skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very poor comment.

If you disagree with the method of discipline then say it, don't attack the parent comment's personal character.
Interesting concept. But what is the value-add beyond a mentor or therapist?
Could it be that modern forms of government just give individuals less tools to force or manipulate huge numbers of other people to work on these “big” projects? There are big ideas being worked on today (finding cure for cancer, reaching Mars), just not on the same scale.

Many people are nostalgic for USSR’s big goals, except for those who did not share the ideas or means to achieve them (or were simply killed in the process).
How did Facebook connect me to an online date I have met once?
After coming out of a long time relationship I tried online dating a few moths ago. I got in touch with a woman on match.com, exchanged a few messages on the site, then a few text messages and met her once.

Last week i logged into Facebook and was surprised that she was in the list of suggested connections. I log into Facebook every few months and don’t use any Facebook apps.

This is seriously creepy. I thought this was an anonymous thing and I am quite surprised that Facebook was able to connect me to her.

I wonder now how they did it. Are they reading all text messages or do they have a contract with match.com?
I'll agree that thump was a poor choice of words, but child abuse? Seems like a completely unwarranted assessment.
I'm guessing they meant something along the lines of a tap on the head to get the child's attention, not a painful physical punishment.
exactly. Honestly, Bitcoin is very efficient with its energy usage. The economics encourage miners to find untapped energy sources, such as;
methane gas that would otherwise be flared, excess hydro power when flood water demands a dam be open beyond capacity, solar farms during the peak of the day when they generate too much electricity. Hardly anybody plugs into the wall and buys electricity at market rate; it's too expensive
> Implement additional obfuscation and OS checks in the Android app

Hold my beer.
This should still be able to cover a lot of the shortages we see in manufacturing. I suppose a lot of the concerns motivating this are in that space more than ensuring a continuous supply of bleeding edge silicon.
I feel like the glitch starting x position and the length are both being randomly generated based on the dimensions of the image, which results in more glitchiness on the right edge than the left edge?
Luckily for that guy, someone has made a MFM-to-SD-card with arbitrary command and geometry transformation recently, it it has turned out to be great. There are MFM-to-SCSI and even SCSI-to-floppy interfaces. The great thing about SCSI in the middle is that it's the same protocol supported by systems today so you could then just convert using generic hardware and software available right now. The system on the other end is none the wiser and thinks everything is still the old interface with the old parameters.
Please people, don't downvote this. We all know ivermectin has been "debunked" a lot of time, and yet others people keep reporting that "it works". And among those people a lot of them will indeed point out a few videos from japan (and other times india) with "doctors" (don't know who they are) advocating for ivermerctin.

So yes, it would be a very interesting data point to know for sure what's the real situation there regarding treatments like ivermectin.
An e2e Dropbox alternative would be great. Though for it to actually count as a Dropbox alternative (to me) it would need:

1) a Linux app
2) an Android app
3) on-demand syncing, aka "smart sync"
Tell HN: Interruptions cost more than the duration of the interruption
comes with a bit of irony that you need 2 more cloud providers to actually get more than a white page. Has a neat offline appeal though.

But offline and wilderness strongly resonate with me. Even more so, when it comes to children.

It's a bliss to not have to deal with complexity.
Cheaper Intel Alder Lake Platforms Will Arrive in January, but There's a Catch
Fatality rate is more or less irreverent. Pretty much nobody is dying from snow caused mishaps.

Teens die a lot because of gross errors in judgement, drunkenly flying off a cliff on their way to prom with eight people in the car, that kind of stuff. Those kinds of errors mostly tangential to snow and lighting.
I had some NC moonshine back when. The first sip was pretty intense, but I think it basically numbed the alcohol detecting part of my taste because after that it just tasted a little sweet.
It sets off every alarm bell I have and it's being spread far and wide by people who consider themselves too savvy to fall for something as obviously fake as QAnon. The irony is thick sometimes.
well, very fun way to add randomness and entropy to checking. it plays on the maliciousness of everyone, by making them think the user has an edge.
And many like me have looked into this to discover higher local taxes..
How is this problem specific to web apps?

