skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, I've looked at Permission Slip, and I'm a long-timer CR subscriber. I didn't see anything there that wasn't better done by DeleteMe or Optery, and I saw a lot of improvements that needed to be made.

I like that CR has interests that are more aligned with mine, and that this is a space they're working on, but they need to do better. Much better.

I've also looked at Incogni, and it came much closer to what I get with DeleteMe and Optery. But they're still better.

Between DeleteMe and Optery, the former has been around for a while, but doesn't provide nearly as much coverage. Optery has a baseline level that is free, but not as good as DeleteMe. Optery also has more expensive options that include human processing to delete your data off way more sites, but is much more expensive.

So, I'm kinda torn between DeleteMe and Optery. I'm leaning towards the latter, but I don't have any final conclusions yet. I need to wait and see how they both do over the longer term.
The subtext of the article seems to be that Fentanyl could not be weaponized in any meaningful way and the idea is only being pushed by various right wing actors.

There's also this deeply upsetting nugget:

"The hysteria, however, continues to this day. Around 80 percent of police officers surveyed believe you can overdose by touching fentanyl, according to three different studies."
So the idea is I shouldn't need an alarm system in my house because all my valuables are kept at a safe that can't be opened by anyone but me?

I disagree with this, 404 queries still use resources and someone trying URLs in a matter of seconds should be blocked nonetheless.
I tried to record audio in it with a nice microphone, and it was illegibly garbled. (It’s probably unfixable.)

I believe you can use it to edit audio, but it doesn’t work with a microphone.
The usual solution is to just do a stored value system; give people a wallet in your system that they can top off in $20 increments, then the actual microtransactions are just a database write.
No, fund expenses are typically not included when comparing returns.
A key advantage of trains is they can be fully electric and don’t need to carry their entire fuel load on board.

An electrified train running on nuclear or wind supplied power basically can’t be beat for low-environmental-impact long distance travel. And even for non-electric trains, diesel trains with a mere 23 people per car have a BTU per passenger mile of 2,000, compared to a typical 30mpg car’s 4,000 BTU per mile.

And even if it’s not yet electric, buying the right of way and building the rail lines is better preparation for that future all-electric world. Plus the more trains exist, the more full they’ll typically be, and the better we’ll get at making them more efficient.
I was living in downtown Toronto (one street south of Bloor St, corner with Church St) for 4 years, in that time my rent went from 1800, to 1900, to my landlord threatening to move her son into the unit just to evict me unless I accepted 2500, for the same unit. A small 1bdrm without a balcony, in a building from the 70s.

I was making a pretty normal tech worker salary, and struggling on 2500/m. (90k CAD in early 2020) Looking around there were only similar or more expensive options. Many of them were "ready to move in". (Aka, vacant) The pandemic barely put a dent in those prices.

I moved to Montréal, currently have a 2bdrm so I can have a home office, on the ground floor of a triplex with a little sunken balcony, in the gay village, for 1500/m.

I don't even know why I'd live in Toronto, it's just become a bad deal now. Doesn't matter who you are. If you think of rent and cost of living as the "subscription" to a city, there's no way you're getting that sort of value out of it.
I find this to be true for me personally. I try to set aside 5 minutes every day just to write what ever I’m thinking about. I find it forces me to confront my anxieties directly. Sometimes even just writing about them reduces them.

I think this style of writing is intentionally not meant to be perfected so I never go back and edit what I’ve written.

Earlier this year I built https://chronofile.co to help me with this specific practice.
I’ve been programming and reading programming-adjacent books since I was about six. It definitely has shaped my views about hyped technologies since I remember the same sort of rhetoric used to promote OOP and XML and Java as is being used today to promote Crypto, AI and Rust.

I don’t know if it’s made me a better programmer, but it’s made me realize the importance of focusing on fundamentals and learning the ephemeral stuff just in time.
I've looked at "what went wrong" with the symbolic A.I. of the 1980s in the (probably vain) hope that it can be reconstituted, which is why I put so much energy into the semantic web.

One problem is that practical reasoning is fundamentally probabilistic and nobody ever found a way to graft this onto logic programming or production rules that was completely satisfactory. For instance, a medical diagnosis system is trying to estimate the probability distribution of a hidden variable (the diagnosis) which is contingent on other hidden variables which are influenced by the signs and symptoms that you have observed and will be influenced by additional observations that you attempt to make, test orders, etc.

Bayesian networks, despite having some problems, are the most realistic approach to that problem and they really do work if the causal structure is fixed and you know what it is.

