skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it is worth in the UK in a lot of high-street opticians they will sometimes try the hard-sell after the exam too. They also recommend that you get it checked every 12 to 24 months as well (at least they suggest that to me).

After the exam ends its somtimes "Let me hand you over to <person> who will take you through the options" and the next thing you know they are trying to make you look at £350 frames, suggesting exotic coatings to the lenses etc.

You're legally entitled to the results of your exam - you are not obliged to buy from them. The exam itself however is usually free so I guess the psychology of it is you feel like you need to get glasses from them since you got the free eye exam from them.

Personally I usually just say "I am in a bit of a rush - I'll come back at the weekend with my partner to help my choose". We both know I'll never do that :-)

There are places where you can order your glasses + lenses online though. Enter prescription and so long as it looks "normal" (i.e. did you enter it right) there are no questions asked. I've had pairs of glasses that have lasted for several years of use that cost £6.99 (no typo: six ninety-nine) including delivery. (from goggles4u if you are wondering - no connection, just a satisfied customer)
>>it's the right to live freely and pursue your personal life goals; something more akin to "the pursuit of happiness".

I bet that the people already rotted due to his bullets will ask the court for the same rights.
That is true. but my first search is always duckduckgo. Only if that doesn't tell me straight away to I go for a !bang search. The location bar now is filled with a ddg url so easier to just add ! to the search box of ddg.

And as I switch machines, browsers, profiles, and privacy mode all day long the only ubuiqitous thing is that ddg is the default search engine.

I don't use the !w shortcut as usually whatever/whomever I have searched for is in the info box on ddg's right-hand column and it usually has a wikipedia link if I need to get more detail.
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Alternatively, they sell readers because folks can't afford eye exams and/or proper glasses. I'd guess that the majority of people I sold readers to working in retail pharmacy were this group.

All that said, a number of folks were told to simply get some readers by their doctor - because they only needed the glasses for such things. And honestly, if this is what you need, more power to you. I'm of the subgroup that finds readers absolutely useless: I am nearsighted. Glasses help me greatly with night vision, driving, watching TV, and other such things but I take them off to read.

I do agree that folks shouldn't need to update their prescription every year or two, mostly because it is silly. If we want medical checkups for the eyes, then we need to cover the exam as a medical exam through regular health insurance... even if we don't cover the glasses. Of course, I think dentistry should be covered similarly as well.
The RosettaCode versions:

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Man_or_boy_test

"Haskell

Haskell is a pure language, so the impure effects of updating k must be wrapped in the IO or ST monad (...)

On an AMD Opteron 6282 SE (1) using GHC 7.8.2 this program can compute k = 30 in 1064 s and 156.2 GiB. (2)"

"JavaScript

In Chrome we get a "Maximum call stack size exceeded" when a > 13. In Firefox we get "too much recursion" when a > 12." (Note: it should say "k" (the parameter) not "a").

---

1) 16 cores.

2) 156 GB of RAM: "159874 MB total memory in use"
And people "know" not to steal. Yet we need to have laws so we agree on rules and boundaries. You can think of it like a list of rules agreed on early, so the project leaders don't have to go through the arguments about what's accepted after someone crosses one person's boundaries, but not another's.
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A great article on the subject:
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/6/26/how-brokerages-make-mone...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=anarchist+cookbook

You can buy anarchist cookbook and have it delivered in UK, apparently.

2017 a young man was arrested, and tried, for having a copy.

Is the UK a totalitarian state in your opinion?
> Sorry, but do you actually believe this?

I believe it to the extent that if the person "cultivates" GitHub and GitLab profiles, presumably they at least have new releases of interesting features to announce, for whatever software they develop there.
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Google's Threat Analysis Group (Tag) Warns about State-Sponsored Cyber-Attacks
YouTube told me to kill myself after watching the impeachment hearings
There's a lot of talk about planting trees now with TeamTrees and other similar things. I'm wondering what we will do with all the trees then when they have stopped growing and thus mostly stop sequestering CO₂. Trees don't live forever and when they die and rot, they will release the CO₂ back.