How do you prevent yourself from serving a compromised iOS/Android/Mac/Windows app? Same answer.
This reminds me of discussions with older Fortran programmers who argue for ALL CAPS ALWAYS.

I guess ligatures are fine by me, I use them and have not been bitten. Editors should rather focus on showing whitespace somehow, I have been bitten by tab/space/CRLF many times!
>aren't trying to swab some magic block-dust on problems

That's exactly what patients are doing. Entire industries are built around this. People don't want to be told the hard answers to their problems, they want to do whatever they want and then take one tiny pill that causes weight loss, resistance to heart and respiratory disease, and increased libido.

>I also don't think your scenario is fair. The customer isn't just showing up & ordering you around

Read the stories. Watch the news. This is exactly what is going on. There is not a good chance that the patient knows what they're talking about - the overwhelming majority saw a quack on Facebook or Oprah saying something clearly wrong and stopped looking further because they want that one easy answer.
Reminds me of this tool: https://snorpey.github.io/jpg-glitch/
Let's Encrypt: the centralized web2 service used by most Web3 projects
I would argue these tendencies are not all necessarily childish. From the OP the very act of judging someone based on your interaction is akin to the lesson: If someone fucks with you then don't take their shit. Which is good life advice for anyone.
Exciting. Chips made in Japan often come in weird flavors.
In a lot of places we have two separate groups for interpreting law and making law. The courts, by their very nature, are asked only to interpret law.
Much of the functionality is included in things like Plex and Emby as well.
I wear glasses that help me see `better`. When I don't have them I can't see. If I stop wearing glasses I may get adapted to that, but I prefer glasses and I always wear them.

I also like my code colored/beautified/ligtured.
> When something like this happens I give her a light thump on the head with my finger and a stern “no, that’s bad”. But she doesn’t like it and starts crying. She then runs to her mom who then hugs her and says it will be OK.

Growing up there is always the good cop bad cop but there needs to be lines drawn. Talk to your partner about the situation and make sure she knows this needs to be corrected so when she cries to mommy, mommy backs you up and and supports you by telling your daughter "You shouldn't spit juice on daddy. Its not nice to spit juice on people." She can still comfort her, but she has to back you. If not then good luck.
Around 99% of calls I receive, total, are spoofed to my local area and exchange. The discrimination tech is clearly not being used. Sprint/TMO.
iirc; Quantum computers do not make symmetric encryption weaker. They make asymmetric encryption relying on factoring primes weaker.
The US has Intel and China is highly unlikely to make a move on Taiwan at the peak of Taiwan's technological power. They're far more likely to wait 10-20 years to when TSMC is no longer the same powerhouse and then slowly come in as the benevolent helping hand.
Look for smaller companies or startups where you can grow into the role. Be clear in your vision/message to the team and you will have to find a place which encourages you stepping up in the role. In our company for example, would love someone who can do technical support but wants to graduate to a web dev role. But it comes down to how bad you want it and how much effort are you willing to put in to get there.
I bet ligatures would be unambiguously helpful in programing if they were limited to the presentation layer and controlled by the syntax highlighter.

For example, the author uses Fira Code[0] as an example of well-intentioned by problematic ligatures. The author says this is bad because (1) it contradicts unicode and (2) the substitutions will be inappropriate sometimes.

(2) is solved by applying substitutions in semantically relevant places with the syntax highlighter. This would be particularly useful when typing special sequences. If you get the ligature substitution, then you know you don't have a typo.

(1) is trickier. You want to save a unicode file, and you want to be able to copy text selections that end part way through a ligature. This requires some finesse.

