skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like there should be four levels:

Recommended extensions, those that are currently available are vetted by Mozilla staff, not only for safety, but for utility and alignment with Mozilla's goals. These require no warnings or disclaimers.

Community approved extensions would be on AMO and approved by staff-selected community members for safety and policy compliance. No warnings, but a link/checkbox/toggle at the bottom of the extensions page.

All of AMO - this should need a toggle to turn on, and a warning that extensions have not been tested and could be unstable or malicious with a second checkbox to acknowledge.

Local install - this should be buried in the settings and called something like "I am an extension developer". Turning it on should pop up an additional warning about other peoples' code being dangerous. Actually installing an extension should require separate use of a file manager or command line, and then enabling it inside the Firefox UI.

The current approach reminds me of Apple's app store, except it's much harder to get on the recommended list than to get an iOS app approved.

All of which is why I use Kiwi Browser.
Two things:

A. In the US - driving sucks.

Populated areas: It's gotten much more crowded on every road in the past 20 years. At least where I live rush hour is a joke - there's a crash every day on the interstate, meaning traffic doesn't get above 30mph the whole time I'm on the interstate. Local roads are also full of cars during these times and during most times. It's not fun, and it's not freedom, it's an annoying necessity to live.

Non-populated areas: Far less crowded, but to get anywhere, you're looking at long drives on twisty, winding roads. It might be fun at first, but then gets old. It's not freedom, it's an annoying necessity to live.

B. I think cars used to be a rite of passage for young people, and often the first way they would get "out of the house" and have a way to get privacy for their earliest girlfriends/boyfriends. This is something that started to die in the late 80's. Today's young people are much poorer, much more worried, pissed, and disappointed in everything, much more isolated, and under much more restrictive settings in things they do such as school and such.
Cars and healthcare are debatable, but with housing you're literally buying the same houses as the previous generation, just way more expensive.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4518-Rosedale-Ave-Austin-...

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1339-46th-Ave-San-Francis...

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/677-Harmony-Ln-Ashland-OR...
I lived in Copenhagen, 2/3 of the population walked or commuted via public transit to work. This obviously isn’t the same as owning a car but I don’t have stats for that off the top of my head.

I walked everywhere, but I saw people riding their bikes in the rain, in the snow, and all kinds of weather in between.

Now, I am not expressing that everyone shouldn’t own a car nor that people outside cities shouldn’t.

I am expressing that __young__ people seem to not want to own a car, with young people being predominantly in cities. Wanting to own, and having to own are two different things as well.

My claim appears to be incongruous to what other commenters seem to have assumed I meant.
I usually create a folder containing src/index.js and public/index.html, then install react-scripts and add 'start' and 'build' scripts in my package.json.

mkdir -p myproject/{public,src} && cd myproject
touch src/index.js public/index.html
npm init -y && npm i -D react-scripts
# add to package.json scripts:
# "start": "react-scripts start",
# "build": "react-scripts build",
npm start

Now you've got a hot-reloading development server that can handle (and transpile) ES6 / TypeScript, import JS/CSS with 'import', etc. If you want more control over webpack you can 'eject' to be able to edit the webpack configs. Note that you don't need to use React to use react-scripts. I just want to get up to speed fast, without doing a 4hr webpack deep dive.

Hot reloading definitely saves me some extra RSI.
TodoTree: The nested todo and note taking app for Android (v1.4)
In this app you can keep a nested tree of tasks and notes for exploring complex ideas. The app uses an interesting user interface approach for exploring the tree of nodes. I created this app because I could not find any other app that uses this kind of UI. The app is fully open source (GPLv3) and available on fdroid and the play store. Let me know if you like it.
Oh I'm very much NOT joking! I was stopped at a red light on my bike when I was rear ended by an 83yo. He couldn't judge how far his car was from my bike. He was super angry that I insisted he had to stick around to exchange information because he was going to be late for a doctor's appointment in Brookline. Thankfully it was low speed (he was stopping, he just didn't know where to stop) so all he did was knock me forwards.
The haunting brain science of long Covid
They could leave the existing developments as they are, but use mid-density buildings in new developments.

A big problem is also unfamiliarity. People aren't used to it anymore.
That's kind of my point. We didn't need some new, speculative, architectural innovation. We would have been better served investing those Itanium dollars in pushing the mature technology which ran the software we wanted to run better. "Genuine innovation" is often an academic exercise, rather than market changing, though we often don't figure that out until later.

Not sure I'd say the 21364 was PPro since as pointed out it came before 21264. There's clearly some crossbreeding tho. The Alpha bus interface did live on in Athlon, tho.
I’m around the same age group as the above commenter described, and I can confidently say “not being supportive of dating someone significantly younger than yourself” at our age is looked frown upon. We usually joke about “lol i can’t imagine having anything common with 21 year old self, and as a self respecting person, i wouldn’t date one either”.

