skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I responded to the correct comment: the one that effectively said, "if you don't like it you can leave," in response to their parent comment that suggested they're not enthused to be asked to pay more taxes while we have such waste. Perhaps I misunderstood their response, but I take offense to the suggestion that someone who criticizes government should leave instead of utilize the apparatus of democracy.

That sort of response smells of totalitarianism. If you find my suggestion that parent try to understand the flaws in our government's structure passive aggressive, but don't find their suggestion that their parent move to another country anything short of actively aggressive... I'm not sure how to respond.

There's nothing smug or passive about my statement. I do absolutely implore them to understand their government more thoroughly.

I'm sorry we can't see eye to eye on this. (And no, I'm not being passive aggressive or smug with this statement, either... or this one lol)
Does this work for all sites? I'm pretty sure I've done that but now and again I get a site that seems to ignore it.
As a bonus, you'll also see ransomwares, disk encryption software, http servers, browsers...

And what if the miner uses it's own crypto lib, and doesn't rely on the OS crypto API?
For sure it will take less time compared to if the customers migrate themselves. And it is free.
These are growing pains of a new technology. People used/use the internet to commit fraud too, and it wasn't exactly good for the environment.

As others said, the answer here is Proof of Stake, not banning crypto outright.
that wouldn't work nicely with the mouse :)
Thank you for clarifying the value of the study.
Of course the internals are entirely different, I meant UI/UX evolution.
I’ve personally never encountered a bug that turned out to be caused by an unsigned value. YMMV, I guess.
Hoodoo
The study is not very rigorous.

A limitation of the study was that participants reported their own levels of physical activity, so there is the possibility that they would not remember their levels exactly.

Instead of involving a RCT, we have a survey study.
This is one of the reasons I took up trail running. It's hard to disconnect for very long when working at a startup. But after a few years of training, I can cross entire mountain ranges in a day and see things I would never otherwise be able to see.
You use rbenv.

You don't sound very tech savvy, but using Ruby?

It's weird how my workstations and desktops and laptops and netbooks all run Linux just fine, only you're having those issues.

You're a joke. You're not adaptable. When in Rome...

Only rich spoiled brats spend 5k on a laptop that would otherwise cost 1k
> - Finding a mail client I don't hate on linux is tricky. I've never been able to get on with the console clients, and I actually quite like Mac Mail. Thunderbird is kinda okay.

If you're not a mailing list based developer, I would recommend MailSpring, which is both snappy any polished.

https://getmailspring.com/
Seconds of body cam video can reveal a biometric fingerprint (2014)
UK always seemed strange to me. Then again, with their split from the EU it's just one of many "we do it our way" things in a line of many.
In context, they mean the law should target any gambling mechanic as opposed to banning “loot boxes”. Otherwise the gambling mechanic will come back with another mechanism, say a lucky companion that increases your chances of finding a pot of gold at the end of each rainbow.
I tend to like native apps a lot rather than browser equivalents.

I self-host my mail server and use an IMAP+SMTP client to talk to it - I don't use something like gmail. $work uses gmail and the web ui frustrates the hell out of me (and I pity anyone whose only experience with a native email client is being paired with gmail, because their IMAP implementation makes it rather painful!).

For password manager, 1password has a native app and browser extensions that talk to that local native app. There are browser only ones too, but I prefer the native app integration because it shares unlock state between all of the extensions and the full desktop client all in one go.

But you're right, you can't have change without things actually changing. It's a tradeoff between convenience and what you're used to, and the benefits of what you get from changing. For me, for now that ends up sitting on the side of macOS. For others, that might be Linux or even Windows. I don't think any of those positions are wrong, it's all about what works for each person.
Lenses are like rockets in that way. The physics of light and space are unforgiving and hard to solve.
Boycotts, disinvestment, and sanctions is how civil rights movements are fought. Of course the Chinese people won't know why other countries are pulling away, because their government won't allow that information to reach them and will blame foreign enemies instead, but blaming foreign powers only works for a limited time. And what better strategy would you suggest?