We could build things out of the trees and those would last maybe 50 to 100 years more. Or we could encase them in concrete and bury them to prevent rotting. But I don't really know a good solution and I was wondering what people have already thought of it. Or is the plan that we will come up with a solution to that in the next 50 years when the trees grow?
Ikea: now that we have carved up the budget, how can we disseminate the message so that it makes a) employees feel good and b) ensure customers believe we are doing our best. Ideally how are we going to deflect from all our past and ongoing crimes[0][1][2][3]?

Sven Samenström: Oh I know, we just say it's to combat climate change and put a timeline on it so far into the future that nobody will remember this PR piece, and nobody will hold us accountable.

Talk is cheap!

[0] Spies and Racism at Ikea? https://abcnews.go.com/International/ikea-fire-book-executiv...

[1] How Ikea And Harvard Got Tangled In A Corrupt Romanian Land Deal https://www.huffpost.com/entry/harvard-ikea-corruption-roman...

[2] Swedish group IKEA starts exploiting its forests in Romania https://www.romania-insider.com/swedish-group-ikea-starts-ex...

[3] IKEA’s Flat-Pack Tax Scheme: a Corporate Structure Designed to Facilitate Profit-shifting and Tax Avoidance https://medium.com/@jurgeng/ikeas-tax-scheme-a-corporate-str...
Difference Between Hybris and Demandware
This touches on an underrated problem: whatever stack you choose today for your new product is what you'll be locked into for years if your product is successful.

It is almost inevitable that after a few years you'll be dependent on deprecated or abandoned libraries and frameworks.
Disagree with this move. Uber & co. have been a net positive to the country, people and the economy. After pouring billions into creating and proving a market, the government is baselessly capping their earnings.

Here's a fair proposal:

1. Encourage competitors and allow the free market to set prices and revenue shares. A vendor undercutting prices will get higher ridership

2. Prevent price gouging via collusion - do not let the companies cartel up

3. Limiting surge pricing to 2X is the only reasonable policy in their proposal

After all, every stakeholder in this vertical is an at-will participant, with no compulsion to stay if the economics do not work out
They are right there in the court ruling you linked below, in the first sentence of the ruling (starts with "Das Urteil" in German).

The court also detailed the reasoning in the paragraphs below, always referencing the actual laws. Search for "GG", which is the abbreviation of Grundgesetz.
Ooooh wow. This might be enough to get me to use Firefox to develop with. This could be huge for its market share, a big part of the reason chrome was able to become so popular was because of how good its devtools were (compared to the competition at the time).

Firefox definitely managed to catch up but not before lots of devs switched to chrome and stopped checking for compatibility with Firefox.
This is because of the European Court of Human Rights that prevents courts from handing hard life sentences. There must be a point when prisoners have to become eligible for parole and have the possibility of being released.

The UK has had issues about this and has had to find a way to adapt: Whole-life ordesr have to be reviewed after some time in order to give a chance of release (at least on paper).

For the same reason, e.g. in France life sentences come with a maximum of 30 years before becoming eligible for parole. What they do is then that they simply keep denying parole for prisoners they want to keep inside.
Why "Download Firefox Nightly for macOS"?

Is it not supported on Linux and Windows? Why?
I got as many blueprints as I could of past renovations (my home is from 1938 and has seen major renovations multiple times). This was useful to get an idea of e.g. exterior wall thickness and to have some reference to validate measurements against.

I got a big A2 piece of paper to make a precise drawing at about 1:25 scale of the major walls. When dealing with things like wall thickness, I found that much easier than trying to enter my measurements directly in SweetHome3D, especially because I had never used it before, and the workflow takes some time getting used to.
The justice system is, and should be, always primarily about punishment. Governments who forget that do so at their peril. Punishment isn’t just why we have a justice system — there’s a reasonable case that it’s why we have government at all!

