skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to live in an apartment complex across the street from a gas station in Houston, TX. It was owned by an older subcontinental Asian (Nepali?) man and his family. I'd go in about once every two weeks. One day, I came in and that family was gone; they'd been replaced by a younger cohort of either Indian or Pakistani men and women. The new owners were polite and professional, but far less friendly. Soon after, bulletproof glass went up between the registers and the customers, the product selection became more sparse, and the warm yellow lights were replaced with bright LEDs.

Eventually I inquired why the gas station had changed, and the man at the register explained that there were several armed robberies during the time period that I'd been living there. I was surprised; this gas station was in a fairly decent part of town near NASA, and there was a tennis club right next to the apartment complex. I used to walk barefoot from my apartment to the courts. I'd never heard sirens or ever noticed that anyone had been robbed.

It must have taken 6-10 young men fewer than a combined 60 minutes across several robberies to completely alter the dynamic of the gas station. Their hour's worth of work caused hundreds of hours in transfers, equipment moving, inspections, storage, and installation. The experience of shopping at that gas station became unpleasant, and I avoided the station when I could. Soon after, I moved to a richer, nicer, quieter neighborhood down the road (for unrelated reasons--the apartment complex had a pest problem.) But I often think about that shop; there are now children growing up in that apartment complex who think that "gas stations" include bulletproof glass and wary stares, instead of warm lighting and friendly greetings. That's their vision of society; even if those children are not criminals themselves, they expect to be treated like them. They're like children who don't remember plane travel before 9/11, except instead of the hold-up at the TSA, it's a hold-up in a gas station.

This is what I think about when I hear about large-scale property crime like these train thefts. Sure, it's just property. But it is the docile, rule-following, peaceful majority (to which I and the rest of HN belong) that creates and finances all the property that ends up stolen and destroyed; allow this stability of commerce to be interrupted by wanton theft or violence and they will flee, retreat into themselves, hire private security forces, and produce less. Poverty may encourage crime, but crime always creates poverty.
I hadn't noticed the weird parallel where Japan also uses one word, "sensei" in their case, for both teacher and medical doctor.
I host 7 emails right now, it'd cost $500/year for email moving forward.

I'd be happy to convert accounts to personal Gmail accounts and do mail forwarding. I'd be happy to move to a family plan for $100/year.

After being a user for a decade, you'd think Google would provide me a reasonable way to pay them for their services. But I can't swing $500/year for email.
This will be an interesting way to burn karma.

Consider that a gifted and talented program is maybe not the best option for your daughter. Not because she isn't capable. Because gifted and talented programs, especially for the very young (which it sounds like your daughter is), trade improvements in your child's strengths for exacerbating their weaknesses. Often this translates to children who have difficulty communicating with their peers no longer really being able to interact with their peers and getting the "other" label applied quite literally.

The benefit of course is that students in gifted and talented programs get inordinate amounts of money spent on them compared to their peers (class sizes of 10-15!! Individual attention from the best and most accomplished teachers!). This is an extremely hard benefit to pass up, and I don't envy you making that decision if you buy in to above (although I expect you won't, very few people I have this conversation with agree with me).

Food for thought anyways
Our local school frequently mentions that their 50th percentile is at the level of the 75th percentile nationally, which indicates that a decent number of the students are in fact well above average.

That doesn't mean that the dilemma you mention wouldn't arise, but presumably there are objective tests that could be used to make determinations. It wouldn't be a panacea, but it would be better than ignoring advanced students like they're doing now.
Well, a lot of people do compare a 200$ phone vs. a > 1 k. One.
Not exactly a lifehack but I swapped out the plastic casters on my desk chair with a set of polyurethane wheels. Even many high end office chairs come with low quality casters. Replacing them with a nice polyurethane set makes those hundreds of small shifts in body weight we do in the chair each day unnoticeable. And when you need to move more than that, it's completely effortless. No dragging at all.
I liked its simplicity. It was an efficient app designed for one purpose and did it well.
examples of good government sites? time.gov and weather.gov get the job done (time.gov is actually kind of snazzy)
Yes, capital is complicit in building a society that allows people to suffer to the point that they need to steal to survive. Artificial scarcity is artificial: https://www.bostonfed.org/publications/economic-education/wi...
> So clearly you want the service but feel it's too expensive...

No, I don't. "Money for service" is fine as a principle. This particular service is something I don't want at all. Those can both be true at the same time.

> But secondly, software doesn't exist in a time bubble! Security updates, maintenance and support all exist and these are people trying to make a living while handling all that.

I'm happy to pay for software updates. But software is supposed to last more than 10-16 months. Which is how often you'd be paying a reasonable shelf price of 30-50 dollars. Generally software can be expected to last ten years without trouble.

