skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The thoughtfulness and kindness what makes a gift, a gift.
That gift is priceless for me from now on. It can be a mug, it can be a pin, it can be a watch, or anything.

Have a 75-year old friend that thought exactly like this and because of it, her house ended up being cluttered with tons of cat trinkets that she didn't want because her coworkers happen to find out "she likes cats". So she had cat figurines, cat pot holders, cat pins, cat stuffed toys, cat Christmas ornaments, etc. Decades of accumulated stuff like that. The items were things she didn't enjoy and would never buy herself but she hung on to them because of the cultural meme of "it's the thought that counts!" being beat into her head. She's not an assertive person so it wasn't in her personality to tell people to "stop getting me cat things" -- so she just smiled and thanked them. And because she felt "obligated" to the thoughtfulness and memory of the giver, she felt compelled to keep everything and constantly relocate them to the next house when she had to move. She didn't know what to do with all of it and it didn't feel right to her to throw it all away.

I finally convinced her to just put all the accumulated gifts on Craigslist as a "free giveaway". This was the psychological breakthrough she needed because she knew whoever would come get them would actually want the items. She finally was able to de-clutter her house.

I was only able to give her that advice because 99% of the gifts I received just created clutter in my house and my brain.

>, and is a great disservice to the person who bought the gift.

As counterpoint, buying a gift can be a disservice to the recipient as you've now added a destructive mental loop in their brain that has to figure out how to reconcile the giver's generosity with an unwanted item.

The above situation makes me wonder if society needs a total re-think of gifting etiquette where only very close family relations exchange gifts such as husbands/wives and parents/children.

For lesser relations like coworkers, the counterintuitive thinking that can make life better: not buying a gift is "the gift of not forcing the recipients to expend mental energy about that unwanted item later in life".

My friend did enjoy giftcards from Starbucks. She likes coffee and it didn't clutter up the house. The problem with gift cards is that many think it's too vulgar (or "low effort") because it's a thin veneer over cash. Understandable. But that's also why she keeps getting "real gifts" she doesn't want.
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U.S. banks processed about $1.2B in ransomware payments in 2021
Alibaba Cloud goes even more serverless as it tries to become a utility
>His argument that we should have opt in moderation rather than censorship is largely based on consent, but it misses a third category of communications which is where two parties are engaged in a consensual communication about a third party who does not consent. Basically the CSAM scenario, but also non consensual adult porn, snuff, libel etc.

>There needs to be some way of dealing with this that respects the rights of the person who is being talked about, and that has to involve some censorship.

IANAL, but isn't exchanging CSAM, non-consensual adult porn and snuff videos, in fact criminal action in most jurisdictions?

If that's true, legal action can be taken against those involved.

As for libel (let's call it defamation to make it more inclusive), there are legal avenues (civil litigation and, in very rare cases, criminal charges) which can be pursued there too.

Are those avenues insufficient in your view? If so, what would you suggest, other than the current legal regime, in such situations?
Nothing ironic - it's all working as intended.

What got the initial critical mass of people hooked, is that they were already familiar with the idea of an online conversation space, and liked expressing themselves through that medium. So the idea of a unified global forum was alluring, and the ego-boost of personal bubbles, as well as the fact that the admins were staying out of sight, no doubt sealed the deal.

And then, well, you know what they say about boiling a frog. By the point the experience degraded beyond pointless, there was already enough of a data corpus to build the dopamine loops, and a critical mass of users - so that everybody would be "there" because everybody else would be "there".

Then, it started "replacing reality" by privatizing the means of social consensus. Any manipulative person will tell you (or won't) that normal human emotions are, in the end, quite predictable. If there's truth to "AI risk", who's to say it won't get to us through our emotions, like drugs do? Perfect crime against humanity, in plain sight. Not exaggerating in the slightest.

Thankfully there's enough "weirdos" to remember what the old Internet was all about, so an alternative is at least technically possible.
"Good" racism is breeding resentment and thus more bad racism.

Reminds me of a certain quote... "Every animal is equal, some are just more equal than others".
Trump already attempted to ban TikTok in 2020, but he backed down.

Besides the direct security concerns, giving the CCP such access to the hearts and minds of America's youth does seem like a risk to me.
They interviewed a bunch of entitled people here.
> I have only used UUID and postgis.

If you used "uuid-ossp" to get uuid_generate_v4(), then this is no longer necessary since Postgres 13 as there is now a built-in gen_random_uuid()

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-uuid.html
> The solution is to use tabs for indentation, and spaces for alignment.

