skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lifetime of a human being is so insignificant compared to the lifetime of the universe, that not even a worthwhile snapshot of creation can be developed which could give a clue as to what beginning or end even means.

As we have seen that goes for the entire human race as well and one person's lifetime is insignificant compared to how long the species has been around.
You are wrong, Symbian had them first, but it became fashionable to ignore the mobile world before iPhone came into this world.
Instagram's support occasionally requires you to upload a 360º scan of your face to prove your identity. It's pretty clear that Meta is doing analysis of UGC.
> The research, which was funded in part by the National Wildlife Federation and U.S. Department of Energy
Better be careful or they'll target the Tesla factories with moon rocks fired from mass drivers...
Firefox has always done a spectacularly bad job of thin and especially thin slight-angled gradients. I’m not sure quite why they allow it to remain so bad. I wish they would fix it—but my wish is nowhere near great enough to try to figure out how to fix it myself, which would doubtless be an arduous journey.
When you put it this way, it's really quite remarkable how tenuous our hold is on even paid for digital services.

There is really nothing you could do with a car to prompt the car maker to take it from you. And the state will only take it if you break the law in particularly dangerous ways.

When it comes to other possessions it's even harder for anyone to take them away from you. If I take a kitchen knife and stab someone with it I will go to prison for sure, but I don't think they will take the knife away. They definitely won't ban me from buying knives.

But when it's a digital service, even something as crucial as a banking service, it's seen as normal that you can lose them for posting offensive things on twitter. Perhaps it's because we haven't had these digital services for long enough to consider them as really belonging to us, so we accept that they can be taken away at the slightest provocation.
And everyone should drive safely. However, since neither of those is realistic by any definition of the word, it falls upon society to setup rules that make everyone better off.
What's the point of export crops if we're subsidizing them? We're basically exporting tax dollars.
And as always it will backfire on users!

Now it is impossible to find unlimited rentals, every contract has yearly extensions! In some countries landlords even rotate tenants every two years, else they would get extra rights from long stay.
Julia, because fast can be beautiful. I don't know how much it's going to grow but it doesn't look like stalling in the near future. The reason is simple: it fulfills a need no other language does.

I would guess there are some possibilities that could be a menace:

1. Someone manages to convince scientists to use a statically typed language.

2. Computing paradigm changes drastically. Everyone moves to quantum computing or similar.

3. In another 10 years someone learns from the lessons of Julia and improves on them to make a much better language.
Anybody have a http://www.generlink.com/ installed?

It's a transfer switch that installs behind the meter, so not a lot of work to enable selecting loads using the main panel.

I guess it is comparatively expensive for the load it supports (my use case would be the furnace and some lights though).
I distinctly remember switching to chrome, because using stumbleupon in it would only crash the tab, and not the whole browser. Kinda crazy to think that websites crashing the browser were common enough back then for that to matter.
Sure it can. Street-names can change, the numbering of houses in the street can change. At least, it can be changed by the municipality here in the Netherlands.
I commented about FriendlyCaptcha [0] elsethread.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30345606
I wonder what the plan was for writing in Chinese...
Pick one: Affirmative action or equality. Democrats lie and gaslight to pretend you can have both. Everyone is either treated equally or everyone is weighed based on their race or skin color.

If you think racial discrimination is okay so long as it supports a minority group, so be it. Just admit you aren’t a proponent of equality.
I think mRemoteNG is my winner: multiple settings, GUI, covers even RDP... thank you!
Ooh the selectively disabled extension is really cool! Thanks!

I sometimes—rarely happens thought—dislike how the cursor renders on top of ligatures in vscode. Always wished it would allow me to "inject" the cursor into the ligature, but since it didn't happen often or bother me as much, I never tried looking for a solution. This will be a small, but much appreciated quality of life improvement! Thanks again!
The Tensorflow C++ api seems like it was written by someone whose dog was raped and murdered by the author of a Modern C++ book, so they vowed to only code in '90s Java style and make maximal use of the C preprocessor.
For me its actually the browser window itself that represents a working set. I put all related tabs into their own windows and put the windows I'm not using on my supplemental monitor in the background so they're out of the way.

Otherwise I start drowning in browser windows and tabs
The Decentralized Identity Foundation is attempting to build a standard so you can own your own identity that’s independent of any centralized provider: https://identity.foundation/

That helps you ‘own’ who you are, but doesn’t stop someone like Google from refusing to work with you in case they think you’re a spammer (though your DID can provide enough evidence that you aren’t).
Can't they? Seems like they do have it both ways.

You can pay for Google Workspace with money, in which case you are the customer, and so you get customer service.

