skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weird, because it's an option in Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Firefox on the desktop, as well as on mobile.

They (Safari on iOS) account for 48.6% of the mobile browser market (with Chrome taking 45.11%) according to statcounter. On the desktop, they drop to 15.5% with Chrome taking the lion's share at 61.79%.

It's such a relatively common feature of all but one browser. When you add a search engine, most of the time, it's enough to add in the "%s" string for your search keyword.. and figure out where it goes. For example, with Google it is www.google.com/search?q=%s.

> I for one much prefer the apple approach for mainstream users. It gives them a solid set of defaults.

Such a weird way to think. Is your view of society such that people are just dumb and need to be coddled?
Oh this brings back memories. I remember before NAT routers became a common thing for home broadband connections and when most households only had one PC - my local DSL provider was assigning IP addresses from one block of IPs in an area. So browsing through other people’s shared directories on windows NT or 98 machines was trivial. So many people had open shares. Including sending out NET SEND messages.
Ask HN: Transitioning to consulting
Dear HN,

As a long time lurker I've come to seek the collective wisdom of this august assembly.

I've been a FTE for the entirety of my so far 6 year career, but am looking to switch over to consulting. I'm targeting B2B, fully remote engagements.

My skillset is varied with strong C++ and Python, as applied to backend engineering, as well as having done research work in ML/AI and quant spaces. Based on informal chats with my network I'm able to get assignments quite easily, but not necessarily within my areas of specialization.

I'm trying to figure out how to strategize around this transition and am looking for some advice. Here are my main questions:

Are there any recommended resources (Books/blogs/courses/etc.) I should look into?
Do I focus on work closely related to my specialty or take a broad spectrum approach? I have no strong personal preference here.
Should I prefer depth (fewer, more hours) assignments or breadth (multiple, fewer hours, perhaps get a wider perspective)?
What are some ways I can look for clients I can provide the greatest value to, other than engaging my network, especially for the specialist work?
How do I price the work? Do I charge by time/sub-project tasks/whole projects? How would I determine the rates to charge?
If I have about two months until I can start working on this business, what are the most impactful preparations I can make?

I expect a lot of these questions are best answered by an "it depends", so my goal is to build the mental framework to attack them, and would appreciate any help.
Fellow African here, this reminds me of a book I read called Americanah.

Was a sweet story. Nigeria is cool.

Also a compiler enjoyer so this slaps. I love seeing people roll their own.
Are context clues no longer a thing? This is a story about American cities. Why would you assume he is also referring to all non-American cities?
I love Kodi, and still prefer it over JellyFin. But as others mention their grievances, mine are:

- on FireTV when I play video with 5.1 soundtrack, if the Fire goes to screensaver during pause, on a daily basis Kodi stops producing any sound upon resuming. Eventually it freezes. The only fix is force closing the player, which is not a trivial task on Android/Fire. Takes time to start it back up too. This does not happen to other players.

- for some reason after scanning every TV show episode appears in library twice. Not sure if it is fixable in any way but resetting player data all together, which means loosing settings, so I just endure that.
Is there some special kind of user on HN that has downvote buttons, or am I the special kind of user on HN that only has upvote buttons?
https://archive.ph/D2jVD
Phosphatidylserine
> but my point is that this doesn't seem to be an option at all in the US

There's quite a bit of this on the East Coast as it tends to be older. Pre-war towns in particular. Some rather affluent places too with trains to the local major city, etc. It's nice to have large single family homes and yards and be able to walk to the butcher, coffee shop, bookstore, or restaurants and the train. However, in Europe you generally won't find large, single family homes in this type of setting. Mainly multi-family and very small by American standards. Especially the UK.
This is what made me interested in using Linux for the first time!
I’ll explore this option. I also know that Vodafone is a big network carrier here, so I’ll check if they rent out their service to these ISP companies. If they do, then it’ll be easier for me to communicate with Vodafone.
The "unexamined expectation" cuts two ways though.

My eyes were opened once I found out that those "claw and stuffed toy" machines were not based on skill - the grabbing strength of the claw was only strong once in a while - controlled by software.
More or less. But until people are more aware of this, nothing will happen.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Archinstall

It's called archinstall and it's a helper script (it looks like)
It depends on what you use them for.

To replace ChatGPT, no they are not good enough.
The HOA (Homeowners' Association) might state, for example, no corner shops. So, you want a quart of milk or a loaf of bread ? Get in the car!
Full article (including images): https://www.npr.org/2022/12/28/1145923340/1-600-bats-fell-to...
What are your thoughts on countries sanctioning Russia
Thanks for both answers. Asia is on my radar.

