skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> my health isn't that important to me.

I'm curious how old you are? Because this sounds like the hot take of a young guy ;-). Take it from someone deep into middle age -- being healthy isn't about living a long time, it's about how much you hurt on the way.
Maybe it is just me, but rather than some "new technologies" I want Google to just respect "old technology" - GDPR. This is the only thing I need.
>I bought a laptop once. It came with windows pre-installed

Some would say, not without merit in my opinion, that the malware part started with Windows itself.

https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html

But even if we aren't that stringent with the definition of malware, we had malware preinstalled on our computers quite some time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo#Security_and_privacy_in...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell#Self-signed_root_certific...
If they can just bar an entire state without any issues...

How long until American workers are barred entirely just for having too high of a salary?
IIRC Germany, by subsidizing its solar PV industry too heavily, took the innovation pressure out of the latter. This made it way too easy for Chinese companies to take over the market.
>The happy medium, such as it is, is to not try to police “toxicity” in the first place.

So, give hard core racists the benefit of the doubt when they wolf whistle each other?

Can't see any historical precedent for that going disastrously wrong.

>What people seem to want is ... their own toxicity, opinions, and any public affirmations should never be censored

Some people are hypocrites. News at 11.

Some people also want anti-han Chinese racism to be treated equivalently to anti-Uyghur racism because they choose to be blind to the inherent power differential.

I remember reading a story of the Hutus and the Tutsis. The genocide began with the radio - shows that very deliberate but cautious (& deniable) dehumanization of the other that ramped up over time. Nobody policed these deliberately aggravated ethnic tensions. By the time they were consistently obvious it was a little on the late side.

On the other hand, I've been falsely accused of being a racist before and it undeniably hurt my feelings a little bit.
I moved to Germany as well and self taught German to a high B2 level in the 15 months before moving. That was enough where I was able to be conversationally fluent within 3 months of arrival

When I self taught, I primarily used Assimil and Pimsleur daily for the first six months. After completing those programs, I continued with the daily study (that’s the most important part!) and used Easy German the YouTube channel, watched a bunch of German shows, and worked on speaking just by narrating / describing random things and looking up words as needed.
20 years - I left just after 9/11, during which period I witnessed the USA collectively shitting itself, and during which I decided to play no part in the USA's continued economic survival. Far better to have moved to Germany and get things happening in a country not inclined to blood-lust because it was finally attacked the way it had been attacking countries, with impunity, for decades prior. The German culture's proclivity for peace-making, and especially on the subject of forgiveness, far outweighs any of the gung-ho American enthusiasms that might be fashionable ..

Honestly, it took me 5 years to feel comfortable speaking fluent German - mostly because Germans just refuse to correct German-speaking expats, instead choosing to switch to their English ..
most popular beer is probably budlight or similar. doesn't make it good
At least on my computer, Firefox doesn't auto-update if you use your package manager.

Packagers usually put a "DisableAppUpdate": true line in the policies.json file in order to make Firefox only update through the package manager at your control.
What do you mean by integrate? As in, it's harder to find friends? Or that there's cultural issues barring you from being as close friends as you would someone from the U.S.?
It's not trauma, it's fear of what would happen if there weren't articles on HN about Chesterton's fence a few times a year.
hgb100 is super sketchy.

Here's a legit local news site:

https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/montour-county/one-m...
This is the stuff technical debt is made of.

True, but also ignoring Chesterton's Fence is what catastrophic rewrites are made of.

If you know why the fence is there and have confidence the reasons no longer apply, you can be bold. If you're not sure because the archeology is expensive, you should take baby steps if possible. (Which I think you get at with the cost of regressions.)

For my team, that's often flipping a feature flag where we don't expect any difference, and watching the output for a while to verify. First sign of surprise, we can quickly flip back. We get surprised more than we would like.
> If someone who's not a crackpot says to you "can I burn a gay", even though that seems unambiguous, they've probably just misspoken or are joking.

