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Americans are stupid. Housing is more expensive but real wages are up, the vast majority of Americans can afford more food than ever before.
A tracking pixel is an external image loaded from a server for analytics purposes. All web technologies facilitate this. Pictures, css, fonts, video, audio, javascript, and all the new Web* tech. Requests link you together on different servers. Scripts actively spy on you by logging keystrokes and more, then funneling that to a surveillance company who launder it for the government. Rendering tech like canvas and webgpu help uniquely identify the machine by carefully timing and positioning things.
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Oh yeah that's exactly what I did... Put everything down, then turned somethings up (and also found the bass limits of my Sony WH-1000XM2s :)
Yes, for the NFC tags you will need an internet connection, but the Neucards app does maintain a local cache of the digital cards you have received. You can view the details of those cards and kick off an action, like make a call or send an email, by just tapping on the info. Updates occur when I edit my card or account information and notifications are sent to the list of recipients for my card. Neucards does a sync at launch or when triggered by a notification.

As for adding info to the phone contacts, this is a tricky situation. Right now, I do not sync the contact info from received cards into the contacts on the phone. This is because the contacts on the phone are a shared resource that other apps can access, and I don't want people's contact info to leak. I do support caller identification, so you will see a person's name rather than just a number when they call for all of the numbers on your received cards. But, this isn't as robust of an experience as having all the info in the phone's contacts.
I was browsing the left side of the internet on my second YouTube profile and ran into Zoe Bee talking about grading and motivation. The takeaway was that it is more about controlling students than education. I think 99% of the anxiety I experienced as a teenager was frustration about the insane levels of control that children are placed under.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe-SZ_FPZew

If I had kids of my own I think I would encourage them to skip the last years of high school and just get an online degree if they didn't enjoy themselves. Maybe look into taking community college courses instead after getting a GED. There are so many better options now.
I know a lot of people complain about double clicks or switches going bad but I don't think I've ever had a Logitech mouse die on me. I buy the latest MX, Vertical, and trackball almost every year unless it's super minor updates so maybe I'm just not using one mouse long enough but they've been fantastic.

I'm using my Elecom Deft Pro trackball right now and while it's nice it doesn't come close to feeling like the quality that my Logitech trackball feels.
"So I built one baked into my wm"

wm? window manager?

It looks like part of a shell window on Linux maybe? Does anyone know a good resource on how to customize your shell like this?
That's not really parsing HTML; well, I guess it is technically speaking parsing it, but most people understand building a tree (DOM) when they think of parsing HTML and that's not what those regex programs do.
Our schools are basically prisons these days - we drill kids to get them ready for tests, we demand perfect obedience, and we give kids little to no space to be kids.

We're also increasingly letting clueless adults run things (see all the adults who are banning books or worried that there are litter boxes in bathrooms).
Yes the first is safer but it's still wildly unsafe in this model. If you're not advocating very hard for rapid shutdowns then you're not being consistent.

The choice isn't between old nuclear and new nuclear. If those are the "two evils" then that's missing some important options.
I am unsure how to respond to your comment: on one hand you contend that we are doing something, on the other you accept that emissions are too high and growing...

We've been "about" to do something for decades now. A Cynic might suspect the only reason the rate of increase has fallen is Covid (since the last figures are 2021/2022). And even with that, the problem is (a) getting worse and (b) getting worse rapidly. It's just that the 2nd differential has fallen. Like if we were driving off a cliff, but stopped accelerating, we'd still be going rapidly in the wrong direction...
I am a little dismayed that the Show HN version of this did not get more traction even though its obviously got attention now. Show HN should discover hits like this better than a general post. Anyhow nice to see it and I recommend Swyx's Pod: Latent Space (especially the $30 Dolly one with Mike Conover of Databricks!)

https://share.snipd.com/show/0918aa0c-39fa-4d32-aab0-a1fdd22...
sorry about the rant:

what a nice thing, instead of a plastic straw that we know how to recycle, we get "paper" with microplastics or some other new non-recycleble composite anyway.

The issue with plastics is our logistics for waste management, the common plastics are incredibly useful, but because we are shit at managing waste we are replacing plastics everywhere with worse materials that register as "evil" for the general.

You can sell "no plastic" as green, or "bio degradable": Replace a plastic with something that is not plastic even though it's still less useful and non recycleable and you can call your product "green".
Or say that it's biodegradable, which nowadays anything that doesn't take decades to decompose classifies, so you can have all the nasty stuff, including the very famous "micro plastics" in there and be green.

