skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah ... genuinely interested: What typing tool, or mechanism, were you using that your '1' '0' and '%' typed out in a different character set than the rest of your comment ?

Or was it manually inserted ? If so, why ?
If you cut sugar out of your diet, you end up eating a lot of vegetables. A lot. I also make a lot of my own sauces; it’s annoying, but they taste better, anyways. Dried pasta & beans don’t have added sugar. If you stick to butcher meat (chickens, turkey, beef), they don’t add sugar to those. However, it is very much a diet that requires time.
If they run ads on them they do. Demonetized just means the creators don’t see any.
Additionally, the same dirt is damaging to different degrees, depending on the person it's about. See current politics in the US. But I would also think that a US president-approved hit on somebody in, say England, would be treated differently than the hits perpetrated by Russia.

It's a complicated balance act. You want to hold "your" party accountable, and the scale is not "better than the others". At the same time, you don't want to diminish the difference, by just talking about your side's problems. A "we publish everything we get" policy is then not necessarily balanced, if one party plays this game, and the other doesn't.
In the Netherlands, by law, you can request to reduce your working hours to 32/week. Since you are still considered a full-time employee, you can even do so on a work visa. Unless the company has a valid reason to refuse, they have to accept your request.
Often when writing you need to make decisions as to how to get through the different points you need to inform the reader about, if you are writing a jocular, breezy piece you will choose different strategies than otherwise.

The joke, such as it is, is clarified by what follows:

Back in 2012, I had not yet been born (I am, in fact, only six years old). But I am a student of history.

How does that clarify - because the student of history thing indicates now he will need to give us some background of things that happened a long time ago. Of course it didn't happen a long time ago, only 6 years ago, but there is the concept of internet time going faster than normal time. In fact it seems a really long time ago to anyone paying attention that Cook had to apologize - oh remember when that happened.

So he makes a joke that gives us a light feel and that also points out in a roundabout way hey it feels a long time ago but was only 6 years but bringing it up seems like ancient history without having to directly reference the hoary old trope that internet time is happening so fast that 6 years feels like ancient history man!

Anyway, often people writing things, especially if they have a deadline by which they wish to be finished, and especially in our modern era when there is not enough editing (remember editors, boy internet time really wiped out that species!) end up writing things that are allowed to remain in the article even if they are significantly less successful than other things.
Counter surveillance training isn't hugely difficult but it takes a certain amount of skill. The idea that the Security Service would want to be seen is a little strange. Their operators are excellent and they would be very very reluctant to expose themselves easily to send a message or bad tradecraft. If they want someone to be clearly seen they send a copper.

There are many other possible options. Basic trained police (some have been exposed before in Wikileaks related stuff) or a military team, foreign actor or quite possibly a corporate intelligence team. Perhaps even criminal elements.

Working to help manage security for NGOs in London/elsewhere often means my organisation works essentially a counter-intelligence role against corporate intelligence (many of whom were often working on behalf of states). They are very prominent in digital and physical surveillance. Many times we identified and exposed very big operations targeted against activists - harrassment, hacking, physical surveillance, bugging etc. It's was one of the reason we built our open source Umbrella App (https://www.secfirst.org) to make it easier for activists and journalists to be able to learn about and manage things like surveillance. Covert method of entry teams in the UK are known as exceptional (you'd have to be working in Northern Ireland for decades), there's pretty much no way they would get stuck by a commercially available key. Also it's highly highly unlikely they would try make an entrance when the person is so near to their home. Especially if it resulted in damage. For such a sophisticated door they would have planned such a thing well in advance. It's plausible of course, maybe they were just lazy or whatever, but there are a number of possible other reasons.
and that’s on late stage capitalist feudalism periodt
And high cholesterol isn't necessarily harmful. I've had it for 20+years. I've also had calcium-scoring tests showing no buildup in my coronary arteries.
Also, differentiate HDL from LDL...
zm262, I improvedthe grammar in your comment.

> The more likely case is that, there are a bunch of people who are unemployable having no skills or lack motivations to work or happen to be in miserable conditions (like the homeless in US) were forced (yes) to enter this kind of "de-radicalization camps", monitored (yes) and _given_ an opportunity to get employment (like an internship for students) and get _paid_ the market salary. Yes they were forced to have a job that they can potentially do (the work conditions are like other "normal" apple factory workers). If they decline, well they need to go back to the "school"..

Unfortunately, the free flow of uncensored news has made you aware of something I don't want you to know.

These people are no help to themselves, and do not want to do what the government tells them to do, even though it would be greatly beneficial. They are monitored, of course, as all radicals should be. The US has no right to complain. After all, they also have useless, dirty homeless people, which are pretty much the same thing.. Furthermore, these prisoners are even paid for their work! What more do they want!?

