skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never understood why they removed MagSafe, fair enough it meant you should use USB-C which is more standardised. But it was an excellent feature, which kept my charger working for 10+ years.
Today, I walked a couple blocks west of where I work to grab a slice of pizza and while I ate, a dude just hauled forth his member and urinated in the gutter, not 15 feet away from me. I felt bad for the tourists and their kids, but only because the pizza was overpriced and tasted like Digiorno.

Usually I find defecation is easiest - not for me, but for the unfortunate souls without access to privacy - at the far end of a subway platform, away from the glare of publicity.
The problem with LASIK is that it doesn't address the root of the problem which is that the eyeball gets longer, it only works as if someone carved glasses on your cornea. So you might still get the negative consequences of having a longer eyeball after it.
Oh I agree 100%, personally it’s more money than I’d know what to do with, but I’m also aware that there’s a chunk of users here who’s respond with “well after tax this that, etc etc” with some justification as to why it’s not quite enough, so I thought I’d attempt to cover all bases hahaha.
Which platforms have reviews?
If you're trying to call me a liar, it's better to not be oblique.

I've lived in three neighborhoods for my entire life: Bloomingdale (now called "Manhattan Valley"), South Harlem, and Bedford-Stuyvesant. The only one that I regularly saw needles in was South Harlem, and that was only by one apartment where we had a guy dealing on the corner. That was a pretty unpleasant situation. I only saw needles once or twice in Bloomingdale, and I've yet to see them anywhere in my current parts of Brooklyn.

As for the poop: NYC has a big dog poop problem, which is what that article is about. I don't think anybody has ever contested that.
You don't need $5M to be "safe" in the Bay Area. You do need some money - enough to afford to get a mortgage on a place to stay - but once you get past that, things get easier. The thing is, it takes money to start making money. It takes money to start to be able to afford the things that will make your cost of living go down. It does suck, but it's not $5M.
At some point in history, rich text formatting was pretty uniform. Copying from word to textpad or outlook just worked.

You definitely wanted to keep what was in italics, bold, superscript and so on, so at least that made sense.

Then why not fonts and colors? From a word document to powerpoint, it makes sense to keep all the formatting.

What messed everything up is the web. You can’t paste anything into gmail without the formatting to be all screwed.

It’s annoying indeed.
GAE was far worse from a UX perspective. As an outsider from Google, the handcuffs imposed by AppEngine we're severely restrictive compared to Lambda-like services.
Tell her to explain the whitepaper to you.

That usually does it.
I used to ride my bike to my friends house, 1 mile away. This probably started in about 3rd grade. The compromise I reached with my mom was that I'd call my friend, we would leave at the same time, and ride to one of our houses together (so 1/2 the time riding alone).

There was one time where a guy in a truck slowed down and was lagging behind us a bit. We turned down a side street and he kept following us. We were on sidewalks, so we just turned around quicker than he did and raced away. In retrospect that was legitimately scary.

In middle school, I could ride wherever I wanted. I'd ride to garage sales, buy used puzzles, then spend hours completing them at home. To think that those opportunities wouldn't be available is sad.

>And, yet, somehow we've infantilized children and removed their agency and I don't know why but I really fear for the consequences of it.

In grad school I worked with a fellow from China. At the age of 3, he would go to the nearby market to buy some groceries for the family, cook food, and hang out at home alone all day. He was shocked at the attitudes in the US.
Cloned Horses Have Quietly Become a Thing. (2019)
AIUI this is basically how flatpak does it; the file picker is called a "portal" and is indeed how you pass in files that the program couldn't reach by default.
3.9, majoring philosophy.
Hey, your comment made me realize I'm an idiot and I was trying to make a lib folder at the sibling level to the src folder. That plus your tip about how to organize the files and everything makes sense now. Thanks!
The great thing about using "the algorithm", is that when if fails or is wrong, you blame it and not the creators, administrators, and authorizers of it.
Safety Assurance is a big part of rail transit design but I wouldn't say it is a significant cost. Building and operating rail wouldn't cost half as much if we stripped some of the safety assurance process out of it. Maybe a couple of percentage points of cost for orders of magnitude more fatal accidents. The systems would mostly all still be there, unless you wanted to do something as drastic as removing all interlocking/train protection and rely entirely on drivers and timed signals - basically treat it like a road network - but that would have huge operational impacts - train headways have to be much larger if you can't know what sections have trains in them - as well as being extremely unsafe.

