skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I should have written "web browser bookmarks"? I do use web links and put them in various places, just not in the browser where they lack context.

But still, maybe you end up with this unique link once in a while, and if it's that obscure, I find it worth exporting the page as pdf / html. My point is that in most cases, saving them (as bookmarks) is counter-productive.

> Why would I want to relocate that web forum and the other 452 sources of information in toilets.org the next time I buy a toilet?

Because they'll be outdated by then and you'll end up having to search again. If they're still relevant they'll resurface anyway. I find it hard to believe that your 452 sources all are and will remain better than the top 10 results of your search engine.
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No. It's like saying that a good mechanic can fix a car 10 times faster than another. Even if a good mechanic manages to find the problem in less time than a non experienced one, he still has to do the repair.

That is similar to programming: even if you have everything clear in your head, you know how to do every single thing that is written in the requirements of the program, you still have to type it out.

A lot of time I thought, well this is fairly easy, and then spent I month just typing out code.

The only situation where really a more experienced programmer can be more or less 10 times faster than a non experienced one is in debugging/troubleshooting problems, because with more experience he tends to know by experience where it's most likely that the problem is and thus test in that direction.
Chubby depends on clients using a complex library for full correctness.
I actually think this is an excellent point and a good path forward. There's a LOT of spectrum available for this, and the HF bands could be particularly interesting. Right now we have large swaths of the bands used by contesters and rag chewers. That could be used for useful TCP/IP experimentation by hobbyists, which is what the hobby was intended to be.
I'd much rather use the provided <input> types, like a normal UI program. That's less Kb sent, and hopefully better integration. I tried this, it's just that locale autodetection simply wasn't reliable enough.

For example, one customer had all their computers default to MM/DD/YYYY despite locale using DD/MM/YYYY (and all other non-browser programs using the right format). So I ended up switching to js pickers thanks to the bad experiences.

>instead of replacing everyting with your self-built thing

There are about a million different js datetime pickers which provide the entire thing in a package, rather than me writing it all by hand.
>illegal to transmit encrypted data over the air

This restriction comes up quite a lot in discussions about "modernizing" ham radio. I predict that if encryption was universally allowed, the ham bands would quickly become saturated with encrypted channels as hobbyists and not-hobbyists start using the bands for their personal communications networks.

The two main problems with allowing encryption are that
1. The HF bands often have worldwide propagation with very low power levels, which turns local interference into national or international interference, and
2. With encrypted communications it would be impossible to enforce other amateur radio laws, such as forbidding commercial uses.

I think that allowing encryption on dedicated slices of the UHF bands would be a more realistic approach.
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I have not signed up for a FB account and yet they still try to deliver payloads to my browser, in the form of tracking buttons embedded in non-FB sites. They've likewise ceded all control of those buttons, and what I do with them, to me!
Yes, that's one of the core parts of copy-on-write.

It shouldn't matter if you have a reasonable setup. If you depend on other files on the drive to continue working after blocks have started to go corrupt, that's not a good system.
It is not their core-business like cruises or ferry companies. So there is probably very substantial overhead in coordination, billing and so on. Same goes for anything from any company, technically they can provide service and even might do, but price it is sensible due to extra work is high.
I have yet to see a reasonable explanation on why UK case rates per 100k for vaccinated people are higher than unvaccinated in >30yo age groups. Whatever the reasons is, it does not match '5X more likely to contract covid'. According to the UK dataset, in 40-49 the rate of infections in vaccinated people is double the rate of infection in unvaccinated people.

Yes, the data shows vaccines are effective at preventing hospitalization and death. If you are an adult, get a covid vacine, it will keep you from getting a nasty disease. It's just that the vaccines don't appear to be effective at preventing infection, and this is a major pretext in the push for mandatory vaccinations, to the point we are firing people over it (!!!) while the crowds are cheering (!!!).

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
What were the pirate bay's responses, if you don't mind?
I have coworkers that don't have bank accounts and just have FTX debit cards. Is that good enough?
I have trouble believing you know a thing about the law when you don't know elementary school punctuation.
I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm saying it's annoying and I prefer languages where it's not.
The minimum applies only to large corporations.
the interviewer already has the job
It can be if it's not available for commercial use. The WiFi spectrum is for commercial use. The ham spectrums could still require a license and could only be used for hobbyists. We'd need a way to verify who the sender is via unencrypted comms, but the rest could be encrypted. Maybe a standard header every 5 mins.
I don't see the point of the corporate tax at all unless people think the IRS would be incapable of auditing people that incorporate.
Theosophy is awesome. Blavatsky was a genius. Neither were spotless. Both had concerted campaigns to defame them. Keep in mind what life would be like for a genius female philosopher in 1870. Blavatsky had a HUGE influence on India. She was surprisingly rational, particularly for trying to rationally take on mysticism. Someone needed to do it.