There are so many rich kids in their "first world problems" that are activists and speak in conferences, that you can go to some in theory "respectable" climate conference and one talk be all about the evils of microplastic and the other about how we should use decomposable plastic (yeah, guess what it decomposes to?).

The whole Green conversation is controlled by either privileged activists that clearly do not have a related STEM degree, or marketing/campaign departments calling anything "green"/good for the environment, pure manipulation.
The good news is on a dozen days during the year the US and the ROW are on the same page (MM/MM/YYYY or DD/DD/YYYY if you prefer).

Somebody should check if those days are generally associated with fewer accidents, higher stock returns and a pronounced sense of global peace and harmony
The incentive is the ability to move to a city with jobs without having to take on a 7% mortgage.
But the shooter drills are incredibly common. Just because it doesn't happen often doesn't mean children aren't often being forced to think about it happening.
U.S. Depression Rates Reach New Highs
It doesn't matter whether or not being able to get away with it is the norm. If a large cohort of kids are skipping high school, it is likely something wrong with the schools. Maybe we should consider reforming them to be less soul crushing and awful?
Is it in the toolchain or in the applications made with Go?
It's still way too high - once a week there's some sort of shooting incident in the US [1], and that doesn't include all the other mass shooting incidents in general society [2], nor the shooting incidents that don't kill multiple people. Frankly, for me as an European, these numbers are insane - and the worst thing is, even after outright massacres nothing changes.

It's one thing if society learns something from incidents like we did with after the mass murder at Winnenden 2009. But in the US, it's "thoughts and prayers" and that's it - utterly dystopian.

[1] https://www.edweek.org/leadership/school-shootings-this-year...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_...
That sounds like our old nemesis: politics. Who holds control and how they exert that control is a very human issue that exists for every project in existence (modulo an outlier or two).

Telemetry is valuable for making decisions and identifying issues, so it's no surprise the group making decisions about the future of the project would welcome the proposal.
Who cares what incumbent tax prepares think? They ARE the problem. They and their lobbyists.
An issue with "don't kink shame" is when that is used to castigate people who don't want kinks happening around them.

This can be as minimal as PDA, to stuff as egregious as Key & Peele's skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3h6es6zh1c

If you're discussing about furry sex or 50 shades of Grey, maybe keep it to the privacy of an adult furry community or a book club.
I dunno, for me it wasn't the worst. School was overall much nicer than a job - less demanding, less workload, much more fun coworkers, a ton of camraderie ("us against teachers"). Basically a fun, low-stakes environment.
It's incredibly easy to show that you are wrong and the models perform at high levels on questions that are clearly not in their training data.

Unless you think OpenAI is blatantly lying about this:

"A.1 Sourcing.
We sourced either the most recent publicly-available official past exams, or practice exams in
published third-party 2022-2023 study material which we purchased. We cross-checked these
materials against the model’s training data to determine the extent to which the training data was not
contaminated with any exam questions, which we also report in this paper."

"As can be seen in tables 9 and 10, contamination overall has very little effect on the reported results."

They also report results on uncontaminated data which shows basically no statistical difference.

https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4.pdf
> The point of serialization is precisely to make stolen parts unviable economically, so you’ve painted yourself into a bit of a corner there.

If every single spare-part can also be ordered new and the sum of usable components from a stolen iPhone totals to ~60USD (excluding the mainboard because it is marked as stolen and fused), it's no longer economically viable to steal an iPhone, send it to another country, disassemble it for parts, test the parts and resell them.

As of today, some parts cannot be purchased by third parties at all, so grey-market sourcing is a viable economy.

> After paying a shop to repair an iPhone with a generic screen, I believe genuine parts cost more because they are better, not due to artificial scarcity. Not only were the colors off, the battery life was less with the new screen.

In the pre-Apple world this was already solved: Manufacturers printed their logo on the spare-part, so buyers knew when they get a genuine part or not. 3rd parties are still allowed to produce parts, but faking the logo qualifies as counterfeit --> If you want an original part, ask for an original part and pay the premium
> School avoidant behavior, also called school refusal, is when a school-age child refuses to attend school or has difficulty being in school for the entire day. Several mental health experts told USA TODAY it has become a crisis that has gotten worse since the COVID-19 pandemic.

