skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, “telos” is misused when the author’s data is singularly focused on the US.
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I wonder how the weights of the screens would compare.
I once spent two hours thinking about how to recursively assemble a tree structure from the database in a way that the JS presentation library wanted the data, then finally I wrote 2 lines of code.

Definitely my most cherished code.
If you want a good write up on deaths and boats, Google something like 'coroner's report boat'

I think the summery is, learn to swim (this is not possible for everyone), wear life jackets and have equipment, learn water safety to help those who can't do the first two.

A good Lego would be a small boat docked on a beach with a child drowned on one side the parents on the other.
Exceptions to the rule. Precision Castparts, Burlington Northern, Clayton Homes, Duracell, Pacificorp, Lubrizol, Acme Brick, Dairy Queen, Pilot Flying J, all were bought as healthy companies.
You can talk to your local repeater on a $30 radio that fits in a pocket (and the license is easy to get and super-cheap, like, $15 or so).
> totally disconnected from all physical services

Do they have mail or courier services?
But if you're doing fast hardware routing, that's tens and tens of megabytes of TCAM, not DRAM. It's more akin to CPU cache in terms of latency, capacity and cost.
> We’re becoming the Texas of Europe

This is a bad comparison.

Texas is a rich, stable state with access to the U.S. federal court system and unambiguously subservient to the U.S. Poland is unchecked, unbalanced, and much, much poorer. Its lawless regime is legitimately popular, evoking comparisons to pre-collapse Russia and Venezuela.

In an alternate timeline, Warsaw could have rivalled Berlin or Amsterdam. Not in ours.
> Also avoid piling on to a category that is already saturated; the App Store has enough fart, burp, flashlight, fortune telling, dating, drinking games, and Kama Sutra apps, etc. already.

I had to double-take to see if this was really a statement from Apple... It was.
The fact that those objects have different scales and speeds does not mean that faster objects automatically appear smaller. You pointed out a correlation.

If we are pointing out random anecdotal examples, ice cubes melt slowly, and don't appear huge to the observer.
There are things within our control and things that aren't. Driving up the price of bitcoin will lead to more energy consumption, so I don't buy it, even though it might lead to juicy gains.

Livestock also lead to excessive greenhouse gas emissions, so I don't buy it either, even if it could lead to juicy steak.

Lots of lower cap proof of stake cryptos (and Ethereum, which is moving to Proof of Stake) are likely to outperform bitcoin in terms of percentage gains anyway.
I disagree. What's worse than trying to pick between 10 different apps that do the exact same thing? Trying to pick between 11 different apps.
Sorry Firefox we already have a browser app

Sorry bank we already have a banking app

Sorry Democrats the Republicans have already done a politics app
I explicitly chose the option to have a Search bar separate from the address bar... why would I want Search suggestions or Contextual suggestions in the address bar.

I've been using Firefox since version 1, but this is the first time I'm considering switching to something else. (like ungoogled-chromium)
All the arguments against this being extra work are pointing how it's possible to do it (extra work, ain't it?).

In a nutshell, I agree and it's worth it to _me_. It is still extra work :)

FWIW, my Apache is a reverse proxy to multiple VMs for each different service I run, so without pulling out my mod_rewrite skills out, "just serving a folder certbot can write to" is anything but.
Yawn, HN is a shit website for terrible people. Who cares?
I’m not sure if you described 10x people or one-track minds.

I love programming, I’m good at it, but what I do with my free time isn’t necessarily related to programming but is still definitely productive. I read up on economics, politics, maybe write a few essays or short stories, work out, pick up a new skill or something. Somehow being a holistic person is now considered mediocre?
Might be better to first read the previous year's Fixation of Belief, to which Peirce refers repeatedly in How To Make Our Ideas Clear. In it he defines and illustrates the method of authority, the method of tenacity, the a priori method etc.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Fixation_of_Belief

It begins amusingly

> Few persons care to study logic, because everybody conceives himself to be proficient enough in the art of reasoning already. But I observe that this satisfaction is limited to one's own ratiocination, and does not extend to that of other men.

They were originally part 1 and 2 of the 6-part Illustrations of the Logic of Science.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Charles_Sanders_Peirce
State politics in the US is not based on how many people vote for or against something in a state. It’s based on how many legislative districts vote for or against something. The difference is important when you think about how legislative districts are drawn.
No. Not to the house. They have to go into town to get their mail/amazon deliveries, which is not an unusual situation in rural areas.
Your comment made me read the article and I find the article’s language sufficiently abstract by say things like “many NoSQL databases”, etc

Perhaps your comment was meant to say that in general talking about tradeoffs can fall into that trap, but the article here looks like a good discussion
Just a few:

- Decentralized payment infrastructure that can't be taken down.