[0] https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
What are the business opportunities for software engineers?
I love Sublime, but I've always felt like the whole "package" system is a bit of a mess.
There's no consistent anywhere either, working with one build system is usually not the same as in the next one.
I feel like VS Code does this part a lot better, which is why I use Sublime as a general text browser and VS Code where I do all my serious remote coding.
I agree.

I know new engine is supposed to speed up rendering, but on my linux boxes, everything feels slightly slower than before.

Not a big deal for an IDE or IDE light, but for what I use sublime for (quick text editing), it's a disappointing change.
You're allowed to disagree. Vociferously if that's your desire. If you post a good counter rant, people will probably enjoy reading it even if you are just ranting. Including reasonable sounding counter arguments would be nice too, but it's not required.

It's called "discourse". Differing opinions are voiced and compared to each other, not in search of "Universal Truth", but because different things work better or worse for different people. Greater awareness of the scope of possibility allows individuals to find the things that work best for them. Society as a whole benefits, eventually; at the cost of lots of noise... which we seem to have regardless.
I've been running one for years, after hearing a presentation on the system at the OurNetworks conference in Toronto. Haven't had any issues with it, and it's cool to see when I've helped a person or two in the last 24 hours.
Having used the tests multiple times (including the Ellume tests), and having Covid positive and negative results (due to a child getting it twice!! this year)?

It is really hard to tell sometimes. And sometimes people don’t want to see a specific answer, and will fight over if something is positive or not.

The Binax now faint line for instance can be really faint-but-still positive, and I personally got in an argument with his mom over if it counted as positive or not (day 5 and 5th positive test in a row, with decreasing line clarity each time).
> the rest is just "the bureaucracy needs grow to satisfy the needs of the growing bureaucracy" circular logic"

No, pointing out that we tried the extremely loose federation of states without federal taxes model, it produced real problems, and the model under the Constitution was an attempt to solve that, so if you want to argue for a return to that older model you need to acknowledge that, propose a fix within that model to the problems, or make an actual argument as to why those things that were seen as problems are actually desirable is not "the bureaucracy needs grow to satisfy the needs of the growing bureaucracy" circular logic.

History exists, your breezy offhand suggestions need to acknowledge and address it if you want then to be taken seriously.

Neither is pointing out that UBI by a entity structurally not empowered to exercise boundary controlon the population to which it is universally applicable, and therefore non-federal government in the present US Constitutional system, is problematic "the bureaucracy needs grow to satisfy the needs of the growing bureaucracy" circular logic.

> If stability is the main function of the Federal Government, it looks like they are not doing a good job.

Not that anyone has argued “stability is the main function of the Federal Government”, so that’s kind of a non-sequitur, but based on, and compared to, what exactly?
Climate disaster.
These specific tests are wasteful; I think Bluetooth is an absurd addition to what works quite well as a plain old analog test strip.

It's a bit like banning single-use plastic straws, though. The overall contribution to the waste in landfills and oceans is tiny in the grand scheme of things.

Our family has taken probably a dozen tests. The plastic from all that would fit in a quart-sized ziplock. A drop in the bucket, and that's likely to hold on the global scale.
I was recently fired from Ubisoft, mainly because the human resources people were not familiar with the type of visa I had.

This type of visa allowed me to work outside the country - it was not the regular working visa, but rather something very close to a permanent residentship. I had to use this option when a member of my family died and I had to return to my home country to take care of things and the rest of my family. This was agreed to and approved by my manager and I asked him to take care of personnel issues - he said sure and I left the country. At the same time, he got approval for my transfer to another studio in another country.

A few weeks ago, I received a threatening message from a human resources person claiming that by leaving the country, I had put the studio in danger and so on. Turns out they had lost my visa information and decided to shift the responsibility to me. I tried to fix it, sent them everything they needed, but it didn't work. They decided to fire me because that was the easiest way they thought it would be.

So they fired me. They gave four reasons for firing me in the termination letter. None of those reasons were stated in the policy or in my contract.