Many people get scared off but it is worth reading some original work.
https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/isis/iu-hp.htm
There's no frame rate built into MJPEG, so the code that calculates frame budget cannot be avoided.

It might be a good idea to insert a inotify immediately before the file read. You'd still need the timing code though.
It is not enough to "just" earn some positive return, since all that says is that the shares have a non-zero price.

The value of the shares is the capitalization of all the future profits. The estimation of all of that goes into the stock price -- if investors think the profit will be higher, the share price is bid up in expectations of those future profits, so that for the next investor, they will not get any more risk adjusted profit than if they bought any other stock. Similarly if the expectation of profits declines, then the shares are repriced lower as well so that the for the next investor they are indifferent between SpaceX and any other stock.

This means there is big money to be had by unlocking value -- e.g. buying up the shares, changing the focus of the company to something even more profitable, and then selling the shares at the higher level. This is essentially the price of going public.

Yes, on the one hand you can convert future profits into present cash and make the investors absorb all the risk. But on the other hand, you just sold your company to the market and so have to cede control. Shareholders can elect a new board, replace you, make changes to the corporate bylaws, etc. Shareholders now own the company.

Musk could have issued just a small number of shares and kept the rest himself, to maintain control, but still you are opening the door to a lot of public scrutiny, the need to have shareholder agreements and to not intentionally take steps that would mislead shareholders or violate the agreement, lest you face shareholder lawsuits. Bottom line, if you want to sell your future profits to the market, you can do that, but then you lose control. If keeping control is more important, then it's better to stay private.
There is a mountain of evidence to the contrary. No matter how much you or I would practice, study, etc. we would never become as good as tourist. Most people reach their plateau in competitive coding within 1 year.

For example, here's my Codeforces profile: https://codeforces.com/profile/baobab

Started in 2015, plateau'd in 2016 and no measurable improvement from subsequent 3 years of practice and study.
Picking a career you're interested in and company you're interested in makes things a lot easier than having to maintain a phony facade.

A word of caution - interviewers tend to interview people an order of magnitude or two more times than candidates do interviews. What this means is they learn to detect the bullshit. A friend of mine is in the recruiting business. He interviews candidates all day, and has for many years. He told me that detecting bullshitters and liars is a crucial job skill, and he's pretty good at it.
The one area where it's still relevant is disaster response, but even that is questionable.

Here in Portland, the city puts a lot of effort into emergency preparedness and getting people trained on radio, but the vast majority of people involved are 55+. I have my doubts about how effective it will be in an actual emergency.

I tend to think the effort would be better spent on hardening the existing cell networks, and being ready to deploy public safety LTE, cells-on-wheels or similar. Mass produced consumer tech should enable economies of scale for cell phones that aren't there for ham radios. Full internet isn't actually needed, even just a few independent cells would perform a lot better than the walkie talkies that the CERT teams use.
For 3 months, uninterrupted? Yeah, I don't think that's reasonable at all.
1. show me don't tell me

2. make something worth repairing
Ignoring Merkel and the former President Gauck, the percentage of Ossis in prestigious, affluent or influential positions is very subpar. Enterpreneurs, CEOs, well-known artists, professors, generals, judges ... are disproportionally Wessis, and immigrated Wessis dominate in those positions even in former GDR.

IIRC the discrepancy between population share and elite share for Ossis is even worse than for American blacks.
I don't have an opinion one way or the other on this extension or Facebook's decision, but the premise of your comment --- "we put a service up on the Internet but you can only talk to it on our terms" --- that is actually how things work, and how they should work.
> It's tedious but it is possible to click on the context menu next to an ad, then click "why am I seeing this ad", and then click "never show ads from this source again".

The ad-buyers funnel their ad buys through agencies and separate accounts.
TIL. I usually found the measurements to be pretty arbitrary. A pint is 375ml and a half pint is 200ml. So weird.

It seems working a liquor store doesn’t count for much on HN.
If they could ban the account, they would have done it.

Extension is more like a automated tool. Don't need any permission from Facebook. User can install the tool, and click on a button to unfollow your friends.

Facebook could write TOS for his users not to run a script on their website.