> "There's no book on this, it's not spoken about," said Demsky, whose son declined to be interviewed by USA TODAY but gave his mother permission to share their story. "It's very scary and parents feel a sense of helplessness."

As an old guy I have to say the entire way this is being discussed is completely baffling.

I guess in the 90's when me and my friends didn't feel like going to school we were part of a pioneering trend or something. I should have written a book. Instead people got mad at me and told me to stop skipping school. They couldn't see I was a visionary at the time I guess.

America keeps getting weirder.
While outright shootings might be rare, bullying by fellow students and teachers is common. Shootings might just be the straw that breaks the camels back.
> Is there a WM out there that can do the basic quality-of-life functions of today's DEs? I'd love a simple, opinionated WM that takes the features we know are useful today (workspaces, expo mode, sensible file manager layouts, system trays) and gives them a color-adjustable window theme inspired by 90's aesthetics, with minimal compositing that can run fast on hardware as minimal as a prototype RISC-V board. Or really, what we need is a truly minimal DE. Something that doesn't care about GTK or Qt or Kvantum, and stays lean.

Mate desktop environment in my opinion comes closest to the simplicity of the Windows 95/GNOME 2 environments of the old: https://mate-desktop.org/.

Not sure how hardware-frugal it is since maintaining it under GTK 2 was not feasible and it's now developed against GTK 3 (with still maintaining the look and feel of GNOME 2).
Proscatination is the real issue, not deadlines.

People without procastination (or the ones who knows how to resolve procastination) won't need deadlines.

It's not an issue that you have no deadlines but you still do it. It's fine.

But if you delaying action you wanna do, you're missing many chances to fail.
> Is there a reason the latest chrome can't run on 7 if it didn't check for it?

The reason is precisely because it doesn't check for it.

That is: instead of checking for older Windows releases, and using fallback code paths for them, it simply assumes the presence of newer APIs (or that older buggy APIs now work properly). As time goes by, the cost of maintaining these fallback code paths only increases (and in some cases, having to stay compatible with them prevents important enhancements and cleanups), and since they're less tested (because they're only used when running on older operating system releases), they tend to break. As an example from an unrelated project, before they dropped Windows XP support, the fallback code for panic!() in Rust was broken when running on Windows XP (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/34538).
I'm sure with a little more social media and tikTok challenges, everything will be okay!
> Actually, unicode support is one of groff’s most mysterious blind spots.

Interesting. What didn't work about -Tutf8 for you? I assumed that I was simply doing something wrong, and left it as a problem to solve later given that I can view the original DocBook XML in UTF-8 without problem. This tells me that there's more to it than I thought.
There are special phone cases/holders designed for that. I'm pretty sure Google will sell those too. Not to mention this might be a camera recording the driver-distraction and not the road. So it doesn't have to be in the sun. Or even for passengers in a driverless car
no shit!
I need to be very tired to just stare out the window. Get fidgety and somehow anxious.

But a motorcycle ride or a nice drive? Even doing the dishes? Now we’re talking! The mind and body are occupied in a mostly autonomus task so the rest of your brain can process and digest. It’s great.

Dare I say I almost enjoy doing chores now.

Another great option for me is boxing. For those 3 minutes in the ring, you are _not_ thinking about anything else. Whether you like it or not, your mind clears and focuses and only the sparring partner exists. It’s great.

You can get that level of focus on a motorcycle, but that gets a little dangerous for my taste. Maybe I should try going to a track.
great answer! ha
I grew up in Leicester and then later moved to Silicon Valley. I had several old computers in a cupboard at my parents’ home for years - Acorn Atom, Atari 800, Video Genie, Elan Enterprise - and was never able to muster enough energy to schlep them out to San Jose to the museum there. I’d only I’d known there was somewhere I could’ve donated them to so close by.
RabbitMQ 3.12 Performance Improvements
Huh, I went to school in Germany and can relate pretty well with them.
Beats Studio Buds Plus Review
My city banned single-use plastic bags. For a couple years they went away. Then they came back and are now 10x thicker so they can be marketed as reusable.
> When you account for high crime areas

What does this mean? Kids in high crime areas are still kids, you still have to count them when they get shot.

The harm of a school shooting is certainly not contained to the specific individuals who got shot either, which if one of these has happened near you you know. Everyone at that school and to some extent the entire city is affected socially and psychologically. They are a particularly powerful terrorism for this reason.
> A direct-to-IRS e-file system is wholly redundant and is nothing more than a solution in search of a problem," said Rick Heineman, a spokesman for Intuit, the company behind TurboTax. "That solution will unnecessarily cost taxpayers billions of dollars and especially harm the most vulnerable Americans."

