skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's very interesting, I've never thought about reading as an option to combat "language decay".
I'm definitely going to give it a try, thanks for your insight!
Everywhere else, stores can let people inside without crime being rampant, so obviously this isn't the problem.
Pirate Party (various countries), Napster, exe trojans, BitTorrent, game mods, after 1 minute of thought. Are you trolling? You get lots of downvotes, especially when you respond to others that answer your own comments.
GM the app gets hacked a few days after testflight release
Sure you can compare them. It’s 78/100 effective on that test.

And unfortunately, on iOS the alternative isn’t ublock origin.
I never had a legitimate site breaks by pi-hole.

Pi-hole should be the easiest for family members, they don’t need to do anything at all.

On most sites, it simply leaves a blank space in where ad supposed to be.
Cosina is a very underappreciated company in lens manufacturing. They made all the Leica M mount Zeiss branded lenses, and they've gained a lot of new life making lenses with close-flange adaptability for all mirrorless systems. They are releasing top quality lenses for all systems right now under the Voightlander brand. They're probably making lenses under other brands as well.
I don't think it's that at all. There are plenty of tradies and other well-off groups without university education that just do not give a shit about this stuff.
I certainly get burned out from things that pay off, too
Is there a reason May 2021 should be particularly instructive vs year-to-date (YTD) for NYC? [1] has murders down 1.3% (299 vs 303) and burglaries down 24% YTD. Felony assault is up 5%, but overall crime is down 0.9%. It's definitely a stretch to say NYC is "drowning in an epic ongoing crime wave", given those numbers.

[1] https://compstat.nypdonline.org/2e5c3f4b-85c1-4635-83c6-22b2...
Windows IOT is not likely what you are thinking, it for example doesn't have a UI.
Orion Browser is the new WebKit based browser for Mac which promises direct Chrome/Firefox extension support.

https://browser.kagi.com
Go is a good choice for web backends. Google maintains the libraries for most of the things you need for web backends, so they're well-debugged and heavily used. The language itself is just adequate, as it was designed to be. It's not overdesigned.

I've used Go for a web backend. Partly because it's fast enough that I can get quite a bit of useful work done on a US$12/month shared hosting account. It's amusing to see how much you can get done on low-cost shared hosting.

I write high-performance 3D stuff in Rust, but wouldn't bother with it for webcrap.
Shlinkedin – Satirical Social Network
This is me. I just quit my job this week to take time off because of burnout. It's exactly because I worked like a dog and haven't had a payoff in years. I want to make the best product/feature that I can. I want to give it my all. But I don't have control over the areas where things go wrong. Not having a win - and missing wins from my past - has led me to just take a break from it all.
Although that's great too, uBlock has more features than just blocking requests to certain domains.
Before the end of the year.

"B" is already well into the 45 day Public Comment stage which is the last step before ratification. "V" is expected to enter that shortly. The "Scalar Crypto" extension entered the Public Comment stage a few days ago.
I must’ve purged over 50% of visual elements from Fandom wikis with my uBlock filters. It’s outrageous how much garbage is served. I wonder what their UX design meetings look like.
Building both uMatrix, and uBlock (https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock) can't be easy.. maybe the features some of us enjoy in uMatrix will come across.
>a company choosing its customers

???

But they literally just banned one of them ...
Using data from two years without accounting for any confounders (a pandemic??) has approximately zero statistical rigor. Have you:

1. Considered the prosecution rate in other cities?

2. Controlled for other independent variables that might affect the prosecution rate?

3. Performed a statistical test to determine whether the decrease in prosecution rate is within normal historical variance?

If the answer to any of those questions are no (which, from the article, they all are no) your claim is not intellectually honest.

> "In an interview with The Examiner, Boudin said the decline in prosecution rates for shoplifting cases is a reflection of the “difficult choices” his office had to make during the pandemic, when the Hall of Justice closed most of its courtrooms and city officials decided to largely empty the jails, in part to prevent an outbreak."
It seems like this question could be asked at any period of social conflict historically in the West.

How did ideas that were once extremely radical like women's equality in the social sphere (to include holding office and suffrage), desegregation, slavery abolition, and many more work their way from the intelligensia (academics, philosophers) to the masses? How did "Marxism" jump from academia to workers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries? The fact that businesses are supportive of such causes is somewhat new, but is likely explained by the same forces that lead to the masses embracing these ideas.

Largely, this seems to be the molding of our social sphere by market forces. The northern competitors to the agricultural South found slavery abolition to be inline with their material interests. Likewise, as the industrial revolution shook up familial units and proletarianization of women moved wives into the factories, equality in the social sphere was no longer resisted by structures that had a material basis. Desegregation could assist in curbing a growing black nationalist movement through assimilation and a reduction in direct antagonism. Ideas are often forged in the conflicts and conditions of the day that they arise in.

