skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We need to change the laws to give any taxpayer standing to sue when they see taxpayer money being misappropriated.

If you did that, then any government aid program would spend all their time and money fending off frivolous lawsuits instead of providing aid to those who need it. Though maybe that’s the intended outcome
I did meet those monsters. This friend of mine,

* used violence against the one he used when he saw at the end of the process the message "communicating with server...", thinking "You are centrally logging the presence of my car here at this time? Who gave you permission?"

* and before that, during the operation, he had to note that the keys were capacitive: because in the middle of the pandemic, he was using thick paper cloth and other buffer to operate the keyboard, and it just would not work. And of course, those monsters, apparently planned to require "contact" for operation (everybody touching the same surface), were installed in the middle of the pandemic.

He resolved, as it may be expected, never again to park near the center of his hometown.
This could be very useful for search and rescue teams assuming these things can fly for a while and are smart enough to swap out with freshly charged drones as needed. I would be curious to see how many of these would be required to quickly map out a 10 square mile area of dense forest, hills, cliffs, ponds at 3am. That might be a fun test. Send a recon soldier into the woods to play hide-and-seek with the drones. I will add the unfair criteria of the soldier winning the game if they are undetected by sunrise or can complete their target objective undetected.

One could call the local army or marine unit to get volunteers for such a game. Or many games. This could even be a quarterly game to see who can adapt, improvise and overcome faster.
Yes, of course, if you have the "money-honey", you don't work or expect maternity or jobseekers allowance, and you are not interested in state pension, you can get by without one :)

I just checked, and for healthcare you don't actually need it in the UK. In other EU countries you usually have to pay health insurance for yourself if you are not working (sometimes a LOT of money), but not in the UK.
.. and others signalling that when they find out, they do not care, are not surprised, and bother to do nothing about it.
Coroutines are a form of concurrency, and they may be executed in parallel if scheduled on separate cores/threads, but usually are just cooperatively scheduled serially. Concurrency is not an IO-specific concept.
How worried should we be about ‘insectageddon’?
Maybe there is this prestige somewhere in Apple, like the people who work at Apple Park are isolated from the rest of us, but I am such a pleb that I never got the memo. Almost everyone has to be disclosed on stuff to work at all.
That’s about my experience.

It was until I hid from everyone that I was suicidal, refused all help from the broken and abhorrent ‘mental health care system’, stopped seeking treatment - and finally realized that the system is there to put you away and stop bothering people (family, etc.) rather than to fix any of the actual underlying issues in your life - that I stopped being suicidal.

Continuing to be forced into this kind of ‘treatment’ - one more hospital visit - would’ve been what killed me, for sure.

I have never experienced such a deep-seated feeling of not just wanting - but needing, to die - outside of a mental health hospital.

I cannot effectively describe the utter helplessness of already feeling totally hopeless - only to then be strapped to a table and restrained; while bright fluorescent lights pierce at you from overhead, completely alone and isolated - until you wish you’d just taken your life already - so you wouldn’t have to be experiencing…this.

I’ve had maybe half a dozen friends who have been suicidal and gone through this hospital bullshit that worsens the situation rather than getting basic therapy and a shift in lifestyle that they need.

This ER bullshit doesn’t help anyone. Everyone on the inside, when allowed to talk to each other - often talks about how we are working out our lies to tell our doctors so we can get the hell out of there. There’s no genuine desire for healing. It’s a prison.

And all anyone who is forcefully admitted into that prison just wants out.

I’m not suicidal anymore - because I chose to keep it completely inside - not tell anyone, and work on myself.

I realized opening up about suicidal feelings, if you have them - is literally the worst thing you can do.

You’ll end up in one of these institutions; the hell of a lot worse off than you were beforehand.

The best you can do if you need therapy - is to make a call to a help line through a VoIP on a proxy, though a generated phone number on an application like TextPlus.
It's easier to put out one fire instead of thousands.
PowerToys is great, in particular PowerToys Run.

