skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In short: after Mozilla cheerily announced it's accepting cryptocurrency donations with BitPay, jwz tweeted about it with his unique style of entertaining vitriol: https://mobile.twitter.com/jwz/status/1478022085737803776
> In our PTA (parent teacher association) group, someone held forth that we just needed a temporary closure to “flatten the curve”.

That's all you can do with Omicron. And it's not clear how much you can even do that. We're currently in the "vertical" section of the exponential curve and accelerating.

Omicron appears to be as contagious as chicken pox and that basically infected every child before the vaccine. Omicron is sufficiently infectious that it will solve the anti-vax problem and bring us as close to herd immunity as possible whether we like it or not.

In 30 days, everything will be moot as basically everybody will be vaccinated, have had Covid, or both. All we can do now is cross our fingers and hope that the case fatality rate for Omicron really is significantly less than Delta.
If you’re saying transfer via monero to avoid PayPal, etc from tracking the transaction that’s fine.

If you’re performing transfers in any way with the intent of hiding income from the IRS (or appropriate tax agency) the. that would be illegal.
I think this is the most fair and sane opinion about crypto I ever read.
The author acknowledges the benefits without falling for the “tulip mania”
"A Confession" by Leo Tolstoy [1]. An autobiographical story of Tolstoy's "search for meaning" when he was, I believe, around the same age. A masterpiece in around 80 pages.

From a more practical angle, I wish I had had "Early Retirement Extreme" by Jacob Lund Fisker [2] in my shelf at that age. Don't get fooled by the title, this is by no means a "highway to financial independence" book; rather, it's a really deep book about, well, sensible living strategies, considering the world we're in.

The author holds a PhD in theoretical physics, and by living with around $7,000 a year as a scientist and postdoc, he retired in around 5 years in his early 30s.

It's a book on thoughtful frugality, if you will.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Confession

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Lund_Fisker
Utah and Florida are "getting it right" about the same as the "this is fine" dog in a burning building.
archive.org link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220106052920/https://www.nytim...
EasyJet
Nude pictures on early retro PCs – was it possible?
Delta, United, Jet Blue, probably American…

I’m annoyed on the relatively few trips where the carrier doesn’t allow this.
>>Friend of mine started a role there (this was 4-5 years ago) and was fired (sorry... more or less asked to leave, being told he could keep his signing bonus if he just left) within about six weeks because he wasn't immediately delivering on some insane amounts of work.

Its crazy how these FANGs promise the moon, the serious RSU vesting starts only after 1 - 2 years and the average tenure is like 1.5 years.

>>he came back from parental leave and his direct reports had all been put on a PIP while he was out

I've heard this quite a bit at many places, when you go on a longish leave of any kind basically people kind of replace you. When you come back you discover your job is gone, for this reason alone I don't know many people who take these long leaves/vacations.
Weirdly all my android phones are still working. I upgrade on average every 2 to 3 years, current phone bought a flagship 3 years ago and other than battery degradation it's performing as it was when I first purchased it. I am actually using my older models for various automation tasks and one as a webcam for video calls from desktop. Maybe the problem is when buying cheaper models?
Granite blocks that slot together.
I don't think I disagree. If there was a good time to consider full lockdown, it was at the beginning of the pandemic when little information about it was known. The more we learn about it, the less it seems like a real threat.

But.. things have evolved since then. We have entire WFH movement ( and I am saying this as its proponent ) banking on its staying power ( and most of the old school management hates it ) and we have political people eyeing the power and money that could be tapped just by scaring people.

It is weird. It feels like a lifetime ago that I typed on this very forum something along the lines of:

'we're in this together thing lasted whole two weeks'

We are way past that and it shows.
> I believe that being unvaccinated in fact does not cause harm to others.

