skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use the Firefox portable app quite heavily. I like to separate my browsing into different buckets for different things. Yeah I know Firefox allows you to do this with containers, but having a dedicated profile is better and it's difficult to confuse what context you are in. Then there's Firefox profiles, which is another way to divide up your browsing (which I use) but not as much as having dedicated portable Firefoxes I can use for different things.

Over the years of using Firefox portable, I noticed that sometimes the update broke, since a whole new engine was created by Mozilla and the update wasn't graceful. But nevermind, I simply downloaded the latest version from Portableapps, and copied over the profile directory and I was good.

I even have copies of old portable versions of Firefox like v56 that I use to test sites in, just incase my users are using some legacy version / old versions of Palemoon (for whatever reason).
I'm moving from a single .txt file to vimwiki, which plays nice with calendar, diary and daily todo checklist.
The "lazy black person" trope is Jim Crowe propaganda, plain and simple. This study has good intentions but I'm inclined to say the trope didn't need to be dignified with such a high-effort response.
> Grinder surely made much more from data sales than the 6.something million Erous it was find.

...sure, but they also had business expenses. Fining them for all the revenue would more or less instantly kill the company, which is hardly the goal.
The appeals process mandate is the part that would add a lot of cost that doesn't currently exist. It puts a human in the loop on the back side of the automated process. And once you add an appeals process, you can expect everybody to attempt to go through it... False positives will of course appeal, and bad actors have no disincentive to appeal for the simple sake of gumming up the system for fun.
Depends on the jurisdiction. In Canada, it’s all the same.
Data should be restricted, when it pertains to an individual who wants it to be restricted - basically everyone in the EU.
Quite a statement because there could be many factors at play. Type of content, density/complexity, the individual's abilities and mental state.

It's certainly true for many popular tube channels, that's for sure. Then again, I sometimes try to follow physics lectures and those make my head spin beyond the intro. Same with biology, even computers. I am not able to absorb great amounts of new info at once. Could be my age, though
Highly recommend ClipX (with "Disklog" plugin), one of the few apps I've kept for years. All clipboards go to a text file which can be easily searched.

When I need to save something I just Ctrl-C it. Its my code snippet manager I can instantly find something I wrote years ago. https://bluemars.org/clipx/
> I imagine SO make up for that by having a QA team

Most places I've ever worked have made automated testing impossible but then gone ahead and made up for it by just never testing anything and then blaming the programmers when bugs show up in production.
Whataboutism has become the very thing it sought to avoid. You are the one who has now taken this off topic. The comment above me is not a direct response to the article, it is a response to a suggestion to boycott China. And my comment is a response to that comment, specifically about the fact that they are being downvoted.

You embody exactly that which Whataboutism seeks to overcome.
On a positive note, most modern electronics have a bunch of "bent metal", screws, and memory + microprocessors. The first two are very low value and frequently produced directly in China. The last two are high value and most frequently produced in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the United States, and various parts of Europe. When you look at the "value added" by assembly of an iPhone in China, it is astonishingly low. The vast majority of value (for hardware) is added outside of China.
You can comply with GDPR by refraining from collecting data.

You can't provide an online service while refraining from providing an online service.
My productivity app has been pen + A5 paper pad

Advantages:

- Instant availability (no need to load up an app)

- Works offline

- I can't access it when I'm not at work (feature, not a bug)

- I can draw as well as write

- It's satisfying to tick items off
If someone throws a rock through a window, why shouldn't it be legal to run the surveillance through facial recognition? A crime was committed, we have a pic of the perpetrator.
An app? You just need DropBox and a text editor. Both are pretty ubiquitous.

I used to find myself moving between random terminals so used curl webdav instead of DropBox.
You can’t search for other BBS communities on BBS, but you can see the top 10 or so. You have to go to twitter or insta and search for #bbs to find different, smaller communities.

I don’t get it, the omission of any kind of community, post or user search, especially as someone who loathes all the reliance on twitter especially on potential alternative media platforms.
Gait analysis/recognition covers that.
There is also an epistemological aspect to a lot of this. In school you are often taught true statements ("facts"), but that is not the same as knowledge. If I accurately predict that the next time I flip a coin, it's going to land heads; I did not know it would. I made a correct correct statement, but I did not know.

Knowledge is about understanding how and why things work. That is what I was attempting to figure out about these linear algebra-operations. My classmates were attempting to retain the facts for the test, that typically doesn't work particularly well, and long term retention is poor. I've done that too. I could barely tell you what it is I'm supposed to have learned in those classes. But I could still probably construct 3D rotation matrices by hand without looking them up, all these years later.
Assuming you have a revenue model. What was Twitter's revenue model when they had their first million users?
Is the main point here that America will always grow in the same direction? That it will never change? Homeostasis is a boring prediction.
I have 2 points: Mining unlimited lithium will not be carbon neutral, and suburban development has a geometry problem. Traffic and long term maintenance issues will lead to its demise.
Can’t it be like playing Russian roulette with a gun that has billions of chambers? The gun is always unsafe, but you will probably be fine?

