skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is fundamentally true, though, because you "level up" those skills through concentrated effort, which requires focus and time, both of which are finite resources.

I dunno. My experience is that it's true for some fields, such as videogames/sports.

What I've found is that people who have true expertise in a field (excluding videogames/sports) are generally competent in a number of other fields. The characteristics required to become an expert oil painter or an expert in applied mathematics (for example) are focus, concentration and the ability to recognise new patterns as patterns, and then apply them!

IOW, someone who is an actual master in a certain field should easily become at least competent in other things that they try.
So instead of losing 5% or so of their revenue in the EU they’d rather lose > 80-90% seems like a smart business decision…

In any case (not quite the same but gives a glimpse into their mindset) they have zero issues with kowtowing to authoritarian regimes like those in Russia or China
Indeed, hence my comment. I doubt such a society and economic system would actually come to fruition in the real world, it's a utopic dream in fiction like Star Trek only.
If we had a rather good way of attracting, selecting and retaining top scientists then by power laws inherent in any creative/competitive endeavour we’d expect that by increasing funding drastically to get more people employed we’d only see very marginal improvements, as the wider base of the talent won’t contribute all that much.
Natives tend to have local support networks (family and friends) help with money, material help and connections. Foreigners lack safety nets.

From a government point of view, you can select the best foreigner candidates (eg pick 1 doctor out of 10 candidates). That can't be done with locals (good and bad doctors want jobs)
This is the business. I highly recommend this solution. Streaming queries via duckdb or polars will use little to memory and be lightning fast for very large datasets.
Authy has one superb feature: you can switch a toggle to lick/unlock accessing a vault from new devices.

quite handy and can further increase security (trading it of course with lack of recovery would you lost all your devices).
You can use 16px font size on mobile so the browser won't zoom in to the text field.
They are for sure fucking around with peoples personal feeds. I am forever bombarded with "new" posts from the subreddits I sub to in my main feed.

For any sub where people ask a lot of questions it's very annoying. I've already unsubbed from a bunch of subs because I didn't want to see the inane/clueless questions being asked.

I have to assume they're promoting these dumbass questions into peoples feeds because they're precisely the type of content AI will love. People asking questions and humans giving answers, but boy it sure does make the experience as a user worse.
Speaking of RISCV emulators, I'm looking for an emulator for ESP32-C3 (the new riscv version of esp32).

How hard would it be to add this to qemu, which already supports sifive boards.
Right, and it’s not as if you’d own the wired line anyway. That’d be leased just the same way your Starlink connection would be.
To show others that there are plenty of people who don’t buy this marxist crap, and to shame original comment for spreading nonsense
I would love to move to Spain one day but their current tax structure seems crazy for a self employed techie. Is there a 'hack' I am missing?
> but the underlying math is something a 10 year old can handle – as can anyone with a calculator.

The calculator is just a tool to get the precision needed. If you understand the concepts, you can get a rough idea of what '17%' is and whether that ballpark is acceptable.

You whip out the calculator only when you need the precision.
I don't trust someone claiming to have run a heterodox org as much as someone claiming to have worked in one, like Creo sister comment threads.

Any incentive turns perverse, and incentives are not how our zillion cells are prompted to make our bodies work. Incentives work to an extent, but have inevitable adverse effects.
Yes, but in the Legendarium, the Valar were innately ‘magical’ creatures created by a supreme being, not people who studied spells
> The people wanted freedom and Putin created some false flag operations to start a second war, today those people instead of having their children live in peace are forced to see them fighting for the criminal that killed their parents.

A lot of those people that fought for freedom in Chechnya later went on to do great things, such as join ISIS or become drug dealers in Austria.

> I am concerned about people not lands or what empire has right to what land.

I wonder, does the same right of self determination of nations apply to people wanting self determination in NATO-allied countries? To Ukraine? Or is there fine-print included in your concern?
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Had a similar thing. Ex Company hired outside agency in order to deliver big feature on time. Lead guys in agency were sweet talkers and they were lying to C level executives(they believed them because of buzz wording). Agency overcomplicated the system with microservices, kubernetes, etc. Everything ended up more complicated and slower. Whenever you tried to suggest something they would just speak in private with CTO and you would get shushed. Half of our original team was moved to other projects because agency "new better". I quit and it was best decision
Reddit has never been organic. Theres a video by an ex karma farmer explaining his strategies for creating the most engagement. Surprise, 2016 was a huge boost to his metrics for obvious reasons.
Because you can make money.
Also, Signal for Windows installs in a user writable location (C:\Users\...). Which means that user-level malware can modify or replace its binaries.
Surplus of labour is entirely possible in agrarian society. Later in Europe there were periods when there was more labour than there was land. In situation like that losing some is not as big deal. Also "state" did not invest in their citizenry. So they did not lose anything by losing people.
You declare things under maintenance mode and you stop work on them other than to solve incidents or implement the postmortem improvements.

