skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A new global setting has been created that allows you to always hide the “Close All Tabs” confirmation dialog. You can set "confirmCloseAllTabs" to true at the top of your profiles.json file and you’ll never see that popup again!

Did they just phrase this backwards or is that the total opposite of what you'd expect?
I'm a big fan of the design / color scheme.
This is why I don't personally understand all the Slack hate. It's a godsend compared to every other messaging service I've seen in an enterprise environment. I'm stuck using Webex Teams right now and it's horrifyingly bad.
That's a pretty damning conclusion given the paucity of evidence to support it. Are you so sure you have enough facts to determine that I'm morally corrupt? What evidence do you have that I think there is no act so atrocious that I wouldn't act without considering the nuance? All you know about me is that in the case of Syria I think it's nuanced. I haven't made any statements about other situations so how can such a conclusion be made? Are you sure you understand my position?

But let's look at the historical example you brought up. Did the United States really care about the plight of Jews in Europe? Didn't we famously prevent a ship full of Jewish refugees from landing in the United States? We didn't enter the war to help Jews. My dad fought in World War II. In modern times we'd have diagnosed him with PTSD. The war left him a drunk and he had issues his whole life as a result of it. Should we have fought the war? Of course. Were there costs to it that never showed up in the statistics. Of course and we shouldn't forget or ignore these types of costs when we advocate military action.

Did we invade China to prevent the mass killings that occurred under Mao? Did we invade Cambodia to prevent the Khmer Rouge? Did we really care when Saddam gassed Iraqi Kurds? Why did we support Saddam invading Iran but not Kuwait? Where was our moral outrage at the former? Where was our moral outrage when Latin American dictators brutalized peasants whilst we supported them militarily?

Given our history of exploitation, support of brutal dictators, and active engagement in mass killings are you so sure our leaders' intentions in Syria will be altruistic? You are so sure of the necessity for intervention why don't you go there and fight it yourself? Why are you so quick to send others in your place if you aren't willing to go yourself?

What doesn't fly over my intellectual head is that there is a propensity for those in power to rally the populace with pithy slogans and calls for patriotic action in order to mask malevolent intention.

To send our armed forces to go kill others without any thought is a truly dangerous idea. We don't give carte blanche to our leadership to engage in killing simply because we've been convinced the other person is bad. It should be more.....nuanced than that.

Addendum: In 2005 I was on a light rail late at night on a Friday night. There was a drunk guy on the train and he was pretty annoying. Sort of harassing women on the train. I decided to engage him in conversation. Found out he was a Marine. We talked a bit and then he turned me and said, "I killed kids in Iraq. That's fucked up. I'm too young to kill kids." He repeated it over and over. I didn't know what to say to him. It was very sad. Fuck war and fuck the people who so easily advocate for it.
It’s unclear to me what that -is-. Is it just a paid forum?
Depending on where you live and what you prioritize. Among the people I know, very few own their apartment or use a car. And a $50k car is not the cheapest either... In the US it might be an average, but here in Europe where the public transportation works well you have to be making a lot of money to have a $50k car be worth it in the city. In my case, it could then be argued that the average person doesn't own a car or a house either.

Many families have watches or jewellery that gets passed down the family tree. A $50k watch or a piece of jewellery is something that lasts for many generations. Most people who own a watch of in that price point never paid for it, but got it as a gift. Also, timepieces of that value often rise up in value.

Anyway, it's beside the point. Whether the average person owns what doesn't affect what $50k is relative to a human life.
> leading me to believe that the US Government has been corrupt for quite some time, but never out in the open.

I feel the same way - Trump is not different from other presidents, except that he does everything right out in the open, while the other Presidents kept a veneer of respectability on things.

Turns out most people really prefer to believe that everything is above board.
Against History of Philosophy
Hyper is slow because it is an Electron app built with web technologies. Try alacritty [0], a terminal written in Rust. It is supposedly the fastest terminal.

[0] https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty
How do I know which companies abuse employees and which dont? If I ask the staff, will they tell me? Why is the companies press office even allowed to lie to me about worker conditions without going to jail for fraud?

It's not always cheapest stuff either - apple product charge a premium and Foxconn employees are not treated well.
I don't understand.

The labour share has been roughly at 60% +/- 10% for ages.

Even getting 100% will be at most a doubling of labour's income. That's nifty, comparable to moving from Mississippi to Connecticut. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP_per...)

But it's one-off. The difference between countries are bigger. And so are the difference over time.

And of course, jumping to 100% while keeping total GDP per capita constant is not really possible.
Sounds right to me. "I confirm that I always want to close all tabs."
>your conscious mind says you received no value, when reflecting. Yet your behavior indicated that you got enough value to create a compulsion

well social media is designed to give you little dopamine hits all the time and we all know when we think about it for a second that the constant, cheap stimulation is bad, but it also hijacks our lizard brains and it's designed to work that way.

