skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>A brief word here about the scholarship devoted to friendship: I know I’ve been citing it quite a bit, but the truth is, there’s surprisingly little of it, and even less that’s particularly good. A great deal is dime-store wisdom crowned in the laurels of peer review, dispatches from the Empire of the Obvious.

After wondering about the unusual amount of references and citations of "experts" I finally reach that paragraph, and think to myself: Oh, good, that was really a bit too much.
Nevertheless, the writer quietly continues.

I'm baffled as though in the absence of any higher meaning there at least has to be some sort of justification albeit in the unstable and ever changing form of 'social sciences'.

In this deeply buried nihilistic outlook for me as a reader it is indeed a very insightful piece.
To be abstract, knowledgeable and articulate about the phenomena of social bonding (here: friendship) is one thing but to be actually good at the art of communication itself (forming, maintaining and parting away) requires an entirely different skillset and dedication.
That's why in a sense these essays and its intertexts literally got stuck only revolving around itself.
The insurance company may have a deal with the repairers, so they're able to get repairs done cheaper than you can. If that's the case, it may be cheaper (on average) to have insurance than not to.
MD and VP in finance companies
Funny, I've been working remotely and and video chatting daily without zoom for 6 years but I guess Zoom is totally responsible for my entire work situation.
It’s great, but I sorely miss my search history.

I’m sick of typing the same search query again and again.
The Supreme Court Uses Twisted Logic to Protect US Agents Committing Torture
No. I use vaultwarden without any email at all.
I was going to post this exact same HRB article! Age gives you so many advantages. You know your industry. You know who the players are. You have a professional network you can tap when you have a problem (or when you’re looking for your first customers).
This reminds me of the time Bill Ackman shorted Herbalife because he saw that it was an obvious scam and due to crash and go bankrupt. He was right about the first part, but wrong about the second.

“No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”

https://www.investopedia.com/news/billionaire-bill-ackman-du...
What is ax.25? For that matter, what is tnc, mentioned in the text? I know I'm probably not the target audience for this but a pointer would be appreciated.
The earlier comment in this thread was arguing that "the global system of capitalism" could explain why Britain and its colonies are uniquely suited to providing highly-developed financial services. Now you're saying that the same "global system of capitalism" explains extractive systems in Latin American colonies. These are polar opposites in terms of outcomes, how can they possibly be explained by the same factor? Why Nations Fail tackles the same stylized facts in a far more nuanced manner, examining local policy choices (often exploitive ones) as often more relevant than fuzzy global "systems".
There was a story about ship full of shiny new Volkswagens sinking to the bottom of the ocean: https://m.slashdot.org/story/396813 Bad source, German newspapers had more detailed reports in German. Basically burning ship with electric cars can’t be saved. That’s probably also valid for discarded batteries.
Not needed since ublock origin can also remove parameters from url.
My boss is fully remote as is their boss and both of them prefer it that way.

The only time either of them are at the office are new employee introductions and that's a half-day max.
That only strengthens my theory that why most of the autistics and neurodivergent people are considered disabled is because of neurotypicals. When a ND isn't precise with their words, expect us to read into context, and then get angry when we don't understand - that's on them, not us.
No, it doesn't. It doesn't seem webrender can be disabled anymore.
I don't anymore, because I understood I can't affect other people, so I must not care.

However it is my opinion that people should learn and know more. Not everything, just more than they already do.
Or that translators are paid. But ideally a combination of paid and volunteers - just like most other roles in charity/relief work.
What’s the difference between tree-sitter and LSP[0]? They both seem to provide the same functionality.
[0]: https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/
https://lobste.rs/s/kfwxvu/microsoft_mimalloc#c_cvykcm has David Chisnall (one of the authors of snmalloc) comments on mimalloc
I hate mowing the lawn. I might do it once a month. Glad to see confirmation of how great my laziness is!
If they wanted to cut down on e-waste, they'd let consumer electronics use lead solder again. With the whole tin whiskers issue, consumer electronics will regularly have to continue to be thrown out regularly.
My money is on a C&D letter.
We use Ephemeral Inline Volumes backed by LVMs on a local ssd. TopoLVM can make this trick possible.
So will America’s corporate virtue signaling extend to punishing India (where it would actually involve some financial sacrifice)? I’m doubtful.
-- custom / topic search, or what we call branches --

tl;dr -- free version makes it easy for anyone to build, use & share custom searches; premium version is zero ads + better web alerts + easier access to alt web indexes

1. average user unlikely to go through config of custom search

2. even if they did, it's so poorly documented & finicky, they'd be unlikely to achieve comparable outcome

3. Bing CSE is even worse -- requires Azure account, limited to 400 up/down boosts, etc.

4. there's other technical reasons a user might not do more than a couple, along with the sheer scale issues that also mentioned

5. we're refactoring how the topic searches are experienced and making the topics, which we call branches, a more natural part of search experience

6. "blogs" is the first one to be done that way -- you can filter to just blogs after searching for X - any other branches / topics will be added in that way

7. e.g., podcasts & RSS feeds are coming out soon, along with more traditional filters such as shopping

8. that approach also makes it easy for us to expose what we're calling a low-code builder to let anyone build a custom search and either share / make public or keep private

9. that includes all possible filters - advanced keyword combos, site inclusion / exclusion, URL patterns, schema structure, etc.

