skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EDIT: Wow, even back up your points and people still downvote you. Must be a lot of very biased individuals here. Little surprised by that.

This, however, doesn't surprise me.

Living in Toronto, other than very high rent and housing costs, it also seems people are generally a lot happier here, than in Chicago, San Fransisco, or Orlando, where I have previously lived.

The amount of visible homelessness here is a fraction of any of those three cities - 'projects' in Toronto are very uncommon, especially in the city core - very unlike Orlando, where I'd see Disney on one side of the highway, and projects that looked like they were falling apart, decrepit to the extreme, on the other side.

The amount of people on the street in California was absolutely shocking, to someone who spent most of her life in Canada.

Weather aside - Chicago, with a population of 2.7mil, reported 86,324 Chicagoans were homeless in 2017[3], vs. 9200 in Toronto, with a population of 2.9mil[4].

That is, with two cities of very similar population and weather, more than 9 times the amount of homeless folks in Toronto than in Chicago. Backed up by very clear statistics.

Most of us up here are simply grateful not to be in the USA - since Trump, ICE, et cetera - not to mention free health care, here, which Trump made every effort to destroy, and is still vastly expensive[1].

I am extremely grateful I got out of the USA and returned to Canada, where I was born, before Trump got into office.

As a transgendered woman, I'd be scared for my life to live in the USA, virtually anywhere. The gun violence alone is reason enough to stay far, far away, being the #1 country for guns per individual.[2]

I will personally never be visiting the USA again, unless its leadership turns around and starts undoing it's war path on it's own country.

EDIT: Please explain why if you're downvoting me. This is the truth I've seen from my personal experience. I'm not mindlessly hating on the USA - although I am certainly hating on it's pathetic 'leadership'. If I hadn't lived there, and had nothing to compare it to, I'd understand a downvote, but I spent years in that country, and am honestly quite scared of it, and the state it's in - something I am very much not alone in.

I'm mentioning health care, gun violence, shoddy leadership, and homelessness as practical reasons I can see the USA just not even being comparable in terms of quality-of-life - these are facts that can easily be backed up by data I'd be happy to provide.

EDIT 2: I got complaints I was being 'anecdotal', so I have backed up my claims.

Sources:
[1]https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/08061...
[2]https://globalnews.ca/news/2378037/gun-violence-by-the-numbe...
[3]https://www.chicagohomeless.org/faq-studies/
[4]https://homesfirst.on.ca/info-stats
Excellent summary. Almost any social network can be great if you put in some effort in personal curation and filtering. I feel that a lot of people are frustrated because they expect a great experience immediately. It took me a year to get my LinkedIn in good shape.
A software update notice cannot be considered as an ad, can it?
It's a little ironic that his only example of "real" innovation is the moon landing which was a huge government program he certainly wouldn't support now.

I generally agree that current big tech companies don't really do much innovation anymore but I fear that he is just attacking the companies he doesn't like for political reasons but leaves others out.

The whole excessive partisanship sucks. It makes you question the real motives behind good looking ideas and unfortunately these suspicions are often correct.
Because the plane would have certainly then required expensive/time consuming re-certification and expensive/time consuming (for the airlines) retraining of pilots, which Boeing was trying to avoid with the max. Keep in mind, the 737 originally flew in the late 60s. It's obviously now a very different aircraft, but if they were going to go fly-by-wire and require re-certification, they'd have designed a whole new aircraft (something a lot of people would have preferred even before the crashes).

The 373 max was a comparative rush job. When Airbus released the A320neo (the A320 first flew in the late 1980s so already was fly-by-wire), Boeing needed to get a comparable plane out ASAP or else cede several thousands of plane sales to Airbus. There wasn't the time to design a whole new plane, so they pushed the design of the 1960s era 373 as far as they could go. The details of the "risky" changes to accommodate the larger engines (that significantly changed the planes aerodynamic profile) and attempts to compensate for that are already documented elsewhere, but adding fly-by-wire would have only made things more complicated.
> As soon as they’re a bit older, they’ll learn to weld, tend a garden, ...

...until one day they'll learn to say "No Mom/Dad, I'm not interested." I'm not being cynical: children have their own minds and it's a really important growing step to find their own interest at some age.

Well, if your kids are like you, they may have a slightly better chance of liking changing a flat tire than my kids, but don't expect it as a given, and don't be alarmed if they decide shooting a minecraft Youtube video is a better use of their time.
See, I'd consider WhatsApp the closest competitor - it's the most similar feature-wise, and the Signal Foundation is primarily funded by one of the WhatsApp founders.
"Eventually we will run out of things to rip off from Douglas Engelbart"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
I know that I could probably find this out myself but is there a command-line switch that would make the use of unsafe {} a compile-time error? Of course the alternative is just a quick grep for it, but personally I would feel safer if the code did not compile at all in the presence of a compiler switch/flag and unsafe blocks.
and yet when clicking the link, the headline says "Canada’s household debt levels higher than any other country, report says"
> I bought a truck that had the most USA content...a Honda Ridgeline.