> very reasonably priced service

What's your definition of reasonable here? $20 a month is a great deal if that's the price of security! So $20 a month would be reasonable by that metric. But I think we can both agree that's too high. So how do we decide? And it can't just be that low dollar amounts are automatically reasonable, because we're not rounding to zero.

> If the utility of the program was so low you wouldn't be asking them for it without the service after all... if it's "just storing 100kb of text" there's plenty of other options out there.

I'd say the utility of the program is worth a solid $30-50. The program does all the good stuff. The program isn't the service. The program manages my passwords, the service just syncs a tiny file.

I can get the same syncing UX in most password managers just by logging into an existing account I already have. The stress of that one-time login is nothing. It's less stress than making a new account for 1password.
I was curious about this too. From the dimensions listed on the website, it looks like the screen is about 6.3×3.7 inches, or about 7.3 inches diagonal.

There seem to be 8-inch e-ink displays for sale on AliExpress for $20-$40, actually much cheaper than I expected. No idea about the quality though.
Having built a few Django apps at a lower scale than Doordash, the battle scars they have around migrations are very, very real as a codebase grows. You don't have to be at web scale to get into cross-app migration pains... and even with a single developer the pain of the makemigrations race condition is real (context switching hurts in all the ways). If you have to come away with any one specific action item, pay attention to what they say here.

Beyond that, there are some landmines around caching beyond the model scope. In a multitenant application, be very, very careful using the cache decorator at the view layer. You can get some nasty cross-contamination. The test framework also doesn't manage separation of caches when doing parallel tests, so you can get some serious oddities that are painful to figure out the cause of in parallel tests with caching.

I'd also love to hear how they manage keeping the test framework fast, clean, and reliable... assuming they use django's test runner. There's a lot of 'best practices' you pick up along the way w.r.t. keeping tests performant and valuable.
Mesa was later replaced by the more modern Cedar programming language integrated with Tioga programming and desktop environment by Xerox, after they've evaluated few languages for potential replacement including Lisp for the later part of the 80s and 90s [1],[2],[3].

Apple and Microsoft copied their modern GUI desktop idea from Xerox in the 70s but interestingly nobody has copied the excellent Cedar/Tioga programming environment until today.

[1] A Description of the Cedar Language:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/descrip...

[2] Eric Bier Demonstrates Cedar:

https://youtu.be/z_dt7NG38V4

[3] The Tioga Editor:

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/parc/cedar/Cedar_7.0/07_T...
Over the last year or so I've worked to remove any dependency on my google account. After seeing this I decided to rip the band-aid off. Mostly because I didn't want to accidentally get charged for something. Like others said I had to upgrade my account to the new plan and then cancel the subscription, I then added "Cloud Identity Free" as a subscription.

I can still access the handful of things I purchased and my android device is still able to to use google play with the same account.

If I try and go to google drive, gmail or calendar I get: "We are sorry, but you have cancelled your subscription to Google Workspace. You will need to re-subscribe to Google Workspace in order to use Google Workspace services like Gmail."
Not the author. But I think this kind of sharing is super important & I think we should appreciate it's attempt at honesty, and try to recognize that there may be some truth & realness to their statements.

> Have you considered enrolling in a good school's Computer Science curriculum?

I went to undergrad & had already picked up most of the material by being an avid self learner, by being just bloody fascinated & interested as heck in computers.

There's a lot of very capable coworkers I've had. They can pull off some amazing works. But it's still pretty rare for me to feel like I really have a lot to learn from others. Like the author, I try to be super receptive and open. I don't have quite such a concern about a BS buffer, but it's definitely also a part of my experience too; I have had plenty of yarns. And I feel like I've been so lucky to work in really great places! There's so many people trapped in far more confounding & further-out-of-touch environments.

