skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This happens to me every single day on the Windows 10 start menu and on my iPhone using the swipe-down search on the Home screen.

Why in God's green Earth the developers who implemented these don't cache obvious local results (like app names) to quickly return them is beyond me, and why the position of the results has to move after the fact is even more maddening

I typed "Arro" for an app I use last night, it took a moment to show up and when I went to click it, the web results populated so I accidentally clicked on "arroz con gandules". Sounds lovely, but I am certainly not expecting that to be the autocomplete...
Not really, because rich people today don't live longer than average people.

But imagine a world where we have, for example, 100-120 year old rulers while the average people live 70-80 years.
>Doctors for the most part actually do want to cure patients, not maintain them in sickness even if it would make them more money.

True, but corporate executives have the primary goal of making money for stockholders, and they often have far more leverage than lowly doctors because they determine who gets the money.
This is why either having a good grounding in meditation techniques and having a guide on hand during a trip is a very important precaution to take for safe experiences. An experienced guide could have helped you break out of the negative experience. If you had better conscious awareness of your mental state, you could have recognized the slide into a bad state and prevented it.

The flashbacks you were experiencing were very real traumatic flashbacks, like what a victim of violence would experience.

The promising results that psychologists are having with psychedelic drugs all centers around having a trained operator guiding the experience to get a desired effect. It's not just a matter of dropping acid and you immediately see GOD and fix your PTSD.
You have to keep in mind that a large fraction of Firefox users are still using 32-bit builds on Windows.

For those users, the memory a process can use is capped at 2-4GB (depending on whether the OS itself is 32-bit or 64-bit and a few other things).

The most common OOM crashes on Windows are running out of virtual address space, not running out of actual physical RAM.

In that context, having more processes in fact gives you more address space and reduces the chance that you will run out.
Also Jewish people don't consider fish meat for the purposes of keeping kosher.
I just realized this is about the same situation as "financial advisors" that you pay a percentage of your assests to to "manage them" and that get hidden commissions when you buy things. They insist that they are doing all for your benefit, and they further insist they shouldn't be held responsible for making advice that helps you (it's too restraining or some other bs).

This field is just like that. Unneeded middlemen who could help but in the vast majority of cases just soak up your money.
English is my strongest language. Indians do almost all their study in english. So thats not a good indicator.
Why do you plan on using Street Performer Protocol?
> I'm almost more excited for the scroll anchoring feature.

If we could get this feature on mobile and desktop operating systems, I would be soo happy. I probably click/tap on something just before it moves about fifty times a day. Having the fastest devices only helps a little.
GoToMeeting is now doing this, even when you are loading their site for the purpose of launching a meeting, so you get the pleasantry of an obnoxious sales support bot "notification" ding blaring through your speakerphone system.
This is technically not what you're asking for, but you might be interested in the therapeutic index (the ratio between LD50, 50% probability of lethal dose, and ED50, 50% probability of effective dose).
mycli used this model, read about their experience here: https://www.mycli.net/kickstarter
Ask HN: Does anybody use Git history (Git log) as a CV?
I noticed that a lot of technical recruiters ask for a Github profile but it doesn't give them much information about the candidate. The candidate may not have enough time for Github or push there only their pet-projects, which they did just for fun. However, git log contains many data of work activity: which languages, libraries and what time the candidate used, how much code they wrote in particular language, did they work in big teams or not, did they write tests or comments and so on. This is real work experience. I think dive into the git history could help to create a more topnotch CV. And it can be done automatically. A small script could go through all repositories and analyze commits. Maybe anybody has already used this approach, or I am missing something?
It's not obvious to me from the provided quote that he's a charlatan. I do think he is a charlatan, but not everyone who uses new-age-sounding language is necessarily a charlatan.

