skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fading out comments is exactly right. This choice in syntax highlighting is correctly based on the observation of what the vast majority of comments are, not what some blogger thinks ideal comments should be.

Important "must read me" comments can be accommodated in syntax coloring via some additional notation:

//
// this is faded toward the background
//
// ! this is loud
// ! read it!
//

And, you know, unless I'm focusing on that area of the code for a specific reason, I probably don't want to read that. Should I need to turn my attention to that area of the code, I will read it, even if it is tastefully dimmed out.

One problem with a loudly colored comment is that there is no "marked read" button once you get the message, like in a message inbox. No matter how many times you read it, it stays lit up. (Maybe there should be such a feature. If a browser can remember what links you have visited, and show them in a darker color, a text editor could keep track of which loud comments you have already read.)
Index fund must balance their portfolio.

They must balance to the underlying index, not so that they hold the same value of each stock. If A goes down and B goes up they don't have to do anything unless the change is so dramatic that it causes the people who compile the index to update which stocks are in the index.

What can happen is that a stock being added/removed from a major index can cause a large amount of buying/selling by index funds as they are 'forced' to add or remove that stock in their portfolio. However that is a fairly rare occurrence.
How AI is radically changing our definition of human creativity
You're not confined by the instruction set below. It no longer matters if your language supports PowerPC, Power8, x86, x86_64, ARMv5 through v8 or even more exotics. Similar to the Java VM, which definitely showed the advantage of being more easily portable, it decouples the binary you deploy from the actual hardware.

Rust and Go have support for many targets but not as many as other compilers (GCC), a coverage problem that can be fixed by using WASM as intermediate and porting a WASM Runtime to that architecture.

Something like Innative would also enable desktop applications to be independent of the OS and architecture. The same binary would run on x86_64 Windows, PowerPC Mac and ARMv8 Linux.

It's basically Java but you don't have to use Java to get all the good parts.

(Disclaimer: I know the main dev of innative and do some WASM work myself)
On page 11… "Developer's response" section, quote:

"In contrast, the developer of OpenCart responded to
the inventory vulnerability by posting a comment—“use your brain!
its [sic] not hard to come up with a solution that does not involve
coding!”—then closed both the inventory and voucher vulnerability
issues and blocked us from responding. "
Not every system is like this, though. I'm in Norway. Taxes are high, but I think the top tier takes around 45% out. Most folks don't pay that much. They do tax benefits for the poor and food, though - but the safety net is much more robust. Taxes + health insurance in the states was around what I pay in taxes here. If I added in medical expenses overall, I paid more in the states. Since I've moved away, I have been diagnosed (recently) with an autoimmune disease. I couldn't have afforded this level of care in the US. Not to mention how much I'd owe from a broken elbow last autumn.

Single payer health insurance allows folks to do cost-saving things with health insurance. Such as sending a nurse out to a home up to 6 times a day instead of a nursing home. Even if you live on an island or spend summers in a mountain cabin, this is still cheaper overall than a nursing home. Pay for some people's travel instead of making things available everywhere. and so on. There is also a private system. My understanding is that the government still pays their normal rate for most services and you pay the rest.

I'm also not sure Germany's tax rates are all that much different than here in Norway with the possible exception of the church tax. [1]

Colleges in the states will let about anyone in if you are willing to pay for it. You don't need to take advanced courses, simply do well enough at average classes. Working hard to keep your grades up in advanced classes wasn't enough to get a scholarship - at least it wasn't when I was in school years ago. I can't imagine that has changed now. In both places, however, it is possible to go back as an adult.

College education is shorter without as many required classes. The system for vocational school is much, much more robust however. Want to work cleaning places? You usually need your schooling certificate or experience behind you. Some employers will send you to school as well.

[1] https://www.expatica.com/de/finance/taxes/income-tax-in-germ...
Worse for everyone because we’re hauling around many otherwise unneeded tonnes of metal in case we hit someone who’s hauling around many unneeded tonnes of metal in case they hit someone hauling...

Also cars don’t only hit other cars.
Sauerkraut. Any kind of fermented vegetable would do but you really need something with relatively high vitamin c content and it’s really easy to destroy.
That's interesting with the EV's, a local cab company just went bust and they claimed it was the large repair costs that did them in. That and the closest workshop that could service them was 600 km away. I'm not sure how they would even get the thought of starting a cab service 600 km from the closest garage that could service the cars but that's another question...