Or you can use the free version, in which case the advertiser is the customer and you are not.
On the contrary, sometimes the terms used do matter, whether they are a name or not. That's why FSF informs people why they prefer to use the terms like "Free Software" instead of "Open Source". It might not matter now that everybody switched to the web but 20 years ago this talking about Open Source lead to, among others, the so-called "Shared Source Initiative" that was neither fish nor fowl.

Also, the concept of winning or losing here is meaningless. For one thing, they already won, in the sense that FLOSS is omnipresent. It's a completely different world than in the 90s. On the other hand, whether the GNU project itself is more or less popular does not change its value: it's a result of selfless work of thousands of volunteers worldwide that made our lives easier* and made many things possible.

*) Not just Linux folks but also, say, Solaris admins in the 90s - at some point you'd begin by installing GNU utils to make the system more usable.
Why would you need to constantly update things? Just give a brief description of yourselve ( eg. like an intro on github). Or give a couple of examples of a portfolio ( doesn't need to be up to date)

They can see employment details on Linkedin, if they are curious.
This is actually a really great depiction of the original article’s point that you disagree with.

How Western legal study is very West-centric, and doesn’t seem to even talk much about non-Western history. And as a result, would uphold a Western sense of laws.
i hear what you're saying but i've spent too much time in the Middle East to know that most reporting in the west is intentionally deeply Islamophobic; mostly to manufacture consent for imperialist wars that allow the global north propertied/capitalist class to plunder and dominate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2khAmMTAjI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3LFbOSPfrE
I'm curious to see the long-term effects of "comfortable" entrepreneurs that don't have as much skin in the game when it comes to personal investment. Are they more likely to let a company fizzle out than someone who put their entire life savings in? Is there a risk/reward curve where the latter entrepreneur sees greater reward because they know that failing isn't an option?
But the rules are already in place and set up - the ones people want to ignore and pretend don't exist if they don't see them, even though they signed on the dotted line, as it were.
We offer a free trial to encourage developers to easily try out and integrate the product.

Our free tier can cover low TPS usecases. We offer a free tier because we believe audit logs are too hard to build & consume and would love to see even smaller companies adding audit logs to their products.
Here and now is a different place and time than when that political party was named during the merger of the Progressives and the Conservatives in an effort to defeat the incumbent Liberals. Being a "liberal" was a term for a supporter of the right-wing moneyed establishment at the time because of their demand for laissez-faire economics and reciprocity in international trade. A lot can change over a century.
Is GitHub supporting the author of mermaid? They explicitly have asked for help managing the volume of requests on the mermaid website
This is also true of capitalism.

Companies and the wealthy don't conspire against you, they just follow a flawed profit motive that does not fall to 0% as perfect market theory predicts.

The ugliness does not come from malice, it comes from externalities. You don't see the damage you cause and once someone tells you to look it is too late and you must pretend to be ignorant.
I may be introverted but a good case of anxiety/depression made me realize how much we need people..

But professionally speaking - I'm just happier at home.

- I jog in the AM rather than sit in traffic.
- I eat healthy lunches. Sometimes I sauna during my break (nearby). I've used my lunch break for spots of yard work or scheduling a repair man to come by.
- I eat dinner on time (before 6pm)
- I see more of my kid when he's off school. And he does t have to go to a daycare the 1.5 hours he's home that I'm still working
- I get to listen to my records every day. No headphones.

I can get little chores done when stuck on teams call that doesn't really apply to me but I'm expected to be there. Dishes, put away laundry, etc..
Heavy Wears the Crown and the Kohinoor
I would say have as much fun as you can along side your studies. Really.

On the career side, experiment as much as you can in all the different areas (web programming, data science, ML/AI, game dev, etc.) and see what fits you the most.

I wouldn't worry too much about finding a job in this industry and I think focusing on your portfolio would make most sense only after you've found the niche that interests you most.
My country is one of the biggest agricultural exporters in the world yet less than 1% of the population works in the farming industry.
Farming is what drives all the mechanization and robotics research.
Depends on your product. If you're radio shack, sure, always be closing. If you're selling me an essential component of my business, and I expect to have a long term relationship with you... concentrate on the relationship and trust.

I worked for a small startup that won a HUGE contract because the big guy stopped supporting them to their satisfaction. We twisted over backwards to support their needs and they liked that.
Discrimination is absolutely never the answer. Inequality is a hard problem to solve but that doesn’t mean we should take the lazy route and embed discrimination into all areas of life.