It's possible to put many of the scientifically validated insights of modern psychotherapy into language that would make a lot of empirically-minded people sneer. In fact there are people who have done exactly this in the past.
It's easy to overdose on 2c-e, for example. Around the time I was getting interested in phenylethylamines there was an incident in my home state where five teenagers overdosed and died by snorting lines of 2c-e.
You can get half of the buyer's commission back as a rebate if you work with Redfin.

(That's what we did when we bought our house in 2015)
> I can mediate things with the seller myself, thank you very much.

Yeah, but if you use an agent, you can sue them when things go bad. You have to eat your own losses. People often pay others to take on risk.
Blame intel maybe? 9th gen only has the 95W SKUs fleshed out; at 65W TDP the 8th gen parts still have SKUs with higher clocks.

(as in there is an i5-9400 to replace i5-8400, but no refresh of the i5-8500, i5-8600, or i7-8700, which are all faster than the i5-9400.)
Everything old is new again.

'offline' apps, 'local' cloud. Its the future!
If you want to go there you should go, in hindsight what I should have done is attended a conference in another cheap cost of living country to meet other people doing the same field as I was studying but instead I did the chaotic country route. The worst part will be returning to your own country and having customs/ICE agents not believe you were there for studying since 'nobody does that'. So prepare for very long interrogation depending if their forensics people are on hand to scan your phone, laptop ect. while at the same time accusing you of being an international drug lord or sex offender.
Meanwhile as a mathematical physicist, I learned about her through instantons.

Quite a wide career.
I understand all that, which is why I said the industry has room for improvement. What I'm arguing is that they have value -- they save you from taking on what is essentially a part time job that you're going to be bad at, and that they have potentially years of experience in. Whether the way in which they're compensated is fair or not is a different argument.
Those are good questions. As I think about it more, in the early days, Microsoft stirred up a lot of fear around open source and the GPL specifically. It was viral, it would get you sued for copyright infringment (see: SCO), it would get you sued for patent infringement, it was terrible quality, hard to install, changes all the time, the project might be abandoned, etc., etc.

So yeah, maybe it wasn't so much GPL specifically (except that "viral" threat), but overall Microsoft reinforced a bunch of concerns associated with open source and Red Hat was able to address those concerns.
> Because while it's a common assumption that the spam callers do this, they don't actually do this

It sure looks like they do. Spammers have been calling our office lines daily (including numbers that aren't assigned to anyone and aren't given out). The spam calls come in numerical sequence. They're clearly just working through every possible phone number, in sequence.
> It’s really hard work, with low barriers to entry, and significant upfront costs.

So then pay by the hour.
But desperately needs.
Why do tech companies hire engineers and sales “remotely,” but not others?
Freemium model is vastly more profitable. There is a reason every game company is switching to it.
There's an old saying: "There's profit in confusion."

The kick in the teeth, here, is that it appears that rather than expose such profiteers, the institution would rather quietly sweep such incidents under the rug. :(
Exactly, do people really think that anti-aging technology is on the verge of becoming available to people who currently have trouble getting clean drinking water or who are dying because they can't get a few dollars worth of anti-malaria drugs or antibiotics?

A lot of the world can barely afford dirt cheap medicine from decades ago. They aren't going to be able to afford state-of-the-art anti-aging treatments for a long time.
No, but it’s available one Windows and Linux.
Google Stadia
I wish someone would do this for legal code, starting with federal law with hashes for all representatives

(way I envision it is that their committees being their own branches, along with the chambers of congress

even though its not part of the git protocol, the GUI element of the Pull Request feature could have continuous integration that showed when a threshold of votes were passed to get something into to the next branch like out of committee and onto the floor

then after whichever path was taken to get something codified into law, it is merged into the master branch where the agencies have their own process to update the code of federal regulations)
I don't really follow the proposal. Are you saying that there should have been just their realtor and I keep the 3% I would have paid to have my own representative?

I don't expect their realtor to act in my best interest if so. Our goals aren't aligned. I almost fell into a situation where the realtor I was choosing was the buyers representative as well, which a family member who is a realtor as well as my bank advised was a terrible idea.

