skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a significant difference between there being an unequal power dynamic, and an actual threat.

True equality in any relationship between different humans is almost impossible. There are always differences where one person has more privilege or advantages than the other, and that includes hierarchy, but it also may be caste, religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. It cannot be avoided that sometimes two people need to engage in a consent agreement and both of them are not considered "equals". Yet it's still important, perhaps more so, to seek that consent, and respect the denial of it. We shouldn't discount that consent agreement just because the two have an uneven power dynamic, because that will always be there.

If on the other hand, an employee has a specific case and evidence for why they are being intimidated, a judge and jury could decide if the extenuating circumstances warrant nullifying a consent agreement. That's basically how things like sexual assault cases are handled. The same logic would apply to business consent agreements.

The real difficulty is evidence. Always keep evidence of your treatment at work. Tell other people, send emails, confirm details after calls that you can't legally record.
I hate this full-system (anti-)malware crap as much as the next guy. But this:

> - I will occasionally get emails from IT asking why I have a random application installed, what it does, and why it's "operationally necessary"

The issue is that policies have to be fairly general and can't just count on all employees actually knowing what they're doing. And sometimes people actually do shady things, even if it's not intentional. And if IT is understanding, then I think it's OK.

The other day, there was a story on the HN front page [0] about some innocuous looking app that got bought and converted to some kind of shady proxy. If I was responsible for my company's staff machines, I sure as hell wouldn't want that kind of crap running on them.

What's to say that your random app won't be siphoning up ~\Documents\top_secret.doc?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37052508
Netflix gaming is coming to your TV – and your iPhone is the controller
This is exactly how Red Ventures runs their companies. Make that chart on the wall tv go up, get promotion.
The page isn't loading on my mobile Chrome either.
Can't you just have one or two more camera angles on the screen at all times? Maybe even a stationary and a rotating view?
Interesting, I only ever imagined blindness to be total darkness and absence of sight. One great example among many of how you can't effectively design accommodations for a particular disability without getting input from someone who has that disability.
China universities waste millions in research, fail to produce, audit finds
It’s definitely not glamorous or anything.

I recommend the YouTube channel “Cash Jordan” if you’d like to check out various NYC real estate at all sorts of price points (along with some vlog-ish content).
open the interview site (parent, not spotify) in browser with dev mode open

click network bar, look for media file that's currently streaming

should be about 45mb mp3 file: right click, copy as curl

then paste it into a terminal, append " -O" then press enter
> Intel isn't giving my browser data to enemies of the state. What do you really think Intel is doing with this information?

I actually have no idea, which is part of the point. The concern isn't [primarily] Intel. Eventually, it will be leaked or sold or shared with third party contractors who will leak or sell it or share with third party contractors who will...

Once private data leaves your system, you have no control over it. The reputation of any one company doesn't protect it.
Australian slabs - the big ones out of the polar south tend to have waves within waves and can even "triple curve" over; I'm in the west The Right (last of the three) was my local for a few years.
I've been trouble shooting a dodgy 5G connection the last month or so and have entirely abandoned fast.com now. It seems susceptible to wildly inaccurate results when the connection is "bursty", the way 5G can be. I've got some very impressive screenshots from it though, next time anyone wants a measuring contest.
Only because it was successful.
I am probably an extremely anti-hoarder type.

Old PC's get sent to a new home or junked if they have no use for me - old drives and broken phones get's smashed with a hammer and then binned - that useless firewire cable or USB-1 long gone.

I only keep kettle (3 pin power) plugs around.

Moving homes I gave all my books to the local library.
I read them already and a kindle is more efficient.

My dual core Mac Pro PowerPC G5 went to a metal recycler as nobody wanted it and sold my Dual Xeon Mac Pro cheesegrater (still miss the damm thing) for the same price I paid for it 2 years earlier.
Any tracking or privacy concerns we should be aware of that a polite adds on top of home brew? For example, does a polite collect data on the type of device, installed casks, user data, anything?
Here's a pretty good summary: "What Happened with HustleGPT?"

https://thehustle.co/04172023-what-happened-with-hustlegpt/
I'm saddened by the news.

