skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Many more people then you might think have had a unsatisfactory childhood. However, most of them get their act together at some point during growing up

Dιδ they have the same exact family circumstances, growing up experiences, psychological capacity, and so on? Or at least very close ones?

Or are you comparing different cases and expect them to have handled things the same?

>Pointing at your past as an excuse for criminal acts is pretty fucked up, IMO

It's not an excuse, it's an explanation, and a description of the forces and circumstances which led you there.

People's family and early life circumstances are hard to overcome, and just because some percentage of people manage it, doesn't mean it's easy for the rest, or that the people that did do it wouldn't also have slipped if they didn't have some lucky breaks (from psychological perspective all the way to the people they met, the connections they had, some rare good mentor or a good friend influence, etc.).
People move through the different doses at different speeds, and most people seem to find a stopping, long-term dose, but also there are people complaining that they’ve hit 15 and it’s starting to wear off. There’s also not a well-developed stopping protocol, other than “this is a drug for life but maybe start spreading out dosage”.
There are a lot of historical examples arguing for and against you. But murder and rape is far different than getting popped for heroin or selling weed and our laws already reflect that
> What alternative exists in countries without an ID system such as the US or UK? Rely on names, date of birth, place of birth? Conflicts are possible in big cities. Not everyone will have a driver's license. So yeah, it's quite easy to decide to use a unique number that everyone already has.

The best alternative is the state ID. In every state you can get a state ID and/or a driver's license (which in almost all states is also a state ID).

They contain a unique identifier and that identifier can be changed by the state if needed down the line.

A federal ID standard would be nice of course but that's never going to happen due to some reasonable concerns (poor implementations resulting in loss of privacy) as well as some absolutely batshit insane ones (the ID system is the mark of the devil).

I'd personally prefer that we establish a standard for a sane distributed trust federated ID system and then pressure the states into gradually adopting that rather than pushing it up to the federal level where it'll then get fucked up and everyone will be stuck with it forever.
Baloo (KDE) and Tracker (Gnome) are typically the first things I disable on any Linux desktop install that requires either of them. Tracker is hot garbage and a pain to disable. Baloo at least is granular and configurable enough to turn off file indexing without breaking search on the entire DE.
I practice backwards walking on incline on the treadmill at the gym, like others. I was once astounded to witness during my very first half marathon some fit young person walk the entire race backwards while eating a bag of chips. I didn't need any more inspiration than that
So, COVID outbreak CAN BE further perpetuated from the COVID jab/inoculant/shot (it sure ain't called a vaccine, especially when its efficacy is 39% and still dropping).

How does one test for that premise?
what's more likely, people stop traveling by plane, or these seats will remain filled? I'm all for making changes, but let's make them realistic ones with actual chances of getting implemented. the world is a big place, and air travel is not going to be replaced by steamships. we've been there, done that, and tired of the slowness. progress, not regression. improve the engines for air travel. don't expect air travel to stop
Yeah I'm sympathetic but this feels like something you see over and over -- rather than adapt to reduced demand / value of your product by lowering prices, just throw your hands in the air and declare that you're stuck with this stuff forever.

See the perpetually for sale, perpetually overpriced cars of Craigslist.
It may be beneficial, but it can also be deadly.

I have known two healthy people who fell while walking backwards and struck their heads. One died and the other spent many months recovering.

I'm not suggesting a helmet, but it is something to consider.
I was deep into rave culture at that age. Lets just say I know the "deal". However, I always knew I would never sell, because, surprise, I knew the penalty was not worth it.

So, I actually know what I am talking about here, and still lack sympathy. Risk taken, game lost. Simple.
If you honestly believe this, you've never been truly hungry. Most to all people will kill for food.
After some thought, I figured out a way to implement a chunked array of the sort specified by the c++ standard library, which does not require reallocation if the queue length stays below the chunksize. It involves storing cyclic offsets for each chunk.

So what I wrote isn't quite correct about needing to fiddle with memory regardless. But there is still overhead -- even if there's well-optimized code for the single chunk case, the container needs to check that condition.
> It's just a matter of time before it goes online, ransom or not

Sometimes the groups want a good reputation for not disclosing stuff if the ransom was paid. They earn that reputation over time.
Unlikely. Cooling is a huge challenge in space, needing crazy big radiators. Dumping excess heat into water or air is a lot more effective than black-body radiating it in a vacuum.
I think this is the key to their business at this point, advertising "all phones work with Bluetooth" so people can imagine actually being able to use them.
Nice! Would you mind offering some advice to me on how you raised a pre seed?
Being bilingual allows me to actually validate sites like this.

Almost all of the English ∩ Danish are completely wrong. "Alannah, Aleesha" etc.

