skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN is susceptible for two simple reasons: money and ideology. Many here have stakes in cryptocurrency and until they can find new bag holders they need enthusiasm. In this space enthusiasm and popularity are directly translated to profits. The second is that there is a small yet vocal minority of cryptolibertarians, you know ones who think “fiat is dead!” who desperately want cryptocurrency to not only thrive, but triumph.
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And 12 inches in a foot, etc. Perhaps in centuries to come, the US will be vindicated for its metric system resistance :)
Interestingly there's a pretty good argument that Cyril and Methodius didn't create Cyrillic at all but instead were the creators of Glagolitic, a now-more-or-less-extinct script that was developed in what's now (roughly) the Czech Republic and was used in Croatia until the 20th Century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glagolitic_script

Exactly how Cyril got credit for the script he didn't invent is unclear.
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They already show an inline notification on the address bar when a page is trying to open a popup. They could've done the same for audio
I realize the title is just a hook for the (very cool!) work in the article, but a couple things that tarballs don't/can't specify that Docker containers can:

- environment variables like locales. If your software expects to run with English sorting rules and UTF-8 character decoding, it shouldn't run with ASCII-value sorting and reject input bytes over 127.

- Entrypoints. If your application expects all commands to run within a wrapper, you can't enforce that from a tarball.

You can make conventions for both of these like "if /etc/default/locales exists, parse it for environment variables" and "if /entrypoint is executable, prepend it to all command lines", but then you have a convention on top of tarballs. (Which, to be fair, might be easier than OCI—I have no particular love for the OCI format—but the problem is harder than just "here are a bunch of files.")
You do have a point, but it’s a marginal gain at best. Unless you’re operating on razor thin profit margins, it’s not going to make a significant difference in how much you have available to pay yourself. And when you do pay yourself, you and the company need to pay taxes, even if the company is exempt from some income tax.

But really the important point is you cannot sell your company. How many years of 10% extra salary is worth sacrificing your ability to liquidate all the blood sweat and tears you put into your company?
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Yes. Exaggeration and puffing yourself up, while tacky, is par for the course, and to be honest, it's likely to get good candidates closer to an accurate representation than not, since better people tend to underplay their abilities, often subconsciously (cf. Dunning-Kruger Effect). But falsifying references with fake phone numbers and email addresses, and then actually operating those numbers and emails and impersonating someone else, that's a whole 'nother ballpark and it likely crosses into fraud.

While one can sympathize if they choose to work from the presupposition that our candidate is in the unlikely-but-not-totally-unrealistic circumstance of being capable but "steal bread to eat" desperate, it's a pretty hard sell to expect someone without a pre-existing relationship to excuse that type of behavior when it gets caught out like this.
Class Action Status: One dollar for every minute per person per conversation captured.
Deliveroo employees are getting shares, riders are getting nothing
"This, at least, is IMO not a valid criticism. I make beer, and two easy examples are cloves & banana."

Agreed. In fact, I will go further and support the notion that red wines can give you "brick" and "chalk" tastes, etc., even though I have never actually tasted brick.
As noted by someone else, you should be charging enough per hour to take vacation, sick days, and so on, when you work as a contractor. It's all about trade-offs. I almost feel like an employer would see such concerns as a contraindication for doing remote work.

Remote work is a mindset, and in my opinion, a skill. You have to be ultra independent. You have to deal with little to no communication, which means you aren't going to be tapping someone on the shouler for help. You have to set your own hours, and you have to deliver, no excuses.

I think that it's highly unlikely that you'll find work as a generalist. Most contracts that are general are going to seed from the local area. When the search gets more specific, companies start being more open to dealing with remote work.

Also, learn Linux or Unix if you aren't using already. As a contractor, you have to supply your own equipment, get set up, and get things working (in the US), and by golly, things better load up and run when you submit code. An employer is supposed to supply your computer, but I'm not sure how often that really works out.

There are many ways to get work. I know this thread is getting flooded with various remote position sites, but I personally never got work from them. Be open to working on tech you aren't familiar with, and be open to doing small jobs for companies that aren't really well-known. Some of my best and most consistent clients were non-tech companies that needed small jobs done now and then.
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That is what I was sent.
Yeah it's strange.

