skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also : Zero capital gains tax. Zero estate taxes.
There's always a bread cartel.

In this case, what fool would make bread when they can get $1000 by sitting around and smoking weed?
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That's why every book I bought at Amazon I have physically downloaded. So in case Amazon decides to kill my account I still have the media.
It makes sense. SpaceX is no longer a daring startup but is a huge corporation that is doing great business.
I am not trying to speak ill of the dead. I am expressing my opinion on their work. The work of an artist is not immune to criticism because they were a nice person.

I read Ian M. Banks for the first time recently. About halfway through "Player of Games" I realized what an enormous talent that man has for writing. It snuck up on me, it took me by surprise. I think of the Italian word Sprezzatura and the Wikipedia summary: "a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it". In my estimation Banks does this, he artfully conceals just how good he is at what he is doing.

In contrast, when I read DFW I feel as if he is poking his talent into my face over and over again. Even in this essay, I feel an overbearing sense of how good it is. The DFW writing I am familiar with lacks the ease I appreciate.

I prefer when artists downplay their ability and express it subtly. That doesn't mean that an artist must do this to be good writer or a good person. Some artists will stretch themselves to the very limit of their abilities in an attempt to express themselves in a way they find satisfying or meaningful. And if I find that tedious or unbearable to read then that doesn't necessarily make me ignorant.
Many of the best and brightest minds of our time are being employed by megacorps that exist solely to devise new ways to trick grandmothers into clicking on an ad that claims “This one weird trick that doctors don’t want you to know”. How is that not pathetic? How is that not a giant waste of human potential? If the Soviet Union had funneled their computer science students to thinking of ways to manipulate boomers, we would call it evidence of their moronic inefficiency.
> With wireguard since there is no "connection" to be maintained
Interesting approach. Instead of using a program to generate the table that is used by the parsing algorithm (like yacc) it generates it during compile time. This should not be any slower (in order of magnitudes) than using a parser generator.

Also nice how you can integrate the semantics within the rule by the use of lambda expressions.

(I have experience with writing parser and developed an interpreting parser myself. https://github.com/FransFaase )
Emphasis mine in the below quote:

> "Arunmozhi is a freelance programmer and an open-source enthusiast."

I'm surprised, shocked and dumfounded that Firefox is not even mentioned while Vivaldi and Chromium are being considered. For someone who put up with Brave for years and its other issues, it really seems strange that Firefox is not in consideration.
More than half Omicron cases in England are in the double jabbed
> no longer does google know where i am anymore

i doubt it - they probably know just as much from extrapolation off other data points, even if the browser data point is gone.
AFAIK, it's in the GDPR report, but was never visible otherwise (including when the opt out was offered; once you opted out, you couldn't opt in or confirm that you opted out)
> The original image and the Protanopia image are exactly the same to me.

What's even more fascinating is that, while these two images are very different to me, what you are actually seeing might be totally different to what I am seeing in the Protanopia image and we won't know.
License plate from car and if there are cams back along the route from the house, they can follow it back home. Also cellphone pings while you are sitting there, fingerprints, facial recognition, local logs in the router, etc.
I thought most leather products are too poisnous to eat.
> the law really should catch up

Of course it should! My point is that LKY ended up supporting that, so it's a bit unfair to blame him for it not happening. In the context of the article, it matters that the dictator was in favor of gay law reform, and it was fears of electoral consequences that stopped it, or at least provided the excuse for not doing it.

Here's what Australia was doing in the 1990s. Singapore really didn't have much scope to be worse.

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/the-ni...

> Austrailia decriminalised gay sexual activity in 1973

That is false, or at least highly misleading.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-24/timeline:-australian-...

I think Don Dunstan did something in 1973, but I've forgotten exactly what. (It's interesting how many authors still omit to mention that Dunstan was bisexual.) The murder of George Duncan, by persons unknown but widely suspected to be wearing blue uniforms, was 1972. That gave Dunstan his excuse.

The job wasn't finished until 1997, by the conventional account. Personally, I'd argue for 2016, when Queensland[1] made it legal to be a gay teenager.

https://www.queerradio.org/AgeOfConsent.htm

[1] "named for her gracious majesty Victoria Regina, has been inhabited by many who sought to wear her crown" - Clive Moore, Sunshine and Rainbows
How to Work Asynchronously as a Remote-First SRE
> there's some problem with my Matrix server

Yeah, but grandparents (or whoever you are trying to introduce to Matrix) are not supposed to set up and run a Matrix server. If you meant that as an end-user you are having issues with the server you are on, perhaps you should use a different one. I have been using Element for quite a while now with matrix.org as my server, and I did not have any problems with the server I am on. The client is indeed buggy a bit[1]. Some bugs have been fixed since then though. If you run into bugs, report them please.

