skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I never understood why people think affiliate are bad.

I get that it's unethical do it without users consent,

but I am personally OK with anyone using affiliate links for whatever I subscribe to. I don't lose anything, I don't pay for it, some company is letting other people or smaller companies increase budget. I often ask my colleagues if they can get me referral link before I signup for something. What's wrong with it?
Is it just me or does the article seem to end rather abruptly as if much more was intended and perhaps accidentally left off or just published before completion?
Uber and Lyft rise as investors expect California voters to pass Prop 22
I'm not sure how it's "cloud propaganda" to say that performance variance is a very real thing in response to someone making the claim that it doesn't exist when you rent servers.
I believe in NYC the underground work is controlled by the labor unions, so hourly wages are actually very high. I believe getting one of those tunneling jobs is like winning the lottery to middle class people in the area.
If anything, technical interviews will probably be the thing that makes me throw in the towel and exit the industry. My #1 goal in life at the moment is get into what I would call an "endgame company" and stay there as long as possible, enjoy the work (I genuinely do), and extract the maximum amount of $$$ while at it, then prepare for something else. Maybe help my wife out with her shop while contracting on the side for giggles and extra pocket change.

But while currently working at a non-tech company that pays poorly compared to many mid to upper tier tech companies, the money is still good - arguably better than anything else I could possibly be doing short of having become a medical doctor or hedge fundie.
That was an example. $1600 ultrabook costs $230 after 6 years. It includes display and there are cheaper models. Computing power has not changed much in the last ten years (just stay away from Intel Atom), maybe add some RAM and good to go. Bonus point — compatibility with x86 and x64 software, SATA.

Raspberry Pi 400 is fine, but it is not cheapest.
Maybe I'm wrong, but isn't this a key component required to have native support (without having to use a VM?)

Frankly, though docker failed to deliver most of its promises, but at least it became a standardized deployable unit.
You see it in backend code too. For example Golang's context.WithTimeout is used to time out http requests and database calls that may be taking too long. This is particularly irksome with microservices where multiple services are running timeouts that interfere with one another.

It is becoming du jour to quell 99 percentile latency spikes (i.e. 1:100 requests will take substantially longer) by terminating the requests, which may not always be in the best interest of the user even if it is convenient for the devops teams and their promotion packets.
> I literally did that as a kid.

Wicked, would love to hear the story.
On the europe subreddit, there were discussions talking about how the sculpture was made of plastic.
10 more years?
Ubuntu is a pretty good substitute for macOS. My key issue with Linux is the small selection of productivity apps: markdown editors, code editors, drawing packages, password managers like 1Password. Feature rich terminal apps like iTerm2. Well designed Git UI clients like Tower etc.

The rest is pretty good. Like the core UI, file manager, virtual desktop management, configuration etc works very well. Much nicer than the Windows mess.
De-Googling has been an ongoing process for me, and sometimes takes a step backward. This type of discussion and article is a nudge for me to check whether I can make a better choice, rather than Google-by-default.

For example, I started using Google Docs again because I was required to for a job, and found some of its features useful enough that I didn't have an immediate replacement.

I reflexively use Google Translate (there are alternatives listed here that I didn't know about)
> $55-60

let's allow a more realistic $80 delivered

yes, it's a great price for a great piece of kit, don't get me wrong. but if the price is still an issue (as implied by free monitor), it shouldn't be a big exaggeration to expect to find a second hand Pi4 for $40-50
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I really want a good alternative to Google Photos. Jottacloud is getting pretty close, but there are problems when using it for photos and backups at the same time.
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Couldn't the original degree of difficulty of a book be altered during the translation process? Not sure if this is an apples to apples comparison. If you stick to books written in the same language, then perhaps.
Likewise, albeit not quite so recently (~5 months ago).

What's strange is how the poem relates to me somewhat differently being as that "gap" has already started to slowly fill. Honestly, it put a smile on my face. I love how little things like a simple poem can become so relatable to all of us.

Regardless, I'm sorry to hear of your loss. Please do give yourself time to heal--I know it sounds cliché but it's absolutely of the utmost importance. Without knowing the context, it's almost certainly for the better. It took me a while to realize that toxic people can--and WILL--drag you down no matter how much you might love them or try to work things out. Plus side is that in my case, the problem solved itself once I stopped responding to her patterns of behavior that were causing us issues!

If you need to let off some steam or just want someone anonymous to talk at, feel free to email me at my HN username at gmail.com. Having been down that road not all that long ago, I know how you feel.
You fail to take into account inefficiencies in transmission and charging. That would multiply required input by a factor of two or three, depending where you measure it.

So no. Switch most commute to electric - then at first grid goes down, then power plants struggle.

"Most grids have a lot of spare capacity between, say, 9PM and 7AM" - that's not the grids we're talking about. HV circuits might not feel it, but something laid down for a suburb was scrupulously designed to carry only just enough, because it's basically burying refined metal, be it copper or aluminium.

