skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Student loan is usually your fault. You had the choice to not believe what society told you about education
Except for highly regulated jobs where there are no alternative
QubesOS is great if you need to do work and personal stuff on the same computer. I do most of my stuff in the browser and have a separate computer for work. I am mostly interested in making initial access as expensive and difficult as possible.

You are still just as vulnerable or more vulnerable to malware stealing browser sessions, passwords, and everything you have on the AppVM the browser is running on than you are on a regular Fedora Workstation. Unless you only use disposable VMs, which you probably don't. If QubesOS had hardened templates, I would use it. When I used it, SELinux was not enforced, and I believe it still has passwordless sudo. Not sure what other mitigations are disabled in the default templates compared to regular, non-QubesOS Fedora Workstation.
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These days we are building and testing new search engine experiences, trying to understand what users actually need.

To date, we found out that most of searches became a prompt rather than a simple keyword query, this means that the need of an accurate answer is growing instead of doing a self-research on every page

-What are your thoughts about this topic?
-Do you still use search engines?
-What do you think about new UX like Perplexity?
How does Kagi Ultimate compare to Perplexity?
This same technique can be used for a 3D effect: https://old.reddit.com/r/CrossView/
Every Asshole knows this trick for targeting spacecraft

https://youtu.be/XGdjKvivJA8?si=lRrfl6rHzAsE7nEO
Cute, but that's not the HTML TFA is talking about :)
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You can ask him to try yogic and ayurvedic methods. AN excerpt from The Wellness Sense book (author: OM Swami) [0]:

>I've had patients successfully cure ulcers, cancers, migraines, obesity, hypertension, allergies, depression and many other ailments by following the principles I share with you in this book. I am not suggesting that Ayurveda is a panacea. No system of medicine is. But, when you combine the principles of Ayurveda with the yogic thought, you make a giant leap in your understanding of the human body and its wellbeing. In this book, I introduce you to a holistic system of health and wellness.
My goal is not to give you herbal remedies, because once again I don't wish to treat the symptoms. Besides, I'm not a medical professional but a meditation specialist and a tantric practitioner. There are plenty of Ayurvedic doctors out there you can consult for medicine. Having said that, chances are, once you adopt the principles and practices I am sharing here, you will not need to see a doctor again. For a healthy and a long life, the ancient yogic thought offers you one of the most insightful, complete and scientific perspectives.
I promise by the time you finish reading this book, you will look upon your body and your health in a new way. You will learn how to take care of it better, you will know how to lead a healthier life in our present world

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I sure didn't expect there to be a plausibly work-related angle when I came to this thread
CFPB Agency moves to protect in-game currencies in video games like Roblox
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Not like they have much to lose
https://archive.ph/WrCLf
I echo this. Having gone through several phones over the past few years, configuration settings just feel ephemeral, and there are headaches involved in porting them to different systems. And anything that's even remotely important gets backed up on a cloud.
If academic types produce such weak arguments, they really don't have anyone to blame for the loss of prestige and trust of academia but themselves.

Almost anyone older than 50 is very aware of the fact that while there always has been some movement of ideas and people among the nations, the degree of those movements is much higher today, and the consequences much more massive. For example, presence of Islam in Western Europe used to be negligible until the early 1970s. Nowadays European cartoonists must tread lightly around possible blasphemy lest they want to be spectacularly murdered.

Plenty of locally specific cultural traits have disappeared as well, or are at least endangered, the same way that bonobo or kakapo are. Food is starting to be startingly similar across the globe. If you look at a new glass-and-steel building at a photo, you can't tell if it is in Dubai or in Stockholm or in Nairobi. Go to Papua-New Guinea, switch on the radio and you will hear Ed Sheeran or Taylor Swift. Etc etc.
Oh I hadn't thought of it in terms of the laborers themselves. I was thinking about the conditions under which the subjects labor in places like Amazon warehouses and the gig economy. But yes, the sort of anti-labor zeitgeist that permeates the US is definitely one of "labor dishonorable".
Sure but it is the degree that's notable here.
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> because it goes directly against most people's first-hand observed reality

Most places in the US are relatively untouched by immigration, or put another way, southern border issues are irrelevant to Americans unless they live in a State on the US/Mexico border. Immigration is a classic right wing demagogue issue. Arguing in favor of it isn't going against people's "observed reality", it's contradicting what they heard on talk radio and Fox News.