It's the second step that drives me nuts. Why can't/doesn't alignment happen at first step? The inconsistencies of alignment using true tabs, in a monospace plain text environment, grosses me out and decrements my faith in the underlying systems. I appreciate editors w/ settings like `insert spaces when pressing tab` and `the number of spaces a tab is equal to`.
Reminds me of how some nurses in Finland were gifted with an ice cream voucher for their hard work during corona times. [1] The picture translates roughly as:

[The upper text]

"As a small thank you for your effort during the corona year, we'd like to offer you an ice cream during the hot weather in summer."

[The lower text on yellow background]

"The voucher is valid for the selected ice creams in this [kiosk]. You're welcome!"

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Suomi/comments/o9g934/%C3%A4itini_t...
> It's hardly more attractive for elites

i meant to say something different. namely there is a growing push in the us for a european style social safety net which is a concern for the us elites
My wife prefers top loading washing machines because you can stop the process to add or remove clothes and also pick something out to give it an extra scrub before continuing the washing.

So there's a non technical reason to use them.
It's not just less sleep.

In my personal case (I know, anecdote blah blah) I can be very productive, happy and more functional if I can consistently sleep for 6-6.5h per night as long as my wake up time is no earlier than 9:30-10:00. I don't even need caffeine at all, and I can still be perfectly fine with the occasional 5-5.5h sleep night.

OTOH, I might have slept 9h every night for days but if I have to be up earlier I will be miserable, my brain will be foggy, I'll have less energy and I tend to injure myself a lot more working out.
> I could be wrong but I'm skeptical about this claim because video compression can't be done so simply just by creating a new algorithm and writing it in software. Especially the newer codecs such as h265, h266, and AV1 must be in hardware or else it would be too computational heavy and your device will just choke up trying to spend so much cpu time compressing when you're trying to run other processes.

This is the key information, as they support M1/M2 which have en/decoders in silicon, they definitely use some off the shelf codec. So they don't use any new breakthrough tech, but marketing existing tech in a shady way.

Thank you for your insight!
“You have to delete this file & re-run that script. No problem.”
That's a problem actually, And doesn't matter where you run your program - locally or on remote host. Looks like there are issues with programming approach and stability.
Yeah like what they can manage millions of customers with 100 guys? Support is already shit but it will go to totally extinct.
> I personally started on the SE side with almost no software ability, but gradually clawed my way up to a decent level of technical competency, and it continues to be my competitive advantage.

This is exactly my experience. I'm SE since i finished my school. I always feel frustrated by the SE global vision. Some projects do allow me to go toward more technical stuff (sysadmin, network, dev, signal processing, CAD...) and it's quite enjoyable.

I've also started with no SW skill, but i've learn and it has been a great help in my daily job. My SE collegues only do the SE part and don't want to deal or see the more technical parts. In the end, i'm always offered to work on new projects because of this ability to switch from global vision to technical stuff, but in my org, this is not really encouraged nor rewarded.
Ah sorry that’s a misunderstanding then
Or gypsies or blacks (the few they met) or non Russian whites ... especially Ukrainians. And the straight up hate toward anything lgbt including whole imported cultural war rhetorics. There is quite overlap in ideology, except it whole deal is more aggressive in Russia. I mean, I am talking about people who self define as such.

Like very seriously, I am not saying Russia has Aryan supremacists. But it has strong enough and big enough groups that are so similar in everything except who gets to be on top, that "white supremacy" is perfectly good descriptor in English speaking forum. And neonazi fits perfectly their group behavior. Down to similar symbolism and preferred music.
Users want support first of all
Yes, if you are a good students and want to have the same measures of success as successful US students have, then you are going to be disappointed. But that's the US point of view. Germany has different measures of success. E.g. there are high school competitions throughout Germany (Jugend Forscht, etc). For university, smart students can still get into social clubs if they are good, like the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (0.5% of all German students), or if they graduated high school in the right area, the Maximilaneum. You then still study at the normal university but have access to a network of equally successful people as you.

I think this setup is way more egalitarian than what the US has going on with its historic graduates and donor families admission setup. It's not a wrong thing in itself to mix intelligent people with rich people, intelligent people need investors for their ideas and rich people need smart people to manage their money and companies. Such a mixing process is I think really good for creating a successful economy. But then call it how it is. It's also a bit of a lie for old money in the US to use their influence and prestige to get their kids into top institutions and then have them later label themselves selfmade millionaires.

