skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its February... do you live in the north? Life seems better in the south: more sun, more outdoor activities, more vitamin D. Spain, Italy, Greece, the hospitality of the American South. They eat dinner later, stay up later, talk more and will invite you over for dinner #swedengate

I was just in Florida musing the difficulty of having a BBQ in Minnesota... 12 weeks of summer * 2 days people don't work = 24 days... next set of constraints: no rain, your friends are available ie. not going to weddings, kids sports or family events (things which are very booked in the summer)
Valid, agreed. Privacy might be assumed when using a computer whereas people in a public store understand that they’re in public.
Hiding title bar and tab bar were confugurable before. When you installed tree style tab it automatically made the tab bar hidden at that time. It was the most customizable dev browser.

Then they rewrote the the UI engine replacing XUL and made Firefox a more 'user friendly browser' copying all UI features of chrome sacrificing the customization options.

I am a heretic now who is running Windows 10 with WSL2 and edge as primary browser due the points you mentioned.
Which specific idea(s) presented do you believe has its merits undermined by this lack of impartiality?
Arguably, prelon Twitter was not-for-profit.
One provider without v6 doesn't mean that most providers don't have v6.
Baud is indeed symbols per second.

For a server, requests per seconds is the best SI unit you can do. In practice requests to a server are random so there is no periodicity and all periodic/frequency-related units do not apply.
Posted previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39233885
It's not just you. I've never packaged RPMs, but I have made archlinux packages, which are incredibly simple, you just write a bash script with certain conventions. But the process for building debs seems unnecessarily complicated to me. There are a bunch of different tools you need to use, several steps, multiple files you need to create, etc. And finding good documentation is difficult.
Have you considered moving to any other state rather than just trying to live without a basic necessity of life in America?
No, no ambiguity at all. I'm sure you could construct deliberately a sentence with a double meaning playing on the two components of some words but that's a hard task for sure.

I have around a B1 level now so I'm not nearly good enough to build such complex puns though.
As we've cut taxes beginning in the 1980s, most people in the US have been living worse. Now life expectancy has been dropping, iirc home ownership, access to education, etc.

I don't mean there's a 100% direct correlation, but that investment is needed for returns. If we don't invest in healthcare, we'll have worse health. If we don't invest in education, etc.
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0x0 sounds pretty useful for web tracking pixels! It's even more unobtrusive than 1x1.
It varies by country but a lot of them are just virtual debit and credit cards because the payments run over the card network rails.
Switching back is a deferral until it eventually gets shoved down on our throats
The first Reddit reviews of the Vision Pro are in
Always buy the underinsured/uninsured motorist coverage. My daughter was hit by a car, the main payout was from my insurance, and not from the person who hit her.

Liability is everything, the cost of the car is nothing. Get the umbrella policy on your house. Buy liability insurance when you rent a car.

It's not just the medical bills- it's also the legal damages.
Those are the distributions that perfectly mirror. There is another one that is alone that has an extra ball, 50:49.

So I added one to one side instead of 50 and 49 to the other.

So 4950:4949.

... is that right? Im pretty sure red is favored, and Im pretty sure if the number of dists were odd the odds would be even. But are the odds right?
China turned away from communism a couple decades ago.
The economics of fertility: a new era (2023) [pdf]
We have free digital money transfer in the United States. Venmo, Zelle, PayPal, Cash App, etc. I don't know why you'd believe otherwise.
It came out of Oracle. Kids of death.
Maybe step back a little and consider the outcomes you're seeking.

Argumentation is one path and tactic for achieving an alignment with a group of people.
However, framing anything as combative can have some negative tradeoffs.

My experience is that more cooperative tactics like intent listening, questions, and yes-and can help broker a positive alignment with fewer negative tradeoffs.

If you switch mindsets you'll find lots of business books about effective communication, persuasion, and change management.

Good luck!
But all the other alternative browsers use Google's Blink rendering engine. How is that less associated with google?
I was an active contributor to Quora in the mid-10's -- my answers gained some 3m views. It was really something back then, as many people have fondly reminisced about the era. There were so many great writers who brought so much understanding to whatever crazy stuff they were passionate about by writing for free on Quora. You had diplomats, chefs, former propaganda writers, people living through violent conflict, doctors, teachers, scientists, physicists, astronauts and the list goes on. Quora from that time truly helped me understand the world better.

AI might have driven the final nail in the coffin but the one decision which was truly an inflection point was starting a program that would pay for asking X amount of questions. The platform was cool because of people who wrote ANSWERS -- to the point where the original question sometimes became even tangential to the actual answer but you'd learn so much nevertheless. Quora not only ended the top-writer program for those people it started offering monetary incentives for asking the most inane bullshit questions as long as they got the views. It is truly baffling to me how something that holds so much genuine value can be driven into the ground while making decisions left, right and center (and the whole community trying to tell you exactly what you're doing) that destroyed everything of value in the Quora process. The older answers are still there, but the community magic has utterly evaporated.

