skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're generalizing a little bit too much, or just frustrated with how things are where you are, and I share that frustration, however:

Healthcare is not any better in different parts of the world (or Europe for that matter). Within countries there are places where healthcare absolutely sucks and there are places where you can get a decent healthcare, even in Poland (you have options for private healthcare for example).

As for getting "rich" and inter-generation wealth - we (I'm from Poland too) do certainly have that, although not to the degree that other countries such as US have. Many people I know could afford their first house/flat or mortgage for it only because their parents helped them. Also don't forget that many people got their wealth from communist era, where they had to just wait in the queue to get their flat and then they bought it for a penny after we shifted to capitalism.

There are certainly real professionals here in Poland too, but they're just harder to come by. I'd not say it's specific to Poland. If anything, you can just say it's more common than average in other countries, but it's not certainly an exceptional thing here that we lack true professionals.

I'm in the same bucket as you're, it's not like the pasture is greener on the other side in many fields.

BTW, I've not yet come by anyone whose hobbies were flying or diving, although I admit I might not have met as many people lol.
Thanks!

Glasses are sometimes a little bit of a problem, I don't have enough of those in my training sets.
> And my argument is that readable code is the most direct route to that state.

Which has absolutely nothing to do with my point.

Nobody is arguing whether you should keep your codebase readable. The question is whether that should be prioritized over correctness.

The situation is: your codebase is already as readable as possible, but you've now discovered a problem for which you're failing to come up with a readable solutions. [1] I'm saying, when that happens, you need to be willing to just bite the darn bullet and go with the ugly-but-correct solution so that your customers actually get their problems addressed. Don't just leave it as a dangling "known issue" or leave some silly hack in there just to "keep the code readable". Your customers/users won't applaud you for keeping your buggy codebase readable. Of course you can feel free to make a ticket or leave a TODO in case you're hitting a blind spot or someone better comes along in the future. But for now, solve the dang problem first, because your customer isn't paying you for source code, but for the end product. (Well, unless your customer is paying you to ship source code to them, in which case you should ignore me.)

[1] To be crystal clear (and hopefully avoid more strawmen...), I'm saying you (and your team/company/etc. as applicable) need to actually do your best to implement a readable solution first, and THEN fall back to an unreadable one if you fail to do that despite your bona-fide attempts. For some reason (maybe it makes it easier to argue over the internet? maybe it's just more convenient?) people love to strawman "you should prioritize correctness over readability" as "you should go with the first solution you like whether or not it's ugly; feel free to leave a TODO for some poor soul to polish it later". Which has emphatically never been what I've been saying, but that's what people appear to respond to.
Plays football and basketball in their European federations. Probably any other sport too. Apart from that I personally think of Turkey as Middle East, Asia.
> I will mentally penalize a site for showing me prompts popups about notifications as well.

I don't like this either, but the reason it exists is that you can only prompt for actual notifications once, and there's no way to ask again, meaning the incentives are set up to only prompt at the OS level if you know the user will say yes.
My only insight is from what I heard in the all-in podcast. They were saying that the VC market is pretty much shut and this will likely be the case as long as the Fed is applying hard brakes on monetary policy, so loss making startups that relied on the next round of fund raising need to assume no more money for at least a couple of years, and restructure their burn rate to survive that long. Hence the layoffs.
I have taken scooters where I would otherwise have taken a taxi. A minority of my rides though.
In these weather conditions these services either stop working or get ~1hr waiting times. At least in Germany
Well done on creating a useful codec. One specifically optimised for
face data seems apropos the emerging demand for more intimate remote
interaction. Many teachers, therapists, doctors and social workers who
conduct remote sessions rely on clear non-verbal signalling and need
to read affect.

But the story has a deeper meaning for me (because of the book I am
writing). You switched from street face surveillance (an arguably
highly unethical application) to more intimate videoconferencing (a
more humanistic and socially beneficial end).

May I ask you in all sincerity, what if any ethical considerations
played a part in your change of direction?

I suspected from the title to read at least some sub-text that you
turned your back on mass-surveillance to find a "better" use for your
work. But you express no value judgements and only really mention that
the pandemic took away potential targets.
I don't understand at all what you say about those graphs. Homicide has gone down from 750+ to about 400, which you describe as "little correlation between stricter gun laws and fewer number of dead people". No idea why you say that.

Sexual assault has gone up, according to the graph, about which you say "shows a slight negative correlation between stricter gun laws and sexual assault". Uh what? That graph is nothing to do with gun laws, is it?! Strange. Hmm I can only guess maybe that where you live, sexual assault is usually/often done by someone with a gun? I would guess that's very rare in Australia.
Antioxidants don't work, but no one wants to hear it
> There's no evidence to suggest that gun ownership causes higher levels of suicide.

Literally 5 seconds to google:

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/06/handgun-owner...

