skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dear sir I have not had such a good laugh in a while, you should warn me before saying such funny things.

For the most part this does not work. For one, the cheapest product tends to win. Consumers are highly price sensitive. Especially in the case where you have two mostly equal products that are only separated by their immorality in making the product.

Second, companies love morality washing. Put up a bunch of advertisements on how good for the world they are at whatever touches their buyers hearts and opens their purse strings. It's all bullshit, using immoral money to buy happy feeling of morality.

And lastly companies love buying premium 'moral' brands without much fanfare turning them into their corporate level of depravity while still pretending like the brand is a seperate moral entity.

It doesn't fucking work for the end user, between the massive consolidation of companies in must industries giving us no choices, and between the constant amount of work needed to ensure the product you buy isn't owned by vampires it's almost like we need business regulation.
Indeed, this is a political problem to solve with statute.
There certainly is a conspiracy of industry players to keep people down. It is well documented and sadly part of our devices.
> they throttle you long before you reach 75 GB per month

I regularly go over 1TB in a month without throttling on the standard plan...
My point is the line 'no one stays clean in the beltway' is and very much greater than thou attitude. We all like to rip on k-street and politicos however I don't think tech is on some great white horse that we can speak down on everyone else.
Chronological feed + boosting is an algorithm and it's about as toxic of an algorithm as you could get without making a data set of toxic vs toxic posts.
Do the majority believe that 3 companies owning 19,000 homes between them in a particular city is harmful/undesirable behavior? Why? There's nothing obviously bad about that fact alone. How many houses are in Atlanta? The possibility that there are hundreds of LLCs shared between these 3 companies seems a bit suspect on the surface, but I could see how they could be simply acquiring smaller companies naturally. Idk how difficult it is or isn't to consolidate smaller LLCs into larger ones, but the implication of the article seems to be that this is a deliberate tactic to limit the amount of money these companies can be sued for in any one given case. Maybe, but would need more details to see that this is clearly what is happening and how much harm it is causing to aggrieved tenants.
They should not be used.
There is no such thing as third world country anymore. That is a relic or yesteryear. [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/hVimVzgtD6w?si=g0aCYsjo15RAyx-e
The Ministry for the Future presents these ideas where the ruling class and then the proletariat is forced into using ecofriendly modes of transportation like fast yachts and dirigibles for long distance travel. I imagine a future where we'll see this but it's going to take some serious unrest before the ultra wealthy give up their private jets.
Here is an interesting article about China's regulations regarding trade unions: <https://www.china-briefing.com/news/china-trade-unions-consi...>

tl;dr anyone can form unions in China, its just that they have to be under the supervisory authority of the ACFTU. Pretty much like the US where trade unions can get formed through the NLRB :)
Does surgery work well without the FDA?
grid is also a sensible default. Unless you actually want flexing, there is no reason to use flexbox and its more complicated syntax.
Good question. I suggest pertinent obligations are to reflect on opportunity, incentives and outcomes to ensure that our moral foundations are harmonious with our actions. If, at scale, there is dissonance then I would submit that reflection has not been done.
Should plastic containers shedding millions of nano particles be considered sanitary?
The only reason it’s used is that the externalities aren’t properly taxed (or not banned IMO).
Maybe we should not use things that are “easier” when they’re contributing to a massive amount of pollution. I mean there was an article posted here about finding microplastics in a human fetus.
Yet we still continue to use it.
I’ve been using Gnome almost exclusively for the past two years, although I also spent significant amounts of time in a tiling WM (Sway).

I like the overall experience of gnome. The apps feel nice, the DE feels snappy etc. But the tiling features of KDE make me curious. I like sway, but I recently completely messed up my configuration and it’s a an absolute pain to get back working even halfway decent, so I may as well give a integrated DE a try
System Settings > Workspace Behaviour > General Behaviour: In "Clicking files and folders" then switch the option from "Selects them" to "Opens them".
Further, transitive dependencies are a real risk. If A depends on B depends on C depends on D depends on E depends on F, and F is compromised which the author of E does not catch, everyone depending on any of the deps in the chain are at risk.

It's why the JavaScript ecosystem of micro packages is absolutely insane. If someone infected isEven, they'd have a blast radius of 90% of JavaScript devs.

It's much like having a single password protecting everything. JavaScript has way too many of these high value packages that find their way into every modern JavaScript project.
I’m interested in learning where you’re from—I’d assume outside of North America/Western Europe? I take familiarity with it so much for granted that it’s fascinating that someone’s familiarity with it comes from Narduwar.
If you read their research you will see that the reason corporations raised prices was because of future anticipation of costs rising - inflation.

https://www.kansascityfed.org/research/economic-review/how-m...
I'm worried about the housing crisis that is gripping so many countries where regular people are utterly incapable of buying houses because they're wildly unaffordable and there are not enough.