Required reading: https://evrone.com/blog/bram-moolenaar-interview

"Software development is much more of a craft. A craftsman uses whatever tools he thinks will get the best result, no matter if they are what everybody else is using or something different. And a good craftsman makes his own tools when needed" -B. Moolenar.

As someone who had made vim is part of the development dna: Thank you.
i'm in NYC, but yea that was when i set up a Whatsapp account. i've heard of it before but all my friends are either on SMS/group chats or insta

i think their main use was automating reminders and alerts, since they probably couldnt find a way to blast SMSs to people without it being flagged eventually as spam
That is correct.

But all my [modern] Apple devices randomize (except my old SE, which is my low-end test). It can be a pain to track, with my software.

BLE is probably where all of Bluetooth is going, eventually.

The main issue, now, is data speed, but even classic is pretty slow, compared to other standards. I believe they are incorporating high data-rate stuff into BLE, so you can have things like pure BLE headphones.
Looks like he's independently re-invented PEEK and POKE from BASIC.
I bought a little physical shutter that sticks onto mine.
Hah! I guess that, despite being a British driver, you must be unfamiliar with the Highway Code.

Yes, it sounds stilted to me too.
Probably referring to things like easements and adverse possession.
> hosted by Netflix, making them an excellent speedtest to check for service throttling

That's exactly what the person above you meant about Cloudflare, right? By using the Netflix speedtest as a benchmark, you're promoting good connectivity to another commercial entity (for good or for bad, I don't mean to judge, just stating)
If I get this right, this is the Stadia model -- the phone connects to a cloud server by WiFi and sends control inputs that way.
What Is an ESim?
Clean Flash Player: Up-to-Date Flash Player Distribution
> if I'm to be spied by someone, I'd prefer my own government who is far more likely to act in my best interests than the three letter agencies of US.

I'm also aware of an opposite opinion: if I'm to be spied by someone, it's better to be a three letter agency overseas, since it's much harder for them to harm me, than a three letter agency in my home country, which can just knock at my door.
Well, what's to say that the PC is actually off? Many "enterprise" laptops nowadays can't have their battery pulled out easily.

My HP laptop needs to have the back panel removed. If I do that, it'll trip the intrusion sensor and wipe the TPM. IT can know about this and ask you why you're taking apart the laptop. If it's windows, and you don't have the BitLocker key, you won't even be able to turn it back on.
Linguistic choices aside, the nature of power acquision is very different in russia and western countries. One of the best explainers is on Kamil Galeev's twitter/substack. Highly recommended read:

https://kamilkazani.substack.com/p/avocado-economy-why-russi...
The different tax treatments of the two suggests otherwise.
We’ve had a library for generating JS bindings for Rust code for decades?
Nano already is the default editor (via /etc/alternatives/editor).
They are worried that their populations might work out that Western populations are kept enthralled to the US security state and rebel. Russia is bad but US blows up gas pipeline for democracy and freedom.

Now hand over $800 billion dollars for 'defense'. And $368 billion for AUKUS. And the European bill will be interesting to watch over the next few years.

Just don't think about that F word - fascism.
I think I've seen people report their MacBook displays getting shattered because of those shutters so I've opted for tape instead.
> Maybe they can fix it with a prompt that makes the model check if the ingredients are safe. Chances are that every prompt can be circumvented but they can probably find instructions for self poisoning somewhere else with less effort.

That seems like a job for a database, not a language model. Every problem is not a nail.
It’s not, Nano is.
This seems like a pretty wild overreaction to pointing out the implicit bias of referring to all people as "men".

> Imperfect communication is better than none

Staying imperfect forever is laziness.
You might enjoy reading this article:

https://kamilkazani.substack.com/p/avocado-economy-why-russi...
If neovim had the same keystrokes to move out of a terminal window as it does to move out of editor windows, I'd switch. But as it is, it's super clunky compared to vim.

