skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True for adults too. Once I learned to name[1] some of my cognitive distortions, I became much more relaxed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_distortion
> Just because Assange did one (or more) good things (Collateral Murder) does not make everything else he does, also good.

Who is saying this? It was simply a demonstrable example of why people need the protections we afford the media.

> Assange is not a journalist,

There exists no binary test for "a journalist"/"not a journalist" and by the broadest definition it's not a particularly hard thing to meet. By quibbling over the definition we create wiggle room for the government to decide when someone isn't or isn't a journalist and charge accordingly. We should afford someone like Assange the same general rights we would for a veteran journalist at WSJ or NYT.
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> Chrome is the new IE

Some software houses who supply the company I work for, are refusing to work with anything but Chrome. So it really does seem like the bad old days all over again.
Fun ambiguity in outlaws (verb) versus outlaws (noun) in this headline.
Developers don't need admin rights for much of anything in this decade. No need to bother with that.

Please defend this position.

My experience, mostly with Linux-like tools, is that those tools are built with the assumption they are being used by someone who knows what they are doing, and that they have the appropriate level of control of the machine -- they are tools for professionals to build tools.

If you don't have rights to install or execute them, you're done. You can't make any forward progress.
It's an illustrated guide with real working examples!
I haven't tried the chickpea pasta so I can't comment there, but my wife and I found some edamame (soy) based pasta at Costco that's not bad. It's 7 net carbs for a 2 oz serving and so far I think it's the closest thing to a regular noodle that we've had.
Beginners won't do anything to their images that would necessitate any other format than JPG. Otherwise they wouldn't be beginners. I've now got over a decade experience with Gimp and I still don't need anything other than JPG.
>I haven't met an IT person yet that wasn't as smart as the developers they worked with

You are very, very fortunate.

The standard big-company IT person I see at client sites is not very bright or will-informed.
On that infamous study he used phone calls that had very strange results like doubling number of employees or going to entirely fulltime. When the study was redone with payroll reports, the results reversed - back to the start minimum wage effect.

So then they republished and it was like "well if we only look at this group and we take out these and adjust this number" they were able to recover their results but the data hacking was pretty terrible.

If you ate going to write a study like that, relying on phone data screams bias (and these were two economists that couldn't claim they didn't know better).
I think that this general approach to stemming the buildup of CO2 has amazing promise and makes me more hopeful regarding the future of this plant.

If this reflects the experience of most farmers:

"Hedrick says that in 2018, an American farmer on average lost about $60 per acre before subsidies, and made just $20 per acre after federal subsidies. So, if a farmer can put a ton and a half of carbon in each acre of soil and get paid by Indigo, they could double their profits."

Then it seems that the government could make a big difference with a 25% increase to its subsidy regime, tied to better practices.

That seems cheap compared to a sea wall!
Bastion of Anti-Vaccine Fervor: Progressive Waldorf Schools
I don't know about companies, but the linux kernels is C, git is written in C.
As a correction to the above, I replaced my Pentium 75 with a K6-2 350, which was then replaced with the unlocked Duron.
I’m curious, do people even enjoying drinking nice / real coffee anymore when drinking from Starbucks or have it delivered and sipping it at your desk or in the elevator, or is this just some kind of habit like smoking?

Why not just wash down a caffeine pill with warm glass of water for the kick and move when time pressed?
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My experience doesn't match up with that reality TV anecdote... Assuming there is an actual change, and it's not just scripting and editing, my guess is there are a large number of factors involved, and not simply changing the name.
No child is the same. Timeouts ended up traumatizing our child. Anyway I came across this and started to experiment some of the principles from here https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/03/13/6855333...
Except that Assange isn't a fucking journalist, so...

He is, however, a Russian asset/tool/stooge that used stolen information to help Donald Trump get elected.
> Behind the investigation that led to Wu’s exit—and other such probes across the country—is the National Institutes of Health, in coordination with the FBI. “Even something that is in the fundamental research space, that’s absolutely not classified, has an intrinsic value,” says Lawrence Tabak, principal deputy director of the NIH, explaining his approach. “This pre-patented material is the antecedent to creating intellectual property. In essence, what you’re doing is stealing other people’s ideas.”

Only true if the flow of ideas is in one direction.
When we flew cross country with our baby, a mom and two older kids across the aisle insisted that we give her our baby to hold and at that point we were so frazzled from the screaming and fussing that we acquiesced and they had the baby laughing and cooing the rest of the flight. If I’m being honest I was a little bit hurt.
Sure you can. That's not the point.
It's endemic, and ongoing. 20+ years ago Scott Adams made fun of this obsession in Dilbert. "Oh, they're going to use synergy!"
I think the brain is currently under tremendous evolutionary pressure and is being pushed in a number of directions at once.
Ask HN: What libs/frameworks do exist to detect file content?
I would like to determine the content type of a file regarding technologies/frameworks used. The usecase is to data mine our repositories and find out you is working with e.g. react/meteor/spring boot...