The big problem I think is that we let the designers of these applications get away with exactly the 'your preferences indicate you like it' line, well the same applies to gamblers in a casino.
As a pihole user for years I recently bought a firewalla blue. Installed pihole on the firewalla, turned off firewalla ad blocking, and done.

I can VPN to my home ad blocking network from anywhere, have more insights into my home network shenanigans, and still use my personal block list built over years. Super easy and most importantly, done.
It's interesting about growing older. I don't know if this is a function of aging or a change in how humanity recons time. When I was younger, a century seemed like forever. Now it's just 1920 and we have film, music, audio, books and so on from that time period readily available.

In many ways 1920 doesn't really seem all that far away to me while 1860, 1870, 1880 (a century from when I was a child) seemed to be forever ago.

When I look at film and photos from 1920 I see modern people, people I could see meeting and having relatively modern conversations while when I look at media from the mid 1800s I see ancestors who I share very little with.
Dave Ramsey and mark Cuban discuss student loan bubble
I've never actually used AutoHotkey much; I've always just interfaced with the Windows hotkey API directly. Since it's installed on my computer as a dependency for something else, I gave it a quick look-through to see if I could figure out how to disable Win + M and Win + D. It seems pretty straightforward:

1. Right-click on your desktop (or any other folder) and choose New -> AutoHotkey Script.

2. Name the file something like DisableMinimize.ahk.

3. Right-click the file and choose Edit Script; alternatively, open it in your text editor of choice.

4. Keep the existing text that's in the file, but add the following to the end:

#d::
return

#m::
return

This script will work just like a program. Double-click it to run it, or put it in your Startup folder. You can even right-click -> Compile Script to generate a standalone EXE.

> I also heard about Win + D, which could be what I'm hitting a % of the time.

Both Win + D and Win + M seem like pretty obscure shortcuts to be hitting by accident. Some touchpads and mice have gestures or buttons that minimize all windows, though; in particular, on lower-quality laptops, I've found that the "minimize-everything-and-interrupt-whatever-I'm-doing" gesture likes to fire randomly. It even used to happen a lot on some older Surface devices. Is it possible that's the issue?

> Correct me if I'm wrong: but positioning any window after minimization (possibly including the bottom show-desktop / taskbar area) will make it so the window settings can't be reverse back?

You'll lose the memory of which windows were visible, but with both Win + M and Win + D, their positions and sizing should be preserved. If a window doesn't restore to its same position and sizing when you restore it, that's most likely a bug in the individual application.
Ray: Distributed Machine Learning at Scale
Have you seen their competition? Their success shouldn't be a mystery to anyone.
Hyper is quite slow, isn't it? It definitely was when I tried it.
My understanding is that automatically determining time complexity is impossible in the general case due to the halting problem.

And getting a compiler to truly understand the time complexities of your data structures would involve either extremely difficult theorem proving or just forcing it.

I do think it would still be interesting if a language had support for determining time complexity. It seems like it's often possible even if it isn't in the general case.
In her case, he took her to the airport once and she liked him, so she started always using him for rides there. Then she started having him run little errands for her and it just expanded from there. This is what taskrabbit looked like for the wealthy in 1992.
This is terrific
The Unicorn Is a Profitable Ride Hailing Company
Facebook has a bottom? I deactivated my account never having reached it. What’s it look like?
Plasma treatment hope in coronavirus fight as China reports 5090 new cases
I've been working on a Chrome extension called Hide Feed that automatically hides the feed. It's not quite yet ready for prime time, but it should help remove the need for that habit because you can just hide the feed whenever you don't want to look at it anymore.

https://hidefeed.com/
Ain't clickin' on that sheeeeit.
When will MS Terminal get slashes pointing in the right direction?
Indeed, they always had that Intelligent Systems Co. within their HQ campus, as if engineering jobs needs to be “elsewhere”.
My middle school years consisted of being bullied: verbally and physically abused.

I’ve been grinding my teeth since the first physical violence incident at age 11 that involved numerous full blast blows to my head. My response meanwhile was regretful bullying of a few other kids in response. The cap to this was additional physical violence against me before entering high school, in the presence of law enforcement who stood aside and allowed the punishment to be inflicted, likely due to the perception of me having been a scumbag to a popular kid in sixth grade, and/or an old school non-interventionist attitude.

