skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
uBlock Origin has custom filters you can use. I'm guilty of the exact same thing (just not the same sites). Here's a sample of what I use:

||youtube.com/|$document,xhr
||youtube.com/?pbj*|$document,xhr

The first blocks YT entirely. The second blocks URL loads (if you load the URL directly) AND SPA redirects. I mostly use these to use YT only for content I subscribe to and avoid the algorithms by impulse or accident. Note that not all SPAs work the same, so you'd have to do some digging. For example, 9Gag doesn't redirect from the same API endpoint but instead uses payload data, so it's more difficult to block that. You can still block direct pageloads, but not SPA redirects, so for sites like that you may want to just block the entire domain.

I have a small list of content I try to avoid using this, mostly Reddit subs and "main" pages like r/all or r/popular. With this in mind, my ideal YT & reddit feeds are only content I explicitly want to see.

Else, I'd recommend a feed curator like Feedly. You can set up custom site feeds and so you'll only see those. I started using it after Firefox killed its RSS. This way there's no algorithm except popularity of a given link from a feed, not what is on the feed at all. So the onus of balance is still on you, but way easier.
My approach (in java) was using a set of filters to clean up the image with BoofCV, then using tess4j OCR to make the document searchable and then use Apache PDFBox to create a PDF with invisible text layer. Its not open source yet (i plan to do so), but you could take a look at https://github.com/ctodobom/OpenNoteScanner - which seems to be much more advanced.
It's illegal to live in SF?
Yeah, pretty much. But maybe more like a compost heap. Occasionally something nice sprouts from all of that shit. Not too often, though.
been to Switzerland a number of time and honestly it is extremely boring, I wouldn't wish that to anyone (unless you only care about the nature)
No? This bill isn't changing GC quotas.
> Future will have larger number of people writing even more software.

When the majority of the population became educated inn literacy, there wasn't a huge jump for everybody to start writing novels. They merely started writing smaller things - letters, notes, and short form, one-off stuff.

It's the same with software skills. There are going to be an increase, but in the form of small scripts and one-offs for tasks, rather than more software "products".
This is fascinating. I’ve never even heard of this and I’ve struggled with insomnia for decades.

Best answer I’ve found it turning on a movie I’ve seen a million times on low volume. It turns off my brain enough that I can sleep but it doesn’t interest me enough to keep me awake.
I cannot tell you how much I love tld-list and now wee. As a recovering domain addict, I've spent an unreasonable amount of time on your sites. :)

For domain hunting, tld-list is a godsend. Thank you so much for this!
We'd just made the transition from local hosted HipChat over to Slack about a month before a _big_ outage occurred. The team responsible for the internal tools got told by management to do some herculean efforts to get hipchat temporarily resurrected.

I logged in to my desktop machine, and had IRC up and running in under 5 minutes and had details out to the team ready to use it should an emergency strike. It's _really_ simple to spin up an IRC server for such purposes. Just about the time the Slack outage was over, the HipChat server was back and working again... :) (there's a lot of reasons why it took so long, and it wasn't really Atlassian's fault)
I visited Lisbon twice and I always felt like this was the city to work remotely from. The food is good, the people are super nice and chill and seem to appreciate life, the cost of living was low, and the weather was amazing.

Seeing the answers in this thread, I think people should get out of the US and visit cities like Lisbon to understand what it means to live.
It is a very good question, as well as how it compares to damage done by flu or a bad cold how and quickly damage is repaired.
Makes sense! I'll have to figure out a way to incorporate that because my current code structure is kind weird, but when I do I'll let you know! Feel free to sign up for the newsletter so I can notify you when that feature is ready! :D
would love to have a filter for paywalled articles on google news
Seems like they’re going after the head shop consultancies like Infosys and TCS. Unclear what the impact on the rest of tech is.
No, I did not recall that.

I do what I do to be drug free. This is probably not your scenario. The degree of hostility I got on CF lists is why I left them all.
I've been getting a ton of requests for Porkbun so I'll definitely consider adding it there! Thanks for the suggestion! :D
FAAMG? When was N swapped for M?
I've been working almost entirely remote (some occasional short periods of going to a small office with clients) for about 12 years.

For most of it, I've been living in Thailand (almost 8 years). Lifestyle here is pretty laid back, but you need to be more aware of your own/your family's safety, in a whole lot of different ways. It's also not particularly easy on foreigners if you want to run a company here, but it's doable. I believe Americans will have a slightly easier time with this, due to an agreement between the countries.

There is a somewhat-formed plan for us to move back to Australia at some point, and we'll almost certainly end up somewhere outside of the major cities, probably one of the larger towns in Victoria.
I think you are reading too much into his or her comment.

That doesn't appear to be a racist comment.
Note: This is the company that now owns NPM. You can/should expect the same take-down standards to apply to code hosted there.

