skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People might consider them savings (and they can, because feds explicitly guarantee a certain amount, and implicitly more), but they are actually investing their savings, which means a possibility of loss.

Even your savings in your home without a bank have a possibility of loss due to things like theft or pests or natural disaster. Or more commonly, inflation.
So what I see often happens that gets people banned based on their political views tends to be someone trying to start a debate where someone else was not in a debate.

Trans person: *exists and makes a post*

"Honest debater": I don't think you should...

And they get banned. Not everything is or was an invitation to "debate".
> Despite this, the effects in humans were estimated by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to be similar to risks posed by breathing indoor air or drinking municipally supplied water.

https://cpdb.thomas-slone.org/pdfs/herp.pdf

Ask yourself why you’re specifically invested in this chemical being harmful even though the actual scientific evidence and its prodigious use over thousands of years by indigenous peoples indicates that it is harmless.

You are speaking like someone who values science, but your primary goal seems to be to reinforce an unscientific regulation. Is it so painful to consider that you (and the scientific establishment) were just wrong about this?

Please cite your sources, since you are making claims contrary to established research.
Is that in a small town? Or how far is it from a farm to the station?
Great.

Hopefully this will make the introduction of stricter regulations on motorists easier, particularly safety and noise.
Hold up. Are you blaming SVG because you don't know the <object> tag exists? I mean, yeah, you're right that CSS won't come through with an <img> tag. It will with <object> though.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ob...
That's been my experience as well working with interns. It's like they teach a lot of theoretical stuff but no practicalities. Kind of pointless to even go to school if you don't learn practicalities IMHO.
Nice, I wonder if they are back using internal hubs (like old 3 speeds) or derailleurs ?

The internal hubs like they used 50+ years ago were a better design for rainy weather than derailleurs.

With that said, I can guess most are using single speed. Hopefully not fixed :)
The notion that the Chinese government became bad/evil only after Xi took power is comical
One good option is to turn your bike into a stationary bike so you can use it for both purposes. Options range from cheap to crazy expensive, like everything else with bikes. https://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/indoor-bike-trainers...
> Friends within a couple miles

Which may or may not exist within 2 miles. Or even 10. Again, you have to be more intentional. In a city you can buy pretty much anywhere and the kid will have neighborhood friends. When moving to a rural area you have to think about this a bit more carefully. It's possible but not default.

If you buy a place 10 miles away from the nearest house with kids who have a reasonable age overlap, then that's going to have a huge impact on your kid's independence.

I am not trolling you. I don't care about you at all. I am addressing the original poster. I am giving them reasonable advice: you have to be more careful about where you buy in rural areas if you want your kid to be independent.

There are downsides and things to be careful about when moving to any area. I am not attacking your lifestyle. I am simply pointing out some of the things that you need to think more carefully about when moving to a rural area, especially if you are a city person with no knowledge of rural life. I would give a similar list of downsides and how to mitigate them if OP were a person who has only lived in rural areas and was asking about city life. "Don't buy above a noisy bar; you can cross boundaries between safe and unsafe in a short stroll; research the transit system; having a car will be expensive but essential if you want to get out of the city; school quality can be excellent or terrible; apartment living has many downsides you'll need to be careful about mitigating; etc."

None of these things are reasons to live in one place or another, and there are ways to address the problems. But you have to be aware of the problems in order to mitigate them. And the OP has never lives in a rural area, so might not have thought about "oh, if I am 2 miles down a gravel road and the nearest cluster of properties is 12 miles down the road then my kids have a hell of a bike ride if they want to play after school without depending on me shuttling them around. Odds are they'll probably end up on the internet a lot instead of doing the 7-14 mile ride on any given afternoon."

Not a reason to move to a rural area! Just something to think about and consider -- cutting that down to 2 miles from 14 changes the game.

My posts are not directed at you. They are advice to a different person entirely. But since we're here, another observation about rural life: aggressive and angry people are not unique to cities; they exist everywhere.
Simply put the letter says, “I hope my alliance of autocrats works out and has a bright future. Please help!”
We are the cyclists, the intermediate stage between humans and pure energy.

https://youtu.be/1s0XsulDXtk
Doing it all your life since childhood counts as training for the sake of this argument.
Running After Antelope
That's because the Overton Window have shifted to the right so much.
Planet fitness is the absolute worst offender in my mind.
I had a membership once at a location and did not close it before moving out of state. Fair to assume I could just cancel over the phone, but this is not something they would do. Apparently the contract says cancellations have to be in person at the branch you opened your membership at.
Even after explaining I was multiple states away and could not do this they refused to close my account and continued to bill me.
I asked my bank to deny all future payments to them, and this worked for a month or two before payments started getting pulled again.
this went on for over a year until I eventually went back to visit friends and was able to close the membership in person.
I can't imagine this is legal, but I guess it's probably worked out well enough for them to be worth it. I've heard the same story from a few people since this all happened.
Shame to see another relic of the internet-past shutting down.