There is no spare even 4KW for every house and never has been because that would have cost more in about everything - meters, cables, multiple stages of step-down transformers, transmission lines, generation.

Electicity is not free, never has been, and distibution costs are surprisingly a very important consideration.
macOS seems to do alright
One key point is that you do not want a single all-encompassing alternative, at least one that is a remote corporate-run service, as this simply replicates the risk elsewhere.

The principle options are:

- Integrated replacement services. Don't do this.

- Multiple independent free services. At least you've diversified risk. Mind that these may (and likely will) consolidate with time. Skype, WebMeeting, Instagram, YouTube, GitHub, and Blogger were once freestanding companies. They no longer are.

- Self-hosted solutions. NextCloud, FreedomBox, etc., or DIY service bundles on your home, office, and/or a hosted service can avoid the problem entirely at least for highly stateful services (email, contacts, files, documents)

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=google+alternatives

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

https://nomoregoogle.com

https://alternativeto.net
people keep trotting out this old story of Google kills products but it hasn't happened in years. Yes they killed some niche products years ago - social network/chat and an rss reader.. but the important stuff with huge user bases is stable. gmail, chrome, calendar, maps, docs have never been shutdown and likely never will until the entire tech world changes drastically.
Fix for the CAPTCHA issue coming! There's a pre-release version out which you can try:
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v1.16.71

Shooting to have the official version out today or tomorrow
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No it's not that. Even in posts where I just state logical reasons for disagreement I get voted down in this thread.

People vote down what they disagree with, if they agreed with me, most peoples' biases would usually find my attitude appropriate.

If I said something like logically I feel a certain race is inferior genetically. People will vote that statement down purely out of disagreement and misinterpret it as an emotionally charged statement and illogical.

It's just a statement with no logic behind it. It's dead pan with nothing. You can't even find erroneous logic with it because the logic wasn't even spelled out. You can only technically disagree with the statement. But people will subconsciously add all sorts of embellishment.

That's how people work. Maybe Nimish didn't vote me down, but they certainly aren't voting me down because I'm crossing some sort of line. They're voting me down because they disagree. That's the majority of it.

You'll find that more than anything the majority of what I write are just dead pan responses with like 5% of the sentences being "expressive." In fact a great number of stuff that I write that gets voted down is just dead pan responses with zero "expressiveness."

It's because people can't tell the difference between someone disagreeing with them and an actual attack. That's human nature. We all think we're above it, but basically none of us are. You'll find that even you are like this.

The reason why I get voted down is because my opinions tend to be different than most people. So people interpret this disagreement as an attack.
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I still vote for the Material Design fad. They've named nondiscoverability a virtue.

Can we go to Windows 3.11 design please?
You are underselling yourself. Try tripling your rate, to start with.
'Spot the ball' was a staple of local newspaper competitions - an action shot of a game with the ball removed by presumably pre-digital photographic trickery. Entrants were invited to mark a cross where they thought the ball might have been, and the closest to the original centre co-ordinates won a prize.

So yeah, surprisingly tricky, but you could set up a big training set along similar lines.
This electric chainsaw beats out gas for limbs and small trees in my experience:

https://egopowerplus.com/16-inch-chain-saw/

If you need more than a 16” bar, then, yeah, you’ll end up with a gas chainsaw, but the weight of battery + electric motor is less than ICE + gasoline at this size.

Also, electric is much, quieter, less smelly, less maintenance, avoids trips to the gas station, etc.
> facing many of the same difficulties that prompted the Windows team to just run Linux in a hypervisor

How's that?

WSL had serious performance issues due to design differences between linux and NT. Linux and freebsd both being unices, there is no such impedance. Some features (like cgroups) remain unimplemented, true, but there haven't been any big difficulties afaik.
Don't think I knew about fir waves, but from a human perspective, most of the interesting things happen at the edges of a forest (much of the stuff we can eat grows in clearings or edges), so windbreaks falling like dominoes makes a good deal of sense.

Where humans are involved in planting the trees, I'd expect statistical clusters, because if you plant a thousand oak trees in the same year, many will die within the same decade or so. My forestry friend in college complained about how every time trees died on campus, they'd replace them all with some other species, creating waves of dead trees every few decades, whether disease or old age, instead of a tree or two every year.

But then even without humans, nut trees are born in statistical clusters as well, ('masting' is an adaptation to overwhelm predator populations) so it stands to reason they'd die in clusters too. And a bad spring may result in more seeds germinating the following year.
Paris and Amsterdam, I think.
To say "it's diverging" has to be the understatement of season. Two simple questions for you: what was the purpose of your comment, and how is it relevant in this context?
I haven't bothered degoogling, but I made a conscious decision probably 7 or 8 years ago to not depend on it for anything important. Heck, I even have my own third party based location tracking that dates back to when I was using that for billing clients - IIRC from one of those times when Google killed off a service I was using.

The disappearance of my Google account would be annoying (I'm using an android phone if nothing else), but that's about it. I'd probably lose a lot of contacts, but a lot of them would be people I haven't really interacted with since I migrated them off my Palm Tungsten T3 so not a huge loss. I'd lose my calendar entries that remind me it's Taco Tuesday 3-for-5 day at a local taqueria, but I'll probably remember that.

