skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Western media splattered out propaganda about Russia election interference because it was domestically convenient. Propaganda can only be effective if there is a hint of truth. And with publications like politico it might even be more than a hint and very well a source of the distrust people have when it is important.
Ah yes, those are literally the only reasons anyone is happy.
Per GW of delivered power. Yes, that's correct.
Of course, possible is possible, but actually I see no one who can an almost no one who can't interesting in that...

There is also an enormous issue: schools/universities. In the past we have had talents, because they were smart, BUT also because they can attend schools/unis good enough to make their talents grow and a society around to make that flourish. In the present society we still have smart peoples BUT we miss large part of education, now hyper-centered around neoliberals with even universities that does not form "techies", "people of culture" but modern stereotypical "qualified Ford-model workers", witch means form people not for the society needs and desire but for a very little part of it, the actual élites needs and desires witch happen to be against 99% common interests.

I a decade I even expect that universities will not be anymore universities but "Google school", "Mersk school", "Black Rock school" etc starting from the early childhood to better bend peoples to their own needs and desire.

In the end: take a Chinese who never exit China, a perfectly honest and neutral one he/she very probably do not think to live in a dictatorship but in a just regime that make China great, give foods, jobs etc. having not comparisons, having studied government propaganda he/she can't really know something else, only very few very smart can form a different view but still having issues to figure a different working society... At that point to came back to a society with educations and conditions to make talents flourish really like in our past it would take 50 even 100 years, we need to pass through a big scarcity because all regimes to rein need to give something to the people and they give something in bad ways wasting resources making them scarce, at that point an enemy appear, a fight, suffering etc and finally enough people will realize that they are in a dictatorship, then they unite against the regime who of course try to repress at first demolish from the inside thereafter etc and more unrest happen for more years. That's the issue. We probably came back to a good evolving and advanced society but for 2060, 2080...
PEP 505 – None-aware operators
Boot in qemu, or have a test instance.
> perfect, permanent and unqualified happiness

I would call that insanity.

I have this theory of mine since spending time in drug circles. The drug users spend time as well chasing "perfect, permanent and unqualified happiness". And with substances you can achieve the unqualified part. The perfect and permanent parts not really since tolerance comes into play.

Anyway, my theory is that unhappiness is absolutely necessary. Happiness means you are content with what is. And you take action when you want to change to what could be, what you want. But if you are already happy then you don't want to change anything, so you don't do anything even if you absolutely should.

There are a lot of things that tend to prove that unhappiness and its companion - the pursuit of happiness - are the most important motivators. Negative news, commercials, propaganda, populist discourse and so on.
What I don't get is if the problem was the risk of unexpected bills from a cloud provider, then why not just use simple virtual servers that you can rent for a fixed price from almost any hosting provider?

Gives you all that extra benefit you speak of of the extra compute headroom that you can use for spinning up any demo server application you want, and saves you all the costs, risks, and headache of managing your own hardware.

Why the debate of cloud vs on prem? The logical sweet spot in the middle seems to be vps to me.
Nearly 75% of US counties lost population last year as deaths outnumbered births
Academia Italiana Della Cucina
We can relate to that! It is extremely helpful for our current efforts to implement TLS 1.3 for the Botan crypto library. Especially to get a foothold with TLS and gain a feeling for the protocol structure. Amazing work!

https://github.com/randombit/botan/pull/2922
I would say it is more likely that consciously or unconsciously the woman started missing pills the month before. The couple was already considering it so it wasn't a big deal if she missed some pills. My wife and I were very fertile, we got pregnant on the first try every time we tried. I suspect that the birth control was barely working.
The only reason I keep a MacBook Pro lying around is this software and an old flatbed scanner :)
Minor nit $20k is the gross income so $15K is the net. $15k is 50% of $30k.
I believe we’re talking about different things. I’m talking about fullPage.js, but I think you’re talking about Bionic Reading.
No problem, but the second half of my question was genuine.

I can't imagine this working too well with German words ? e.g. how much of Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften, Kraftfahrzeughaftpflichtversicherung, Lebensabschnittpartner or Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän would you need to highlight ?