What we shouldn't do is overlook abuses in other nations simply because our own nations are imperfect.
If the phase change causes the whole lens to stretch or shrink, then it would fit my definition of "move"
If you want a (relatively) untraceable cryptocurrency, they exist [0]. Yes, most cryptocurrencies are _perfectly_ traceable - you can trace the source/destination of every transaction - contrary to the common narrative.

[0]: https://www.getmonero.org/
Same with books and news. I used itunes to manage my audiobooks for a very long time. Now that audiobooks have moved to books you don’t even have the ability to manage their metadata. Shame.
As I understand it the law in Anglo Saxon countries is closer to the "precise definitions" system, while European Napoleonic Code law is closer to "you know what we mean". In the US you must follow the letter of the law. In France you must follow the spirit of the law. (I'm no expert. So please tell me if this isn't correct.)
Lootboxes were the beginning of the end for the gaming industry. All the visionaries have moved on from triple A games and now its just by the numbers cookie cutter formula games with different underhanded tactics to extract as much money as possible from victims.
If I were in academia I would be putting my career chips on ISR. It’s bursting with potential.
Using AI to create the album lost to music's mental health crisis
The founder of Chia.net has doubts PoS is sound. Check out Chia’s low power Proof of Space + Time.
I think behavioural research like this has value. But, once we're speaking in terms of nudges & clustering... I feel the terms are ambiguous for scientific language.

That is... This probably is useful to the gambling regulator, addiction counselors and such, especially if similar results are found in similar studies. OTOH, they may not hold true in a different country, or 7 years from now, etc.

Conversely... I wouldn't be surprised to find many gambling ads surrounding loot box videos on youtube.

The orthodox scientific approach is to seek generalities. Any clustering of loot box consumption & problem gambling exists on the plane of generalities that the UKGC or addiction charity operate in. It's an awkward place for science though.

Academic pathologies notwithstanding, replication means something different in behavioural sciences... Either that or behavioural science has to be confined to a fairly small realm. Ultimately, what facebook do with their optimization algorithms (or any startup a/b testing) is similar to what gambleaware do. Companies have less need for formal publishing than NGOs, GOs and such. They need a way of informing decisions that convinces the boss, not the world.

Not sure where I'm going with this.
i dont think boombing the dam is a popular thing in egypt
Yes, you’re right - thanks for pointing this out.
I didn't know George Tenet was on HN.
Think global, act local:

* https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/decarbonization-think-glob...
The CCP regularly uses pressure, including torture, to get their way.

https://bitterwinter.org/new-tortures-target-church-of-almig...
I used dwm as my main desktop for many years when I was a developer :)
Or use a good calculator like Speedcrunch.
I can tell for certain that as a JS/Python man, every time I look through Java code I have to spend a bit of time when stumbling upon such access, until I remember that it's a thing in Java. Pity that Kotlin apparently inherited it.

But at least, to my knowledge, in Java these things can't turn out to be global vars. Having this ‘feature’ in JS or Python would be quite a pain in the butt.
I failed to mention that this would be a machine meant to be able to run coding tasks locally, rather than via ssh'ing or using cloud hosted solutions. I'm not sure how that slipped my mind.
I use Preview a lot just for batch resizing, I use KDE as desktop on my home computer and while Gwenview seems to be on par, it just cannot do batch resizing...
I think this applies to Python pretty well. Although certainly not as bad as PHP, most JS traps also exist in Python (falsy values, optional glitchy semicolons, function scoped variables, mutable closure). There is many JS specific traps like this and also other Python specific ones (like static fields are also instance fields, Python versions and library dependency hell). However I find it easier to avoid them in JS than in Python with TypeScript, avoiding classes, ...
Musicolet is incredibly fast and capable with large libraries. I love it.
Yeah. I had to disable JS to make it bearable.
It’s entirely optional, no? Surely you’re no sick to death of other people having them?
Small thing I do first when a new Windows has been installed: make the file association of .VBS and .JS files open with Notepad instead of wscript.exe[0]