I prefer the German system, and am not really happy about the federal excellence initiative that tries to "Americanize" the system by creating a divide among universities. The current system is way more in the spirit of "the children of California shall be our children" than what the american elite institutions do.
Or there is Locus Map (for Android only), another great app from Czechia. I wonder what is going on in that country :)

One ability of it that I find awesome is that there is a huge variety of online map sources, for example, in my home country there is an independent mapping project for hiking trails, and the maps are usually more detailed and better quality than OSM. I can easily switch to those maps when needed, and of course download them for offline use - but not the full dataset, instead you can draw a polygon of map boundaries that you want to have offline.
When I was a kid we had 2 clocks and they had to be changed manually. Now we have clocks everywhere and some change by themselves and some dont.

I think the whole world should be on one timezone all the time. The numbers are artificial anyway we may as well all use the same ones at the same time.

And why not change those numbers alltogether. I think we should use "degrees". 1 degree = 4 minutes.
Can you link me to some? I only seem to be able to find the newer versions.
Your analogy still doesn't work.

A firewall does nothing useful if there's nothing to firewall.
Please stop reiterating lies.

Kiwifarms is a gossip site, offensive and obscene at that, but there is no evidence of "harassment and murder" being orchestrated or organized by its members.

To the contrary, any threats posted there are removed faster than on commercial platforms such as Facebook, and the website, its owner and its users make a point of "do not contact the discussion targets" quite often.

Why a US site should obey NZ law is also beyond me.
Information-dense. Old-school Web 2.0. Human sensory bandwidth-respecting.
> This is a very limited, legalistic point of view, and only applies in the USA.

I'm not an US citizen, and it applies to where I live as well, so there's that.

Within your framework, I agree with your views and conclusion though. My post was intentionally targeted as legalistic point of view, but I agree that this can be generalized.
> Can we just stop with these bullshit word games? I'm so tired.
> Describing a form of legal discrimination (in this case, affirmative action) as "racial discrimination" is not an argument. Or even an invitation to discussion.

To me, your second sentence seems more like word games than calling it racial discrimination is.

Sure, I can somewhat rationalize it as not being intended to be racist. In the end AA still results in treating people different based on race. Which, to me, fits the textbook definition of racism.
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More like you get it back when the drug dealer who's thieving client trades it to him in lieu of cash gets busted and the cops comb his apartment looking for anything else they can charge him with and check the serial vs their list.
Former German resident: its not just the tax code that fucks innovation there, its the slow rate of bureaucracy and change.

Until relatively recently, to open a GmbH (limited company), you needed to have 25k in assets (cash or similar) in the company upfront. Which stifled a lot of small things.

There's now a mini-gmbh structure that you can set up and later upgrade to a full one, but its infuriatingly complex IMO.

The UK has much simpler company rules, but Brexit, and way back when in the pre web days the UK government basically destroyed the UK's high tech industries by forcing various mergers and buyouts to happen (ICI, various computing firms, etc), which has had long lasting impacts on the field there.

As for why people go into medicine: medicine has a lot of social capital associated with it, and you need extremely high grades to get into med school, so its prestigious.

Its also almost guaranteed employment with a relatively high level of income, so a lot of parents push smart kids into becoming a doctor.

Doctor, lawyer, accountant and engineer (bridges, not code) are jobs that are seen as "high value".
or SAP..
Is the 'here' you are referring to in the US or the EU?
Honestly no idea what France is doing. Are they internationally more renowned then Germany?
The author gets the whole system backwards. Medicine is the most expensive thing you can study at a German university (~30K € per student per year). That's why the number of slots is very limited. Now the demand is higher than this limited number of slots, so universities need some criterion to reject applicants. The criterion happens to be mainly the GPA.

But I agree that the situation is suboptimal. Ideally, there should be more available slots. If we had too many physicians, we could pay them less and the demand would drop.
Maybe it didn't go down because it maintains a hard limit on how many requests it considers acceptable? Any request beyond that number is not a bad request per se, but still unacceptable to the server.

That's the best logic I can discern here. I honestly have no idea.
That's similar to how I see it. My niece recently turned 16 and in a recent conversation I discovered she's into fantasy but hasn't heard of the Discworld novels. I looked up which book is commonly considered the best intro to the series (Small Gods) and bought her that. It might spark a real interest, or it might turn out that Discworld is too dated and unappealing to teenagers these days, but that bit of thought makes the odds better than random.
I use showdead and spam is there. I believe most spammers gave up on comments. Submissions may be another story, though.
Makes sense! One of the things stopping me from publishing is less about time or size of post, and more about focus and method. Nicheless definitely helps with focus/scope because of the limit on post length; perhaps you can incentivize if the platform provides helpful writing tips and suggestions? Just a thought, might be outside the scope of the platform.
>EU decides something, and local governments must implement the EU-wide changes into local laws.

