skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you mean that using USD and ZAR enabled people to start buying products again. They still have and had major inflation; but instead just had a means to buy things again.

Exactly quantifying inflation there is a problem due to government intervention, but the fuel price is at about R 50 per litre (ZAR 15 = USD 1); biscuits that cost R 12 in South Africa is something like R 60 there and the way I understand it it doesn't matter whether you pay in USD or ZAR you'll still see the effect of inflation it the actual relative cost of products. Again, a lot of this is artificial due to taxes, shortages, government, etc.

The comment about telecommunications is on point though, all of the Zimbabweans I know are critically dependent on phones and especially cheap smartphones. Somehow, by getting the cheapest data options (in South Africa data is relatively expensive for no particular technological reason other than the companies ripping you off), they use whatsapp to get jobs, talk to their family, arrange money transfers, etc.

Zimbabwe's story is a very sad one, especially when taking into account the potential that the country once had and the ingenuity and willingness to work hard of its peoples.
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> It is amazing that Frank Herbert would be exposed to this term, and make use of it.

This sort of summarizes the article. The author is apparently unaware that Frank Herbert had wide and varied interests and did an enormous amount of research for the books.
Arch too, https://www.archlinux.org/news/binaries-move-to-usrbin-requi...
Yeah but you trade a few watts for a pile of electronics with custom Asics, and "no user serviceable parts inside". And then combine that with a board 1/2 the cost of a new device.

Software and smarts SUCK on things that should be boring and reliable.

Worse yet, this is also directly related to the climate catastrophe issue. What would our world look like if we maximized for durability and repair?

I'll give you all a hint: we maximized for cost. And vehicle, appliance, junkyards, and trash dumps show it.

It's high time we make these companies with "manufactured limited reliability" to pay directly.
The Frys.com search is still terrible.
Try induction. It's like swimming in a salt water pool...
I wonder if this tech could one day be useful for general users without disabilities.

> Even when the researchers provided the algorithm with brain activity data recorded while one participant merely mouthed sentences without sound, the system was still able to produce intelligible synthetic versions of the mimed sentences in the speaker’s voice.

That already seems borderline usable for people with speech. I wonder if it could be made to work when you're merely thinking about the mouth movements without actually making them. That would be ideal.
I’m not so sure about that. AFAICT it’s possible to add accessibility to canvas elements. See e.g. http://pauljadam.com/demos/canvas.html
Eh... once you know a handful of languages, it's fairly easy to adjust to a new one. If I have experience in C++, C#, Ruby and Javascript, do you really think Java is going to blow my mind? Or I won't be able to write decent Python? I'm sure I'd pick up a few tricks and my code would get idiomatic but I am going to be 90% there from day one.
Show HN: We made a browser editor for Vue design
The Price of Self-Delusion
CS50 for Lawyers 2019
Can't see a problem. https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/a/119350/69210
Same with cars now too. What's the point of a leather dashboard and doors? How could that possibly be better than plastic? Or ambient lighting? Or heated arm rests?
Try again. I've had many a Chinese visa. While the applications always have a relative over there listed never have they had to vouch for us--and the only reason we even have that listed is visiting her relatives has always been one of the reasons for our trips.

Most people simply leave that part of the form blank as they aren't going to visit someone over there.

She actually is subject to a slightly greater amount of scrutiny as she's a former Chinese citizen and they want to ensure she's not trying to be a dual citizen. (They do not recognize dual citizenship other than of minors. At 18 a dual citizen must pick one or the other.)

So long as you don't put down "reporter" or the like as your profession and you don't work for a major media company the visa application is not an issue.
Just keep using it, its time will come when people continue to use it and JS developers see it as a viable alternative rather than a theoretical niche fantasy language, as OCaml is seen among many developers today, especially those in web development. That's what I'm doing.
The Modern Triumph of the Periodic Table of Elements
Weird edge cases where /usr is mounted, such as a read only network drive
My uni web blocker blocked that url as “malware”.
As soon as I learned the discipline for social media, and that's all forms: Facebook, Twitter, IRC, Slack etc and learned how to control myself from visiting every three seconds, I got a lot happier.

