skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
really? What cost? Is that public information? My understanding was that play services was no longer part of Android core because Google didn't want phone manufacturers mucking with it (creating an inconsistent and frankly worse experience on some devices), not because they were trying to charge a fee for it.
Not the op but, giving this rely in whatever is on the host OS, the DLL's on the host OS will evolve changing its interface or even not ship anymore while with applications that rely the bare minimum like electron this is not a issue.
I legitimately don't understand people who care so much about themselves they can't be happy for others. I had a "friend" try to destroy me because of envy. I worked hard for the little I had that in an area he didn't. To be unable to control the compulsion wrought by envy is pathetic to say the least.

You don't need much to survive in this world. And that's enough to be happy. You can always trade down your friends to people who are less wealthy and the problem of keeping up with the joneses is solved near instantly. You also don't even need friends. Just drop them if they are a-holes, trust me they wont notice, especially those guys compulsively running rat race. They are the npc's of this world, and they don't even know it. Mindless drones working to outdo other mindless drones. They'll be working to out-status the next guy until they're dead. Trust me they are robotic status seeking machines. That's why they try to one up everyone, that's why they try to make you feel bad, that's why they try to hide the fact that they want to make you feel bad to fit in with society so society will accept them, that's why they kiss ass and kick down, that's why when their boss tells them to jump, they ask "how high?". They are a cataclysm of anxiety and compulsion driven, emotional status seeking machines. You find this out when you break their machine logic and they are unable to find a prewritten routine. They literally look like broken computers as you watch their OS short circuit, and you realize how little humanity they have.

> Rich people aren’t aware that their tales of success make people like me feel bad.

Because quite often they aren't aware at all. To live in a world of full of other people and not even be able recognize others exist.

You don't want to be them. You want to be in control of you and your destiny. Find your inner child. Find your soul and live your life.
Google is not concerned much with the ability to block ads, but whether it is default. The vast majority of users do not install content blockers.
Thank you for the study.

I’m not worried about mortality so much as getting over the strange long effects I’m feeling. I see this study as well.

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210315/low-dose-aspirin-ma...

> But Magen's group found that people who'd already been taking low-dose aspirin to reduce their risk of heart disease had a 29% lower risk of contracting COVID-19 compared to those who didn't take aspirin, and that rates of aspirin use were much lower among COVID-19 patients than among those who didn't get infected.

>Among people who did get COVID-19, the time it took for SARS-CoV-2 PCR test results to go from positive to negative was significantly shorter among those who used aspirin, and the duration of their disease was two-three days shorter, depending upon preexisting health conditions.
...because it's IPO now or wait a few years, probably. We're very late in the cycle, I think, and a correction is coming soon. Same reason Zillow got out of the house-buying business, if the truth be told.
According to the About page of Tauri, the Tauri team is maintaining the Rust bindings of Webview.

Source: https://tauri.studio/en/docs/about/intro#polyglots-not-silos
Perl seems to have died down just about everywhere. I've not used it professionally or seen it in use in well over a decade. It's so expressive and has so many ways to do things that reading other people's Perl can be challenging. I think this contributed to its downfall. And "other people" can often mean "yourself in six months" too.
You're the guy that doesn't get invited to parties because you keep eating all the food because it's free, aren't you ?

All those subsidies are given under the expectation that people will behave reasonably and only use what is necessary, because it gets the country running. It's taking a hit so that your citizens can live and thrive. When you suddenly have a bunch of people running thousands of GPU for magic internet money, that is not a reasonable use of it.
Thanks for this comment, I found it very interesting and now I want to learn about it all. Thanks :)
>> RECOVERY trial finds aspirin does not improve survival for patients hospitalised with COVID-19

How is survival defined? Do they mean "gets released from hospital vs. dies in hospital"? Because it seems a lot of things that can reduce severity of Covid (including vitamin D for example) don't change much at the last minute when you're at deaths door.