By the end of middle school, the lifetime of suicidal ideation was cemented. The end result was extreme social immaturity entering high school and a downward spiral of an unwanted life drifting towards destitution and homelessness at middle age. My neighborhood peers were religious tribalists who looked down upon me and essentially formed my perceptions of the world as a religious outsider threatened by promises of eternal torture for non compliance. I dream of suicide around the clock and remain afraid of death and have zero desire for anything but preparing for death.

Needless to say, I don’t find this species to be very pleasant or deserving of my time or participation and certainly not of any offspring. This, of course, is sugar coating the reality: I think this species is total rubbish, and regardless of how many nice people exist, there’s been a never ending string of low quality people that I’ve encountered over the past 30 years, myself included. I remain fearful of facing the unknown of death despite decades dreaming of dying. Zero desire for help of any kind; I inherited a fortune and gave it away. I pray for forgiveness and mercy in the afterlife and remain eternally fearful, having been indoctrinated by peers with promises of eternal torture as a consequence for failure to engage in a particular belief system (coupled with the tribal violence by participants of said religion).

Fuck this species. Sorry: the solution is for me to die and wash away my broken brain. Some people simply don’t want to be helped. The natural laws of evolution are met with my lack of procreation and my suicide washes away my broken experience so others can have a better chance. Accordingly I’ve given away my inheritance and gone homeless in preparation. So thankful it’s almost over and infinitely scared nonetheless. At some point soon I’ll simply ask God or the universe to forgive me for failing to be “strong enough” to “overcome” my little not particularly uncommon tragedy. Sorry.
> Just look at U.S. industrial espionage in Europe during the 18th-19th century when it was developing.

You are answering criticism with criticism:

* https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/tu-quoque

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
I'd be curious about performance vs gnome-terminal on X on WSL.
I only wish this would carry to non-California locations and to the service industry in general - when I worked as a waiter in a Rocky Mountain West state, after ending a shift we were not allowed to leave the premises until rolling exactly 100 sets of silverware. If no silverware was available, we would also have to run them through the dishwasher 2-3 times. We additionally had to perform two other "closing" tasks (e.g. restocking a particular mini-fridge, wiping down floor). This is pretty standard in the restaurant industry - the only problem is that in this state, servers are paid $2.15/hour, with the assumption that they'll make the rest up to minimum wage by serving tables.

Anyway, some nights it would take me 1.5-2 hours to leave (not atypical), and I would get a whopping $4 of pay for that time.
First, how the shit do you select somebody for a job without discriminating? Do you just select at random? Discrimination by skill is extremely legitimate...

Second, OP also clearly is not simply expanding their job search. They're biasing the process in favour of certain identity groups every step of the way.

Third, What annoys me the least is people who try to achieve "diversity" by breaking down barriers to employment. What annoys me moderately is people who use heavy-handed methods like discrimination against certain identity groups justifying it as the only way to achieve fairness due to factors like the power of the majority group and pointing out that the work world without such measures is not a meritocracy. What irritates me the absolute most is cowards who discriminate against others because it's their job, but they don't feel okay with it so they deny that they're even doing it, just so they never have to confront and rationalise what they're doing. If you don't have the moral conviction that what you're doing is okay quit your job instead of participating in discrimination you're so uncomfortable with you deny doing it.
Friend of mine makes hourly what many people earn in a week ($1k hourly billable), so while they lived in LA it made sense to have someone drive them from the airport back home because what should take ~20 minutes at most usually took 2 hours.

During those two hours they could work, and thus make money, it didn't make sense to drive themselves.

Their company hired a particular car hire service and the drivers would get rotated through a schedule, but they ended up having a particularly good relationship with a particular driver.

So they dropped the contract with the company, and basically just paid the one driver himself, basically a personal chauffeur, but with a schedule that is known two weeks ahead of time, with some emergencies, but not 24/7.

Eventually this allowed said driver to buy a couple of cars, and start a company himself, while always making sure to take care of my family member first and foremost himself.

They trusted the driver with their children, and for certain purchases the driver would either go pick up items (such as jewelry/high end clothes) or their driver would drive a consultant (personal shopper) to go do the shopping/pickups.

My friend moved away from the LA area, but used the same driver for ~6 years or so, the driver now runs a high-end private car hire service that offers services to cater specifically to people that need services like that. No advertising, word of mouth only, and everyone involved is highly vetted and trusted.

It's pretty amazing how much time you get back when you can pay someone else to do the things that take time but don't really provide happiness in life. Such as cleaning/driving/cooking/household chores that the rest of us have to do ourselves, and thus is all billable time.
It’s the Apple Store business team and you absolutely should buy through them, especially for custom hardware because the discounts are significant for those items (not so much for iPhones and other consumer base models)
It really does work! Have to use strike anywhere matches though.
The artisanal "slow internet" movement. It's like slow food movement, but for your data consumption.
I know I can use just JSX, but it looks really ugly, plus I have to set all the html attributes in createElement.