Thus I got interested in Bayesian statistics not because they are a model for human or animal thinking but because they are a model for things that can do some of the tasks humans do (particularly those that "expert systems" can do and in turning natural language into facts)

You could think of a task like "is this a picture of a dog?" as being a problem of sampling a probability distribution over a 3,000,000 dimensional space if you're doing it for a 1,000x1,000 pixel image. Done that naive way the problem looks completely impossible but the triumph of machine learning, particularly deep learning, is it can make a guess at that probability distribution given a fraction of the data it would take to sample it directly.
> You cannot have a labor union and still be a successful company. Unions are cancer.

Hard disagree.
You can also extract energy by moving between two fluids in relative motion.

If you count that as sailing, this is the fastest sailing vessel.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4eFD_Wj6dhk
I wonder if we'll ever see a move towards "headless" apps that have the business logic written in whatever language(s) shared as libraries and APIs, but each platform would then be able to write its own UI frontend in its native stacks.

In the case of Audacity, that could mean all the audio processing stuff in WASM but the UI could be done as a traditional web app instead of a ported canvas.

Just a thought.
I expect you'll get flak for #1, but the morality aspect of it bothers me a great deal as well. Not just supporting products of companies that contribute to China's surveillance state, but I worry that writing open source software contributes to surveillance everywhere as well. I don't have an answer :-(
If this is true, do you think it would be possible to write a new UI for git that is compatible with git repositories, but more accurately (and intuitively) exposes those underlying concepts?
Just run rss2email?
Implies Windows but without information about why Windows was chosen. Sometimes people have to use whatever computer is available.

So I take the question more as: given whatever computer platform you are stuck on, what screen reader do you prefer?

Feel free to share the poll though, maybe it will clarify.
Let's Examine Some Real Crimes Committed by Presidents
Why unfixable?
The way they describe it:

> and you obviously lose time when you didn't make it right the first time and have to debug your code, but when it comes to ranking, the only thing that mattered is the time it takes to get a right answer

It seems possible this might be ICPC as well... I mean there is a time penalty, but it's still consistent with the literal wording of the description quoted above.
When the moonshot hits the sky

You score a bonus pizza pie!

That's amore...
If you have some ideas on how to change the laws of physics I’m all ears. Otherwise someone will always be able to build one.
If your product is something that will be used strictly in demos, do this.

If your product is something an customer will use, demo-driven development will poison your processes by creating an endless backlog of neglected post-demo stuff.
That been strongly speculated about the Russian state of nuclear warheads - because those are not properly maintained, none of them works - Russia, despite their wild claims doesn't have any nuclear deterrent as we speak.

So it is likely that they are moving toward doing an actual nuclear test, likely in the atmosphere. Legal framework to move in that direction is currently in progress. They of course try to milk as much leverage they can get in such process - I hope that Western policy makers understand that it will not change the end result - there will be a nuclear test regardless of the amount of concessions they will make.
This is overly general: whether or not secrets should be in diagnostic information depends on what you’re trying to diagnose. I’ve written PAM modules, for example, and logging TOTP secrets and passwords was absolutely essential for development purposes, even if I eventually deleted the relevant code for production.
Are men immune to lung cancer? This seems like an oddly targeted study, and one cannot help but wonder if there are political reasons for it.
OP is describing a very long standing bug which they describe as: "This “Safari not responding” behaviour when using VoiceOver dramatically impacts ..."

OP seems to be happy with the functionality of VoiceOver on Mac but not with the stability of VoiceOver on Mac.

You don't mention what actually works for you (on your Mac - you do mention that), only that you disagree with the article.
Epic Games Sale of Bandcamp Has Left the Artist-Friendly Music Platform in Limbo
> Kuiper particularly looks like a long shot, because it's directly fighting against SpaceX's biggest strength: large-number launch economics. Of all the ways to try to get a foothold in the new space industry, the Kuiper approach is one of the least logical).

This misses Amazon’s strength - AWS. Launches are a fraction, granted a non-trivial fraction, but still a fraction, of actually running a space-to-ground network.

Who’s going to have the best latency to your enterprise infra in AWS DCs? Offer you “free egress to satellite links”?

The US military will want multiple providers.

List goes on.
He commited to buying it then tried to back out with a bunch of false excuses (later admitted in BBC interview). The market had a big drop + the reality of the Apple advertising attribution changes kept hitting. Meta was able to recover from Apple's ad changes decently, turning Twitter into 8chan didn't help their recovery.
Does that cover full implementation of the program? Medicare and medicaid (that, to be clear, I'd abolish in a heartbeat with only a transition period for readjustment) could simply be legislated into an unusable state. E.g. slash provider payouts by an order of magnitude and see how many doctors still accept it - nearly as good abolishing it.
See also, CJ Cherryh's Merchanter's Universe stories, in which some of the ramifications of bulk information distribution using FTL ships between distant space settlements are explored.
Okay but then life in prison without the possibility of parole, internet use, visitors, or access to excesses finances, because why would a successful conviction and sentencing suddenly endow Zuck with morality and ethics to not just facilitate more genocides the second he's given the chance?
Probably because of a lack of proper realtime audio due to how the audio input layer was ported, but that's hypothetically fixable by changing the architecture.
I love pure innovation projects. Just find some totally new way to do things that appeals to you.