10. premium for users includes zero ads, alerts, and some other features that are mix of TBD or too early to build

11. premium for teams includes similar things, along with the ability to config dashboards of searches, e.g., an HR dashboard of relevant custom searches, etc.

12. we're navigating that labor balance -- e.g., the blogs filter is fairly basic atm, whereas filtering college scholarships was a bit more nuanced to make it work
I still play:

https://play.typeracer.com
My transition from Windows to Linux in an anti-customer age
Here I am, back in Windows. I’m realizing that my journey to a Freedom-Of-Choice Desktop environment is riddled with traps from my past. My familiarity with the apps and processes of Windows haunts my every move. It’s challenging to find replacements and workarounds for what I used to be able to do… But then my determination kicked in. If I really think about it, would it be such a loss to switch to a Linux alternative? I rebooted back into Linux and got to work. Any hope for a Windows-centric guy to transcend his limitations and biases? Only time will tell…
Matters for the next job-jumping, compensation issues

and honestly, even respect one gathers
true, however the current trend is to lock down the parts and prevent companies from making replacement parts via the use of DRM, serialization, and other controls that have nothing to do with security, usability, or anything other than preventing repair

Hell even Paper has DRM now, see the Latest Dymo label printers
We dtetected Oumuamua.
ReactOS running in SMP reaching Desktop
The solution is not replaceable batteries but better way to recycle electronics. How about if we have separate bins for electronic recycle available to everyone? How about people get paid to recycle electronics? The beurocrates are generally not good at solutions or ideas which is why they make up “accept cookies” laws.

This also reminds me how people are blamed in 3rd world countries for throwing the trash on street. The solution is to give people garbage bins and have garbage trucks pick them up. No one likes to throw trash on street. But no politician there has managed to thinks of this as solution yet. Burocratic solution is levy taxes, fines and have celebrities clean street for a photo in press.
I'm still thinking about adding some Chinese forbidden texts to my headers to block them using their own firewall. Recently Russian IPS started to attack me as well, so perhaps adding something about the war would help block them as well? Any ideas from you guys?
Coiner – A Mac app to keep up with Crypto Currencies
6 hours charging is more than enough for work/school/shopping. On the rare occasion that you want to drive all day, you can add a night charge to that (before or after the drive as appropriate). Overall, the large majority of charging will (or can) be during the day.
If the citizens of California want this so bad, then let the pay for it. Making the entire US pay for a project that affects two cities is unjust.

This is not to mention this project has spent millions and done nothing except line the pockets of people that have close personal relationships with the Pelosi's.
I don't know about op but keep in mind it's a big country. Very close in size to continental USA. With as much climate variation.

Sydney for example has a higher annual rainfall than places that Americans consider rainy (eg. Seattle). Combine that with warmer temperatures and in many parts of Australia you are fighting a potential jungle more than fighting desertification.

Canberra, the capital, on the other hand regularly gets below freezing which means less mowing required.
I have highly customized it and it is still bad. Some things I did are:

- Change the executable file to get rid of support for HSTS.

- Disable JavaScripts in web pages (mostly).

- Request/response rewrite engine.

- Restore the status bar.

- Get rid of all toolbar buttons and features other than the URL itself; no search, back/forward, etc.

- Make the URL bar display only ASCII characters, and always display the full URL.

- Make URL entry relative instead of absolute (e.g. CTRL+L and then / and then ENTER will navigate to the root of the current domain).

- Use bitmap fonts for tab titles and URL bars.

- Make tabs display only the title and not icons or other things.

- Disable favicons completely.

- Modified SQL schemas.

- Implement text/gemini file format.

- Disable external font loading.

- Get rid of many animations (unfortunately, many web pages still have animations that this doesn't get rid of).

- Using SQL to access bookmarks using command-line.

- Cookie editor.

- Many other things.

Some things I had not managed to do (yet):

- Implement Gemini protocol.

- Table of contents window.

- Changing behaviour of many Web APIs.

- Changing meaning of some HTML/CSS.

- ARIA view.

- Using bitmap fonts in more places.

- Time limits for rendering using CSS.

- Save/recall form data in local files.