Private companies can profit of commercial real estate. They can profit off manufacturing and consulting.

They should not be allowed to profit on thing basic essentials that people in our society need to live when doing so means some people simply miss out.

How would you feel if we were at a buffet for every meal and a private company took so much food you and your family got barely scraps, day after day, year after year?

That is PRECISELY what we're doing with housing.
I am a dev, I understand why c++ and similar are definitive nonos.
Rent (in dollar terms) is the most you will ever pay per month.

Mortgage (in dollar terms) is the least you will ever pay per month.

Combine that with the ease of movement between renting and owning and it's absolutely something many people prefer.
Sure. My main point is that the economic system is so perverted, that it is silly to refute UBI on common sense grounds. I don't think I am an advocate.
The divers trying to figure out how deep humans can go
> One reason it matters to me is that if I write a program that computes something in a proof, I need to be able to understand and verify (or possibly check that other people I trust have verified) the source and algorithms

Do you actually do this verification? How do you accomplish this? The software stacks are huge. Why do you trust other people over the people who develop Mathematica, who just happened to be paid?
Invitation Homes (NYSE: INVH) is part of S&P500, so I'd say very many (owning a tiny share). Ownership of INVH is overwhelmingly institutional (investment/mutual/retirement funds): https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/INVH/holders
You forget about the desktop integration. At the company I work for we also selected Qt, why, because it has very good integration with many desktops. GTK is terrible in this regard (even support for other desktop on GNU/Linux apart from GNOME is not the best, let alone other OSes). And yes also Qt offers a lot more and is also more intuitive to work with and man the documentation it has, just superb. So yes, listening to user feedback is the most important but the role of a great toolkit to build on is also very important.
What are companies composed of? Extraterrestrials?
I'm not proposing anything. It's just inevitable that when a right wing throwaway account posts about anything, it's just so they can steer around to their favourite topic of The Foreigns.
When facts go against the narrative that billionaires are bad some feel the urge to rectify. If this story didn't hit the front page they wouldn't care. All is propaganda.
Any equivalent for non-Rust projects? I see git-crev is abandoned...
The 'bottom' spend a much large proportion of the income on 'stuff' that counts towards inflation than the the 'top'. If you take money out of rich peoples art and private jet budget and add it to poor peoples food and heating budget, then that can drive up inflation since food and heating make up a bigger part of the inflation calculation than art and private jets.
That's because under Wayland there's no separation between display server and window manager.
In a just society we'd have something akin to a land value tax.

That would make land-lording into a low profit respectable profession and would drive slumlords out of business. The only way to profit would be to actually be good at it would be to manage homes well. Margins would come from that, not from property speculation (how trump made his money).

It would also create a titanic amount of tax revenue from the non-productive economy (land hoarding) which would mean that taxes could be reduced or even eliminated on the productive economy (e.g. income taxes).
As you would expect. I'm in one with a few dudes who are worth over a bil given their exit sizes, all folks who have IPO'd cloud companies. It's got a very imaginative name "cloud guys" - it's mostly posting in linkedin urls and asking if anyone can make an intro, couple of them natter on about their kids nannies sometimes, it's very uninteresting. Thing about these rich people groups is they're actually super boring. Everyone is already rich so it's not like we're swamping trading strategy or whatever, pretty much everything is already managed in these peoples lives they already have access to people they wanna chat with, so there isn't a whole heck of a lot of discuss.
Indeed I remember back then one could target somebody by his email. I would guess the agencies still get extended targeting access.
That's not it, not what I said, and not what I meant. I didn't say anything about shooting in the dark.

You're not hunting deer in the dark. You're getting to your blind before sunrise or you could be recovering your deer in the dark from a day time shot.
Would this not be target to fines, at least in the US?
>Unlike normal app notifications, push alerts, as their name suggests, have the power to jolt a phone awake — a feature that makes them useful for the urgent pings of everyday use. Many apps offer push-alert functionality because it gives users a fast, battery-saving way to stay updated, and few users think twice before turning them on.

As a very basic user of a smartphone (Android) with relatively few apps, please ELIF how do I determine the current permissions for such notifications on my phone, in case I want to turn them off.
> Or put another way, Europe cannot create their own Amazon.

Ozempic-maker Novo Nordisk enters the room
Couchbase brings new database vectors to AI powered adaptive applications
I don’t think any novel is un- adaptable. That’s like the statement “such and such musician defies categories” which is meaningless to anyone who studies the topic. Retroactively I could say the same thing about any popular blockbuster sci-fi like Star Wars for example. The fact that TFT takes place over centuries doesn’t disqualify it from being adaptable. It just take directorial talent.
yes it is a federated system by design. doesn't mean it is not a limitation though.

to give you an example: in case of email, though it is not that difficult to host your own server (and even if you are a small startup you'll most probably do so without much effort), in the end basically Google decides on "who is an accepted participant in the network". If Google deems you spam, you are spam. If Google deems your authentication emails "promotion", for most intents and purposes, you are "promotion" and your users will miss your emails.

that, I feel, is an inherent limitation of any federated system, specifically one whose design is really inspired by email.