In this case, we're talking about long Covid symptoms so it would seem a reduction in 1-year mortality should be the deciding factor (since Severe Covid patients who "survive" still have significantly increase mortality over the next year).
I was CTO of a company that was a pretty early user because they were physically located close and directly sold it to us, around 2014 IIRC. We were very happy with the service and the company still uses it.
I currently use Gusto for my own company and Justworks seems on par with that.
...What? But why!

Sigh, less and less choice every day.

EDIT: What about this potential leak? https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/amd-to-release-ryzen...
Sure thing. It has 2 parts, frontend (web gui in React) and backend (Nodejs + Puppeteer)

I have a web GUI for fetching thread comments from the Reddit API and where the user can quickly pick which comments should be filtered out. It also lets the user know if a comment is "bad" (violence etc.) from some automatic string matching so they can be filtered out or edited quickly.

Then on the backend I fill a HTML template with the comment data making it look pretty. Then I use Puppeteer to render and screenshot it into an image. Then I do a "segmented reveal", revealing one sentence at a time using HTML classes and CSS, depending on what part of the text is currently being read. It also scrolls down so the sentence currently being read is in the center of the screen, and does some other stuff like censor bad words using the CSS blur filter. Then I use ffmpeg with a bunch of complex_filter entries to add TTS audio to the screenshots, add transitions and stuff and concat it all together.

It's really not that complicated, but learning ffmpeg and making rendering reasonably quick and correct was a challenge.
> Firefox and Chrome are pretty much at parity, Edge is chrome and Safari is the exception.

Firefox and Safari are very much at parity. Chrome ships ~40-70 new "standard" APIs every month or so: https://web-confluence.appspot.com/#!/confluence
SF rent isn't gouged: SF land prices are gouged by NIMBYs. For the price rent is SF should look like Manhattan. Instead it's more like Boise.
So efficient for you, but 1000x more resources everywhere it runs.

I wonder if someone can quantify the carbon impact of Electron just from Slack.
> I don't think Apple would want to make itself the default. That would just invite all kinds of regulatory scrutiny

Doesn't seem to have stopped Google with Android.

> would conflict with their pro privacy image.

How so? I'd argue that it would enhance it, because they could advertise that the default AppleSearch protects your privacy better than Google.
Don't be jealous, instead try to ask them what are the things that they have done in which helped them propelled their status in life.
You have a degree of control over that; you know when updates are installed, the list of updates, you can disable updates. Even if it is not 100% in your control, you have a fair amount.
But I want to bias towards attracting talent?
He's not talking about using aspirin as a treatment for when you are hospitalised due to covid.
RISC-V Multiply Only Extension (Zmmul)
Welcome to a world where everyone is judged to be equal to the lowest common denominator unless proven otherwise. Do you have a lock on your front door? How do you determine who you invite into your home?

Enabling discriminative behaviors does not mean using discriminative behaviors. It’s called freedom. Judge people by their actions not by what you think they are allowed to see by a gatekeeper.
How many interviews with non-FAANG companies have you done in the last year? Before dismissing the industry entirely, find some interesting companies and interview them for the culture you're looking for.
Also, I've been programming for over 10 years. I personally know two ex-lawyers who switched to programming and are much happier. I've never met anybody switching from programming to law.
How are the wifi issues not Framework's responsibility? They are the ones who defined the hardware specs. I would assume they tested different configurations and picked the best options.

Which makes me wonder - maybe the Intel wifi board has a lot of problems but is still the best Linux option...
Longform is shutting down
It's all a matter of costs and standard of living.

