skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can’t say it’ll work, and perhaps you’re already putting in the effort but (as long as it’s okay with your wife!)

Some dating apps (Bumble, maybe Tinder?) have options for swiping for friends

Other ways I’ve made friends include ski trips on big busses of people I don’t know, volunteer events, and travel tours

I think the big key is putting yourself in situations where you’ll be in close proximity with other people you don’t know for an extended period of time, and saying hello

Can’t say they’ve all been lifelong friendships (some have been as short as a meal and a number exchange that wasn’t followed up on, some have been many years then faded away, and some are still going strong)

People are social. Ask questions about what they like to do, maybe give ‘em a little laugh if you can.

Easier said than done certainly, and it’s entirely possible I’m a bit more gregarious than others (although you can practice that by having small conversations with cashiers, waiters, people at help desks. In the last few days people working those positions have told me about Halloween plans, bad customers and more, and they’re always happy to have a little break with someone who’s genuinely interested in how their day is going. It’s important to be genuine!)

Take a shot! I believe in you :-). Can’t end up anywhere besides where you already are, but maybe with a few more experiences under your belt so it’s fairly low risk as long as you remember it’s not always your fault if someone is curt, or brusque, or outright rude at your attempt at outreach (sometime’s it’s cultural, sometime’s they’re just having a bad day, some people are very introverted, etc, sometime’s it is you! No reason to get hung up on that or assume it though, we all make mistakes)

And certainly, easier said than done, and people have different situations for a variety of reasons. But still, you got this!
How to Manage a Virtual Team
Igalia's Kardell and Meyer Discuss and Explain MathML-Core Support Collective
I would love to see this submission title changed to replace "Billionaire" with Munger, as his networth has nothing to do with the discussion unless you're interesting in attacking Munger's character rather than his ideas.
I would be really surprised if the Firefox developers refused a patch adding a new about:config setting for whatever you're talking about.
Yeah, because of the usual open source problem: funding. Brave is funded by venture capital and crypto-crap, Vivaldi by advertising deals and Edge by the infinite coffers of Micro$oft.

Firefox forks tend to dislike associating with any of the above.
If you can avoid multithreading in the design of your consensus protocol, this also means that your implementation becomes more deterministic.

If you can have the design fully deterministic by stubbing out the message passing, storage and time source (by representing time as ticks), then you can do deterministic simulation fuzzing like we do in TigerBeetle, which is a high velocity testing technique for finding/reproducing/fixing interesting (and rare) distributed systems bugs: https://github.com/coilhq/tigerbeetle#simulation-tests
The UK has the same issue. One cause is the house builders have permission to build a lot, but only do so slowly to not affect the price. Another cause is the market and government’s mess with mortgages. The southeast has it worse but it exists everywhere that employs enough people densely (ie multi storey offices often reached by public transport).
> Dependency graphs are an elegant solution to risk management and pricing etc.

Dependency graphs are not a solution to risk and pricing. They are, in certain circumstances, a very useful tool. That's all. They also scale notoriously painfully.

Putting a dependency graph as a mandatory component in your risk system was one of the worst technical decisions I've come across (and I've been doing this lark a long time).
> they've lost sight of what running a sustainable business in this space would look like

Is the claim that it is economically impossible to create a browser without turning it in to surveillance malware?

To the extent that's true, it is the best argument yet for shutting down the web.
Self-reporting seems to be fairly accurate for narcissism: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
I've been lurking on HackerNews for goodness knows how many years. This is the first time I've been motivated to log in and comment - I agree 100% with your outlook and very nicely put.
The walkable bit I see, but proper, fully segregated cycle infra is very rare.
This windowless thing is just a bunch of crazy suppositions by an ignorant man.

Wow. For the sake of its reputation, legacy and future funding from other sources, which, over time, will utterly dwarf the dollar amount of this toxic "gift" that this crank billionaire is trying to twist their arm with --

Let's all hope that UCSB comes to its senses, and cuts all ties with this bully as soon as conceivably possible.
Precisely this for me. Sometimes I find it easier to concentrate on getting things done with some background noise that I can tune in and out of - the alternative is not having that and instead finding 3 hours later that I haven't got anything done because I fell down a totally pointless rabbit hole.
Its an interesting way of describing landlords, but we have now worked our way back to GP's original criticism, just stated in a different/less-tangible way: For landlords, the simple act of buying housing (a basic need) allows them to extract a profit in the time dimension, and it shouldn't work like that.
>But I understand my situation perfectly. I will probably end up converting the therapist to my world view unless they're too shallow to understand it

Or, and here is a radical thought, you don’t perfectly understand the complexities of human relationships. Maybe your arrogance and narrow world view lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy that also serves to validate your world view. See a therapist.
> Is it normal that people get into relations with other people that they intend to take to court?

