skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would strongly recommend joining all technical meetups in Toronto, like TechTO and others. Go to meetup dot com website and see what is available in Toronto area. Another events website worth checking might be eventbrite dot com. Go to those events, meet people, strike conversations. It is a lot of fun, sometimes free drinks and pizza, and it will definitely put you face-to-face with people who are IT professionals, and some may be hiring. Also, do not ignore recruiting agencies. Randstad.ca used to be one of the best for IT talent. Good luck in your job search!
Agreed that there is no need to be a jerk on this discussion. The points you make are generally true in the abstract, but we are talking about CSS here which really is one of the most convoluted and confusing pieces of UI software out there. And the problems are not cruft from success and time: the core parts of the spec are terrible and confusing. The basic idea of a Cascade is a bad idea for a variety of reasons and nobody uses this feature if they can avoid it. The over all layout spec is really convoluted and requires you to figure out the difference between absolute and fixed position and top vs bottom. (Making a horizontal row of images is shockingly difficult). There is also a whole system of units for "absolute length" that are defined in relation to the inch (including the terribly named pixel which is 1/96th of an inch (inches being defined for printers but not for screens). These are issues were all features of the very first release. The later updates have provided alternatives, but the core spec sets people up to fail.
i suspect that youtube mobile is responsible for more traffic than web. And that it's harder (but not impossible) to have adblocking on mobile (such as revanced).
Isn't that just YikYak?
Great coverage. I was first hesitant to watch the 1hr45min long video. But well worth it!
> I'm also not willing to engage with someone with what I consider to be a bigoted view.

Yeah, out of the two of us that ain't me lol.

Cheers.
Being the change you want to see in the world is not a bad thing and should always be the first step before bringing up coercive force for others. There are better browsers and there are other options and not changing your own behavior first due to ignorance and acceptance of the status quo is not cool.

I feel the same way about smartphones, by the by, and it is very possible to live without them. I don't even carry a dumb phone with me. It's not impossible for me. It may be infeasible for you and your life situation. But I'm sure there's plenty of me's out there.
I have never heard of 7 being lucky until this thread.

I think you overestimate how cultural diverse western countries are when it comes to small things like this.
After today's losses, TSLA is trading about 25% higher than it was this time last year.

This should not be causing "chaos" or "systemic risks" even for people or funds heavily concentrated in TSLA.
If there is profit in taking that risk someone will do it. Corporations don't think in terms of the real outcome of problems, they think in terms of cost to litigate or underwrite.
How did your situation resolve? Did you sue them?
WikiPortraits
People have completely lost sight of the importance of small forums.
Neat idea. I always thought it would be interesting to have social media with limitations of some sort, such as limiting number of posts per day per person (to discourage people hanging out on the site too much or overwhelming followers with their posts), but I never considered limiting the time someone can access the feed. Have you experimented with other limitations?
It may be bad policy but it's not fraudulent.

Running a deficit can be profitable long term -- or not. It depends on how the funds are allocated. Ask Bezos.

Likewise a tax writeoff can increase tax revenue over the long term -- or not. It depends how the tax savings are applied. Ask the employees who still have their jobs.

Regardless, a media company struggling to breakeven with cartoon coyotes may not be the best starting point for an economics debate.
Wait a few decades and olive trees should grow fine in Toronto. Climate change ftw
Another interesting way to see the effects of gravity can be done with pendulums, using a Vening Meinesz apparatus.

It's not as spectacular as seeing a torsion bar move, but it's more sensitive.
that's unfortunate, really. Is there no other options for those regions? I'm not suggesting yandex, but others exist, right?
When I get frustrated enough to consider putting a kill switch in my work, I cool off by reminding myself that would prompt them to make a huge effort recovering from backups and have someone go through my code to get it working again. If I just do what they ask me instead, it will slowly decay without anyone having any idea what it even does, until its too late to fix or recover anything.
Let’s hope it still works at least on ungoogled chromium with manual setup. As soon as this stops working i’m back to only using firefox for good.
Impossible. First, and the 800 pound gorilla, is that education funding is LOCAL, let alone uneven across states. This cements huge de-facto unequal opportunity.

