skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trudeau was the one who triggered the protests in the first place.

The liberal, moral, fast and peaceful solution to the trucker protests was simple: stop forcing people to take experimental drugs against their will. The vaccines didn't reduce transmission, and there is no rule against living life in a risky way (even if you believe the vaccines worked at all), so there was never any moral argument for the mandates. The truckers were right to protest, as Trudeau and the Canadian people were doing them a severe injustice.
Actually interesting, do ISP levels blocks mandated by government apply to planes in their airspace using satellite internet?
I don't think this phrase has ever been uttered by a Facebook programmer.
Completely ignoring the release dates for the videos is simply amazing.
The "Meditation" one made me chuckle. "Relax your mind"...

As you wage all-out war on your senses.
Everyone thinks they're on the right side of history :)
This post is fascinating but I think it is more mundane than I realized. I thought everyone knew that when a cheap digital kitchen timer shows a time like “0 H 1 M”, that actually means you have exactly 60 seconds or fewer for its alarm to go off.

I might be wrong, but there was a Prince of Persia game (maybe for Game Boy?) that had the same timer behavior. It would show the time remaining to complete the level in minutes and would jump immediately from “1 minute” to 0.

The iOS podcast app is more sophisticated than that. It normally displays how many minutes remain in the playing podcast episode. But what is cool is that at the 30 second boundary, it will decrease one minute. For example, it is at -24:30 or -24:29 that it will go from saying “25 minutes remaining” to “24 minutes remaining.” Then when 30 seconds are left, it is nice enough to show you a countdown of the seconds.
Can't say anything but I FRIGGING LOVED THIS
I find "homework" more disturbing than kids figuring out ways to subvert the system they're forced into. Offloading state mandated education on parents without compensating for it is quite the policy, and likely accepted because most parents are afraid their kids will end up in misery if they refuse to or can't obey.
Fascist Imagery in Congress
Nice! I've used Nocodb quite a bit myself, a big fan of it, especially as a free self hostable alternative to Airtables (which is way overpriced imo).

You have the form data being placed into a table, or being sent somewhere external?
We have a PhD student ecologist in the family and they've lost all hope. It's quite depressing. Doesn't look like the next round of world governments have it high on the agenda also.
A Firefox Add-on to redirect Twitter links to X Cancelled automatically: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nitter/

(Disclosure: I published this Add-on)
If only someone made a userscript to automatically filter those out..
True. Probably wouldn't be a very good argument though.
I'll quote my own comment on the trucker situation from a year and a half ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37450666

> It's a story of everyone going way too far.

> The government(s) went way overboard with Pfizer proof of purchase QR codes to get lunch. Especially when uptake was 80%+

> They also went overboard by locking down again over the holidays when everyone was already catching the most contagious Omicron. People not being able to go to a gym to stay fit, that already needed a barcode, swayed a lot of the public that things were going on too long.

> But the obnoxiousness of the truckers also went too far for too long. The news of rifles and arrests in Alberta was (obviously) too far.

> I don't have a citation on hand, but at one point more than a third of Canadians did support either the truckers explicitly or their aims, and that's a higher percentage than voted for the current governing party. Support was higher among younger people, sometimes over 50%. But this percentage decreased as time went on.

> The government also completely failed to act diplomatically or to de-escalate the situation. Instead we had inflammatory rhetoric and a focus on some silly flags (which should be condemned, but a lot of people have doubts as to their sincerity, and I've seen some pretty gross signs against the unvaxxed too)

> Some people, even in this comment section, take their rhetoric and opposition too far.

> There is no doubt in my mind that the more time passes, the more we will look at Canada's response to the pandemic (especially in its later years) as a horrendous failure that harmed trust in public health, harmed social cohesion, and harmed our democratic and civil institutions. Everyone failed and everyone suffered as a result.
None of the problems are worse than I have heard. In fact it sounds like a rehash of what I wrote on HN. Especially the way it was presented and certain points. Not that I care about Intel now Pat is gone.
Not going to lie, this is mildly fascinating, but I am not sure if enough time has passed to allow detached analysis of the event just yet. Still, if all it takes is fear, woulnd't it almost automatically remove all responsibility from the person claiming this? I am not sure this is a valid excuse for government officials with 24/7 protection and multiple agencies looking after their well-being.
In what world is it ok to subject people to sleep deprivation techniques because “ear plugs exist”? That’s basically saying “I am allowed to enact violence on you, because painkillers exist”.

In addition to how absurd that is, I don’t think this would pass any kind of “pub test”.
I thought immigrants were here to save the economy. Why does everyone need to scale back to living like college students then?
Switzerland has direct democracy and seems to go fine with it.
I ended up stopping the execution using max=10 and then removing annoying elements using the web inspector and keep running. I really liked the subway surfers though
Obviously I didn't mean to imply that your merits as a programmer should be judged by your ability to recall specific syntax, like the equality operator in some language.

