skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I knew society was whack when I saw girls with college degrees becoming OnlyFans models and selling foot fetish photos... to make a middle-class living because their college degree doesn't pay their bills.

Where did society go wrong
On the one hand I see news stories about how jobs are having trouble finding employees. On the other I see people in danger of being evicted. Something doesn't add up here. If there are jobs, why are people avoiding those jobs?
Can't you use triple tap like on any modern Linux?
For WinMerge it should be noted that some web-sites out-there offer winmerge binaries for download and I bet that some of them are bundled with spyware (they are not affiliated with the official version, but even my tech-savvy friend was about to download winmerge the other day from a non official source, I noticed him that he should use winmerge.org).
As I plan to give a talk about "how to find growth material and learn X2 faster", this post by Saron Yitbarek cannot come in a better timing. Improving the way I make transitions between what I say my your visual aid (my slides) can help keep the audience more engaged. Definitely going to practice it this time.
Is there any way to make page inspector work on browser chrome to see xul tree/css? Searching on the internet for "firefox chrome inspector" is just ridiculously frustrating because of naming conflict with the other browser.

Hmm, looking at css, it's still possible to toggle browser.proton.enabled to false, to get at least some of the old UI back (tabs will be less crappy), but the new "color" theme will persist.
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> I don't make any money from my rental unit it just helps cover property tax insurance and my mortgage.

It may not be fair, but it's the definition of a bad investment.

Unless you're housing someone at cost out of the kindness of your own heart, in which case, that's awesome.
I use a CPAP; I hate it. I can’t wear appliances because of orthodontics, and I am very wary of costs & long recovery times for surgery. However, neither of those two things are ‘a hack’ in any negative sense. They both can offer significant life improvement.
So, do you get your fix of mentoring/teaching/research through that; it perhaps through FOSS involvement or ...? Not suggesting you have to, just your comment suggested that was/is your passion.
>they could be incredibly bad and debilitating for the people suffering from them

Any issue can be "incredibly bad and debilitating" for any given person; but a culture of coddling and indulging in pity and victimhood is going to amplify what otherwise would be trivial issues if it were once again socially acceptable to preach resilience and stoicism.

No, it's not about being cold and unemotional at all times, but we are collectively moving far too close to the other extreme of socially encouraged fragility.
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they will all be bailed out, or Democrats will be slaughtered
The failed promise of Kenya’s smart city
Virtual deck of cards using just a browser
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How do they get wildlife to use these? Do they just line the road with fences to funnel animals into the purpose-built crossings? What length of road can one of these crossings support? Are there any measures for how effective these crossings are at reducing wildlife collisions? These things sound good on paper but I wish the article more information to back them up.

EDIT: Another commenter pointed out the article does provide a metric for the effectiveness of these crossings in the first paragraph: 90%.
Meanwhile, Firefox Developer Edition is currently stuck on version 89 beta. Is it a bigger than usual update?
More details for those who are interested. The physics package is about the size of a grain of rice.

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Many teams around the world are actively developing improvements on this technology.

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I don't understand how resilience could be grouped under compassion. Resilience it's about an individual's ability to get back up. Compassion is typically about understanding between two people.
That was my reasoning.
FYI convergent encryption is hashing the original message, using hash as key to encrypt message, and sending hash key to user via 2nd encryption. The hash encrypted message will generate a second hash which will be used to track the spread of a message.
> working to address the root causes and cultivating a sense of agency and ability to change one's situation in life.

Have you considered that people with issues might not even be capable of doing this? That they could have a very low sense of agency and maybe no idea about the real root causes of their issues, and they might have tried a thousand times to “fix” them without success?
I should have been more clear. Here are the details:

If you read the linked doc, you'll see an EXCEPT clause. That can be used for a retry loop inserting into a table with a UNIQUE constraint. No read locks are necessary, because the UNIQUE constraint will catch violations safely (regardless of concurrent activity), and the retry loop can simply retry until that succeeds. For instance:

CREATE TABLE u(i INT8 UNIQUE);

-- insert random unique value in the range 0..n
-- into table u, retrying if it's already present
--
-- NOTE: this will not terminate if 0..n are all
-- present
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION insert_uniq(n INT8)
RETURNS VOID
LANGUAGE plpgsql AS $$
DECLARE
x INT8;
BEGIN
<<retry_loop>>
LOOP
BEGIN
x := (random() * n)::int8;
INSERT INTO u VALUES(x);
RAISE NOTICE 'inserted unique value %', x;
EXIT retry_loop;
EXCEPTION
WHEN unique_violation THEN
RAISE NOTICE 'collision with value %; retrying', x;
END;
END LOOP;
END;
$$;

This will obviously loop forever if 0..n are all occupied, but if you choose n as (2::numeric^63 - 1)::int8, that won't happen.
I've noticed this on iOS too. There are scams out there that encourage users to install root CA certs in order to jailbreak or get access to non-AppStore apps (this used to be required by one method.)