And who decides the merit function? It could, and already does in some states, include adherence to political and religious doctrine. Merit as in "You're fired."

Education will improve when there is uniform funding for all students, and a reasonable measure of success, not just standardized tests, where in Mandarin fashion, the "best" students are the ones who are good at passing tests. I had a tech work for me who excelled in "certs" but screwed up every assignment, horribly. The same applies to teachers, who work for the merit function, and there can easily be unintended consequences.

Techies (and I am one) are mostly isolated from the real world, are obsessed with merit functions, and have little or no empathy for others who aren't as gifted. And I offer praise for the ones here who do. Every kid is different, and that's aside from the "AI teaching revolution", which I vaguely remember from the 1980's.

Like it or not, schools will be rating the Chatbot teacher in partnership with a human teacher. Complexity confounds formulaic solutions.
Just to add some (unprovoked) additional info here: I'm a 26 year old Canadian. We covered early Canadian history, abuse of the aboriginal peoples of Canada, war with America, and WW1/WW2/the Holocaust.

I don't think we were really taught at all about European/Asian history or the Soviet Union. I think I could have taken some classes related to those in highschool (secondary school), but for anyone working towards a non-history bachelor's degree those courses were generally not something that you could fit in your timetable.
Consumers will tend to do what they are told and the manufacturers will lobby the government to create liability protections for consumers. Insurance companies will weight against human drivers and underwrite accordingly.
For images, you need a reference pixel to get the color right. You can apply differences from there but you’re effectively working with absolutes because of that so it’s a meaningless distinction.

Any time an absolute reference point is assumed, all downstream calculations are effectively absolutes
Algorithms can be nearly magical. In 1941 the world woke up to the “magic” of feedback and 10 years later cybernetics was the rage. We humans are just bags of protoplasm, but seems rather magical to me to be human.
I'm feeling a little bit of buyer's remorse for that same reason. I love my Canon, but having a closed loop lens system is not ideal and is insanely pricey. All of the "adapters" that allow you to use 3rd party lenses suck.
I tried to send a message to your the feedback email address on your dustmite guide site but gmail told me it was undeliverable because the address was not found.

What I emailed about was asking what you meant by biweekly for washing bedding - is that twice a week or every other week?
Alan Kay: Is it really “Complex”? Or did we just make it “Complicated”? didn’t get much love 10 years ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9123811
> GNU/Linux is the most successful free software project in the world and that is in part thanks to the GPL.

I don't disagree, but you're missing the point which is -- the reason why the GPL is not popular is not only because corporations disfavor it, it's because devs disfavor it too. You might ask yourself, "Why?"

> Blender and OBS are also heavy hitters.

And so is Firefox which is MPL2, etc. If your point is -- OSS can't be successful (or successful and copyleft) without the GPL, then you're obviously wrong.

> It is easy to take these things for granted, and anyone seeking to rewrite GPL software under a liberal licence (whether it is in Rust is irrelevant) would benefit from reading a little history.

Is this meant to be maximally patronizing? I am old enough and I was there. It is also fair to see the world differently than you do, and to appreciate different things (as others do and will do.) Some may say, "More than 25 years have passed since the Halloween documents and I am no longer on a jihad."

What I am saying is not that the GPL is not good, only that the GPL isn't the highest good, and more important than the GPL (or the MIT license for that matter) is my freedom to reimplement any software in whatever language and under whatever license I choose.
I am not doubting the instantaneous output in power. Batteries have always been great at that. I am doubting the energy storage capacity and ability to output that power over time (energy). Humans are a lot heavier than flying quadcopters and quad and multi-copters almost universally don't last for more than ~30 minutes. High power but not much actual energy storage compared to chemical.
Kiwi browser is also good for adblocking on Android.
The situation resolved in my passport being flagged, feds executing a fruitless search warrant (thankfully the doctors would not go through with the full cavity search but i am in debt for the warrant), and lawyers telling me I'm SOL. Everytime I go to the border I make sure my affairs are in order to be disappeared. It's good advice for anyone entering the US.

