skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Browsers also expect plain-text. Is https by the same logic also pointless, and should no longer be used?

> I'm just reacting to the strange way the argument is phrased.

It's made so in a manner to provoke a lot of loud noises to make it to spread, and resonate across the blogosphere more than the original lacking substance message ever could. A publicity stunt.

It's a self-promotion tactic - saying something outrageous often earns more notoriety for somebody unable to earn fame through virtue.
Licensed psychologist here. A similar worksheet is often used in CT (cognitive therapy) to challange ones thoughts. The therapy is based on the works of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_T._Beck among others. Brief description of CT by GPT-3:

"Cognitive therapy was first developed as a treatment for depression. Beck's theory was that depressed people think the way they do because they have certain beliefs about themselves, their world, and the way the world works. Beck believed that these negative thoughts can be changed by challenging them with rational responses until the person accepts them."

Reach out to a CT (or CBT) therapist if you need guidance on how to approach the methods and have them tailored to your needs.
How many colds have you had?
Take a look at Tree Style Tabs [1] or Sidebery [2].

After using tree style tabs it’s very frustrating for me to go back to using other tab styles in other browsers.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/
Healthcare workers routinely work under flu vaccine mandates even though they may already have effective antibodies.
It doesn't. At least I can view it while using 1.1.1.1
Perhaps, perhaps not. I’m optimistic.

Also: while I wasn’t thinking of this when I wrote the previous post, if carbon capture powered by non-fossil sources turned out to be useful (but not so useful to give us the exact opposite problem), that’s still a success.
I have trouble taking advice like that from a page on which hovering over links ramps up browser's CPU usage to over 100% (of a core).
Would you really want your baby to be delivered by anti-vaxxers?
This is why I like fully-remote workplaces. That said, I've only seen remote work well in fully remote workplaces. Once there are some remote some not, things break down a bit.
> You don't write new code when you i18n something, you just create dictionaries.

No. i18n is not that easy, sorry. I wish it were.

To be frank, this answer reads as though it was written by someone who has not done any extensive i18n work in their life. Languages are not 1:1 translatable. This goes beyond words and phrases - numbers, math, time, dates, names, grammar, etc. are all completely unrecognizable between certain languages.

It's not a problem that even regular software has solved generically and elegantly, and then going on to apply it to programming language design is a completely different beast, with its own set of problems.
>I am pretty sure, they were upset and maybe there were actual heads rolling behind the scenes.

No evidence of it, and I find this entire debate odd.

Again, the Taliban hosted a terrorist group which had publicly declared war against America, and launched known attacks - all this well known before 9-11. What did anyone expect this public antagonist group to do? Play volleyball?

If someone hosted a group called "Death to X" and the group predictably attacked X, that someone shouldn't get to claim innocence. Especially not after the nth attack!

>Now 20 years later with the Taliban back in power and stronger than ever

A completely predictable result of the ideological way the retreat was done.
>I think it's important to remember this was Sculley's Apple which was not at all good at judging market viability.

Oh, 100%. My comment is really more about "they've been so good for so long..." than anything else.

BTW, though, the Newton DID sync with the Newton Desktop in v1. It wasn't as nice as the Palm desktop, or sync with Outlook, but it was usable. Then they dropped it for v2, which was just dumb, dumb, dumb.
I’ve heard that many (most?) hospitals require that staff either wears a mask or gets the flu shot every year. Do these hospitals waive that requirement for people if they come down with the flu?
But… it makes for great publicity for Mastodon.
Spam is an easy plausible deniability
Oh Petapixel. This is an interesting article and a cool camera concept, and it's fine that the article is sponsored by the camera shop, but it is written like an ad in some places while more neutrally in other places. If it were one or the other it would be fine. The present version is a bit painful to read.
I was looking at Austin on Zillow and property taxes were really high, maybe it's just the areas I looked at.
I hope you are ok with midwifes, then.

I would want a professional with plenty of experience. Midwife or not. Thats my only criteria.
Beware, many instances will blacklist other instances simply based on rumor or clique, and it makes it impossible to follow or read users on those other instances via the first.

I recommend evaluating primarily based on the censorship policies of the instance operator. For example, the list of servers on joinmastodon is restricted to those who are actively engaged in censorship of legal speech (full uncensored instances are not indexed there) so you may be interested in searching for instances not shown there, depending on your attitude toward censorship.
I just noticed that almost all of the URLs in this contain UTMs.

So as we read and discuss this post, are we deliberating on a valuable piece of insight shared by a peer? Or are we primarily participating in a set of promotional campaigns?
Unintentional by accident remote work shouldn’t be considered the baseline for such comparison. This research does at best find results at Microsoft, thus it could be titled “effects of remote work at Microsoft” to not induce the sense of generalist research.