If they decline, they should be sent back to their interment camps.
I have an 2nd gen eMac sitting next to me. Just installed 10.5.8 yesterday. It was my main machine in the early 2000s.

Firewire connectivity for external hdds was magical. The screen is still nice. However the fan noise is and was always terrible. With some mods it became bearable.
>Why both? I just bring two lighters

I dunno. A handful of strike anywhere matches in a small plastic bag is very lightweight insurance as part of a small repair kit.

I do bring a (one) hiking pole because I find it really useful under certain conditions. But a selfie stick seems pretty unnecessary (as does the cup cozie so long as you have a plastic coffee cup--but who knows maybe metal plus cozie is lighter).
I think pretty clearly he's referring to the specific schism of corporate media that The New Yorker occupies.

A specific term coined by Curtis Yarvin, "The Cathedral," comes to mind.
As an outsider, why doesn't/can't Ruby implement a full actor system like Erlang/BEAM? Ruby is already based on message passing so it seems like it should be possible. Granted it'd likely induce a large performance hit since presumably every object would need to be locked or have a message queue.
enterprise and consumer markets are so different. The same management leading on both fronts is unheard of and very unlikely at larger orgs.

At Google's scale they are optimized and oriented for the consumer market with their horrendous pricing strategies, poor customer service, negligent backward compatibility and pseudo-monopolistic products and offerings.

As a consumer, I can live with the lack of trust. From a business perspective I cannot live with that.
This 1000%. I can't tell you how many times I click a link, find it's broken, plug it into Wayback Machine, only to find it was never indexed, or the images weren't archived, or only the homepage was indexed, etc.
One thing I (thankfully) realized pretty early on when raising my kids is that they're fully-intelligent humans pretty much from the start. They just dont _know_ stuff, but their intelligence is all there from a much younger age than most people seems to think.
> Do you really think Apple has the expertise and personnel to replicate what 1,000 companies have spent decades mastering?

Yes absolutely. They do supply chain all day, every day: in order to keep high quality, they need to be in tight control. They're very, very good at outsourced manufacture or they wouldn't be a US$1T company.

Foxconn was only the first to reach our awareness but it seems there's many other vendors with dubious HR.
You're missing the point which is context. If you're the accountant, the tax code is essential. HTML is accidental. If you're the programmer, then HTML is essential. The outcome of your page is accidental. Accidental is what you have control over. Essensial is what you're forced to work with.

If you're being forced to code in HTML, just as an accountant is forced to work with the tax code, the domain knowledge as provided and exposed as specs, be it HTML specs or the Tax Code cannot be altered. So if the argument is that the tax code is essential complexity for an accountant, then the analogy holds.

To an accountant writing an HTML page for their firm or a one page app implementing some accounting feature for clients, HTML is all accidental. They could use anything else. What is essential to the accountant is accounting.

But since we're talking programming, the situation applied to a programmer: The HTML specs are essential complexity for a web programmer. They must work with it, and cannot work around it. And this is how complexity is passed on through the layers of the system.

And with the case of an accountant needing programming, the line of complexity between them is violated all the time. A web programmer hired by an accountant fails to implement good accounting software by being bound by the essential complexities of HTML. The accountant doesn't care what cannot be done because of some HTML spec. The web programmer must find ways to work around this through engineering, or compromise. This leads to further accidental complexity.

edit/addendum:

> I whip out web dev

The moment you go with web dev, this is the act that now makes HTML specs essential. The only way to escape HTML specs is to use something else, which you cannot do if you're already decided on a web app. Just as the only way an accountant can escape the tax code would be to change professions.

To align the argument with the original article, if HTML specs are half the web app, then the web app cannot be less complex than, say, half. And the only way to get there is to delete everything you did/added which is your page/program. Coding complexity can never break the essential complexity barrier, and accidental complexity in the form of your code is always a positive value.

edit/addendum2:

When adding a framework or library to reduce complexity, there must be a pragmatic replacement/swap of original essential complexity abstractions. The new library is positive, in that you're adding more code, and carries its essential complexity. But when the complexity of, say, jQuery can replace a priori javascript essential complexity, then we can make it out ahead. With the added complexity of replacing complexity.
Ubiquiti: UISP Is the New UNMS
Rather than people falling for it, they have pretty much the same incentives as the corporations. They like virtue signaling, when its costs are negligible and the externalities fall on others, but they don’t sacrifice cheap goods for some pretty lies.
The millennials will certainly not be the generation to end emotional censorship
I recently came across a description of how people reacted to blood sport in arenas. Apparently the moment of death/gore/violence would elicit a gasp in the audience followed almost immediately by raucous cheering. It’s something we just don’t do anymore maybe with the exception of UFC but that’s not even close.
It depends on the specifics. Based on the original comment, if they've already broken into the house, they will be able to break into any room you are hiding in. If they are truly there to beat you to death, you have to be ready to defend yourself with whatever force is necessary to stop that threat. What that level of force is will vary greatly depending on situation, locale, persons involved, etc.
You're really telling me there's someplace anyone can live a halfway reasonable life for $13K/year? MIT's living wage calculator tells me the lowest living wage in any state is in Kentucky, and that clocks in at around $22k for a single individual.
I have a friend who complains that that it would be nice, on some occasions, to specify the shape of the result from a numpy computation. -that it is all to easy to duck type your way into a linear algebra bug that isn’t easily caught.

