skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> PS: and if you find some time, go fix that bug that makes the active tab so difficult to differentiate if lighting conditions or eyesight aren't perfect.

Is it possible that this is just a theme issue?
It's a good thing they provide it, it's a bad thing they collect it.

Anyways, yes, I stand corrected. Those ywo addresses are related to Whole Foods, not the user's location. My bad!
FreeBSD has always been rock solid until I broke my XFCE4 install on a Ryzen 5650X, Radon 5700XT.

FreeBSD is my go-to distro for any server,desktop OS. The kernel is strong, network is great and jails are decent and with bHyve happily taking everything I throw at it, I can't fault it. To me, it feels solid unlike Linux which has always had a flakey-cobbled like feeling. If I had to choose for distro it would be Slackware.

With FreeBSD 13, you can now assign dedicated network interfaces to jails, grant bHyve to create virtual machines within the jail leading to isolated VM-Jails. Which is an amazing secure & cool concept as if your Virtual Machine becomes vulnable. Your worse case is a breaking out in to the jail rather then the host OS.

This world which is becoming more limited, I'll happly stand by FreeBSD to help it continue to exist in the monolithic reality we all currently live in.
The State of Mobile in 2022 by App Annie
Like what? I'm just curious, I didn't really notice any major bullshit before 2014.
Shockwave from Tonga Explosion Visible in Global Water Vapor Data
People like Hillary Clinton have never voted consistently in the interests of people who voted for Trump. It's under her own husband's presidency that many of those people's jobs were shipped abroad. Under her former boss's Presidency that the banks who made them lose their homes were bailed out. Not saying Trump's presidency was any more beneficial, both parties don't give a shit about the little guy, but calling 30 million people "deplorable" certainly qualifies as broad brush hate.
Yeah. It's not actually an agreement, it's an imposition. They're leveraging their market position to impose extremely unfavorable conditions on users. They know they'll sign up anyway. Who would ever refuse WhatsApp's unilateral contract changes? They'd be completely cut off from their entire social circle.
My reading of McPherson suggested Lee's victories during the Seven Days
Battles led to Lincoln's resolve to free the slaves. Up until that
point, the North was hoping to quickly force the South into submission
with their institutions largely intact. But Lee's unexpected success
raised the stakes into an all-or-nothing ragnarok in which the South,
along with slavery, had to be annihilated.
>Brave also collects your data and sells it back to advertisers but they'll give you their fake coins to do it.

I was reading this page earlier today. https://www.unixsheikh.com/articles/choose-your-browser-care...

The criticism against brave seems pretty hollow without really any remaining criticism. Brave does have this: https://brave.com/privacy/browser/

Would be interesting to see a link showing Brave collecting data. My understanding is that they don't collect data.

I must admit I am rather ignorant about the fake coins.

>Let's also not forget Brendan Eich is anti-gay marriage. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26868536

~2014. I am curious if his opinion has changed. Sometimes you find yourself on the wrong side of history and re-evaluate positions such as these. Given your link is getting old... maybe he has?

If his opinion hasn't changed, I wonder if this political/religious stance really affects my decision of browser? I suspect it doesn't. People are allowed to have political opinions.

>He is also a COVID conspiracy theorist. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/business/brave-brendan-ei...

I suppose this is more recent. The problem here is that how many 'conspiracy theories' are now not conspiracy theories.

https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1339367981084672000

I suppose in dec 2020 Fauci had admitted that he lied about masks being ineffective. Overall though I really didnt see the content in this nytimes article to justify the title.

I suppose the bigger question for me, does this dude matter at all? Let's say he's literal reincarnation of hitler. Does that really change the browser?

Flipside, this guy's wiki page says he invented Javascript. Clearly he is hitler.
Maybe this thread is the right place to ask a usage question: I have a multiline GitHub Secret which I would like to print out to a `.env` file in a GitHub Action. How can I do that?