If you're proposing that realtors are just half price then I don't have a problem with paying less for things :)
Checker Shadow Illusion
If sites escalate to gifs or frames advanced by JS, I'll escalate to blocking gifs or JS.

Autoplaying video is not acceptable.
Unfortunately, it doesn't pick up the actions associated, for example, to the "double-click" or "middle-click" or at least not on my desktop.

Someone knows if it's customizable in the config menu, searching the obvious "titlebar" reports only two not useful entries?
That has downsides of its own.

For example, url sharing / deep linking goes out the window. I can't share what I'm looking at in macOS' Maps.app like I can on the Google Maps website, pure downgrade.

I also don't want to download an application for everything. Very few things deserve a permanent spot on my computer. I have much less control over desktop apps than I do a website.

Or look at macOS' News.app. Another downgrade from reading news in a browser tab. It has no tabs. There's no right-click. It implemented its own back button. It only supports the few news sources that come preinstalled on it. I can't add my own. Why would I prefer this?

Obviously native applications have their place, but let's not suggest there aren't trade-offs.

What's odd about your posts is that you suggest it's an inconvenience that you might have to disable Javascript. Maybe you have to use NoScript or uMatrix or uBlock. But at least you have the option and this sort of control over the web browser. If a native application does something that you don't like, you have basically zero recourse beyond uninstalling it or begging the developer to change something you could've done in the browser with a quick browser extension or CSS tweak.
Although unrelated to medicine the US Army Map reading and Land Navigation manual is quite informative and also freely available online.
Yes it was resources used non productively. But winning a war with metal and bombs and radiation---priceless.
For the simplest possible example, ask any Noscript extension user.

For the more advanced things, like identifying the part of Javascript code that brings e.g. 'the fancy eating 40% of the CPU scrollbar' user want to disable, some automation is needed.
Good for you, and enjoy. If I were you I'd be tempted not to commit to the full six months in one place - you might find a periodic move helps refresh things more

You might need to be slightly more flexible on the temperature for SE Asia (~30C and humid is pretty standard, though there's plenty of nice sea to cool down in) and speaking only English is going to somewhat limit your social options in many parts of South America.
> There was a Freakanomics podcast episode or book section (I don't remember) where they asserted that the data showed realtors left their own homes on the market longer, ultimately yielding a higher sale price, when compared to homes they were selling for their clients.

Real estate agents are more likely to plan sufficient time to maximize sale value; most people make plans with timelines where sale (or purchase; I bet you’ll find a similar issue on the other side, too) of the house is a blocker for other things before talking to an agent, so the disruption of not completing the transaction timely is significant.
> Purchasing a home is always "buyer beware."

I mean, as a rule of thumb sure (because who wants to have to depend on the legal system for restitution), but not legally. Legally, the seller can't make any false representations. If you're worried about accidentally doing so, it's best to hire an agent who then takes on the responsibility for it.
The 6% fee needs to end! I'm a Co-founder of a new firm in NYC who rebates 50%+ of the buyer side commission back to the buyer.

The average buyer doesn't a ton of assistance and giving them 1.5% of the purchase price back at closing just makes sense.
I'm about to graduate college and move to NYC for a job. The unfortunate norm there is to pay a 15% fee (of the annual rent) to brokers to get a rental apartment. The cheapest the broker's fee gets is one month's rent, so about 8.33% of the annual rent. High end apartments sometimes pay the broker's fee on the renter's behalf [2]. Large apartment complexes sometimes have their own leasing offices, so there's no fee there either. To be clear, this is a one time fee paid when you initially move into the apartment. If you renew the lease, you don't owe another broker's fee.

Meaning if the rent on an apartment is $2,000/month = $24,000/year, the broker's fee on that would be $24,000 * 15% = $3,600. The cheaper apartment are usually owned by small landlords who use brokers to vet applicants. For those apartments, you're required to use brokers. There's no way to opt out by working with the landlord directly as the broker's fee is paid by the renter. The broker provides their services to the landlord for free.

