skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Billboards are interesting because in spite of their near-universal hate, they are about the only remaining form of advertising in print media. I don't especially mind advertising in cities, the subway ads are part of the experience. The terrible billboards in unincorporated areas along the highway are much more annoying, but of course those are much harder to get rid of.
Same. Gradle even lets you configure replacement dependencies, so if anything depends on Log4J it automatically gets the adapter instead.
An adblocker would be a killer app for AR glasses.
QGIS forms the front-end for a lot of our automation and processes. We use it as an input, usually by drawing areas of interest, and then triggers in Postgres fire off containers to process those areas and fill in contents of other layers. We also use it extensively in planning, surveying, and documentation. It features heavily in all stages of our product lifecycle, from viability planning through to in-life servicing. If not for QGIS we'd likely be paying someone like ArcGIS a lot of money for a product significantly less flexible and hackable. For interest this is for a fibre ISP.
Depends how capabilities work in the system. A restriction could prevent something from occurring at all in a bit of code, even in outside calls.
I'm 64 and been programming for 40 years. I am fortunate that I am able to not work due to a small military disability pension, plus I'll take social security soon.

My last experience was Facebook contacted me a few times, which I blew off because I knew they would never hire me. Finally I told them "You know I'm over 60, right?" and they got off the phone and never called back.

I'm thinking about doing some part time programming on one of the job sites. I'm not thrilled with throwing PHP together, so I haven't tried yet, and program for fun now. In the last couple of pandemic years I've learned Rust, Flutter and lately Blazor, which I just gave up on today. I installed Nodejs to learn React this afternoon. I'm looking for a pleasant way to earn money building front ends.
Why Electric Airplanes Face Such a Tough Haul [video]
Different type of printing.

The intervention in 2008, printed asset money (not bank liability deposits as were given out recently), and crucially used it to buy a 4 trillion of bad loans from the Banking System, which were then placed in runoff (the Fed ended up making a small profit on this as it happens).

Think of it as deliberately creating a loop in the monetary system to get the loans away from the banks, where the losses would crash the banking system, and into a place where they could just be quietly allowed to drain off.

The money printing last year on the other hand, was a Weimar style directly into liability deposit accounts, and that has a much broader impact.

To be fair about the subtleties of all this - had the banking system still relied on the old reserve based regulation as used in the 1920´s, 2008 would have triggered a hyperinflation - but as Basel capital regulation now also controls the system, that intervened to prevent a monetary spiral with more lending creation more (deposit) money.
Emulating a 4-Bit Virtual Machine in TypeScript's type system
It really is a numbers game. You should apply to ten PER DAY.

Apply to some places you wouldn’t necessarily even want to work at, because they might surprise you by being better than expected, or meeting someone you think would be a great manager or colleague.

Also, message a lot of recruiters, both independent and those at specific companies. Recruiters move around a lot and may refer you to places you’d never think of, and jobs that aren’t well publicized.

Good luck! Please post an update here in a few months.
Celestisl is impractical for modern weapons. INS just isnt accurate enough over long periods (think of subs submerged for months).
Depends on how deep you want to go with meditation and exercise (these are two different things, btw).

I will suggest few very basic and easy "exercises" of Yoga that have long-term benefits. But Yoga has to go hand-in-hand with dietary discipline. And as they say, good things take time. This is very true with Yoga. It is not a quick-fix type of solution.

So, here are the exercises, they are collectively called as "Praaṇaayam". These are breathing and gut exercises:

https://www.wikihow.com/Do-Pranayam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYu6V0PxIyU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcQW1P6Y7AA

Do these exercises 10-15 mins every day early in the morning and before going to bed. Try to sleep early and wake up early. And have fresh(home cooked) "light and easy" diet as much as possible.

Following these principles will help with general health benefits. It will take some time to see the results of this.
Let me add

M.A.X. - Mechanized assault and exploration.

Best TB strategy game and AI. Sadly there source of this is lost as well.
https://www.pewforum.org/2021/12/14/about-three-in-ten-u-s-a...
Trolling as protected speech is an interesting perspective. I’ve often felt that trolling is part behavioral issue and another part free expression. I wonder how these lines blur as they cross over into the digital realm.

> “Though I find him as annoying as many others do, I find him equally and strangely compelling,” Belisle wrote. “He is, in his own way, a placeholder. He prompts me to remember that not all hear the same music I hear; or respond the same way.”

> In a phone interview, Belisle, who specializes in family and preventive medicine, said The Whistler is breaking down barriers that people put around themselves, forcing people to notice what is right in front of them. He is, she said, a reminder that everyone marches to the beat of their own drummer.

> “The best thing you can do is have compassion for other people whose songs are not the same as yours,” she said.
Larrin was on one of my favorite podcasts, Cooking Issues, to talk about various knife related things. Very good discussion.