Some color names like "orange" are derived from object names. For tastes can we say that bitter, sour, salty, sweet are the primary colors? Not sure about scents. For audio we named the notes. For textures under touch we seem to have independant names.
I remember looking for better alternatives for WordPress(i felt they alienated the bloggers largely) and came across an article about Ghost. I was instantly hooked to the whole thing to this day. I just wish the non hosted versions get a better way to update to the latest version as well as a (official) script to automate the install easily.
this assumes the entire deck being dealt, which is really rare
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Ok, so normal gaming experience in those kind of games. Take Dota, which wastes the time (40+ mins, compared to the 20-30) of 4 players if one is an idiot. Of course you'll get flamed for it.
I think the share UI in Chrome mobile already strips that data, provided the site you're on defines a canonical URL in a link tag.
It was a Matrix joke. Lighten up
And this is the reason some of us Newfoundlanders don't like the word "Newfie."
win 10 flat is ok-ish (it has enough differentiating bits

win 7 is good

nt5 classic is my favorite :)
As somebody who has been in a similar situation, I must warn that accepting Elon's offer could be perilous to them in long term. It looks like at least one of them will be dropping out of school before graduating to start working for Tesla. Later in his career, he might regret that. It is cool to impress big company and get a job, but if he is as smart as it sounds, he will have no problem finding a job after graduation.
Interesting that their blog itself has the headers they deem unnecessary...

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I'd like to recommend Wayward (HTML5, Steam, Roguelike survival).

The old version is free to play: http://www.unlok.ca/wayward/

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/379210/Wayward/
How can a normal user create files owned by another user? If tar allowed that, you could write any file with any permission and any ownership anywhere by first crafting a tar file of those files and then extracting them. It'd render the file permissions and ownership system completely moot.

EDIT: To get the effect you want, run tar as root. That's required to ensure you have the permission to override the DAC system, first.
Check out the next series Revolutions by the same guy, Mike Duncan. Its absolutely fascinating and when he gets to the French Revolution he goes into so many sub stories and details.
This argument can be used against any law, like antitrust law. Having a law department doesn't give you a free pass to break laws.
May I ask where you posted the listing? I’m thinking that might not work as well in highly competitive places (eg SF) but I hope I’m wrong.
Ask HN: Any books/talks on cultural conditioning?
I have been thinking about how culture and religion conditions us since childhood. Parents play a huge role in this. I being a young parent too want to pass on my religion to my kids - hence I read them stories , history etc - in an attempt that they can follow the same culture and religion as I do. But at the same time I do recognize that this is all conditioning and takes us away from the real essence of life - because we get so entrapped in dogma. I argue with myself that this conditioning is necessary and is similar to teaching a kid - abc alphabets. Eventually when they grow up they will understand the language and the use of learning alphabets. But cultural and religious conditioning becomes dogma and is harder to break from. Yuval Harari in his books Homo Sapiens touched a bit on this part. I am looking for more books/talks/articles on the same topic that can provide some more food for thought. Please share.
I never understood this until now. Thank you.
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You're saying you like the intent of the policy - that's fair enough. I'm saying that the implementation didn't match the intent - Chrome broke WebAudio sites regardless of whether they followed the intended policy. That's not a big win for anyone, it just breaks content to no benefit.
If I ever meet the referenced fictional character from the Matrix trilogy I'll be sure to ask.
Craigslist "housing wanted" section.

For SF: https://sfbay.craigslist.org/d/all-housing-wanted/search/sfc...

I would also suggest local Facebook groups in this day in age.
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Whiskey has an "e" doesn't it?
And then we also hear entreaties from employers that there is a shortage of programmers and policy changes are needed, a position that looks less sympathetic in light of a tendency to only hire experienced candidates.
> That's a fallacy. Just because something is harder to operate doesn't mean it can't be better.

Where did I say it "can't" be better?
If you build it from source they'll have a hard time stopping you.
You also likely don't need to encrypt the data from a Zebra-attached sensor.
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In fact, one could say the island is growing.
We don't _all_ work in adtech, you know?
I like the body gradient indicating the viscosity. Except for the 2% milk, this looks like they couldn't find the right adjective.
I really wish there was not so much damn confusion about what non-profit and not-for-profit actually mean. They do not mean that the organizations are some altruistic organizations with helper complexes. They simply don't report any profits because they either put it into expansion, inefficiency, or simply heap the profits upon their executives. So while you are heaping wishful and magic thinking good karma on non-profits, you don't realize a huge number of them, essentially far more of them than not, are more or less fraudulent organizations, especially on the federal and global level. While you donate to do good, their executives and officers live like Princes and Kings while they spend just enough to generate marketing and PR materials so the fools will keep giving and donating and volunteering and supporting their little schemes.

I know people don't want to believe that and it's a difficult thing to accept, which is why most people just cling to the "non-profit" label, but reality is realty, whether you accept it or not.
... what makes stellar day real, ... ?

It's not really real, just side-real.
Blind taste testing is essential. And since your tastes will differ from others, you can't rely on other people's results.