Take this site with a spoonful of salt...
Hah that actually hurt my feelings, touché! My regretfully obnoxious tone was inspired by my love for WebGL. It bums me out that people abuse it to the point that the most privacy and security obsessed folks disable it altogether.

I apologize for the snark, it was unwarranted. I spend a lot of time building stuff with WebGL, and it pains me to know that all my work could be for naught. I’m curious, why do you personally reject WebGL?
And there was thinking that I was crazy by having a dozen old thinkpads...
Indeed, I have tens of old phones on my desk right now.
Too bad that SF government cannot do this ... everyday.
Wait, do they have computer and internet access in prison?? And free meals, healthcare and lodging? I might have taken that deal when I was young, busting my ass at shit jobs and renting shit places with crazy roommates.
I'm surprised that Germany wouldn't prefer KDE.
Needs to be on top. All people that claim that this means companies will leave Germany forget that the whole OECD including the USA agreed to this. That‘s the global part in the title.
I used https://www.midomi.com/ a long time ago. Never got it to quite work though
Maybe I just have freakish neuroplasticity, but I find that getting better at learning more than made up for ease of learning. I traded rote for note, and am better off for it.

Now, combine that with a neuroplasticity pill...
I just run Compton as compositor and the tearing is gone, which makes hard to move to Wayland and having to solve issues that I currently don't have.

I used it first with XFCE and later with i3.
Oh, I accidentally undersold it, infinite wall of light has no falloff.

Infinite line of light has linear falloff.
GIMP is still a Gtk2 program.
> They shouldn't be surprised if corporations leave their market.

This is really just basic math. If your country isn't a larger percentage of their market than this would increase their global tax rate, staying in your country would cause them to lose money.

It's also not obvious how they would expect to enforce this, or prevent it from leading to restructuring. If a German company buys widgets from China for $9 and sells them for $10, 90% of the revenue is going to China, but the Chinese company has no operations in Germany. If that means the foreign company (and so 90% of the revenue) isn't subject to your jurisdiction, that's what everybody is going to do. If you try to collect the tax at the border, all you've done is switched to VAT and you might as well do it formally instead of doing something unnecessarily complicated but equivalent.

And it creates a new arbitrage opportunity where some country nominally taxes you at a particular rate but then you get the money back or some other equivalent value using whatever means causes it to not be considered taxable income.
Even if I saw this post in time, I wouldn't have edited it. They are all proper Go package names.
Reading books to increase your understanding puts you ahead of 90% of people who graduated from a CS program in the last 5-10 years from what I've seen. Several of my coworkers admitted to having never read a book on anything related to software engineering before and it shows.
I tried nicotine patches (lifelong non-smoker). I didn't see any benefit. I was hoping I can focus more on some boring stuff I needed to get done against a deadline. I just didn't see anything.

I then disclosed that I used nicotine products when I applied for some life insurance. They wanted to put me in the smoker category, I had to spend time with them to explain I never smoked in my life, and the nicotine patches were not for smoking cessation, but just to improve focus.
Going with the opinion of the masses was never anything I aspired to anyways, so... Thanks for the compliment.
Does YT own the content? Its not exactly the same as movies, music or TV shows. He is downloading a video made by another user and uploaded to a publicly accessible website. Account is not even required to watch YT unless its +18 content. So what is Google going to argue here that user X stole users Y content and they are just good middle man samaritan?
Stargazers intersections for most popular GitHub projects in Venn diagrams
It would be awesome if there was a mode in which the pronunciation of the names is also same in the two languages.

For example, in french there is the name "Arnaud", which exists in German as "Arno". For a bilingual child it's much more important for the name to sound the same that to be written the same.
haha, this is funny...
maybe there is a translation team behind it, LOL
As a Bilingual person, the biggest thing I care about is a name that is in my language/culture but is easily pronounceable by others who have never heard of that name. Nothing wrong if it is tough to pronounce of course but as an American Citizen (Indian Origin), my wife and I named our kids keeping that in mind and we have a 95% success rate :) where non Indians can still pronounce it correctly.
https://archive.is/wlca5 if you get paywalled
When you code an application that deals with people and products and services and payments (like most applications do) your code must implicitly assume some kind of model and interrelationships of those concepts.

Ontology and ontology-editors allow you to make such assumptions about concept-relationships explicit. You can then review and correct those assumptions now that they are explicitly written down. If your company has multiple applications it helps that they all use the same ontology, or if they don't to know where they differ.

How well that works in practice I don't know but I think I get the idea. Of course ontologies are not much in the zeitgeist now that AI will solve all the problems. But surely, AI could create great ontologies with ease. Can we ask it?
Yep. I would consider driving up there to have a look and take a few off their hands... but at those prices, nope. They're going to have to blow these things out well under $100 each.
If Blender could radically update their UI and UX after 25 years of the initial conception, I feel like any (FOSS) project could do it too, no matter how many options and technical details the software has.
I guess I'm one. For some uses I want to be able to capture literally thousands of lines in a terminal session. I used to be able to do that with gnome-term. The "edit > select all" used to select the entire scrollback buffer. Now it just selects the visible portion. There is no option to change to the previous behavior. The value for providing that option is deemed not sufficient for the additional code complexity.

