skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While this is a fair thing to say, your original response to my comment wasn't exactly inviting of a positive discussion. It sounded pretty dismissive to me.
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 with Unity right now. Unity wasn't bad. I disliked it at first because it lacked features and it wasn't polished. After some time a lot of people started liking it.

But they messed up with Unity 8 and Mir. They didn't want to work with the community, they didn't care if they were working on stuff that already existed. Instead of working with the upstream devs, they worked alone. Where did they end up? Back to Gnome Shell with a lot of years of effort down the drain.

And this is even worse. More info here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23433794
I see your point, personally if I go to a conference, stadium, or concert I am not there to look at my phone or answer email though xD
Interestingly, the Golden Gate Bridge is a sister bridge to the tacoma narrows bridge. After the bridge failed, they added reinforcements to the golden gate bridge to attempt to fix the issue.
>I don't know for certain, but I didn't see any evaporators at the facility.

They're generally on top of the building, and they kinda look like generic air conditioning units. https://www.munters.com/en/munters/products/coolers--humidif...
With the clouds in the background in the video and the shape of the installation, my first thought on how to describe it would be a tornado rather than a tree. Maybe growing up in Tornado Alley predispositions me that way. I could see it as some sort of storm warning setup, steampunk style.
To be fair, the Sony WF-1000XM3's are awesome and I love mine. Living in a big city is so much more pleasant with noise canceling. It can be surprising to take them off and realize how loud the environment around me actually is.
Here’s a BBC doc on the “Bristol hum” https://youtu.be/QpeKot2X_O8

Makes me almost happy for my hearing loss from attending a Jack White concert in a tiny bar where he maxed out the sound system. Although that’s probably worse off.
What constitutes as "black"?
This is an interesting article to me because I feel that I have been approaching this from the exact opposite direction.

It took me many years to learn that speaking in honest, innocent truths is not all there is to communication. Even if what you say is topical and meaningful, the way it is perceived by recipients has little correlation with how truthful your message is. This is what is meant when "factual information" is only one of four aspects of communication: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-sides_model (see in particular the example at the bottom of the page).

Essentially, the best way to communicate something always depends on the receiver.

My approach has thus been to try and run everything I want to say through a "if I were the other party and heard this, what would my reaction be? Is that reaction what I'm trying to achieve?" filter. I understood the article as this being the "manipulative" element that the author wanted to eliminate. But for me personally it's been life-saving to have some way of making sure that I'm not completely misunderstood. And that will happen if you present the right information at the wrong time, in the wrong context, to the wrong people or with the wrong presentation. Yes, I deliberate a lot over how I word my emails...

This take on "communication is not just truths yelled into the void" is also reflected in several XKCDs: https://xkcd.com/1028/ https://xkcd.com/1984/ https://xkcd.com/1860/

And this one in particular is very poignant: https://xkcd.com/1576/
To save others a click, it would appear:

> in the top right corner of the header
Can someone knowledgeable about this issue comment about legal / tax feasibility of getting a remote job with a US company and living in Canada or elsewhere abroad?
Take a look at Sweden for an example of a country where poverty is more or less absent due to a wide social safety net while crime is on the rise. It is not poverty which causes gangs to go out and rob teenagers of their expensive branded jackets, iPhones and sneakers. Some turn to crime to get luxury items, some do it to dominate others (Denmark has created a specific category of 'dominance crime' for this phenomenon), some do it to gain street cred etc.
Thanks! Pretty useful. Can anyone supply a good comparison between Hacker News and Reddit?
He litigate a case of 8 1/2 month jailed pregnant women put in isolation. The without monitoring her. She woke up with a dead baby. Then the jailed doctored the records, pretending the baby died in the hospital.

I think this qualifies.
If the goal is to produce a simulation of handwriting then a font (which is a simulation of a case of metal blocks) seems like a bad starting point. Better to simulate a pen moving along a curve and then vary curve parameters (acceleration etc).
FHE schemes don’t allow comparing equality of plaintexts without decryption
Expect the pay to be half or less, but you get better overall benefits, a higher standard of living, in exchange for long winters and a mostly car-based society.
I wonder how this will work from a legal point of view. This is a blatant, obvious example of racism, they aren't even attempting to be subtle about it.
obligatory question: did you eat your own dogfood?
"IE". Difficult to search for what that means.
Collaborative Web Development Platform on the Browser
I did exactly this in 1996 when we implemented a case management system with a web-based frontend. It used a home-grown webserver written in Perl that was talking SQL to a Sybase instance.