The local 7-Eleven also went bust yesterday, together with their other store just a few blocks away. That corner of the city has plenty of other stores so it can't be easy to keep afloat. Town only has about 100 k people. (North Sweden)
That's how 95% of ad and tracker blockers work.
Will it though? The index fund owns stocks in the same proportions as the active funds do in combination, so the active funds can't beat the index funds no matter how inefficient the market gets.
Recently in the UK I can often return items at corner shops with their own printer. You just scan a QR code and hand over the box. The dropoff points are everywhere.
Only if you believe in sovereignty, and want the best deal for your country and its citizens first and foremost.
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The unity of Europe in that era was never such to consider the East "an existential threat"
Just imagine how many little bits of diarrhea and pubes they ingested
The US also does not elect their leader directly.
You don't have to recompile for different architectures. Just compile once to wasm and it will run in all platforms it supports at the same speed. Note: the author mentions this too.

"WebAssembly’s 32-bit integer indexes break LLVM’s vectorization due to pointer aliasing. Once fixed-width SIMD instructions are added, native WebAssembly will close the gap entirely, because this vectorization analysis will have happened before the WebAssembly compilation step."
Seems to be the recurring theme to blame millennials for the hardships of the middle class globally.

I wonder if any developed countries middle class is faring well currently?
Alternatives in the Python world include Jupyter notebooks and Sphinx.

Both have tons of extensions for including all sorts of media and content you need, including musical charts, maps, formulas, plots, tables etc., and can be extended to include virtually everything you want.

The route from Sphinx/Jupyter to pdf/prints leads either via LaTex or via a headless browser. The latter option seems to have more potential though. HTML+JS now can render anything. Including rendering math formulas, 3D graphics, still shots from videos.
But it's often made with Rose's Lime Juice, a concentrate, which AFAICT contains no vitamin C.
Does this impact postgres backed applications?
And you can (barely) still download and run the Amaya browser from the W3C today (that was from the mid 90s)
Is bar culture changing in the Bay Area?
My amazement about the internet and the browser when I first experience it is you can talk to someone (low latency) across the world without talking.
This is why trade is such a strong force for peace. You get many powerful people on both sides invested in maintaining good relations between nations.

It's also a marker for said peace. If there's a lot of trade already, many others will feel comfortable participating because the market has indicated that investing in the relationship is not terribly risky.
Actually there were tons of naval fights, patrolling, outlooks, huge defense areas and castles created to defend communities and cities from pirates, and so on by all kinds of states.

The idea that only "Sweden and the US" did anything is misguided (in fact those were some of the least affected by piracy).
By definition. Practically, this is precisely what happens in almost all cases.
First, I don't think that, in this situation, the client should be in direct contact with the developers. I'm not sure how the situation is (if the developers are physically working at your client's location or not), but I think all questions and remarks go through you, since you are the project manager. They will probably give you a lot of shit, but I think that one of your responsibilities is to shield the developers on the project from this kind of shit.

Also, I would try to communicate that the client probably is an expert in their business, and your developers are not. At the same time, your developers are experts at developing, for which you need to know an enormous amount of details about the business. If they seem idiots, it's because they lack domain knowledge (and it might be worth it to try to do something about that in cooperation with the client -- I'm not sure he's open to this but you can always ask him for suggestions on improving domain knowledge).

On the other hand, don't give the client any reasons to be an asshole. Underpromise, overdeliver, and communicate timely and clearly.
Yes, this is by law and it's a requirement for having a pharmacy operating license.

Fun fact: in most of the world, medical personal like pharmacists can't go on strike.
Chick-fil-A and McDonald's are two of the better ones. They don't give them to just anyone, and are careful about locations, too. To become a franchisee with them ,you have to have a proven record of success and have plenty of money in the bank.

Rule of thumb: the easier it is to obtain a franchise, the less it is worth.
But there are already a great many homeless and not the slightest move has been made in this direction. Perhaps there just aren't enough yet.

If the nation is run by its people then what you describe would indeed happen. If it is run by a small cadre of wealthy then they would invite investment world wide to maximally drive up land values regardless of homeless numbers. Indeed there would be extreme reluctance as any seizure or even hint of it would permanently reduce land values.

Perhaps we'll see which is the case.
The closest I can see at the moment is the 7 seater Prius v/Prius + (depending on market); sadly the Previa hybrid seems to be in very limited distribution.
I'm cautious of taking the asshole judgment at face value because we only see one half of the story. Instead, I want to dig in a bit and find out more.

> extremely aggressive and borderline abusive behaviour

Such as?

> In the beginning we we all agreed not to take anything personally and to let it just roll off the back.

Could you have done something differently here?

> We agreed to tighten up our processes and try to avoid confrontations by being super proactive with all our work

What does proactive mean in this sense? That it met client's expectations, or that it tried to pre-empt them, or something else?