If you weren't already, I'd strongly encourage having some kind of caching proxy between you and the NPM repositories, just to ensure that some kind of takedown action won't screw up your builds.
That depends - what are the TLDs for your domains?
Slack the company really needs to embrace distributed work practices if they want to actually build a tool for distributed work practices.

Slack has totally become a drag on productivity and a net negative. Channel and message overload is arguably not much better than the email system it is meant to replace.

My prediction is that Slack will be replaced quite quickly by the first tool that really nails remote messaging and coordination. Slack is not it.
Coupling can be a bitch. Worked in a shop once that had GPFS (shared filesystem) everywhere. Their rule was "no swap space on any node ever". Weird. Why not? Because apparently slow thrashing on one node will crush GPFS performance on all nodes, without ejecting the failing node. Ugh.
https://matansilver.com

It's only a couple articles, and by far the most useful part of this site has been that I can simply link people to my resume, and it will always be up to date. No need to worry about which version I gave which person. I'm no longer looking for jobs but it was very nice when I was. Besides that I have a couple small blog posts but I'm not sure how much value those provide, and the writing might not be great.

I'm working on a portfolio section of the site, where I will showcase some of my hardware and software projects. At the moment, the only portfolio-like page I have is the link to my Github profile.
As a citizen you might not see it but Malaysia is tough for foreign developers and foreigners in general. I mean it's tough even for decent local developers, all the good ones get out asap. The only acceptable foreigner workers for most of the population are the ones who will do menial jobs, everyone else isn't wanted there. In SG no one cares about you being a foreigner.

Theres few options available to someone trying to work in Malaysia remotely:

- Get business visa sponsorship for a local job, be treated terribly and earn a bit more than local dev rates which are still lower than what you get flipping burgers in the West and work your remote job on the side.

- Apply for the Tech Entrepreneur visa which is inward looking and needs to either employ locals or be focused on the Malaysian market to be successful.

- Third option is buying a house and getting a 10 year renewable visa from that, the recent situation with the government banning permanent residents from returning home due to covid shows how little value PR actually grants you.

Not really conducive to remote workers moving there to live. Internet is great though and most services are well provided for.

I couldn't live in KL longterm, was there for most of a year and it really wasn't for me, there's some nice suburbs and all that but the pollution and soulless aspect of the city really gets to you after a while, it's so car-centric with malls everywhere being the only place you are encouraged to be a pedestrian.

For someone like me who likes to go out and drink a bit it's incredibly expensive. Smoking a pack of cigarettes a day costs basically nothing though which is amusing as a non-smoker. It's also hard to justify living in and supporting a country where people pay different prices for the same house based on their race along with a myriad of other race based laws, it's very backwards in a lot of ways. Everywhere has problems but these ones seem quite in your face once you live there for long enough. Bumiputera laws are bizarre and counterproductive to any semblance of a healthy society.

Penang is charming though and has a lot going for it, along with a big expat community, fresh air and always close to nature, Langkawi is a cheap 15 min flight away, it was once the "Silicon Valley of the East" but never really capitalised on that, regardless there's still a lot of tech manufacturing and associated industry.
Personally, I think this is the right bill to support. H1-B and L-1 have become tools used by Indian outsourcing firms to inject cheap labor into US. Apart from taking away jobs from US citizens, this also has a negative side effect of increasing visa competition (since there are only 65k visas/yr) for students who are doing their higher education in US, often in the fields of STEM - which discourages foreign students from coming to US. This bill fixes this as it prioritizes H1-B and L-1 visas from candidates who have studied in US vs. those who are applying from outside US (which is the route outsourcing firms often take). So while there are more fixes to be made on the H-1B visa, at least ensuring students who have studied in US have the first dibs at it is a good first step.
In this case I guess the use of the word baffled is a good one, because they are not baffled by a matter of science but by a matter of politics.
Sure, I agree that the newer software might not particularly be innovative or large. At this stage we just need a lot more CRUD apps than ever.
I really like that idea! And yes, I'm actually considering adding a "Featured Listings" section where you can list your domains - feel free to sign up on the newsletter and I'll let you know when it's ready! :D
Langkawi is currently reeling from the virus. They are dependent on the Chinese cruise crowd and that have dried up completely. I expect real estate prices will see a hit.

On the bright side, they're likely to be the first spot in Malaysia to get 5G, so that will bode well for an emerging tech scene.

Expats love it because sin items (tabacco and alcohol) are not only tolerated, but duty free. People buy a house right next to the airport and fly to KL / Singapore for their once a fortnight big-city fix.
I believe we had a couple of conversations in the past under your previous username.