The thing is, "EU decides" hides all the complexity of the reality. First of all, "Europe Union" can refer to many things. Here, most likely the sentence refers to the European Parliament. European Commission, European Council, euro area are three other distinct notions for example that can be easily confused with EU.

>the states are not as sovereign as it might seem.

They prioritize their sovereign decision power on staying unified above local punctual interests… or not, as the Brexit showed. States, so far, remain sovereign, even if they accept to bow before collegial decisions in which they themselves participate.

European Council is the institution that is generally presented as "the government".
Can you even speak about your work if you're inside Apple?
Building a bus clock using a RaspberryPi
That's like saying you can explain how some code works by saying you take a bunch of transistors and turn them off and on.
It would not replace the existing cameras. A thermal camera is a great tool for energy conservation: you can find misbehaving appliances consuming too much electricity idling, compare waste of different appliances, heat leaks at home, find hotspots in devices you maintain (say, a badly connected cable can offer extra resistance and become hot).

Though I don't think thermal cameras will be user affordable for a long while.
By that logic money is the best gift. We still have tons of unused gift cards that we forget about or are only applicable to things we're not that interested in.

Still, I prefer something more personal than money.
>Every yard told me that they aren't allowed to deal in used exhaust systems.

This is a long standing emissions law thing that predates theft issues.

They want people to drop big coin on something (be that an exhaust system or a vehicle financed at a borderline usury rate from the local BHPH lot) that will be in compliance for awhile rather than slap a used cat on that will barely pass the test and go out of compliance shortly thereafter.
Looks fun, but I'm too lazy to not open the js console and type:
clipClick(100)
Also because every book insists tucking your kids in at 8pm.
The dev tools are really good in Firefox and its browser forks.
Tangentially, in his linked page "hall of shame" https://jon-cld.s3.amazonaws.com/test/ahall_of_fshame_SSIMUL... , he argues humans prefer row A to row C. Personally in most cases I prefer row C. It may have less color accuracy, but is often a lot sharper, which in my eyes stands out a lot more.
I thought that was the joke to the article title. Disappointed.
> Good chance it won't actually be documented there though, or that the documentation will lie

The most natural fit for the Month type here is an enum, enum class or something that wraps one with additional functionality. And while sure you could have enum Month { }; and then use Month(0) for january or whatever, that's just deliberate obfuscation and not what anyone reasonable would do for normal code. And it's still not worse than an int.

> No, I've eliminated several possibilities with a plain int that you've conveniently left unquoted.

Do you? Someone could have added a #define int float after all. Your arguments that just because someone could obfuscate the type in some way that that inherently makes using a Month type bad is just that: absurd.

> Oh gee, is that an `int` month property that states it's range? Yes. Yes it is. And I don't have to drill further into the documentation to look at the type of the property, and can just look at the property? Bonus points!

Except if you are assingning one month property from another month property you have to check the documentation for both that they math (and not just almost match). Whereas with a strong type the compiler checks that for you.
Have to say this threat really took me by surprise.
I was seriously considering moving from web dev (ruby/python etc) to C++ or even C to increase my job security.
I guess the feeling many devs have of job insecurity and/or frustration with constant changes and becoming obsolete and/or burned out is inherent to the field.
Back to the drawing board...
Yes, I think everyone got nudged to death at least once in their life if they used MSN
I don't think they necessarily perform well, its just that time-series forecasting is notoriously hard and we haven't seemed to progress that far from ARIMA type models (to the best of my knowledge)
$20 doesn’t mean the same to people all over the world. I’d suggest using some measure of purchasing power to adjust prices in different countries.
For all the people I might consider giving a gift to the amount of cash I would have to give for it to be meaningful would be huge. And that size would make it embarrassing. Much better to make the act part of the gift. As someone said elsewhere on this topic low value curated gifts are often very highly appreciated.
Which model do you own and how does the loss manifest?

The single-tap and long-tap don't produce expected output? Can you share more info on it?

I own many Yubikeys (due to research I've been doing in 2017.) and I had many Yubikeys to play with, for TOTP/HOTP/U2F purposes, even using it to unlock Windows and I haven't had a case of a Yubikey basically deprogram itself. I washed them in the washing machine, ran them over with my car, thew them in mud piles and they always worked without a fault so your case is a surprising one.

Judging by what you wrote, unless there's some weird NFC communication going on between your phone and Yubikey (are they in proximity?), I'd say it's faulty and you need a new one.
> Religion brings benefits to it's members, such as living longer, happier lives.

[citation needed]
The whole premise if flawed. German students do not get into medical studies over other fields for prestige. In fact, there is a shortage of about 15000 doctors.