skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I look forward to Google-Chrome-Web (GCW) fully separating into its AOL-ish self and leaving the Good Web alone for us geeks to revel in.
The issue with dating apps is that your discoverability is locked behind how much you pay.

I used to get lots of Tinder matches. Then I went about 2 months of nothing. I felt like it must be holding matches back. So I paid for a Tinder boost, where you become seen by more people for 30 minutes (or so they say). Within a few minutes I had like 2 new matches, within 30 minutes I had 6.

Now, if Tinder was doing what they claimed, why aren't they showing me to these people? Why don't they show me to people who have the same interests? Clearly there's more people that would match with me but they can only find them when you pay up money.

From a cynical business POV it's in a dating app's best interest to not let you find a relationship and keep you spending money/watching ads.

You could say they want you to have a relationship so you spread good words and bring in new users, but all my experiences go against that.
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Yeah, it's not a free speech issue.

It is, however, a consumer rights issue. It's obviously the case that some larger tech companies -- PayPal, Google, Amazon, Meta, etc -- can have a large impact on one's life if they decide to suspend or ban your account, but legal remedies are...limited. As happened here, often they don't even tell you why, and greatly limit or block your ability to appeal. This is a problem, not a free speech problem, but a consumer rights problem.
You've sort of missed my point. I'm not pushing a particular political agenda, here.

I'm talking about how many roadblocks there are between a vote and a policy change, of any stripe.

The fact is, if we all agreed on something, it still wouldn't matter. The process of voting would not see that idea through to any meaningful realization - which sort of defeats the purpose of voting, doesn't it?
Why not Lisp? I never understood why would people need any other programming/query/markup language syntaxes in the first place. The only part of Lisp that seems ugly are the ending stacks of closing parentheses at the ends of big code blocks.
That's a special one-off kind of thing.

But the railway museum runs a historic train hourly from Utrecht Centraal (I think the largest station in the country) to their museum. That's also a strange sight to see passing by at crossings.
Certainly, a good setting improves matters! But here for some reason it's very common to do anime cons at convention centers that are built in the cheapest way possible. Think a huge, empty square box, with a rough and dirty floor like a parking garage and a ceiling full of cabling and ventilation ducts. It just clashes horribly with anything not post-apocalyptic.

The lines of sight can be very long so something unfitting in the background is near guaranteed, and they like to mix and match lighting temperatures often with lights right next to each other.
Sorry, what does this article have to do with social justice issues?
Can I setup ublock origin on Safari mobile? (Is it event supported on Safari desktop?)

Thats my main use case for Firefox extensions
On Mastodon people who see your old profile would get a screen like "this profile has moved here".

Ok, it's still on them to follow you on your new profile, but it's not like you have no connection between the old and new profile.

And I'm among those who want to improve this feature, so actual data exchange (followers and posts) can happen before the two instances during the migration.
> One could argue that the whole purpose of society is to get rid of scarcity.

Scarcity of resources has nothing to do with scarcity of artistic works. Literature isn't fungible like a commodity, and can't be grown or mined as needed. It's also not a professional service or a form of labor. You can't put a gun to a farmer's head and make them write something brilliant, the way you can make them farm potatoes.

One could just as easily argue that society exists to organize labor in a way that increases specialization and efficiency. The reduction of scarcity is just a side effect. Specialization breeds scarcity in every new speciality until it becomes universally reproducible. Art is the forwardmost outcropping of specialization - it exists in advance of what it describes being known or understood - and by definition it is always the most scarce speciality. The artifice in making distribution of it remain difficult is therefore an extension of the natural place of scarce ideas in a world of abundant things.
Regarding your "niche", I have noticed that dating apps will not let you say that you are a programmer. I have scrolled through the "my interests" list of Tinder, Bumble, and OkCupid, and the only one that more or less fits is "startups", but that's it. I honestly feel midly offended.

Do you want to say that your interests are reading, traveling, living and laughing? Sure, go ahead. Do you want to write "tech"? Sorry, this app is for cool kids only.
Interesting. I don’t know where you’re from. But in India, usually publishers publish an Exclusive to South Asian market version of the book which costs around $4-$20.

For example, The Pragmatic Programmer costs $10 in Indian stores, while it costs $50 in US.
I feel like Charlie Gordon from Algernon with and without Copilot.

Literally 10x faster development.

Case in point: had an unexpected project and no time to complete it.
Within an hour Copilot helped me:

* Write a couple of tricky matplotlib plots

* Do some extensive analysis with Pandas

* Write a couple of SQL queries

* Write a Flask back-end and deploy it

* Write a bit of a front-end

* This all with extra comments , links to documentation and pretty reasonable style

I have experience with all of the above mentioned but the speed increase was considerable.