I will agree that CF lists tend to be toxic.
> Specifically, the bill would prohibit companies with more than 50 employees, of which at least half are H-1B or L-1 holders, from hiring additional H-1B employees.
I think that point was addressed fairly well in the linked article.
Ask HN: What's a Good Heuristic for Life?
You're right, and if I came across implying that was the case for this particular dam removal, I apologize for the miscommunication. On the other hand, the rate of dam removal in the United States has increased, and some of them (especially in the Western US) are in areas that don't experience the same frequency of rainfall, and where even existing reservoirs are often far below capacity. It was more of a general musing that a comment on this particular instance, which from the information in the article, seems like a positive step.
Colorado. I'd move up to a smaller mountain town somewhere close enough to a bigger city that you can still drive down for the evening. But the weather and the mountains up there have been in my heart for years. In the summer it's just all green and blue, sunny but 75 degrees.
Literally, the person has provided no context here. Which makes me wonder what were the instincts behind them making this comment.
What's racist in my comment? o_O
Yes but do we have to build houses for them in one of the most physically constrained places (partly geographic, partly zoning) on Earth?

There seems to be this strange idea that people put forth that your options are simply between living in the most expensive city in the country or being homeless in the most expensive city in the country.

How about Modesto? I think you would find plenty of support from people who genuinely would like for those people to have somewhere to live. The problem is that the opposition wouldn't accept it. It would come off as some perverse form of gentrification, under the implication that anybody "deserves" to live anywhere. I personally have always found the argument that "I should be able to continue living here, because I lived here previously" to be incredibly uncompelling. What about people who weren't born in fantastic cities?

The fact that the Tenderloin is where it is, in what would probably be some of the best real estate in the city, is absolutely insane. I think you would find that there is all the good will in the world from people, if the proposed solutions make sense. They just don't.
> company can get X units of value at a discount by hiring the person with the lower cost of living at a lower salary.

So the hiring process should favour low salaries rather than cost of living?

If that is the case then you can easily replace cost of living adjustments with candidate salary expectation.
It sounds very ironic that the company whose whole business is built on facilitating remote workplace communication would be willing to lose talent in order not to let people work remote.
It’s not the software engineers that will be automated out of a job, it’s everyone else. We will need to deal with the fact that jobs which require very little creativity and ad-hoc problem solving will largely be automated away much sooner than software will be writing itself.
I guess I've never considered mostly static brochure sites the purview of web development or "doing software" of the style referenced by this article. It's more like web design. WordPress, as ill-suited as it is, had already begun the incursion into design that Wix and others continued.

But, displacing static-site designers is a much easier task than displacing developers due to the latter's work with logic, interactions, etc. Back in the 90s webapps were still nascent and just moving past cgi-bin to some extent, but the bar on replacing devs gets higher with each passing year. So, absent a huge leap in tooling or code generation, etc., I see dev roles changing more than going away.
My memory isn't what it used to be and HN gets about 5 million visitors per month.

I assumed you had no idea what my story is. That tends to be my default assumption.
It's strange that the weak force violates parity symmetry, and it's also strange that charge–parity symmetry, taken together, is much closer to being conserved but is still violated a little bit.
I meaning that L1 and friends are quite often could be changed to GC soon. If they put limit on number of L1 visas, they will simply became GC very fast.

I think they don't have quotes, this is not a lottery.
> If untrusted code is running on the same core/package/what have you, your security has already been breached.

This goes against decades of OS design, possibly all serious OS design once you pass over program loaders like MS-DOS and various ROM BASIC iterations. More to the point, there's enough advantages to being able to run untrusted code that a performance trade-off is worth it: If it comes down to being able to run your business at a penalty and having to close up shop, it doesn't take much to figure out what Amazon is going to do with AWS.
yea I had a mirror of striped drives. Gave you max throughput with some protection against failure.
No need to assume the worst. Perhaps he or she is genuinely curious about GC. There was nothing in the comment which can be remotely construed as racist.
Still around the Seattle Area, but a cabin deep in the Cascade mountains where I could go hiking every day, or snowshoeing in the winter.
If it hasn't already, it should. Microsoft is way more influential in tech than Netflix.
There are three places I would consider, two more practical than the third:

1. Los Angeles, where I am from. Slightly cheaper and I would be close to family. Even though there are plenty of beaches in the Bay Area, they are not as easily accessible as they are down here.

2. Mammoth/Eastern Sierra. When I was in grad school and working as a consultant, I lived there for two years summer and winter, despite not being a skier. I wouldn't mind spending a few weeks working remote here and there (I have a place there), but I couldn't live there again. It's tucked away, snow is a pain, and you get sick of the tourists really fast.

3. Hawaii. I love Hawaii. But, it's a long flight to get home and the Bay Area is already far enough away for me. It's also expensive and I imagine it would get boring quickly since I am mostly into biking and hiking rather than water sports.
I don't believe you can accomplish precisely what this does with uBO. You can blacklist your browser itself from connecting to certain domains with uBO but you can't fully remove them from within a google search results page since the google results page isn't explicitly connecting to the domains, just displaying links to do so.