> Additionally, suicide isn't a crime.

Why would that matter? Restricting access to guns is not aimed at reducing crime, but tragedies.
The Conceptual Problem with NFTs
It's a joke from a, IMO, really funny show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bQMjmVmkF4
There’s also seemingly unlimited content of real people produced consensually by those people. What can DALL-E generate that you can’t find on pornhub or onlyfans??
That's because it's same logic. There is nothing wrong with judicious use of corporal punishment either.
Their USP is interest-free loans, I’ve used them for very large purchases for sheer convenience.

But as soon as the loan is not interest free any sane customer will just use their credit card and avoid the adjustable rate trap.

The customers who don’t have a credit card represent a whole different line of business and a shitty one in a bear market.
You should actually attempt to read the study you're referencing by proxy of a wikipedia link (also, very lazy to not just cite the study):

That absolutely was not the result the study found.

First, it was a study of "Latinx among Hispanic-Latinos in the United States".

Second, this is how the study was performed:

> Building off of the work of Salinas and Lozano (2019), we assess the emergence of and increasing interest in the term “Latinx” in two distinct ways: 1)by examining Google Search Trends as a proxy for the degree of public interest in the term(Mellon 2014), and 2)by measuring the prevalence of use of the term in academic scholarship using the Dimensions API.

Even based on this they find:

> [...] indicate that just 25% of Hispanic Latino individuals are even aware of the term (Pew Research Center 2020).

Finally

> Overall, 25.3% of all respondents have heard of the term Latinx. Among those who have heard of the term, 14.4% stated they have ever used the term to describe themselves. Similarly, 31.7% of those who have heard the term believed it should be used to describe the broader Hispanic/Latino population.

At no point in the study do they ever suggest that the term is rejected, in fact what it found was that the more the responder was in spaces where racial privilege mattered they used it more and less when they went home.
I think the issue is simpler than the above discussion.

I have no idea what to think about BLM. I'm not American, so it's not part of my zeitgeist. I hear all kinds of differing opinions about it from Americans. One thing is clear to me: "BLM good" is more complicated than just "racism bad".

When I see something supporting BLM in tech documentation, it's confusing (I don't know why it's relevant to tech documentation, and I don't know what to think about BLM), and alienating (the banner presupposes knowledge about BLM that most of the world doesn't have).
It also create a false sense of product market fit. When you are literally spending millions to acquire customers, you will have revenue no matter what you sell, but how much of that revenue is actually because you built something people want. I suspect this this is the case with Bolt. One-click checkout isn't that innovative to begin with.
The patent that I filed is not around the models, but in how it boosts the parts of the face most relevant to face-to-face conversations.

I am not a super fan of patents, but for background please consider that Asger Jensen and I could have patented VM live migration in 2002 and chose not to for idealistic reasons, just to see VMware do it.
The above comment isn't true and doesn't reflect any studies done (https://osf.io/m39v5/).
also, what if you want to share dicks? It would be creepy if they all had eyes. There should be a mode for that where you drop into jitsi space
So then, what are you suggesting?

Science bad, Education bad, then what is good?
I agree the UX needs more work.
Microsoft Dev Box will virtualize your Windows development PC in browser window
Ha, I remember that.

The more-clever Atari copy protection involved the publishers using a customized drive to write two consecutive sectors with the same sector number. The loading program would request that sector twice in succession, so as the drive head finished reading the first one it would immediately read the second... which had different contents.

If you simply duplicated the disk, the drive would not read the sector twice and you'd be missing critical data.

There was a chip you could install in your Atari drive called the Happy Enhancement to defeat this.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/tutorials/gui-a...

Native WSL Gui apps.
> Conclusion: The problem was specific to Windows x64 builds.

> Then I tried a Release build with GCC (MinGW), and I successfully reproduced the bug.

GCC (MinGW) is probably the least battle tested of the major C++ compilers on Windows. The vast majority of commercial software on Windows is built with MSVC. Google builds Chrome with Clang. GCC on Windows doesn’t have nearly the same number of (paid) eyeballs looking for problems.

The chances of finding compiler bugs go up if you use less widely used compilers on a platform.
Charles Rosen relayed this wonderful anecdote about the great musicologist Oliver Strunk (son of the William Strunk of Strunk & White fame);

>His interests ranged over almost the whole of music, although his appreciation of the modern period may not have gone beyond Bartok. I remember he once told me that he used to own a harpsichord but had exchanged it for a piano, and when I asked why, he said that it was too difficult to sight-read the tone poems of Strauss at the harpsichord.

The piano used to be the gateway to all sorts of music, both vocal, orchestral and chamber, via transcriptions. And enthusiasts would get to know pieces that are performed in concert by sight reading it on their piano at home beforehand. The harpsichord is less versatile than the piano in this regard.

