skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, that's where Microsoft's dumb name probably came from. They already had COM, needed a new name (COM+ sucked) so they went NET.
I see, so at least you do check if the warning is pertinent to you. Our warnings cover relatively small geographical areas, so if we hear it then it sure is pertinent to us. But I understand that maybe your warnings cover larger areas.

Thanks for the detail. Here's to a siren-free week!
Is this what we missed?

> LOOK UP! Rare space event tonight as Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Moon line up - how to see

> https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1533360/space-news-as...
For the past few years I've used a simple python script + twilio to send a SMS text to family for secret Santa.

It works surprisingly well, for dry runs / debugging I print out the random pairings, but for the real one I just output nothing and send the texts.

Of course, I could go and check the twilio logs and find out who has who, but that would ruin the fun.

I don't go so far as to try ensure that previous years don't match with the same person. You wouldn't have that guarantee if pulling names out of a hat in person.
Let's make it incompatible with the existing infrastructure! People will update quickly.
Just boycott Chrome, as a user and as a developer. And boycott any other Chromium-based browser altogether.

The only reason why a mediocre ads company like Google is managing to mess up the web is that it has >90% of the browser's market share, if you include all Chromium-based browsers.

If they can periodically break the basic functionalities of web extensions however they like (HTTP calls within extensions, background scripts, ability to manipulate the DOM...) just to ensure that people won't manage to block ads and trackers, and they still get developers to build stuff for their browser and they don't lose a single user, they can really get away with EVERYTHING.

Time to let them know that they can't really get away with everything. Google has been an evil company beyond redemption and with a net negative added value to the industry for too long and now it deserves to go down. MV3 should be the reason why developers should stop building extensions for Chrome, users should stop using Chrome, and other browsers should move to other web engines than Chromium.

If nobody follows Google in their efforts to push for MV3, then we'll be left with a limited browser with limited functionalities and nearly no extensions. Let Google sink in their own sh*t.
https://archive.md/Fezvd
Best Alternative of Showbox
The best feature of Fire TV Stick Lite is that it can be used with any screen size. It also has Dolby sound, voice search, and quick access to your favorite apps.
The best feature of Fire TV Stick Lite is that it can be used with any screen size. It also has Dolby sound, voice search, and quick access to your favorite apps.https://kodifiresticktricks.com/showbox-alternatives.html Finally, it comes in two colors.

FireStick is lightweight enough to be stored anywhere and does not require additional power or charging as long as you provide its batteries with a charge from a USB port. Its weight of only 1/10th pound gives users extreme flexibility when traveling thanks to their pocketability!
I think the concept GP was using is lowest level of abstraction to highest level. Twitter can be cloned easily. ASML’s EUV machines cannot. I don’t think he meant “high technology”
In the early 80s I was amused by the posters and signs in Singapore saying “speak mandarin” in Cantonese and English.

It was a smart decision for a small country to make, but jarring nonetheless.
None of the benefits mentioned in article won't benefit well maintained codebase. If you're forced into such solution you're doing something wrong.

Just use locking, cache and reduce your dependencies to bare minimum you actually need.

In JS you can often find yourself pulling a massive dependency tree just for simple usecase that would be replicable in your codebase under 3 hours.
Rats tend to be more clever, and harder to trap than mice
Hi, we recently finished conducting a planned short database intervention. You can see the information on our status page: https://protonstatus.com/incidents/157