I'm trying my absolute best to find a no fee apartment, but it pretty severely limits my options. For studio or 1 bedroom apartments under $2,500/month, there's currently 1,362 no-fee apartments [0] and 3,395 apartments at large (so, 2,033 for-fee apartments) [1].

[0]: https://streeteasy.com/for-rent/nyc/status:open%7Cprice:-250...

[1]: https://streeteasy.com/for-rent/nyc/status:open%7Cprice:-250...

[2]: https://www.brickunderground.com/blog/2015/12/in_case_you_mi...
Realtor is a brand name - it's a registered trademark. The generic version is estate agent.
Gotta love the constant battle between marketing and common sense. We implement something, marketing learns of it, abuses it, we tweak or kill the thing into a pale shadow of its former self.

This is also why we can't have nice things by the way.
How about allowing remote workers? I don't get the resistance to it.

I pay for my computer.
I pay for my own coffee/tea.
I pay the electrical bill.
I pay for my phone/internet.
My quality of life goes up massively.

God forbid we work remote and avoid traffic and all the headaches of commuting.
I wish my son reads this. Some kids never listen, until it's too late in life. :-(
I think the GP is referring to not being able to install non-signed add-ons in non-developer versions of Firefox.
The Expendables: Life in the French Foreign Legion (2012)
Aw, come on, let's get the full story.
> You mean clients i can hardly update

Yes! You dont have to update if you dont want to. Thats a feature. Of course, the rise of proprietary APIs over interoperable protocols has lessened that advantage.
The main point is that if you take safe code and put it inside an unsafe block, the meaning of the code doesn't change. So for example, array indexing is bounds-checked in safe code, and non-bounds-checked array access is only available in unsafe blocks. This does not mean that the call `a[i]` loses bounds-checking in an unsafe block. It has the same semantics regardless of context. Rather, the separate call `a.get_unchecked(i)` is available inside an unsafe block and cannot be called in safe code.
Well, it's automated based on what's most popular over the last 6 hours. The meme stuff is what people vote for. I could start curating it, but then it would lose the original point. The news articles are usually pretty good, the odd stupid thing goes viral and sneaks in but it's generally real news. Just ignore the pictures if that bothers you. A core concept of it is to preserve an unedited snapshot of opinion from a point in time, news articles can be deleted or edited, plus the top reactions to them as a historical record, like https://dailypopulous.com/2018-03-19-morning/ - it's an unedited newspaper based on what people actually read, which unfortunately does include memes these days.
Ah the immunity of non-Microsoft operating systems:

https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/osxshlayer-new-mac-...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/eset-discovers-21-new-linux-ma...
I think the competition is Eat Club, not any of those individual delivery services.
Now please ship ublock origin by default.
Nope, not in the least! YC should do whatever is best for them.

I'm saying (poorly) that I miss getting excited about new startups launching. This is probably more of a reflection of my own shift in perception than it is a statement on YC or incubators as a whole.
This kinda trouble is exactly why DMCA needs a process to punish false claims. Asking if a certain streaming site is down (no links) is copyright infringement? The title of a release is copyright infringement? Why is this okay (and more importantly for Reddit: why isn't Reddit Legal doing their jobs and actually responding to these bizarre claims)?
> Android users have no excuse for not using Google Voice.

You mean aside from not being OK with using Google services?
Employers want you under their thumb so they can squeeze you harder.
Show HN: Electric Dollar Store
I would prefer it be more explicit and say, "each digit can only be used once".

Different can be interpreted in multiple ways.

Reminds me of a physics test where the question is something like:

Susie is almost at her house and comes to a stop in 4 seconds. What was her acceleration.
In addition, Elixir libraries tend to be very high quality in my experience. This is not the case with gems; I'm always very hesitant to add a new dependency in my Ruby applications.