- Changing the default save file name to use the actual file name instead of the title.

- Capability to be used with other programs on the computer with pipes.

- Many other things.

I tried to change the scrollbar behaviour to be more like X Athena widgets, but it doesn't work properly.
NewPipe has loads of random breakage. But as a plus, it doesn't need you to sign in.

Despite my issues with needing to log in, seeing Vanced go is horrible. It is an insanely well put together app.
Ooh, ah. That's how It always starts. But then later, there's running and dreaming with fireflies
This is the case for software development, but I doubt that procedures like that are widespread in other areas. From anecdotes, people in remote positions are often just left out.
I'm still undecided as to whether closing maccy d's is a good thing or a bad thing (for them).
Was all of that in major US cities?

Also when you refer to the stats, which particular statistics do you mean?
I'm somewhat active on r/FirefoxCSS, and have substantially customized my Firefox UI. Never saw any deprecation notices in the console, or a message on the subreddit.

I highly doubt Firefox would ever drop support for userChrome. The themes aren't nearly as powerful and low level. The about:config toggles works as a footgun protection. I have yet to see any technical reason for them to drop support.

That said, Firefox has dropped support for small yet useful features for no apparent reason, so there is a non-zero chance of them dropping support for userChrome customizations.
That's kinda against the spirit of the Internet, well, what it should be IMO.

But I do also ban, only temporarily. I found that a lot of IPs just stop reappearing/retrying, likely because they blacklist my IP and move on.
> I could do pretty much everything I needed using ffmpeg (compiled with a customized configuration), video.js running a handful of custom plugins and some other pieces of open source software.

This. That's so many points separate points of failure, and doesn't that mean you have to get a dev involved (or have an in-house automated video pipeline) anytime someone wants to post or update a video? Maybe we just have different thresholds of "complexity". I try to keep clients away from unnecessarily bespoke tools, and keep them on simple GUIs supported by proper vendors... but that's just in my sphere of work. In bigger teams it might make sense to in-house more stuff.
There is plenty of education already. It's just not Ivy League education. I don't see why we need to increase Ivy League enrollment at the expense of other schools, since the Ivy League is mostly a positional good (it marks you as more qualified than other people, so if more people enjoy it then it loses its value).
> Any brain filtering would have to affect the photos as well, even if it was true.

Not when the dynamic range of reality is much greater than that of photographs, and your visual system is one of the best visual processors in existence. It’s like reducing a 24-bit image to 16-bit - the image is “good enough” to identify the subject, but it is quite lossy. Photography itself is a lossy process.
How is using more precise language lazy?
I recently reluctantly went back to the office and it was better than I had expected. Having that separation of work vs home was huge for me. I left work at work and didn't give it a second thought once I was home. I hadn't realized how much I was still in "work mode" while remote, even after working hours. It was hard to disconnect and clearly a source of stress that I couldn't really see.

Yeah, I don't like commuting, paying for gas, parking, and other stuff that comes with the office, but for me personally I think it's going to be good.

I agree, the best companies will let people choose to work the way they do best. Getting that right isn't easy.
Finnish University invites students fleeing Ukraine
Ukraine joining NATO has been in the works for over a decade now and it is already closely involved with and cooperating with NATO including joint military drills. It's done everything short of being an official member:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine%E2%80%93NATO_relations...
Banks finance a lot of commercial real estate. It is in the best in best interest of banks to insist to come back to office. They are already neck deep into this.
Or the labor market will split into companies and employees who insist on in-person and those who demand/offer flexible arrangements. The question is what the size ratio between both markets would be.
A Contrarian View on Ukraine/Russia
"A think tank, or policy institute, is a research institute that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technology, and culture."

The first sentence of the wikipedia page for 'thinktank'.
Having item A showing the price in $ per pound and then the nearly identical item B next to it showing $ per ounce is the bane of my existence.
"...University of Helsinki grants the right to complete non-degree studies to persons who have arrived in Finland and whose degree studies have been suspended at the Ukrainian higher education institution due to war.

The right of completion may be granted to courses or study modules on the basis of a free-form application. The application must indicate the language skills of the applicant, the discipline and the extent of studies completed in the past, and other grounds for the application. A copy of the passport or similar document shall be attached to the application.

Applications will be processed until the end of 2022 without application deadlines. Rights of completion will be granted until 31.7.2023 and no fees will be charged for non-degree studies..."
This is my favorite ressource on the subject. I recommend it as often as possible.
I am not following your logic. Are you saying that the USA has done bad things in the past, therefore Russia should be allowed to indiscriminately murder Ukrainians? In my lifetime, I have never seen the USA do anything as evil as what Russia is doing right now.
Ask HN: What computer vision datasets is the world missing?
I know there are a lot of datasets out there, some are restricted based on their license (non commercial). There are a lot of generic items but when you get to niche applications there are fewer.

