skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be honest, I was really happy when Flash died. I hated it so much. Proprietary, nonsensical, junk ware that had to be installed on every computer and updated regularly. It was a source of endless viruses and didn't support Linux very well at all. At the same time I hated Apple too because after the iPad-2 came out I couldn't make Skype calls on my iPad-1 because it didn't have a freaking camera.

There are still zany web browser games out there as well as crazy video sites. Although I will probably miss Homestar Runner.
Don’t forget NextStep which in its Cocoa incarnation is a very important pillar under Apples success.
yep. I try to gauge early whether an potential employer wants the best programmer, or cheapest. because they pay wildly different. one gives me a better personal ROI than other. The new trend of shops being coy about telling you a job's pay makes it harder. no point wasting everybody's time
Yes I know, even more fun dealing with additional kludges, because 3D on the Web versus native doesn't have enough of them already.
Second hand smoke is not optional. It is the same reason we banned smoking in various buildings.
It really isn't.

There are very active communities of people who collect and distribute media.

check out https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/
Ask HN: Satellite data analysis for war impact on climate and humans in Ukraine
I'm one of the founders of Valinor Earth, a geospatial data analytics startup focusing on climate change. We are looking for ways to contribute with the situation in Ukraine by building something with Satellite data, especially with SAR.

We have successfully experimented with high-precision tree-counting, afforestation tracking, and helping large estate farmers track anomalies. We want to see what insights we can extract from available datasets to shed more light on the conflict between Ukraine and Russia.

Let us know if you have any existing programs that we can participate in or are interested in discussing a general plan.

Some themes on the analytics we can work towards are;

- Effects of actions from each party on the zone's environment.

- Contributions to emissions and climate change.

- Comparison of farming operations and how they were affected by the conflict.

I'm reachable at brajeshwar (at) valinor.earth
"Stop Venting" doesn't just "work" either. Processing your emotions and letting go of them does. David Hawkins' book, aptly named 'Letting Go,' covers this in detail.
It might have to do with better screening. I've read in the past that Belgium is a frontrunner in the screening for certain cancers (like breast and colon afaik).
If you screen more, you will find more.
Italy is quite poor and probably doesn't have the resources to invest, so ends up with lower stats.
What are you doing better?
Cheers! That sounds like it but it's hard to be sure after so long.

https://archive.org/details/VoyagerRecordings-SymphoniesOfTh...
If they don't have time to read the paper, they aren't investing in the argument enough, and at that point you know the other person is not open to being wrong, which then you respect and end the conversation.
Absolutely.

It's difficult to be omniscient about the impact of everything to everything else for all future outcomes.

Smacks of Ageism, to my mind.
No I have zero chronic conditions, no auto-immune disorders that might cause issues with clotting, family history and so on. Basically from a root cause perspective it's unexplained.
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While I agree that helping the opposition is be the best move think of the rhetoric Kremlin would spin up: they'd claim the west is interfering with their internal affairs and should the opposition ever win any elections they'd quickly arrest them for plotting a coup.
I like how quoting Deutsche Welle citing public documents about specific promises makes me a Russian bot.
If someone is looking for a possibility to do this with C#, I can recommend atl.net [1] library. Currently I am working on a tagging command line tool called `tone` that utilizes the library to do awesome stuff :-)

The lib supports:

- default tags (id3 v2.3, v2.4, APEtag 1.0-2.0, m4a, ogg)
- chapters
- lyrics
- custom tags

for the most modern audio formats.

https://github.com/Zeugma440/atldotnet
That is an incredibly naive way of looking at it.

The way it usually goes is "everyone is +5, except the village that shares the watershed with the mine"

On anything but the shortest timeline things like like wealth, health and productivity are fungible at the societal level.

If the net cumulative effect of the externalities wasn't smaller than the benefits of the progress then the progress wouldn't happen because more people would be worse off and things would grind to a halt because the gains would be more than offset.
My understanding, which might be dated, is that the Genius API intentionally does not serve lyrics in a machine-readable format to avoid IP problems.

That's why LyricsGenius uses an HTML scraper to extract the lyrics[1], and why other tools (like beets) have data quality issues.

[1]: https://lyricsgenius.readthedocs.io/en/master/how_it_works.h...
The article reads as though its author has a vested interest in protecting some status quo that people complain about a lot. Like they just can't stand hearing people vent because they hate being reminded that people are unhappy.
No, just anecdotally I've seen it work for other people and it's worked for me at times as well. But that's not to say some other method wouldn't have worked just as well. And "worked" is a loose term, that just means "happier and less angry", rather than some form of perfection.
Good, be tired of it.