Well, for one, this only applies if you already know that person is not a crackpot. Secondly, burning someone would indeed be an extreme example, but not all (accidental) offenses are so obviously monstrous. If someone said "I hate fags" (intending to say they don't like cigarettes), this would be more likely to be someone's actual homophobic opinion, depending on culture.
They all do the same thing. Flameshot has the cleanest interface IMO.
Sure we can blame them. They tried to cover it up in the beginning. It would be insane NOT to blame them for that. It’s also been debunked that the virus came from a wet market.
Fake 2TB USBs on Bezos shopping site
Let him.

This whole game of trying to control the dialog won't end well.

The right answer is a solid rebuttal, facts, science, and a debate.

Says a fan of Neil. :(
I’m curious, this response seemed fairly reasonable and proposed it start at 8.3: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2012-Jan...

Did anything come of it?
Not from the US but from another country in the Americas. Here is a non-exhaustive list of things to take into consideration:

- Social life. Yes, modern technology makes it easier than ever to keep touch with friends from across the globe, but you need to expect to lose some relationships there. Not all friendships can survive the distance. The time zone difference also makes it annoying to keep in touch (e.g. you will be finishing a day's work and wanting to get in touch with friends, but their day has just started).

- Transportation. Now I don't know how you feel about cars but this was a huge win for me. I have driving and public transportation in Europe is usually very good. My driver's license has actually expired a few years back and I do not miss it.
- Compensation. You simply won't find jobs that pay as much as the ones you can find in Silicon Valley (or perhaps in the major American cities). This won't necessarily be all that base. See my next point;

- Reasonably good public services in general. This will of course vary between countries, but you can expect to find reasonably good public services all around Europe. Healthcare is included in this but it can sometimes be a bit cumbersome to get an appointment with the right kind of doctor (you need to first go through a general practitioner who will refer you to a speciality). This can be mitigated however. See next point;

- Cheaper healthcare in general. Even if you opt for the convenience of private healthcare, you can expect to find it waaaay cheaper than in the US. Your job with also offer you health insurance which will cover most of your expenses making having access to private healthcare really affordable.

- Job safety. I guess this varies with the state you live in, but in Europe you are likely to find that the labour laws work more in your favour than in the US. This can paradoxically get annoying for you in a few very particular situations, but all in all, it's nice to feel safe this way.

- Homesickness is real and there's not much you can do about it. You will long for your home, for that old group of friends you used to hang out with, for that spot you used to go when you needed some time for yourself. Also, seeing the people you left behind moving on with their lives will feel weird.

- You will gain a lot of safety. Now I have no idea where in the US you are, but I bet that a somewhat good neighbourhood in Europe will be safer. I came from a particularly dangerous place (doubt you will find a place as dangerous in the US) so this was a huge win for me.

- You will come to appreciate a different kind of life than what you are used to. I don't know how to explain this, but the way of life in Europe is very different from the one in the Americas. Life goals and such are all very different. This will of course vary from country to country.

- You will come to appreciate a lot of things about the US that you didn't appreciate before. I guess this is just a natural consequence of gaining perspective. Nowhere is perfect and nowhere is fully bad.
I used to use Foobar2000 back in the day. Tried to set it up on my gaming PC last year, but I didn't really have a clue as to how to set it up properly. Ended up just setting up Plex and Plexamp instead.
> brink of civil war

I think that might be overstated.

> NHS is absolutely amazing

I've read and heard that for a non-emergency appointments, the wait could sometimes be months. Is that also overstated?
This tool has way too many features.
Lately? Catchy slogans have always been a thing.
Given the vast financial incentive apple has for keeping its chargers proprietary, I find it difficult to believe Apple is doing this for the primary reason of benefitting their users.
> Sure a certain percentage will

10-15% of the workers quitting is enough! If 2 of my 13 employees quit at the same time, I will have to start working 65-80 hours a week.
Some people try taking a smaller dose to shorten the duration of action
I grew up in an American colony; the Canal Zone. We had our own schools and were taught U.S. curriculum and about the U.S. I was a rabid nationalist. I had never lived in the U.S. until I went to college but had visited it. Ever since coming to the U.S. I slowly became more and more liberal and less and less nationalistic. The myths I was taught about the U.S. did not withstand my experience of the country.

