skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, switched away from CF DNS-over-TLS and it works now.
Oil usage has always been artificially cheap due to failure to price in the externalities.
> I would have searched for something like "gimp bucket fill sensitivity"

And you would have seen the correct answer if you searched this instead of trying to explain it to ChatGPT.

The first result of my Kagi search for that exact query is the official GIMP documentation. It provides the answer in the snippet.

> The Threshold slider sets the level at which color weights are measured for fill boundaries. A higher setting will fill more of a multi colored image and conversely, a lower setting will fill less area.

The second result is from graphicdesign.stackexchange.com and the snippet tells you that you might want to check the anti-alias setting if you want non-softened filling. That seems relevant if you want exact color areas to be filled with the exact color you picked as well.

Overall pretty happy with the first two results, I feel that they answered the question without even clicking away from the results page or trying to explain things to ChatGPT.
You say it's harmless, but are there any negative health effects? (I seem to recall reading nicotine can cause thinning of the arteries, or something like that)
Mine is first.last@gmail.com.

I get tons of email intended for the other "first last"s in this world.

Most memorable are an employment offer as an environmental engineer in New Zealand, the results of an environmental survey for some commercial real estate development in Houston, TX, and bankruptcy papers from an attorney in British Columbia, CA.
that’s actually unhinged of MSFT
Maybe this is too broad of a read and too far from microservice specifics, but I find ”Joel on software” very inspiring.

Hopefully it will give you new perspectives.
I don't really care about bad work being released; there are plenty of awful works that were released to the public domain.

In this scenario, companies are permanently shelving work that has value. Infinity Train for example was made a tax write-off, which means the creator can never continue it and people can never watch it. The negatives of some bad work being released is not outweighed by the amount of good work that has been destroyed by the current system.

If you want to argue about artistic control, then you need to come up with a solution to the above. The status quo is unacceptable, so let's see what you got.
In Indian Purana-s, stories exemplify recursion: story A has story B, which has story C, and so on, then backtrack.
Unemployed electricians? I have a very hard time believing that, they're in demand pretty much everywhere in the US.

Do you mean electrical engineers? Even then, they'd only have a hard time finding jobs if they insisted on living in places where not much construction is going on.
You'd be surprised! Some people have as hard a time quitting coffee as they do nicotine. And lots of people do coke and never become addicted. It varies a lot from person to person, which is a fact that is underappreciated. Luckily, there is a lot of research now to support this.
I said iPhone/iPad not Safari. The difference is imperative, since Safari on iOS does NOT support AV1. I have a fully patched iPad, I'm absolutely 100% certain.

Anyway, if it's good enough for Mozilla and Wikipedia and thousands of smaller companies, it's good enough for me. You do you.
"Ignatowsky showed that the only admissible transforma-
tions consistent with the principle of inertia, the isotropy
of space, the absence of preferred inertial frames, and a
group structure (i.e., closure under composition), are the
Lorentz transformations, in which c can be any veloc-
ity scale, or the Galilei transformations"

The interpretation of their result is totally wrong although the result is correct, because excluding Newtons' relativity (the Galilean group) is why electromagnetism or c is necessary.
The Man In The High Castle is an alt history in which the characters read an alt-history book describing our actual timeline. That probably counts!
KDE receives a lot of money from commercial interests, Gnome not so much.
They get the password for your mailbox, and store it on their server (instead of locally on your own computer like with a local Outlook installation).
cuz it makes you look like a loser?
movie accounting makes these numbers mostly meaningless. it's possible everyone involved got their money back and the write off amount is the bagholders
How about a big company that doesn’t treat their workers like shit?
Easy to say. I have excellent discipline in most areas of my life but nicotine is a hard one. Doesn’t help that I don’t want to quit either because the actual health risks seem minimal (I vape, flavorless, lab grade)
> Don't try to maintain 'superiority' by withholding information.

This is a lesson I learned and it now bothers me to no end if it ever happens to me. When decisions are made behind closed doors and then commands rain down from above then I feel rage.

One thing I often say to people who I am responsible to lead is that they don't always have to agree but they need to understand. It is impossible for people to understand if information is kept from them. Even worse is if you try to fake compliance through faux-understanding using disinformation or by selectively editing information.

Another thing I do is plainly recognize when someone is being asked to do something they won't like. Understanding works here, but so does some empathy. You can both understand why the unpleasant task is required to achieve the goal and acknowledge the fact that the person tasked with the duty has a right to their feelings.
or people dont want pity
I think squashing or not squashing really depends on the quality of individual commits in the topic branch.

Myself, I almost always "edit the history" of my topic branch before merging. Often enough some interactive rebasing and occasional commit-splitting is employed. I do it to turn my topic branch into a series of clean logical commits, so that each one can easily be reviewed on its own. I would not want to loose such history, so I avoid squashing unless it's mandated.

