skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is that a disclaimer and why does your comment sound like knocking on something good? If you haven’t watched the documentary “The Internet’s Own Boy” [1], check it out. The amount of harassment (mental and emotional) he faced could also bring most other people to take steps that they never would’ve imagined themselves doing.

It’s very easy to knock down others. But you haven’t lived his life, and you just cannot know how it was for him and what pushed him to take his own life.

Would someone put down any works by Ian Murdock (founder of Debian) because he also took his life?

I find these kind of criticisms, based on some actions of a person who otherwise contributed a lot, very silly and downright insulting in the meanest of ways.

Next time you want to write a disclaimer on Aaron Swartz, you could perhaps describe it as how the FBI and DoJ went too far and killed him in more ways than one.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internet%27s_Own_Boy
Where is the log stored? All I can find online are some instructions that seem out of date as they don't refer to the interface I see (or I don't understand them): "You can inspect telemetry events in the Output panel by setting the log level to Trace using Developer: Set Log Level from the Command Palette." [1]

The "page" in settings consists of just two options, and the complete descriptions of the types of information they collect are "crash reports" and "usage data and errors". That seems the opposite of transparent and granular. Am I missing something?

[1] https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/supporting/FAQ
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Can we tag this with [2014]?
12 rules of life by Jordan Peterson. Also Peterson's YouTube channel has loads of free lectures.
To coat an entire crimescene with synthesized oligos will be prohibitively expensive.
Thanks so much! :-) Ideally, one could state in the URI, how much results one wants back.
I'll admit that the refactored code is actually beautiful in a way. One question I have because my BEAM knowledge is not quite intermediate: does this pattern have a meaningful performance penalty if applied generally across a code base?
I think many here at HN follow Naval. This is not a bad place to admit it.
For those who are unfamiliar with it, ALEC[1] writes far-right and corporate-friendly laws, then tries to get state lawmakers to pass them. It's more or less a lobbying tentacle of Koch Industries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_...
> The Intercept was widely criticized when computer security experts discovered that the document included nearly invisible yellow “printer dots” that track exactly when and where it was printed, which most modern printers add to every document that gets printed. While there’s no evidence that these printer dots contributed to Winner becoming a suspect (the FBI’s affidavit says she was one of only six people who had printed this document, and the only one of those who had email contact with The Intercept), they could have aided an investigation, and The Intercept, as its editor-in-chief acknowledged, should have taken greater care to remove this metadata before publishing the document.

> That is because it is not only common but ethically required for a journalist to do everything possible to protect a source from detection.

I feel like my eyes just rolled out of their sockets. everything possible? sure -- how about not even running the story at all?

in this same article they quote snowden on how a real journalist would have thought about reality winner: “Bob Woodward stated publicly he would have advised me to remain in place and act as a mole.” imagine what the intercept could have learned by establishing a relationship with reality winner instead of rushing out a big nothing of a story for clicks, assisting a young person in ruining her life in the process. making it seem like the yellow dots were somehow the problem with how the intercept handled reality winner is nothing but a gaslight campaign.
Haven't tried BATS before, but it sounds like the missing part of our bash codebase, which I am currently mostly skeptical of because it isn't unit tested.

I'd fear though that having BATS would just increase the tendency to let a bash script grow from 50 lines through to 200, when it should've just been ported to Python at 100.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_directly_imaged_exop...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_detecting_exoplan...
A 2019 Guide to Human Pose Estimation with Deep Learning
What you actually want is to break the universe. It is physically impossible to revoke information unless it happens by a strange coincidence.
24x7, you emit information that races away with the speed of light. You can't chase it down. Physically.

On the other hand, if you can decide which information stays, you essentially own the system.

So, given the project's mission, I guess it is a requirement that information stays online as long as someone somewhere is willing to keep it.
Sometimes, those who suffer the most have the most to teach the rest.
And the facts would also show that it was only just recently that Canada was the last G7 country to pass laws preventing insurance companies from doing it. And if you also read more on the topic it is suggested that as genetic testing becomes cheaper and more reliable perhaps in the future this topic will need to be re-examined. So I stand by my gut and it says I would rather keep my dna private. Just in case they change the law in the future.
I think this is why OSS helps to reduce fud. Clearly showing the source that produces telemetry and providing a district that doesn’t use it, and can clearly be built for source is the best way, I think, to reduce fud. MS gets more than others because of their history and size.
Not exactly technology theft, but one example which comes to my mind is illegal clinical drug trial on population in developing countries like China and India. It still benefits Western/colonial powers (drug companies). Not that it makes the hacking ethical but still somewhat 'fair'.
Are there example applications with some complexity on GUN?
Are there any articles out there that give advice on choosing/adjusting color maps for a particular situation?