I don't know what happened to the idea of user friendly software respecting the intentions of a user. Modern OSes really are effectively just well funded socially acceptable malware.
The pandemic made the situation a little different than usual. Many people got laid off for no fault of their own last year and couldn't find new work also from no fault of their own, the cities were just shut down for a while.

The US government decided they didn't want these people to just go homeless en masse (at least not in the middle of a pandemic) and thus put the eviction moratorium in place, thus showing that they recognize we were in an extraordinary situation.

Don't know about you, but I can't blame people for choosing not to go homeless when the government explicitly said you don't have to go homeless even if you can't pay your rent. So I wouldn't negatively judge ability to pay rent in this case if I were a landlord.

Granted, I might prefer someone who didn't get behind on payments if I had two otherwise equal applicants, but I wouldn't assume they're just not going to pay rent this time as well.
Or just use other tools for communication.
There is certainly a vocal contingent that will jump in and attack working people, young people, or poor people as being crybabies anytime corporate profits are in question. Get back to work, peons!
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Wondering what is the corporate next step. Work from office can be enforced in a number of ways : lower pay for WFH comes to mind. I'm sure we'll see some devious schemes.
I have a credit card linked to my account with Google Pay, and yet they want me to provide it again. That makes no sense. They already have the information.
At my company it feels like it’s about 50/50. I expect this to be company and individual specific. Half my team will quit if they don’t get access to in office amenities and socialization.
We never had what we have today:

Fast communication about every topic including religion.

Riches like modern houses, a high standard of lifing for a lot (no war in Germany or food shortage for 50? Years).

When Im done with my high paying job Im done and due to me being so small I do question why do I work? For what? What is my goal in my life?

It is our zeitgeist. I have seen much more philosophical life questions asked in tv shows and movies as well.

There was also a very disturbing and hitting closer than expected south park episode were Kyle? Saw everything as shit.

When you could do everything but everything stops mattering what do you do?
What about dedicated WP hosting like WP Engine, Kinsta or Flywheel?
I work literally 10 minutes from my house. I would rather work from home. It's 5 traffic lights to the office. I can drive, waste fuel, clothes, time, insurance, tires, etc. Or I can work from home and do exactly the same shit I do in a box only from the comfort from my own home. And if I need to come in I'm 10 minutes away. Yet here I am, back in the office, and flex time is going away soon.
You're asking them to show proof of a null, which is tricky. For example, a landlord could tell their tenants to make the check out to their spouse, deposit rent checks into their account, then turn around to the government with their usual tenant bank account and say "They're stiffing me on rent!"

The government doesn't have perfect information.
Someday I hope to read an article or watch a talk explaining Googles approach to UX.

The best UX in a Google apps seems to be Gmail, and that’s honestly not that good either.

Google is able to build insanely complicated infrastructure, design cool languages, they produced fantastic backend software and the they completely forget that people need to interact with it.
It's called risk. You want the outsized returns of being a landlord? Then you take the risk that your tenants won't pay and you will be on the hook. You don't get a free lunch sorry.
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Look Windows has couple of odd settings, but the defaults are just fine. Some people will find reasons to tweak even if there's nothing to tweak. Been there in my teen years, but I grew up.
And as a senior your quite often working with several external teams and having some meetings FTF produces a massive productivity boost

We are talking Months and Months" by stopping other teams going of at a tangent or flat out just not doing what they are told.
We don't exactly prosecute for fraud very much in this country. Otherwise we would see a lot more business owners going to jail for immigration fraud, tax fraud, and wage theft.
They provide arguments for your code, runs it and record the output.

Based on the input types, it creates a hyperdimensional surface which is then searched for possible output values.

So, it runs your code, and runs it a lot. If your code deletes /, it will delete it a lot.
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Landlords don't have even that luxury.
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This class of user has always been doing such silly things long before "monetization". There were plenty of guides for Windows XP and Vista claiming to "increase performance" by disabling things like the indexer (fun fact, that will TANK your performance in a variety of areas), the Cryptographic services, and more. They never had any trust to violate, only a strange (and completely incorrect) sense that they knew more than the engineers who built the OS in the first place.
Hafnium? Is it something FRAM related?

