skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That makes sense, but I'm still cautious of just automatically doing it.

1) it can be a bit circular; if the site doesn't work with a browser, people on that browser are probably not going to spend much time there

2) Depending on what you are doing and your goals/mission (I generally work in academic/non-profit/public sector), you may have a mission that encourages you to be accessible to people on "old technology" regardless of the % of visitors.

I've been thinking maybe a standard of 1-2 year old version of popular "evergreen" browsers might make more sense, than what many people default to "latest version".

Which would put aspect-ratio not quite over the finish line, alas.
Could someone explain what a graph-relational database is? I'm not able to extract a technical definition from the paragraph below:

"What is a graph-relational database? EdgeDB is built on an extension of the relational data model that we call the graph-relational model. This model completely eliminates the object-relational impedance mismatch while retaining the solid basis of and performance of the classic relational model. This makes EdgeDB an ideal database for application development."
1300/day is roughly the excess.

You need to compare it to normal (expected) total.

excluding comparisons means you cannot judge severity one way or another. Basic stats here
>"divisive political culture when “we” are the ones generating the content"

I feel like this "we" is misplaced. In a broad sense, yes, these acerbic tweets are indeed being made by our fellow citizens. That being said, Twitter tends to amplify the messaging of a small and vocal segment of it's vast userbase. It's a vicious cycle because exposure begets exposure and anger begets engagement.
Evolutionary The Tortoise and the Hare
>> Because people lie, constantly.

> The new company interviewed me. They can decide if I'm qualified or not.

And they may decide you're not qualified, because they thought you lied when you didn't. Lying is one of those things that's often an instant dealbreaker.
Agreed. But the internet is already fragmented. Each countries have their own laws and other countries no reason to follow them. All kind of content is accessible only in certain countries. It's also true for physical goods. I'm not sure why it's a problem.
Sponsor block extension. It's ad blocking extensions the whole way down.
Chicken meet egg.
Working with Kubernetes in our environment, I work with a lot of different K8S clusters. As such, I'm constantly needing to switch contexts, or double check what my current context is (pretty important, don't want to run kubectl commands on the wrong cluster!). As such, I wrote a short program and installed it as a kubectl plugin, which lets me run a command like this:

kubectl context

and get a menu with a list of all the contexts currently stored in my kubeconfig, an indication of which one is selected, and the ability to select a new one by entering a single digit numeric ID.

It's a fairly trivial thing, but it's been disproportionately useful to me.
> preventing additional hundreds of thousands of dead Americans

But it hasn't. We have gotten the worst of both worlds: huge economic damage and lots of dead Americans. More Americans have died of COVID since the current administration took office than before that. And since governments around the world have demonstrated that they cannot stop COVID, the least they could have done was refrain from inflicting the economic damage as well.
So I never created a Twitter account. Over the years, there are a few people that I liked to read their thoughts on Twitter, so I'd manually go to their wall and read occasionally. They're all verified.

Over time, it became cumbersome to continue doing this and I thought I'd give in and create an account (on the website) so that these people were all easy to access from a single point. So I did, and went and immediately followed the 4 or 5 people. On the last one, my account locked up and said there was "suspicious activity" and if I wanted to continue I needed to supply my phone number. What? I haven't even tweeted anything yet and only followed verified checkmarked users. And why do I have to supply a phone number to use a web site? So, I just left the account in limbo and went back to what I was doing before - just manually going to individuals walls to read because they're bookmarked.

So then a few months ago, Twitter started putting up an overlay up prompting you to log in or create an account to continue after viewing x tweets. Annoying, but not a huge issue as you could just dismiss the modal and continue.

As of a few weeks ago, they got rid of the ability to dismiss the modal. The page just locks and you can't scroll unless you sign in.

And that was the last day I used or visited Twitter. I now see 0 ads, will never give up a phone number to join a website, and have nothing but disdain for that company.

I have never encountered a more hostile website, or company for that matter, towards innocuous behavior. The juice just ain't worth the squeeze. At least I was seeing your ads before.
Highly entertaining. I totally understand the problem of the phone shutting down in extreme temperatures. I have to say I'm pretty impressed that you're running in those temps, though.

Also thanks for pymyq. Neat home automation library.
Even if it doesn't work out because of Microsoft politics, I think using one language for both will be the future. In my opinion, every language will have something like that.
Nah, TikTok is much, much worse since their algorithm and the nature of the UX is so much better at it. We only think Twitter is the king of this because we have so much experience with it after 10+ years.