My current solution doesn't support spaces within the secret content:

- name: Write .env
run: |
echo $ENV_FILE | tr ' ' '\n' > .env
shell: bash
env:
ENV_FILE: ${{secrets.DOTENV}}

Writing a multiline secret string directly into a file replaces all newlines with spaces. The `tr` command converts them back to newlines.
Yeah I felt that way after I had covid, along with some occasional tinnitus, and I figured they are both the fault of the inner ear. A month later it’s mostly gone.

It’s a strange illness.
May want to back up your Google account if you see a message like that.
After reading Mitchell Baker's "deplatforming isn't enough" rant pushed at me by Firefox, I expect nothing good out of Mozilla under the current leasership, sorry.

This really is the kind of thing that could uncover some very shady practices by Facebook and others, but I expect it to produce the same kind of bullshit as the recent "Facebook whistleblower" who worried that facebook is not abusing its power sufficiently to censor and unperson people.
This deliberate misinformation post getting 50+ votes on Hacker News is not surprising. Too many libertarian techbros are only a meme away from pushing pseudoscience.
Ask HN: Is It Possible for Me to Work Remotely?
Living in developing countries has its ups and downs (Mostly Downs). One of the worst things is the lack of jobs for Software Developers.

I was wondering do employers hire people from such countries? Or most of the jobs are for westerners?

Should I pursuit this goal of mine of working remotely?
Research ethics is way too deontologically focused, it needs reform. See: at minimum tens of thousands of deaths directly caused by failure to use challenge trials.
It does seem to some extend the higher the level of abstraction, the more potential for inappropriate controls or restrictions. More restrictions exist in apps vs OS vs cpu, or in cloud services like gdrive vs an EBS volume on AWS. So FPGAs are at least a step closer to free (or harder to secure). Even if they are under control of the manufacturer, there is a lot more flexibility and less potential for "oversight" at the gate level.

There is still the question of all the peripherals, I'd be worried about internet and video and other i/o adapters only being compatible with proprietary hardware, and impossible to use with a home programmed fpga
It's reasonable to assume that the numbers for anything that can be interpreted as anti-vax are underreported, but the chance of dying by vaccine is still relatively low.

The chance of dying of covid is also pretty low, which is why I would have preferred not to be forced to do 3 shots or be prevented to access a supermarket (and no, testing every day is not viable), but I think vaccinating is overall relatively safe. If the study mentioned says 1/2680 that's 0.03%.

It's probably more dangerous to drive everyday somewhere than either getting covid or getting the vaccine.
This article has very poor reasoning. For example, the author states

> Everybody knows that this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. But if hospitalizations and deaths were almost exclusively occurring in the unvaccinated, why would booster shots be necessary?

There is a simple example of how both these “seemingly contradictory” statements can be true.

1. Suppose that being unvaccinated increases chance of death by a factor 10. Then, it would reasonable to call the pandemic a pandemic of unvaccinated

2. Suppose that the booster decreases the chance of death by another factor of 10. Then, many vaccinated individuals may still want the booster.

The authors argument is a example of reductio ad absurdum. The author attempts to argue against the vaccine by trying to show that getting the booster leads to a logical contraction by using a poorly reasoned absurd example.

I am disappointed to see such a poorly reasoned articles on HN.
Nice, I'll check it out then.
"Or why would the statistics be so different in the UK? Where most COVID hospitalizations and deaths are among the fully vaccinated…?"

Because there's a high vaccine uptake. If 100% of the population were vaccinated every single death from covid would be in the vaccinated.
And maybe it will be bcachefs :)
Yes, but prior to any vaccines or any known covid I have a suspected COVID infection but I really don't know. I experienced this same thing in winter of 2020. Symptoms lasted for 6-8 weeks from October to December. I finally went to see an Ear Nose and throat specialist in December 2020 as my symptoms were beginning to wane, everything was clear on my ears.

I had pretty much the exact same symptoms you are describing. I am also in my mid-thirties. It was extremely uncomfortable. It was disorienting enough that whenever I experienced it (which was daily) I would start to spiral out and have a near panic attack, i.e. it was extremely anxiety inducing. It was so uncomfortable, sometimes when I stand up (1 year later) I still brace myself for it.

