skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> If you take a picture of something happening on your street and write a blog post about it, you are not a journalist.

> Yes, you are, and should be protected.

Protected from what? Being arrested for recording a public event, surely. Being arrested for throwing a Molotov cocktail, surely not.

So the crucial distinction is what are these journalists being arrested for, and also do we have a surge of people who are trying to cover their own knowing illegal behavior by wearing a PRESS badge.
We could just circle round to New England
>Equally if you buy a product from a Chinese company in the US, you would expect that product to meet US standards, not Chinese standards.

Conversely, if China had higher standards, I wouldn't be surprised if the product met the chinese standards.

In this case, California standards will meet or exceed those of the UK.
This is the HN crowd and they were talking about themselves. I assume they're aware means of protection against it.

The rest I do feel sorry for.
Masks with valves are only designed to limit particle flow inwards, otherwise the valves area would have to have the same thickness and construction as the rest of the mask.

The mask is not just about stopping you getting infected by something, it’s also about reducing your ability to transmit it to others. In fact a mask is more effective at limit transmission from you than to you. That’s why we have multiple layers - everyone wears a mask, limits travel, limits exposure to others, ensures as much distance as possible, maximizes the surrounding air volume when in the presence of others, etc.
That sounds reasonable, I've helped edit a few things and need to decide on each pass whether I'm reading for content or structure. Totally different mindset.

I've also found when I'm deep in a problem solving mode like coding I tend to be far less empathetic. So it seems to mess with my people skills too until I come up for air.
Not wrong about the bugs and crashes, I've been experiencing a lot of them on my Xbox. But despite that, the storytelling and game play is so compelling that I'm just ignoring the crash every 1.5 hours etc

I think that huge testament to quality of the story and game in general. Even if it's sorely missing a decent final polish, I'll be excited to play it second time in 6 months time once all the patches are out.
You're right but I agree with the parent that it's still a bit misleading. When I saw the video at the top of the article showing a fluid, high framerate realtime video I knew there had to be a trick.

Of course many games shipped with mappers, but if you're willing to put no limit to the amount of hardware you put on said mapper you might as well interface a full high end PC and play Cyberpunk 2077 on "standard SNES hardware".

Basically once you've figured out how to best use the SNES hardware to output fullscreen, decent FPS video from the cartridge port to the TV you can do whatever you want.

It's still a very cool hack but I was hoping for some ultra-optimized software-only SNES raytracer when I read the title.
Corporations cannot do "what they want" in the US, they're subject to regulations and to anti-trust laws. The problem is that the government (both parties) has been very lax about anti-trust enforcement. So now we have companies that are virtual monopolies and oligopolies trying to remove whatever regulations still remain in the books.
Fuzzy logic rice cookers (2016)
well there is also odata which is built on top of rest.
CEO of an email marketing platform here (EmailOctopus). If anyone's curious, here's a chart showing our bounce rate to Gmail addresses over the course of the week:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpUE20UXYAEa_Uv?format=jpg&name=...

That's a peak of 90% of Gmail inboxes bouncing – and this has been going on for almost 24 hours.
> Zip code ... maybe ... if you are US only. Otherwise a postcode can't be parsed either.

Also, don't store zip code as an integer. There are valid zip codes that start with zero that will likely get truncated if you store a zip code as an integer.
Gary Fung
This won't fly, for the simple reason that the ICO will have the same set of rules regarding data privacy that the EU has right now. They may change it, but that's the starting position. Facebook is not going to like the kind of fines that the ICO can throw at them.
This is actually a good idea, I've been meaning to turn one of my old laptops into a media server, but it hadn't occurred to me to use it as a development server as well.

I'm in a similar boat as the Macbook Air, but I was going to go for a Surface Book because I want the detachable tablet features
The need for valveless masks was established months ago. Are people still arguing about this (aside from anti-maskers, etc)
Yes, same. Also, Facebook has Nick Clegg on staff.

That suggests they've spent 2 years explicitly lobbying for whatever UK law changes they want, and will probably quickly get them.
I like to say "hate porn" because I think people understand it better. Clicks are clicks. You're more likely to click a sexist article about doctors and it's more likely to go viral than a post about the complexities and nuances of wealth distribution and tax mechanics.
The exceptions are easier to get now with the passage of Prop 19 this year. The summary on Ballotpedia (https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_19,_Property_...) is pretty good:

- allow eligible homeowners to transfer their tax assessments anywhere within the state and allow tax assessments to be transferred to a more expensive home with an upward adjustment;

- increase the number of times that persons over 55 years old or with severe disabilities can transfer their tax assessments from one to three;

- require that inherited homes that are not used as principal residences, such as second homes or rentals, be reassessed at market value when transferred; and

- allocate additional revenue or net savings resulting from the ballot measure to wildfire agencies and counties.
There is the entire Hudson Valley, Appalachian Trail and Adirondacks(as dashundchen pointed out).
The Hudson Valley start less than 30 miles outside the city. People in NYC often rent Zipcars run out there for the day.
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Are you imagining that globalization will somehow create peace and prosperity between Chinese, Arabs, Jews, USAmericans, billionaires, cocoa growing child slaves, and the rest?
As you said, regulations and laws are tools. What you criticise about regulations can be said about laws. A law can protect a vile dictator as easily as protect a helpless citizen.

