skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Flag? Really... that's mean :-) but here goes I'll try to answer your questions/concerns and those of 0xfff2 in one go "You mean, nobody work for a year?" Yes, to the extent they want to do something why not look at it and see if it's usefull, helpful, or just using their time and polluting the environment?
Once the obligation to go to work goes away, habits, needs, wants, perspective change

"Everyone in a nursing home would be dead after a few days," this statement I don't understand, I've been in EMS's as the french speakers call them.... and beyond having a high cost, many of those old people could be adequately cared for at home...or use a helper occasionally in a much more efficient/economical manner

"No food would be planted or harvested, so even when the truckers and supermarket workers began to work again the starvation would not end"
Figures say ...? 6% of imports are food and beverages..., when people have time they cook, so use of basic foodstuffs would go up, that of expensive, overly packaged foodstuffs (dissapear) one would hope, I answered this question inasmuch as pointing out food in general is cheap... Switzerland is currently sitting on a huge amount of wealth that is stuck in real estate, pressure for an appreciating CHf (on which they are using debt to counter more than 2k per Swiss person)

"no one is staffing the supermarkets, no one is driving trucks to deliver food to supermarkets, no one is farming at commercial scale"
Open markets are a thing, self driving trucks too, automatic check outs ...vending machines...as for commercial farming it's gotten out of hand... I studied horticulture and personally avoid supermarket food in Switzerland, it's tastless, expensive and in many cases over packaged... come to Eastern Europe...for flavour,

If people were to have more free time, don't you think, the great outside , gardening, cooking and sharing good food would be one of their préoccupations?

A simple google search turns up

"It has one of the highest sucide rates in Europe, in 2014, 1,029 people committed non-assisted suicide (754 men, 275 women), for a rate of 12.5 per 100,000 (18.5 male, 6.6 female). Not included are 742 assisted suicides (320 men, 422 women); most of the assisted suicides concerned elderly people suffering from a terminal disease."

Tldr I understand the misgivings my "naive" statements produce, but plead for people to open their minds to other potential lifestyles that could really help combat CC...
Awesome. Thanks for the recommendations. Making my own pizza would feel amazing I bet.
What was the old saying? People don't flee jobs, they flee bad managers?

You can run a fast-food franchise, a pub, a hotel or any other front-line enterprise with skill and enjoy extremely loyal employees (at the cost of your profit), or you can run it like a hell on earth by extracting all profit you reasonably can.

For a long time, the latter was the standard model across the hospitality sector, especially as unionization and other forms of worker self-organization were never really present - now with covid haven thoroughly shaken everything up, employers are (finally) forced to up their offers. For a lot of them though, it might be way too late - good riddance.
Interestingly, I had the opposite problem recently. The spam filter started collecting legitimate emails frequently. I had years go by where in wouldn’t even think about going to my spam folder, then over the last couple of months, it’s gotten substantially worse. I now check spam daily to make sure I’m not missing things.
I think they underestimated how bad things are that they thought 2 weeks notice for shift schedules had to be worse
I've slowly been migrating everything to self-hosted Umami, and wrote this overview and setup guide a while back:
https://pqvst.com/2021/07/26/self-hosted-analytics-with-umam...
> we're yet to see overclocking enthusiasts run into these reliability concerns

Several people on Reddit reported their Zen 2 cpus degraded within few months when overvolted.
> Or you simply didn't know that Firefox made it the default a while ago.

Oh, interesting! I did not know it is a default now. I can imagine why they would enable it by default, but when Cloudflare (which I assume is the default DoH provider) has a problem at some point everyone is doomed.

Really wish they also could make it so the data collection part is opt-in instead of opt-out (which at this point in time appears to be the actual cause of this problem).
More likely we'll have small battery packs based on this technology to charge at home, store in the trunk and use on very long range journeys. What we're using small gas cans for now.

Refueling someone else in an emergency won't be a common use case by definition.

Selling the extra capacity at the corner of the street not common because it's not our job and we don't have time for that.

Maybe if every parking place has its own individual charging station people will plug in their cars in output mode, set how much they are selling and the network will buy it. This assumes that energy at home is cheaper than the price paid by the network.
The whole point is if you're getting a TC of 180k at a startup and Amazon offers you 550k/year, Facebook, Apple, Netflix and Google are all likely to do similar numbers.

You don't have to already be working at one.

In fact a good number of companies are likely to be closer to 550k/year than 180k since they're also aware they need to compete with FAANG offers.