I wish you a quick recovery.
OP, the link is doubled up in the URL field. Maybe edit it if you can, otherwise re-submit?
Some of us see it, some of us don't.

I think the world is mad now personally but the majority seems happy with it. Lol
Crafting Interpreters – Adding a list data type to lox
Sorry. I'm wrong. It does contain a shop location but not the user address.
Still, could be considered PII or at least could be juicy information.
it was a caldera explosion (hot magma + water = steam)

the island is basically gone: https://twitter.com/defis_eu/status/1483020866258714625?
I mentioned it already below, but just to emphasize: I think Burke Libbeys playlist on Nix [1] is that missing piece. It lays down a solid foundation of understanding on what Nix is both conceptually and syntactically. You are then able to derive the rest of the needed understanding by clicking through the nix source of whatever it is you are trying to figure out.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRGI9KQ3_HP_OFRG6R-p4...
You don’t just get to declare whatever legal interpretation you feel like.
I scanned through it, and one thing that jumped out is the Google Trends graph for "Myocarditis". Is it really "curious" that more people are searching for that term, given all the media coverage? How many people even heard the term "myocarditis" before 2021?

This is beyond useless as any kind of supporting evidence for the point the author is trying to make. Mixed in with Twitter anecdotes and random YouTube videos, it's just noise making it that much harder to critically evaluate the argument.

The term "Gish gallop" comes to mind.
What's the track record on "super computers"? It seems risky to pour so much money into a platform that will be superseded in a few years time. Then again, it's not clear that there are really good alternatives.
I mean, literally the first chart is so misleadingly cropped that it makes the opposite point in this article than it does in the original study.

Edit for the above comment's edit: look, if a deceptively cropped chart doesn't qualify as "misinformation" for your purposes, I guess I'll leave you to do your own research.
And I admitted it's a cool pure math problem. The challenge in the tech industry is balancing the rigor of a pure but nearly intractable solution with using the theory to pump up an O(n) imperfect solution to acceptable reliability. I find the latter more interesting, YMMV.

But if that isn't as interesting as the original problem, maybe stay in academia? AI itself is an example of tailoring activation and pooling functions to deliver imperfect solutions that are "good enough" to ship. It's unfortunate these two viewpoints are seen as contradictory rather than complementary, but that does echo our political balkanization so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
Talk about long distance effects....

"Tonga volcanic eruption shockwave reached the Netherlands"

https://nltimes.nl/2022/01/16/tonga-volcanic-eruption-shockw...
The best of both worlds is when you have a human supervise a fully automated process. You can pay them peanuts and still use them as liability sponges.

(The term "liability sponge" is shamelessly stolen from https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2757236 .)
It's sad but not unsurprising to see HN nitpicking this page. Normal website tracking and what companies like facebook, google, or amazon can do aren't comparable. The three partner organizations listed are extremely trustworthy and I know the Markup in particular has done very similar studies in the past, been excellent about informed consent and user data, and uncovered unique data on how social networks display content by doing so.
I use freebsd for one project on node/js and for ssh jumper boxes. I have also been admining linux boxes since 99. I have no hate for systemd - there just was a learning curve. I like a basic rc.conf set up that freebsd has. Everything can go in this one file for startups. Binary updates have been around for years so doing security updates are easy with no need to rebuild world or compile. You can use pkg for third party installs (binaries) although they don't always follow the version in ports. Security wise kern_securelevel / ugidfw for security. freebsd update also allows for easy updating in major os releases. ZFS on root just works on freebsd. PF / ipfw to me makes much more sense than iptables (I haven'ted really moved to nftables).