> You want people to be fine with immigration? Tell them why it is desirable for them personally

If you get Social Security it will likely be due to millions of immigrants paying into it while not eligible for it. You probably eat stuff grown on a farm, you probably use stuff made in a factory, all heavily immigrant labor because Americans do not want to do it no matter the compensation.
Thanks! now I have a migraine
I’m glad you couldn’t if that would have kept you from posting it today.
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Every 80’s kid knows this trick from those old books where you cross your eyes to reveal images.
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Unfortunately, I missed out a key word “… what knowing that things are not the case tells us about what we can know is [absolutely] the case…”

My apologies for this and with the omission I don’t disagree one bit with your reply.

On the other hand I can see how we might imagine ways we could scientifically sarisfy ourselves beliefs are not absolute, but I’m not sure how we could satisfy ourselves they are
> Similarly here in Canada our immigration levels per capita which are very high - maybe too high - are still at a rate similar to that of most of the late 19th century

Per capita is often a really dishonest framing

Especially compared to dates 100+ years ago, when we probably didn't have super accurate census numbers. Especially since Canadian census at the time probably didn't even really include Native Americans.

It's also very different to be welcoming large amounts of immigrants of very similar cultures, versus large amounts of immigrants with very different cultures

In my lifetime Canada is going to see enough of a demographic shift that people sharing the culture I grew up with are going to be the minority. I've already seen that many neighborhoods in Calgary do not really participate in Halloween anymore, for instance. Every parent in my neighborhood says they take their kids elsewhere for Halloween to go door to door because our neighborhood doesn't have many houses that participate

Is that a big problem? No probably not, but it kinda sucks to see
The article uses the language of "profit from the devistation". I think the most important aspect is if they are profiting at the expense of the residents.

Firefighters, homebuilders, banks, and police also "profit from the devastation". I expect there are massive stock and option trading taking place for related companies and industries.

IF someone wants to see callousness, they can just go on reddit and see tens of thousands of people active celebrating the destruction because the most affected are thought to be more affluent.
The thing you're missing is that at no point is it assumed that there are exactly two elements in a boolean algebra. In fact you can have a boolean algebra with four elements (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_algebra_(structure)).
There is also the manga "As the Gods Will" which is not only a similar concept but has the exact same first game. Strange that this is never mentioned as an influence.
This is kind of why I can't watch Squid Game. I just can't convince myself to watch it since it's probably going to be depressing.
If China were to stay exactly the same it would be dropping relatively at a pretty fast rate..
Which is what I meant. They look for promising projects in other countries and finance them partly or even buy them as a whole. But those projects usually already existed before Netflix came in, meaning they are not specifically designed for Netflix and the US-market. Squid Game for example was written 10 years before Netflix started financing them. And this is even more obvious when they finance sequels to old series which were already running decades ago.
More things you can use this for:

”Are these two things the same size?”

”Are these things that are supposed to be evenly spaced actually evenly spaced?”

”Are all these things straight/at the same angle?”

”Is the wallpaper pattern aligned everywhere?”

”Is that surface using a repeating texture?”
Not as many developers though, yet.
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To do it with crossed-eye view, try looking at your finger and slowly moving the finger closer to your eyes until you see a third image come into view in between the two on the screen. At some point your brain will/might let you focus on that image.
what a completely useless article of drivel
Good idea.

