skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I might be misunderstanding some sarcasm from someone, but isn't government intervention and support during a time of crisis pretty firmly in the neoliberal playbook?

From where I'm standing it's... pretty much everyone else who rails against large scale bailouts. The libertarian crowd is more on the "see where the chips fall" side of things while the more left-leaning/progressive groups didn't appreciate govt money going to businesses instead of to workers directly.
I was once a subscriber to the NYT, and will never be again because of this. I wonder if they are actually making money with this tactic or losing.
replied with this on another post, but you can add `-p:PublishReadyToRun=true` to your `dotnet publish` command to do AOT. it blows up your binary in size, but pretty much gives your warmed up code from the start.
Most countries don't have the weird and insane rating plan that Texas did. What I pay for water/gas/electricity doesn't fluctuate 500% from hour to hour.
Fair enough, good lore :)
Not the OP but I think it is because of a lack of trust in institutions, due to an escalating culture war and tribalism.

As an educated person interested in facts and science, there is a surprising lack of due diligence in the media around a lot of the current hot topic issues (not going to name them). Every time I do my own research on one of these issues, it is obvious the media and our institutions are more interested in supporting an official narrative than diving deep into the facts. Opposing opinions are just not 'allowed' anymore in some areas. I personally don't even trust people using the word 'misinformation' anymore, as it has been so abused
You can watch a few conference talks where folks really go to town on Linus for his bad behavior.

On GPLv3 lots of calls for Linus to stop supporting GPLv2

"How do we get you to stop..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaKIZ7gJlRU

And the list goes on and on. That said, his decisions seem to have worked out amazingly well. At some point I can imagine getting tired at having to repeatedly defend your views.
It's funny you say it gives peace of mind. I had this exact conversation not long ago with some former co-workers. It's a sort of forced acceptance that you can't change something. In some ways it's desensitized me to disclosures of breaches and the constant notices I receive in email etc.

Who knows what the ultimate impact is long term, but whatever it is, there's no hiding from it.
This is HN, not a criminal court. One can be all for due process, and propose one's opinion here that someone is guilty. "Due process" does not apply here.
Hire me. I’ll implement it.
Shouldn't it be D flat instead?
They then just resell the tickets - not at some supply-demand balanced value

It is the supply-demand balanced value. If it wasn't, they wouldn't be able to sell them.
Good callout. Good hacks are a different thing. Sadly, it's quite hard to compose a good internet search to find a list of the "best" ones. Generally all results are breaches and cracks. That, or dumb "life hacks".
martinlutherking .org is a hack? seriously?
Sure, if the user has proper permissions.

But when you are a small app running on a corporate citrix, APP-V, or whatever locked-down environment you are out of luck.

You will be able to update the app running inside electron without much of an issue. But you won't be able to download and execute a new exe.
The point of a republic is to limit government, not ensure technocrats can never get fired.
Same Data, Different Conclusions
Intrigued by this approach!

Is the source shareable?

We have an enterprise app that was originally built as a UWP application via Xamarin.Forms (Hot mess, I know. But the decision predates me).

We've been prototyping a rebuild in React and Electron but if we could port into WebView2 and reuse a lot of our existing business logic with a port into a local api layer a lot of time could be saved.

I'm a web guy, so not sure how the nuts&bolts of this would work. Does the WPF app bootstrap a REST API on localhost on startup that is callable?
Well isn’t that why we have limited federal government and defer most decisions to the states?
In newer versions of both iOS and Android, your app can get terminated by the OS without warning for misbehaving. Things like too many context switches, using too much CPU, or exceeding some internal and unspecified memory limit.
I think part of the problem may be not taking advantage of external storage. I have an older Android phone with 32Gb internal storage and a 128Gb MicroSD card. I haven't had any storage problems because most big files go to the external storage without any effort on my part. I still have 10 Gb internal storage available, which is fine for my needs.

I have an old Nook eBook reader that I haven't used in a very long time because if became impossible to update. There was an Android update that said it would let you configure external storage as a seamless extension of the internal storage. There was just one problem: Android insisted that Android's Apps be stored in internal memory. The poor old Nook only had 8 Gb of internal memory (what do you expect for only $49). The OS took almost 4 Gb, the Android Apps also took almost 4 Gb, leaving less than 100 Mb. After a while it became impossible to update and now it's in a box somewhere with all its other abandoned bretheren.
I requested that from one card provider and they told me that they couldn’t and I’d have to get a new card number to stop the charges.

When you say “you can”, are you just saying “you can ask”, or that you’ve had success doing this?