I used to use ZippyShare a fair bit to demo the DLP capabilities of a past employer.
Oh I didn't know there was a 3rd one. But yeah the 2nd one had some slow wading moments, basically the obligation to make it have a beginning/middle/end type story under insane constraints while keeping it plausible. But it's worth the price of admission to nerd out on some earth species taking over some local region of space in another solar system.
Peru has the largest Asian population out of any South American country!
So basically ad blockers? For all the evil ads are, they do keep a lot of such small businesses running too.

Now that we've reached a point where every person has some form of adblock from abp to brave, I think this we're gonna be seeing more and more of this.

P.S. I recently cancelled my Kagi subscription too after their recent price hike and search restrictions. So businesses that don't show ads but charge the user directly are also struggling too it seems. Guess doing business nowadays isn't that easy.
The Cookie directive being awful for end-users has nothing to do with the EUs actual legislation, it's a case of scummy companies maliciously trying to not comply with it.

The legislation is really good actually; it orders sites that want to place tracking cookies (Google Analytics for example relies on this) to request consent from the user before they're allowed to do so. That's all it requests.

This could easily have been implemented in any number of user-friendly ways - ie. Store one cookie for Google Analytics as a whole that is just "I don't consent", that would have been enough to comply. Just check "did user consent or not". If they didn't, then don't show the popup on any site using Analytics. Problem solved, consent obtained and/or rejected.

The reason it's so obnoxious is because these businesses know that if they start being honest with what's being tracked, they'll lose a shitton of income (Facebook reportedly lost 12 billion just because Apple allowed users to randomize their advertisement ID). They don't want that, so now CJEU has to slowly but surely beat actual compliance into them.

Nowadays you have to have an opt-out option that should be as easy as not opting in (so no more "50 million tracking slider" nonsense), the opt-out option can't be obnoxious to find and click, the opt-in button may not receive extra promotion compared to the opt-out button and so on. The only step that's not yet complied with is that if the user indicates that they just don't want tracking period, then they shouldn't track at all (basically enforcing the good old DNT header).
It would be interesting to see how road space is also allocated between these 2 modes.

I don’t know much about the City of London (I do know that it’s not the same thing as the city of London), so I’m curious if others with more knowledge can share some information.
Or Adblock called for more obnoxious ads, which caused more Adblocking, which killed the business.
Few years back during spring I noticed soft parts of my deck railing getting chewed up by squirrels. I was puzzled as the squirrels never touched the deck prior to this. I figured the soft wood was weathered as the deck was old and the squirrels were enjoying chewing it or it was a form of oral care.

Last spring I had a handyman come by to clean up the yard and paint the fences and told him about the railings. He poked around them and stuck a screwdriver into a soft spot and out came a bunch of carpenter ants. He laughed and said the squirrels weren't ripping up my deck but looking for food. I stupidly assumed squirrels were herbivores when they are in fact omnivorous.
From their blog (https://gts.superseriousbusiness.org/@gotosocial/statuses/01...):

>We do not work with transphobes/fascists/racists. If you open an issue or PR on our git repo and we see you are one of those things, or hang out with people like that, we will kick you out of our space. We have no patience for bigotry, and we see no reason whatsoever to tolerate having it anywhere near us. Fuck terfs and fuck nazis.

>we are a strictly antifascist organization. we have zero tolerance for fascism or anything that enables or allows it. (yes that includes capitalism)

I'd honestly rather stay away from people who claim they are "antifascist organization" but at the same time have zero understanding what does "nazism" or "fascism" actually means. Nor do they have any kind of FAQ on how they are going to determine who is what and how should I know if somebody I follow on fediverse or github is one of those things.
Scott Carrier's story of trying for twelve years to chase down and catch an antelope by foot.
If you don't even have a screen lock on your laptop, what business do you have complaining that bitwarden didn't protect your secrets?

And it's not like there is much reason for any extra effort either, because that user will for sure be logged in to the webmail that they use for mail-2fa so all logins can be password reset anyway.
Thank you for your comment. The service did not exist in December :)
As someone who was born in rural place, who left as soon as I can and then come back briefly to run again, I saw quite a few people who make the leap, left bustle and hustle of big city behind and were ready to embarace slow and more intentional life.

They all think they will move to rural community to live simpler, more selfsufficient life among other people, casualy share tips on permaculture with their neighbors and what not.