I guess it's pretty normal for folks who have seen this happening in BBS/Usenet era but regardless of all of Quora's faults (the tone-moderation of the language was always a bit overboard in IMHO but I don't think it led to the downfall -- it was always there and writers worked around it) it is genuinely disappointing to see every successive platform try to build something of value only to falter and disappear because we just can't seem to keep anything good around.
but it's not significantly better like the competition (like Chrome vs IE6)

so they're resorting to their usual dirty tricks
Virtualbox is FOSS as long as you don’t install the extension pack, so worst-case scenario it gets forked.
A Simple Question to Help Your Team Define Success
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39019573

An amusing discussion where the OP says Wikipedia is here to stay, and every answer is downvoted, most of them flagged. All of them voicing concerns of some validity.

This is super representative of that happens on Wikipedia.
You aren’t allowed to drive without insurance
> They are random and follow something like the Poisson distribution.

In "stable conditions":

* The number of requests in a given time interval will follow a poisson distribution.

* The times of requests will be uniformly distributed

* the duration between two consecutive requests will be exponentially distributed.
The irony of this passive aggressive hyper enthusiastic sarcasm is palpable.

The basic fact is that asynchrony forum posts request different social rules than live face to face conversation.
> I’m pretty sure this is the result of a heavy A/B testing culture. Every single idea was probably increasing an important KPI. The page in it’s entirety got destroyed over time.

This is the reality. Not just in Quora but all tech companies. A/B testing is used to determine how to squeeze more and more engagement, in small parts of the app. And over time the app becomes an ad factory with unrelated posts because apparently people are more engaged when they are lost and unable to find any information.
You don't like to bring your valuables with you, so you bring cash instead of a PIN-protected debit card?
Engineering as applied to software is completely watered down in practice compared to Professional Engineering as implemented by many states.

If a software engineer "signs off" on software design, they have no personal or professional liability in the eyes of the law, or anywhere near the same expectations and professional/ethical oversight that comes with the territory of being a PE.

Until a "Software Engineer" can basically look a company in the face and deny a permit to implement or operate a particular stack/implementation, this will not change.

And yes, I am fully aware that this software engineer would basically become an "approver of valid automated business process implementations". This would also essentially be a social engineering exploitable position for implementing nepotistic dominion over a business jurisdiction. Hence why I'm not sure it is even a desirable path to go down.
I wonder if there is a market for flicker preventer which stops devices from restsrting on quick drops. I have more things that don’t want rebooting than ones need to keep running.

I don’t know if could use capacitor or need battery. If need lots of battery for load, might end up with UPS. It would need to be cheap.
I would genuinely hate to be an engineer working on the edge team. It feels like building a decent browser comes entirely secondary to moving the needle on marketing and growth targets.

Not the only situation where it seems your Windows-running computer is basically held hostage by MBAs wanting to boost Bing’s numbers.
Thanks for 10 years of opinionated, efficient UI dev!
It's written in Java. Jesus.
Compared to what? Food retail is generally at 2% ...
Very interesting. For someone who knows (some) Chinese but no Vietnamese there seems to be a lot of commonality so it's very interesting that Vietnamese does not have all those homophones.

I guess that explains a lot of the appeal of Latin characters, then.
You aren’t writing machine code that can run on anything though, you have this docker dependency in order to run the container. Its just trading one dependency for another because docker is in style these days. I don’t think deploying bash scripts at scale was some insurmountable challenge before docker showed up.
But I have no idea how I would build a config structure for an application using Nix... It seems very powerful so I'm sure it's possible, but I just have no idea where I'd start for this specific use case.

Whereas this documentation for Pkl is entirely about that use case.
feel like this was somewhat recent. i didn’t use quora much already, but this is the change that took me from using ever to never using
I disagree. I think it's about pivot time, not having a warmed up stable of skilled workers just in case. Nature never optimizes for that and it shouldn't. We should lazy-load that skillset if and when it's necessary. We have writing to carry knowledge forward. Also, video and other media. People are smart and I'm sure a large cohort could be assembled with the right amount of money in fairly short order. As long as that's cheaper than keeping a battalion ready just in case, then I'd argue it's the "correct" way to approach it.
In such a planet, THE LINE becomes a necessity rather than far-fetched idea.
Is someone currently, for free, doing the work the author is suggesting sponsorship for? If not, it's not ridiculous.
I’ve always suspected that that incentivized health insurance companies to let hospitals inflate costs. If the government forbids me from increasing my percentage of the pie and I need to increase revenue I have to increase the size of the pie.
"I have no idea" but I have strong negative opinions.