If you do this all the time for "finished" bits and instill a culture of "getting to done" in your engineering, it'll just be normal every quarter to move some stuff into maintenance and free up time.
“This add-on is not actively monitored for security by Mozilla. Make sure you trust it before installing.”
Is this better than looptube.xyz , YouXube.io, LooperTube, RepeatTube, YouTubeLoop or any of the other hits for “loop youtube”?
Around 10-15 years ago I read that Intel had a large somewhat secretive department working on exactly this idea, I believe the article described it as self-assembling sand or goo.

Anyone know what became of it?
This is very interesting! According to the article, the gene makes people either like cilantro or hate it entirely. I used to hate cilantro in my childhood as it smelled exactly like a stink bug to me. But it's the opposite in my adulthood. Cilantro enhances the savory taste, both in its raw and cooked form.
Not really. Do you really have the time and money and motivation to go find a lawyer and pursue a CFAA case against someone who might be using a VPN and be from a country where the CFAA doesn't apply? Since you're trying to sell folders on https://wws.scroll.pub/, I presume there's some sort of password protection on those, as opposed to the open instance linked. People paying $100 aren't going to like their passwords being stolen and their folder used for spam/ads/malware and nor will you.
Is it a good time to start competitor? Given that reddit might take Quora's path to oblivion.
> Supposedly you could remove your SIM card (who carries that tool doohickey with them at all times?)

In sane handsets (ones where the battery is still removable), that tool was and still is a fingernail, which most have on their person.

I believe the innovation of the need for a special SIM eject tool was bestowed upon us by the same fruit company that gave us floppy and optical drives without manual eject buttons over 30 years ago.
Modern Emacs TypeScript Web Config
I meant software engineering as inclusive to computer science.

Computer science/software engineering as taught in school gives a lot of foundational and theoretical understanding. But to apply and practice that knowledge,” then
Pre-birth control, there were usually more mouths to feed than food to feed them.

Modern machines and energy allow things to scale and be decoupled from human productivity enough it’s easy to forget - but it used to be, a hand not helping make food and helping it’s neighbors, was a hand hurting them. In real, concrete ways.

Back then, no one had the infrastructure or wealth to deal with putting a bunch of assholes in cages and feeding them regularly until they ‘behaved’. Usually anyway.

Hell, unless the cages were intentionally horrific, that would often be a step up on most folks day to day living conditions anyway.

So make an example, and make it a spectacle - and cheap. Hard to beat an execution on that front!
To be honest that is one of the most repeated "TIL" I see on the internet, so I was happy to not have to read it again!
Not my experience. The CI systems I dealt with most recently, for example, were very much compute-bound. Way too weak VMs for the runnres, and way too few of them. With CI builds taking each of upward 2h, and capacity to run maybe 10 of them in parallel, this pretty much destroys any ability to work with small commits - you have to squash them before submitting for review anyway, otherwise you destroy anyone else's ability to get their changeset through CI for the rest of the day.

This is entirely solvable by getting more resources. At least 2x more runners, each at least 2x as beefy. You could go 10x and I doubt it would be anywhere as expensive as the amount of money company wastes on devs waiting for CI. Alas, good luck convincing people managing the infra of this.
They assume a specific format of the invoices and conditionals aren’t easily supported - like if I’m removing VAT use one format, if not use another.

Another problem is the annoying data input where things aren’t organized using tables for quick input, rather than forms on different screens. One more thing that comes to mind is it’s hard to reuse elements, sometimes I have a generic template per client and just swap in and out line items etc.
In 2007 Microsoft was on top of the console market, which was also a pretty new market for Microsoft in general. It doesn't factor into their argument much.