They are a tiny part of society but take up a large portion of ICU capacity. This delays elective surgeries (e.g. cancer) for everybody else. Most hospitals in Ontario have already suspended all elective surgeries. Somebody with curable cancer today could die in a few months thanks to anti-vaxers.
It actually happened already, right down below:

> It'd be a bit like 'someone else has set up a software development environment for you, now write some code' I suppose.
lol you love injecting all these hot topics and hashtags to gain support regarding other known men who who are truly evil. Alex is not anything like Harvey Weinstein or Jeffery Epstein, who trafficked women and used their money to promise them celebrity status and riches. What did Alex promise you to make this comparison, I wonder? He certainly didn't promise or bribe me with anything. From the texts i saw, you bribed him for sex to make him stay with you. You couldn't let him go, and you still can't. You were madly in love with him, and you still are deep down.
If you get a kick out of optimizing small apartments, check out the YouTube channel “never too small”.

Before you decide to move into a super small, space optimized apartment look around your current place. Is it always super neat and tidy? You need to be making your bed every day and put away your furniture all the time in order to make many of the tiny apartment designs work.

https://youtube.com/c/NEVERTOOSMALL
The vintage designation is for products 5-7 years old. Apple does not guarantee part availability in this range but will do repairs if possible.

7+ is considered obsolete and they won't touch it.

That is old enough that a battery update through a third party or through a DIY vendor like iFixit should be reasonable.
AWS CloudFront
> Until it works for everyone it's just not good enough.

No system is good enough by that definition. I've got a set of devices which either require lots of extra work or just don't work on all of Linux (parts of Lenovo dock), Windows (phone over bluetooth, also can't do clean install), MacOS (usb-c audio interface). We got to the level of "most things just work" on all of them.
> harvesting info from contact lists

I'm certain LinkedIn was doing it as well, ie. dark patterns to upload contact list then aggressively harvesting new users.
> It's literally a 3rd degree felony in the state of Texas.

No, nonreporting is not. Active concealment/assistance is, and you just quoted a long bit of statute that says exactly that.
Somehow I find it weird that it doesn't reference previous art which has shown that it really could survive 1000 years like the Bamberg Cathedral for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamberg_Cathedral which was founded 1002 and has been used since then on a daily basis.
NASA to Sedna? The ‘Pluto-Killing’ World That Orbits Our Sun Every 11,408 Years
What is a good reason to be insulted in the kotlin example, if you are the type of person who assumes good intent of others?
Meta denies report it has stopped work on software for the metaverse
80TB for 5M page views works out to 16.7MiB per page view. I assume you're serving images and other assets on the page otherwise you have room to optimize on the page weight.
BasicBrix – Cloud provider based in SEA
Are you failing interviews or are you just failing leetcode?

I've done 700+ LC and I still regularly get stuck on Meds/Hards, but I imagine if you know all these concepts and can explain tradeoffs during an interview, you have a better chance of passing than someone who immediately spits out a memorized solution but can't explain why they chose that specific approach over another.
The teachers are more essential than pretty much anyone else besides doctors. They just have to show up, that's part of the deal when you take on such a big responsibility. What if doctors just stopped showing up in the middle of a pandemic? Society would be fucked. And a generation of kids is fucked because teachers weren't willing to take their responsibility seriously.
Is there any simple, secure by default alternative to ssh?
I absolutely did! Thanks for the link and oh man... getting that done in 4k.... I'm tempted to download the YouTube video just for a size comparison.

At any rate: stunning.
There are a lot of people working on PoW and PoS still. See NIPoPoWs (https://nipopows.com/) or the competing PoS models that do things differently (Ouroboros, Tendermint, Lachesis)
On the other hand, it has been linked to much higher rates of autoimmunities:

https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2021.736036
I live in Sweden but I found several options offered by funeral homes/ undertaker associations. They are usually called "The White Archive" (but in Swedish) and were free as well.
$218 MRR = $2616 ARR

With a pretty standard 4x multiple, it's a $10k business. Though I imagine the slower growth etc resulted in an actual valuation ~$8k.
> Does that mean that Cosby is innocent and should be restored?