I write scripts (userscripts) all the time. I have a script for Gmail that I use it all the time. Gmail doesn't know that.
Certainly—I’d say it comes down to the necessity of access to the market in question, for the company or country outside of it. It quickly becomes subjective, hence the blindness to one’s own demands.
Better yet: anonymous git hosting as a tor hidden service. Now there's nothing they can do but rage at all the "unauthorized" extensions giving users control over their little platform.
No, your antibodies are not better than vaccination: An explainer
There's a difference between modernization and monetization. Commercial traffic can remain banned. License requirements remain in place. And we can have a standard way to transmit digital callsign before an encrypted packet. There are volunteers right now who do a great job of policing the use of ham bands, and FCC does actually initiate enforcement actions including 5 figure fines.
I don't think any existing laws preclude civil suits for remediation of those damages. This is just removing the criminal charges.
‘Lots to see over here with these “features”, but don’t look over there at all the tracking and ads we added to the browser.’
How is it a problem?
How long before this brouhaha boils over into a hullabaloo?
> Yeah, I definitely think they come from an era where we all didn't have a pocket communicator that plugs us into any community at will.

Makes sense. And my cohort comes from an era when we can talk to anyone, anywhere, but the channels are controlled and watched. The ability to communicate isn't special anymore, but the ability to communicate independently and privately is. We don't want communication, we want known-good (dare I say, safe?) communication channels.
> And it will be hard to argue that spectrum reserved for amateur use and experimentation should not be sold off to commercial users if hardly any amateurs are taking advantage of it.

> many are interested in the capacity for public service, such as providing communications in the wake of a disaster (...) having grown up with technology and having seen the impact of climate change, Michel says. They see how fragile cellphone infrastructure can be.

They provided an argument for the preservation of the spectrum in their own text. Amateur Radio gives communities a means of long distance communication when all other infrastructure fails. That redundancy and resilience are precious and worthy of preserving.
This looks like a very interesting project! Do you have plans to support anything like Firefox Containers? They're a really fantastic feature for the privacy-conscious.
It's fine if you're a small or medium size business that commands at most single digit % of the market. Facebook dominates ad spending and reach to the point that you can't just build your own, because they have a de facto monopoly/oligopoly over digital ads.

Let me ask you this: do you think Apple should be allowed to ban whoever they want from their platform justified by them being a private company? If you say no, then you should also say no to Facebook being allowed to do so. Otherwise you're just twisting the facts to support your political position.
> why is it so important that businesses pay a high corporate tax rate?

It's not a high rate; 15% is low - is there a lower income tax rate for any entity?

It's important because societies need money to operate, including many things on which businesses depend such infrastructure; a good legal system; a healthy, educated, and prosperous population; security; stable, well-regulated markets; etc. If they don't pay their share, then others must or societies lose valuable things.
Well it is being used as a tool in the literal sense. Who it applies to of all parties mentioned above in the perojative sense will be left as an exercise to the reader (as it is a matter of opinion).
Applying a Software Design Pattern to Network Automation
Not the point. Saying something is only "technically" possible when in fact it is already done in billions of devices is to suggest an absurdity.
And then we wonder if crypto has a real market.
I have, many times. It’s slower than chrome and comes with lots of ads in the interface by default.
To store the result of a coin toss requires 1 bit of information, I can either give you a 0 or a 1. But implicit in me communicating that to you is that it is 1 'out of' something, namely 1 'out of' 2.
To store a trit, ie a 0, 1 or 2, requires 2 bits. You will recieve either a 00, 01, or 10. You will never recieve a 11, because that is not a valid trit.
Huffman compression reduces the ammount of bits needed to send a block of data, by prematurely terminating the data communicated once a specific sequence has passed. So the huffman compression for a trit value of 0, would not be '00', it would be '0'. We pass fewer bits, because some sequences carry an implication that this is the end of the sequence. The reciever has to know which sequences indicate a termination.
A trit translates to 2 bits, with a wastage of .5 bits. The concept of 'compression' only makes sense when person A throws a sequence of bits at you, and when they stop, you have to interpret what they just said in order to work out what it meant. In truth, the extra bits may not have been sent, but they are implied.
When I write '1' on a piece of paper and slide it across the table to you, I am cheating, I am being ambiguous. 1 out of what? shold be the correct response. A bit is more accurately communicated as 1 out of 2. A 'double' would be 1 out of a million ish. You can only store numbers in a binary computer, out of something. A 1 stored in a bit field is a different quantity than a 1 out of a million ish. In lazy human parlance a '1' represents 1 out of infinity, but this is not technologically possible to store. No computer hard drive can store enough digits to contain the information that 1 out of infinity represents.

If I toss a coin and tell you it is a 1 out of 2, this is valid. But if I have cheated, and tossed a double headed coin then from my perspective the '1' aka 'heads' is 100% predictable, and therefore, for me, does not contain any information. For you, ignorant of my cheating coin, the data I communicate to you is 1 out of 2. What is the entropy of that information? Is it 1 bit, as you would believe, or 0 bits, as I would believe? The answer is that ALL MEASUREMENTS ARE NOT PROPERTIES OF OBJECTS, BUT OF RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN A MEASURING SYSTEM AND AN OBJECT. The entropy of that coin toss does not live inside the data communicated, it lives inside my head (where the entropy is 0 bits) and also in your head (where the answer is 1 bit). The coin toss measurement of '1' does not contain either 0 or 1 bits because a piece of data in isolation does not have any meaning. Only in my head or yours can it's meaning be measured.
> many big tech paid less than 1% on non-USA income.

paid to whom?