Humans have a strong natural instinct towards justice — when soneone wrongs us, we want to take revenge. In a state of nature this of course leads to endless and bloody feuds, so at some point it became more sensible to devolve the job of taking revenge to some kind of king or government, to ensure that revenge is taken exactly once instead of becoming a never-ending cycle.

This worked pretty well for thousands of years, but in the last century or so it has been falling apart. Soft-headed Government types have started to believe that the actual purpose of the justice system is rehabilitation, not justice, and as a result justice is rarely if ever served. Ask victims of crime if the sentence given to the perp is anywhere near what they’d choose, and they’ll say no. And then, the sentence that is given rarely gets carried out, like this scumbag who was sentenced to life and released just twenty years later.

The right to revenge is one of the most important human rights of all, and it is utterly neglected in western societies these days. A proper justice system would have a lot more crooks dying in jail and a lot less crime being committed.
I've tried it and the results just aren't as good as Google. For example, it does not index Javascript-heavy pages, which means a lot of documentation websites for popular open source projects are seen as blank pages by their indexer and simply won't be ranked.

Also, the ability to identity a given user allows Google to serve personalized and therefore more relevant search results (which of course means you also get personalized ads).
Build a Habit Tracker Tool in Notion (Including Template)
I'm using the Logitech trackball M570 for a couple weeks now. Not bad, but loud mouse clicks and the scrollwheel placement is basically incompatible with large hands. Otherwise seems solid.

The best mouse I've ever used so far remains the Roccat Savu. It looks fairly ordinary for a gaming mouse but has an incredibly comfortable shape and size and an excellent scrollwheel. But it seems they aren't being produced anymore.

When it comes to keyboards I mainly use mechanical ones, so definitely not silent. The Thinkpad's integrated keyboard is pretty quiet and great to type on, but as far as I've seen from reviews the desktop version suffers from quality problems. However I think a good flat keyboard like that could be comfortable as well as silent.
"2019 is much more different from 2009 than 1974 was from 1964."

I call your exponential change and raise you with recency bias.
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Wouldn't they be transported around the world? Surely IKEA doesn't manufacture abroad, bring everything to Sweden, and then ship out from there! Perhaps China is a reasonably central point to transport from?
Impregnate the wood, build buildings.
So the guy catching the ball tells the guy throwing the ball how to throw the ball?

And the other team is seeing what he's telling the thrower, and then signalling that to the batter so he knows how the ball is going to be thrown?

And this is disallowed ?

yet stealing bases is allowed?

There is a lot more going on in baseball than I thought!
I tried this just now and this particularly seems to be a problem on Firefox.

On iOS (WebKit) and Chrome, Google’s search results can be copied just fine - there’s no redirector because Google uses hyperlink link auditing (<a href="..." ping="...">).

Firefox does support ping but disables it by default for privacy reasons.

Which is good, I guess, because now the link tracking is more apparent, but it does still happen and leads to a worse UX for the user.
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> You can't simply front-run someone else by having deep pockets.

Well you can, as was discovered in the Haim Bodek HFT shit storm.
> The great advantage of democracy is its openness to contrary opinions and divergent perspectives. This opens up democracy to a specific set of destabilizing attacks but it also means that there are countervailing tendencies to self-reinforcing biases

> These correction tendencies will be weaker in authoritarian societies; in extreme versions of authoritarianism, they may barely even exist.

What does authoritarian vs democracy have to do with "openness to contrary opinions and divergent perspectives"? Do the courts of public opinion perform better than government?
What if we focus on planting trees that are expected to live for hundreds of years and just hope we have better technology to cope with the situation once we’ve stopped burning every lump of coal we can find.
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You are wrong with build stuff in NixOS, their pure functional approach make easy to guarantee that builds that passed in CI will pass in your machine.
It's more complex than that, Cortex-A76 for example was designed by ARM's team in Austin, TX...
But 5 GHz doesn't fail, only 2.4 GHz does.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/We...