> I don't see how that follows.

as you've mentioned right after.

> work is better distributed temporally (since consumers hopefully poll the feed in a randomized way independent of new posts appearing).
If this is already causing glitches, imagine what would happen in year 2100.
I just started a hosting gig myself. I got tired of the costs.
> the evidence shows money isn’t buying results.

There are different kinds of results.

There’s “Money spent on campaigns gets my favored politicians into office” which apparently isn’t working out too well.

There’s “Money spent on campaigns gets politicians to give me favors at the expense of their constituents” which unfortunately works very well.

And, there’s “Money being spent on campaigns gets politicians to favor laws that encourage donatory competition between big donators even if it is at great expense to everyone including their constituents” which is also going just swimmingly.

All of this is because politicians know that if they don’t play the asshole here, their competition will and they’ll end up with a large multiple of their campaign budget. And, that will put them out of office. A small difference like 2x might not work so well, but 10x certainly does.
The US military’s interest in network robustness led to the internet if I’m not mistaken.

Also preceding the perceptron was the McCulloch & Pitts neuron, which is basically a digital gate. NNs and computing indeed have a long history together.
I remember that as kid, custard in glass bottles. I'd let them fall out of my hands from the fridge and my parents would get angry.
The email solution I use has no lightweight account creation and regardless, I like to keep my contact surface small and additional email addresses are detrimental to that. I was happy with DMs on Twitter and I wish Bluesky had them, that's all.
Ending Medicare would make EMTALA obsolete
Watching my son when he was 8 write python code to draw regular polygons made the exterior angles summing to 2π really clear and I realized it made for an exceptionally nice way to prove that the sum of the interior angles of a polygon would be π(s-2) and I really wanted to teach geometry again because it was such a beautiful result.
The closest I have ever gotten to somebody articulating how it makes the world worse was a homeowner saying that they didn't like it because it allowed renters into their neighborhood.

But I'm guessing there's some other reason that you think this makes the world worse. Can you tell me how?
I'm not at all convinced that "I made this thing which didn't actually work" constitutes learning more than say the colour-mixing video from "Art of the Problem".

In both cases you're only learning the concept, and if you actually do this it won't actually work†. So, why do it rather than just reading about it? Usually our argument for learning by doing is that you're gaining valuable experience of it actually working - but textbook RSA doesn't work, it doesn't deliver security.

So the best case is the same as just reading about it or watching a video, except it took much longer. The worst case is that you believe what you're doing (a toy which can't work) is how it actually works (which it isn't) and then you try to apply this incorrect lesson.

† Specifically, textbook RSA doesn't achieve security, you're missing a crucial component of a working system which wasn't important to the explanation but is crucial to a working system.
At least in the US, the difference in cost is mostly taxation and fees, along with profit margins due to utility monopolies and price inelasticity. The reason California has more expensive electricity than Texas is almost entirely tied to the monopoly held by PG&E and high taxes and fees.
It's a really awful name. Is primitive obsession a good code smell or a bad code smell? And if code smell is a bad thing, and if primitive obsession is a good thing, wouldn't the code smell be lack of primitive obsession?

I don't mean to be pedantic. But it's quite exhausting trying to parse the meaning out of "primitive obsession is a code smell". It took me a while to figure out whether the author considered "primitive obsession" to be a good thing or a bad thing, not least because the they provided an example but not a definition.
But what if.. one's existing capital isn't a right to exercise to begin with?
"Instanice usage is based on credits and all new accounts start with 5 free credits, if you want more, just purchase as many credits as you need through a one-time payment."

And there's no way to know how much a credit costs before you create an account!
What's your life expectancy?

Because any coding you put in today will be hopelessly out of date in 5 years, but any "memoir" you write today will be just as good 5 years from now, either for a human to read or AI to process.
I’d love to see some numbers on the percentage of current renters that would prefer to own.
I worry that focusing on old layout techniques and hacks to get them to work, will propagate old layout techniques and hacks to get them to work.
I would guess that on the whole hashtags provide negative value to users. It's a neat idea but it almost immediately devolves into SEO spam.
The "Inverted T" is usually referred to as a "bottom" symbol (and the not-inverted T-like symbol as "top").
People are already making AI-generated films that rival anything you'll find on television. Here's just one example.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EsbpCV0vWlM
> I'm curious as to where you are seeing unrestricted donations.

SuperPACs, one of the main engines of US spending on politics.
Walmart owns 25% of the entire US grocery market. 11% of a certain class of homes split between 3 companies doesn't strike me as too bad. There's always the other 89% of single-family homes to rent if they get too pushy or expensive, or of course non single-family homes. Or areas just outside the core counties, like Athens or Columbus.