You have to aggresively curate your For You page constantly to stop TikTok from throwing a bombastic opinion piece at you
Appreciate the diesel analogy!
Nobody I know with an iPhone uses signal or WhatsApp. They just use iMessage. I'm constantly bugging my iPhone-owning family and friends to install Signal. Nobody cares.

There's a reason the blue / green iMessage bubbles are such a hot topic among the youths these days. It's not because everybody uses 3rd party messengers.
>The US federal government could subsidize farmers that grow real vegetables, not just corn and soybeans.

I mean they could also just stop subsidizing corn production quite so much; that would probably be preferable to providing a larger subsidy to grow other things.
Node.js – v17.5.0
This was literally my first thought, the return of Remote File Injections.
The biggest problem for me is showing me favorites/likes/hearts of the people I follow in my feed with no way to hide them. Not only does it make my feed into a hot mess, I now make sure not like anything since I don't want that showing on my followers feed.
I don’t understand. If you don’t want to see what someone says, you can mute or block them. What do you mean by conversation still happens?
That change should be deployed before tomorrow morning. I'll also make it so you can hit Escape to pause the game.
Twitter aggressively censors anyone without institutional approval. Twitters scratch the elites' backs, so the elites scratch back.

Trump was banned from Twitter first. Any one with mildly right wing opinion is insta-banned from twitter. Blue checkmarks are strongly tied to institutional approval and fringe institutional voices are given a megaphone.

Twitter perpetuates the current class system. So those in power have no qualms with it.
That’s not true at all. Salaries aren’t increasing at the same rate that food, goods, and services. Stuff gets more expensive at a greater rate than wages increase.
When I started with my twins at 7, we did a scratch tutorial and I drove, and typed. We watched the tutorial on YouTube on the tv, we’d pause, then I’d type and try it.

This was to make it easy to get through a whole tutorial and remove barriers to entry. Then after they enjoyed that, I’d sit at a desktop with them while they drove and help them switch from tutorial to scratch.

Then when we wanted to do something non tutorial based I drove first while we made up what to do - then they were able to start doing it themselves.

Now they’re so into it we got them double monitors so they can easily watch tutorials alongside implementing (or like my own process make notes on one screen, implement on the others).
The eyedrop (permanently hide element) is great for getting through most cookie walls without accepting anything.

The filters (custom rules for hiding stuff) is great for personalizing your browsing. Eliminate scores on Reddit, YouTube video cards containing keywords for stuff you don't want to get spoiled, Tweets types that don't interest you like "Stuff your follows such as "You might like", etc.
Wow

> Agencies can snoop on non-US citizens but shouldn’t snoop on US citizens

and they went and snooped on US citizens anyway.
They may be boring for you, because you have your own experiences, your own inclinations, your own way of seeing stuff.

It's perfectly reasonable to believe that there must be people for which treadmills are incredible.

I like riding and running outside, sometimes really early in the morning when the sea is good for surfing. But I can understand people who would consider the few miles I have to run or ride to the beach utterly boring to ride or run a few days a week.

Other than the different asshole drivers trying to kill me from time to time, there isn't much variety in my outside rides tbh. I can understand someone preferring riding a Peloton bike under nice air-conditioning, with their favorite music in the background, under the watchful eyes of their cat, while watching they kids playing outside.
Except that RCS is another DOA google product. Im not sure what they are thinking here. What if someone in Switzerland wants to contact someone in a different country that doesnt user Whatsapp or Telegram?
Sigh. Quick, go tell UPS and DHL and others that they must file for bankruptcy because traveling salesman problem or whatever is hard to solve.

This is just nonsense because, for instance, each LN hub can configure how much processing it wants to take on by focusing on most profitable subgraph.

In the end, LN will be processing more and more payments and you will keep ignoring that fact and claiming that it can’t scale. This has been happening for years already.
And that’s how profit is made!
> Seems obvious that more moves allows matching to have more nuance,

This really has to be balance against overfitting. The key problem in ML is generalization, and lots of things improve training performance while making that worse.
Genuinely not straw manning here. Please let me clarify:

>> And thus you reveal your flippant dismissal of what's happened as things that were going to happen anyway.

Yes, I mean that housing prices are going to increase over time regardless (unless we are in a very new phase for the US). I do expect housing prices to be higher in 2042 than in 2022. So between now and then, assessed values and therefore taxes will increase for each property. As a result, people will earn more, even those people I pay directly for services. That's what I meant was going to happen anyway. This argument is about whether it happens in N years or M years. I believe the argument that it will not happen at all (e.g. persistent deflation) is not popular at the moment.