You cannot solve discrimination with discrimination. Democrats have been trying the lazy route for 40 years with no progress. Perhaps we would have been better off trying to solve the root causes instead of uselessly chasing quick fixes?
As a potential employer, I don't care about your clubs though I am interested in your hobbies as long as they are not programming related.

I am interested in your github and linked in profiles and what school you attend but I don't care about your grades or how long you took to graduate.

Hope that helps.
They have to follow the regulations of the gTLD. They can't just reclaim your domain at will.

For the .contact gTLD you will find them at https://donuts.domains/about/policies/ or over at ICANN.
Can you provide sources for any preemptive sanctions towards Russia? I only know about US Republican party initiative, but it was rejected by ruling party (Democrats).
They do because you give legitimacy to the scheme most people will lose money in once it collapses.
Do you have any delivery issues with forwardemail.net?

Is there any significant delay in receiving or sending?

I am currently a google apps user grandfathered in the free plan which is disappearing so I am looking for something new.
See also: https://www.lilywise.com/

(JeffTK's daughter, he comments around here sometimes)
Does that really export a month’s worth of photos? I would think it skips those of the first of the month.

(The programmer in me thinks “maybe, the code does after midnight on February 1”, but I would consider that a bug. It may seem an acceptable way to interpret these values to some, but if it were “after December 31”, you wouldn’t expect photos from December 31 to be included, would you?)
The Quantum Future of Naval Warfare
There is so much more a browser can add beyond just rendering websites "correctly" - and even that does not mean always rendering them the way the designer wants. Just a few things that could win over power users:

- Better tab organization. Vertical, tree-style tabs are an improvement possible with extensions, but surely we can do even better, especially if with direct support from the browser.

- Better bookmarking. All bookmarks should take a snapshot of the website in case it disappears or changes and should have fast full-text search. And those are only the obvious parts that are missing.

- Integrated ad-blocking and user scripts/styles to enhance and fix user-hostile websites. Make it easy to share these with non-technical users. Really anything that puts the user in control. This includes the Browser UI too - firefox has been going backwards con customizability.

- Ability to keep up with websites directly through the browser. Aka bring back RSS support and actually make it useful.

- Anything that works against the centralization of the web. Allow users to comment and share websites with their friends or community right from the browser in a way that is resistant to censorship.

And this is just what I could think of right away.
It's great! Lacks nothing.

On a related note: I friend of mine once said that an architect (the kind that design buildings) shouldn't be allowed to be older than eight. Still feels like a low-hanging fruit to make the world better.
Experimenting with how we price the product and how we bundle/package our plans.

With all other metrics in the business staying the same, it had a massive impact on cash flow and (eventually) profitability.
It says white supremacist ideals, not white people ideals.

It says this legal system is bad, not that we shouldn't have laws. The article promotes democracy and engagement in politics.
Novak Djokovic: I’m not anti-vax but will sacrifice trophies if told to get jab
Sardonic comments like these kind of break HN. You are being sardonic, right? Right???
Words – a set of word-based puzzle games for the CLI
I miss that joke. It's too bad the mod didn't create a bot to automatically actually ban people from the dead sub when called out, just for fun.

Edit: Ironically said in a comment about the overuse of banning people
An important tip if you intend to send everything to gmail.

Do NOT send everything to gmail via forward. Every bit of spam you forward is going to count against your domain name. I had someone who did this on a community server and it wrecked our rating for a while.

Instead, have gmail pick up your email via pop3. This will avoid the "spam origin/relay" problem of forwarding.
How to Use C++20 Modules with Bazel and Clang
The website looks great! It has a really nice feel to it.

It makes me want to see more pages designed by kids, but at some point I think there might be an issue of child labor.

The design feels unique and genuine
> What ought to be my main focus?

Reading. Never again will you have permission to just spend 3/4 years
in the library, filling your head every day with great learning. Keep
your mind healthy by eating well. Take notes. Dump your phone.

I wrote about the distractions facing bachelors degree students here:

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/joy-text-world-t...

(sorry if it's still paywalled in your neck of the woods)
Obviously, but I don’t see what that has to do with my comment? Browser engines are still not the same thing as browsers.
Here's another couple such generators, though they create star systems and planets, and not medieval maps:

https://ironarachne.com/#/starsystem

https://ironarachne.com/#/planet
Tbh way too many instances banned them when simply blocking the media from the instance was sufficient (I run a family-friendly instance, so NSFW on the timeline isn't great).
From a leftist point of view the most frustrating thing about red-green is that they market themselves as progressives and leftists but then just follow the same neoliberal economical politics as everyone else. It's deeply ironic that the reforms that did away with large swathes of the welfare state and labor protections were implemented by a red-green coalition government, not conservatives or the FDP.