Could you please try refreshing the page and let us know if it's working now?
I second this book, it is honestly life changing for me and my pains, to release them with them methods in taught in the book.
Either way, Sparta is not Athens. They were different political and cultural systems.
Regular USB is 5V * 0.5Amps = 2.5Watts
It's called slow charge and it's healthy for your battery
To be fair here, there’s still a thriving market of for-pay DAWs (digital audio workstations) out there: Reaper, Ableton, Cubase, Studio One, Logic, even Pro Tools. Indeed, most musicians I interact with use proprietary software to make music, and I am a proud customer of all of ValhallaDSP’s reverbs.
How the 3G shutdown in 2022 could screw your car
Tecsun PL-368 AM/FM/LW/SW/SSB radio: An Everyman Review
Log4twitter
Our enemies hide in middle boxes! Damn them!
Yes, I've had this exact experience. I only wish I had the skill to transcribe what played in my head while I was in this state.
Ask HN: Can you hear other people or music while programming?
I was just curious if anyone else has this same experience: while programming or doing anything highly analytical, my mind blocks out all sound - I don't hear conversations or music. However, while engaged with visually creative tasks such as design or art, it is almost like a second brain and I can hear conversations/music and can multitask with audio easily.
Passwords are at most as secure as your computer.

There are many ways to compromise passwords other than achieving access to the user's computer, such as phishing and password reuse. Use of a password manager mitigate these attacks a bit, but not completely.
The thing is though that japanese can be as poppy as English and vice versa.

A screaming japanese and a screaming English speaker will most likely spread equally amount of germs.
Or does it test for someone who in the hope of passing these tests will spend hundreds of hours dedicated to pointless exercises that produce no real value?

If by harder, you mean sitting down and having a real conversation, then yes, I suppose it's harder.

Edit: Value is a poor word here, now that I think about it. Let's say mostly pointless activities that generally don't apply to work they'll be doing with that skill. It's like playing baseball to practice for tennis.
https://restofworld.org/2021/instagram-and-class-in-india/

read this.

now, i have family members who are "glued" to their "insta". constantly swiping up, laughing, "see this, see this", meh, "oh cool, nice", sharing on whatspp.

rinse and repeat. i don't know how that feels like. i personally do not use whatsapp or telegram so i am somewhat shielded by the whole sharing culture. neither i use instagram or facebook for some reason. i'd rather spend my time window shopping on libby, granted that is becoming a small minority but still...

the amount of absurd BS peddled on instagram and tiktok is staggering. like you have endless supply of videos sharing health benefits of ginger and for the next week your family tells you about ginger and balding, weight loss, weight gain, kidney stones, heart health, brain power, on and on.

next week its chia seeds, then nigela seeds. There was a time i hear when astrology was seen as harmless, now, not so much because your insta astrologer can make you do stupid stuff for "cosmic alignment" and its all like farming.

i have a question. When discussion on peertube comes up, "creators" cry "well, youtube gives me ad revenue so why bother" but those same people and more than them spend considerable time on instagram and tiktok without any cash earnings so why is that acceptable that time ?
To be fair to the maintainers, they didn't ship anything into people's codebases. People chose Log4j and pulled it into their code. FOSS contributers aren't responsible for downstream use of their projects.
Locksmiths make a couple hundred dollars per job at most. Software engineers make tens of thousands for basic jobs, and hundreds of thousands for more ambitious things. It's not really comparable. Even $50k is not an insignificant amount for a small-to-medium company.
No, the kitchen is on fire but the front door looks nice and fresh.
I personally haven't seen these as I keep my feed limited to tech news and memes but what you can do is click on "report"* And Twitter may take action. I have had bad experience myself with the reporting mechanism as it does not take action always on reported tweets. That I blame on the Twitter execs who do not have moderators who are properly aware of the region of the world they have to moderate. But broken as it is, it still works.

Parler has a report button from what I have heard but it is only for show. And from the former CEO Matze's own words, they allow all constitutionally allowed speech which unfortunately opens the doors for actual Nazis to flood the site with their hatred.
Atom laser creates reflective patterns similar to light
Former NSW Police Sergeant Stephen Kelly on Covid-Related Threats to Liberty
"Not enough" and "too many" are both perfectly fitting with your example.
> The most extreme example of this is Japanese Kanji, and while Japanese is its own language, native chinese speakers would note the similarities between it and Hainanese/Cantonese dialect, and with some 文言文 knowledge, one can read Japanese without much effort, even if one cannot speak it.