Episode link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/knives-out-with-52817284

You do not need to be a Patron subscriber to listen to the episode. Also, if you're interested in the technical side of cooking and drink making, Cooking Issues is the podcast to listen to. There's a huge back catalog of shows on their former network, HRN, as well as a bunch of shows via their new arrangement.
When I rent a car it’s reliability. I don’t need one very often, when I do I fill in the form, pay £20 a day plus £10 for delivery/collection and the car is dropped off at my house and picked up when I return it.
Maybe at our local library we should be able to check these nanopore sequencers, or even other devices like simple & robust medical devices like handheld ultrasound devices that plug into iPad's?
>In 2021, everybody and their dog is trying to make money by speculating on crypto... It might have been countercultural in 2012.

I meant using crypto for its original political purpose - sustaining an anarcho-capitalist economy and providing a means to opt out of the state.

I don't think anyone is actually doing that, but yeah. Fair point.
I read a story[1] about a UK-based Covid testing firm who was planning on collecting and selling their customers' DNA samples.

> Its "research programme information sheet", last updated on October 21, says the company retains data including "biological samples" and "the DNA obtained from such samples", as well as "genetic information derived from processing your DNA sample ... using various technologies such as genotyping and whole or partial genome sequencing".

The policy also says Cignpost may share customers’ DNA samples and other personal information with "collaborators" working with them or independently, including universities and private companies, and that it "may receive compensation" in return.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/11/14/covid-test-firm-...
Civ V: Brave New World expansion pack adds some new aspects and victory types that require cooperating with other civs like the Diplomatic victory through the World Congress.
Status of the James Webb Space Telescope Integrated Science Instrument Module S [pdf]
> If Pfizer had a "one-shot" cure and was sitting on it for reasons of greed, then we would hope that at least one of these people would feel morally compelled to blow the whistle.

Pfizer has a one-shot (well 10 pill, if I understand the course of treatment) cure, and they aren't sitting on it.
Soon to be replaced by personalised ads, I’m sure
It is the new phase of the internet so it might mean different things to different people. To me it's the rise of decentralized and distributed applications on the internet consuming and producing machine readable or semantic data that can be communicated across platforms.
While I am not the absolute expert and have not really studied the specs I would cautiously claim this is not correct. The outer protocol is PEAP, a variant of TLS. Listening to what is sent inside is impossible in most practical cases.

However, if you are the server (or rogue access point) obviously you see all traffic passing through that tunnel in clear text.
> We were all always going to get Covid whether we liked to or not.

One of the main examples of hubris was that we thought we could stop it. The "success story" countries quickly dwindled to Australia and New Zealand--situations not exactly replicatable. Australia's hubris led to a bad vaccine rollout, and a few cases quickly escalated to lockdowns. I think NZ eventually settled on an endemic policy.
It better be perfect though!!! At what point can I tell that it is in the most perfect state? If we are talking about infinities, is there a point where we can say that it is in a perfect state and it cannot get any more perfect? Is there such a thing as perfect state?

For example:

> It simply means taking something you have, running it again, but running in such a way that it gets slightly better next run.

So... is there an end of this? Physically speaking, there is a limit, yeah, but can we reach the most perfect state where it cannot get any better?
The process is just about the same for Uhaul and that has none of the "enable people to do more business with you" motive that the home depot rental truck does.
Well, I can't claim to be making a _good_ living, but if you look online at sites like Upwork or even reddit or various Discord channels, there is a lot of demand for programmers who are willing to work for cheap. And that may not be an option for someone with a family, but there are also a few clients here and there with real budgets.

One of the nice things about freelancing is that if I don't want to use React or Svelte or whatever the latest CSS framework is, there are projects who don't really care and let me do things how I want.

The other idea related to that is whatever business niche it is you have experience or interest in try to follow that community and see if there is any tool you can build.
It’s hard to say. The combat variance is pretty fundamental to the game design. If you took it away the battles would be pretty routine.

Other games manage to incorporate a lot of randomness while keeping the basic interactions (combat etc) deterministic and predictable. For an example of this, see Slay the Spire. In that game the cards all have completely predictable effects. The randomness comes from the cards you’re dealt. Furthermore, you can control the randomness of card draw in numerous ways, potentially making your deck very reliable, possibly at the expense of full potential.
Ben. Can you unsubscribe me from your email list? I used to be a subscriber, but after you decided to publish on Twitter some PMs that were meant as peace offerings, I’d like to not get your self serving crap in my inbox. I hit unsubscribe, but that seems to not work.
Here's just one, should-be-obvious problem with censorship:

How can you agree that it was correct to hide something, if it was hidden?

Why are you willing to accept something you did not (could not) agree to?