If he’s innocent (i.e. “not guilty”), yes.

It’s funny how people are all about “restorative justice” and “rehabilitating criminals after they serve their sentences” except, you know, when it comes to actually doing it.
These candidates aren't exactly spending their lives to get hired at your place because they think you are special.

They just don't take their day jobs seriously enough and spend most of their time on LC, when you hire them, they leave in a few months because that is what they are good at.
Google Calendars has sub-par iCal/vCal support, and will omit calendar entry information (or entire entries) sometimes.

It deals with sharing pretty well when both parties have Google Calendar accounts.
Military vs. Drones
>P.S. I got blocked again, so posting news here through edit

You're getting blocked because half of your posts are literally poor trolling attempts with baseless takes against Russia\ex-USSR.

I'm not sure why are you so triggered but at least try to proof check your fantasies to make them more believable.
The Delta and Omicron variants are so contagious that there will be no significant herd immunity. Everyone will eventually be infected. Fortunately the vaccines and other therapies are quite effective at preventing deaths.

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...

The risk to healthy children is virtually zero.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.30.21267048v...
I tried one of those fineliners for a year. Turns out I can't write as fast with one of those as I can with a ballpoint/gel pen.

Muji sells cheap 0.5 and 0.7mm gel pens with a really satisfying click mechanism. Good enough for me.
Cloudflare's free tier is more than enough for basic CDN serving and DDOS protection. No need for Pro.
Note: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29819973

(Not sure it’s authentic.)
We damaged a generation of kids to protect a generation of octogenarians and a bunch of teachers who wouldn't assume any modicum of risk to do their jobs. I feel sad for all the lockdown kids for everything that was done to them. My kid fared well because I essentially spent all of my time teaching him stuff, which then caused me to get fired from my job, and then I got a new job at 30% higher salary.
tar -xzvf filename.tar.gz

The mnemonic I use:

x - extract

z - ze

v - vucking

f - files
Yeah, but once again, this requires you to already know there is an error, have a dollar impact calculated, etc.

There is a lot of talk in this thread about the performance impact of logging. I don't see how sampling 100% wouldn't have a far greater performance impact.
Best of CES 2022: New Tech That’s Practical, Innovative or Just Plain Crazy
> * Language level support for extending Array or letting users define arrays that are as efficient as the built in ones.

* Similar request for String buffers.

* Rewrite parser that is currently in scheme in Julia, I suspect better tooling will fall out of this

These 3 are all desired and totally doable. They just need some developer time. If anyone wants to help on them, get in touch.
This isn’t some sort of binary choice. You could take some basic precautions in crowded spaces or try new lower risk activities to socialise with friends e.g things you do outside. You know, do what humans have done for thousands of years: adapt.

But people are so eager to go back to exactly how things were.
I practice calligraphy regularly and use a fountain pen and a mechanical pencil for all my daily notes.

I used a Waterman expert for a long time till a "friend" dropped it and destroyed it. Since then, I bought a Noodlers Ahab. The company had a quirky sense of humour and with a black ink called "heart of darkness", who can resist? I bought it primarily because the nib is flexible and you can use it for pseudo Copperplate and Spencerian scripts (which I use for headings). https://www.amazon.in/Noodlers-Ahab-Flex-Nib-Fountain/dp/B00...

The mechanical pencil I use is a Pentel Graphgear 1000. It's easily the Mercedes Benz of mechanical pencils. Pentel is generally good at this but the Gg 1000 takes it to the next level. It's very well balanced, comfortable to hold and has a few small features that protect the delicate parts quite well. https://www.amazon.in/Pentel-Graphgear-1000-Drafting-Pencil/...
That’s naive. If you have a Facebook account they know every website you go to that has affiliate advertisement or a like button on it. I’m sure they also broker data from other companies and mine it from public sources. My uninformed guess is that < 10% of the data Facebook has on any given person comes from their actual interaction with Facebook.com.
Running Pi-hole on the original Pi (1) model B for over a year and really happy with it. The original Pi running Raspbian has been very reliable and working tirelessly, the only problem is the I/O bottleneck - performance querying SQLite database is unbearable.

