skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Because ads don't work on me"
I used to think like this also until it dawned on me that I have no idea where the motivations and reasons for my decisions come from. This is because they are almost entirely subconscious. And if they are subconscious we have no real way of knowing whether we are or are not influenced by advertising.

e.g., visited the Heineken Brewery in Amsterdam when I was a late teenager which was basically an advertising museum of all their advertisements going back to the 1950s. Before that day I had never drank Heineken but after that I found myself drinking it regularly for years. If you asked me if I was influenced by advertising I would have said no way. Now I'm more open minded to that possibility hence I use adblock to shield my poor defenceless brain.
First time I'm hearing about Embassy. Looks like things have progressed since last time I tried deploying rust on an stm32.
That means I'll stop 99% of all outgoing traffic. Still interested in how to force all traffic to a proxy though.
Are those really the only two options?
Wow, that's a completely ridiculous strawman. My kids go to one of the most liberal school districts in the nation, and never once have they been told they need to "introspect their gender identity," let alone the absolutely absurd notion that "if they're not certain, they're genderfluid and/or need puberty blockers."

Literally the only thing along those lines that is taught is to respect other people's gender identity. This has been no harder for them to grasp than "Gay people exist and that's ok" was for my generation.

If you really believe that school districts out there are pushing puberty blockers, then your YouTube algorithm is probably feeding you a heck of a lot of crap.
There's some interest in a binary size working group. https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/131828-t-comp...
Of course not.

But that syncs up with what I've observed in my own life (saw multiple brazen robberies for the first time ever over the last few years) and makes sense logically given the recent predictable economic + societal mental-health destruction we've seen.

Additionally, it fits into the most reliable indicator of what's real, namely if the corporate media is trying to convince you of something, you'd have a good chance of being right by considering the opposite to their opinion.
From 2015-2019, my only mobile device was an Android tablet with no SIM card. At purchase, I signed up for a Google Voice number, and I sort of got by with VoIP service over WiFi wherever I could.

Since then, I've purchased a proper mobile phone, and I transferred my landline home phone over to that SIM card, and it's my main line now. I use my Voice number very rarely.

One of the drawbacks to SIM cards is that you can't really get the phone service mirrored or transferred to a regular computer. Sure, you can "link" the phone if it's nearby, but the service itself stays there.

I've had a number of times where I'd really like to have voice/SMS service on that number available via computer (some people I know are actually creeped out by my having two phone numbers at once), but what can you do.

I haven't traveled since the Before Times anyway, so boarding a plane with devices is the least of my worries.
Finland for example.
Getting to and from school was safer than walking around normally due to crossing guards. This is a global phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_guard

From an American perspective the temptation is to bring up suburbs etc, but being bike unfriendly is a global thing. It’s really about the physical effort to travel X distance and therefore the reasonableness of biking such distances to see a friend.
I've started frequently getting reviewed (from submission to approval) within hours, sometimes even within 10-15 minutes of submitting to Apple App Store. But it still varies and can take a day.

I want to figure out a good cross plat strategy but would not want to ever deal with Play and Google.
Looks like Dash to Dock is the only extension I have installed.

The rest of the changes were done through Gnome Tweak or Accessibility settings.
normal person in tge north of england might be willing to pay 3x, just so they don't have to carry bags?

Where in the north are people this rich and lazy?

theres Current a cost of living crisis and this comment is just wildly out of touch. Are you a politician?
Ruby Object Model by Dave Thomas (2009) [video]
Sounds similar to my trick, although I'm not sure if I really delve into details. I think the main purpose is to push out everything else from my mind, since whenever I have insomnia, it's not because I'm looking at my phone, but because I can't get something out of my mind.
Snipe Hunt
Most sleep problems cannot be solved by sitting still. You should go to the doctor, get a sleep test and look for more serious treatment methods. I wouldn't recommend wasting your time with such suggestions.
A.I. Brings the Robot Wingman to Aerial Combat
It's just an illustrative example that I didn't even bother to check for syntax errors, and I'm just used to zsh syntax so I don't always remember to translate to POSIX, and quite frankly, it doesn't matter because no one will or should run this script, because it's just illustrative, which is obvious to anyone.

You're making a big deal out of nothing.
Clipboard history, Pop! Shell, and workspace scroller (scroll across the top bar to quickly go through workspaces), on NixOS.

I also set up dconf options so I always have 10 workspaces, not just one more than the number currently being used, which is a pretty bad default imo. Muscle memory works much better when you can quickly go to the workspace you associate with some program of your workflow, say, Win+8 for a music player, rather than having to adapt to whatever order you happen to open programs in on this reboot.

One extension that I find really clever is Tactile [0], but unfortunately it doesn't synergize very well with Pop shell. One day I'll switch to qtile and build a custom everything with both those ideas.

