't like" is dishonest.

The people on KiwiFarms are actively harmful and engage in illegal harassment activities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms#Harassment
Related work is the planning paper by Valmeekan et al [1]. The gist is that LLMs are incapable of planning, which is due to their autoregressive nature. METAs Head of AI Yann Lecun also talks about this topic in a talk [2]. As RT2 is based on a similar architecture, I think the results will be similar.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15771
[2] https://youtu.be/x10964w00zk
Ask HN: There are lots of GPT-powered coding assistants. Any you're using daily?
We've seen lots of Show HNs over the past few months of GPT powered programming tools. Both some from companies and many from hobby devs.

Are there any you're using daily, preferably not built by yourself, and preferably one you've been using daily for at least the last 30 workdays or so?
Tangential: but I’d really like to call out what a life hack, lots of cheap socks are. I got the idea myself long ago, as a kid, from the South Park creators, as they demanded unlimited new socks while making the movie.

Once a year I buy like a 50 pack on Amazon and it’s great. 10/10 would recommend.
Yeah but it’s all random phone calls from people with an accent so thick i can’t understand them, who obviously haven’t read my resume, and who won’t pick up the phone if I try to call them back anyways.
I don't think you understand the problem.

The protocol has the security bug. The protocol needs to be changed to fix the security bug. The old stuff stops being able to talk with new stuff.

That's the problem poster above was talking about.

Cert authorities are relatively much simpler problem to solve as it is just few files to update
https://archive.is/3mN43
In my personal experience, devs that "cross-pollinate" in other fields are usually more competent than someone with the same YOE from a purely tech background.
People working on storage systems are doing amazing things. When I first heard about Ceph more than a decade ago, I immediately emailed one of the founders asking for an exabyte data store, because I knew just how amazingly difficult it would be and that it was very much needed.

3.5 9s is incredible on large stores. S3 and GCS are just amazing machines. I have nothing but admiration for the people that make this happen.
Instead of complaining just drop anything that contains Systemd. I did and my frustration with IT related tasks has gone way down.
And certainly there is no price to be paid for this accelerated garbage-production loop!
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36513889
> I have never once strolled down a Main Street

You know it doesn't have to be named "Main Street" to be a Main Street
If they’re lying about the life of these machines, that will come back to bite them later on when their forecasted expenses don’t match the reality.
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Hunting sounds fun to us because we’re like fat domestic cats. Do some hunting, then go back to your supermarket dinner. Maybe eat what you caught as a special treat, if it’s nice.

Subsistence hunting is more like didn’t catch anything today? Guess we starve until next time. oopsies. Hope you don’t get too hungry and weak to perform at your next hunt. Fingers crossed.
> After visiting an Orb, a biometric verification device, you will receive a World ID.

Literally everything about this is a huge nope for me.
I consider it the fact that Walmart for a long time had a mostly rural and suburban strategy that skews demographics to people 40+. It’s a Sam Walton hold over that I think is being slowly replaced.

What WalMart hates the most is that they can’t get people of affluence who want to save money to shop at one though. When I worked there the complaint out of HQ I heard the most is that Michelle Obama and Oprah would shop at a Target but never step foot in a Walmart despite having identical goods but Walmart has better prices
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I don't understand? If you need a computer and browser to access your "virtual smartphone," what's the point?

This looks like a classic solution in search of a problem.
I tried already several alternative stores but didn't notice any impact from them. I'll check F-Droid also, thanks.
>check your partner's test

Has anyone in the history of mankind successfully advanced to third base after such a request?
And more specifically for royalty or heads of state:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9
I often see in software dev this idea of solving a problem by just offloading the problem onto another team/customer.

I guess crypto is fundamentally that. Trust, fraud, identity, insurance, are all very complex things that require massive institutions to manage successfully. But these crypto organizations are always just, shrug "yeah that's not our problem. Whatcha gonna do?"