This would a a good day's work without Copilot and there would be less commenting and hackier code.

Before Copilot I would be cursing a lot more reading various docs...

The key thing that Copilot does it reduces latency for your thoughts-action-results loop.

Does the open source really suffer if less people read documentation directly? Would you really be less likely to create an open source library if you knew someone can now use your library at 10x speed?

The inference ability has crossed uncanny valley so many times.

I find myself wondering whether there is a speech recognition component at times.

When teaching a lecture I will start saying something and write a prompt at the same time and the sentence produced by Copilot will be spot on what I've just said.

Ideally there would an open source version of Copilot that respects everyone's wishes. I fear that is impossible.
Everything you're listing works mostly on tabular data, not on text or images which is where we have the most impressive ML applications right now.
i need some numbers... $100 book(fiction for ease of understanding), how much does each entity in the chain from author to consumer earns?

if that is the economics, where does digital books and audibooks fare? why do you need the intermediaries in that thing? same for amazon? its not like i HAVE to pay a printer to publish a digital ebook so if that is removed from the pie, shouldn't the author "get" that portion also?
And I also found if it isn’t explained well it is quite a bit of work to explain it well (primary research).
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try pandoc

hi recommended on a rolling based OS
There is a tax deferral advantage to shareholders (esp. ones in a high tax bracket) from stock buy backs vs dividends.

For investors with a low income (retirees for eg.) they can actually receive a good amount of dividends “tax free” (the company has already paid taxes on it so there is a dividend tax credit)
Doing editing only on selected "rows" or items in a structure, based on the values of other attributes in them. Similar to what you specify in the WHERE clause in SQL-statements.
> 6.7 million plates will probably weigh a lot. So off-world copies might need to use an alternative encoding scheme.

For the Moon and Mars, carve them into stone there. You'll have to defend against meteor strikes so they'll be carved and stored deep underground. No idea about seismic activity on those bodies.

For outer space, maybe it's pointless because finding, boarding, unloading an interstellar probe and sending the cargo back home is not easy unless you have very advanced interstellar ships. An orbit around the sun could be an easier place to spot. The Library of Ceres or the Library of the Troians?
> Worse yet, it's not a one time cost and these criminals, undeterred, will simply return to steal the new one as well.

(Some?) modern catalytic converters have much less rare earth minerals, making them less (not?) profitable to steal.

> this sentence is actually humorous if you dont know what cat is short for...

Your parent comment had me thinking you were making a weird cat analogy until the cutting part.
Lisp programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.
>I don’t think you realize how impractical that is

If only we had some sort of distributed ledger that can programmaticaly send payments to anyone from anyone on the network in almost any quantity large or small!
As far as I can tell, they are still using Oracle’s flavor of the Sun Internet Mail Server, which was such a piece of unfettered crap when I had to run it in 1999-2004 that we had to set up proxy MTAs in front.
It’s quite silly to complain about such minor “issue”, don’t you think? Compared to what being hosted language gives you.
Oh yeah I have nuked blogs many times for this!
Can only say I don't identify as one.
I survived the 2000 bust by going from a failing multimedia/direct marketing company (multiple rounds of layoffs) back to enterprise logistics. Not sexy, no stock options, but I didn't suffer any unemployment.

The 2008 crash wiped out the educational software company I worked at. I started freelancing then and found plenty of work, again not sexy work, no foosball or free lunches, but steady and sometimes interesting work.

Probably too late now with layoffs well underway, but I advise learning business domains (logistics, marketing, etc.) and getting expert with relational databases, which sit at the core of most business/enterprise systems. My Oracle and SQL Server background saved me from unemployment more than once. I have also found that my background in system administration, now mostly in the cloud, can keep me going.

These periodic busts always hit startups and unprofitable companies hardest. And they hit developers who have limited and/or narrow experience because those developers will have the most competition.
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Echo chambers - in my experience, starting from Fido - are usually created by moderators. Unmoderated, people like arguing no less than having others sharing their views around.
It's a balance. But the camera is still the tool you use to take/make the pictures.

A bigger or newer hammer won't automatically make me better at driving in nails. But it is still a tool that I use to perform my trade. If there is a hammer that makes it easier, more enjoyable or even one that inspires me more (bad example with hammers probably), then it can make sense to buy that one.

Objectively there are probably more cases of the equipment out-shining the user, than users held back by their equipment.