There's just nothing better for peoples health than to ignore social media, to ignore technology, to keep their phone far away from them as possible.

While I have other issues, it really wasn't until I cut out all medications, alcohol and then technology from my life. I use social media sparingly these days because I've trained myself to avoid it.

I lost a lot of friends when I went through a segment in my life where I was depressed, moody and so on so forth, but at the end of the day I'm happier now because the experience taught me what I did wrong, and what some of the catalysts were, so there's a silver lining in every 'bad' thing that happens so to speak.

Regarding sleep disturbance, I've just taken to edibles and having zero light in my room with one of those artificial sunlight alarms to wake me up in the morning. Seems to help a lot.

New Zealand also seems to have a crisis with suicide. I'm super lucky that I have a blank cheque from ACC to get any help I need, along with my family. Most people don't have that, unfortunately and I feel extremely bad for them. I wish I could help, but really I feel, what can one person do in this instance than to try and understand what people are going through but that's difficult as hell because most people hide and mask their symptoms through other crap like drugs, alcohol, which all simply lead to temporary psychosis and worsening depression-like symptoms.

At least these days things are better, but I'd like to reconnect with old friends and say sorry for all the damage I caused, but it's hard to know where to even start.
Comes with a pretty amazing example as well: "7 Clickbait Advertisements You Won't Believe".
Which gets it apparently wrong, as bash executes the *profile stuff on interactive login shells also.
I've never worn glasses... But it does seem that in Europe you can get them in the range of €2-€5000. And they all basically have to work, otherwise the seller could get in trouble. Can you tell me why is the range so wide? And are you saying the top end is of equivalent quality, but cheaper in Japan?
For normal tourist and business visas it certainly is.

A US citizen applying for a Chinese visa has little concern about being denied so long as they do not in any way resemble a reporter. A young adult Chinese citizen applying for a US visa is probably going to be turned down and everyone will have to travel to a consulate for an interview. Despite a pile of Chinese visas I have never so much as laid eyes on a Chinese consulate.
>even Costco can't demand to see your receipt, but they can cancel your membership if you don't show it

How does Costco figure out which membership to cancel? Surely they don't detain you if you refuse to show your receipt.
I think this is true of non-writers in general. Writing good fiction is enormously difficult work and reading it is leisure. Creates some tension.

Maybe the same reason we know have people poo-pooing the modern computer age -- moore's law for decades, the modern software stack, the internet, etc. -- as not amazing innovation. And down playing the role all of that has played in everything else humans now do from satellite systems to sequencing the genome. They think that because their interactions with computers are mostly mindless that modern computing must have been no great feat to build.
> I always think of Fry's when I think of yard work

The last time I visited the Sunnyvale Fry's they had a big mattress section.

That is definitely what I am looking for when I shop at Fry's!
Hospitals Should Replace Infection-Prone Scopes with Safer Models, FDA Says
Ridiculous xenophobia.

For the right amount of money almost everybody steals. Even the so highly coveted white Christian or Jewish Americans.

See the recent Uber/Google case
Nüshu, a 19th-century Chinese script written only by women (2017)
I've written a similar article:

https://penguindreams.org/blog/how-google-and-microsoft-made...
>They currently have over $335 billion set aside for future pensions, though, so between this position and the forced conservative investment policy...I gotta say, suddenly the USPS is looking like one heck of a good place to get a line-level job if you're worried about a recession.

