skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Random fact about that word: The scrabble dictionary has a redacted and unredacted version. "jew" is one of the redacted words because scrabble disallows proper nouns, so the remaining usage (as a verb) is offensive.
I'm amazed some of my younger coworkers don't even know you can submit a form post without making an ajax request or using JavaScript. I did this for a simple landing page we had to add a form to and they were so confused.
I feel like having a EFF captcha tool would be perfect. A quality and privacy respecting tool benefitting the web. It will remove the need to rely on tools from FAANG advertisers
I lived in the Boston area for five years and it was a great experience overall, it's quite walkable. The one thing I could never quite get used to was public transit taking longer than walking! You often had a choice of walking for 20 minutes or waiting 15 minutes for a 6 minute bus ride. (Tip: in winter, walking isn't just faster, it feels much warmer too.)

This really confused my Mexico City brain. Here in Mexico City public transit is horribly crowded but faster than walking. The subway is usually faster even than driving, which makes sense because you're not in our terrible traffic.

I guess part of the problem in Boston is that there just aren't enough riders: after waiting 10 minutes for a bus it wasn't even full! Here in Mexico City a more typical waiting period is 5 minutes and the bus is usually packed. I bet in Boston it's just not economically viable to run transit more frequently. Although maybe more people would opt for public transit if it were more frequent?

Anyway, I do recommend living Boston for a few years even with its wonky public transit. It's very pretty and has plenty of character.
You can volunteer installing CCTV in all your rooms, including toilet, and regularly send the footage to the police station. However, let us, normal people, to be excluded from this dystopian madness.
Cars are unfortunately too cheap. My last car was a basic VW polo, and the insurance was £350/year, road tax £99 and probably £200 a year amortized over the 5 years on servicing/wear and year, with a 400 mile range on ~£50 worth of fuel. The break even point on that is ~5-6 trips per year, and much lower if you use the car for basically anything else. I can fly to eastern Europe for £15, but the transit to the airport is more expensive than that in my city.
Zoning is a dragon that even a clear majority can’t slay in many cities. In Boston there is a major controversy that all new construction must have 1 parking space for every 2 condos.

Property developers, residents, and everyone else hates this regulation as the people buying these condos aren’t getting cars. You end up with buildings that are 1/3rd empty parking lot.

Bear in mind that the most popular neighborhoods of Boston were built in the 1600s without cars in mind.
It's interesting, if we encouter aliens, they might not have individuals but rather collective singularities like termites:

what is “one” termite? Is it one individual termite? Is it one termite with its symbiotic gut microbes, an entity that can eat wood but cannot reproduce on its own? Or is it a colony, a whole living, breathing structure, occupied by a few million related individuals and a gazillion symbionts who collectively constitute “one”?

Or consider

In the future, we will harness nature’s tiniest life forms – microbes and insects – both their systems of organisation and control, and their genes and chemical capabilities. This fits with our paradoxical desire to have a lighter footprint on the Earth while having greater control over its processes.

Haha, the "lighter footprint" is just performative virtue-signaling. What we actually want is more control, it's just an anthropocentric survival instinct that has us batshit hysteria insane for climate change and "lighter" ecological footprints. We don't give a shit about the animals and trees, as a collective, we're just in it for ourselves, while still pretending we're on top, subconsciously acknowledging our interdependence and acting accordingly.

This article should be a literary classic. It contains gems like:

Male and female find each other and scuttle off to dig a burrow where they will mate. At first the two termites will be alone in their dark hole. Christine Nalepa, Theo Evans and Michael Lenz have written that termite parents bite off the ends of their antennae, which may make them better at raising their young. Antennae give termites lots of sensory information, and biting off the segments toward the ends could reduce that stimulation, making it easier to live in a tiny burrow with a few million children.
Deep dive into stupid: Meet the growing group that rejects germ theory
These are the kinds of terrible, tunnel-visioned people who would think that reading Calvin and Hobbes makes boys misogynistic.

EDIT: Wow, just got to the point in the article where she seriously says it's not a stretch to imagine one of the main characters from "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" in 10 years "trolling feminists from his parents' basement". Unhinged delusion.

EDIT 2: Though the author would bristle at the hatefulness of this suggestion, if she wants to make sure both her boys and girls get messages about caring about others and being responsible for how others feel and are treated by you, she could do what parents have been doing for years and... take them to Church on Sunday (or synagogue or mosque).
Your comment seems to be at odds with the one I replied to stating "strange to live in a world that failed to incentivise it's own survival."