I'm wondering about the long term effects of not paying attention to such details. Do you miss out on picking up patterns used by a certain library, framework, language or whatever, that you could have used to write your own code better?
15 years ago we didn't have so many algorithms. I think Facebook still sorted by recent back then.

The pervasiveness of algorithms is a symptom of the change that has happened. It shows how companies started to compete more and more for our attention and engagement.
> We blew past the Turing test and yet no one seems to marvel at that.

We didn't blow past the Turing test. Such comments are often made, but I think they are a result of misunderstanding or overgeneralizing of what a Turing test is. If you interact with a chatbot and it produces human-like answers, it doesn't mean it would pass or blow past the Turing test.
Turing proposed a rigorous setup for the test, he designed it in such a way, that passing the test could really mean reaching human level intelligence. In the Turing test a human is asked to use all of their intelligence to reveal which of the two peers in a conversation is human and which is a machine. Current chatbots are very far from passing such a test.
Almost nothing in my life or career to date has depended on knowing time to the second.

Why does it matter if your noon meeting starts at 11:59 or 12:01?
What's all this overengineering and waste creating timeouts?

Why not just use setInterval?

let interval = setInterval(() => document.querySelector('.main-btn').click(), 50)

Then

clearInterval(interval)

to stop
Ding ding ding!

Yes! I find it interesting that the Federal government is getting the majority of the blame for these issues when in reality I feel like provinces should be at fault.

Not to say that the federal government is without blame, but I feel like given the current state of healthcare in many provinces, as well as the housing s** show, provincial governments should be primarily held at fault.

Zoning/housing, Healthcare, education... Obviously the immigration loop holes have been an issue as well, but these three are provincial.
A good parallel is the U.S. campus protests in opposition to military aid for Israel's Gaza campaign, which were violently dispersed. You can find lots of instances of mostly right wingers saying they should never be able to get a job again and such.
It is not T'is, it is Tis. No apostrophe.
I've successfully used (for 3+ years in multiple projects) an approach similar to BeautifulSoup's get_text() function to assert the whole visible text of a component. You can implement it in other languages with a few regexes.

One addition makes it an order of magnitude more versatile: a way to visualize non-textual information as text in the tests. For example add a data-test-icon attribute which contains the replacement text that should be shown in tests. Another method is to parse the HTML and write custom visualization for some elements, so that you get useful default visualization for at least form elements and such, without having to repeat the data-test-icon attribute every time.

See https://martinfowler.com/articles/tdd-html-templates.html#Bo...
Installed immediately and enabled to run on private windows. Good self-plug :)
We're already doing that, improving with every version. And 5-6GHz is inherently more range limited to start with.

Is there a reason to only use the best way, and not multiple ways working together? There's even a synergy that more intelligent power adjustment and beamforming is most effective when it gets new frequencies free of legacy equipment.
Never mind the back pain:how rock's drummers cope with furious sets in their 70s
As far as clickers go, finishing this game without cheating is very easy. Only takes like 20-30 min. But nonetheless, it was enjoyable. Really regretted clicking the subway surfer wormhole button. Luckily that was right at the end.
CCL: Categorical Configuration Language
> Is this because of an increase in the prevalence of child distractions like an iPad?

There is a massive class discrepancy emerging between communities where kids are always on devices, at school and at home, and those where it is controlled. The crack pipe being in the pocket is functionally different from a heavy object at home.
Amd in general has allowed their mobile cpus to power scale. I don’t see why this would be any different. 15w on the go. 120 with plug

Edit: per article these are positioned from 45w up
I'm going to sound like an elitist ahole but this all worked so much better when it was a small, self selecting group of users.

But the most disenfranchising part of all this is how quickly/how willing tech people were to allow/promote/encourage awfulness and destructiveness for $$$. I had such a different view of that scene in the 90s/early 2000s. But the good news is we are self reflecting and not happy with the current status quo. Hopefully we don't settle for the 'hide in our gated community' discord model but come up with something better.
72% markup is quite reasonable for a novelty product. I worked in a small specialty store as a kid and our standard markup was 100%.
Many of my friends are also thinking of just leaving to Europe. This whole thing about running after more and more money may just not be worth it at the end.
If only more people A) asked this question and B) looked into what was (not) happening.

Basically Ottawa police were insubordinate, sided with the truckers/occupiers/protesters, etc. The populist conservative provincial government completely failed to act, likely due to the protestors being on "their side".