You might get lucky to find similar minded people, but at the end newcomers are just those ridiculus city folks that come to the town, talking weird stuff, while local hold blue colar jobs in nearby town or hustling income as helping hands whenever they can. Most people do not chose rural places, they just don't have any other choice. Also rural poverty is a thing.
Since 2006 we have been on the market in an unchanged form, that is, as ad financed/free file hosting. However, you have been visiting in less and less over the years, as the arguably very simple formula of the services we offer is slowly running out of steam

…

Over the past year, electricity prices have gone up 2.5 times, which, with a large number of servers, gives a significant increase in costs that we have no way to balance. There are still a bunch of smaller reasons [for closing down], but we could write a book on this, and probably no one would want to read it.

Sounds like visits are down and costs are way, way up.
Didn't they make it very, very expensive to drive in the City of London?
Quieter too. When wandering Tokyo I started asking myself, why does it feel so quiet when there are so many people and so much advertising? Then you hit one of the roads with cars, and you realise just how much road noise impacts a space. It is obvious in theory but I bet most of us in car-centric cities have learned to live with it so much, that it doesn't cross our minds as the source of discomfort.
Reminds me of https://drewdevault.com/2014/10/10/The-profitability-of-onli...

The only reason imgur survived is because they ruined their UX in search of monetization.
Wow, what an amazing website. I might have to start visiting there!
Yes the echo chamber social media.
A poor argument? To me, as a final user, it's the greatest one.

>Because according to the typical regulator it’s bad when others impose limits, but not when they impose limits.

I agree, regulators shouldn't exist.
There's nothing stopping anyone from creating such a bank, but in economic times with high interest no one would put their money into a bank that doesn't pay interest as they would have no hope of keeping pace with inflation.

Also, if every bank operated in this way then no one would be able to get a loan and debt drives the modern economic systems. Meaning no one would be able to make investments based on debt anymore, at least not with a loan from a bank.
>internal hubs like the used 50 years ago

Their invention is closer to 150 years ago than 50.
None of these are "computer science fundamentals", they're software engineering fundamentals. Computer science != engineering and programming.

Engineering is a craft you learn under the tutelage of peers and masters, i.e. at work or perhaps in a community (e.g. open source). That is what you should expect to provide to your interns. They're not cheaper, fully-formed labor.
So, researches paid by OpenAI are going to publish a paper to convince everyone else that an OpenAI product could have some economic impact.

Am I the only one who sees a conflict of interest here?

Is this preprint already submitted for peer review or published somewhere? Or is it just an advertisement formatted in LaTeX?
It really is fantastic news.

The more that pedestrians and cyclists dominate, the faster the shift from ugly, dirty roads to a pleasant human centred urban environment.
You're right. The page mentions comparisons with optimized SVGs, but I didn't realize that the downloadable examples were not in fact optimized.
Wooden stop-motion samurai film
Yes, there's a reason there are "deck-writing bootcamps" and "pitch trainers" and other voodoo. VCs move at the centre of a feeding frenzy.
> hope either they or the underwriter collapse shortly after

Has this ever worked? Surely the administrator would just sell the debt at a discount (for them, not you).
Ignoring people with opinions that are sophomoric, bigoted, or can’t be differentiated from trolling saves an immense amount of time and frustration. Filtering noise can surely be closer to something a person with a healthy attitude towards other peoples opinions would do as opposed to letting every single person get their 30 seconds on the megaphone, even after their third or fourth flat earth tirade.
This reads like a parody, and beautifully sums him up.

Historians: we looked into the Atlantis stuff, and it's not true, see decades of boring science.

Racists: but we'd like it to be true, because it's a bit racist.

Someone on tumbler: only silly racists believe that Atlantis BS

SSC: I don't believe in Atlantis (or support Trump, etc.) but I think the racists who believe in it only do so because liberals are so mean to them, so really it's all their fault.
Are you sure you know enough about web development to make these claims?

All of my data viz code is React-controlled SVGs, for instance. I was able to implement generic zoom and pan on top of this. Also things like nested graphs look good in SVG
In other news, the DMCA type rules do not apply to the whole internet and the Berne convention is just a fiction that stands in the way of the glorious EU forcing Apple to open their App Store.
There is a way out of this. Don’t use third party ad service networks.

OTOH, CNN also includes ads that are not JS driven. That is fine but the ads are just terrible quality (lending tree!).
Nah. It includes some of the most disgusting members of society. Curious how you rise so adamantly to their defense.
It did not use too, but it is hard for me to tell where/when the shift happened. All I know for sure is that anyone with mildly stronger views on 1st amendment are called speech absolutists. It is extra annoying, because 'hate speech' is mostly recently made up term to stifle free speech AND, more importantly, does not exist anywhere in US constitution.

<< Like y’all, it isn’t that hard to expressly minority opinions without being toxic or hateful.

You can, but it becomes a game of using language that it is harder to pinpoint ( hence silliness like Xi banning 8 for infinity ). All the while majority opinion can be as hateful as is deemed necessary ( and no one complains because it is the majority ) creating yet another echo-chamber we so sorely need.