Either OP meant the whole world, or the circumstances which are leading to what is happening, which would include "the people who caused it". It would be difficult for the to "thrive in and profit" from it if they "failed to incentivise it's own survival."
This [1] is a nice AHK window manager. Win+UpLeft moves the current window, Win+DownRight resizes it, and WinSpace centers. Makes it easy to compose resizing & moving to get exactly what you need. Vertical is 50% increments, horizontal has increments at 0%, 33%, 50%, 66%, and 100%, though ofc you can customize cause its AHK. Only works with 1 monitor though.

[1] https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/79338-simple-window-posit...

P.S. ty for LangExt :)
I use dual monitors but in a stacked setup. I’ve found that you have to be very precise in the positioning which is why I have them on articulating arms. I also have them arranged so that one is placed directly in front and the other is tilted between the first and the keyboard. This required a keyboard tray and angling the second monitor off the edge of the desk. I do have to bend my neck to read the second monitor but it’s an up and down motion rather than a side to side which I find more natural. The position is similar to how you might read a book and I find it to be very comfortable.
No, I'm referring to this:

- Person A and Person B have the same income and live in similar properties.

- Person A rents at $1800/mo and is able to save $1000/mo

- Person B owns a $700K property, has $140K of equity (20%), and therefore pays down a mortgage of $560K at a rate of ~3.6% (makes the numbers work, and pretty accurate), totaling repayments of ~$2,800/mo over 25 years.

On paper these two have the same disposable income and it seems that Person B's net worth is 'only' $140K higher. But, consider what happens over 5 years, even without house prices going up

- Person A will have saved $60K overall

- Person B will have have $74K in additional equity (now owe $486K), and can now refinance at 70% LTV instead of 80% LTV. This gain is because they saved interest on the debt repaid over 5 years.

Person A would have had to invest their $1000/mo savings in to something yielding a massive 8%/year and pay no tax on their returns to reach a $74K balance in that time.

Now consider that if house prices even go up 2%/year over that 5 years (inline with inflation), that Person B will also have an additional $70K of equity. Meanwhile Person A is only $60K to $70K (depending on the performance of their own investments) of their way to a $150K deposit, on a now $770K property.

Once you have hard assets and leverage, you have a huge engine of wealth behind you.
Sharing information is fine, but I don't see any reason to complain and get annoyed. Is there any medical advice that is universally applicable? Should we all get annoyed at all medical advice and health education?

On the subject of what position we should take all day while working. Someone says sit in a chair, but some conditions are aggrivated by long periods of sitting, such as those who have a femoroacetabular impingement. Someone else says stand, that hurts some people's backs. Someone says walk, not everyone can walk though, so now I'm annoyed too. Someone says lay down, but not everyone has a fancy lay down desk setup, I'm triggered.

Perhaps more vague "check with your doctor" disclaimers are the solution?
At least mozilla lets you disable that, does apple?
I would love a phone based on the ideas from Plan9.
While true it also means that there is a way larger group of people skilled enough to develop new plugins in js.
That's part of why possession is illegal. The material is toxic.
Bin Laden certainly has been to Oxford, but I’ve not heard of any connexion with the university.¹ I wouldn’t say that those attending language schools and similar tend to interact much with students of the university. With the exception of a few cramming programmes for admissions, the ‘best and brightest’ (I assume by this you mean those sufficiently academically able to get into Oxbridge as matriculated students—I daresay the average Imperial mathmo is brighter than the average Cambridge land economist) tend not to take courses in Oxford outside the university, since they mostly use the name ‘Oxford’ to entice gullible tourists who don’t realise that these places have nothing to do with the university.

1: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1595205.stm
It’s baffling how people here continue to insist that anybody disagreeing with them must be stupid.

More specifically:

> this will effectively censor and control the code that an American software dev would have to write to comply with proper reporting

The idea that software today isn’t already, and has been from the times when bugs were actual insects, been the subject of (or had to account for) regulation is simply absurd.

As just the most obvious example, the financial sector is heavily regulated, and that includes the software, from KYC rules similar to those now proposed for cryptocurrencies, to endless requirements for documentation and archival or the exact prescription of the algorithm to be used to settle transactions.

The software in your car, plane, phone, or nuclear plant is required to follow a few dozen regulations, ISO standards, and best practice standards elevated to requirements. Every website accepting payments must implement some minimum of consumer and data protection. Your emails should respect the Oxford Dictionary and The New York Times Manual of Style, and the ADA may or may not include some requirements, although I’m not sure how binding they are.

What’s happening here is the collision of reality with two fundamental misunderstandings in the crypto community: first, they considered themselves valiant warriors challenging the FED/$/governments, certain to be immediately targeted by “the establishment” trying to defend its mighty power. Then, they expected to win that fight with superior technology. Or, as seems to be happening here, the idea that “it’s online” and thereby outside the jurisdiction of the law.