Correct. Those who bring this up as proof that "Republicans hate the Post Office" or somesuch don't understand (willfully or not) that the 10 years of pain were always intended to be that, 10 years of pain. It's what any business with pension obligations in a secularly declining market ought to be doing; USPS employees are fortunate in that its government masters forced the USPS to do so.
This is more than just wrapping stuff in cards and making the font 2x, it's about the abilities of what websites can achieve. The design is a part of that but it's also influenced by what you can do differently than a pure HTML + a bit of jquery site.

I basically rebuild past era bootstrap style Rails HTML views with some jquery into modern Vue components for a living on a B2B app.

I'm very familiar with the old way and how much better a proper modern replace could be. I can pack a ton of information into smaller flexible places and integrate action-relevant help boxes and only showing the parts of forms as needed.

Page render times to first action are about 10x faster on average (no joke) and our users use 1000's of objects on a single HTML form. I'd love to see someone try rendering that pure SSR framework with partials in a performant way and usable way.

This type of interaction extends well outside of my business/B3B domain as well. I'm quite excited for the future of web development after a decade of fearing more JS everywhere (which I was contributing too).

Another great HN style site is Basketball Reference, I personally love these information dense designs but it's not very scalable with tons of information, elements, and what it could really achieve if it was a desktop application or fully flexibly UI wise.

https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/TOR/2019.html

This site could massively improve with real time filtering, multi-select forms, interactive data exports tools, multi-team/page comparisons, information highlights on hover, inline math tools, etc. On the site currently it looks great on the surface but once you engage with any JS-y stuff or imagine what's possible if it was a desktop app, and the previous tools would be extremely limited in scope.

You can do this very powerful stuff now without clogging up performance and load times. That's a big deal. We've been dealing with slow clunky JS components forever now and it can be way better.
I prefer to tell people amiga went out of business because they built the best computer in the world, and decided close down so everyone else could have a fair chance.
AFAIK it's also proportional to the number of rows with data in the indexed columns. Inserting a row with a NULL in the indexed column does not cause an update to the index (at least experimentally it doesn't seem to contribute to index size on SQL Server).

I imagine this is/was a simple optimization for DBMS to implement, but I would love to be corrected otherwise...
FWIW and IIRC this is the first time I see this here :-)

Oh, and thanks for pointing out the problems you see.
It’s not just software. A mechanical engineer once explained to me that the size of the Space Shuttle was influenced by the width of a Roman road, which was influenced by the width of two horses walking side-by-side.
A related read:

Are Spies More Trouble Than They’re Worth?
(The history of espionage is a lesson in paradox: the better your intelligence, the dumber your conduct; the more you know, the less you anticipate.)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/02/are-spies-more...
Following news -- a large city daily paper, CBC, BBC, NPR, ABC (Australia), commercial national television news, local television news -- is much the same.

Information is wrong, irrelevant, intentionally aggrevating, or all of the above. Sometimes more so, sometimes less, but very nearly always.

I'd started buring out on a noncommercial radio news habit by the late 2010s. Yes, that corresponded with an increased use of social media -- mostly Google+ and Reddit, and not Facebook or Twitter. My social life was entirely offline, I've long had the view that the Internet is for acquiring and discussing information, but not personal details.

I began reading more books and articles. And finding that what was revealed through those was that much of what is encountered through news, journalism, and broadcast ... just misses massive amounts of relevant information. You spend so much time caught up in the malinformed focus on the present that you lose any sense of connection with earlier periods and thought, much of which informs the now.

And the notion isn't new, it's an age-old criticism of the press. Neil Postman wrote of this in Amusing Ourselves to Death (1987) (https://www.worldcat.org/title/amusing-ourselves-to-death/oc...). I.F. Stone and George Seldes both made a life's work of this, from the 1920s through the 1980s. There's an excellent Stone interview online: https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=qV3gO3zxQ1g

And a trailer for "Tell the Truth and Run", about George Seldes: https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=xBJ7hDVvAI0

The book Commercialism and Journalism details the problem. In 1909. It's one of those great "things really haven't changed all that much" insights: https://archive.org/details/commercialismjou00holt

There are exceptions; there always are. But they are the exception, and the bulk of news really isn't worth bothering about. The stuff that is worth bothering about ... generally doesn't make the news.
Thanks. This is nice. Useful.