FWIW, this trend is now being challenged.

edit: I like calling spade a spade. You can dislike it all you want, but I am personally less and less willing to comply with other person's sensibilities[1].

[1]https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/09/19/224183763...
Putting my contrarian hat on, I think it's much better that we have tons of "guys" testing the limits of this new tech for the lolz, than leaving easy exploits on the table for state actors and/or terrorists.
There are no up and downvotes, so it's purely chronological. There are Hashtags. User mentions are more common.
You are confusing "expertise" with "foundational knowledge". Databases, concurrency programming and network programming are all outside the realm of CS. They're specializations of Software Engineering.
The amount that a Big Tech company could afford to pay a new employee is often more than the cost for a regular company to hire a trained employee again.

And hiring a trained worker is overall less expensive than hiring an untrained worker who takes a year to get up to speed and then leaves for greener pa$ture$.

What's more, if you have a brain drain of experienced people leaving for Big Tech, hiring an untrained worker who is able to make messes that won't be cleaned up is sometimes even more expensive than the wages paid to the employee.

The result of this is that after a few rounds of people leaving management is faced with two options. Either contract projects out as the standard approach rather than having software developers on staff or move to "we're only hiring experienced people with all of these qualifications" so that on the job training isn't necessary.

While some will also say "raise your wages to be competitive with Big Tech" - that isn't always practical or able to be justified for budgeting based on the revenue of the company.

The overall industry appears to be bimodal with "Big Tech" and "everyone else". Any employee who can move from "everyone else" to "Big Tech" can out compete any wage offered by "everyone else" (and in boom times this was a much easier prospect).

With that consideration, it was often very poor ROI for any company in the "everyone else" portion of the industry to offer training.
Maybe it should be a suggestion too.
In CoL, a few cycle lanes but mainly it's just very quite roads. It works in CoL because motor traffic is so heavily restricted the roads are fairly quiet.
>That’s exactly my point. The current scenario where someone can just go into a 3 months javascript bootcamp won’t be enough.

Realistically 3 months of any bootcamp was never enough.

>In my team, there is a grad dev doing bare minimum work. He has no initiative and struggles to understand basic requirements.

This kind of person has been around all over my 25+ year career, starting in the dot boom. "You should get into programming because of the money!" This is the result. With programming, you have to have an almost unhealthy obsession with it to be successful. These people get weeded out during the crashes, in which we are in the midst of.

FWIW, we have one of those too.
This is funny
As long as they're discreet, they have my tentative permission to go about their business. But I will provide selection pressure towards discretion if I happen to be startled by their appearance.

Spiders are slightly higher class citizens, and more likely to be safely captured and released outdoors... but are ultimately subject to the same regime, at least between my walls.
It's pretty much an accepted reality that VR has not been a big success for anyone. Disney failed early with DisneyQuest. Second Life hasn't become popular even though VR hardware has existed for a long time. There's the complete joke called Magic Leap. MS decided to pivot to military applications because theirs didn't sell. Google gave up on Daydream. And Facebook just laid of 10,000 people, many of them in the metaverse department.

The most likely reason is physics. These devices aren't fun to use. They're disorienting and make people sick. In practice, they add nothing to the experience -- certainly not the experience of a business meeting! It seems quite ridiculous to think that would ever have been a use case.

So, the article really isn't a hit piece but perhaps a rather late and rather obvious commentary on something that even Zuck has to admit isn't a thing.
Except the main job of a bank is (was) to deposit my money and give it back to me when I want it back. I’m not providing “liquidity” - I am depositing my money.

(I know of course that’s not what banks are primarily do today - which is probably one of the root causes of all these problems)
> distopian place where anyone that does not align with the "correct worldview"

People said exactly the same thing about open relays and spam filters some twenty years ago. A very famous Internet personality kept an open relay around for many years until there was literally no one left to federate with. I worked at a place who thought themselves obligated to keep around copies of all incoming messages for some period of time.

Who are you to decide between signal and noise, and so on, the discussion went. Turns out that's useless discourse. Because similar logic goes the other way around, who are you to decide what I keep?

I am not obliged to read email from all senders, and above all, I do not have to explain myself and I don't have to keep them stored as to not infringe their right of expression.

Every decentralized protocol with any real world traction allows every actor to filter traffic in a permissionless manner. You can call it righteousness or as amoral as you'd like, but until you can present an alternative system that's how it's going to work.
Banks can hardly get people to park their money in them right now because of the fact that they don't pay ENOUGH interest -- everyone's been pulling money out to jump into money market mutual funds with their liquid cash, or short term fixed income products where they can afford to tie it up for a few months. I suspect the short answer is "lack of demand."