skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With Windows, even if I don't know the exact steps to do something, I can figure it out because some smart people have done a lot of UI design work to make that so. Off the top of my head, I can't tell you the exact steps on how to change the mouse speed on either Linux or Windows - I don't do that often enough to memorize the process. But I know in Windows, it will involve navigating to the Settings app, so I go there. The mouse is a device, so I click on "Bluetooth and Devices" in the left taskbar. I then click on "Mouse, which takes me to the mouse speed. The process in Linux depends on your DE. If you use something like KDE, the process is similar to Windows; but if I'm using i3, I'll probably need to go into the x11 settings. But I can't google "how to change mouse speed in Linux", because again, Linux isn't an OS even though it gets treated as one.

So the end result is the same, I can change the mouse speed in both OSes. But Windows definitely required no prior research, whereas Linux may or may not have required research depending on how the user set up their machine. And if I was new to Windows, I could google "how to change mouse speed on Windows" and get a straightforward answer. You could argue that on linux, I should have googled "how to change mouse speed in Ubuntu/Pop OS/KDE Neon/etc". The problem with that is that sometimes I can use generic Linux instructions, and sometimes I use distro-specific instructions. People actually point non-Arch users to the ArchLinux wiki!

Incidentally, I looked at the general recommendations page on the ArchLinux wiki [1], and found it seems to recommend alsa as a default and pulseaudio if you want some more complex features. Maybe this is wrong, maybe there are differing opinions in the community. Again, there's no way in Windows that you would run into two competing ways for sound to be sent from programs to your headphones/speakers because of the unifying force of the company. (Personally, I've always wondered why audio isn't just part of X11 or Wayland, since X11 and Wayland seem to control everything else the user interacts with.)

I also know from personal experience that Vim vs NeoVim is a complicated discussion and full of a lot of drama over the maintainers of Vim being hard to work with - yet another problem that wouldn't happen at Microsoft because you have a management structure that can deal with these sorts of problems without defaulting to the lazy open-source solution of "just give the customer more options."

1: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/General_recommendations#Sou...
Is it ok to order pizza delivery during a typhoon?
Or not.

Russia will use a nuke, or several, and won't achieve much. Then the effect will be the opposite of what they expect. It will become a pariah state, think North Korea, but times ten. And there won't be gains on the battlefront to justify the international excommunication.

Other dictators contemplating the use of nukes will learn a lesson.

But, yes, most likely Russia will use a nuke, unfortunately.
Little Samson
If you try playing a game or movie fullscreen you'll understand
Can you explain? Honest question.
We nuke Moscow.
Weird that this is downvoted; it is quite factual.

I think you're right about it being centered on Zomia:

> The majority of identified targets were located in northern Myanmar.

but your specific example of the illicit trade is slightly off: aiui, the relevance of the golden triangle as an opioid producer has actually fallen off since the early 2000s as a result of DEA pressure and market shifts, but the slack was taken up by amphetamines (mostly ya ba).

https://www.unodc.org/roseap//en/2021/02/myanmar-opium-surve...

> A new report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) confirms that production and demand for opium has further declined as the region’s synthetic drug market continues to expand and diversify.

That change in drug profile appears to also be true in Yunnan: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.0025...

> The prevalence rate of heroin use decreased from 0.67% (0.63–0.73%) in 2011 to 0.57% (0.53–0.61%) in 2015, while the prevalence rate of methamphetamine use doubled from 0.20% (0.17–0.24%) in 2011 to 0.48% (0.46–0.50%) in 2015.

However, you are absolutely correct that even accounting for trends, Burma is the source of most of both opioids and amphetamines: https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/a-peopl...

> Myanmar is believed to be the single largest supplier of China’s drug market. In 2013, 92.2 percent of the heroin and 95.2 percent of methamphetamine seized in China were traced to Myanmar.

