skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chrome removed that functionality a few years ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1ymfgw/user_stylesh...

(The comment there that removing this "is going to help increase speed significantly in the future" is pure BS. If anything, user stylesheet functionality was handled in native code --- just adding another CSS to the page --- which makes it far more efficient than going through the whole JS/extensions route.)

Ironically, IE11 is the last MS browser to support user stylesheets (Tools->Options->Accessibility) but Edge doesn't.

Even in Firefox, the fact that it's named "toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets" is ominous.

The Internet is becoming more and more user-hostile, and it's not just websites who are responsible.
Take a look at Elixir, it has metaprogramming and immutability while gaining the robustness and distribution that the Beam (Erlang VM) gives you.
Sure, here are just a few.

1. Rearing children with the goal of making them read at 2 years old. Then with the goal of learning calculus at 10. Then others as they grow older.

2. Learning programming by writing a real system that actual people will use -- instead of code katas or reading programming books or attending a boot camp.

3. Marrying not only for love, but with the intention of building a business or farm together.

4. Buying a house, with the knowledge you will sell it or convert it into a rental in a certain number of years. Then repeat with another house.

5. Starting a social media account to cover a specific topic, instead of making random posts about anything (have you noticed the most successful accounts are about one topic??).

6. Taking a degree with the intention of using it in a specific way and knowing how much money you will make to pay off the loan and live a comfortable life.

7. Buying a "beater" car, because you want to hire a new offshore employee for a side project instead of making a high lease payment to the bank.

The world is filled with the stories of people who do things purely on emotion and never had "missions" or a "why" they did the thing.
In my experience, the licensing laws typically deal with this. If a restaurant or bar, they can't serve alcohol or have live music after 9pm, or similar rules.

Works pretty well, and I'd much rather have the small restaurant or bar next door than not!
Did you even read the article? Not being invited to parties is not even close to the author's point.
I can definitely relate, except not for the gym type of goals, rather academic goals. I was studying STEM to be a researcher initially. I sunk pretty much every minute of my time into trying to achieve that. Despite this, I just could not get the marks needed to get where I wanted. That destroyed my mental health for a long time. I tied my self-worth into my education, and that only. I ended up developing something very similar to OCD that I still struggle with today.

Ended up giving up on that pursuit, and went into the software world and became a developer. It was really hard throwing that previous dream out, sunk cost and all, but I have never been happier than I am now. I realized that my single focus and obsession about achieving that specific goal meant that the rest of my life had been essentially halted. That's not the case anymore.

I think sometimes, at least for myself, we can get so caught up in the idealized end goal, that we forget that life happens between now and the end goal. If we don't take care of ourselves between those two end-points, we will either never reach that goal, or when we do, be unable to appreciate it.
Exactly.

Too often these email replies are automated and nobody looks at them. Even more so they briefly look and just say sorry still banned.

Only when it's raised publicly does somebody ACTUALLY look.
Did have a thought about a physical device/notification system that lets you know the sky is clear, would be interesting to work on that the tracking/predicting position assuming data is available.
Thank you! I definitely agree, this is an MVP for sure. Any feedback you have? Any ideas on a direction I should take it?
They haven't been legal for decades but yes, it's a real thing that had a massive impact, just like redlining. https://www.mappingprejudice.org/what-are-covenants/
Pretty much. Modern mixed-use developments are basically born again shopping malls. We don't have the density for "real" mixed use, so it's just a development project like any other; I'm sure there are real, integrated, mixed-use projects, but the ones I see in small urban/suburban areas are detached from the surrounding area and often detached from public transport, basically to sell overpriced apartments to lifestyle-minded HENRYs.
IANAL but I believe the court could hold them personally in contempt, which has real legal implications, but they cannot invent penalties or restrictions on the executive out of whole cloth. Nor can they supercede any passed legislation limiting the liability of federal officers.

Personal liability shields for federal employees usually have clauses around acting willfully in violation of the law and/or criminally negligent. So the argument would be that they can be held personally in contempt as it would be a willful violation.

It’s a strong statement, but not sure it actually has teeth.
I would love to own a true neighborhood pub. A literal “public house”. Nothing fancy but a nice watering hole for the locals.
https://github.com/ept/ddia-references

Here is their git repository of all online references, by chapter. Seems it doesn't include papers that don't have a clear, public link. If you have the book, though, you can get the names and search for them.
No mention of go-bindata which was one of the originals :(

I think this problem is best solved by a library.

Leave the damn language alone!
In the Boston area many of the nearby towns are what I call "urban suburbs". Very family friendly, many single- or two-family homes, but also very walkable and many shops throughout the town. I'm talking about towns such as Brookline, Cambridge and Arlington. They are really nice towns to live in and in very high demand.
No I see where the confusion is, you think Electrek and Fred Lambert is anything other than propaganda unit for Tesla PR. Well at this point I can't help you.
I can easily imagine being judged based on my output, not my etiquette.