I guess my bigger complaint is that its all 'possible', but not recommended for production, its going to slow down your site in some way, etc. There are always drawbacks to not using the recommended way. Its like eating soup with a spork. Yeah you can do it, but its going to take you a lot longer than with the proper tool.
What a clown show. This is going to be 2016 all over again.
With respect, emoji support and tabs were the most requested features for years according to the uservoice page that tracked the public feature requests.

I no longer work on the project but that team is filled with some of the most passionate and dedicated people you could find to shepherd the console from where it was to now. We collectively lived and breathed the console, yet the team was always understaffed and almost always had at least one dev that was pulled off by management to work on what was believed to be a higher priority project.

Implementing the emoji support took me years and that doesn't even count the rendering of them, just the ability to shuttle them through the internals and back. Tabs as well required quite a bit of work behind the scenes, there was an entire blog series written on the work that led up to tabs being possible.
What server? The closest thing Apple sells is the rack mount mac pro. (I'm assuming it needs to run Mac OS for application compatibility)
I also have experienced GH.com, GHE on prem, and (now) twice GL on prem. There's absolutely zero comparison between how hungry the GL team is as compared to GH(E). I appreciate that GH is the gorilla in the room, and "nobody got fired for going with GH" but there's a new feature packed release every month from GL, and it comes batteries included.

I do have a huge amount of frustration with GL's open core system where it seems they use a dartboard for deciding what level to make open source, or ultra-enterprise $$$$, and their issue tracker is the definition of chaos, but nothing's perfect, I guess.

A lot of words to say that I agree with you: short of your team/company already being locked into the GH world, I can't imagine going back to GH
and i've worked at computer big box stores and incompetent staff just fucked up accidentally. not saying either way here but it's certainly within the realm of possibility that it's a messup.
Augmented reality: You may already know it
Can you put it in your vacation autoresponder?
Engineering Faster Sorters for Small Sets of Items
You're a survivor of repeated trauma. I wish society could have rescued you and shown you a different life. I'm sorry that didn't happen.
>Is there anything you consider going too far at all

Yes, when the risk/cost outweigh the benefit.

>Murdering people to harvest organs?

Same thing, if benefit outweigh the cost then yes it will be done. Thats why murder is illegal, carry a severe punishment.
> If somebody could find a way to generalize the sorting network algorithm for any number of input elements

In section 2 in that Wikipedia article, it links to many constructions that do exactly that.

A couple are O(n log(n)), but complicated and impractical. The algorithms people use are O(n log^2(n)) ones.

FWIW, sorting networks are data-independent. I.e. for any input, you always compare-and-swap the same elements.
Not everyone is agree with that. If everyone did that we wouldn't need police.
buy those people a copy of this book and put your relationship on hold with them until they ready it:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TD6FVHG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
Headline might want to note IT'S MAC ONLY
I'm not OP, but even if a test drive went perfectly, I would remain worried about the chance of the car randomly killing me for some stupid edge case reason.

Maybe not today, not tommorrow, but maybe six months in the future when the weather and road conditions happen to be just precisely right to confuse the system at just the most dangerous time.

In the meantime I will just read/watch the stories of people more trusting than me about how well the technology works, and currently those stories don't fill me with confidence.

IMO, this is currently dangerous technology that should not be allowed on the road at all.

Common-sense tells me that these half-self-driving systems are dangerous.

I would like to see a study that tested the reaction times of a person who sits doing nothing for a hour and then is suddenly expected to take evasive maneuvers, versus a sober - or even a drunk - driver who is actually driving the car continuously.
Why should I give another company with a plethora of AI tools access to my startup's source code? Either your code is public or private. But "private and still accessible by company xy" doesn't make much sense to me.
There's an analogue for consumerism in young single adults who haven't settled down: Next time you move, put everything you own in a box. You can only take something out of the box to use it. After 6 months (or a duration of your choosing), simply discard the box and everything still in it. The theory is that you won't miss anything you didn't actually need.
You'd probably want to start by defining equivalence and then work from there. If your criteria for equivalence is loose enough you're already done, e.g., if you just look at runtime big O for randomized arrays or something you can't do better than n lg n so there's just the one Pareto optimal choice, with many possible implementations.
I could work that out if you're interested.
WSLtty is just Mintty, which is just PuTTY. PuTTY et al have had a very long time to mature, and I still find them to be quite problematic. They don't perfectly match any terminfo/termcap entries (they're far from matching xterm--Windows Terminal is actually closer in that regard), and even if they did, some key combinations that should send unique codes don't--for example, Shift + arrow keys, which I use with tmux.
Libgen happened.