skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, sounds like a non-reason, my user CSS was like 5 lines.

I'll have to run an extension that will be injecting JS/CSS into every page, to get the same effect. That will likely be slower. Not a speed improvement exactly.

At least it's more powerful. I can replace any rule inside already loaded CSS. Useful to escape this braindead age of "font-size < 16px && font-weight < 400".
> There was a NASCAR driver a couple of years ago who lost his sponsorship because of something his father said before the driver was even born.

In case anyone was curious, this appears to be referring to Conor Daly, as described in the following article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/sports/autoracing/conor-d...
I am trying to think of valid reasons why someone would use FreeBSD in this day and age as a desktop. I'm not being snarky, I'm genuinely curious.

I used FreeBSD a TON from around 1998-2004 or so. I did it because I could configure an environment to develop in that ran fast on the hardware.

At some point the type of development I do (Web) really took off on Linux and OSX so I drifted that way.

I'm going to spin up a VM of FreeBSD just to check it out, but why are folks using it as a Desktop these days?
If you look at it this way, then the computer manufactures are to blame, and you should be refunded by them.

That's the same as buying a car from CarCompany(TM) with an A/C and a Android Car touchscreen interface/radio/..., and an automatic android updates disables your A/C and changes the engine paramters so you have 20hp less... wouln't you expect "them" to fix it? As a consumer, you shouldn't have to worry if it's googles fault or CarCompanies(TM) fault, you should be able to take it to the dealer and have them fix it or give you a refund, or atleat 'do something'?
Isn't that what Waze does? It recommends uncongested streets.

And designed for isn't just about width and capacity. Its about robustness. There are many ways to build a road. Residential streets are built with less underlayment, cheaper surfaces. Because they will last for decades with low traffic. Burden them, and they'll collapse under the load.
You are literally correct, but that doesn't answer the question at all.
Thanks for sharing your experience. That sounds brutal and I hope you're on the mend now!

I had heard on a podcast[1] about the Ensure thing quite awhile back, and I asked an MD acquaintance about it before I posted to make sure I wasn't about to post "fake news." The acquaintance is the one that then mentioned the appetite-inducing drugs. They're not an oncologist though so it's possible they're not up-to-speed on current practices, or more likely I misremembered their exact wording and they may have been referring to anti-nausea meds in the first place.

[1]: I think it was the Peter Attia Drive podcast with guest Dr. Rhonda Patrick
The honest truth is that you shouldn't. People treat memory like a video recording. It is more like a play that is reenacted every time you remember it, where props are pulled out of storage but sometimes the wrong prop is pulled out and yet nothing feels wrong. For example, maybe you remember the day you lost your keys and found them between the pottery. What exactly did that pottery look like? Pull the pottery prop out of storage, which is based off of the most recent memory of there being only two pots. You now have a memory of finding the keys between your two pots.

Happen to find a third pot that went missing and place it back on the stand? Next time you remember the incident with the keys, the pottery prop pulled out is the one involving 3 pots. So you clearly remember finding your keys between three plots.

Well what about the old memory? You pull up the memory of a memory, but each memory is generated with props and there is a chance you end up remembering your original memory had 3 pots as well.

The more trivial the detail, the more likely you'll only keep around the most recent prop only and thus have a false memory. There is a lot of psychological research into people watching cars driving where the psychologist then falsify memories of the vehicles (something that is never called out as being worth remembering at the start of the experiment). It works decently well in adults. It works horrifyingly well in kids.
> This ignores the potential drastic reduction of space allocated for parking