Thanks for your help!
>It doesn't imply that the standards for passing the class were lowered

That's literally what it implies. The curve was relaxed. It became easier to meet the standard of a minimum pass grade for a given level of performance.

> or the performance of underrepresented demographics was lower than non-underrepresented demographics once they enrolled in the course

Nor do I. But lower standards (easier to pass/earn a high grade) implies poorer qualification/ability.

Curves by definition bring up the grades of those who perform worse, without changing how they perform. In this example, if we peel away the euphemism, women were deterred from enrolling because the class was too hard to pass, so it was made easier to pass without changing the content. That does not necessarily mean that the women now taking the course are poor performers, but it does mean that on average the course will be graduating more students who would not have met previous standards.
Thinking that way is a gateway to some very idiotic outcomes. Save your empathy for your loved ones and no one else. You’re probably the kind of person who gets on the city council and constantly votes to expand homeless shelters in the heart of downtown despite the accelerating increase in crime their presence causes.
> Does it actually help you with anything since you can't correct that error on the same filesystem level? Of course not.

Given that I run Time Machine, yes it does: it tells me I have to restore the file from a backup.

I also use SuperDuper to create bootable clones on a rotating set of drives that I take to work for offsite backup, so the file would probably be there as well. (Though this is a bit extreme for a non-geek to do.)
Are we so irremediably used to constant surveillance that the fact that a game would check my heart rate so I don't cheat doesn't trouble anyone?

To the extent that this seems an obvious and non-problematic idea to us?
Hi,

We are currently cleaning up the code and it should be released soon on GitHub if you are interested to play with modifying the experiments described and try your own ideas.
One of my best tools with my toddler is "don't react, respond". My first thought is rarely my best thought, and my reactionary tone of voice is not my most loving and supportive. A kid doesn't need your immediate answer to everything. You can tell them, "let me think about that" and literally take the time to consider your options. Almost nothing is an emergency situation requiring your elevated tone of voice or physically rushing towards them.

Another tip is that if you see your kid either doing or about to do something you don't approve of, you can slowly close the physical distance so that you can intervene in a non-reactionary way.

Lastly, when it comes to predictability, I totally agree with the author. But don't be too hard on yourself. You're going to establish all sorts of bad patterns. Just establish the new pattern, suffer through the couple days of reaction to change, and move forward. My toddler is much better at adopting new normals than I am.

A lot of this I learned from being a classroom teacher and also from listening to Janet Lansbury's podcast (https://www.janetlansbury.com/podcast-audio/).
There is a TV series based on Ian Kershaw's work on Nazi Germany [1]. One Gestapo office had not been able to destroy their records and it was found that most arrests of people were done as a result of them being denounced by their neighbours not by any actions of Gestapo personnel.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nazis:_A_Warning_from_Hist...
I thought that was the joke until I read the comments here and realised there was a full article and Medium actually blocks articles that way now.
I do not think it is impossible, Firefox alone has rewritten several of its major components at least once.

I see it more as a self-fulfilling prophecy and a constant stream of FUD from naysayers whenever such a thing is merely suggested (with popular topics being that it will never be finished, it will not be secure, if mozilla needs $500m/year how mere humans will ever be able to do it, etc).

I think that a lot of people nowadays forget that almost much every single piece of open source tech that existed since the 90s or early 2000s was started by naive young programmers trying to do something (have you seen KHTML's source code in KDE1?) without having assholes telling them they can't do it. Well, ok, they had some, but nowadays they are WAY more numerous and at the past they mostly came from (what was seen as) "evil corporations" so they were more easily dismissed. Today most people in open source (both users and programmers) dismiss most things that do not have some big commercial entity behind them.
I also use gimp for simple "cleanup" tasks and brightness/contrast. I wonder, what is the alternative you are using now, and if it's free like gimp?
Server side Java paid the bills. :-)

And in some ways the industry stopped programming in C as much.
"We believe operating drones after consuming alcohol is as serious as (drink) driving," a Japanese transport ministry official told the AFP news agency.

