skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t agree with this. I think on an intellectual level almost nobody really cares about that kind of thing. But your body decides to feel bad when you believe others are judging you. You can’t control your body and so I would say that the only rational response is to avoid situations that cause you emotional stress and when your body is making itself experience stress because of the perceived judgement of others, just accept that you can’t change it and try to focus on something else.
You don’t know anyone with Snapchat or Facebook? They’re both used pretty heavily for messaging.
People should be able to be who they want in any community, making one central identity doesn’t allow that.
And the next step is that it is mandatory, and they block all other DNS provisioning.

And who do the brown shirts then go after next?
Usds is internal, so highly unlikely. The healthcare.gov fiasco was the result of government NOT doing things and instead subcontracting everything.
It's a concern for people who can't afford their power bills. It's not really a concern for Google, who have infinite money and could save power by not running 20 different messenger services if they really wanted to.
Because it perpetuates the myth that taxes fund spending, when they don't.

Surely after two years of countries finding ridiculous sums of money down the back of sofas by magic, as well as ten years of 'QE' it should be clear that there isn't really a shortage of money.

https://new-wayland.com/blog/how-the-governments-super-plati...
"European" isn't a culture but that doesn't stop Europeans from being a definable category of people. "Blue-eyed people" isn't a culture either but I can refer to people with blue eyes as a group.
Just like with a lot of government programs, the cost to manage preventing fraud is usually more expensive than to just let the fraud take place.
I mean Google to start with and Wikipedia for some sources. I like tech blogs when they talk about new things. Kinsta has a fun blog, and so do most of the database providers (Singlestore etc.)

So, I get cutting edge information from blogs operated by tech companies. Stackoverflow also has a really good blog.
Well, plumbers frequently work as contractors to mechanical engineers. Its better to think of them as technicians, even though much of their training and for single family homes/etc the work is basically engineering on a smaller scale (computing gas flow vs pipe size over a run, etc).

I think shat this article fails to note is this engineer light/technician class which tends to be the more hands on portion of "engineering" in the case of sw, they would be more light engineering more programmer less overall design. AKA your systems architect/principal enginner is probably doing "engineering" the software engineers are likely just programmers.
So now we've gone from talking about 1Password to you correcting your own points about a diversion you brought up.

I just now realized you're the same person from the other thread and it all makes sense now, this was never about 1Password for you. My mistake taking the bait.

And of course, I vehemently agree with anything you say about 1Password, or Windows.
This feels like the right response. I was paying electronically online, but I think that I will go back to sending in my payments using a paper check. I will be sure to include a polite form letter explaining why they have lost the privilege of taking my money electronically. If enough people take this approach, they will probably get their act together in a year or two.
And notably a small, highly vocal pack on Twitter. Not representative of the US, let alone Planet Earth.
Heh, I'm writing an essay on this topic currently. It's so strange that Cloud is worth a trillion dollars, web3/crypto is worth as much, and self-hosting is... completely obscure? With multiple global satellite internet services coming soon - do we need crypto to be distributed? Can't we just... use the internet?

I don't think you sound old and idealistic, but I am _for sure_ old and idealistic, so...
You are making quite a few assumptions. So what will you do when you booked a thief but the jail is at staff capacity?
According to this (https://www.otsuka.co.jp/en/nutraceutical/about/soylution/en...) Japan consumes 8.19 kg/year/person of soy, while the US consumes 0.04 kg/year/person. That's 200x difference. Japanese life expectancy is half a decade longer than the US, not to mention 1/10 the obesity.
In the US with its dominant at-will, employer-favored asymmetric, antagonistic worker-business employment policy model, unless the employee is in a hot du jour skill (and trust me, this current local maxima programmers like us are enjoying will come crashing to an abrupt, sobering end) where they can with 100% certainty quit one day and pick up a new job in a couple weeks, or they observe from history they report to a leadership structure like yours that they can trust coming forward, the incentives are all aligned against sharing such productivity gains with the employer. At least until the employee has another job lined up.

This is because the leadership incentives are massively tilted in favor of taking big, quick wins off the table as soon as they appear, and the details are not transmitted up the reporting chain. Eliminating a position and maintaining its work output through automation is bonused far more than "just" the automation by itself. The numbers of the elimination show up on the books, but the skills, organizational knowledge, innovation, organizing, perseverance, and other attributes it took to bring the automation across the finish line do not show up as numbers or even slide decks with conceptual angles.

When faced with showing a 2X or greater cost savings plus a productivity boost, or a 0.10-1.00X valued productivity boost and re-positioning the employee to another role with a spin-up cost, the effect on bonuses is noticeable. When the leadership's tenure themselves is uncertain, is it any wonder why incentive choices fall where they do?