The lesson most voters take away from this seems to be that leftism is just false advertising and if you vote for leftists you just get the same politics but more dishonest, not that the "leftists" they keep voting for aren't actually interested in leftist politics (though I can see why Die Linke might be unappealing as they're a headache even if you see them as the only viable option).
Handmade Hero Annotated
Sometimes the free product helps you get traction during the initial hard phase of your business when nobody knows your name.

A lot of businesses do this as a growing strategy so don't fully discount the backlinks, leads, social media it gave you.
64-bit Raspberry Pi OS 40% Faster Than 32-bit Version
I have not seen an important website genuinely break in a long time. Certainly not enough to build any sort of decision heuristic. Who are these people who have websites break all the time on Firefox but not in Chrome so much it drives them from one to another?
I already pay premium for some things for the sake of not being a part of the ad economy. Sam Harris's podcast being one example.

How about selling a premium version of Firefox, with polished versions of uMatrix and uBlock included? I might pay a small renewing subscription for that and for other things like that.

Firefox apparently has less than 200 million users left. 0.1% of those taking part of such a thing (say $5/mo) would mean a monthly revenue of 10 million. That would make some sort of a dent in their finances and if they communicated this clearly, it would be harmonious with their mission.
I tried to do this long ago but I have two main fears:

1. Is it easy to set up the redirect from Gmail to the new account?

2. When I send email from new account (custom domain), how are you completely sure it is not going to be on spam? I send unsolicited emails to people in big corps (journalist asking for interviews/comments, not spammy :-)
i don't think you can post on 4chan using a vpn either.
In my experience, anyone with any kind of physics background thinks that Braille displays could be radically cheaper.

Anyone who spends a couple hours on researching the problem thinks that the price could be improved, maybe by half, but that the problem isn't as easy as it seems.

Anyone who tries building one eventually arrives at the conclusion that making it cheaper requires a bunch of tradeoffs which they're not willing to make.

As far as I know, the central problem off Braille Display engineering isn't making the dots, but putting them so close to each other. If the gap between dots would be half an inch, let's say, a braille display would probably be a hundred-dollar affair. It would be completely unusable for any kind of reading, though.

Orbit Research managed to find a way to make Braille displays somewhat cheaper, which is now incorporated into the Orbit Reader 20 and 40, but that technology has a much slower refresh rate than traditional Braille displays and causes them to be much louder.
> However, appointing a black women to the Court is not racist.

Appointing a black woman at the conclusion of a thorough candidate evaluation is not racist. Stating outright that you will appoint a black woman before candidates have been evaluated is racist.

I feel sorry for all the asian judges of any sex, women of any other race, men of any race, Muslims of any sex, Hispanics of any sex, and anyone else not “black woman.” Apparently none of them are eligible for this prestigious appointment. Too bad for being born the way they were, I guess.

“Equality”
Not really, you're just projecting.

I would be very interested to hear about any empirical evidence, or philosophical argument(s), about any non-Western legal systems that work (or could work) as well as (or better) than the "Western sense of laws".

But then again, that's the real advantage of "Western civilisation" - we don't care where great ideas come from, we adopt and assimilate what works best from all different cultures.
that's why i don't just bookmark everything. it also takes more effort to open a bookmark than to switch to a tab. instead i try to use bookmarks for the really important things.
That’s… not a hosting company though?
The Age of Anti-Ambition
It's incredible that companies are so eager to delete your data after a couple weeks. If someone gets sick at the end of the month -- let's say with a deadly virus that caused them to spend weeks in the hospital, maybe even being unconscious and intubated -- they shouldn't come home to a deleted domain name or web server, or need to reupload several terabytes to a backup provider, all over a ~$10 billing issue.

Grace periods for everything (online and off) used to be 3+ months. Now they're days. These billing policies are quite literally inhumane, as they entirely ignore the logistics of being human.
Does a life as a subsistence farmer seem appealing to you? A short life.
https://github.com/jcelerier/cninja
"The rules" are in place, but we can change them if we, as a society, decide that they don't work, or don't reflect reality, or cost too much.

Besides, if the vast majority of people ignores a rule, maybe it means that the rule is ripe for changing. That doesn't necessarily mean removing TOS entirely, mind you. There are a bunch of other solutions. We could enforce minimum standards for human-readable, short form presentation of TOS. We could enforce what they may and may not restrict, in order to allow users to accept with reasonable minimum expectations of what they're accepting.
Replicated.com is a popular one
>"It is quite weird how we can't maintain something as basic as food security with a market based economy."

Because people at the top need other people making them money rather than revolting.