It'd reveal most people to be largely about etiquette, largely useless if not outright harmful in terms of output if contemplated a little.

Most software jobs are re-implementing the same shit another company has already done. It's worse than useless - sipping tequila on the beach would actually be a net benefit for humanity - it'd alleviate stress, tension, traffic, hubris, carbon footprint among other things.

If contemplated a little more - most jobs are enabling this insane rat race and the immense infrastructure around it, which nobody individually is really that interested in continuing.

It's like religion or circumcision - we do and believe things and we don't even know why - most would be better off not knowing and not believing - just give them tequila and a beach :)
Not universally true, I am salary and get paid overtime. In fact, of all the software jobs I've had I did unpaid overtime only a couple times a year at most, never most years. I absolutely wouldn't do unpaid overtime regularly - paid overtime is fine, if I were expected to do unpaid overtime regularly I'd leave. Overtime has always been at base pay, not time-and-a-half like hourly employees.

Every salary job I've ever had (I've had 4) required everyone to do their own timekeeping ever day, no working six hours a day and calling it "full time" unless you charged the time off or I guess lied.
1Password which I love.

Work is switching to Bitwarden due to easier ability to integrate into our environment than 1Password.
Does Motivation Work?
Imagine how much better your life would be if one house on your suburban cul-de-sac was a sleepy pub.

I can't tell you any of my neighbor's names. I've been here ten years.

But if I could walk for 6 minutes and get a beer, we'd all know each other's names. We'd all have babysitter coverage, neighborhood watch, a reason to keep the car in the garage, and slightly bigger bellies, overnight.
Only in parts of it. There's a lot of the city that is just not suited to a walking lifestyle.
> How did we slip away so far from this being fairly obvious? Cities have worked well this way for hundreds of years.

Capitalism. Economies of scale. Taxpayer subsidies for car infrastructure. Nowadays Amazon, Uber Eats, etc.

Try actually running a local dairy or restaurant or electronics store and see how long it takes for you to be crushed out of existence by people driving to the supermarket 5 km away, or just ordering from VC funded loss-making delivery companies, or the like.
I'm a big proponent of continuous time zones, so that noon drifts ever so slightly as position changes.

Seems like a no-brainer to me.
Its still very much true. ASIC designs are described as massively parallel tiny communicating sequential processes. FPGA's are also extremely fine-grained CSP, to a degree that is much finer than anything a CPU can produce today.
It’s pretty simple: lots of people have problems with having to wear a mask, but remarkably few have problems with being forced to wear clothes. And you’re right, people will generally do it, even without being forced. So whatever peoples’ aversion to wearing masks is, it’s nothing to do with being forced to wear an additional article of clothing.
> But what are you sacrificing in return for your “perseverance”?

Nothing that matters to you. If it mattered to you it would be a life goal.

> The reason why modern humanity have increased risk of these symptoms is because they know, given their perhaps wrongly learned models of the world or otherwise, that even when they achieve their so-called life goals, that they wouldn’t achieve philosophical nor psychological satisfaction that they seek.

You've added a ton of words which literally don't even mean anything in context. Let me whittle this down:

> The reason why modern humans have increased risk of these symptoms is they know that even when they achieve their life goals, that they wouldn't achieve satisfaction.

Okay, we found an actual claim.

In his essay, Yes, We Have Noticed the Skulls, Scott Alexander notes that any intellectual movement that has been around for a while has made some mistakes, and is probably aware of them, so if there's some obvious failure of a movement, the people who still believe in the movement probably have learned from that failure. Communists are aware of Stalin murdering people and are wary of totalitarianism. Christians are aware of Torquemada torturing people and are wary of religious persecution. There are of course crazy communists and Christians who think Stalin and Torquemada were great, but they're not by any means the majority. If you talk to a communist and your big argument is "but, Stalin!" you're just showing exactly how outdated your knowledge is.

This is no exception. If your big criticism of psychology is that achieving your goals can leave you feeling empty, well, let me assure you, psychologists are well aware of this, and have studied it at length. This is not the gotcha you think it is.

There are two kinds of goals, process goals and outcome goals. Yes, outcome goals are likely to leave people feeling empty once the desired outcome achieved, which is why some psychologists think it's a good idea to focus on process goals instead. When you talk about "achieving" things and not feeling satisfaction, you're only talking about outcome goals, when there's a whole other type of goal that the article you're criticizing is probably talking about.
That would be cool for donations too. I often would like to compensate software devs or content creators, but I hate having to create an account and/or share credit card info.