I come at this from the consulting side, and I see far more short-sighted incentivized leadership than leadership like you in my client accounts because of the prevailing incentive structures in my clients. This is interesting to me because one of my theses I'm observing for is going forward, the high-margin companies are going to be the ones that buck this trend. I suspect this is because those companies are tapping into what I believe is a growing successfully adaptive response to the technologically-driven complexity increasingly associated with high margins: you need high capital, low time preference, and high+deep trust. It used to be with sufficient capital and moderate trust at just leadership levels, you could power through nearly any business, but I'm seeing signs this model is increasingly mal-adaptive to economic structures with strong network effects affinities.
>Russia can not accept Ukraine joining NATO.

And I can't accept the cute redhead turned me down, but just like Putin I will have to suck it up.
Agree with this, at the same time I find the simple act of writing the notes or a mind map helps with retention even if they're unreadable later on.
Apple AirTags – 'A perfect tool for stalking'
yes we do seem to appreciate policing of all sorts don't we
I also find it frustrating that a lot of these social/environmental companies underpay engineers. Just because the deed is good, doesn't mean people don't deserve decent compensation. Especially a company like Ecosia, which is racking in the cash.
And every address with a unit number counts. What's your point? I live in a 3 flat in Chicago and each floor has it's own unit designation including mine. BSMT. haha
I nominate this for best comment so far of 2022.
Building a Q&A Model in Python [video]
or just getting really really big in their britches, super ridoculously unaffordable, unavailable, unwilling to serve anything but super high margin high end clients/markets.
Wow this sucks. I thought after taking away the ability to link new custom domains that this would have been it, and it'll just stay a crippled option that some will just continue use.

I am grandfathered in. I don't actually use the account for much these days, but I have a few things like YouTube channels, YouTube premium (+ music), analytics, Android store purchases and bunch more things running through it.

Sure I can use aliases for the domain or just set the mails go to a different provider, but outside of the mails I am now stuck and need to figure out what to do since there are no migration options available. Probably means I'll have to nuke everything and setup from scratch (for the things that don't allow setting a new admin).
For who want to check current implementation: https://github.com/nginx/nginx/blob/429150c1fa78317bdb19de38...
No evidence of that there. Only that "current smokers were 80% more likely to be admitted to hospital and significantly more likely to die from Covid-19 if they became infected" -- did they control for other factors, that tend to go along with smoking, like obesity (and socioeconomic status)? Where's the link to their paper?

All the genetic stuff too is super suspicious, I would be _shocked_ if "genetic predisposition to smoking" had no impact whatsoever on any other variable that could cause more severe COVID.

Here's some actual studies:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33420786/

> We conducted a cross-sectional, observational study on the 1769 sailors of the same navy aircraft carrier at sea exposed at the same time to SARS-CoV2 to investigate the link between tobacco consumption and Covid-19.

> Current smoking status was associated with a lower risk of developing Covid-19 but cannot be considered as efficient protection against infection. The mechanism of the lower susceptibility of smokers to SARS-CoV-2 requires further research.

https://harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1...

> A total of 7162 patients were included, with 482 being smokers. The POR was 0.24 (95%CI 0.19–0.30). Unlike the original study, the association between smoking and disease severity was not statistically significant using random-effects meta-analysis (OR 1.40, 95%CI 0.98–1.98). In agreement with the original study, no statistically significant association was found between smoking and mortality (OR 1.86, 95%CI 0.88–3.94).

> An unusually low prevalence of smoking, approximately 1/4th the expected prevalence, was observed among hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Any association between smoking and COVID-19 severity cannot be generalized but should refer to the seemingly low proportion of smokers who develop severe COVID-19 that requires hospitalization. Smokers should be advised to quit due to long-term health risks, but pharmaceutical nicotine or other nicotinic cholinergic agonists should be explored as potential therapeutic options, based on a recently presented hypothesis.
Facebook uses a separate app that most people don’t have. Snapchat isn’t really for having conversations since it disappears so quickly.
Obviously if you cannot remember what the Zap gun does, you must have used it.

That said what I recall was that the main character was a weapons designer for coalition of western countries that had some name to signify they were an amalgamation of the US and Western Europe.

Weapons were designed but never used, they were designed to be destroyed thereby keeping the peace. There was also a similar designer for the communist bloc of countries, old USSR China amalgamation.

It turns out there is a comic book writer / artist in some African country that has been producing comics with their designs before even done. This threatens to collapse the whole clown show. I think there is a comic with the Zap Gun, nobody knows what it does, and neither of the weapons designers have thought it up on their own.

Don't remember much else.
I wonder if the management at google actually use their products. If they did, there is no way they would allow them to be killed.

Apple's senior staff definitely use their products.
beginners must read
The people who were on it when the bride collapsed are pretty tough to restore from tape...
I live here.

For example, The Railroad Commission regulates oil and gas production, but not railroads, while insane is not the word I would use, some things about Texas are extra quirky.