Even with some advanced cosmetic rules the most you could do is remove the <a> tag fields, not the full title/text of the results.
Not sure, but I think this got me fired from a job. Slack was a main channel for our group of 30. Critical messages in real time on the (several) channels. So, must monitor channels in real time, all day. Whoops, no time left to get real things done. Why aren't you getting anything done?

I don't miss it.
> and the search engines haven't caught on.

Sure they have. They just don't care as long as they made their quick buck off of it.
This is an incredibly reductionist phrasing.

The fact that LSD is of the family ergotamine, and that the fungus ergot which happens to contain ergotamine has caused deaths, is a meaningless statement.

Chemistry and psychopharmacology is an incredibly complex topic, and it isn't as simple as saying "Well, X is related to Y, and X causes A, ergo Y must cause A."

There's a concept called "structure-activity relationship" (SAR) in medicinal chemistry, and it's the study between a molecule's "physical" (for lack of a better word) shape and it's effects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure%E2%80%93activity_rel...

If you aren't familiar with medicinal chemistry, as a human your assumption is probably to go "Well, X molecule is really close to Y molecule, so they must do similar things."

Unfortunately, this just is not how it works.

Look at amphetamines. Saying something is an "amphetamine" is meaningless, because what an "amphetamine" is and does is entirely dependent on _which_ amphetamine it is.

Regular "amphetamine" is a simple stimulant.

Then you have psychedelic amphetamines, like 2,4,5-Trimethoxyamphetamine, which aren't stimulatory at all and act more like LSD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimethoxyamphetamine

Both of them are, by definition, "amphetamines", but no commonality in terms of effects/psychoactivity.

A single structural change makes the difference between being benign or being incredibly toxic, being a stimulant or a psychedelic, etc.

You can't talk about these things with sweeping generalizations.

The only way to have a legitimate, rational discussion about chemicals is to completely rid the physical structure from your head and discuss it in terms of it's receptor affinity, ligand-binding, and Ki values.

Everything else is complete pseudoscience and quackery.
This kind of context switching can be more easily achieved by using the old SysV APIs when working under *nix: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/makecontext.3.html
A friends works as an ecologist and are a scientist at a university. Water Dams disrupt/destroy eco systems downstream. Hydro power is thus not fully green due to that. Water power has to be compared to The alternatives such as oil/coal. One should not view water power as fully “green” energy.

Fish species are for example disrupted by water dams.
In Finland for the 3 good months to catch the 3 good weeks of summer. But I have yet to figure out a CO2 acceptable way of how to travel so often.
Popcorn Time != BitTorrent, though. The way Popcorn Time and other BT streaming clients does torrenting is pretty bad for the the overall swarm health — everyone is seeding and leeching the beginning but availability deteriorates the deeper you go. My BT client of choice, Transmission, explicitly rejected the idea of getting chunks sequentially (you have to patch the source yourself if you really want to do that). So, if you can, contribute to swarm health by downloading with a traditional client upfront. And seed to a reasonable ratio, of course.
Sorry, but do americans really hurt by H1-B/L-1? I never heard about lack of need for tech people anywhere in the world. Isn't world's universities produce like 3% of required amount of tech people needed?

(Other points are valid though)
Oh yeah, I know all too well about path dependence. That's how we end up with a Rails monolith that's written in a very standard/structured way so that many devs can contribute, add type annotations for safely/docs, etc. Using no types is like having no tests and thinking about adding them later. Usually better to have it in place as you go.
> not to standardize anything in particular.

Oh no, no. There is something particular to standardize: namely something that is already out there and working.

Secondly, if there are multiple such somethings that are out there and working, but are not compatible, then this is where the standard is really in its own element, to help iron out that situation and improve interoperability.

In this second area, the standard may engage in a bit of invention. Pure, unprompted invention is something ISO standards should eschew.
Yeh. I've not seen the plandemic documentary. But it's not hard to figure out their take on things.

With The most recent data The cdc released or shows the Stanford studies were pretty much dead on.

But i also tend to think this wasn't about a virus, it was about control. (Yeh your small business is just to dangerous to keep open, please shop at target, home depot, Wal-Mart and Safeway instead).

https://mobile.twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic/status/12636624552...
I think your falacy is in the "less code" assumption when you say "The result is less code". I'd argue that empirially we've seen this to be false. The result isn't less code, at least in a global sense, its more productivity, more features, more customization, and more specificity at a cost of less code/feature. Software has really interesting economics where as the cost/feature decreases by a factor, say 1x, then the set of features that can be profitably worked on expands by like 10x, so paradoxically, as cost/feature decreases, it makes sense to hire more engineers and expand R&D budgets.