skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The answer is very simple. They do not want technology from other countries that would benefit this one to gain a foothold. It has NOTHING to do with safety. It's all about restricting technology from one region to another. For instance, at the beginning of the scamdemic an online radio stream out of HI (all of them) stopped working. The reason? They for no reason at all started fencing off the internet based on region alone, and that was for narrative control. IE, population control.
But then again, if one isn't already aware of the ridiculous restrictions there are in our so called Land of the Free, you aren't paying attention.
A friendly reminder from your handlers in the oil industry.
> Most people don’t go around thinking “I do X so that means I must be B gender.”

It’s not completely wild if you recognize that genders are socially-constructed categories consisting of a set of behaviors (stereotypes). If you behave in those ways you could reasonably declare yourself to be that gender. This also requires you to recognise that sex is a completely different thing to gender - that is not socially constructed and you can’t declare yourself to be one of the sexes based on behavior or feelings.
What are you talking about?

The ghacks link is laying out some env vars and config values one can change.

Librewolf is a set of FF patches (which you can build yourself if you’d actually been corncerned about that vector)
Find and fix dangling files and unused dependencies in your JavaScript projects
Can't write about historical crime, unless you killed someone. I don't make the rules.
No, my criteria is whether you can understand the original source without relying on another person with real ability to process the source for you.

For example, if you want to write the work of a mathematician but cant read or understand the writings of the mathematician, then I would be uncomfortable with that.
The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality
My view is as a coder if there is real hard work needed, essentially debugging something vexing or a large re-architecting, it needs to be done in an undisturbed 3 hour window, of which I can realistically fit two in a day.

Minor coding tasks like documenting and preparing a commit can be done in any amount of time, but crucially it is time that is allowed to be broken up by meals or meetings. Casual skimming over the code for ideas is also in this category, eg scanning for random TODOs that can be checked off.

I try to gather all my regular calls on the same day, that way I get it out of the way with the least amount of context switching.
No, I do not believe there is a conspiracy like this. What I said was specifically about living language style learning vs. the traditional sight reading and then translating type of learning. The latter is the primary style, and if you want the former it is very hard to find in the universities. I know about the dwindling demand for ancient language learning in general, but in Boston there is still quite a bit of demand in the bigger universities.

However, I do think there could be more interest if learning Greek/Latin would not feel like such an immense grind, going at it more as a living language style would help a bit (it still hard, though).
Do you love a human? Have you seen what humans can do to each other much less other species?
If that's the case then you're madly overpriced for whatever it is that you do.
paying 7€ for 50gb of internet in italy :D
In some sense you are right - the article hasn't much useful criticism of Topics in comparison to FLoC (and the Brave plug at the end makes it read like an advertisement).

However I think the article is right in the sense that we shouldn't miss the forest for the trees. Image you were robbed and the robber suddenly asked if your issue with him could be solved if he only took half of what's in your wallet. Surely that would be an improvement but it doesn't solve the root issue of him robbing you in the first place.

In the same sense, I think pulling attention back to the fact that Google is building third-party tracking right into the browser - and also aggressively protecting the whole concept of tracking as some sort of fundamental necessity of the web - is justified.
I'm no storage expert, but it seems like the reputable cloud storage providers tend to have lousy pricing. A quick search turns up the quote "I’d be surprised if their S3 gross margin were lower than 70%".

I think people use S3 not because their prices are great, but because they're not comfortable trusting some no-name company that offers better pricing. Protocols like Filecoin aim to remove the need for trust, by having untrusted storage providers prove that they're storing some data.

These anonymous storage providers almost certain aren't following convention best practices in terms of RAID, UPSs etc, so a single copy of the data has a greater likelihood of being lost, but we can compensate for that with extra redundancy.
> age of the universe

We'll see how this goes when JWST begins its observations.

And then what's a LOT of time to a human is a blip on the cosmic scale.
Don't click on that link or they'll put you on their list of people who are spying on them!
From the paper it looks like this backs the Scaleway S3 compatible object storage.

One of my buckets currently has a warning that I have more than 500k objects and that isn't supported, so I'd take this with a grain of salt.
I used to have an account with a bunch of art there. Not anymore. Some time after the redesign I deleted everything and now I only rarely visit the site. The only thing I miss is contact with a few artists I got to know through the site.

Off the top of my head, some of the reasons:

After the redesign the site was practically unusable on my computer. Viewing a single artwork froze my browser and took a minute or two of fans on full before anything showed on screen. I think they fixed that eventually, but it was too late.

They made it difficult to browse through single artist's gallery. When viewing an artwork, the default thing they did was guide you to a "similar" artwork from the entire site. This was very confusing to me at first and made it inconvenient to use the site the way I wanted - the fact that every click took ages to load didn't help either.