When I compare to ubuntu which is the OS I use for linux mostly now:
* kvm is superior to bhyve in every way
* automating security updates via apt are better than a combination of freebsdupdate/pkg updates. Plus the deb packages are made by Ubuntu and just work. ports/pkgs are third party on freebsd
* rebootless kernel updates exist for ubuntu
* It is easier to find people familiar with linux right away

Really though the learning curve of freebsd <-> linux is not high.
I recently switched all my hosting to k8s and I think it is pretty nice for a bunch of small heterogeneous web services. It is a bit of a time sink initially but at least it seems like pretty portable knowledge
This was my experience. Cron was great because it did what I needed it to do and I knew how to use it. But over the years I accumulated all sorts of hacks to avoid pitfalls. When I learned systemd timers I didn't like the complexity, but as new needs arose I thought about both cron and systemd and realized that systmd timers were better for 75% of my needs.
This is another in a series of these kinds of proposals that look excellent on first glance for perhaps the 75% case but start getting syntactically messy when I want to customize the resultset returned.

On the surface, they're always neat but when you start to dig into how you'd implement something in an RDBMS, it begins to fall apart.

Let's look at the example syntax:

from employees
filter country = "USA" # Each line transforms the previous result.
gross_salary = salary + payroll_tax # This _adds_ a column / variable.
gross_cost = gross_salary + healthcare_cost # Variable can use other variables.
filter gross_cost > 0
aggregate split:[title, country] [ # Split are the columns to group by.
average salary, # These are the calcs to run on the groups.
sum salary,
average gross_salary,
sum gross_salary,
average gross_cost,
sum gross_cost,
count,
]
sort sum_gross_cost # Uses the auto-generated column name.
filter count > 200
take 20

Where in here is it clearly stated which fields are returned?
In the original SQL it's right up front but here it's buried into the "aggregate" function, and I'm not clear that this isn't an oversight.

Another example that speaks to the "how do I implement this" side of the equation:

from employees
filter country = "USA" # Each line transforms the previous result.
gross_salary = salary + payroll_tax # This _adds_ a column / variable.
gross_cost = gross_salary + healthcare_cost # Variable can use other variables.
filter gross_cost > 0

Does this mean that the database must scan all records of the employee table in order to return the result before moving to the next step in the query? Must I index all fields? If not, how does a query planner prepare for this scenario?

The major tradeoff you make in most ORMs is exactly this: You lose out on being able to be explicit about how many queries are sent to the DB (and in many cases how efficient those queries are). Now this would become a language feature? What do I gain for that loss?

I'm not saying that SQL Syntax is perfect; far from it. I'm not seeing how this is an improvement.

I think if you want traction though, a proof of concept using an existing RDBMS would go a long way into providing evidence that this will work and is sufficiently thought out to deal with even the basics of what existing SQL databases have to. Query planning is hard, especially if you want it to be fast.
Most of the popular house rules make it worse like $50 on Free Parking or allowing people to build houses when the supply is empty and not having auctions. It certainly has a big luck component compared to more modern games but it's really not that bad.
"Used to be"? I lived in South Florida for a long time.

- 0 tech scene, besides a couple of wannabe startups , ans a few outliers.

- Compensation is bad, taking into account the raising real state prices.

- Most companies are on the services, tourism, insurance, medicine sector.

- Racism is rampant, very ironix as SoFlo workforce is mostly south american immigrants.

- High level of organized crime, shitty schools for kids (including mass shootings), very few things to do(besides the beach), and so on...

Btw this is arguably the best part of Florida, don't even mention central/north Florida. People moving there are chasing tax breaks( I will still take Texas any day). SoFlo is great to party, and that type of things, but as long term move, for a techie , is going to be rough. But to each their own, I met people there that really love it.
If you inspect the markup of Facebook ads you’ll see it’s beyond insane.
I hate to say this man, but you work for Block. It's a company founded and led by the guy who made Twitter, which I consider to be one of the worst far-left cancers in this world. You are kind of getting what you pay for here... these Dorsey companies are doubtlessly some of the most authoritarian shitholes around.

