skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Reader: please read everything in this comment as applying to me. It's OK if you are different from me. My preferences are not an attack on your preferences.)

Software engineer at a big-ish tech firm here. For me, I very strongly separate work from my home life. I don't WFH at all, ever. I don't put work stuff like email or chat on my personal devices. If I'm not at the office, I'm not working, period. Obviously I sometimes think about work stuff outside of work hours, but I find completely restricting the ability for me to actually work on work things when outside of work hours means it's easier for me to just put it completely aside and focus on non-work things. I can't go "oh, I wonder if Bob has replied to my email" and refresh my inbox while I'm cooking dinner, it has to wait until the morning when I'm back in the office.

I would not accept a job that does not allow me to do this. An office to work out of, and no expectation of being "on call" at all hours, are hard requirements for me.
"Exposed" is probably a bad word to use here.

There were almost 500 sexual misconduct complaints again public school teachers in just Chicago in 2022 when not all kids were back in school. There's something fundamentally broken there.

Ref: https://www.illinoispolicy.org/report-500-sexual-misconduct-...
This is the BBC, also known as the land of missing the point.
Ukraine is not a proxy war.

Ukraine is being attacked by Russia. Ukraine fights for its survival. It has been doing that since 2014, when Russia first attacked Ukraine. It has been doing that without help by the US for 8 years. It will continue to do so, with or without US help.
I feel like anyone who has tried a PE drug knew they didn’t work. I’ve wondered for a solid decade why they existed. I’ll happily wait in the tweaker line for my pseudo.
> But why? Why should anyone providing a service be forced to also allow others to represent that service? Shouldn't it be up to the service owner to figure out what they want to do with it?

Why should service providers be forced to police CSAM and hate speech? Because it makes sense to weigh individual freedoms against the cost to society. (and keep in mind that Apple is a publicly traded company)

The cost of walled gardens are that they harm consumers. Consumers need to spend more money to overcome artificial barriers designed only to increase the amount of money they spend without offering any value. Interoperability for commodity tech like this is an obvious win for the economy.

> The only reasoning behind the whole iMessage thing seems to stem from a specific age band of Americans that value others based on the background color of their messages. This is a human problem, not a technology problem.

If that's really what you think this is about, then you haven't been paying attention to any of the discussions on the topic. Or you're doing the thing internet people do where you're being disingenuous just to win an argument.
I remember using Vicks® VapoRub as a kid for congestion and it seemed to work.
> Paying for a team or outside pentesters to attempt to find this would be _way_ more expensive.

But doesn't Google have teams of internal pentesters already? You could hire dozens of external companies and they might not find it.

This system is a "no cure, no pay" approach. I do think they should have paid the reporter a lot more though.
"What shall we call our company?"

"Let's go with a word that looks a bit like 'Insolvent' when you glace at it in a hurry."
Not sure where you get “superficial” but all the home schooling parents I know care deeply about their kids’ education and future — that’s why they invest the tremendous time homeschooling takes and deal with the pushback from friends and family - rather than just making the easy default choice that comes with many hours of free child care.

The idea that parents would go out of their way to give a “superficial” education doesn’t make sense if you’ve ever been a parent. People care deeply about their children and their future.

I’d argue what is superficial is just going along with the easy default rather than examining what is best for your specific child.
Even the best software can’t counter a hardware fault.
What happened to "buy low, sell high"? Isn't it a good time to invest?
I guess I don't see why the strings need to remain attached. They should use electromagnets on wires that can be released and withdrawn once the pins are in place.

Then, to recover the bowled pins, use OpenCV or something to guide the wires to their latching points at the tops of the pins.
>> The lack of regulation is concerning

"lack of regulation" means freedom. That's what people find concerning? Looking at the current situation, I would prefer more freedom to less. To me lack of regulation is typically a good thing.
Yes, You can. The entire Linux device interface, to name just one example, if full of interfaces. The way to accomplish this is via pointer to functions, and to have it as an object, have these pointer to functions grouped in a struct.
GTK/Glib is notably full of these interfaces too.
It says United States links to James Cameron. I can't find where that link is on the page.

https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=United%20State...
And this is the zoology paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.04927
In Seattle, there’s lack of housing, but the bigger driver appears to be easy access to drugs like fentanyl and no consequences to anyone involved in using or selling them.
How does Spotify affect ‘number of books sold’ statistics? I am an author and I don’t much care about statistics (the win for me is how often my readers directly engage with me) but I have a couple of author friends who are obsessed with sales numbers.

This year I have been shifting content platforms, buying audio books from Libra.fm and buying eBooks from Kobo. That said I am still a loyal Amazon, Apple Books, and Google Play Books customer.
The ROI is the mitigation of a third world war by a mad despot and the consequential preservation of lives that would otherwise have been lost. It's a hugely valuable investment once you look at the historical costs of appeasement.