This is slightly misleading. Kanji (lit. Hanzi i.e. Chinese character(s)) is the Chinese writing system. The native Chinese speaker observes not any similarities in the languages beyond picking out logograms which are familiar and used in the same way. Of course, there are a large amount of logograms which are not used the same way, on top of the divergence caused by the different simplification schemes used in the two countries, so it is by no means straightforward to read Japanese as a Chinese speaker. The existence of languages as diverse as Turkish, Serbian, Finnish and English all using latin script does not imply that "the written Latin language is flexible".

Just as an example, I've taken a paragraph from a recent news article from NHK and converted the kanji to kana. This is of course legible to native Japanese speakers but completely unintelligible to even a scholar in classical Chinese.

そうこ から およそ3 キロ はなれた ばしょ に すんで いる と いう60 だい の ふうふ は「 さくや は すごい あめ と かぜ で、 たつまき を しらせる サイレン が なった の で じたく の ちか-しつ に いそいで ひなん した。 とても こわい おもい を した。 こんな ふう に たてもの を はかい する なんて、 ほんとう に ひどい」 と はなして いました。

With the Kanji in place, a Chinese speaker may pick out individual words but the whole sentence would still be unintelligible. As an analogy, I can replace the kanji with roughly equivalent English words, and what an average English speaker gets out of the sentence is what a Chinese speaker gets out of the original. The English speaker doing this should not be under the illusion of "understanding" the language thus.

Warehouseからおよそ3キロdistanceれたplaceにliveんでいるという60yearsのcoupleは「lastnightはすごいrainとwindで、tornadoをinformationらせるサイレンがsoundったのでhouseのbasementにhurryいでescapeした。とてもscaryいthinkいをした。こんなwindにbuildingをdestroyするなんて、reallyにひどい」とsayしていました。
The internet exposes inequality of education, material circumstance, cultural access, and the repulsive superiority complexes that justify it all.
I hadn’t heard of the term before but since it was in all caps I searched for ‘GOAT acronym’ and the first match was on the money. Obviously searching for goat is going to find lots of stuff about goats.
What a miserable list. The ordinary Brits I know - friends and coworkers - are kind, hardworking and tolerant. That includes the people I know who voted for Brexit. And the British seaside is great - go to Scarborough for a day in the summer and watch families (plenty of Asian families now) playing cricket on the beach. Britain's doing ok.
Yes, log4j is garbage "as is" and should be avoided.
I didn’t say in-house code was good, but it does keep you from being exploited by things like what recently happened with NPM.

Companies genuinely don’t care about the software they use, as long as it works and isn’t hacked. This is especially true in non-tech enterprise.

At my former place they still had hundreds of ASP Webforms with custom in-house ASP libraries that were utter shit, but they worked.
Similar to eBay seller ratings where 99.9% positive feedback means you might get your item, whereas 95% positive feedback implies the seller is stealing the goods from the factory that counterfeits them and whether you receive anything depends mainly on how the shipping carrier handles a package that catches fire in transit.

Less than 80% positive feedback has never been observed but would presumably involve the seller coming to your house to murder you and steal your identity and then using your account to leave negative feedback for themselves.
Same on DuckDuckGo too. Which is how I found out about the, before-unheard, term. Only saw it being used in Chess articles during the World Championships.
The wording is slightly negative, but it does describe that side of the role well.

There are also positive aspects that hang in the balance. Personally (as a people manager) I appreciated the positive impact (coaching, career development) I could make to people around me in ways that are not easily replicated in other roles. And there are many others.

It’s just not private planes and Champaign.
How is his account shadow banned? You saw the comment. I saw the comment.
I didn’t say in-house code was good, but it does keep you from being exploited by things like what recently happened with NPM.

Companies genuinely don’t care about the software they use, as long as it works and isn’t hacked. This is especially true in non-tech enterprise. At my former place they still had hundreds of ASP Webforms with custom in-house ASP libraries that were utter shit, but they worked.