I think it’s a cultural thing, and personally I wouldn’t judge two of-age people making their own decisions. Really depends on your group dynamics and groupthink.

Also, not every co-ed friendship is rooted in jealousy or sexual desires.
I’ve been doing web development for more nearly 25 years. It isn’t unmaintainable. How do you think we built large websites in the days before compiling/transpiling was a thing?
Yes. I live in the US, where real incomes have generally risen:

Median: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N

Lowest quintile: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CXU900000LB0102M (before taxes) https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CXUINCAFTTXLB0102M (after taxes [which is what is spendable])
>>Anyone visiting a Dutch city can see what a distortion this comment is.

Your parent comment is saying the same thing. Stay inside the city, close enough to your office that you can reach it by a bicycle. Of course in that case you could say the rent you would be pay would be equally higher. Plus not every one can afford to do that(given school availability, and your spouse office has to be close by too).

On a net basis, its again the same thing. You just pay for your time with higher rents.
I love building a startup in Rust but wouldn't pick it again
How long does it take to filter up? White men remain over-represented amongst the rich and powerful, and in senior positions. Is there some level in society where this flips around and suddenly white men are at the top, or is this some kind of time delay effect and in a century or so, we'll see white men at the bottom at all levels?
I think it’s one of the audacity fork from when the main devs put telemetry in audacity a year or two back.
Great angle!
Almost every person I have met who whines about Asperger’s no longer being a valid diagnosis seem to be but hurt because, for awhile, Asperger’s = “omg super genius” in the popular mind.

Get over it. He was literally a nazi. It wasn’t even a great descriptor for a wide range of traits.

I would normally have been diagnosed with it. Now I’m just “Autistic” with ADHD and low support needs.

Clinging to the verbiage is like all the dipshits in my home state listing MLK day as “MLK Day/Genera Lee’s Birthday”. It serves no purpose and just makes people roll their eyes and tune you out.
Someone has already incorporated this into the wiki entry for historical development of gravitational theory, which may or may not be entirely justified:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_gravitational_theor...

That's an interesting article, including some challenges to Aristotle's views and gravity-related concepts introduced by Indian and Islamic scholars of the 6th - 12th century eras or so.
Why do they want their children to learn to drive?
Ring buffers for the most part are typically lock free, so that’s a bit redundant. The special part is that the ring is directly accessible from userspace at all, as previously any ring buffer is internal.
If an employer ceases to be professional, reasonable, or safe, there is not a damn thing wrong with immediate termination of employment from the employee’s end.

If an employer can terminate the agreement for just cause immediately, why can’t the employee?
Nice of you to ignore the article which explains all the reasons why data indicating sperm counts are decreasing are flawed and likely not significant.
you know, maybe you just make a thing. and it gets better. and you get better. maybe it will be best, maybe the dumpster will catch on fire.
I know a couple in SF who don't own a car and still seem pretty mobile between bike, walking, Uber, Zipcar, rentals, etc. But it takes a certain mental accounting disciple to go "I'm OK with spending $50 in transportation to meet a friend for dinner--and maybe a bit longer--because I'm still coming out ahead on an annual basis."
Low interest rates also mean it’s practical to hold real estate and drip-feed the units. Much harder to do when you’re paying 10% interest on a construction loan.
I have a 15 year old, 20 year old, and 25 year old vehicle.

They're very reliable.

They're also not for sale.
Organized, not designed. And it is very much organized to manipulate behavior. It is a self-organizing system driven by advertising revenue. It's not about the protocols, which were designed to exchange information. It's about how we have organized the higher level functions and purpose of the web.
Section 230 protects Microsoft from being held responsible for the acts of individual evil users. Not so tools MS itself put out there. And, in both cases, I think rightly so.
Why aren’t you listing any prices? How do I know whether you are cheaper than serpapi, for instance? And what does POA mean?
As a "Generation X" near the Boomer boundary, I just can't stop being shocked by "average car is $47k". When I was a teen, my parents did rental investing, owned about a dozen properties, and had never paid more than $30k for a property. I'm a well-compensated tech worker, and have no shame in driving my 2004 Volvo that I bought used 16 years ago. Had a second car for a while. A 2005 Camry that I bought for $5000 in 2017. Sold it last year for $5000.