I'd use PowerToys Color Picker more, but it lacks contrast ratios/accessibility information, which is where it would be most useful to me. It was suggested on their GitHub but didn't gain much traction:

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/9357

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/14454

9 times out of 10, I am getting color information to run these exact checks, so it would just save an extra step.
Each school/university will have its own policies, some allow the general public access but no borrowing, others have borrow policies usually under a "Friend of the Library" membership. For example:

- https://library.ccny.cuny.edu/about/friends

- https://library.cooper.edu/friends/

- https://library.nyu.edu/about/general/fob/

Between NYPL, QPL, BPL, and these I think living in NYC gives you access to a pretty great selection of materials. Navigating the policies can be a bit like juggling streaming services but is completely worth it in my opinion.
I like powertoys, especially ‘fancy zones’!

But Explorer is something I stopped using more than a decade ago when I encountered TotalCommander - that I cannot do without!!!

The regex-supporting live-preview batch-filenaming utility alone is awesome.

I work so much faster (with the keyboard) than will ever possible in Explorer!

I could write for hours about the greatness of TCM, but as that’s a little off topic here I won’t :-)
Maybe there will be a magic pill that makes everybody much more intelligent. We are only using a few percent of our brain after all. Until then I assume that the evidence presented by mainstream psychology is correct which says that between 50% and 80% of IQ is inherited.
The character was based on Dick Fuld, which if you look at any interviews with him from that time you can kind of see where the inspiration came from.
Windows does have multiple desktops. It was new in win10 I believe.
You can assign apps to specific desktops, and you can maximize a window if you want full screen. How else do you expect it to work?
> Not only marketers, but scientists, statesmen, industrialists, politicians, philosophers, and writers shaped ersatz social technology to fill the gaps, but completely failed to guarantee knowledge succession of the generative core of knowledge. The strange spiritual practices, scientific exploration of human psychology, and at times outright ideological cults of the founding cohort gave way to a more shallow type of knowledge. This was a knowledge of levers and buttons, rather than the first principles which built those levers and buttons.

Quite the Just-So Story. Any evidence that people used to be highly concerned with first principles and this has somehow dropped off? I won't hold my breath.
Alternatively you could use a jupyter notebook with a bash kernel, yeah?
That is quite the (intentional?) misreading of my comment.

The good news is that I certainly don't believe any of the homeless-bashing things that you said.

I was replying to a poster who claimed that drugs are a sham because -- in their opinion -- if drugs weren't a sham, we could simply give a bunch of drugs to homeless people.

I found their argument absurd for a number of reasons and I told them so. But I certainly don't believe any of the things that you are accusing me of, so at least you and I are in agreement on some things.
Imagine my surprise when I saw Incompetech credited in every episode of Last Podcast on the Left. I credited them in a short film about 7 years ago and it was surreal seeing it pop up again.
I take your word for it, but I rember getting cash on my UK credit card several times when I've worked in the US. Of course, these were for small amounts, and the credit card company were the ones finally at risk.

I have suddenly had a vision of Clint Eastwood, in High Plains Drifter mode, riding into town and attempting to cash a cheque :-)
Yep, that's a pattern I've applied before. It's not the worst, but I don't think it has the clarity that this would have:

key, value ?= item.split("=", 1)

Modulo bike shedding over the actual syntax, of course.

(Edit: the semantics of this could be even more generic, like Ruby's `[...] rescue value` syntax for turning any raised exception into a default value instead.)
Disagree. Fancy features are awesome for "normies".

iPhones have a feature where you can create PDFs page by page, using the camera as a scanner. After you snap the photo it offers you a crop and transform tool, and does a little image recognition to assist you and make the edges of the crop tool snap to the page within the photo.

I've found that feature immensely useful in a professional context and (it was a company device) when I gave the phone back I seriously considered switching away from Android for my personal phone.