What I’m postulating is that this is the alternative to the current status que.

I’d personally love for NPM to review their packages, or for a big player like Microsoft to step in and make a more limited platform with reviews, but I just don’t think anyone is going to be willing to pay for it.
600 bucks also buy a lot of cheap gasoline and matchsticks.
This is a great guide. My language (Hebrew) is also written from Right to Left so nearly all of these issues are present on sites that I maintain as well.

By far my largest "tech support" issue is helping people _write_ in RTL properly, especially in applications that do not explicitly support RTL. I've written this guide to help, maybe OP will find it useful:

https://dotancohen.com/howto/rtl_right_to_left.html

Note that I've found it very helpful to have the LRE and RLE characters right on the keyboard. Linux users who want to add them might find my Unix.SE question helpful:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/674997/new-keyboard...
Happy to report I can't seem to find any products that contain either brodifacoum nor bromethalin on Amazon in Canada (not that I searched super-extensively). Sadly I could see a review on one product where someone specifically says "Don't order this from Amazon.ca! Order from Amazon.COM and pick it up at the border, because the chemical it uses is banned in Canada!" ... Really great advice there, buddy...
Basically I follow this strategy: find the right language for the right task. And then I learn the language from bottom up. I immerse myself in its philosophy and its example and then I imitate that to solve my task.
We don't enslave majority of population, we don't kill Helots with impunity or as a rite of passage either. We are not totalitarian dictatorship either, Sparta was.

So, the dwindling right of women to abort and not carry the unwanted pregnancy, that is being currently under heavy attack is fine by me. Women now have more rights then in Sparta or Grecks in general. Women can vote and arw citizens. I am fine keeping it that way.

Also, people likely downvote due to using "killing humans" in context that includes aborting in first trimester or aborting when the foetus is not expected to live or endangers the adult woman. It is manipulative way to frame it and I suspect you are well aware if it.
Wonderfully rational approach and a profile!

One thing that makes me wonder - if the author is on ASD spectrum (considering such an emphasis on rationaloty), this approach may find him a partner on the spectrum as well - which is good for a relationship, but risky in terms of children genetics (children with compounded ASD traits).
it’s possible, kind of a moot point as doing nothing induces a similar level of risk in my experience. Don’t touch your code for two weeks, I guarantee you that ‘npm audit’ will complain about some new issue.
Cool, but what about projector calculation?
Healthy females of human species are generally not attracted to the weak and desperate males of human species.
This is called concentration. I, just like you, block any external irritants when I program.
I was trying to think of other technologies people use but don't know it. If people drive they probably also know that they use the road, but maybe they don't know that they "use" the drainage works that were put in hundreds of years ago. At what point does it become silly to ask the question? "Do you use the water treatment facility on the edge of town?" "Do you use money?"
Man, you look great (im a man, liking women :D). Just go to local metal/rock meetup/concert and im sure you'll find your romantic partner fast :)
I think it’s not downrankng so much as monetisation in most cases. Advertisers don’t want their ads shown alongside videos covering certain sensitive topics so YouTube “demonetises” these videos and the creators don’t get any revenue from them. It seems generally understood that demonetisation is based on automatic transcription of the video and then searching for certain keywords.

I don’t have any inside info, this is just from listening to a few youtubers talk about it
Linguistically, the distinction between languages and dialects is debated; often, reasonably so, all languages are simply dialects of each other. The reason is that if you have two languages which don't understand each other, you can find "intermediary steps" between the two that each understand each other, s.t. you reach the other language. And often, you have two "languages" that are clearly dialects but considered different languages because they each have their own army and navy. [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with...
LOL but bailing out the financial sector in 2008 without anyone paying for what they did was fine?
At least check what’s going on with Evergrande.

You all have it so ingrained that market forces are the only way things should work that you even end up using absolute categories such as good and evil.
Is saying 7.3 crore rather than 73 million common Indian vocabulary? Is there an equivalent for a hundred million or ten billion?
I spit my tea all over at that last sentence.
I would like to use Deno but I am not in a position of power even if I was, it's not always easy to switch, especially with a full backlog.

