skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is really cool!

Around 4-5 years ago, I seen a baby seagull had fallen out of it's nest into my garden so I immediately noticed seagulls for the first time. I would feed it cheap haddock cuts. At first the parents were in attack mode but I feel that eventually they accepted me. It was cool to see the baby learn to fly and the parents seemingly being involved.

Anyway although it is hard to tell by looking, each year one of the parents comes back. The only way I feel I know is because in spring if I hang my washing out, all of a sudden this seagull will land and mooch around on the grass, sometimes I have to nudge it with my foot as I go along the washing line to get it out of the way. It's pretty odd given how cagey seagulls are and it doesn't do that if I am not alone.

Edit: I feed it bits and pieces which is the reason of course, but it's nice to see the association none the less.

Anyway I call him Steve as in Steven Seagal. Hopefully it's a male.

Crows would be even more cool.
Depends on the country I guess, the Venetian Republic seems to had more than 150 presses by 1500, the most famous of publishers Aldus Manutius printing 30 thousands of inexpensive “pocket editions” books in just 5 years ("six titles a year for the next five years", at 1000 copies per edition) according to Encyclopedia Britannica https://www.britannica.com/topic/publishing/The-medieval-boo...
I didn't say they do nothing, lockdowns clearly cause massive harm and suffering yet there is no obvious benefit when compared to places that didn't lock down.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-84092-1
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Peer commenter mentions trackpad; I had lots of problems with this on the 9350 with Ubuntu 16 and did a lot of fiddling to get it working sensibly. 9380 with 20.10 was fine out-of-the-box though (I install standard Ubuntu btw, not Dell dev-edition). YMMV.
This happens to me with so many new services. I guess a lot of people will just leave because they don't understand what it's about even if it's something they might actually want to use.
Find friends, the less familiar with the space the better. Ask them to write down facts about the product, in the order that they learn them. After each navigation, ask them to summarize what the product is and what problems it solves.

That’s basically the approach I took when writing that up.

I think the unfamiliarity is the most important part. It’s incredibly easy to be blind to what you know and others don’t. It also simulates a non interactive cold sell for the product, as opposed to trying to convince your competitor’s customers to jump ship.
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If you genuinely believe this: that it makes no difference, why would you choose to have an all-men judging panel?
Empty apartments are more attractive for buyers but if your intention is to rent it anyway, it wouldn't have made a difference, as the Mietendeckel ensured you couldn't rent it for more than what the previous tenant was paying.
> In fact, as time goes on the amount of crappy legacy Rust code and low-skilled legacy Rust coders will only grow

But it will make those codebases a lot easier to deal with because the Rust compiler enforces correctness in a myriad of ways that other languages don't. I would much, much rather deal with a legacy Rust codebase than a legacy C++ one.
Scott Aaronson Wins 2020 ACM Prize
Since sqlite is local to your application, you can just bundle a newer version.

Speaking generally, if the Debian version is the way to go, the easiest way is often to grab the source package from sid and build it. It's literally just one command. Sometimes new dependencies will cause trouble, in which case some manual tinkering is required.
> That is applying our modern standards to historical figures more or less. We should view history through a contemporary lens for a better picture of the different driving factors and their effects.

That is actually not. Through contemporary lens, the contemporary person being tortured or someone who is close to that person, is in fact perceiving you as cruel.

Factoring in writing and diplomacy done in other situations is literally applying different standard.
I'm still using mine from early 2015 every day as a home entertainment device, had to change the battery, but otherwise it is going strong.

It was dropped on concrete once by its corner (have some bite marks left on the case from that incident), spilled stuff over it, also I've used it in dusty environments, and I'm the person who never cleans their stuff. The display is dusty and the keyboard is filthy. But it just works, and I said to myself that I won't get another one until it fails. I think I might have to destroy it myself, otherwise will be stuck with it forever!

Notes:
* The carbon-fiber-like fabric that covers the palm area is just dissolving itself. It also collects grease, so it is really not a nice thing to touch after all these years. Good thing is that it can be scrapped off, and the remaining surface is clean.

* It does not have a full keyboard. I use a Thinkpad for work and that one has separate PgUp/PgDn/Home/End/Insert/Del keys, which you won't find on the XPS. Personally for me that would exclude the XPS as a work laptop, because I wouldn't be able to use it without an external keyboard. The touchpad is excellent on the XPS though.

* watch out for the wifi module, and whether it is soldered on the motherboard or can be changed. Dell have a tendency to use non-linux friendly Broadcom / Killer chips, in fact, when it came out I had to get an Intel module to get stuff working. May not be an issue anymore?

Are you sure you want such a small laptop for work? I'd go for a larger screen tbh (but if you have an external monitor then it's not a problem).
Seems like a market opportunity. Take on the rental risk and management costs for some fraction of the rent payments. Insurance can be used to hedge against damages.
>Welcome to the new world where tech companies rule.