All that said, Chinese in northern Burma also tend to be associated with other rackets:

> Solely in Wanding (畹町), a river port bordering Myanmar in Ruili city,Yunnan province, over 960 suspects of telecom fraud and over 100 suspects of cross-border gambling

Cross-border gambling is huge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mong_La is basically a city-sized casino, built directly across the border from Yunnan (which is incredibly porous due to the terrain, so just clamping down on crossings doesn't work). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangkham is the same deal but in Wa territory, not Shan.

The CCP really really hates cross-border gambling for a variety of reasons, including capital outflows and its nexus with domestic corruption:

https://agbrief.com/news/china/09/04/2021/chinas-cross-borde...

https://www.asgam.com/index.php/2022/02/17/china-vows-to-acc...

There's also a lot of jade/amber/wildlife smuggling but the gambling thing really is astonishingly huge business in northern Burma. So, I see it as a "yes, and": there's a lot of reasons why the CCP would want to crack down on the behavior of Chinese in northern Burma, and the drug trade is a plausible one.
Similar to when a Tibetan student was elected to student council at U of T in Canada:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/china-tibet-student-e...
I tend to not salt things full stop.

Many years ago, I made pasta (I forget what with) for a girlfriend and I for dinner, and she was deeply unimpressed I hadn't salted it.

The next time I made it, I made sure to have a giant jar of salt on the worktop ... but didn't actually add any.

She considered the end result much improved.
This made me laugh and brought me to "Unknown Serial Bus"
Once the color system is established, I would expect device packaging and/or manuals to indicate the compatible colors.
I would say closing that gap is exactly what engineering is - optimizing your existing systems to maximally use the hardware. Its very quantitative and extremely detail oriented; you usually just improve Linux or add system calls for better performance, instead of baking up a whole new operating system.

Obviously part of this is just arguing over semantics though :)
> When we do it: Realpolitik

I haven’t encountered a monolithic opinion in the United States on rendition, mostly disgust and self loathing except amongst the most terminally committed to the “war on terror.” I’ve found many friends in considering it a criminal activity.
>That is either an unreasonable or a flawed analogy, depending on exactly what you meant.

What I meant was not necessarily related to the items I suggested, you can change them for whatever you like. I was addressing your argument about "selling below market price" and illustrating that the market can be manipulated and the natural "market price" be specifically manipulated by arbitrage of the entire available stock of something.

It seems you want to turn the discussion back to specific types of items instead of your original argument. Regarding that I will say that I do not think that manipulating the price of any item (luxury or critical) by acquiring the entire available stock and raising the price is good for the market or for society.

I will say that I do not think that arbitrage of a single item if there is an otherwise existing market and supply of the item is a problem (ie. you can sell your single ticket for whatever you can get), but to clean out the supply and artificially raise it is.
"Rock-solid

The source code of Telefunc has no known bug"

No known bugs does not "rock-solid" make. This claim alone makes this project very hard to take seriously.
I work at Google, and when we came back to the office, we started having all sorts of hallway conversations about well-being and pandemic stress. If we were talking during the work-from-home period, we would have raised an alarm. Each of us had assumed we were the only ones struggling.
Totally agree on that point - the relationship between apps and files is really odd in iOS for anybody who grew up on PCs/Macs. I’ve mostly given up trying to manage files and just trust (Hope? Wish?) iOS to do the right thing. And it usually does, but I’m not creating content or doing work, just consuming.
I really want a basically traditional keyboard, except with a thinner space key that permits two more modifier keys under each thumb. The anatomy of the hand is meant for the thumb to work in opposition with the other four fingers.

Sadly the ErgoDox doesn't fit my hands so it's uncomfortable to use the thumb clusters. The Kinesis does if I place it very low, but I'd like to retain the rest of my muscle memory for key location.
It's not. I was in the same situation long before I started meditation
I tried it, but was surprised by the way it imports pictures.