And it was definitely not something unique. This project started because I was asking (probably on Usenet) for advice on what GUI framework we should use, and was recommended to build the application using web technologies.

The fact that IBM managed to get a patent on this is just one more of an almost infinite number of examples showing why the patent system is broken.
Fun fact, if you've ever driven from Texas to Colorado, you'll pass the largest Helium producing plant in the US just a few miles north of Amarillo, TX - on, aptly named Helium Plant Road.

When the whole shortage made the news, I had heard that the plant was for sale, and I actually talked with my wife and joked that we could buy the plant and corner a significant portion of the Helium market. LOL! I thought it would be pretty cool to own a significant part of the production of a single element.
I thought it was no secret to anyone that all services track digital fingerprints ... and there are many ways to do this. to fight them i use antidetection browser such as https://gologinapp.com/ or other. Are there any alternatives to this?
The license to say anything exists for all people to use as they see fit.

There is an emphasis on what "license he has" in your comment. He has all the same ones anyone else does.

Emphasizing the minor point misses the major, that in order to become more functionally happy, you need to have a mental model and understanding of how a person will take your input. Also people may do as many did, nothing.
But it also helps in law enforcement (surveillance state, supression).
This looks pretty cool. Why isn't this more popular?
Can you go into more detail? I've seen other people hint at that perspective elsewhere in the thread, and I want to understand it, because right now it's just completely mystifying to me. Uber Eats is now charging people extra to order from some restaurants depending on the race of their owners; how is that not a straightforward violation of antidiscrimination law?
Ask HN: What is the normal “hug” from HN?
I'm always curious when some links here don't survive the rush of traffic.

Does anyone have any graphs/metrics or stories to tell about major traffic after an article makes it to the HN front page?
Your description reminded me of a similar sound on my first night on anchor with my first chartered yacht. Turns out it was a fan in our inverter that was somehow switched on and it completely drained both our batteries (wrong installation) overnight so we couldn't lift the anchor nor start the engine in the morning
One reason is "settlement-free peering".
I was referring to the tedious wait for the configure script. It might not seem so bad now, but what's a mild annoyance on modern computer with an SSD is quite the interruption on a few hundred MHz and spinning rust.

Another thing I wish it would do is give you all of the missing dependencies up front. Aain, not so bad now, but it was a major hassle for me when a missing dependency meant a long walk to the local library, 4gb flash drive in hand.
> a mostly car-based society.

I haven't commuted by car in ... 17 years.

I work in the Metro Vancouver area.
How do you set the background colour in GNOME?

At least in the recent versions I've tested, you literally can't. You can only set it to an image.
Sorry bill, your software is buggy as hell, I'm not going to put that shit in my body.
Even Windows and macOS provide a higher level of configurability out of the box than Gnome does.
I have a creative writing site that lets authors write branching fiction novels together. It's stupid fun, we have Discord/Zoom writing events Sunday nights where we try to write chapters together (usually around 500 words) and read them to each other. It existed years ago and made some advertising money, and then I shut it down because of spam problems (since solved). I brought it back to live because of COVID. I'm petrified to launch the site live because it's on a 10-year-old php stack, the website design looks like it's from the late 90's, and my IP policy sucks (on submit, I own all copyrights, my current authors don't mind but it's always bugged me) and I have no other compliance things going on like coppa or privacy policies because I don't know how to do that and do I really want to hire a lawyer if I have no ambitious revenue plans? If I keep advertising turned off (my preference), my only other current revenue path is publishing books when all threads get concluded, and the writing quality, while better than most similar sites, is not really publication quality. So for now it just sits behind an apache password prompt and gets very little traffic, and that's ok for now. Although if anyone here likes the idea of writing silly creative writing stories on a private website, feel free to message me. Main story right now is a girl who is invited to mage school except she accidentally kills her boyfriend. Well, that's just one thread. In another thread he's a firemoose.
Indeed configuring Wine to run something can involve a lot from installing different depedencies to .dll overrides. Different configs for different applications are also a bit painful.

But other than this, Wine is great.
I recommend all users of Uber eats and co read some of the large subreddits for gig economy and uber eats workers on reddit. It’s pretty telling just how awful these companies are... and though it’s still relatively new these announcements for affirmative action are leading to a lot of pushback that some would identify as hurting the cause rather then helping it.
Crypto currencies generally are more popular with people who have less trust in the state, while people who trust states and their currencies are more sceptical. The same line exists in the Democratic/Republican divide.