I'm assuming this is due to translation, surely this is hyperbolic and not serious. I don't think this is a bad law, people should be sober when piloting a drone, but how in any way is a drone comparable to the danger posed by a drunk driver?
Then it means you simply don't deserve freedom. Your failure of being able of logical thinking will be your undoing. The context of this article and comment is that people are being arrested and have their live ruined despite them acting as well behaving citizens. The comment you're responding provides a solution to the problem that merely involves a small inconvenience. You then erroneously that this inconvenience must also apply to you by twisting some words in a way that strengthens you argument. However the thing you have failed at is the fact that your initial situation is in no way comparable with those of drug addicts. Nobody is arresting you because you're a transgender woman. If you want the privilege of complaining about this then the only way to make it fair is by being treated the same way as those drug addicts. In other words you're saying it is illegal to be a transgender woman and the proposed solution of allowing to be one in private would still make it illegal to be one in public. Except we are not living in this world. It's not illegal at all. People might still discriminate against you but this isn't even remotely close to the same thing as it being written in the law.

Also your conclusion at the end is completely wrong. Prison excludes people from society. Letting them exist in society by imposing some rules is exactly the opposite.
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Not the OP of that comment, but I feel the same way.

I use macOS, so maybe it’s different on Windows. A few things bug me, it’s hard to really pin it down. It just doesn’t feel finished. The Save File dialog window feels like it’s from Mac OS 9, or at least its sentiment is. The behaviour is confusing, because if you press cancel, you still end up with a file in you Downloads. It would better if it just dealt with it the way Safari and Chrome do. A lot of the dropdowns and other inputs feel a little old too, everything ends up looking like 2003, which isn’t terrible, but I would imagine it puts people off when switching from Chrome.

The address bar is also very odd, it almost always suggests the wrong thing for me. I’ve adjusted the settings, but even for a site I just visited with the exact name in the page title, I still end up with the search as the default result.
I don't see this as black and white (life either happens or it doesn't at all).

My pet theory is that there have been many places where life took root, in very simple form, but failed to hit the "home run" like the Earth did, because the other factors stifled it.
You can avoid this whole class of problems entirely by simply choosing to be an antinatalist.
Vox's founders are straight socialists. The class seems to be run by a left wing economist with the intent to show off left wing economics. It will be used under the guise of scientific data, but really just an excuse to push newer students in a predetermined direction.
Alternatively, all flying drones have been outlawed in Japan and the country has run out of saki.
Maybe MS wants to reconsider stopping development of Edge. I think it might give them a lot of positive publicity without astroturfing.
I still use PSP 5 to this day, its an amazing photo editor for 80% of the quick image editing tasks I do, and it is self contained in a folder so its natively a "portable" app.
Its funny how I hear that a lot of UFO activity is really just "secret defense projects" that are not available yet, like there is some skunk works out there that is building stuff that is light years ahead of the state of the art. Meanwhile when we look at what the defense department is actually doing, they are building a plane that is trying to be all things to all people that defies the laws of physics with the expected results.
> For me the most jarring thing is how Firefox’s omnibar works. It isn’t good at showing me the sites I’m looking for after typing just a few characters. Instead, it shows absolutely every page I’ve recently visited at one of those sites.

Interesting! I think this may be a case where, over time, as you use a search mechanism, you get used to the kinds of searches that work well with that mechanism. I've had similarly frustrating experiences with Chrome's address bar, which I'm not used to using.

Firefox has a concept of "frecency", a metric that combines frequency of visit and recency of visit to determine what you're most likely to want based on what you typed. (It also gives some preference to the starts of words/domains, and some other heuristics.) However, I can easily believe that before Firefox has enough information, typing at it would produce suboptimal results. That's something worth reporting as a bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Firefox&c... . Please feel free to use any of the text above to help describe the issue, if it helps.

> Another design thing is the amount of information on the default new page has a ton more info than I’m used to seeing (or really want to see).

Complete agreement. I disable the new tab page on desktop, as I really just want a blank page. (On mobile, I find the default new tab page more useful and usable.)
It also seems to me that the possibility of a revolution, in any sense of the word, is getting more and more miniscule, no matter which angle you look at it, whether it's because many people simply don't care or are happy to voluntarily give up private information for diminishing doses of dopamine hits.

The thing about any major revolutionary change is that the initial seed is planted through breaking some kind of law. And if we get to the point where breaking simple laws is impossible because of the near-complete information the state actor has on it's people, things are likely to get worse.

I do see a bleak future ahead. And grim.
The author also waited 25 minutes for a coffe; it takes 2 with a moka, half with a coffee machine.
I’ve never read anything from Naomi Klein (I think she’s biased and opinionated to the point of being unreliable).

I’ve taken this from very slight research and particularly from Russian magazines that were covering the events at the time.

That being said I am no expert. Perhaps you can reply with a well researched rebuttal.
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I'm from Spain actually, but I really don't know the technical differences between the two countries.
I think the narrative would then become “rich and greedy big pharma gets rich selling legal narcotics to addicts”

Why would ?