When people don't have time\energy\skills\inclination for this kind of clean-up and their topic branch commits are a mess of random things reflecting their actual development process -- including errors, fixing these errors, random experimentation, etc., there is not much value in keeping such history, and squashing often produces and cleaner and easier to review commit.

However, for me the end result of a development cycle is not just a good state of the code (functional, tested, documented), but a good history of that code too: reviewable and bisect-able. Git provides tools to maintain such manageable history, but does not do it for you.
In praise of America's car addiction
I don't agree that companies like boeing failing to secure their own assets properly is taking society hostage, rather than the absolute lax and laid-back approach to digital infrastructure that leads to allowing these weekly emerging "cyber terrorist" groups to take advantage to begin with.

They may be inappropriately handling the contents relative to their scope and potential damage, but that's actually not their prerogative or their concern. It should be a punishable offense beyond "ransom fees" to be in such a position that you can get so easily exfiltrated when entrusted with nationally secure data. Making a big display to the company to pay up a ransom means this has likely already happened silently multiple times to varying degrees without notice, and that anything after the initial public response is just theater. Its unfortunate that I have to feel embarrassed by the security posture of businesses that have absolutely no excuse.
America (as a country that’s run by a very small number of people) clearly has 0 interest in “getting off fossil fuels.” If we did, we’d mostly be there by now.

It’s not fun to think about but it’s true.

Fossil fuels are still pretty cheap. Any crisis can be solved with a quick war or invasion. Shit won’t hit the fan until everybody alive today is dead.

What’s the incentive to get off fossil fuels? If it’s something like, “looking out for the future” ask yourself how well that is working lol.
IMO the top motivation and method of using this tool both is when you notice videos in a playlist going dark.

On desktop, you'd view the full playlist and notice "Unavailable videos are hidden" at the top. Click the kebab menu and "Show unavailable videos" and the list will populate grey-icon videos which do still link to the broken video so you can get the ID.

But videos will also be broken in a way that this method does not reveal (it will only show private and deleted videos). Copystruck or georestricted videos you'll only find out once you attempt to view. Use a YouTube playlist downloader to quickly see which those are.

And then there will be videos you know existed but aren't in a playlist--I have relied on googling around for old forum and blog posts that include the link in order to get the original ID, if I didn't click on a broken link in the first place.
Lots of people manage nicotine addiction with the patch or gum or vapes. None of those contain the chemicals in tobacco, but all of them sustain the addiction.
Right, but abandoning projects at Google is an endemic problem. The specifics of a team are almost entirely irrelevant.
This isn't a good indication that gimp can do as well
Well, Mack the Finger said to Louie the King
"I got forty red-white-and-blue shoestrings
And a thousand telephones that don't ring
Do you know where I can get rid of these things?"
And Louie the King said, "Let me think for a minute, son"
Then he said, "Yes, I think it can be easily done
Just take everything down to Highway 61"

Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
That's called a work day.
probably because they'd need to borrow money and inflation and interest rates probably projected higher than residual income.
Isn't it also the "García Garagarza" Spanish-English translation? Or is that what you mean by some extra stuff.
Now you've learned the hard way that bookmarking is not enough, you need to save a local copy as well.
Yeah I absolutely agree. The intent of that code isn’t clear - and if you need more proof, look how many different opinions there are in this thread about what that code is trying to do!

Anyway, if they’re trying to coerce non-numbers into NaN, I’d write it like this:

typeof defaultValue === “number” ? defaultValue : NaN

I think that’s much more clear about the intent. I wouldn’t be confused by that code like I was confused by the code cited in the article.
Back when 15$/hour minimum wage was being widely argued for, I always thought 7.50 min wage and 7.50 UBI would be a much better proposal. Much more minimum wage jobs worth creating at that point, and no disincentive to do them.
Tried it with a childhood song/tune that I might have heard at 8 or 9 ( maybe 10 or 11) that is otherwise forever lost to history for me and while it did find matches, they weren't the song.
Reminds me of GitHub catalyst web component framework (and I think related to stimulusjs?), which has targets & actions. https://github.com/github/catalyst

<button data-action="click:hello-world#greet">

I love the intentionality of this: it makes intent evident. It's also fun & easy to script!
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Overall, it’s clear that:

Average wage growth since the pandemic has outpaced inflation, though cumulatively real wages are likely a bit below where one would expect in the absence of COVID-19

The real wage distribution has compressed—that is, lower-wage workers have seen proportionally larger gains than higher-wage workers, although this effect is lessened by the fact that low-income households have faced greater inflation than high-income households.