Financial accounts? No. Domain registrations or hosting? Nope. Business email? Nope. Social media? Not primary at least. Cloud hosting or services? Oh hell no.

Google is fine as long as you keep in mind that it's a giant behemoth to which you and any concerns you might have matter not one bit. It's also a capricious enough behemoth that relying on it for anything important seems foolish.
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I use Brave but mostly because it's fast and blocks lots of ads.
Go try that last one in a private tab and get back to me on how frictionless it is.

(Spoiler: thé “trick” only works if you already have a Google account that is signed in.)
I knew we had light rail in a few places, one monorail and lots of buses, but after living here for 1.5 years now, this is the first I've heard of Seattle Subway. I don't think I've ever heard anyone make reference to it in conversation.

The Seattle has 79% more area than San Francisco and San Francisco has 17% more people. How does it make economic sense to have a Subway when so much of the city is zoned for detached single family homes and there is acknowledged seismic and flooding risk?

In 2020, wouldn't it be far more future proof and likely cheaper to plan on smart streets with self-driving pods like Dubai is doing with its Next platform? The moment autonomous on-demand P2P system is viable, it's going to turn subways in less densely populated cities into albatrosses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJlQaCIUHTI
That's part of "Web3" (aka Dapps) and you can turn it off. Under brave://settings/extensions for `Ethereum provider for using Dapps` pick `None`
Then why the reinfections? People still too weak after the initial infection? Different strains? I just want to understand but it's probably still puzzling doctors and virologists.
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IAM isn't a service. It's how you govern access control. Its nonsensical to charge for this, as an "IAM service instance" makes no sense.
These comparisons appear to miss the biggest issues. The NYC Second Avenue subway involves extremely complex construction in a location surrounded by other subway lines and infrastructure. The Los Angeles subways examined are extremely deep underground in a rocky and seismically unstable situation. In all of these cases there were extreme challenges unlike those found in other cases.

Note that the Second Ave subway had been proposed and discussed for around one hundred years and was consistently considered too challenging to be practical. Doesn't it make sense that a situation like that would be extremely expensive to eventually deal with? Does finally building a subway line that for one hundred years was considered out of reach really compare directly to the construction currently or recently happening in other countries?
I'm in the same boat here, keeping an XP-VM with NetCobol from 95 running to support COBOL reports that were ported from an HP3000 in the mid 90s. The NetCobol activation no longer works so I did a P2V conversion to make sure it doesn't die before we're COBOL free (if ever?).
Switching to KeePass and Syncthing for password management
And yet the government actively encourages people to lever themselves up to 33x to buy a house (a very non-liquid asset).

Or, you can start an LLC and leverage it with credit card debt.

Both are risky, and not regulated. Even worse, the latter example is effectively the same as crowdfunding but with a population of 1. Given that most business fail in the first few years, I’d argue that the government’s “protection of the investor” is basically irrelevant.

[1] - https://mymortgageinsider.com/three-percent-down-no-mortgage...
Brave is the only browser on iOS that lets me turn off javascript on a per-site basis. VERY useful.

(If you're aware of others, I'm all ears.)
I haven't had a Google account in years. Whenever I use its search it is via Startpage, and I dispose of cookies/localStorage when using Youtube. Other than that, not much use.

A non-insignificant number of people around me behave similarly. At my company pretty much every non-tech person uses DeepL. My lawyer uses DuckDuckGo, and some other people I know also do.
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Deepfaking doesn’t have to be used on its own. A dedicated entity can shoot entirely new original scenes (unique footage), deepfake actors’ faces to look like the people they’re targeting, edit it all together, and possibly add CG VFX as a final layer to make the resulting video look very real[0].

Of course, knowing all that is not really necessary for someone to shrug off truthful incriminating footage as “fake news”.

[0] One caveat is that deepfaking works better with higher quality footage. To produce a complicated scene with altered actor faces while maintaining realistic “phone video” look, it would make sense to film with good lighting and high-quality gear into log or raw format, and then imitate the look in post-production after deepfaking is applied.

Thus, one method of detecting such fakes could be by checking for traces of VFX, artificial noise, signature lens properties, signature behavior of phone video recording “magic” (such as noise reduction and stabilization), etc. Enough of producer’s dedication could make that tricky, but IMO it could be easier than applying automated deepfake detection straight up—it’d be buried early enough in post-production workflow, with a lot of noise introduced by subsequent “phone look” VFX.
Nice to see Glen Greenwald has pushed the general media to finally at least mention or talk about Hunter Biden's insanely sketchy activity with the chinese.

It should be more obvious than ever that china is NOT our friend.
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> In literacy tests, under 2% of Americans read beyond a grade 12 level.

I find this hard to believe, given that 34% of Americans have a college degree.
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I already did. Couldn't be happier.
I wish there was an 8gb model. I have two already, but that would be an insta-buy.