skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think so!

But remember this: Many many many companies fail. That’s just the way it works.

“Data from the BLS shows that approximately 20% of new businesses fail during the first two years of being open, 45% during the first five years, and 65% during the first 10 years. Only 25% of new businesses make it to 15 years or more.”[٭]

So even if there’s a future for creator brands, many creator brands will probably fail.

[٭] https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/1010/top-6-reaso...
~/.dotfiles

Really? Just as so many utilities are finally moving away from `~/.foo` to `$XDG_CONFIG_DIR/foo` (default `~/.config/foo`) to reduce home directory pollution, does a new tool have to start using `~/.foo`?

Heck, even the `dot` output demo'd by TFA shows 8 legacy `~/.foo` files, but 10 `~/.config/foo(/bar)*` files. (But is missing `~/.dotfiles`?!)
I was unwittingly signed up for Amazon Music Unlimited
Got a doozy of a dark pattern from Amazon today. I'm not sure that my order is relevant, but I ordered a cheap clip contact microphone for a tuner. I placed the order and received the confirmation email as expected, but I also received a "Welcome to Amazon Music Unlimited" email as well. I assume I left some box checked or something that I failed to opt out of, but I never saw it. This was a 90 day trial after which it would charge me $9/month. I immediately went to cancel and then got several "are you sure" dialogs with up-sells and confusingly designed buttons to try and get me to keep the service (or even sign up for a higher charged one).

I have to say that although Amazon has fallen quite far in my estimation in the last few years, this is something else - it feels like they'll be hocking magazine subscriptions at me next.

Keep an eye on your subscriptions and credit cards - and I'll be canceling my Prime membership of over a decade. I was on the fence and have been meaning to, but this seals it.
Are you sure 'dangerous' is the right choice of word?

iPhones don't apply particularly heavy skin smoothing even in portrait mode, and don't do it at all if you shoot RAW. Android phones generally have an option to adjust the strength of the feature (or disable it altogether). So the answer to your 'where does it end?' question is straightforward: it ends wherever you the photographer want it to end. Portrait photographers have been using various techniques to soften the skin of their subjects since the dawn of photography.

Creating an accurate and 100% sharp record of all of someone's skin imperfections might be accurate in a forensic sense, but it isn't necessarily accurate to our everyday perceptions of other people's faces. Optical prints from negatives used to be naturally somewhat softer than modern digital images from high resolution sensors. Not every form of photography benefits from extreme sharpness and detail.
I haven't needed to keep track of dotfiles per se, but for servers I need to track changes to /etc and for that I use Etckeeper[1]

1 https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Etckeeper
How do people here handle secrets like e.g. passwords / env variables / ssh keys in their dotfiles?

I've written simple encrypt/decrypt with PGP, but since I've kinda lost trust into Keybase I have no simple way to bootstrap PGP.
And here "a bit dishonest" is just a matter of leverage. Slightly increase the risk, and on average you'll come out ahead and have extra money you can siphon off.

This is one reason why economic downturns always expose fraud.
In general, that's true. However there are exceptions. Things like upskirt shots, recording in courtrooms, recording full or partial nudity (ie filming sunbathers), etc.
The point is, banning things does not solve problems. It just complicates things, force people to act in certain ways to make sure they aren't racist, instead of being genuine. When I'm accepted into interviews for jobs that aren't going to hire me anyway... it just wastes my time and their time.

The problem isn't much about racism, it is about some people act like jerks. And people can be jerks with or without racism.
I have never played D&D but I have some very limited experience with matrix games for wargaming, which I understand to be similar. Can somebody explain the scope of the ruleset(?) that was being licensed under this OGL license? How much would you need to change a game based on OGL licensed rules to make it independent of WotC?

Specifically, what does this mean?

> Much of the original OGL is dedicated to the System Resource Document, and includes character species, classes, equipment, and, most importantly, general gameplay structures, including combat, spells, and creatures.

If your tabletop roleplaying game has an "orc" species and "rogue" class and "sword" equipment, is WotC going to sue you? Or is this pertaining to games that specifically reference D&D documents in their rules?
Here in Norway filming or photographing in public space is in most cases perfectly legal. It's publishing it that's restricted. You walking randomly in the background of a wide street shot you have to accept, but if you're the main focus of the video it can't be published without your approval.

Unless it has some kind of "allmenn interesse", aka "general interest", where it's better for society that it's published vs your right for privacy. For instance if you're a public figure doing something bad in public and getting video taped, you can't stop that from getting out by not "approving" it.
It's true that it's easy to forget one's early challenges, but we have empirical support that design decisions such as the staging area are objectively difficult for beginners to adopt. See https://investigating-archiving-git.gitlab.io/. Mercurial, of course, doesn't have a staging area.
Haven't downloaded the app but from the screenshots, that's a lot of features - very impressive for 9-10 months of learning!