For the negative results: remote work creates silos and reduces cross-network collaboration. These might easily be mitigated with strategies and tooling.

Nevertheless, I admire Microsoft for conducting such research - congratulations to whoever had the initiative.
Suffering Oriented Programming (2012)
Archive.is used to geoblock all Finnish IP addresses at one point because of some alleged dispute with the Finnish government. As far as I remember, he got a takedown request from a Finnish government and then had some incident at the Finnish border, saying that they were linked (as in, the company in question could order the Finnish government to harrass him).

Works now though but it gives me doubts about the management of the site.
> unfortunately they offer white label domain

Looks like they just brought this functionality back as well:

https://blog.medium.com/custom-domains-are-back-2dee29560d59
Could one disable statistics completely? Personally, I'd prefer to specify the execution plan manually.
> Political viewpoints should constitute a protected class that should be protected under anti-discrimination laws.

What's special about a political viewpoint? How do you even define "political viewpoint"? Is it different from a "religious viewpoint"? Is it different from a run-of-the-mill opinion?
Even more sad is the fact that, although it's probably rare, there are some people who will commit crimes in order to get arrested, because it gets them off the street.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4agyzq/a-homeless-mississipp...
So, somebody who has little to no understanding of COVID, its ability to reinfect, the higher contagiousness of Delta variant, and thinks their Facebook feed has better scientific knowledge than experts in the field? Got it.
Rural hospital full of clearly unqualified medical staff. Who cares? I would not want my wife giving birth there covid or not.
What sort of monsters would willingly subject peaceful, healthy, informed strangers to state-mandated medication, under threat of impoverishment and ostracism?
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/oh-my-fucking-god-get-th...
There doesn’t seem to be any problem with vaccination after infection. It’s unclear if that actually translates into better outcomes, but it’s likely. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/09/07/1033677...
Also I think the app "look up random info and articles" was never lost for the mobile web. I don't think there are many apps for that even now. Yes there is the wikipedia and other such apps, but they are a sliver of the web.
Where did he post this? My guess it wasn't just to his "wall."

If he posted it to a group (i.e., his college alumni group, or a sports fan forum, or a gamers group), no doubt several people tagged it as spam--which it may have been--and the algorithm kicked in.

There's no Big Conspiracy at Facebook to keep Mastodon down.
I think that what they were getting at is that people noticing and commenting on things is more noticeable than people not doing so.

Which would imply that there's a tendency to notice the noticing more than the not noticing, and, as a consequence, over-estimate how often people do it.

It's a good point.
It's not that surprising - this hospital is in a rural area in a tiny town (~3500 residents.) Rural folks are more likely to be anti-vax.

This really isn't newsworthy.
And HTTP has solved this with a hodgepodge of solutions like HSTS + preloading for producers and HTTPs everywhere/new browser settings for users but it has taken years.

I think email could do this, but it require some dominant players (probably Google + Microsoft as providers for home + business users, or maybe Google/Apple/MS as dominant client producers) to participate actively.
Borland Pascal compilers that I mentioned had exactly the same memory models than their C++ counterparts, specially the Windows 3.1 versions, there was no difference between TPW 1.5 and TC++ 3.1.

Borland Pascal 7.0 introduced support for protected mode.
Your first paragraph laments the expansion of government control and surveillance triggered by 9/11 (which I agree with), but in your next, you use pejoratives to identify people who choose not to get a vaccine or engage in hygiene theater. How would you classify the bully tactics being used by the current administration to coerce citizens into getting a vaccine? This is yet another example of government control and overreach. In this case, gov't is violating personal health (rather than privacy), and the justification is "public health" instead of "homeland security".

> Anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers exist precisely because of 9-11.

This statement is non-sense. I'm old enough to remember 9/11. I lived closed enough to watch the smoke rising from the towers. I assure you, my choice to not get the C19 vaccine (and refusal to wear a mask) have nothing to do with the events of 9/11.

The term "anti-vaxxer" is derogatory, and is being used as a demeaning caricature. I don't fit your stereotype. I am not getting the C19 vaccine. That does not mean I am against all vaccinations. A person can believe in the effectiveness of vaccines, and decide against getting THIS vaccine (imagine that). Terms like "anti-vaxxer" are used to demonize those (such as myself) who have decided not to get the C19 vaccine. I guess classifying people as "anti-vaxxer" helps people like you justify calling them "literally stupid."

> We have literally produced idiots across the US because of a horrible educational system. They can’t think critically because they don’t have to. So 20 years of this, and you have a large percentage of the population that are literally stupid and can’t think critically.

I wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment. The irony is that, based on your comments, you'd consider me "literally stupid", and I would say your critical thinking are severely lacking.

> They would rather die than take a vaccine or wear a mask.