How so? If you mean because of more car sharing, I don't think that's going to happen. Most people would still want their own car. If you mean because of being able to let the car park itself outside the city, or even drive home: That would drive up cost for the owner and reduce convenience (having to "order" it 30 minutes ahead of time). In addition, it would worsen congestion on streets due to cars moving more.
Why aren’t customer analytics companies letting you connect to your data
the new tab page is the first thing i replace after installing ublock origin:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/yet-another-s...
Overpopulation is a myth, and a short-sighted one at that. The fact is we don't use the space we're given (Planet Earth) in an effective way for the technology of our time. Some people are forced to live in cities in a box that's too small, while others are forced to live on farms in a box that's too big. We don't need less births, we need a better and more efficient way of handling the births that we have, and the ability to handle more.
I never tried to imply that running one distribution implies any kind of supremacy, so I do apologize if I came across like that.
My opinion that Manjaro provides bad software stems from two things - my short experiences trying to set it up to test userland things that did not work correctly on Manjaro and a significant amount of bug reports coming in from Manjaro when compared to other distros. But this being Linux, it's feasible that you've had a much better experience with Manjaro, and since I don't have any good statistical data about the bug reports I am aware of, I'll concede that is is just a fluke. However, the packages do seem to lag behind by quite a bit.
I'll have to disagree that the current installation wiki is worse than the beginner's guide - it might containt irrelevant things, but that is only because there isn't one correct way to install Arch, and most of the duplication stems from different filesystem setups and different bootloaders. It's not meant to be read as prose, but the original beginners guide wasn't either, since it too had a lot of duplication of steps to deal with the multiplicity of installation options.
These settings (in about:config) makes font rendering look near identical to Chrome for me:

gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.enhanced_contrast = 0
gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode = 5
gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_for_families = ""
I love how people are going to argue socioeconomics for days for some fridge running on a generator 13 years ago which has likely gone out by now or replaced or not even a thing anymore.
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I can't provide exactly what you're looking for, but I would disagree with outright repetition as a means of learning to do any kind of writing. If you repeat bad practices due to inexperience you will be training to a bad job with confidence. Hemingway said that being a good writer means being a dedicated reader and that reading is the activity of training to write (heavily paraphrased from A Moveable Feast). If you want to write good technical documentation, there is nothing that will prepare you as well as experiencing the difference between good and bad examples. If you can get your hands on some real-world examples of what you want to write then you will develop a critical eye as you read them. I am sure that there are some that would make you eager to throw your money in the ring and there are probably some that would embarrass you if you were a part of the pitch.

For a more minute suggestion, look into cognitive ease and how it is affected by language (Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman is a personal and HN favorite). If you are trying to be persuasive, don't use weird words like people do when they are writing their first resume, forgo words that you have trouble pronouncing and use jargon judiciously to inspire a positive and confident reaction.

Also, here's a Quora thread[1] that suggests the exact opposite approach and also gives a book recommendation. While I disagree with that advice it may not matter because, as pointed out there, these documents are proprietary.

1. https://www.quora.com/Where-can-I-view-real-world-business-p...
More Reliable Webhooks with Queues
no docker support on *BSD unfortunately :|

...this can be a show stopper
Video evidence is going to be inadmissible very soon.

It's ironic that we're essentially being pushed back to a pre-technology, pre-media time. "If you didn't see it with your own two eyes, you can't believe it"
> Your sweeping generalization is not just wrong but unnecessary. We're talking specifically about Zimbabwe, so all that matters is what is common in Zimbabwe and not what other countries do or do not do.

I wouldn't be so hard on the grandparent. Cunningham's Law states "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."

My understanding is that stores do not offer credit to whoever just shows up. You need to build credibility or at least knows someone who knows the store keep.

I imagine if I were a shopkeeper and I had a choice between selling on credit to random people vs throwing something away, I'd probably throw it away or if I sold it, I'd want to mark it as money I won't get. I don't know why some random person would come back to me to repay me. Not that I know anything about Zimbabwe (my only interaction is with people who fled the country so I acknowledge my perspective is probably biased hence I won't try to make further sweeping generalizations about the government there).
I know that DARPA is one Govt. agency in USA looking at this from the disinformation & media forensics standpoint:

https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2019/08/darpa-taking-d...

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/30/deepfakes-fake-videos-darp...

