skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I do in this instance is mute that person for an hour or so and leave to do what I was doing. It means a less quick response to the person but keeps me sane a lot of the time.
> I'm well aware you might think I'm proving your point with this response.

You are correct. Your comment was mean. Not even sure why you responded aggressively.

Hostile is perfectly correct word to describe some online communities. Do you think the word "hostile" only applies when you meet people physically?
Borderline of being a staff-level machine learning engineer at a large technology company, and despite getting an exceptional review (and completing a major product delivery), I will also be getting a sub-inflation comp adjustment.

Already started interviewing, early indications and offers suggest a 40-60% pay jump is within reach, possibly more with equity. I just don't understand why companies do this to themselves.
Can I add a category for your wall of shame? Services that couple language and location, so that even though they have done the work of having an English localization, it's not available in my location.

Financial services and airlines are the worst offenders. SAS, Degiro, Amazon off the top of my head all do this.

Degiro has the added bonus of totally breaking under Google Translate so I went to the trouble of using a browser extension to rewrite the request for their localisation strings file to fetch the English version. I'm sure there are some legal disclaimers that are missing here and there but it works fine.
I can definitely understand his point. Some guy donates a dollar to your project and suddenly they act like you owe them the 80 hours required to implement their stupid enhancement request.
Worth noting that CD sales as a percent of total revenue fell from 4.0% to 3.9%, continuing the trend relative to the whole there.

From: https://www.riaa.com/u-s-sales-database/
Chinese woman devastated after CCTV captures health worker beat her dog to death
Yes, and the government has created convenient carve outs for its self. For example in Carroll v. United States, the judicial branch surrendered its authority to authorize searches to the executive branch. For searches of your vehicle, all the police need is probable cause. The police, of course, determine if they have probable cause. So this makes the 4th amendment irrelevant in these circumstances.

Throughout US history, there is a march towards ignoring citizens rights, through political, judicial, and bureaucratic maneuvering. The constitution is a piece of paper. There are people who’s full time job is to separate your understanding of your rights from what is written in that document. When they’re clever enough, they will allow state violence to be imposed on you with no repercussions.
The 300-year History of Internet Dating
The first person to get hit (in their non-automated vehicle) with the automated vehicle being at fault will have a field day with this in court.
I have a suspicion that housing will stop being a crisis due to a combination of:

1) the main expense is the land, the houses themselves are cheap, so anything that causes existing-but-undesirable houses to now be in a commuter zone increases useful supply

2) self-driving vehicles will allow people to commute while asleep or doing their hobbies (this is a terrible idea with current tech, people already get in trouble for doing both in existing self-driving cars)

3) remote working (we already have a lot of digital entertainment and socialising)

If I’m wrong, I expect it to be because all this makes meatspace location into an even bigger status symbol than it is already.
Substack seems increasingly overrun w/ right-wing and right-wing adjacent loonies. Medium seems perpetually stuck in "ok we need to make money; what if we remove 'actual good feature' and replace it with 'feature nobody wants, needs, or asked for'?" mode.

Just spin up a Wordpress site and call it a day.
There was kagi.com here on HN a few weeks ago, I've been mighty pleased
Consider a Netflix like service where you paid $0.50 per show you watched. It happened seamlessly and you just saw a bill at the end of the month. Would you have the same video viewing habits?

Services like this exist, but total revenue is so small they don't even register on most charts. People don't like it.
Kwik Trip has basically been taking over Minnesota, even though we have plenty of Casey’s. It’s incredible how many they’re building.
No, they didn't. That's my point. One of the most famous scenes in US TV News history was when Walter Kronkite, America's news daddy, finally had enough regarding the bullshit peddled by national television networks regarding the Vietnam war. It was NEVER unbiased. People love to believe that the news USED to be unbiased because the news produced at the time reconciles with their memory of the events they want to believe to be true. But we keep clippings of literally everything, and the one thing that is crystal clear is that what is being reported has always been focused through the lens of the mind of the person doing that reporting.

Go look at this link, which is a collection at Kent State University of articles written about the massacre at the school from the time of the shootings:

https://www.library.kent.edu/special-collections-and-archive...

Tell me how all of these articles are simultaneously unbiased from the headlines.
Why companies are abandoning Russia with barely a shrug
India accidentally fires missile into Pakistan
This was part of the plan for the market. Remove human drivers & owner operators to have tighter control over the markets. The appearance of safety using coarse statistical samples (is is really safer?) is pretense for the real reasons.
Obligatory: http://www.marilynkinsella.org/Fabulous%20Folktales/theft_of...
> Netflix isn't allowed to let me choose which countries catalogue I want to watch.

That has nothing to with the choice of language. Unless you're using some antique HTTP server that doesn't support it, use Accept-Language.