I can assure you that if contracting COVID-19 meant certain death, the government would not have to spend millions on propaganda to convince people to get the C19 vaccine. Contracting C19 does not imply certain death: I know this first-hand, anecdotally, and it is backed by statistics published by the CDC (for whatever those are worth these days). In other words, for the overwhelming majority of the population C19 is no worse than the flu. For those with pre-existing health conditions, the risks are greater and the vaccine is a godsend. I won't address the mask fallacy. If you want to wear a mask, by all means. I am not one to pull a binky out of a child's mouth -- whatever it takes to get people to get out and live their lives.

The fact that you jump to the conclusion that "everyone who does not get vaccinated or wear a mask is stupid" does not reflect well on your critical thinking skills. As I've explained above, there are legitimate reasons for not getting the vaccine. Maybe a better approach is to give others the benefit of the doubt, and attempt to engage in meaningful conversation? We likely won't agree on everything, but maybe I'd convince you that people who decide against the C19 are not all "literally stupid".
I suppose it depends on whether you think a search engine should be organised according to what you think people ought to be searching for, or according to what the numbers tell you they are statistically more likely to be actually searching for. Presumably in the US/global market the majority of actual users understand "Philosophy" to be a brand rather than an academic discipline; with the UK region filter turned on, actual philosophy comes first in the search results.
Doesn't matter who maintains it. It matters who owns copyrights.
Welcome to the no-fly list, even on a throwaway.
The Kryon group seems to be some kind of pseudoscience/spirituality group along the lines of Spirit Science. Their YouTube channel[0] is littered with all sorts of... sermons. The proof is in the pudding, try clicking on anything and see if you can make heads or tails of it.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMiuw8FLujKn06dnlxpbWGQ/vid...
I'm sure someone could link here to the Mozilla thread about Google being slow to fix "convenient" mistakes that broke Firefox, regardless of whether or not those mistakes were intentional or not. Sometimes even accidents can be revealing about where a company's priorities lie and what things they actually think are important.

But that's probably a much deeper, longer conversation to have. I do believe that Facebook regularly uses the poor performance of its moderation algorithms at scale as a shield against public scrutiny, and as a way to occasionally influence public policy.
> Syntax highlighting speeds up readability, helps write correct code and IMHO, it makes code look pretty.

This is a wild claim, and my own experience shows quite the opposite.

For two years, I have been interacting with source code without syntax highlight.

As a result, I feel I am more focused on the content and less distracted. Particularly, that is very noticeable when reading foreign (i.e. other people's) code.

I actually feel that I read slower, but way more attentive. I actually give my brain the time to process the information, and as a result, I get a lot of overlooked bugs that other reviewers don't.

I still find useful, at times, to make the comments in another color, but I noticed that doing so, my brain ignore the comments and a lot of incorrect comments, that could be corrected, went overlooked several times.

Wishing or not, colours are tax your cognition, and for a visual person as I am, they were way bigger distractions than supports: I don't need colours to tell me "for" is a reserved word.

I also find font ligatures very distracting, but it was way more obvious to me that they contribution was negative compared to syntax highlight.

> Color differentials are also a powerful human visual cue. This is why traffic lights are three distinct colors instead of just a top, middle and bottom light.

Well, semaphores have just three elements, which are never shown simultaneously and the colours are well based on semiotics.

That is not the case for syntax highlight.

Syntax highlight seems closer to Stroop test [1] than semaphores.

> As to the comparison to prose, well, we have tons of syntax highlighting there too. Capitals at the beginning of sentences. Indentation and spacing between paragraphs, etc.

Have you looked to a text written in German? That is… Tiring!

In German, all nouns are capitalised. Reading a prose in German LOokS lIkE this TO mE.

I think syntax highlight is the equivalent capitalisation of nouns in prose.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroop_effect
> Who cares?

Sometimes people do not have a choice and people are very limited in ways they can convince a baby to come out later rather than sooner.
WriteFreely [0] may be an alternative. It allows you to self-host, or choose a hosting package. It also has a companion with paid subscription that is built on top of it, Write.as [1]. The nice thing is that all server instances are federated, and are gradually more deeply integrated with other Fediverse apps.

[0] https://write.as/writefreely

[1] https://write.as
Salesforce, like most companies, adjusts compensation for local cost of living...

> Are they only offering the relocation to employees who might need an abortion or because you differ in opinion?

You know as much as I do.
Modula-2 was at best obscure at the time, while Pascal was popular. Kernighan got involved with Pascal in order to write the Pascal version of "Software Tools", called Software Tools in Pascal. He wrote "Why Pascal is not my favorite PL" as a result of that book effort. I believe that is explained in the article.

If there had been enough demand to also do a Modula version of the book, he might have written a more favorable article about Modula afterwards.
citation required?
That reads a lot like doxxing; if someone isn't open about their identity, they don't want it out, and doing sleuthing work like this (or linking to it) can be considered doxxing.