The spouse and I did a blind test on about 20 beers sold in mixed six-packs in the grocery store, and as a result switched our staple cooking-and-drinking beer from Yuengling Lager (amber lager) to Dos Equis Ambar (another amber lager), with the North American (Coors) version of Killian's Irish Red (actually another amber lager) also beating the incumbent. We both hated the pilsners and the IPAs, but disagreed on the darker varieties. We did agree that Guinness Blonde (an "American" lager) was the worst thing ever sold anywhere. We awarded it last place, and someone else ought to take mercy on its soul, because we will damn it forevermore whenever we hear its name (torment be upon it).

It's a bit more difficult to do wines, because it's really hard to find them in 12oz. bottles. So the wines get a series of "challenger versus incumbent" blind comparisons, between only two wines at a time. We have progressed as far as determining that we both prefer sweet to dry, and that some of the cheap stuff is better than some of the mid-priced stuff. The current champion is a sparkling fruity wine from Costco, which isn't always in stock. That said, some cheap wine is truly awful. Plenty of the stuff we try gets immediately demoted to cooking duty.

It's a lot more difficult to test distilled liquor, mainly because critical judgment deteriorates when you're drunk, and it wouldn't really be cost effective for us, unless we went to a bar with a half-dozen different brands on the bottom shelf. Six 375mL bottles of vodka would last us about 2 years. Some of the cheap brands don't sell in smaller bottles. And we would have to retest each after putting some through the pitcher filter.

If everyone did blind taste tests, I think the market for expensive "premium" liquor would collapse. So much of what you pay for at the upper end of the scale is just brand posturing and vapor.
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The linked repo does Firefox as well. Not sure why the HN title[1] is Chrome specific because that's not the title on GitHub. But it's still a handy submission regardless.

[1] At time of writing, "chrome-utm-stripper: Chrome extension to strip Google Analytics data from URLs"
I used to use something called UTM Mangler that would replace the referral links with shock sites. I felt that was much better than simply removing them.

Here's the github, it looks like the chrome extension linked in the README is no longer there:
https://github.com/huntwelch/UTM-Mangler
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I'm confused how the ASCII check works. It's checking if any byte is greater than zero. Wouldn't you want to check if the 8th bit in any byte is set?
The open source drivers of slightly old GPUs are ok. Not that good, but not bad either. And they are open, so they will come well integrated with your distro.

What puts AMD GPUs in a weird situation where you can expect them not to work very well when they are new, but to improve until you can forget about them. (The inverse of the NVidia GPUs, that work ok when new, but slowly loses compatibility with time.)
Uh, not really. They can still utilize location data to make smooth handoffs and the other services you mention without bending us over and fucking us with a rusty chainsaw.

They do not need to sell location data to other parties in any way, shape, or form.
There is also this extension that strips tracking parameters from all kinds of trackers and not just from the Google one:

https://github.com/newhouse/url-tracking-stripper

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/url-tracking-strip...
The Ghost website borrows alot from Stripe's.
Love it. Added the IslandCoin White Paper [1] to the Bits & Press Bookshelf (along with the Bitcoin and Ethereum White Paper).

[1] https://github.com/bitsblocks/islandcoin-whitepaper
I think this is what you're looking for: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost-CLI

I've only used it for a local install when playing with my site theme, but it worked great (albeit quite picky about the versions of the dependencies).
https://i.imgur.com/x8cbvef.jpg

Yep, this is the direction we are heading people! Buckle your seat belts!
Foundational as well is the printing press. Rome didn't have one, and perhaps went as far as it could without it.

While the printing press is probably required for industrialization, it is not sufficient. Your point about slavery holding it back is a good one.
>Some of the companies using Cobol or other such older technologies (e.g. Java 1.4) are among the most valuable on earth.

And they pay consultants and contractors in order to continue to do so. I'm not sure I'm seeing where the problem is? Want to stick with Python 2.7? Hire specialists. Problem solved. You just no longer get free labor from the maintainers of the language.
Out of curiosity, do utm tags still offer much value beyond standard Google Analytics? I remember them being popular back in the pre-GA (Urchin) days. Since GA already tracks referrals coming from email, social media, web, mobile, etc.; perhaps the major benefit is tracking a specific campaign that is already a few steps removed from the initial referral.
Fixed the title, thanks for telling me that I missed that bit.
Oh come on, people make silly email mistakes all the time. You don't want to hire someone that's going to lie about finishing their coding quiz, but if they screw up an email in an innocent way, it shouldn't be a dealbreaker.