If the latter, mind sharing which card provider that was with?
I disagree with your views, but I appreciate your brief clear expression and the confirmation that your viewpoint does actually exist. This is the sort of thing I would like to see more of.
It definitely is enough of a matter of privacy that PGE wouldn’t reveal any details of the previous tenant’s usage patterns when I called concerned about the amount of energy we were using in our new place. If it’s too private to share in that context it shouldn’t be blasted out unencrypted to anyone with an antenna. (Also I realize we’re talking about Texas but I would assume/hope they have the same restrictions on sharing info as PGE.)
They're trashing our rights! They're trashing, trashing!!!
What are the consequences of non-payment? Can the user still view their account in a frozen state and export their data?
Well, it's not influenza...
Seagate's anecdotal failure rate was why I kept to WD. Backblaze's numbers convinced me this is not a problem I need to worry about in the present. Seagate had much better price/performance than Toshiba in my local market when I last needed drives, so it's what I got.
With a lot of them dying?
I mean, it kind of depends what you're looking for. But out of the box, you get:

- HDMI video (I've only tried the first on Pi 4's)

- HDMI sound, PWM sound, headphone sound

- I2C controller/peripheral base classes

- SPI support

- serial logging

- USB controller/hub PnP support, including mouse, keyboard, and gamepads

- FAT support

I haven't messed with networking or wireless of any sort yet. Not needed for my use case, but I believe ethernet is there, at least.
This game is the ultimate example of the danger inherent in feature creep. The original goals of an expansive FPS/Space Sim MMO with unprecedented player count and the largest crafted non procedural game world seems lost.

Which is a shame because that's what I was buying in to. I wanted massive player counts in a persistent and evolving universe. I didn't want "dynamic door alignment" and "Face over IP". My hope was Star Citizen would be the game to break the mold that WOW created 20 years ago and gave us the next generation of MMO.

They cant even finish the single player campaign which they did all the mocap and VA work for years ago. Is Mark Hamill going to still be alive when Squadron 42 is released?
> The reason it doesn't work is because of people. People do things in PvP because there are no consequences.

The reason so many games want "as open as possible" PvP as possible is because of people, too. There are plenty of people who's most fun in any multiplayer comes from acting upon other players and making other players miserable is a very "rewarding" action to them.

That's an entire quadrant of players (Killers) in Bartle's now classic diagram and of the studies that have been done in the past there's a pretty equal distribution of how people self-describe themselves to the four quadrants (and how their stats seem to align in MUDs that used to track such things). Assuming that hypothesis to hold, that's a fourth of the potential audience they lose if they don't have PvP at all, and within that quadrant it always seems like the most vocal in what they play is based on how "open" the PvP is and the raw statistics of the number of people they can act upon ("grief").

I get the impression that many of those vocal "Killer" players that strongly prefer open world PvP are possibly over-represented in MMO design efforts. Two of the quadrants ("Achiever" and "Explorer") are often pleased enough with single player games (and single player game design) to not even see a need for multiplayer games in their lives, and the final "Socializer" quadrant these days is just as often left by game designs to fall through the cracks to "non-games" like Second Life or Discord.
it isn't really. Most commercial meters that use this tech are encrypted. It is possible to obtain the key for your own meter but that's about it.
I'll fire a POC onto Github and edit this comment with the link...

Edit: Here you go - https://github.com/jmkni/HnPocWebview2
I don't know why you keep saying "it's not possible" when I literally wrote code that does it: https://github.com/magcius/noclip.website/blob/cc98112d7b105...
Who Will Build Consumers a Debt Dashboard?
That's pretty cool. You can also type "!g" in the searchbar to search your query in google. There's also "!gi" for google images and "!gm" for google maps. They call these "bangs" and have many more of them. They're super useful and one of the main reasons I use DDG
Lack of School can cause harm. We know there is a fairly limited window in which learning is significantly easier and more effective.
It's best practice to use "coronavirus" for coronaviruses, and "flu" for influenza.

While they can cause similar symptoms, they are very different diseases, caused by viruses that have no particular genetic link.
Learning about Personal Knowledge Management systems. This includes Zettelkasten, PARA, Building a Second Brain and other systems. On the look out for more frameworks in this space.
Paul Graham is mentioned [1] in the Wikipedia article. Small world eh

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm#:~:text=however%...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27631872
I agree that instant games are and will continue to be desirable for a sizable audience. Correlating that to Adobe Flash completely lost me.

My NES games are instant and that preceded Flash by decades. In fact, I think the 8-bit era inspires game devs today far more than the early-mid 2000's browser games.
Correct. I am sharing my current on-going experience with what I thought was workplace burnout, but was really a number of other mental health issues that were contributing to my overall feeling of doubt, anxiety, performance at work.

To be clear again, I am not advocating for everyone to assume their burnout is due to some sort of mental health issue - but to also not discredit exploring this prior to making a big emotional decision like leaving a job, and possibly making symptoms even worse if not addressed.
I think "Smart import" answers your first question. But entities is a great question.

My own unanswered question:

Can this work offline?