Yes, it's very normal. Abusive partners can be very skilled at breaking down their victims; "you're so worthless, no one but me will ever love you" sort of scenarios. It's a very common phenomenon.
Sounds like you might like Vue. It has directives for HTML which I like better than using JSX and it has a composition style now that I like better than React's hooks.

https://v3.vuejs.org/guide/composition-api-setup.html
The macros are always the deal-breaker. I tried sublime text, set up emacs keybindings, then tried to ctrl-x-( to start a macro and... switched right back to emacs. (and then proceeded to modify me emacs config so it approximated many sublime text features)
You’re right, maybe stable, tidy and can afford a lawnmower would be a better pidgeon hole than ‘nice’ :)
That's crazy - you'd end up taking it in turns sleeping in the lounge every other night! Plus the lounge is supposed to be for everyone to use, not as a dormitory for those exiled from their own rooms!
Exactly. If you're going into a New Yorker article you should know what to expect.
It would have similar security risks if your frontend is compromised, for example, it could make the users pay their cryptocurrency payments to an attacker-controlled address.
The cultural benefits of artificial intelligence in the enterprise
iPlayer link for those in the UK:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p093wp6h/cant-get-you...
OP said this:

>> is the suggestion that FF is too complex to properly fork without full time devs?

How many Chrome forks don't have "full time devs"? A lot of them (Vivaldi, Opera) aren't even open source!

The only one I can think of is ungoogled Chromium which is basically equivalent to this Firefox one in that the actual changes being made are miniscule.
To defend against browser fingerprinting you absolutely want them to present themselves as Firefox.
Edge, for example, is a fork maintained by Microsoft. It is a strategic project for a multi-billion company. That is not comparable to a fork of your average open-source project.
In the 1970s, the Netherlands experienced a mother-led political backlash to cars that was expressed in the “Stop Murdering Our Children” movement. Thousands protested and the government responded by deprioritizing cars. People think that Amsterdam is walkable because it is an old city. It is walkable because it’s people demanded it. So cool. This site has a bunch of news articles about the movement:

https://www.dutchreach.org/car-child-murder-protests-safer-n...
If I got a computer and internet at younger age, I am not sure I would have finished school successfully.

Seems to me that the actual problem is internet, especially social networks, not just computer alone. Before internet, I could spend hours playing a computer game... but then the game was finished, and I turned off the computer and did something else.

Social networks and Youtube, they provide an endless stream of content; you are never finished with them. Even worse, social networks create the false sense of urgency... there is a huge difference between commenting on a new topic versus on a topic that is a few days old.

So my rules are roughly: computer - yes; youtube and social networks - no.
The idea of making adults share bedrooms is very bizarre.

True, but if you're asking why anyone would put up with that -- it has something to do with money.
If the world they live in is dominated by computers, maybe it is a good thing they get exposed to it from the beginning to get maximum proficiency. It might give them an advantage in life by making them more adapted to their world.
Same situation for me, but much longer than 30 years. I still use Emacs with SBCL Common Lisp (but use VSCode if I am exploring someone else’s large codebase) and for routine non-programming editing, but otherwise I use IDEs: LispWorks, PyCharm for Python, IntelliJ for Java and Clojure, XCode for Swift, and Racket IDE for Racket Scheme.

I like having Emacs key bindings for other editors and IDEs.
> There's nothing hindering students from renting an apartment

The ridiculous expense because of the acute housing shortage in SB. Which building the largest dorm in the country would help alleviate.

> they don't have to use the 200$ million building

1.5$ Billion Building
There are plenty of highly narcissistic people with tenure and psychology departments are somewhat famous for being permeated with varying forms psychic peculiarities.
> It’s nice to not always give your brain an agenda and see what it comes up with itself.

On day's when my brain is functioning properly that's great, it can be really nice. On the days when it isn't I would much rather be listening to some pointless waffle from podcast hosts than dwelling on something I did wrong 15 years ago and how that makes me a terrible person.
> Doesn't it help the Google monopoly on the web?

Can't answer your other question, but this fork has a chance of helping those who don't want to use Mozilla Firefox avoid switching to Chromium browsers by offering a choice.
Is that the right link? Is someone introducing me to `cat`?

(edit: I think you mean https://textmode.cc/dispenser which is indeed cool.)

I like the original linked example because it fits in my 150-line terminal!
The main service landlords provide is maintenance.

There's no direct food analogy but I don't think it's too stretched
Since several years my definition of friendship is: Love without sex.
Microservices: “It's because of the way our backend works”
I've worked on more React projects than Angular, and am very competent in both.

I'll take an "opinionated" framework any day of the week over what I see in the React ecosystem. Every React project that I've walked into has looked completely different from each other.