Oil (and generally resource rich countries) have a tough line to thread between spreading the riches among the population without making the said population dependent on that sharing ( e.g. Venezuela) and hoarding at the top. Most fail miserably, and honestly the only one i can think of doing a great job is Norway, and it was mostly by accident.
Good assessment on the need to shift domain to ensure long-term stability. However, can you help me understand why you shortlisted finance and sales?
Too bad most desktop GUI framework libraries are trash and absolutely painful to use.
> Even if it's green, wouldn't it be better if that produced energy goes somewhere to replace non-green energy, rather than to calculate hashes that are mostly thrown away?

yep, that's my argument above. and i personally wouldn't say hashes "are mostly thrown away", i would argue they're all thrown away, especially when considering this 'tech' will become defunct in a few years.

“In what may be the best expression yet of capitalist realism, a new tool for free market speculation has become for many a populist symbol of resistance to the ravages of finance capitalism.”

https://mronline.org/2021/12/28/cryptocurrencies-a-view-from...
You're not FAANG so don't hire like FAANG
ME was always sold of as a sort of Premium enterprise feature with no uses on the consumer front.

However Intel dabbled with technology much more sinister (SGX) that did exactly what it said exactly on the tin, protecting data from the user of the machine. Unlike MS's track record with Pluton, it was always horribly broken,required a license to attest victim machines and only covered the Intel half of the PC market. The only commercial software I'm aware of that ever mandated SGX is some blu ray player for windows
By the point you’re seizing small arms from police stations you’re toeing the line between riot and revolution
I assume the Tony Blair hate is based on the Iraq War?

I don’t get it.

Prime Minister in the UK cannot go to war without parliament’s approval.

Parliament approved invasion with 412 to 149 votes.

Is Tony Blair the scapegoat?

Can someone explain?
Students learned with nothing more than books for hundreds of years and were better educated than most people today.
Perl is also a nasty language to work with. Incredibly ugly. Even if perl was the standard for data science, I would be looking to escape it at every opportunity. In fact, that's what I did when I worked in a sector that had tooling and network effects for perl. I tried to escape using perl every chance I could.
I highly doubt that, since it would imply 99% of users are using Samsung Internet on Samsung devices rather than Chrome, which doesn't seem to be true. If iOS users are largely using Safari, it's because Safari is actually a good enough browser that it isn't worth switching.
Where do those profits go? Presumably TSMC doesn't just sit on it. Surely they either invest it back into their business to stay competitive or deal it out as compensation.
> China now emits almost twice as much greenhouse gas as the United States.

China has over four times the population of the US.

edit: i.e. comparing China to the US is like comparing the US to Germany or France. We're polluting twice as much, and a good amount of the pollution in China is for exporting to us.
Ah, thanks. I think I am going to give type hints another try.
Could covid not actually be just a disease?

Maybe it's a disease + chronic unhealth. Due to age, pollution, obesity, bad diet, sitting on yr butt too much and/or etc
The hard part is getting the root certificate in the trust store on every device in your organization.
No. I never connected my kindle to wifi. It works exactly the way it worked on day 1.
I don't see any mention of ... money - presumably this will be a paid position?!
What? Ok? This was a pointless circular tangent then?

"We want the best talent."

"No we don't. We want the to remove bias."

"Isn't talent more important?"

"Removing bias is finding the best talent."

That was like reading a conversation with an AI chatbot. We all agree we want the best talent then, yes?
I'm pretty sure Gmail is where I first noticed this years and years ago. I've been with Fastmail for the past many years, but remember the dialog from Gmail. Maybe it was an experiment you had to enable and are opted out of?

A quick search says that automatic footers (company logos) can be interpreted as attachments...meaning you won't see the warning. Could that be your issue?

https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-get-a-forgotten-attachment-r...
Not infrequently I have a client bring in a system without aftermarket antivirus that got hacked. It is ten times rarer that I get a hacked system with an aftermarket antivirus. I still recommend people use an aftermarket antivirus.