* "Billion Dollar Loser" by Reeves Wiedeman (WeWork)
* "Bad Blood" by John Carreyrou (Theranos)
* "Losing My Virginity" by Richard Branson (his failed projects)
* "The Hard Thing About Hard Things" by Ben Horowitz
This is called 'vdiff' in the Jargon File: https://jargonfile.johnswitzerland.com/vdiff.html
But that still relies on having a prior notion of the formal requirements of your system. I know little about insurance systems, but deriving a formal specification seems like a nightmare task. Although, as you mentioned, if you had a partial one you certainly would get some benefits from it.
> season 7

Series 7

The Americans divide their TV into seasons. We don't do that in Blighty.
I didn't know this had a name or was considered a skill. I've done this since the 90's when those magic eye books became popular.

I even managed "impossible mode" in 2 or 3 seconds.
Just added it to the showcase section https://github.com/alexpasmantier/television/wiki/Showcase if you wish to add any details :-)
I've worked as a sysadmin for most of my professional career, around 25 years. Sure I've screwed up, but I've learned each time. Covering everything in bubble wrap to shield you from consequences of mistakes is counter-productive. All that happens is that you learn that there are safety nets and not to think twice about what you're doing. Also these tools are non-standard, so you'll expect them everywhere. Don't do this.
At a local bar they had a game machine, and if you got a high score on any of the games, your tab for the evening was free.

One of the games was a "spot the differences" between two pictures with an ever decreasing timer for each round. Using this trick I was able to easily surpass the high score, and garner a crowd watching me perform this mind numbing feat.

Probably my peak fame right there.
On my team we expect that everyone looks at PRs at least once a day. If something is particularly pressing, they can post a message to our internal team channel for a faster response.
Do you have a source for this? The linked study claims it has potential.
Yep came here to recommend this. Incredible story.
yeah, I'd love to see an option to include a deceleration step and what the time debt looks like from there.
That’s the reason he states but he was given multiple opportunities and chances to have his medical care covered for but opted for continually selling drugs instead.

Every goal he wanted (getting enough money to pay for college for his children, paying living expenses for a decade, etc) he met and still continued.

He even says so in the last episode, he did it because it made him feel alive.
I’m not sure how that really is an argument against my point. Thousands of scripts exist, and in the process of them getting made, the funders and producers have influence on the content.

The idea that fully-written scripts are just made without any input or pushback from the funders/producers is not how the film industry works.
SQL is not three valued. Neither is NULL. BOOLEAN is accused of being three-valued but it has two values and like all values they can be unknown. Similarly a SMALLINT has 65,536 possible values not 65,537.
Could you say more about that? I have been using pry, and it appears to still be updated. Is there a reason to stop using pry, or are you expressing a preference for the official debug gem?

Thanks!
Has heavily depended on employee incentives.

At some employers, particularly the Scrum point counting ones, PRs were unrecognized work, so everyone avoided them unless hounded and then people traded PR approvals at the end to score more points as “done.”

At employers that didn’t care about points complete per sprint, it depended on the overall importance of the work as the team leads jumped in to have them done. But even then, as it wasn’t recognized as work in any way, during crunch it got abandoned.
Reminds me of the joke: What do you call alternative medicine that works? Medicine.

If any of the wild things posted in threads like these actually worked, those things just be considered standard care.
It's a declarative programming language. Saying it's "in the name" is a meme, it was named that before it supported scripting.
HTML can be used to tell different devices in different contexts what to display and how to display it. It serves as a sort of general DSL, which is a bit of an oxymoron and does come remarkably close to describing a programming language.
I have a slightly lazy right eye, so this has always come naturally to me, but I will say it's considerably easier to achieve the false focal lock on printed material— something about screens, even quality ones with high refresh rates, just isn't the same.
> In the United Kingdom, for instance, people who had been living on the streets or in shelters were housed in individual accommodations in a matter of days.

So it was always possible. We just didn’t care to do so.
I think there's a powerful point there: fear of assimilation.

