skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and frequently forced the drivers to do or pay for their own repairs on the cars.

I'm not saying the old medallion system was great, but I thought the cab companies back then owned all the cars. (Source: my in-laws owned a medallion company, and I knew a few other cab company owners in NYC in the aughts.) They would frequently make drivers take responsibility for routine care and maintenance (with the worst medallion companies really stretching the definition of "routine"), but they put up the capital and rented cabs out to drivers at exorbitant rates (e.g., $1500/week in NYC ~15 years ago).

Contrast this with Uber, which imposes the same or worse labor conditions and offloads all capital risk onto the drivers.
There are lots of parties and gatherings in SF where if you're late 30s nobody will bat an eyelid as long as you're friendly and approachable.

It may be a bit challenging to discover them at first but once you find one or two and make friends with the organizers, you'll start getting vortexed to many more as long as you are friendly and come off as either good-looking, interesting, knowledgeable, or accomplished (not necessarily all of the above, but friendly is non-negotiable).

Peninsula and South Bay also have plenty of social events but they take a bit more effort to find. Look for interest clubs of sorts and start from there.

If you're joining a large company such as Google or Facebook, they normally have plenty of social events, though it's been much less since COVID.

If you're doing a startup, you'll get invited to various investors' parties and things and you can make friends from there.

But in general ... the bay is much more forgiving of age than most places in the country.
they already do that to the best of our abilities.

Color is incredibly complex. It's easy to say "we should capture it as accurately as possible" but I don't think you fully comprehend the high complexity involved.

Your concept of matching eye receptors is wrong too. Color is perceptual and subjective. Your perception of color is based on your upbringing, your genetics, your environment, your own mental faculties, your mental state etc...
What is accurate? Your eyes see some spectral energy, your rods and cones convert those to signals, your brain then adds that into an aggregate set of information that it's constantly infilling and, most importantly, guessing about.

You can't guarantee that multiple people see color the same.

Now even if a camera could hypothetically capture an image accurately to the real world (IMHO only possible with a hypothetical full spectrum sensor), how would you store it? The second you convert it to RGB data it needs a perceptual conversion to the bit depth of the data format.
Now even if you have a file format that can efficiently represent this, you'd also need full spectrum displays so that we could beam that exact color to your retinas.

Color science is incredibly complex. You're trying to trivialize it into matching your own narrow perception of color.
Not a physicist, if temperature of particles is movement (I think chemical bonds will break long before the following limit), then the upper limit is just below the speed of light. To make it even hotter would require infinite amount of energy. Now what that temperature is in kelvin, I don't know.
You seriously want me to tell you how async, promises, callbacks, coroutines, closures+continuations, call/cc, and copies of the stack are actually points of view in the same concept?

If I'm a junior, 99% of the professional programmers out there are simply not programmers at all.
Or maybe they don't want to waste their time for users who can't even be bothered to type a few keys?

GUI is a great concept, but at some point, for more advanced operations, terminal simply makes more sense.
I’m wondering what prevents network operators from just disabling the use of Private Relay on their networks.

This could be achieved both via legal means (in e.g. their terms of service to prohibit use of any VPNs or similar software) as well as on a technical level. As per [1]:

> The fastest and most reliable way to do this is to return a negative answer from the network’s DNS resolver, preventing DNS resolution for the mask.icloud.com and mask-h2.icloud.com hostnames necessary for Private Relay traffic.

These ISPs surely operate some DNS resolvers - just make them return NXDOMAIN results. This doesn’t require consent or collaboration from Apple.

[1] https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/iCloud_Private_Relay_Over...
no new company should take its own payments?
If they don't require a perscription how aren't they getting take downs, account freezes and meatspace raids? I cannot even get refills for meds I have been on for years. Just one month at a time max.

If they do require a perscription they are the same as other pharma TV ads basically. Just doing a miniature inventory variety pharmacy. Sleazy but not alarming.
I would pay for a "Firefox Pro" which allowed greater control/modifications for power users.

Make it open source, but have the official download for builds (and source code?[0]) be payed. Bonus points if the download bundle includes source code and a simplified build process.

[0] obviously it'll be mirrored in 2 seconds, but still.
>To be honest, the Pandora's box is open - a real global horror will begin by the summer - global famine is inevitable (Russia and Ukraine were the main suppliers of grain in the world, this year's harvest will be smaller, and logistical problems will bring the catastrophe to a peak point).

they supply like 15% of wheat, 17% of barley, 17% of rye, etc, they are big but not main, and it's not like production will go to zero, and other countries could increase production to supplement them, sounds like larp
This is a cool idea. Any successful examples of this happening that you can think of? I vaguely remember some co-op uber alternatives but haven't heard of them taking off without regulatory intervention (banning uber).

