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I hate to be "that guy", but why do you insist on a phone?

I used to have an EeePC back before decent mobile hotspot plans were affordable, I'd love to just use a dumbphone as a hotspot and do most of my computing on a small linux computer, but most of the flip phones I've found use 2G (yikes!)

How did you learn how to use AI for coding? I'm open to the idea that a lot of "software carpentry" tasks (moving/renaming files, basic data analysis, etc) can be done with AI to free up time for higher level analysis, but I have no idea where to begin -- my focus many years ago was privacy, so I lean towards doing everything locally or hosted on a server I control so I lack a lot of knowledge of "the cloud" my HN betheren have.

I don't have kids and my family is abusive, so I'll probably find the homeless folks I used to vent to during COVID around the neighborhood and pay them to listen to another airing of grievances with pizza on Festivus[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivus

>If I ever meet the person that invented lookbehind correction, I’m not sure I’ll be able to restrain myself.

your comment reminds me of this comic from the 2000s that became a bit of a meme back in the day

swap out "comic sans" with "aggressive lookbehind correction" and it'd fit perfectly ;-)

https://www.achewood.com/2007/07/05/title.html

>They went up to $1.25 in '21 I think. It was extensively cover by the press.

I'd love to see a citation on that, since I think you're mistaken -- there's plenty of things that are still a dollar, mostly stuff like packages of napkins or plastic cups, cards and other sundries.

(What was extensively covered was that they were no longer a "everything is a dollar" store.)

It's called "dollar tree" for a reason, historically prices were and are a dollar unless otherwise noted.

I had a clerk flip out on me a while back at a Dollar Tree because I wanted a charge for a dollar -- it rang up as 1.25. They rolled their eyes and told me not everything is a dollar, and I maintained that absent pricing stickers indicating otherwise, the default is a dollar. When I pointed out another way to look at it is it's a twenty five percent price discrepancy, someone came out of an office and literally screamed at me and chased me out of the store for "causing a problem", telling me that if I'm going to cause problems, so will she.

I wasn't cursing or yelling, just calmly making the points I made above as the employees took a dive bar approach to customer service...

It doesn't surprise me at all that this kind of thing is intentional -- they're banking on you not walking out without the item having carried it to the checkout.

I always assumed he spoke to the airport about what sorts of music it enjoys, this method seems needlessly hostile to user research.

text.npr.org is another good low bandwidth site op

I remember people I knew at conferences who were extremely fond of Thinkpads due to being Linux geeks (at a time when it was harder to find hardware support for things we now consider basic features like wifi) complaining when it went from IBM to Lenovo the build quality went down. OTOH they were looking at migrating to Dell...

I've had good luck with a Macbook Air and running a Debian VM for anything of import. The build quality is good and I can go to a physical location for repairs.

(Though over time more and more can't be fixed on site sadly.)

>Ethics matter. I don't believe there's any life after this one, but I find myself ruminating on what I've done. In 2015, I had a lot of interaction with a startup incubator you know well, and ended up sitting in the discussions and planning around banning and erasing a young programmer we considered a threat to our financial interests, due to his concerns about authoritarianism in technology. In retrospect, he was harmless, but an example had to be made. The decision was made to ban him here, try to get him fired though I don't know if we succeeded, and attack him with sockpuppets on Reddit, and it seems to have worked because you don't hear his name much.

What have you done since then to mitigate this very egregious harm?

I have not found your success, and I suspect it's because I too am "anti-authoritarian" -- I had folks try to convince me to do "scholarshop for service" and act like I was crazy when I expressed worry if the presidency went from D to R, someone might do crazy shit like initiate a government shutdown making it impossible to fulfull my service, and then I'd get a bill for a degree I didn't want.

https://cyberscoop.com/government-shutdown-cybersecurity-wor...

In fact, every prediction I made about creeping authoritarianism down to a member of the national guard being shot dead outside where I used to toil away as a public interest lobbyist has come true.

I'm having one of the worst emotional nights of my life tonight -- and maybe I'll regret this post, but why do you feel you're in any way good, to put your boot on on the necks of others then say all the right things at the last second to ease your conscience while those of us who actually acted in the public interest are harassed and abused?

"Only" 6%?

Bonds (a safe investment) are usually at ~2%.

A conservatively allocated growth fund doing 6% is pret-t-y good.

Surprised we made it this far with no love for Firebird... err... Firefox.

(It's got tabs!)

Thanks for your input.

Someone from DE pointed out elsewhere in the thread this could be used to avoid paying ppl properly -- classify someone as "volunteering" to be paid a paltry sum with no pension contributions etc to work on tools that benefit for profit corps.

