skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a government, you can't quite preach about environmental conservation when you require most work staff to be in office downtown everyday. Downtown was boring, and as DC turned more and more against car traffic roads became more and more dangerous and frustrating for everyone.

Buildings downtown are built without proper though for ventilation and modern comforts, parking/commuting added at least 1 hour of extra stress (and tons of extra expense) every day to an 8 hour day for many who lived in the city, even more for those who didn't, and for all the restaurant staff that hiked in every day as well to make sure boring areas of the city had lunch options at the high cost of paying downtown rent.

Yeah, teleconferencing is jarringly bland, but I don't miss commuting in real life at all, the uncomfortable office chair, the inability to save money by eating at home, the ability to have more time with family. That being said, if there is a mission-critical objective or problem I go down there, I just wish the gov would invest in upgrading ventilation and work spaces and stop paying so much for unused property now to take the changing WFH economy into consideration as well, oh yeah, and to tax billionaires, who can work from home whenever they want (or bypass traffic in their slick helicopters), like they tax me.
I guess if no one uses it, it won't go down.
Additionally, setting up an SSH agent that requires confirmation for every use is a great measure to prevent abuse when you do forward it by mistake.
Wastewater-Based Epidemiology (WBE)
Neither location mentions what should I think be by far the main purpose of scrollbar-gutter: avoiding layout shift when you open a modal and disable the page’s scrollbar to avoid confusion.

Perhaps the best solution there would be some way of designating a certain scrollable area as the document scrollable area when the body element doesn’t have scrollbars, so that Up/Down/PageUp/PageDown/Space/Shift+Space all act as though it were focused when the body is focused. That way, you could have the modal exist in the DOM after the main scrolling area, rather than inside it, and you wouldn’t need to worry about document scrollbars or overscroll behaviour. Multi-pane views (very common in desktop apps) are normally a bit of a mess on the web, and it’s always a pain when you come across a web page that has shunned the body scrollable area and put everything in something like a <main style="overflow:auto">, so that you have to focus that before keyboard scrolling works.

I should finish my draft blog post from a year or two ago where I explored the space and all the hoops you have to jump through to have it work almost perfectly, though it still requires some client-side JavaScript to redirect body focus to the correct element.
I wish I was able to SSH from work at all :)
> one side engages in death threats and doxxing

Perhaps if your favored groups were equivocated with their worst members, you'd see the error in this line of thinking. You'd probably call it racist, bigoted, stereotyping, prejudiced...
Way better than CDK.
i got google and aws certified devops/sre and it was useless during job interviews
Sure - I do it probably every other day in London.
New feature: I've added an in game chat
Not all cold climates lack sun. Here at 6-10,000' in northern New Mexico, we still get lots of sun in the winter, but also very cold (overnight) temperatures. Air source heat pumps make more sense in almost every way, and will operate down to -13F/-25C.

Our 6.6kW array can provide roughly 1/3 the electricity we need to heat all of our 1875 adobe home, which is poorly insulated at best. If this was closer to passivhaus standards, I imagine it could get close to 100%.
Yeah, as I just mentioned adjacent to this, our 6.6kW array produces 1/3 of what we need during the winter, but 3x what we need in the summer. Last year (the first full year), we generated 93% of our electricity use over the full year. We heat solely with air source heat pumps.
That’s a sure way to unwittingly join the other side!
Ask HN: Is there research being done on human-friendly social media design?
It's a given that Facebook, Twitter, et al, are designed to monopolize people's attention and energy. This is obviously not great when a lot of public discourse (or attempts at it) happen on these platforms.

I've seen several submissions by HNers working on 'friendlier' social media platforms, but is there academic research being done on what features would constitute a human-centric social media? By human-centric I mean a space designed to encourage thoughtful communication, to the extent that it can, and one that does not exploit the properties of human brains to form addictions to said platform.

This seems like it ought to be an active area of research. I've tried googling, but all that comes up for the terms I can think of is articles on how to use social media for marketing.
when i look at the crime rate over the last 5 years, its doesnt seem to correlate with spending. 2019 being a good example. https://www.seattle.gov/police/information-and-data/crime-da...
It's definitely possible, but it's not done.

And it's hard to take Facebook serious as an example. They're known to engage in HTML obfuscation on purpose.

https://dev.to/ganderzz/how-facebook-avoids-ad-blockers-4mdc
There are a zillion books out there, most of them crap. So simply "try reading them" does not really work, there have to be some good reasons to pick up a book.
I used TLS certs, mailing addresses on web sites, purchased commercial business directories, Hoovers (before they were acquired by DNB), SEC filings, and Yahoo Directory (defunct). But not domain info, which was just too low-quality.