Look up Purdue Pharma and their colleagues. Pay attention to the shenagigans they applied to get millions of Americans hooked.

Argueably the only difference between that lot and your average street dealer is that the street dealer doesn't buy himself a bunch of politicians.
https://github.com/kengruven/config/commit/6ccbb5b9f445c96ca...
Yes you can. The plugin just needs to be swarm capable.

https://docs.docker.com/engine/extend/plugins_network/
I made a site that curates the best resources to help you make videos
No, that's part of my point. They are potentially extracting more value out of something than they otherwise could have.

Also, surely they love being strewn across the news over this. Good publicity!
> The VPN market is flourishing, many people pay to get into private torrent trackers and rent seedbox to makes sure they can seed as much as they need to stay there.

If there was a legal method which worked as well as the illegal one (including quantity and offline capabilities) and cost the same as the VPN / seedbox, I doubt most would stay with the illegal content.

Many would never switch because they stick with the illegal content for ideological reasons (“information wants to be free”, “I don’t want to give money to The Man”), but those you’ll never get money from either way.

> I believed that argument for far too long, that illegal content would happen less if a good enough service would exist. Netflix happened, it did happen, but then they increased the price just a tiny bit, others subscriptions based content appeared, still freakinly cheap, and more and more people got back to illegal content.

Netflix worked to reduce piracy because you felt they had everything. Now they don’t, and everything is split across several streaming services which you have to pay for individually. For many ex-pirates, it’s gotten to the point where consuming content legally has devolved (again) to be more cumbersome than doing so illegally.
What are the chances I'll end up maintaining intense, unwavering eye contact with someone doing something lewd in half of their screen?
> Although one parent is more consistent about applying them than the other.

I suspect the "good cop/bad cop" parenting thing is inevitable in most relationships (it's certainly the default for me and my wife). It's something we try to be very aware of and intentional about (I think it can be pretty destructive if allowed to go unchecked).

> One thing we’ve learned is that time out with an angry child is not especially effective. So as our kids have gotten older we will have them owe us a time out for when they’re more calm and can actually get something from it.

Our view is that the timeout is most effective when a kid is angry (or in any out of control emotional state). The timeout provides a time and space to get emotions under control, then we can have a conversation with cooler heads about expectations and consequences.
That's some very reasonable feedback. Please consider reporting those as issues (the latter perhaps coordinated with the other commenter's bug report). Emphasize that it substantially affects the first-time user / new user experience; that may help get appropriate attention.
There is a difference between requiring a book and “teaching from” a book.
Backup autonomous system is how Iranians(not Russians or Chinese..) managed to take over and land completely in tact top of the line US drone. Autonomous fool proof weapon system that are actually given freedom to kill things are VERY far away.

I think looking at Russian commitment to EW is one of the possibilities of next step. Imagine war with no gps, barely functional coms etc. Basically go back 40+ years that is war vs adversary with good EW.

Now the counter is killing EW platforms as they necessarily emit.. so emit less or communicate less to not get fixed and pounded into the ground etc.

Manned platforms are not going anywhere any time soon. Humans are just too clever and adaptable
Spinning rotors and likely vector for a bystander impact is from above (i.e. Head)
"not related to coding" and "not related to coding skills" are not the same thing.

Many people can fight through learning enough code to whip out an MVP. But did they do it effectively, or did they spend 3 months doing what most coders do in 3 days? Did they do it well, or is it brittle code that needs major refactoring?

So while you are right that coding has to happen, I stand by the original statement that the mere presence of code does not inspire me to interview the person who created it.
If Google implements something an Apple doesn’t on the iPhone then what?
The entire point of the law is define what is unacceptable behavior. You're reading too much into the comment to the point that it is trolling.
Out of the loop and unable to Google it, but whats the toast tag?
In my case, I get a new prefix every time my router reboots or otherwise loses connection.

Then there's the case of firewall rules. My router gets a new prefix which causes my server to get a new IP, how do I get my firewall (pfSense) to update my firewall pass rules to point to the new IP?

I must admit I haven't tried really hard, so there might be some obvious ways I'm missing.
Let me guess - your country has nukes or is under a formal defence umbrella with one that does.

Mine doesn't have either.
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Well, it annoyed others, that doesn't mean they cannot also appreciate how good GIMP is. It isn't like you can either like ALL aspects of a program or NONE with nothing inbetween.
A real engineer would use no microcontrollers, and leverage the physical properties of the materials at hand to automatically lower and raise the toast. https://youtu.be/1OfxlSG6q5Y
Im aware of the quote. I just think theres more cognitive dissonance than evil. He tells him self that facebook is xyz, and starts to believe it. I do think the force of public opinion has forced him to reconsider some beliefs about everyone being open about everything.