skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I had kids, social media would probably be the only content I would want to block or limit. (Also ads/tracking and malware riddled sites). It is one thing to be a curious teen and seek out sensitive topics but it is completely different to be shown a stream of misrepresentations and false advertising constantly.

I am not sure how to really do this. If you tell someone in the age of 10-14 that everything on certain sites is probably fake or misleading, are they going to understand that? I thought I did at that age but that capacity may have been limited to certain topics and contexts e.g click-bate ads are a lot easier to mentally filter out than sponsored Instagram/FB posts.
Doesn't manage to block it on Android. Its a bit of a bummer, really.
There's games I want to buy (like tales of berseria), which I cannot because they have yet to remove Denuvo, despite years.

I might get tired of it and just "pirate" these games.
>The biggest problems that we face in our economy are problems we ourselves create in trying to approach the economy as a pez-dispenser of fairness rather than as an engine of economic growth that follows emergent technical, rather than ethical, laws.

That is the most silk glove way of saying "humans should serve the economy not the other way around". Which to be honest is no world I want to live in.
What WSL really means is Linux Subsystem for Windows
"Virus particles" do not float free in the air to spread disease. It's usually mostly salt water aerosols with a few virus particles in them.
Advertisers are complicit. Those who click the ads are too.
Having some experience with hospitals and N95 they asked that we put a surgical mask over the one we came with. Pointless and unnecessary but I guess it’s easier than having staff validate the mask your wearing.

They never required we remove a mask.
My Quest for the Perfect Window Manager: A History in Screenshots (2004)
The US' priority in situations like this is overwhelmingly to provide evidence that the threats it makes with criminal laws and defense of national secrets are credible. It has time and time again chosen to die on hills like this. The ethics and optics of it don't seem to factor much into the decisionmaking
Sounds nice. One of the things I've been dwelling on recently is the degree to which economic geography creates the conditions for an effective press. Germany and France are both really regional, in the sense that you have loads of competing regional elites, each with their own take on things. In the UK, it's very centralized, so there's a much greater penalty to your career if you ruffle feathers, and the views expressed in the media are necessarily fairly narrow (for instance, Jeremy Corbyn, despite getting about 40% of the popular vote in 2017, had basically no positive media coverage throughout his tenure).
There are dozens of bumblebee species in Vermont, but Bombus impatiens is particularly common. That's much more likely than B. pensylvanicus mentioned in the article.
Works on Firefox as well and you can sleep well at night knowing you don't use software that is managed by Brendan Eich (except if you are a transphobe and visit /pol/ then yes Brave is perfect)
Ads for minors are incredible trash. Basically the point of all tv channels that are for kids is to show ads for toys. Even a lot of shows are themselves nothing else than ads for toys. Let a child watch TV for an hour and the only thing that will happen is that they will come with a huge list of things they want. It's really sad. I watched a lot of TV when I was a child but it wasn't all made for you to buy licensed merchandise.
There is also the lack of trust that AdProvider has in SomeCompany to accurately report impressions.
Oh sure - biomedical research is in real need of a combination of programmers / statisticians / bioinformaticians and regular scientists at the moment. The latest research techniques are terrific at maximising the amount of information extracted from precious samples. While definitely a good thing overall, it introduces new problems, like multiple testing and simply crunching lots of data.

My PhD was in cancer-immunology. I was looking at the interaction between the immune system and lymphoma cancer cells. It was a particularly interesting area because the cancer cell and the reactive immune response were, once upon a time, the same cell. We used several high dimensional techniques to identify cells, including single cell sequencing, which can measure the production of up to 20'000 genes per cell on several thousand cells. I also used something call mass cytometry which binds around 40 antibodies to individual cells looking at what's on their surface. It was great stuff and I'm still working on some of my data from it (analysing it is still a bit of an unsolved problem!).

I learnt Go because I realised that I was using R without understanding programming. I loved using Go, it's a great imperative language, but maybe not that suited to run-once analyses of numbers (I know writing this someone will prove me wrong!). I did a bit of mathematical modelling in Julia too, and really enjoyed that. I'm actually a big fan of R - once I got my head round using it in a functional style, it's very elegant for my work.

If you wan to do a PhD in cancer research, probably worth contacting Professors to see if they're aware of any interesting projects and talking to the people supervising them. My advice is to do something you're genuinely interested in and have an adviser that you will be able to get along with even in times of acute stress! Good luck!
Not even limited trials with a long window of study (how long?) will prevent this. Science itself is a non-holistic way of looking at the world, blind to what is not measured. Concerning this example, it seems like a predictable effect of pesticides and global trade -- not unexpected, though perhaps not hoped for. Instead, the principle of caution must be applied when using technology. Pesticides that increase yield or decrease risk by only 10% may not be necessary at all.