Hate to break it to you - but you didn't buy a truck. You bought something shaped like a truck. I personally don't know if I could trust it doing actual truck jobs, if I needed it for that. I don't know how well it would fare if I took it off-road on some of the trails I've been on that can easily break regular pickups and jeeps.

Just something about it being a unibody car-like construction that makes me cringe. Then again, I know there've been other pickups built like this in the past (I know that various manufacturers have experimented with this); plus, the Jeep Cherokee has (almost?) always been of a similar construction (not sure if unibody - but it doesn't have a ladder-frame chassis, but rather front and rear subframes) - and it's known for it's off-road prowess.

Part of my concern on the Ridgeline, also, is that Honda isn't exactly known for its pickup trucks (at least here in the USA), unlike other Japanese brands still on the market - but that's just bias on my part.

That said, I think we're likely to see more unibody pickups along the way, and maybe the engineering of the Ridgeline will help lead that direction. There are advantages to it; I'm just biased toward ladder-frame as that's what I've always considered a real truck to use...
I solve this by using Firefox for all web browsing, and Chrome for gmail/gapps/anything by google.

It sucks that we have to do that, but I can't entirely blame them for making their own products work better on their own browser.
That's an interesting point, because my criticism really is only based on using this for "always on" status detection. I do think it could be an improvement to streaming conversations, especially if you wanted to save bandwidth or have privacy like you mentioned. Maybe even for something like for online school classes?

I read a while back about how for kids enrolled in online classes, teachers had a hard time telling who was being attentive during lectures without streaming video from every single student. This could be a good lower-bandwidth way to ensure kids are actually present, while also acting as a nice anti-bullying measure since they can't be judged on the quality of their real clothes or housing if it's not a real video.
I don't see any of those as reasons to commit dependencies to the same VCS repo your source control lives in.

Your first point is particularly laughable. If your network connection to the internet is down and you're a SaaS provider, you're probably going to need to fix that before you can roll out a fix to your hosted software.

That said, they're all good points to consider when building out a deployment pipeline, and in general mirroring your dependencies is a great idea. But committing a vendor directory is a poor solution/mitigation for most of those risks.
> Open source maintainers need income to fund their work.

lol if you need to make income from your work, don't give it away for free. Should everyone demand getting paid now for working on hobby projects?
That would only work for the .text section. Other sections like .data, .rodata, and .bss need read access because they contain data required for the library to function (global variables, vtables, constants, etc.).
edit: If no air exchange, it dries slower, inviting mold. There is such a thing like an ideal "drying to age" ratio to keep age-related staleness at a minimum w/o having to care for mold. What I mean is, older bread should be drier than fresh bread, not too much, not too little. Correctly kept, it dries out (only after several days) instead of getting moldy.

About your situation: I've to admit that I don't know about keeping bread well in such bad conditions. I'd try a slightly more sealed container, or if that doesn't work, slice and freeze it fresh. Other than that, find uses for dry bread (works perfectly fine in soup, or if white bread, make breadcrumbs etc. etc.).

20% rel. humidity is so low that it is very uncomfortable for humans, even unhealthy for some people. Are you really sure that's your in-house humidity? Outside/inside are often very different, due washed clothes drying, cooking, plants, respiration, and also humidity from the cellars in some buildings.

If yes, and if possible, I'd recommend an air humidifier to get that up to 40% or so. Depending on volume, a $60 unit should be able to do this, even if it will take three weeks until the humidity slowly approaches sensible levels.
Can you please list your definition of "advertising" because it seems to be much more narrow than what I know of.
I presume the user is assuming you could put a tracking pixel in the readme and have it rendered, the same way the build badges work. Github is, of course, one step ahead and hides those behind camo.githubusercontent.com.
As someone who hasn't taken a vacation in almost 4 years... yeah this sounds familiar.

Thankfully I'm ending my current job in a couple of weeks and will take a couple of free months before starting my next adventure.
> That's clear as can be. He's asking the same question I am, how do we get sufficient funding for these projects.

We don't. Only a fool would expect to make a living wage giving something away for free.

From the beginning FOSS has been either interested individuals or employees at corporations with a vested interest. There's no reason we should expect that John Q Developer independently working on a bunch of NPM modules to be compensated by the world at large.
A huge chunk of our economy is real-estate and finance[1], so that's not too surprising. Everyone thinks the path to getting rich is to buy houses / condos. They're in for a nasty surprise I think. It's never a good idea to go crazy leveraging debt. When you combine that with all of the insane student loan debt people go into (I know someone on their 4th university degree!), then it's a recipe for disaster.

https://www.investorsfriend.com/canadian-GDP-canadian-import...
> Gmail was still dog-slow the last time I tried, Youtube can send my fan into a frenzy and Docs is also regularly problematic.