Yes, I know there are other ways to do this (e.g. screen), but they require planning in advance and I don't always know when I want to do that. There have been other things that I used that have also been removed over the time that I used Gnome.

I appreciate Gnome for the smooth experience they provide but have switched to KDE which better meets my needs and wants.
gz!
Can we get mortgage forgiveness next? Imagine what a boon that will be for the economy.
> I've seen juniors with 2-3 years of experience state their current salary at 75k.

Which land and business domain is that?
You can rebase while keeping all of the commits in your feature branch, you will just be asked to resolve conflicts for each one of them (if any).

I don't understand what the fuss is all about.
> What if Google goes under?

Then Go is still an Open Source Project with massive community support, that everyoen is free to form and extend or maintain by himself.

> What makes you so convinced "someone" will take over?

Because tens of thousands of projects depend on the language? Because the people who developed go don't just vanish if Google suddenly did? Because OSS has a long history of maintenance changing hands?

> sure, someone will step in and maintain Python 2.X indefinitely... Well, no one did.

There is a simple reason for that: Py2 was obsoleted by it's successor, Py3. There is simply no point in maintaining an obsolete language, especially if it has a direct successor, that is both similar, and an improvement in every single way.

And even so, Python 2.7 was still supported for almost a decade after it's release.
Initial Impressions: Will Garmin's Driver Tracking Catalyst Pay Off?
I hope they realise that every tax levied on a corporation will simply get passed on to the consumer eventually. I don't think these additional taxes make any sense along with a personal income tax. It should be one or the other.
You don't use XPath&CSS selectors at all (Except if you dont have choice). You rely on more generic stuff, e.g, "the button that has 'Sign in' on it":

await page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Sign in' }).click();

See playwright locators: https://playwright.dev/docs/locators
> Rehabilitation is not the sole or even primary goal of incarceration

In the US, it is evidently an anti-goal: the US incarceration system is structured as if it were deliberately designed to do the opposite of rehabilitation, to take people who are minor and nonviolent criminals and turn them into major and violent criminals.
They do have at least a webshop; and judging by the look of it, it's pretty old. But maybe poor SEO? I have an affection for old phones, and have window shopped on the interwebs from time to time, but I don't recall seeing this shop before.

I picked up my vintage phones at antique shops and thrift stores though, because internet prices are too high. Unfortunately, I can't get my rotary phone to work with my ATAs, even the ones that are supposed to; it works on POTS, but local POTS runs $60/month. I'm just not that committed, also not willing to pay for a pulse to tone converter. My newer old phone has tone dialing, but only on jacks with proper polarity; I might be willing to buy one of the components they made to rectify (hah) the situation, that's missing in my phone even though the model label indicates its there.
Minimalism isn't about irrecoverably lacking features, but about allowing you to build any feature you want from a small set of primitives.
Interesting idea - maybe gives you a starting point. However, you also need to consider pronunciation. Most likely you want a name that sounds fairly similar in both languages.
Perhaps they can finally add a window list to the top panel?
Thinking, or even knowing you're right isn't sufficient grounds for concocting fraudulent ways of proving it. This approach runs the risk of blowing up in your face if discovered.
Just tried on my pixel device. Can't say it worked. You hit the assistant thing, say what song is this, then hum as it prompts you. Then stop humming, but it never seems to finish the query. You tap the flat sound wave thing, and it takes that as a cancellation. Shrug.
In order to send HLS to the moon they need something like 20 regular starship launches which is a bit insane. I think it will be great for putting people and things in LEO but past that point I’m not sure.
Anyone remember the $1,700,000 single-toilet restroom in Noe Valley Town Square, San Francisco?

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/bayarea/heatherknight/article...
It's still ironic to me that the program that GTK was made for and that popularized the toolkit, haven't managed to move to its latest version yet.
Can you add a link to it?
That would actually be rather unexpected news given Walmart and retails reputation. Far more likely breaking news is Walmart pushes down coke margins while pushing prices up and launching a store brand soda to compete
Cultural rot caused by YouTube taking down old videos is a serious problem.

There was a YouTube channel I was following for about 15 years, of an older woman who had pet foxes. Her health started declining and she always had on her channel something like, "I'll leave these videos up forever." She passed away and YouTube deleted all her content.

The problem is 100x worse for any political content. My YouTube bookmarks from just the past few years is a graveyard of information that's not convenient to have around. It's even true for politics-related jokes, songs, and memes. They seem to be selected for deletion more often than not, within a few years.
> because it will of course evaluate to NaN anyway when undergoing the number treatment.