The blame game is unhelpful unless a holistic explanation of Why Did You Do That is also given.
A leaky cauldron gets thrown out, is the counterargument here.

If you want to be angrier or as angry - catharsis is great.
Support for FPGAs is the thing I'm looking most forward to. There are a few HDL simulator type web platforms out there, but may of them are pretty limited unfortunately. Having something that allowed you to flexible select toolchains/build/simulate/and test real hardware is the dream.
Sorry for the whataboutism, but what about european forests? Are we seeing them recovering any soon or we shouldn't care because it happened hundreds of years ago?
I don't get why people have to add so many qualifiers to the word free before college. Nobody says "free" K-12 or "free" fire departments because we've socially determined that these are necessary for a society such as ours to operate. I shudder to imagine pitching public libraries to HN in the alternate universe where they weren't created in the 20th century.

Only one industrial country doesn't provide basically free secondary education, and it's not like the US has anything to show for that choice. We still pay more per capita on education than someone in a country with socialized secondary education. With worse outcomes to show for it.

Like all of our policy, the US edu system is optimized for a few big fish (Kaplan, College Board, Scantron, etc) at the expense of students, educators, and taxpayers. Removing the profit motive from education seems wildly uncontroversial everywhere but the US and for what? Unless you have a lot of Kaplan stock I just don't get it
Adding just a little capacity makes need for queue capacity collapse.

But if rates are not well specified, what "a little" means is also not, and rejecting additions to the queue is the only answer.
If, in a row of n+m items, you have to move the first one to the end and all other ones one place forward, you can, at best, move one item to its correct place per swap, except for the last swap. So, worst case, you can’t do with fewer than n+m-1 swaps.

In general, to perform a permutation, you can put each of its cycles in the correct spot with one fewer swap than the number of items in the cycle. So, for a permutation with k cycles, the best you can do is n+m-k swaps.
WebGPU has the same sandboxing in place as WebGL, e.g. despite the name there is no "direct GPU access" (minus any implementation bugs of course, which will hopefully be ironed out quickly).
What a brilliant idea, use The Algorithm to force the truth over Russians. Or maybe roll videos as mandatory ads. Was this done before at all?
To be honest I find the notion of "We" here to be rather dubious. Russia and Ukraine are at war, and while us private citizens of the broader English-speaking world can condemn one side, and support the other, pushing others towards the belief that this is somehow a total war and that every action is justifiable seems patently false.
Sure Americans did invade countries and kill civilians and now they act hypocritically.. but on the other side, are there any examples even remotely approaching the hamfisted Russian manners in Chechnya, Syria and Ukraine? Perhaps Israel toward Palestinians but we're talking about USA here.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/world/asia/sri-lanka-orga...
I assume they are at least as good at is as Zoom is, and Zoom transcripts are frighteningly good.
Ask HN: Delay Return to Office Policies?
Please ask your employer to delay return to office policies to reduce/relieve oil and gas consumption/demand (and therefore global prices) so Europe can cut off/reduce Russian oil/gas dependencies (minimally until Ukraine conflict is resolved).
This was not my experience. I put a reservation down on a F150 Lightning, and a few hours later I got a phone call on my cell phone from a pushy sales person at the dealership, trying to convince me to choose something that's available now rather than waiting.

I ended up canceling my reservation.
It's always fun where the ones complaining about gas prices in the US tend to be the ones who drive 20mpg multi-ton vehicles for fun, as if there wasn't a ready available way to drop your fuel consumption in half.

Meanwhile they angrily claim how the US should "drill baby drill", but most US oil production is only profitable at $4 a gallon or higher.
Yeah, there were two schools of thought - proper rugged industrial PCs or "whatever we can find cheap on $boxshifter.com". The latter cohort won (although not really because they were a constant nightmare of problems...)
> Izabella didn't write it

Yeah, no. Nobody else would think of slipping in gosbankification. This is Izabella trolling everyone.
Thanks for your thoughts on this, I probably should've specified that the role itself is a "technical product management" role. Basically, product requires deep technical background for the application / target customers and users are intended to be technical in nature.
I read Atlas Shrugged when I was in college, I thought it was pretty good as a potboiler novel until John Galt gave his speech which was just self-indulgent on the part of the author, then there wasn’t any tension for the events after that.

Although Rand called herself an ‘objectivist’ her fiction grew out of her very own subjective experience of the Bolsheviks killing her family and taking their stuff, she had strong personal reasons to hate and oppose that movement.