Frankly, these precautions exist for a reason, and it is because many many people died in the early days of rail. Many people who work in rail, particularly in ops/sigs/assurance are proud of how safe rail transport now is.

(I work in Engineering Assurance on rail infrastructure projects).
Regardless - at some point "you" (or cells and genetic information that would become you) were an egg. At some point that egg was an egg, and that egg was an egg, and so on all the way up n generations to asexual and single celled organisms.
That's really not my experience with the U.S. I'm from a smaller city (250k) and there are constantly people out in my neighborhood. Kids playing, riding bike, people walking, pets, etc... Just a lot of activity!

We have large windows too so it's fun seeing it all.
the worst thing that happened to me was when I was like 10 once I was walking home from school and a homeless guy asked me where he could take a shit, and I ran away

second worse thing I was doing my paper route and almost
mauled by a dog but a nearby neighbor convinced it to go away

ah, another time when I was 17 I was almost abducted but that's what I get for walking down an industrial road at 2am on new years alone, I was saved by the fact I had a cell phone (seeing it caused the predator to retreat)

I am extremely glad I don't have kids and super disappointed that the world has come to this.

if we're really lucky humans will stop reproducing

it won't hurt me at all
I’ve read that for Samurai Pizza Cats, they didn’t have the original scripts, and so made up the dialogue based on the animation. If that’s true, it was brilliant!
I have not done an official cyclopentolate on myself as it requires a prescription here, but in the past I believe it's standard practice at my ophthalmologist when I get checkups, but I haven't gone for one in years.
I like that Cloudflare is steadily becoming a serious alternative to the existing cloud providers. If you folks can build a decent IAM tool for access control to Cloudflare resources, much more people will start using your services.
I think we are talking past each other on a few things.

1. I should have been cheater. I want necessarily referring to physical ability, but cognitive. This might need navigation skills or pattern recognition, certain types of memory. A sibling comment linked an interesting article that had concrete experiments in which chimps outdid humans in certain games.

2. I thought this discussion was about general AI not consciousness. I suspect these two are related, but don't know. I suspect that anything that processes information might be conscious, but don't know. I'm even open to the idea that plants, my laptop or even a photo cell might be conscious. I would be shocked of we found that mammals aren't. But this is now closer to religion than anything else, since we cannot disproof that something has consciousness.
100% agree. I think it's bizarre that folks think there is some kind of moratorium on getting laid off or fired if you're on leave, especially since Twitter offers 5 months of paternity leave. So everyone that is not on leave is at risk, but everyone that's on leave is magically protected?

You can't, and shouldn't, be fired for taking leave, bit obviously there are a million and 1 reasons for there to be changes in Twitter's exec leadership given what's happened over the past month.
I’m looking at a company… it’s name starts with Micro… I am currently forced to work in excel today and I can’t describe how excruciating it is to do even the simplest things. This may be a ‘spreadsheet thing’, or it may be a MS thing (probably both). Coming from a few hours in emacs into a big-ol’ spreadsheet just shocks my system. I can’t get over how many idiosyncratic and unintuitive things they can cram into one screenful. It’s a feat in mass user torture. I’m going to write a proper post on why no one should use excel, especially if they’re in a technical field.
It varies by org.
I’ve been on teams where the only recurring meeting was a 30min weekly.