What happened was that for a decade or so, “the establishment” reacted with some mixture of mild interest, bemused looks, and just not giving a shit. Then, when cryptocurrencies had proven worthless except for scams, tax evasion, and CO_2 production, they started cutting it down to size, with maybe a few weeks’ effort at the SEC and probably half a dozen backbenchers’ amendments to the “Stuff We Should Do IDK Could Start To Get Annoying Act of 2022”.

I guess what will be most annoying, besides being the last fool sitting on a million $’ worth of random strings, is how maddeningly unspectacular the end will be.
My take on it, this has been the status quo for 200 years. Native American Indians warned about this hundreds years ago. From the natural world it has been obvious for a looong time!
Termites eat Guangdong grandmother’s life savings (2013)
We do not need to find a use for the wood if we were determined that this is our carbon sequestration method and that it would be paid for by the public, i.e. that no otherwise viable business model is needed. We could put it into mines that we digged the carbon out from before - consider it paying back the carbon loans we took in the past. Or maybe use other mines for that: cavities of salt mines can be truly gigantic for example which might help with handling the material.

Edit: I did some calculations and to sequester 1 Gt of carbon we would need to bury approximately 1.7 km^3 of (fresh) oak wood. That‘s a lot, especially since emissions were over 30Gt/a in 2020.
So? If a corporation (or political party) does a shockingly egregious thing that doesn't align with your values then you absolutely should switch to an alternative that supports your values.
It’s almost like that conditioning benefits someone.
Neurotransmitter levels can predict learning and achievement
I think every case is individual. One of my recent gigs had management failures and engineering failures.

Management failed to communicate the limitations of the investment by investors to finish a project. In this case 4 months window of having an additional small team to build it. I had to pay very close attention to extract that information, my inquiries into it were rebuffed. My contract held the most clues.

Engineers didn't bother to listen to the clues and started a design by committee loop that was going to take a year+ to finish. They were much more interested in new shiney things than the financial business restrictions and this attitude was enabled by management.

We managed to finish something within the investment period only because I pushed and prodded at every turn trying to finalize decisions and cut out scope, without managements help, to do so. The manager who tried to shield engineering from deadlines didn't help this despite the train wreck I tried to communicate. At the end of the investment period all the extra engineering hired for the task were let go and the regulars were left to finish the demo we managed while maintaining their normal work load. It is now almost a year later it still isn't released.

While there are places where tone deaf management creates death matches for no good reason. There are apparently also places where management let's engineering walk all over them like a spoiled child with no grounding in financial realities.
Your professionalism is admirable. In this context, perhaps that's all it counts for.
Well I got my PhD, so let me read between your lines ([1]).

Faculty have little fiefdoms and they expect students to live on salaries bellow minimum wage. If the advisor is sub-par (i.e. the university made a mistake hiring them) it's incredibly difficult to change advisors without poisoning the relationship with other faculty members.

Dealing with sub-par professors sucks. Some are not too bright. Others sexually harass the female students. All are protected by the moat the university builds around them.

[1] I'll admit it's a bit weird to see a professor that I'm assuming given the forum, is in a tech field "read between the lines" instead of engaging the facts.
Can you provide more context for this? I could definitely believe this possibility but it’s a big claim to make.
Just imagine how much freedom people that can't drive a car (disabilities, too young, too old) get in a walkable city.

Can you imagine to live in a city where you can give a 10 year old money to get some ice at a stand that is 2 km away?

That happens if you do city planning right.
We’ve had pretty long periods of time when currency valuations remained flat or slightly deflationary. In reality, folks buy what they want when they want with the currency that is most convenient. I think you’re overthinking it.
Let's not forget Microsoft is doing this same fukery for years

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/photodna
Got a dry town less than 20 miles from here (in New York!)
This is it.

Anytime a politician complains about companies not doing their part or not paying their taxes all I can hear is you can’t do your own job.

The first rule of leadership is that everything is your fault. If there’s loopholes, close them. If companies are polluting or emitting change the law.

The function of a company is to make money for it’s shareholders. The function of government is to keep them in check.
I’ve lived in walkable US cities. The main ingredients are mixed use, high density, effective public transportation, useable sidewalks, and zero surface level parking lots. Roads and underground parking is fine because they don’t lower density that much and density defines how much you can reach in a reasonable walk.

What I think people miss is public transportation is the least important part of the equation. Once people start walking everywhere you can increase the number of trips people take with public transportation, but you want people making short trips not simply long commutes.
The handler didn't think you looked untrustworthy and didn't hint for the dog to bark.
This tacked on addition to an important bill makes it clear how incredibly threatened the existing power base feels about the growth of cryptocurrency.
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In other words. Speculative forecasting replaces other speculative forecasting.

I would urge anyone who gets worried every time they see these kind of headlines based on modelling, to spend some time reading about how modelling and prediction actually work to understand what is really going on.