The problem isn't the laws or regulations, but the fact that we leave corrupt politicians to write them.

Of course, fixing that is much easier than done, because even if you have a functioning democracy, corrupt politicians are still propped up by propaganda. Corporate's wishing to write the laws contribute much to support those politicians with lobbying and propaganda (Murdoch news empire)

To solve this you need a well-educated, politically conscious population, which is easier said than done.
Neverware was too good for Google not to kill. If you are a Neverware employee "Thank you" for saving our K-12 10's of thousands of dollars. Great product and great customer support. Good Luck!
Not sure I agree, because you can fiddle between "most popular" vs "most recent" and sometimes the "most recent" cannot be seen at all! It's as if they're unavailable, or, too many hops away to be available.

And if it's a case of guessing what's going to be engaged more with, I want to see everything and make my own choice.

wrt to resources, perhaps they index one or the other and they make their choice rather than mine.
Lol on stackoverflow one is not just downvoted, but forced to say sorry for asking the question when it's not deemed good enough
What is remarkable is that he had a ~12 year career in professional SW development and hasn't really done much in the field apart from Xscreensaver updates since and is still remembered 20+ years later.

One of my favorite quotes from JWZ: "“In 1999 I took my leave of that whole sick, navel-gazing mess we called the software industry. Now I'm in a more honest line of work: now I sell beer.”
Well said, really sums up the problem. People I know and even work with have fallen in this trap and I have no idea how to get them back out. It’s like they are a completely different person. It’s not just politics either - it’s this overwhelming amount of information that they are being fed about everything.
> There is a huge difference between you doing something for your in-house use, and Amazon doing something in order to turn around and re-sell it.

There really isn't. If you make your work available to the world so that everyone has the right to not only use it as they see fit but also extend it to fit their needs then you cannot complain that someone is using said work as they see fit and extending it to fit their needs.
foo | head -n20

foo may or may not return an error due to the pipe closing, and it's not necessarily consistent each time, particularly if the output of foo is very close to what head will consume.
> "This is too much, let's leave the EU market".

Please do.
> networking is the only true "hack" in essence to get past the drudgery of coding interviews / otherwise opaque career ladders.

Use an Agency? Then you only have to network with a few people, while they deal with the larger client base.
United Nations is hiring "Data Analytics Front-End Developer"
None of them are a guarantee for it to survive but diversity is important and hard to see a second option disappearing just like how BSD are surviving.

Imagine what kind of HN thread pops up if Firefox is abandoned by Mozilla.

Also Firefox is a single licensed product that is MPL, and for anyone who wants it that way commercially may support it.
Yeah, let's be like the US in the corona pandemic, not.
That adored business mostly exploited either their users or their employees. Facebook, Amazon, Uber, etc.
It’s Too Easy to Hack the U.S. Government
Duties and Responsibilities
This is a REMOTE position in the DPPA-DPO Information Management Unit, Department of Peace Operations (DPO), and Department of Peacebuilding and Political Affairs (DPPA), in coordination with the Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT).

The Data Analytics Front-end Developer will play a technical role in developing tools and visualizations within the Analytics Toolkit to support strategic decision making in DPPA-DPO.

The team is looking for a Front-end Developer to work on an exciting project to develop the foundations of an innovative data platform. You will work in a cross-functional team that includes developers, data analysts, and a UI/UX expert under the overall supervision of the Chief, DPPA-DPO Information Management Unit.

Responsibilities:

The incumbent will contribute to an exciting new project that will allow for easy sharing of data across the Peace and Security Pillar of the United Nations.

The incumbent will be responsible for the front-end development of a new data-sharing platform that connects Cloud-based data to a user-centric tool.

