skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also observed that my own smartphone usage is unhealthy - constantly checking it when I am taking a walk, or when I go into a park to lay in the sun, or read a book etc. I never could go long without checking my phone, engaging in Whatsapp or looking up something on the web. Even so when on an activity I specifically picked to be offline/away from my computer.

My solution was also getting a dumb Nokia phone as a "leisure phone", which has no WiFi/BT but a headphone jack and music capability (it has an ancient Opera browser that I never use). Luckily my phone provider offers a "dual sim" service where I get a second SIM card with the same number, so in case someone calls me, both my iPhone and my dumb phone ring simultaneously. I only programmed a number of ~10 close friends and family into the phonebook, and now when I leave the house when I want to have some quiet time, I only take the dumb phone. I have the security of being able to call for help in case of emergencies, and am reachable for friends and family in matters of true emergencies (calls, not Whatsapps). Battery lasts 3 weeks in standby, but since I mostly have it turned off and turn it only on when I take it, it becomes mostly irrelevant.

Unfortunately the dumb phone selection isn't perfect; I'd really like to have a better camera because I do want to take snapshots now and then (without the urge to immediately upload it to social media) and the music player is very limited in functionality.

As for the experience, I can highly recommend this. Ever since I got it and got into occasional "offline mode", I realize how much BS time I spent on the smartphone. Having those "off" times are relaxing and bring a certain peace of mind. And funily when I am out without the smartphone, you realize how much other people are constantly staring into their phones in locations they actively went to refuel (parks, lakes, beaches, at the movies etc.).
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Good one. I think you could probably pull it off. I've seen it done before.

With that said, some clients, psychologically, will need to talk out their problems out loud. They may even tell you that. It's how they need to operate. They may just be too much for you and that shouldn't prevent you from doing well at your business with other clients.

This would tend to be especially true if you can make it clear that you are running a business (sole proprietor) and text-only is your business policy. You could probably even address any issues in a reasonably cool way without talking about your personal health conditions which is kind of a no-no for anybody involved where typical business boundaries are concerned.

So a big part of this might be developing the vocabulary to talk about it at a level that meets the needs of prospective clients and also says, "We can talk about it ALL you want but my boundaries are right here, and I'm also ready to help you out with stuff I'm good at."

Eventually you may also find some related vocabulary for navigating phone calls in a way that makes it clear you are not there to give a half-assed solution over the phone, so you'll need some time. For example, "let me take a look, I will get that on the schedule," "This is new to me, so I'll have to think about that, let me see how the schedule looks," etc.

It may help to think of you as the business, and write about the "you" problems from a third-person perspective. What will you have the business owner do about the issue, if they're your video game character? This can help you focus more on strengths and less about what you can't do for people. It does sound like you have plenty of talent for what the typical small-biz web development client would need.

Getting into a couple of other specifics--if you can, it's a good idea to establish a plan for frequency of communication during a project, and communicate that you have such a plan, up front. "I'll expect to reach out with updates at the next milestone, which is X on date Y. If you have any questions between now and then, my contact information is below." This will also help your clients to be more comfortable not using the phone, since they know their info-needs will be taken care of in any case. You are basically soothing them, so to speak.

It's also a really good idea to practice and develop professional use of your favored media as a way to avoid inadvertently raising the stakes via text communication. This could include using a professional email signature which invites people to reach out (any of these text-based methods). Also, writing emails that do not seem personal in nature and clarifying things to avoid misunderstandings.

Good luck, like I said I've seen it done and if you can develop your practice over time you might even find you get in good with one or two clients, they really love your work, they also like text, and you're set. I think it would be reasonable to look forward to outcomes like that for sure.
Oh yeah there’s a video where an Indian doctor is standing there being “cursed” by a man who claimed to be able to kill people with a look (evil eye?) Nothing happened to the doctor.

I just tried to find it on YouTube but like most primary sources its been buried by SEO and cute thumbnails.
Indeed it does. Now ponder that for a while. NATO has never been actually tested, except when it was convenient (see: the coalition of the willing/bribed).

I totally understand the point of the treaty. But the treaty never took into account nuclear blackmail - because that is what is happening here - and if that works once I don't see any reason why it would not work again. Country 'x' should leave NATO or we'll nuke everybody. After all, why not? Once you've crossed the line of using nuclear weapons for blackmail I really don't see why you'd stop.
that's correct. typealiases are the wrong solution here. the better solution would be value classes, but of course, the unit shouldn't be the type.
It feels weird that supporting crypto almost feels like a contrarian view judging from the comments here.