If you have reasons for filtering content based on geographic location, and you absolutely can't trust the user to tell you, perhaps you shouldn't be serving content over HTTP; the IP address is a poor proxy for geographic location. It's perfectly posible to buy an IP block in one country, and have it routed to another.

> In an Arabic country you might not be allowed to serve images of women in swimwear (or other revealing images).

If you're running your HTTP server in a Moslem[0] country, perhaps you shouldn't be serving those images to anyone. But if not, then it's your user's responsibility to comply with local law.

If the diversity of content that the internet brings is unacceptable to some nation, they can either try to do without the internet (good luck with that!), or try some kind of filtering regime like the Chinese have set up.

> the applicable law is usually based on your physical location at that point in time

"Your", i.e. the site user's location. But if you're geared-up to charge VAT in the first place, then you're able to handle things like delivery addresses in EU countries. At any rate, if your site visitor fails to pay VAT on purchases, it's the user that has committed VAT fraud, not the server operator. So operators should simply ask users where they are, for those purposes.

[0] Not all Moslems are Arabs, and not all Arabs are Moslems.
This is the strongest sign that it actually hurt their bottom line
I'd like to imagine we'd have "manual override" controls like I, Robot (2004) showed: https://youtube.com/shorts/46-EGyn7rwc As implied in the clip, after a few years of self-driving cars, most passengers won't know how to drive well enough for it to be safe and other autonomous vehicles might not coordinate well with a manual driver.

A "pull over" button could work, but still relies on the automated driving capabilities.

A third option would be to dial an "expert driver" who takes remote control of the car to get you to safety, bypassing both the automated driver and the passengers' inability to drive. Lack of connectivity could be an issue, and it opens the door wider for hackers (already an issue though). However I have to imagine that in-transit connectivity will be increasing dramatically once people want to work or watch Netflix during their commute.
That would set quite a precedent.

Anyone is free to point a domain at a server and serve HTTP, in the sense that they are allowed to buy a server, domain and maybe software- in order to have a website.

A fair comparison could be done for a pamphlet or a book- you are free to pay a publisher/ printing press/ editor- in order to have a pamphlet or book.

Banning adblockers would not simply affirm this. It would go further and set a precedent that you, the publisher, can run arbitrary code or display arbitrary things on a user's screen; potentially against the user's wishes.
Give ublacklist a try. Very effective to content farm.
Really great on firefox for android too, along with YouTube background player.
This feels like getting the cart before the horse. As far as I’m aware (and as has been proven by car companies’ continuing inability to produce a safely self driving vehicle) there’s no standard test for what counts as an ”automated driving system (ADS) vehicle” capable of safely navigating public roads.

Regulators shouldn’t just take for profit companies’ word that a vehicle is automated. There should be a standard battery of tests which a vehicle must pass to be considered automated.

Allowing companies to get rid of controls just because they pinky swear the vehicle can handle driving safely in all foreseeable conditions is a sure way to end up with needless death and injury due to the same dynamics that were written in the book Unsafe at any Speed.

The safety and regulatory framework should exist before the activity is allowed rather than waiting until the inevitable deaths and injuries and relying on the families of the deceased to petition congress.
Who gets to sanction who will basically come down to whether Russia or Europe can connect to other Consumers/Producers first I think.

If Russia can find and deliver it's oil to a new customer (China? It can cut Europe off). If Europe can find and connect to a new supplier of gas first it can stop paying Russian.

Seems like it should be easier for Russia but I'm no expert.
Has Isreal ever had enough popular support to justify the massive amount of aid it is sent? It has governmental support, I don't think it needs the popular support
Firefox are not blocking the limitations of declarativeNetRequest. They are picking and choosing the good parts of V3 and implementing those.
Theft requires taking something someone already has, not just going out of my way to avoid giving it to them. Anyway, my user-agent, my rules. That should really be the end of the argument.
Wait, why is being 'quite wealthy' necessary? Their FAQ says 10$ on the low end, 20-30$ for an unlimited offering. People of varying economic positions spend that monthly on a myriad of non-essential services. I feel like you're also playing a semantic game with 'importance' since in another comment you immediately jump to a starving person trying to choose between a premium search engine and food. We're more or less in a typical HN thread about product barrier to entry here and it feels like you're on a class crusade to get equal search results for all. Not the same conversation.
IMO, it's because the primary use case for Go isn't GUI programming.

The language absolutely is a generalpurpose language, and making great GUI libs with it is certainly possible, as shown by Fyne (yes, I know it's still new, give it time).

That being said, most people using Go build server side code and frameworks with it, aka. things that live as daemons in some rack or in a docker swarm. If there is an front-end to these kinds of applications, it's usually web based.
Children are pretty much fungible before a certain age.
Most Linux developers (both kernel and userland) seemed to learn very little from Plan 9, except in very limited areas. Other Unix developers, even less. I think it made very little "mindshare progress" until Go and even today it's a (loud, but) minority view in the Go community.

