skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The assumption that music the author doesn't like must be a — likely political – statement is, let's just say, revealing and itself highly political.

You’re putting words in the author’s mouth. Here’s the relevant paragraph:

> The station prides itself on operating without any government funding, which in turn requires it to play music that people enjoy hearing and never the kind that some stations (and performing ensembles) play just because it’s avant-garde or purports to make some political statement.

Simply put, "We don’t play music just because it’s innovative or political."

Here’s the thing: sometimes people make a very crappy execution out of a silly idea nobody’s done before (because it’s silly), and we call that "contemporary art" in an attempt to belong to some wealthy in-group (and sometimes end up helping money laundering). Sometimes (not always of course), the "avant-garde" label is just a cover-up for unskilled crap. One way to know the difference: would it still be art if it was done by a slum boy instead of some famous dude?

And of course, political art is often sub-par, for two reasons: first, there is more art out there than just the one that support your particular cause. Smaller pool to draw from, less quality: good luck winning the Olympics if you don’t train many many gymnasts. Second, we tend to tolerate worse art when it happens to support our cause.

Not saying that innovation and politics always hurt art. Often it’s the exact opposite. Music in particular is particularly enjoyable when it contains just the right amount of surprise. Too many surprises and it might as well be random. But do something predictable, and insert here and there ideas that have never been heard before, and it can really blossom (since "surprise" here is fundamentally subjective as a matter of information theory, some music really is an acquired taste, even though it really sounds random to the uninitiated). Same thing for politics: just go see the Andor Star Wars series, it is highly political in a way that enhances it.

But if you select art just because it is innovative or political, you’ll end up with something worse than if you just selected for the good stuff. I mean is it any surprise that if you select for the wrong criteria you’ll get disappointing results?
Using a cluster bomb against a political rival has a lot more friction than using an autonomous drone.
Most of those sites operate as apps, and browsers have mostly become an OS. So yes, that does fit my perspective.
Both of these features are available in browsers these days.
https://asahilinux.org/about/ quite a few more people

also not that different from the state of support for other new devices out there. Apple's GPU architecture is also quite friendly to the project [1], as is the system security model, which is less janky than UEFI keys on PCs.

[1] https://asahilinux.org/2022/11/tales-of-the-m1-gpu/
I've always considered this a good example of the rare case where metrics are true and meaningful (how the users feel), but should still be ignored in favor of principles (well, not ignore - one should look into other avenues to improve the user's perception of the tool). A more black-and-white example would be dark patterns that demonstrably increase user retention.
In one-way drones for once the less nice properties of Lithium Ion batteries would be an advantage.
The problem is most people aren’t Nabokov.

(And Nabakov as a poet, translator of poems and expert on prosody was very, very good at writing fluidly - he could afford to be wordy.)
If you're asocial, and want to go to church but avoid the social aspect, ironically it's easier to blend into the large crowd than to attend a small church. If you're a strange face in a small church, everyone is going to start a conversation to welcome you.
Luther’s 95 theses literally condemn « indulgences » as promoting greed…
I assume you were making a reference to Weber’s work (the Protestant ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism), which happened a few centuries later and has been heavily criticised and nuanced since.
Any time I'm in Barnes and Noble (in the US) I find the latest copy of 2600 magazine, which is in the same vein as phrack.

With 2600 at least, I can never find anything that interesting to read. Articles are usually about a) the hacker ethos, b) some ancient system and its exploit or c) a current system that's incredibly niche and its exploit, all with wildly varying article quality.
Ukraine has actually long been a center of human trafficking and the more unsavory types of pornography. For a while I believe they were actually one of the biggest producers and exporters of CSAM. For example: the arrest of Maksym Shynkarenko was described as the “most successful child pornography investigation in U.S. history” by the government. And before the war really kicked off they were really starting to gain a reputation for sex tourism.

As of the latest 2023 report from the US Gov, “The Government of Ukraine does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking”.

This is particularly concerning:

“Authorities prosecuted and convicted fewer traffickers, and most convicted traffickers avoided imprisonment… for the sixth consecutive year the government did not secure any convictions of complicit officials.”

Six years. They’ve let corrupt officials traffic humans with impunity for six years.

https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-trafficking-in-persons-re...
Again and again, when did I mention isolation?!

Thew new age liberalism sooner or later imminently leads to an apocalypse - individualism is doomed.

When everybody's self-centered, everybody does - that's without a doubt.

This was an engineered virus and it's just the beginning. It's so easy to create a new virus and spread it and with people who don't care about anything else but dining out with friends will make it spread within days around the globe.
My teachers told me this is true for almost all lists of rules. YMMV.
What is "it" exactly? Luring users into the pit of addiction, destroying whatever little will they still have?
My wife briefly attended one similar, though far from the one of the largest. Large enough to have sheriffs office shut down and direct traffic on a large highway at start and end.