Curious - did you have a background in tech?
If you read the wiki of the Carrington event, telegraph operators were getting electrocuted and the pylons were throwing sparks because of the EM induction. I could be wrong, but this doesn't sound like an event the grid or consumer electronics are designed to handle.

Some people today estimate that you really only need to take down around a dozen key power stations to essentially take down the whole grid in the lower 48. If the Carrington event was indeed worldwide, we wouldn't be able to get back to where we were for a while. We're talking little or no electricity, little or no radio, etc.

Again, the question really comes down to "What are the odds?" The CE seems to be very, very unlikely. If there were a handful of historical accounts of aurora in equatorial regions worldwide I think we'd be much more proactive about it.
Could be code for wide nuclear war EMPs?
Yes absolutely. A mass death event on a scale previously unseen.

You'll need a bigger gun to threaten the species though.

Civilization is fragile, life is resilient
I gave up on dependency injection frameworks a while ago. Now there's just some "wiring" code somewhere that wires up the components. It's small (one statement per component), trivial to write, easy to understand, and makes any kind of customisation easy (disabling whole subsystems under config, having alternative implementations for subsystems, etc), because it's just code.

It's also testable! The setup code is factored in such a way that it's harmless to run (eg sockets aren't opened during wiring), and it does all the config parsing and resolution and so on. So i have a suite of tests which run it, and then do some trivial checks like "all the necessary config is available", "handlers are defined for all the market data we subscribe to", etc. They've caught a bunch of schoolboy errors which would otherwise only have been found in staging.

I think anyone arguing for frameworks should spend some time making a serious attempt at frameworkless dependency injection. The frameworks are really doing so little for you, at occasionally horrendous cost.
>solve for scene continuity

Yeah, the abrupt change in the house when you open the window starting around 2:16 or so shows it's got a ways to go there. https://youtu.be/ZpCrBBj6AWE?t=137
Not sure.

Ive had:

* Acer Aspire 5500G (cheap as hell)

* Thinkpad T400

* Thinkpad x200

* Thinkpad x201 and its “s” varient.

* HP Elitebook 8440

* HP Zbook G3

not cheap laptops really (save the first) and a bit dated by todays standards, but my experience comes from this context.
In the early 2000's most startups wanted to be on the Peninsula. Young people wanted a life and lived in SF. The natural place for startups shifted to SF.

Now the Peninsula is too expensive for the young, and full of experienced people.

Could the next step be companies forming on the Peninsula by experienced execs with many remote workers?

Regardless - office rental prices have a way to fall in SF.
Imagine you want to stop someone from brute-force password attempts on your users. You could add some code to lock a user out after a specific number of attempts within a given time period for that username. But then say it's a real user and they forgot their password and they want to get back in without having to wait. You might then allow them to reset their password (which requires re-verifying access to their email addresses) and immediately reset the lock so they can get back in. But then since that functionality technically allows anyone to have your app send a password reset email to any of your users without authentication you might want to limit the rate at which those resets can be requested.

None of that is particularly hard, but it's a lot to build, test, and maintain. Start throwing in more account features you might take for granted elsewhere (MFA, recovery codes, re-enter current password to change your password, allow a user to sign out of all their sessions, etc etc) and you could find yourself spending all your time building your user system instead of your application features.

I would guess, for most applications, user systems are standard enough that rolling your own isn't going to be worth the possible additional customization.
It really depends on driver support. The Synaptic touch pads I've used have always worked great with gestures and such (under Wayland, which is still too buggy on my current hardware, sadly). Precision and responsiveness have always been great.

On a friends laptop, the touchpad was absolutely atrocious. Also a Synaptic touchpad, which worked just as well on Windows, but on Linux it seemingly had defaulted back to a virtual PS/2 touchpad without even two finger support, let alone normal multi touch.

This project is definitely helping applications and compatible hardware get better, but I think the biggest issue is still the lack of proper driver support from major manufacturers like Synaptic. Another issue is the fact that X11 and multi touch just don't mix, the protocol isn't good for it. I firmly believe the future is Wayland but I'm currently stuck with X and probably will be for a while because my problems are caused by Nvidia drivers combined with a laptop mux chip, two famously hard to solve problems as an end user.
Lambda in Microsoft Excel?
Has anyone experimented with this?
Is it in the official MS Excel release ?
The return on US treasuries is usually lower than inflation. You lose real money by keeping only US treasuries. It could maybe be done with TIPS, but that would be a little tricky to accomplish.

For example a couple years ago, 1 year treasuries had a ~0% rate.
You can't dig a ditch all day like you could at 18 either. The hangover isn't getting worse. Your body's ability to just keep going after anything compromising (like mild recreational poisoning) is getting worse so you sit around feeling sick rather than getting up and going about your day like would have.
Not an expert either so let's hope that something like this never happens.
Agile isn’t about speed, it’s about direction
The nice thing about money driving human behavior is we have a functioning society while still maintaining most personal freedoms.