Well done.
As a concrete example, Uber and Lyft can likely drive up prices without any price fixing or collusion simply by understanding the maximum price customers will pay and pushing it higher. Simple explore/exploit.
Exactly. There's lots of intense density (50+ storey residential buildings) in a small geographic area, but for the other 75% of the land area of Toronto, it has been illegal to build even a 4-plex; zoning allows single family housing only. If you look at neighborhoods in Montreal where there are blocks upon blocks of 4-6 storey low-rise, that type of construction simply doesn't exist in Toronto.

Some good search terms for this topic are "the yellowbelt"[1] and "the missing middle"[2].

[1]: http://www.mapto.ca/maps/2017/3/4/the-yellow-belt

[2]: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-missing-middle/
CustomerCentric Selling. Not clear to me if it actually helps but it was excitedly recommended to me.

Anyone else!
I think a lot of people put too much pressure on themselves when it comes to the advice "writing your thoughts down". Perfectionism, or the memories of being forced to take notes in school, kicks in and you start to look for how-to:s, format and guides.

Very similar to meditation. The best meditation advice I got was to just sit down, focus on doing nothing and be OK with being bored. Not some breathing techniques, how to focus your mind, posture etc. That comes later, very naturally, after you get curious about improvements.

Same goes for writing down thoughts. Just take a blank A4 paper from the printer and write away. Not sure what to write? Write about that, the fact that you're not sure what to write. Throw the paper away if you don't like the thoughts you see, or at least do it with that mindset. It's not about writing something novel, just as meditating is not about reaching some enlightenment
This post is great as the current state of network mesh is too complex for some users. That led me to write a simple rust daemon to run a TLS proxy and spawn the original app locally, reverse proxying requests as the cost of implementing a full mesh just to have tls across applications was too much for my team at the time. I didn't knew about ONRUN, s6 and all that. Also, why not tailscale as the mesh ?
Nukes just seem like a money pit of maintenance problems and governance.

The UK has ~200 or more nukes. But it's scrimping on building a railway. And it's military is chronically short of money. Just how well do you think those nukes work? Think about the PM. Just how ready is his to engage with a nuclear strike as part of the job.
I think nukes have been a paper tiger for a long time.
I'd say just try it out and see how you feel. If you feel defeated and discouraged, then that's the end of it :) However, if you feel motivated to get better results, then you'll find the info you want easily (esp. how to solve the problem[s] that tripped you up)

IPSC ( https://ipsc.ksp.sk/ ) used to be my favorite until they stopped organizing it :'( - but you can still play with the problems and see how you would rank :)

I would advise against reading a bunch of materials first before you do your first contest -- a lot of those stuff are niche and probably doesn't feel different from leetcode grinding, so only do as much as you feel motivated to read and practice.
The US will continue to fail at public transit because rich people do not use it. As an oligarchy, the government prioritizes the whims of the rich and there are no signs of change. From 1880-1950, trains and public transit were utilized heavily by the American rich in NYC and other US cities because it was the fastest way to get around. Once highways and air travel came about, they stopped. You routinely see celebs on the Tube and other European metros. You hardly see them on the NYC subway anymore. The 2000s were a bit of a golden age for the NYC subway and other US metro systems because Uber and Google Maps navigation did not exist, but now they do. It's going to cause a death spiral for alot of metros unless something changes.
> Every Falcon (or Starship) carrying KuiperSats is _not_ carrying Starlink satellites. SpaceX uses Starlink launched as a way to tune and optimize the Falcon launch platform. Launching KuiperSats potentially hurts the SpaceX launch vehicle and Starlink programs in subtle ways.

SpaceX will not remain constrained by launch cadence. Also, very Kuoper launch would make money for them funding further Starlink launches.

Space X is the one direct competitor. You never find your competitor.
I started experiencing similar forearm pain a few years ago. The split keyboard seemed to help a ton. I also programmed[0] an Arduino with two foot pedals. Left pedal for CTRL, right for SHIFT, both for ALT. Worked wonders. I mostly have the pain manageable now, but it still flares up sometimes, and it was really scary there for a while wondering if I might have to stop programming. To you young guns out there, an ounce of prevention truly is worth a pound of cure. Invest in an ergonomic setup and stretches/exercises now, and don't push yourself into pain while typing. Take more breaks. Once you push your body over the edge it may never quite be the same.