Everything is so spread out and car centric. Our towns and cities are concrete jungles with massive amounts of parking lots that are rarely used. It’s very hard to live where you can walk to a grocery store. We are a nation of building dwellers using giant vehicles to take us from one building to another one. And the food; massive amounts of added sugar and fruit that is tasteless. Addicted to crappy fast food, lonely, and under exercised. Major changes are desperately needed.
I suspect that his headaches might have been due to dehydration - Modafinil does indeed make me pee a little bit more/more often, but since I am drinking water constantly I don't consider this a negative side effect and I also don't suffer consequences such as headaches. But I am fortunately healthy, fit and relatively young (30) and only very rarely suffer headaches.
Before I decided to use Modafinil I did research its side effects as well as potential risks and every couple of months I check the newest studies to see if new data came up - TLDR: some people indeed experience some headaches and/or nausea and in very, very rare cases some people experience pretty bad allergic skin reactions. But then again some people die of peanut allergy so...
Modafinil has been there since the 70s, there are even some studies about its long-term use (10+ years) and its side effects and it looks pretty chill. I think the English Wiki Page for Modafinil is pretty well researched and a good place to start if you want to read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modafinil
How Australia’s Leader Lost Control of His Chinese Social Media Account
With a redaction as bad as a Gaussian blur at such a high resolution (and a dictionary of only 2048 candidates), you don't need multiple angles to decipher those words.

It'd be great if they replaced the key with bogus words first before blurring to troll people, but somehow I doubt it.
I might be remembering the details wrong, but I heard an actual doctor saying there is difference between fresh fruit juice and soda pop.

I found this that seems like what the doctor said, but I'm not sure. Click on 'transcript' and read it.

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/if-fructose-is-bad-what-abo...

Edit: Other than this, fresh fruit juice contains minerals, vitamins, antioxidants etc etc.
Hearing that you only lived in LA makes your take on the US very partial and flawed.

LA has a reputation even within the US of being what you describe as a "shithole."

I lived in Germany for years, the former east, and it would be unfair to call Germany a "shithole" based on my own experience in the former Soviet bloc, which has struggled both pre and post reunification due to Communist rule.
I'm in Berlin and feel fully integrated here. Whether or not that's possible really depends on location, there's many in Europe where it absolutely is.
Unfortunately, weight loss is slightly more complicated than that, 450kCal/day for a month isn't quite 4lbs/month (even for fat) and my estimate of 350-450kCal/day for walking several miles is likely an over-estimate. I would find it quite unlikely for most people to lose even 20lbs only as a result of added walking in 6 months without diet changes.
You've never seen partial rollouts of a feature?
You are insanely overestimating your fitness when 100 bpm is considered high when its in the range of an average resting heart rate
It's a sophist play on emotions. I don't think there's actual malice behind it, though. More that people struggle to assert themselves and provide direct, well-reasoned arguments. So, exaggerating or throwing meaning away altogether is an easy alternative. It is also particularly useful in obscuring a lack of any sort of coherent plan or proposed action(s) when one is angry/frustrated/etc.

To some extent I also believe it's natural to try to elicit an emotional response from the other "side," because then you can focus on attacking their words, tone, character, etc instead of engaging in reasoned discourse and debate. You get a bit of an automatic advantage if your opponent is already in an emotionally charged state. From what I've seen, the phrases you mention are pretty good at that too.

All of this ends up doing more harm than good most, if not all, of the time.
Sure, but the technique used was also very trivial. Just aligning and averaging all the video frames basically leaves a mosaic-pixel-sized blur on everything (assuming the camera movement is uncorrelated with the mosaic grid).