> Currently only macOS is supported.

As for why - no idea.
This looks great, it's good to see that Firefox is pushing new dev features, instead of playing catch-up to Chrome.

Does Replay work on the Firefox Dev build?
The biggest benefit for me (I think) would be if the product/design people I work with could find issues and send their recordings to me. Don't think I'll be able to convince them to switch to FF though.
I think they are printing out the OS based on your user agent.

EDIT: sibling comment cleared things up, so mine is irrelevant
It's an awful awful waste of money in a world with a billion people living on less than $2 a day just to comfort some rich brats.

But then they spend $444 million a year on advertising, so it's not like we don't live in a world were large amounts are $ are ploughed into the ground. Planting trees will at least have some benefit going forward.
That is a pretty arrogant and very Indian thing to say.

1) It’s not tourists or foreigners taking advantage of other Indians - it is Indians. Indian people disrespect and mistreat each other to an extend I have never seen anywhere else in the world.
2) It is not tourists who set the prices for taxi meters - it’s the Indian cities or governments; yet it is Indian cab drivers who often believe they stand above the Law and can take advantage of tourists because “they can afford it”
3) Nobody argues about rickshaws not doing a difficult job and I NEVER heard a tourist complain about the prices of rickshaw dwellers - only fellow Indians
4) It’s not tourists but Indians that pretend inflation doesn’t exist; tourists generally overpay

Yes, we “rich foreign tourists” can afford to pay 10USD for a ride across town; but it’s not the same deal as riding in an actually safe vehicle with seatbelts and a driver passing an actual driving license in Europe or the US; taking these aspects into account the 10 USD trips are a rip off

Yes, countries can continue to take advantage of tourists, squeeze them as much as they can and justify that with the “they can afford it”. I will never travel to India again unless I HAVE to for business purposes - because I am just tired of it. There are a million cleaner places on earth - with people being more honest. Yes, in other Asian countries people also haggle - but at least they take care of their environment.

You know, people that believe that “taking advantage of foreigners is ok because they have the money” aren’t exactly contributing to the reputation of a country. What’s left?

Treat everybody with respect - and good stuff will happen.
That's literally the definition of name squatting. If you want to link to your Twitter account, maybe use it, before complaining someone else has made something useful out of it.

Btw this is not at stake in this situation anyway, since you would just need to log into your account and accept the new ToS.
People can't only be judged on where they are right now, you have to include cultural and sociological aspects as well.

I would consider myself open minded and liberal and for lack of a better term, "woke". But I was born in the 80s to parents who were born in the 60s and their parents in turn were born in the 30s and so on. So my parents were raised with some racism and a bunch of sexism. That meant I grew up with a bit less racism and declining sexism, but those things were still there.

In my teens I used "gay" as a slur.

Am I awful? Can you take one look at a forum post I made in the late 90s and judge me entirely? I'm doing my best now to fix these things so hopefully my son will grow up with none of this cultural and sociological baggage, but I'm not a bad person for acting in accordance with the times 20 years ago. Nor were my parents in the 80s. Nor was Knuth in the 60s.

Is it okay what he did? No, of course not. But let's not hang the man for something that wouldn't have raised an eyebrow at the time.
I thought I was cynical, but this is exactly how I see it.
Biggest corporations pay no or near to nothing taxes and then they give a small handouts to communities and we suppose to kiss their feet for being so generous.

Same happened with starbucks recently where they offer to supplement budget with once off donation instead of paying their fair share.
Looks potentially really useful, but is it normal for them to create a whole site just for one new feature?
I think there's actually a good point here. There does seem to be this scare mongering that China is going to become some sort of ultra efficient techno-totalitarian regime where their oppression is guided perfectly by technology. However, It's very difficult to get useful work done with machine learning. It's very easy to get absolutely rubbish results. The reason there's a massive arms race amongst the top tech companies for talent is because you need really smart people to actually apply machine learning well.

