skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I think of alcohol as liquid heroin, but I also don't care if people want to use heroin, so I guess aging heroin addicts are also enjoying their last few years on earth. Most people who drink don't care much for that comparison for some reason, however.
I did a paper in undergrad years ago about facebook moderation it was pretty much the same with underpaid foreign contractors with ptsd
Don't forget the "person comes along with situation for which the typical dogma and rules of thumb fall short and anyone with sufficient expertise in the subject to identify that winds up downvoted to oblivion by the hordes of dolts who don't" problem.
It most definitely is. But even without pesticides, insects cannot survive without plant diversity. At least most groups can't.
yes, perhaps with vorpx or reshade https://reshade.me/
https://www.vorpx.com/
https://www.reddit.com/r/vorpx/comments/vz15xt/vorpx_virtual... https://github.com/retroluxfilm/reshade-vrtoolkit/releases

i did winamp stereoscopic 3d visualisation long ago with the emagin z800 and the stereoscopic 3d nvidia drivers. It's very pretty!
A slight clarification on Poland timeline. It was a more nuanced thing and it was not a coordinated attack from two sides on the same time as frequently claimed.

Poland was invaded by Germany on Sep 1 and when they overran the designated by the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact borders Russians occupied the rest of the country beginning on Sep 17th.

No major fighting occured between the Russians and the Polish army during the russian occupation.

It doensn't change the end result, occupation by both countries, but they're some accounts that Stalin was hesitant to send his troops early.
What do you you think the default behavior of an assert is? If you are turning them off, then you get what you describe, which is not what I am advocating.
Firebase is annoying damn. Will figure it out.

(1) yes high commissions are designed to promote long term holdings (hence the name of the platform). I’m still trying to figure out simulated taxes.

(2) hmm, do you mind elaborating? For me, it’s not an exact replica of my personal portfolio, but moving forward it should be a relatively good proxy to it.

(3) I think the commissions itself will eliminate profits from minor arbitrage, but large deviations are possible to arbitrage successfully. Thanks for this, I’ve added a ticket to solve this issue. Will implement open market timings for trades.

(4) Search is far from optimal for now... super rough MVP. Will improve of course.
I'd like to weigh in here as well.

My father uses a Windows 10 laptop, and a Samsung Android phone.

The biggest pain point is that Windows sometimes decides to do an update, and upon restart, shows a splash screen with a wizard which wants you to make decisions and read/understand a few things. He has no idea what going on or if something will break, or if he actually did something wrong. I solve this via WhatsApp video calls "quickly", and then have to explain to him for 5-10 minutes how it's not his fault.

When it comes to the phone, all he essentially uses it for is YouTube and WhatsApp. When I visited a while back an OTA update had showed up and I promptly started to install it. While it downloaded i found ELEVEN registry cleaner derivatives installed on his phone. He couldn't have gotten this from anywhere other than YouTube.

Again I have to hear this; "I'm so sorry son, you know we have no idea what's going on, please forgive us for causing you so much trouble."

I know they feel guilty for not knowing how to handle this stuff themselves and wish they didn't have to "bother" me so much. In my eyes everyday tech took a gigantic leap from having a TV with a remote to requiring people to be super users in tremendously more complex software/hardware.

They don't even stand a chance...
SafetyNet doesn't protect me from having my personally identifiable browsing data sucked away and sold off, and that happens daily to all users of their devices. Google can't even sanitize their own ad platforms.

What are you attempting to protect me from then SafetyNet? Oooh, I get it, you're trying to protect apps created by companies that collect and store sensitive data to minimise the chances of said companies being sued for, and having to publicise, a data breach. Ok, why didn't you just say that? Yeah, you're right, it doesn't play anywhere near as well to the great unwashed.

SafetyNet sounds like shit to me:

> requires Google Play Services to be enabled on the device for the API to function smoothly.

> SafetyNet works in combination with the snet service on Android devices which collects data about the integrity of the device and constantly ping Google about the safety status of the device.

> Google offers many other options like application sandboxing, encryption, app-based permissions and so on to secularize apps but none of them are considered as an all-inclusive solution.

(GPS permissions required for wifi scanning? Fix your basic shit first!)

> By identifying devices which are currently in the non-tampered state the API provides an assurance that the device on which the app is running is neither rooted nor using a custom ROM.

(cough Magisk cough)

Above excerpted from an article admittedly with rose-coloured glasses view of the subject: https://www.hexnode.com/blogs/safetynet-android-security/
Any chance that it's at least partially non-english speakers using bad translator/thesaurus app output?
> This sounds like a very convoluted workaround for something which, for some people, is solved by having an office to go into.

Not having a defined office to go into is the apparent problem, not the solution.

> I wish people would respect each other’s opinions a bit more though.