I understand what you're saying but, speaking specifically to this case (which is a little different than YouTube censorship), I think this highlights the dangers of outsourcing your critical infrastructure to third-party SAAS companies without a mitigation plan.

As companies, we have to get into the habit of putting together mitigations plans for times when the outsourced SAAS disruption has significant business impact. Here, Twilio blocked the account of this vendor, but Twilio could have gone bankrupt, or they themselves could have had a significant disruption and the end-result would have been the same. Was there a plan put in place for that? If Twilio isn't responsive with support, are any of their competitors better? Maybe it was a better idea to go with a smaller or more expensive competitor but one who gives you a dedicated account manager you can call anytime if something goes wrong. Twilio fucked up here, but ultimately the responsibility for business continuity rests with OP. They can't offload that responsibility on Twilio because if Twilio fucks up, Twilio doesn't suffer the consequences.
That's unfortunate. But it's worth to note that Redis is one of the few projects to have a woman in the development core team (1 out of 5 total core team contributors: would be great to see more than that, but is already a rarity, unfortunately).
The exact question I was going to ask.
As opposed speculator. "It's going up, i just know it." Or market makers, or technical analysts, or reading tea leaves...etc

Value investor suggests you have valued the assets and have reason for thinking they are underpriced. Shareholders own the company's assets. Managers are their employees and are not owned any more than any employees or indeed humans are owned.
Please don’t recommend that book. Bill Bryson has no training in linguistics and that book is so bad, that there is a factual error on virtually every page.
Because 19 of the top 20 contributors to redis are men?
you could say the front fell off? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
One way to defeat these kinds of spyware techniques is to keep the browser permanently at a fixed address, such as localhost, and import content from other websites as necessary to a page at that fixed location.

I am considering adding web scrapping to this file sharing privacy application I have written that already works in the browser. I could screen scrape content from other sites using a proxy on the terminal per user request and once piped to the browser privacy is protect by single origin policy and by a separation of content from address. I could even make the experience look like an embedded modern browser.
> But they're not nearly as energy efficient as a consumer-grade NAS.

I agree that over multiple years, electrical power becomes a substantial part of the cost (and also the environmental footprint).

Small ARM systems with sufficient memory and fast interfaces are perfect for that.
that's what happens when you make it from cardboard derivatives
That sounds like instructions for turning a cheap, easy to diagnose problem into a very expensive, harder to diagnose problem.

Not to mention the second-order effects: if you pretend to drop exactly 0 % of messages, then people will build things that depend on that condition. When the unexpected happens and that condition is violated, bad becomes worse.

By deliberately designing in the option of dropping a reasonable amount of messages, you're creating a more robust system. (As well as a perfect point for a circuit breaker in an emergency.)

Other than in some very specific domains, dropping messages is not a big deal and the design implications of allowing that are far preferable to designing for a fantasy world in which nothing goes wrong ever.
What Is Wrong with iOS Dictation?
I am sitting in a quiet room (Apple Watch says it is 35 db)

I keep saying “it has to be” to my iPhone (keyboard dictation mic).

It is typing out “it Hass to be” every time...

How could something so wrong possibly keep happening? Any ideas on how to fix this type of dark pattern?

It Hass to be...
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Don't see why you're being down-voted. That seems like a perfectly reasonable approach. Assuming, of course, the decision on compatibility is yours to make.

Paradoxically, it's consistent with part of the strategy google used to promote Chrome in the first place: make the dev tools good, to encourage developers to use chrome, so they'll optimise for it, so it'll become popular.

Privacy-advocating developers optimising for the browser(s) they believe are most privacy-respecting seems entirely appropriate. It's not anti-chrome, any more than those using chrome as their primary tool are anti-firefox (or whatever).

--

EDIT: noted that taking this decision requires the authority to do so.
> For RAID, I use a HDD backup.

A reliable backup is way more important than RAID. Unless you run some kind of emergency service.
I got one in 2020 at the start of covid for coding. Ultimately, I just sold it and ended up replacing it with a 13" MacBook Air a couple months ago. The main reasons were: the case flexes when you pick it up by the corner causing annoying errant mouse clicks, the 4k screen did not have the battery life as advertised (a lower resolution screen would have remedied this, but I had no clue going in), several times it threw missing OS error message coming awake from sleep or updates, and the RAM is now soldered on the motherboard. One of the main reasons I went with the Dell was due to an older XPS 15 that I had and I did several repairs & upgrades myself. I debated getting a ThinkPad, but I went with a Mac because there was a chance I might be getting into iOS development. YMMV.
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> Are you sure you want such a small laptop for work? I'd go for a larger screen tbh