Also, to repeat the point with a bit more nuance: most of the money being "sent" doesn't even leave the US economy until it's in the hands of people e.g as wages. US military procurement rules mean that the aid money going to Ukraine for hardware procurement ultimately only goes back to US equipment manufacturers and other US companies in that supply chain.

Tldr: each aid package is largely a gift card to spend at the Made-In-USA gun store.
I used to use Bootstrap. Now the only frameworks I ship anymore are Bulma and Tailwind.
> Because homeschooling reinforces the societal stereotype that men work outside and that women work in the home.

My brother-in-law is the stay-at-home homeschool dad for his two kids, while his wife works. Homeschooling is completely orthogonal to traditional gender roles, it's just historically been highly correlated with very conservative families.
I think the point is what students are being taught, not how. Covid may have radically disrupted the classroom dynamics and strained the hell out of daily lesson planning but I’m pretty sure it didn’t rewrite the history textbooks.
That thing was incredibly frightening to see and just how much power the home school lobbying group has.

I am sure that what is shown here is in the severe minority, but I don't understand how we don't have some basic requirements in place. (well I understand how, but I can't think of a better phrasing)
When was the last time we had a serious debate about why prescription drugs are gate kept? In most countries, you can buy OTC drugs which in the U.S. require a prescription. Removing that barrier reduces costs and improve privacy.
Eucalyptus oil is an effective decongestant. You can put it in an oil burner or a humidifier as well.
Intriguing idea! I love the idea of having a database of the commands you’ve run and their output. I use tmux religiously, but it’s sometimes frustrating using a crappy interface to spelunk my terminal history and manually look for the various commands I’ve run amidst voluminous output. And of course it’ll lose that history when it runs out of buffer.

Question: You refer to this as a shell, but it seems more like a terminal emulator. Am I missing something?

A couple ideas for different ways to achieve the goal:

1. It seems like a web UI rather than a native app would be beneficial for various reasons (run anywhere, connect remotely, coded in the UI lingua franca, etc).

2. I could see value in separating the shell and the history browser. Like the shell is just your shell, and it can be used via whatever terminal emulator that people want to use, or even thru ssh. The only thing the shell does above and beyond any other shell is to pipe stuff to the database. If the user wants to look at history, then they go to the web UX (ala suggestion 1) to do that.

Doing this would make it more palatable for people to start using it because it wouldn’t change the feel of their daily experience, but in the background, they’d be getting the cool features.
Hello,

Maybe you should check this project:

https://editorconfig.org/

Regards,
Ukraine money was to buy American guns and that will enrich a small group of Americans that have no problem with housing.

Sending money to foreign countries is a false problem.
Not the OP, but I recently found the following figures from Kiel Institute for the World Economy:

- US financial commitments 24.964bn €

- Military commitments 43.856bn €

- Humanitarian commitments 2.562bn €
Why not just a simple <embed> and let the browser handle it? Or do modern browsers not handle MIDI anymore?
How so? It seems like they just have a different perspective than you.
Yes, there have been substantial changes in the classroom in the past 30 years, and none of them have been helpful.

This is especially true in large public schools that have to be "stack ranked" using NCLB-mandated test scores. This zapped any residual ability for them to do anything beyond the bare minimum because that would eat into time that could be used to review the tested material. Your 12th grader in "honors" classes will be given remedial lessons on how to use a Dictionary instead of reading Chaucer.
So? That doesn’t excuse profiting from allowing scammers to defraud people.
The article neglected to link to the actual report, which was the USA’s Department of Housing and Urban Development’s January 2023 Point-in-Time Count Report.

Press release: https://www.usich.gov/news-events/news/hud-releases-january-...

Report: https://www.hud.gov/press/press_releases_media_advisories/HU...
https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/13/spotify-is-acquiring-sonan...

Before the acquisition, sonatics tech looked pretty cool.
https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/13/spotify-is-acquiring-sonan...

that being said-- NOT A FAN. i want books read by human people who are good at reading to me. I dont want teddy ruxpin, i want my dad!
Google hasn't fixed it, so it seems they really don't value this info.
FYI, that API requires entitlements to be used, which are only available if you request them from Apple and justify their use. It's not a general-purpose API any app can use.
TL;DR: Apps can access the nearby Wi-Fi hotspot SSID and MAC addresses through an API that is intended to help with connecting to hotspots. Then they can use this info to look-up in databases that collect SSIDs based on their locations.

Seems like a valid concern, though the author's writing style can be off putting since has a tone with an agenda.

However, AFAIK apps need to declare the use of this API and have a good reason for it(you fill up a form explaining why you need it and Apple has to agree to grant you the privilege). So, most likely your flashlight app is not tracking you.