I fucking _wish_ I could rent from corporate landlords. The few times I have they've been _miles_ better than the amateur landlords that own most of my city.
a different (quenya) style of elvish scripting: https://i.imgflip.com/7757j9.jpg
I’m surprised that opening the router and physically disabling the wifi antenna is not a solution. I would understand that running the router in a faraday cage is not viable as the ethernet cable has to get from the router to the dish.
I recently set up a personal LLC and remember reading something about real estate investors making an individual LLC for each property as a way of limiting their liability. If you can't pay one mortgage then you still keep all your other homes. Those LLCs are then managed by another LLC.
Did you use chatGPT? with vscode/copilot? (or other/local GPTs? (I am on GPT selection use overload, and I cant go spending a bunch of money on different GPT subscriptions when I dont know what actually fits my needs)

What did you spend on everything to get going (gpt subscriptions/tools/initial AWS credits -- can people still get free cloud credits azure/gcp/aws) for their personal startup efforts?

I try to play, and it plays bohemian rhapsody, but I cant type in a free answer and the submit button is greyed out... am I supposed to select from the pop-up-tips? https://i.imgur.com/ELx52GB.png

How about a multiple choice mode. (also, its just a nice way to play random songs :-)

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I am in the exact same boat - a TPM for 30 years, and was a really technical Ops guy for half of it then mgmt and consulting for the other half - I used to be able to navigate AWS with my eyes closed, but havent even touched it in a couple years....

I am a social learner - so when I attempt to learn to code, I get stuck and googling doesnt help as much as a person....

So I have been thinking of apps that have been ruminating in my Amygdala for too long...

The simple daunting pieces still daunt me, but this inspires me to put up my couple apps that should be quite simple. They all have kind of the same components -

One is just a "Water Me" - take a pic of your plant(s) and it will ID the type of plant (stretch goal) - but have a simple watering schedule reminder. I love plants, but I am very bad at recalling when to water them or check on them - so I have gone through thousands of plants in my life for my Black Thumb.

Other stretch goals are to have it tell me what plants go well together - I dont have a good aesthetic eye when it comes to plants. I like to look at r/cozyplaces and simply admire others' selection of different plants, which look great in-house, but I wouldnt have picked them at the nursery.

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The other is basically the same, but for making Baseball cards for little league teams... (I was using Bartender[0] to make labels for products, and playing with employee badge making - and my neighborhood kids have a tone of baseball happening around me (there are ~4 baseball fields within 1000 meters of my house...) - Thought the kids would like to make their own baseball cards (also helps that we have a baseball memorabilia room in our house with ~10,000 baseball cards...)

these seem simple enough, but I have been too lazy to tackle them due to severe ADHD procrastination fears.'

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[0] https://imgur.com/a/65wbd6a

[0.1] https://www.seagullscientific.com/software/bartender-feature...
Meh, I want a window manager, not a full desktop environment. I want key-combo switching between apps and allowing the apps to be moved and sized. And that's it. No need for special 'start/run' features, for DE-bundled apps, for DE-based widget bars, for DE-based notifications, etc. Get everything out of the way for focusing on the apps and allowing interaction between them only as needed.

The problem imo is that Wayland is too hard to write your own WM for. People wrote X11 WMs in weekends when they got fed up with the status quo. How many do the same for Wayland?
Good. The "worst" in people is a part of people. To pretend it doesn't exist and suppress it forever is an insane social engineering experiment.

And the Dionysian night of the Internet is a way better and safer place for it than the Appolonian day of real life.

If you're willing to surrender that outlet and the game theoretic ground of pseudo/anonymity because your feelings are too hurt, I sorely hope whatever totalitarian government is in your future punishes you for your weakness.
Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Paramount, Disney??? There's a crapton of players trying to make streaming happen, and no evidence that they're making massive margins.
Hetzner is one of those "just take my money" services, so more power to them.

Besides, for some reason I always thought they charge hourly but show pricing in monthly format for easier pricing.
So much of my workflow depends on X11. I hope we can keep it going. I don't think I could do this on Wayland: using my gpt4-vision toolkit to read my blocked domains list from kagi and xdotool entering the list into Azure Custom Search Api. https://twitter.com/xundecidability/status/17632190171608678...
It’s a massive amount. But what is more sickening is that we are treating a place to live like a market to corner and profitize. Three companies own 19,000 houses! 19,000 houses that aren’t available for people to buy, 19,000 houses that raised the price of all other houses, and 19,000 houses to milk renters for every cent they have like people in the pods in the Matrix.

This isn’t an isolated event either. There are lots and lots of other companies.

https://fortune.com/2024/02/18/did-wall-street-make-housing-...

https://archive.is/jBrme