If archive.is hosts content that has been removed due to oppressive regimes' policies (including western ones), exposing their identity may put them at risk.
Because it took lots of fights to get the Brave team to 1) allow disabling ads and 2) allow disabling Brave Rewards, neither of which anyone wanted and went against the whole concept of "Brave, the ad-free browser" to begin with.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_calculus .
> The Canvas / Docs distinction is weird and confusing.

Yes. While I otherwise like Storybook, the addition of docs along side canvas is not clear what the purpose is. Incremental way to introduce a new default? Very confusing to have both tabs available at same time.
You could at least elaborate so we could tell you why you're wrong :-D
Would you rather she give birth on her own?
I misunderstood. Would you eliminate Facebook and the existing ALPR data aggregators? I am wondering how such restrictions would be possible.
To be clear I haven't seen anything about the pursuit of achievement or high standards of living being racist or in the context of "a future for white children", or any other specific race for that matter, other than it seems to be coming from the same general direction as "Black Lives Matter".

It's all very peculiar to me but I've only been around for a third of a century.
> ostracism

That seems like the appropriate peaceable response by a society to someone choosing to become a potential walking threat to all those around them.
I don't doubt that an instructor who can interact with you will teach more effectively, I was just answering their question. I would say it's possible but very suboptimal to teach yoga or dancing with just words. Illustrations and video improve on that.
I get an error 1020, apparently from Cloudflare, with the explanation "This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks".
If you want to play Russian roulette, go for it. Please don't force me and billions of others into it.
I think the sandbox idea is a great one. They should just do away with the free tier entirely except for sandbox accounts in which everything just gets shut down the second you go over the free allowance. If you want to build something for real then you pay for whatever resources you use, but if you just want to tinker around and learn a few things then you can get a safe sandbox to do it in.

BUT, I think the parent's point is that such a feature would actually be quite complicated. It's not just a matter of saying "I only want to spend $X in this account per month/total" but defining exactly what you want to do in the case where you hit that limit. Shut everything down? My guess is almost nobody would want to do that. So it ends up being some complicated configuration where you have to deeply understand all of the services and their billing models in order to configure it in the first place. What are the odds that the student who accidentally spins up 100 EC2s for a school project is going to configure this tool correctly?

But I do think the sandbox would be great. Either you are a professional in which case it is your responsibility to manage your system and put in appropriate controls to prevent huge unexpected bills or you are a student (in the general sense of someone learning AWS, not necessarily just someone in school) in which case they provide a safe environment for you to experiment.
While I agree with you, I think the point made by OP is simply that everything is subjective. What is "good" and what is "bad" is subjective. Not everyone on earth will have the same definition.
Wearing a mask reduces COVID transmission by ~70% [1]. Adding vaccination on top of that probably reduces transmission to ~5% percent (just a guess). These are almost free interventions.

In contrast, heart disease and cancer are much more expensive to mitigate. Regular exercise reduces the incidence of some heart diseases for the average person by about ~50% (estimating from the graph) [2]. We have no cheap way of reducing cancer incidence (besides vaccines for some viruses that cause cancer) — for example, intervening in cases of substance addiction is expensive.

So even if your comparison was correct (it's not), how is it relevant? Are you trying to argue that the government should compel people to completely alter their lifestyles before they should mandate masks or vaccines? That makes no sense, because 1) preventing cancer requires mandating vaccines and 2) the interventions are orders of magnitude more expensive.

Or, are you trying to suggest that the deaths of 650,000 people (in the US) are insignificant because there are some aggregate diseases that kill more? And therefore, because we can't stop all death, it's pointless to try to even mitigate some death?

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...

[2] https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/01.CIR.00000488...
So apparently ignoring that C was subject to the same dialects problems outside UNIX doesn't count.

Nor that Modula-2, designed to fix all those issues with ISO Pascal, was in use since 1978.

Yeah, whatever.
It's just a matter of taste, is all. I personally hate vertical tabs (or vertical tasks bars, etc). They're just a pain the butt for me. But clearly there are others who love them. Vive la différence!

But, with tabs specifically, I very rarely have more than two going at a time. That probably matters.
Maybe, but not necessarily. Ostensibly, if half of your human intellectual capital as a nation is getting underutilized, it makes sense that you're gonna be poorer, and poorer countries are probably inherently less stable.
They recently hired Jay Graber as project lead: https://twitter.com/arcalinea/status/1427314482154414080
I have Quad9's DNSCrypt configured with ECS on my Pi-Hole and it returns the IPs for archive.is and archive.today. Just tested it.
One who understands that those “informed” strangers are making a decision that puts others at risk. Frankly, I do not understand why someone who presumably understands why second hand smoking and drunk driving are bad cannot transfer the same logic to being unvaccinated in the midst of a deadly and contagious plague.