Are there any beach towns there that are developed well enough, are walkable and safe for children to play on their own?
I just remembered that I had a license for ForkLift the other day, inspired by the post on Directory Opus [1]. Started using it, and found out how nicely polished and un-bloated it is, and how it doesn't get in one's way.

And I'm a Raycast convert since I got a M1 Mac, having come from Quicksilver. I'm still not sure whether I actually like it better than QS, but it's also very polished and has many small and nifty features, like the quick creation of reminders or the powerful clipboard manager. Plus the extremely useful window management functions. And the list goes on…

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34162515
A key part of the Something Awful forum's success was the $10 registration fee required to create an account.

Discussion can't scale beyond a certain number of active user accounts without a large drop in quality. It's kind of hard to tell what that limit is because every forum has a large number of mostly quiet lurkers who simply want to read and follow the discourse. SA's $10 fee created a barrier to entry, and the culture of bans being regularly handed out to bad posters encouraged people to lurk until they were ready to make good posts. Upvotes and downvotes as popularized by reddit and reddit-like forums served as a kind of substitute for that effect but they don't work well with as many users as those websites have.
TDP is not something you should look at.

It's just the top, not how low it can go on idle. My VM server has ~35W TDP but gets 20W with SSD/dual NIC and acting as WiFi accesspoint. CPU usage is less than half of that, at those levels motherboard is often the element with highest power consumption and it is hard to get data on which motherboard is most power efficient.

Probably easier with laptops as in theory you can just get run time on battery, battery size and calculate power usage off that.
Javascript was (in)famously hacked together in ten days.
I did pretty much the exact same thing in the same situation. Just never came up. I applied for a bunch of jobs, I got offers. Yay?

Didn't do any leetcode, but then I didn't go for super competitive FAANG jobs or anything. Just some that sounded fun in a technology I was interested in.

Don't overthink it.
Ok, good. So what's the purpose of converting former office buildings in residential one? Workers who left them surely do not came back in them to reside, they left and choose new homes more apt to the WFH purposes, something not easy to find in a dense city.

Where you have plenty of space to develop renewables in a dense city? Where the home garage to recharge your car? Where the place to get larger and larger package due to the flourish of on-line retail? Where the place for future flying cars/drone delivery etc?

If middle-class people start to de-urbanize cities would be let full of desperate with much job offers to find work.
The modern suburbs in the US are soulless and boring. I grew up in suburbs outside of US and they were anything but boring. The core of it is density and city planning.

1. The suburbs I grew up in had mixed zoning, you had apartments, multi family homes and single family homes in every 5x5 blocks.

2. There were smaller public spaces reasonably located to where you lived. Instead of massive parks for an entire corner of the suburbs, you had a lot of empty lots developed into smaller gardens bustling with neighborhood kids

3. Streets were narrower and the sidewalks were wider

4. Shops and mom and pop stores were part of the neighborhood. Those apartments that I talked about, had cafes and local stores where the store owners knew you and your parents. I remember walking alone to the store at the age of 7 and bringing back stuff my mom needed, without having a phone on me.

The more you make people spend time in their neighborhoods, the more you have a character. If you have to take your car out for every little thing, you spend more time in your car than walking around and knowing people in your neighborhood.
And yet there are effective governments in the world; even in the U.S. (NIST, USGS, FAA, many others). No country has a perfect government, but for any given government function, you can find a country or state that is doing it well. We can examine why it's working well there and try to improve our own government. But that takes a lot of work, and it's much easier to just say "Government bad; burn it all down". Of course when you do that, you're usually just transferring power from an entity that the public has some limited control over, to an entity that the public has no control over. This is, of course, what the very-most corrupt want to happen. Dissolving government and giving that power to profit-seeking corporations is the result of extreme corruption, not the solution to it. Can we instead just all agree to actually try to make things better, instead of constantly burning down anything that's not perfect and telling ourselves Ayn Randian bullshit to make us feel good about it?
We started co-sleeping with our son at first wake at around 8 months, and have been doing that continuously for the past 7 months or so (basically he sleeps with us in bed between 2 and 6ish AM). I've enjoyed the arrangement but my wife is tired of it, due to getting kicked and punched all night long. On top of that, she's 32 weeks pregnant and really needs the sleep.