In any case, the article is definitely hyperbolic. The overall statement that Microsoft is no longer an IBM-tier titanic bully is correct, "dead" is an aggressive overstatement.
Do what? Keep in mind youre outnumbered by normies who just do not care by a million to one.
Apple still makes significantly more money from selling the actual iPhones than from the App Store.

This such an obvious fact that anyone even mildly interested in the topic (i.e. commenting here and making such strong, yet silly, claims) surely must know..
I was scraping their website every few minutes, from a cloud provider, using a cookie I created by logging in manually while VPN'ing through the cloud (so the IP looked the same).

Eventually the cookie started "expiring" quicker and quicker, and they eventually thought I was being hacked. I knew how sketchy the whole thing was, so I didn't want to admit that I was doing the "hacking" myself.

It was probably against the terms of service, triggering alarms on their side, and risking being classified as actual hacking. Not worth it.

Eventually I got a bank account and app with instant transaction notifications, so now there's no point in scraping anymore.
There are multiple alternatives, but very few user seem to want to switch

https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/wiki/index/

I think a moderated mirror of certain subs would be a better solution. Because people like freedom but love their cats and memes much more.
Although Eclipse was once an IBM project, nowadays it is the Eclipse Foundation that is behind it. The Eclipse foundation is funded, it seems, by IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Red Hat, Huawei and many others.

Is this essentially a VS Code fork? Are they not happy with VS Code? After using Eclipse for everything for ages, I moved completely to VS Code. Like Eclipse, it is really well put together, as many would agree with me.

I'm not sure why the project exists. I assume they want to take the development into a direction that would not be possible with the MS-led VS Code?

Edit: Found the answer: "Eclipse Theia is an open and vendor-neutral project with a diverse community of contributors from large corporations down to small companies and even individual developers. This diverse and steadily growing community is a stable base for the ongoing development of additional features and maintenance of existing functionality based on a broad and balanced view of the requirements put forward by the Theia adopters. The commercial-friendly licensing and the rigorous underlying IP management ensures that adopters can safely build commercial and internal products based on Theia." [https://theia-ide.org/docs/project_goals/]
> positive feedback doesn't prove that you are entirely correct

You often don’t need to be 100% sure that everything is correct before you move from “writing notes” to “doing something”. At that point, I find that note-taking becomes counter-productive because of the time it requires.

I say this as an avid note taker myself: I’ve often caught myself procrastinating by polishing my notes 100%, instead of moving on and getting things done.
I hope I'm not the only one who remembered Ancient Mesopotamia song

Babylonians built roads

They traded grain for gold

They kept themselves united

Under Hammurabi's Code!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdblRch6m3g
I was thinking of the GUI itself: how can you compose GUI components?
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ah, I am using https://hnreplies.com
It's a good thing they don't have to bother upholding those other pesky enumerated rights too.

The salient detail would be a strong distinction of soldiers from police forces. It's only because of the strongly kept distinction that it's notable when federal military personnel are deployed in response to riots, natural disasters, or other national emergencies.

See also the related, but opposite in participant and realm of action, Posse Comitatus Act,

> signed on June 18, 1878 ... limits the powers of the federal government in the use of federal military personnel to enforce domestic policies within the United States.

> updated it in 1956, 1981 and 2021.

I would not have known about its recent updates without this diversion:

> In 2021, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 further expanded the scope of the Act to cover the United States Navy, Marine Corps, and Space Force

But not the Army nor Air National Guards of states, nor the Coast Guard, since law enforcement is part of its mission.

https://en-wp.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act

The distinction has its own wikipedia page discussing the long history of its relevance, at least 146 years.

https://en-wp.org/wiki/Separation_of_military_and_police_rol...
I've yet seen another game with as good pathfinding as StarCraft 2. The way 100s of units flow around another 100s of moving units like water is very impressive, even today.

Does anyone know what's the special sauce?
Isn't this monopoly abuse?
Could be fun to map TOPT to syllables, I you'd need 100 syllables give or take, then the code is 3 syllables.
This is not good.

80% of my Google searches for other people's opinions now end with "site:reddit.com", and there is surprisingly quite a few of them. The alternative is Reddit's own search and it tends to produce less relevant results.
> they might.

Let’s not get silly and totally absurd. Also it’s the cost of compliance that has to surpass their profit not the fines which are entirely optional.