[1] There are many clients now for Android alone, for example, from F-Droid. Perhaps they are less buggier. I do not know.
> Yes Postgres ... has worse connection handling that usually requires a pooler

This is the issue. The vast majority of PHP (Wordpress runs ~30% of the internet or something) and Python (Django) devs are not going to write a database connection pooler. I happen to like PHP and love Python, but the low bar to entry on those two (PHP especially) means that the vast majority of devs would be completely lost without the default tooling provided by e.g. php-mysqlng or other prepackaged database connection modules in their default settings with the most trivial of use cases.

A slow database can be ignored for a while. The need to add additional code in which the database is no longer a black box can not be ignored.
RIP Bob Dole.

I'm so glad this website still exists, and I sincerely hope it stays online forever. It brought on a wave of nostalgia, reminding me what the Internet was like in the mid-90s when I was 11 years old.
It's not just the taxes. It's how hard it is to sell weed legally. All of the hoops and expenses add up. In Florida, it's like 20 licenses that cost $25M each. We should make it as easy as selling alcohol and then the prices will match.
My one gripe about Firefox mobile is that "pull down to refresh" and other common gestures don't work. Unless I'm missing something, there aren't settings available to enable this.

Is this some kind of patented behavior that Mozilla is afraid to implement?
> People here don't want to share their wealth with immigrants and they don't want their mostly homogenous societies being changed by an influx of people with different behavior, culture, religion, language, etc.

That ship has sailed for many countries.
It's not accomplishing a lot, but it just plays into making it harder to logistically do the grey box imports. You need multiple SIM cards going into your pile of devices, you need to have someone in the original market working with you to reliably make that call with every device.

This adds friction to the process for someone trying to do it at scale. Just like how needing to register accounts to request the bootloader code can slow them down. Some OEMs even added waiting periods (you'll get your code a week or so after verifying your phone number, and they limit how many requests an account can make).

The idea is that eventually it won't be worth modifying greybox devices if there's enough small barriers that annoy the person trying to unlock the device bootloader.
Sorry, I forget the exact mechanism. If it helps: I last saw that possibility, when I was playing around with rooting and alternate Android images.

I might have used something like XPrivacy. https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacy
Awesome link, thank you. Reminds me of that article the other day about February 30th.
Just remember all this? It's completely legal in the crypto markets. It's bad here, and its so much worse there.
The comments complaining about the choice of license reminded me that a FSF licensing intern did the same, and demanded it be changed due to some false claim about it being a derivative work[1]. Let me remind everyone that there was probably a good reason for using a permissive license, and no-one has the right to demand changes based on their definition of freedom - unless they stepped up and contributed.

If this truly injures you, you can either do your own rewrite or, like Muse Group, outright buy the rights to the software and relicense.

[1] https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/834
You see! It’s like that. There’s a kind of weird sneering wrongness to the comment. “Just a niche”. As soon as you read that, you know something is up.

It’s clearly not fact based. So it must come from some deeper place. A feeling of being threatened or of envy or something like that. It’s far too strident in its incorrectness to be more than just garden variety wrongness.
A conservative wanting to limit the power of government? Shocking!

Seriously though, this position is consistent with conservative beliefs; why do you find it hard to believe? Even the infamous Rush Limbaugh opposed letting the government force Apple to decrypt the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone.
I once had a company demand I sign a non-compete after I'd handed in my notice.

I honestly don't understand what kind of thought process goes into this. In my case it was pure bridge burning and I have no idea why they thought they could pull it off. They even tried to claim they had the full backing of their legal team despite none of the legal team being present in the meeting.
I think it says something about the way we think about the death penalty (and maybe death itself) that the specific method is a major issue. Maybe one method or another causes more or less suffering for a few minutes, but the end result is the same. The content of that few minutes pales in comparison to the fact that the condemned will not experience the rest of their life.
I think any other browser would also need a server with the hosted extension packages, so the point here is misguided: you did not get an error related to Brave servers while *not* using Brave services.
Brave is the only browser on my iPad that blocks majority of ads.
I have went as far as try to pay for ad blockers in the app store (this is my first and last apple device so it is a weird concept for me).