It does it in few steps, like reading metadata, creating thumbnails, transcoding for browsers, face detection, nudity detection (lol they really do have it) etc etc. The thing is _all_ the steps are performed for each picture/video in your library. Picture 5 won't be even visible in your library until pictures 1,2,3 and 4 don't have all the thumbnails, optimized versions, labels from TF model, detected nudity and many other things.

My 10yo two-core celeron nuc begged for help, I couldn't see it suffer.

I tried to contact devs on github, the response was "go import all your 40K pictures manually, subfolder by subfolder". I checked, it's now marked as "accepted answer", haha.
Eh? What?

Hiroshima? Or is that OK because it's the US doing it?
You might want to look into migrating: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-202...
This paper is from 22 years ago, it's not true anymore. The fact that the technology stacks that occur to you are "JS, Ruby, PHP, etc." is strong evidence of that.
This is kind of an anti chicken/egg situation! What happened first, the chicken got run over so no more eggs, or the egg got smashed so no more chicken?

To clarify the analogy: Nobody trusts Google not to cancel a new thing, so they don't invest any money or effort in the new thing, so it gets cancelled.
I've always been intrigued by JSON-RPC.

How would you compare its benefits to something like Swagger?

How do you like the extra verbosity of the message over the wire?

Do you have a favorite generated TS client library?
Fuck Tiktok.

Apart from being a disgustingly deadly teenage trap it is a privacy leech at the same time. It's time people realized how useless and distracting these social media apps are, and that they are not really necessary for any functioning of the society. Real knowledge could come from reading books and sites like Wikipedia. Tiktok is good for nothing other than trapping tennagers to make them get viral by doing some really nasty/dangerous stuff.
I couldn't disagree more. The limitations are of the author's rational reasoning, not of rational reasoning itself.

You can reason about what brings you pleasure, and make rational decisions to pursue it. The size of the entertainment industry shows the way society is structured can value art. Many big cities still have big green parks. Many strawmen arguments by the author.

The author just finally realized that emotions aren't rational relative to the circumstances. That doesn't mean they are beyond rational reasoning.

It also doesn't mean society doesn't value them. There's no such thing as society valuing something, there are individual humans making individual decisions. If some of those humans value something, their decisions will reflect that.

No such thing as intrinsic value. There's individual humans and their individual decisions in individual situations. Their decisions might not even be consistent, and different humans will make different decisions.
We need a way to search domains!
Proton and Linux work because everyone can contribute to them. Hell, Proton even ran on MacOS up through Mojave, but architectural changes prevented it from going any further.

But, like you've said, there's dozens of allegories for why gaming doesn't work on MacOS. I guess we'll just have to see how (if?) Apple addresses that.
The color of noon sun light on earth is literally the definition of white balance (6500K). So it doesn't appear yellow, unless you talk about sunset.
Good question. I think historical designs supported the fuel elements on material structures that ended up absorbing a large fraction of the fragments, leading to inefficiency & overheating the fuel. Here's an outside-of-the-box idea, using a dusty plasma cloud. [0] In this case, I'd be concerned about a criticality accident if the fuel dust containment failed & all the dust landed in a pile.

[0] www.rbsp.info/rbs/PDF/aiaa05.pdf
I think you don't need a battery swap system. What you need is an aerodynamic trailer for long distances that is an extra battery, or it's a generator for camping/extreme distance.

To swap you just pull up, unhook the old trailer, hook up a precharged one. And it could provide more storage.

This would work especially well for tractor trailers. The power trailer could actively stabilize the truck in crosswind situations, and provide a better aerodynamic profile in the rear.
Correction: Performing O(input) failed insertions into a TreeSet might be O(input log output) runtime, which is slower than what I stated above if input > output.
Lox or smoke salmon—-aren’t both

(A) delicious and (B) essentially deli meats that are super bad for you to consume on a regular basis
Why do you highly recommend it? Don't think I've ever thought while using a phone "damn I wish I had a Linux terminal handy"
I live in Japan, ticket scalping is almost non-existent here due to the local regulations and all major second-hand sales sites prohibiting resell for profit.