Edit: I would think the problems would be around consensus (getting people moving in the same direction) and lack of incentive (getting people moving at all).
I don't know about politicians, but I can tell you why I'm not rejoicing quite yet.

Number 1:

While it is milder, it will still kill a lot of people. Yes they're mostly elderly, or they are immunocompromised and have other health issues already, but for those people it still means premature death, and for their families and friends it's still a loss of a loved one.

Number 2:

Long Covid is still not understood. The prevalence, impact and cause is too nebulous. It can manifest itself 6 to 12 months after first infection, so there's not been data about Omicron for it yet, since we're only starting to approach some people recovering on the 6 month mark. There's conflicting predictions of it affecting 5% to 30% of everyone (all age) who gets COVID. And it looks like sometimes the effect are dehabilitating, where people can't even go to work. So while it's nice Omicron doesn't kill you, it isn't clear if it will make you unhealthy and suffer from chronic problems for the rest of your life, and possibly shorten your lifespan. We also don't know if the chances of long COVID exist each time you get Covid, so even if it were 5% but you get it year over year, and each year it's 5% chance, it might be a matter of time till we all have long COVID.

Number 3:

Healthcare capacity and supplies. Even though the percentages of cases that need medical care is smaller, if too many people get it at the same.time, the total number of people needing medical care could be quite large and breach the healthcare capacity.

Number 4:

Cost on the economy. When people say it's mild, it's often still like getting the flu, which means you're off work for 3 to 10 days. If everyone gets it once or twice a year, and if people get it all at the same time, it means supply chain issues, delayed business, it just puts pressure everywhere on the economy.
Tell my manager (the CTO) that.
Unless there is RCE in Fail2Ban like CVE-2021-32749 which makes it actually worse.

Instead of lowering your attack surface you increase it by adding stuff.
I think it may be better in the middle of the country among blue collar folks. That probably has its own set of problems though. On the coasts I definitely feel that people constantly size you up and try to find out how successful you are. It makes socializing way less fun.
Devils advocate…

How should auto-updater work then?
Nowadays, if you accept plain user-chosen passwords on SMTP or IMAP, you're already in trouble anyway. Often, the attacker doesn't even have to guess because your users likely re-used the same password across different services...
North American culture is highly individualistic. It is reasonable and expected to prioritize your own personal / professional needs first and have those of your friends be a distant second. Prioritizing life choices around your friends requires you to integrate your life with others in some way which is challenging and often results in conflict. North Americans are incapable of handling such interpersonal challenges as they are trained to be 'selfish' as a default.

The end result of this is we live an atomized existence that is comfortable but oddly "empty". I have experienced living in a different culture so I can at least put this way of living in context but anybody who grew up here can't & this odd feeling of something "missing" can never be satisfied or understood.

Mind you the western approach to living does have a lot of advantages. Not being bound by community strictures makes our societies a lot "freer" and more dynamic. But it wouldn't be intellectually honest to admit that this doesn't come with a cost. Mental health is getting affected and the problem is only going to get worse.
And let's be serious, this is a fictional black typist. Secretary isn't the most high-status job. Teacher is a bit more status (she's a typing teacher!), but typist could also mean data entry, which is significantly worse.

The US has never had a problem with black servants, but that's not a indicator of not being racist.
Yes, 1.42 x 10^32 K but it's not as straightforward as naming a single limit [1].

[1] https://www.popsci.com/article/science/ask-anything-whats-ho...
If you think that's cool you should check out the OMG cable.

https://fossbytes.com/charging-cables-used-to-hack-devices/
I mean the usage sort of is similar but this is specifically about the labels of the functions in the binary (asm or instruction really) level which is in a way a bit of a lower level. Also, the caller which in this case are library users either need to know what the different implementations are which kinda could be harry and difficult for users, or the library would have a bunch of function pointers in memory that it would assign, meaning you'd have to init libraries and can't just call functions from the library which makes almost all libraries a little more heavy (even if it's a few instructions) on top of allowing a nice new vector for hackers to exploit (I'll just make the pointer point to "evil_strlen:").
Oh this is the most perfect description of the second worst trend in cinema.

The worst trend being loud music and mumbled dialogue that make it impossible to experience even as a radio drama.
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Sorry, but this video is just BS.

He choses some (very cherry picking) facts and anecdotes from Russian history, cites them with factual mistakes, but he choses and interpretes them so they meet his theory. This is not scientific approach at all.

But what outraged me the most and made me sceptical about his theory - it is his interpretation of "two layers of truth" in Russian, namely "pravda" and "istina". Even Nabokov wrote about the difference of these words and claimed they are one of those Russian words that are lacking in other languages.

The difference is the following:
- "pravda" is mere facts, something that is not false
- "istina" is the whole picture

The best example of difference between these concepts is this lecture itself: mainly it consists of valid facts (i.e. it is "pravda"), but the whole analysis and conclusions he makes are flawed (i.e. it is NOT "istina").