The higher the level, the more full chambers?
That isnt what they removed it for

the stated reason was:
> your on-device title does not reflect your app’s functionality.

There are several other apps with Eurovision in the name. If the infringement were the reason they are selective with enforcement.
The users aren’t gathering aggregated data of millions of other users and selling it.
Of course if the same information were presented in written form you’d be able to go through it 5x as fast.
I think because there are even more awesome (opinionated) tools out there... mostly command line.

Like
- rsync

- rclone

- restic

- rdedup

- etc.
I don’t recall David Beckham ever making any particularly principled sacrifices though.
Can you in good faith tell me what sounded sarcastics there?
I am completely serious, just ask a lecturer how do zoom lectures compare to live sessions. It isn't just about content, form and medium are very important, not just for greater memorization but also for deeper understanding. If all you do is watch videos you are watching someone else understand something instead of you and then think you have understood it yourself.
I side with Jack because he is trying to think about something real that will reduce our dependence on centralized systems. I think it's great to move away from central points of failure and have viable decentralized services. That was the entire reason for the internet financed by the American Defense Department in the first place (I wonder if they regret that)

On the other side you mostly hear about making more money from people who already have money to throw around. You have tales of greed, theft, manic excitement and young people listening to their amateur financial analyst friends telling them they can retire at 40. And you have people like the Bitcoin whales and wealthy Silicon Valley types hyping, pumping and dumping all day long, while we read about dark web atrocities and ransomware attacks enabled by crypto currency. You have obsolete oil plants being refired to spew CO2 while mining Bitcoin.

I'm not a post-modern nihilist who doesn't believe in good and evil. The good side is clear to me.
Only if you feed the pigs carrion and under cook it. There was a big trichinosis issue in the mid-20th century, which is when some people speculated on its connection to religious pork taboos, but nobody really takes that idea seriously any more.
How to automatically close those annoying “Launch Meeting” tabs from Zoom
You earned the prison. Is it somehow better to remove the option and just lock you up?

Negative prison time, applied to a legitimate sentence, should never count as forcing.
GDPR requires informed consent for ANY type of storing or managing any kind of personal data or data which can be linked to personal data (eg email which can contain name and surname of the person behind an account), and you must be explicit on what you do and you cannot give the data to another entity without re-requiring consent for that specific purpose and declaring who will be exactly the new controller of that data.
>Moreover, ATS generates cache keys by extracting the host, path and query, ignoring the url fragment.

Seems like this should note that browsers don't send the url fragment in the request. It's solely used browser-side. That's why it shouldn't forward the fragment on.
Is the average person's short-term memory and/or attention span getting worse?
Start by being the change don't wait for it to happen.
It's incredible how it turns all those nightmarish actions into zen and pure satisfaction !
Same here, all I use is a single `notes.txt` file in my cloud storage using the notepad.exe .LOG feature that inserts the current timestamp in the file when you open it.
> I probably spend the same amount of time watching the lecture as I would at normal speed.

The article's title does not suggest you should do otherwise, though its body suggests that you could do just as well, with a single 2X pass, as with a single 1X one.

I also use a variable rate, depending on the complexity and novelty (for me) of the material, and also how well it is presented. I also do this for better comprehension, not to get through it faster. I find it useful to have subtitles on, when available.
I would like that argument put forwards to the fashion editor at Vogue.

One could also make the argument that it is a patriarchal attitude to suggest women are so lacking in agency, that a popular interest amongst woman could be reducible solely to the interest of pleasing men.
Two questions: why so rude, and what do you base that on?
> I show how ELF-like features can be safely retrofitted onto executable formats contemporary with ELF’s debut.

I am surprised at the naïvité of the author on this question as from his photo he probably lived through this transition in real time. The statement ignores the whole point, sort of liking saying “all modern computers are basically Turing machines.” True, but not insightful.

It was no surprise to anyone at the time that various other required features could be jammed into other approaches (well, not a.out which is too simple) and often were in ad hoc and incompatible ways. In fact I designed the bfd library specifically with this in mind, to try to give some generality to object file generation and manipulation.

ELF was designed by committee, but it is not a camel. It addresses a number of complex issues in a standard and extensible way. Issues that didn’t arise on a time shared PDP-11 in the 1970s.
You probably remember the ones that did take 3 hours to understand but you’ve forgotten all those that were simple enough that you already left the lecture hall with an understanding of the material.
VC backed/owned projects are just one segment, communities often copy and relaunch any project with lopsided conditions (everything from low cost premines to block rewards going straight to VCs), to something that at least gives people a chance to use their own capital and resources at the bottom.

so as the consumers and speculators have a choice, its juvenile to even get into this spat.