I think someone mentioned "burner" cards a while back.
Something like Require-Recipient-Valid-Since from SMTP? That would be neat. Does SMS have the necessary protocol flexibility to allow that to be added?
Not sure if it can be applied to book authoring. I work on open sourced projects in my free time, not for-profit; I have income from other source (jobs) to cover my financial need.
The positives you listed are features of most social networks, not just Facebook. If Facebook disappeared overnight, another platform(s), hopefully more ethical, would quickly take over its role, and it could be a net positive for the world.
Because the real estate is being used as a value store for people moving money from overseas, engaging in money laundering, or as a hedge against other bets. Once exchange value is given priority over use value in markets for things like housing, you run into all kinds of nonsensical arrangements and deleterious social consequences.
Thank you. Very usefull. The documentation is good.

I've just discovered Lazarus. I didn't know (object) pascal programming was so easy and pleasant. I think it will be for a time my first choice when needing to create custom tools on computers.
If you are interested in calendar reform and enjoy world history, the French Revolutionary calendar is fascinating to read about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar
Indeed, where I live, sidewalks are not obligatory with new construction, so it's up to the developer whether there's even a sidewalk at all. It's not uncommon to see a sidewalk out front of one building or development, then a segment with no sidewalk, then one where the sidewalk picks up again.
If you are big enough theres some weird accounting incentive to keep it vacant. You can keep claiming it as an asset that brings in 10x dollars, even though your cash flow is 0x, so actually renting for 8x really hurts your asset value or some nonsense that im probably getting the details wrong about.
How Taiwan’s unlikely digital minister hacked the pandemic
so all of the suburbs
Ask HN: DoNotPay siphoning from bank account, recourse?
I installed DoNotPay over a year ago and just now noticed they started taking 3$/mo since December despite having uninstalled a year ago and have no emails or notice or anything from them. Anyone else have this experience? There was nothing about this cost when I signed up so don’t know how they can just start taking money. Contacting them they said it’s their policy to only refund 3months, nice policy heh. Also interesting they are essentially doing a silent subscription around Apple and it doesn’t show up anywhere since tied to your bank account. Yea 9$ isn’t going to kill me but they are likely stealing from sooo many bank accounts because of silently starting to siphon funds and no way to stop it thru Apple or anything.
This would be huge. I have had to deal with 3rd party libraries to try to embed assets for a web server.
Surely one of those other 95% of users can contribute with instructions that apply them.
We built a gem on top of ViewComponents that works similarly to Phoenix Live View:

https://github.com/unabridged/motion
I don't think so.

In remote work, communication matters more. Language barriers kill it. Working with non native language speakers over less than ideal communication channels is hell on Earth.
> since I don't know any Japanese, but of course Japanese hospitality is top-notch

I'm actually really surprised you're saying this. Maybe your Asian? There were a few izakaya I wandered into and got welcomed with a harsh no gaijin. I loved most of my trip to Japan (Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka) but that was jarring and off putting.
Where Will Everyone Go?
Which is the way it should be. Not everything needs to be in std lib.
Non-paywalled link https://web.archive.org/web/20200724025436/https://www.nytim...
go-bindata is mentioned first, before the bullet list.
It's right there

> One of the earliest and most popular was github.com/jteeuwen/go-bindata and its forks
For the purpose of this thread, laptops and Macs are Intel PCs.
This reminds me of another eye-popping distro but for pentesting (also Arch based)

Black Arch
Writing code is only a small part of a developer's job. If you focus on that then you'll miss a lot of other key productivity factors, such as contributions to team design discussions, code reviews, defect root cause analysis, etc.

So in short no, it's not possible to accurately measure developer productivity even if cost isn't a factor. Employee evaluations are necessarily subjective and we simply have to accept inaccuracy.
There are already organisations that have to control employee access to ‘customer’ data very tightly. Law enforcement. Law enforcement agencies have access to large databases full of people along with a huge amount of very sensitive data (both confidential personal data, and stuff like information about ongoing and typically covert investigations).

I’ve worked with several of these types of organisations and the ones that actually want to manage that access well, typically do a pretty good job (though some of them actually want to do it badly, or just don’t care).

Locking down access to sensitive admin consoles isn’t tremendously difficult, requiring additional approval workflows for highly sensitive operations isn’t particularly difficult, and in that context non-repudiation is rather simply to address.
I think Cascadia Code[0] is pretty close but I wish Microsoft would re-release Consolas with ligatures.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code
Does this rely on code generators or maybe a schema generator from code? I’m curious about how schema and code are kept in sync.
The elephant in the room to me is that companies talked a ton about creating spaces that are conducive to great work. The design and architecture of an office matters. Not all have it right, but for those who do, it goes a long way. See Pixar as an example. But all of a sudden everyones acting as if none of that matters, all because we get to skip a commute and sit in our pyjamas?