I've never heard anyone come close to describing what is also a somewhat real struggle I too face. It's easy to write this off, to take the very worst words as ammunition to disregard this post, to walk away. I don't think there are that many suffering, that this is that big of a problem (because not a lot of people have full fledged membership, have the stripes & experience to deserve to call themselves lonely at the top, high tech gothic). But there are some High Tech Gothics, there are some wired to the 9's people enduring a much less wired & connected world about them that often doesn't get it. There are some valid misfits. I'm glad someone wrote it. These words are valuable. Thank you for your consideration.
MMS video and picture sizes are size constrained by the carrier in the profile. As many carriers already allow 4MB or even unlimited sizes it is purely an issue of carriers being cheap and lazy and leaving old limits on MMS. It would probably even be profitable for carriers as MMS already counts against data and RCS allows the larger sizes anyway. Yet Google prefers to roll yet another new protocol and complain instead of getting the carriers to just fix MMS configuration issues to solve the biggest ongoing complaints.
Signal, Telegram, and Whatsapp all have very feature rich desktop apps. I personally love Whatsapp and the fact that I can go to a webpage, scan a QR code on my phone and have a functioning desktop experience regardless of where I am. iMessage doesn't "just work" if there's degraded functionality for people outside the Apple ecosystem. I'm not sure what good enough means, that's really specific to the features you need. I actually strongly dislike how terrible sharing files between an iOS and Android user is if you choose to stick with iMessage. What's worse is the poor file system structure that iOS exposes where you can't manipulate and share files directly. If I want to share a song I have saved on my phone through a message, I should be able to share it like I would a picture. Having iMessage and sending to another iMessage user doesn't help in that situation. I'm also not sure what country you live in where you imagine everyone has a single messaging platform. Most people I know just use multiple apps and are willing to put in the effort it takes to switch apps.
I'm advocating for police to accept the priorities we give them. I don't get to set the priorities at my job; I don't get to favor working on features I think are good and to ignore features I don't. I'm given priorities.

What happens after people are arrested is not relevant to the police, and they have no training or authority to make decisions about it. We elected different people for that.
In the future consider not living in a rural area, but in the suburbs. I've worked as a package handler for FedEx in my past -- delivering a package to a remote location, even if 1.5 miles from a paved road sucks. If you choose to live rurally -- be prepared for the consequences such as mail delivery issues, self managed water sources, intermittent power, etc.
> subtitles are needed because people want to have the original audio + text

I'm a non-native English speaker, and I like watching English-language content with closed captioning in the original language.

There's often a lot lost in translation, especially on the screen (written content might have different issues), because it's often hard to get the rhythm and timing right without changing the contents in non-trivial ways when the source and target languages are completely different. Since I can understand English fairly fluently and nearly always get the nuance that would be lost in a translated version, I prefer the original language, even for the subtitles.

Since I'm not 100 percent, though, having the subtitles or closed captioning usually lowers my cognitive load. It also means I don't have to worry about missing something because of an unfamiliar accent, a very quickly spoken line, or some other random thing.
Bottles (GUI front end for Windows software on Linux) – release 2022.1.14
90K! We have a couple similar problems at work and paid a vendor $200k per year each time and then paid for Engineers to glue our systems into the vendor. Sounds like a deal to me.
I have been using NoIP for my simple home setup. It’s free but requires a monthly acknowledgment, but it’s relatively quick and easy.
Can Anyone Satisfy Amazon’s Craving for Electric Vans?
are you suggesting they threaten israel for funding?
Any company has a better messaging software than Google.

Why?

Because Google didn't even have one. Bingo, none of their offering is going to work reliably for whatever purpose and that is not user's fault, and frankly speaking, it is 2022, there is no room for them anymore.
It's a method for living a simpler happy life, not for optimizing productivity.

Besides, your subconscious will constantly be working and making connections even if your conscious mind is 無(blank).
subscribed to the (free) service through RapidAPI and tried testing it, getting
{
"message":"This endpoint is disabled for your subscription"
}

for all the three endpoints.
Quit linkedin then. Or at the very least disable notifications from it.
If I was starting off afresh I certainly wouldn't do that.

All it takes is for some partnership manager who deals with the GoDaddy rep to get enough pressure put on them about this for the workarounds to become impossible within a few weeks.

And unlike most other things, this being unofficial, there need not even be an announcement with a few weeks to months of transition time. You'll just wake up overnight and it's not working.
Out of curiousity, what does that typically look like? Named project + brief description + market it's in?

Have you ever had any pushback from legal? Presumably to the effect of "What if you take our IP and put it into that project?"
IME almost every query that takes way longer than expected in PG has been because it elected to do a sequential scan instead of using an index. I've set both random_page_cost and seq_page_cost to 1 for a database on an SSD (where sequential is still faster than random) but PG still chooses sequential scans. I selectively disable sequential scans on the connection ahead of badly planned queries now.
Presumably arresting someone for robbing a morning train would at least allow you to hold them and prevent them from robbing an afternoon train.
Some of my friends are refusing to join solely on all my signal contacts get notified I’m on signal now.

Which I agree to an extent and there is actually no way to disable it.
I'm reminded of the Ethyl corporation funding the studies that said lead wasn't very harmful.

... Of course, that's the thing about science. The people doing research are separate from the ones providing the money. And people will put money behind the research that they believe is correct. This does, of course, incentivize some unethical folks to fudge numbers, but in general, the right way to approach this is to separate the funding from the science. See what the science says. Then, if you see an outlier paper and you need to understand why it's so different from the consensus... It might be helpful to see who is funding it to understand.