Little things like that, baked into the OS, make for a really awesome UX.
GP's link includes:

* Brooklyn Public Library
* Monroe County Library System
* Queens Public Library
* Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
* Chapel Hill Public Library
* Houston Public Library
* Fairfax County Public Library

Here are some more [0, 1]:

* Free Library of Philadelphia
* Los Angeles Public Library
* Atlanta-Fulton Library
* Austin Public Library
* Enoch Pratt Free Library
* New Orleans Public Library
* Orange County Library System
* Westchester Library System
* Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

[0] https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2011/09/22/library-ebooks-...

[1] https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/EBook_Lending_Libraries#Wid...
I had no idea about the '*'!!
Write it as three self-contained blog posts, then you can get part of it out and even if you lose interest later people are still enriched by the first one or two!
It would perhaps be a more meaningful test of intelligence if a person took it 100 times over a few years. This, however, is not very realistic.
Show HN: OpenWebhook – A store to receive webhooks and send them to localhost
KDE has Windows-style snap-to-halves or quarters by default. If you’re happy with those basic zones, it definitely works well. I don’t know if there’s a way to configure more complex zones.
Doesn’t work. Usually banks, for example, won’t accept a PO box as a residential address. They need to know where you actually live.
> We have an identifiable central authority, the ticket issuer, so… why do we need a decentralised record for that?

And look how well this is going for us? Ticketmaster is one of the the most anti consumer companies in history. There is no need for a single central authority here. Plus you get the benefit of authenticating the tickets in case of resale, etc.

It's actually a great usecase. Fraud is rampant, binding tickets to individuals doesn't make sense, and the main issuer is a literal supervillian.

Regardless - "concert" tickets isn't even my point. It's as a general purpose access token that literally anyone can verify. There is obvious utility in this.
Security conscious? Or security expert?

SIM-swaps are easy but do not scale. This means that they don't actually affect a lot of people. The improvement in security posture from SMS 2FA to TOTP is actually fairly small, because both lose to phishing and phishing is orders of magnitude more common that SIM-swaps or malware that steals SMS codes.

As a solo recovery option, it is indeed a more meaningful risk. But we also observe that people just lose their accounts all the time if they don't have a phone-based recovery option so I do understand why the option is offered.
Live in California long enough and your work ethic will melt and your life will become much more interesting.
Out of curiosity: How do you test your sheets? I feel like I can arrive at such a sheet over a few days of reading, but unsure how I'd test I'm doing the right things (since there isn't a tool or a combination of tools that can act as oracle)
I'm also in my 40s and had the same "old man yells at cloud" judgmental reaction, but when you think about it, it's no different than watching TV. I think of all the dreck on that glowing rectangle that my generation wasted hours of each day on, passively consuming. It's pretty much the same as watching some streamer, so hey, whatever floats their boats.

I think I'm just way too old to understand the specific allure of streaming random people talking about random, mundane things. My daughter watches a few streamers, and in my view, watching over her shoulder, they are all just bland, boring nobodies[1], talking about nothing in particular. They just talk about their day, talk about video games sometimes while playing, talk about other videos they're simultaneously watching (yes, streaming someone talking while the streamer himself streams another video!). It just seems such a pointless waste, but I think back to the stupid things I liked as a kid and I guess it's no different. I just hope she grows out of it and (with my parental guidance) starts getting motivated to do actual things rather than sit there watching other people do things.

1: I know some streamers have particular interesting or extraordinary talents, but I'm not talking about those shows.
Windows is so far past that point now, could just as well pile these on too < edit: I'm actually positive about these tools, MS could do with a little less focus on consumer usecases I think.
Meta orders hiring freeze as growth slows
On Linux, I use Gnome Suchi.
> but how would I know it had I not read about it here?

Presumably you’ve been a windows user long enough, or at least exposed to Windows enough times to have figured out you can double click a title bar in that operating system and maximize a window, so it’s probably not too far of a stretch to guess you would have figured it out in macOS by simply trying to do the same thing

Agreeably macOS is highly opinionated when it comes to “discovering” some of the hidden interaction features, but come on. You really wouldn’t have had any other way to figure how to embiggen a window without without having to come to HN and read the above comment?