You truly don't know what you've got till its gone...
I grew up in a lower-middle-class American suburb and it was the same situation.
Not an actual astronomer, but somewhat aware of detector issues for space-based telescopes.

Typically, you want to use one single integration time, if possible. Doing so can limit readout noise, for one thing. (Note that ground-based astrophotographers, with consumer cameras, often take multiple exposures to cool down the detectors. This is not a factor with the actively-cooled detectors in astronomical telescopes.)

For instance, the observations leading to the recent discovery of the two-planet exosystem [1] used roughly 15-minute integration times [2, sec. 2] across an 8 meter (!) aperture. This is a longer integration time than the 17, 30-second integrations that produced OP.

I think the above considerations about stacking vs single exposures are a side issue, though.

The saving grace is that many astronomical observations are narrow-field-of-view, and are done away from the illuminated part of the StarLink constellation. But, surveys or wide-field images could really be affected strongly, at the 30-40% level [3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23917559

[2] https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/492/1/431/5680498

[3] https://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/e...
Well, ok. Does it make any more sense?

Trying to put it in concrete terms - Jeff Bezos has maybe $180B. One ten-millionth is $18K. So the scenario is, suppose Bezos got his $180B by taking $1800 each from a million people, who relied on that capital to live, and somehow multiplied it by ten.

Since nearly everyone rich has less than Bezos, anything that happens a fair amount would involve smaller numbers.

It's not as absurd as making $200 trillion, but it still doesn't sound to me like a thing that happens to the extent that it says something about economics or utilitarianism or whatever. It seems like a contrived trolley problem to me.
I feel like this as a sensitive area (no pun intended) where the choice of language is important.

There is a risk of causing shame to men who are circumcised with statements like "Male circumcision leads to a bad sex life".

It is great that there seems to be an emerging dialogue where we question whether we should be circumcising without medical necessity, and challenge long-held assumptions with science. But it is still a highly personal issue, and a degree of sensitivity in the language would go a long way.

I don't know, am I overreacting here?
> No mention of go-bindata which was one of the originals :(

There’s literally an entire section in the appendix dedicated to `go-bindata` and explaining what it generates. It was also first in the list of libraries mentioned.

I also disagree with you entirely. The document does a great job explaining the problems with having this “solved by a library”. I’m excited about this draft design.
NC A&T is an HBCU. The subtext isn't that recruiting teams prioritize top-tier schools --- of course every firm does this. Rather, it's that HBCUs get included in these trips, so that HR departments can report metrics about outreach to URMs ("trips made to HBCUs" are an especially straightforward metric), but when those visits actually occur, they're performed with such disrespect that they lay bare the underlying biases.
It's not as automatic, but Garmin BaseCamp does let you pull your activities from the watch. I believe it has an option to transfer every time it's open and a device is plugged in, but it doesn't run in the background.
That happened to me in golden dai, I went on a rainy sad and sketchy night, and the people in the tiny restuarant were just the happiest and curious, they could have been tourists from another part of Japan though, who knows

I mean Japanese can keep to themselves too

But the point is that the intimidate, accessible nature has other redeeming qualities
Here is my comment on the IA blog post, suggesting other ways IA could respond ranging from expanding their lending program for format-shifted physical books to changing the laws about copyright duration and taxation:
http://blog.archive.org/2020/07/22/libraries-have-been-bring...

That said, sometimes bullies can be turned to buddies through understanding and changing your reactions (see Izzy Kalman) -- but not always. So no simple answers.

If the IA as a specific legal entity if going out of business from this, then what's next for the people and resources involved? As in, how can we archive the archive? Or how can the ideas spread in new ways?

I did not post this there, but as another idea beyond books, the IA could also expand its programs in other ways. For example, as an idea I submitted years ago to a Knight News Challenge on the future of libraries, public libraries could be used (via to-be-written browser plugins or proxies) to archive their local resident's public social media posts and public blog posts and comments on blogs. This archiving would happen as such comments were and submitted to social media services. The people making the posts would be granting permission to their local libraries to archive and republish the content. This could create a freely-accessible and archived public web as essentially a shadow of these social media services. The IA could coordinate that.
It's interesting that this is a closed source commercial product. MMBasic is similar (source available, but only for personal use):

https://mmbasic.com

Maybe there is an untapped market? I remember when "BASIC stamps" were a big thing..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC_Stamp
Aside from being unpleasant to listen to, it’s the perfect Christmas song.
I would assume the comment you're replying to means things like resource usage patterns and costs to estimate a client's profits for example. Rather than reading actual data from S3 or a database.
"This is the clear-cut conclusion of a new Danish research article..." ಠ_ಠ

Someone loved dropping that line in a study about circumcision.
Definitely a no-brainer, I'd say.