It sounds like the author is describing crypto as a ponzi (rather than a bubble) and I'd agree too if crypto never ends up on delivering real value. But it already has in terms in efficiencies (e.g. money transfer and cutting out middlemen is a 10x improvement) and I definitely think we're starting to see more.

I think that crypto hasn't quite integrated with society yet (yet is the key word). Once it does, crypto will be operating less within its own sandbox and will have more impact on society. It needs to marry into our legal system and deal more with oracles bridging the real world into the crypto world.

When you say Bitcoin is 13 years old you're only looking at it from a technology standpoint. It's made a few strides in this time period, but I think we could also consider Bitcoin as a monetary good. From that lens, as something to think about, how long did it take for gold to be accepted as currency?

The rest of crypto is much less than 13 years old and I think we'll start seeing more of their impact in the next 5 years.
I think probably you intended to reply to some other user, unless I am missing sth.

I see a difference with hooks, where you need a linter to verify that you used them as intended: they must start with useSomething and be called in the top level. As opposed to use native language features.
Victims of Vimeo
This reminds me of a former director who liked to say to some of our partner teams, "poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.". She was good at putting a buffer in between IC's on our team and partner teams so we could focus more on planned work.

The "yesterday" need-by date maybe works the first time. Beyond that, if that's really the company culture or management style, I'd be quietly looking for a new job. Same category as Friday afternoon requests for things due Monday morning.
The gnome team isn't exactly known for being receptive to things outside their vision/interest.
The majority of the items we list today, we can trace them back directly to the distributor. We have blacklisted some selling websites based on low customer reviews.
> and those beliefs have been carefully introspected and are not coming from a place of ignorance or hate

No one ever thinks they’re the villain of the story.
Further comments say that the reason given is wrong, and that it's a change in (animation?) speed instead that causes this.
It depends on the accuracy and speed. If a dog can detect cancer in a stool sample with 90% accuracy, and the dog can go through 1k+ samples a day, then that sounds like a good deal. The value proposition is in high volume and low invasive tests that can reduce the need for slower or more invasive tests. If we could screen everyone for colon cancer from a stool sample with a trained dog, then we could reduce the recommended frequency for a colonoscopy and still catch as much or more cancer. There is a lot of money saved if the average person without colon cancer only needs 1-2 colonoscopies in a lifetime instead of 4-5.
Probably. I'd hope it's someone who understands causality and counterfactuals and opportunity costs and constrained optimization, at least..
The Boeing 737-800 NG is widely used around the world
For real. Most of what they do is wrap and bastardize open source services. If you want to command true value in the industry for decades to come, learn all the systems they use under the hood. Right now high school students are getting their AWS certificates. That niche will soon be completely flooded. Go for the core technologies and you will never be without a job or means to start your own company.
My electric house heat is on or off. A thermostat runs it. I can't turn it to "half"; I can only make it run at full power less often.
Just on this subtopic, this is a great chocolate pie recipe that doesn't use any dairy but instead uses silken tofu https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/moo-less-cho...

likewise, you wouldn't otherwise know that there's tofu in it.
Pingdom seem to manage it. Pretty sure one of the FAANGS could to. I appreciate an obscure managed service might be a bit diffcult, but main developer site?
> There is no place in Hell bad enough for these utility companies.

Someone has to pay the bill, what's your suggestion for these utility companies instead?
People with a slavish devotion to counterintuitive explanations are just as predictable and pathetic as your so-called synthetic flock.

Russia started a brutal war of aggression. People want to protest any way they can. Its not complicated.
To me, it's interesting in the "Huh, neat" kind of way in the same way knowing the etymology of "sour grapes" is. At least personally, I don't find it particularly useful for actually learning the language - there's just too many words like this for it to provide me any real advantage, and I'd likely end up confusing myself more when running into the words where there isn't any similar significance. For example, irresponsible/sloppy is 'いい加減', and 加 means increase while 減 means decrease - I could see myself going 'hmm I know the word contradiction is one where the two kanji actually contradict each other... increase and decrease contradict each other, I bet this is it!"
>NATO's intervention in Libya was implementing UN Security Council Resolution, in order to stop Gadaffi's slaughter of civilians and other war crimes

If NATO can pretend it intervened just to implement the UN security council resolution and protect civvies then Putin can say he invaded Ukraine to denazify it.

NATO committed war crimes in Libya. It wasnt the slightest bit interested in preventing the slaughter of civilians - NATO ships wouldnt even rescue refugees on a sinking ship that were calling out to them.

They only wanted regime change and once Khadaffi was gone and the country was a destroyed mess and a failed state they immediately lost interest.
Waiting for conspiracy theorists to claim that the Omicron variant was the first test of this technology since it was fairly mild and spread so quickly giving most people who caught it some immunity against other COVID strains that are deadlier.
> you will need exact "-mcpu" for decent performance

For some definitions of decent, I think that ship has sailed.