Last Nov I spent half day installing Pi-hole on spare Pi 2 and Pi 3 (Ubuntu LTS) serving as two internal DNS Servers for home network), router (AsusWrt-Merlin) as its upstream doing DoT (DNS over HTTPS). Really happy with the performance and cost (quite, low power consumption, no heating issue, no dust collection issue, etc.)
Yes, Windows Phone was very cool, the home screen with the tiles was amazingly information-dense. I miss it too (still got the yellow Nokia device in a drawer somewhere...)
I feel like something like this only makes sense if you are someplace like New York, San Francisco or Paris. Not because property is so crazy expensive there but because you are in the midst of a density of people, places and things, so that makes it make sense to densify the interior of your home.

I'm not sure I can articulate it effectively, but I have looked at such furniture online and that's my tentative hypothesis.
Depends what you mean by stable... In my experience, recent Fedora releases don't break. They also have the best laptop compatibility. But if 3rd party software (or your own software) targets specific libs, you need to keep up. Ubuntu is typically about one release cycle behind.
definitely is libel. Her posts about Alex are libel as well.
> Here is the very simple thing you have to do. Find an illness you can treat with homeopathy. Get 10 thousand people with that illness into your study. Have one half of them use plain water, the other use the homeopathy.

But homeopathy is plain water, unless the notional process isn't followed correctly.
> It is important to recognize that many of the ideas weren't necessarily bad at the time, they were just 100% optimized for moving fast and capturing eyeballs. Now Pets.com came back as Chewy.com and Kosmo came back as Instacart.

What did CueCat come back as?

;-)
This is really good - definitely worth reading. There are a bunch of useful angles on what's going on here that I've not seen written about elsewhere.
I use Linux in various forms since 1995's Summer, starting with Slackware 2.0, and yes GNU/Linux desktop experience is still far behind the alternatives.

I am remembered of it every day I have to reboot Network Manager on Ubuntu LTS to reconnect to my wlan, on a EEE PC that was even sold with Linux on it.

When this netbook dies, the only desktops I will keep using are on the form of Android, VMWare or some headless stuff, anything beyond POSIX APIs is always expecting too much.
Teachers compensation does not reflect the dedication and mortality risk their family should accept according to you.

You get what you pay for. Your kid is your responsibility, not your teachers. If your kid "is fucked" its because you weren't willing to take their responsibility seriously - not underpaid teachers.

Your expectation that teachers should expose their families to a pandemic for 40K pa is absurd.
As someone building on a mostly free service with lots of content this is very helpful, thank you! Will probably migrate from S3 to Blackblaze, seems like a great deal.
This was one of the revelations for me from the “seven habits” book. Adversarial relationships can be a great motivator, but it remains an external one.

Depending on someone else to be the vehicle of your success is risky - they might not cooperate or do something different, or just disappear from your life, and now you’re empty.

It can work, but I wouldn’t advise depending on it. Especially since there can be much better ways.
How they did messaging experience so solid and complete so early? I never used blackberry as a user, but only developed some small compatible j2me apps for the platform in the early 2000s. But I was impressed with UI and overall service completeness.
Even if you are serving images that's very heavy for a single page. A 4K resolution jpeg sits at around 6-7 MiB.
I could see Apple adding iMessage support to more platforms if they can use it to tie into service offerings.

However, I doubt people on other platforms would really appreciate it, because the level of integration won't be there.
Longform.org is shutting down its article recommendations service
"Years behind" only if you cherry-pick a few signature features. The primary feature that has to work, that did not on Windows Phone, was having a decent web browser. Trivializing the importance of what iOS did right is understandable in a nostalgic context, but we should not portray a revisionist history to younger folks and should not fetishize a product that failed for sucking, by-and-large.
Effectively, the KVM switch just toggles between "work" and "fun".