If I could just install unblock origin or find system wide adblocker then I would use that instead
As a GNU coreutils maintainer, I'm happy to see another implementation. A lot of the coreutils development effort goes into testing, and new implementations should be able to leverage the existing GNU coreutils test suite, as it just uses whatever utilities are in the $PATH

BTW some notes on how the GNU coreutils are tested are at:
https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils-testing.html
Or maybe think again...
> We pay for the wars we don't want

Simple solution: don’t vote for people who start wars? The EU claims to be one of the most democratic entities. Why do people complain they’re being screwed by some minority group?
How much did that outage cost?
100% agree, the crucial thing to know is if this is just a cost of doing business and is effectively a government bribe to let them keep doing it.
It certainly reduces gang violence and fake or tainted drugs.
I once tried to put OpenWRT on this nightmare... https://deviwiki.com/wiki/Actiontec_GT724WGR ; or maybe it was a very similar model; it was a long while ago.

The core SOC is a TI chip, but at least at the time while TI wasn't abhorrent, anything that might remotely help get the USB port working was a proprietary blob. I think they'd also sold the IP for that product to someone else by the time I was tinkering with it; I can't remember exactly but do recall it was either a nightmare or impossible to get a copy of the source code for the factory firmware.

This has turned me off to anything even using TI chips that I'm aware of. Maybe they've gotten better in the last decade. Probably they're fine if you're a hardware manufacturer paying for chips.
Recently made the same switch.

I went back to Firefox and haven’t looked back.
The Architect Who Became a Diamond (2016)
Unless MySQL changed it since I last looked, the one large innodb file is a big PITA, but otherwise you can do OPTIMIZE TABLE to compact tables; apparently this can sometimes be done in place, but I'm used to it writing to a new file so you'd need room for old and new; and at least for MyISAM locks the table for the whole time, so I hope you've got a way to manage that too, but that's about the same as VACUUM FULL.
I mean there are people from all around the world who would like to move to the U.S, I guess because their situations in their home countries suck enough to warrant it or some cases because they are personally ambitious and the U.S is seen as the place to realize that ambition. Many of them are not allowed to move though because of immigration controls.
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Why would anyone expect that a news site would put users first, if we’re all ok with the notion that news organization are regular businesses?
For news organizations, the idiosyncrasies of corporate capitalism are more evident, because we keep on accepting the contradictory double bind that journalism has a deeply rooted social role, and that it can be managed as a regular business at the same time.
That is, per se, a disqualification of what journalism can be, because business mechanics are directly negating many core tenets of journalism in itself.

Without many more meanderings, the idea is this: as long as we accept that journalistic organization can be operated as showbusiness entities, and as long as we accept that journalism can (or should) generate profits, we won’t be able to either fix these annoying elements (the embedded autoplay video, and 1000s of others) nor the generalized and growing lack of trust in journalism itself.

It might be useful to point out that I say this as a journalist.
Most likely the leadership team is aware that these "viewers" just exist in theorey but they can fool advertisers into thinking their channel has a higher reach and collect more advertising revenue in return.
I'm afraid I can't quantify it for you, but subjectively I'm completely confident that using a high end fitness tracker for training and racing makes me faster in triathlons. Other than that I'm not interested in trying to measure efficiency with versus without the device as that would be a total waste of my time.
No, I can't. There are many things that influence my behaviour and that is low down on the list of influences that worry me. Even Hacker News is probably a worse influence than the average ad. What do you think is the problem here?

And it isn't billions, you need to normalise by audience size. Any company spending billions to influence my behaviour is bankrupt, I don't have enough money for them to make that back.
> MySQL is a pretty poor database, and you should strongly consider using Postgres instead.

It's not like it's an industry secret either: when I started my CS training in 2007, the first course was about relational databases and one of the first things the teacher told us was that MySQL was pretty sucky.
Also, seems like the values changed drastically after 2015. I was told it was our moral obligation to help the refugees. Now it’s 180 degree turn. Makes you think helping people wasn’t really a value in the first place, since those can’t change so radically.
Recently used MongoDB Atlas and it's way better than MySQL in a lot of areas.
i suspect once anyone goes to a Deweyite-style school, they're doomed to misery if/when they get stuck going to a non-Deweyite school. I think of it as Montessori-style schooling -- except for all age groups -- not sure if that is accurate or not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey#On_education_and_te...

i'm sure that your case is relatively common, but i don't suspect the solution is well-known.

what is the solution?

i don't know.

but i know i've read 'it' several/dozen times in the past. here i'm thinking of just conintuing to search for 'your path', working hard, following your interests, being bold, taking action, finding others to collaborate/work with, etc.

cases of many of the big names in tech and elsewhere can be instructive in that, even if you don't share their values, you might be able to find some confidence in the way they went their own way.

maybe it was steve jobs auditing classes and always asking, 'why not do sometihng _this_ way?'. maybe it was mlk saying, 'yeah, racism is really bad, but maybe we can get to an even-more critical/root problem by trying to tackle poverty?'.

the author of Atomic Habits, James Clear, said he "designed his own major" in college. sounds reasonable.

i'm a big Chomsky fanboi, and one thing he has said to students when asked what they should do to live meaningful lives was something like, "find things that interest you, maybe a problem or some problems, and work on understanding and then solving them". sounds simple enough, but maybe also correct?

this video clip does not have that bit i just mentioned, but has other thoughts on education generally:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1309&v=DdNAUJWJN...

i think you can seek out people in a few ways:

0) change your major to non-STEM. that shit just boring. or, do the James Clear thing.