The responsibilities of this role will include but not be limited to:
- Lead the systems analysis, design, development, and implementation
- Work collaboratively and iteratively through design and development to deliver a fully functional application that meets business goals
- Build, test, and deploy public and internal facing web application using appropriate technology
- Prepare technical and user documentation
- Ensures data security and integrity

Qualifications/special skills
Academic Qualifications:

Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in Computer Science, Information Systems / Technology, Human-computer Interaction, User interface design, or related field. A first-level university degree in similar fields in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Experience:

Required experience:
Three to five years of professional experience are required in the following areas :
• JavaScript/ES6+, HTML and CSS
• Node.js and Express application design and development
• Front-end frameworks (e.g. React, Angular, Vue)
• Data visualization libraries (e.g. D3.js)
• Web content management frameworks (e.g. Drupal)
• Web application deployment on Cloud (e.g. Azure)
• Relational databases querying and connectivity
• Knowledge and experience of software development life cycle and lean/agile development methodologies
• Version control

Desired experience:

• Experience of working on data analysis and visualization web applications
• Experience with cloud (ideally Azure) architecture and deployment
We're all unfamiliar with assembly and electrical engineering too right, should we all invest the time to learn how to program bare metal? Only when the performance is needed, right?
80s in Australia too, been hearing/using it my whole life.

Though with respect to 'ages' apparently it's been around since at least the 14th century but certain purists tried to stamp it out at various times (just like the singular 'you' which no one currently has grammatical issues with I hope).

https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they...
Don't gay people make up at least 5% of the population?
I agree that preparation for potential divergence of the law is a major reason for this change, but even if that doesn't happen it still makes sense from a jurisdictional point of view. Having interactions between a US company and UK citizen be beholden to EU law enforcement, when neither of those countries are part of the EU just complicates things for no good reason. There are likely other complications regarding movement of data between UK, EU and US that can be simplified by applying those equivalent UK-GDRP laws on movement of data, but now just between UK and US.
Took me a while to figure out the overheat thing. There's a character skill that highlights who's hacking you, which you should get.

Then once you know who's hacking you, you either need to shoot them, or disable the camera (by hacking or shoot) they're using to hack you with (they can use cameras to scan, just like you can).
I was actually talking about this one person's situation. They're on HN so they should be aware of the risks and means of mitigation, including means against shadow profiling. If they weren't, they should be by now, and still have means to extricate themselves from it. Facebook is despicable in its practices and I cannot wait to see it die.

It's like asking why can't I get my garbage back because I threw it in the recycling bin but they incinerated it.
Maybe render a game on super hardware on a server, like Stadia, and beam it to your cartridge, format the frame buffer in a way that can be passed to the host console, and output to the CRT.

Play Crysis or Cyberpunk "on" a SNES.
That might be it. The GGP was talking about the history of civilization, so it could be either way.
Google Search returns spam website as “featured”
Just did a search and the first result, featured in a prominent box, was from xspdf.com, a bogus website that scrapes and stackoverflow generates hyper-SEO-optimised pages but with no value whatsoever, just rubbish.

This specific site has been bothering me for a while as it always manages to get itself in the top 5 results. There are always a few spam sites like that on the first results page. Another recurring one is gitmemory, which scrapes github issues.

Why is Google so bad at blocking spam? For the featured box example I mentioned there was a 'Feedback' button where I could choose 'This isn't useful' or 'This isn't relevant'. Even so, it states that feedback does not impact search results, which suggests the feedback is regarding the existence of the feature box, not the spammy content. The lack of feedback on regular links (afaik) seems to confirm that.

I've tried to "quit google", using ddg or bing. Those seem better at filtering out spam sites, but they're nowhere near google level when searching for very specific code such as error messages. Eventually after 2 or 3 failed searches I fall back to google and it gets me result.
> they have automatic price discrimination built in.

How, exactly? It's entirely opaque to the user.

At a minimum, you should offer a free, ad-supported version alongside a paid, ad-free (and tracking free) experience.
I would add Spec Ops: The Line (depending on what online communities you're a part of this game is either hugely underrated or hugely overrated), and the entire Bioshock series.

There also some simpler indie games like The Stanley Parable, Papers Please, and This War of Mine
I think this issue stems from the lack of focus on components. To me, if a class is inside the component and has no external visibility, there's no need for it to have an interface. On the other hand, if you're exposing functionality to something "outside" the component at hand, you should definitely be using an interface as you cannot predict the future.
Yes, I agree. What I mean is that by varying the thickness, you can get it very close to or exactly a sphere.
It'll be a lot easier to get the company I work at to do the same if I can convince them that it will benefit their monetary bottom line. So I, for one, would really like selfish benefits to helping FOSS projects.
> if they start freely sharing data on UK citizens to others in the Five Eyes alliance.

How will you know?
Happened to me three times... upvoted to bring light to this as startup finances is tricky for most mortals. Dilution, premium vs standard, cliff, etc.
More democracy seems like the answer there? If somebody wants regulatory capture, they should have to convince a plurality of people that it's a good thing, and do it again and again on a regular basis.