- Currency that isn't issued by a government

- Open financial applications

- Pseudonymous payments (depending on the crypto)

- Infrastructure for fully transparent payments and analysis of value flows (governments and institutions should be using these)

- applications whose source can be verified. Even if a web application you use promises they handle your data securely and publish source code, there's no guarantee what they're running is actually what they've published. Decentralized applications can be interacted with and viewed by anyone (even if compiled to bytecode, you can verify the contracts they've published are accurate)

- Decentralized governance (the potential of this is massive, even moreso when coupled with decentralized identity)

- Access to financial instruments typically only accessible to institutions.

- A global, border-agnostic payment network
We don't put any popups anywhere by default. Are you sure the website wasn't trying, which flies a permission prompt same as in Chrome and other browsers?
no mention of notaries or people that witness contractual agreements? I feel this would provide even more context
How would you know the 10 apps are really the best options?
And people in Houston said they like it in Texas? The point is that the urban population pretty much hates it there given the new laws.
> It will be good for consumer confidence, since 99% of people willingly accept regulation in exchange for protection from FDIC, CFPB, etc.

I think there will be other ways to build "consumer confidence" without relying upon promises from easily corruptible centralized entities who have routinely engaged in moral hazards at scale for the benefit for a few actors above and beyond other actors.

If those centralized entities declare those who try to mitigate against the financial risks in a decentralized fashion for those who do not willingly enter into such risks as illegal, "opt-out" is legally untenable and I will expect increasingly more conflict going forward.

I talked with a guy yesterday about how to build out the on chain swaps market and the current challenges with doing so, who worked for some of these deeply regulated mega banks trading interest rate derivatives for 13 years, and something tells me that these folks (you know, the grunts on the ground who are intimately familiar with how modern money really works and how it can fail on a day to day basis) are going to run circles around around career regulator <-> industry revolving door (and ultimately self serving like anyone else) bureaucrats in dealing with this conflict…
My Journey from Zero to Got an Offer in Tech Company
> When the Irish loophole closes I'm sure they'll think up another "One Weird Trick"

Should countries not compete with each other and simply bow down to accept whatever corporate taxation rate the Americans tell them to have?
Will be difficult to search for on Google.
12. People don’t really want innovation

People talk about innovation a whole lot, but what they are usually looking for is cheap wins and novelty. If you truly innovate, and change the way that people have to do things, expect mostly negative feedback. If you believe in what you’re doing, and know it will really improve things, then brace yourself for a long battle.

Ain’t that the truth. I’ve come up against this my entire career.
The odds of rejection should be just another factor in your expected value calculation though.
The anti meritocracy argument goes, as it always does: meritocracy is not perfect => meritocracy is worthless and must be discarded.

It's an absolutely pointless argument that can be applied to any system that exists in the real world, instead of that of spherical cows.
>> And people in Houston said they like it in Texas?

They voted with their feet.
Correction

Unfortunately we need a GFID in addition to the UID, so more steps are required

3. Extract and GET hovercard URLs.

grep -o "/friends/hovercard/mbasic/?uid=[^\"]*" 1.htm|sed 's/%3D/=/g;s/%3A/:/;s>%2F>/>g;s/&amp;/\&/g;s/%26/\&/g;s/%3F/?/;s>^>https://mbasic.facebook.com>'

4. Extract and GET profile URLs.

grep -o "href=./[^*\"]*" 2.htm|sed '/?/d;/data\/manifest/d;s>href=.>https://mbasic.facebook.com>'

5. Extract and GET "unfollow" URLs

NB Making too many requests for profiles too close together may draw a temporary, limited block.

grep -o "href=.[^\"]*" 3.htm|sed -n '/subscriptions/s>href=.>https://mbasic.facebook.com>p'

6. Log out.

Done.

The five Facebook cookies needed are:

c_user xs fr sb datr

Further reading:

https://techexpertise.medium.com/facebook-cookies-analysis-e...

https://cookiedatabase.org/cookie/facebook/

https://www.facebook.com/policy/cookies/
The USA Fact-Check Algorithm by the Science Ministry is the official arbiter of truth, it alone exactly determines misinformation classification.
does it mean he should not point out the obvious dishonest hit piece simply because the company is valued at x amount?
There is plenty of housing at affordable prices all over America, in places with great outdoors access and other quality of life benefits. What’s pricey is housing in the most desirable and in-demand urban areas, which is expected. But no one is entitled to live wherever they want at whatever cost of living is convenient for their situation. The solution isn’t to turn every city and neighborhood into a super dense and dull concrete jungle, but to have a more distributed economy. America needs economic development zones with favorable tax treatments and subsidies to incentivize that distributed economy.
Ah yes, encoutered that one before, for my "Guesstimate" app. Shake phone to estimate development time. They didn't seem to like the idea.
I would guess this article doesn’t cover wells and septic systems because they’re so common in rural and semi-rural areas. I doubt any states don’t allow them at all, and this only discusses state laws.
Very cool. Also there are click languages. Given how much harder clicks are to regular vocalization, I wonder if they could be the remainders of some earlier languages before human vocalizations fully developed.
I love this — thanks for sharing! https://whatmusicreallyis.com/research/harmonicomb/

"Music is Math" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhPWJHrwgR4
No, >$3M in 2019: https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2019/mozilla-2019-fo...
> up to the limit of the problem space.