It's so crying shortsighted and ignorant to be ok with that.
First, do no harm: An argument for a radical new paradigm for treating addiction
Avoid getting distracted by every new thing you read about, from frameworks to architectures. Focus first on the fundamentals of software development, which often aren't taught:

1. Break things down into small "complete" steps. Nope, smaller than that. Nope, you can still break that down. Test-Driven Development can help here, not by making sure you've got good test coverage, but by encouraging you to break down the solution into small, testable pieces.

2. When learning something new, don't copy-and-paste. Retype it if you have to, but at least understand _why_ that code will work, and maybe a bit about _how_ it will work. As you get more experienced, you can copy-and-paste, though you'll find you'll do that less anyway.

3. Related to 2 and the post about technical communication: learn how to concisely ask questions. The number of juniors (and seniors) asking questions, but failing to show the precise problem (or at least what they think the problem is), with enough code (but not everything!) to evaluate is...frustrating for those of us who want to help. Tell us what you tried, tell us what the errors are (precisely, i.e., here you want to copy-and-paste!), but do so with as few words as possible. This is _definitely_ a skill, so you'll get better as you do it more, so pay attention to the questions you get in response to your question. Reflect on whether that could've been included in your original question.
There’s a whole line of books about the same words that take on different meanings in American versus British English.

Like pants. In the US, pants are something you wear on the outside over your underwear. In the UK, pants are what you wear under your trousers.

But the hysterical thing to me, is that the act of “pantsing someone” means exactly the same thing in both languages, despite the different meanings of the word themselves. Either you are pulling down someone’s pants to expose their underwear, or you are pulling down someone’s trousers to expose their pants.

The French would call these words “faux amis”, or “false friends”. You think you know what you mean when you say the word legume, but you don’t understand that they have a different definition of that word.

In the UK, you do NOT want to be caught selling or giving away Fanny Packs. The word Fanny in the UK is a reference to female genitalia, and not your butt. In the UK, if you want to sell or give away these things, you do so with “Bum Bags”. But the word “bum” in the US has a rather different connotation.

Oh, so many hilarious things can be found in this line of books.
I don’t understand why the OP is being downvoted. Climate change is real and causing temperature and weather anomalies all over the world, including record warm temps and droughts in the western continental United States.
Fun fact: Reddit doesn’t allow porn on /r/all and /r/popular. It used to be blocked only on /r/popular, but they blocked it on /r/all too relatively recently.
https://fossandcrafts.org/episodes/20-hygiene-for-a-computin... does a great job of introducing capabilities in an easy to understand manner.
Do you have a source for numbers in hospital shooting up? I normally check here: https://www.travellingtabby.com/uk-coronavirus-tracker/
This seems to be a coordination problem, and we have a kit of new tools to solve those.

For instance, Uber, but for rentals. Basically vanilla ride-sharing, but the customer is the driver instead of passenger. The rental fleet consists of personal cars listed by private people. You can buy an extra car for your driveway and, upon safety certification, list it for rent. Or list your daily driver when you don't need it. The car owner gets a lot less per hour than if she were the driver, but for less labor.

What showstoppers am I missing?
> we should take care not to define out of existence the inherent uniqueness and singularity of purpose of each life.

Absolutely. I would never want to do that (or be seen as doing that).
Ugh. I just barely missed the window to fix that "absolutely power corrupts absolutely" typo, and in the process was breaking that paragraph into two, as I think this better explains my vague "changing incentives or situations". Here, improved:

> Maybe you are good today, but--as "absolute power corrupts absolutely"--you might find yourself incrementally abusing your power or even "selling out" in the future without even feeling yourself change.

> Or maybe you always do good things, but due to a tragic change of circumstances--such as an expensive health issue with a family member--it becomes difficult to decide what being good means for you.

> Or maybe you manage to be good "forever", ...

> Or maybe even your heirs are all truly good, but the power you managed to concentrate ...
At common law, certain relationships are characterised as fiduciary relationships and come with certain additional onerous obligations, such as the duty to act in the best interests of the person you are representing, the duty to avoid conflicts of interest, the duty to account for any undisclosed profits, etc.

Though perhaps a slight oversimplification, I would say that a guiding principal for determining whether a relationship is characterised as fiduciary one is the possibility of control over another person's affairs, either literally (as in the case of a trustee or agent), or because that person is accustomed to place a high degree of trust in your judgement (attorneys, financial advisors).

In that context, I find this article quite interesting (if a little short). Maybe there is a concept emerging of "data fiduciaries", even if regulators and courts don't yet call it that. It has long been accepted that a financial institution that holds your stocks and bonds has onerous obligations not just to their regulators but to you as their principal. Given how important and valuable data is becoming, people may begin to question why data custodianship should be treated any differently.