Edit: just remembered the time they were enraged they had to let me in so threatened to revoke my passport.
Find the blockheads. (From Samuel Johnson's "no man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money".
As I mentioned in my response to your other comment, the controversial part of the anecdote is the claim that Victoria actually intercepted sent aid and convinced someone through diplomatic pressure to lower their intended donation.

OP does not bring up any additional donations besides the purported attempted donation from the sultan, so I'm not sure why you're bringing that up as some kind of controversial thing: You're literally the first person to mention it here.

As I've said in my other comments, there's plenty of evidence that the British government both did far less than they should have to help with the famine and there's also evidence that they willfully exacerbated it. I fully accept and appreciate that. I have no clue why you're waving that evidence at me as some kind of gotcha when the only thing I'm disputing is this single specific story.
> The problem, and it's a big one, is that getting rid of Musk, would mean that the stock craters 90% at least.

Its down 45% YTD, and >50% from the high last year. I agree there is more to run before Elon is out, but not 90% more.
At a high level yes, but there are multiple levels of teams below that. There are many cases where senior engineers spend all their time reviewing plans from outsourced engineers.
So many articles like this HN have a catchy title and then a short article that doesn't really conclude the title.

The experiment itself is so fundamentally flawed it's hard to begin criticizing it. HN comments as a predictor of good hiring material is just as valid as social media profile artifacts or sleep patterns.

Just because you produce something with statistics (with or without LLMs) and have nice visuals and narratives doesn't mean is valid or rigorous or "better than nothing" for decision making.

Articles like this keep making it to the top of HN because HN is behaving like reddit where the article is read by few and the gist of the title debated by many.
The US social security administration site did (and still might) do this as well.

Likely to enable batch processing in the evening without dealing with sync issues
Get a lawyer that reads everything all of you signed and explains you how to fire the guy.

I expect him to sue if fired, so get a layer now to ensure you dot all your i, cross all your t and tilde all your ñ.
What a clickbait title.

TL;DR: the author found a very, very specific bias that is prevalent in both humans and LLMs. That is it.
Love your end. I have have spent four decades looking at real neurons, real synapses, and real axons and I can tell you with complete confidence that we are all just zombies.
Federal EIN registration site does this as well
Certainaly there are no rules for what is a blowout or a mandate... But we can look back and see Reagan won all but one state, and say yeah, that was a blow out, and Reagan had a mandate.

IMHO, if you don't win in any of your opponent's stronghold states, it's not much of a blowout. Yes, it was a win and any win gets you the whole four years, so it doesn't really matter what you want to call it, but it's yet another gaslighting IMHO.
For those who can't read NOTAMs: This is a NOTAM that was in effect during the MH17 shootdown, closing the airspace from FL260 (26,000 feet) to FL320 (32,000 feet.) In the previous three months, 16 aircraft were shot down in Ukrainian airspace, including one three days before at FL210, which is what prompted the NOTAM. Ukrainian officials should have closed the airspace entirely, but chose to keep it open and issue this NOTAM instead. MH17 was at FL330, so in fact it did not violate this NOTAM at all.

And for some further context: the quote upthread of "NOTAMS are a bunch of garbage that no one pays any attention to" from NTSB chairman Robert Sumwalt came after Air Canada flight 759, which would have had >1000 fatalities if two airplanes were a few feet closer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Canada_Flight_759
Idea/Question/Possibility

If uBlock Origin uses filters, would it not be possible to build a program that acts as a "proxy" for Linux/macOS/Windows, etc., that uses the same or similarly crafted filters to do something akin to what some of us did back in the Flash LSO supercookie days? I was a Linux user then and I recall creating a symlink from .macromedia and .adobe to /dev/null. The cookies were written to their folders but went into the event horizon of /dev/null and I never had to worry about them, but the websites worked like a charm.