...The consensus seems to be that ongoing detection is going to be a challenge as the tech evolves. I suppose that is like anything though....
It _really_ bugs me that pocket isn't packaged as a pre-installed extension, that you can uninstall normally.
For some measurements: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429522#c45
You're better off setting it to "5". From https://wiki.mozilla.org/Trusted_Recursive_Resolver :

"Set `network.trr.mode` to 2 to make DNS Over HTTPS the browser's first choice but use regular DNS as a fallback (0 is "off by default", 1 lets Firefox pick whichever is faster, 3 for TRR only mode, 5 to explicitly turn it off)."
> This ignores the potential drastic reduction of space allocated for parking, including space that is already part of roadways.

Except that if a car isn’t in a car park then it’s on a street moving (circling, going to pick up a passenger, etc) and contributing to congestion (maybe more so for that reason as some other articles have speculated). So basic geometry of road capacity still applies.
> The Block Autoplay feature is enhanced to give users the option to block any video that automatically starts playing, not just those that automatically play with sound.

Good. I know a news website that was on purpose disabling sound on videos to prevent that. So not only does it autoplay, you need to click to unmute anyway to actually hear it!

Why do news websites want to shove autoplaying videos on people's throats so much, what's wrong with playing at any time when you want?

And why do news websites even care about doing shoving it to the small percentage of people who actually bother to disable autoplay in their browser?

P.S. I already had autoplay for videos without sound disabled through about:config flags, but some videos managed to autoplay anyway. I wonder if they also fixed that issue, or simply made the about:config flag part of the settings dialog.
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That's not true globally. Even Japan is starting to look at their border gates and go "hmmmmm".
maybe it should be blocked by default, then one can "whitelist" domain.

My fingers are itching to ban some sites... such as cnn.com, dailymailco.uk
This is very, very similar to what Yhat (YC W15) did.

You dropped some code in your Python or R project and it would slurp everything in to one package and, for Python, run it in Flask in a docker container using their home-grown container orchestrator.

https://www.welcome.ai/tech/data-science/yhat/
> the vaunted self-driving car, as imminent and yet illusory as nuclear fusion, will not transform the basic geometry of road capacity

I'm not so sure about this. I've generally been someone with a lower tolerance for a long commute than the average person. Usually I've lived within a 20 minutes walk from my job. My wife and I have had flatmates for 4 out of our 5 years or marriage. I decided 2½ months ago that it was worth moving farther out in order for my wife and I to get more privacy. A big reason for this was that a friend who lived in the area told me that he usually got a seat on the line into central London. Indeed, having figured out an ethical way to always get a seat, my commute is significantly improved by my newfound ability to get into a writing habit.

If driverless cars or driverless double-decker busses become widely available and many people have the ability to get one-shot commutes, then I suspect that more people will ride them.
Linux came after the BSDs, so you would think the BSDs would have won.

There are many reasons Linux-based systems are generally much more popular than the BSDs in the server and workstation spaces. Here's why I think that happened:

* GPL vs. BSD license. Repeatedly someone in the BSD community had the bright idea of creating a proprietary OS based on a BSD. All their work was then not shared with the OSS BSD community, and the hires removed expertise from the OSS BSD community. In contrast, the GPL forced the Linux kernel and GNU tool improvements to stay in the community, so every company that participated improved the Linux kernel and GNU tools instead of making their development stagnate. This enabled the Linux kernel in particular to rocket past the BSDs in terms of capabilities.

* Bazaar vs. Cathedral. The BSDs had a small group who tried to build things elegantly (cathedral), mostly in "one big tree". GNU + Linux were far more decentralized (bazaar), leading to faster development. That especially applies to the Linux kernel; many GNU tools are more cathedral-like in their development (though not to the extent of the BSDs), and they've paid a price in slower development because of it.

* Multi-boot Installation ease. For many years Linux was much easier to install than the BSDs on standard x86 hardware. Linux used the standard MBR partitioning scheme, while the BSDs required their own scheme that made it extremely difficult to run a BSD multi-boot setup. For many people computers (including storage) were very expensive - it was much easier to try out Linux (where you could dual-boot) than BSDs. The BSDs required an "all-in" commitment that immediately caused many people to ignore them. I think this factor is underappreciated.