I ask because I have read that (for example) a U.S. company may pay the U.S. taxes of less than 1% on foreign income, but that's because that income was generated by (example) a German subsidiary which fully paid taxes in Germany, where it was earned.

Point is, taxes internationally are really a mess.
1680x1050 isn't horrible for a 20" screen, and it's taller than a 16:19 display to boot.

If you don't insist on retina for your 20" monitors, it wouldn't be remotely impractical.
Every issue system has its own API and today there's no standard for interchange. It would be interesting to see an attempt to try to build a reusable standard, but I don't know what sort of standards agency exists with the guts to try something like, I don't envy the political battle that would entail, and having seen some of the horrors of bespoke Jira and TFS configurations I'm mostly such a standard would either be too minimalist and disappoint too many people or too maximalist and impossible to build.
> I am little sad that Google never made chubby a service on GCP. That is underlying locking system that many systems that Google use.

I think one of the issues with this is that its far easier to use chubby incorrectly than to use it correctly. Like, you can use chubby to build really, really cool and powerful tools (https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/osdi16/osdi16...), but I wouldn't be surprised if most users misused or overused it, and that would likely be magnified on a public version.
> I tried this, it's just locale autodetection simply wasn't reliable enough.

Which was one reason they removed it from the spec. And why datetime-local does not have it.

And why adding a simple <input type=hidden name=tz value=""/> can be filled by your JavaScript that detects the timezone. Or, if you need, a <select> or something else.
If only that was how it worked. Even within the country of origin they don't always have access to such a system easily, let alone between countries.
Do you hike? Even around the most popular areas in the USA (Yosemite, YellowStone, Tahoe, and many other national parks) it's pretty easy to get out of cell range. Similar with major highways, 5 in california is pretty good, but it's easy to not have a signal on 80 or 70 as you cross the country.

I lost my dog and decided to track her, and all the systems I could find (up to $1,000) were either cellular or pretty much line of site. Ham APRS was AMAZINGLY better than anything commercial I could find. It does direct connections for decent range, but also there's surprisingly good APRS coverage using existing repeaters in the areas I hike in. http://aprs.fi allows global tracking if an APRS widget world wide, and trackers that fit in a dog collar are common and don't carry a monthly subscription fee.
I read some of the recent submissions on the issues around C undefined behavior, which sound almost nightmarish. The common impression is "C is dangerous because it is so powerful" -- which makes it seem like an honest tradeoff, right on the Pareto frontier between those two.

But I know think a more accurate summary would be "C was designed at a time when computer architecture had not yet consolidated, and it suffers for it, leaving you with impendence mismatch between language guarantees and hardware semantics, costing both performance and safety". It seems you need a heuristic model of compiler behavior under different optimization levels to actually achieve predictable machine behavior, really the opposite of deep control!

If we are imagining a language that could stand in the place of C and deliver on that advertised promise, I would think Zig (when stable and self-hosted), not Rust. Also, it's clear to anyone following Zig that it is just plain fun! The language reference is quite entertaining, for example. And Zig Showtime is a great YT channel.
It's not a matter of supporting hiring people of different nationalities. It's supporting the current conditions surrounding these employees. If these workers are not of a legal status, then they are easily abused (working conditions/below minimum pay/etc). These workers are more fearful of being deported than the abuse which means they do not report any of the wrongs that may be occurring. To me, this says much more about the employer.
Except FB will just ignore your argument and detect and ban your automated service.
Bloat, like beauty, is often in the eyes of the beholder. Always ask: "By what measure?" or "Compared to what?"

Django is large, encompassing, and opinionated, so much "bigger" than "micro" web frameworks like Flask. But it's comparable in scope and cohesion to other "batteries-included" web frameworks such as Ruby on Rails or Laravel for PHP. As always, YMMV.
I had an account with Chase that I only used to cash paychecks drawn on Chase. The money was then wired to my actual bank [0].

Someone managed to get my ATM card details and ran up a $100 overdraft. Chase didn’t care, charged me another $500 or so.

[0] Paycheck was from a shady employer who frequently made “mistakes” in the amount of the check. Had I given them direct deposit access, they could have yanked money out of my pay with the excuse of accidental overpayment. By wiring the money I firewalled it somewhat.
Curious when the last time you actually _used_ tf was, I'm assuming quite a while ago, given your comments here.
Text search engine site was hit by a botnet
Plastic lens over the eyes but still gnarly looking
It’s a common word play in Spanish; I’m not sure that it was intended in this case, though.