skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Portland Public Schools and Tri-Met (local authority that runs the buses) let high school students travel for free. That's because PPS doesn't provide yellow bus service for students in high school.

One of my daughters did Tri-Met as a 7th Grader because it saved more than 30 minutes over the yellow bus. Taking the bus seems a lot less convenient than driving most of the time but for her it was faster. I took the bus with her the first day and she was fine after that. No bad experiences that I ever heard of.

When we were in Japan, we saw many students of all ages on the trains.
Agreed in principle. It's my primary browser and it seems to me that it's already in good shape (technically, and feature-wise). And the project is not starting from scratch.

So if the financial incentives aren't there yet, and the only remaining value that Firefox provides is privacy and user freedom (along with good but not perfect performance), I'd imagine the FSF could be interested in managing something like this. And can maybe start with part-time volunteers.
There's also the nuclear option, AKA beeminder.com.

You set your goals, choose a financial punishment, and you get charged on failing. Works pretty great.
It’s not exactly what you’re looking for but you might like FocusMate[1] which sets you up with a (mostly) silent video chat partner to work for an hour and then report back what you’ve accomplished. You won’t want to be the dingus who reports back that you’ve done nothing but screw around for hour. I’ve found it’s helpful in getting me started on something and then once the session is over I’m able to keep going.

[1]https://www.focusmate.com/
Japan is dominated by public transit and is one of the countries least affected by it. Transit is not unsafe when people follow distancing procedures and wear masks / don't talk loudly. This was backed up by research

"It’s a similar situation in Japan, where researchers failed to connect a single cluster to the country’s commuter trains, said Hitoshi Oshitani, a virologist and public health expert at Tohoku University. The vast majority of the clusters were instead traced to gyms, bars, live music venues, karaoke rooms and similar establishments where people come in close contact with one another,"

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/there-is-little-e...
If repair involves calibrating some software control system to the new part, and that can't be done without diagnostic software that nobody has access to. That kind of thing.
This topic comes up quite frequently on HN. It boils down to the risk-reward ratio. If you've never tried to sell anything on Amazon it's probably not obvious how ridiculously important positive reviews are to your product sales. I cannot overstate how important they are in the beginning, given the way your average online shopper decides what to buy.

What this means is that sellers are faced with an absolute imperative to get positive reviews at any cost, otherwise they die, while the flip side is that if they get caught manipulating reviews they maybe get de-listed and start over again. This imbalance leads to exactly what you see now, and it at least seems like as long as positive reviews are so important (in the absence of curation) this will be an arms race.
The problem is the US has done a lot (though it's not solely to blame) to propel China up on the world stage, especially in the last decade+. We have given up a lot of our world leadership duties in many aspects and China wasted no time in filling any voids that we left behind.

This isn't just a Trump thing (though he has accelerated pulling the US out of leadership positions) but it goes back to the lack of response to the Crimea annexation (and Russia's continual pushing of it's Ukrainian boundary).

China has spent the last several decades smartly becoming more diversified in what countries they depend on, while at the same time making sure the whole world was heavily reliant on themselves. Due to that no one country can do anything to keep China in check, and in normal times that would be OK. However, the world has relied on the US to form global coalitions that would work together to push back against things like this, and now that the US has made it clear it will not work with anyone else (even allies), China knows that no other country has the influence to form such a coalition. That means it doesn't even need to be coy about what it's doing (as we are seeing with Hong Kong).

So yeah, I agree that in 2019 and 2020 the US and Eu/Britain couldn't have done anything meaningful, but what's happening right now is heavily caused by the US' pulling out of the world stage leading up to it.
The issue with Discord is if the message compose box is focused the cursor keeps flashing and redrawing a big tile of the screen even in the background, manually defocusing the message box fixes this. This is also something Discord could easily fix I think.
My most used Alfred things beyond launching apps/files:

* Clipboard history (screenshots on clipboard in the history is extra useful)

* Snippets using the date placeholders {datetime:short} for various file naming and email workflows

* Snippet shortcuts for things I always forget like the shortcut for → and ™ or my zoom meeting link that I paste into meeting invites

* Launching simple shell scripts by keyword

* Workflow for opening Jira tickets in my browser quickly

* Search notes workflow for quick access to everything in the Notes app

* Soulver workflow for using the Soulver engine in Alfred for doing quick calculations

I was a Quicksilver user that never quite got into Spotlight. I'm betting these days some of these workflows can be accomplished with Spotlight and other apps but Alfred has worked very nicely for me.
The UK effectively offered asylum to millions of HKers, in a move basically unprecedented after WWII, and drew a line over previous plans to coordinate on things like 5G and nuclear. What else could they have done? In a world of superpowers, the UK alone is small potatoes.
I many cases they’re selling a complementary product. Think Vercel for Next or consulting for Ubuntu. The free thing creates a market for the expensive thing.
China Freezes Credentials for Journalists at U.S. Outlets, Hinting at Expulsions
Auto generated WebAPI client library with NSwag
> if this article is to be believed: it is the alleged “underdog” that is attempting to suppress journalistic freedom (through intimidation) to control the news narrative.