You can get much further by applying deconvolutions and using more math. I've been meaning to put some time into this myself but never got it off the ground.

I wonder if the author would be open to making e.g. the car data available?
Gonna pile on with everyone else and suggest you get tested for ADHD. This is a pretty classic symptom from what I understand. This is basically how I feel with Adderall. I had no idea how "normal" things could feel.
Steven Pinker is right in this regard and so was Plato:
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The doings of Cronus, and the sufferings which in turn his son inflicted upon him, even if they were true, ought certainly not to be lightly told to young and thoughtless persons
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they are stories not to be repeated in our State
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GOLF! That counts as physical activity?!

Most people doing weekend golf are getting golf carts. Others almost always have a caddy. I suppose walking the course while someone does the heavy listing is some degree of exercise, but they really need to clarify that in order for golf to be exercise you need to walk the course.
>I may as well have been looking at someone else’s code in a language I’d never worked with before.

Was there any memory or retention of C# and .net at all (e.g. if you tried to learn it later, was it easier to pick up, or was the memory completely gone)?

I'm curious about what happened after, too. Were you rewarded with a raise/promotion, or was there no reward so you moved companies? Faced with an impossible deadline, I've read it's better to just let the deadline slip because it's not worth the burnout or cost to mental health (because few deadlines are truly life-or-death), so I'm wondering whether pushing through was worth it in your case.
Noyb has filed complaints against that pay for privacy scheme in August, we’ll see if that actually leads to anything…

https://noyb.eu/en/news-sites-readers-need-buy-back-their-ow...
I did not say all my life is competition, it was a generalization that life cannot exist without competition. Reading comprehension bud.

It's a natural attitude that's innate to human survival. You need competition or you will be a miserable mentally unhealthy person. You're in denial if you don't realize this truth.

This ridiculous socialist utopia where everyone is at peace doing finger painting all day doesn't exist. It's a good way for your society to collapse though. Competition is not some artificial outcome produced by capitalist economic systems.
Nova feels like its target demographic is 'coda users with 5 more years of experience'.

Coda's demographic is really just wordpress developers who know just enough php to be dangerous.
OMG, "writing a Foobar2000 plugin to emulate the Winamp API so my mIRC song spam scripts still functioned" is such a nostalgia packed sentence for those of us of a certain age.

Some of the most fun I ever had was trying to make the utterly ridiculous mIRC script programming language do things it was not meant to do. Pretty sure I recall someone I know writing a primitive web server with it IIRC
first new feature:
>>> We are dropping "semver" and going forward will be using a major and minor version.

Yes!

I never really understood the sense of "semver" for applications
UK government opens consultation on medic-style register for Brit infosec pros
I squinted, but I can’t see any way to draw a moral equivalence between the Chinese justice system and, say, the UK justice system. There’s a fundamental and massive difference in approach to the rule of law.
I got a buzzfeed-style ad for “hottest beach babes of 2021” or similar half way through.

I know the ad is generated by an automated system. But it’s hypocritical that a news site would make claims of righteousness while engaging in very similar sexualization of women.
The value in your if is not false, it's NULL. NULL=NULL behaves exactly like NULL=42, the value is NULL. Which is what the parent was trying to explain.

With Postgres:

postgres=# \pset null <null>
postgres=# select null, null=null, null=42;
?column? | ?column? | ?column?
----------+----------+----------
<null> | <null> | <null>
(1 row)
For some reason I expected it to stay in Earth's shadow. L2 is probably too far from Earth for that.
Indie doesn't mean unpopular :)

But to expand, Fallout 3 was nothing like Fallout 2 and neither was Fallout 4. We'll probably never get another Fallout title like F2, but we'll get indie games like it.

Same with pokemon, the last few (almost every?) pokemon game has essentially the same story, but Monster Sanctuary actually brings a new story to the table in a way Nintendo never will.
China is one of the most polluting nations in the world. I've started to think that avoiding trade with them is a responsibility.