I spend a lot of time in areas with no signal. So I am uncomfortable with apps that require a connection to a remote server to work with my own data. Besides connectivity issues, there is also the possibility of a poorly-timed service outage, or an eventual permanent shutdown. Bottom line, I have a strong preference for what I call the "KeePass" model: local-first encrypted data, that can be optionally synced for convenience.
Thank you for taking the time to write that out dang.
This is a term of art. An "ordinary expense" are categories of expenses required to live a decent average life, as evidenced by the fact that most people actually spend money on them. This includes housing, transportation, clothes, food, healthcare, utilities, taxes, etc. It makes no judgement on how the money is spent in ordinary categories e.g. buying a BMW is an ordinary expense because it is transportation. It isn't prescriptive and it includes pretty much everything you would expect. Ordinary expenses include a lot of luxury and non-essential spending.

If you look at all the categories that are "non-ordinary" because most people spend no money on them, they are pretty obviously lifestyle flexes. For example, if you blow your entire paycheck on a bar tab, that is not classified as an ordinary expense because most people don't do that.

Subtract the median ordinary expense from the median income, you are left with more than $12,000 per year as a surplus. This is called "discretionary income", money you can spend on fun, hobbies, or -- relevant to this thread -- savings. If we restricted it even further to ordinary and essential spending, the income level that no longer generates any surplus is in the region of 15th percentile IIRC. That is still 20 million households in the US with no ability to save but that isn't the experience of the vast majority of households.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Federal Reserve publishes surprisingly detailed statics of what people spend money on and how income surpluses are used.
“Dragon Man”: Scientists Say New Human Species Is Our Closest Ancestor
Most stage 1 can be treated successfully with surgery alone, it's getting a late diagnosis that force you to go through a brutal treatment. If all cancer were detected in phase 1 it would not be seen as a "huge deal" anymore.
That's not entirely wrong, but it's not quite correct either. When our first was born, the nurses at the maternity ward (about as pro-baby advocacy a bunch as one could imagine) advised us to "take care of yourselves so you can take care of the baby"; you're not doing your children any favors if you're driving yourself into a breakdown.
You're reading other peoples unfinished thoughts before they've said them?!
That's just not possible with python's computational model. That works for "from future import print" cause that's just an additional function.

str is too deeply embedded and used in too many dynamic and unique ways for that approach to work without doing some really ugly or nonperformant or community-fracturing things.
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I'd love to never hear about another coronavirus again.

We went too far prescribing a certain agenda in the last year, and it's time to reflect on that.

In my opinion studies and articles like this are doing more to fuel the fear porn than they are at teaching anything substantial.
Look at the videos. That’s an outdoor laboratory environment.
Windows 11 Home will require a Microsoft account and an internet connection
The Legend of the Restaurant Workers Too Lazy to Work
There is a big discussion in this post about iatrogenics being introduced by these tests. It sounds like the fear here is that it'll tax an already burdened system with more patients (some of which just got a false positive).

I'm failing to understand how that's any different from other blood tests: they signal a problem, then more has to be established to validate the signal. Nobody is saying "this test proves someone has cancer" and I'm pretty sure doctors already have to discuss how tests can be inaccurate with patients. I believe it's the case that symptoms of cancer (just like other illnesses) may be ignored exactly because there aren't any other signals to indicate cancer. Plus zebras and horses and all of that too. Perhaps someone does have symptoms but nobody connects the dots, and these tests might connect those dots. Is there some reason that this argument is invalid in medical science?
> At what point does a newsletter pop-up become a dark pattern?

At what point does it not? Pop-ups exist to steal attention. It's abuse. Why do these marketers believe they are entitled to anyone's attention? They are not.

> a business owner can have a very hard time grasping why

Of course. Businesses generally couldn't care less about how much they're abusing their workers or their consumers. The only thing they care about is their profit. Dark patterns are just value extraction mechanisms, it's their abusiveness that makes them dark.

> they can often act like they're simply herding sheep. Users are ephemeral zombies to some, and from that lens, it's totally fine to capture them with sneaky tactics

Yes. It's an inherently abusive and sociopathic view. They don't consider us human beings.
Same. I have a wildcard alias, and all my logins use different email addresses. Super useful to tell if some service gets hacked or otherwise leaks email addresses.
B flat (or A sharp) is the relative minor of C# major, so I think that is what they were going for.
I agree. I really wish they had a native app instead of a wrapper of the web app.
"effective when we hit 70% or June 30". That's 70% with at least one shot. Oregon is now at 69.1%, but businesses are pushing to open even if the state doesn't hit the mark in 5 days.

Anyone here want to take a stab at what a .9% difference could mean for the future of infection and hospitalization rates?