Regarding you being required to use McAfee, I've found it no better than Windows Defender, so I don't know why people pay for it. It doesn't even rate well in detection tests like av-test or av-comparatives.
Thanks! Glad you're enjoying it. Feel free to reach out on Discord if you've got any feedback.
Crypto miners would be very happy with taxpayer funded electricity. Also people who leave their air conditioners on blast while out for the day.
> Let's just imagine for a while what UI would look like if we only had Swing (Java) or QT (C++)

yes, Telegram looks so bad right ?
A Meditation on Huge Books
The hospitality sector is over saturated and pressure on wages is a result of PPP money to restaurants that would otherwise not be around to hire now. I wish they would stop being such babies about relief checks though.

The same type of people in the US pretended not to notice price increases directly caused by the trade war. They even defended it because they had their guys in charge: “need some pain for some gain”

There was a constituency for a trade war, a very powerful one. And NOW they want to blame their opposition for the logical outcome of those cost increases, more cost increases!

There’s a constituency for UI benefits, the “nobody wants to work” crowd has lost all good will with workers for the whole industry.

Any critic of “defund the police” will tell you not to bash a social service that is so damn popular.

Whether it’s a social service that offers free policing or direct checks, people LOVE free stuff from the government.
Ack. You’re right in that the engineer who writes the code is not the one who writes the test, but recall that all this happens at the code-review phase.

When QA finds holes when writing unit tests (rare), it goes on a backlog. For us, if the reviewer finds a bug or finds the code not very testable, your code isn’t getting merged. We catch both errors and design issues (especially premature optimizations and overly large API surface area) very early. Habitually, our engineers write simple, well-documented code with concise APIs at a well-defined level of abstraction (we also follow some other heuristics to make this obvious) on the first revision, so we rarely (6 total in the last 3 months if I’m querying correctly) have more than two revisions despite the additional ‘write tests’ step from the reviewer.

We found that engineers take great joy in trying to break others’ code, but also enjoy collaborating in a scratch-each-others-backs way when they get to give useful feedback. We’ve been able to channel that into great test coverage (around 99% FWIW). We’re pre-launch, so ultimately we may uncover bugs in production at the same rate as traditional code reviewing shops ¯\_()_/¯, but we’ve had close to zero issues needing manual intervention in months of early user testing.
I started with an Amiga 500, upgraded it to 1 meg RAM, then got an HD with RAM expansion (30 meg drive, 3 megs RAM total.) Eventually I updated to an Amiga 3000, which came with Workbench 2.0.

2.0 was a huge upgrade from the 1.x line. It looked much more professional, was more stable, etc.
I've set up an alias to source my script (xd.sh) like:

alias xd=. xd.sh

Sourcing the script allows it to change the current directory.
> So if someone has Covid and gets run over by a train, is that reported as a Covid death (serious question)?

No.

German reporting is based on the local health agencies reporting deaths either "caused primarily by COVID" or "with COVID as a contributing factor" (last I saw in a ratio of about 80:20, some sampling with autopsies suggests that's not totally off but the samples aren't all that large), with almost always the aggregate number being reported because the distinction can be very difficult to make. (EDIT: although official overall cause-of-death statistics still go by primary reported cause, and thus exclude the latter part)
An easy way around that is upzoning. Then a house that's worth $1m could be turned into 4 houses worth 500k each.

That way homeowners make more money and housing becomes cheaper at the same time.

Depending on the context of course..
> Contrast to Chrome first developers who often get caught by cross browsers incompatibilities just like they did back in the days when they were IE first developers : )

I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this statement (and comparison to IE). If anything, Safari is "the new IE" rather than Chrome.

MOST (hopefully the nitpickers pick up the caps lock) stuff in Chrome are drafts or standards.

Sure, Google pioneered/championed some of them, but that's kinda irrelevant if developers voted for those features. There's very little Chrome-specific stuff.

Also, other browsers have vendor specific stuff in them too, yet people rarely fling shit in their direction?

FWIW I also mostly use Firefox for dev because I prefer how some devtool features are designed/implemented.