This is the key. One of the harder things to do in software design is to find a representation of the problem that gets closest to that complexity floor. It's often not obvious.
Show HN: Vers – The “Anti-FB” – The Future of Social
The chart shows a large spike in June 2020. Then a sharp decline between June and the election. Like the protests. Then a slow decline after the election with small spikes in 2021.
That's probably only true for the developed countries. In the remaining ones, Government monopoly over anything is a path towards corruption and sub-standard work.
I face the same problem every time I buy mustard at the supermarket. Dozens of flavors to choose from and only so much money. The tyranny of choice is a small price to pay.
Honestly, failing to walk it back is strictly worse.

First discovering the world of embedded programming is tremendously exciting. We've all been there. Discovering all these embedded processors in equipment you already own compounds the excitement.

But programming "channel processors" goes back to the early '60s, six decades ago. We already know how. We haven't needed Rust. Embedded subsets are also re-invented over and over. That idea hasn't aged so well.

In practice, there is no upper limit to the complexity of code you might want to run in a channel processor, so you run into the boundary of your subset early. You often discover you want resource management support, so you link in an embedded RTOS. (OS as library did not originate with Unikernels.) There are many, many free RTOSes, many of them very good. The more POSIXy they are, the less fun and educational they might be.
> Why should US corps pay taxes for money they make overseas?

Because US persons do as well.

> the USA IRS is always looking over their shoulder and they aren't in the USA making money

No the IRS wants you to pay the difference between local taxes and US taxes, no matter where you live and work.

And, btw, this applies to any US person, not just US citizens. A green card holder or temporary worker in the US inherits a rental property from a relative? Pay taxes on the rental income. Never mind that that property never had anything to do with the US.

> the "money" gets taxed multiple times

Yes, money does get taxed multiple times. I don't see how that matters.
As soon as encryption was allowed, the Ham bands would be full of commercial traffic.

The main reason for encryption is to allow for self regulation, and if you can't self regulate if the traffic is encrypted.
It’s a work style—work 25 min, then take a 5 min break. The team that invented it used a tomato-shaped kitchen timer, hence the name.
Companies do it all the time without seeking publicity.
Well that and the fact that low skill wages are climbing rapidly, meaning even lower tier apartments can now risk pushing rents higher (so if you're renting a mid tier apartment, you're seeing the rents climb up under you, pushing upwards on your rent).

I live in a nowhere city in the US where most things are below the national median on cost. Wages have historically been forever depressed here. The minimum wage here is now de facto $13-$15 (far higher than the actual state minimum wage), because you can earn that at entry level retail store jobs, with zero prior experience and they usually don't even require a high school diploma. Those stores still can't find workers to fill the jobs at those rates. So what will it take to fill those jobs? Probably $18-$20 / hr (to scan bar codes at a touch screen POS with zero labor skill). Welcome to bizarro Switzerland or Scandinavia. One consequence of this, will be far higher rents.
> There is a perfect correlation.

Erm, no. If there were some sort of correlation, looking at that graph you should be able to tell me where on the graph Biden either won the election or took office (Nov 4th or Jan 21st). You can't. What you do see is a wonderful bit of exponential decay from an event that wasn't related to Biden: the death of George Floyd on May 26. That's the vertical line. And then an expected exponential decay.

If you look at https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2020-01-01%202..., for example, Election, Joe Biden, and Trump are all strongly correlated. Heck, Trump and Black Lives Matter are briefly correlated, but Election and Black Lives Matter aren't.

> Strawman fallacy.

No, you literally made an, if we want to get technical, argumentum ad antiquitatem. Pointing that out isn't a fallacy. It's what you did.

> Which in turn allow people with different ideologies to work together effectively in a safe non-toxic environment.

People who disagree with you would claim that often they do not feel the environment is safe and non-toxic. They aren't comfortable with the status quo, hence their attempts to change it. That you are unaware of the toxicity and lack of safety doesn't invalidate their experiences. In fact, its an example of the challenges they have to overcome to achieve the safety and non-toxicity you enjoy and presume.

> My only argument is that work environment shouldn't be politicized.