I know about rebinding to alt, but that doesn't work in all my terminals.

So for me, it's that one lousy thing that keeps me from switching. And if someone knows the magic setting to make it mimic vim, please let me know.
Serious question: How common is having dozens of accounts? I live in NL and have 3 at the same bank. Why would anyone have 50+ accounts?
>> Plus the fact that hoarding money, houses, cars... is highly praised

This is not at all like the type of hoarding that's described here. You're referencing essentially greed, which we've been told is good at least since the early 80's
This seems like a fair point. It's often argued when discussing sex that legitimate consent can't be given by someone at a significant power disadvantage. Employee vs. boss, model vs. talent scout, legal-aged student vs. lecturer. Surely the same should apply for any other intrusion?
Are you saying that pastafarian is not equal to another religion? You're absolutely heinous. I'm reporting you for discrimination.

I'm also joking. But to treat one above another on the basis of religion is literally the definition of discrimination. The exact same discrimination the original article was about.
I don't have Chrome installed, but on Windows / AMD, I get roughly comparable numbers between Edge (340/211) and Firefox (341/253).
Company’s can reduce pay down to minimum wage, the only way it would force them to pay more is if on average people where making less than minimum wage on average.
A UTF-8 vector graphics and audio capable terminal
It's possible they do believe it's a system error, but now that there's new monitoring in place, they're being very careful about that part of their job. Or perhaps it was a conflict with some personal software that they uninstalled after hearing about the new debugging/monitoring.
Astranis gives its “secret satellite” a formal introduction
In the early-mid aughts I volunteered at an anarchist bookstore in Detroit. One day, this guy comes in to tell us about a show he’s playing. He’s holding a promotional poster for it.

“So you want to put the poster up? No problem!”

“No, man. This is the only poster I have. I’m just going around to show it to people and let them know.”

Later, someone told me his name was Rodriguez. I thought that was so funny at the time, but even more so after the success of “Searching for Sugarman.”

Rest in peace.
If they are trained on a corpus of text it seems likely they got far more antiquated and/or stilted written dialog in that sample than they did transcribed modern conversations.
> WarpStream is 5-10x cheaper than Kafka

<sigh> I'm guessing they mean 1/10 to 1/5 the cost? "1x cheaper" would be free.
Looking for a single custom prompts that can be used across many specific programming questions.

I think your example is more like how to write a prompt for a specific question
Ah, of course. Good ol' Russia furthering its reach of state propaganda and brain washing its people into truly believing that Russia doesn't invade, but instead saves other countries.

Source: Am from Estonia, and a lot of Russians living here very much believe this.
Right, but you can't expect them to answer for a potential bug when it's just bad user input.

No one's in the wrong here.

Company releases tool. Users do what users always do and try to use it in an unintended way. A newspaper reports the ensuing hilarity.

And so what if it did tell you to use bleach without prompting, and you consumed the result. It's the same ballpark as blindly following your satnav into a river.
No technology can replace common sense.
From 2006–2012 I ran an online music store with 3 cofounders called Rhythm Music Store (seeded by the Rhythm Records catalog). It was our first startup and we were way too early (mind you, this was before Spotify or Facebook - fb only launched in ZA in 2007). It was great - R7 a song, DRM-free buy-to-own MP3s with dial-up Internet, but too early.

Anyway, one of the cofounders was musicologist Brian Currin. Brian has been running the official Rodriguez website (sugarman.org) I believe since the 90s. Together with Stephen Segerman, they found Rodriguez in Detroit and had him come to South Africa, where he was more popular than in his own country. The story goes that his daughter found the Sugarman forums and said, "I am Rodriguez's daughter." That started him touring.

In 2012 I got to see Rodriguez perform live at Grand West in Cape Town, South Africa.

Out of the crowd a lady adulated, "Rodriguez, we love you!"