I'd urge this not to sour your view on tech. I work for another "big tech" and it is totally reasonable, everyone is just normal. I would encourage you to take some time off, regroup, and apply for some new companies that have as little to do with Dorsey or Social Media as possible. Pro tip - look for orgs run by foreigners, as woke cancer has not spread as badly to other countries yet.
Sure. And maybe some events triggered this current downturn. Legislation, another big pwnage causing loss of faith, some failed IPO, scarcity of gear.

TBH, if these things were rational, I would have guessed most "bad" news would have pumped bitcoin's value; but I clearly have no clue what's going on, which is why I'm asking.

I'm also open to explanations that complex adaptive systems have intermitent booms and busts.
Ask HN: How did you start your traditional non-tech business?
No startups with VC money.

Just plain old business which you started with your
money and how's the business doing now?
> Statistics don't lie

However statistics can be used to confuse.

If a file is 50% 1's, then a 1-digit file has a 50% chance of infringing. More than that, the chance of infringement grows pretty fast.

Also, if "1" is copyright, then a file with a "1" in it is infringing; there's no chance there. It's certainty.
Never managed to get this to work on a laptop with an Intel 520 gpu and latest Linux Mint.
Deskreen isn't the problem. It's trying to create a virtual display.
You'll see my comments with my findings on on every github / stackoverflow discussion regarding the matter. There are a few.

Until there is a bullet proof way of creating virtual displays, Deskreen isn't of much use to someone with my use case. Which is a damn shame. I really wanted to use an iPad as 2nd screen.
Same here. I find the SQL query in the README more readable.
60k doesnt cover their loss though. Not for 7 people, who all have professional salaries and expenses. Who likely dont have another job opportunity for same profession without uprooting their lives other than the other job they tried to take. (how many radiology labs are actively hiring 7 people in any city at a moment?)

It may cover it for a month. Where they have to hope that they can one day work for this new company (if the judge allows it, and judges will often dig their heels in and drag things out if they get caught out like this). Or they can keep doing what they are doing now. What do normal people with kids and mortgages choose?
more complexity in a board game means a larger possibility space which allows for (but does not necessarily 100% correlate with) increased replayability and more interesting strategy development, both things that seasoned board game players (of which I am not one, but I have friends who are) tend to highly value.

the complexity of a board game is in no way comparable to the length of linear media, aside from the amount of one's own lifetime one has the possibility of investing in the work before being satisfied with no longer engaging with.
Because of stuff like this Google doesn't rely on links much any more, but these scammers and SEO nuts aren't going to stop because of that fact. To them, they just need more links to make up for it.
It's definitely not that clear.

Sure, Amazon's response was probably just a standard text the support team has to use. But it can also be interpreted like "here's an arbitrary reason you should delete this tweet about our data collection, and look how easy it is!".

That's what you get when an anti-competitive megacorporation collecting data about everything including how many seconds users looked at a picture wants to look trustworthy.
I remember that article. Deeply influenced my views on this matter. It's so good to read it once more. So many examples I'd totally forgotten about.
https://archive.is/wQyvw
Really? Have anything of substance to complain about rather than a blanket ad-hominem assertion?

mRNA technology has been under development since the late 80's. If it is so safe and effective why were all the big pharma players just sitting on it and not going through the trial process to bring it to market before they got emergency authorization that absolved them of all liability? Many if not all of the companies have had trials in the past - just curious as to why they didn't complete them since these vaccines are so safe and effective?

If they are so safe that NO ONE should be questioning them, then why the blanket - and SUSTAINED - need for immunity for the makers? I can see at the start when they unexpectedly had to ramp up production in a time of crises - but they have been distributing vaccinations for over a year now. Manufacturing these should be beyond stable and old hat at this time, yet they still need blanket immunity?

For that matter, why isn't the FDA approved vaccine widely available (or even available at all)? Why aren't the emergency use authorization terminated now that there is an approved vaccine - as required by law?

Why is it Moderna happened to turn a profit for the first time in their entire existence last year? I'm sure that's just another crazy coincidence.

Yup - nothing to see here. Anyone who has any questions is just a trash conspiracy theorist, right?