On the other hand I’ve been on teams with 25+ devs on 6+ hours/week of recurring meetings together.. plus any ad-hocs, project or task specific meetings, etc. Some were 2 full hours long and could run over to 3 hours. Was insane.
I do acknowledge that there are many small (big) barriers.

I am on my second home, the first was a condo where I had no access to the "above" or the "below", only the "within".

Phone lines had been run, so I thought I could attach Cat5 to the phone lines and pull them through -- but the previous owner had decided to wall up the phone jacks. No idea where they were, and no access to the "above" part.

Let's just say - I tried a lot of things to figure out where the walled up phone lines were, but never could get to the level of confidence you would want before you start knocking random holes in the wall in a property you own.

Powerline Ethernet was a godsend - for a while. Then one day (7ish years) it started struggling, and eventually couldn't stay connected. To untangle that was going to be hundreds of dollars of hardware and research and/or contractors (side note: have you tried asking an electrician to assess Powerline Ethernet issues?) -- I went wireless at that point.

New house maybe a year back after getting married (yay!). Ran ethernet. Used these guys:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00404UATS

Yeah, I drilled some holes in the wood floor. I am not that rich, nor is my neighborhood, it's a non-issue. Game consoles, NAS devices and work computers have ethernet. Everything else less hungry (or important) like a tablet or mobile has wireless. Life is good.
Well, thanks for the first response that isn’t rehashing my top two favorite movies. :D

Still, it doesn’t answer my question. Who disburses the “spending” to the vendors who provide weapons in exchange for that money? And how do they choose who gets it?

I think what irks me is that while I understand the benefits of this system when it comes to supplying the US military (rapid mobilization), I question the ethics of redirecting the output of this system to another country, who is ultimately an additional end customer for the arms companies.

I can’t articulate the precise source of my discomfort, but I know it feels wrong for this artificial market to exist according primarily to the whims of politicians and those who pay them.

One argument in favor of the military industrial complex is that it keeps the wheels greased for when a real war happens. And we’re seeing the benefits of that in Ukraine right now. But to be honest, I get the sense that the MIC, i.e. the power structure controlled by executives at the top US arms manufacturers, has a vested interest in prolonging this war, any war, so long as the weapons need replacing.
Please don’t normalize treating people as if they’re fragile, delicate creatures who may break at any moment. That encourages people to act like they’re broken for attention and reduces their ability to function. It’s harmful to them and to society generally to encourage people to follow such social scripts.
You can. I'm doing it right now. They don't like to stretch over the menu bar (i.e. top screen has no menu bar, bottom screen does, trying to stretch window from top to bottom) but they happily stretch left to right — or top to bottom if the menu bar is on the top screen.
*In 2021...
I think it's a lot easier for employees than for freelance types. Even the companies hiring language instructors will do most of the paperwork for you.
You don't have to live in the Bay Area. You don't have to commute since they were talking about retiring with $42 millions.
You can't see structure in a language that you don't know? I mean, sure, one possibility is that there just isn't a structure, but that's really not the obvious option here.
Hopefully this doesn't come across as too aggressive, but it seems like the other comments are pulling their punches.

There is a difference between

> I find myself studying too much in order to make something that I want

And

> So I start learning about the history of dashboards

The former is a classic problem in engineering, the latter is kinda nuts. If you are studying the history of something before building your first version, then you are almost certainly avoiding the work.

If you want to read up on the history as you build it, that is one thing. If you are going to build a company around dashboards and want a good first-principles strategy, then history might also fit in.

Otherwise, dive in, validate your idea, and make something work before you start reading about special topics, let alone the history.
> For instance: most people, when their video call stutters, blame their Internet service provider. That’s understandable, since most ISPs are overpriced oligopolists with barely-usable software and horrible customer service. However, every time I can remember helping someone track down the source of their connection problems, the culprit has turned out to be their wifi.