The question is how Facebook will market and promote their wallet and efforts. My assumption is that for end users this will be promoted as a way to buy and sell things and services via Facebook platforms (pay my cab driver via WhatsApp while travelling etc.) and the fact it's a crypto currency underneath is an attempt to reassure other financial players that Facebook won't take over their business, but allows interacting (in the end users have to convert from/to local currency, which requires banks etc.)

And with that it's less a topic in that political divide.
I really do agree that this is peak hackernews, but I'm a kid (or legal minor, at least) and I wrote both my AP exam essays in Markdown in vim; it's not really that crazy for kids to learn a plain-text prose format.
Sounds unethical
I'm familiar with those terms but still.

There are people with free accounts moving GBs every month through their network and I imagine those free users must account for a very large percentage of their traffic.
Stating the obvious, Reddit was in the first YC batch; YC is HN’s parent company. Further, HN was created in part because Reddit’s intend is more general than HN; HN’s intend is to focus on substantially new information that triggers both curiosity & notable dialogues.
Ask HN: Is it legal to earn stock options for taking actions on a website?
>Regulatory requirements do not mandate to treat your customers like shit. Throw in algorithms that just decide that You! Are Banned! for wild and wonderful reasons and a totally shitty customer support by design.

What can they say other than "your account has been frozen" if there's legislation that says "tipping off" is an offence offence that carries a maximum penalty of five years’ imprisonment and/or an unlimited fine?

They can't explain they've made a suspicious activity report. They can't explain what has caused the account to be frozen. And there's no way for the bank or other participants in the regulatory process to defend themselves or explain why customer X was flagged. All we ever see are the customer's side of the story.

And yes, there will be false positives. Yes, there will be consequences. That's what happens when bank accounts get frozen.

Why is it surprising that this happens when there's personal liability, though?

I agree it's far from ideal, but change here needs to take place way above the individual banks.
I work for an American company and live in Metro Vancouver. In fact, around half the team lives here.

We own shares in the American company and are paid through a Canadian subsidiary. That compensation scheme avoids burdening the employees with the difficulty of declaring foreign earnings come tax time.

So for the most part it's the same as working for a Canadian company, but the pay is better.
That's unfortunate. I was/am always a big defender of online education, but I think the critics are right: most students just don't do as well.
No, that's not what it does.

To be fair, the readme doesn't explain it well. This is a GUI app that allows you to see the jq results in real time. Here [1] is a video.

[1] https://gfycat.com/oddtartbrahmanbull
I took a shot and tried Manjaro. After using it for a few weeks, I can say that I absolutely love it, and will be a Manjaro user for a long time on my personal machines. For new users, I have been recommending Pop_OS.
Not gonna claim to know the situation of the folks you're replying to. And Im not gonna pretend these organizations operate for free - if you can reasonably afford it? Supporting them is a great patriotism / praxis / etc for internet denizens.

But I will say this - advertising and tracking has a long, storied history of being a malware infection route. The great boon for all of us from a free-tier DNS-filter service is the additional layer of virus and information protection.

Protecting each other, even inexperienced, or low-budget users? Is the best thing we can do to slow the propagation of malware and institutional information leeches. This in turn protects even the servers of potentially ill-informed or budget-constricted server admins.

We are dealing with internet epidemiology. Free-tier "covid masks" / DNS filters preserve more health than simply for the users actively participating. We have to be in this together, or we will watch each other sink.

Thank you for your time, and sorry for the longwinded Lefty- "Dwight Schrute"-ing. But this entire disclaimer felt necessary to me.
In this virus season alone I've made $8000 in sales.

You'll find various subreddits where people are buying around 5-10spools a month. Imagine how much virgin plastic is being added like that to the environment.

I've been creating filament and selling it:

https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-ho...

This activity also help recycle waste plastic.

Production cost of filament is $7.5 per 5kg and filament roll has 850 gram filament and can be sold for $20-30 per spool

It's trivial to get the quality right.

You can sell rolls on Amazon, eBay and Etsy or your own Shopify store and use Facebook ads/Google Ads to advertise your website.

That said I didn't use any ads to sell filament! Only few days ago I started Shopify store and paid $5-10 in Facebook ads. Since we accept credit card, it's not too much of a risk for buyer to buy it from us (even when are new)

I work from home so I take 5 minute break and walk to my garage and check if the filament machine successfully is running on auto pilot

Thing is filament doesn't have huge demand, neither it has very less demand. So you can dominate local demand by creating quality filament.

I focus on fulfilling local demand, I've gained customers who need large supply of filament of ABS, TPU and Nylon12.