My response is that, in those cases, go ahead and declare the array you want to catch the result (and it’s shape), then use [:] etc. appropriately to ensure that if the size doesn’t match between computed and expected at the point of assignment, it will fail.
A sad legacy
I'd like to play the foil to enrich the discussion.

Our instincts force us to seek validation and approval from others as individuals. I wonder if the success of blogs, Twitter, and academic research stems from incentivizing people to maximize that self-centered sense of ownership. For example, being first author on a well-cited paper is a powerful motivation to produce better research, which in-turn benefits the community and strengthens the institution.
Google still doesn't have Street View for my house. This tells me Google is not serious about its Maps app.
Thanks Adam. This is info that's also very useful to me, so I'll definitely be adding accommodation information next. Just want to flesh out the list a bit more first :)
Probably not, substack will be great until it begins censoring content. The end goal is to rediscover self-hosted blogs, but this time with a paid option to view the premium content.
> These people were never taught to save away money when times were good, to live within their means, to invest, to do the math before buying a car and making modest decisions, heck, even to have the common sense to know that a daily coffee at Starbucks is a terrible financial decision.

I agree with your overall point, but the Starbucks (see also Avocado Toast) argument is a pretty silly trope. By and large, people aren't broke because they buy coffee at Starbucks, or have a smartphone or game console, and they're not going to suddenly be on the path to riches by giving these things up. These things are small. People are broke because of the big expenses: Health care costs, housing costs, education costs.

If someone gives up a $5/workday coffee habit, we're talking around $1200 per year. That's chump change in the grand scheme of things--it's a single trip to the hospital in an ambulance. It would take 40 years of giving up that coffee in order to merely save for a down payment on a $250K starter home.
Yep, that was my point. I agree that most people can make the distinction, but I've been hearing a lot more about people being unable to have healthy sexual relationships because their entire mental model is based on the porn they started watching in their early teens. I can't remember the last time I heard someone say they killed someone because video games made them think it was cool though, it seems like it's always a third-party trying to find an excuse for family/society failing the individual.
I remember that last point from Windows back then too. I had a scanner (hooked up to a parallel port iirc) and when it was working, NOTHING else was.
That's good to know, thank you!
I would fire anyone that so wantonly cuts and pastes code. I which the law, which is far more important than most other programs, was treated with the same reverence.
Best newsletter in tech/science/business or else?
What is your most recommended newsletter or other source of knowledge in tech/science/business/psychology ?

It would be great to group our most favorite ones to get a great selection for relevant information.

What I can recommend is nfx.com (business) and nature.com (weekly briefings/science).
You prefer Snapchat or tik tok??
In the end waiting and doing nothing cannot be distinguished. Late is late. Haven't seen any actions except lock down. So I interpret it as doing nothing.
A major problem in dietary studies is the extreme polarization. It seems many participants feel they need to pick a side and argue it to death to make their voice heard.

The initial demonization of saturated fats is a good example of something that was taken too far to the extremes. However, when the evidence linking saturated fat to heart disease was later found to be weak, many people made the mistake of arguing that saturated fat had no links to heart disease, or even that saturated fat is actually actually good for you. Likewise, the initial exaggeration of the role of LDL cholesterol has led to a small but vocal minority of people who claim that LDL has no connection to heart disease, which doesn't agree with the science. Unfortunately, contrarian takes reign supreme when it comes to getting clicks and likes, so that's what we see the most of.

There are small communities that discuss dietary studies from a neutral, scientific point of view. However, it's relatively boring to do so and tends to leave more questions than answers, which doesn't make for great headlines or debate fodder. It's also difficult to introduce new people to dietary studies because there are so many inconclusive and conflicting studies performed over the past several decades. Someone arguing in bad faith can easily cherry-pick a handful of studies to support nearly any position, while choosing to ignore studies that don't reach the conclusions they want to see.