In any case Apple is still making a lot of money from selling the devices themselves and much more than from the app store.
After scrolling for a little I was shown a video ad and was left with the text taking about 1/3rd of my phone's screen. No thank you. I wish I could flag this for unusable.
You might be interested in:
https://github.com/ShieldBattery/ShieldBattery

It's a project that few of us started almost a decade ago to ensure the longevity of this game. We don't try to emulate Battle.net at all, but instead we take only the gameplay itself and reimplement everything else ourselves.

It's a work in progress, so please let us know what you'd like to see in there that's currently missing if you do check it out.
I just want to put out Loop Habit Tracker ( https://github.com/iSoron/uhabits ). Its open source, ad free and has the option to start the day at 3 am. I am very happy with this solution.
An abstraction that always has served me well — in the way that it predicted who is to blame well — was to look at the incentives.

If your company has an incentive to make products hard to fix by the lay person over time your company will make decisions that leads to precisely that, even if most of the individuals involved by themselves had a principled stance towards the quality of their designs, products and repairability.

That means the only reliable way I as a customer can trust a company means this for real, is if something within their structure disincentives selling out their good reputation for short term gains by creating shittier less repairable products.

The problem is that in capitalism most organizations are structured with incentives in mind that don't care about long term effects on the environment, society or even the company itself.
let's look at the scale of the problem ... ~300 trees in a region that has no shortage of trees

Why is it impossible to find another resolution that satisfies both the homeowner and ecologists?

PS. I know of a similar problem - where some giant oak trees along a house are so dense that the owners have to use artificial lighting in their rooms during the summer at just about all times,

The trees are owned by the township but reach well over the property and are clearly too big, half as big trees would suffice, the township does not allow trimming the trees without a legal fight

Why should someone be deprived of natural light in their own home? Just cut back on the tree; it is not the end of the world or Mother Nature.
Potentially replacing human labour in specific niches. Like my sister recently got a prenup in the UK and the lawyers doing a bit of would you like this or that and writing some stuff charged £20k. Crying out to be replaced by AI. The moat is being the one who understands the legal technicalities.
> The problem of browser extensions having "too many" capabilities allegedly boils down to some small subset of users stupidly or unluckily installing dodgy extensions

nope. "legitimate" extension authors get compromised - either their creds or they sell the extension to some other less reputable group.
yeah id rather not cut out my literal organs for some random person thousands of miles away.

come the f on u for real?
JPEG 2000 is completely wavelet based, no DCT either, and it’s been around for a while. It’s used a bit in medical imaging where ringing artifacts are a big no no.
Those were times where premature deaths were extremely common and natural. This probably manifested a much reduced fear and intolerance of killing, as against today where murder is a very rare phenomenon and results in long-term trauma across all people who were even remotely involved.
I've had crippling migraines for a few years now. Often 20 or so per month. I rarely get headaches, and usually it's more of a feeling of exhaustion and malaise, following aura that includes facial numbness. The worst part is that it affects my work pretty badly by causing brain fog that lasts for days.

I'm on Ajovy injections which has reduced how many I get, but the only thing that really helps is taking 800mg of ibuprofen. That gives me a few hours of comfort.
There's no local equivalent of rocketlawyer? RocketBarrister.com?
Have you figured out how you are foing to moderate communities and the content?

Because that is Reddit's magic ingredient and you will have to do it 24/7 from day one.
The public is distressingly indifferent to both the handling of their data and their pricing power relative to the modern cartel.

The enterprise is keenly aware that they will be decades recovering from how badly they got put over a barrel on cloud. The enterprise cares deeply about where their privileged and in many cases legally regulated data goes and is stored.

Big business needs an ally in the tech game, and for once that is looking likely to trickle down to John Q Taxpayer.
> So the issue is poor sandboxing of extensions.

nope - the way ublock etc work is arbitrary code exec and arbitrary access to the urls and pages.

the new extension model that everyone hates is extreme sandboxing, but not letting adblockers do that.
I agree that it's refreshing for an article on cilantro to not be about that. But they make some very misleading implications by completely ignoring it.
> Ehhhhhh. Kind of. Maybe. Certainly not always

Certainly always, in the case of companies like Apple. They either lose > 95% of their sales in the EU or comply with their regulations.

> porn

Is not sold on physical media these days.
> says Karima Moyer-Nocchi, a culinary historian

What a fascinating profession. In Italy of all places! My guess is they are sought after at cocktail parties.