Maybe I'm wrong, but would it not be possible to use filters similar, or even different than uBlocks, to "symlink" the addresses to /dev/null or other bit bucket like NULL on other OSes? I write automation code, so I don't have the chops to develop such a program/project, but I can see it in my head "how it might work". Thoughts, ideas, criticisms welcome.

I've also taken to using Violent Monkey and scripts to block quite a bit of nonsense on the web. Violent Monkey and the iFrame blockers work well with YouTube. I suppose it's also a matter of time before things like Violent Monkey are removed as well. There has to be a way to proxy the traffic through a filter list and /dev/null the offending objects.
You should probably have a sit down with TL and try to understand their perspective. And bring up questions you have while *not* sounding uninterested in new API spec.

Unless TL been recently promoted, they would know what they have to do to get better results, your deadlines might be extended if they're able to convince their superiors about the benefits of the new approach or drawbacks (enough) of the current one.

As previously stated TL has had a different role + goals than a dev, if you're still in limbo about the situation, you can still put the current work you did in your review cycle.
I’m suspicious anytime that my iPhone or Mac doesn’t automatically suggest filling in the password for a site.
Why isn't "How did Queen Victoria spend her yearly £385,000 in 1845, and 1846, and 1847, and 1848" infinitely more relevant to deciding whether her documented lack of meaningful intervention should be considered embarrassing or not? I don't accept your framing at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria#Marriage_and_pu...

(Didn't know there were attempts to assassinate her in 1840, 1842, 1849 and 1850. Mostly by English people, btw.)
Strawman based on lack of understanding. Typical.
Perfect. We need that society of modules.
It is partially true. Yes, the US invents the best medicines. But we spend 17% of our GDP on healthcare and a good portion of that is paper pushing and the prices used to compute GDP are not realistic. The best statistic - median lifespan - is dropping.
Currently 20-40 pounds right now, but we're working to reduce the SWaP. MagNav does rely on having accurate magnetic anomaly maps, which the government and certain private companies have access to.
https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/blog/translating-between-statis...
There's pretty much no way any court ever gives any copyright holder the maximum amount allowed under statutory damages, which is only trebled to the possibility of $150k when the infringement was willful. I love Weird Al, but I don't go to him for legal advice or analysis!
YikYak had nothing to do with time, it was geofenced to certain locations. I loved it in college, it was so much fun.
Naturally I show up at 10:38
Cool project!

Would be nice to have one of those asciinema recordings to get a feel of how it works from the README :)
The article says Bulldozer was a gun, then bulldog was a pistol. bullpup is the obvious evolution for a smaller rifle.

but since we want to argue etymology with genewitch:

https://www.archivingindustry.com/Gunsandgunmakers/directory...

> Bulldog, also known as ‘Bulldozer’. An angular cartridge derringer patented by
Henry Hammond in 1866 and made by the Connecticut Arms Co. until
1868 in chamberings ranging from .22 Short rimfire to .50. The barrel was
released by a catch on the breech top and pivoted to the left to expose the
chamber.

> Bulldog A five-shot double-action swing-cylinder revolver designed by Douglas
McClenahan, and made in the U.S.A. by the Charter Arms Corporation in
.357 Magnum or .44 Special. Barrels may be 2.5 or 3 inches long, the latter
being discontinued in 1988. Finish may be blue or stainless steel, and some
guns (usually with ‘P’ suffix catalogue numbers) may be obtained with the
snubbed ‘Pocket Hammer’. They also have wraparound neoprene grips instead
of wood. See also ‘Police Bulldog’, ‘Target Bulldog’.
Bulldog Pug Introduced by Charter Arms in 1986, this is a variant of the
Bulldog with a 2.5in barrel, fixed sights, a shrouded ejector and a broad
hammer spur.

>Bulldog Tracker Another variant of the Charter Arms Bulldog, dating from
c. 1982–6 and 1989 to date, this .357 Magnum revolver has adjustable sights,
hand-filling wooden grips and barrels of 2.5–6 inches.