One thing I as an observer found weird was the general vibe of the church. I don't know if this applies to any but the one I was at, so take with a grain of salt.

At this church, every one seemed dress for image. Giant logo tight fitting shirts, bleached skinny jeans, spray tans, hair gels. Inside, giant TVs and loud music speakers. It felt like more going to a concert or club on a Friday night than a church.

In contrast, when I was a kid, every man wore a suit or some boring button up and slacks or jeans, women would wear a simple dress or something similar.

I'm not sure if church has changed that much in the last 20 or 30 years, or it's just that one, but I found it rather off-putting. It seemed like everyone was there to make it about themselves, and less about congregating for a religious reason.
Also birds…
One can even just look at California itself to make this example as there are very high levels of inequality there. You certainly see compensation rise astronomically in some industries in California and an overall increase of state GDP, but at the same time, other industries do not see such rises in lock step with inflation brought on by more fortunate groups, and as a result the working class are severely rent burdened and lack a means to save or pay down debt. Its like there are two economies. There is the economy about large numbers, GDPs, market caps, stock option compensation packages, increasing real estate returns. Then there is the real world economy. People selling elote on the street. People working in convenience stores. People driving pickup trucks full of tools. People looking for the cheapest rent they can find. People going to night school at a community college. It seems that the former is only able to grow so much at the expense of keeping it out of the hands of the latter.
I think all games should have a global F8 counter-tally... and such.

F8.AI!

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F8 KPIs by country, game, etc etc....

I think that F8 should be OpenData. (I know it sounds silly, but this would be really interesting data to see how people engage in and analyse the puzzles the games provide.

Given the fact that the game market is larger than movies and music combined -- this holds some telling insights.
Lithium Ion (LiPo) and brushless DC.
If he wins the next elections... Ukraine is going to lose all western support overnight

I reckon Poland will still be pretty much in favour of helping Ukraine push Russia back. Probably a bunch of other European nations too.
> I would NOT be tempted to start monetizing. It has to be absolutely useless

You stated that you want a useful one in the title
Pipes and named FIFOs are easy and great. I say this after implementing various IPC methods (unix domain sockets with fd passing, POSIX message queues, 0MQ, XML RPC, local TCP sockets, just to name a few). Use a simple line oriented protocol. If you are passing complex data through your IPC, you know it's time for files. Shared memory is another way to do IPC but hopefully you have robust method of detecting the liveliness of your local processes and you want to give up the Unix file paradigm.
I read it as a sex joke
Two of my good friends from college are UU (via their families) and I found their whole “thing” pretty interesting and positive. I can confirm your anecdote about it mostly being older people, though.
Yes, I mean everyone. What we currently deal with are artificial limits imposed by gatekeepers (app stores), and web developers (particularly ones that want to use backend as collateral control). Neither of these are technical problems that should exist.
Well I did say the actual calculations would be (and are) more complicated. And as I said, short of availability constraints, the MRI itself isn't an issue, it's the follow up.

Ignoring the fact that in the real world due to constraints this isn't really a local optimization, if we assume infinite availability you still have a problem that low sensitivity tests lead to excess unnecessary work up risks. Your assertion that it is always easy to get good information leading to correct choices here is just incorrect and probably naive.

The trade offs you are talking about are very well known and have been studied by professionals for decades; none of them will claim it easy - for good reasons.

Note I'm not appealing to authority here. Many people can educate themselves to the degree that in a narrow area of their own healthcare they are as or more knowledgable than the average professional. However, this is not at all easy, and will require a ton of work. The cost benefit for a lot of screening etc. just isn't there; for a particularly symptomatic disease it may well be.
And its easier to remain anonymous in huge crowds. In a small group, you will be forced to connect.
I never claimed exclusivity in being treated poorly as labor.
It’s nice to see nature taking things back and making something beautiful again…forest.

In a way an abandoned village is just another type of zen garden…
"Okay," I say. "Carbon credits are a bit like beating someone up on this side of the world and sponsoring one of those poor starving kids on the other side of the world to make up for the fact that you're a complete shit at home."

....

"OK," the PFY says as we leave the building via the service entrance. "All we have to do to be nastiness neutral is to find a couple of people bound and gagged in a skip bin, take them out, give them a couple of wallets, unkick them a few times, unelectrocute them with a cattle prod and say 'clothing hippy on discount percent seventy look oh'."

"On the other side of the world," I add.

