skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At that time, I enjoyed writing software only I would ever use. I can set up auto start myself ; I can log with CSV format and write a tool later to process it ; I can hardcode my exclusion list. I would still get enjoyment from the project doing all of those things. And using the clipboard API could open up my next project idea.

Implementing every feature the Prof listed sounds like something I would only do for money.

Even professionally, there is still use for code that only ever gets run by its original author.
Jeeze. Sensationalist reporting.

The actual survey question was “Do you think the government is exaggerating the number of Covid 19 deaths?”

That’s different than “faked”. One could answer “true” if they believed anyone who dies and tested positive from Covid is counted as a Covid death, which overestimates what people imagine when they think of “Covid death”. That would be exaggerating the numbers, but not necessarily faking them.
I think the problem with storing energy in western Europe, is that you need most energy for heating in winter, when there is hardly any solar power. So any convenient daily pattern doesn't work. For wind, you can probably heat up during the night assuming there is less other demand for electricity.

However, that doesn't help during period when there is hardly any wind. It is not as if you can stop heating your house for a couple of weeks.

I'm curious have this will play out. On a bright summer day, there is plenty of solar power. So it make sense to do everything during the day. During winter, it is better to distribute the load and move load to the night. That requires quite a bit of signaling to get right.
Excuse my ignorance but I'm wondering how difficult/feasible would it be to have all CO2 captured from burning coal etc and thus making them zero emission.
It definitely won't get cheaper. 3 euros seems a completely reasonable price for this delivery.
They told us when we interview them or wrote it publicly.

You can see our privacy vs convenience thoughts here:
https://youdotcom.notion.site/Privacy-and-Data-Protection-at...
Facebook parent company Meta to block some political, religious ad targeting
Given that the last National government passed the "Hobbit Law" to allow film industry companies to treat people who would, in any other industry, be employees, as contractors, as well as banning collective bargaining for them - the actual employee numbers will be verrrry low.
> Hovering over an ad link on Chrome, it shows in bottom bar the link as going to brand.com . How can this be done, it's just an <a href="..."> ? Inspecting or right-click shows the true link to www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk...

Google has been doing this since forever (for any search results too)... They update the link target on-click using javascript to be able to track everything you click on.
I think you're wrong here. A reasonable chunk of android users seem to have at least one sideloaded app. Usually thats something like a "free spotify without ads" or "hacked snapchat so you can save screenshots".
This gets a brief mention in the second to last paragraph
> Scope creep happens when you discover new requirements after defining a project scope and delivering an estimate.

The author defined project scope. Student discussed and came up with 4 hour estimate. Then after that estimate was made the author added a lot of requirements and said the student estimate was too low.
And now it also doesn't happen in Chrome anymore.
We dropped the requirement there too.
I did not cite reasons of portability for this reason, and generally I agree with you. Also some of the non-portable extensions of Postgres like PostGIS are practically indispensable for certain applications.

A more reasonable argument for application layer ID generation is flexibility. It's likely that I want some specific primary key generation (e.g. by email, or username, or username prepended with role, and so on).
Usually they ask you those details after you have described the situation and location and they have dispatched someone (if they have decided to do that), which sounds reasonable.
Not sure how old it is as I don't often use Spotify, but some of my songs are disabled in my playlists, isn't is related to license issues?
I think if it’s governments fitting the bill, there is a limit to resources. But agree you could pursue both.

Nuclear power is still kind of fossil fuels though, so it’s just kicking the can down the road… but it’s a big kick.
Is it really such a stretch of imagination that the government could be faking/gaming some stats?
Nice to have: a lisp reinvention of Interlisp on top of ttyless operating system, ai-assisted acid debugger.
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The wind also changes direction sometimes, that's not necessarily an issue. Several companies are doing this, like: https://minesto.com/
> They wouldn't need to break TLS 1.3 if they have access to root certificates, they could use them to perform MitM attacks.

It's trivially easy and almost undetectable for any nation-state to perform targeted MitM against HTTPS. It wouldn't be legally possible in most of jurisdictions, but Saudi Arabia isn't exactly "rule of law" country.

Uzbekistan tried, because they wanted zero-risk mass surveillance.
Added to my own ESLint config: https://github.com/trevinhofmann/eslint-config-principled/pu...
One of the most impressive things you get to see there is the Flora and Fauna around the San Pedro de Atacama area.

It is so beautiful to see the life thriving in such an hostile environment, at around 3.000 MASL. It gives you a unique perspective about nature.
Social media is not the third party once you surrender your data to them. You, the user/product, become the third party in any forthcoming transactions. The only legal challenge therein are details related to exposure of bulk PII which remain protected without regard for the fourth amendment by other laws.