One common complaint about Angular is that it is "bloated." Yet every React project I've seen pulls in a million 3rd party libraries to solve the most trivial problems, and I've seen very few React apps that implement code splitting of features. So you have massive bundles being pulled into the client and the majority of code contained in those bundles are not going to be needed for a given user session because no user is going to use all features when they login.

Also, JSX reminds me of PHP code in the 90s. While you can separate your markup from your view logic and styles with discipline, most React devs don't. Most components I've seen are a large hodgepodge of markup, styles and logic.

Give me Angular any day of the week.

- Give me view encapsulation so I can write straight-up SASS and have it scoped to a component.

- Give me a template language to keep my view logic separate from my markup.

- Give me dependency injection.

- Give me code splitting / bundles right out of the box. Let me configure my routing without having to use components.

- Give me a sane, reactive forms module out of the box. Form controls are the standard way of interacting with the end-user and so the typical front-end application will work heavily with forms in some shape or form (no pun intended). I have yet to find a decent forms solution for React.

- Components should just be views. I like a framework that encourages developers to separate their concerns and get integration code, routing config, state management and the like into a separate layer of the app (and no, react hooks are not a good solution for this. They introduce tight coupling between the view and other app layers - I use them a lot, but they're no substitute for dependency injection).

- Give me pipes. Formatting and manipulating string data is a very typical problem that views need to solve. In React apps you'll typically see low-level JavaScript code doing this type of stuff inside of markup.
I guess Canada can be lumped with the US in this case :) The whole concept of a “dormitory” is simply foreign here outside of hostels and niche boarding schools. Student housing is mostly normal-looking apartment buildings.
> Why does Stockholm syndrome exist?

It might not.

https://twitter.com/sezmohammed/status/1252500993972948992
Yeah same in other big cities, it just shows how incredibly impractical it is to do grocery shopping without a car, and what big demand there is to get rid of this annoying chore. I think it's great! The solution is not walking and cycling, that's for sure.
We're very similar indeed. But we attack the same problem from different angles:

- We truly believe that our product should be accessible for small teams too. That's why se made Jitsu very easy to deploy. I'm not sure you can deploy Rudder on Heroku, or on any service with a single Docker file.

- Our ETL component is open-source (and based on other great OSS projects - Airbyte & Singer). RudderStack haven't published the Cloud Extract (their ETL) to my knowledge.

- RudderStack aims to replace Segment, we go beyond that. We didn't copy Segment API one-to-one, we just added a Segment compatibility layer. Jitsu can be used for any kind of data. An example: a few companies (including our-selves) using Jitsu to collect open-source telemetry (anonymous usage). I'm not sure Rudder can be used for that use-case
As the article mentioned, politicians in several countries have already ended all restrictions. I don’t know where you live, but I fully expect my local people to do the same thing.
This brings up the questions: How can i disable as much telemetry as possible when using the standard Firefox?

What am i missing if i go to <about:config>, search for "telemetry" and set everything to false?

Are there drawbacks to blocking the hostname incoming.telemetry.mozilla.org in Pi-hole?
What you’re describing is not how the vast majority of society works. You aren’t convincing the therapist of anything other than you need a new set of folks to hang out with.

I would agree with others, if these posts aren’t just your way of some internet trolling you really should seek out some help. What you’re describing is incredibly unhealthy and I can assure you not a single one of my close friends care a bit about how much money I have.
Worst? There are multiple axes and this clearly won’t be bad on all of them:
- proximity to campus
- private bedroom
- land used / density
- windows
- furnishing
- common areas
- price
- etc
Worst would be an expensive windowless gymnasium with 200 people sleeping on cots in the same room 10 miles from campus or anything else.

Why can’t we try different combinations of that and let people self-optimize? One of the big trade-offs here is that putting every room on the exterior means making a long narrow building, which means “dead” space between builds (less density) and more exterior walls (construction cost). Light wells could maybe give you “windows” in that you could have some real sunlight, but they have zero view, privacy concerns, aren’t exits, and are much dimmer than true exterior windows. Courtyards have to be big enough to not be glorified lightwells, and they basically have the same problem as narrow buildings. We could try to build up for more density, but that comes with several more axes of trade-offs.

If everyone is saying no other building does this, maybe we should stop relying on emotion and get some actual data. It’s definitely possible that a sun-lamp window (and good ventilation, which he mentions) are fine for people. UCSB should just get a clause saying he’ll pay to tear it down after 10 years if psych studies of residents are damning, and then we have a billionaire really betting on his vision and funding an honest attempt at proving a viable alternative.
Yes, but that is because Britain is absolutely terrible at land management. Huge tracts get no or minimal use because owners are land banking or whatever. This slows or stops development all over the place and results in high property costs.
I think this is solvable.