And this intelligence colonel claims he had been studying Russia for 15 years? Hmm, then he either spent them in vain, or he was misinforming the audience. Or both.

He cites Kennan, the architect of the Cold war, and Kennan was way much better in understanding Russia. Maybe, because Kennan was practioner and not fascinated about making up groundless theories. I invite you to read Kennan's article in NYT (1997) and understand why Kennan considered NATO's expansion to Russian borders to be fateful error: https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/05/opinion/a-fateful-error.h...

And the consequences of this error are thoroughly explained in this FPRI article (2022): https://www.fpri.org/article/2022/01/moscows-compellence-str...

These two articles will be more insightful than (sorry) any made up theories from Finnish intelligence colonel.
You really should replace One tab with Tab Stash https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-stash/

Also, I'd recommend to test Sideberry https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/
Over its main purpose, there are the most useful container controls

And some other extensions which deserve to mention:
Facebook container https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-cont...
Search by image https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/search_by_ima...
Imagus https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/imagus/
Insurance companies operate at about 17% over premiums. Which means, for every dollar someone spends on insurance the company pays $0.83 in claims. This happens at a population level. Maybe you individually have a statistically above average amount of claims and collected more money than you spent. In which case congratulations. Maybe you are in a subpopulation (5x Miele owners) that the company is not accurately accounting for in their actuary tables. In which case the more this subpopulation signs up for insurance the higher premiums will increase, and perhaps if large enough the actuaries will catch on and raise your premiums as a subgroup.

Either way, the insurance company will turn a profit from premiums. I'm glad this policy has paid off for you, but "reducing costs" is not a good reason to purchase insurance. Insurance reduces risk and makes expenses more predictable.
This is also incorrect and trivializing of the color science. Images may use gamma correction, they may not. Trying to describe it in terms of gamma is like trying to describe food in terms of saltiness alone. You're ignoring tons of other factors.
You typed my thoughts exactly. I run a popular website, and I just block everything from China, and do a Captcha challenge for others such as Russia. People don't have the right to access my website. If a Chinese citizen is (correctly) angry about the situation then they need to petition their government to change the culture that permits massive continuous hacking attempts from their country.

I use Cloudflare which makes blocking countries simple, no need to keep updated IP lists.
For what it's worth, I use Julia frequently and had the same question as you for the same reasons.
It's just hyperbole.
not really in favor of this characterizing countries thing. it’s like how China calls Hongkong it’s child and it finally was returned to its mother in 1997. Nowadays same terminology is applied to Taiwan, I’m just disgusted by this figure of speech, saying China is a mother and hongkong and Taiwan are her children just signals that you don’t want to treat them with respect in the first place. Same thing with this story, saying Russia is husband signals the bias in author’s mind: Ukraine is the weaker and smaller one thus the wife.

sorry for my broken English, hopefully you understand what I’m trying to say…
I've found it very flaky in the past. Half the time it can't load a video or it crashes while playing the video. I'd understand if some of the issues came from being throttled the way yt-dl does, but the Android user agent that my phone has (which is the workaround that yt-dlp uses right now to be unthrottled) should present unthrottled downloads. I have a better experience having a service running on my seedbox which downloads and serves a Youtube video than using Newpipe, which says something.
it's always kinda funny how misinformed people are about china. if you actually think china has the tech to force 1.4 billion people to share the same thoughts then a. china has already won tech war, or b. you are just brainwashed.
An interesting tale of how news is fabricated these days. The original tweet that is the basis for the linked article:

"not to sound snobby but i’m fluent in korean and i watched squid game with english subtitles and if you don’t understand korean you didn’t really watch the same show. translation was so bad. the dialogue was written so well and zero of it was preserved"

The typical Twitter unhinged take. It's not slightly off or could have been better, no, its ZERO. YOU DIDN'T WATCH THE SAME SHOW. The follow-up tweet is of course to blame white people, as expected.

Next, these unreasonable takes are the basis of news articles because they too love a controversy, and there it is: an industry problem is made up.

Meanwhile, in the real world nobody cares. They watched Squid Games and loved it.
Here it is: https://web.archive.org/web/20220308222503/https://www.mozil...

Those values are insane. “Chinese culture love”!??? What the actual fuck.

This is infuriating.

Billionaires of SV please fund a Philanthropic project for a web browser. Like Jeff Bezos funding Washington Post, we desperately need a window into the internet. The days are numbered.
Not my point - Chinese mask manufacturers had an existing market to fill, they already new how to make them, all they had to do was to scale their manufacture which the govt helped them do because they knew it was important - not so much in the west
This article rings true.