Trains as symbology are interesting in that book for a few reasons: one is that the Soviets had their own strange obsession with trains (they put one on display that was a replica of one that Lenin rode when he returned to the country) plus the mostly forgotten hostility that pre-WW II Americans had against railroads (the phrase ‘railroaded’) which would skip building a station in your town and instead build a new town on land that they own.

Many people have critiqued the love affair people have with cars but it is brilliant political engineering that we feel like the system belongs to us since we own the roads collectively and own vehicles individually so we feel ‘invested’ in this way of life and continue to support it. That delivered us from the railroads, which we are so glad to ride when we go to Europe even if Europeans take the plane because taking the plane is such a better experience than it is here. (Has competition with the railroad!)
Whoops accidentally submitted to HN instead of LinkedIn.
>Get out of here with however many worthless rubles you're getting paid.

You're triggered because I have a different opinion. It's coming from fear and pain. I feel nothing but compassion for you right now.
what should I do to prepare for recession?
Pachyderm (YC W15) is hiring data science product managers and SDETs
Even if what you say is true (and it's not), it's better to see feigned outrage rather than sincere indifference to human suffering.
Just curious, why would you make a cosmetic repair on a washing machine? Mine has a few dents and scratches from various moves (it's about 15 years old at this point) and I never cared at all about what it looks like, just whether it worked or not? I've never actually done anything to it. I've been single most of that time though, so washing duty is pretty lite.
I appreciate Wozniak saying this. For a lot of my teens and early twenties, I only worked on things that I perceived as my "strengths", and neglected things I wasn't "naturally" good at. I believe you can get to a level of competency even in areas you are weak in, so long as you put in the hours.
Contrary to popular opinion on HN, the world isn't tech companies. You've put way too much trust in them to change the world. It isn't working.
Already a thing, it's just been CPU based and now can be GPU based. Firefox (and probably other browsers) have systems to attempt to block them. https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/04/09/protectio...

The people sneaking this shit into webpages don't care if it burns $1 of electricity and destroys your battery to generate $0.0000001 of Monero because all of those costs are paid by someone else.
That may be so, but it wasn’t the question the OP asked, which was about whether NATO was doing to Russian airspace what Russia has so often done to NATO airspace.

In your response you wrongly asserted that was the case and you did so by confusing ADIZs with airspace.

It’s not a terrible failing to be mistaken, but refusing to acknowledge an error is the wrong approach.
These jets (proposed MIGs) will not make a difference. The SUs will dominate them in the air and they are not good for ground attacks.

Like the no-fly zone, the public has attached to ideas that make little sense and risk escalation.
This is your 3rd post in the thread, alleging that catharsis doesn't work.

Now, personally, I don't have skin in the game, so I can't tell you whether it works or not.

But the fact that you're citing a 1967 psych study done on 9 year old kids tells me you have some kind of agenda for whatever reason. Not only are most psych studies flat out junk, but the 50s and 60s was the time of particularly egregious junk science. Remember, that's the time they still did lobotomies.

Besides, the study you cited only limits itself to cathartic aggression, which is clearly not the only case for the experience.
Heh I wonder whether the venerable Rasmol could be used for this. It was originally developed in a much more client-server world.
Smoking (anything) is bad for your lungs, throat too.
You can’t ban everything…

Marijuanna and sugar and a million other potential vices like alcohol and video games should be available.

But we should teach kids discipline, critical thinking, and impulse control - rather than playing whack-a-mole with every vice that comes along.
how much of this was contributed to banning all reporting from the Russian side of things? right now the atmosphere is like if you even remotely suggest that Russia is actually making slow progress despite losses you are viewed as supporting Russia!

Yet what the fixation on Kyiv is doing is it's pulling resources away from the south and Donentsk/Lukansk area where the Ukraine army is in real danger of being completely surrounded.

There is heavy propaganda and disinformation from both Russia and Ukraine but what we've done in the West is effectively ban impartiality. Never before have we seen this level of zealous emotions since WW2.

@JominiW on twitter does a very good explanation of various political and military objectives and the strategic movement of the Russian forces and he's repeatedly called out the dangers of believing the enemy is a paper tiger.

We've seen all sorts of incompetence from the Russian side and Ukrainian forces have done a good job of defending Kyiv but we forget that Ukraine is not just Kyiv, it is slowly being swallowed up from all directions.

This is called target fixation and it's going to shock a lot of people who only follows one side. Best thing to do in an unpredictable and volatile situation is to not fixate on one view.

We will shortly know in the coming weeks what will happen, if Putin makes significant grounds, he has more chips to gamble/make demands. If Putin fails here, he has no choice to escalate in ways that was previously thought unimaginable.