> Ordinarily, we would have dropped the client by now and refused to put up with the end-justifies-the-means tactics

Tactics such as...?

> we're coming close to the launch date, and it's getting worse as more pressure mounts.

Where is this pressure coming from? Is it coming from you and your direct managers too?

> This is a very high profile project that stands to disrupt its market.

Is this what you tell your team? If so, that might answer the last question!

> It's exciting for them and us.

That sounds really positive. Does that mean there's a way to share that excitement?

I don't mean to be accusatory, I think this is important to explore if you want a decent answer without the confirmation bias.
Seriously? I play "you have all been taught to reflexively not talk about that" and you reflexively counter with "you used a funny word there"?

Thanks for making my poibt I guess... FYI I'm not only not American, I'm also not a native English speaker. Why not ask me outright how I dare appropriating your precious language by using your words at all?
I’m sure if Heads of State were in attendance Zuckerberg would be delighted to attend. As it is he has nothing to gain from attending a civil servants ego stroking summit. It’s not about what other people think of Zuckerberg, it’s what he thinks because he can do it. The Canadian government is not going to try and prosecute him or shut down Facebook.
Are they being assholes simply because they're nervous about your team and whether you're going to deliver, vs. make them look like, well, assholes? Maybe they're insecure and frustrated about that, and about their own inability to evaluate your work on a technical level. Sounds like a little "explanation for a non-technical audience" and some reassurance and empathy are in order. Sometimes assholes are assholes because they're scared, and they think being an asshole is the only way to handle it. Although a firm but polite reminder that you're not going to eat their shit is probably a good idea too. You've set a bad precedent by allowing it at all. Be the mom AND the dad to these little kids.
I have heard nothing but universal praise for the Pro model. But no point in upgrading just to upgrade - the beautiful thing about Apple products is that they seem to work forever.
Be careful with the accusations. I've run cryptominers as well and I always prompt the users since they get a website reward for doing so. Think getting Reddit Gold for mining X minutes.
This might be the most helpful comment I've ever read on Hacker News. Thank you. :+1:
>As did 1453 in Constantinople. Of course that's not a European state... but that's pretty much the definition.

Well, it [Constantinople and Byzantium] certainly was a European state, the Eastern Roman Empire, which kept the lights on when as the Western one was dissolving and finding itself again after Rome declined.
If do continue to do something you hate, you're inducing a stress response in the body every time.
Along with transactions, I also like to use 'Add' or 'Subtract' operations which usually provide better reliability instead of manually reading and setting, being a source for data races.
Mentioned as they own DHL.
I actually used text based browsers as my main thing for a few weeks, when I had really bad internet. Ran it thru ssh on a VPS, much faster that way. I found the w3m browser gave the best formatting and mouse support.
It was for the unemployed farmers help that is no longer needed and is now stuck with a house in a town where the prices have dropped way below the mortage on the house and 60 km to the closest store/gas station.
My father has a very severe form of obstructive sleep apnea, resulting in really loud snoring. In my home country, snoring generally isn't seen as a symptom for a deeper problem, and is just accepted as an annoyance, sometimes even associated with sound sleep.

During a recent visit, I was sitting next to his bed as he fell asleep, and I could literally see him choking for 4 out of 5 attempts at breathing. When I asked about his sleep quality, he said he tends to nod off when he has not much to pay attention to, and sometimes also while riding his scooter (!). We arranged for a sleep study, and there it was, pretty clear. Since then, he's been using a CPAP[1] machine when sleeping, and his life hasn't been better. He reports much less fatigue, better digestion, and an overall positive feeling.

If you have a family member who snores loudly, please pay attention.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_positive_airway_p...
You mean people don't have empathy for his position?
I mean, no - the elders being there doesn't make it worth going to. If McDonalds wasn't worldwide I'd go so far as to liken Yoshinoya to a McDonalds.

Peek in a McDonalds and you'll see old people too. Doesn't make it good for you.
Different franchises have different brand promises.

McDonald’s can maybe change its menu, and close at odd hours. They can’t, however, have their Big Macs taste different in Paris, London, or Riga. Nor can they remove the Big Mac from the menu outright, and serve only vegetarian spring rolls. That’s their brand promise, and they will not compromise on this.

If 7/11 has “we’re always open” as their brand promise, they will not compromise on it, even though they might be willing to meet owners halfway on other issues.