Going the other way (discounting the science based on who is funding it) is forming theories without data.
Oh. That was not at all what I expected from the title... I thought it would be about either the new QML compiler, or the desktop-advertising library. (Though the domain should of course have been a giveaway. Didn't notice that at first.)
True, I forgot to consider how single node (multi threaded) parallelism can look a lot like multi node parallelism
Haha, yeah – that’s why I left consulting. It felt like a treadmill where succeeding more than I could as an IC at a company required running a business I didn’t want to run.
Fair is a relative term.
I believe generalizing all Android phones without differentiating between a flagship experience and budget price experience to be a dishonest representation.
Pass. Dubs are usually bad enough when humans do them.
Police will often overcharge, with the intent that the DA can use the more severe charges to secure a plea deal for lesser charges. It makes for less paperwork and fewer cases to process through jury trials.
The young wives of Cayucos rule
Ok, but I'd like to also have _some_ idea of what I'mn voting for aside from being able to download movies for free and doing away with patents (also ridiculous on its face). I agree with you, but that doesn't make these jokers any more attractive.
Open subtitles does require a pw change, it broke mplayer integration.

Funny, though, they got breached approximately an hour after I went VIP - it's the only way to download an entire season of subtitles, and their maint window correlates to me having spotty subtitle coverage across most of my library. So I gave in and gave money.

Then it's like "invalid password!"
I've been using Dendron since it last showed up here and it's worked pretty well for a large writing project. My main complaint is more of a VS Code issue -- I can't figure out how to soft-wrap lines in a way that allows for vim navigation (with j/k) within a paragraph. Gj and gk work, but that's double the keystrokes. In Vim I can use the vim-pencil plugin and set lines to soft wrap.

Also, Dendron is very clunky with even medium-sized files.
Yup. And as such that source is ineffective in convincing someone not already convinced.
"Effective, mission-critical software at scale need not be complicated." Amen.
You are saying the people who steal from trains would be starving otherwise? That's a ridiculous take, imo. As much as some Americans like to pretend that they are actually living in a 3rd world country & deny how privileged it is to even live there, the reality is that they are absolutely not. Even a minimum wage job in the US can get you above "starving" or even close to that point. Being poor in LA doesn't mean you're starving, and it's weird to assume that poor people just have to commit crimes and steal because they are poor.

Regardless, let's assume Los Angeles was such an economically desolate place for the poor. Well, it turns out that train robberies still aren't a common occurrence in even much poorer places so there must be something else going on too.
Python multiprocessing GeventMP v0.0.2 released with critical fixes
Because the only people who commit crime are desperate people struggling to survive? That's the level of argument you're on right now
Mirror: https://archive.is/aAf3K
There's plenty of shortages caused not by capital, but by government. Like restrictive zoning and price controls suppressing housing construction. I fail to see how UP railroad is complicit in the scarcity that may be driving some to steal from trains.
Guys let's print out Missouri's website and snail mail it to them. They'll get so scared of hackers trying to shut their internet down, maybe even secede.
I'm in that circle. I've cost Google millions of dollars in business due to a history of similar dick moves on their part. This adds just one more to the list. The organization I work at will never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever consider using Google for anything business-critical, and neither will businesses I advise in various roles.

I have at least a dozen relatives on my Google family domain. We're looking at a lifetime cost of tens of thousands of dollars if I were to switch to Workspace, which is a non-starter.

One possibility is to finally incorporate my family foundation as a 501(c)3, if we can do that in time. It's been on my to do list.

I'm not even sure where to go from here, but I have things like Android apps I've bought on this account, as does my family. Or I guess the word is "rented." I have a bunch of logins with Google OAuth. Or I guess past tense.

I feel like there's a class action in here somewhere.
I think a lot of fairy tales reflect the difficulties of the world, just in a way that is not devastating for children. There is usually always a struggle, sometimes followed with a reward and a moral lesson. Having said that, in life there isn't always a reward but the overall concept is healthy. Such that all aspects of life have challenges and if you follow your values and morals you will come out the other side.

Better life lessons learnt than many other stories on TV.

Besides, there comes a time in most kids lives there they move from fairy tales to adult movies, during the time their brains are still very plastic.
Better living through chemistry!

My doctor checked my vitamin D levels and they were very low. I started taking the recommended daily intake of 1000 IU. After reading that the analysis setting the RDI for vitamin D was faulty, I went on double the RDI, 2000 IU. That has made a marked improvement in my mood and helped with the stability of my sleep cycle. As a bonus, my vitamin D levels are now spot on, and it offers some protection against the worst effects of COVID-19.

Also, I take Vitamin B for focus.
Washington claims to "require" online payments for business taxes but they keep cashing my paper checks.

Call their bluff using certified mail.
i assume you are being sarcastic, but whose definition of civilized are you relying on where threatening the very core of social order is permitted?