skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll latch on the point being made about the capacity of long reading being eroded by tech. The author dismisses it as old-timey, but I think this is largely true[1]

>"The findings on reading comport with some other recent data on American reading trends. Numbers from the National Endowment for the Arts show that the share of adults reading at least one novel, short story, poem or play in the prior year fell from 57 percent in 1982 to 43 percent in 2015. Survey data from the Pew Research Center and Gallup have shown, meanwhile, that the share of adults not reading any book in a given year nearly tripled between 1978 and 2014."

I think even behaviour like calling a 10 minute video "too long", is now common. It seems absurd to me to just describe this neutrally as the author does and call it an 'adaption' comparing it to us behaving differently than 11th century monks. Reading differently might be fine, but when anything longer than five minutes of sustained concentration is too much you're getting to a point where you physically can't actually engage with anything in long form any more.

[1]https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:8XPnys...
Talk to an immigration attorney.
But that Japanese experience is not just created by the teachers, the other students and their parents are a very big part of it. I think kids around that age care most about their peers. If they didn't do as everybody else there they would really stand out negatively.

Otherwise, the problem could be solved by importing Japanese teachers to American schools, in person or just their training. I would be surprised if just exchanging for other teachers had a huge impact. That would mean it has always been the teachers fault, which I highly doubt.
People overexagerate the perils of dictators forgetting that everyone's dad and mom were dictators in their lives, the authories dictate things all the time, and every manager, president, and prime minister is a dictator of sorts. I guess, what people mostly worry about is having the wrong dictator they do not like, but truly, everybody is being dictated in one way or another, whether they admit it or not.

Dictators are not bad. I know many people who complain about dictators and yet listen to a lot of dictators in their lives, whether it's scientists, politicians, TV broadcasters, or even a work boss that they admire.

People are full of BS regarding dictators. It's time for people to admit the lies that dictators are bad, and admit that they all want to be dictators deep down and just hate the "wrong" kind of dictators that they don't like to be in charge.

Funny, I encounter people complaining about dictators and then dictating to me that "I am not welcome", "I am rejected from their midst", etc...

There are other people who claim they are not judgmental, and then they judge me for saying some words, or judge my judgmentality.

The world is full of BS and hypocrites. The only way to fix it is to actually get the "right" kind of dictator in charge. We need more dictators who can take charage and kick the wrong kind of people into prison.

What do you think? (of course, some might dictate to me that my ideas are wrong or outright dictate that I be silenced by revoking my rights to free speech, while claiming they hate dictators, go figure!)
You're completely ignoring Canada and Latin America. Good luck dealing with timezones and language barriers.
anti-example, Godot's is also horrible, and Unity vs Godot are the two main options for 2D development :(
Well he did say “this is their new hoax” (at 7:30 in this speech: https://youtu.be/H2BO_2bnx3k).

And yeah, he wasn’t talking about the virus itself, but about how the democrats were turning it into a big issue… which of course they turned out to be right about. This is the same speech where he bragged that there were no American deaths, and now there are over a million.
Yeah, what about Win 11?

https://filestore.community.support.microsoft.com/api/images...
Imagine holding parents accountable for the development of their offspring?
If Alice is going from Arcadia Habitat to Zenith Observatory, and Bob is going the other way, and they're of equal mass, it's a momentum exchange. In a developed solar system the transport network could make a lot of hay out of this principle.

Even if the cities do cluster in one plane, that doesn't imply the power stations will.
Great tips, thanks
> No B's allowed or you get an ass-whooping. You are expected to rank highly in any competitions or standardized testing. You're expected to take the most challenging classes possible and do well in them. Your parents constantly compare you to those better than you and motivate you to become better than them.

I'm not sure that the world in which we give 90% of children depression is really the ideal we're striving for here.
Based on my own interactions with Google, this seems the most likely.

We have a niche educational/medical app directed to children, to help them understand their treatment with kid-friendly characters talking to them on their level.

The app was taken down because some form had been added to the Google Developer console (the backend of google play) years after we had published and we hadn't answered it. We only found out because someone else in the company heard from a customer that they couldn't find the app online.

A cursory glance showed that the app wasn't listed any more.

After we logged in to Google Developer console, and explored through google's ever changing menus and product renames, we had found an alert to fill out a form. We only had to tick no to a handful of questions on the form and submit it.

The questions were things like: "Is your app a news app?", "Does your app feature sexual content?", etc... All things that google should have been able to figure out based on the rating stuff we had to fill out when the app was first published.

About 2 days later, the app was available again.
use uMatrix or uBlock and block individual domains

https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix
All of them. If you allow everything and have Ghostery running in "don't block anything but tell me what's there" mode, it's horrifying just how many things get loaded.