Consider the source. She has some history of standing against reform movements.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Rommelmann##MeNeither
I do absolutely agree on that.

What would be nice is that you get the benefits of the drug without any of the "bad trip" experiences, in a controlled way.
You might be able to find it out without installing Quartz Debug by using the system's DTrace probes, most of Apple's stuff already comes pre-instrumented.

Haven't tested or validated that it can be done though, just an idea...
This just common sense. Go take a scientific paper and format it in large pink comic sans and see how it changes your perception of it.

The presentation of information is important. Not just the visuals, but even word choice. For example, you chose to criticize "professional" presentation as "slick", a word that more easily conveys a negative meaning.
Ask HN: How did you discovered HN?
I remember watching one of my repos (abandoned now) get a lot of stars out of nowhere and being super confused. Then one of the regular contributors told me "you are on the front page of HN" and I had no clue what HN was. After all that I couldn't stop coming back to this site. If it wasn't for that I don't know if I would have ever discovered it.

So I was wondering, how did you find out about HN?
Covid-19 Homschool Tips, Ideas, and Resources
I agree with you and it makes sense. As a noob to this, have you happened to have read up on any legit alternatives to the review treadmill?
DNS is not content.

HTTP caches were always problematic from a business perspective. Great for downloading large binaries (installs) but problematic when they don’t expire as expected, or if content needs to change for contractual reasons.
Hold down Option while clicking the window to exclude the drop shadow from the screenshot.

As a vastly more general rule, hold down Option while clicking anything on a Mac to get the alternate/advanced form of the click action (e.g., try Option-clicking the various status icons on the right end of the menu bar).
That might be like saying, in 2001, there isn't a Microsoft-free future for desktop computing. Apple gained a little market share since then, but it's a mostly moot point because of the rise of mobile. There's going to be a next big thing, and there's a good chance it won't be Google...or Google will just buy it.
Who on Earth posts this crap and why does it end up on the front page?

Science and proven strategies can get everyone through this easily. Apparently that's incredibly hard for many to accept though. Just look at the outcomes in every country with maskwearers vs those without for instance.

This stuff is incredibly simple, the problem is the innate politicisation of every single issue in Western democracies and the tango between various level of governance that has incentivised being a contrarian.
Belgium has an eid card which is an older version of just that: Put the card in a smart card reader and type your 4 digit pin.

In practice it is used almost exclusivelt by governements, e.g. login to tax on web. Healthcare also uses it. I did as an experiment use it to log myself in on a personal website. Wasn't hard to set up.

The sky hasn't fallen here.
Not just fake reviews (where fake means no product was ever bought), but also reimbursed 5-star reviews.

Instagram + Facebook are blasting sites like Rebatest[0] in my face for some reason. I'm shocked Amazon lets such sites exist. I'm not opposed to people asking for reviews, but insisting they are 5-star reviews seems terribly unethical. Not surprisingly, they have a referral program as well...

Intrigued by this several hours earlier today, I signed-up because who wouldn't want a reimbursement for a _good_ product they would have bought otherwise? Let's see how this goes, low expectations.

Searching Google for "rebatest vs" naturally yields competitors Rebaid[1]

[0] https://www.rebatest.com/

[1] https://www.rebaid.com/
IIRC, Canonical gets most of their money from server support licenses, analogous to Red Hat.
The problem is when you plug one of these (as someone already linked) into the 20 amp socket:

https://www.homedepot.com/p/GE-12-ft-2-Wire-16-Gauge-Polariz...

Everyone in the US has a bunch of these. 16ga is good for 13 amps. Even if everything is working properly, two 10-amp devices will draw 20 amps and the cable will melt before the breaker pops. If everything is not working properly, and there is a short-circuit, the cable will still probably melt before the breaker pops.

This is why the OP gets it exactly backwards - she is looking at the big cable/connector and thinking "that's dangerous!" No, danger comes from the weakest link in the system, not the strongest. That weakest link must be a fuse or breaker.
San Francisco has a means-tested variant instead [1] with the same thresholds for both children (5-18) and seniors (65+ here). Children under 5 are free.

I think you can quibble about means testing, barriers to application, and just “do it through taxes”. Amusingly, we’re quite similar to Paris in that the SFMTA “farebox recovery ratio” (fare revenue divided by costs) is in the 25% range [2].