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Meanwhile Amazon is not particularly easier to join than the rest of FAANG (modulo the specific team), they're not particularly more prestigious than the rest of FAANG, the work is not particularly more exciting than the rest of FAANG... meanwhile the culture aspect is a huge negative outlier.

Amazon almost has this cartoonish level of negativity hovering over it ever since things like URA and Focus have slowly come out to actually as real things... between all that and the on-call and the general work you'll be doing, it's just not an amazing choice.
The problem came back :( had to disable network.http.http3.enabled
I know it's a rant for which I may get downvoted, but I've grown really tired with Firefox.

It's only my laziness (having to recreate all the setup, find equivalent extensions etc.) that keeps me from switching to another browser.

Crashing tabs, losing pinned tabs, having to restart the browser when I switch to another wi-fi (eg. return home from the office), or otherwise all I'm getting is SEC_ERROR_BAD_SIGNATURE errors (not a problem for any other browser somehow!)... or even those silly dialogs that inform me "Firefox is already running, just not responding" when I close and try to reopen it, because apparently it lingers in memory, sometimes for like half a minute, when I'm only trying to get stuff done. These little slaps in the face really add up over time.
I just god pinged why is Firefox not working. Now I know :)
But does this include bank holidays? We have 8(?) paid bank holidays in the UK so even 22 days is in reality 30. There are much fewer in the US.
you are correct.. happened again
There is absolutely no way I can agree with this comment or sentiment, as someone who has lived in both the US and in Europe. The US invented and perfected homogeneous city landscapes. Everywhere you go, the same buildings and the same chains dot the landscape. Great if you want to go to McDonald's and Walmart, but very very homogeneous.

Europe is not like that at all. I think it has to do with your familiarity with the place if you think everywhere in Europe is the same.
While I don't personally interface many PLC, I believe many could use this if the knew about it. Sounds like an awesome project.
"You just have to use a different operating system"

No. This can't help the customer who already bought a device, because Apple can (and does) change the terms on which the device is used. It would be more fair to use the word 'rent' when you buy Apple's devices, because you don't truly own them, Apple does: It decides which apps you can run, and it can pull off the apps you need from the Appstore, and so on.

When Apple alters the deal, all their customers can do is pray Apple doesn't alter them any further. This IS a monopoly, and you can't use a different operating system on your iPhone if it would be rendered useless to you by Apple.
I suggested that data collection should be opt-in since it is (almost) the cause of this issue, and my comment was hidden for "advocacy".

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1749908#c11
>It bypasses your hosts file

It doesn't bypass my hosts file... I have a couple of locally hosted websites that I have rules in /etc/hosts for, and Firefox resolves them correctly even with DOH enabled.
Yeep.
GeckoMain
ESR versions were reportedly affected as well: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1749908#c2
Where is considered good in the UK for computer science? Imperial?

I really like the look of Oxford’s computer science courses, but that’s partly because of the theoretical/philosophical bent to them.
What is going on at Mozilla? It's getting harder to stay faithful to the organization supposedly representing the open web. They are acting more like the profit-first companies that are strangling our use of the internet. Starting a browser to a blank page should not make any outbound connection until the user requests something. Apparently their HTTP3 support is choking while trying to connect to some centralized service. This is an unacceptably poor engineering design.
Thank you very much, this fixed it for me as well! :)
i grew up in europe without a car. when i moved to san diego i thought, that's it, i'll finally have to learn how to drive.

but i didn't. i made sure that i lived somewhere with a direct bus to work and it turned out to be fine. same in los angeles later. also auckland, nz.

with that experience i concluded that i won't need a car, ever. it is all about arranging how you live.
Every program needs windows/linux-like start menu and explorer/finder-like sidebar. This ui idiom is so successful and familiar that it's just stupid to not make it into a program. We need to stop designers who think only colors, fonts and transparent 40px frames.
Ruby standard library is such a mess. It had like two YAML serializers at some point, right? dbm and gdbm (whatever they are)? Multiple prime number generators? Rinda (what the hell is this)? RSS? Xmlrpc? So, they had time to put in all that crap while failing to design a usable HTTP client.
M-Labs – open tools for open physics
Blood donations open to gay men in France from March, without preconditions
Looking forward to an scss compiler written in Rust, compiled to wasm and exported via a node module that no longer requires node version/platform specific binaries to be either downloaded or compiled.