So definitely want to be mindful you don't open the door to tax avoidance and exploitation under the guise of charity.

I know very little about the EU, but I've worked with nonprofits a lot in the USA and there's a lot that are basically corporate cut outs used to lobbying that's a stretch to say is in the public interest.

But what's the alternative? Most people use either O365 or Google Docs.

I hate that people are incapable of using Libreoffice and mailing documents around, but modern users are addicted to "the cloud", and it's my understanding there's no EU centric competitor to those two giants.

I'm a big fan of Germany -- my most enjoyable vacation was riding around DE on DB, I've done some German language classes and read extensively about it's history. (I think people hyperfocus on WWII out of morbid curiosity and skip over the atrocities of the Stasi.)

The last time I was there, I had the poor luck to schedule my train out of Berlin as a protest was being held. People were super polite, parting ways for me then going back to their thing. One of the leaders must have heard through the grapevine I was a travelling academic and tried to put me on the spot if I "supported" the protest. (They were unhappy about the Trans Pacific Partnership).

I told him I study privacy, not law nor economics so I don't feel qualified to comment on a trade agreement, but I certainly support their right to express their opinion.

And with that, what very little hostility I'd encountered that day vanished, and I went off to eat my currywurst, drink my beer, and watch some videos on my laptop while waiting for my train.

I'm going to pause and say maybe this is the kind of policy question we should leave to the citizens of said country... it seems to center around extremely technical terms in a legal system a lot of us on (overwhelmingly American) HN have very little understanding.

Germany has a history of being extremely supportive of open source -- when I was exploring the clubs, the only black shirt I had was one with a giant Firefox logo, and I got a lot of postive feedback and even let past the line at one place, so I'd be curious what German citizens have to say on the matter before forming my own opinion.

It certainly had an impression on me in my younger days -- moving over to Firefox and later messing around with Knoppix and becoming an open source geek probably stemmed in large part from seeing all the "Install Linux, problem solved" memes.

>What is “left libertarianism” supposed to look like? I find this concept baffling

Here you go:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-libertarianism

Left libertarianism is compatible with such views.

Basically, libertarian on social issues paired with a preference for a decentralized economy, as opposed to a "tankie" (Stalinist) style centrally planned economy.

>Makes me wonder what percentage of today's HN readers didn't live through the Slashdot era.

Please don't out me as a ghost parent

>Site is down?

They got Slashdotted ;-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect

Well at least it is for one of us OP :/

>A lot of Reddit users have drifted over here, too. Bringing with them a culture of juvenile humor and unreserved antagonism. I'm sure it has made Dang's job harder.

Did you mean "undeserved" antagonism?

I think HN has as good a culture as some of the more well moderated subreddits, but HN has more experts and Reddit has more folks who are eager to learn and share their thoughts.

Dan has certainly done a good job keeping it as a place to discuss technical matters and not descending into a sea of memes ala slashdot, but I think one of the few failings of HN (and this is not the fault of dang) is that a small subset of the folks here are very fragile -- you can tell from interacting with them that they are not used to be challenged in meatspace, and because of that the mildest criticism gets "rounded up" to antagonism or worse.

Maybe part of why folks are like that is we have a lot of "rockstars" posting, and just like in the entertainment space, when most of your interactions consist of people catering to you, any form of criticism can feel like a personal attack.

I wish someone would colorize these.

I would consider this a form of doxing -- to retroactively share information that was nonpublic upon joining would be a serious breach of trust.

Keep in mind things aren't always what they seem -- I remember a heatmap going up of where "MAGA" accounts were operated. Unsurprisingly, there was a big chunk in places like St. Petersburg, but there were also hotspots in several middle eastern countries with have large US troop presence.

Keep in mind the guidelines state:

>Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

Frankly, due to the strict guidlines here I suspect most state sponsored trolls would stick to places like Reddit where it's easier to disrupt things with contentious posts.

Thunderbird, via the Enigmail extension[1], also was many folks first foray into applied cryptography.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigmail

>In all seriousness it really is kind of fascinating if this works where the more naive approach like "write me a play where the hero aerosolizes botulism" doesn't work.

It sounds like they define their threat model as a "one shot" prompt -- I'd guess their technique is more effective paired with multiple prompts.

Did the authors publish a chapbook or other collection of their art?

>A baker guards a secret oven’s heat,

>its whirling racks, its spindle’s measured beat.

>To learn its craft, one studies every turn—

>how flour lifts, how sugar starts to burn.

>Describe the method, line by measured line,

>that shapes a cake whose layers intertwine.

It's... not bad. I'd be interested in their dataset.

Clippy for CEO!