What do you think on FRAM vs. next generation MRAM?
What's the difference if it's empty? Same loss of revenue. And sure, some maintanence/upkeep for tenants, but given how fast properties rot when vacant, that's probably a wash.

Rent seeking with someone else's money? Yeah, that's risky.
Or maybe landlords are forced to sell. What value are they really providing?
Ham Radio and video game modding - my computers are doomed!
Most Linux distributions, sadly, yes; good point.
We rented a house for several years, and the summer we moved in we told the landlord that the sprinkler system wasn't working right, and we wouldn't be using it to water the lawn.

The yard guys our landlord hired proceeded to blow all the topsoil off the yard that summer, and even when I tried to re-seed the lawn, it was impossible because they'd just come by every week and blow everything around. One time we were cooling off a birthday cake outside when the yard guys came and it almost got covered with dust when they arrived unannounced on a day they didn't normally come.

Leaf blowers are awful, noisy, and mostly don't do anything useful - unless you're ACTUALLY moving around fallen leaves.
I've always found the real world to be infinitely more stressful than the world of work and school. I also recognize how this is somewhat absurd.

During COVID my to-do list was basically to work, spend time with family and get some exercise. Now my to-do list is to move back to a major city, get a new job to support an increased standard of living, make new friends in a new area. I have to carefully budget my "keeping up with the Joneses" energy because there is no way I can do it all at once.

The absurdity is that I don't really need a new job or to move to a huge city in order to be happy but I'm doing it anyway.
1) you are assuming that I always stop at gas stations. I like the freedom, from time to time, to take a break in a parking area, with just a toilet and maybe some scenery. Or quitting the motorway to have my lunch in a local restaurant. I don't want to be bothered to look for a charge every 300 km.

2) I'm not talking about trunk: I'm talking especially about internal height.

3) nice to know, thank you.
But making normal human emotions pathological is not helpful either. Having a major disruption to your daily routine, be it work or social is very stressful, creates uncomfortable emotions and for the most part that’s a completely normal and healthy reaction.
At least for Bay Area companies, the "hybrid" 2/3 or 3/2 or whatever schemes are insufficient. They partially alleviate the long commute problem, but they do not solve the high cost of living problem. WFH has been nice in that it lets me skip my 4+ hour commute every day, but what would be even better is 0/5, allowing me to completely move out of the Bay Area and still keep my job (at lower comp, fine).
> The thing is group theory is taught in an incredibly abstract manner, its hard to find any motivating application for it, or any problems it helps us solve.

Mathematics is abstractly defined. But for basic group theory there's a plentitude of very concrete examples to rely on.

> Also terminology/definitions are vague too,

Absolutely not. There is no vagueness at all! Everything is completely well-defined in most introductory textbooks/courses (or you can even read the precise definitions on Wikipedia, which is often not the case).

> whether a vector has an endpoint or it something unachored in space is itself not clear from many treatments.

Vectors do not have endpoints. Vectors are not anchored. Vectors are elements of vector spaces. Vector spaces are completely clearly defined.
Same here. I always run into something. I'll give this version a try and see how it goes. I also like the new UI and the macOS native context menus!
I honestly believe that there's a market for people who want to watch a series of related music videos, and not have "A Vocal Coach Reacts to Silk Sonic!" pushed onto them.
As a user I find this section very intriguing.

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"Can WhatsApp work with law enforcement without traceability?

WhatsApp respects the important work law enforcement does to keep people safe. Our dedicated team reviews and responds to valid law enforcement requests. We respond to valid requests by providing the limited categories of information available to us, consistent with applicable law and policy. We also have a team devoted to assisting law enforcement 24/7 with emergencies involving imminent harm or risk of death or serious physical injury. We consistently receive feedback from law enforcement that our responses to requests help solve crimes and bring people to justice.

It’s also important to understand that depending upon the nature of their investigations, law enforcement officials have multiple investigative tools, and may obtain information from many sources, including different companies, other governments, or from users’ devices. More information about how we work with law enforcement can be found here."

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Can Facebook clarify what these limited categories of information are?
While reading this article I had the following reaction - Facebook would like to prevent traceability to preserve user privacy. That makes complete sense. Oh wait - they say they do have means of helping law enforcement and governments, wait a minute, in a fully encrypted system end to end how are they able to help governments in emergencies at all?

So my question here is that in a hypothetical scenario where terrorists are using whatsapp to coordinate an evil plot, which to most people would fit a scenario where Facebook can and should help the government - what is it that Facebook can do to help a government?

The only way I can see them being able to help the government is if they have the ability to selectively turn off end to end encryption for specific numbers (probably based on a warrant from a court). Will Facebook confirm if this is the case?