> Like the compensation of people repairing houses, like electricians and plumbers, of those living on fixed incomes (and everyone else)?

Yes, everyone's compensation ramps up. Most people make more today than their job paid in 1980. This is also true for people who have been on fixed incomes like Social Security that entire time. It is especially true for people I pay directly for their services, like the roofers I hired recently. Yes, I understand that I will pay more for their labor in the future.

I also understand that I am part of "everyone else" and therefore eventually we will reach a new, higher, equilibrium of wages. In the new equilibrium, I expect the relationship between the wages professions earn to broadly be preserved. For example, I do not expect the new equilibrium to result in grocery cashiers earning more than electricians. So I am confident that in the new equilibrium, my expense on electricians will shake out roughly where it did in 2018 or 2019 as a fraction of my budget.

> Basically 'using up' your house is getting more expensive in terms of opportunity cost.

I thought this was obvious, but will spell it out. Yes, the use of my house does get more expensive over time. But precisely because I expect my income to at least keep pace with inflation, I do not expect it to become proportionately more expensive than it was when I signed the mortgage.

Consider a person who bought a house in SF for $250k in 1997. That person could still be paying a mortgage whose absolute level was set in 1997 while earning compensation based on 2021 levels. You are correct that to repair/replace the house, they have to do that using 2022 levels. But the house is not 100% of the property value (this is especially in high-cost markets).
It is not only a tax on savings but also on wages.

>If inflation were allowed to run a bit higher, it could deliver a long-overdue win for young people who have had to face a combination of stagnant wages and rising housing costs.

That's a bold statement. Why should the adjustment be proportionally more when there is more inflation?
Isn't it more likely that pay is merely adjusted to the previous level and the time of increased inflation just reduces the net income even more?
Fixed.
https://studentaid.gov/understand-aid/types/loans/interest-r...
>> Think about it the other way - you could have been a janitor for Apple and your new employers would be none the wiser.

> There's no way the janitors are Apple employees. Standard procedure at big companies is to hire contractors for janitorial and food services.

Maybe so, but retail clerks definitely are Apple employees, so the point stands.

Personally, the word "associate" by itself brings to mind Walmart store workers [1. If I didn't know about this practice of Apple's, and an applicant's job title came back as "associate," I would raise suspicions that they were trying to pass off a stint in Apple retail as something grander.

[1] https://corporate.walmart.com/galleries/associates
If well-taught, entry-level Philosophy can be one of the most intellectually-expanding courses you could take.

OTOH, there are quite a few topics in entry-level Philosophy which are likely to be political hot buttons in any public school system...
Except that it's not standard at all. Apple is the only company that reportedly does this. I have worked in a lot of jobs over my 21 years of working, and every single job has the correct title EXCEPT for Apple. InVerify AND The Work Number both said that Apple is the only company that does this.

How would that be standard?
I'm glad I bought my house while rates are very low. While sticker prices are very high right now, the price when factoring in very low interest rates on mortgages are much closer to a historical normal (although still elevated because of the lack of new construction over the last few years). I'm worried for new buyers in the coming years getting stick with these same high sticker prices, AND high interest rates.
Truckers' bridge blockade forces shutdowns at auto plants
> whatever the origins of our desires, advertising arises from the needs of advertisers and seeks to repurpose our attention and desires to align with those needs rather than our own.

It sounds like you're saying something like: "advertisers have their own desires that are different than ours, and so it's more likely that they'll get us to desire things that are bad for us"

This I think is a fair point. It's not especially unique to advertising as opposed to other forms of influence, though maybe it's most pronounced in advertising. Nonetheless, even if it applies to all forms of influence, it's a fair argument for why influence is categorically at least risky of being bad for us.

I think you're right of course that primal needs like Maslow's cannot really compare to needs or desires we create with advertising or other kinds of social influence. But I don't think that's what we're really talking about. I think it's more stuff like "I would have wanted to cook tonight but instead I saw a Dominos ad and so now I'm eating Dominos. This is a false desire!" Why? What makes the desire false just because it was created by an ad? You could have a genuine desire for Domino's created by the ad that you've now satisfied and feel good about.

To the extent that ads distract us from pursuing more basic human needs and cause us to be more consumerist, fair. I think that's a broader, different point about the nature of consumption period.

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I don't think I'm making an argument for moral relativism here at all? I don't think I'd consider myself a moral relativist.
>Every time I use the "YouTube" app on my elderly relatives TV and see how often it is interrupted with adverts I count my blessings that this add-on exists.