* GNU and Linux emphasis on functionality and ease-of-use instead of tiny-ness. GNU tools revel in all sorts of options (case in point: cat has numerous options) and long-name options (which are much easier to read). The BSDs are often excited about how small their code is and how few flags their command lines have... but it turns out many users want functionality. If tiny-ness is truly your goal, then busybox was generally better once that became available circa 1996 (because it focused specifically on tiny-ness instead of trying to be a compromise between functionality and tiny-ness).

Some claim that the AT&T lawsuit hurt the BSDs, but there was lawsuit-rattling for Linux and GNU as well, so while others will point to that I don't think that was serious factor.

Here's one article discussing this:

https://www.channelfutures.com/open-source/open-source-histo...
I feel like preserving ice over long periods of time has become a bit of a lost art, but before mechanical refrigeration, ice was sent extreme distances by ship and rail and stored for months at a time, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_trade
Graphene-based fabric protects against mosquitoes
Nothing. China has been fooling its people by redirecting its inner conflicts to foreign countries. Whenever there is a protest, the government will create conspiracies that foreign governments were behind them. They justify their ruling by saying they are the defenders against foreign invasion. Stay out of it. Don’t give them excuses for what’s happening. It will collapse from the inside.
It has to have been showing up in profiles for them to bother, nobody would go out of their way to disable it otherwise. They added a pref to turn it back on and then disabled it instead of the easy thing (just removing it) which is some engineering effort plus testing effort to make sure the pref works right. Silly to do that for nothing.

Antivirus software does add a measurable delay to file operations sometimes, and each file is gonna be in its own sector so I could see them losing at least a few milliseconds there. Applying CSS does add overhead but the average user can't have that many rules in there so I suspect it's purely on the file i/o level.
What changed in terms of the difficulty of stepping dc voltage up/down, and how recently? Just curious, that sounds neat.
Not trying to be rude, but have a real question. Why do you feel that it's ok for you to cut Rover out of the deal? Disintermediation is always mentioned in these sorts of conversations. I'm interested to understand how people justify it.
Yess, "sane" is context-specific, but it's useful to err on the side of more security and less performance, rather than the other way round.
It'll be the same as anything else. An approach to fake something will be created. Then an approach to identify the fakes... and repeat.
I wouldn't say I'm a mechanical keyboard expert in the sense that I personally spent months assembling and disassembling a few of them while putting on custom switches and all of that but I have used (and listened) to a few of them in situations where it was in a controlled environment (I know what the room is like, the mic used, positioning of everything, the switches, etc.) and I haven't found any mechanical keyboard / switches that were quiet enough for me on video based on what I heard.

Do you have a high end recording set up? A good mic, boom stand, etc.? It would be curious to hear your set up on how it comes off on video when typing at your max WPM.
This is so cool! Man I really miss developing B&W film in a darkroom in high school. Probably super toxic but man was it fun.
no, decreasing by 3 is `a - 3`

decreasing by factor of 3 is `a / 3` or `a * 0.(3)` or `a * 33.(3)%` or `a - a * 66.6%`

edit: math is hard!
I wonder what this implies for the future of media (audio, photos, video) in general? Do we only consume media that has been signed by the creator and verified by an authority that we trust, e.g., a "blue checkmark" for media? Do we know how effective the SSL certificate verification has been in browsers at influencing consumer behavior?
Can just pay for land near Reno to do it, next to Tesla.
Wait, this is a one shot? The poster is cherry picking results, right?
couldn't agree more. the Intellij fanatics have the strongest religion at least in my experience
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my humble guess is that the genie is out of the bottle: the vast majority of these LA drivers are daily commuters. now that these drivers are used to taking these routes, most of these residential neighborhoods will remain saturated permanently. removing the routes from Waze won't relieve much traffic pressure.
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