I understand why some maps are awful, but have had a hard time finding a color map which I like perceptually for interpreting LIDAR forest canopy maps.

I've tried using viridis and a few others, but exceptionally tall trees get lost in the noise (not enough contrast), especially when using transparency to overlay canopy height on the LIDAR intensity data.

Is this just a case of not clamping the ends of the range properly?
I mean, I can definitely see “all other apps” being collected as a way to check if there are apps conflicting with or interfering with VSCode. Maybe it’s only collected for a small subset of users with particular issues - but it would still be tempting for a dev to try and collect.

I can also see them collecting code searches done within the app as a way to check if their search system is working well for real use-cases.

Neither is outside the realm of possibility - you just have to put yourself in the mindset of a dev who is assigned to track down a rare crash or to “improve the search experience” who might want a little more data to work with.

Not saying I agree with any of this collection - it’s terrible and definitely falls under “the road to hell is paved with good intentions”. Companies should be extremely clear about what they will and won’t collect - and never cross the line even if it would be useful.
Tracking should always be opt-in, not opt-out. I base this on expected user preference and trying to optimize for user happiness and functionality. I don’t think this is as true for non-OSS software where the purpose is likely more toward revenue generation than community and user functionality.
I'd assume you'd want ゅ andっ to be added to the kana they're attached to, and then sorted. I'd want my き and きゅ together and び and っび together.
It clearly states in the article that though VSC is open source and you can build it from source, there are opaque components that are part of the VSC installer. The article claims that the installer installs telemetry systems, though they can be opted out of. However, the project owners do not trust Microsoft to honor the 'opt-out' part if not now then in the future.

So they have created a fork of the project.
Ketamine is an NMDA antagonist, and there are other drugs in this class being developed as antidepressants. AXS-05 was granted "breakthrough therapy" status by the FDA and combines the NDRI bupropion with dextromethorphan which has effects similar to ketamine's. We really are in exciting times for antidepressants.
My friend used to go thru exercise books that made her copy sentences. She finished many of them. Yes, over time her writing improved. Bottom line you need to practice. But you need to focus on what you are doing and decide what you want to improve. Your goal is quality over quantity.

You can search for the worksheets online. Commit to doing it every day for a few months and see how you improve.
AFAIK we haven't seen it in the wild, only found the option codes - and only for Models X and S.
It's pretty hard to avoid the reactionary politics when consuming Peterson, but if you can yeah you get mostly tried-and-true basic self-help advice.
Well there’s this thing in statistics called “seasonality”...

I guess it manifesta very strongly in the JavaScript community given its propensity for framework fads (LOL)

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Ohana, private social network for families (Alpha)
Jordan Peterson's Maps of Meaning, 12 Rules for Life, and his many tens of hours of content on YouTube.

If you're willing to entertain the idea for a brief moment that the Bible has any wisdom at all, his Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories is a must. I recommend them even if you aren't willing, in fact. They converted me, and i was a fairly nihilistic atheist for almost all of my thinking life.
It's a skill that you develop. Like bodybuilding or anything else where you can physically see differences, some people will have natural dispositions towards certain directions, but that's like, responsible differences at the .1%. It's a skill, like math aptitude, or abstract thinking. If you do it a lot, you will develop it.
Hackers publish data on thousands of US police officers and federal agents
You're supposed to check the digital signature after downloading the install image. Other than that, it's the same as Linux. Windows has a lot of "unknown stuff too", but you can actually research the source code for OpenBSD if you're worried.
Yes, this is the safest option because of how much it helps with sleep and how much breastfeeding it facilitates. The (sober) mother effectively cannot roll on the baby.

Pediatric associations mostly don’t like it because it seems improper or too slum-like to share a bed with a baby. The opposition to cosleeping isn’t based on actual relative danger or long-term outcomes.
It's not really the architects' fault if their clients don't want free enjoyment of the space by the public.
> This is mostly meant for neuroscience research in animals.

Exactly! And thank you, nice summary.

It should be noted, with respect to other comments here as well, that in animals the cranial vault re-closes 4-8 weeks after a craniotomy/craniectomy (rats). Dead neurons basically never grow back. Hence 'minimally invasive' refers to the attempt to minimize the brain insult and injury.
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What is the crucial difference between a popup saying "would you like to opt in?" and popup saying "would you like to opt out?"
Really?

I'm not saying AWS doesn't offer anything over bare servers, but do people think it's a Hubble to their home printers?
William Shakespeare's London home 'identified by historian'
Console.lol
What Does Alan Kay Use in Lieu of PowerPoint?
If you already know all the usual advice or don’t think highly of them, try the graduate level works of Kapil Gupta.