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/CrossCompilation.html

-target <triple>
The triple has the general format <arch><sub>-<vendor>-<sys>-<abi>, where:
arch = x86_64, i386, arm, thumb, mips, etc.
sub = for ex. on ARM: v5, v6m, v7a, v7m, etc.
vendor = pc, apple, nvidia, ibm, etc.
sys = none, linux, win32, darwin, cuda, etc.
abi = eabi, gnu, android, macho, elf, etc.

Note, none of those are exhaustive...
I've always wondered what it would be like to work for Slack. Do they use email internally? Or do the handle all their comms through slack?
The alternative is for the company to eat the cost of payment enforcement, and raise the price of everyone's service a little bit. Which doesn't seem exactly fair, since many of the service users may be in similar financial circumstances as the lady in the article, but just make better decisions regarding their money.
"foreign-owned" in this case is still the UK i.e the closest ally we have today. So I don't think you'll see the same sort of American protectionism you might see with e.g a Chinese competitor.

Therefore... yeah, nothing's stopping the DoJ (guessing the FTC would make the referral?) from pushing an antitrust matter. But I certainly can't say for sure; I'm not a lawyer.
Ctrl+F: legacy

> Phrase not found

Aw, come on.
Invoking the cascade to explain why there are 15 ways to center a box, of which 10 don't work one time or another.
I find it actually difficult to do this.

When we engaged OpnSense, they had a website, had an email for support/service inquiry, and even a website to "buy support subscriptions"...

This made the process VERY easy to get through our legal hurdles, and "buy 20 hours/year in support" (which we likely won't use even half of)... we also contracted a professional service to simply sit down with a developer to go over how they intend the image to be created/automated... while we could figure this out, it was another opportunity we could classify as a professional service to get through our systems. This is certainly not "paying them what they are worth", by any means, but our budget allowed us to spend a few thousand a year at least.

Apache, on the other hand, has been difficult... We want to support a specific project, and would like a similar relationship, but the developers are not listed anywhere, and there's no support mechanism except through 3rd parties. It seems your best bet is to put out a request, and see if they are an active member of the project, and try to negotiate with them individually? That's not going to be an easy sell to management.
Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra review: The slab phone retirement plan
It is my personal opinion that because of the extremely high potential for abuse, all delivery mechanisms should be designed to require the host's consent. I would also have to agree that bodily autonomy is a fundamental human right.
I thought the joke was quite funny, the barman opening one for the blind dog.
Open an eye, see?
> RPA sales pitch to executives is "This is not changing your application; this is simply doing what your people are already doing in your application, faster and more repeatable with less errors".

> This is a powerful risk-reduction pitch

Is it? It seems to me a powerful risk creation pitch, where instead of dealing with the process problems that make properly controlled change expensive, you just exploit a loophole in your control requirement that are designed to mitigate risk and implement change with no control.

OTOH, since the pitch is generally to the people responsible for the state of the policies, I guess it is “risk reduction” in that it reduces the short-term risk of admitting the larger error since it enables kicking it down the road a bit, and that is something lots of executives like.
I mean I'm arguing on a message board, not writing a white paper. Of course there are alternate methods of analysis that are plenty rigorous and models that are alternative to neoclassical models. Whole books, schools of thought even. I'm paraphrasing badly while avoiding work.

But I'm also pointing out that this line of criticism is fucking bullshit. It's like textbook for mainstream economists to say WE HAVE THE MODELS and LOOK AT MY MODELS like they're fucking something worth bragging about. Supply, demand, regressions, Edgeworth Boley boxes, you name it one thing they are never short of is models and the smug proclamations you're making here, as a kind of generic appeal to "science" and "rigor" and so on.

Except they are wrong. Like really fucking wrong. Constantly, systematically wrong. So wrong that a lot of times the analysis is "not even wrong" levels of wrong.

I'm being specific here. I'm talking about what used to be called the "Washington Consensus" and it's one of the dumbest fucking ideas ever promulgated by supposedly smart people. Google it if you're not familiar it's well documented.

It never made sense and plenty of people pointed that out at the time and yet the 1990's were dominated by these policies and we set the stage for the world we're living in now with these catastrophically misguided ideas.

So maybe every single person responsible for that should shut the fuck up and stop talking about their fucking models. Or commit some kind of ritualistic honor driven suicide even.

Instead you have Larry Summers in the pages of the New York Times STILL somehow going on about how everyone should be listening to him. And Jason Furman. And plenty of others who should never again be allowed anywhere near a position of authority.