Sad reality is Google can make ad blockers obsolete if they really wanted to but I don't think it will happen anytime soon since antitrust lawsuit is pressuring them to ease aggressive business practices.
> The US federal government could subsidize farmers that grow real vegetables, not just corn and soybeans.

You can’t subsist on “real vegetables”. Vegetables form important supplement to the diet, but they are not basis of it, nor they ever been (people used to eat much more grain and much less meat and vegetables than they do now). Governments are subsidizing staples, because it is by far most effective way to ensure food security.
Betty Davis has died
Scratch jr on the iPad is ok for a 5 year old and the 3 year old may enjoy watching on - perhaps watch a really short tutorial together (or to see what to do yourself, then show them)
Live by the wokism, die by the wokism.

Remember that weird time in 2020 when they were slapping "offensive content" to all tweets from supporters of one specific party while still allowing porn clips without any filter. Yeah, I quit twitter around that time.
>I do want to be able to search a database of vendors (with degrees of trust associated with them) with objective descriptions of available goods and services at known costs, either one-time or recurring. If I'm looking for something that's completely new, I should still be able to find it by using relevant terms and weightings (cost, materials, origin of materials, shipping distance, labor chain, etc.)

Exactly this. It's not necessarily wrong that advertising is justified on the grounds that it serves the interests of advertisers. But the attempt to justify it as beneficial to the consumer, well, every case where advertising is serving such a pro-consumer purpose is a case where a general purpose information directory would serve that same purpose better.
You can get very cheap car loan offers right now which might be interesting. 0 or 0.9% for 3-4 years. Given 3-7% inflation it’s a nice discount if you have the cash to take advantage of better returns
Oooh, TIL. That's really cool.

It's very amusing that as you get to the bottom the "Vulnerable to" starts to disappear :) and yet you can download the bootrom anyway~ hmmmmm :D
Signal is a good example here because someone did a usability study. In a usability study involving Signal[1], 21 out of 28 computer science students failed to establish and maintain a secure end to end encrypted connection. The usability of end to end encrypted messaging is a serious issue. We should not kid ourselves into thinking it is a solved issue. For all practical purposes it is the issue.

[1] https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/09...
I believe what I'm saying is the same thing and you are mis-reading.

> A laptop that has a mouse and a touch-screen will in some cases NOT be detected as a touch screen

You see the "NOT" in all capitals? "NOT be detected as a touch screen".

I said:

> A laptop that has a mouse and a touch-screen will in some cases NOT be detected as a touch screen.

That is the same thing, is it not?

Which is the same thing as you quoted from the spec.

> For example, on a touch screen device that can also be controlled by an optional mouse, the `hover` media feature should match `hover: none`, as the primary pointing device (the touch screen) does not allow the user to hover.

Right, so such devices will be detected as "NOT a touch screen".

I feel like I'm agreeing with the spec and agreeing with micromacrofoot, but you are for some reason still reading it in reverse.

If you detect something with both touch and a mouse as "NOT touch", and then deliver a UI optimized for "NOT touch", this is NOT "erring on the side of keeping things usable for touch input".

But this is now a super boring conversation! If this super boring pedantic explication doesn't get us anywhere else, nothing will, I give up!
The SD card contains everything for the RPi, right? I set up a home media server for my parents with RaspBMC and an IR receiver about five years ago. They live in a poor power region so the SD cards can go wrong easily on power failure. I just `dd`'d a bunch of identical SD cards and left it to them to swap.

Ideally, keeping the SD cards read-only would have been better but I was visiting only a few days and I needed to support subtitle download so I settled for this.
> if you're not a manager I might consider that an associate.

Maybe that's your personal definition. Generally, 'associate' is the title you will get if you get an entry level retail job. There's nothing 'wrong' with the title if that's what Apple internally called everyone.

If they change it when you leave(specially if it turns out that they do that when you leave in bad terms), that's malicious.

Ultimately, this means that: you say you are a Senior Software Engineer (or whatever title Apple internally uses); the new prospective employer tries to verify and it comes back as an "associate".

i.e. they think your Apple experience was working some entry level job in one of their stores and you are trying to claim you were an engineer.
I wonder how much I would change my mind about if I were making $900/month from it.

Maybe I'd decide that gas leafblowers weren't all that bad.
If their numbers are completely fraudulent why would they release fraudulent numbers indicating they missed their targets?
This really bothers me when I see it. I've had coworkers who used Linux. Like you say, IT mostly left them alone. They had root and were free to install anything. That seems like a huge security hole. Keeping Linux, especially desktop Linux, patched is non-trivial, and I wouldn't leave that up to the average web developer.