Of course, the quality disparity exists in part because there is a much wider pool of developers with varying levels of experience in Ruby, similar to Node.js. But I believe Elixir encourages and even enforces a certain level of code quality, without introducing fragile mutable state, security issues, and package incompatibilities. Thus I expect the quality of Elixir libraries will remain high even as the pool of Elixir developers grows.
> It's more a question that is it worth paying 60,000 when selling your house? It's not.

So why does anyone use them? Other people must think they bring more value than they cost. And if they're too expensive why aren't people undercutting?
If Firefox for Android cost 10 USD / year some people would buy it..

Even if there was 100 free forks readily available. People would pay for the brand :)

Honestly, I prefer bitwarden over "password store" because I pay and, thus, I know it's unlikely to go away or go unsupported.
That's more of an entertainment business, basically based on watching. Streamers are nothing else than sports arenas imho. or musicians.

It's not so easy to get 10k people watch you code. I'd like to see it though.
I'm not sure what this comment means. California obviously allows remote workers.
How to Reduce Your Risk of Failure as a New CEO
https://pcpartpicker.com/user/jake541/saved/#view=ZnVr6h

As of today, the prices are higher than what I paid. If you're going to buy, monitor /r/buildapcsales on Reddit and buy your parts when they go on sale. I bought my stuff over a period of a couple weeks and saved substantial money.

Samsung SSD prices fluctuate by 10s of dollars. Other SSD manufacturers such as Intel and WD offer steep discounts at times. The RX 580 GPUs go on significant sales pretty often.

At some point, I need to finish my guide and publish to Github. I largely followed corpnewt's Vanilla Guide for Mojave [1], and followed the Coffee Lake train. It's important to follow each step closely.

Again, I do not recommend a hackintosh, but for me it worked out really well.

1. https://hackintosh.gitbook.io/-r-hackintosh-vanilla-desktop-...
What were the things you used it to do?
> Also in England, real estate commission fees are about 1% vs. 6% in US.

Also in England...stamp duty.[0] Yaaaaa....no thanks.

https://www.gov.uk/stamp-duty-land-tax/residential-property-...
Maybe, but there are better options. As o nate's comment notes [1], the vast majority of their compensation comes from the house getting sold at all, and the gain from anything beyond that is weak. So they're actually incentivized to just make sure the deal happens and not go for the extra.

Edit: There's a similar issue with recruiters.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19432743
I think if you're asking a question like "do you like it", you're not yet in that state.

I'm no expert in meditation or psychedelics, but I get into what I imagine is this state when I, for example, hike the top of a mountain. I can look out at the trees around me and, it's odd, but concerns kinda fade away. Good/bad or good/evil just don't really exist, things just are. You see both the trees and the forest, and you get a sense that these have been here for a long time and will continue to be long after you're gone. So "do you like it" is kinda irrelevant because it's not about a "you"... it's just one long infinite flow. Then it's time to descend and you snap back into your head. /shrug

I've also heard astronauts get this a lot and call this the "overview effect" or something like that. Type that into youtube and you'll listen to some people who've been into space talk about it way more eloquently than me, all while streaming earth flybys from that 360-view cupola room on the ISS.
Mozilla should let people buy, say, Tree Style Tab, and split revenue with the author.
This is the first time I've ever run into a book with one of its few translations being Urdu! Wonderful to see that someone translated it, but it's unfortunate that the Urdu version is $33.95. At 4,756 PKR that's prohibitively expensive for people without access to a doctor to buy.
This it's great and I'm looking forward to trying it. I'm currently in Europe and every webpage now pops up a message about using cookies. If they could work out a way to say accept to all these automatically too that would be awesome as well.
Pranking the Bash Binary
You're right. I have posponed writing the privacy policy for a while but I guess the time has come.

I use Firebase Realtime Database as a backend and that's it, there's no other stuff done with the data from my side.

Edit: actually, there's Google and email auth, both handled with Firebase Auth.