Extraordinary that he could say that sentence with what I assume was a straight face.
Same, it really nice to be able to say "this tag has floating windows, that tag has maximized windows, and that other tag tiles in a spiral."
You might also like this one: http://808.pixll.de/index.php
I'm sure with a few more social media apps and a tik tok challenge everything will be okay!
Not sufficiently rare enough to avoid transforming education in a myriad of ways, from clear backpacks to endless drills to metal detectors at the door to armed people in body armor walking around.

And the idea of having to account for "high crime areas" as if it is a normal thing for a subset of the population to be dealing with guns on a regular basis in schools is a very American attitude.
> “We don’t call it work refusal, we call it unemployment,” he said.

Maybe we should distinguish between these categories. Because there does appear to be a relatively new phenomenon -- the never-employed adult. They're not unemployed like some of us are sometimes unemployed. Nor are they disabled. They don't want a job. In Canada, almost 70% of unemployed and not in training 25 - 29 year olds, say they're unemployed because they don't want a job [1].

Speculating here but I would bet lot of them are formerly school-avoidant. They've failed to form typical social attachments, or get positive rewards for the usual efforts. And so they've checked out of society. A lot of them are basically hikikomori [2], dependent on social assistance and ongoing parental support, living at home, rarely going outside. Unsurprisingly, the hikikomori phenomenon is starting to be recognized as a thing not unique to Japan.

In the USA sometimes they're referred to as the disconnected youth. [3]

[1] https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/81-599-x/81-599-x2018013...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori

[3] https://www.ssrc.org/programs/measure-of-america/youth-disco...
Out of the box linux gaming is amazing with steam and proton, and some open sources and indies are publishing native linux installer / executable.

The hardest and most brittle part is the drivers, I find it hard and technical extensive to install drivers.
80s smartwatch hacked to play Tetris (2017)
The UC-2000 by Seiko is often called “the world’s first smartwatch” but I found it coming short - to do anything cool you needed to use the associated UC2200 terminal. But with this hack, I think it really qualifies!
"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone"
I can't speak to the American experience as I'm Canadian, but my whole life I've suffered, as many do, with an anxiety disorder. Whether it was worrying about having to perform in drama class (we had limited options for electives in my small town), some assignment being due, or just getting bullied on the bus because you were the weird quiet kid who just read there was always something each day to dread. If you have social anxiety just sitting in a class trying to avoid thinking about all the other people around you who could be looking at you can be enough to be overwhelming.

This doesn't mean that every kid had these problems, and the article says as much, but for those who were already having a hard time I can see their conditions being further exacerbated by the constant noise now.
Reading this comment gave me a headache.
Discussed yesterday:

IRS tests free e-filing system that could compete with tax prep giants

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35950836 (407 comments)
> > Every kink deserves nested evaluation as to whether it should be totally shamed

> Fuck no, keep your morality ideas for yourself. Who are you to judge?

You're judging that no one should judge.

I'm not a Libertine. I have a right to be in this world too. I don't have to just go by your standards. I'll live and let live as long as you give me space for my preferences, but that is never where it ends. Because libertines don't like me asserting my boundaries when they are in my space.

If I don't know about it, I can't kink shame it. If I do know about it, then you pushed it into my space.
This may be controversial, but I think skipping school because of "anxiety" is a first-world problem and a sign of over pamperedness. I live in a third-world country with endless issues, and yet hardly see kids skipping school for so-called anxiety.

Sure, treat their anxiety and help when you can, but I'll never let my hypothetical child skip one day of school because of emotional issues, and I'm glad my parents never let me do the same...I'ma jack you up and drop at the school gate then come get you when school is over.
Ban mobile phones in schools.

Already being done in other countries:
https://www.nsw.gov.au/media-releases/nsw-government-begins-...
Interesting that in this case, DMCA actually denies the copyright owner what they want to do: require YouTube to proactively find copyright-infringing content via its scanning tools, rather than rely on individually submitted takedown notices.
Note that you also need an extension to remove the alt-tab delay even if animations are disabled: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1317/alt-tab-switcher...

(though otherwise GNOME is pretty nice to use without animations)
A build by any other name would smell as sweet
Hah! I can break it by accusing it of pretending to be the Basilisk. It always returns a SERVER_ERROR