Money sucks but it is an effective way to trick our self-interested brains into creating value for society. It leverages our own greed to make us hard-workers. It is a way better lever than fear or compassion.
The takeaway is not how speaking is like telepathy, but that telepathy wouldn't be that different than speaking. It would presumably have some different characteristics, like speed-of-light propagation, but it would still be just a sense organ.

"Dammit, Joe's thinking at me again. I'm going to ignore him while I watch TV."
It'll probably start with 2d -> 3d because a lot of work has already been put into tools to automatically take images and convert them to 3d. Ultimately direct to 3d will work better, but we will probably need more 3d data for it to reach it's potential, so 2d -> 3d might last for a while. In the interim, people will do all sorts of hacks on top of 2d -> 3d to reduce the amount of required human intervention.
This is what I do also.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fE0ybwkW9Pw is about as much work as it is, honestly
Yup my bad, I didn't think anyone would be interested in regex tweaking on mobile and got too lazy updating the frontend to be good for a mobile workflow. Will update to not just have this text soon!
"plagiarized argument"

I'm just curious what I plagiarized.
for those using gymnastic rings, overcoming gravity is a must read
> I’d like to encourage you to advance the project, but with perhaps less of an ideological “this will prove X” slant.

Well, my current conclusion with my post is that wording is very very hard :-). What I said is "I want to show small-ish negative impact of a big tech monopoly". It will not prove it's all bad, even though it'll only give examples of where this is bad

> I think it would be very interesting to explore the boundaries of monopoly, and to look at cases where monopolies are probably a good thing.

Let's just say that the current tendency is to think that monopolies are fine, and I'd like to help reverting that. Yes your examples are worst discussing, and I have some of my own.

For instance, I definitely acknowledge that Android's monopoly helped whole unrelated sectors. But I also believe that innovation would be much better served if Android was opensource-in-spirit and maintained by something like the Linux Foundation.

> It’s going to be pretty easy to dunk on obviously harmful monopolies.

If it was, they would already have been ruled illegal? In Europe, I can't really name any "obviously harmful monopolies"
Maybe you actually do? Lots of people hurt themselves taking livestock medicine.
What part do you mean?
Not yet - just on Reddit for now
Y’all worried about Google. But ads + search/recommendations is a lost battle, that’s just the status quo – the devil we already know.

I’m worried more about Apple. Why? Because Apple has been a counterweight to ad-tech. They’ve been able to champion privacy and UX for actual end users, they have literally been forced to care. But now they’re expanding into ad-tech as well, that’s terrifying; there is literally only Google left, and they’re full-on ad-tech already. So that means mobile (by far the biggest and most universal computing platform worldwide) will have NO customer champions. (Caveat Apple treats customers bad already yadda yadda, but this point still holds). This will be a truly “advertiser first” world.

I’m no antitrust expert, but I can understand a company maximizing its core business (or “do one thing really well”), and I can even respect pure ad-tech. What truly sucks though, is these “expand into every crack of the market” faceless mega-behemoths that these companies all become. (In McKinsey speak, I believe this horror is known as vertical integration.) This always sucks for the consumer.
Independently deployed components, connected up to discoverable queues and data providers, relying on a registry for discovery and load balancing… there’s a lot more in common than you’d think.
The bigger issue is that they're essentially entirely incorrect. "Recurse" is both in common use and well understood. I'd even argue that it's more correct than "recur", since it's unambiguously about recursion.
Real LPT in the comments
I had some kids walk up on me in a mall sticking a speaker into my face asking some question.

I was eating and had my mouth full. So I just stared the main content creator in the eyes and preserved the awkward silence.

Kids don’t know how to deal with that. He ended up apologising, saying he’ll delete the thing, and walked away before I had finished chewing. :-)
Did you see the video in the article? Pushing a microphone like that in someone's face strikes me as an unreasonable invasion of personal space. It's not "asking a question" like you or I would: "excuse me, [...]?", "sorry, could I ask you if [...]?", or something along those lines. It's an aggressive invasion of personal space.

Is it "harassment"? I don't know, I'd say probably not quite. It's certainly is rude and annoying beyond what I would consider reasonable.
Yes, they do this! I called support and they agreed that it was in opposition to their website description of Apple Arcade, but that there was nothing they could do.

It pops up on the top of the screen every time you open the game.

They were very cagy about it, but their excuse seemed to be that it was up to the game publisher whether to include it, and that I should complain to them (even though it was sent as an Apple Arcade notification).

https://imgur.com/a/KOYSyTm
Elixir is having a big push into machine learning (checkout Nx and Axon) and generally is also great for doing data streaming processing so you could imagine tools cropping up that might have it's primary interface be a CLI... this would be a great fit for those use cases.
Weird article. How does one pray to "being itself", how does "being itself" take the form of a human, as Christians hold?