That low funding rate (75% through taxes then) is despite fairly large increases in the fare over time. IIRC, the youth / senior Pass was $10 in 2007 and is now $40, the regular was $50 and is now... $81 (and set to increase in January [3]). Somewhat rationally, it seems this was all connected to indexing the fares to Bay Area inflation [4], designed so that salary of the drivers keeps up with inflation.

Like Paris though, we have (had) a large tourist contingent that pays full fare when visiting. Some argue that “they’re not taxpayers, make them buy tickets”, but it seems more efficient to just account for that in hotel taxes. Otherwise you never get out of the fare collection inefficiency (in San Francisco, drivers on buses must also be fare enforcers, historically leading to it being a dangerous job) and again it penalizes people who don’t know to apply for their free passes they’re entitled to.

[1] https://www.sfmta.com/fares/free-muni-youth

[2] https://www.sfmta.com/reports/muni-farebox-recovery-ratio

[3] https://www.google.com/amp/s/sf.curbed.com/platform/amp/2020...

[4] https://sf.curbed.com/2019/6/19/18691884/muni-price-inflatio...
I expect this has more to do with expectations about compatibility and the strength of the relationship, rather than actually stronger relationships. It would be interesting to see data on subjective satisfaction, behavior, etc. that would separate out couples who are staying married out of duty vs. couples who actually like each other.
Here's a video of BLM/Antifa protestors in Portland 1 week ago celebrating after one of their security detail apparently murdered a right-wing protester in cold-blood:

> "I am not sad that a fucking fascist died tonight" crowd cheers

https://clips.twitch.tv/TiredFunnySmoothieTwitchRPG
> Yes, the future is .NET Core, however pretending that outside Windows it can match Java offerings just reveals a complete lack of knowledge of all kinds of platforms that have Java support available for them.

I have no idea what on earth you're on about... you didn't bring up anything I didn't know as far as places where various JVMs live.

This just reads like another distraction from the topic of language direction just like your last comment trying to confuse web frameworks and language runtimes...

Why is .NET Core supposed to be blindly chase platform parity with JVM down, especially down to embedded devices?

You realize the JVMs used on embedded devices aren't the same ones used on desktop right?

Like there are C# frameworks for embedded development on microcontrollers, why on earth would that be .NET Core's domain? Do you think HotspotVM is running on those smartcard microcontrollers?

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Your entire comment you seem to be under the impression .NET Core exists to be a drop-in replacement for the JVM for every usage.

Which is especially strange because you're using JVM as a generic term for every JVM in parts of your comment, which would maybe be comparable to the CLR at best (but still be an odd comparison to make)

If anything you're speaking to the strength of C# and a product like .NET Core, they're not chasing the same goals that skewered the development pace of Java.

The C# team is not worried that their language standard changes might be hard on people embedded runtimes in smart cards or 25 year old binary only jars

The same mentality is why C# paid the price to break backwards compatibility on generics back in the 2.0 days, and enjoyed a much more powerful implementation going forward in perpetuity.

You're free to feel one approach is better than the other, but it's non-sequitur at best (and disingenuous at worst) to start spouting off about how the JVM runs on smartcards and so that means .NET Core is supposed to be matching that in a conversation about language growth...
You might need to read the article again if that's all you got out of it.
Freelancers granted exemptions from California's landmark AB-5 labor law
REST is an architectural style and while the decision to use the style may lead to "lock in", it in and of itself does not given it's a choice to use it or not.
NYC issues student metro cards from the school if you need to go more than half a mile:

https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-life/transportation/bus-e...
As well as certain cancers and many other things. Neuroscience is taking but baby steps, it's currently in the XVII century equivalent stage of development.

An interesting thing to know is how seizures and mental illnesses interact, for instance. Yes, we're talking ancient early XX century "connect a brain to electric current" kind of thing but at better precision. Electroshock therapy. We know so very little here.

It could well be that psychedelics and this share the mechanism of action. Or not.
> This might be important, like a form of therapy based on counselling, thinking or talk seems beneficial for success of drug based psychotherapy.

While I don't doubt there is some human component to this, what I worry about are interactions with standard prescriptions and OTC medicines.
I have computers that are over 15 years old and still work today because they were designed to be upgraded and to last.

There are many Chromebook lines that are similar to phones in that you can't just install Linux or a new version of Windows once Google stops supporting your hardware.
They asked you to comment more substantially, not build more strawmen.
Maybe I'll get down voted, but I think it's a legitimate question to ask: if someone offers me a refund in exchange for my review, and the product would benefit me, why shouldn't I accept it? Is it my duty to protect Amazon or other consumers? Perhaps it's a small merchant trying to get started in the face of big corporations doing other things to cheat the system (ex. pricing out competition to capture the market). Could it be that I'm helping a small business get started by getting a free product in exchange for a review? There's no way to know for sure. But I can imagine that some people would indeed take this offer and I don't necessarily blame them. Should I?
Oh I completely agree. I am mostly just annoyed at the slanted comparisons, saying that something like Python is ”simple” on some absolute scale.