But then again the primary way of getting to know new music nowadays has been through recordings, and this has been the case for a very long time, so the practical deficiencies of the harpsichord compared to the piano may be less noticeable now. On the other hand, learning a continuo instrument like the harpsichord invariably involves some sort of training in improvised thoroughbass, which is an extremely valuable skill that is not found among pianists, so I think it's a pretty good choice in the end after all.
Of course there is more nuance than my short story implies. Just like tech debt, it's always tradeoffs.
Comedy gold. We shouldn’t base policy around outliers of outliers but we should have a policy of arming the populace in case they need to lead an insurrection which is itself an extreme outlier. Or the chance of needing a gun for self defence which is also quite the outlier particularly if you drill down into the actual risk factors rather than using broad statistics.

So far this year more school kids have died from being shot in the line of duty than cops who are routinely armed. So it doesn’t strike me as that much of an outlier. In particular kids should definitely be safer from gun violence than a police officer. That seems like a reasonable goal?

Or the fact that the incidence of school shootings means kids are more widely impacted than just those who end up on the wrong end of a gun.
MyBrain: Open-source productivity app for Tasks, Notes, Calendar, Bookmarks
What if they're not, and it is to them?
Indeed, but you should probably do that right before looping
> you can get things delivered to you in like one hour instead of having to have it delivered next week, which the service the supermarkets themselves offer.

I just checked Sainsburys (a major supermarket in the UK for anyone who doesn't know it), and I can book a delivery slot for 6 hours from now for £4. It's not an hour, but it's definitely not a week.
Self-Distilled StyleGAN: Towards Generation from Internet Photos
> because it's a long-term tool and I would like to be able to run it on any system in 15 years

What about Docker and Virtualenv? Both make it possible to keep running code until the end of times.
Bolt fires employees that have stock options loans
does your grandma use backups?
The US anti-gun movement seems to be more a part of the culture war than something founded in reality or that could ever lead to a healthy culture around guns, unfortunately. They seem to particularly like pointing to the country where I live (the UK) as proof that their measures work whilst misleading people about what the UK's strict gun laws actually restrict and then pushing for almost the exact opposite. They insist that pooor rural conservatives are deluded if they think guns help with self-defense, but that the powerful, wealthy Hollywood celebrities with the correct political views using their power and wealth to push for gun controls should absolutely get to keep their armed security using utterly nonsensical arguments that are treated as obviously right by the media. (This doubly wouldn't fly in the UK - it's not a legal reason to own or carry a gun and the kinds of guns they use are basically completely outlawed for private individuals.) They're proud of their ignorance of even the most basic aspects of what they want to regulate, and the media supports them in that worldview and spins caring about the actual facts as a sneaky pro-gun trick.
If this rings true for anyone (or if Will is lurking), pick up Drama of the Gifted Child.

https://www.amazon.com/Drama-Gifted-Child-Search-Third-ebook...
There is no sane way to build voting machines. Voting isn't a technology problem, it's a social/trust problem.
Also, «Symbian Archive»[0,1] project has a lot of mirrors of Symbian source & software.

Here is a list of active Symbian software developers* (+ links to its projects).[2]

P.S. I'm luckily archived/mirrored LCG's X-plore[3] & ProfiMail[4] apps source repos in time when it was released into Public Domain by LonelyCatGames* team (now official repos is disabled).

[0] https://mrrosset.github.io/Symbian-Archive/index.html

[1] https://github.com/mrRosset/Symbian-Archive

[2] https://github.com/mrRosset/Symbian-Archive/issues/10

[3] https://github.com/Symbian9/X-plore_free

[4] https://github.com/Symbian9/ProfiMail_free
No, but, your response is exactly what I think is wrong with the whole response.

> My city has passed laws in direct response to local school shootings.

School shootings, plural. In your city?

> The state of Idaho has enacted gun control laws that address specific shootings there.

Plural again.

> There are anti-gun demonstrations.

Plural. And apparently demonstrations are necessary to convince some people it’s a good idea.

> The surviving Sandy Hook parents have made groundbreaking progress toward holding gunmakers liable for deaths caused by their products.

You can’t hold gunmakers liable for deaths caused by their product, that’s literally what they’re made for.

I think it took only a single incident like this in any civilized country to have the entire national/federal government to go “you know what, lets ban/severely restrict this shit”. The US is the only country I know of that has literally hundreds of these incidents, and still hasn’t done anything significant.

Hell, maybe it won’t work, I’m open to that possibility, but doing anything is better than doing nothing. By doing nothing you implicitly indicate that this state of affairs is fine.