But if people want the latest and greatest - go ahead.
You can do the same just without UKI by using the same parts (kernel, initramfs + cmdline) as separate files. There's the kernel's EFI stub and other minimal bootloaders (like systemd-boot) if you need a more complete menu.
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For what it’s worth, it’s very easy to filter stack traces in most Clojure tooling. You don’t have to look at anything but your code, or just Clojure code etc. Obviously you’re still looking at Java exceptions for the most part, but I’ve never found being on top of the JVM as icky as some others obviously do.
We use colocation, because it's the best $/GB one can get. Maintenance overhead is small, a couple of hours per month.
Minio SaaS?
20C drop across the continent. How much food is grown in Canada compared with UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Benelux, Austria, Poland and Ukraine. What will a Canadian climate do for global food production?
I really wanted to get Lisp. I thought, I can't get onto the pedantic train of Haskell, but maybe I can do for Lisp. Had a play with Common Lisp and Scheme and... Nothing.

It's not that I found either to be bad. I quite like the syntax actually. There were some nice things too, I get how macros are neat.

But I didn't get that cathartic realignment of magnetic domains. I saw a neat programming language. In fact (gasp) I couldn't see many massive wins over my go-to Python.

- yes, lisps are compiled and to some extent statically typed, so that's one

- I get the REPL programming experience is better, though somehow it didn't hook me.

- Macros... Yes Python doesn't have them, but there's so much introspection that in practice, whenever I saw a macro example, it was clear how to achieve the same thing with Python.

I didn't get that deep into it, but every time I was presented with a Eureka moment, it was a bit underwhelming.

I can't quite reconcile the promise/hype with my experiebce. Maybe i didn't give it enough time, but then how much is enough?
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WAAS is North America only, because that's the specific name of the local system. The generic term is SBAS, which works in Europe, Japan, India, Russia, China and soon also Australia and parts of Africa. It's used by modern airplanes to do GPS (GNSS) approaches, so expect it to be rolled out everywhere over time.

Some systems/countries are listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNSS_augmentation
When searching for "console.log(isEven(50));" "// → true", which is one of the parts that the complaints is about, since this is also reproduced inside a Programming learning book: We get with cs.github.com

" Showing 1 - 20 of 66 files found (in 76 milliseconds)"

So, if this lawsuit succeeds in some way shape or form, does the author have a case against the 66 people that reproduced these lines in their own repository?
I do the same, i live in germany and wanted a book from UK, sadly it has 4-5 weeks delivery time but our vacation was a week away. So i downloaded the book, read it on our vacation and had the physical copy a few weeks later deliverd. Later i bought the book a second time when the german version released. With another book i bought for my wife and wanted to read at the same time, i downloaded it and we could both read it and talk about it simultaneously. Some other time i wanted to read a book at home with a physical copy and on my kindle during some time when i was outside in the garden. Cause in a hammock the kindle is easier to hold. Every time i had purchased the physical copy and the illegal download was just for convenience. No harm done.
You underestimate the cognitive burden of resolving syntactic ambiguity with non-lisp languages. So many problems disappear with s-expressions that when I return to a language with a "human" syntax I feel bad that I have to work harder.
Can I buy it off you? Mine died this spring and I'm yet to recover.
n-gate. I wonder how this continues (continued) when you had to keep up with HN wide and deep and write comedy/satire to boot. Keeping the jokes and jibes fresh. Probably takes XKCD levels of commitment. I appreciated it though!
> forces everyone to work through the weekend on a random feature

Is this for real? In Belgium, most developers would have a good laugh, go home and enjoy the weekend.
> The allegation is it generates code that constitutes a copyright violation.

The weights of the Copilot very likely contain verbatim parts of the copyrighted code, just like in a zip archive. It chooses semi-randomly which parts to show and sometimes breaks copyright by displaying large enough pieces.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33458603
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> From that same article it says that he was banned for "Promoting, encouraging, or facilitating the discrimination or denigration of a group of people based on their protected characteristics". That is harassment, not expressing an opinion. All you did was repeat the banned individual's own opinion about why they were banned. Of course, you are free to think Twitch is lying about its reasons for the ban, but you've offered no evidence of that.

And what was the nature of that "harassment"? The fact that he didn't agree with the orthodoxy around natal males in women's sports. You're acting out the the exact dynamic I'm talking about: dissenting opinions are labeled harassment or denigration and become bannable offenses. Then people get banned for the "harassment" that is holding a verboten opinion, with no actual harassment taking place. And this is by far from the only example [1].

You're asking me to prove a negative. Who was harassed? Twitch didn't say, and no one can seem to identify a harassment target. When did this harassment occur? Again, nothing is specified. If you can identify a harassment victim it'd be good of you to do so.

> According to that article, the individual also had a history of encouraging the murder of protestors by white militias on Twitch, so sounds like they had plenty of grounds on which to ban him already, and perhaps they finally just got around to it.