I teach Python to scientific programmers. There are a lot of little details and corners that aren’t as obvious to experienced developers. Just like any language.
No it doesn't.

Most people are not on Twitter or Insta the only possible 'odd one' would be Facebook, and you can say you deleted your account a while ago.

That leaves not much.
I didn’t figure out the public school system until the middle of third grade. By then the era of gold stars had passed me by, so any motivation I found was going to have to be intrinsic, not public accolades.

I had a boss who was being weird about making me a lead for the first time. I needed him to make it official, not fret the title. I told him I didn’t care what he called me as long as people did what I asked them to do.

If you want to stay an IC, I can not recommend loudly enough that you learn to manage your finances and your consumption. Managing your “needs” makes your savings last longer. Getting a raise just lets you build your savings faster, which might not be the same (especially since your needs will be inflation adjusted but your savings will not).

It’s harder to maintain the courage of your convictions when you are in debt than when you are doing okay.

If someone makes you work for a promotion, they are manipulating you. That could be good (in a mentor) or bad (in a labor exploiter). But you are being manipulated, and it’s better if it’s really your choice, not your mortgage or your kids’ braces.
I wanted to point out that Linode has quality Linux hosting for as low as $5 per month. We've used them reliably for years.
Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19
Not structurally incompatible but typically suffering from stunted growth. Nazi Germany didn't go on enough to show its limits, but Franco's Spain or Pinochet's Chile struggled to grow until their strongman went away.
I used to contract for a firm which made heavy use of Belarusian software dev teams, hopefully all is cool with the guys I used to work with :S
Wouldn't the data we have on mental health show that contemporary wisdom on its treatment is failing? Given spikes in rates of anxiety and depression over the past century, among other adverse effects, this isn't an unreasonable conclusion to make.

That said, maybe it's more important to look at how these have been dealt with in the past than the data we have in the present.
About Czechoslovakia... You know there was a numerous ethnic minority of Germans before the aftermath of second world war, right? We pushed them out because of nation state ideology, which gained prominence after first and then especially second world war. Before then, people were Bohemians, and they spoke like and culturally were Germans, Austrians, Moravians, Czechs, Silesians, Slovaks, etc.
Well, I can see where you were coming from. As you point out, it is frustratingly ambiguous that BLM the phrase and the organisation are the same acronym.

I'm certainly not sure everyone who has funded BLM the organisation fully agrees or understands the difference either!

Thanks for clarifying what you mean.
Yes 'letting go of karma' is definitely a spiritual recommendation, that might very well ironically have the exact same cathartic application in the online social media universe.

It's like we need an 18th century Swami's guidance on how to deal with 21st century woes: 'let go of karma'.
I wonder if (or hope that) filling public transit with kids would help convince people to fund better and safer public transit systems.
Same.

It also seems like Belarus is killing the goose that laid the golden egg here, not that that’s surprising behavior from an authoritarian regime fighting for its life.
The Shigir Idol originally stood tall beside a paleo-lake (2019)
For those that hit a paywall/ no-script block, here are some alternative links to what I presume to be pretty much the same article

https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-belarus-election-tech-idUK...

https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/europe/belarus-it-w...

https://icotalknews.com/business/tech-workers-flee-belarus-a...

P.P.S This was one of things I used to use the now defunct 'Web' button for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23762479
Couldn’t find it can you share a link ?
> It’s fascinating to see how desaturated many colors are around us!

I do a lot of watercolor, and it truly is amazing how much of our world is some shade of mud, and how far you can get with a couple of muddy pigments. Sargent did a lot of watercolor in sketches in Venice with just ultramarine, cerulean, raw sienna, burnt sienna, and a tube of white. James Gurney gets a lot of mileage out of the "six-pack" white, black, raw umber, yellow ochre, venetian red, and cobalt.
just came here to say brave rewards. its the only idea ive seen that seems viable, and ironically where firefox might be without the eich fiasco :/
Live stream: everyone can attack admob and earn money
While I can see why you'd suspect the term might be used as a dogwhistle, I can see why honogenity might be an advantage here.

It's a country with very few different people and viewpoints because there's not that many people to form groups. While I certainly would never see a lack of diversity as a general goal for a country, fewer viewpoints to consider significantly reduce the amount of time it takes to get stuff done in governments. The fewer ideals you need to consider, the shorter the debates can be.

A country built up out of immigrants like the USA bring a plethora of viewpoints and cultures, all living inside one general government. This is a valuable source of cultural development and progress but the more groups you have within your borders, the more chances of friction you get and the longer politics should take; there are just more factors to take into account, and that's not necessarily a bad thing.