So the likelihood is that a state like China is going to primarily to be getting rubbish results. The data they feed into their systems is going to be patchy, biased, often doctored. So when it starts locking people up and sending them to re-education camps they're not actually removing the disruptive forces in their society, they're just reproducing the great purges from Russia. Picking people more or less at random and attacking vast swathes of the population. And whilst they fail to solve their social problems they'll start creating economic problems as they start destroying their own workforce. At which point they either have to abandon these techniques entirely (unlikely) or just go more and more to the extreme, which is what we've seen time after time for states that engage in these behaviours.
I use Chrome, Safari, and the Firefox Nightly. Not sure why there’s so much dedication to one browser.
Around here (Finland) the exam is (almost always) complimentary if you also buy glasses or contacts. Otherwise, they charge you something around 25 € for the exam.
We recently pushed a new update re-organizing the instant messenger recommendation thread on our website https://www.privacytools.io/software/real-time-communication...
A hackable privacy focussed meta search engine
It did, by making Git a monoculture. It's very difficult to get a project to take off if it's not on Github. When Github goes down, so do the majority of important projects, breaking builds and causing chaos across the developer world. It didn't have to be like this. Git hosting should've been distributed like GNU Social/Mastodon.
This is realy confusing.

There's nothing in English law that prevents US companies bidding against NHS Trusts to provide services. These would be free at the point of delivery, paid for by the NHS, but provided by a non-NHS provider. That already happens. We spend billions on similar provision. (See eg Priory Group, Cygnet Healthcare, LiveWell South West). The law forbids commissioners from preferring one type of provider.

Or they can come and run private hospitals. These would take patients who pay cash or pay through insurance. We don't have a system that forbids this.

The real story, and this is something that Labour are not pushing, is the cost of medication.

Look at mebendazole. In the UK this costs a few pounds per tablet. https://bnf.nice.org.uk/medicinal-forms/mebendazole.html

In the US it costs $440 (about £340) per tablet.

Americans pay huge amounts for their medication because their healthcare systems are weirdly broken. The English NHS can negotiate fair pricing for medication.
Works for me on firefox preview.
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Defense in depth, this is not unbreakable, but it adds another layer of difficulty an attacker must bridge.
use ag-grid in my app, and it is the best I can find. Writing cell render and filter is straightforward following the document. I will buy the enterprise license once I have revenue. Currently, I use the MIT version and implement some advanced features by myself.
It works for me. Maybe you didn't receive IP address from the dhcp server in time. Just refresh the page and try again.
Just because someone does not have the mainstream western view does not make them a troll. Suggesting so is intellectually lazy. People are still allowed to think for themselves.

Yes, the Crimean vote was a scam. The way that Crimea was forcefully annexed is certainly not ideal and out of line with modern norms. But that doesn't mean that Crimeans didn't want to rejoin Russia. Both can be true.
It doesn't imply better or worse, it just means than one compiler is more experienced than the other since it doesn't fall for the traps that get the other one caught, presumably due to the experience put into its development.
Ikea is in the middle of fitting solar panels onto the roofs of their global stores. Turns out they have a lot of space up there, and have over a million panels worldwide.

They are also investing really heavily in wind farms and large one-off turbines - 3 billion dollars invested in the last 8 years. They own more turbines than they have stores, and are working with a bunch of interesting startups to develop tools to manage this fleet of disparate turbines (source: interviewed at one).

So yeah, I guess talk on the internet is cheap.
This article and all the comments here are describing a Bizarro world I didn't know existed. Myself, I got my first eye exam a couple of years ago (with all the high-tech equipment and the blurry eyedrops, etc)... on my way out of the office they wrote down my numbers. I went home and looked around a few websites, and wound up ordering a great stylish set of glasses for $20 base ($60 after upgrades and tax+shipping). That was it.

Here people are talking about actual prescriptions, which expire? And hundreds of dollars for glasses? Bizarre.
How can you know what news is real?
I thought the whole thing looked like a reasonable account of the factors that lead to a human error, myself.