Most of my cross browser issues in FF were "brief" in the senses that they were bugs that got fixed eventual.
Well said.

One could also argue for the banning of video games using the same logic. A relaxing drive to the beach, your wasting energy!

A better solution would be to tax Crypto earnings at a higher rate, and use the tax revenue to build some green energy. I'd imagine Kosovo could become a low cost tech hub , but if you freak out techy expats with strange laws...
You think mafias and thugs are reasons to crack down on miners?
That's a pretty funny definition of efficiency. Synthetic fuel based on renewables is about 10% efficient grid-to-wheel vs 90%+ efficiency for battery electric.

Synthetic fuels will be a crucial part of net zero, but aren't efficient or cheap.
I think the tricky part with that specific problem is that it asks you to do it in O(log(m+n)) complexity, so you can't even iterate through the two arrays to see all of the values -- you need to do some binary-search-like thing across both of the arrays. In O(m+n) complexity, yeah you could combine the arrays and then find the median of the combined array, which is much simpler. This is actually a great example of why those questions are so hard!
Not sure I understand the argument, everything with a lower probability than dying is not worth fixing? If you are in higher risk groups (journalist, critical of Google, using virtual phone numbers etc) is the probability still low?

Account deletion is not the only risk, it's also privacy (Google knows what you sign into and when) and a myriad other advantages (native payments being the obvious one).
> If you want to "let the market fix it", poor people won't be able to afford electricity.

What do you think of replacing the subsidy with giving citizens/industries electricity vouchers of equivalent value?
Virtual doesn't work the way they have implemented it. If the same problems exist that you list: "teacher/substitute teacher shortage (staffing issue)" they don't assign, permit, and administer the virtual classes and assignments for the same reasons. The few teachers who are out ill, and try to do so, are fewer than you think. At least here in NY.
Indeed I've seen other comments in this thread that indicate the same. I tested sending an email with the word "attachment" in it, with no attachment, and Gmail didn't have any problem sending it.

I tested it with my work email on Google Workspace, and it showed the popup. It must be a setting.

Weird.

EDIT: After toggling experimental features on, then off again, it now works. ¯\(º_o)/¯
I hope it is, because the alternative is that they're being allowed to get away with something that's against the law, bad for the free market, and anti-consumer.
Google maps has it here quite near Athens https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Aigeira+250+10,+Greece/@...
I have 12+ years of experience. I get so much anxiety during leetcode interviews that I have trouble reading the word problem and understanding the question. My brain just goes haywire and I have to take deep breaths. Usually I get part 1 done/running and fail because I didn't make it past part 1. I can do just about any easy/medium problem on leetcode. Just can't code under pressure. I don't get anxiety in any other part of my life, ever. I think this speaks to how badly they are at sorting out the original goal of can this person write code, and do they know basic data structures.

I recently interviewed somewhere where I did a leetcode interview, then a take-home and then it felt like they didn't care about the 6+ hour takehome and made me do another leetcode. Pretty frustrating!

Thanks for the thread, it's nice to vent! It's also good to learn how to be a better interviewer, and write better interview problems. My favorite is a debugging interview, where there are like 4 bugs in the program and we work with the interviewee to solve the 4 issues. I'm sure there are problems with this style too, but it's far more practical...
That's a very charitable view of capitalism-driven wealth concentration.
"On 6 July 2016, Sir John Chilcot announced the report's publication, more than seven years after the inquiry was announced.[3] Usually referred to as the Chilcot report by the news media,[4] the document stated that at the time of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, Saddam Hussein did not pose an urgent threat to British interests, that intelligence regarding weapons of mass destruction was presented with unwarranted certainty, that peaceful alternatives to war had not been exhausted, that the United Kingdom and the United States had undermined the authority of the United Nations Security Council, that the process of identifying the legal basis was "far from satisfactory", and that a war was unnecessary.[5][6][7] The report was made available under an Open Government Licence."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Inquiry
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