What we have now is lotteries, lotteries everywhere.

You need be sure to track the upcoming concerts, through all the bullshit ways the band may promote them — via twitter, facebook, their fanclub subscription (each email from it may get to spam) or whatever.

If you've missed the lottery submission period, you're screwed. If you've lost the lottery, you're screwed.

I do understand that scalpers don't create value, but I'd rather have the bands set market-based prices that avoided the necessity for lotteries.
We all said he wouldnt invade

Mm, who do you mean by we? I remember a very long drumbeat from US press of "intelligence shows massive Russian military buildup along border and says Russia likely to invade"
I dunno, among humans, it seems like the most intense historical rivalries are usually among tribes that are rather similar.
The thing that I find odd about Google is that it feels like they drink their own coolaid. Reports I've seen suggest that nearly no one knew this was coming. Teams who have been working on ports for months were blind-sided. Employees generally did not know.

It just seems like a very poor way to run a business. It feels sloppy and needlessly messy. Especially when providing soft landings is so possible for a company with the absurd revenue that Google gets. It feels like a double warning: Google will withdraw suddenly, whenever they like, and they won't use one iota of their largess to help you deal with the consequences of their actions.
And here I am, enjoying JSON-RPC services since 2005, having none of the SOAP or ReST problems.
China aims at becoming/remaining the world #1 economic superpower; Europe's GDP being 10 times the Russian one suggested them to be more pragmatic.
Thinking, seriously thinking about things, instead of relying on your preconceptions is hard, and consumes a lot of energy. We're biased towards not actually thinking. Passive watching of TV or YouTube after a day of thinking and problem solving is reasonable, as is the occasional dessert, but as we all know by now... it's not health to do exclusively.

Try to pay attention to circumstances around the feeling of "oh, that's too complicated."
That's nicer than my version! I'm curious why you prefer search(), though.
For me uBO breaks 3D-secure, so it does in fact break every e-commerce checkout that uses it. I just disable the entire extension before I buy something, but it’s rather awkward.
>Again, you're trying to present him as this rational actor that shares western values.

I'm literally doing the opposite (re: western values). What I'm saying is not to assume he's an inhuman creature whose behavior is wholly unintelligible to us.
Can't you just get back to them when you get back to them? Why should anyone know what you are doing down to the minute?
But computer programming is an enormous field and there are types of programming that look very much like engineering- ie using the laws of science for practical applications. I agree a startup putting up a website isn’t engineering, but if building rockets is engineering (which it surely is) then building the software to safely operate those things is engineering too.
I Built a Mix Between YouTube and Visual Studio Code. Here’s How
Second this. It’s pretty terrible when you use it at scale particularly.
Eg: If you have a monitor with some scopes that you use for exceptions, it gets gnarly in the UI when you have like 50 of them.
And the inconsistent UI. Notebooks are cool but so half-assed in their features that it kind becomes useless for anything other than basic charts.
Oh and feature discovery is a pain too. It took me so long to figure out a way to add a second Y-axis to my charts.
There's actually a button on the “show me the options” page that lets you declare you're actually a person, without entering CC info.
What should I call my JavaScript CORBA library to get the most stars on GitHub? Corba.js? Corby? What's the current trend?
Why Russia Lacks ‘Smart’ Weapons
To your first point, yes this is a downside of Windows. And if I was in IT I'm sure there are many things about Windows that make it a pain for deeply debugging these problems. But the dark days of Vista are long over - my PC rarely crashes, and when it does it's pretty obvious what program crashed it. If not, Task Manager is hard coded into the OS to try its best to open. Linux has the shell, but the WM can freeze to the point where I cannot get to a shell to start troubleshooting. If I can, hopefully I have my phone on me to google the commands I need, because (perhaps luckily) my computer doesn't crash often enough for me to need to know the commands.