From real-world experience, nit-picking minor details like which types of fats are better than others is missing the big picture. In the real world, the difference between healthy and unhealthy diets is usually plainly obvious to anyone paying attention. Excessive portion sizes, excess sugar, constant snacking, alcohol, few or zero vegetables and other such obvious flaws tend to dominate the problems in people's diet. Making minor changes like swapping one type of fat for another is futile if someone is over-eating at every meal.
Someone should start a company that does multiple things so that they don't have to settle. I find that it's a huge industry and issue.
But I think it's largely millennials who are pushing for more content moderation on the web. That's been my impression reading forums such as HN and Reddit.
Pretty sure that isn't Anna Wiener
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I grew up in a decent brick home, 2-stories + basement, that is currently worth $55k. 1900 square feet, 3 bed, 2 bath.

This was a small town in the Midwest. No lead paint, vinyl siding, or crime to speak of.
The users used to be developers themselves. Now the users are... everyone.
There are different fully concurrent ruby implementations: truffleruby, rubinius, jruby.. they all suck at what ruby is most used for, running rails. Last time i tried cruby was 10x faster still.

So in practice we glady throw more memory and processes at the problem.
Your article does not contain the word Apple.

Google does this kind of tracking. Apple uses a periodically changing id that is not associated with your person.

If you have an iPhone Apple probably knows where you live because you told them, but not because you use Apple Maps or GPS on their devices.
Also so that I don't have to use things like "np.dot(A, B)" and similar annoyances.
Is that something YouTube does? I was under the impression demonitized videos had no ads of any kind. As opposed to the copyright system rules where you will get ads but the revenue is diverted to someone else instead.
I said "of what" is a meaningless question. It is. It's irrelevant to whether it is a security or not and does not factor into the definition of a security, anywhere. At most answering that question is a distraction. It's like asking me what flavor XRP is or what shape it is. Neither of these things factor into the definition of a security.
And so we tread on, repeating history, justified by subtle semantic arguments on the internet.

Humans are disappointing, though I am encouraged by the abundance of others calling this out the same.
The big scandal is the knowledge that third way democrats have moved so far to the right, that they need fascist-lite candidates on the right to contrast themselves with, to the point that they gave material support to the farthest right wing components of the republican party.

The major message for two presidential campaigns has been "we must do everything possible to defeat Trump, and by that we mean not voting for progressives" is BS when the third wayers had a major hand in putting him in the White House to begin with, and their long term strategy more or less requires similar tactics in the future.
> You know you've done something right when you trigger a journalist who can't defend or argue their work with a real argument ;)

Do you think you are actually responding to Anna Weiner?
I actually don’t really trust business hours on google anymore, I have to go to the restaurant directly or just call since I’ve been burned so many times looking forward to dumplings/teriyaki/pizza and then having the restaurant be closed.
> It's about all the people who benefit because of the existence of spacex/tesla/etc

No one benefits by the mere "existence" of SpaceX/Tesla. People benefit only from what those companies produce, and the things those companies produce only come into this world by way of people selling their labor to design, engineer, and manufacture the rockets/cars. We can go all the way down the supply chain and say that people only benefit from Tesla due to the people mining lithium in other countries. And yet the CEO of Tesla believes that the people mining his lithium deserve to have their government replaced by a US-backed coup to be more friendly to his corporation.

The point isn't that we should "seize profits". The point is that the guy at the top isn't producing as much value as he thinks he is compared to everyone below him. They are producing the real value, they should be getting the wealth. Maybe Musk still comes out of the equation the richest one of them all. Fine. But he doesn't have to come out a demi-god with more money than he could spend in 100 lifetimes. There's no reason that needs to happen.
>I really want to use Apple Maps full time on my iPhone, just because of how much clutter Google Maps has accumulated on the screen.

Apple Maps UI: A big map, with a search bar at the bottom. Simple and nothing but the essentials.

Google Maps UI: A page full of ads, a map full of ads and ads masquerading as recommendations. Plus five tab bar buttons at the bottom to not accomplish very much.

I've switched to Apple Maps simply because of its better UX and how much easier the app is to use. As far as I can tell, their mapping and navigational data in Canada is every bit as good as Google's. The only thing keeping Google Maps on my phone is their superior reviews. Once Apple replaces Yelp reviews, I'll jettison the Google Maps app into the sun.
It's annoying how "cyber attacks" are still treated like some kind of natural disaster, instead of calling them by what they are: the result of negligence, both by vendors who sell products that are insecure by default, and customers who fail to invest in proper security measures/mitigations.

Avoiding ransomware is not rocket science.

Ransomware attacks are loud and noisy - imagine the amount of stealthy attacks we don't hear about.
It's tying your google account to the location, not your IP
That's another issue I didn't want to mention to not be too negative: the script relies entirely on the Mastodon instance to filter out the spam.