Mitigates `iloveyou`[1] virus type attacks on my system

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Script_Host

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILOVEYOU
Unless it has DAC override or other capabilities. Belt and braces!
It isn't funny though lol, just pointless. Certainly not worth posting to HN. Maybe I'm missing some super high-brow wit here...
Am I the only one who looks at this and wonders; why not just use foobar2000? It has the same quality and stability on both android as on your desktops OS... And from what I can tell has most of the features of this but with a 15 year track record of stability (assuming you don't download an unstable third party add-ons)
Ok, sure, many users prefer to fully customize their setup. But what about those who don't? Why isn't there a ready-to-go option like a Windows lapotop?
On-Next GMBH Simsounds
We lost our cat and months later got a call from the shelter.

The neighbor down and around the corner had saved him from his dog and brought him in. They IDed him from the chip.

Later at the vet, they told us cats can get lost being only a few houses away.

I imagine it's a whole different perspective seeing things from one foot off the ground.
Learn and practice avoiding Survivorship Bias with exercises
""There is no Democracy in America!," and then decide to run to China"

Are people actually saying this today?

I mean, I was discussing with one guy who claimed the corona dictatorship is so bad, he rather goes to north corea.
But he didn't go and I stopped wasting time arguing with such people. But this person for instance would have qualifed as mentally ill and drug abuser. Not a normal person.

So what normal person is saying this today? Or is this a straw man?

Because what I don't like in this debate, when you cannot "bark at america and its system", because china is worse. They clearly are. But this does not negate valid criticism of the US hegemony.
The fault was in XML editing, pure data authoring is hard. We have convenient UI — web browser, think of it as literate programming, a way to merge man page and configuration file.

And plain text editor is a "widely deployed special tool to work". Actual data is

countries:\n- GB\n- IE\n- FR\n- DE\n- NO

Or

636f 756e 7472 6965 733a 0a2d 2047 420a
2d20 4945 0a2d 2046 520a 2d20 4445 0a2d
The arguments are exactly the same as we had in Europe during the rise of the US. "They can only copy! They have no taste! They're all fraudsters! They're slavedrivers!" etc etc.

This said, we won't have a real tipping point until China can rival Hollywood for quality and quantity of cultural output, and their language makes that quite difficult. This is one of the reasons the USSR never "won" even at the time when it was arguably more powerful and efficient than the US.
The one I run into the most is the new modern settings-interface which looks nice but is bloated and contains 1/10 the features of the control panel categories I'm actually trying to get to.
first time I've heard about AJATT, here http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/about/overview-pag...
it's description tells to not learn grammar, but I guess you didn't follow that rule? If so, why?
The funny thing is the more they do this the more we get to hear about the plight of the Uighurs.
This guy was not a developer, or at least that's not his main function. I have switched, and find it more productive, but I never have to use word....
I have tried most of the more enduring Android music apps, and Musicolet is among the best 10-15 of them, ever. But they don't all have good equalization options. "Bass boost" is catchy and popular, but being able to adjust things like track gain, album gain, pre-amp & post-amp levels, etc... makes ALL the difference on your average Android. Despite it's clunky UI, ArmAmp has been my favorite for about a decade and it has those things plus individually tuneable EQ bands. (Also anyone who ever used Deadbeef - which is what I used before - should be able to cope with ArmAmp's UI.)
I can’t stand the thought of lifting weights. So I just don’t do it. It’s never crossed my mind to write a 5000 word essay about it.
macOS is macOS because the latest version is now 11.2.3. They could have gone with OS XI though.
You are welcome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plogging
"Boycotts, disinvestment, and sanctions is how civil rights movements are fought."

How about: leading by good example?

There are plenty of chinese people outside of the great firewall regulary going back. So that information would get in.
I expect that if cat would somehow knew the shortest way back home it would arrive in less than 6 months.