This has been the case for decades. I remember before the internet publishers selling their users subscription and preference data to solicitors. People don’t gain new privacy protections where they never existed prior, especially if the absence of expectations is explicit and agreed upon by the user.
Which search engine doesn't call any
APIs and has great privacy?

This question seems strange to me and makes me think you don't know the difference between API calls on the backend and sending http requests from the users browser?

Go to https://duckduckgo.com/ and open your network tab. You will never see any requests to non-DDG owned websites.

Your site sends requests to all kind of companies. Which exposes data about your users (IP, UserAgent, that they use you.com ...) to those companies.

Maybe you should talk to your devs about it.
Thanks. Great idea.

We tried sth similar a while back and it confused some people who thought that the entire site could only be used for the 3 examples we provided.
Other users just clicked out of it.
Maybe we can find a way to bring that back without interrupting any flow :)
This is exactly what I see happening. Restaurants are increasing prices to cover the “Wolt tax”. My local McDonald’s does this.
But saying that this isn't new makes it seem like google only replaced the services the local newspaper previously provided. That is not true.
anyone else feeling like lately at work they are spending more time on dialing in time estimates for work than actually doing the work? it feels like we have a problem (at least in sysadmin/devops roles) of valuing time estimates/"the process"/agile over actually banging out some work. i am starting to tune out planning meetings and requests for time estimates with a least effort possible attitude.
Really, in the past decade or so we’ve had some of the most egregious, of what were once thought to be, conspiracy theories proven true, and proof that members of the establishment lied, even under oath, to protect them.

Now all of the sudden we are to expect everyone to blindly trust the government blindly? And let’s not get started with party lines!
How hard is it to program while being blind ? What sort of development do you do ? i understand that frontend is impossible but what other difficulties do you face ?

Are indent based langauges like python harder than bracket based languages ?
Increasing the CO2 concentration in the air we breathe, even by the relatively small amount caused by burning fossil fuels, has been shown to lower human cognitive function. Does that count as poisoning?

(Source: it's discussed in the book The Uninhabitable Earth, although I don't have a copy to hand so can't find the exact citations.)
Also, we have to think if complying wouldn't benefit drug dealers.
An extension that only has write access to one field won't hurt privacy, but we dropped the extension requirement entirely :)
To be fair, work on recovering drone aircraft in midair can be employed for a whole lot more than just military purposes.
The last phone booth has been taken out of service years ago here in the Czech Republic - but we now have a nice statue to commemorate them:

https://znojemsky.denik.cz/zpravy_region/zvoni-a-provokuje-z...
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> when they whip up paranoia for ratings

Wait until you learn about a thing called COVID-19.
I vaguely remember a rant some famous Linux developer went on about how setting up printing in Linux requires a dozen parameters, half of which are arcane nonsense that the printer manufacturer themselves probably doesn't know how to set up correctly.

Meanwhile, on an Apple or Windows computer it can be literally just plug and print.

The difference is that hiding those arcane input parameters takes work, and a lot of it. There was a quote that it takes 10x as much effort to remove an input parameter than simply leaving it in there and letting the user fill it out.

A lot of people don't get this, and think the simpler-looking software is simple, when under the hood it is probably doing model auto-detection, driver downloads, protocol negotiation, and even firmware updates on the fly!

I face this all the time at work. "Can't you just make a single button to run this task so I don't have to figure out how to use this complicated script?"

"I can, but not with this budget..."
I disagree.

First, Google (and FB/amzn, which also have dogs in this) are extremely powerful within the media industry. So, their shadow looms very long here.

Second, thinking of these issues as running via media through to an informed public to an attentive political structure is far too naive.

Political mechanisms are rarely about for Vs against. It's about defining the debate, legislation and it's details.

Google have a ton of influence in many sectors. Small businesses are one. News media is another. Enlisting these to achieve their political goals is corporatism.
> .32 is in my book far from "almost 2 times" .19

I mean you've written it yourself: "almost"

> Nope, the tax burden is way higher in France: 46.2% of GDP in 2020, while Germany is at 37.5%

And then you're leaving out secial-security costs, way to go!

https://img.welt.de/img/wirtschaft/mobile207627583/329793785...
Hey, you have missed U+FFA0 HALFWIDTH HANGUL FILLER which has about the same property as U+3164 HANGUL FILLER!