Sixto answered, "I know that's the beer talkin', but I love ya' back." The crowd cheered.

Rodriguez then mused, "You wanna' know the secret ta'life?"

"Yes, Rodriguez! Tell us," the crowd bellowed.

"Breathe in. Breathe out."

And Rodriguez breathed out. Rest in peace, Rodriguez.

(edit: formatting. @dang pleaaase can we get markdown line endings?)
Related - https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/10/study-millennials-who-buy-le...

> And people who buy less and consume less show less depressive symptoms, so there’s a positive mental health effect.”

My ex was a hoarder. Not as bas as you see on TV, but I wasn’t allowed to throw away “stuff” of which hadn’t been used for years, so the garage became a tad scary. My ex took everything and I started fresh. I haven’t felt this good in 20 years with so little “stuff” in my house.

“Stuff” is truly mentally taxing if not overwhelming for me, personally.
Hello, author here

Not just yet, MIDI input is the next big feature I want to add! =)

("dang it!" protested a voice "i wanted this to be a surprise!! now, you've ruined it, announcing on HN...", "rhoo, it will be fine!" reassured another)
AWS obviously
As a person with Polish heritage, it's interesting how we see things differently. Best of luck to you.

Edit: I live in Australia.
> It's fairly normal here for people with 'good' jobs to have roommates into their 30s+

I'm happy that folks are willing to do this, but sheesh I am glad I left NY long ago.
TikTok is mentioned five times within the article. Instagram is mentioned five times within the article. "Tiktok" is mentioned as a placeholder for social media, and the article is not particularly focused on it.
Generous people tend to reward generous behavior and selfish individuals (cont)
Yeah. It's just a clue indicating they didn't use a word processor.
- It's not backwards compatible.

- Features I find useful have been removed.

- I dislike Lua, and significantly prefer Vim9Script.

- Gvim is useful at times.
Ye. I am flabbergasted by people that are gaslighting people into not being "superstitious" about Google's ranking.
He might be on to something, but I couldn't grok the visualisation at all. I didn't spend long though.

I remember a game called Wetrix, that combined Tetris like gameplay with a 3D environment : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetrix
The genie got somewhat out of the bottle with constructors: C++ will call constructors to initialize static variables. In theory we could use this mechanism to allow top-level statements. However, these static initializers are so full of footguns that perhaps it's best we don't :P
In general, you should look out for major religious holidays when planning things. That is what is called "Good planning."

Yes, it may be cheap to run a big conference over Christmas... But will you get the attendance you want?

If you want Jews to attend your conference. (Probably not unreasonable in the tech sector.) Not putting your event over the high holidays is smart, same as not putting it over the Easter holidays is smart if your want Christians to show up.

As someone who has gotten this wrong, by planning over EASTER. Yeah, I did replan. And if I was told I'd planned over the high holidays, I'd re-plan, especially if there were 2 other valid dates I could use, which the article says.

As far as pastafarians, I honestly don't know, but when you work with India, with many major holidays, you HAVE to be on top of this stuff, for their holidays.

If I was planning a conference with a large number of pastafarians attending, you know what... I would take their needs into account! It isn't insane. It is good business.
Yandex search is superior 100%. I use it too when I'm trying to reverse search for an image.
> I added a bunch of stuff that doesn't really fit together, and it used every single one of them to create something.

Even worse, it will happily make a recipe out of 'foo', 'bar' and 'baz': "Slice the Baz into rings and place them on top of the Foo and Bar mixture."

https://saveymeal-bot.co.nz/recipe/mkeYeOMmX5iNj9Xuvb5IJCKS

I also tried with 'foo', 'baz' and 'quux' (since "bar" is an English word, and "Muesli bar" was suggested). The suggested recipe added a bunch of other ingredients like bread and milk too:

https://saveymeal-bot.co.nz/recipe/jKbc0CD1yi4Qy7ptWujbqPJa
Do some people not value mementos at all? Is that not abnormal too? Seems like a sliding scale to me.
What I mean by that is that it reads a little egotistical/self-absorbed, but a lot of JS thought leaders who push a big framework do the same thing.