What I googled was that cat average walking speed would be 3.3km/h. If a cat would walk for 6 hours a day it should cover like 20km a day. From Lourdes to Belgium it is like 1000km, when one selects walking path on google. With that in mind it should be something like 50 days or 2 months by shortest path.

For me that cat was badly lost, well being a cat you don't have restaurants but as in the first paragraph if it would not be lost I would expect it to come back in less than 6 months.

In the end it found its way but that would be the same for me if I take the wrong exit at the highway and I am 1 hour later, I was lost for that hour.
Tailscale is not Open Source, nor?
My cats often got lost for weeks, because they crawled into basements and couldn't get out.
Actually you are more likely to rewrite and migrate away from that legacy codebase once you succeed/pivot

I recommend watching Kent Back’s 3X talk for that, I also wrote a blogpost about it: https://rchavesferna.medium.com/designed-v-evolutionary-code...
| I have talked with a few Egyptians on the subject. Unfortunately most think a military solution would be simple and straightforward

Egyptian here .. i dont think most of Egyptian believe in the military solution and even our government Led by a military Experienced person doesn't believe in that

we have been in negotiations for multiple years and eventually will involve European Union or the US to make sure agreement is fair to both parties
I'm an engineer (not software, not a developer, not in "tech") and we have been switching a lot of our workflows to open source software and the like. This isn't because we have a "free" or "libre" fetish, it's more that the open source technologies tend to plug and play better with others, have open standards for file formats etc., and we can have clients and collaborators work on any OS they want. I don't think Collabora is going to be alone in their struggles with this type of business model.

From what I can see / understand is that there a few large corporations / govts whatever you like that provide financial support in the form of the Pareto distribution. One or two organizations provide the majority of support (85%+). What this usually means is that the organization(s) pays for support, has the company like Collabora write all the code, and in the end they just take what they want and either re-implement it in a different way or actually have a whole different product than the "public" one. This has a double-edge effect; the few organization who pay for all the time for programmers implement the features they want (why not? they foot the bill) and the developers end up building a product that may or may not be good for the rest of the users. Case in point with LibreOffice and Collabora. Collabora pushes most all the commits, yet they are an online version of an office suite to plugin to Nextcloud, etc.

To be honest, LibreOffice should be charging for their product. I'm not sure how they would or what the mechanism would be, but it's great software and has $ value.
50 Years of Pascal and Delphi Is in Power
When in a new city with plenty of time to see how it works I pick someone who looks interesting and follow them, until they get on what is clearly commuter transport. Or, in a city like London, Amsterdam or Berlin you can follow someone on the bicycle for extra long rides to new places. Another thing I've done is look for a cafe on the other side of town and go exploring. Of course, keeping safe means always being aware where you are. As a woman it's always been heightened not to find myself out after dark on foot for example.
Yeah, I'm sure I read a year or two back that Cats have an odd sense of direction in which they don't 'join up' different paths - say, that from out of the front of a building, to that out of the back.

Rings true with a cat we have in our building here which simply cannot register that the back door has access for it, so waits out front no matter how inclement the weather.

Mind you, it IS a cat - so likely purposefully being an arsehole for some particular reason.
There are no exceptions. You only need it if/when you want to put multiple statements on a single line. That's its sole purpose.

And I'd also add that it's something that you almost never do. One practical use is writing single line scripts that you pass to the interpreter on the command line. E.g. `python -c 'print("first command"); print("second command")'`

If you don't know about the `;` at all in python then you are 100% fine.
I recently came across AudioAnchor for audio books, it's designed for audio books so it's functionality may be better for you.

I've only used it lightly so far but it seems pretty good.

It's also open source and available in F-Droid:

https://github.com/flackbash/AudioAnchor
Is there any economy/strategic game about delivering goods with cargo ships, containers, etc.? I would love to play it.
What file browser do you use? I’m currently on Nautilus, and am not a fan.
Hear How AI Software Wrote a ‘New’ Nirvana Song
From the green paper...