This is why people fucking hate economics and economists and they have VERY good reason to. Maybe one day the discipline will be reborn and redeem itself but until then I plan on staying mad.
> How can a tiny sense in a cellphone capture more dynamic range can a massive sensor? Software

No it's also hardware. The cellphone has much more powerful CPUs and GPUs than your DSLR that enable this
Can you use the web version of Google maps?
C programmers, and those who write in languages derrived from/inspired by C.
Also relevant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_and_Dimed
You have electric heat for the entire house? That's an unusual setup - most places with electric heat have a separate thermostat in each room.

To do the whole house means you have air vents to the entire house, with a central electric heat source? I guess maybe that makes sense if you anyway have central A/C? I don't think that's common in Canada though.
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There may be more dynamic range in an iPhone photo, but the tones are quite harsh if you don't control the light. Fine texture also seems lacking when viewing on a (desktop) computer screen.

I very much prefer the rendering of a "big camera", even with less dynamic range, than what can be obtained from an iPhone.

Of course, as others have said, the iPhone quality is still amazing for what it is, especially given that you can carry it in your jeans pockets. Even the tiny Olympus Pens are worlds away from that. And just as always, the best camera is the one you have with you.

I also agree that it would probably be great to have a "big camera" with the smarts of an iPhone. But there's probably not that big of a market for that, so the manufacturers don't invest in it. Although I'm surprised Sony didn't do anything, since they're in the camera phone business, too. At least, much more than say Nikon, Canon or Olympus.
you said:
>Didn't he also make a lot of money already? So at least also good at making money.

The second sentence is in the present tense. Implying that Altman is currently good at making money and thus not out of touch.

I said

>When Howard Hughes was at his most batshit crazy and generally out of touch with anything resembling humanity his businesses kept being profitable, perhaps once you have a lot of money it is difficult to really screw it up.

I shall now laboriously break this down in case you have not followed my reasoning.

when I say
>his businesses kept being profitable

This implies that they were profitable before he was

>at his most batshit crazy and generally out of touch with anything resembling humanity

Thus my example is of someone who was once not out of touch and made money, but then when they became out of touch they kept making money because their businesses had reached such a size and reach that they were able to make money for him without him being 'in touch'.

I did not say one could be out of touch and go from nothing to money, I said that there was an example of someone who was once 'in touch' but became out of touch and yet they continued to make money.

The criticism of Altman here that I'm reading is that he 'is' out of touch, not that he has always been out of touch. It is in fact a common criticism of very rich people that they lose contact to daily life and the critical understanding of that life that allowed them to become rich in the first place.

Thus your response that he is good at making money is meant to show that he cannot be so out of touch after all (at least this is what I supposed your intention to be and it would seem to be born out by this conversation)

This is why my example of Hughes is a good example of what I wanted to say, which is that just because someone IS good at making money they can still BE out of touch, and not anything else.
Under antitrust law, SpaceX would theoretically be made to split off StarLink from the launch business so that the launch business would have no incentive to prioritize StarLink over other sattelites.

In practice though, antitrust laws aren’t enforced very strictly and government contractors are treated leniently, so probably nothing would happen.
> Even if you begin migrating these it can take years if not decades. Meanwhile shit needs to be done.

Yep, that's the key thing. The ERP systems which have their tentacles all over every part of the organization make changing stuff out effectively intractable.

I don't know if it's intentionally like this (by design on the part of the vendors) or if it's just a consequence of people being terrified of change.
CSS Cascade Layers are now supported by all major browsers and provide a good, standard alternative to !important in cases where you need to override CSS that you can’t easily modify, like stylesheets from a third party CMS or framework, or inherited spaghetti code from an earlier version:

https://css-tricks.com/css-cascade-layers/
But you never get to 100%, so this is not a useful thing to mention.

You could get 99%, then just add some more re-entry vehicles on the bus and call it a day, it's like perfect security for websites, you have to get everything they only have to get something. And they always do. Starwars failed for a pretty good reason, the numbers just don't work out to the advantage of the defenders. The best way to defend against nukes is to make sure they don't make it off the launchpad/sub.
I believe that the kind of company that Brendan Gregg would work for would have excellent reasons to use or not to use a particular piece of software. There are a great many more companies that don't hire people of Gregg's caliber, and a lot of them are quite likely to have many terrible reasons for using not using a particular piece of software. Not being aware of the product being among those reasons. By definition, most workplaces are mediocre.
Distortion correction, chromatic aberration correction, perspective correction…yeah, all nice stuff. Especially the perspective feature, which is relatively recent. It’s nice to be able to straighten up an image quickly, in the Lightroom workflow, without having to round-trip to Photoshop.
A default zoom setting that is global to the browser does not in any way fix the problem of different websites using different font sizes.