Yeah, now I'm pondering about that. I'm used to 15, but I also want something super light. So I'm thinking about T495, it's 14' and just 1.3kg.
There's been some promising progress on migraine/cluster-headache treatments with psilocybin microdosing. Really happy to see that humanity is slowly starting to realize that blanket bans aren't always the best idea ..
I'm not an expert in this, but if they gave 25mg psilocybin (not purified) you would probably not hallucinate (of my readings in the reddit posted in another comment here). But I'm not sure if its possibly to purify it, and I'm not sure what effects 25mg of "purified" psilocybin would have.
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I was pulled through so many hopeless recruitment processes, tests, take home assignments, teasing sessions that I simply have no reason to believe these amounts. No promise will make me sacrifice even an hour more. Like literally - email me already an employment contract with this amount on it.
The bitcoin blockchain is full of transactions, and lots are probably being made offchain on Lightning Network or on centralized services. Your claim is that all these transactions are for speculation only (which is quite common claim). On what data do you base your claim?
Almost half of Shopify's top execs to depart company
I'd give it 3-4 years. Seems no one is interested in owning it.
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Everybody understands this, except people taking part in movements hijacked by the wealthy to block any new developments. Here in New Zealand they are using indigenous groups to achieve the goal of blocking new builds, in Germany it's the green movements.

Something tells me governments are also interested in real estate prices going up.
>why would you choose to have an all-men judging panel?

e.g maybe they were the only competent/(interested in taking a part in this project) people avaliable
> which is famously anti-crypto

The threshold to being famously anti-crypto seems to be quite low. Like, not everyone being completely uncritically positive about crypto.
Yes, there's also something about techies that get older that makes them more negative? Thinking of comments on some other websites that have been around longer, such as slashdot.
EXACTLY. This is how I feel as a millennial who hasn't started on the ground floor and doesn't have rich parents who did.
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Hey, just wanted to let you know I've just pushed a "low-energy" mode that will remove some elements and effects on screen. On my Mac (MBP with M1 chip) it makes the webview go from 40% CPU to around 10-15%.

You can activate it by pressing "l".
> 94% of developers finished the coding test sent to them for recruitment purposes, up from 93% last year. This shows that candidates who are sent a relevant, stack-specific coding test are taking them more seriously than ever before.

This could also say that they are now choosing to send tests to more desperate candidates than before. Either way, I see no way for stats like this to not suffer from selection bias, and after scanning the article I wouldn’t take the numbers too seriously.
Seems about right... Crypto is awesome until it is terrible.
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>If you genuinely believe this: that it makes no difference, why would you choose to have an all-men judging panel?

I didn't choose. Perhaps the people that did, didn't have a lot of, or maybe any, women to choose from? Or perhaps, and I know this is going to piss off a lot of people, but perhaps the best judges they could find just happened to be men?

In any case, my mind, unlike yours apparently, did not immediately jump to malice or the soft bigotry of them "just not knowing" they fucked up due to innate misogyny.
If I saw that, I’d think about sound effects or special effects.
I didn't look at the submitter's name at first, but thought "someone must have read Craig's Twitter." Close enough.
Completely agree! My company has pretty strict rules for creating infrastructure in our upper environments. Devs are not able to do it and we want everything to run through our CI/CD pipeline. We either have to ask our cloud team to create the bucket or hack up our build file to add it.

It would be nice, on the first run of terraform init, if it would check for the remote state bucket and then ask if you would like to create it if it does not exist.
4-HO-DMT is psilocin, which is illegal in most places.
I've been using an XPS 13 with Ubuntu since 2017 and would recommend it but with some reservations.

The fans can get noisy when using more graphically intensive apps like video calls (or even just heavy DEs like Gnome or KDE) with my external 2K monitor. Mine has a lower end (i5) CPU even for the time when I bought it though so maybe this is less of an issue with a newer one.

The built in mic is barely usable (picks up too much noise from things like fans) and the camera and speakers aren't great either but good enough.

If you haven't used a 13 inch laptop before watch out for neck and eye strain - I wouldn't be able to use this as my work laptop without an external monitor.
Sorry to hear that! I’m glad you were able to resolve that. Again none of my comments are meant to be mean I try to keep comments about the comments and not the commentator. I don’t always succeed.
> You know what else is subsidized? Farms. Should we stop paying for them?

[…]

> Don't force everyone to live in a city. It's not unlike the bicyclists trying to tell everyone they should bike instead of drive, which simply isn't going to work for most of the people in this country.

What practical benefit(s) do the suburbs bring to society? Why should society pay the costs of them when they are so wasteful from land use, health (due to all the driving), climate change, etc?

Farms have been subsidized for years, even before the modern car-based suburbs were invented: urban dwellers paid higher prices for telephones and electricity to build out the infrastructure in rural areas in the early 1900s.