I'm sorry you don't like it but that's the truth, the author left out crucial details to make it juicier.
I briefly worked as a retail pharmacy technician 12 years ago. There were a few pharmacists that I worked with during this time and all of them were aware that phenylephrine essentially did nothing.

I hadn't really thought about it until now, but these pharmacists did not directly work with each other, so it must have been obvious that phenylephrine was ineffective.
In the time before ubiquitous cell phones, I was a cashier at a gas station. One day a cop came in and asked to use the phone. I directed him to the pay phone. He told me that the pay phone was in use, not realizing that I could see the p[ay phone from where I was standing. He got belligerent and demanded the phone, he made a personal call to his wife. Later he pulled me over and gave me a bogus ticket for not signaling. Real nice people those police, better give them what they want or else.
Individually we can’t opt out of it, but collectively we could do things like putting greater emphasis on the state-funded education systems.
Rust to stabilize `async fn` and return-position `impl Trait` in traits
As far as I know, the link between diet and cholesterol was a myth that caused many of the bad diet choices people make today, such as replacing animal fats with (bad) plant-based fats like palm oil.

In a healthy individual, cholesterol intake is not related to blood cholesterol levels (beyond some reasonable threshold, like not eating a tub of lard in one sitting).
Just highlighting that we are constantly being fed propaganda for those that may not yet be aware.
Anecdotes are the material for new hypotheses, so they are very much part of the scientific process.

This reminds me of the debate around monosodium glutamate (MSG) causing headaches. There were early scientific reports which found no real link and that it was probably psychosomatic nonsense. However more recent studies found that some people have a heightened sensitivity to glutamate, and since it is a literal neurotransmitter there is a promising pathway for the mechanism of action.

Biology is stupendously complex, it's difficult to make hard and fast rules about something being categorically effective or ineffective.
Isn't it the other way around? British gov sells licenses for windparks for billions. It then guarantees electricity price to a certain degree. This would be presumably paid by the Scottish gov.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

As Franklin said, "A republic, if you can keep it." This requires every citizen to know the rules (the 4th amendment, in this case,) and to have the intestinal fortitude to enforce those rules.

Unfortunately, even assuming the rules are known (they aren't), "I don't agree with your statement, but I'll fight and die for your right to state it" is a lost sentiment.
Ordinary waves travelling through the ocean, mostly yes. But when 2 Tsunamis crash into each other, you can bet, that there is lots of turbulence and energy lost and they wont have the same height afterwards.
Might this be because to be actually vulnerable a company needs to have the ticketing-like system in a sort-of unsafe setup?
I have no qualms about actual homeschooling, but in the past few years partisanship has seen a lot of people in my area pulling students from public schools over mask mandates, science education, and "wokeism". As recently as Tuesday, some parents are suing my school district and homeschooling because a 14yo asked to be called by he/him pronouns [1]. And here in Michigan, there are no regulations on what a homeschooled student needs to learn - no testing, no curriculum, no justification required, you can just say "we're homeschooling" and until that child turns 18 they can be completely isolated from any perceived threats to your ideology.

Homeschooling can be awesome when done for the right reasons! Student-teacher ratios are awesome, the curriculum and schedule can be perfectly tailored to your child's needs, interests, and abilities, and as you mention it works far better for families that need to travel a lot and technology is making the downsides less significant all the time.

But it can be terrible when done for the wrong reasons. Increasingly, those wrong reasons are being used [2]:

> In the vast majority of states, there are currently no protections in place for children who are homeschooled. This is the case despite a 2014 study finding that 47% of children who experience child torture were removed from school to be homeschooled (and another 29% were never enrolled in school), and a 2018 Connecticut study found that 36% of children removed from school to be homeschooled were subject to past child welfare reports.

And those studies are even before the surge of people pulling students due to pandemic politics. These issues are the reason that the press is "attacking homeschoolers", not some conspiracy to get additional funding. The fact that the author does not mention this trend at all is concerning.

[1] https://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/local/parents-sue-rockfo...

[2] https://responsiblehomeschooling.org/advocacy/policy/abuse-i...
Ask your developers who can feel the impact.
Thanks, that's good to know. I never thought of that as a stumbling block. I trust me!

Do you think showing an md5 hash would help, or is it just Dropbox itself?

Would (for example) dl.huck.sh be better? (I own huck.sh (and huckridge.com and several others) and have a site there, but don't have anything at dl.huck.sh.)

I actually kind of thought that Dropbox would be better than my own webserver, on the assumption that people would trust them more than me. I dunno.
anon25783 seems to be even using BSD for their own projects. Even weirder.