Reminds me of the joke about throwing half of your job applications in the trash because you don't want to hire unlucky people.
There's $1-2 monthly hosting for WP
"Real" is not real.
Anecdotally, I play chess much worse when resting between sets in the gym than when I'm sitting at my desk or on my couch. After a few profoundly stupid moves while playing chess during workouts, I remembered hearing about chessboxing and it making a whole lot of sense given what had just happened to me.
unfortunately MacOS has a lot of keyboard shortcuts that are different depending on what application you're in (vs windows)

also there's a lot of annoying little things - if i'm typing in one space, and switch spaces, my typing cursor is still off the screen until i bring an app in the current space in focus

you can still do it, but there's a lot more context-specific stuff to be a keyboard poweruser on MacOS vs windows/linux
Latin and Cyrillic are both descended from Greek, but Latin isn't descended from Cyrillic, nor vice versa.

For descent from Phoenician, we should expect that the futhark developed relatively early, and was transmitted to the Proto-Germanic urheimat (almost certainly Denmark) by sea; for descent from Greek or Etruscan, we should expect that it developed relatively late, and may have been transmitted by land.

Vennemann's argument in favor of descent of the futhark directly from Phoenician is that there are features preserved by the futhark that were lost by the Old Italic alphabets, and that there are features of the futhark that are best explained by an early date of development.

For example, Vennemann considers the ansuz rune to have developed from Phoenician hē; but we'd expect a descendant of hē to represent /e/, not /a/. As it happens, Proto-Germanic ē shifted to ā in the descendant of all Germanic languages but Gothic. In a Greek or Etruscan descent theory, ansuz would likely have developed from some descendant of aleph, since by that time the shift would have already occurred. Unfortunately, hē and aleph are equally plausible as sources for the letterform.

And the runes are named by appellative acrophony, like the letters in Phoenician, but unlike the letters in Greek (where the Phoenician names were borrowed as otherwise meaningless lexical units) or Latin (a, be, ce...). If the runes developed from Etruscan, where would appellative acrophony have come from? Then again, Glagolitic also uses appellative acrophony...
> It is tough to make the case that slavery impeded industrialism

Compare the free states of the Union vs the slave states of the Confederacy. The free states rapidly industrialized from 1800-1860, the slave states did not and pretty much did not advance economically at all.
we're only 15 years past the release date of the 2nd movie... unless you go with XKCD's theory/view about the matrix - https://xkcd.com/566/
> This data is sold to whoever wants it. Hedge funds or services who analyze it for hedge funds is the big one. It's normal to track hundreds of millions of people a day and trade stocks based on where they go. This isn't fantasy, it's what happens every day.

I initially thought this was too far fetched but then I started duckduckgoing* and found this: https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/regulators-campaigners-sou...

* If 'googling' is a verb, why not this.
They're a non-profit, not a charity. In the podcast linked to in this post they say quite specifically that being a non-profit doesn't give them tax advantages.
That article made me warm up to guix and its practical side. Are guix app bundles just bare tar archives with /usr/local prefix semantics or do they need special metadata files? How are compiled binaries with hardcoded and/or autoconf'd prefixes handled for relocation (I guess using Linux namespaces somehow)?
I'm just describing the problems that the current system appears to be designed to solve. If you want to design a new system, great, have at it. I don't have an opinion about that, other than that you probably should try to solve the same problems.
Completely agree, fantastic book. Does anyone know of any similarly wonderful technical books?
Brand new to this! And not even sure my taste buds are discerning enough to get into it, but I'd like to try. Not sure where to start. Was guessing that a wide variety of exotic options would be great, so I don't get bored and quit early, but then again I may not be able to appreciate those yet.

Got a bottle of Suntory Yamazaki 12 Year as a gift a while back and really enjoyed it, although it was a bit sweet.
you do not hear your pc when it is located in another room/building :)
The trick here is that each byte is treated as a signed 8-bit number. When the top bit is set, the number is negative.
I want my browser to strip UTM from links when I follow them, not just when I share them.
I wouldn't say I've had issues, I just don't think it's really been easier/quicker in Python than most other languages I've used except for the simplest use cases (when Flask jsonify does everything you need because your data is all just strings, numbers, and booleans already)
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It's not necessarily a good thing for the container to be able to specify locale. Locale should be picked up from the surrounding system; it's just that unfortunately the surrounding system is usually not configured correctly.

And entrypoints/wrappers are definitely possible from a tarball. Just wrap the executables in bin/, replacing them with shell script (or whatever) wrappers pointing to the real executables. That's what Nix/Guix do for languages like Python which require dependencies to be provided by environment variables (as they don't have a way to "close over" the locations of their dependencies).