Snail mail addresses intended for humans were the most useful. Although they could be spoofed, that's very rare, and tends to attract legal attention.
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I feel like almost all roads I see in a dense Indian city like Mumbai is a stroad. I don't think a distinct classification of a road and street as defined by strong towns can be made in a city that has heavy occupancy and pre-existing development. Then looking at a state like Kerala that is so urbanised and heavily populated I have seen a lot of houses with gates opening up into a national highway. How can anyone fix that when there is no land to expand on or extend?
I started a new Python project last month. I tried both Poetry and PDM but I decided not to use neither of them. PDM is currently basically one man show, and the Poetry's doc isn't great - The doc page seems pretty but it only describes command line usages and does not tell how I can configure metadata. Most importantly Poetry does not support the standard PEP621 yet.

So I stick with this setup:

- Use pyenv to manage different Python versions and virtual environments.

- Use the standard PEP621 specification as a high-level dependency description: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0621/#example

- Use pip freeze > requirements.txt as a "lockfile".
The Tale of the Omega Team [pdf]
The opening is a value proposition at its core. Attention is a commodity to be earned. Recognizing this is the key to good openings.
I just started listening to Life 3.0, upon recommendation from an acquaintance, and I was so blown away by the prelude, which is a short story about the rise of super-human AI, that I felt compelled to share it with as many people as possible.

Note: I don't know if this PDF of the prelude is authorized by the author. It was the first link on google.
I wonder if the touch points of the old violin were modern — I.e new bow, new chin rest, strings. Really would just leave the thumb the the fretting hand on the old surface.

Note, am not an actual violin player. But can speak to the sax example, you’re hands are all over the keys, so a VI feels very diff from a VII or series III
I do not think that is a particularly interesting category in this context, even though it might present somewhat difficult challenges with regard to collision avoidance and scheduling (if we ever get to that point, "drone pollution" will probably become an issue.)

I think it is fair to say that, in the context of the article we are all responding to, the relevant sector of commercial aviation is that which currently uses airplanes flown by human pilots.
In terms of protection, sure, but for actual system performance, Defender is still hot garbage:

https://www.av-comparatives.org/tests/performance-test-octob...
Louder _does_ sound better. This is a well known and tested phenomenon. Listeners will favour loudness over any other metric of quality. Even very small differences in loudness (0.5dB or so) can be enough to have a substantial effect on preference.

In general terms, it's accurate to say "simply, louder sounds better".

(note: it's also discussed in the study itself as the likely primary effect!)
I will never forget what I learned from my time living with the Stroadlandians as a pedestrian. I shall wear your downvotes as badges to their honour. Long live Stroadlandia and her humble denizens.
See this. It uses first-order logic.

http://www.mizar.org/library/
Have you heard of jrnl.sh? You may like it if you live in the terminal. I’d like one day support merging jrnl logs.
All roads lead to . [0], ie. IANA. Many IANA-approved entities run them[1], but they all only resolve TLDs ICANN authorizes (and those TLD operators control what domains are registered under their TLD, of course).

0: https://dns.google/query?name=.&rr_type=NS&ecs=

1: https://www.iana.org/domains/root/servers
Pipenv is garbage. Don’t use it.

I’d just use pip and requirements files if you can. It’s doubtful that your requirements are sufficiently complex as to require a more complex resolver, although that depends on your ML needs.
Sounds like you need DoH in your browser too?
For years, people wrote sentences designed to build tension, create interest and promote the general welfare. Nobody could see a way out of this wince-inducing methodology and scientists estimate that 389 million person-hours of useful waking time are destroyed every year by this irritating "thunder sentence" structure. UNTIL NOW.
I’m with you, but if you’re maintaining a massively popular open source library, where backwards compatibility is expected, you’re not going to remove features without careful consideration. For an important bug fix, it probably does make more sense to just fix it without breaking anything first, then talk about a more careful deprecation/removal plan.
This statement is not true
I'm unsure if it's the case everywhere, but where I reside all the local hubs, or meetup groups are really elementary level and only want to talk Hello World or Arduino Blinky projects. I've yet to find a group that is crushing personal projects until 3am.
I believe that hydro for storage is pretty much maxed out already.
Yeah, I guess details help. Fly to Cuba, pick up some stuff, point A to point B, no big deal...

Just kidding...it was a lot of different gigs, all kinds of stuff. From 3D animation to web apps. A lot of work for sales and marketing departments. Not all in one big job or anything.
Vaping is certainly an option.
The only thing I don't like about HCL is that there are not enough good libraries for me to use it as the configuration language in all of my projects. I love HCL.