I don't speak German, but surely with compound words, your concept doesn't work that well ?
> That would have been abut 5x as much, or 1.5 million

Is this some sort of scientific fact or your opinion?

Frankly if you look at say the death rate difference between Florida, Texas (hardly any lockdowns), and California, or New york, your 5x number makes no sense. There were nowhere near 5x as many deaths in Florida, despite an older population.

Peru had massive lockdowns, and they've topped the deaths per million list. Australia are creeping up the list despite being locked down the no covid, and fully vaccinated.

China are struggling to keep omicron under control with lockdowns. Their death rate will probably rise a lot soon.

It is not at all obvious that lockdowns do actually help with the death rate.
It feels like they have increased the number of ads in the search results by 50%
My feedback as a first time user is that it took me about four relaunches to figure out how to get to any kind of preferences, I couldn't figure out how to do anything beforehand. At least on macOS, VueScan > Preferences... does nothing when you're in "Basic" mode, it only switches you to the "Prefs" tab when you go to the "Input" and switch "Options" to "Standard" or "Professional". The app helpfully pops up a browser window at application close if it wasn't able to find a scanner, but it mentions nothing about how to do a manual set up.

Would never in a million years think of looking in the "Input" tab to be able to see more preferences, I found it by sheer luck!
it's asynchronous programming with promises
This may be a fact, but that doesn't mean it aligns with human psychology. Most of us do want to spend our days doing something we can take pride in and enjoy. This doesn't necessarily imply high income. But it does involve interacting with other people who respect you, solving problems/tasks, and being given at least enough autonomy to feel one has ownership over those problems' solutions.
> could the $20K raise be attributed solely to the bootcamp

Yes.
Proposal for crypto tax policy will be up for discussion in Indian parliament
In human life there is and will be suffering. Escaping it won't make you happy. Accepting it and finding a purpose for your suffering can make you happy but it's quite a different kind of happiness that you see in movies.
He has a new channel, ”Vagrant Holiday”. Highly recommend.

https://youtube.com/c/VagrantHoliday
I find it interesting how otherwise smart people rationalise drinking alcohol because "everyone else does it".

My life was completely changed by Allen Carr's Easyway To Stop Drinking (available in audio books, hardback, Kindle etc). The author basically takes every reason people give for drinking and logically destroys it, often proving that the exact opposite is true.

There's also an interesting BBC documentary by Adrian Chiles called Drinkers Like Me (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hsSC03VKZo) which disspells the myth that you're only an alcoholic if you drink in the morning, among other things.

I think in the future people will look back on drinking in the same way that we currently look back on smoking.
Are you alleging a conspiracy? Show me your numbers if you want me to take you seriously.
In common usage people refer to their mass as weight. Nobody says "I mass 75 kilos".

I'm divided if that's an argument in favor or against your point, though.
I just did some PHP the other day and I stumbled on a structure I was happy to have forgotten:

something(x, result);

somethingElse(result, result2);

anotherThing(result2, result3);

with the occasional surprise mutation when you just have to do

something(x)

and x contains the result.

I also got caught recently with MomentJS with that one when doing mydate.add and discovering it also mutated the original instead of just returning the result.

I'm a very average programmer and far from a FP purist (I mostly use JS and Rails) and I'm surprised how much I now use some FP principles and how it feels very natural to me.
Your browser is the new Operating System
Hello HN community!

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So far we’ve been able to go from roughly 100 registered users to more than 3000 daily active users today, with a total registered user base of 200,000 in less than a year.

At neverinstall, we are developing a next-generation cloud platform to bring any GUI (Graphical User Interface) application regardless of the operating system, device, and system requirements to the browser.

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Is India an enemy?
I wound up in a bit of a analysis paralysis figuring out what to replace my old 2015 13” mbp pro with. As a lot of others I looked to the pros, and went down the “well if I’m spending x, then I might as well spend a little extra to get so much more”.

Long story short, I ended up buying the smallest Air available with no upgrades, and I’m so happy that I did. Unless you’re doing some serious heavy lifting it’ll be fine, and at it’s small price point it’s not something I worry about breaking. That last part may be an ADHD thing, but it does add to the experience of using a laptop around the house where you also have a car and a 3 year old.