Anyway, how does Deno solve this?
Nice, detailed article!

I'm the maintainer of BiDi Mail UI, an RTL language support plugin for Mozilla Thunderbird:

https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/bidi-...

which you may want to check out if you get RTL content in your email (and you're not using webmail).

A few things to note:

* Additional noteworthy RTL languages besides Arabic: Farsi, Hebrew, Urdu, Suret (Syriac).

* The Unicode standard has an official bidirectional algorithm, which is quite involved:

https://unicode.org/reports/tr9/

hopefully, someone else has already implemented this for you (so use libraries for multi-language text layout).

* If you have trouble with RTL in any application - browser, mail client, office suite - be sure to _file a bug_ about it! The developers are often unaware of these issues. Specific link for LibreOffice, where I do a lot of RTL QA: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/
I feel this differently.

I too can pass on-site interviews, but my problem is I don't even get a first phone screen to begin with, they discard me without even spending 5 minutes on me.

You Americans (even afroamericans) have absolutely zero clue about how racist your companies actually are.

"But Google and Microsoft CEO are Indian!" Yeah, but not really.

By the way, I'm Southern European, with a Southern European sounding name.
I'm not saying ditch the list, I'm saying tuck it in your coat pocket and keep your eyes open. The person you end up with likely be more fantastic than your expectations, while not fitting the profile 100%. Imagine if after spawning a fruitful relationship the person finds this list, then what? It's possible that they'll dwell on these perceived shortcomings and feel inadequate, it could curtail the potential of your experiences together.
Btw. Anyone here posting silly comments, laughing off and so on please do f... Off to read how musk met his wife, no1 laughing about him? In past ads like that were normal. If you dont have nothing positive to say and can only do laughter on someone who takes 'novel'/untypical approach youre a very sad sad human being.
First of all, it is the original title itself to create the doubt: it is «Masks protect...», and I am not sure it is a primary interpretation to understand 'protect' as "protect from doing harm". What would work to that interpretation is 'protect others from COVID' - but then, that is still "protection from COVID", hence the ambiguity is intrinsic.

About the timeframe: the post is not meant to be an occasional drop-and-forget. HN is not the Soviet Pravda, or its successors Reddit and Twitter, a frantic magma of imprisoning present where the past (dystopically and horrifically) is largely unattainable. We have functions and direct enough ways to retrieve by period and explore the corpus, of submissions and comments, as a navigable block. Post 1 is the submission 'YCombinator' on Oct 9, 2006 - and it's the directmost query one could do. This only increases the weight of the already given value of clarity.

This given, about the content and meaning: it seems the idea of the article in fact is, that 'Masks protect from COVID' in general, not just in one direction; only, the (extremely important, I would say) detail does not appear so clearly:

> We find ... that social distancing alone [... etc]. If only the susceptible wears a face mask with infectious speaking at a distance of 1.5 m, the upper bound drops very significantly; that is, with a surgical mask, the upper bound reaches 90% after 30 min, and, with an FFP2 mask, it remains at about 20% even after 1 h. When both wear a… mask...

-- Typical conversation of yore: Armageddon.

-- Distancing, 3 meters: 90% risk in "just minutes".

-- Infective no-mask vis-a-vis surgical: 90% risk in 30 minutes.

-- Infective no-mask vis-a-vis FFP2: 20% risk in 60 minutes. [etc. This is how I read it.]

This did not appear in the divulgative article (unless - it is clear from having written MaxPlanck without a 'c' that the writer is fighting falling on head bricks while trying to achieve decent posting), and I missed it completely from the abstract of the research article. Abridgements are a help, not a certified document - collaborative verification would be highly valuable.
Not since 2012.
https://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/17/apple-removes-x11-in-os...
Aaron Swartz dropped out of high school after one year to study on his own