Many groups seem to fight very hard to keep their culture pure, or at least to maintain the appearance of it. Afraid to lose valued cultural practices.

But then is it a wonder why we have division in the world?

There is a book that came out about castes (I saw the movie) and the first principle to maintaining a caste system was endogamy: only allowed to fall in love with people within one's group.

So if we can't love people outside our group, then well, we have division. I'd argue it leads to self-hatred, as we naturally love and to fight against it causes us to fight against ourselves, but that's a much deeper conversation.
Again, how is any of this relevant exactly to Meta explicitly condoning harassment against people they seem second class citizens? None of what you said has any bearing on my argument at all beyond being a generic free speech argument.
Nothing wrong with reposts, it's just useful to link to previous discussions for context :)
my experience with interpreter pattern is that you will be spending 90% of debugger time stepping through abstract "eval" functions that are irrelevant to what you want debug.
I don't believe it mentioned Twinkle Twankle but your description reminded me of the old radio play The Cinnamon Bear where some kids eventually go to the North Pole looking for their Silver Star.

https://youtu.be/0XIijKoRJ6A?si=zsXuaYNT60jtPt4f
Greenland and the Coldest War
btw, there is also https://usingrails.com
Author's description of twin paradox is incorrect. In fact, the paradox is not described at all. The paradox is that since motion is relative then from both twin's perspective the other twin goes on a journey and ages slowly. So why it is that on returning, only the traveling twin has aged slowly? The answer is that both twins indeed see each other age slowly but for the traveling twin to come back they have to slow down to zero and reverse direction. At that moment the frame is no longer inertial. While turning around, the traveling twin will see the stationary twin age very quickly (enough to catch up with their earth age), so when they meet there's no paradox. For each of them the other has aged as per their observations.
The imprecision is the point: How to design UIs for AIs
I did until it was corrected with LASIK a year ago, and I could still do magic eyes, both with and and without my glasses on.
Nobody is talking about "pure cultures," this is a strawman used to trick people into reading a purely political essay.

It's also as dishonest as an article about a corrupt politician called "There are no perfect politicians."

If everybody was always globalized (and by this they always actually mean competing against poverty stricken people for work, and the freedom for foreign oligarchs to own large parts of your country), somebody needs to tell me why Europe didn't always have potatoes, tomatoes, corn, chocolate and syphilis, and why 80% of the American Indians died of European disease.
This is a dumb article, part way through they admit that HTML isn't capable of doing anything a "programming language" does by definition, and that it's really just the most impactful markup language of all time.

Yes thank you for using 1200 words to state the obvious.
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HIPAA applies to covered entities, and this app may not be considered a covered entity (the closest they come is a clearinghouse and they probably do not fit the definition), but HIPAA has rules concerning how covered entities deal with business associates.

Kate's App would almost certainly fall under the definition of a business associate, and no health care provider should be entering protected information into the app without entering into an official agreement that the data will be protected according to HIPAA rules.

So technically Kate's App isn't doing anything illegal, but any health care provider entering info into this app would be. To fix the situation, Kate's App needs to certify that their app is compliant and provide an official agreement for providers. Otherwise healthcare providers should stay away, and this app would only be useful for friends and family members.

(I am not a lawyer, but I have analyzed health care data and it's cumbersome to deal with, especially if you are transmitting over a network). https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/covered-entities...
The prediction is:

> First driverless "taxi" service in a major US city, with dedicated pick up and drop off points, and restrictions on weather and time of day.

Their 2025 analysis is: "This is unlikely to happen in the first half of this century."

The prediction is clear. The evaluation is dishonest.
Is there anything specific about the C64 version that sets it apart from the arcade, NES or other versions? As for design, old arcade games had to both look and be fun fast in order to earn your quarter. As for implementation, the story goes that the original source code for the arcade game was lost and all ports had to be done by reverse engineering an arcade board.