You can play with page load sizes in the debugger console with stuff blocked and without too - about half the downloaded material on any major news website is stuff that Ghostery will block. It's quite terrifying.
Ask HN: As a developer, do you read Programming books?
Saying that Adblock users want it 100% to block ads and 0% to protect their privacy is a misleadingly narrow analysis, even this use isn’t completely effective.
It is the router.
I wonder why certain names acquire the infamy of their worst namesakes (e.g. Adolf) and not others (e.g. Vladimir, Joseph)
I can't wait for this to happen. Personally I think we just need to ban all targeted advertising based on viewer profiles, even session data such as IP and geo-location. This in turn should severely limit or destroy business models based on optimizing for engagement, as non-paying users are no longer profitable. It's going to cost a lot of people in ad-tech their jobs, but there is no shortage of demand for IT work, so surely they'll find something else to do.
Counter-strike and StarCraft have existed for way longer than Overwatch and it was even truer in 2020. 95-percentile of a playerbase full of casuals is easier than 95-percentile of a playerbase of hardcore fans that have all been doing it for decades.

In fact that may be a lesson to take away. If you want to be 95 percentile easily, pick a new field. Since you don't have catching up to do, 95-perentile effort will get you there quickly.
It's just a more inefficient way of gatekeeping because instead of doing the Leetcode gauntlet once and you get a license or credential that actually means something, you have to run it at every single company you apply to.
I really wish that meme would just die. That dog was sick and probably in a lot of pain and it makes me sad every time I see it.
To me, I believe, computer was the main reason. Before using computer my eyesight were ok. After with the advent of computer in my life, I became short-sighted (unable to see object that are far)
People always say that about Godfather 3, I always wonder if it’s just a thing to say because he put his own daughter in a lead role. Like the critics, I liked it. Not nearly as much as II or I but still. It is a nineties movie though, it’s even different media wise, less grainy. Casting his own daughter when I think, Winona Ryder, dropped out was very nepotistic; and she’s a better director than actress. For me Garcia steals the show though, channeling Sonny and the ‘they pull me back in scene’ is amazing.
I don’t know what my point is..
I don't know about the FBI specifically but telecom equipment is regulated and in most places it's not legal to roll your own interface to the infrastructure. Even if you bring your own modem these days, it becomes administered remotely by your ISP. Similar to phreaking being a crime. Even if you have an agreement with your ISP, I'd expect you'd be breaking it and crossing into fraud or toll fraud at the least.
Principal Engineers at Google know their stuff, a viral blogpost notwithstanding.
Then they aren't "outliers" are they?
Are Blip Billboard Ads Effective?
I am familiar with the looks of this device as it’s in use at two locations I‘m providing in-family support for.

At least in those two cases (different ISPs), it’s possible to turn the device into bridging mode
Judging by the lifestyles of billionaires I don't think human appetites should be underestimated. Especially on a planet of billions of people.
Is the decline caused by the dams though? From where I'm standing (half a planet away), it's not so clear, they could go extinct and be perfectly adapted at the same time.
You misunderstand. Firefox has implemented the API, because it works on Reddit and other websites.
Just because it has not completed doesn't mean it isn't happening. These days very small number of people know how computers actually work(how many know assembly or even C?) but there's a huge number of people building their businesses by programming machines do things.

In the last 20 years, people were using languages close to English to express their ideas to a computer and make it do work. You touch computer science stuff only when you dive deep in something that hasn't been commercialised completely and when the market is large enough it quickly develops into services where you tell the computer do things in "plain English". The cloud is a good example where 20 years ago you would have to understand the architecture of server systems and networking, these days it's just a form you have to fill and express some rules about accessing the resources in "plain English".

Similar abstractions have been happening everywhere, from AI to game development or graphics generation everything is so abstracted that all you need is to learn the tool through a few tutorials to be productive.

Many people start from the high level abstractions and dive deeper later on since many years. You first build your multiplayer game, make some money and then maybe you learn about stuff like DNS, TCP/IP. That's only possible because networking and server management is completely abstracted and the game developers only interact with the cloud provider's SDK that handles all kind of edge cases and optimisations.
The physical risks to vaccinated and previously infected people from BA.2 are low[1]. The deaths of which you speak are a delayed effect from BA.1, which is already declining in terms of infections and primarily affected the unvaccinated.

And given that the US still has many millions of unvaccinated people left, it could take a while before new variants work their way through that entire population (either by immunization or by death).

So the real question is: how long are you willing to endure the current pandemic control measures for the sake of a group of people with oppositional defiant disorder? What are you expecting to happen in the future—do you think the variants will magically all go away or that everyone else will suddenly get vaccinated? Even endemicity is no guarantee of low disease burden — it’s merely a state of predictability.

What’s your plan here?

1. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-16/study-sho...
AGL coal rejects Atlassian founder and Brookfield's AUD$8B takeover bid
Adblockers block ads and tracking, if the new gtag manager makes easier to defeat the tracking protections of an ad blocker then it seems accurate.

I think the key thing here is that ad/tracking blockers often rely on domains or requests being 3rd party. In the past it was more work to hide the 3rd party trackers as 1st party, this makes it easy so its more likely to happen now.
Yeah, it's an idiotic, 1-dimensional proposition in a game of n-dimensional chess. Tech employees are competition for a company's profit after all the other companies trying to commoditize their complements (https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v). Starting with AWS. Treating programmers as cost centers was precisely what hindered the previous generation of companies in competing with tech.

There may well come a time when a company can compete for gross margins without competing for tech employees. But it'll require a case more rigorous than this blog post.
At some level this feels like a consequence of a design decision heading to the instruction decode logic. You can map from the Octal groups to the ALU wires and traces and gates in the 8080. They don't have to line up any more, we've moved. beyond that, but if you had the original chip naked and ran it, or ran a simulation, a "mechanistic" relationship between the octal groups might emerge visually?

It also feels like how the 'hidden' instructions get found.
Tor relays are identifiable.

And are blocked or rate-limited by many websites.

That said, if a majority of interesting Web traffic transited Tor, that behaviour would likely change.
That’s where I thought it was headed…in 2001.
On lichess, the 95th percentile rating of active participants is 2125. I wonder if this author would agree such a rating "isn't that good"? I think it's pretty darn good.
No, the changes that McDonalds implemented in their cups were not really a big deal. Rigid styrofoam and cups were already in widespread use at large establishments at the time. McDonalds' "redesigned" cups were and continue to be quite pedestrian. Don't take my word for it. Go order a cup of McDonalds coffee, which will likely be served to you at the same dangerously hot, NCA-approved temperature that burned Stella, put the cup between your legs and squeeze it like Stella did, and tell me how safe you feel.

> But the bigger problem is that you're still ignoring that your mind has been captured by the propaganda that demonized this woman as a greedy opportunist

No, in my comments I have explicitly stated that I empathized with Stella and that I'm glad she got her medical bills paid. She didn't deserve what happened to her, and she definitely didn't deserve the hateful publicity she received.

I furthermore freely admit that I'm fully capable of doing the same idiotic things that Stella did. Putting hot coffee between my legs and squeezing it to fiddle with the lid is exactly something I would do, and I'd probably be on the fucking phone or driving while I did it. I recognize that Stella probably didn't understand just how dangerous this is, and I accept that McDonalds may have been negligent in the nature of the warnings it provided.

> Can you even imagine how much surgery is required to treat 3rd degree burns to the genitals?

This is an appeal to emotion. Yes, I've seen some horrific injuries in my time. I'm also a vegetarian with a deep abiding hatred of McDonalds and their ilk. McDonalds makes, markets, and sells shit food that is poisoning generations. But the magnitude of Stella's injury is orthogonal to the issue of McDonalds culpability for it. Clearly the judicial system has settled into some recognition of liability for merchants of hot coffee, but excessive service temperature is not part of that consideration. And it's a damn good thing, because coffee needs to be hot.

Here's a simple question for you, based on an actual experience I had years ago. If I accidentally stab myself in the eye with a paring knife (yes, long story), will you support me if I sue the knife maker or the merchant for selling me a knife that was excessively or unexpectedly sharp and pointy?
This is not "caring about education" in a way that I think really helps anyone. I cared about education and didn't have these things. I honestly don't see how anyone can look at e.g. the SK system and cram schools and the like and think "Yeah! _They_ really know how to do it!"
I disagree. I think it was made by millennials, aimed at Gen X or boomers, but expressed pity instead of empathy which is why people don't like it.

It might be useful to compare and contrast other ads that have tried to do something similar.

There was an ad a while ago for Cialis or Viagra, that said stuff along the lines of "you've reached the age of getting things done". Nothing about sex per se, just a middle-aged guy and a subtext of competence, and doing what it takes for relationships and other responsibilities.

That seems to me to be focusing on something that older people take pride in, that even though they may not be physically capable of everything younger people are, they have lost some of the vanities and insecurities.

It's not just saying "how sad is it that you can't get it up, you need our product".
> think that everything that goes up must come down

It doesn't take a pessimist to be remember Newton's apple.
I still run into the bug

https://i.ibb.co/y4p4JSM/20220220-231734.jpg
Hi bradknowles. Very appreciate for your reply. I will try send them real message with proper configuration from my server.
Awesome I have covered all these things. Thank you.
The Fed has distorted the market so much that it's no longer seen as profitable or even a valid career path to offer goods and services on main street. The huge amount of money pumped into the stock market drives rampant speculation, along with the need of those who have profited to hide their gains from taxation.