I'd personally like to see a dataset for billiards. That would enable an AR app that helps you find shots. While a little morbid, I also think an active shooter dataset would be very valuable. Something from security camera angles to identify people with weapons.
Blank key caps taught me to type
Yes, even you said it yourself:

> Everyone would still be done with it

Hospitalizations and deaths have been so low for so long that as soon as people stop paying attention, it is over. We've been out of the pandemic phase and crossed over into endemicity for most of a year. Time to get used to it.
Propaganda can turn black to white and white to black. And it propagates down the generations better than genetic damage. And we just call it "facts" or something.
MOUNTAIN DEW IS FOR ME AND YOU
Maybe a stupid question, but does a Li-ion battery need to be charged in order to burn like this?

I'm not talking about the batteries that start the fire. Obviously they won't cause an electrical fire if they're not charged. I'm talking about the other batteries nearby that get heated up by the initial fire.
That was much more than I thought.

Still, wind and other unstable sources can never be the dominant source in society. We need dependable power and for that you need nuclear unless something drastically changes with energy storage.
Can you point at a machine like this? Literally every machine I've worked with has UEFI entirely implemented in motherboard flash.
Wow, that’s worse than I realized! Honestly, this makes me wonder whether the feature should even exist in ZFS. Given the enormous hardware requirements and minimal savings... well, I’d be curious to hear if anyone has ever found a real use case.
> if you're not on a cloud provider...

and lord help you if you are but choose to try to use the same approach across environments and eskew the markup on something like EKS. I've been thumping my head against trying to have a rather trivial HA service working on both a Hyper-V and EC2 cluster equally for weeks and it seems near impossible for reasons no leading lights in the space quite articulates.
Wow, that's a real fatality. But perhaps you should have avoided it. OP was just bringing in his/her experience. Perhaps well worth a spelling error?
Your shot was too easy/gratuitous IMHO
But it made the suits wealthier. Surely that's something.
I still have a lot of activities. Most of them were still possible during stay at home/distancing orders.

We even kept our sport/dance group running via zoom. Did cooking sessions and social dates.

I am enjoying the moments to meet some people in person. Even in group settings, when our local business network is able to meet and enjoy the produce from the farms and producers in the network.

> Even if "only" 30% of the population

As said I would call it a dystopia for these people. Not for the planet or all members of society.

Else you would need to call pre Corona times a dystopia as well as around your number of people probably have a bad time in "normal" times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh
They aren’t aiming for a 20 light year focus, they’re aiming for a 20 year flight duration after (a currently unachievable but much less difficult) ~10 light second acceleration path.

They have a better grasp of how many unsolved problems they face than you or I have: https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/challenges/3
Researchers uncover how the human-brain separates, stores and retrieves-memories
Such a terrible experience, worth stating twice!
LSP is a protocol while tree-sitter is a parsing tool and library. LSP is a protocol developed by Microsoft for IDEs to communicate with a separate process to provide annotations and insight into source code. Practically, tree-sitter is usually used for syntax highlighting, while servers implementing LSP are used for compilation errors, warnings, jump to definition, linter warnings, symbol highlighting, etc etc etc.
>Gary Stephen Webb (August 31, 1955 – December 10, 2004) was an American investigative journalist.

>Webb was found dead in his Carmichael home on December 10, 2004, with two gunshot wounds to the head. His death was ruled a suicide by the Sacramento County coroner's office. According to a description of Webb's injuries in the Los Angeles Times, he shot himself with a .38 revolver, which he placed near his right ear. The first shot went through his face, and exited at his left cheek. The coroner's staff concluded that the second shot hit an artery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb#Death

>The Supreme Court declared last week that Americans have no right to learn the grisly details of CIA torture because the CIA has never formally confessed its crimes. The verdict symbolizes how the rule of law has become little more than a form of legal mumbo-jumbo to shroud official crimes. Why should anyone expect justice from a Supreme Court that covers up torture?

https://mises.org/wire/supreme-court-uses-twisted-logic-prot...

If you looked, you could find a full page of citations like this. The difference is who's propaganda bubble you are living inside of. This doesn't excuse Putin or statists anywhere.
It is completely irrelevant because this time we have a real war when it is ok to break normal rules. We can argue about all this when the war ends. Now it is important to see that people don't get mislead with false propaganda.
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Legacy code cleanups (refactoring/reengineering)

Microservices, Java

Build/Devops pipelines

Code reviews

Gmail msa.usu (ask résumé/portfolio)
A couple of mine:

- browser.urlbar.trimURL = false

- browser.urlbar.formatting.enabled = false

- browser.tabs.tabMinWidth = 50