It’s just incredibly frustrating to see half of the responses to these kinds of threads always being “oh no, muh guns”, instead of “lets fix something”.
I wonder if there will be some novel corona virus discovered there.
Once you "fix" the start bar with a shell mod, bring back the right click menu, and so on. I genuinely, really, really, really like the rounded corners on windows. That made it feel really fresh to me. Window management got a slight upgrade (maximize button hover to position etc), which is quite nice. Some of the control panel options that you still need are slightly less buried in the "new" settings app. I use start menu classic and firefox, I dont even bother with the start menu or edge. Im looking forward to tabs arriving in file explorer, next. I feel the OS is less intrusive and less prone to unexpectedly update at the worst possible times too, where win 10 required just a little extra tweaking in that regard. For the most part it stays out of the way and lets me do my thing.
Worth noting that in car-dependent hellish suburban and rural America, video games may be the only way kids can socialize on an average weeknight, especially if they aren’t interested in sports.

It’s tricky to let your kids socialize but also keep them away from toxic platforms like TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, etc.
I don't agree with your first point (how would you even quantify that?)

But the second point is absolutely true. The cost of living crisis in Europe is far more acute due to the effect on natural gas prices and some other items (cooking oil, etc.). The increase in interest rates has also been much greater.

That leads to consumers cutting discretionary spending at a much faster rate, killing off loads of "nice-to-have" startups dependent on that like grocery delivery, cheap credit, etc.

And as the Americans say - "we ain't seen nothing yet"
Interesting, but unsurprising. Russian army is attacking a part of Europe as we speak.
Worth looking at the NRA's ties to Russian agent, Maria Butina, and this weird little trip to Russia in 2015: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/nra-2015-moscow-trip-wasnt-o...

The NRA are incredibly divisive, and it looks like help was offered to keep them doing that.

> The rationalization of an insane gun culture is incessant and foolish. Guns are a tool and the bullshit that somehow the civilian population would "defend" itself against military coups by the US military, or even more ridiculous, against invasion, is an excuse to allow the ongoing fetish of guns.

This - the politics of guns and political violence in the US - is arguably a bigger factor than the guns themselves. The gun does not carry out a mass shooting by itself. And very few mass shooters decide purely on their own to do it; there's a radicalization pipeline. That is why the US has a higher mass shooting rate than other countries with lots of guns.
1password browser adding needs you to add an extra url against the stored login. Not a problem imo, very rarely does a service change domain like this. This is the case for the safari addin, but Im sure Chrome and others will be the same

A more frequent problem is where a site will authenticate you against some other domain or URL, so its something Ive had to do before and I think someone using 1pass or similar should be able to do

Mobile app lets you search for an existing login when one isn't found for the new domain. After you give it permission to autofill, it will continue to do so
> No. That's not how this works.

Ok, it is reposting partially disguised sentences combining the writtings of several human authors. Better now?
Twitter thread by author: https://twitter.com/MokadyRon/status/1529524265183223811
I wonder if the creator of this site is hiring...
> Fellow bill burr fan?

Very much so, but don't recall a clip about swimming pools (or gun crime)

Link?
How the Ancient Egyptian economy laid the groundwork for building the pyramids
Author should include an iptables line to limit traffic from wireguard interface to only that port. Pre/Post commands in configuration will work for this
I guess it's expected with Kry as the COVID industry is winding down.

I'm only using them now because the US still requires departure tests. But all European travel is easy now.
Ask HN: Have any US school shooters ever had military training?
I was trained to use weapons in military service and do not have any romantic illusions about weapons.

Maybe people need regular training before selling them a weapon?

In that way there can be a compromise.

I looked it up some did have training.
Physically due to it's geography(the arbitrary division of Asia/Europe aside, Turkey has a very significant population(over 10 Million people) on its officially European lands), culturally due to it's history(The Ottoman Empire has had its significant chunk in Eastern Europe), Culturally(Turks have quite an European culture despite the Islamic influence. That's what happens when you live for generations in Europe. Do I have to mention that the roots of many European cultures are in Turkey. Have you heard of Hagia Sofia for example?). The Turkish economy and Turkish institutions are deeply integrated with the European ones, that's still true despite the damage the Erdogan caused.

It's True that Turks are not much like the Germans or the Dutch but they are like the Greeks, the Spanish and the Hungarians.

The camels and the belly dancers are Tourist attractions. Not to be confused with how Turks live.
and use an online service to create a virt phone number.
I like to believe that sometimes humans do reason about the utterances they emit, they do not just blindly repeat what they have heard without processing it.
Interesting ideas. I've been focusing aiding early reading (sight words, cvc's, emojis next to words for association, etc) but didn't go much beyond that yet. I was planning on collection aspects like animal crossing mentioned below, put (real) things in the museum and get them explained.

There's a balance between fun and education like you see in kids shows, for example the main characters might be working through how to free a frozen monkey with something hot, while they just flew from their hometown to antarctica in mere seconds. I have to figure out how to show "this is true" and "this is fun".
Finally they found oil there. Who would have thought.