They broke RSS feeds.

They added a bunch of dark patterns to make people create an account. For example, even for artwork I explicitly marked as downloadable they forced you to sign in for it.

Probably other things I can't remember anymore. For a while I used their "use old theme" setting, but I think they later removed that, or made it annoying to use. In general, the new site was a completely different thing compared to the old one and I found no enjoyment in using it.
If you read what she wrote, being able to recite something is not an issue at all. She said basically that she reads the same group of texts over and over, so she is super efficient at reading those.

But when she has to read complex text she never seen before, it is different and harder. And that she remembers other classicists saying the same. Then some musings about passive vs active learning of language and such.

Having something memorized is something entirely different then either of these.
Evil is subjective thing. Especially in animals.
Eh, I know it's just an expression but I automatically distrust awfully presumptuous stuff like "as much as you think". The author doesn't have the slightest idea what I think, yet he proclaims to know better and tries to correct me.

Rant aside, it is my experience that the vast majority of people are useless bums. Pretty sure that's nurture as opposed to nature, though. If it weren't learned behaviour, people wouldn't be performing all these rituals in the hopes of obscuring their very uselessness.

That said, I manage 4-6 productive hours a day. Used to be half that at the start of my dev career. Sometimes I do 10, even 12 hours if I have the energy and motivation.
You can't spell uNSAvory without NSA.
Somehow I count meetings as … meetings and not work. More like pauses between productive work efforts.

Same with communication.

Only when I produce something tangible I feel that I’m working.

I know this is kind of silly but I feel like sitting in a meeting and getting paid is like cheating. Or replying to an email.

In no way I’m suggesting that time and attention are not valuable - it’s just that these activities feel trivially easy compared to the cognitive load of coding.
Also consider that the vast majority of the problems these non-programmers are trying to solve are not things "IT" is interested in solving.

Many of the no-code apps I see getting built by non-programmers at my place of employment are things that IT has outright rejected because developers are a limited resource and there are bigger fish to fry.

But that doesn't mean these problems aren't impacting teams in real ways. Some horrible workflow for a small department that functions by manually juggling 3 spreadsheets may not rise to the level of an IT provided solution being created, but with the proper tooling the non-programmers can create a better solution than what currently exists.
There are tons of justifications

nutritional value
availability
it being delicious
tradition and heritage
sustainability

and so many more

Even you whole food vegan types have a final form as a hunter.

It is the logical conclusion if you care about the environment and animals, want low CO2 emissions and stay away from high intensity farming.
So which one do you use?
Seriously cool project!

This reminds me of easy motion for vim or ace-jump for emacs.

Do you think it would be possible to have an on-demand contextual hat decoration?

Like you say “show hats words” and only words get decorated with hats and you pick one. It would allow you to maybe show hats only on square brackets or only on function arguments, etc.
I find the number of hats with colors a little bit hard to distinguish; should they were contextual, they would require fewer or no color.

Do you map voice commands to keyboard shortcuts available in vs code, or directly via the apis? (Not sure if there is a difference in the end).

Now I wish for a cursor less plugin on the IntelliJ platform.
That's funny, in modern spanish I've only ever heard "ballena asesina" (instead of "asesina de ballena") which translates to killer whale. Maybe it went full circle and got translated back from english?

Or maybe the origin story is just bogus
If they do that, Facebook is pulling their stuff from the App store and remove every privacy feature Apple demands, then have you install it from their servers.

It is a problem, but the real problem boils down to services being able to mandate what client you use. Solve that, force Facebook and every other service to work with 3th party clients, and we can free the app store.
It's behind a paywall, while the original article is freely accessible:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abj2164
It also comes with 100x bandwidth pricing.
Physicist explains why Spaniards aren't lazy (2014)
Yeah... Can't really trust Tor these days can you? With unique members taking over multiple relays and exit points they can now relate where you're coming from and where you're exiting...

Really doesn't matter anymore how extensive it is the browser fingerprinting protection feature or the access you do through Tor.

I believe we need a new type of Tor...
Yes that was my point which contradicts what foxbluff wrote >> And IME it is the proprietary drivers that usually offer least value and most problems <<
There are also a number of browser extensions which may be easier to set up and use for non-technical folks, for example FoxyProxy seems to offer one. I've never tried any myself, though.
Estonians are one of Finland's closest allies, they have no reason to spy on Finland. What competing interests would they be spying for? What use would they make of such information? And why would they spy on diplomats when their foreign policy is 99% aligned and within the EU framework they basically agree a common policy and rarely vote differently? If anything i could imagine them spying on admin/politicians, but there's no gain for EE tool spy on FI diplomats. But even that makes no sense.