1. Alice has something valuable stolen (goods or photos or whatever, doesn't matter)

2. Bob innocently buys Alice's stuff from Criminal Craig

3. Alice gets insurance money

4. Everything gets found out and Craig goes to jail

5. Alice gets her stuff back, but has to make Bob whole out of the insurance money (and maybe pay back the difference to the insurance company?)

6. At this point, it is then on the insurance company to try to recover whatever it can from Craig

That's how I would set it up if I were king anyway.
Rocky Linux Team AMA on Reddit
Ask HN: What's so special about Snowflake?
I have followed the technology industry pretty closely (or so I thought) for the last 20 years. When Snowflake had their IPO and the stock when through the roof, I was shocked.

1. Because of the stock performance

2. Because I'd never even heard of them

Following the threads on HN, it seemed like a lot of other people were just as confused.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24265041

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24494633

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24528742

Can anybody explain it to me?
> The environment vector is located after the NULL terminator of the environment vector, or argument count + 1.

For those who read that and don't know, it is the second occurrence of "environment" that should be "arguments".
What year was this out of interest?
And the clients pay the companies. When we ll start buying browsers they ll stop tracking us
The GP's advice was sound, just incomplete: ...and stop voting for Democrats.

The only way to effect change is to break the duopoly.
This will be an unpopular opinion here, but for developers, telemetry is a really useful way to make decisions about the direction of a project.

Otherwise if it's just on a whim of the lead dev, that often does not scale. And we've seen with lots of projects, that actual regular-user feedback, not power-users, is crucial in taking those decisions. Switching off telemetry is easy, but I suppose you also have concerns about technical issues, and those can be really difficult to compromise on (a lot of people suggested forks when XUL was removed.. but today probably very few people would want XUL back).

To have a successful fork, you need devs with either a business model behind it, or enough motivation to maintain it as a hobby. For a while, it worked for Iceweasel, but it was just branding. Firefox is complex, requires a lot resources to build, distribute binaries, etc.

I'm not affiliated to Mozilla, but I do help maintain another open source project, where, in my opinion, power-users and consultants drove the project in a direction that made the product more difficult to use, and therefore gave it a bad reputation and limited growth. I can say that because I have access to some of the telemetry, and also because I talk to a lot of random users as part of my work.
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This is simply not true. It's a combo of BIOS/Firmware, the silicon and the driver. Stop spreading FUD unless you have a source to back it up.

https://twitter.com/bdelrizzo/status/1362619264423747590

https://old.reddit.com/r/gpumining/comments/pbgyi9/to_clear_...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/nvidia-will-add-anti...

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-30-lhr-lite-hash-rat...
Ethically gauging user engagement on your newsletter
“Everyone but me is a psychopathic monster that is just acting ‘normal’ all the time”. I am shocked you have trouble making friends.
Hope the JIDF is paying you well.
> and specifically every state has a requirement for a window to be built inside of each sleeping room for egress fire safety.

From your second link, that window requirement does not apply to type R.2 buildings (apartments) where there is an automatic sprinkler system.
Anyone getting USD75k/EUR65K/GBP55K in Europe can afford to buy an apartment in any of the major cities, including London with access to a walking lifestyle.

Add a partner’s salary to the equation and you are walking your kids to school and living the dream.
This is Pulitzer quality reporting right here ;)
Arguably articles should be taken more on their ability to provide a relevant place for a particular discussion on HN, rather than the quality of article itself. This was a topic I was interested in and wanted to see what the HN demographic thought about it, so for that reason alone it's a 'good' post if enough people share that perspective.
That one has a different plan with windows in some of the common spaces unlike this new plan which is almost entirely without.
Something I vehemently agree with
No it means that literally nothing else makes the kid behave this specific way. It's a catatonic state where the kids senses are clearly overwhelmed, they do not move at all(!!) and their responsiveness degrades to near zero. After screen time the otherwise normal kid starts to behave erratically, seems like they have the need to compensate with more movement for the monitoneless time.
If you try to talk about what they saw it becomes clear that they failed to process what they saw and multiple days and multiple hours of talking would be needed to wade through something as simple as half hour of David Attenborough animal documentary.

Wether enough scientific fact has been gathered to understand the inner workings and circumstances are irrevelant, the cognitive weight of TV exist as a matter of fact.

Now there are of course difference between TV and monitor and screen time. What causes the problems are TV like stuff - passive, movie-ish information. Drawing lines in paint or typing buttons to see them appear on notepad is definetly another thing - the information flow and actions there are controlled by the kid and there is another huge difference if the parent is there explaining. Not the monitor itself is the problem, but the absolutely overwhelming quantities of raw information which designed specifically to catch and hold an adults attention. Kids simply have no means to absorb or escape it.

On my experience kids over 4-6 years starts to absorb some of the information and kids over 8 can sit through a disney movie with sufferable consequences.
Think Ricochet got replaced by cwtch.im correct? At least the binaries I can find of Ricochet are super stale.