Advice to younger generation: forego that shiny toy and invest your hard-earned money.
Keep moving the cost down by getting progressively older cars until you hit the price you can afford.
Just because you were of the cloth didn't mean you were a raving fundamentalist. Who else was going to house, feed, and protect you and allow you to read and think all day?
I think it's an oversimplification to argue that the mind as a whole is like a closet, but I do think memory specifically works a bit in this way--hence the well-established utility of memory palace methods. Giordano Bruno's memory garden idea is something I've been working on, but it does take time to put in place.
I don't get why we haven't seen the SEC or the CFTC step to the plate with this. I'm already seeing a number of blockchain projects moving offshore, whether to the Cayman Islands or El Salvador, not because of favorable regulatory environments per say but just because the US is so opaque and murky with regards to this.
Super exciting. Have been wanting to see this for years. Great job, Esri!
It’s funny, I’ve always heard great things about Meditations but I found it to be one of the least approachable books on stoicism. Perhaps I didn’t like the terse note format. On the other hand Seneca’s letters are extraordinary
It settled literally 2 days ago! That's pretty recent.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17292181/hunters-capita...
Top comment of course is reassuring nothing-to-see-here platitude, definitively framing this thoroughly-sourced investigation by a Pulitzer winner (whatever that means) as a harmless entertaining fabrication (mad props to the mmastrac, it's quite a skill to deftly dismiss and trivialize months of work with two sentences)...aahhhh, so reassured....because we want to be "soothed and comforted, not challenged and confronted" and anything against the mainstream narrative and Chinese-spy-balloon-distraction is clearly "not anchored in reality". SMH...expect more from you HN.
The Lessons of the Military's Forced Anthrax Vaccination of Its Pilots
ESRI claims: "Super Resolution is an image transformation technique with the help of which we can improve the quality of image and recover high resolution image from a given low resolution image."

I would argue this is not true - rather, super resolution generates a plausible high resolution image that would look like a given low resolution image if it were downscaled (i.e., it's not going to recover real details, it's just going to sharpen lines and potentially show details that look real but might not be).

Edit: As an example, in the lower half of figure 5, the algorithm displays circular white dots on the roof, when in reality they are rectangles. An image analyst using this tool might, for example, incorrectly geolocate an image taken on the ground. This tool probably needs a warning label on it.
> Sounds like a promising area to explore.

Indeed, and it has been. Google's Project Foghorn's process was (2014) was based on the same concept.
Great! They can call it Audacity now
It is the 'fake item' that leads you to other fake items. You find the patterns and see the uncharitable takes. You see the mockingbird style reporting. It is the gateway moment I was pointing out. You start with something small and it grows. You can not un-see it. A gateway moment for them was a typo. Mine was a repeated story over and over as I traveled between cities and timezones but presented as if that particular news org had wrote it all up by themselves. When it was just mad-lib style fill in the blank.

I bring up twitter and did not claim it was 'authoritative' but to show that behind the scenes our political machine is shaping the narrative. Spiking stories and promoting others. The people who run those orgs are doing it gladly. To pretend the same thing that happened at twitter is not happening at NBC/CNN/FOX/NYT/etc would be a bold claim. Like you point out twitter is not that valuable but they made a point of it to do it. Proper suppression of people and censorship and narrative shaping. The very same people who used to say 'the internet see censorship as damage and routes around it' are the very ones building a censorship news controlling apparatus. Then gaslighting us with 'how dare you question them they are doing it for our safety!'

News is very unreliable in most forms. You can push particular opinions very easily. It is not that hard to do. Our news is basically gossip and talk shows. With news as the thin premise that they are doing.
> Right, but if there is such a thing as the very plastically named "Jeniffer Aniston neuron"

Firstly even if there is such a cell that only fires for one face, or perhaps also the person’s name, it doesn’t mean there aren’t other cells that fire for that person, or for people in general including that person. Without those as well, that neurons responses might not mean anything to the rest if the brain. It’s a thought experiment but never really demonstrated.

Also even if this is true in the very strongest sense. Say there is one neuron that uniquely and discretely fires in response to thinking about that one person. What defines a neuron isn’t just its internal behaviour. It’s also the pattern of inputs that influence it, and the pattern of outputs it sends out. It’s the connections and dependencies on the weightings and signals and responses from all the cells it’s connected to. Including the specific unique ways all those neurons are connected, or not connected to all the other cells in the brain. It’s al, the specifics of that connectedness that are what makes the behaviour of that neuron meaningful.

If you took that neuron and implanted it into another brain, you’d need to hook it up to the neurons in that brain such that it gets exactly the same stimuli, in the same order, with the same strength, every time it needs to fire. The same applies to its output, all the neurons it’s connected to would have to interpret its firing behaviour in the exact same way the other neurons in the original brain did. But there’s no guarantee any of those connected mechanisms work or are physically connected in the same way, or even a vaguely similar or compatible way in the new brain.
I hadn't worked with unix/linux much so I had to ask ChatGPT what programming language/scripting language the second code block was written in.

"The code you provided is a shell script, commonly used in Unix-based operating systems. It uses the "set" command to set shell options, "-eo pipefail" means that the script will exit immediately if any command fails and that it will propagate any error code through a pipeline."