Surely I expected this coming ever since I've seen the purported Trojan "attack", as the Hangul fillers are pretty much the only characters that are (X)ID_Start and have no visible glyphs [1]. If (X)ID_Continue is also considered ZWJ and ZWNJ would be another contenders. Attacks using those characters have much better chance than the Trojan "attack", but you need a very specific code to execute the attack. It should be obvious that a typical coding convention easily prevents them.

As much like the purported Trojan "attack", this kind of attacks need a better code review and tooling. You don't need to remove non-ASCII identifiers from existing languages: they have their uses when an entirety of your team speak languages not using Latin script. But you should be able to catch a new use of non-ASCII characters throughout your code base and compare that with your expectation.

[1] The Hangul filler comes from a legacy mechanism of KS X 1001 for unencoded Hangul syllables (it had only 2,350 out of 11,172 modern syllables). The half-width Hangul filler probably comes from a duplicate encoding of the filler in the IBM code page 933 to ensure round-trip conversion. Both are never used in practice, except for probably the Hangul filler that was briefly implemented by Mozilla and removed due to the compatibility issue.
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You can't have a functioning democracy without an informed populace. Censorship and disinformation are 2 sides of the same coin.
First time I heard about Google, someone said it was a bad name, too hard to remember.
This was news to me.. Looks like he lost 33 billion today but is still 70 billion ahead of Bezos. Surreal T_T
It's a game engine that uses SDL2[1] already so you get all of that on top of what SDL2 offers. I presume stuff to implement a 2D side scrolling game easier than from scratch.

[1] https://github.com/DCurrent/openbor/wiki/Compiling-Overview
OpenStreetMaps could be used as a good enough alternative and could easily be the Wikipedia for Maps, but sadly the search results on Google would never allow that.
ignores long term survival of life due to lack of better alternatives
Hey.
Good ideas!
Thanks a bunch. Happy to hear and we listened to you and have now dropped the requirement for the extension entirely.
Excited to hear more of your feedback.
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`#![forbid(...)]` is a crate-wide attribute, so it is more like a policy (that is good to have if your code would be entirely ASCII).
Problem is that the alternatives, even done right, are worse.
> and then it happened again.

Did it happen again? We haven't had anything close to another Chernobyl, and that was 35 years ago (more than 50% of the entire history of the nuclear power industry.)
Historically — yes, ASP.NET Core 1 and 2 had the ability to live _inside_ both .NET Framework and .NET Core.
Doing targeted studies among themselves is pretty much like developing in a ivory tower.

I've been following GNOME development for years, and recently getting interested in seeing how KDE handles things behind the scenes, and it's hard to miss the fact that the most prolific GNOME developers are the same 3 or 4 faces that have a really hard attitude against any type of discussion around their changes. I won't name names, but most issues on their Gitlab around any major change usually devolve into one of them saying "we're volunteers, send a merge request is you want it different". Ignoring the fact that most of their projects have opened and unanswered merge requests in the dozens. And hundreds of unanswered issues and even more on their old bugzilla.

The "volunteer" excuse is the most common passive aggressive response in the open source community, to hide behind when there's actually no real interest in entertaining different point of views or alternative suggestions.

So yeah, development is done in public, but they are set on their ways, dislike outside input and tend to get really rude and curt if you disagree with their idea. There are countless examples that pretty much anyone in the Linux community knows about.

I actually have no real qualms with the direction GNOME is going, but they are the reason I've never contributed to the project. They are a fickle and hard to please bunch, unless you're part of the internal clique.
I could imagine it being useful for search and rescue missions
> Maybe the problem isn't the way the police are operating

What is the problem then? :)
Agreed. I use Unicode identifiers to spot shitcode. This would really hamper my detection abilities.

Jokes aside, if you're writing Unicode identifiers it means you're not writing your code to be read by a broad audience.
Flying conventional wind turbines aren't that good, they suffer from most of the downsides of both normal wind turbines and kite turbines.

The idea with kite energy (in serious projects) is to eliminate the need for a tower and the inner parts of the blades.

The kites can be seen as the tip of the blades, which is where almost all the energy is generated.

Kite energy can dispense with the tower because they are tethered with a largely horizontal cable, so there is no lever involved and the foundation can be much smaller. You could sort of do that with the flying turbines, but that wouldn't really work in a city environment.
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I really don't understand why you are posting this, this is a 9 year old bug that is marked fixed. Please read the rest of the comments on the bug beyond that one and please don't make me regret asking these questions, I'm feeling like my time is wasted when people post these bugs without checking them.
The study concluded that COVID infection does not correlate with most of the long-COVID symptoms, does it not? It was only the belief of having a COVID infection that correlated with them.