That feels like an extreme example for the sake of being oppositional
It is, it just isn’t what most people think it is, nor was it ever meant to be.
> Meanwhile: ad companies presumably hoover up registration marketing data and sell it on

Under which legal agreement? "If you park, then you agree"? _Parking_ as a sufficient condition?
How efficient is spread? Is the underlying data copied by value? Copied on write? Or copied by reference only?
One wonders if, Major Major style, Captain Planet will be permitted to advance to Major.
Live streaming myself while building Web3 startup
Pretty boring though. It's mostly me coding while listening to Yeat
Managing PostgreSQL partitioned tables with Ruby
I saw that mentioned in OPT175 release. How is the model forced to give reasoning?
IQ is great on a population level, when administered by people who know what they are doing. On an individual level, especially when administered by a non-expert (or worse, online), it just doesn't offer as much information as living life does. As in, if I know I'm not an idiot, it's more likely my IQ test is wrong than that I'm wrong.
While prizing any FLOSS project I'm curious why... I can understand Clojure, giving Lisp on top of the enormous Java codebase have some practical reasons, but Go so far have a relatively small public set of libs so why instead of a Lisp written in Lisp, like SBCL?
Tell HN: I was permanently banned from eBay in one hour
I have some extra electronics around my house that I’d like to sell so I signed up for an eBay account. In one hour I posted 6 listings totaling less than 500GBP.

I received an email that my account was suspended. I was told to call eBay.

I have called twice and been told that I am banned from selling on eBay for life with no ability to appeal or hear the reason for my ban. I am not allowed to create a new account.

On both phone calls I asked to speak to a supervisor. In both cases the agent promptly hung up on me.

Don’t use eBay. They collected a ton of my sensitive information (address, phone, bank account, etc) and then insta-banned me without even having the courtesy to explain why or let me appeal.
These machines are pretty good...if you think of them as clocks with a bunch of useless buttons.

As a social experiment they should try to maximize frustration by randomizing the keyboard layout and implementing ELIZA as the user interface.

> Hello, I am Eliza.
* I'd like to pay for parking
> Don't you ever say Hello?
* I just want to pay for parking
> Come, come, elucidate your thoughts.
win2k was peak windows; all it needed was 64-bit support and cleartype
> You left out the reason there is a minimum - there is a cost to run the card that is fee(purchase) = A * purchase + B. The minimum is to ensure that B doesn't dig too much into their profit margins (which is also a percent).

The reason there's a minimum is that the Federal government forbade credit card companies from mandating acceptance for all charges. That was done in the consumers' interests, but it came from the top down, not the beneficence of Mastercard and Visa (who, prior, were more than happy to take 2-3c on every $1 card purchase.)
I am not sure why you think this would be in the 90s.

Volcker is well known for his harsh correction, I don't really know what to tell you. We have lived through very unusual recessions recently, but that doesn't make the one in the 80s (where unemployment went over 10%) not bad.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_1980s_recession_in_the...
It's not a backwards compatibility thing, PowerToys has been a thing since Windows 95 and we've seen breaking changes in a few iterations of Windows since.

The clue is in the name "Power" -- it's additional functionality for power users. Since Windows generally caters for the lowest common denominator, features like this would be deemed too complicated (sometimes even dangerous) for some folk. So it is an optional addon for power users.