Why spread such nonsense?
If other languages were taught like Greek or Latin, I'm certain there would be almost no interest as well.
Have you compared it to APKPure? Just wondering which "store"/repo is more trustworthy, because recently APKPure have shifted to apkx format, which is natively unusable without their own installer app.
That would be a good solution. Allow people to load their own certs, but make it no easier than it is today. That way large companies can't skip out on the app store (and Apples privacy requirements) and nerds can do what we want with our phones.
Skin Ego
"The details of this are somewhat career specific, and my experience is mostly with a mix of software development, writing, coaching, and consulting."

Somewhat career specific is a colossal understatement.
How to Make Vegan Cheese from Coconut Milk (2020)
They’re smarter than we though is not the same they’re smarter than us on average.
I’ve had Google ask the exact same question to me twice in a phone screen level interview, 5 years apart. (Count the number of 1 bits).

Certainly answered it better the second time, but it seemed like very sloppy technique from a company that remembers everything.
Who is censoring anyone? Both Neil Young and Joni Mitchell are exercising their freedom to associate with who they like, and expressing the terms by which they will associate with businesses like Spotify.

I have always found it very telling how people who support free speech change their tune when they stand to lose their platform and audience because other people on those platforms do not wish to associate themselves with them. Would you prefer if artists like Neil Young and Joni Mitchell were forced to keep their content on Spotify even though they don’t agree with their association with Joe Rogan at the present time? - or if not, then what exactly is the problem?

Freedom of speech and freedom of association are two sides of the same street. If Joe Rogan is free to say whatever foolish nonsense he wants, as I believe he generally is if he’s not actively harming anyone, then Neil Young and Joni Mitchell (and others) are free to pull their content from the same platform to protest the platform bankrolling him. You should have freedom of speech, but there is no such thing as freedom of a platform for it - if people don’t want to hear it or be associated with it, they don’t have to, and they can withdraw their support (financial, content, etc.) of such platforms.

Also - it’s Rockin’ In The Free World, and the song is a biting and cynical satire. I’m not sure how you’re drawing a line between these two things unless you haven’t heard the lyrics before.
That's the point, duh.

When you're using the cloud you're paying someone else a very good margin to do all of those things for you.

If you do them yourself you can save quite a lot. Hardware is surprisingly cheap these days, even with the chip shortage factored in, if compared to cloud offerings.
Nonsense, as an individual that values my privacy I don't want to be distracted by Googles PR - Google is clearly a stalker, and users want it to stop!

The blog post makes sensible points identifying Google's PR based response. Thus your ad hominem attack on the blog instead of the content makes me wonder if you have conflicts of interest regarding this topic?
> Switch that to bridge mode

Sadly, not possible on a shared residential connection. I tried the setup where the server was also the router, and that was much less convenient in case of failures than having a dedicated router.

But yes, the abundance of routers is definitely a problem here, with an OpenWRT and a FritzBox in the mix. Perhaps I should try to get IPv6 running and forget about NAT woes.
The "missing magic" I'd like to see is a script that knows I started with Debian, installed these packages, and derives the set up script to reproduce this server including my configuration changes. That way I can make the changes in an environment that works for me and have technology do the boring part.
Study provides new insights into the effects of radiation from Chernobyl
The strong benefit of confidence intervals is that they are empirically verifiable. If you go back and look at your past 90 % estimates and you find that not roughly 9 out of 10 were correct, you need to revise your process.

Averages of averages lack this very practical, immediate interpretation.
>Problems from the early 2000s that don't exist in the same capacity anymore. In fact, I would say getting scammed by an app from the apple app store is more likely than downloading a virus in 2022.

This Christmas I had to uninstall adware from my Grandmothers phone that was filling the notification bar with ads.

Last time I visited my other grandparents I had to warn my grandmother not to click on an offer to install device drivers, that had somehow shown up as an add in a Microsoft Game.
Amm, not in northern Ireland like the commenter says. That wasn't people out to just shock anyone. Same repression by the state, but differently aims.
> Also, humans were comfortably at the top for the food chain even before we needed arithmetic or writing.

Definitely, except for lions, tigers, leopards, jaguars, cougars, anacondas, pythons, sharks, crocodiles, alligators, bears, wolves, hyenas, coyotes, boars and ants, all of which have hunted humans and have maneaters among their ranks.

Humans were never apex predators... there was always something else that ate them, and though it is less often nowadays, it still happens.

Whatever virtue humans have as a species, it has nothing to do with being able to kill everything. I would call that an indulgence, not a virtue. Today, being able to kill something contributes nothing to survival. Compare effective hunting skills to skills that generate significant income. Money has far more to contribute to survival and procreation than having lethal hunting skills, an entirely worthless skill to have in nearly all modern societies. There are so few societies left where hunting is necessary, and we're talking about a few thousands or tens of thousands of people at most among 7B.
> To be very clear, fully collateralised loans are not really lending per se. They are repurchase agreements.