I was on the fence about the 8gb ram, but it frankly out performs my work t14s thinkpad which has 32gb for any sort of programming I do on it.

The only real downside is the lack of the MagSafe charger, but it holds power so well that it’s rarely in the charger when I’m using it. So my advice would be to get the smallest air, unless you know why you’re getting something more powerful.
I used to play it quite a bit with a friend back in my student days, on a 12×12 board. We were aware, in principle, that the first player had a winning strategy, but in practice, the advantage to the first player was small enough to hardly be detectable (though we did not compile any statistics on it). Perhaps this only serves to reveal that we weren't terribly good at it, though. We weren't aware of the swap rule at the time.
Love it. Been using for a few years in cloud and desktop versions. Easy for casual diagram making. I do like mermaid for embedding small diagrams inside text but for a bigger diagram with colour this is my go to tool.
FWIW I do mind mapping in seperate tool as I haven’t found a generic diagram tool that does mind maps even half as good as specialist mindmap software(and vice versa).
Diagrams.net for diagrams
Freeplane for complex mind maps; simplemind for ad hoc maps.
Liked yEd but have forgotten why I didn’t stick with it.
All the FP languages include a subset that is referentially transparent.

I do not consider the attempts of making the entire language referentially transparent and the exclusive use of lazy evaluation, like in Haskell, as being useful.

Obviously there are people who like these features and who use Haskell, but in any case whenever FP languages are mentioned they should not be reduced to those that have made the controversial Haskell choices.
There is no proof that if Spotify gave the labels more money, that it would go to the artists.

I think Spotify is an excellent example of labels using a 3rd party to mislead where they money is really going when Spotify is paying nearly 80% of its income as fees to 3rd parties.
> No. I'm very clear with demands on my time

That's great for you, and the other commenter who said the same. I'm pleased you feel comfortable enough with that.

Would I be right in thinking that you have spent a significant amount of time being a full-time contractor?

Either way, I'll wager that makes you the 1%, not the typical. The typical developer works a full-time job and does a little project on the side. Their boss may or may not know about it, and if they do, they are happy so long as work on the project does not impact their full-time job responsibilities.

But this presumption of "I feel comfortable with X and therefore nobody else needs help with this" is terribly damaging, and the fact that these over-confident voices shout about how weak and inexperienced and dumb everyone else is for falling into that trap, only serves to cement the impostor syndrome and erode self worth.

People usually cannot be shamed into becoming more confident and assertive. People need to be supported into becoming more confident and assertive. And a project that helps people feel supported cannot be a bad thing imo.

>> tech giants accrued fortunes on the backs of people they’ve never thanked, paid or even met.

> I don't like the accusations of unfairness being levied against open source users (among which I would also include myself)

There's the problem. Unless you happen to be a tech giant, you are not the entity this project is trying to shame.
> Mozilla’s marketing budget is between $20 million and $100 million

https://digiday.com/marketing/after-mozilla-stopped-spending...

Sadly, they mention here their Manifesto which states:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/MarketingGuide

> Individuals’ security and privacy on the internet are fundamental and must not be treated as optional.

However, if you look at what settings are enabled by default and with the recent announcement of them tracking installs and downloads, they are no better than Chromium.
Supposedly, you can activate "Keep my email addresses private" in https://github.com/settings/emails which should replace your actual email with a GitHub provided relay-address. You can also set that relay-address as your git commit email. It's unclear if the GitHub API will also show that email though, where I think they are getting the emails from in the first place.

What we collectively can do is to send an email to support@github.com every time it happens, with the repositories/email addresses involved in this, and short-term GitHub will remove them from the platform (making it less profitable for them to do so as they'll get removed) and hopefully over time GitHub will improve protecting their users privacy.
What does the word “free” mean here?

I assume the clinical professionals are paid and the researchers were paid and the pharma venders are paid, so that money is coming from somewhere. Is it that someone other than you pays for it?
> Karma would help.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
Ignoring Github becoming Gitbook?
Is this not obvious to everyone by this point?

Putting your phone in airplane mode, and generally restricting it's radio usage reduces battery life? Shocker!
It may inherit it from the sounds of the words that built it: 'Graphics'. Homography is not identity.