I wonder if it ever troubled him he had vastly more influence with the "first draft" than the more refined system.
If you like playing with virtual synths and are on iOS: I recommend checking out the open source Synth One app if you haven't already.
is it better than sharemouse ?
Interesting bit of history, PGP was publicly released by Phil Zimmermann. The US government went after him with criminal charges for violating munitions export laws.

He won because he published his source code in a printed book, and was able to effectively argue that his act was protected under the first amendment right to free speech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_i...
The title is kinda misleading, as this has nothing to do with Google Maps other than using it as a map source.
Science Questions with Surprising Answers
This is heart breaking to see.
I remember getting a Tivo as a gift for my wife. (2001 maybe?). I'd hooked it up to the TV the night before and when she came downstairs in the morning I said "let me show you something!"

I turned on some news channel and was trying to tell he about this. Something was 'newsworthy' on at that time, and she kept telling me "shh... hang on - I want to hear what he's saying!".

I pressed the 'pause' button on the tivo remote and the screen froze. Then she froze, and slowly turned to me... and... had that look in her eyes that "the world's just changed". :)
This!! For real. Paid subscription for Bloomberg and boom, there is huge banner on top. Takes ~10% of screen.

Why?!
Always add “I tried this and that already”.
Some Testing Theory (2020)
It's not entirely clear if Indian and Pakistani nukes are secured by something like PAL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_Action_Link

The Soviet nukes left over in Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan were protected.
ublacklist is what I've been using, works well.
did you really have to add the pronouns mate?

"that's a great point" would suffice

wouldn't you agree?
Global CO2 rebounded to peak level in 2021
As long as it only distracts me once, I'd say it's a win.
Unreasonable search and seizure is written out explicitly but privacy is not.
This is one of the reasons I now use my own domain name
I don't even care that much about the IP vs System Language part of it tbh, what REALLY pisses me off is that despite having configured my Google Account to only show me english results, it will serve me Portuguese search results just because I live in Brazil.

That is truly maddening
Only log in to say I'm with you. I see a noble and brave man who put actions.

The donation page on kse.ua, gave me an error 'Donations to this recipient aren't supported in this country'. Yes, I'm a native Chinese raised and living in China mainland.

I want to do something for Ukrainian. Sigh...

I know, I know some of you are aware of what's happening on Chinese Internet (what a weird and sad word) and there're people there who are advocating for Putin and cheering the invasion while ridiculing Ukrainian.

Please don't think they're all of us Chinese. I believe you (HNers) are reasonable enough to know what's happening on Twitter/FB couldn't represent all of you, same for what's happening on Chinese apps/web.

Days ago there's a HN submission [0] The new silent majority: People who don't tweet. I guess similar thing is here in China, those who are decent, gentle and nice enough, do not speak out... Heck, actually no not that hopeless, at least in my social circle and the media I keep track of, still plenty of people are sane enough to know, an invasion by no means has any ground and should be condemned undoubtedly.

[0] https://www.axios.com/political-polarization-twitter-cable-n...
Absolutely not. Ukrainians have every right to defend their country. I just find the fact that a corporation has essentially put out a list of entities that they want to see (or are at least ok with seeing) killed pretty dystopian. It's basically the "two minutes of hate" from 1984.
This makes a lot of sense, we are going to work really hard internally to work on our branding/what our marketing site is saying. It seems that we aren't properly conveying what we are, and that's on us. I'm grateful for you taking the time to bring this to our attention.

I'm all ears for any other feedback you have!

> Why gain insights into future performance if you're not screening stocks for purchase? Your comment about not being a screener confuses me. It sounds more like. "Our product owner doesn't like the word screener"

Most of the insights we have are analyzing past financials for things like "is this company profitable", "is this companies dividend payment > than their free cash flow" for example. I did look up the english definition for "screener" and it's a bit vague. I always viewed it strictly as an input tool, where users enter in criteria and then get "screened" search results which filter from a large DB/etc. I may be mistaken if that term applies to more than just things like finviz, but that's my experience with it. I've never seen someone use the term "screener" for a new feature like ours that doesn't conform to/behave like any other screeners I've used to date.

English is hard lol, I prefer Python :p
How to piss off other programmers
That spelling is valid in both Russian and Ukrainian
> much lower cost than cars

Spoken like someone who has never been a parent.
I wonder if that is due to concerts and local artists earning money at shows, or if it is a broader trend. Story of one: I have been buying physical media from Bandcamp for albums that I like and that offer it. Bandcamp is so cool! Actually owning the music, even if digitally, is a comforting feeling.
It would be nice if browser makers started bundling ad block by default.
I love doing UI programming in Pascal, but I miss sane build systems and package management from other languages when I use Lazarus or Delphi.