Can confirm. I work on videoconferencing infrastructure, and easily 90+% of the end-user quality problems we investigate are caused by the end-user's WiFi. It's very difficult from a customer support perspective too, because it's common for WiFi to have latency and loss problems that are severe for real-time video or audio but not so noticeable for bulk TCP transfers (like most speed tests) or web browsing. So communicating the issue to users is hard.
With low birth rates, certainly a lot of people may have large backyard suburbia as the ideal but do not want to deal with single family homes for their small family of 2 or 3. A condo or townhome with green space can be a life with much fewer hassles.

Detached homes, especially the lovely ones with mature trees and gardens, require a lot of work. Things like snow removal, leaf pickup, scrubbing mildew off the siding, tree trimming, concrete repair, roofs, hvac maintenance, cleaning and servicing multiple vehicles, and the list goes on. And of course older homes are booby trapped wrecks of lead, asbestos, cloth-insulated wiring, corroded pipe, and shoddy insulation. Naturally, in many desirable locations old is the only affordable type, too.
Human beings, as a rule, like safety.

And you're reading too much into the white part: the history of middle class suburbia is the history of America's white middle class, which is in turn more or less the history of America's race politics. It's not a particularly searing or piecing observation on my part.
Yes, but the majority of /r/Steam users are not subscribed to /r/Vancouver (or whatever the Vancouver subreddit is). I'd wager a guess there is a much more significant overlap with related subreddits such as /r/pcgaming.
It's a competitor to Awk.
More than Tulips?
It's well known that many 'SIDS' are parents killing their children.

Its so common in my country that a murder investigation is conducted each time it happens

Those factors you mentioned are all risk factors of general family violence.

Our country has parental classes a lot of it was dealing with the stress of having a child while talking about SIDS and talking about how you don't want it to happen because you will be investigated for murder.

We even had public service campaigns,

don't shake a baby

another about baby crying in a cot and a mother looking like she is about to loose it, then a message to get help.

Another about, don't hold a babies mouth ect

There is even a difference in methods. For males its blunt force trauma, for mothers its suffocation.

From memory their is a large difference between unplanned child and planned child.

I think my country is realistic about addressing these issues and not hiding behind 'risk factors'
I've toured a bunch of apartment buildings in a major city and the nicer ones often had people using the communal study areas, game rooms, lounges, fitness centers, and roof decks.

Obviously there's a cost to provide that and it's one many are willing to pay.
Oh, but that team did not fail. They eventually succeeded through the great effort just like good Zapp's troops, they were.

I think there's a very good reason that small startups rarely use Java but Enterprises with limitless resources to tackle simplest problems just love it.

I wrote some small commercial stuff in Java and it was anything but small. But I'm not Java programmer and I never will be if I can help it.

Let's agree to disagree.
We might not. People could learn from the long history of people being conned. I know zero about cars - if a guy knocks at my door tomorrow telling me I can sign a contract and get a brand new porsche delivered next month for an upfront cost of $10k, my lack of car knowledge isn't a problem. It's a no.
They made more sense before high efficiency motors miniaturized & high capacity lithium ion batteries existed.

Old vacuums were heavy.

Now, they're more useful to repurpose into shop vacs.
Anyone here using Zig for embedded programming?
I don't know why it needs to start with Silicon Valley necessarily. Because we're a bunch of socially-awkward people? We just saw the Jeffrey Epstein thing unfold, and who-knows what well-connected old-money/old-power folks were serviced by him and Ghislaine Maxwell. If they could extend their life and get their pickings of young girls, you bet they'd do it.