Anyway: this debate risks being inappropriate in this occasion.
NASA to Host Axiom Mission 1 Flight Readiness Media Teleconference
In the abstract, centralization bad, decentralization good.

There is no deeper thought going on here than the above. These are barely thought out, quasi religious beliefs as moral justifications for get rich quick schemes and frauds.

The same conversation about nothing, ad nauseam.
And in return you are sacrificing your code and contributors to a Microsoft-based privacy policy. GitLab is better but still not ideal.
How would that appreciably help? There are so many more 4kb strings than sha1 hash values that finding collisions barely matters.
Interesting. So I both drink and smoke because I enjoy it and life is too short to not do things you enjoy (applicable to all things in life), even if it shortens my life-span by some years give or take. What is the logical evidence proving that I actually don't enjoy it?
I always buy AMD, but for another reason altogether. The process market could very easily become a single-player monopoly. Maybe less today, but that was certainly the case for a very long time. Thus, I always try to buy from the second- or third- place market leader. Diversity in hardware, just like software or biology, is good for the environment as a whole.
Complaints mount after GitHub launches new algorithmic feed
> What would it take to provide enough power in the US with only those solutions (+ hydro and other non nuclear non fossil fuel solutions)?

A little more than the area of West Virginia [1] if you're only going for solar power using conventional panels.

[1] https://www.axionpower.com/knowledge/power-world-with-solar/
OK, tell me specifically what a hospital - or anyone else - can do, to 'help' a patient that won't help themselves? Lock them up and dry them out against their will? Should we lock up drug addicts to keep them away from drugs? how about forcing blood pressure meds down the throats of people who are on the verge of a stroke, but won't stay compliant?

My guess is you have never worked in primary care, if you did, you would have a very different opinion about the limits of how much you can help someone that won't help themselves, or even admit they have an issue.

Easiest thing in the world to say is 'someone should do something', and what you usually mean is 'someone else should do something'.
I would recommend you read the book, but why do you think you enjoy it? Do you enjoy the taste, do you think it helps you relax, do you think it's necessary to enjoy social situations?
Apparently just a guy who wandered around Seattle filming people with a camcorder.

https://blogs.harvard.edu/internetmonitor/2013/07/10/surveil...
https://www.i-sis.org.uk/Chernobyl_Deaths_Top_a_Million.php

Im not sure if conspiracy is the right word. The special interest groups bullshitting everyone are not necessarily coordinating. Is religion also a conspiracy?

Never mind.

I believe that I'd feel safer with nuclear if they paid for their own damn insurance and raised the liability cap to "unlimited" but apparently they dont feel its safe enough just yet to raise their financial exposure. What if fukushima happened again? Dealing with that was expensive!

Perhaps you could explain why they cant volunteer to shoulder their own risks if theyre so safe?

In SPITE of free insurance they still need lavish taxpayer subsidies to be financially viable while wind and solar dont.
It was a series of videos taken in public where a guy would just point the camera at people doing mundane things. The subjects would often question why he was filming them and the response was always simply "oh, I'm just making a video".

Occasionally the guy would elaborate further and it seemed the point was that people are captured and recorded on CCTV and other surveillance methods all the time, so why would they care about his camera? Despite this the subjects would often become enraged and sometimes violent.

It was fascinating for many reasons and I think a very interesting view on human psychology.
Cryptocurrency startup involved in shady marketing practices? I am very surprised.
Switching to a different radio standard is quite different from "putting your phone in airplane mode", and not obvious (nor given) that it would save power. "Race to idle" logic can also apply to radio, so it very depends on the usage patterns and specific details.
How I built a macOS app and made over $5K in a week
The only model I've ever seen this work is the Mac/Windows model. You provide a standard installer for the server (or even distribute it via the app store). The user launches it through the standard graphical app launch model (Finder or Start Menu), the server displays a suitably user-friendly GUI configuration panel, and then minimises itself to the notifications tray.

The linux model of "first learn how to use a package manager, edit configuration files by hand, and configure init scripts" is never going to be something that I can comfortably explain to computer users like my parents...
Just change the logic ever so slightly, I’m sure it’s possible to do this in many ways.
Microplastics found in human blood for first time