Designed to impress who? You can't tell a SZ fridge by looking at it, there are usually no labels. I know of a few professional chefs who buy these fridges, does that mean they are just buying them to impress?
> Of course the economy was much smaller then, especially on a per capita basis

Indeed, and even more on an aggregate basis, the population also being much smaller.

> modern capitalism hadn’t had time to create

You're assuming that was created by modern capitalism, which I think is a major flaw. Capitalism contributed certainly, but so did democracy, freedom, rule of law, government investment, civil society, etc. etc. Just look at most of the education system, courts, security, roads, most of science, soldiers, etc etc etc.

> abundant, filled-with-medical-marvels lifestyle we enjoy today.

A great many, maybe most people in the US don't live in that world.
Arrested for Driving Tesla Wearing Apple Vision Pro
Apple's new AR 'Vision Pro' has barely been out for a day and it's already facilitating a totally new level of dangerous driving.
We acquired a product last year, where the entire back-end was written in Rust.

Unfortunately, Rust developers were hard to get by, and we didn't have any internally that could maintain the Rust code at such scale.

The entire back-end ended up being re-written.
Are you not a developer? Being proficient in one means that it will take very little time to transfer to the other. C++ and Rust have a great deal of overlap in that way.
https://archive.ph/Fsa2X
Mozilla receives money from Google, so I'd take whatever they say with a pinch of salt.

Right now, the only serious alternative to Google Chrome is Edge, and if Firefox became too good or threatened Google in any way, Mozilla may see the money flow stop.

I wish Google started innovating again, and that Firefox offered a good and competitive free software browser, but reality is what it is.

So I've moved from Windows to Linux, but I keep using Edge, because it's a good browser (vertical tabs etc)
> Named cells look like, and function almost like, assignment expressions in vanilla JavaScript

> But sometimes you want statements, such as for loops. For that you'll need curly braces, and a return statement to give the cell a value. Think of a cell as a function, except the function has no arguments

So `x = { let y = 5; return y }` declares named cell x with value from the return value of that function-like code block. So basically that should be same as `x = 5`, which also is named cell declaration and not JS variable assignment.
Business and Finance: United Fruit Obeys (1933)
>At least with StackOverflow you know that the answers are all related to the same question.

I don't know, most StackOverflow answers I run into are "closed as duplicate of <not my question>" or "closed as duplicate of <how would I have solved my problem 8 years ago with only the tools available then>"
> How about giving a fresher a chance?

This is the source of a lot of misunderstandings in the eng recruitment space. There's no "chances" - you can either do the job or you can't. Your CV, in most cases, will paint the picture, and if not, the technical interview will. For certain positions, not having the experience means not being able to do the job - there are certain skills that can only be acquired with time.
gitlab

https://gitlab.com
My only advice is, just play around, and try different things. Freelance for a while and charge terribly low amounts of money. Partner up with different types of people on ventures - yea this requires trust and you will get grifted from time to time.

But through it all, you're learning and building skills. Hell you're having fun.

Maximize for "f**ing around and finding out"
I'm not sure if I quite get it. Is the part with the butter inserted upside down into the part with the water? Would it then not slide down over time?
pinterest can be better if you are actually there to use it (ie not directed from search traffic)
I had to replace battery recently on APC UPS and it didn’t lose power. But did make a continuous alert tone that was so annoying that turned off UPS and pulled it out.
Do they have freedom over how much they pay the teachers?
The definition of "a free market" you're offering here is one that has never existed. So we can either talk about the free markets we have (which compared to markets in other places and at other times are stupendously free) or we can talk about, yes, spherical cows.
There are plenty of websites that have degraded performance or functionality in Safari and Firefox. The most obvious being many of Google's products.
Wait until you experience the raging dumpster fire that is the new Terminal in the EAPs - I lack enough language to describe my burning hatred for it, and (of course) there's no way to go back to the previous one
Copybara uses it
Features that require quite sizeable server resources?
The limits of HAM have not vanished
Monopoly is only an incentive if it is clear that it will be permitted.
Why? What does it bring to the table over Chromium once you disable all the Microsoft nonsense?
In widows, you get bonus points if your program needs administrative rights
I like the "reciprocity" angle. Indeed, if you're consuming food &etc without contributing anything, then you're sort of a leech. That's fair.

When we go further to speak of "unimaginable privilege", then I have mixed feelings. In historical and global terms this is comparatively true. But if this comparison is simply used to scold workers when they get too uppity, then it serves another purpose.