- kapilguptamd.com

- He appeared in a few episodes on 33voices podcast

- two recent appearances in Crazy Wisdom podcast with Stewart Alsop
> They're now buying the loyalty of other countries, turning them into vassal states.

This isn't a new strategy. I think the main difference in perception in this case is that it's not us doing it.
Metaphor and stories, yes. Myth, no.

The horrific and abominable philosopher Nietzsche said that after the death of God would follow the death of truth, and truth would be replace by the era of myths. So instead of truth that the universe is orderly and lawful we would have the myth that science is going to answer everything. Myth is evil and destructive. It is the opposite of truth and the tour-de-force of solipsism.
The core argument of the article is not that Buddhism was either a unique spur to warfare or the specific source of obedience.

It does try to argue that, over and over.

The article is about how Zen has at various historical moments, despite core anti-violence Buddhist beliefs, been used to justify and excuse violent acts, or even be directly referenced in learning martial killing arts. Then the question is: How has a deeply anti-violence religion found pro-war or pro-violence logic when in those contexts. The author looks for explanations of this contradiction in the Taoist elements of Zen.

Buddhism is not a deeply anti-violence religion -- that is a complete misrepresentation on the part of the author. The reason is, yes, to be found in the Taoist elements -- in that, the author is correct.

I think the question is more similar to: Christianity has explicitly stated principles of non-violence and against killing, yet has also been used at historical moments to justify holy war, during WWII did not prevent (some) German churches from aligning with Nazism and violent anti-Semitism, etc. What are the historical philosophical strands in Christianity that have allowed it (sometimes) to be used to justify acts that would seem to be in direct contradiction to its core.

This is a great parallel -- it is a similar argument. It is similarly misguided. No religion that is non-violent would have survived for very long; but neither would a religion have survived for very long if it was much inclined to violence. From a marketing standpoint, the non-violent parts sell better, so people talk about those. The violent parts are kept closer to the chest. Sometimes they get out of hand.

If we accept for the sake of argument that a religion offers a perfect and complete teaching, it doesn't mean people can't mishandle it from time to time. A religion and its handling are indissoluble. Sometimes, this aggregate is in the wrong. We should try to learn from this and do better, which is to say: we should add to the historical strands, not subtract from them. This is the essence of religion.
I completely agree and I’m in the same boat (I’ll continue to use VS Code).

That being said, it’s somewhat amazing we are now in a time when a Microsoft product could have aspects users don’t approve of and rebuild it without it: everyone wins.
This doesn't echo public sentiment at all. Many are critical of the way implementation has happened, whether for or against (at least in Ontario, the most populous province and the one I base everything that follows on).

Those who are 'for' are upset about the supply issues that have occurred with the legal supply being limited (long delays), more expensive and often poor quality (moldy).

Those who are indifferent are annoyed they have not offered any incentive to municipalities to allow stores (no share of taxes, no increase to enforcement budgets, no ability to control, limit or place restrictions on store locations) and made prices high making thus causing no reduction of the black market.

Those who are 'against' think private businesses selling weed will increase sale to minors and just generally make a bunch of moral panic arguments.
Co-sleeping is basically at the very top of the list of things "they" say YOU SHOULD NEVER EVER DO, OR YOU ARE A TERRIBLE PARENT. So I don't think its fair to recommend it as an alternative to pretty much any other sleep contraption.
The Americans with Disabilities Act, which can be used to sue developers of inaccessible websites, has made it clear that in some cases serving the majority can be a bad thing.

Less severely, there's an awful lot of long tail business productivity served by obscure software features that is very difficult to satisfy with modern hyper-engagement-optimized tools.
If you are writing more than 10 lines of bash, write python instead.

Awful language. Waste of time.
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl is a quick book that goes into how we internalize meaning that drives happiness from purpose that helped me figure out this out better than many other “journey > destination” books.

Bed of Procrustus by Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a bunch of quick aphorisms that takes less than an hour to read and gives good insight into Taleb’s form of critical thinking.

Between the Devil and the Dragon by Eric Hoffer has essays from a self-educated, laborer philosopher and has helped me to understand much about how I think through things and why.
Following a strict list of guidelines that ensure the infant is in the most uncomfortable position imaginable, making absolutely certain that they are physically incapable of falling asleep.

( without first screaming until 4am)
User perception of a default state.
Agree that it comes down to CSS (Box Model + Flex + Grid) vs Cassowary. I've never used it myself, so thanks for chiming in.

My understanding of it mostly comes from this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13125093) where the ReactNative team first attempted using Cassowary as their layout engine, but deemed it too complex/verbose and decided to use a subset of CSS. But as someone with actual comparative experience with both, would appreciate if you can tell me your thoughts on their conclusions.
Thanks for the explanation.