That implies that people only believe that they have long-COVID symptoms, when in fact some other phenomenon is causing them. You're right that the cause may not be psychological however.
Apple and Google transformed mobile into a poisonous experience. Apart from being constantly spied, you don't get to decide what you can do with your own device. You can't install software unless is approved by them and if it is, you have to also pay them.

As a developer, if you target iOS and Android your app should not compete with their apps, you have to get it approved and you have to get them a 30% cut for nothing.

Why can't installing software on mobiles work exactly like on desktop?
Google doesn't have a search monopoly.
Damn! I thought things were better (than the US) over there.

If you're interested I'm in Brisbane and I run a DevOps discord: https://chat.learndevops.com.au/

You're welcome to join if you want to chat to other engineers, a few of which are in your local area or close :)
I’ve tried to switch to Apple maps a few times. Most recently was last weekend I used it for navigation directions. The problem this time was on Google maps your route in the display is annotated with small white arrows at the point where you turn off your current road on to a turning or slip road. On Apple maps you don’t get that, you just see a continuous blue curve with no visual indication where the turns are. Back to Google!
Gnome does regular UX testing[0].

There's no 'feedback' channel (other than, you know, the regular feedback channels of matrix, gitlab. They exist.) because that tends to skew the data because of self-selection.

A/B testing is only possible when you can do randomized trials. I do think that randomly switching between competing implementations of a feature could be somewhat confusing for desktop users and create a big kerfuffle. It's easy with constantly-changing websites - people expect a website to change. On the desktop, change is seldomly appreciated.

[0] https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2021/02/15/shell-ux-change...
Direct link to video on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4T6Vr4a1hY

(this works better with https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-redirect/p... )
I wonder if that's why I wasn't a good fit for a recent company I interviewed with using a take-home assignment... bear in mind it's been at least a decade since I last took a take-home, so things might have changed.

I received the task on Friday evening, I spent the week-end thinking about the problem. Monday I had actual work and on Tuesday, I spent a day coming up with a shit implementation. Then, I started improving it for two days until I think it got in a good shape. I basically wanted to transmit that I can start from the base, add functionality and then iterate on the problem by documenting, refactoring, adding tests, evolving the code base etc.

So I'd say I worked for around 24 hours over 168 hours and the feedback I got was:

> Thank you so much for your interest in joining <redacted> and the time you took to submit the coding challenge. In reviewing your application though, I have decided not to invite you to the next round of interviews as I believe there are other candidates that are a better fit for what <redacted> needs right now.

This is turning into a subjective rant, part of me wants to delete this but I'm just gonna go ahead and finish it; When I was younger, I used to love take-home assignments because it felt better than just doing algorithms, and then I used to get proper feedback, what I did wrong, what aspects I could improve in the future etc. This feedback gives me nothing. Just the realization I wasted time.
Of course 9v batteries are just six 1.5 cells in a rectangular pack- often they are even made of round cells like AAA, only much smaller.
> But if you had to pick one to prevent, preventing the disaster is more important. So before earthquake-proofing the nuclear plant you should worry about earthquake proofing your home.

If I could, I would earthquake-proof and flood-proof everything even where the probability of these dissertation is near-zero. But this obviously isn't going to happen (in fact it baffles me how people insist on living non-proof way even in areas where disastrous floods actually happen every now and then).

Nevertheless I feel like I would prefer my home destroyed and even myself crippled over the neighboring nuclear power plant blowing up.
Reaching to first 90% is easy. Remaining 90% is the hard part.

As the saying goes: The 90% of the project takes 90% of the time. Remaining 10% takes 90% of the time.
What other feasible/realistic cleaner alternatives do you propose?
constantly

Well, once every 6-ish hours. But even then, you put the turbine on an axle to turn it into the flow. Windmills have been doing this for centuries.
Facebook is definitely not the company I trust with my money.
Fastmail under DDoS attack again
Likewise, few years ago, big pharma was one of the most hated industries, willing to do business on people getting sick, by any means necessary. Today they are treated as saviors of humanity.
Some time ago I managed to add a non width character in my PHP code. Because it had no width PhpStorm did not highlight it and I had absolutely no clue why there was an error in my code.
So it only highlights when it has width.

Edit: just added some non-space characters and at least in Rider they are now displayed as a warning. So I think this is fixed now.
Only half on-topic: Many (non-Windows) desktop environments already provide a function to keep and search previous clipboard content: See for example https://userbase.kde.org/Klipper