As a cherry on top, the HR officer blamed me for what happened, ignoring the facts, ignoring previous email threads, ignoring my manager who told him that everything was actually handed over and everyone had been informed and coordinated. The HR person lied to upper management (both HR and IT) and presented me as if I had left the country without informing anyone. As a result, I lost the opportunity to be transferred to another studio.

Remarkably, no one in IT or HR management (except for my direct manager) spoke to me during the process to hear my side of the story. They ignored my manager as well.

Another fun fact - when I came to the company, it took them 1.5 months to make sure I could actually work on this visa - it took me 10 minutes to call the ministry and get verbal confirmation, and another 2 minutes to find the relevant information on the government website. It was definitely a red flag, but I unfortunately ignored it.

F*k them. It was one of the worst experiences in my carreer. The way it was communicated, the fact that noone even tried to listen to me, it was just so humiliating. Had they communicated it properly, I would have quit myself and waited for the transfer. Instead, they presented me as an enemy and kicked me out of the company.
Is there something stopping you from going to a coffee shop or co-working space?
True, though I’ve explained it a bit backwards here. The true goal is to find algorithms that produce meshes which visually mimic plants. The thinking above is that doing so would result in a new visual classification phylogeny. Such a classification is not the goal, just a happy result.
Personally, I'd support more European backing of Taiwan, and if it needs to be by deploying a bunch of troops there, then that's fine by me.

The problem is that the German automotive industry has only China as market to grow (Europe/US/Canada are saturated, South America, most of Asia and Africa don't have enough rich elites, Arabia wants ultra-luxury/sports cars), and the automotive industry is extremely well connected to our politics - even if the CDU/CSU aren't in government any more, liberal FDP now is, and they'll bow to the whims of the industry... meaning Germany will not consent to anything that threatens the automotive industry. Italy and Greece have been forced to sell off harbors, airports and other infrastructure to China as a consequence of the 2008ff crises, Croatia has sold a large and important bridge project to China, and Hungary's Orban is effectively China's puppet.

The result of that, combined with the 100% consensus requirement on European foreign policy decisions, is why Europe will likely rather stand aside than show China the well-deserved boot. Especially disgusting given that the European Union's foundation was the lessons-learned of the NS dictatorship and we all swore "never again" - and now we're staying silent as China is building concentration camps for Uyghurs and Tibetans.
I've been trying several editors, but VSC has the best integrated debugging, after Visual Studio itself - I use the free Visual Studio Community version. I'm primarily a C++ developer, but over the last 6 month have been doing a deep dive on machine learning with Python, and that is why I even bothered with VSC. The available guidance on setting up a Python development environment in VSC is abundant, while the same in Visual Studio IDE is significantly less, with scant troubleshooting support. I tried Visual Studio IDE for my Python work at first, but switched to VSC after issues.
You won’t believe how much plastic trash is produced by hospitals treating Covid patients.

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/47/e2111530118
Yes there are plenty of relatively well preserved Roman ruins, neither Hadrian's Villa or Domus Aurea had survived intact.

I'm not denying that Roman construction techniques were advanced, but it's not like we have much to compare them against. Sure, there aren't as many well preserved Etruscan or Greek ruins in Italy, but they preceded the Romans, had way less resources and not as advanced technology. And the same happened to the Romans who were eventually surpassed by medieval and renaissance Europeans. There magnitudes more surviving medieval buildings compared to Roman buildings, just like there are magnitudes (I would assume) more Roman ones compared ones built by Etruscans/etc.

But that does not mean that Roman architecture was somehow inherently superior. For example had the Carthaginians or some Greek state conquered the mediterranean instead of the Romans (obviously that was unlikely due to various non architecture related reasons) and had the resources to build as much as the Romans did would less of their buildings have survived or would they have been of worse quality everything else staying equal?
>The US needs fabs on-shore.

Intel, GlobalFoundries, TSMC and Samsung all have fabs in the US.