Had this article been written in the '90s about the "extreme" gay rights movement, or in the '60s about the "woke" Civil Rights Movement, how many would actually stand by their critique a decade later? Businesses seem to understand that showing token support for progressive issues is better for their brand than silence or reactionary opposition to progressivism (which, let's face it, never holds up well for long.) While I doubt any corporate co-option for social issues actually materially benefits those movements, I can't help but find myself even more cynical about the reactionaries complaining about how "extreme" or "woke" their positions are.
Well maintained documentation, specs, the state of the project.

It’s tough to have to dig through a legacy project to figure out its state, what it does versus what the docs say it should do.
> Burnout is caused by working hard at something for a long time and not having it pay off.

You know, this might have something to do with why I gravitate towards doing "user" (really other devs since I tend to work on internal tools more than outside facing products) support type stuff. Devs trying to figure out why something isn't working are usually grateful when someone can help them get things working so they can do their job.
Why would young people take the vaccine if natural immunity protects better? Young people aren't at risk anyway. And the vaccine doesn't stop the spread of Delta. Yes, viral load is lower but lower viral load can still make someone very sick. So only older and vulnerable people should take it to protect themselves.

>A growing body of evidence indicates that people fully vaccinated with an mRNA vaccine (Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna) are less likely than unvaccinated persons to acquire SARS-CoV-2 or to transmit it to others.

This is wrong. Correct would be "are less likely than unvaccinated persons without natural immunity to acquire SARS-CoV-2 or to transmit it to others"

Even more baffling is how everyone seems to ignore we have a cure that works really well!
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavi...

The focus on the vaccine as the only solution is very weird.
No, cannabis is quite unique in that thc metabolites get stored in the fat, and there's not really a way to just check for acute intoxication. I've had friends who were heavy, heavy users who took 1.5 months to clear up. (Casual smokers can clear up in a few days or 1-2 weeks at most)
uBlock Origin is amazing in that it has not succumbed to scammers. Every other blocker including AdBlock and the original uBlock have sold out to scummy companies. It's a problem with every successful browser extension, they all start getting offers from scammers to sell out.

We all owe a huge debt of gratitude that gorhill is a principled character and has stayed on to guide uBlock Origin all these years.
It's definitely not your impression, it does work much better in Firefox:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
The purpose of a lock is to keep honest people out.

Mēh. I have dogs.
Migrating to Next.js from Create React App
Sometimes you're so good and qualified for something that some guy inside gets jealous and moves a few strings to keep you away. Happens more often than not.

So, ignore that and keep up doing what you do, which is great btw.
I wonder how similar this process of language attrition is for peoples primary language(s)? Could this be related to other forms of cognitive decline and disease?
Would have had to be in the late 70s to beat the K1000 to that market. I was using a K1000 in high school in the early 1980s
I do wish anti-gouging laws would only apply to regular gasoline. Allow premium to float to whatever the market will demand. Midgrade should have a more relaxed anti-gouging rule.
Just inherited a project which cost $100 in lambda and it is still in development. The technology decision was made by client and previous developers just went along. Donno how to explain what perks to expect once its launched.

Nothing wrong with lambda though, its just the application spends lot of time waiting and theres 1000+ of those lambdas.
How can you provision and use a phone number for each contact? What if I have hundreds or thousands of contacts? Doesn't this use up all available phone numbers?

What about when I stop using the service - are these numbers able to be re-used?

What about security or privacy implications of the next person messaging my old contacts accidentally?
I think the comparison is not fair, due to economic, ethnic and historical factors that make Switzerland not a fair metric for any other country to measure up to.

If we take just the language, we're comparing (French, Italian, German) against (Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venḓa, Xhosa, Zulu and Afrikaans). We're comparing the official languages of 3 world powers with very good life prospects for their speakers and those that kinda can do it, against 11 languages that have no value outside of 'talking to grandpa' or being able to read ancient texts.

Maybe I'm biased and perhaps I'm coming off a bit racist, that is not my intention. I just want to point out what I'm seeing here.
firefox has been the only half decent option for a long time

google is shit spyware
Well, the icons are just terrible, utterly insipid and lacking in power. It needs labels rather than icons, and better names for “zapper” and “picker” too (something like “remove elements from this page” versus “block elements from this site”).

I’m not sure if browsers apply height limits to these popups, but if not, almost every time there will be oodles of space for full labels and replacing the two single rows of buttons with columns. And even if scrolling is introduced, that’d still be better.
Really loved the voice of this article. Very funny.