- The BOFH

https://www.theregister.com/2008/02/01/bofh_episode_4/
Agreed, great scene. Though why is it women I've showed it too aren't typically tickled by it? o_O

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Fg_cwI1Xj4M
And? The comparison is on purpose. The idea of a shepherd and their flock has numerous references in the bible and is used as allegory, which pre-modern people would've understood.
Scientists are working to bring the woolly mammoth back
16% of Germans[0] and 16% of Californians[1] are in a union. 7% of Mississippians[2] are in a union.

Mississippi vs. California is also interesting. Mississippi has far less participation in unions (7% vs 16%) and much less regulation for employers to follow. Overall Mississippi looks like one of the best places in the USA for employers in terms of an accommodating regulatory environment. However, personal outcomes in Mississippi are languishing compared to even Germany! Let alone compared to California.

You chose an interesting two geographies to compare/contrast. It looks like 16-17% of Californians are in a union. It also looks like 16-17% of Germans are in a union. Perhaps it’s not the degree of union participation which drives differences in economic opportunity between these regions!

0: https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=TUD

1: https://www.bls.gov/regions/west/news-release/unionmembershi....

2: https://stacker.com/mississippi/see-how-much-mississippis-wo...
Your post is so ridiculous it's actually hilarious.

The Australian drone is literally made of cardboard.

No one is thinking that it will be a game-changer nor that it is anyway comparable to a high-end, military-spec drone from Iran, US, UK or whoever else. It's designed to be cheap, throwaway and if it is even moderately successful at avoiding detection then I am sure that's just a bonus.
Thanks, this made me laugh!
A lot of the stuff we would send them comes from the same places.
> where there's no appreciable reduction in propellent mass over the course of the flight

Staging?
> It's fun to chat and drink coffee with them, but I wonder where all the younger atheists/humanists are.

At home getting stoned and playing video games.

… only half-joking.
> In the dramatic arts, there's the whole genre of horror.

For me that would be tragedies: characters being stupid and obnoxious just to make sure it all ends up very badly. All the more infuriating when there are good tragedies out there, where the drives and struggles of the characters actually make sense. Last one I recall was Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.

(Edit: just listened to the organs, it is SO slow. And what, a single chord? To be honest I don’t find enough information in there, it’s boring to the point of torture.)
I bet OnlyFans pays more taxes than other companies 10x it's size, to remove a possible avenue of attack in the media. It's probably a net benefit to society based on that alone.
they could just use it without publishing the paper … wonder what the reason could be …
Materialism has long been a driver of human behavior, and children are no exception.

The only thing that's changed is the migration of children from net capital assets for the family to net cost centers. The same thing has happened to animals. What used to be productive workers on the farm are now wholly decadent useless eaters, earning their keep only by being adorable.

Imagine how the calculus of couples saying "we can't afford children" would change if little Timmy could start defraying his own costs in only eight years by doing some basic bookkeeping, junior development tasks, running errands, cooking, personal assistant work, etc for the family. And then becoming a net capital asset from 12 to 20. That's how it was for most of human history, just with slightly less modern tasks.
The problem is that most people who say this don't know what the passive voice means. What they want to say is make the most important noun in the sentence the subject and keep the subject near the beginning of the sentence. That concept is only tangentially related to the grammatical voice being used.
I'd be interested to learn more about that, how does that work? Are they subcontractors? Hired directly through that shop? Is that shop owned by outside people or does the tendrils of whoever owns those sites extend there? Such a fascinating, underground world that doesn't see much light.
https://faculty.mercer.edu/davis_da/fys102/baconsfield.html

Many properties are not "given", but managed in trust. As in the above example, while Baconsfield Park lasted for over half a century, control was reverted (wrongly) to the heirs, and the land was sold off.
It's a lot more obvious in academic writing and other non-fiction. Using a lot of big words to make a simple point is often a sign that the writer is trying to signal intelligence rather than convey information.

In literature the goals are different, but I still think the rule applies in most cases. Nabokov is the exception that proves the rule. Great writers have earned the right to be wordy. When an average writer tries write like Nabokov, we call it purple prose.
The basic concept seems fairly obvious to me. At least on a small scale.

My house is a masonry exterior with a mostly southern exposure. It soaks up the sun and keeps the house very very warm late into the evening... which is not a helpful feature when it's 90F every day of the summer. My plan was to do basically what they described here. Setup some trellis 4 ft or so some the house, and plant some fast-growing vines.

Anything to shade the house will obviously be beneficial from a cooling perspective. The vines are mostly to reduce the cost of shading and increase the aesthetics.

Now what plants are the best balance of low water usage, high growth, low maintenance? That's a good question and I look forward to seeing what UCDavis comes up with.
The real break will come when Amazon, WalMart, or McDonalds goes union nationally.

That became more likely with the new NLRB rule that employer violations of labor law during union organization forces either a quick election or the recognition of the union. Here's the view from a union-busting law firm.[1][2] They're worried.