I'm sure they have complicated answers for that, how what seems like a more powerful version of a human, Jesus Christ, seemingly a being among beings, is actually the same thing as "being itself". They have a whole field for it, Christology. But in that, and in clarifying how "being itself" can have a will, make other beings "in its image" and generally interfere in mundane worldy-animal affairs, they should at least feel a little embarrassed when they claim to be nothing more than rational persons believing in "being" and deriding new atheists for not getting that.

He seems to understand but ignores completely that atheists aren't primarily talking about weird sorts of panentheism and so on in their denial of God, and when they are, they offer sophisticated arguments, rather than the non-arguments he presents.
Not every form of photography benefits from extreme sharpness and detail.

Correct, so fix it in post. That can be as simple as a button that says "Apply beauty filter when faces are detected."
I wonder why there is no separate section (or at least a link) for the adapters supporting free drivers and free firmware, FSF-certified: https://ryf.fsf.org/categories/wireless-adapters.
If your ears are shaped well for the cheap ones, there's no real reason to spend the extra $200. But the fitted ones are comfortable to wear all day (literally).
Life is decent among the ‘cakers. I dream of moving somewhere a bit more dynamic, but JoCo is quite comfortable. Public resources are great, and kept in great condition.

The police are actually nice, which is a new experience for me. I like that I never see them in my hood. Still don’t trust em though.

There is a minority of “weirdos” among them (I am one). I like that I have openly trans and gay neighbors. Don’t like that there are also openly bigoted neighbors too. The cupcakers are nice though (of course they are).
The W-2 case with maybe a 1099 and standard deduction is pretty simple. And should probably be even simpler by autofilling a "Here's what we think you owe/are owed" return. But you get into complex returns pretty quickly for the reasons you describe. I don't even have that complex a return and what I got from my accountant was probably a 1/2 inch thick last year.
There’s no imperatives for selling plastic discs at $79. What that tells is just how much opportunities there are for busywork sharing in console games.
Would you mind to post that short introduction here instead luring the interested reader into making an account on a chat platform, please?
I do my own taxes on the UK, it is not complicated, but it would be everything a billion time easier if all brokerage accounts [1]and banks had a simple way to get all transactions in a tax year in a single csv file instead if having to do a billion clicks and having to parse dozens of pdf files!

Also can I have everything in a single unified gui?

[1] especially those barebone accounts used for employee stock grants.
If you like this, Evan Thompson's book "Why I am not a Buddhist" (a riff on Bertrand Russell's "Why I am not a Christian") is an interesting critique of Buddhist modernism.

His father started the Lindisfarne Association, which was a sort of highbrow hippie ecumenical colony, well known in the post-60s counterculture (somebody here will know a lot more about this than I do!), where the likes of Stewart Brand and the Dalai Lama would rub shoulders on panels. So he grew up around spiritual luminaries and consciousness-raisers. The American adaptation of Buddhism matured in circles like this, so he had a front-row seat, but from a child's perspective.

There's an interesting discussion at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heSq98tNTlM&t=9s between Thompson and Robert Wright, who wrote "Why Buddhism is True" and who, although he oddly insists he isn't, seems exactly the sort of well-intentioned Buddhist modernist the OP (and Thompson) are writing about.
I think it is a demotion only if you choose to make it such.

Is there a Head of React Native, and a Head of Frontend ?

Did you ever do anything that implements change on either React Natve, or on Frontend ?
> American slavery was around 15-20 generations ago

Maybe you missed where I said the last person born into slavery died in living memory.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_last_survivors_of_Am...

But the discussion of slavery kind of misses the larger point; that systemic discrimination was not in fact dismantled in America with the end of chattel slavery. Other systems replaced the intent, and those persisted long past the Civil War, well into recent history to today.

> It's not a strawman though. If you're basing preferential treatment on race, how exactly do you determine that?

No one is holding up color scales to people’s skin, and no one suggested doing so, certainly not me. That’s how your argument is a straw man.

It sounds like you are trying to make a different argument now, and if you want to make that one without building a straw man, please do so.
>Hence the UK Police breathalising every accident

DUI isn't a cheap ticket. I'm sure the financial incentive has nothing to do with it.

My state was gonna strengthen DUI laws because the safety hand wringers and the teetotalers wanted to. The cops put their foot down and said no because making it a "real crime" would result in people lawyering up, fighting and beating the frivolous charges at the expense of revenue. If that doesn't show you what the priorities are...
I remember a long time ago encountering an elevator (in the US) where the physical buttons were the push on/push off type so you could cancel using another press, and they also popped back out once the desired floor was reached. Anyone else remember that type of control? It's probably from the 40s/50s. I haven't seen one since.