It doesn't help that US/NATO alliance is adamant on not escalating to WW3 yet they sanction every Russian, despite their objections to war and Putin, in some extremely liberal naivete that the Russians will rise up against an authoritarian government who is ready to use small scale nukes if need be.
This classic Mad magazine piece is still hilariously accurate.

http://magiccarpetburn.blogspot.com/2010/06/mad-47-june-59-h...
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal but I don't think it's satire...
Sorry to hear that the content this war is producing isn't entertaining enough for you.
You mean the anti-fluoridation fanatics didn't know when to get off the train? (channeling Richard Pryor here)
Read here [0]

Why would I do this? [1]

[0] [https://otter.ai/u/SDndzmSLow_a2rNNzm35ohw4y9w](https://otte...

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[https://www.notion.so/enoemos/https-stackoverflow-com-questi...
On top of that, in many areas in the US the time between moving to ten-digit dialing and the time of cell phones becoming even somewhat popular is really only a few years or less. Some places in the US are only finally being forced to move to ten digit dialing with some places still supporting seven digit dialing.

https://www.kcbd.com/2021/10/12/new-10-digit-dialing-procedu...

Note the date on this: Oct 2021!

> Starting on Monday, October 25, 2021, Texans with phone numbers in the 254, 361, 409, 806, 830, 915 and 940 area codes must dial 10-digits (area code + telephone number) for all local calls.
Saying they do no psychological harm is quite am extreme statement and is just blatantly untrue. I tend to agree that these drugs should be dicriminalized, but you're doing the exact same thing thats been done with marijuana where the benefits of the drug are praised while the negatives are ignored.
Extremely difficult to judge those times through today’s lens because in the 1990’s the people running Ukraine were people like Leonid Kuchma - the same that ran Ukraine under the USSR. My understanding is that at that time everyone was confused, and the U.S. was mainly concerned over who exactly is to have the weapons that remained after the dissolution of the USSR (this was during the first war in Iraq which was fought against the U.S. with U.S. weapons and training). I don’t think anyone in power in Russia or Ukraine was really concerned about that aspect, and they were willing to trade all of those weapons for economic security, stability etc. A Russian-Ukrainian conflict would also have been absurd and unfathomable at the time.
Multi-stage query engine in a real-time OLAP database
> The idea of venting can be traced as far back as Aristotle, but Freud is the one who really popularized the notion of catharsis. Most of what we assume about the need to “let it out” comes from his assertions about the danger of unexpressed feelings. In the “hydraulic model,” frustration and anger build up inside you and, unless periodically released in small bursts, cause a massive explosion. Starting in the 1960s, this theory was debunked by so many lab experiments that researcher Carol Tavris concluded in 1988, “It is time to put a bullet, once and for all, through the heart of the catharsis hypothesis.”

I think there is some truth to the original theory, but not all "venting" is equal. I definitely have at times experienced growing resentment towards people in my life due to not fully confronting the feelings I had about my interactions with them, but in general I don't think that angry outbursts are a healthy way to deal with this. In an ideal relationship (general term, not necessarily "romantic relationship"), I think honest but empathetic and non-judgmental conversations between the parties is often going to be the only way to truly alleviate those feelings; being able to tell someone why you were hurt by their actions without judging them and then being able to hear the same without reacting defensively is much more effective than complaining to a third party, but it requires a level of trust and understanding that is usually not going to be present for anything but close family members or long time friends. Given that, I think there is value in talking through the issues with a neutral third party, but it can be hard to avoid falling into spiral of anger and resentment, which I think is why seeing a therapist or psychologist is such a common treatment. I don't think that being able to neutrally help someone deal with their feelings of anger or resentment is some kind of superpower or anything, but like any skill, there are some methods that are more effective and some that are less effective, so having some sort of training on the matter generally is helpful. Most importantly though, they still need to build that same level of trust and understanding with the patient, which I think is the most common reason that therapy isn't able to help some people; if you're not open to the idea of learning to trust and get helped in therapy, it's going to be hard to actually resolve anything.
That reminds me a bit of Tokyo. It's full of small streets[0] that cars can drive on, but they tend not to because they're narrow and don't have sidewalks, so making cars move slowly. Cars then naturally flow through to the larger streets[1] when possible, which do have sidewalks.

[0] https://goo.gl/maps/4RtUzUUfjvMpLs8y6 (this street has a small painted sidewalk since it has more commercial activity, though pedestrians often walk in the middle; the adjacent streets have no painted sidewalk).

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/BquuyEvSrVExuyiu7