1) advertise -- literally start a club or similar; friday night paris salon for those interested in being interested

2) go meet some theatre/drama/english/entrepreneur majors. take some courses. switch to those majors. esp English. and theatre/drama.

3) take some philosophy courses

also, if you start working on a problem, any problem, you might end up attracting people who are interested in working on the same problem -- or just people, like you, who are like, 'is anything _happening_ here?'

i do think it's true to a certain extent that you can create your own reality, even in a 'boring' situation. i think of many hollywood-types that had umpteen 'failed' projects before they made anything that people would actually pay for.

good luck!
I love Brave, but not the crypto stuff. Thankfully its easy to turn off.
Here are the steps I follow after installing Brave browser :
https://gist.github.com/Sgt-Miller/96277273dab6422bb91362967...

Hope the backend issue mentioned gets fixed. Tweet to Brenden, he's always quick to respond.
I applied for a job as a network engineer with a (then large) UK ISP that had a "we will own all your IP", managed to negotiate that to "I keep anything done on my kit, on my time" (which is fair, I think). Then the ISP was acquired, we were promised that all extra contract negotiations would be honoured, but it seems my contract amendment was in one of a few boxes that somehow did not make it across.

Cue an exciting month or two when I technically had no contract, as the previous workplace no longer existed as a legal entity, but the new workplace had failed to come up with one having equivalent terms and conditions.

ETA: By "all IP", I literally mean "all IP", as it was worded, the company laid claim to even fiction. May have been challengable in court for over-reaching, but I felt much better renegotiating it to terms taht were more liveable-with.
No work culture is excuse to turning oneself into a criminal
Smart cloud leads refuse AWS root access.
I don’t think that web standards were done too complex with such a long goal in mind. It was an organic growth from the deplorable state it was born in. Now web owners realize it of course, but our peer developers still insist on “enhancements” as if 30 years weren’t enough to fix or uproot all of the bs web has. Bigcorps not only own the internet, they raised an entire generation which yells “amazing awesome” at the things that don’t even remotely deserve it. Who might think in the '90s that a program which shows downloaded text, pictures, videos and some simple controls would be impossible to create nowadays.

We were angry at different browsers and standards (formats, behaviors) at some point. Now this is fixed and only few chosen control the entire “market”, doing whatever they want. Time to learn the lesson?
Email sent by Zuckerberg when he created Facebook:

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask.

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don't know why.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks
I recently found out that when scientists want to study hardening of arteries, they feed peanuts to rabbits. Something in peanuts causes artery disease like nothing else going.

I switched wholesale to almond butter.

I daresay kids would like almond butter just as much as peanut butter. Trader Joe's organic almond butter is pretty good, better than what I find at supermarkets. (Be sure to check that you are getting the salted variety.)
Why not just vape?
The MIT license is better than any proprietary software license, yet MIT-licensed software attracts so many more negative license-related comments than proprietary software.

Seems a bit counterproductive.
While google use CWV as a part of pagerank (higher scores get higher ranking) most site owners will demand higher scores. They don't care why their site scores bad, or necessarily want any of those useless javascript trackers and animated widgets removed. They want a higher score and you had better well use every trick you can think of to get them there or they'll pay someone else to do it instead.

This is not a developer issue, this is a capitalism issues. Websites are used to make money, ergo they must rank high in search engines. A google engineer framing this as anything else is simply naive. SEO is a high stakes game, and they are the chief architects that made it so.

Don't get me wrong, personally I am happy that Google have forced sites to follow standards, move to more modern solutions and stop using so much javascript and other cpu and bandwidth hogging resources, but while they also continue to demand tracking of the world they are also contributing to the bloat, and being just a little bit hypocritical: "no bragging about scoring well in lighthouse, but it would be a pity if your scores went down and nobody could find you in a search ... ".
+1 for not being clickbait. Also, it is fascinating as I always thought artificially made diamonds were of "inferior quality".
The last metric that I calculated to host a small wiki on Gamepedia was about $3 USD per month. It is probably a bit higher than that now. That included costs for hosting through AWS next to large wikis like Minecraft Wiki that would easily be a large majority of the monthly costs.(Game updates would vastly skew the monthly costs for each of the large wikis.)