[0]: https://github.com/anderspitman/ergo-pedals
I started doing this like 3 years ago. Actually have like 30+ 100page sketchbooks filled so far. Keep meaning to catalogue it all, but I keep adding to it instead.
I love Wez, but I hate the lack of macOS native tabs.
Because nothing comes close.
My precise thought was "Aw, Syroco's got this, if it doesn't murder everything that gets bolted inside of it.". It's like the engineers made a force vector diagram and just stopped there.
It's really not that bad. Not everything needs to be optimized so one can consume maximum information in minimal time
To be honest it vastly depends on what you expect to need in retirement. Based on my current salary and estimated retirement payment (which some online calculator calculated at ~2/3rds my income) I'm still slightly below what I should be saving for that. But by then I will both need more money to take care of family (hopefully) and less money since I should have long paid off my house and car by then.

My salary is much higher than household average but far from unheard of in tech. There are definitely some scrappy college grads getting offers higher than it. and I have 3+ decades to increase it.
Wasn’t that essentially the original intention for x-windows?
So, Ghostty will be BUSL, too?
This is an interesting take, and a very salacious headline.

I’m a lawyer who represent a number of disabled individuals (including the blind). My clients with vision impairments as all in on Apple products, saying that the accessibility features are head and shoulders above other options.
It’s as polarizing and stupid at city level as it is at the national level.
> For example, the error messages in Elm are just insanely better than in any other language I know. Like, it's not even in the same ballpark. Why doesn't every language have this?

It's a combination of economics (who pays for the work? It could be people scratching an itch, but these people also have to have the privilege of being able to pay their bills somehow), difficulty (it's not a trivial problem space, you need to turn your compiler into one that understands not only its own language but also every potential language people try, and the errors might crop up in unexpected places where the context you need to provide good errors is long gone, so you must change the compiler to a bowl of spaghetti design, so you can access, for example, the type checker during parsing) and inertia (developers are used to building tools for themselves, so they dont spend time on diagnostics because they are already familiar with the inner workings od the tool, then other developers use those tools and because every other tool is like that they don't expect good errors, so no one considers them important enough, and the cycle goes on and on).

But let me be clear on one thing: although there are many things in your language design and compiler implementation that you can do to make things easier on yourself (don't throw anything away related to the causal relationship for why a certain constraint is present!), the work is mostly elbow grease, and spit and polish, little more.
This is hilarious because it hits close to home. I think my wife has most of the plants described in the article and she’d never leave them in the care of a teenager or if she did she’d be checking in daily to get a video update.
That’s a bit harsh. 57 here and my forearms, elbows, and wrists are f…ouled up without an ergonomic split keyboard and some other accommodations. Bodies are different, and if this guy is a rock climber, that might have something to do with it. But flat, tight keyboards give me tendinitis in as little as a day. I can’t even use my laptop without an external keyboard, which kinda defeats the purpose, but it’s what work gave me and it’s more powerful than my current, out of date, PC.
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I'm not sure if you're making some kind of weird pedantic point, or if you're just mistaken.

The ICPC rules state "20 penalty minutes for every previously rejected run for that problem that was not rejected due to Compilation Error". The quote you referenced claimed "the only thing that mattered is the time it takes to get a right answer". Clearly the only thing that matters is not the time it takes to get a right answer: someone who gets the right answer with 1 failed submission and 30 minutes will end up behind someone else who gets the right answer with 0 failed submissions and 40 minutes.
The first time I watched this was at secondary school, I think we would have been about 15. The social studies teacher put this on so we could study "Societies of the Future".

Reading between the lines now I think the teacher might have been a bit hungover and just put it on to shut us up. Either way, a great movie.
> There’s no rule of airflow which says air only flows upwards.

When you are burning a fire there is a rule, it's called the stack effect, it is the very point of having a long (and ideally straight) chimney.
> Not just supporting products of companies that contribute to China's surveillance state, but I worry that writing open source software contributes to surveillance everywhere as well.

This part doesn't bother me. Making open source software available for general purpose needs equalizes things, which I consider an improvement. See e.g. what happens when folks have cameras pointed at the cops slowly murdering George Flynn.

But directly giving my money to the companies that are writing software specifically to support genocide (e.g. Uighur classification) and are doing the installations for contract at what's essentially concentration camps...that's way over my personal ethical line, even if my few dollars are insignificant.
> “I’ve heard from growers I really respect that they were asking upwards of $40,000 for some of their varieties,” says Tyler Thrasher, a US plant propagator who is the host of the popular podcast Greenhouse Rants. “It’s usually because those plants will end up in a tissue culture lab where they can be turned into millions in a couple of years.”

That's pretty much the only explanation that would make sense - these are all clonal plants that the purchaser will duplicate and resell for much more reasonable prices. Seems like there's a fad-time component to get them cloned and grown before competitors can find another sample.
It seems to me that people in this thread are being incredibly pedantic.