[0] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4548/tactile/
Hmm..

Reading about this, you're right definition-wise (Glass is not biodegradable), but in practice Glass is degradable to safe materials - and this happens naturally - which is what we really want.
Based on the crash behaviour, it sounds like Google never bothered trying to log in to the application if it passed review.

This also makes me wonder, was the app already crashing on Android 13 before updating the target SDK version? I suppose the backwards compatibility layers must've kept the app alive on modern phones?

Personally, as a user, I like that Google forces developers to update their apps, because the old API designs were terrible for privacy, but they won't be enforced unless devs update their targetSdk. Breaking installed apps is not an option, but forcing the issue in Google Play works well. I'd also say their testing times were reasonable, if it weren't for the fact that they don't see obvious problems such as "app was never even tested on Android 13".
There is a lot of backing for this concept that innovation is continuing, and also that past innovation was not the 'big-bang' explosion that we remember.

We only remember the big changes, we don't remember the decades to produce them.

Just look back at the studies on the Industrial Revolution. We think of them as great progress, great innovation. But that is only looking back at the results. The Industrial Revolution actually stretched over hundred years, and when the individual year-to-year progress is mapped out, then it was really more of a continuum that continues to today.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1171333
It's true, which isn't great, but the real issue imo is turning on reader mode, there's just no text.

For a workaround for the size, 60-75% zoom works well.

If the author notices this thread- a couple of tweaks could make this much more accessible to folks.
There were a few things that led to us recognizing and adjusting our biases. But what led us to homeschool ourselves was pretty straightforward.

My wife was a teacher in private schools for about 7 years, and once our oldest was ready for kindergarten, we decided that she could either go out and teach other people's kids, or she could homeschool and teach her own kids.
Relevant: https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/They_Saved_Lisa%27s_Brain
He currently has to put up with fakers, dupes that are not picked up, etc.

Once he can require you to focus on a series of letters with your eyes, it will be harder to fake, easier to pick up dupes. Aside for the fact that getting a "typing cadence" with each individual's eyes is probably valuable in and of itself.
Interested in hearing more?

If you can show your new approach works, sure. Usually this is done via papers in ML conferences, but if you have reproducible results on Github I'll take a look.
I can buy that information is consolidated for generalization during sleep. And also that the subconscious mind does a lot of work that we aren't aware of.

One aspect of this that hasn't been mentioned though is just fatigue. By analogy, if you were training in a gym for an hour and then decided to try to go for a heavy bench press, it might be harder and harder the more you try, since you are getting more tired.

But if you take a long lunch break or come back fresh the next day, it may be relatively easy.

So I think mental fatigue also plays into this. Although the other theories seem fairly established and more interesting.

But maybe you can extend the analogy further if you consider maxing out and then resting for a few days so that your muscles have made a slight adaptation (become slightly stronger). In this case, when you returned to the bench press, not only would your muscles be rested but also more capable.

This could be similar to the memory consolidation and organization that goes on during sleep which could provide an information schema that already incorporated key aspects of your problem and maybe previous similar problems/solutions, giving you a head start on solving it.

As an aside, it's interesting to think about how much work your memory is doing for problem solving with things like analogical reasoning. Which is one reason that it may be hard to measure intelligence accurately and fairly, since all skill and knowledge involves developing and accessing compressed problem/solution spaces.
This may work for non-neurotic people but laying still in bed is when the demons in my mind come out to play and remind me of all of my problems.
Seems to be the same collection of services deployed in different AZs with a load balancer? The trick would be how data is replicated across the instances, which I'm guessing is some sort of event publishing or even backup sources of truth? It says that will come in the next article and surely that's the more interesting part than the load balancing...

Also explains to me why new features would take a while to roll out of you are cautiously updating instances/AZs one by one
if find this video to capture the spirit and meaning of gratitude in a very captivating and touching way. i'm not blessed with an intuitive access to feeling grateful on a deeper level. i am able to identify and acknowledge courtesy and respond to it and also am very willing to give back but it always feels more like an exchange of goods driven by moral principles. i'm just know discovering what i missed and am also feeling grateful for finally starting to get an idea of the magical experience of gratefulness that i'm able to feel emotionally ... spiritually. at the end of the day i'm a computer guy but i more and more come to the conclusion that either the environment of according professions or my attitude towards it proved to be an obstacle to foster and nurture an attitude to life which i don't want to compromise any longer which again brings me to a point of questioning how i want to continue to make money to pay my rent. very existential ... LOL
If it’s truly a waste, producing no value, no one will pay for it. But obviously many, many people value things like

- The time savings of direct, immediate, door-to-door transportation

- Dedicated storage capacity

- Configuration flexibility, e.g. children’s car seats, foldable seats, luggage racks

- Style and comfort options

- Privacy

…and direct their dollars accordingly.
Social media does not cause depression in children
If I can find a news article about a public school teacher who molested children will you support shutting those down too?
Firstly, what I said can be true in one scope of reference and what you say in another. It's not mutually exclusive.