The utility (electricity) rates during part of the crisis are rational if eye watering.
This license service was installed with a program that I later uninstalled. But it didn't remove itself. I need to manually remove the service definition and the files:

- C:\Windows\System32\Crypserv.exe
- C:\Windows\Ckconfig.exe
- C:\Windows\Ckrfresh.exe
- C:\Windows\Setup_ck.dll
- C:\Windows\Setup_ck.exe
- C:\Windows\Crypkey.ini
- C:\Windows\error.log
- C:\Windows\errord.log
Can someone knowledgeable explain this?

> But the situation was only growing more dire. At the precise time of the third call, the frequency reached a critical threshold: 59.4 hertz.

> Automated turbines across the state began spinning even faster to produce more electricity, but when the frequency dips below 59.4 hertz, the turbines reach speeds and pressures that can cause catastrophic damage to them, requiring that they be repaired or replaced.

Is this actually a way to bump up power generation capacity - by getting the turbines to "spin faster" rather than spinning up more turbines? Also, if the turbines are spinning faster, why does the frequency of the generated AC drop?
But then what happens when that new account wants to use Google Docs? From what I've been reading it sounds like they would be blocked from doing that forever.
Well, I'll admit that hybrid regimes are hard to model from that POV. But practically, they seem to come with nearly all the disadvantages of plain autocracy (even for the rulers themselves) so we should still be seeing a "rational" shift towards improved legitimacy, though it's hard to predict what form that might take (some kinds of democratization are clearly available). I think you might be taking a short-term view of what will still turn out to be a transitional state when seen more broadly.
Google created and offered the service for free, ie. they created the sense of entitlement themselves.

As such, they have no justifiable reason not to expect user reactions reeking of entitlement.
EDIT: Wanting a minimal implementation, I instead made a script:

1. List email files in S3

2. For each file, download into a local maildir-style directory, then delete original

3. Use `mutt -f ./maildir` to browse
>I don't want to spoil anything but, is it just me or does it not make any sense if you really think about it?

Most fiction doesn't make any sense if you really think about it, much less Science Fiction, much less Science Fiction in which Reality mutates unrecognizably several times in the course of the book.
Ubik is a good read, while dining at the restaurant at the end of the galaxy.
I was in G&T programs and ended up skipping multiple grades and going to specialized schools for a few years. I was also a colossal asshole and a behavior problem so my story wont be an exact parallel.

The trade-off was worth it. But my teachers did care, they campaigned for some solution to what they saw as bad behavior from being bored and unchallenged. It did create authority problems to see the Teachers one was supposed to respect stutter on with easy problems and to see your peers having trouble spelling basic words, it was ok to be "other" from that. Early social life doesn't have to be tied to a classroom, I got that from neighborhood friends, athletics church and family. There is no excuse to having your young child wasting the opportunity of her headstart by following the same path as the other kids.

Once you are out of early ed, the honors and AP classes should provide enough challenges, it would be unusual for her to excel in every topic.

I didn't have any particular academic or career excellence other than the path I described there, turns out I just read fast and had tested out of standardized reading levels by the "third" grade but if someone hadn't intervened and noticed that I wasn't mean spirited, I just had read the whole book in the time the rest were reading three pages and now had nothing to do, I would have had a way different feeling about learning and likely would have ended up in alternative schools for being an authority issue.

Most kids in G&T programs even out with others academically over time, there is no reason to waste the younger years where she is showing advanced aptitude
I live in a MFH and we have 3 actual addresses for the units as far as USPS is concerned. Also for some stupid reason the units are #1, #A and #B but I don't think that's USPS's fault.
Firefox's usage percentage is upsetting.

I hope they don't die, but this looks really bad for them.
You don't even need to set up the surround speakers. Having a 3.1 setup has improved my enjoyment of TV and movies substantially. My understanding is most if not all receivers will downmix the surround into your L and R channels.
Apparently, the least processed forms of soybean contain the most endocrine disrupting substance.
Then crippled seems like the perfect word.
I made https://mailwip.com as an email forwarding solution for this purpose.

Simply point your MX records to our server, then email can be forward to your personal gmail/protonmail.
The price to keep all those plants running is a lot less than $9k though.
Why is the government using Google Analytics (which is now illegal in some countries) instead of self hosting an analytics solution.
Big money is playing a long game.