I feel like the US is never going to get to "done". Just like some bad managers, they'll decide time is up, declare victory, collect their bonus, and move on to the next mess.
I'd argue Stuxnet was a pretty major one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

Between 2005 and 2010 the US military wrote a virus that destroyed many of Iran's uranium-enriching centrifuges. It featured Windows 0-days, infected USB flash drives, a rootkit, and was self-replicating once it crossed the airgap. Once it found the target machine, it would send malicious signals to the PLC causing the centrifuge to spin too fast.
Ok yeah we do get that sometimes in our company but it's always triggered by external causes (some supplier being unhappy about a deal or something, they never tell me the full story). So it only affects people dealing with external parties. And always in the US, never seen it anywhere else. Though it seems to be increasingly prevalent there.
This! I started bookmarking community gardens in Oakland. There’s quite a few and I hope more space can be allocated for them in the future!
Hundreds of birds are appearing disoriented and then dying
Deep Optics' LCD Sunglasses Offer Focus Correction on Demand
As a developer and a user and a gamer, oh god, no.
Lucid is mostly ex-Tesla and ex-Hyundai.
Got hit a while back with a GitHub account that was "bombing" OSS projects with Docker image "best practice" fixes related to Deb "recommends" or some other such stuff. Most of their history for the past year was exclusively opening these PRs with canned messages.

Some of the projects were very large(Apache Arrow, a large Google project IIRC), and they were opening commits up against largely test images.. And a LOT of them. On one of the larger projects somebody rightfully asked "What's the value add here?" who was promptly ignored by what I can only assume is a project manager who start humoring the submitter by trying to help them get this entirely useless work merged. It turned into an epic fail-whale causing all the projects tests to fail and that initial dev spent "too much time" trying to untangle it all before putting their foot down and reverted the changes.

Other project maintainers got wise to these fishy PRs and after inspecting the submitters history just started telling them to sod off.
Deprecated Google apps that can't be uninstalled nor disabled, but still keep updating themselves to the last bloated version after you do uninstall the updates.
I’m working on a different farming robot. Since my office is at the farm and half of my work is doing something outside with the machine, it’s a pretty idyllic setting for a job!
I think it's not so much that you're not "hip," but you aren't concerned about the minutia most kids are nowadays. My 2nd cousin told me recently he hated reading in school because "there was no sound." It was incredibly eye opening to me to see how starkly different growing up between us was. Not that I'm some enlightened millennial, but often in the earlier days of the internet, reading and images were all we had. Now as a more tech inclined individual, I see what the current generation appreciates as annoying and excessive.

Perhaps market research should interview 10-16 year olds more often?
If we are to believe Bloomberg, The Big Hack [0]

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-h...
> This is such a straw man argument. Who is this person that fires people arbitrarily? Does he not have a business to run?

It's a thought experiment intended to contrast the justification for the rules we live by.

> The only reason I could see him firing someone because of appearance is where it matters.

Except statistics show that attractiveness is correlated with success in every career. The thought experiment you dismissed steps through the reasons why, say, the stats showing gender disparities are taken as evidence of sexism. There is no comparable -ism for ugliness despite the obvious parity of reasoning.
> Passwords must have at least one non alphanumeric character.

What kind of 1990's-era security-theater antipattern junk is this
Agreed. I'm in the former group.

You aren't getting my data, stop trying. That may seem harsh, but that is where I'm at. I'm really put off by the idea of sharing my data these days. I don't trust Mozilla's internal audit process to keep it safe, but it isn't specific to them. Outside of maybe a two companies who are 'encryption-first', I don't trust any of them
Really? I live in Barcelona and there are always taxis ready for the hailing :) Uber and Lyft are not common here, though a local alternative, Cabify is. But whenever I use cabify I need to wait for ages for them to get there, and tens of taxis pass me during this time. So I only use them when I want the quiet of a nice car or when I want to know how much I'll pay in advance.

There are still some payphones here too, but most of them have been vandalised, that's true.
Man, it's it's harrowing in hindsight to look back on porting 2->3 on linux, and remembering my coworkers that had to do it on Windows with encoding-oblivious libraries.

They're still constantly finding bits of code that break cause some customer decided to switch from "delta" to “Δ” in some machine learning log output.
> iPhones and Androids are computers

So are Xboxes and PlayStations
> thanks to Minecraft, my five year old already has an understanding of exponents.

Wait, how ?

Where are exponents used in Minecraft ?
I cannot say the same for their Android app. After all, it's basically a wrapper of the web app.

Gmail is much faster, I guess because it's native.
My phone has storage capacity of 4MB :) it is plenty!
> Why are people tolerating this?

Because it’s mandated by management.
TPM Requirement Excludes Many PCs from Windows 11
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I would agree with you. Those commits would be the easiest one to merge. How difficult is it to approve a typo correction? Saying a typo correction is not productive is actually the opposite: it takes very little time to review and approve. I don't know why people are mad that these commits are not from a student.
On Android, Microsoft has an app called "Office" that combines Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other feature. It's just 133MB.