It seems to work fine on my system running Ubuntu 18.04 with ublock origin installed. Which OS are you using?
Well spotted. And that is mostly due to Harper and the Conservatives giving huge tax breaks to the very wealthy, and the super ridiculously wealthy.
In a previous HN discussion about 1.5 years ago[1], someone justified Aadhaar with a 'meta question': "how is a nation state supposed to provide unique identity authentication". I think about that sometimes, because the way this ID was being linked to Indian citizens, based on the threat of everything from our bank accounts to our phones being shut off otherwise, didn't feel very philosophical and meta. This tragedy with the vaccine refusal is another example of how normalizing authoritarian ID systems can harm people. (Facial recognition being used during the protests in Hong Kong is another salient example.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16781301
Apple keeps internal forks of projects where they can do so legally; it helps them prevent leaks and lets them add new features quicker. These changes often do end up getting merged back in, but this is usually after they have shipped.
The extra gluten and the relatively large amount of sugar. That bread is also unusual for not including various enzymes and glycerides.
Ironically, I love that feature and wish I could have it on my other apps, especially on Firefox.

I've fat fingered Cmd-W and Cmd-Q too many times, and while it's easy to restore, it takes a couple minutes, a lot of bandwidth, and spins the CPU to 100% for a while. Which really sucks when you're on battery.
Chrome regularly tries to trick me into logging into my Google account via Chrome. If you try to disable this functionality, updates will include new dark patterns to trick you into logging in anyway. Now if I log into any Google service, Chrome will magically log into my Google account, too. When I open Chrome, I'm greeted with a new tab with a login screen for my Google account.

I don't want to have mess with a bunch of settings just to turn off anti-user features and tracking. I am willing to mess with a bunch of settings if it enhances the functionality of the application I'm using.

Open 'about:config' in Firefox and look at all of the ways Firefox's behavior can be configured. I run my own Firefox Sync instance, because Firefox is just that customizable. Google regularly removes customization options from Chrome. I used to be able to Cast non-HTTPS resources from Chrome, then I had to enable a setting buried in its experimental features to do so. Now the feature is "enabled" in the settings, but after Chrome auto-updated a few times, the feature doesn't work at all.

I can no longer install Chrome extensions from GitHub, even though I could a few weeks ago. Google decides to take extensions off of their Chrome Web Store, and then make it difficult to use extensions they don't approve of.

Firefox uses less memory and CPU than Chrome does, I'm on a MacBook, so anything that unnecessarily drains my battery is a pain to use.
It really is an irresponsible name. Sugar (and more specifically fructose) is easily the unhealthiest aspect of processed food: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjttsybt2NM
It seems like there has been more hype around synthetic biology in the tech press the last year or so, but it still feels like this field is being slept on a bit. AGI gets a lot of press but is at best decades out, however one could argue that the potential (for good and bad) of synbio is close to as large, but the tech is much more real. In many cases it already exists -- we can modify human embryos, the first human study of CRISPR in the US kicked off a few weeks ago -- and in others it doesn't seem too far out

I'm a non scientist and have been excited to learn more about this field, but to find out the most exciting stuff you need to read scientific papers. The details are the coolest parts IMO. A bit of self promo here, but I recently wrote a blog post summarizing a Stanford synbio paper in layman's terms [0].

[0] https://www.baybridgebio.com/blog/synbio-laymans-terms.html
> premium Google customer paying for a service

And what is the best way to become part of such group while at the same time paying as little as possible?

Also, if for some reason Google decides to simply block/ban my account as a whole (so I can't login), how will I be able to contact them in order to even say "hey, I am that premium customer"?

(serious questions, I rely on Gmail and have always been afraid of simply losing it)
It's not that simple, really. Although for some comparisons you are probably correct, in other ways they are a very natural pairing.

For all their differences, in many other ways Canada and the USA are much more like each other than either are like any other country.
Since always? Their core business is developing proprietary software. It's impossible to git clone and say, fix any of the popular complaints.

You might be confused because they build on top of a Free foundation, and do contribute changes back to those layers. But the bulk of their activity is plainly closed, especially the software directly associated with their brands.
I had the same issue until I turned off my ad blocker.
The question is about disclosure.

1) the GP quoted the part about rebooting wipes the malware. But that doesn't matter if the info was taken before the user rebooted. So this comment is really off topic.

2) the GP comment is about letting users be aware so they can help mitigate the problem and assess the threat level. For example, users need to change their passwords. If you've ever worked with any government agency their number one concern is not leak of data, but knowing what leaked (obviously they want to minimize that). Knowing what leaked is extremely important. This is what the comment is about. I don't understand how your comment addresses this.
No ‘gay gene’: study homes in on genetic basis of human sexuality
California and Vancouver has more homelessness because you can survive in the streets with the weather there far easier than Toronto.