Unincorporated community projects have often used code introduced by VC backed projects that have grown much bigger and had greater immediate impact than the VC subsidized codebase.

I’d also love to be a limited partner in Adreessen’s various funds.
The task manager in KDE (Ksysguard) does show RAM usage like Windows task manager does.

So a new user clicking System Monitor will get a RAM graph they understand.
>Though I like when I ask people to explain why their app/service should /not/ use free and abundant memory to serve their users. That short-circuits their brain.

here's a reason: because if chrome decides to eat 1GB of memory per tab, and I only have 8GB of ram, then I can't run anything else if I have more than a few tabs open. If chrome could have gotten by with 0.2GB per tab, then it using "abundant memory to serve their users" doesn't actually serve their users, it makes their experience worse. I suppose the system could work if there was some mechanism for the OS to demand that a program free up memory, but I haven't seen that in practice.
I do something similar for language learning, every new tab in Firefox shows a flashcard. If I'm in the middle of something I can ignore it but when my minds already wandering I tend to notice the word there, hopefully it helps.
Hence why I took care to hint as much as possible, definitely there are goods impossible to get elsewhere, others are relatively easy to find if one cares enough.
And what if the country want info on people outside the country. They may want to be sure that they can catch the homosexuals when they come to visit or prevent them from visiting (friends family etc) altogether. Whether or not the person signed up in the first place, nobody should be able to buy the data
There is an older tool of the same nature that appends signature to the file and that can be used with tar/gz pipelines - https://github.com/apankrat/sign
I don't see the difference between a human and a statistical model here. Surely in order to select an action to take, a person also has to apply some sort to threshold on their confidence? E.g. how is a doctor deciding to amputate or not amputate an organ based on an x-ray different from a classification model for the same task?

That problem aside, language models like Gopher are in fact generative, so no such threshold is needed! You instead sample from the implicit distribution.
Related video from Reducible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oMZb3yP_H8&t=1153s
> Hardly sounds trivial, and how would you ever enforce or manage that?

Spitballing. Enforcement: make distribution of CCTV video undisclosed via court order criminal offense.

> Also, that is totally counter to the current (US) laws that basically state you can record video (not audio) of any publicly viewable areas freely.

This is irrelevant, because scale changes nature of things. Single photo of your person is just that. 24 photos per second for every second of your life is a total surveillance. Law was clearly about recording usage that does not amount to surveillance.

> Also, face recognition typically runs on live streams to build indexes, so encrypting storage would not do much.

Encrypt the stream on the camera itself. Storage is cheap.
Then would you mind posting a dump of your email archive here? Or does that data have an owner?
I've always called this the refrigerator problem. Reviews of major goods are allowed by the fact that people don't review them when they work as expected, only when they have issues. It's hard to imagine taking the time to review a refrigerator that reliably keeps my things cold. Some people do, but I think most don't.
You said: "No debt here and my credit score is great. You don’t have to be in debt to have a good credit score."

Technically that's true but it leaves out the very major caveat that your credit score is not usable without accompanying credit history. What is credit history? Debt. It seems like you think it's OK for the system to force people to go into debt every month as long as they pay it off. What happens when one month they can't? They are then blamed for moral failing when probably they would have preferred to never use debt for regular payment in the first place.
That's also the linear no threshold model.

The risk of dying increases linearly with the number of bullets you load.

A different model suggests that very low levels are either benign or even helpful.
My new micro-business will let you set up micro event sourcing endpoints
And your comment makes me think that you could argue seeing gender bias in anyones response. Not trying to be belligerent by the way (I know the response sounds like I am - but really I’m seeking genuine understanding of the line being crossed in the parents logic). I do see the value in deducing gender bias even when it’s not specific as I would assume that would be a hard requirement to pass. However, at some point it’s valuable to determine that the test was not constructed in a manner to come to any conclusions with regard to gender bias.
Cardinality is at least potentially non-rivalrous.

Ordinality is inherently zero-sum.

That is, any "game" metric in which the quantity aquired by an individual, without concern for what others have is the basis for evaluation, so long as one person has a sufficient quantity, what any other party has doesn't matter.

But in a game in which each contestant is ranked against others, then no matter how many participants there are, there is only one first place. And in fact the more participants are, the harsher the competition for that place.