Oh cool: https://github.com/connorskees/grass

Oh node-sass is written in C++. I wonder why they aren't shipping the code as wasm rather than using node bindings
Exactly, null bytes aren't allowed.

> All Unicode characters may be placed within the quotation marks, except for the characters that must be escaped: quotation mark, reverse solidus, and the control characters (U+0000 through U+001F).

Any character may be escaped in this way

> Any character may be escaped.

I personally find the JSON spec very explicit while succinct
I personally believe in something like the "Divine Right of Kings" or the "Mandate of Heaven". So basically I think the current ruler of a locale, even a drug cartel in its territory considered criminal by a larger government, is on some level be it great or small, the legitimate authority for that time because of providence, and their legitimacy can be fortified by the leader's justice or weakened by a lack thereof. How they treat people irrespective of what the local policy is is one important aspect of justice, and this is why I think democracy can feel like you describe, because the system was at least set up with the intention of serving a majority of the people (gerrymandering not withstanding). Compare that to 20th century attempts to implement communism which claims to enact another aspect of justice (striving for equality for the worker; fairness), and in practice created a system where the state ruled with an unjust level of fear. With those in light I can understand why different people would espouse these systems of government. It's complicated, it's wrapped up in current ideological battles, but I think these philosophical quandries point beyond our millieu, to meanings and maxims that can help us become better people.
For a second I thought you were one of my roommates, because we had a very similar setup for our (free) hot tub. Ours was a few years earlier and using older hardware.

We had an actual server in the garage, with a X10 firecracker on one serial port and a temperature sensor on the other. We used a 220V relay with a 110V pull, hooked up to a normal X10 switch controller. So from an X10 remote in the house, or via an sms gateway, we could turn on our hot tub remotely.

This had a few advantages including: 1) this setup was more accurate than the ancient thermal sensor/control on the hot tub 2) we never again had a large electric bill because someone forgot to turn it off and 3) really nice for when a date is going well and you can turn on the hot tub ahead of time :)
Do you know any success stories with that?
> Look at any graph of resignations or quits, they dipped.

The data there may be misrepresentative, as your local burger flipper or gas station is not likely to report people quitting jobs anywhere, and people moving off of businesses that were closed by lockdowns weren't reported consistently either.

The ones hit hardest by the "great resignations" are these small-scale employers, who have barely survived two years worth of lockdowns and had to fight for both customers and employees with big-brand stores and franchise operations before that.

For better or worse, the pandemic and its aftereffects will thoroughly disrupt local economies.
As if free speech and diversity would be in competition. Diversity cannot exist without free speech and would degrade to immense peer pressure.

Working cooperatively is superior in most cases, but you need the ability to speak your mind, especially in tight knit teams. No sense in artificial harmony.
>Researchers have found continual bidirectional use of a battery wears it down faster than normal, too.

Why? It seems to me it could be a few causes

1) Difficulty keeping the battery cool while stationary.

2) Higher loads than driving (really, though, how?!?)

3) Just using the battery for more full discharge cycles.

I strongly suspect durability (3) is the issue. It'll always be a tradeoff, and the car makers can adjust it.
what muppet keeps thinking its ok to mess with running configs enabling untested functionality?
Something good for users would be access to previous worlde puzzles, it provides added content and fun to users, and sustains creation. Pricing doesn't have to be exploitative either.
An independent inquiry into the lab could settle that quickly.
They absolutely dominate the market of iOS apps. Imagine the uproar you would be able to install windows apps only via MicrosoftStore? The uproar would be deafening, and yet the impact on users would be far less severe than Apple's tyranny, because you can install other OS on PCs, but you can't install other OSs on iPhones.
You had to take a picture of your face in order to match it with your ID or something like that. We took the picture ten different times in varying light conditions inside and out, and I don't know if the phone was too old or what but it always came back to an error.
I think the theory is that in aggregate they save money since most people are too lazy to jump
If the Mozilla telemetry service can trigger a HTTP/3 DoS bug, then I would assume that any server can trigger the same HTTP/3 DoS bug. I think I'll keep http3 disabled for now, until this is figured out and fixed.