"DIY capable" to me is code for "we didn't finish designing the system, so you have a bunch of choices to make that you wouldn't need to make on another OS." Yes Linux is great for those that love to tinker. But I don't, I just want a PC that works the way I expect it to.
I work at Google. Nice to meet you. My day job involves making security tools and systems freely available to the entire world in a way that makes Google exactly zero dollars and basically just exists to make the landscape of software a bit safer for everybody.

I can understand why some people wouldn't want to work at Google. I cannot understand how somebody couldn't understand how anybody would want to work at Google.
I swear the excluded terms are interpreted as “not this word, but still related to it”
I got tons of downvote by saying "I would put one service on GCP just out of principle". Wow, I guess I wasn't so crazy.
The Toronto one… seems like the CCP operatives absconded with the funding!

> All were in areas with large Chinese populations, but no one The Globe spoke to was aware of a police service station or had heard of the Fuzhou Public Security Bureau. One address in Markham was a private home, while the other was a mall full of small Chinese businesses and restaurants. The third property, in a business park near a highway, is owned by the Canada Toronto FuQing Business Association, a federally incorporated non-profit.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-china-police-s...
Rails is a very relevant modern web technology. It's just ruby + JS at its core along with whatever tools get added to make the infra scale up (docker, aws, redis, kafka etc)

There is no widespread modern web without JS at the moment
There is not enough hours in the day to do UX research well and keep up with design/prototyping tools and UI kits and be able to test them with users. If you are trying to do all these things you are severely understaffed and doing the work of a whole design team.

Stop perpetuating the myth of the solo unicorn designer who can do all the end-to-end design work alone and well. I’ve never seen this generalist approach work well in industry because you will never go deep enough to do good work in any of these vastly different areas of UX design and research, let alone front end and mobile design standards (UI design).

Focus on one area of design that you are passionate about and make your career out of applying that skill set instead of being the generalist who can’t do any one thing well.

Can anyone relate?
The only way I can read that that makes sense is to say that "American Christian" is used to distinguish from actual Christianity. Because indeed, the Bible is extremely explicit, repeatedly and at considerable length, that appearances are either irrelevant or inversely correlated with things that actually matter.
Free radicals are extremely reactive and can form bonds in undesirable ways in cellular chemistry, which is generally bad for the organism, potentially causing all sorts of cell damage.

Cells produce anti-oxidant defenses to regulate free radicals such as the delightfully named "Superoxide Dismutase" enzyme:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superoxide_dismutase
But that would only make sense if the bacteria were stacked on top of each other.

Otherwise there is plenty of space under the sun, even in water.
Imagine if you had a Netflix subscription, and still had to pay for every movie you watched. This is what Stadia felt like to me.
https://jmvalin.ca/demo/rnnoise/ says:

> So what should you listen for anyway? As strange as it may sound, you should not be expecting an increase in intelligibility. Humans are so good at understanding speech in noise that an enhancement algorithm — especially one that isn't allowed to look ahead of the speech it's denoising — can only destroy information. So why are we doing this in the first place? For quality. The enhanced speech is much less annoying to listen to and likely causes less listener fatigue.

> Actually, there are still a few cases where it can actually help intelligibility. The first is videoconferencing, when multiple speakers are being mixed together. For that application, noise suppression prevents the noise from all the inactive speakers from being mixed in with the active speaker, improving both quality and intelligibility. A second case is when the speech goes through a low bitrate codec. Those tend to degrade noisy speech more than clean speech, so removing the noise allows the codec to do a better job.

I do think that for direct listening, the jitsi.org speech samples would be slightly more intelligible if the noise removal was tuned to pass through frequencies with mixed noise and signal. I don't know if that would be worse in a video conference. Does the speaker or listener get to choose between conservative and aggressive noise removal?
Most of the increase in lifespan is due to the reduction in childhood mortality though.
>A developer from 02000 transported forward to now would be totally lost in those 15 out of 19.

Don't you mean "015 out of 019"?