Just wrapping up a read of “the go programming language”, and this article called out literally every aspect of go I was surprised/annoyed to discover. The validation is much appreciated
The Struggle to Right Oneself
Keeping up written proficiency in Chinese is a pretty big task, though. It's hard enough for people who live in China: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2473 Logographic languages are also a little more disconnected from their written form than spoken form than alphabetic languages, for obvious reasons. You can't sound out 皻, or work out its pronunciation from each radical. The spoken form of each symbol has to be memorized.
If someone has Windows on an intel PC with a graphics card (nvidia or amd) and 2 monitors 1 connected to the graphics card and the other to the integrated GPU, they WONT be able to use both monitors once they install Linux (any distro). SURPRISE!!!

I use linux in my home pc. I play games and code. I've been tinkering with linux since 1999. With FreeBSD since 1997. Linux has come a long way, but still has A LOT of HUGE rough edges.
NZer, have never heard anything about not using thumbs-up for hitchhiking.

I also can't imagine anyone (at least in NZ), who would be otherwise inclined to give you a ride, somehow getting irate about it either.
FWIW, there was also an effect of mask color. It seems like a trivial detail and in a lot of ways it is, but it kinda points to compliance as a factor and, in turn, factors influencing compliance.
If Paul and Ringo hired a couple others to fill out the quartet, I bet the tickets would sell fast at a very high price.

P.S. That Greta Van Fleet singer didn't want to be compared to Robert Plant. What an idiot. There's a guy who sounds like Plant in his youth - what an incredible opportunity he is just throwing away. He could enlist the help of Plant & Page and create a new Zep songbook. Everybody wins - especially me, because there's only so many times you can play Dazed and Confused.

Note that Adam Lambert who joined Queen to fill in for sadly absent Freddie Mercury has done very well indeed.
What do you think the benefit of this plan would be exactly?
Yep, which goes to show that it's not even about making things better for others.
...a functionality which was provided by probably thousands of micro, small, and large indopendent utilities over the last 25+ years.
I wasn't meaning beat to market, as much as having the opportunity to be newer and possibly more common than the K1000.

On the other hand, there's just something more timeless about a metal-bodied camera.
Not at all. I dislike it but as others mentioned here, it pays the bills
I imagine lots of alcohol.
Maybe they DID hire IBM and made all those things and still, after some years and a couple million dollars, the platform delivered can't handle more than 1,000 or so visitors.
And conversely, many starving artist types who care deeply.
So (at least some of) the former Afghan gov officials are not even using their own email server, and just store whatever possibly-sensitive information on Google servers..
Nobody uses those, either, except possibly as required to interact with the cursed government PKI (about as cursed as early 00s EU government PKIs... are those still around?). Also maybe the government people with clearances, but the less said about them the better. But that’s mostly network effects, frankly, not trust. (Nobody uses Camellia, either.) Trust issues as described by the GP do exist but mostly factor into choosing domain names, registrars, hosting, and such.

But China, unlike Russia, does have an internal technological environment meaningfully separate from the world at large. It may also be trying to cultivate an ecosystem of private government contractors, which the intense criminality of Russian government procurement doesn’t permit. (China also has a general-purpose IC fabrication industry worth a damn, whereas for Russia the equivalent question is in any case largely moot.)
For additional context to others, it's the Chinese character for the number 10 (十)
> you can see it all in developer tools

Same for Chrome.
Doesn't mean some won't do it, or that they will tell you.
https://twitter.com/mkonikov/status/1433413878285848578
TBH, as an Apple dev it's really your responsibility to be up on the latest and greatest platforms and dev tools.

Apple broke development on OS X 10.3 in order to have a new C++ ABI ready for 10.4. Want to compile programs for 10.3? You need to use Xcode on 10.4 to do that. You don't have 10.4 yet? What kind of loser are you?
Pi-hole is great, but it cannot block all kinds of ads since it relies on DNS redirection. YouTube ads are notorious for this, for example
PineTime InfiniTime 1.4 “Pink Grapefruit”
There are various (mostly non-English) communities making weird chimeric combinations of XP/Vista/7-era OS mods, more recently guided by the leaked source; I don't think they're interested in doing anything legal, but also seem to not be interested in post-Win8 either.
I think each of their phone numbers are reusable by also keying against who the sender is. So if they own the number 555-1234, Alice can sign up and have texts to that number go to Bob, and Carol can sign up and have texts to that number go to Eve. This way, everyone who uses the service can each have as many contacts as the service has phone numbers, and it will work without issue.
I guess you can slice it two ways.

1) The expected financial value of a pension. Especially assuming that the millenial in question won’t be willing to tolerate poor quality of life long enough to make it lucrative.

2) Belief that the institution backing the pension will be willing and capable of meeting their obligations in N years.

Personally, I think I’d say that the pension would be close to the value of stock options, but I’d be unwilling to tolerate the crap long enough to actually earn a useful percentage of its theoretical value.
> It didn't. It lives entirely in elite society. If you aren't a member of an elite social strata it doesn't impact you and nobody gives a damn.