Economics claims that competition is based on profit, utility, and wealth, which are cardinalities. Evidence suggests, and Adam Smith notes, that it is instead based on power, an ordinality, and a zero-sum game.
You can load multiple pages in a single read operation, yes, and do less computation when trying to load/purge on a per-page basis (instead of a lookup table you just do a single addition)
Grindr is incorporated in the US, I'm not sure how they plan to enforce this fine.
To be fair, if the only thing that the server runs is the application then root or the application’s normal user doesn’t really matter much.
> Why bother with stubbing, mocking and changing code to be testable if you can use the more useful integration

End-to-end tests are useful, but they take a long time to set up, maintain and run. They have to have a live database to connect to and that database itself has to conform to particular preconditions that can easily be violated even if the code itself is just fine. What I've seen, over and over, is that the end-to-end test fail because the test database instance is under load, or somebody wrote a test that inserted some data but forgot to remove it, or it doesn't work right if two particular tests run at the same time, to the point where they report false negatives so often, everybody just starts ignoring them.
> Furthermore, more competitions and more matches means more opportunities for more players to play a part.

In reality, coaches are under pressure to always put up an A-level selection. For the FC Bayern, that means Manuel Neuer between the goalposts no matter if the opponent is FC Chelsea or Greuther Fürth (the current bottom of the Bundesliga). The only scenarios outside of regulars being injured where coaches are fine to experiment with B/C level players are friendlies, training matches and irrelevant games (UEFA CL group phase, when the result of the last game does not matter).

> Not to mention that a World Cup every two years means much more host countries, which can be huge, for local fans and the sport locally.

Unfortunately, a World Cup requires large, expensive stadiums - billions of dollars, usually borne by the tax payers. In countries like the US or most of Europe, it is economically feasible to either use existing stadiums or build new ones (like Germany did) that get used for decades afterwards. In countries without a large (!) football fan community, these will all either rot or cause massive financial losses for their upkeep - like what happened in Brazil and South Africa [1] or Russia [2]. Qatar will likely be even worse, they already plan on one of the stadiums being torn down directly after the World Cup [3].

Not to mention the supporting infrastructure (public transport, hotels, press venues, roads) - if the stadiums aren't used to capacity, that's a lot of waste there too.

> I'd love to see more neighbouring countries host

That only spreads the expense, but the waste will be the same. A World Cup (and for that matter, also Olympic Games) only make sense in countries that can use the infrastructure at the designed scale for decades.

[1]: https://www.musikexpress.de/millionen-projekte-was-aus-den-w...

[2]: https://www.faz.net/aktuell/sport/fussball-wm/hohe-kosten-ka...

[3]: https://www.stern.de/sport/fussball/wm-2022-in-katar--neugeb...
I'm currently writing a tool to package up sprite tiles for the Neo Geo[1], which handles graphics in a very similar manner as the CPS1. I can't imagine composing these tiles manually, what a monumental task.

The Neo Geo's hardware offers a few graphical features that work by assuming the tiles are ordered in a certain way. It's an interesting challenge to meet those requirements.

[1] https://github.com/city41/sromcrom
> I didn't whitelist anything, maybe that was a source for issue.

Should have mentioned: I think my approach works fine for single-user or small-closed-community servers. Nobody should do this on servers with public rooms and/or open registration as it will lock out minority servers and cause further centralization.
The bottom line is that mergers and acquisitions destroy companies. Removing the founder and reducing the power of key executives destroys the soul of a startup. Almost every company I have seen be acquired by a larger company has died.

Founders, don't sell your companies. An exit is not the goal. Your business is our baby, what monster would sell his baby?
Yes, Ksysguard does hide cache usage.
i wonder why does this tool needs access to the internet?
Alternative privacy-respecting front ends for popular services
Who cares? The thread is interesting, so if that's an ad campaign - it's a good one.
Thank you, that was a inattentive mistake on my part.
Covid-19 Marches Toward Endemic Status in U.S. as Omicron Spreads
This is missing out an important step when using marching squares to visualise fields like the original example: You should not just apply a threshold to the input data, but instead you should keep the original values around, and use them to figure out where along an edge the intersection point should be placed. This gives you contours that follow the actual isolines much more closely.

For instance, if you are plotting the line where the field crosses zero, and one point is at 9 and its neighbour at -1, you should place the intersection point at 90% of the distance from the first to the second.
A For-Profit Company Is Trying to Privatize as Many Public Libraries as They Can
What if half of the fine was given to the user(s)?

That way users would have an incentive to sue companies (i.e get rich quick). That way personal data would really have to be considered a liability if companies don't want to start giving millions to their users left and right.
I certainly wish I was able to learn more quickly, and I'm sure that would be true no matter how quickly I was able to learn. The availability of quality material is an orthogonal issue to me, the worse the material the longer it takes to digest. I would also of course enjoy being able to take my time more, but there's so much I'm interested in that I wish I was able to get through more of it.