No, you said, and I quote:

" It's not like the issue is so obvious and simple (i.e. all people have equal rights, women should be able to go to school, ...) that it's okay employers take a side." Your opinion is that employers can clearly take a side sometimes, but only in cases where some norm (the constitution as it is today) dictates. If that's not what you intended, please clarify, but that's precisely the argument you made, and again, it wasn't a strawman for me to point that out.
This myth will never die.

Corporations are treated the same as people in some legal contexts.

This is more practical than having two parallel sets of laws to keep in sync. It does not mean corporations are people.
It's a lot more complicated than that. I'm speaking from experience with Qt 5.14-15 and Qt 6.

Qt 5 defaults to "DPI scaling off", where text is enlarged but 1px is always 1px regardless of the current scale (so UI elements sized in px can end up too small on HiDPI displays). It has a mode with DPI scaling on, where 1px could be a fractional or integer number of on-screen pixels. Qt 6 only supports this latter mode.

Qt 5 defaults to rounding the magnification factor (output physical pixels / input program-facing virtual pixels) to an integer (except on KDE where it's passed through), while Qt 6 defaults to passing it through as a real number. (Qt 5.14+ and Qt 6 allow apps to customize what rounding method is used, except on KDE where it's passed through no matter what your app requests.) Passing through non-integer scale factors causes Qt's Windows-style theme (and some apps as well) to break spectacularly with rounding errors left and right, shifting as you move your mouse and focus between widgets. Breeze and Fusion handle this better (in my opinion using hacks rather than logical principled fixes), but I still prefer integer scale factors where I'm guaranteed that each x-by-y rectangle is the same integer number of on-screen pixels (which is useful for creating correctly sized off-screen buffers and blitting regions between graphical buffers).

All in all, if you drag a window between screens, Qt apps should handle it mostly fine. However, Qt doesn't properly respond when a display changes scale factor (like switching from laptop-only to external-only, or changing the scale factor of a monitor for testing), because Qt only checks for scale factor changes when the screen ID changes.

Unfortunately Qt makes it hard for apps to properly handle changing scale factors. If you cache the size of text in pixels, or "64 px * current scale factor", then the app changes scale factors, the app will resize, but your cached sizes won't change. I think property binding is a good solution to this (easier to use than Qt's private events, or handling QScreen-changed or QScreen-property-changed signals), but Qt isn't currently built around property binding. Maybe in a few years, Qt 6 will port the long tail of APIs to QProperty... I can only hope...

(Also Qt Creator's "new file" wizard somehow managed to have broken layout (too-small QLineEdit text fields) even when opening the app on a constant non-changing 125% scale. I suspect it's related to constructing a QFont without passing in a widget for context, causing it to use the global scaling instead of the current window's scaling. Or maybe it's because on Qt 5, Qt defaults to something like unscaled MS Shell Dlg 2 rather than scaled lfMessageFont.)
Beta. With features such as a distraction-free timeline that shows you 1 status at a time and never shows you the same status twice, like or skip it and it’s gone. No more mindless scrolling. Set notification frequency to once a day so you no longer get overwhelmed. See how many inches, feet, miles, etc you’ve scrolled - get shamed for scrolling as high as the Empire State Building haha. More features coming soon
This took a very long time.
Huh, also a great way to gain weight for all the stress eaters out there, I guess.
It is not a problem to do this in European Union. So far people who have been ill do not fall again very often.

Btw. infection after vaccination gives also about the same level antibodies as vaccination after infection.
Why are there people who expect that HN comments are by themselves supposed to fix the world
Č is the natural successor to Ć :)
Good prank. Anyway I hope it's a prank.
I haven't checked it in a while and haven't tried, I've just been going by what I remember from the last time I tried to get around this restriction, and what someone brings up every time Dev Edition is suggested as an alternative. I guess it's worth trying out again.

If Mozilla has unbroken the Developer edition, and it's available to everyone, great! Firefox is almost back to the functionality it had in 2016!

In any case, no, I'm not on a corporate firewall, you were kind of jumping to (oddly specific) conclusions there. And firewalls don't work like that.
What Linux distribution? Arch Linux has shipped Qt 6 for months, and Qt ships a web installer too (but it requires a Qt account and doesn't install the shared objects in a global location that apps can find).
The fun begins when 9 of these apps are left to rot and the remaining one moves to a subscription model.

There’s a ton of single use, very simple apps that only have super crappy alternatives left because Apple didn’t want to bother improving the Store app ratings and search functionalities. All the more after Apple in its infinite wisdom started banning apps that were “too simple” (like one single screen).

There’s a few of these apps that kept working through a few OS version updates but finally couldn’t run anymore, and it looks like my only choice is to remake them myself.

If instead of 10 we had 90 of these, there would be a fighting chance that more were still maintained or got open sourced.
Bureaucratic thinking perhaps.

Natural immunity (when confirmed by previous PCR test only unfortunately) is recognized in European Union but at the moment only up to 6 months.