"The script then declares four local variables using the "local" command, which are used to construct the name and location of a file that will be downloaded using the "curl" command. The script creates a directory using "mkdir -p" and then downloads a file from a remote URL and saves it to a local file using the ">" operator."
> Previous generations would just go out for a ride, take the car out on Sunday and and enjoy the scenery. We just don't do that anymore, either because we're more concerned about the environmental effects of driving, or that we just have more interesting things to do.

I'm also an older millennial and like GP have no emotional attachment to cars. I also mildly resent my dependence on them, having traveled in places with fantastic public transport. I find them lonely and isolating.

I agree about the enviromental cost and other forms of entertainment. I think most of the rest can be explained by the combination of novelty + nostalgia for previous generations. Older Boomers caught the upswing out the highway act when there were new roads everywhere and an explosion of innovation in car design. The country wasn't yet totally built to enforce car ownership via sprawl, so I imagine a nice afternoon drive in the country was a thing many people enjoyed and created fond memories around.
> The young are falling out of love with cars because they're unaffordable. It's as simple as that.

As young person who has fallen out of love with cars (despite once having earned my money driving): It is not as simple as that.

Money plays a huge role for sure, and the more you live in an environment where cars are needed the more this is true. But living in a big european city I can assure you that for most people my age not owning a car isn't a thing you do because you couldn't afford one. The benefits of owning a car just don't outweight the cost of having to constantly think of caring for it.

Most of my daily mobility I can do on foot and with a bicycle, with the benefit that my commute takes half the time of a typical rush hour commute for the same route. I need a car if I need to transport something which is roughly once every 3 to 4 months and then renting one is a good option.
Good to know, though I'd rather own the hand made pieces made by you and your father. The love and care oozes from the wood ;)
That part isn't a great quote, The actual explanation is all of the above.

The mayor dropped their phone in water and it stoped working and after they received a new phone it had the 30d retention setting set (and this all being city equipment, the mayor didn't set their own phone up). Also pretty much everybody in the case (defendent + plantif) had deleted some messages ...

[1]: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17292181/166/hunters-ca...
I am a security engineer so the bar for acceptable is very very high. It can make it very hard to justify taking the easy route even for personal projects, because others will copy those bad habits into enterprise software.
There are a lot of database/search products that allow you to do geospatial queries. Stuff like this is nice if you are implementing your own version of that but using it as part of a regular web server or batch toolset is probably a bad idea unless your data set is small.

Some examples:

- redis has support for geospatial. Good for radius searches.

- elasticsearch/opensearch have pretty elaborate options for disance search, ranking, aggregating, etc. It can also deal with geojson geometry and do polygon intersection/containment queries, etc.

- mongodb has similar features for geojson but is probably a bit more limited for querying/ranking/aggregating.

- postgis is a bit of a beast but a goto solution for doing complex geospatial work.

There are many more options of course. Just making the point that this isn't a wheel that is in a lot of need of reinventing.
Wow, that was it. No idea how that happened.
Cars are a classic "tragedy of the commons" due to how much space they take up and the infrastructure they take up. The places where it might've been 'nice to go for a drive' are not that way anymore because they have changed by everyone having a car. The windy country roads without anyone living on them are now filled with people that 'want to live in the country' but ironically do not because everyone wanted that.
What does the word disingenuous mean to you?
It's also a tacky and gaudy display of wealth just for a rapidly depreciating asset built at an environmental cost for a function a lot of us don't need that much.
I'm not young, but I don't care about cars in the slightest and can't wait for a post car society whatever that might look like.
You apply to have the case heard. The judge says ok, you served him, I will exercise my jurisdiction and hear this, Mr Kwon, show up in court next Tuesday (or else). It should not result in detention in a normal case. But it can.
IME this is simply because young people are poor and have no use for the car.

If you live in a single room in a house in London, barely go outdoors, and have one shelf in a fridge, then a car is just far less useful to you as a concept.

If you live in a house and you go on outdoor adventures often then it's a daily thing. I mean I transport wood, tools, large amounts of groceries, etc on a near daily basis.
I like the results, but a part of the improvement is due to the increase in contrast, clarity and sharpness. Photoshop can get you half way through.
There is a very interesting thing happening in the "car knowledge space". At least for young people.

Myself and a few of my friends drive exclusively Honda/Toyota and drive them to 200k and then sell them to people who know how to do their own car work.

A few of my friends are from well off families and they buy cars brand new and drive them to 60-80k and then act like the car isnt reliable anymore for some reason despite the fact that I usually buy my car with 60-80k miles on it.

* all distance here is miles sorry for confusion
> Crypto is all super shady but that's how their advocates want it I guess?

Binance is not crypto, it's a traditional centralized company. This goes for most other shady stuff in the space.