Any critically thinking person should take notice when you only hear about how the models have been underestimating the severity even though they are constantly wrong both ways.

Yes the temperature is changing, no it's not something we can't handle.
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Which is odd as dogs can be just as racist as their handlers want.
The context there was that a typical CSAM hash like PhotoDNA is NOT a cryptographic hash, but a perceptual one, which DOES have notable false positive issues.
Food or sex? Fruit flies give insight into decision-making
Comment deleted because i said if white folk would do tv for white people then it would be branded racism. What a racist thing to do.
>The agglomeration method that we adopt is Ward’s method, which aims to min- imize the total within-cluster variance. At each step in Ward’s method, the algorithm finds two clusters that will result in minimum increase in total within-cluster variance after fusing. The number of clusters was narrowed by cluster size and similarity to 9 total groups through review of dendrograms and heat maps by non-clinician investigators (A.G. and N.A.).

1. Pick an algorithm.

2. Get a number of clusters. Preferably below 10, because otherwise it gets too messy for publication.

3. Justify algorithm based on its first paragraph on Wikipedia.
Well, we can use and promote OS and devices from better companies like Purism, System76, PINE64 and etc.
I’m in the mountains of the north of portugal - cold winters, warm summers, and massive rural depopulation - a lot of places here are abandoned or on their way. There’s good LTE infrastructure nearby, which is how we connect - with a home-made relay mast.

No, the land was dirt cheap (less than €0.10 per m2), and we’re only working a small orchard garden - we’ll likely expand that a little in time, and add some glasshouses for winter produce. Relying heavily on automation, as farming is a faff. It’s all a learning experience - both the forestry and rewilding processes, as well as the small agricultural experiments we’re doing.
>It's a well-researched and planned strategy to ensure largest possible geographic spread, avoiding anything that would be too problematic for the box office.

Yes, but without the men-children to gulp those movies down, those scripts would themselves be "problematic for the box office".
Another reading of this is: "freedom of speech is protected in this country". And that is true, not the fairytale you suggest it to be.
> their site definitely has a certain political orientation that usually tends to align with NATO interests,

It seems to me that if a site presents any threat to the ruling class, you simply see your Paypal access disappear, VISA accounts go away, hosting goes away, ability to make a public case via FB/Twitter/etc. goes down the memory hole, 'kept' reporters attack you, MSM mobs you, so I'm not surprised.

The last half decade has made the real game as plain as day.
Your take is not supported by any of the evidence. The email exchanges (as seen by the newspaper) show a friendly relationship up until the tweets.
Safe to assume, then, that your misanthropy is not open to debate and is not shared by most of the rest of us who have families. Why even bother posting your opinion on it?
i hate mice that are shaped to fill my hand. i find the constant touch on my palm irritating. the contact with the plastic surface causes me to sweat.

i loved the mice that came with sparc workstations. remember those first optical mice that needed a special metallic mousepad with a grid on them?

they were wide and flat. held with my thumb and little finger only. no other touch. that's how i use a mouse. but todays mice are all to small, so that i have to squeeze my fingers into an unnatural position.

i wish someone would design a flat and wide mouse like that again.
That's great, but it's biased in several ways that make it not relevant to my lifestyle.

1. I'm never going to live in Vancouver, so my electricity is probably never going to be near as clean, even though it is relatively low carbon by US standards.

2. I'm never going to own a Ford Focus - my car gets much higher mileage, around 50 mpg, which is a big reduction in CO2. There are a few different options with similar mileage, too.

3. I'm never going to own a clown-car Mitsubishi EV; at present, I think the plausible choices are a Nissan Leaf, a Chevy Bolt, or a Kia/Hyundai (I forget the models). I don't know these would increase the CO2 from manufacturing a lot, but it wouldn't surprise me.
I say that jeopardizing the safety of your loved one and her family back in China after they specifically ask you not to take some action, and while you are safely abroad is not a good example of moral courage
Everyone, just relax. It's fine. The Apple corporation is just entering your home on a regular basis and rifling through your photo album. This is perfectly normal, because you might have pictures of 15 year old girls. Which you took when you were 16. But you're 18 now, so if you've upset the wrong people you can be locked up for life. Be glad you're not just quietly taken out the back and shot, like in some other countries.

We're more civilised here, you see? We just put you on a list. You can go about the rest of your life. It'll be a bit... shit, but at least you'll get to regret angering the rich and powerful.
On the other hand if it took a plague to improve the standards of living it is fair to agree the baseline was quite abysmal.
I agree with the author that errdefer seems like the winning feature of zig. Proper error handling is the most important part of any language or system.

Unfortunately most common languages does not prioritize this. As a contractor I have dug myself thru a lot of awful code in different languages and the most common denominator is improper error handling.