TSMC have a fab at WA and building one in AZ.

Samsung have a fab at TX

US have plenty
A plane is one of the least likely places to catch Covid thanks to the constant air circulation and filtration. Cabin air is entirely replaced every 2-3 minutes, which is quicker than the air circulation in negative pressure hospital rooms.
>Have you used these tests ? Have you read their manuals ?

I don't see how personal experience plays into this. If you used it and you saw a solid line, that's not really indicative what the edge cases could be.

>if I have socks on or not

skin-colored stockings can be pretty hard to discern

>or if my light bulb is on or off ...

right, because the electrical grid is fairly stable, and light bulbs are mass manufactured with high precision. That means most of the variables that can affect brightness are removed. This can't be said for covid tests. If the light bulb was hooked up to a hand crank generator I'd have trouble figuring out whether the bulb was "on" as well.

>Faint lines do count, as stated in the documentation, if your eyes can see something it means it's positive

and what about lighting conditions? visual acuity? the purpose of the device is to remove variables so the test is more consistent.
Not just ethical concerns. If trade secrets are involved there is a possibility of criminal charges.
This is probably the dumbest news piece I've seen on HN:

Bitcoin will replace the dollar Jack Dorsey said on Tuesday, in response to a tweet by rapper Cardi B.

Cardi B broadly asked if crypto would replace the U.S. currency to which Dorsey replied “Yes, Bitcoin will.”

That is basically the whole article aside from the part where our edgelord and savior musk chimed in.
Well here's my insight of the day! Thanks Foo, this was the phrasing I was looking for.

Courts embrace whataboutism officially, as legal doctrine. Precedents, common law and such.

But beyond courts, I think the avoidance of naked decisions is also pretty prevalent. In fact, negating the existence of a choice at all is a pretty modern way of arguing. "Evidence based" policies, business practices and such is a part of this. It's the evidence that made the decision, or past decisions, or something.
> I upgraded my Wi-Fi to wifi6 and I can’t tell any difference at all

How many WiFi 6 clients do you have though? If all (or even the large majority of) your clients are 802.11ac clients, you're not going to notice any real differences.

The biggest differences are going to be spectral efficiency especially when it comes to many devices chirping small packets. So think having lots of IoT things around the house while you're doing VoIP and gaming stuff. Things like streaming video won't really see an incredible difference most of the time. Streaming video usually has at least several second buffers and isn't actually constantly clogging the band, its brief blasts of several seconds worth of data at a time.
Pre-commit supports reading in multiple types of config files, like pyproject.toml for example. It obviously depends on the tools, but in our case we can use the same configs for pre-commit and CI. It's taken some time to set up, but IMO worth it.
The US has military bases in Japan.

In various other locations in the world, too, but also in Japan.

edit: I think I may be missing your point.
Benchmarking different code on multiple OSs is always interesting. Assuming the OS is unable to help the application much, when the results are close, we have, at least, a good indication it's not harming the performance.
> You're going to need special software or else these volunteers are just giving out free IP addresses

Yes... that's basically this. But even a single ipv4 volunteer could expose tens of thousands of ports. Depending on how such a service is desired, this could be enough. Ipv6 would, I think, only improve things.

This is one thing I miss from my dial-up internet in the 90's: I could run a service on my computer, I could pass my ip to anyone, anywhere in the world and they could connect to my machine; a cheap computer using a telephone line. I miss that.
You don't need a test to lie.
Because omicron has resulted in much less severe symptoms than Delta, and much less hospitalization/death- so far only one American death, compared to Delta which is much more lethal. If the incidences of long covid from omicron are correlated with it’s lethality, it’d only have to confer modest protection against delta to be a net benefit.

I’m not comparing it against the efficacy of vaccines, I’m saying that if you wanted the most protection against extreme covid outcomes (death/long covid), you’d want all the antibodies you can - so vaccination + omicron antibodies.