I guess that is the core principle to begin with. But it's interesting to watch it in action. "Oh that big ball of wax? We don't address it. Not our problem."
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I ate there a couple of years ago and was astonished at how expensive it was for pasta.
One of my biggest pet peeves is people dumping whitespace-sensitive plain text without any kind of code blocks, rendering it completely unreadable.
You do realise that sysvinit scripts are much, much, much more fragile?

Systemd has its share of problems but it's vastly better than a bag of spaghetti shell scripts.
> anyone, human or otherwise - can use that wallet.

But there are only 8 billion people, which is literally an infinite improvement over the status quo.
I can understand why some people may disagree with how things work in the us. And while there are pros and cons to it i think there’s a long road from a debate to teaching children in schools about “american propaganda”. That’s something adversarial countries do.
Sam Walton points out in his autobiography that big cities are changing all the time, yet somehow people expect that small towns will not.
Yeah, but in the real world some of these policies are a slippery slope to having people refactor for years.

On the other hand I don't know that having people dedicated to refactoring is necessarily ridiculous. At least "in theory, given unlimited resources".
I would love to find a single app that doesn't.

Onboarding screen? Persist.
Saved Token after login? Persist.
Save Last selected X? Persist.
Nice! It’s useful, thanks a lot!
told you.

Just like pulsed, he won't stop until every existing, non-default config breaks. Just like pipewire, he will start a "better" alternative and restart the stuff breaking cycle
Apple: We ask for your actual fingerprint and other biometrics, but it's fine when we do it. Nobody else can though. Trust us.
https://archive.is/wOQkF
So you are advocating for large monolithic monopolies? Reduce the complexity by reducing choice?
Occasionally but mostly I'm burning savings. I got pretty used to a low standard of living in the couple of years before I entered software development, so when I started making money, I saved a lot of it. If being confined to one place for work doesn't currently suit me, then neither do many of the material trappings of rooting: accumulation of consumer goods, a nice home, etc.
If we're placing blame, it also didn't help that the Catholic community advocated against preventative measures throughout the AIDS crisis.
Don't you think it does a bit too much as an init system?
It's funny how, in the end, the ultimate and perhaps only proof of personhood is being a person, engaged in the world. Sort of how the ultimate decentralized currency is encompassed in the global market of rising and falling economic powers. The oracle problem is a problem because there are no oracles. There is only the test of time. Or something along that line.
I have to admit, I'm very surprised how poorly this is being received given the pure number of users on this site that probably perfectly fit the mold.
I'm reminded of a recent thread: "The design thinking movement is absurd"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36893635
That is one of the problems with Walmart. It facilitates overconsumption. The world can’t sustain such a lifestyle for everyone. We end up paying for the negative externalities partially by living in a world we have poisoned. Whilst we drink water containing micro plastics we will be able to relish the fact that we were able to buy many more socks than we needed.
Yes, I meant shopping while walking around an old school downtown with a clothing store next to a grocer next to a shoe store next to a diner next to hardware store etc.

I only ever remember going to Walmart, Home Depot, Costco, Best Buy, malls, Kroger, etc.
The Smith–Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 makes it legal for the government to propagandize the population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization...
Sysadmins are being left out of AI implementation
Before you berate me for adding bits to the title, I’m the idiot. AMA
"What WalMart hates the most is that they can’t get people of affluence who want to save money to shop at one though"

I guess you can't be everything to everybody...
If you name a large city in the US I can probably tell you the name of the main street that is packed with locals
Ask professional loophole writers to write a law inhibiting their own wealth.

Even more jaded, they will propose it to large media fanfare, but then delay the actual vote for months while they all voice their support for it.

Then they will allow any Senator to vote FOR this if they need a local boost in their approval numbers. But obviously they will carefully make sure that the bill fails by a few key votes.
This is wrong on so many levels, are we really talking about urbanism inside of a walmart?
Worldcoin is simply another pre-mined, VC backed shitcoin - albeit worst because they’re building a biometrics database.