Any industrial action will disrupt Earth's equilibriums given the high level of consumption those in the developed world currently enjoy.
If you don't mind being coupled to an arcane filesystem, networking shitting the bed when you connect to VPN, settings you can't change, software you don't want but shouldn't remove, functionality that is simple to configure in KDE split across god knows how many UI/UX schemes and usually requiring third party applications, worse performance than native, and best of all having your open computing environment running virtualized on top of a closed system requiring you to migrate product keys/activation/whatever for a simple reinstall - yeah, WSL is the best Linux distro for you, bud.
Also, they seem to not understand what the word diversity means?
Most apps use the appropriate type of input field ("password") which the browser or mobile OS recognizes should not be capitalized. But some apps use a normal text input (with some masking/styling to make it look like a password field) which a mobile keyboard will normally capitalize. I get very annoyed when I see the latter.
I guess I don't really see the moral angle here, in one direction or the other. Why shouldn't an entity try to impose its understanding of law and ethics where it can afford to? Why should a country's laws end at its own borders, if they don't have to? If the country views its laws as right, it seems to me it ought to attempt to see those laws enforced as widely as possible.

(One other case where the US does this: child sex tourism. The US will prosecute its own citizens if it finds they travelled abroad to have sex with a minor, even if the violation of the law takes place entirely in another country, even if the other country declines to prosecute the crime or even if it sees it as not being a crime. Prosecuting these crimes that are done abroad seems eminently moral to me. I suspect the actual objection to prosecuting Assange is probably more truly centered in whether what he did was even a crime, or wrong. The question of whether the US ought to be able to prosecute him is really a proxy argument.)
What one of my book on process control said was anything 'better' than a PID controller needs to be carefully matched to the process being controlled. That involves some sort of model which then needs to be accurately match what's happening with the process. That itself is hard.

Usually better to design the process to be controlled by a PID than the other way around.
Correct me if I am wrong but this doesn't seem to allow case conversion:

> Case Mapping Rule: There is no case mapping rule (because mapping uppercase and titlecase code points to their lowercase
equivalents would lead to false accepts and thus to reduced security).
Hence software defined radio!
An enormous number of ethnic groups have below-replacement fertility rates. Drawing the lines straight forward on the graphs predicts that diversity will fall over time. This being the truth of the matter, I also can't explain this in any honesty without reference to a certain group of people who are very upset about that fact, oftentimes because their own ethnic group in on the list. If someone is bringing up human ethnic diversity on an article about bumble bees that might be involved.

In the US almost every ethnic group has below-replacement fertility, so in the abstract this isn't a racism issue; but it can be interlinked with racist propaganda in practice so you kind of need to be aware of that.
It's so hard to take her seriously. She's now saying she was suspended, which isn't true. She is on the record and quoted as saying she requested paid admin leave when they wouldn't give her a paid exit and offered medical leave instead. She tweeted about an unreleased product, and then acts like she somehow has no idea what IP leak they are talking about.

If she would lie about these things, how are we to believe anything else she says?
> Why not just demand that there is an equivalent amount of both residential and commercial real estate?

That’s an interesting way to look at it, and sure I can agree with that. I would be okay with not allowing the excessive job hoarding.
Have you lived any length of time in Canada? If so, where? While I have been fortunate enough to not have needed to go to hospital, my dental office reopened after the initial lockdown last year with a HEPA filter, doorway screen and other paraphernalia which made each workarea look like a clean room. And they shifted from water to air-driven cleaning and dressed like sci-fi actors. I would imagine the hospitals were similar due to the stress put upon them. Anecdotally, my wife had a breathing test in hospital a few days ago and they checked vaccination status and accepted the mask she walked in with.

Given that the federal government is responsible for funding much/most of the provincial health care system, they have some input into how things operate. Most provinces have a good handle on covid unless their government went too deep into the "covid is over" bit (Alberta, Saskatchewan). The covid response here was delayed due to the need to secure vaccines from others, but the end result has been quite good.

I have lived all over N America, and the freedom/flexibility of the Canadian health system has been better than anywhere except St. Louis, MO when I was there - and that required full-time employment.
There are significant health benefits to cleaner air, not just from infectious disease, but also from particulate pollution and various other harmful substances. I strongly suspect that on the balance it would be a significant net positive from that aspect alone, though I don’t have possession of any hard evidence to back that up.
If I might ask, what prompted all those moves? Sounds like at least one was for a job, perhaps others too?
Giving cesspools a bad name. At least a cesspool once served a sanitation purpose.
It doesn't matter. People don't read the old new York times. They read the current day and share that information with friends.
> the west's bumblee population isn't listed as being in trouble

What do you call Idaho, North Dakota, Wyoming, and Oregon?
Early 40s - dual income household with 2 kids - $3.5M-$4M USD living in an urban suburb. includes investments, house (paid off) and retirement -
Started as a software engineer and slowly moved up seniority - no crazy high salaries, no Faang, no startup equity, cash outs or anything like that. Significant Other does not work in tech and has slowly moved up the ladder job wise as well.