Also, the book "Poorly made in China" is extremely interesting.
You usually lose your health insurance in Austria after about 30 weeks of unemployment... so not sure what you are talking about.

https://www.ams.at/arbeitsuchende/arbeitslos-was-tun/geld-vo...
Now that I think about it more, yeah sadly. Even worse, it could be only effective on a per script or even just a per site basis.
Yes. It's called an iPhone.
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I did the opposite as a child, and moved from the Netherlands to the US when I was eleven. Even then I realized how massively dependent America is on cars, which was properly disappointing for a kid who previously had a ton of personal freedom on his bike. This carried into adulthood when a study abroad experience showed me how massively disappointing public transport is in the US.

I strongly recommend watching the Not Just Cars youtube channel to understand the issues of US travel infrastructure.
from what I've read, SJS is actually triggered by a number of different pharmaceuticals including paracetamol - it's more of a person-caused condition than a medicine-caused condition, if you get what I mean.
Microsoft today has gone bat-shit crazy and absolutely aggressive in trying to get every little bit of your personal data using Windows. I grew up on Windows and so I have a soft spot for it. Would love to go back to the stable and spy free era with Windows 2000 / 7. If Microsoft releases an offline, no-web-services, no adware / spyware version without Defender version of Windows OS, I'd dump macOS completely and install that instead, along with FreeBSD.
Isn't that the plot of Jack Reacher?
I teached in a forgein language it took me 8-12 months to be able to give classes in the native language. German is rated at 750 hours on the FSI scale, which seems a bit much in my experience but that is personal.

https://www.state.gov/foreign-language-training/
> makes people learn what the movement is about.

I don't know about that. More like it muddies the waters and leads to miscommunication and polarization
> Sadly, even Google is so confused about Git VS GitHub that searching for "git blog" shows github.blog as the first result...

Does https://git-scm.com/ even have a blog? I don't think Google is confused, it's just trying to give you the most relevant results.
Is this about market fundamentals? One way to think about ARM is as a vehicle for R&D, shared amongs competitors such as Apple, Qualcomm, Samsung, and Huawei.

* Do they each benefit from the R&D done by ARM?

* Is that benefit enough to be worth the cost, even shared amongst the recipients?

* Can they "agree" on an arrangement, and can ARM function well enough to stay healthy?
Those are called callbacks, we use those everywhere. If you don't want to use callbacks, you can use something like a publish-subscribe pattern instead so that X doesn't need to be indirectly linked to B through A and can publish directly to X.
Israeli expert panel advises 4th vaccine dose for all adults
Not the OP, but Europeans are fairly tribal and "becoming" an Austrian or Czech isn't the same as becoming an American. An expat who speaks the language and gained citizenship will be known as "someone who has the Austrian/Czech/German" passport. Only the kids who speak without accent will probably be fully embraced as natives.

In my case, I am a native Czech who speaks flawless Czech, but some people actually refuse to acknowledge me as a Czech on account of my Bulgarian surname. (Funnily some of them cannot even write properly, but hey, they are Nováks or Kučeras and I am not.) Not a majority, but this kind of tribalism is more widespread here than in countries that were founded on mass immigration.
This is offensive to kerning.

bum is not burn.
Seeing some of the responses in this thread, I think I might want to withdraw, or at least modify this comment. I am going to leave it as is because others have upvoted it, as is.

People are trying to interpret the analogy outside of the theological context in which Chesterton wrote, and therefore either reduce it to the kind of relativistic conservatism that GP rightly decries, or else deny what Chesterton actually wrote.

Chesterton’s point is that change can be good or destructive. Since evil is not a positively existing thing, but merely a lack of goodness, a lower goodness mistaken for a higher goodness, or vice versa, if I am to act upon something in order to bring it to its full goodness, I have to understand the goodness already in it, otherwise I act in a way that is destructive. In short, I can only be trusted to change a thing if I am able to love it.