Where does this come from? I've never seen anyone's opinion disrespected as it pertains to this conversation. In fact, the beauty of WFH is that it gives you the full freedom to form your own opinions. Want to work at home? Do it! Want to work in an office? Do it! Want to work from the middle of a field? Do it! Want to work at sea? Do it! Nobody cares. The world is your oyster.

> I guess the challenge is how companies reconcile the two into something that works.

Does matchmaking need to be a business concern? There were periods of history where transportation, housing, even shopping, was dictated by a company but we eventually move away from those in favour of personal choice. All arguably practical necessities in their time, but considered a hinderance of freedom once the landscape changed. Is matchmaking not just that again?

WFH means work from anywhere. It does not preclude working in an office. But if you are respecting of opinion, as was asserted as being important earlier, then offices will only come into being if people wish to be a part of them. That does not require a third-party middleman to be involved. Workers who want to work in offices can easily coordinate that kind of thing themselves, just as they've come to coordinate transportation, housing, and shopping.
Comedy moved to Youtube and TikTok and big-Hollywood can't compete with more tailored, specific, comedy.

What's the funniest thing I've watched recently? ProZD, CarbotAnimations, CalebCity, Door Monster.

They're quite specific to my tastes (Anime, Video Games, and Dungeons and Dragons), that most others wouldn't get. But there's simply no way that a big Hollywood / general production can make a joke as specific as Door Monster and/or CarbotAnimation skits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCEZ2hIcUW0

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Longer bits of comedy can be found in longer-form Youtube videos, such as Oversimplified.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRmOWcWdQAo

I don't think any of these online cartoons or Youtubers have much mainstream appeal. But they're funny enough for me.

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I also seem to remember some relatively mainstream comedies out there: Harley Quinn was pretty good (though that tickles my taste in DC Superheroes). Knives Out was absolutely hilarious. But I admit I don't watch too many movies in general.

The Big Short was funny (though inaccurate to the history of the time), if people want a more recent somewhat political flick.
16.7 TiB for the seven piece tablebase.
Warner Bros. reinvents DVD navigation menus with their Web3 “Movieverse”
Yes, it is. I used to be very into windows but after the same upgrade issue (they just swapped me up without asking for permission and ruined some projects I had), along with how annoying it was to deal with different vendors, driver issues, I just said it wasn't worth my time and I wasn't enjoying tinkering there.

Mac has been great. My 2015 MBP is still going strong, it was many updates behind and I resisted for a while but I eventually just upgraded to the latest (2-3 major versions) and it went perfectly smoothly.

Every company and ecosystem will have its quirks. But some are way more hostile than others, and I've never seen that level of hostility from apple (yet).

Ports can be annoying though but I'd rather take minor annoyances over big problems like this.

BTW -- one of the bigger problems with the forced Win10 upgrade was that it changed the UI / icons and for older folks caused a lot of grief, because they felt lost on top of everything else.
Happy Halloween.
Nice.
I have done some tests with SQLlite, and I find its index module very interesting, also because it offers stemming, which seems missed here: am I wrong?

SQLite has stemming only for english out-of-the-box, but I find it quite a need for a good ES drop in replacement.

My two cents
In about 13 hours at time of writing, so today in most US timezones.
When making games, I have them store their config in %APPDATA% on Windows, although I do see the downside if there's a bug and I want to direct a customer to send me a log file that was saved there or just generally delete or move files around in there. It's not as familiar and safe-feeling for a nontechnical user to navigate to %APPDATA% is it is to just look in their Documents.
I still listen to tracer music. I was blown away when I rsynced an entire mod collection from Aminet and it turned out to be a gigabyte and some change. As an Amiga user I always were mixed on .xm, it taxed my little computer too much to be used as a background music.
Why couldn't grandparents have been kept safe while the kids went to school?
I'm certainly sorry someone was made to feel that way, and I don't agree with the reasons she was sidelined, but in the absence of the specifics, the fact an employer who found someone to be performing differently than needed for a position, paid said employee to find a better fitting one is pretty good. The only improvement I can think of is to look for another position internally to try them in or retrain them? But if your entire business is narrow in acope, this may be impossible by inspection. Firing someone is denying them unemployment benefits in the US, and a bad culture fit is not sufficient for that. And being on unemployment isn't always the best look on a resume. They put this person on unemployment at full salary without it ever appearing on her resume, that seems like a really good deal.
<< The drop in friendships can’t be fucking tracked because everyone has their own idea of what it means.

Exactly. And all this is before we even get to differences in languages and cultures. In the old country, word friend has very different connotations when compared to US equivalent. There it is basically reserved for the highest level of US version of the word. In US the world covers a whole range of social affinities.

<< Interesting how varied (imho, high) our standards are for another human being.