This old-eating-the-young thing has been going on for time immemorial. It's encoded into our mythology, of Saturn eating his children so that they wouldn't usurp him. And it's not just our (i.e. Western) culture either.
Flatpak does exactly that. You can even fine-tune what folders you give to the app (Flatseal is great for this). xdg-desktop-portal makes things even better: app can only access files that you explicitly choose when prompted - kinda like on iOS.
Seems to be pure chance. r/brasil and others are in a very different place in the graph, and none of the subreddits related to r/portugal are connected to any of the Japanese/Chinese subreddits in the graph.
$200K comp and 2 weeks of PTO. I don’t know how people handle only having 2 weeks off per year. American working culture is bizarre.
Netflix recently got rights to Old Enough, about very young kids' trips to the store etc. It's cute and wholesome.

One counter point is cities have started adding 'danger' back into playgrounds (not actually that dangerous, more like risk in the mind of the child). So hopefully we'll see some progress.

Kids are pretty capable and most people are pretty supportive/helpful.
> I find it somewhat atrocious how much we like to tell the great stories of how we went and stole, raped, killed and enslaved during the time of the discoveries, all for our own pleasure (and that of our religion).

Is that really the general consensus over there? I'm trying to think of a way someone would rationalize decimating entire tribes over wood as a good thing but I'm coming up short.
And what an amazing coincidence that the crusader and the martyr are the same person!
I don’t study anything, I just jump right into it and study while doing it.

I do this with programming, but with other stuff too. I am teaching myself to sew right now. I just bought a sewing machine, wanted to make a yukata in african fabric and just did it. It’s all weird and not very well put together, but I am happy to wear it. Then I am making more complicated stuff.

“Just give it a shot and see how far you can go” is some advice I read somewhere and that suits me sell.
I don't think there are claims that any of the Apollo missions previous to Apollo 11 landed on the moon, so I don't know where you're going with that exactly.
Ask HN: Why there are no sequels of Constantine movie?
holy crap, soon (if not already) clones of specific horses will be treated like brands of cars. that'd be interesting if they embraced it and made a spec series.
I'm immediately suspect of anyone who has an experience that would benefit them politically or financially that they just so happen to mention neatly tucked into the middle of a post on social media.

> As I have said since I founded Free-Range Kids in 2008, and since starting Let Grow in 2017, our society is set on overestimating danger and underestimating kids.

Gives real "That Happened" vibes.
https://swaywm.org/

Is this what you're referring to?
> We're already in a Greek tragedy. The machines really can't make it much worse, but could certainly make it much much better.

Except that, when true AGI arrives, we're all obsolete and the only things that will have any value are certain nonrenewable resources. No one has described a good solution for the economic nightmare that will ensue.
Not necessarily. Its just that CPUs are better at sequential so you'd only really use an FPGA if you had grossly parallel plans. And GPUs are better at some set of parallel operations.

So you'd only use an FPGA if you needed to do something GPUs and CPUs couldn't do, especially because of how cheap CPUs / GPUs are.
Yep, and there is a major difference between a casual ride to pick up a sandwich at 2pm on Sundays compared to the morning hustle jockeying for position in the delivery truck avoidance dystopia--surely gamified somewhere on Steam.
Unlikely, because virtually nobody in Macau speaks Portuguese anymore, and Reddit is not well known in Japan. Various Japan-related subreddits are very popular, but they're populated by English speakers living in Japan, travelling to Japan, etc.
The Brass Check (1919)
No. That's the point. The cops take all the money and don't fix the actual problems we have.

Do you think cops should be responsible for finding homeless people homes? You can't just throw them all in jail. Being poor isn't illegal yet.
The simple fix for this is to carefully pick the pepperoni off the pizza, and replace it with pineapple chunks.
Reddit is much better at what you're describing. Twitter constantly inserts content you haven't asked for in your feed and when viewing tweets.
Opposite experience here. It's always the provider, and when the provider fiddles with settings on their end it fixes the issue.
I wish MSTeams supported ancient well established UI/UX conventions, this one most of all.
oh shoot, my bad. if that was in the article i missed it.
Does it, really?

That DB still needs tables created and test data loaded.

Plus, having to deploy code from the ticket just to be able to reproduce a bug seems like a huge PITA. Give me the local execution!