Real wage growth is likely to hold up if the labor market remains strong and the US is able to stick the “soft landing” where inflation normalizes without a recession. Yet it remains at significant risk of cooling or stagnating if the slowing labor market we’ve seen over the last two years worsens substantially.
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Looks interesting. I will spend time there.
> Maybe invite someone who has extensive experience working with photoshop and watch how often he starts to curse or ask for help and whether he uses the gun to shoot himself in the head.

The extensive experience working with photoshop is a problem in itself, not a symptom. It sets expectations, and when they are not met, frustration ensues. But the photoshop UI is not the most intuitive one, just most familiar to this kind of person. Those are two very different things.

I understand the frustration, for the same reason I cannot work with Darktable. In some aspects and basic organization it is similar to Lightroom, and when I start using it as Lightroom, it leads to the same frustration. But that's not because the Darktable folks did something wrong, but because I cannot act on my habits from different software package and my expectations are not met. Someone, who doesn't have the same habits and doesn't have to unlearn won't have the same issues.
Ah, yes, I faced that issue. I ran the cord along the baseboards and used cord covers to make it look decent.
Also, why's there a fucking ad on my emails list? What was wrong with the old mail program? It worked fine.
No, the tax write-off in this situation is the company saying that they will never release or profit off something ever again. This allows them to artificially reduce the value of their asset to 0.
That’s what a dispute is. It’s required by the FCRA.
> I am in favor of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) to replace the status quo of benefits, including Medicaid, food stamps, housing subsidies, etc. But I want the UBI to be a relatively small amount, something like $750 a month for a family of three.

Okay, but it's not basic income if it can't cover the basics. That's just a subsidy. I mean that's not even rent. Let alone healthcare.

A basic income allows a basic life allows for people to take more risks and start new businesses.

If you are really against people being able to not work, than instead of UBI you want to support Employer of Last Resort.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employer_of_last_resort
That broad definition opens itself to so much… Even raw movie rating data was famously partially de-anonymized.

I’m not sure that I could imagine a detailed database with personal activity at a reasonable scale that couldn’t be de-anonymized, at least partly, if one assumes that people use related services and that one has access to them via public social media, mostly.

- Emails: of course;

- social media: easy;

- search queries: LOL;

- transport: through commute;

- any cultural good: you can connect to contemporary commentary;

- fashion shopping: pretty much trivial with OOTD posts;

- medial record: not everyone, but most major diagnostics could be matched to social media for many people;

- https blobs via VNP: most people would connect to the same four sites again and again, but exact timestamps and public statements on social media;

- grocery shopping: harder, but doable as you’d have neighborhood from the store address and a lot of surface…

Is the letter of that law against pseudonymous databases?
I'm using sway on an Nvidia card and apart from having to use sway-nvidia (which does set some environment variables for wayland with nvidia) I don't have to set any flags for Firefox.
On my laptop with Intel graphics I didn't have to use any special flags for Firefox on wayland for several years.

One thing is that the correct environment variables should be set, but all the wayland compositors have been setting these for ages AFAIK
As I just said in another comment, the fact that people can maintain their nicotine addiction with vapes or patches or gum shows that the primary addictive substance is nicotine and it can be effectively addictive all by itself.
Blender and Krita fit the different-but-not-bad workflow defense, but GIMP's is outright terrible. Instead of the specific buttons, compare how many steps it takes do something in GIMP vs PS. For almost anything, it's either >2x as long, or simply can't be done.
Thanks, I'll try that, but the thing is that I haven't experienced screen tearing on X for many years now, on Intel, AMD or Nvidia cards, and even on high refresh rate displays (90/120hz). Sometimes when plugging in a second monitor I need to force full-screen composition with Nvidia cards to get rid of tearing, but I can always set this permanently in a config file, I just haven't gotten around to it.

I really haven't had major gripes with X for many years. It mostly just works, and is rock solid. Long gone are the days when you had to manually craft the perfect config file depending on your setup. It also works great with multiple monitors, though I think there are still some color management issues, which don't particularly bother me, and lack of HDR, obviously. Plus the client/server architecture is super useful, to this day. IME Wayland feels like a usability regression, forcing me to change many of the programs I use, and it has critical issues, which seemingly only affect me...
Linux Turbostat Adds Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake Support, Table-Based Enumeration
There is an interesting book called the Dao of Capital that relates this phenomena and the attempts to stop wildfires with interest rates and the boom bust cycle in the economy.
The new Outlook is just an Electron-style interface to a Microsoft webmail app - it's not an email client anymore. So if you want to get email from other providers, you give your credentials to the MS web app and it downloads and stores them on Microsoft's servers.

It's not particularly different from other web email apps, the issue is Microsoft is changing models from email client to web app and they're not being very upfront about it.
Product/Market Fit: Experience and Data
I bet the US Navy has classified ocean floor maps that are far beyond those available to the public.

Knowing the ocean floor better than your opponents is likely to be a big advantage when playing the various cat and mouse games with attack and ballistic missile subs that the US and the Soviet Union played for decades.
Rape is also about consent, not just age.