I feel your perspective is more about lots of the world after the rise of nation states and dense civilization.

For me I'm actually thinking back to the Pirahãs tribe from Daniel Everett's book as how we realistically lived as tribes. Conflict might arise, but a group might split off and go live in an entirely different patch of forest permanently, at which point the conflict is done without fuss. Things can be much less pleasant with permanent settlements and all land being owned by someone else.

A couple, man and woman, possibly with children, might also do something like this and just reject the benefits of being part of a larger community as loners.

Not all conflict is existential, we all choose to live facing a certain amount but also have our limits. Kids have way less flexibility to make the call and it is the cause of much misery
While this is true, the typical taxi’s vehicle doesn’t cost a quarter million dollars (radar, LiDAR, high performance compute system, special calibration).

I am curious how much cheaper the robotaxis will actually be for the user (right now they’re all at a loss)
Glad that you liked it! I find it the coolest one too!
Video delivered in real time over an encrypted connection, this is a double whammy.

You need to both decrypt and decode all at above the framerate of the video, doubt that will be doable on any older hardware, unless ssid hardware has dedicated components for those functions.

If I had to implement this on an old CPU I would likely be passing network, video and encryption off to co-processors and the older chip will effectively only be running control information.

But that that point why not just use a modern low power chip.
> I personally have been against developing mobile apps for years now for the exact same reasons described in here and other similar articles — as soon as you decide to develop mobile apps then you give control of your product/service away
to a third party

Hard to disagree with that.

When "support" is hoping that HN or Twitter attracts helpful attention, we're going down the wrong path.
Yeah the person asking if this is the goal post's final form--that was a rhetorical question.

Obviously they suspect why and they're expressing their incredulity at people still in the denial stage of grief.

Being emotive to the extent you're cognitively impaired is not a favourable condition to be in.
We can nag about it but there is no real solution for management not having skills or will to double down.

You know you cannot just hire "best of the best of the best" you most likely can hire best of your market and only if you have budget/resources for that.

This counts also for management.

Get a company of 100 employees, I don't see a realistic scenario where you could simply hire and retain competent enough people to have all of them on "perfect skill level" or "above average".

For a company of 1000 employees, just hiring and building up to 1000 employees is years of work and people come and go.

For a small company of 10-20 people it is super hard to get anyone because lots of above average people look at a big brands to work for.
The NoSQL movement was absolutely acrid towards SQL. The blowback is justified, IMHO. "blending my firstborn for margaritas" is very colorful language, woah :-)
IBM analog AI chip could give the Nvidia H100 a run for its money
The SCP Foundation wiki, which is a collaborative horror / sci-fi project telling sort of Men in Black types of stories, features one series of contributions mostly by an author going by qntm which is called "There Is No Antimemetics Division," which is probably the best science fiction story for my tastes that I've ever read.

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub
> It's hard to ignore people who post lazy conclusions like "there's propaganda on both sides, and each side has their own story, so we don't know the truth". This actually sounds like what someone from the pro-CCP camp would write, actually, since that sort of obfuscation is precisely what the authorities there would desire, muddying the waters and shelving the topic while they continue to get away with the acts they've committed.

I didn't mean to come of as some sort of propaganda machine, I've been digging through this thing a lot for a while and tried to stay as neutral as possible.

You mentioned an interesting keyword, information vaccum which perfectly describes my feeling regarding this!

When I talked about "propaganda from both sides", I was thinking of the US funded news organisations like rfa.org, benarnews (and their history with CIA to spread an agenda and one-sided information)

I try my best to not rely solely on a single piece of source but instead put togheter multiple sources to make up my mind.

Other reports like the OIC-countries visiting these reeducatation (concentration) camps in Xinjiang and later praising China felt weird, why would they? Is it because of Chinas massive investment in these countries?
One problem I recently ran into with rider is the inability to run two commands at once in a launch config without them blocking each other. (Basically, it seems like launch configs are ALWAYS running serially)
It's a similar situation with Chrome extensions. Extension reviews are generally pretty quick (an hour or so), but every once in a while you get hit with a longer one (days+).