HCL 2 anyway.
It's not. Backwards compatibility however is which is why the fix maintains the functionality but makes it as safe as possible rather than ripping it out.
In other words, you work with people who have no clue what’s going on.
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Hey every one. Just wondering what do you all listen to keep up and and stay educated in the tech world.
I have two Dell XPS13s, one five years old, one new. Both took to Linux (Mint, in my case) like ducks to water. They dual boot from rEFInd, but I seldom use Windows (I have just one heritage Win application to support, and that's been stable for five years). However, while these are light, compact and highly specced, they're not user upgradeable and their fans get noisy under load.

If I were buying a laptop for Linux only, I'd be considering the Framework (https://frame.work/) or System 76 (https://system76.com/laptops/).
Chrome has just been getting worse and worse over time, but if you can recall, Firefox was also a slug when it was at a peak of market dominance and before that MSIE...

The problem is that orgs and companies stop caring once they gain the primary market share. They also start dictating standards to everyone and ignoring user feedback. It's symptomatic of our current software development driven economy.

I recall when as a web dev I had to ensure my code was best supported by 3-4 browsers and don't miss that era at all, but it would be much better if proper regulation, consumer protection, and ethical corporate behavior came into play before hostile competition, corruption, and monopoly-driven "dictatorware" do in software market dominance for a change.
but NYC and Amtrak aren't dramatically better than Toronto and Canadian rail issues that NotJustBikes constantly bashes as pathetically mediocre compared to the Netherlands.

The U.S. definitely has a range of insanely-awful to decent-enough with small now-premium-priced pockets of great bits (which are almost always pre-car neighborhoods that somehow were spared destruction).
A workaround that will be useful until this gets implemented:

https://free.law/recap https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/
Open source.

Most of our incoming enquiries from potential customers are people already using software that myself and my team wrote or are helping to maintain.

I'm aware there's a level of privilege to this but while it took years to get to the point where that was what's doing it's still the truth.

I know this probably doesn't help you today, and I'm sorry about that and it isn't your fault, but it's being paying my bills for fifteen years now and it's my honest answer as to where I'm finding work.

Good luck, mate.
> The core idea is that we see the market as a means to an end, not some end in itself.

The market was never an end to itself. Literally go back and read anywhere from Smith, Hume to Hayek. That is just a straw-men argument.

> When the market is incompatible with societal good, the market needs to change, not society.

And who and how is it determined, what the social good is? Are bureaucrats loosely connected to politicians loosely connected to voters a better an more reliable form of social preference allocation then the price mechanism under the same law? Not by any existing evidence in social science.

But the core of your argument is basically the government whenever it feels like it can just intervene in the market directly and put its finger on the scale. Not by fundamentally changing the rules, just be direct intervention whenever they don't like something. Often that is a foreign competitor and some vague hard to prove claims about market power. And often it is the citizens of that country that end up having higher prices or higher taxes. French book market being a good example.

Many times it has been shown historically that the monopolies far, far, far more often are government created then market created. And laws to establish 'fair competition' are usually strongly sponsored by the very competitors who get crushed in the market, often for good fundamental reasons.

The first Anti-Trust law in the US was by local butchers to prevent centralized butchers with refrigerated rail-cars. Would it really be 'fair competition' to give money to local butchers to prevent them from this 'unfair competition'. No, its how you get a stagnate economy depended on subsidies.

Very often its just governments doing what they want for the political clients that they have. French publishers, German news organization.

A perfect example is Germany where German Newspaper have fought tooth and nails for years against 'Google News' and basically want to monetize every link to their sites. This is all done in the name of 'fair competition' while introducing laws that are really the opposite and hurt user freedom in the process.

> It's the root cause why inequality is so much worse in the US, why you have a much bigger housing crisis, why health care in the US is such a mess, why there's homeless people everywhere etc etc.

If you think housing and health care are examples of 'free market fundamentalism' then you are very badly informed.
The Strong Towns people want to go back to 1950s midwestern America - small towns strung out along roads, with farms in between.

What were all those small towns for? They were built, mostly, as service centers for the surrounding farms. Today, only 1% of the workforce works on farms, and they can get their stuff from Amazon and Walmart. The need for most of those towns is gone. So they're decaying and disappearing.[1]

That's the problem. The Strong Towns vision no longer matches what people do.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ghost_towns_in_the_Uni...
Beyond that, arbitrary string from users tend to be things you shouldn’t log for privacy reasons, either.
I'm sure it's a win for all politicians
Please have Archive Team copy the RECAP site to archive.org before you shut down the project and site.

https://archiveteam.org/
Not a big fan of purple myself, I love warm colours. But it looks like a well balanced theme.
Flights is a great piece of writing though. Definitely not for the Lem crowd, but I guess there are weirdos like myself who like both.
I try to follow a rule with libraries: if a library causes more trouble than the implementation effort it would take to recreate its functionality from scratch (or rather, the portion of its funcitonality that is used in practice), then it's time to purge that library from projects and never use it again.