> Ottawa was not being policed. Ticketing didn’t start for days. Tow-truck companies hesitated to move illegally parked trucks for fear of losing business from truckers after the protests ended. Protesters were refilling their trucks with jerry cans of diesel. When the police were ordered to put a stop to that, protesters began to carry empty jerry cans en masse to overwhelm law enforcement, but they needn’t have bothered: front-line officers were not following orders to stop them from gassing up. There were reports that sympathetic officers were sharing police intelligence with protesters. Anything the police did could backfire. Families with children were living in some of the trucks, and there were reports of firearms in others.

https://thewalrus.ca/freedom-convoy-the-prince/
Sam Altman convincing the ultra-rich that AI is the next best place to put their too much money after they've run out of other places to put it is not anywhere near the spirit of what he meant by people "working together." He's saying that while in a dysfunctional society, AI will only magnify the dysfunction.

Fighting climate change is a means towards the end of having a livable environment, developing AI is a means towards the end of having a better society. But, whereas fixing the environment would be its own automatic benefit, having AGI would not automatically improve the world. Something as seemingly innocuous and positive as social networking made a lot of things worse.
The interesting thing is that we have solved this. Groups of people much larger than single corporations work together effectively using systems like GitHub, Wikipedia, or npm, without overloading the social graph. I don't know why companies don't use similar systems internally — although I'm sure some do, but perhaps they don't advertise it, because it's a huge competitive advantage.
The protesters at the border could and were arrested without invoking the Emergencies act. The border is under Federal jurisdiction and the laws broken were Federal.

The Emergencies act was invoked to evict the occupiers from Ottawa. They were breaking municipal and provincial laws and on land where the province and city had jurisdiction. The Ottawa city government, the Ottawa police chief and the province were all incompetent and failed to arrest and evict.
...unless they decide to just have Pentagon lawyers print up a lot of paper that says whatever they're doing falls under existing authorizations that consistently get renewed without debate.
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I'm a big fan of buy it for life products so I created a directory for them. I'm looking for some feedback!
Do you think the screenwriter of that episode thought to themselves "I have done my research and I will write an episode revealing how the self help industry works?"

Or do you think they thought to themselves "This will be funny: we have this wacky character crying in the self help section, it's ironic because with all those books, she should be the person least in need of self help!"

I think it's the later. If the episode was saying something that's true, it's merely by accident.
Gravity isn't understood, but it exists as a force regardless. We know it does, no one debates it does, but whatever we _call_ it might change, and how we understand it will inevitably change.

That was my point. Gravity as a force exists, but the understanding of that force is still being developed. We might even change the name, but there is no doubt the force exists.

I should have worded it better. Extrapolating from that is probably not achieving much.
'Bravo' was produced at Xerox PARC by Butler Lampson, Charles Simonyi and colleagues in 1974.

Then Charles went to Microsoft where he started and led Microsoft's applications group, where he built the first versions of Microsoft Office
I mean, it's a given that it will be pushed, but I really don't see the benefit of logging into windows with a microsoft account for most people. I do it, because it makes it enables parental controls, but if I didn't want those, I don't see the point. The regular people in my life do it because Microsoft pushes it hard, and they don't care. The Windows app store works just as well (which is to say, not very well) if you log in to it in the app or through your windows account.

It's basically required on a chrome OS device, although my MIL was using the guest account for months when she changed her password instead of referencing her password book and then later couldn't log in from her book. Chrome OS isn't awful with no persistent storage.

Blessedly, I haven't had to use a mac in many years, but a local account didn't seem to impact anything of note --- you could login to the app store in the event you needed something from there, but there wasn't much that needed it other than Xcode; maybe that's changed.

The iPhone with no app store is fairly useless, so yeah, you've got to login to that. An Android with no google play is a little bit less useless, depending on what apps you want to run, some of them distribute apks directly.
Devil’s advocate: all words are made up and languages evolve over time
This used to be what StaticKit did...until they were acquired by Formspree.
Old man yells at cloud vibes. If these services were so devoid of value, competitors will spring up and eat their lunch. Capitalism still works. Silicon valley startups have made their money disrupting broken customer experiences in basically every single vertical. They are not immune from the same disruption.
AMDs slides say 45-120W.
Yep. Especially when a tail recursion can be immediately converted to an equivalent loop by definition (and vice versa).

A bizzare comment at best, from someone writing a book on recursion.
Oh god, that's deeply weird.

I've felt for some time they're overdue for an "almost nothing but bug fixes and performance improvements" major release like we got a couple times in the 20-teens :-/
It's not that fanciful.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/2102/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/28/kevin-karl-d...
I really wanted the pillow.
The already repealed, provincial vaccine mandates they were protesting.
We don't 'pump rates', we make pay transparent which is exactly what we're providing and sharing here.