In this type of environment, you need to ensure every release is as rock-solid as possible. For our extension, we have beta extension with a sub-group of opted-in users that we test on for a week or so before doing a production release. Then we roll out the extension to production incrementally starting with 1% of users and slowly ramping that up to 100% (it seems Android has a similar staged rollout feature).
Eh American here, German forever repentance is hilariously unnecessary and comical, and it gives a lot of people waaay more skepticism about Germans for a population to first flip to being so destructive to its own citizens and then be the most accommodating ever until its a political crisis. Like be for real. Everybody’s laughing.

I dont know everything but I resonate way more with Austria for this reason, it feels like that same level of re-education is kind of absent there and it feels more genuine.
Because just like with taxes, people want the benefits of large systems but balk at paying for it themselves even when the payment is just time/annoyance.
And what is the effective difference between uninstalling and deactivating it for you, assuming you want to do either of those to prevent over use?
It’s unlikely that smoke has anti-fungal properties, short of treatment with creosote.
I am almost always following a link to YouTube, or watching an embedded video. I don’t really care about the content usually. It’s a means to an end
> I don't get why people block ads on YouTube, robbing individual creators. It's not like hulu or Amazon where you are just robbing megacorp and predatorial studios.

Simply put, fuck advertisements. And especially fuck loud, obnoxious, malware-laden, adver-shit. I will block anything that looks like an advert, malware, or otherwise against my purposes.

And do not forget that I'm simply preventing them on my computer, with software I control.

And "robbing"?? What a bloody joke. I never took anything, and I especially didn't use violence in doing so.
Hear hear. I'm beyond tired of all these self-proclaimed hackers with their lips so far up Google's ass that they can taste what Sundar had for breakfast.

The ad industry is a scourge on humanity, and its gormless defenders are willing accomplices.
Ask HN: What Snippet Manager do you use in 2023
I'm having trouble finding a really good snippet manager to keep code I would like to reuse. I'm on a Mac and have used Snippets, DashDoc, and Quiver, but I've never really enjoyed using any of them. I did use Snippets the longest, but it's basically been the same app without any changes for years, and I just feel I'm missing something... maybe a GitHub and vscode/vim workflow.

Would very much be interested in hearing about how other devs manage reusable code. Thanks in advance!
I'm currently using 4 extensions.

system-monitor (https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/120/system-monitor/). It is nice to see my CPU and memory usage at a glance with some history. I don't look too often but it can be good for understanding how builds are progressing, check that my software is utilizing parallelism well and see when things are in an infinite loop gobbling RAM.

Clipboard History (https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4839/clipboard-histor...)

I can't live without a clipboard manager, this seems to do a decent job.

Bing Wallpaper (https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1262/bing-wallpaper-c...)

I don't see my wallpaper often but when I open the menu or log in it is nice to have a new beautiful picture.

AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support (https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/615/appindicator-supp...)

I like icons in my toolbar.
A good ergonomic desk/chair setup. Exactly what that means will depend on what works best for you (and remember that expensive doesn't always mean better).
> If you don’t care about the creators then why watch the content?

Because he might not give a * about the creator or their way to monetization, but want to watch the content? And even then, the content itself doesn't seem to be that important either, seeing that they said "a couple times a month".

Probably it even falls under the category of "I watch it because it is there anyway, but I wouldn't miss it too much if the content hadn't been created to begin with".

I myself watch quite a bunch of YT with ads blocked and SponsorBlock to skip inserted product placements, because absolutely all of my consumption falls into that category. I wouldn't miss if tomorrow none of it was made any more. Well, maybe Smarter Every Day. But even then there are much better ways to support that channel. Most creators found out that real money doesn't come from YT but from sponsorships and side channels outside of the platform, anyway.
I did a fun project a few years ago with eye tracking.

We built a prototype for roadside sobriety checks. The idea was to take race/subjectivity out of the equation in these traffic stops.

We modified an oculus quest and added IR LEDs and cameras with small PI zero's. I wrote software for the quest that gave instructions and had a series of examinations where you'd follow a 3D ball, the screen would brighten and darken, and several others while I looked for eye jerks (saccades) and pupil dilation. The officer was able to see your pupil (enlarged) on a laptop in real time and we'd mark suspicious times on the video timeline for review.

It was an interesting combination of video decoding, OpenCV and real-time streams with a pretty slick UI. The Pi Zero was easily capable of handling real-time video stream decoding, OpenCV and Node. Where I ran into performance problems I wrote node -> c++ bindings.

We did it all on something silly like a 50k budget. Neat project.
Understanding Twitter's Algorithm
Just paint one side of your roof white and the other black, then flip it over every six months.
We've got some experimental work to support that. Not merged yet, but you can follow https://github.com/sourcegraph/cody. I've been polling Twitter (https://twitter.com/sqs/status/1675433337354330113) to see how much people actually are using self-hosted LLMs for code completion already, and it seems like not much yet, but Code Llama with infill is a big advance that we're quite excited about.