[1] https://www.morganlewis.com/pubs/2023/08/new-nlrb-rules-favo...

[2] https://www.postal-reporter.com/blog/the-postal-services-uni...
No, Mainline Protestant [0] churches don't aggressively seek publicity and converts, compared to evangelicals [1]. Neither do Catholics.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainline_Protestant

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelicalism#Terminology
Number seven is miscellaneous issues; you need to click through to see them.

One of the complaints is "treating data as singular". My view is that "data" is obviously a mass noun and treating it as plural is pointlessly pedantic.
I guess "pimphouse" was among the options to name the company.
> I wonder where all the younger atheists/humanists are

Home, sleeping.

As an atheist, this is a challenge if you’re looking for community. These religious communities are organized around some common understanding of whatever sacred text they claim as truth. But it’s hard to feel as connected over disbelief and scepticism. Or maybe it’s all a multifactorial “Bowling Alone” problem that crosses religious and secular boundaries.
While this is mainly a technical discussion forum, I am a bit disappointed to see the comment linking to the author’s political views posted on their own forum as being flagged. This is relevant information for people deciding whether to support, use, or be affiliated with this project.
Whether Biblical or modern, I find the metaphor particularly apt: to describe a group of people easily led, raised for exploitation and slaughter.
The problems you stated are with driving and long commutes, not going to an office.
Why don't you look at the size of the area they're talking about where these have been observed. And then, perhaps, try the process we like to refer to as "thought".
This guy could've had similar results with an android tv device and the smart tube app and saved a shit ton of time and made money in other ways instead.
> RaspberryPi Zero inside a Macintosh 1

Sorry I don't know if I understand this correctly, is the raspberry pi using the monitor of the macintosh 1 or what does this mean?
Wordiness, in the fantasticly useful advice I am quite frequently accustomed to receiving in the rare and unusual (I cannot go so far as to say unique though that is nearly as a tick to a dog true) circumstances that have led me to receiving others thoughts on my quite elegant prose might be characterized as inserting too many brilliantly (to the astute author) descriptive adverbs and adjectives that somehow impede the understanding normal dull attention deprived reader.

Also: using more words that fewer
Isn't 20% is lower than Apple Store's cut? Imo it seems than compared to industry standard it's more than fair. Youtube and Twitch's cuts are higher.
What you're missing is that all aid packages have had more or less bipartisan support from mainstream members.

The issue with most of the news on the matter is that it's so deluded by partisan politics that even those reporting on their own poll results don't interpret them sanely.

For example, on the surface polls might say that Republicans generally oppose aid to Ukraine. However, if you plainly ask them if they support aiding Ukraine they might be in favor, but if you ask them if they support Biden's handling of the war in Ukraine, they'll be more likely to be opposed.

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/americ...
> A possible solution might be adding "by any legal entity" to existing statements of protections of natural rights.

> Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom from unwelcome perception of the people by any legal entity, foreign or domestic

Err, how is this supposed to work? "shall make no law" works for freedom of speech because by default speech is unregulated. The framing doesn't work for preventing unwelcome perception even by the government, because unwelcome perception results from actions that are by default unregulated.

For this to make sense, the current surveillance economy would have to only been enabled by congressional law that allowed them to start creating dossiers. As far as I'm aware, outside of a few narrow laws (eg FCRA), this is not the case. Rather the surveillance economy is legal by default, and no laws have made it illegal.

Furthermore, to apply this general approach of reigning in government-like corporations, it would have to be something like "Congress or any legal entity shall make no law abridging the freedom ...". Which also seems fraught with problems depending on what "legal entity" ends up being construed as.

> Though you probably won't like this perspective, every interaction with these systems is a choice

How can I have a bank account, a practical necessity of the modern world, while choosing to avoid a dossier being built by the surveillance company "ChexSystems" ?

Sure, in a sense it is still a choice to have any bank account. Sometimes the framing of choice can be useful, but more often than not its used as justification for an illusion of consent, where actually doing the alternative requires one to be independently wealthy and live in an off grid cabin in the woods.

> massive corporations have convinced the nation that they are more powerful than governments

What does this "convincing" have to do with the logical implications of the law? I'd say the thing massive corporations have errently convinced us of is that they should have equivalent standing as individuals. This is what allows them to hide behind the US's framing of natural rights to claim those "rights" for themselves at scale, often at the expense of individuals' rights.
Well it seemed that a lot of American citizens who could have benefited from basic societal relief have voted against their own interests repeatedly.
Whether they are aware of it or emotionally manipulated into it is left as an exercise to the reader.
There's even PIE and Sumerian, hilarious.
What are you translating with? Google seems to get the right result by translating "我能吞下玻璃而不伤身体" as "I can swallow glass without hurting myself"

Of course, that doesn't mean Google is correct.