We have US based employees and several contractors as well. We've created several jobs here directly and probably helped thousands in theirs.
>If you'd told people 50 years ago that "literacy" would decline to the level of the reddit poster's style of writing, with poor sentence structure and words in ALL CAPS, they'd be pretty shocked. Now it's just normal communication.

I would argue that the people who would have written like 50 years ago just never had the opportunity or audience that people do today. Except maybe in a Letter to the Editor of a newspaper or something.

So many more people are expressing themselves in public than ever were able to 50 years ago so I think it just seems that people have become less literate than they were. So many YouTube comments and Facebook posts that never would have occurred 50 years ago.

It's a democratization of the broadcasting of expression more than literacy decline.
His mind is spinning all the time....he wanted to ban both Facebook and TikTok.
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ITT missing the forest for the trees and focusing on

- The incorrect definition of "fascist". The article is just using the word as a label for "people who don't let others do things that don't hurt anyone". Yeah it should've used another label like "authoritarian" or "wall", but the ultimate message is the same.

- Over-analyzing the rules: "you should let people do what they want, unless they're hurting other people" but what if "hurt" is something stupid like "going outside hurts me because you're ugly"? This is the first half of the ultimate message, the article agrees that people assign stupid meanings to "hurt" and that is the source of many disagreements.

- The article suggesting you try logic and morals to persuade someone who isn't following logic and morals. The second half of the ultimate message is that sometimes you think someone isn't acting logically or morally (ex: the person trying to stop you from eating tictacs because they're on a power-trip) when they are (ex: said person is really tying to stop you because they believe tic-tacs are sentient, which if true, would justify intervention). And yes, some people are on power-trips or otherwise acting in bad faith. But most people simultaneously believe they use logic and morals, and most other people don't; because people don't act as rationally and morally as they think, and (the article's message) they mis-judge others as bad-intentioned when they're good-intentioned but have bad assumptions.
So the great firewall?
still had good successes with CL as far back as 2019 for selling a car, and picking up used servers.

that said, general consensus at least where I am in WA and Canada is FB Marketplace is the new CL. which is a same because FB sucks
I'm huge a supporter of the HTMX philosophy. I highly recommend reading Hypermedia Systems especially for people that are just beginning doing web development. I've purchased the book and it was a wonderful read especially for its explanations and pragmatism.
The macro from the article uses nested functions which on gcc are implemented with tramolines that need executable stack.

https://thephd.dev/lambdas-nested-functions-block-expression...
It's an okay book but there isn't really anything in it that you couldn't infer after you've read the first 10%. A lot of common sense warnings about risks from AI, bioweaopns, cyberattacks etc but it's all very generic. There's no chapter in it that I found had any genuine insight. An interesting chapter would have been "what if I'm completely wrong and all we get is a bunch of meme generators and the next bubble", but that never appears to be a possibility.

It's oddly enough the case with a lot of books that end up on Gates recommended lists. I saw someone recently say, maybe a bit too mean, that we might make it to AGI because Yuval Noah Harari keeps writing books that more and more look like they're written by ChatGPT and it's not entirely untrue for a lot of the stuff Gates recommends.
Climate Models Can't Explain What's Happening to Earth
> address a virus that in no way constituted an emergency

100s of thousands hospitalised. 60k dead. And that is with lockdowns.

Seems like an emergency to me.
>I think it should be rare that a guest of yours spontaneously decides to beat you up without generating any other evidence.

Are you assuming most assaults are premeditated? I'd say most aren't. Even something like burglaries/robberies are often opportunistic, without anything incriminating like a heist planning board.
Even more clearly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jinx_(TV_series)

> After the interview, Durst goes to the bathroom. Apparently unaware that his microphone is still recording, he rambles at length, ending with, "What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course."

> On March 14, 2015, the eve of the final episode's airing, the FBI arrested Durst in New Orleans on a first-degree murder warrant the LAPD obtained in connection to Berman's death. They had undertaken an investigation based on new evidence presented in the miniseries.
> a handful of 1 star reviews from angry internet people

My favourite category of 1-star reviews are those left at obviously fine dining establishments praising the food and service but one starring due to price. (Same category: excellent food truck food, unbelievable value, one star because there wasn’t enough seating or the water came in a plastic cup.)
He was definitely ahead of his time then, and even more so in the 90s!
Many of the most expensive and "fancy" schools deemphasize homework and grades in early education.
> Genuinely curious whats better under Canadian system for the young and old.

The young, old, and those too unhealthy to work full-time. And to answer your question: a better social safety net, IMO.

Edit: Because this topic is flamebait, I'm preemptively declaring that I'm not going to argue about my opinion. YMMV.
Blowing $10 on entertainment hardly makes anyone a fool, though. It's $10 worth of novelty for $10.