skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll probably lose 20 points of karma for daring to defy consensus, but: I really don't understand the terror around my mouse being tracked as I hover over a page, or around on an commerce site. Why is this supposed to bother me so much? And judging from the ads I'm served, they aren't figuring out very much about me at all. The most that happens is that if a female friend sends me a lingerie link, then I see lingerie ads everywhere for a week. Lately I've been served ads for Jewish religious garments. I'm not Jewish. They aren't collecting enough information on me, frankly.
No, B port should be only on peripheral.
Flagged because the site automatically requests location.
> The distinction in Python 3 is between text (str) and bytes.

Feel free to s/Unicode/str/ in what I posted if you prefer that terminology. The problem is still the same.

An example of the problem: Python's standard streams (stdin|out|err) in Python 2 are streams of bytes, but in Python 3 they're streams of Unicode (or str if you prefer that terminology) characters. The problem is twofold: first, if my standard streams are hooked to a console, Python can't always properly detect the encoding of the bytes coming from the console, so it can give me the wrong Unicode characters; second, if my standard streams are hooked to pipes, there is no encoding it can pick that is right, since the bytes aren't even coming from a console (where at least there is some plausible argument for saying the user meant to type Unicode characters, not bytes). What Python 3 should have done was keep the standard streams as bytes, since that's the only common denominator you can rely on, and then let the application decide how to decode them if it decides it needs to, just as in Python 2.
$530/month sounds insanely expensive to me as someone outside of the US. My private health insurance costs me approx $100/month. 530 is over half my rent (outside of a major city though, in the major cities rent is much higher)
HN gets weird about dating-related subjects IMO. Any other topic seems to embrace analysis, exchanging and comparing anecdotes/techniques, and "life hacks", but sex and relationships? Whoa boy, better don your flame suit first...
I think a good way to balance or engage better performance out of whoever is in office is to completely rid the federal tax. All people will pay their state tax, and the local/state government will be responsible to provide the federal government money out of the state pool. I think it will drastically change 1) how much the federal government can spend 2) What it gets spent on because the states would much rather keep that money pool to spend internally.

Endless wars would change. Infrastructure would be a larger discussion, etc...
This would have probably succeeded it if you had named it a sales suite that 'allowed sales people to allow customers to interactively choose the correct products'
Yes, I have to worry about how to make a "best effort" to show it to users, but in all internal code paths it must stay as "just binary data", else I lose information. This is exactly how chrome and Firefox handle headers internally.
Is there any good WebGPU tutorials?

I've been wanting to play around with graphics programming for a while and the web is such a perfect platform due to cross platform compatibility and lower barrier for entry.
I see what you mean, but I struggle to understand how is this a larger point?

I dislike ads for two reasons:

- highly targeted ads can impact my behaviour in ways I’m not aware of (existing vs. created needs, emotions vs. rational decisions)
- it’s an invasion on our personal (internet) and public (your street, your neighbourhood) spaces.

The points above allow for manipulation at a unprecedented scale.

Again, this is more of a mental exercise, a problem I like to revisit from time to time, but if we take the points above into account, removing targeting doesn’t solve the issue completely.

I do think that contextual targeting is a more viable alternative, unless it becomes a rebranded version of behavioural (which is already happening).
Rose-8: How I put too much time into making an 8-bit ISA and accompanying VM
This kind of diatribe is so easy to spot. The author starts with a premise and carefully selects facts to support his opinion. I lost interest when he lauded the construction of dams during the New Deal. Most of these dams are environmental disasters and will probably be removed.
Installing VirtualBox 6.0 on CentOS 7
$530 a month would be amazing. I have a wife and 3 kids and we are looking at closer to $1200-$1500 a month for decent health insurance.
For me the podcast is one of the few things that I really like. The philosophical discussions allow to get a glimpse of the mind of the interviewed person. Sometimes I'm quite shocked that some people seem so superficial - from a philosophical point of view - even when they belong to the best in their field.
Speaking of going to branches, in the beginning my branch manager was awesome. He set up everything for my small business, many of which I had no clue existed which is no surprise since I was a new immigrant to Canada. He left and handed my matters over to someone else who was also quite competent.

And then the next contact answered my email with the subject "Issues / meeting tomorrow around 4pm?" with "Yes, I will assist you with all the issue, when is good time to meet tomorrow afternoon?"... things didn't improve from there (she prepared no paperwork for all the issues I detailed in my email and wasted an hour of my time) and only got slightly better when I escalated to the branch manager and got a different contact.

You can't explain this sort of attitude with being conservative etc. Nope, banks these days just suck.
Xenocara – Continuing X11 Development
It's been a couple of years since I did much air travel. When I did, hipmunk's sort was much better than Kayak's. Kayak was my favorite before hipmunk opened. Once hipmunk came along, I tended to use both when searching for flights, just to see if a better deal popped up on one but not the other.