Could be a bit more flexible on some regions of discussion, but take that as a quibble, and recognition to many personas here. (You are good people, I do not imply otherwise)

Those personas combine in what I find to be lucid, and high value.

And the full thanks go to those who recognize that and work to nurture it all along.
Exactly, and it even adds up quickly for a single user in common cases like voting on a bunch of comments while reading a thread.

If someone loads this thread right now, the initial page load is 61KB (gzipped). If they read down the thread and vote on 30 comments while they're doing it, they transfer an additional 480KB (16KB/vote [1]). There's no reason that they should be receiving 8x more data by voting on a relatively low number of comments (~10% of the thread) than they did when loading the entire page originally. It also has to re-generate the page an extra 30 times unnecessarily - a repeatedly voting user becomes like a heavy multiplier to your traffic.

[1]: Also, I just noticed that the responses back from voting actually aren't the full page, they're truncated. It seems like maybe the response size is capped at 16KB gzipped? That implies that there's already some kind of special handling for the voting responses.
I buy glasses online from Zenni optical, who make them in China. (there are other companies that do this, but Zenni is the one Iv'e used) They start at $6 for frames and prescription lenses, and they have multiple styles under $20 that match the shape and look I prefer in my glasses.

It's really nice to have glasses cheap enough that I've got spare sets at home, at work and in the car; and not "my old set with the badly scratched up lenses" spares but "slightly different style frames" spares. It's hard to explain to someone that doesn't wear glasses just how much peace of mind you get from that.
Would like to draw the reader's attention to the criticism section:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropic_gravity#Criticism_and...

And a relevant xkcd:

https://www.xkcd.com/1758/
I wrote up one example that was particularly frustrating when I realized it [0].

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ar1qj1/_/egl52...
> Other than poor performance, the thing I'm most upset about is how each subreddit has lost its personality

What makes you say this?
Is this a new incarnation of this project?

https://github.com/Iyengar111/NanoLog

Otherwise it seems that the name is already taken.
In my experience in wearing glasses my whole life it comes down to "you get what you pay for". Not in the functional department since they all use the same lenses, but in the fashion department.

I've worn 30euro glasses. They work and bring no joy.

I've had 300 euro glasses. They work just the same and you think "Damn I'm hot" every time you take a selfie.

This effect is even more pronounced with sunglasses. I get them with prescription so similar price mechanics apply.

My biggest gripe with cheap glasses so far has been the cheap feeling plastic and weight of them. I don't know what it is since I'm no expert, but a lot of cheap glasses just feel cheap when you hold them. They're still functional and won't break randomly, but they feel flimsy and cheap and that's not something I want in a product that I use for literally 18 hours every day.

A good pair of glasses, when you think about it, ends up costing like 30 cents per day of use. Lifetime of 2 to 3 years, daily use ... yeah I'll pay good money for a product that feels good even if I'm "getting scammed"

edit: Wow people here really hate the idea that an item that goes on your face and forms a major part of your most identifying features could be about more than just the cheapest solution to a mechanical problem
Imagine that previous generations paid less for the same hiring opportunities.

Acknowledge that many minimized (or avoided) debt by working their way through school, often doing jobs the current generation considers "beneath" them.
I didn't say their labor was worthless.

But free definitely implies they did in exchange for nothing, which is false.
I'm pretty sure Erlang, Prolog and Forth would blow your mind.
I must confess ignorance on this, I am only reporting what I heard and most likely misunderstood!
Facebook was already popular before 2012, 2013 which the article highlighted as the transition point. Instagram was becoming popular at this time.
On my logger the thread queue was(is) node based, so it was just a matter of making a bigger contiguous allocation and placing things there contiguously, the log entry and the data copies. 1 allocation.
it also lets you access your messages from a phone
How to write zines with simple tools
A lot of places in Spain have safe water, but it often tastes so chlorinated you don't want to. When I was living there earlier this year, even after showering in the morning it smelt like I'd been to a swimming pool. I guess it's better than a high chance of getting sick if you have to drink the tap water though...
Slap on a style transfer layer and it's a wrap.