Add to that more transparency in corporation ownership, especially in trade deals, and strong controls on what regulators are allowed to do during and after their time working as regulators.
Yes, it already has, between most of them most of the time.
The one with the big plot twist in line 15.
> Presumably CDPR employees are not afraid to convey such bad news to the management.

it seems pretty clear that they're terribly abusive employers, so if anything I would assume the opposite is true: that it's an environment where the QA staff is chronically underpaid, lives in perpetual fear of dismissal, and is told that working on the biggest game ever is the honor of a lifetime.
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reminiscing over some old times, and hoping all is well with the guy. He built a tower, but on shakey ground.

not shilling but wonderswipe seems to be his pet project most recently. tip me hat ta ya Gary! [LG]
> It doesn't says "French citizen" either, just "French Republic" and "European Union" multiple times.

Yes it does, it's clearly written:

"Nationalite: Francaise"

NOT:

"Nationalite: Francaise, Europeenne"
I've experienced this first-hand. Joining an existing project and being put on test-writing duty very quickly turned me into our team's chief advocate of writing testable code.
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You can remove Minneapolis, they're all bad. Ready shoot aim.
Our documentation is run from the repo which has it's open source license. I think because we have this folder "docs/" under the same repo our documentation is covered by our current license.
Parent was attempting sarcasm, which makes their writing essentially meaningless because the reader has to gursst if they meant what they wrote or the opposite.
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This is not true, and the most recent election in the UK is strong evidence of this.

UK voters know which parties they are voting for, their platforms, and their leaders, turnout is high, and there is general awareness of the issues.

In mostly the same way in other 'good' EU nations.

Parliament can fall if there's a lack of confidence in leadership, particularly on an important issue, in which case, there's an election. This happen with Johnson in the UK wherein there was an 'issue election' called and people were well aware of the issues.

This was actually a pretty strong and democratic process: Johnson had not been elected, so he went to the polls and people had material, meaningful input.

In proportional representation systems, leaders can change without elections as well (see: Sweden, Finland etc.) and it's not exactly perfect but it works well enough.

The 'good' European nations have pretty good democracy at the national level.

It's at the EU level that it's all Byzantine. Pun intended.
Victoria Metrics is an absolutely superb drop in replacement.
Yes, sarcasm should be completely erased from the internet.

/s
about:config and search toolkit.telemetry.enabled I checked on a fresh 83 and its greyed out.

You need to create the file firefox.cfg in install Dir and enter lockPref("toolkit.telemetry.enabled", false); To override it And to get that to work you need to create /defaults/pref/autoconfig.js with pref("general.config.obscure_value", 0); and pref("general.config.filename", "firefox.cfg.js");

Its getting harder and harder to make a good browser out of FF, I personally don't mind the work, but things like Lockwise replacing a working password manager without the needed options and no addons to fix it or workarounds, i can see it messing up fields in PasswordFox but can no longer do anything about it.
"we started with a score of 70, but now it’s 79. If you filter those who have played 10 hours or more, the score is 85 –so the more you play the more enjoyment you feel."

Lying with statistics 101. It's obviously impossible that people who didn't enjoy the game played less than 10 hours
That wasn't the point.
Desktop: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/

Desktop (plain HTML): https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/

Mobile: https://mail.google.com/mail/mu/mp/
Is this even legal? I guess it depends on the country but doesn't sound legal at all where I live.
Maybe? If they are using unethical means to make junk food more appealing, maybe you could argue that. You’re relying on the same addiction to sell your product.
> California standards will meet or exceed those of the UK.

That's very unlikely. California may be the left-leaning, liberal, forward thinking state of the US. But it's got nothing on the EU/UK when it comes to things like food, safety or privacy standards (except for vehicle emissions where California is ahead, thanks VW).

Remember the "left" in US would be considered far "right" (I don't mean neo-Nazi far right, I just mean further right wing than our mainstream right wing parties) in the UK/EU when it comes to social and economic policy.
I use Helm for email. It’s a silent little server in my living room routed via Amazon (using a TLS cert that lives in my living room). I’d say about every three or four months it goes down for 5 minutes if I need to reboot my wifi router.

I use it for privacy (am a fan) but I feel pretty smug knowing I’m getting better reliability too. At least this month :)

No affiliation with the company.

https://www.thehelm.com/
In this scenario I would argue that deleting a function abruptly without verifying impacts is significantly worse than gradually adding a delay. Usually when function deprecations occur impacted dev teams are notified on a shared distro of what's coming in future releases. Library maintainers at large companies typically don't have the bandwidth to investigate each project that uses their library to determine if deleting a function would detrimentally impact a production environment. What a deletion does do is block the downstream dev team in this hypothetical from deploying to prod as they investigate why their builds are suddenly failing (or crashing in prod!) and refactor an alternative solution. Do you really want to work in an environment where other devs feel empowered to break your builds and sprints ad hoc?
So is Zuckerberg an actual villain?
How would you have been able to get people to see your great unique website 20 years ago? I don't remember it being easy to get a large audience at any point in the internet's history.