> We provide an initial security analysis of the Chia backbone, showing that as long as at least ≈ 61.5% of the space is controlled by honest parties Chia satisfies basic blockchain security properties.

That seems to be a alarming high threshold for control of the network? So as little as 38.6% can attack the network?
I am sometimes annoyed by the fact you have to put double quotes around string properties in JSON. It would be so much lighter to use JS syntax..!
Then I read articles like this one. Thank you JSON for not trying to be smart.
I lol'd. Sometimes when I read these kind of stories, including phishing and hacking ones, there's this tiny inner evil in me that wants to do bad things, but then I remember consequences and that being good usually pays off.
> Moritz already knows something about Corona.

> "The virus comes from China and from there it spread over the entire world", he says. "When you get infected, you can get a strong cough and fever. Sometimes also the lung gets sick, so that you can't breath well anymore."

https://imgur.com/a/fyB8CnE
Government can't stop people from spending money and moving somewhere they can use cryptocurrency.
Evan Doorbell
Waymo CEO John Krafcik steps down
I agree with the article in that the Apple hardware is superior. The best laptops available for Linux are the Dell XPSs and they are not in the same league as the Mac (I have both). However, for developers, especially system software developers, Linux is a far better choice in terms of software. Everything is scriptable, tools and libraries are typically built first for Linux and then ported over, you get enormous customizability for your workflow. Its not even close.
Well, I've worked on one such geolocation device about the size of a grain of rice, and that was 30 years ago. It was a tracking device started by a former Israeli military intelligence officer after his family was scattered in a terrorist attack and it was days before everyone could be accounted. This tracking device was the size of a pack of cigarettes' when in development, and by the time I left the company (late 1990) the company was being sold to the Israeli government and the device was the size of a grain of rice. It provided 3D location in an area via 3-way triangulation of telecommunication tower signals.
Right. Again Reuters.
Yesterday they lie about Pfizer being useful against the South African variant, the same day they try to discredit the Russian vaccine.

It's all a web of lies. Reuters is not trustworthy.
SEEKING FREELANCER | REMOTE

Looking for somebody to migrate our medium-sized project from C# windows forms .net framework 4 to Golang + Sciter.JS

You should have experience building POS systems in the past and willing to sign a standard NDA before accessing the code.

Please email at [danielrb] at live.com and include your hourly rate and a few samples of previous work.
On the contrary, it's very good design.
I’ve seen relatively low income people drop hundreds of dollars a day on loot boxes in games like CS:GO. Until I saw it myself I couldn’t understand how these companies were making money. I’ve also seen accounts with thousands of dollars worth of digital items. I don’t want to police behavior too much, but I wish there was some transparency for those people to see how much money they’ve put in to get to that point. I assume they must have put in roughly 5x what they own.
Please do not replace drinking water with taking Viagra...
It is already legal to buy a house with Bitcoin and there are several on the market sold with Bitcoin. Unless you're snorting some right now, I'm not sure what cocaine has to do with it.
In this specific case, a simple rule change should suffice: CI code committed for the first time does not run until after the PR closes. These guys are exploiting a loophole where you can add CI code and it runs whenever you initially open the PR. Requiring the PR to be closed before the code runs would solve this.
This looks like an advertising post to HN, here's a FOSS app instead which has been around for a long time:

https://vanilla-music.github.io/
Ask HN: PWAs have failed to establish themselves, now what?
Indeed Ethiopia is close to the equator - just slightly to the north of the equator. We use the same convention in most of East Africa. In Swahili, which is spoken in Tanzania, Kenya, etc, you begin counting the hours from daybreak up to dusk which is around 12 and then start over from just before till dawn again. Surprisingly, in Somalia, this convention is used in the southern parts that were colonised by Italy. In the north, noon is 12p.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Peo...
The Problem with Doctors' Salaries