The tech industry is way ahead of any hint of regulations with regards to things like privacy, security or safety. New generations of people are brought unwillingly onto social media by parents. Some problems are hard to reel in by design.
Make Front End Shit Again (2018)
Generally speaking “woke” means people who believe that “equality of outcome” rather than “equality of opportunity” is the goal.
I found this article extremely accurate. I was part of the gifted program in my district and we constantly had to educate folks on what gifted education is and push back against the district when they tried to shut down the program. Mostly on a basis that it 'wasn't fair' to other students that the gifted students (GIEP) had special accommodations. Though no one ever argued against the IEP students and their accommodations.
From the data at https://analytics.usa.gov/data/live/browsers.json, Microsoft Edge has more than 2x the users of Firefox (322,890,632 vs 143,040,483).
The problem isn't just mail. Mail is easy to migrate, but this means you either pay, or you lose access to everything you bought on that account, like Android apps, music, YouTube premium (and playlists), and so on
How are drug consumption crimes and anti social crimes not related? If someone on the streets needs their next hit, shop lifting LEGOs from the downtown Seattle Target is a fast way to get money for that hit (LEGO’s are easy to fence).

Seeing what has happened on the streets due to meth, fentanyl, and heroin, if we are compassionate we have to pay for rehabilitating all that damage that drug use has caused. So…we make it illegal so we don’t have to pay those costs.

Unfortunately, anything short of a Singaporean legal solution probably wouldn’t work, which isn’t something our society can accept. So here we are.
I wonder if that’s something you could get better at with practice? When I watch subtitled movies or shows I watch the show and read the text with my peripheral vision. But I watch a lot of foreign media, so I may have gotten used to doing that. I can say for sure though that my eyes are not focused on the text while watching.
How misinformation gets mainstreamed by the corporate press
Another happy fastmail customer here. Switched from Google with custom domain.
Calendar and contacts are better than Google's too
"A representative for Tesla, which has disbanded its media relations department, could not be reached for comment."

When they said "Someone should lose their job over this!" that is not what they meant.
I'm thinking about GPT-N
I really enjoyed VALIS because it reminded me a lot of my father's mental issues and helped me cope with the things that happened to him.
bread and circuses
Zap Gun is a great title, and a pretty good idea, but IMHO one of PKD's poorer novels.
> we call them civil engineers.

We do not. Civil engineer is a specific thing, with training, education, and licensing. The person who designed the system being installed or serviced was likely a civil engineer, the plumber is a plumber. And that's ok, everyone doesn't have to be an engineer. Being an engineer isn't inherently better than being a non-engineer.

> an engineer as someone who uses fundamental principles and processes of science and engineering

Do you see how saying an engineer is someone who does engineering isn't useful to other people? I'm sure you know what you mean, but basically everyone is and is not an engineer according to your definition.
Breakdown:

By device type:

Mobile 53.7%

Desktop 44.1%

Tablet 1.9%

By browser:

Chrome 48%

Safari 36.2%

Edge 6.4%

Firefox 2.8%

My personal conclusions:

Tablets remain a niche product, Firefox is dead, and Edge will be dead in a few years if it can't eat more market share, which it won't.
Would have been more interesting article if it described the services affected, what made them slow, what was done to overcome it etc.

Also, the numbers doesn’t seem to reflect a horizontally scalable cluster deployment, the load numbers are low enough for a single server to handle.
It is different, because USA was never communist country. And those who argue by "it is like communistm" typically have only very superficial understanding of history of Comunism and of culture it had. Or none at all often.
Latin was also the lingua franca of nobles and merchants. Lingua Franca Mediterrania itself, the language spoken by medieval sailors in Italy, Egypt, and nearly all the coastline of Mediterranean is a creole of Italian, Portuguese, and Arabic. To the point that Shakespearean Moors spoke it as "Arabic".

Then, the language of science until the 1900s is Latin. Isaac Newton wrote in Latin. Nearly all scientific papers and books were published in "Neolatin".
It’s inferior in every respect, quite aside from any “cool” factor. It breaks easily and it doesn’t support the non-plastic pieces (e.g. the monitor) well are two of the most important factors.
Probably gold, which was the world's reserve currency from about 00500 BCE until 01971 CE, 51 years ago. Bitcoin would probably work, since its printing is finite and extremely predictable, but politically it's unacceptable to China right now, and it's only 13 years old, so it might collapse in a way that gold probably won't.
If you can condense this thread and relate to the subject, a blog would be interesting.
> Not using those.

> XSD can be processed to automatically generate parsing and checking code for whatever other PL than the original one.

Well, where are the actual working implementations of these things that you're saying are possible? You say there are tools that have good conversions between XML schema and language sum types; what tools? (and if not in Haskell/Scala then what languages?) Because my experience is that you just don't get good idiomatic representations from the tools, and end up either maintaining the schema and the code in parallel manually, or autogenerating a "dumb" schema that's missing most of your validity constraints.
If a documentary of our life and times is made it will be of enduring tragedy, hope, and with luck eventual progress in the face of many crisis of substantial nature. It wont be about trivialities like this any more than it will be about how I stubbed my toe this morning or how you got stuck in traffic.

If we need anything at this moment it is perspective.