There are definitely worse offenders in this realm though.
Would this be a good game for a VR scenario ?
A Player could youse hand or finger gestures to move and rotate the individual blocks and surrounding level/area
I know you listed Lua already, but it's important to stress that. Bram _did not_ want Lua as the main scripting language, and created Vim9 Script as a "better VimScript" instead. That's a stark difference in the direction for the project, and it signals to me that Vim is not meant to reintegrate with Neovim. It's no longer a question of Vim catching up with Neovim.

However, this was Bram's vision. We don't know how the new leadership will affect that.
Small typo: In page 4, in the circle at the bottom left, it says "16" but it should say "10".

It would be nice to see arrows that show how the sequence jumps. In that circle add an arrow from 3 to 10-5, from 5 to 1-2-4-8-16, ... I expect a mess of arrows, so I'm not sure if my suggestion is useful.
Kind of hard to argue for the least bad when there's been pro-US death squads cracking down on their opposition.
> Hoarding is a mental disorder where the individual makes extreme connections between items, memories, and emotions.

What about the type of hoarders who collect stuff for monetary reasons? I don't think there are memories involved, and I don't see a direct emotional connection. It's just people who believe that someday this stuff is valuable, or the other side, it's something they might need some day, for repairing or building, or something like that.
They seem to have edge servers around the world. Even here in South Africa, I got idle latency to be 27ms so it must be somewhere in the country. This is from running networkQuality on a MacBook Pro.
Could be, this is interesting https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/digging-deep-for-dar...
> A spokesperson for the supermarket [...] noted that the bot has terms and conditions stating that users should be over 18.

Thats the supermarket saying "grow up and stop acting childish" to their users. Thats refreshing from a company.
Never has your username been so accurate as to who you are.
While most people have focused on post-mortem account recovery, that's not the only occasion. The small company I've worked for has had the last three administrators leave the company in arrears for a time with quick departures and little handoff of procedures. It is all the more frustrating because we overtly use a shared password managment tool for accessing client servers.
Also, to title it "The Tetris Effect" and then ramble on about a 3d version of Tetris first seemed really odd. I only skimmed some of the article (due to the horrible font), but I'm not sure what the point of it was.
Weightlifting Strength Standards
I had to join the group in order to see the conversation(s).
Yeah included in price - if you don't want to pay for backups you can pick $0 plan.

I don't see how it is wrong not to include backups in $0 plan. If you open "Easy panel" pricing page.
My mom was a hoarder. She'd buy all the pants at the thrift store that fit my brother and me, because it was hard to find pants the right size. She kept stacks of egg cartons for art projects. She rescued dozens of animals, who peed on the abundant pants.

She bought multiple Saabs when I got my driver's license, because they have good crash survival ratings. She bought damaged vehicles at auction so the neighbors could repair and sell them. So there were just a bunch of busted cars on the property.

Once when I was a kid Dad tried to clean. She begged him not to throw away a small screwdriver, saying "it's my friend."

Nobody was allowed to come over because the state of the house and the property were so disgusting.

I'm not a psychiatrist, but for her it seemed to be a combination of totally absent executive function, emotional attachment to inanimate objects (to which she ascribed feelings of their own), and a desire to have a stockpile from which to provide. Add to that the happy side effect of protecting all of us from visitors and the massive inertia of the hoard that made it impractical to clean up even when she was lucid, and you've got an effectively permanent state of being.
May I counter with a different idea?

I have no responsibility outside my job duties. The company goes folds? Goes into massive debt? I do not lose sleep or stress in the slightest.

There is no power imbalance in my mind. There is no whip or debt to the company to pay off.

Acquiring this mindset took one bad boss when they altered our agreement and I quit that moment without looking back. I had no job lined up yet knew my skills were valuable.