It's just like how WSL, PowerShell, etc aren't installed by default either.
How is the model forced to do chain-of-thought?
You might be right, but I'm not quite sure what most people think it is, so I don't know.
Direct flight from Singapore to Xiamen is 14.5k USD, but you can't book it anyway. http 404
I'm sure legally it specifies the use of the space is non-transferable and it's just as legally defensible as rules against subletting tenancies.
I think you are missing one more round. Impossible pairs after each round:

Round #1: ... (many)

Round #2: ... (many)

Round #3: (1,4), (72,92) and (72,98)

Round #4: (2,3), (80,90)

Round #5: (1,6), (75,96)

Round #6: (72,99)

Round #7: (81,88)

Round #8: (70,99)

Round #9: (77,90)

Round #10: (72,95)

Round #11: (76,90)

Round #12: (70,96)

Round #13: (90,84)

Round #14: (66,98)

Round #15: Solution is "77" and "84"
"You are assuming that such workers would have all been unemployed if Musk did not exist, which is very unlikely."

No, they would work, but would they be more productive in those other jobs? Possibly not.

I wonder what would happen if current engineers at SpaceX were suddenly "redistributed" to Boeing or Blue Origin. Maybe they would raise the technical aptitude of those companies. Or maybe not, maybe the companies would grind them down to their corporate level.

You can demotivate smart people and reduce their creativity to almost zero by insisting on idiotic corporate rules and punishing them for "transgressions" (e.g. innovation that wasn't approved beforehand). They will still be working in highly qualified positions, but their collective effort won't be as productive.

It is notable what a big portion of contemporary technology is attributable to relatively small organizations (such as Bell Labs) which were able to motivate smart and creative people to do their best.
Wouldn't it make more sense for the scanning feature to be its own app, so that users can find it, know what it is, and not activate it accidentally?
To be clear, one of these twins suffered several concussions while the other did not
I believe the answer is... try rowing for more than two hours without a break.
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I might be an heretic but I use the one from Microsoft!

My password are available everywhere on Android via the Authenticator app and on any browser that have the Microsoft autofill extension on whatever OS I happen to be currently using.

I have a 1Password account provided by my employer but I don't want to tie access to my password to my employment. Also I don't like that 1Passowrd required to enter a really long key to enroll a new device. And I figured that I might use the MS account I created for Windows 10 for something usefull.

As far ass I know there are no equivalent way of using the Chrome password manager outside of Chrome and Android.
I wonder how real of a problem this is -- for example, in classical music, a lot of terms and directives come from Italian: eg forte, piano, tempo (the word itself and the various degrees from largo to presto) etc.

Even if you don't otherwise learn Italian, as a musician you quickly learn what they mean and it would be unusual to see those notated in English even as a native English speaker.
Destructuring is one of the things i love about Clojure!

I’m happy that js and python have also adopted it.
That depends on the context, I have a feeling we differ widely on what we view as the "crazy people" that are taking over given the natural demographics of HN and that fact that I am generally politically unaligned with most people here given I am a individualist libertarian politically

that is the beauty of local control, if School Board in another state does something you do not like, good news it does not effect you. If the Dept of Labor does something nationally you do not like well there is nothing you can do about it as your power is diluted due to national level, and you can not move...
In mixed enviroments being able to use Powershell on both Linux and Windows allows for people to only have to learn one scripting environment, and allow you to share functions, modules, and tooling between the systems.

that alone is a big WIN for PS imo

Also I find Powershell to be more enjoyable to use (I like the verbosity, the help system, and passing objects instead of text streams.. I know I am crazy), and easier to train new Admins on PS than bash or python.
I'm FAR more concerned about real owners power, witch means Alphabet, Apple etc the real owner of such smartphones "ecosystem", in terms of thief and effectiveness in changing our society...
Keeping It in the Family: Kentucky Derby and Oaks
In this case, nurture is several concussions
Did you try to Alt-click on the green button?
There’s a middle ground. We make fun of “stealth mode” start ups and non-technical idea people demanding an NDA for a coffee chat, we should pick on the big companies too, when they take themselves too seriously (Eg. non-Apple companies copying Apple’s way of working, without recognizing what works for Apple is unique, it’s got an outlier track record over its 46 years).

And, maybe you’re not as close with your brother as grandparent. Some siblings are very close.
Pinball Takes Buttons: Building a Controller for Panic Road
Any recommendations on what to look for in a chair or do you have a specific one you like?