It’s not a great situation, especially for the poor guy pulling near-useless all-nighters. It seems understandable, though, why it’s happening.
Being a pharmacy contracted to dispense public health service prescriptions is probably contingent on either providing out-of-hours service or being part of a rota that does that. It's that way in lots of countries.
Tests that sometimes fail
Usually to some well-off people that got the better end of the deal saying "It's all history now, let's put those things behind us, where does this victimhood-chic eventually lead?".
As mentioned in other comments, maybe worth to note that it's an assembler in a library form, i.e. without code for a parser. But then, looking at it in another way, it's a clever reuse of the C compiler's parser!

Now, in a something of a "shameless plug", incidentally I took a very similar approach[1] recently, going for a "library form" too when writing an experimental assembler for Dalvik (i.e. Android VM) bytecode. Not having to write a parser helped me to iterate/prototype/hack faster!

[1]: https://github.com/akavel/dali/blob/d79cec81293abc5f3a87f4d8...
I looked at the typography book a bit, did not immediately pick up on what made this superior to other digital books?
I'm not in Germany, but Norway. A land of high taxes, on par with Germany but with high consumer prices. You obviously aren't calculating in things like not going broke due to a medical expense. I never have to worry about having maintenance medicine, for example. I'm not paying any more in taxes than I was in the US, once I included my health insurance. I honestly pay less overall because of the way US health insurance is set up.

I broke my arm in the autumn and had paid leave. I was working my 2nd season as a temp worker in a chocolate factory. (I'm in norway because my spouse is Norwegian. I'm lower middle class if anything). There also isn't as much difference between poor and rich, though the difference definitely exists.

Children's healthcare is free. Maternity leave exists and it is fairly robust. People get paid days off if they are sick, and parents get more so they can properly take care of their children (I'm pretty sure this is similar to Germany).

You don't notice the VAT most of the time. Here it is 0% for books/newspapers, 15% on food, and 25% on everything else. The VAT is included in the price, which is much preferable to having 8.5% sales tax on things as a surprise at the register (or having to do careful math and know the local tax rate). I also don't need to pay tips so a waitress can survive. I can actually have life stability in ways I could not have in the US.
It is particularly sad when you realise that all this stuff drives climate change. While not necessarily making anyone happier. And then people advocate to expand nuclear power so we can produce even more stuff.
I've been consulting for over twenty years at this point, and I've had my share of toxic clients (including one who actually sued me and was surprised when the judge wasn't amused by his suggestion I work for free either). You didn't say where you're from, where they're from (besides America), or what vertical you're working in, or what do you mean by "the end-justifies-the-means tactics" so I can only give the most general of advice here:

My experience is there are few VP who can stand up a project with an outsourcing firm without some risk of their own (either in their review, or in an extreme case: their career).

If that abuse is coming from people who report to your stakeholder, or from other people in the firm, a quick chat with the stakeholder would probably smooth things over. You might either find that obvious, or believe that it doesn't apply if you're getting abuse from multiple places, but it's not their money, just their job, so if you're not making your abusers' job harder in some way, your stakeholder will be in the best position to do something about personnel issues.

However if that abuse is coming from your stakeholder, you need to realise it's because they are receiving pressure, and you would do well to understand it because you might be able to help him/her with what they really need. Your stakeholder's job is to operate a P&L including your project against some revenue, or produce powerpoint slides for someone who does that job. Do those reports suggest this project is costing more than anyone expected? Try to attack the real problem here: Give your stakeholder some justification to go after the money, or to respond to the delay. This is what they really need.
My problem with sites like manufactum is that I have the feeling that I get exactly the same stuff as I would get from somewhere else but with an insane price markup. I can either buy a random organic cotton shirt for thirty Euros, or I can buy an organic cotton shirt from manufactum and pay four times as much. What's the extra value I get?
I was in Kobe a few weeks ago and it was the same, all over the city center.

As a consumer honestly there is little to complain, they ARE very convenient.

But grandparent is correct: a lot of items are expensive for what they are (some of the "fresh" meals cost as much as a eating in a normal ramen/noodle place on the street), so you pay for the convenience.
This is why they have VERY interesting vitamin B1 analogues

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_B1_analogue
No, not at all. Just don't be really poor.

They had 12 kids in 15 years, so 0.8 kids per year. A new Toyota Yaris Sedan is 16,000 MSRP. So paying sticker price on a new Toyota, you'll average 12,800 per year.

That is nothing compared to the cost of food, which will be about $48,000 per year. With careful shopping you might cut the food cost in half, but it is still about double the cost of the cars. The cars are not the difficulty here.
Or you could get people to sort them into various recycling bins. This is how it is in Japan, amongst other nations. A good chunk of this recycling problem can go away with the right culture.