If people do actually come to compete with me, it's a win win. More plastic recycled = less plastic entering landfill.
I recall that there's been some improvements to CFS to fix this since 2018.
Killer Mike had a documentary on Netflix (?) about black life in America, and mentioned that money flows out of the black community far faster than any other minority in America. If we assume that Uber is acting in good faith, which I have no reason not to believe, then what else can they do?
You can pay in to recapture now and have it cheap enough for everything later as our needs expand, or you can fritter it away now and have it become a burden on our future expanding needs and have to pay in to recapture it then anyway. Not recapturing now sounds like a tax on future generations.
Ok, one of you smart people please explain the significance to this. It sounds super cool, but is way over my head.
I wish that at least 1 positive outcome from the covid once its really over - people in the west start taking face masks as not something to laugh at, but as an indication that given person doesn't want to infect others around them with whatever he thinks he is having.

I saw it long time ago as normal in south east Asia and it looked like a fine example of compassion towards rest of the population. Compared to usual west when people often go about their business, not caring much about others ie in public transport, schools or open offices. Only now it became acceptable in otherwise advanced place like Switzerland, till now one often faced real persecution, mocking and overall rejection from large parts of society.

Rest of your comment is unfortunately pure garbage, not worth any feedback.
What stood out for me is the focus on speaking vs listening.

I read a bunch of good books on communication and what stood out was that effective communication is mostly about strategies to get the other person to open up, while also sharing your perspective. It's about realizing that the other person may get defensive and insulted about things where you meant no insult. Accept that as the normal state of affairs, even with reasonable people, and then move on to dealing with that. Accept that most people, much/most of the time are poor communicators/listeners, and set up your framework appropriately. There's little point in becoming very good at communicating your perspective if you don't account for the fact that misconstruing what you say is virtually the norm. Don't account for it by repeating something verbatim (the worst) or by finding N different ways to say the same thing. Solving it is by getting the other person to open up about what they are hearing.

Everyone says "listening is more important", but that's a bit inaccurate. You can't listen if the other person doesn't talk to you (as Martin experienced). Effective listening is actually about getting the other person to open up and communicate with you - I prefer to call it Active Listening.

Certainly, how you say things matter, but it's perhaps 20-30% of effective communication.

One book put it clearly:

Stage 1: You worry too much about how people will respond to what you are saying, and you take ownership of their negative responses.

Stage 2: You stop worrying about it. You realize that as long as your intent was fine, and your communication was not misleading/unclear, you are not responsible for the other person's feelings. You free yourself of that baggage, and speak without worry.

Stage 3: Even though you are not responsible for other people's feelings/responses, you have empathy for them and decide to help them out and find ways to find ways to have them open up to you (without feeling manipulated, etc). At this stage, you don't care when someone insults you or shouts at you for something innocent you said, but you don't drop the conversation either.

Many people get to Stage 2 and stick to it. It's a better place to be than Stage 1, but you have a higher chance of people perceiving you as uncaring, rude, etc. Those who want to get better at communicating try to get to Stage 3.
Design studios behind some of the biggest technology brands
I'm thinking referring other to the site, voting on content, creating an account, etc.

Possibly even more complex activities like contributing code etc.
How is this not illegal given the Civil rights act of 64? This seems like a clear violation.
Yep, the ads. Monetized for maybe 10 years. Some years are much higher $$$ than others.

Search YouTube for askjud to see how it works. It’s been the subject of a few viral videos.
Unicode penis?

𓀐𓂸 edit: yeah hieroglyphics are allowed apparently
Not sure that’s always been true, or at least for sure PG was open about subsets if the code. Generally, there’s reason to open source code, and open sourcing it would likely result in more overhead not less; generally HN goal is to very, very slowly change the code, interface, etc.

Honestly, cloning HN really would not be that hard, cloning dang, that’s another story.

EDIT:
Here’s a recent comment from dang on open source HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22791221
It would be much more helpful if the linked article had an explanation of why this is happening (ordering system IT error, delivery confusion, funny name swap, etc), to make it interesting and something that has a takeaway point.

Right now it's just left like an unresolved mystery, as if the gods are just causing this for their amusement. But clearly there's a reason why this is happening, and the reporter couldn't be troubled to find out why.
Although it is a fact, that doesn't really answer why you can't comment on them.
uBlock Origin blocks this specific threat (and it's added a few extra filters since this article was posted), however as I noted near the end there are a bunch of other companies running these exact same scans and uBlock only has the ability to block one at a time as they pop up.

I've heard with uMatrix you can block all sites from trying to access localhost/127.0.0.1, which should stop the fingerprinting in its tracks. You may need to enable on a few sites that use localhost for legit things, but those aren't super common.