In our 30's we made sure to live a comfortable lifestyle and not work like crazy. In general, we have always spent less that others who make the same, and save / invest pragmatically IMO.

Presently, while we do have periods of hard work, we believe in enjoying life as you go vs. waiting to retire - we take time off often and make sure we spend quality time together and with family / siblings / parents.

Who knows how long we'll be around and who knows how long kids, siblings and parents will be around - and from experience and observation, you never know when personal tragedy may strike.
I don’t know - I’m quite sure a number of wannabe Assanges have decided to have other hobbies after seeing what has been done to him. It’s making an example.

He doesn’t have to actually be in jail for his life to be clearly ruined, and that’s has definitely been done. He has no real freedom, has essentially no real relationships anymore, and is a political toy batted around between nations with the future promise of jail ‘maybe’ in his future, but with no closure.

Sounds like hell to me.

And all those other things sound great to me, Joe random taxpayer, but probably sound pretty terrible to the folks inside the establishment. Have to keep the money flowing or all that work to get the pension goes up in smoke (and that’s assuming they aren’t smuggling drugs and taking a cut or whatever on the side)
Nobody ever in Russia gets prosecuted for doing anything to any software for their own personal use. And actually there's been very few cases when someone was prosecuted let's say for using pirated software for their business. A couple of guys got unlucky and that's basically it.

And this is how it should be everywhere, the copyright model was beneficial for the society maybe up until 300 years ago. Today, the whole copyright thing is bizarre.
A huge thing if true, and not worth it. However it is exactly the kind of thing a person who in paranoid would believe.

What is more likely, a big company is breaking into employees home and impersonating the police, or Apple has employed somebody with an undiscovered mental illness?
UIPath expands limits of RPA for enterprises craving greater efficiency
I feel like the mentality going after Assange so hard is that if they successfully throw him in prison it helps prove to establishment people that, no, Assange is the criminal, and establishment is doing nothing wrong. See, he's in prison. Only wrong people go to prison.
Sorry what? Regardless of OP if you want to know whether something is sketchy or not usage statistics are the most worthless metric possible.
I read somewhere that we used to use nicotine-based pesticides in the past and the bee issue happened when we switched away from that.

I guess China still uses nicotine-based pesticides?
It's such a shame this company is not traded publicly. I would be willing to risk a couple of thousand of euros and bet on them being successful in the long run. A company like this has nearly infinite potential for growth.
Well I'm glad we agree that Bitcoin has failed in its original purpose. Perhaps you can set straight all the people who argue otherwise? Because there sure are a lot of them.

The trouble is, it doesn't actually have another one, not a practical one.
The shell was superior to any *nix shell, because the interface with programs was sane. Rather than the shell expanding *.foo into a zillion individual strings, the shell and the program agree that there's a file(s) parameter, and the program dynamically asks for the first, then next, then next, etc. matching file. So, you don't need to recompile your kernel every year or two to increase the maximum command line length.

And that was just the beginning of it. Programs could tell the shell what all their options were, so while you were typing a command, you could hit "?" and get something like a brief "man" page of options available at that point. Plus command completion worked all along the way, so not only would file names be completed when you hit <esc>, but also flags and parameters and such.

Given how baked-in the argc/argv interface is in *nix, there's no hope we'll ever be able to experience this again. How wonderful it was to be able to say the equivalent of "cp *.c (TO) *.old" and have it do what you obviously want. (The "(TO)" was a "noise-word" automatically inserted by the shell as part of the copy command's auto-completion.)
"You can't Google things you don't know exist" is a guiding principle to how I try to learn things.

FWIW Teaching things yourself is much easier now, i.e. you can get pretty much any textbook for free (nudge nudge wink wink). It's a truly great time to be fascinated by things
Why are people so suspicious of quotation marks these days? People are always having a go at the BBC for using them as well.

It's a quotation, so they've used quotation marks. It's not a mystery.
>How do you connect with people, personally and professionally?

Many people have contact information in their bio/profile: email, website, keybase, Twitter, GitHub, etc.

Other than that, many connections are made in the comments.
Reddit has really degraded their mobile web experience over the past year or so. I can’t view this link at all on mobile, it just has a dialog with options to open the app or return to the Reddit homepage.
Someone made an interesting point that we got rid of cholera by drinking cleaner water and that we'll get rid of Covid by breathing cleaner air.
Looks cool, unfortunately Figma already did the perfect solution called FigJam and it’s absolutely awesome and free.
Although I want to see higher wages for the bottom of the economy I personally dislike minimum wages because politicians basically promise something that they have no control over and they don't have any long term solutions to problems in the labor market.