This is why being a kid has its benefits. You have X? We are best friends now. As you get older, possession of item X is a very sucky proxy for a good relationship.
That sounds like it was a bug / mistake than a deliberate decision by the company unless I misunderstood something?
On a technical term, if I were to find a 404 for a domain, I know there is a webserver there. Is this really helping all that much?
I have not reinstalled MacOS since I bought my laptop, 5 years ago. And before that it was the same with another 5 year old laptop. These laptops feel pretty snappy still.

I bought a secondary laptop - a 12 inch Macbook Pro - and it took a few hours to set up. I didn't have to turn a bunch of things off. I didn't have to find the button that wouldn't send my entire life to a tech company. Just a few clicks and done. It's decently fast for such an old, underpowered machine, too.

For the most part, the OS gets out of the way.
Totally unrelated to TFA, but to the (great, in my opinion) author: here's[0] an older prepping guide for non-crazy people. I understand that the author has published a book recently about the topic.

[0] https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/index-old.shtml
> Russia's Dacha model

Well, the hard part to replicate is destroying economy to force people to use those collective gardens. Shops were next to empty. Commercial variety was non existent. The rigid command economy didn't allow enterprise to address needs. Thus you had 2 ways to have good food - relatives in countryside or your own collective garden lot.

It's both economy in culture. Here in Lithuania those gardens survived well into 90s. During the transition, many people went on to do substance farming in addition to day job. Or, if they were unemployed, in exchange of it. But now people work cushy jobs and less and less people do that. It's down to gardening enthusiasts in the young generation. And even then the pattern is completely different. More about trying out exotic stuff for shit and giggles. Rather than aiming for good amount of food and then conserving it for the winter. Energy costs probably make it cheaper to buy jam rather than cook it too...
If my kid gets addicted to the right video games, they WILL learn more than the same time classes.

Case in point? Paradox interactive grand strategy titles. You'll learn more history and geography in a CK2 campaign than a whole year of the average 8th grade history/geography course.

Of course, we always assume children get addicted to video games that don't teach anything.
Well, there is about three devils worth of pain in our Unix servers sometimes.

I remember being in a building that was 668 and we called it neighbor of the beast (US streets have odd on one side and even house numbers on the other).
The problem with being sidelined like this is that it can drag on and on until it's a resume liability. I'm at a company that's a bad fit right now - I hate it, my boss doesn't know what to do with me, but I was strung along for months without any discussion of my performance. I make a great salary but I feel like I need to stay long enough to make it not look suspicious, and every day I log on and do nothing for 8 hours I feel more burnt out and unprepared for a new role.
We closed them because everybody else was closing them. Anything else is just post-hoc bullshit.
And this isn't theoretical. I've seen ignored errors do damage in the past. Was infuriating to see that we had set a top-level exception handler in our server that just logged and kept going. We had a couple tables in our database trashed because of that and ended up having to restore from the nightly backup, losing everything that was changed that day.
Did anybody else notice that the windshield bugs made a comeback during the pandemic?
Sorry for your loss, such a horrible story. The small things really do make a difference and this isn't even small but a major nuisance.

But...

Are you really saying he didn't just buy a new laptop for his last holiday!? Just buy the new laptop, even if the plan was it'd immediately go to someone else in inheritance.
Leonhard Danner: 16th century Designer, Engineer, Inventor (2013)
While I have upgraded to Pro and turned off those settings myself, I have not experienced my whole system restarting to do an update. I have had to neuter the TPM modules in my BIOS to prevent Windows 11 from automatically installing though.

However the issue that I've had was my Terminal App shutting down by itself, I thought it was a crash but it turns out it was because the Windows Store decided to update it.

Now that is complete BS! How can a store arbitrarily decide to update an app while it is still running without asking, without waiting? Even Steam waits to download and update games for when you're not playing one. If it ever did the same thing as what the Windows Store does then there'd be a riot for sure. I guess that it means the Windows Store is just not being used by people at all.

For those interested the "fix" for not having Terminal app restart for an update is to download the MSI package, extract it to a directory, and run it from there. That's directly from the Developer's words on Github.
This article is pretty characteristic of the chemical industry influence trying to muddle the waters.

I've watched recently a conference[1] by several renowned scientists. They affirm that neonicotinoids / neonics are responsible of at least 80% of the decline.

They also affirm that the "merchants of doubt" are working their best to muddle the evidence with things like "there are multiple factors", "it's complicated", "we need more research" etc.

But just like the overwhelming majority of lung cancer comes from smoking, the overwhelming factor in insects decline (and its consequences like birds decline) is PESTICIDES and neonicotinoids in particular.

[1]: sorry, in French : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FQT7b2ExP4
Another one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLQKs1KBw9Y

Other articles:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/neonicoti...

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
> "energy crisis" and the upcoming winter,

Why do you put that in quotes?

> I've seen videos advertising magical electric heaters, which will "recycle" 85% of the energy used for heating and thus will save you lots of money. It's simple physics that warm air coming out at the front of such a device will be sucked in at its back again, but there's nothing to "recycle" here, to somehow save energy.