I thought it's just yet another "YouTube with no ad" app, guess I was wrong and it's more than that!
You can use CSS grid just fine, it landed it the three major browsers at the same time. Only older IE will give you trouble, funny enough, because they were first to implement grid layouts.
Note to self: Don't ask rhetorical questions on HN.
Why is it not possible to build VSCodium in a reproducible way? Does it download packages while building?
Well, why not? A bunch of people here are more than happy to defend Microsofts tracking. If telemetry really isn't a big deal, make all that data public. It's our data anyway, collected from how we use their software.
I heard on I think Malcolm Gladwell's podcast (and he's hardly infallible and this is second hand so grains of salt and all that) that women tend to harass other women more often when they are underrepresented or subordinated in the group.

The context was a diversity hiring push that put a few women in otherwise primarily male offices across the country and saw disappointing results. The idea was that when women (or any minority group) are outnumbered, they will try to defy expectations and stand out by adopting the social habits of the majority and will compete with each other for ratification.

And that makes some amount of sense to me, like when a gay man reassures us that he's conservative and subtle and a good dinner guest and not like those oversexed deviants that march in the parades. He's forsaking others in his minority group to get in the club.

But it's a thin line. I don't mean to take the position that anything bad that women do is always the fault of men. It's just hard to suss out something this complicated.
In theory, it kind of is: as far as I’m aware, which I haven’t delved deeply into it so grain of salt time, but it doesn’t send data until you make that decision. And it isn’t like you have to dig for it: it’s presented to you explicitly. Yeah, it asks if you wish to opt out of “making the product better” or whatever the verbiage, but I don’t think it is going to confuse many. Especially within the target user demographic.
No it isn't. Weed went from a thriving grey market to a black market.

What changed is the government is now acting as a cartel for a very small number of companies who are allowed to sell legally. The legal companies are not meeting demand in any way comparable to pre-legalization. Prior to legalization we had a thriving free market the government wasn't getting a cut so there was no incentive for the laws on the books to be enforced. Now there is. The government makes money from weed sales so they have incentive to use force against those who are meeting the needs of the market.

Nothing got safer for the public. Its just now very risky to sell weed. Screw everything about how the government legalized weed in Canada. Its exactly as it was before except now the big companies have the RCMP as their enforcers to use against their competition.
thank you :) I'm glad to hear that you managed to find ways to help you out! I've been dealing with these small things for years but never quite worked out how to handle them - it's amazing how much just chatting about it to someone can help so much
I hated Perl until I had to do Bash scripting.

I must apologize to Perl. I see now where it was coming from [1], and what it saved us from.

May god have pity on your soul for inflicting us with this.

[1] There are lots of quirks in Perl that I now recognize come from shell scripting. Most obviously, $VAR notation and string quoting.
Are you serious? That website looks like total bullshit.
So is Lemonade (house insurance app)
The idea of a massive pop hit being about male commentary about female achievement was very intriguing.

So I actually looked up the lyrics and I am pretty sure it is about a breakup.
And bourne shell server pages https://web.archive.org/web/20170208092035/http://hyperrealm...
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I think the reason for using /30s instead of /31s is mostly legacy. It's a 19 year old standard and most vendors support it.

Regardless of the point-to-point subnet used for the local peering connection, it's interesting that that many /30s have leaked into the default-free zone. BCP 194 recommends filtering IPv4 prefixes longer than a /24.
Why not OCaml or Rust?
Yeah, my mind initially read the title as 'legal pot isn't going well for Canada', then I realized what it actually said and was confused. The physical storefronts in Ontario have been a mess, with some areas, like Ottawa getting 3 stores, with most of Ontario not having anything and a lot of people don't want to buy online. Though I don't really think it's a big deal at this point, it's new and going through lots of bumps now, but overtime will work itself out.
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> My rule of thumb used to be if I have more than one "if" in a shell script then its going to python... But now its any ifs or variables

Hmm. I have a slightly different view. If logic is complex, then it should be moved to a different language. But if there are a lot of flat if statements then shell is fine.
See 20 Years of Fake News about EU by UK Press
Understanding when not to std:move in C++ – Red Hat Developer Blog
I’d been a keen user of this until a while ago when they completely overhauled the UI in a way I couldn’t figure out all, when I abandoned it.
My favorites:

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

How to win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie
> PHP consistently deprecates old features at a steady, manageable pace

Manageable is subjective. There's no evidence that it's "just right" or even "timely". Major API cleanup would be appropriate for php 8 but there's still too many people clinging to the idea that PHP would be damaged because someone can't look up how to solve PHP problems with specific versions (ie are stuck in the late 90s).

There's so much that could be done in one fell swoop, the steering council of neckbeards (PHP neckbeards are as bad as it sounds) are responsible for the stunted development of the language. To suggest they are the progressive face of PHP is, at best, revisionist.