I'm 64 and I've only kept one life long friendship going on 30 years. All the others are gone and don't want to haven anything to do with me. Thinking about it now, I've kept the one friendship for a few reasons. 1) He hasn't changed much in 30 years. He's a remarkably stable individual 2) The interests that are the bedrock of our friendship are still there 3) our opinions about various controversial topics still match up 4) He's a remarkably tolerant individual of my many flaws

The reasons I've lost the others include

- They became fanatics about a topic that didn't interest me. For example, a person got really into Non Violent Communication and wanted me too as well, implying my communication was violent

- They became an author with a fan club and our adventures in the past would embarrass them if they came to light

- They went into the oil industry and became a climate change denier

- They became wealthy and high status and my adventures on the wild side of life were embarrassing to them (I've led a Jack Kerouac kind of life, except one that straightened up)

- He became a woman and in her case (not all cases) became less interesting to me

- And of course the recent tragic one: Politics

Some people believe that "people don't change" but I disagree with that. People do change and it's rare to keep a friend for the long term
> You can find it in religion

Interestingly, although they have now come out as non-Christian, religion factored heavily into the first 2 decades of Rhett & Link's relationship.
which resource for example? The failed fridge is Samsung. I found the service manual, but it's a bit too involved and doesn't really help with identifying the problem it seems, rather with taking the fridge apart etc.
Thank you!
> Code becomes tightly intertwined and the dependency graph becomes unwieldy

One way to combat this is to use a build system with a notion of visibility, https://bazel.build/concepts/visibility

I think you might be over-extrapolating from your experience, but it's true going off the well-trodden road leads to surprises. And not that many smaller companies know the ins and outs of monorepos.
*Sandiego.

And vice versa.
That question has an answer in another question.. does energy have a theoretical upper limit? Lowest temperature is absolute zero, no movement.
> I would encourage you to remove the tinfoil hat

I gave you historical and economic facts. All you have done is respond with childish ad hominems.

> and I think you’ll realise that distribution of power and decision making played an incredibly outsized role in the rise of the European continent and later the United States.

The british empire, french empire, etc became wealthy as monarchies. And the US became wealthy while 75% of the population weren't allowed to vote.

Unless you are saying the US, britain, france, etc became wealthy after ww2.

You say liberal democracy is why the west is rich. I proved to you its false. The US, britain, france, etc were all wealthy before liberal democracy. When facts disprove your premise, you don't attack the facts, you dismiss the premise. It's basic logic and reasoning.
The delayed payment boot camp option sounds optimal for you if you don’t think self-study would work for you. Make sure tech is interesting for you, there electrical, welding and plumbing “bootcamps” that pay well too.

I broke out of a dead end QA testing job and into DevOps by getting AWS certified and developing some Python skills. I have to continually update and upgrade my skills, online courses provide enough structure to keep me motivated for that. Not sure if that would work for you. Good luck!
I'm just saying it's quite rational to be concerned when a foreign nuclear missile alliance sets up shop on your doorstep. Putin has had many interviews where he has stated this is his primary concern and that the west isn't listening.

The US almost started WW3 over exactly that same thing in the not so distance past during the cuban missile crisis.

We get mad when Russia interferes with US-elections with a few online bots but the US directly funded and participated in the overthrow of the pro-Russia Ukrainian government in 2014. There was violence involved, why is it okay when the US murders Ukrainians to install a sympathetic government but not when Russia does it? It's hypocritical.

If it were up to me, I'd disband NATO entirely (too much polarizing history) and replace it with a new organization with a very similar charter, but open membership to Russia and China. The purpose of this organization should be to prevent world wars, not to decide local elections, especially when those elections/conflicts involve non-member countries.
Depressed by design.
Hmmm. I grew up in rural Northern California and we had propane that would be trucked in. Is that what you mean by having a tank? I don't live there any more, but my old neighbors tend to be buying backup generators now so they can keep their fridge and internet running when PG&E cuts off power so their distribution lines don't start fires. (This cuts into a whole other issue about people who want to live in the forest asking for extreme subsidies on all the costly electric infrastructure it takes to serve their low density lifestyle.)

Electricity is overall more plugable, versatile and evolvable than appliances that directly consume hydrocarbons. You can meet your source needs using some combination of grid connection, solar, backup generator, backup batteries, etc... - and you can evolve this source side of things over time without being forced to constantly retrofit the load-side systems in your house.
I was thinking about writing something exactly from this perspective today. Based on what Putin said about Ukraine, how it use to be part of Russia. The fact that Ukraine has declared their independence from Russia is exactly like an abusive husband that won't let go of the relationship and he is willing to put everyone in jeopardy to get his selfish desire of grandiosity met. Everyone one around him sees that its over and nothing is going change that. No amount of violence is going to bring everything back to the glory days. Its over, move on.