Maybe the constant GPL bashing going on is making people misunderstand the crucial difference between "permissive" and free software licenses?
You don’t get rich by spending money on homeless people, of course.
Please describe to me how believing in evolution is going to help Bill put my plumbing or electrical system in correctly or be able to have a good crop this year.
Email is a fantastic example of something that's technically capable of being decentralized but in practice has something like 70%+ of all traffic handled by three major companies (Google, Microsoft, and Apple). No one can stop you from making your own email client and using it, but your emails will most certainly get black holed and discarded as spam by most major services much more frequently.
I thought I was the only one that ever felt that way. It was many years ago when ICC was the only place to play online, and I was exactly the same. I could play bots, but not people. Losing to a bot was one thing, but another person? No way! I ended up writing about the online chess experience for some class I was taking at the time. I think that what's finally did it for me. And since that time, I basically accept losing, failure, as a part of the process of learning and growing in all areas of life. Some years later I played in OTB tournaments. These would be weekend events where a game could last 4 hours, and you'd play two or even three in a day. It could be pretty grueling. And of course, you have to accept your losses. It's an amazing experience to be an adult and lose to a child or teenager. But yes that's happened to me more than once. I'll also add that it's amazing to win an OTB tournament. Once I played in a large weekend tournament, six games over three days. I was in the under 2000 section (my rating was in the 1600s), and for some reason, I simple could not lose. Even in games where I would have a losing position, I would still manager to win, or in one case draw. I was bullet proof, and it was such a wonderful feeling -- felt like I was walking ten feet off the ground. The only tournament where I've ever won a cash prize, too. So, anyway, go for it. Don't let your fear of losing stop you from trying in any area of life.
NYT is still the one doing the doxxing, intentional or not. They provided documents (where “doxx” comes from) that could identify the individual.

“Doxing or doxxing is the act of publicly providing personally identifiable information about an individual or organization, usually via the Internet and without their consent to do so.”
> And demanding "cease fire" ... is all 100% antisemitic.

Please, I encourage you to take a good long moment to think about what you just wrote. You are effectively saying that it is the Jewish position that Gazans should be killed. 1% of Gazans are already dead. Do you mean to say that Jews who call for a ceasefire, like many I know do, are antisemites?
There are likely changes to incentives that could be made without disbanding or refunding the police.

Today police, DAs, and judges are all incentivized to close as many big cases as possible. We need these people to be motivated to actually protect the public and help those in need. Police funding, promotions, and recognition could be realigned to much better promote a policing system that focus on actually serving the public rather than catching and punishing as many people as possible.
What have we been doing? As far as I can tell, at least in the Bay Area, we have so many NIMBYs blocking everything that we’re practically doing nothing.

There is not enough empathy for those who are struggling.
There are several links that 404 at the time of writing this comment, so maybe this person has more technical debt than they realize?[1]

Regardless, my mental model is quickly becoming to ignore anyone talking about “technical debt”. Where’s next week’s blog “All blog posts about technical debt are technical debt”?

[1] https://gavinhoward.com/img/bc_stack_plot.png
This seems rather defeatist. We are trying to do near-impossible things like getting rid of carbon emissions everywhere and we can't fix landfills?
Science is expensive and moves slow. Sometimes anecdotes are all you have.

Just because the science doesn't exist doesn't mean anecdotes are completely invalid.
I can't believe they wouldn't require both hosts and guests to identify themselves properly to the platform.

What a horror story.
Just to back that up:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-locations-of-constru...
They are now...plumbing to new depths....One clogged idea at a time...
i wouldn't be worried about my flashlight app tracking me, i'd be worried about the large players who probably GET the use of this API, google facebook etc etc.
US homeowners made a decision to use their homes as their primary or secondary investment vehicles so they have little interest in allowing any new construction that could be viewed as lowering their property values.

There’s also a good bit of plain old racism involved but people are in denial about it and insist they’re implying something else.

For example, in a nearby community they were proposing some “starter townhomes” priced at $295K (median home price in the area is 350K). These were not rentals, low income, section 8a - they were new construction townhomes on the lower end of the pricing spectrum. People FREAKED out, and suggested they’d be bought up by gangs and junkies and all sorts of ne’er-do-wells and the project was killed. Someone stood up at a zoning meeting and said “Do you really want someone who lives in one of these as your neighbor? Do you want their kids going to our schools? I sure don’t!” To thunderous applause.

I personally can’t wrap my head around the logic. It’s not like these existing homeowners are rich - in fact the sort of person who scoops up a $300K townhome is probably a young professional with an office job who probably make the same or more as the residents complaining that they’ll bring poverty. It’s nuts!
Did you watch the linked video?

Your "freedom" is allowing kids to be abused since they don't have the checks of other adults being able to see them.

A bare minimum "are the kids physically ok" doesn't remove any of your freedom unless you consider starving and beating your kids a "Freedom" you care about.