Yeah the $7.50 minimum wage is laughably small but the next minimum wage has to be laughably small as well. If it was $50 then it would wreck the economy.
It seems like red state like Texas, Atlanta are doing worse. Small/low population red states recovered faster.

A lot of blue states - big & small seems recovered faster, except California. California recovered better than Florida. But all other reports shows California economy did better than most states in 2020.

In fact, overall it seems that higher vaccinated states recovered faster.
It got past A51, and quite a few people disagreed with that. I don't think it meets the bar for an SE site, but SE is somewhat hesitant to kill sites today. That is a good thing in most cases, but this particular site is just not a good idea and inherently leads to bad content.
Anecdotally I live in New York and have seen plenty of bumblebees this year.
Cute little tool. Obviously this is not meant to compete with the heavy weight competitors like nagios , nms or zabbix… so it’s ok that this won’t scale.

One thing that takes away from general usability is the platform itself. Each time I see npm I think of https://www.monkeyuser.com/2017/npm-delivery/
This is another example of "progress trap" that we didn't see coming until it's too late to act.
Facebook's own data is not as conclusive about teens and mental health
There’s only a few things missing. Just choose different veg?
Yes. And those magazines didn’t live in their pockets all day or automatically optimize for engagement.
Sure. A person's existence may "be political" in certain spaces and not others, and it is helpful and necessary to be able to sort out where your existence challenges other people, whether it should, and whether you are projecting undue fears onto other people based on a biased history or an unexamined worldview. It is further useful to examine your worldview to understand what is fundamental to your self-understanding and to your beliefs. Sometimes you write a sign or a headline and it doesn't include the nuance that you exhibit in the world around you.

If you "are not political" in a space it is because you do not challenge it, either because you agree with the existing culture or norms or have decided that it is not worth the cost of doing anything about it. If someone else does challenge those norms or that culture, they become political, but if that comes from something that is fundamental to their identity their choices are to either suppress that part of themselves to fit in or to stick out, "be political", and experience whatever reactions to that challenge.

My claim, here, is that creating workplaces that "are not political" is a way of enforcing the authority of people who already have it, and encouraging people not to challenge what they may see as unethical or inequitable practices in a business or other organization. It is a form of authoritarianism, soft-sold under the guise of civility.
Still respects the old settings. Easy to confirm by checking network traffic.
Your comment is an unproductive dead end. You hint at consequences in a general way that can’t be engaged with. It could be the “significance” is arbitrary and unjust, like the disparate treatment this law fixed. Finally, “contracting HIV” isn’t really at stake, because it’s totally not obvious that treating HIV disclosure as a felony actually has any relation to the risk of transmission.
> The EULA is still an agreement.

I can't agree to anything that is impossible for me to understand or even to read.
I had to get a coworker set up under WSL because of a goofup with IT and instead of shipping a Mac this coworker ended up with a Windows machine and all of our tooling was Unix based.

I had had them setup with WSL as a way of moving forward, here's a few things I noticed:

- different home directories, the different distros are accessed as network shares. It can get confusing where "Home" is unless you explicitly stumble a few times and verify always where files are.

- Issues with CR/LF. You need to be careful using native windows tooling and having saved files in Windows line endings vs Unix. For non-savvy users the content looks correct but on Unix the tooling will fail in weird ways.

- Visual Studio Code integration was actually excellent, my coworker ended up using VS Code to do Filesystem operations more so than using Windows Explorer.

- The new Windows Terminal is fantastic, hopefully its bundled with Win 11.

I'm really grateful for the technical capabilities that WSL brings out. I hope the dev teams are focused on fixing the subtle UX issues that trip up users.
Doesn't UEFI already provide for the automated installation of vendor malware whenever Windows boots?
I must be a different age, 39, but outside of PBS, I don’t recall too much programming that was not funded by licensed merchandising and unhealthy foods. Of course many of those unhealthy foods were licensed too.
Linux may be the only kernel (and general class of operating systems) that is capable of robust transparency and control, but that doesn't mean that it isn't a common ideal among more general computer users. The argument I hear most frequently is that users are fairly oblivious to one or more of these points:

- That data is collected

- That you or your device can be identified from data

- That data does not have an expiration

- How the data is used (eg: multi-use, for troubleshooting, for marketing)

There are multiple ways to democratize knowledge, but most ideal is having companies just be upfront and teaching engineers why it's important to stress building notifications and/or levers for these kinds of capabilities.
Except that you can sell the business and get a windfall.