But I have a nice window facing desk. While the days are currently quite short, it's still a great view.
I've been a remote / WFH type since about 2006, across two houses. Over that time I've held a lot of different roles - freelancer, business owner, employee, both in software and out...

In the past, I used the cottage in our backyard as a dedicated office (this was glorious!) but a few years ago started renting it out for extra income (this is also really great!). That meant that I moved my space into the house, first as a corner of my bedroom, later in a dedicated office room. What I've learned for myself is that it is good to have a dedicated desk for when I'm in that mood, but that it really helps to be able to grab my laptop and migrate. This became especially true when my partner moved into my dedicated office space. Sometimes it's nice to work in the same space, other times I like to sit in the front window of the house. Likewise, sometimes I need the second monitor and the beefy system on my desk. In the office we both have matching motorized standup desks - she likes to stand for part of the day more than I do. She really likes a pistol-grip style mouse, I'm happy with whatever mouse is available. We are an all Apple household, and we've found the built in microphones and webcams to be perfectly sufficient.

Major addition to our office in the past two years was an investment in a color laser printer / scanner. Totally worth every penny.

Biggest work-from-home productivity move is having kids old enough to be in school and/or able to keep themselves busy. The cats still walk on my keyboard or demand loves, but overall they are pretty good co-workers.
This review is hot air at best. I feel the movie is pretty simple to understand. "Don't lie to yourself and devalue human connection" was the moral of the story to me. The female news host was the epitome of this lesson. A woman who was cultured and learned was consumed by a lifestyle in complete opposition to that. In the end, she more or less realises she truly has nothing of value to herself and can't decide what to do at the end of the world. Upon this, she resolves to get drunk with her co-host and bitch about other people. A sad and miserable demise.
Wouldn't that prompt the 3d-secure on payment? This would quickly raise some eyebrows.
I believe it might be because of the orbit isn’t perfectly circular and and same inclination as the station. Check some docking videos where they show relative trajectories between docking ships and station and you notice that it forms “loops” if no thrust is applied. Orbital mechanics can be unintuitive, if you apply thrust towards your orbital motion you raise your orbit on the opposite side of the earth and so on.
This is really nice, but instead of a timer at the end showing the successful path it should be the leader who decide when to start new, because player maybe want to discuss the results a bit.
Many? All of them, I'd guess. Use it, or lose it.

https://simpleflying.com/lufthansa-ghost-flights/
Or teach them neural nets and robotics so they can invent their own AI servants and live happily ever after. Especially easy to do by importing huggingface in the near future.

Technology tends to spread life improvement faster and wider than education and capital. We now have access to things that were too expensive even for the rich, or too complex even for the educated.

We should use our new superpowers to invent a future we like instead of complaining about change. What could a motivated group of people do in order to be as self sustaining as possible in the future? I think there are lots of ideas here.
I think it’s purely a cultural thing. In France, the fountain pen is the norm at school (probably because most inks are erasable, and maybe it changed, after all, I’m getting old).
They are simply too light to hurt themselves.
If you include Excel in “no code” I think it opened it up to many millions.
As a user I think I've put your website on my mental "avoid it" list for its design. I've opened a page now and I feel like I'm instantly in a tunnel vision mode. For UX: it's not a pleasure to scroll up & down; maybe there's also a psychological element about the main content area being so slim in width.

The other comment made me remember there was captcha too, right? I had been using my own rented server as a VPN for all my internet access. But I'd have never blocked it for a public list - I've read the 'about me' page.
> that I might actually use

The only language that you might actually use is Python.
Jonathan Coulton has a really appealing song that gets at this.

song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unjGuvJIePs

lyrics:
https://wiki.jonathancoulton.com/Nemeses/Lyrics

Here is the chorus:

Could it be that you need me
To keep you out, to run you faster
Promise me you'll let me be
The one, the worst of all your enemies
Pretending you're a friend to me
Say that we'll be nemeses