- VCs dump money in (SBF, a16z, etc)

- 25% of the coins are kept for the founders + investors

How many times do people have to get burned on these scams?

Obviously Sam has some street cred with the govt else they would have pulled him infront of congress like when zuck tried to launch Libre.
Why not encode the data you want to pass in the link, like you would on the web, rather Han require an extra pasteboard-based payload?
Which is fair, since Linux Is Not UniX.
You do not need to spend $100. You do not need to spend $1 if you have some scrap laying around. TV antennas are super easy to build!

http://users.wfu.edu/matthews/misc/dipole.html
https://www.w9dup.org/technet_files/folded_dipoles_vhf_uhf_y...
Latency is bad, throughput is pretty decent. Unfortunately this is a side effect of it's routing system (routing through 3 random nodes around the world).
Is this satire?

Lawn equipment ain't complicated enough to maintain to justify throwing out every season. This is insane consumerism.
True. I'm also trying to provide some perspective to younger job hunters that while now it is more difficult to get a job than anytime since the Obama era, it was much, much harder during the George Bush Jr. era which wasn't all that long ago and I suspect there are a lot of folks here on HN who were working back then.

Personally, I can go further. Things weren't too great during George Bush Sr. era where we had a recession so bad the media started calling it a depression. It resulted in the infamous "jobless recovery." Duly noted that Junior was able to beat his dad in the economy wrecking, job destroying department.

Before that we had the big market crash of 1987, which was really the planting of the recession George Bush Sr. inherited. He just unintentionally nurtured it along until it became a full-on, economy-wrecking recession.

Younger HNers take note of the pattern going on here.
Nothing wrong with incentivizing AI to steal people's eyes.
That’s not an advantage of ADHD, it’s an advantage of off-label use of ADHD medication. For people who do have ADHD, Adderall brings them closer to the neurotypical baseline; in fact one of the common helpful effects is less concentration in certain circumstances, so they can direct their attention where needed more effectively.
This is misleading. Brave had added items such as cryptocoin affiliate "cards" on the new tab page even for users who have had every cryptocoin aspect disabled.

Further, there is no way to pre-emptively disable the cryptocoin elements on new profiles on the same Brave installation.
Ancedotal experience from a 35 yo here.

Growing up in Metro Detroit, there were "Main Streets" in most of the Cities/townships and IIRC it's a pretty common term. I'd argue most people under 60 and 50 know what "Main Street" means just to counter.
In the US, having an Android is one of the biggest social status negative signals I can think of.

I used to have an android and when I'd meet people the primary thing they'd remember about me was that I had an android. Their blinders were up after they had that information.

I think phones like the Galaxy line might be better than iPhones, but the experience of owning an iPhone far exceeds owning a Galaxy.
A federal watchdog to police Big Tech? Yeah, that'll do the trick, senators...
I still do it. There are many Americans who still do it daily. There's a certain charm and feel to walking down a commercial street in a small town instead of walking through a fluorescent lit generic corporate branded super store. Online shopping is inevitable. There are products you just don't find in local shops anymore. I think a good example of that is Radio Shack. When I was a kid, that's where you went for you electronics needs as a hobbyist. There were even a few locally owned electronics shops in the area. Now you get that off of Amazon.
Tor is not what I want. Humans are, by and large, not equipped to handle anonymity while maintaining ethical behavior. We thrive in accountable communities. Even with pseudo-anonymity, there’s still a karma or reputation to think of! I will feel bad as this post gets modded down.

I think all communication and activity should be anonymous to companies, somewhat visible to your inner circle, and able to be exposed to authorities only when they have something akin to a warrant. That sounds hard to achieve in practice, but Tor is not the answer to any of it.
True, I guess what company is going to be cool with their employee’s phones being managed by another company, with full access to their data.
Walmart was the competition that lowered prices. Those 8 stores may have had more variety, but not lower prices.
This is assuming there will always be demand for lithium ?

What if we discover something else?