If Lazarus were more popular and had a better library ecosystem, I’d probably use it a lot more.
Consider the following word replacements.

[Ukraine/Israel] is established as an ethnic state after the end of the [Soviet/British] regime.

[Ukraine/Israel] passes laws to protect its language and national identity in the face of its neighboring [Russia/Arab states]

[Ukraine/Israel] is persecuting its [Russian/Arab] minorities by enacting discriminatory laws.

[Ukraine/Israel] does not recognize [DNR/Palestinian] statehood.

Obviously the parallels are not perfect, but the key is to understand that the Israeli right wing views Palestinians as Arabs, not as an independent nation, and views the establishment of the West Bank as a Jordanian/Arab land grab.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Republic

I’m not trying to assign right or wrong here, but trying to say that these sort of actions are not about pure evil racism than the outcome of regional conflict, and are much less one-dimensional than they are made out to be. As essentially all conflicts are. Racism/apartheid is one-dimensional, and this is not the same.

In other news, Israel appointed the first Muslim justice to its Supreme Court.

https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/article-698154/amp

Racism exists in Israel just as it does in America even though Barack Obama was elected president, and as it does in almost all countries. But its disingenuous to call Israel an apartheid state.
We already have it. The first amendment.

> Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech...

Cryptographic communication is speech.
I'm not sure if I'm optimistic about autonomous vehicles or just very pessimistic about human drivers. I have no confidence that the next driver making a left turn while I'm crossing the road won't kill me. I'm much more comfortable with a computer that is programmed to avoid killing me, even if the software may have the occasional bug, than with a human who may or may not prioritize my life over whatever else it is they have going on that day.
Latvia (also NATO country, and in the Meta list) still has this https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-latvia-hundreds-march-in-ho...
Ruby Structs
Most ad services now swap their ad JS domains frequently, aggregate snippets (ads and functional) over a Tag Manager, or simply even proxy the ad scripts through the main domain, which a DNS filter cannot block reliably.
Would that include the piano and karate lessons for the replacement kids?
From an older submission to Hacker News: "Appreciate marketing. It seems like bullshit, but it’s bullshit I don’t want to have to do. I’m glad someone else is doing it, I’m sincerely grateful for their efforts." [0]

Software development is important, but marketing is also important, and it actually works. Most companies can't survive without effective marketing.

[0] https://devjac.dev/posts/2021-05-29-my-personal-creed-of-emp...
It means the warhead was replaced with an inert equivalent. Often just a lump of concrete.

But you are correct, the impact of the missile could kill someone.
Time to re-evaluate the usefulness of Twitter. Might just be time to close my account. I quit Facebook last year and honestly haven't even missed it a little. It's hard making the leap, but these companies are determined to make it easier :)
I think this is most likely sadly.

There has been no working adblocker for twitch.tv for over a year now. As far as I know, they are splicing the ad directly into the main video stream while it’s playing, so there’s no way to differentiate it from the content at all.

Surely it’s only a matter of time before youtube starts doing this too.
Yeah the current generation sees right through software as a tracking service.
A third of Ukrainians speak Russian as a first language. That really sounds fine to you?
They also include ads in print versions of newspapers and magazines that you subscribe to, and always have. Advertising has always been a component of making them viable businesses: the problem isn't the existence of ads in things you pay for as much as the obnoxious way they are implemented on the web.
> Plus, wikis have really good change tracking, so I'm able to make little modifications without worrying about losing access to the original.

It's a really good point for user experience scenarios that are close to mine. I like to import recipes from places but most of the time what i need would be adding personal notes or making touches to those recipes without losing the original.
Not sure how important these are to most of the people tho
This is a great step forward, autonomous driving only needs to be better than the average human.

The average human is often too busy texting, or eating to pay attention.

Humans do very stupid things in cars, it's a part of why I won't really consider living anywhere where I have to own one. Holy crap, you'll see people literally just rear-end each other at stoplights because you want to keep itching closer.

One of the most common complaints about automated cars is they go The speed limit, I recall once I was literally at the exact speed limit for the highway and I flicked on the cruise control. Immediately a driver behind me started honking and flicking me off.

Like holy shit I'm not from around here. I'm not going to risk getting pulled over because you're 5 minutes late to brunch or something.

The average human is such a horrible driver. I don't think Tesla bots can do much worse. The times the Tesla AI fails are very rare and far between, the times some idiot human decides they're going to rear end someone, or change lanes to late are very common.

All hell the robocar overlords
Well any of the ones that have made a profit, for starters.

Even indexes like the S&P 500 are nothing but prefiltered lists of stocks. S&P’s criteria include size and industry. Buffet is famous for filtering out stocks by his own criteria, mainly focusing on the balance sheet.

Nothing is certain, but a good filter increases the likelihood of profit, sometimes to a ridiculous degree.