The point of typing is to make sure this situation doesn't happen.

I write a method to accept Number inputs. I don't want to do the work (whether it's thinking or writing tests) to make it a pleasant experience for someone to pass non-Number inputs to my function (intentionally by mistake).
> Costco doesn’t sell caseloads of Cocacola shipped all the way from Mexico to the north east because it’s “hipster bullshit.”

Costco sells a lot of good stuff but they also sell plenty of stuff because it is hipster bullshit. Case in point.

> There is a significant chemical difference between sugar and HFCS. For one, the molecules in sugar are disaccharides while in HFCS they are free.

And those molecules are enzymatically broken down to monosaccharides early on in your GI tract, long before it ever makes into your blood.

Sucrose is never absorbed into your bloodstream.

> but basically fructose is multiple times more reactive in your blood than glucose and creates nasties when it reacts with other things you eat, namely fats.

Yes and sucrose is 50/50 glucose and fructose and this dissociation occurs long before anything about the bloodstream enters the picture it happens right in the intestines mixing with all the other fatty Mexican and European garbage you’re eating.

All the bad shit you think happens with fructose will occur with “real” sugar consumption. So your reply or Wikipedia article would make no sense in this context hipster.

Being downvoted by the HN moron brigade (and I’m more referring to the parallel comment rather than mine) doesn’t change any simple scientific and physiologic facts.
Another Wuhan, but this time it is cancer.
The goal of the SEC used to be to ensure that companies could not lie to and mislead investors. The goal wasn't to ban investment in snakeoil, it was to ensure there was some grounding in truth for the financials of businesses.

Instead, it has become the goal of the modern regulatory regime to put guardrails around possible investments.

If people want to blow their stimmy check on a gamble there are many ways to do so. Is that really something we want the SEC 'protecting' against? Just remember all the people that were called fools for investing in the Google bubble stock, Netflix when they shuttered the mailorder business, or Facebook when there was no clear path to monetization. Investing in high-risk high-reward ideas is actually best when young.
Which is effectively useless for anything beyond basic testing during development.
AI “Art” is Boring
We will probably put people on mars eventually but a Mars colony is basically just not going to be self sustaining. We have Antarctic bases that are definitely not self sustaining which is a similar thing
Burning dried leaves used to be a tradition in my region. People would go in spring to the forest in groups and burn leaves. but got banned by our urban lawmakers, if I’m well informed
Probably not. Both right side up and upside down viewing are processed in the same circuit of interpretation (eye - lateral geniculate nucleus - visual cortex). The phenomenon you are talking about occurs because control processes that "flip" your interpretation of the upside down visual field are directly altering this circuit, and thus control is required again to reset it back to right side up interpretation. By contrast, walking forward is driven by central pattern generators directly in the spinal cord [0], while backward walking is a controlled process governed by the prefrontal and motor cortices, so there is no real overlap in the systems that would cause mutual interference.

0: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11728329/#:~:text=Central%20....
Ask HN: Online-only HN Toastmasters group?
Hey,

I posted a few months ago with a HN post on strategies to be more eloquent. The post seemed to be well-received, hence this follow up.

I'm wondering if there currently exists a HN toastmasters-type group for people to meet on zoom and practice public speaking? Would really love to join if one already exists.

If it doesn't exist, is there any appetite to start one?
For my curiosity, did you have to apply to be able to access HN as well as GitHub, or are you part of a trusted group of inmates who are allowed to access the Internet broadly? I guess my question is if the access is allow-list, or deny-list, or something else?
Tangential: my gut feeling is that this is a very good use case for GPTs; I’m an experienced application developer and sysadmin, but wouldn’t even know where to start if I’d want to tackle this sort of topic. I’m pretty sure ChatGPT would point me in the right direction and allow me to tackle the first important steps.
I think it’s more of SpaceX’s problem for building their rocket launch site in the middle of a nature preserve
"We and our 89 partners store and access information on your device for personalised ads and content."

Hah, no.
They already don't do any policing with the CCTV already in place.

Policing, like schools, roads, healthcare, bin collections, regulatory oversight, all of it, is too expensive to be allowed.

Just chuck some AI at it. Best case, one volunteer in an PortaKabin with a laptop can police all of London. Worst case the money wasn't wasted, it went to a good home in some dodgy consultant chum's pocket.
I used to smoke cigarettes fairly frequently (about 1-2 a day perhaps 10-15 years ago) and have never experienced this. Every now and then, perhaps every few months, I think it might be pleasant to get into pipe tobacco, try snuff or snus, or enjoy a cigar. I can categorically say that I experience nothing I would remotely categorize as regret or craving whatsoever.
Coffee is delicious and worsens my arthritis. I drink a coffee substitute called Dandy Blend most days, but damn do I miss the real stuff.