NFTs could have been an analog of the Fine Art market, but I think too many failed launches in that area will keep that from happening.

All of that capital is seeking Alpha, it'll gamble everywhere on the odds that overall the return will be more than even.

In other words, the Rich are running out of things to buy.
I liked when they said the benefits of face masks for Covid19 are "unquestionable". How very scientific
I found it funny. This wasn't a technical document.
And if you’re in the top, say 1/3, of engineers you’ll make a good living. If you’re in the top 1% of say, chess players, you probably won’t even get tournament invites.
Mississippi is a poor state, but within Mississippi, do the better performing schools receive more funding?
Tried NoScript for years and it was a pain. Too many of the sites I use need so many domains full of JS. So I think this will vary widely depending on the person and their preferred/needed sites.
Current GTM, configured (via the server UI) to inject tracker X:

gtm javascript loads, pulls down the config, injects tracker X javascript into the browser

new gtm:

gtm javascript loads, pulls down config, streams events to google servers to fan out to tracker X as configured

So blocking gtm.js off tagmanager.google.com / www.googletagmanager.com / the various other domains still blocks all gtm injected tags.

The tl;dr is they're become much closer to segment -- which does the data fanout internally to segment. But they should still be straightforward to block.
Nocode tooling available today is already extremely powerful.

That doesn't mean non-technical users can really leverage that abstraction well.

What I've seen is that the abstractions give the most leverage to developers and developer adjacent people... Think people who started in comp sci, but don't really enjoy writing code.
Perhaps this is moving the goalposts a bit, but e.g. depixelation does appear to defy such a presumed limit due to apparent information content? Perhaps it is that the network reading the sensor carries additional information associated with the lower-resolution or additional-fields' sensor data?

https://github.com/krantirk/Self-Supervised-photo :

> Given a low-resolution input image, PULSE searches the outputs of a generative model (here, StyleGAN) for high-resolution images that are perceptually realistic and downscale correctly.

Maybe no amount of feature engineering can actually add information?
Because they go on your breathing hole.
Geography is largely irrelevant. You likely want stability, good internet, visa-free access, relative internationalism for network building, and low costs. If you are coming from South Asia, I'd recommend Thailand. I heard they are now planning on granting few-questions asked long term visas to foreigners as a means to obtain post-COVID inbound tourism at 10K THB (USD$310) per year, renewable for up to 10 years. A cheaper option would be Indonesia but it's more visa hassle and the infrastructure isn't as good.
https://matthewc.dev/blog/projects/webdev/passwordless-auth/
Yes it's been out for quite some time.

It's also requires running a proxy as a GCP application, so people running GTM largely because it's free/cheap aren't going to go along with this.
> For a lot of people their career is just a way to get paid. As long as they don't get fired that's enough for them.

This was one of my hardest earned lessons when I became a manager. Previously I had worked my way into high-performing teams where everybody really cared about doing a good job. I was so surrounded by people with that mindset that I assumed that’s just how everybody in tech operated.

Only later did I realize that I was surrounded by those people because my managers actively selected for those hires and carefully weeded out the people who weren’t interested in anything other than doing the bare minimum to collect a paycheck.

As a hiring manager, the opposite selection bias occurs: The candidate pool is heavily biased toward people who have lost their jobs or are being pushed out as part of a PiP. You end up interviewing a lot of people who really just want to collect a paycheck and be bothered as little as possible with actual work.

Poke around Reddit or even HN and this work minimization mindset is even celebrated by a lot of people. If you’ve been surrounded by high achievers and motivated people who would have chosen programming jobs because that’s what they like to do every day, it can be a shock to work with people who really just hate doing anything that resembles work. Yet they’re out there, in surprisingly large numbers.
This is literally the same game virus scanners played against mutation engines. Ultimately, the halting problem won.

There are two places this can end:

* Redesign the runtime environment so it doesn’t matter if you download trackers. The execution environment doesn’t offer the I/O facilities that it requires to actually produce harm. This is what Apple Private Relay and Tor Browser try to give you. By analogy, this is why Web Apps became so popular in the first place — web publishers who do not intentionally collude are protected from each other by the SOP, so opening a web page should be less risky than running an EXE. It’s “just”[1] extending the existing sandbox to prevent differing origins from being able to collude.

* Instead of blocking bad scripts, allow only known-good ones. To match the convenience of current-day ad blocking, it needs to be a collaboratively-produced list. In other words, a gatekeeper. By analogy, this is why installing “unrecognized” applications on Windows and macOS is behind a scare screen, and why doing it on iOS is prevented entirely.

The former seems less dystopian, but much more difficult.

[1]: this is actually very difficult