EDIT: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1749908#c21 yes, it's not just telemetry
I was just looking at this tool the other day. I was likewise inspired by the Pighixxx art and was looking to see what tools were out there to generate such a thing (pighixxx is all done in illustrator)

I think I’d like something that could import brds, I also just take a pin list and a package name and generate the pins.
Firefox guys just released a fix
I've found that AppArmor started to block Firefox:

audit: type=1400 audit(1642063521.864:246): apparmor="DENIED" operation="ptrace" profile="snap.firefox.firefox" pid=9868 comm="Shutdow~minator" requested_mask="trace" denied_mask="trace" peer="snap.firefox.firefox"

I really don't like it, but turning off Apparmor worked for me. Not sure what caused AppArmor to start complaining all of a sudden.
It worked, thanks! How can we check the Firefox's logs?
Unfortunately, with work-from-home that puts me in isolation. I did try it with Chrome and that worked so it at least clearly was a FF issue but I never ever counted on features with embargo dates. That totally messes up my inbound QA on new FF releases because that means that no matter how much I test a browser in my sandbox by the time the automatic update propagates to the machine I work on I can still get hosed.

Very frustrating this. Fortunately it isn't a Tuesday or I would have been ready for murder by now.
Just yesterday I was telling a colleague who was fighting with chrome (entering the address `something.companyname.local` caused chrome to search for that string, he had to enter `https://something.companyname.local` for it to work) they should just switch to Firefox. Bugs happen but this is a pretty annoying one.
It's actually worse than that. The vast majority of IAP revenue comes from the bigger mobile game publishers.

Not only do Apple take 30% of this, they screwed over all those developers by removing their (ad platforms mostly) ability to track users, thus breaking the developers monetisation model.

I honestly find it hard to believe that they didn't realise that this was going to hit them hard with IAP revenue, but then I've always been surprised at the lack of joined up thinking in large companies.
That's just the first year out of school pay. It goes up to mid six figures quickly once you get a promotion or two.
We used to use Piwik (https://piwik.com/). It is now called Matomo (https://matomo.org/).
Which thread? I have one borked firefox install that I fixed by disabling http3 and one that i checked 30 minutes after the borked one that still works without disabling anything. Same OS same network. I'm wondering why.
I lean on this. I have a 95.0.1 on ubuntu and got the problem for about 5 minutes. Killed firefox, waited a while and tried again and it worked. So it's not an update issue. A centralized service somewhere failed. Which is, indeed, scary.
Roads cost money to build and maintain, they cost a lot of money to build and maintain.

Those costs are paid for by destinations, as road tolls are limited in the US. At a certain point, and the evidence strongly suggests many parts of the US are past this point, you’re spending more money on road maintenance, than you’re collecting in tax from destinations.

No amount of “cars are more convenient” will change the simple economics that cars and their infrastructure are vastly more expensive than either public transport, or bike infrastructure. And based on the atrocious conditions of US roads, it seems the US can’t afford it’s car infrastructure anymore.
Must be nice to live rent-free under the U.S. security umbrella.
>If they don't turn this around then I hope others will step up and reclaim the web!

Have you any idea how complex a browser needs to be? I hope this team of plucky, idealistic coders can keep up with all the latest and greatest web developments devised by the thousands of engineers at Google et al.

The web as an open, human-sized system is dead.
Yes, but if it wasn't active then it might as well not have been.

This is a great way to bypass continuity testing, I really pity all those people working the desks in hospitals right now using FireFox who are typically less savvy than your average HN'er in trying to get their work done.

If you ship a browser with a time-bomb you are utterly irresponsible.
I have the same problem, through no idea if it's DOH related.

The strange thing it seems to randomly appear/disappear.

Most strangely it happened to trigger the appearance/disappearance of the problem with other people entering the office??
Here it was using NextDNS by default (or at least I cannot remember ever changing it), so I guess they are distributing the possible failure a bit. But still, I wasn't comfortable with Firefox dictating which DNS service to use, which is why I disabled it on my main machine.
> I love in France

Freudian slip.
In UK cities few people own cars. Cycling, running and buses are all valid transports. Cars are really for the too-rich-to-travel-alone and the disabled who can't use public transport for one reason or another.
i live in a rural area with zero public transportation and would have a very hard time doing anything in nearby town if there was nowhere to park my car.
Without the fix it can work intermittently. But disabling http3 fixes it for good.

This is likely also how it passed QA in the first place. Sometimes it works...
Except that tax-funded services are operated without a profit motive, so they're not particularly subject to the market forces that would drive them to become prohibitively expensive. That's one of the features of operating something as a collective, via a government.

At the same time it also becomes an incentive to use them, because they become cheaper than the individualistic alternatives (as with the cost of owning, maintaining, and fueling a car).