I agree with your assessment. It's an overcollateralized repo agreement. In the the "centralized finance" world, the purpose of the repo market is to provide investors with leverage at low cost. It's similar getting a mortgage from your bank to invest in a real estate property - you give the bank a down payment (let's say 20% down), and the bank lends you the remaining 80% to buy the property. In this way, your initial investment (20% down payment) is leveraged 4 times. Despite your leverage, the mortgage on the interest rate stays low because the bank has a lien on the real estate property so they can recover their loan value by selling the property if you don't pay back the loan.

> I am not even sure what use such 'loans' have when you need to have $2 to take a loan of $1. They certainly solve some issues that Cryptocurrencies introduce for themselves but outside of that world they are useless

But what issues in cryptocurrencies does it even solve? What is the business model of these DeFi businesses? They advertise to crypto investors that they can earn impossibly high rates of "interest and rewards," and there are plenty of crypto HODLs who would be happy to lock up their crypto in a DeFi to earn interest, but where is the demand side? Who needs to borrow $1 worth of crypto while posting $2 of crypto as collateral and paying impossibly high interest? Who needs to borrow cryptocurrency at all? The only purpose I can see of borrowing crypto would be to short sell it, but how many people are crazy enough to do that? I can't help but feel like DeFi is some kind of scam and a reincarnation of the ICO bubble.
Where do you see it being used in a positive context? I used it as an example of something that’s bad, how is that “a positive context”?
I was really shocked myself.
I guess I got to my senses when I started studying for radio license and made a very expensive list of radio equipment that I couldn't otherwise use because I live in an apartment building (antennas and all that) and even if it worked I would get into problems with the police for emitting above legal power limits.
It’s a circus like finding a rental apartment in a city. Everybody knows you are playing an artificial role but you need to be able to play it well enough so people can be sure you are “normal” enough.

Just try to look for advanced concepts in your main language, memorize some questions you experienced and maybe look only for questions that can be asked. I thought this guide had a good list:

- https://techinterviewhandbook.org/system-design/

And if you want to go in the nitty gritty algorithmic questions:

- https://techinterviewhandbook.org/best-practice-questions/

And leadership stuff:

- https://techinterviewhandbook.org/behavioral-questions/
> Proof of work might or might not be around in the future: who knows?

Let's not argument in terms of 'what ifs'. Proof of waste is real here and now.
Write down notes from meeting for yourself and try to remember what was said - the tl;Dr.

It will make you feel more like working. But also, I found that actually useful in the long term. I did that as experiment and then then some months later I found myself using all that stuff. Not everything was useful, but a good chunk of it was.
> Mmm the characters themselves are largely unchanged, precisely because they are so largely artificial!

Your mileage may vary.

https://hanziyuan.net/#%E8%99%8E

Granted, that one starts out as non-artificial as it's possible to be. But compare https://hanziyuan.net/#%E7%94%B2 , where the original character is 十 and it develops through 田 and various intermediate forms into the modern form 甲. You don't get more abstract than 甲.
I hear you, Nix definitely does feel slow and I must day over the few years I’ve been using it it has definitely slowed down even more.

In terms of the DSL, I’m really surprised that people find it a problem as much as they do. When I first tried Nix I moved my first nonprod server over to it that very afternoon. It helped looking at the syntax to start with as “hmm this is a bit like JSON” and to worry about things like lazy evaluation later on. I guess it helped that I was familiar with JSONNET beforehand so maybe that helped.

My first few servers I got by with just a basic understanding of the language and copying/pasting examples from the website and using https://search.nixos.org/options

Using on a desktop, now that is a whole other experience. I personally quite enjoy it for my desktop but there is definitely more of a learning experience and you might not find the benefits of Nix worth it anyway as your desktop is an always changing environment.
I think people are using artstation mostly these days, although it does seem like artstation caters to a more professional crowd, and deviantart attracted more amateurs.
Maybe a better way to think about it is that the EU can effectively demonitize them. At the worst, the EU regulators could (theoretically) block them from doing business with EU citizens. They can offer their browser for download here alright, but they can't sell any ads or any other products here.
I loved the TV show Stargate SG-1 as a kid. From what I’ve heard, they had a really positive relationship with the air force and got all kinds of special privileges to film in official locations as a result.
My skin is blue and I feel oppressed.
Wait, someone decided to ban Maus, the comic describing the artist’s father’s experiences of going through the Holocaust?

What the hell?!

What are the arguments for this ban?
Really like this idea. Did you leverage any open source tools to host/manage all the git repos? What tools did you use to build the backend/frontend?