But there is no practical reason to subsidize car-based suburbs when you can have (detached) single-family homes, with backyards (with garages/lanes), that are built at densities that can support walkable neighbourhoods and sustain transit. Especially since lot sizes have been shrinking for years and many modern suburban homes are no bigger many urban ones; see this 2019 Cheddar video:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKwOyA-pOTY
This sort of provides rollbacks but not isolation. You would have to rollback all chances that happened to the filesystem (or the whole system if you don't know what filesystems were touched by the program) during the period between snapshot and when you finish your inspection.

It would be interesting if you could mount the snapshot then attempt to merge in the changes to the live system once approved. I don't know if any filesystems that support merges though.
Gravitational-wave physics and astronomy in the 2020s and 2030s
Not OP, suspect they mean 50x18 months is $900 to spend on computer upgrades to increase the speed of chrome.

But is mighty intended for use on a single computer? Or for running headless browser tests / reducing computing consumption from mass browser testing?

Seems the former, which seems an odd value prop and somewhat niche, considering the rent a performance increase vs build/upgrade equation.
Also, what an odd calendar layout. Starting with the first day of the month at the top left means all the days are off for most months. Why would Thursday be at the very left side (as is the case in April)??

(I was initially trying to find out if the layout was Sunday or Monday starting, but apparently it's neither)
Except it does since a single emoji can also be made up of multiple code points.
Yeah, millennials coding apps are the problem. Not the ones owning the cafe, the building it resides in and the apartments everyone lives in.
Hey there! Sorry for the delay – it's not a dumb question at all first off and a lot of solid responses were posted below.

Here's what worked for me (EU) after suspecting ADHD early last year:

1. I searched for and found a local psychotherapist who is specialized in ADHD and had experience with adults[^1]

2. We met and went through several weeks of testing that resulted in a specific diagnosis[^2]

3. She referred me to a local psychiatrist who I've since worked with in regards to medication[^3] As stated below, psychotherapists can NOT (EU) prescribe medication.

Things I had wished I knew before:

1. To work with a psychotherapist in parallel because the diagnosis was both, very liberating and de-stabilizing and needed space to discuss. In my experience, the psychiatrist is NOT your talking buddy but a professional who you work together to find a treatment that works for you.

2. To not expect family or friends to understand the (positive) impact diagnosis and treatment have on you.

Hope this helps!

- [^1] While I also think that it's important to highlight and discuss "Adult" ADHD because we're adults here, it's the same underlying neuro-genetic disorder, so I don't personally make the distinction often

- [^2] See "Types" at https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/facts.html

- [^3] I'm intentionally vague here mostly to not suggest or recommend a specific class or product.
https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/RentControl.html

>The Effects of Rent Control

>Economists are virtually unanimous in concluding that rent controls are destructive. In a 1990 poll of 464 economists published in the May 1992 issue of the American Economic Review, 93 percent of U.S. respondents agreed, either completely or with provisos, that “a ceiling on rents reduces the quantity and quality of housing available.”1 Similarly, another study reported that more than 95 percent of the Canadian economists polled agreed with the statement.2 The agreement cuts across the usual political spectrum, ranging all the way from Nobel Prize winners milton friedman and friedrich hayek on the “right” to their fellow Nobel laureate gunnar myrdal, an important architect of the Swedish Labor Party’s welfare state, on the “left.” Myrdal stated, “Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by governments lacking courage and vision.”3 His fellow Swedish economist (and socialist) Assar Lindbeck asserted, “In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city—except for bombing.”4 That cities like New York have clearly not been destroyed by rent control is due to the fact that rent control has been relaxed over the years.5 Rent stabilization, for example, which took the place of rent control for newer buildings, is less restrictive than the old rent control. Also, the decades-long boom in the New York City housing market is not in rent-controlled or rent-stabilized units, but in condominiums and cooperative housing. But these two forms of housing ownership grew important as a way of getting around rent control.
It is true. I've seen multiple posts where Googlers or ex-Googlers with contacts can't get access to a locked Google account.
Sorry to hear that. I hope everything works out.

Take this a learning experience. Once you get your business back, sit down with your team and come up with a mitigation plan because this may happen again. It's possible you may need to switch to another vendor, even one more expensive or smaller, but one with a dedicated support line and/or an account manager and stronger SLAs. Your business heavily relies on Twilio and you should have someone you can call at Twilio outside of the general support line. Maybe you need to attend their conferences and create a personal relationship with their developers or other employees so in cases like this you can backchannel your issue.

If you're going to outsource critical business infrastructure to third party SAAS vendors, make sure you have a plan for when things go tits up, because things will go tits up. It looks like Twilio screwed up here, but Twilio isn't going to suffer the consequences of this like your business will.