Incidentally, in some European asset-backed finance transactions, I have already seen "data trustees" appointed to hold personal data relating to the underlying assets in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

(The specific rules about fiduciaries will vary by jurisdiction, so don't complain if the above is not a perfect description of the rules in your location, though I'd be interested to hear if your rules are fundamentally different.)
arguably the only really compelling feature of BeOS (Spotlight)

I’d argue the most compelling feature of BeOS, one that to my knowledge has still not been replicated anywhere else, was its amazing UI fluidity. Seems like it didn’t matter how bogged down the system got, the UI was flawlessly responsive and boasted latencies today’s desktops could only dream of.

I still miss it.
The bracket the Model S lives in isn't known for cheap maintenance, and remember 22k is including labor

The RLX was the closest Acura had, and while significantly cheaper than the S class, and installing a new engine is definitely in the ballpark of $22k

Head + block is already pushing 10k (https://estore.honda.com/acura/parts/view-acura-parts-catalo...)

Add in the internals, gaskets, accessories, then top it off with labor and you might even be over (especially since Honda/Acura won't sell you an assembled long block)

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In general manufacturers will not sell you a whole engine for a sensible amount of money, and if it's a luxury car that's doubly true.

Rebuilding is always going to be the economical option but that's not exclusive to ICEs. Tesla packs get reconditioned by 3rd parties despite their (relative) complexity, and other cars have cottage industries that have formed around their battery packs like the
Leaf and Prius.

The floor replacement on an ICE is lower as I mentioned, but the Model S and competitors are near the ceiling for this kind of thing
There are plastic covers you can place on cameras. The nurse is helping by sharing someone's story which is in line with their goals of care. Your comment isn't helpful and based upon your other comments, your contributions don't really fit on hackernews.
Did I read correctly that a sepia filter is one of their “bare essentials”?

(Just poking fun. I like the look and the concept.)
I think you would have to two scenarios at hand:

1. A completely genetically determined disease; a rare 100%-going-to-happen deal. (Which you would probably know about already, because your mother, or grandfather died from it...)

2. Some significant, but abstract risk modification.

With 1., you would know, you will get sick/die some time soon in the future, allowing you to live your life accordingly, die without regrets, prepared and so on. You can take that into consideration when planning for a family, taking job offers, procrastinating on the good life with work and retirement plans. Burn bright.

With 2., there is a very, very high chance lifestyle choice influence the stated risk, as obviously not everybody who got the polymorphism gets sick. So you can get your ass up, exercise, quit smoking and drinking, reduce stress, get regular check ups, ..., and avoid getting sick or reduce the impact/progression, in case you do.

I think, logically, knowing is always better than not knowing. But I understand how anxiety does tell a different story.
See also compile-to-js languages, clojurescript being the one I'm most familiar with personally. Works great with React too.
A (probably) completely different question: are there good knives for a kitchen that doesn't require maintenance? (So, are the ceramic knives any good?) I cook once in a blue moon, mostly pasta; so I'd use it mostly to cut cheese and sausages. Can you recommend a knife for this? (Or maybe it simply doesn't matter on such a small scale?)
I also rewoke this LKML thread https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-hardening/01e72780-e328-23b5-... a few months back, because my one quibble with CloudABI is its all-singing-all-dancing fork+exec abi.

Making an embryonic process, mutating it's state as desired, and then submitting to the scheduler is a much nicer workflow, and more in the spirit of capabilities anyways where "fork = duplicate the whole keyring and then destroy some caps" as foolhardy.

FreeBSD already had process/PID FDs, but I think CloudABI avoided them because it wanted to be easier to port. But now that Linux has them too, I don't think this should be a such a portability concern.
So they can sell you add-ons with lower resistance, I suppose. It's like when you go to one of those kitchen salesroom places where they bombard you with decisions and save the highest margin add-ons for the end so that you just wearily OK them.
AFAICT bitmaps as a persistent index structure aren’t supported. They’re only used in-memory at query runtime for combining results from multiple index scans.
> I've been a professional software interviewer (600+ interviews) and have seen most very experienced software developers do quite poorly during interviews.

It seems that -- to use some old AI jargon -- the difference is between "forward chaining" vs "backward chaining". Forward chaining is all about the set of tools and techniques to work towards a variety of problems. Backward chaining is all about starting from a specific problem and and curating the best tools and techniques.

Very experienced programmers will have spent most of their time Backward Chaining. New programmers will have spent most of their time focused on Forward Chaining.

Here is where I see the disconnect: it may take days to learn a new tool or technique. However, it can take years to learn how to curate the best tool or technique. Long term thinking is undervalued.
Very good question. Presumably it would be up to their families? Or already happened and was classified for N years.
I know that the European DPA/GDPR has made being a data controller a non-trivial thing, for several years.

I’m working on a social media-style app that needs to take very good care of its member data. Many folks here would probably be appalled at the measures I’m taking.