You sure they couldn't be talking about a heat pump which does have "above 100%" efficiency in a sense?
> this decline is probably due to the enormous disruption in children's education caused by Covid lockdowns.

FTFY
Similar things happened in the past as well. At conferences or trade shows you could find booths selling CDs/DVDs of online content like IETF RFC's, government publications, etc. I could see it as useful for people that had infrequent/spotty network connectivity, but mostly it was preying on people who were unaware of how to obtain these documents on their own.

Occasionally you could find print versions as well, which were sometimes a deal if you took the cost of toner/paper into consideration.
Coding on the Steam Deck
> It seems you have to build with a special flag that tells GCC to put a nop at the start of each function.

BTW - llvm+clang support a similar feature called "X-ray" [1]. It's intended to allow for patching (and unpatching!) these entry/exit points at runtime, with calls to specific tracing / black box facilities or whatever your favorite logging mechanism might be. And it's not limited to x86_64.

[1] https://llvm.org/docs/XRay.html
oh wow, I haven't seen this in many years. Thank you :)
> Might I suggest that competency is not just about technical skills, and that soft skills are also part of the expected “brilliant engineer” package?

Basically, no. Soft skills are sufficiently different, so that mismatch their should be considered differently. Just like hiring is a hard problem, retaining hard-skillers is something industry has no good solution at the moment.
Why wouldn't the author re-install Windows without the bloatware? Seems easier and more likely to succeed than trying to find every single piece of garbage Lenovo installed.

Crap like this is one of the main reasons my household went 100% Apple well over a decade ago. Apple isn't perfect, but after doing software all day at work, the last thing I want is to spend time debugging shitty software on a $500 Windows laptop.
Absolutely. I've owned many machines and driven two Mac OSX, basically every Windows since 3.1, Linux Mint, Ubuntu 14.4-20.4, and several generations of Android. OSX for me wins reliability and user experience, hands-down. XP service pack 2 is probably my favorite Windows experience, followed by 7. Linux is nice for control but not winning any awards for stability or smooth updates (headless/cli is fine, but GUI linux desktops are always a bit buggy).
People seem to actually understand its large scale and evergrowing backlog better, along with "everybody can upload" better. I suspect that is motivated reasoning shining through. They don't want to give it up for a "whitelisted youtube". At most they kvetch about search algorithms.
Mapping Black Holes in (and Out of) the Milky Way
Well, good for you. Not my experience. Last thing that bit me, in a long list of annoyances and bugs: https://www.reddit.com/r/macbook/comments/ehcjya/comment/fcm...

As for hardware failures, again, good for you. Here it's more like 3-4 days before getting it fixed or replaced.
Rather than watch TV which can get you a little wired, many people prefer to read. Reading on an iPad or phone is exhausting for your eyes because of the backlighting, and people believe that lots of light in your face before bed hurts your chances of sleeping.

Physical books are obviously an option, but e-ink screens like the Kindle are much gentler on your eyes. They are not backlit, but lit from the side, and the lighting is much less intense. The screen does not feel like looking at a phone display, on the contrary, e-ink works the same way as regular ink, and is similarly easy on your eyes to reading a paper copy of a book. Probably easier, considering the evenness of the lighting you get with a Kindle vs a lamp or book light.

E-readers make it easy to get books. Besides buying ebooks, many libraries have a "lending" program where you can check books out entirely online. There are also numerous free resources for ebooks (many of them legal). All of them have at least a rudimentary web browser for long-form articles, so I will often send things I don't have time to read during the day to my e-ink tablet for reading later that night.
No. It was a generalised statement attempting to predict how capitalism would react to this particular situation. I wondered what was behind that statement.
Do you mean for content in German? There might just not be enough of it to be anything but low-effort junk - I never got anything useful in German and gave up after about 20 minutes.

I'm based in Germany but view English content and I can at least echo your sentiments about the lack of good content. I've read multiple times about how amazing the TikTok algorithm is meant to be and how quickly it learns about what to show you, and yet that has not been my experience at all.

Twice now I've spent an hour attempting to train the algorithm but it's just endless streams of trash. The worst part for me was coming across an interesting video, for example some industrial machine process, only to be subjected to the exact same video hosted by another user. Most times they have just overlaid some music, but sometimes they crop the original or add some useless text overlays.

The part that also annoyed me was it felt like the algorithm gave up every 20-25 videos and tried to show me something sexual, even though I was not interested. I always found the subject transitions extremely jarring and annoying - I already have my porn channels sorted thank you very much, I'm looking for a different type of wood-working
nah, my friend lives in a regular 800+ square feet one bedroom, it's just in Manhattan you don't get a dishwasher or laundry. She has to lug her clothes to the laundromat.