Disclaimer: I know very little about how to actually do ML stuff, it just seemed like something that'd be possible in the near future.
A goal of Fedora was to have a "snapshottable" /usr that includes as much as possible (all?) of the generic OS files. That is, multiple machines running the same OS can have a shared /usr, and everything machine-specific in the other dirs.

See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove#Why_don.E2.8...
>Honestly I don't feel sorry for the USA any more. The rest of the world solved these problems 50 years ago.

What utter nonsense. The doctor shortage in the US has nothing on that in Canada. Not just the rural areas, either; in the biggest cities in the four Atlantic provinces, it is impossible to get a family doctor unless you are already a patient.[1]

[1] https://www.thetelegram.com/in-depth/doctor-shortage/atlanti...
That's brilliant, both the editor and the language. I've long designed schemata on tools like MySQL Workbench [0] which didn't make it easy to iterate with other devs before settling on a final schema but this should make it far easier!

[0] https://www.mysql.com/products/workbench/
I wrote about something similar in the past: https://blog.oxplot.com/transient-ideas-and-learning/
As comments can't be edited: there are two nanolog projects on github. They may not be the same one.
> Enough of the extra income is weighted towards the beginning... No banks involved....

Whether it's banks or other taxpayers or recipients of other entitlement programs is, I guess, a bit of a red herring wrt the point I was trying to make.

The question is about the knock-on effects of squeezing an entire generation for some chunk of what they're worth before they even enter the job market.

Again, I think the K-12 analogy is the best way of communicating the point I'm trying to make. Why don't we also charge high school students $10K @ 4% instead of paying for high school through taxes? Well, because that would be a huge net negative for society.

> Also most stem phds work as researchers and teachers--they generally aren't paying tuition.

I have a stem phd :). I was referring to the huge opportunity cost re: delayed earnings. US students opting out of phds because they have huge student debt to service is a real thing. This is true even when the phd would undoubtedly increase lifetime earnings (e.g., students from no-name schools turning down CMU/MIT/Berkeley/Standford phd acceptance letters for mid five figure salaries).
On NixOS:

% find /bin /usr
/bin
/bin/sh
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/env

/usr and /bin are only there to provide sh and env for compatibility with shell scripts.
It looks like the criticism boils down to, 'its really hard to test, so let's look at other theories for now'. Anything I missed?
Except Linux terminal emulators tend to launch a non-login shell (where .bash_profile is not read), and at the same time macOS’ Terminal.app prefers login shells.
Domains (no choice)

Google One (free 6 months from Local Guide, after that yearly)

Nova Launcher app

Texpander Pro app
I have checked the stores I already shop at, none has a salad bar. Are you sure that's not an in the (dense) city thing?
Put simply, social media and news exists to drive clicks. Once you understand that terrible news and completely misleading story titles drive clicks better than anything else, you realize that there is almost no value in today’s news.

When you are listening to a news anchor, or reading a story, ask yourself one simple question - “How is the organization maximizing profit off of this story?”

Mainstream, advertising-supported, news sources will continue to devolve until everyone wises up.
If you're in London, Alsal Watches on the Strand are the go to place.
As with anything secular, this parable has been misinterpreted to suit worldly matters. The original parable refers to resources used to do good, thus the growing investments is not only about material wealth but as well as any other kind of resources (wisdom, knowledge, time, love, etc) to do the most good for people.
Refer to Luke 12:48 and the parable of the shrewd manager for a better context
https://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/does-jesus-commend-di...