> Bulldozer A cartridge derringer patented in the U.S.A. by Henry Hammond,
better known as the ‘Bulldog’ (q.v.)
Alright, back to regular life now. See you all tomorrow.
It's not their fault. They think it's normal to turn every conversation into one about the homeless in California pooping on the streets.

If anything it's our fault for letting them turn every conversation into this one.
I love CSS and I love SQL.

Both are declarative query languages over sets and paths.

Except the object with CSS isn't to extract a value, but to apply values (styles).
This is an important point to bring up when discussing merit based pay. At face value, I would support a system where the most skilled and hardest working educators were rewarded with higher salaries. However, it becomes challenging to implement this while simultaneously encouraging individuals to join districts with challenges. This approach is essentially the opposite of stack ranking at tech companies where it’s more advantageous to join a poor performing team.
How fitting: I am also no longer available for Chrome.

Safari on the Mac and Firefox on Linux and Windows it is for me.
> I bet any decent prosecutor can make the case that organizing (and defending) a protest that engages in violence is illegal, including when the organizer cannot be proven to directly participate in the violence.

Let them make case rather than contributing your credibility pro bono. That’s why we have courts, and also I feel compelled to note that the courts have tossed out tons and tons of those cases as prosecutorial overreach. Speculation without evidence isn’t going to matter in a fair court, and if we’re at the point where the courts no longer care about laws or evidence I doubt you’d want to be helping them.

If you look at past protests, there’s a pattern where the police arrest many people but ultimately only a few even face trials because even if something is unambiguously illegal like chucking a brick through a window or starting a fire, it’s hard to prove that anyone who isn’t right there approved or helped commit the crime. Going to a protest, joining a chant, waving a sign, or speaking up on behalf of the protest movement doesn’t mean you support violence unless you were specifically calling for violence. None of the links you shared showed him shouting for genocide and even the people who’ve been branding him as anti-Semitic rely on vague, sweeping claims which mostly seem to imply guilt by association. It’s always possible that a trial will show stronger evidence but I think almost all of the reaction here is that there absolutely should be a trial.
No one is questioning that all of this is relevant to the famine. All we're saying is that this specific story quoted by OP is most likely fictitious, so we're better off focusing on all of the other evidence and facts (such as the facts that you're bringing up).

I honestly have no clue what you're trying to argue here: No one is actually arguing with any of your points, nor did either of us give any indication that we would disagree with them in comments before you came. What you're bringing up is essentially a non-sequitur to what this subthread is actually about.
That would be an odd thing for him to think, given the alleged emerald mine was claimed to be in Zambia which was never apartheid.
It's a medium sized car company with shrinking sales still valued like the rest combined. Without a prophet at the helm that makes them the obvious (to adherents) #1 autonomy company and clear personal robot monopoly, there can easily still be 90% drawdown from here
Only the lying ones.

A Greek, a Dutch philosopher, and Ludwig Wittgenstein walk into a bar…
Let test Claude 3.7 to finish the joke:
We already have this on Bluesky. Everyone is basically in bed by 9pm!

Why make an entirely new social media network for this and just make it a timed client for ATProto or ActivityPub?
>> Are the sources published?
> Yes

Where?
I get information from everywhere. Don't project your ignorance of alternatives on me.
It did get some attention 10 years and 2 months ago ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8857113
I understand your point and if that were the case I'd accept it as valid but I'm not the only one in my interpretation, judging by other comments affirming the points of things that "should happen".

>I also disagree with you that widespread agreement on norms is some problematic slippery slope. Failure to distinguish between norms and objectivity as you are doing is what leads to widespread norms being enforced absurdly by a tyranny of the majority.

Objectivity huh? Tyranny of the majority huh? Why do I have the feeling you're generalizing some specific partisan/personal problem and you'd rather not discuss the specific because it's then less defensible?

I'll call and raise a self-centered tyranny of the anglosphere.