Does your wife share your enthusiasm for co-sleeping?
It is impossible to quantify 'how much more money we made because nothing broke because we invested in making sure that didn't happen', and if it can't be quantified then for an MBA-type it doesn't exist. If it can be quantified, then it is now a goal to be reached and it better improve every quarter. This is good for certain kinds of businesses, like consumer goods, but terrible for others, like airlines and services.
I'm seeing them right now. It seems to be rate limited based on your karma and how downvote-happy you are.
Big O notation and analysis techniques can apply to both time and space and the same algorithm can have very different Big O approximations between time and space. For instance, a hash table (dictionary/map) algorithm may give you some nice O(log n) performance in time, but because you need to be able to retrieve the items you store is best case never going to be better than O(n) in space. It's possible to find such algorithms with worst cases nearly as bad as O(n^2) in space overhead (or Omega(n^2) if you prefer Omega-notation to mean "worst case approximation"). They may still be nice O(log n) in algorithm time, but the theoretical "speed" comes at the tradeoff of space utilization. Trade-offs in space of course have practical impacts on time in the real world (between locks, paging, bank switching, bank delays, bandwidth/light speed distance to specific banks, cache prefetch intelligence, and so many more variables, some ancient and some modern and/or language specific).

As with everything involving Big O notation: it's a first order approximation. (Literally so, as that's exactly what Big O means, summarize things to the first order in the presumed polynomial equation that describes it time or space [!] complexity.) The exact same analysis process is useful for more than just "number of algorithm steps" (time) and can be useful in examining algorithm space requirements ("number of memory units", say). Also, it's still an approximation to start an analysis and that's rarely where you should stop in your analysis in real life.
I'm a life-long New Yorker, born and raised. Even I gave up on the city and moved out, despite all the desire to live with low carbon-impact and live a moderate lifestyle w/o cars. At some point, the pain factor becomes too much. I'll give you some examples

- Approximately 5-6yrs ago the transit quality in the outer-boroughs (not Manhattan) became so bad that you could spend 2hrs hours switching multiple trains if you were going into Brooklyn. Trains would mysteriously not arrive, would run express, would claim they have arrived on official apps but the station was closed, etc. Then you think -- in 2hrs I could have commuted into the suburb and lived in a beautiful home for half the price and have a huge garden. And lots of people did exactly that.

- When metros didnt work, you'd Uber, but then punitive fees were added onto Uber rides to discourage that even. It was as if you'd be squeezed from every direction.

- For some minority groups (eg Asian women), crime became a huge problem. There wasnt much care from law enforcement (not to punish, but even just to be present at subway stations and cars). Many of my Asian friends moved out of the city for this reason. You'd see groups of 5-6 cops chatting together at the center of a station rather than be distributed across platforms across a station.

- Numerous metro steps had non-working elevators and non-working escalators, making travel with strollers dangerous or impossible. Good luck of you are on a wheelchair. Ridiculous ideas would be proposed where bicycles were somehow the magical solution to all...as if I could jump on a ride-share bicycle with two kids.

- Schooling was increasing byzantine. You could own a home but not be guaranteed a seat at your local public school. You had to use "connections" just to make it on the list, or your child would end up half way across the Borough at a different public school. You could have two kids zoned to the same public school, but end up in two different public schools, making school drops impossible. Test-driven systems were changed, making things even harder. "Leadership" based public school application systems were proposed, which is a euphemism for "rich people" get accepted.

Ultimately cities are competing against suburbs, and from what I saw in my particular case the city option failed. Even I couldnt stomach the pain anymore and I gave up.
Its interesting that redbox can be found outside in even the sketchiest neighborhoods.
incredible, what did you ask?
Twitter's status page shows “no incidents reported” for Dec. 28 global outage
You get down vote permission after some amount of points iirc
Once Rome conquered Egypt, they had a monopoly on Egyptian papyrus. That's why we know a lot more about periods of Roman rule than about areas outside of the empire or provinces when Rome did not control them.

Rome didn't have to eradicate local cultures. It just had to write things down more than the locals did.
I think on professional hardware you can get 80G of memory per GPU and they can likely do memory pooling.
I organized my sources into a simple RSS reader I visit daily: https://altneu.me/rtr/
You will be able to downvote after your karma goes above 500.
Read my original post.

> copying actual IP.

This is exactly the problem they're facing.

PS; labels & text are part of the UI.
This is an interesting approach since you're likely paying more to buy the paper copy than you would to buy the ebook. This seems like it would be a pretty uncommon practice. However, as a self-published writer, knowing there are people like you out there is encouragement for me to release paperback versions despite the additional initial expense of paperback covers.
I recommend a very healthy cash buffer so you don't need to take any gig, but can pick the best ones.
>where there are (approximately) two orthogonal sets of assumptions/preferences

>I don't mind seeing my neighbors but I don't want to hear them and I don't really want to interact with them.

Nobody wants to hear their neighbors. The biggest complaint you have about cities is shared by most of the people who like them. It's just that buildings are often not built to manage noise properly, for a variety of reasons (age / imperfect information / deregulation / …).