If this was the case, the ban would have been for incitement to violence, a separate ToU clause Twitch uses to ban people who call for violence. Not discrimination or denigration of a group on the basis of protected characteristics. Furthermore, these comments occurred two years before the ban - your comment makes it sound like this happened the week before he commented about Thomas. In case you're wondering, in reference to people defending themselves from arsonists (the exact words were, "dipshit protesters that think that they can torch buildings at 10 p.m.") not shooting actual protestors. It continues to amaze me how 10 seconds can be edited to portray someone in a completely opposite light of reality. If you're interested in this creator's leanings, just take a look at a recent video [2].

Espousing dissenting opinions absolutely does get people banned. The reasons cited are harassment, but no harassment victim is identified because holding the prohibited opinion is now considered harassment even if no individual is actually harassed.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meghan_Murphy#Twitter_ban_and_...

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXfiUqlK4gU
The technical accuracy of your job title probably won’t be the determining factor as to whether a girl likes your profile or not.
I also did a double take here, but I think the poster is referring to the link on the article’s page that could be seen as supportive of the activities of Colin Wright.
i think it's a brave assumption that gold will forever be as valuable as now.
Podman https://podman.io/ works fine, I use it to build container images on Kubernetes.
PayPal is such a weird company. I was a loyal customer for 20 years until I wanted to convert my account from business to personal (I closed the business) and the site refused to do so. after months of calls with support, it became clear that no one was able to do this (something locked the flow and no one was able to see what; I guess my account was so ancient, it has some db flags no longer used but still checked by their backend?), so I asked just to terminate my account. That also was not possible. It took 6 months to figure out why; my company still existed they said; it most certainly did not. It took 2 months to find out why they thought that; apparently, somewhere in the past 20 years, they searched for my company in the NL company register and attached the wrong company number to my account. So I told them the real number and they said; now all is fine, we can even convert it to personal. 1 hour later I received an email from PayPal that I am permanently banned as I am trading with a business account of which the company no longer exists… Well done!
The founder must be spectacular in sales/marketinf/execution given this is a so-so idea with gazillion competitors.
> The man lives in a world where he can freely attempt to destroy anyone who tells him "no" without consequence.

That's Tuesday for the NYT -- they live in a world where they can freely attempt to incite wars and overthrow governments.
Is the space savings of using a custom base83 encoding really worth it when modern browsers can natively support base64 image encodings?
A good friend of one of my ex was from india and their family had whole private train, I guess to compensate for bad roads back then. I guess its easier there with enough cash and connections. Great career, but he was/is quite out of touch with reality of how most people live their lives not only due to this.
> toto=10 + a-20

I didn't read the name of the author but this line was enough to tell me he is french (toto, tutu are the foo, bar of the French programming world)
Someone should also look into the "navigator" variable that websites can access. It provides a strangely open look into the user's machine.

For example, it allows websites to know about your OS, your CPU and your memory.

The "window" object also provides data that I would consider private. Like the screen size. Websites should only know the window size.

Demo: https://jsfiddle.net/uvtLc784/
why do you use this over say, Krita?
Everybody is telling the same thing, but with the all Secure Boot debacle, Halloween Documents, GPL violations with Copilot, and other things, it's very difficult to believe and feel this.

When these definitions merge, Microsoft looks like a cozy home with a fireplace inside, but built like a spiky poisonous ball outside, designed to crush anything and everything.

I don't want to act like a bone headed old men yelling to the cloud, but from outside, none of this is visible.

Oh, even Microsoft screwed its own supporters with hot-reload support incident in .NET Core.

Whenever I say myself, "OK, past is past. No need to be this rigid", Microsoft does another thing to make me return to my old stance. Maybe Microsoft needs to be able to see itself from outside?
The government also limits the shareholders and managers personal liability.

One has to ask what in it for the government?
> Secure boot with systemd-boot has been possible for years.

It was not, ironically because of Microsoft. Shim is by policy effectively only allowed to boot grub2. So systemd-boot can't be used OOTB on secure boot enabled systems, you'd have to enroll your own key.
It is OK (…ish) to share the posts. Submit to HN for example. You might just get 10 or 100 views but they are real people!
What do you do with your own recordings afterwards? How do they help you?
The title is not entirely correct. The employee got logged out and locked out of everything. It's a sign of well integrated IT that this happened at the same time.

Ignoring the motivation and all the context around the lay-offs, it's probably the best way if you're going to piss of hundreds of people with access to various bits of the system.
My co published an App in Germany as recently as 2 years ago and PayPal support was almost unavoidable. It turns out that penetration of credit and debit cards in Germany is significantly behind other parts of the EU and many of them habitually use PayPal for e-commerce payments.
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