As an aside, I learned the other day that in Brazil the age of consent is 14:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_South_Ameri...
Yes, it was covered everywhere all at once, after the event. The ex-filtration happened on May 27th through May 29th, and the vendor issued the alert on May 31st, after the wide-spread hacking. The Maine incident is not a new one, it too was from Memorial Day weekend hacks.

https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2023/06/14/etr-cve-2023-343...
Mine is first initial, somewhat-uncommon last name at gmail.com. Address acquired during the public beta back in 2004.

I regularly get reminders for dental visits in Oklahoma, purchase orders for machinery in Germany, and course registrations for some person who works in my industry and was easily searchable online.

It is not so intrusive to be problematic, and is mildly interesting.
Ransomware Attack on China's Biggest Bank Disrupts Treasury Market Trades
Giving poor people a thousand a month caused them to get more jobs. Giving them 6k up front caused them to get even more jobs.[0] Author's argument is invalid.

Percentage of Participants Working Full-time, Enrollment and 6-month Follow-up:[1]

Group A (1000usd/m): 18% -> 25%

Group B (6500usd one time + 500usd/m): 21% -> 35%

Group C (50usd/m): 22% -> 22%

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37836296

[1]: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gqtOfZG2sSanWgUdzn-lx-pwSXZ... page 22 (pdf page 23) figure 9
Third time I'm writing the same comment - nicotine addiction can be formed and sustained without tobacco. This is obvious.
Periodic wildfires are part of the lifecycle of many kinds of forests. Not every forest is a rainforest - most in North America are not, so they have different behaviors. Also, you are simply wrong that taiga rarely burns [0] - it burns quite often, and it is a normal part of the ecosystem. There is a whole field of study called fire ecology that investigates this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiga#Fire
in California, it takes 2 years+ and $15,000+ to submit a plan to change the forests on your land, including controlled burn permits.. last I knew
As anecdotal counter-evidence, I have a dozen relatives who are lifelong farmers and they are doing pretty good for their ages even though farming is statistically a very dangerous job. Also, office workers often get carpal tunnel syndrome, low back pain, finger injuries.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the incidence rates of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses for "Electrical contractors and other wiring installation contractors" don't seem too bad [1]. "Motor vehicle manufacturing", "Office furniture (including fixtures) manufacturing", and "Wholesale trade" seem to do much worse.

[1]: https://www.bls.gov/web/osh/table-1-industry-rates-national....
if they need a load, inflation and interest rates are probably going to eat that profit horizon.

I'd bet you're going to see this more often.
Hessen and I don't remember what business domain the applicants were working in but broadly it's embedded/firmware work
The energy sources might be diverse, but to think that the gas coming to your house or the petrol reaching the local station is anything but centralized and globalized is extremely naive
I agree. It's a delicate topic full of nuances and differences in jurisdictions.
It's just a useless label on the cover. PDF/A is nothing but a subset of PDF without proprietary expandability limited to what is considered to “work everywhere” when dealing with common printed matter. It adds nothing to non-existent error handling rules or parsing strategies. There are 5 different ways for an object to be found undefined/nil, but the specification is silent on whether there's any difference in meaning or handling based on the level it happens. Therefore libraries and tools do what they find most suitable, and anything generated by the numerous easy-to-use sites is potentially not quite the same as originally uploaded.

PDF resembles the state of HTML years after HTML4, it barely says what should happen in the best case.
I forgot who said this quote, but paraphrasing from memory: there is nothing in the world that elicits less empathy than a grown man complaining
You can use laser, but that's only good for up to around 50m deep.

https://www.dst.defence.gov.au/innovation/laser-airborne-dep...
These accounts aren’t for the people who pay Experian money. Companies pay Experian money to access information about individuals; the only reason Experian even allows accounts for individuals is because they are mandated by law to allow things like credit freezes and the annual credit report. If they weren’t required, they wouldn’t do it at all. They have zero incentive to improve the experience or the security of it.
First atmospheric river storm of the season targets California next week
It is truly embarrassing (and not super easy to share). For what it's worth, I tried it a few more time humming more of the song (parts I couldn't remember originally), but still no luck.
Hey we are currently in the MVP stage trying to find product market fit with a similar concept, but more focus on the illustrations: https://heytale.com

One major consideration we had with the pricing was comparing it to other providers. $19/month seems quite steep if you compare it to something like Disney Plus.

FYI List of some (likely not all) competitors in this space:
https://topai.tools/s/Children's-story-generator
https://theresanaiforthat.com/story-writing/
It’ll be inadequate no matter what because an area that institutes a UBI of $x will simply see their rent rise by $x.
It actually is. In fact it mighty be the proof that throwing everything away and writing a new version from scratch might even be preferable