Of course, if it offers you no upside, don't live there. But I suspect that perspective is rare.
Then cities need to become places where people live again. That'll be easier to do with fewer silly restrictions on what qualifies as valid as a residential area, but also can't be used as an excuse for developers to create tiny box apartments.
i think “trusting dropbox more” is not what i would necessarily expect.

nonetheless i think the provider of my password manager should not themselves host my password vault.

If anyone from 1password is reading this: I trust you, but you make it hard to do so if you cannot be flexible about not hosting everything.

fd: I use 1password at home and for work.
Bash is shipped in Debian/Ubuntu, but as /bin/bash, not as /bin/sh.

What is shipped as /bin/sh is described here:

http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/dash/

From the EPEL RPM:

"DASH is a POSIX-compliant implementation of /bin/sh that aims to be as small as possible. It does this without sacrificing speed where possible. In fact, it is significantly faster than bash (the GNU Bourne-Again SHell) for most tasks."
I'm kind of confused why GROUP BY and "DISTINCT" aren't prioritized as features. I know the workaround (create a view) but I'm a little curious why it isn't seen as a "I expected this to already be there" shortcoming for these rather "basic" features.

I'm well aware the open source attitude means "go and fork it + PR it yourself if you want it so bad". Easier said than done as an outsider into a massive Haskell codebase.

Transactions (2015): https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest/issues/286

GROUP BY/DISTINCT (2017): https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest/issues/915
Not GP, but I'm 51, been working in tech since I was 21 and, though all my jobs have been within about 50 miles of each other, none has been in the same city as the previous either. The closest sequential pairing of jobs was 3.5 miles apart.
India aims to ‘democratise’ online shopping with ecommerce network
Spoofing email addresses and sending prank emails via open SMTP gateways was fun. Pretty much all smtp gateways were open back in those days.
Your github repo no longer exists but this looks interesting.
Thank you for the correction here
> the paperback will outlive you and probably your grandchildren

On Monday I had in my hands a book bought in 1843 by an ancestor of mine, 6 generations ago IIRC. A few page were damaged, but it could still be read. So a book lasts far more than 3 generations.

> We all know that purchase doesn't give you the right to replicate the text of the book -- probably not even as a backup copy.

A backup copy is legal in my country, and IIRC it's the same in most countries. More importantly, it's also legal to share the book with family and friends, to give it, and to sell it. That very different from a lease where the rights depend on the contract (and the aptitude of the leaser).

> the paperback will outlive you and probably your grandchildren, but it's not eternal, and so technically you don't own it.

There's a confusion between the text and the paperback. When I buy a physical book, I own the object. The seller can't take it back from me, and I'm allowed to share the object and do whatever I want with it, just like any physical object that I own.

But I can not own a text, unless I'm the sole author or it is in the public domain: the copyright holder can forbid me from sharing the text. This is the same for anything patented you buy: you own the object, but if you replicate it, you do not fully own these copies. This concept of copyright appeared during the 18th century in Europe.
Wow, SSSS is so amazing.

It does feel like there is a great opportunity to increase the dynamism of that webcomic, a space between a full fledged video and something where the text and images can do a bit of a actually dancing (some kind of animation or transition). And, this web comic requires a lot of scrolling and mousing, which I feel like could be improved. But, the overall work is so great I'm sure that occupied the author's attention more than little details like what else they could add. The story is so good and the rest is just minutiae.
Kawase Hasui's Imaginary World Tour
There have also been studies that show that babies will cry to manipulate their caregivers[1]. They are pretty smart and over time can learn to fake crying to get something that they want.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23732624/
I thought that of the kindle when it first came out.

I see the iphone as more of a cash register.
Apple and Google both have solid options here, and I'm a happy user of Google's. But I also wouldn't want either of them to push their solutions aggressively, for competition reasons.
But... What happens if you've had a beer and suddenly remember you need a pint of milk for the morning?

To pick an entirely not uncommon example from my own life...
No one outside top Apple & Google brass knows exactly how much Apple's protection racket with Google costs the latter, but estimates are $13B a year, which would be a healthy chunk of either's profits.
Yeah, trying to decide between bitwarden, vaultwarden and a sync'd KeePassXC implementation.

My LP password is thankfully on the stronger side of things so hoping I've got time to try them all
Oh thanks, I'll look into it!
They are considered that by whom? Not by me, they're not. Personally, I've never encountered a complex trigger hierarchy and I see no good reason why I ever would, and I write lots of triggers. But, that's just me. Your results may vary.
Psychiatry and psychology are two distinct fields.

Psychiatrists, for lack of useful lab tests, must prescribe by trial and error. They have the additional problem that they use the same name for a variety of different illnesses. It would be like your mechanic says "busted" for all different failures, and just tries replacing random parts until one helps.
Trusting a 3rd party password manager seems troublesome
How should he act if he has a change of heart and wants to do good, besides doing that good he wants to do?