It also has a network effect, their friends are out there so they want to go. More homeless people the more community they have and less hassle from the police. Same with drug users, the more junkies around the more drug dealers there will be to serve them. Most of those westcoast homeless areas turn into open drug markets which you wouldn't find in Toronto. A lot of the opioid stuff is coming from Asia so it's possible being closer to the west coast shipping ports attracts more users.
The rising happens later, first we need a god-emperor to rise up and topple the Empire of the Rising Sun... Oh dear.
I have an Android One phone. Not sure if this feature is from the OS or the stock phone app though.
Blocked in Business, South Korean Women Start Their Own
That is what I see as most valuable contribution from Rust.

Even if Rust would fail at large scale mainstream adoption, the fact that the community has pickup up Cyclon and ATS ideas to the point that Swift, OCaml, Haskell, Ada, C++, D, Chapel, ParaSail and eventually other communities started to adopt similar ideas, that alone is a major victory to everyone involved in Rust.
I guess I meant observer nodes, with read-only DB access.
Aside from fingerprinting, what other nefarious uses could this have in theory?
I can't disagree strongly enough.

>Remember, at the end of the day as long as the bot's ranking is close enough to the human grader's ranking, nobody really cares about the internal logic.

This isn't true at all. Imagine you got a B or C on an essay that a human would have given an A to because you wrote it concisely and in plain language, or because you used language that's statistically correlated with being black. Does the fact that this is rare console you? "Sorry, but it's usually very close to the human grader's ranking." Close enough isn't good enough when you get the short end of the stick. "Sorry, you aren't going to get to go to the college you wanted because you use language statistically correlated with poor writing." Or just because you're different, so the statistical correlation doesn't apply to you, you filthy outlier. Just because it's a rare event doesn't make it okay.

In adulthood, this is like hiring or firing for work statistically correlated with good work. Remember when amazon rolled out the resume scorer? [0] Sure it was biased towards women, but it was close enough to human scores, so who cares about the internal logic?

>Grading bots basically rely on these statistical relationships. They're not measuring anything intrinsic to good writing.

At the end of the day, our goal here is to measure good writing. If the bots aren't measuring anything intrinsic to good writing, we shouldn't use them.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jobs-automatio...
More guilds than unions, but yes.
Why? Does a larger population size automatically reduce quality of life?
I understand that Free Software is not concerned with capitalism but that doesn't address the question.

Free Software can still be incompatible with capitalism even if it doesn't address it directly. If you release your software with a Free Software license do you really "own" it in a capitalistic sense? I'm thinking no. As a consequence it's actually hard to make money with Free Software. But that difficulty and lack of ownership hasn't prevented Free Software from thriving, in fact, just the opposite.
For example, closing subtle interpreter patterns or behavior differences that may be used to fingerprinting...
With most leaks (and just assuming this is true, and data has been collected) you get the info to change passwords.
Actually, that idea is pretty interesting--throwing a whole group of people in jail for some trivial amount of time. A symbolic slap on the wrist, but maybe at scale it would actually cause some group shame without resorting to draconian collective punishment.
If you want to thaw it without toasting it, and like me have a crappy toaster where you never can figure out how to heat it enough to thaw without also partly toasting it, I've found that a short time in the microwave thaws frozen sliced bread very well. (Well, frozen sliced wheat bread. I haven't tried other varieties).

If you aren't in a hurry, it also thaws pretty well on the counter. About 10 minutes seems to do the trick.

I wish someone had told me all this a long time ago. For the first 35+ years of my adult life buying bread either meant wasting a lot, or eating a lot more sandwiches and toast than I would have liked.

The other frozen thing I wish I'd known about a lot earlier is microwave "steam in bag" frozen vegetables, such as [1]. They are only $0.78 at my local store, which is way cheaper than the canned vegetables I used to buy, taste way better, and are trivial to prepare (stick bag in microwave for 5 minutes, let stand for 1 minute).

[1] https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Steamable-Mixed-Veget...
Google adds all Android apps with 100m installs to its bug bounty program
When I got my 2001 Xterra it had one of those hideous neon double-din monstrosities of an aftermarket stereo in it. I ripped the entire thing out and replaced it with a cheap amp and bluetooth receiver. Now it's just a blank panel with some USB ports for charging. And judging by the reports in this thread, it's more reliable than a BMW system.
I agree with most of your points, I live in Toronto as well, but in regards to homelessness here I wonder how much of that has to do with climate - warmer cities must attract larger homeless populations I would guess.
I think these issues are a lot more nuanced than that. Maybe I'm completely wrong, but it seems like diseconomies of scale could have an impact on how well the US operates and maybe requires a lot more tax dollars per capita than does Australia for the same things.