That seems to be a highly reductive concept you're using for "elite", basically meaning "people you imagine who you don't agree with". What constitutes "elite", to you?

How about the row after row of suburban homes in Livermore with BLM signs? Those are all median income neighborhoods, but I'm guessing you'd call them "elite"?

How about an expensive golf club in Little Rock filled with upper income, mostly white, mostly male players working the local social environment? Not "elite", I'm guessing?

I'll note that the linked article doesn't engage in this kind of tribalism or reductionism, and is actually pretty clear about what it means by things like "woke". That's something you added to the discussion, and I don't think it works well.
What I've found is that if you don't actively speak your native language and your day to day language is different enough from your native language sound-wise, you lose the ability to voice some sequences of syllables smoothly, because your mouth and tongue are not used to it anymore.
There are increasing numbers of Spanish speaking communities in the US that are mostly populated by immigrant and descendant communities.
Just another instance of a decade-long line of little examples of petty linguistic tyranny that don't solve any problems but that do make activists feel righteous and help them signal holiness to each other.
> If I was paranoid I'd wonder how much astroturfing is going on here.

Ah, good old apophasis:

> a rhetorical device wherein the speaker or writer brings up a subject by either denying it, or denying that it should be brought up. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophasis

In relation to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html :

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken.
The point isn't to fixate on the deer or the mink. The problem is multispecies and there's dozens of them at least. It is large enough to not be solvable.

I'd love it if we'd just give up entirely world-wide on mink farming already, but eradicating wild species is a non-starter.

And we will likely never even identify all the species out there which could be reservoirs. You'd need to fully survey African nations and we still can't figure out where Ebola is coming from.

There's going to be many times more species of animals that can be infected and be reservoirs of this virus that we don't know about than we do know about. And all those species in Africa count every bit as much as the minks closer to home.
Ask HN: If packets were patches, would pijul be a transport protocol?
This is kind of a silly question but I dare ask it anyways. I think the title says it all.
> NOTE: Mouse controls don't work for remote sessions like serial or SSH.

That's weird. I'm having a hard time imagining how it would be possible to break mouse controls over SSH, since the escape sequences used to signal mouse events are transport-agnostic.
I remember learning about Spivak pronouns from (I believe) reddit some time in the late 00s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spivak_pronoun

As far as I'm aware, the motivation behind this had nothing to do with social justice for trans people, but more as a potential alternative to the awkward/ambiguous singular they. (Or at least that's how I would've interpreted it back then, having been a teenager with no real concept of or experience with LGBT issues.)
The death rate in Florida that I've seen reported suddenly dropped by half in the last couple weeks, which is really weird, because it's ahead of the reported case rate, where it normally lags.

The Miami Herald reported that a change in methodology has created an artificial gap distorting things:

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article25379689...

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/444288-how-many-floridi...

Governor DeSantis and the Florida DOH have fired back, saying it's all political lies.

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/454618-ron-desantis-cov...

Other people in Florida State government are clearly opposing DeSantis, for instance:

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/444317-nikki-fried-dire...

I think that while DeSantis and the DOH may well be technically correct that the new method of reporting statistics is objectively more accurate in the long run, that doesn't mean that it isn't causing a distortion downstream, where it looks like nobody's dying on the most recent days, even though they are.

e.g. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/florida/
I've learned how to drive school buses, and I absolutely agree with your opinion. My first day on the job was my last (well, I drove a bit the next day before refusing to drive in a situation I was not comfortable in); it was just way too stressful thinking about those kids and how any mistake I make could hurt them.

Edit: clarified my actual quit story.
>A great way to confuse the general public and push an agenda to create a culture of silencing anyone opposed to view points someone disagrees with.

Can you give me some examples of the viewpoints you're referring to here?
Yeah, they even made the Zeiss lenses with Nikon mounts, but of course the market was overflowing with vintage Nikon lenses for a tenth of the price.
While not a book: I took Udi Dahan's Advanced distributed systems design course in 2018 and can't recommend it enough: https://particular.net/adsd

I'm pretty sure there is an online course available which you can watch, so it's a slightly different medium but may be a nice change of pace from reading. The course was really informative for me and has really been paying dividends in my career.
I found the most frustration came from links in emails not working as intended. For some reason many companies, government agencies, and schools use metrics tracking on emails.

Pi-hole has a nice temporarily disable blocking feature on its dashboard to help in those cases. Simple click to whitelist is also available.
I went so far as to delete the installation directories of any versions of Edge that I could find. Nothing appears to be broken, and I haven't really had to deal with it since (other than random updates seemingly reinstalling it, so I just remove the directories again).
UK Scientists not backing Covid jabs for 12 to 15-year-olds
Quick tip you can just right click your speaker/volume icon in the systray and click "Sounds" to open it, although on the wrong tab.