The part of log4j functionality that gets used in practice, most of the time, is just a wrapper around printf which adds a timestamp and a log-level. This is very quick and easy to write. A library in this role should have zero RCEs, ever in its entire lifetime, or it is unfit for purpose.
Undoing the clickbait:

It isn't a machine, it's a set of rules to be followed by humans. This rules can be changed, amended, or removed. The doomsday machine of Dr. Strangelove couldn't be turned off even by their creators. So no, it's not real.
Scala moved the needle five years ago and made java better among other languages. Using scala helped me grow as an engineer. in my view, it has no place in an enterprise. I require a mature environment that favors consistency. It boils down to reducing complexity. I can barely handle the complexity growth due to the demands of the business, whether it be software engineering or people and these reasons do not justify scalas pluses. Ymmv.
"It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It"
Thanks for the recommendation, this is exactly the type of things I need. It suspect it will even be useful for my music theory learning!
Are you telling me everyone of the 100s of EV startups every single one of them is explicitly backed up by government?

> It means they can take risks and not just milk immediate profits for stock gains.

Given how many US companies do the same and how many companies are heavily protected in Europe I fail to see this as sufficient explanation.
Good point, that may be what they meant. Although I would not count on all of those details coming out: for years Google has been warning employees against using certain types of language that could in someway look bad from an antitrust/anticompetitive point of view. So I would expect that a lot of documentation, emails, etc will look anodine on the surface through self-censorship.

I don't expect anything that comes right out and says something like "we must implement AMP to as a strategy to remove competition from header bidding". Instead it will mostly be just the standard talking points about user experience and load times.

I could be wrong though: plenty of things have been revealed in things like text messages where people don't think of them as being part of an official record.
Cheap and Rugged Optical Fibers Reveal Earth's Hidden Motions
PDM author here, if anyone want to know the advantage of __pypackages__ over virtualenv-based tools(venv, virtualenv, poetry, pipenv), here it is:
The fact that virtualenvs come with a cloned(or symlinked) interpreter makes it vulnerable when users want to upgrade the host interpreter in-place unless you keep all the old installations in your system, which is what pyenv is doing. You can imagine how many interpreters, including virtualenv-embedded ones are on your machine.

You can regard __pypackages__ as a virtualenv WITHOUT the interpreter, it can easily work with any python interpreter you choose as long as it has the same major.minor version as the packages folder.
Starlink should help with this by bypassing traditional networks.
I don't think they're saying we should wait 5 years, just that we have to finish by then.

Which won't happen of course so in 5 years there'll be another article saying we have 5 years to prevent even worse...

This is the same with climate change. We're already way too late to do something about it. It's just between bad and terrible now.
Well on a technical level there are root servers. But DNS is a hierarchy and so if the root servers ever tried to pull a fast one there are second-in-command authorities that could take over: the cctld orgs. People would rather follow their lead than ICANN, so they have the real power. I'm pretty sure this is by design.
What is Quantum Mechanics? Why It's Called Quantum? Matrix Mechanics?
Do anyone know if I depends on the following 2:
- org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-api
- org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-to-slf4j

But without dependency on
- org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core

in this situation, is this safe from this RCE? Thanks.

Edit, This may affect both log4j 2.x
and log4j 1.x (see comments bellow, thanks.)
What is your point? My initial point is that SF is probably one of the cities with the less gun freaks
What do people think in Poland about the truth value of what Kapuścinski wrote?
> the vulnerable feature is not in log4j < 2.10

The comment you cited is referring to the option to disable the vulnerable feature, not the vulnerable feature itself.

Per https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/608#issuecomme... even log4j 1.x is vulnerable.
It's sad Byuu is gone but they don't represent the SNES becoming an artifact of history nor does a big thread about them belong in a memorial thread about Masayuki Uemura. There are many more SNES emu programmers who will take their place. That being said. RIP David Kirk Ginder.
newer java has many similar features that scala had, so it seems moot to use it now.

unless you like ridiculously long compilation times and having libs tied to what version of the compiler you're using (serious WTF)
Paywalled article so I could only read the first paragraphs. Do websites really think I'll subscribe to read one article??
Google is bringing Android games to Windows in 2022
I very very quickly edited my words but thanks for sharing. Got flagged anyhow. I'm still absolutely mystified to hear about such huge sorry sad sappy stupid problems occuring with blitzing regularity. I cannot imagine how your people discover trouble so readily.

It doesn't sound like you think your family is at all educateable in any way, you seem to think this is a horrible lost cause & that we must withdraw power & good for the world to protect your vulnerable unfortunate hapless brood. That's how defenseless your post makes your people sound, that's the impression you're giving off. And you're using that as a weapon against the world, against good, against freedom, against capabilities. This is extremely menacing a position you've made, using your own family's purported victimization a weapon against good.