Returning to "reciprocity" -- it might be worth pausing to ask why my imagination is limited to financial rents. If I were the baker, and I lived next door to the butcher and the candlestick-maker, then maybe I wouldn't mind making a loaf of bread and trading it for some meat or some light. (Yes, I see the predation involved in the meat -- perhaps it is inescapable -- but I will choose to gloss over it for now, privileging humans.) In this imaginary village, people have roles and trade labor, but you understand that your labor is in fact useful, and you understand who it is helping. I guess I am talking about Marx's "alienation", or lack thereof.

As a software developer, in many industries it is not clear that your work really benefits any individual person, or even society in the abstract. You perform drudgery and endure stress, but it all seems to be some terrible social game that accomplishes nothing, and you participate only because you must, to justify your existence.

So it makes sense why many software developers -- despite the flexible work arrangements, and the physically undemanding job, and the good pay -- would see work as only an evil and seek to escape it.

There has to be a way to do reasonable amounts of useful labor -- to pull your own weight -- without participating in Silicon Valley style "life".

Unfortunately, a degree of financial independence has to be an intermediate goal. But what the next step should be after that, I am not sure. For the super-rich, the answer is philanthropy. But for the yeoman programmer, it's less clear. It will need to be less grandiose than all that. It will need to continue to produce some cashflow, but it should provide understandable value to the community. I will need to think about this.
I am not a parent.

If I were a parent, I would assume Ofsted scores to be useless. Why? Because I know teachers and what they experience about the Ofsted process, which is Kafkaesque and officious.

It is much easier to look at the exam results, visit the school, ask people in an area what the kids are like at the bus stop —- are they well-behaved or are they scary? —- and ask young adults who recently left school what the teachers are like.
Yes, they are annoying. And you don't always know when your battery is reaching end of life. After having to take a last minute flight to fix a problem caused by a brief power outage I decided to mod the UPS to run off of deep cycle marine batteries. This is a 1500W APC unit. I picked up a couple of the biggest batteries they had at walmart, cut a hole in the side of the UPS, soldered in some 2 AWG wire, and connected the batteries in series with some ring terminals. The batteries charge up fine and they have gotten the servers through several multi-hour outages. It's coming up on five years now and they don't have the capacity that they used to. I'll probably replace them soon.
The entire discussion seems to have veered into the unserious.
I've thought a two/three-lens Wikipedia split was needed to handle this, because each brings its benefits.

I remember when nascent Wikipedia had user-contributed content, and the niche articles were way more interesting and detailed. Though at the cost of inaccuracy.

Now, the submarine PR being backfed into it makes cited content pretty beige.

Something like (1) a non-reader-visible, upstream Wikifacts + (2) a community-driven, laxer Wikiprototype + (3) an authoritative, cited Wikipedia.
Found private keys for Google services in production code of VS Code extension
I very much understand your sentiment. Unfortunately we haven't found any other functional way to achieve the same goal.

I am not sure about other firms, but we personally look for how the candidate thinks about the problem more than anything. Did they handle exceptions well. Are they focusing on efficiency, readability, speed, or?

We found out that from a simple assignment that shouldn't take more than 30 min, we learn more than sitting with the person for hours. Plus they can do at their own pace without someone breathing down on their neck.
The costs include loss of service in every third major storm.
Racism against white people exists, there’s nothing “reverse” about it. You can discriminate and exclude based on any skin color.

Competition is what we need, look at cities where Google fiber is available, internet for everyone is faster and cheaper than anywhere in the country and there are of course no data caps in those cities.

It’s why internet is way better in Kansas City than Silicon Valley. Kansas City has actual competition in their marketplace and common people provably benefit.
> The moral: set up your pricing structure and promotions to incentivize the behavior you want from your customers.

Is it aligned with the incentive digital marketing team has?
> The pure elegance of ASSIGN/virtual drive letters is also one of those features that seems pointless until you used it with removable media. Arguably though, in this day and age it's no longer needed.

When you think about ASSIGN's capability to associate a virtual drive to many directories, it's still needed. Linux re-invented it with "mount -bind", much later.
People have been organizing and effectively doing things politically for generations. That's how we got here. All the current law, etc. is a product of political activity, all the good, all the bad (good and bad as we perceive it).

How you got to where you are is to complain and promote powerlessness. Excuses are tools to build monuments of nothingness. Seriously, if your opponents could fund you, they would; you could earn some money at least.
Paragraph five:

> This post can be thought of as an introduction to a really interesting problem space, and as a resource for people interesting in making use of some aspects of Vector Networks for future applications. I hope it succeeds in providing value to both developers being introduced to new concepts and ideas, and to designers interesting in learning more about the tool they know and love.
Another aspect is that insurance companies can make money on the float, and this can potentially let them be profitable while paying out more in claims than they take in (or at least netting out to paying out what they take in). That’s assuming that they can effectively invest the premiums.

Buffett successfully applied this strategy with geico.