skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just the concept of sticking £100/£1000 here and there into a an index tracker and leaving it well alone - ideally until a rainy day/emergency.

There have been plenty of times in my life I was 'cash rich' but I left my money in the bank, as I didn't know what to do with it. I used to then over pay my mortgage, which was crazy as I had a 1% interest rate and the stock market would have been a better place to put my cash.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a 'rich' man - but I've always put money aside (out of a fear/memory of being broke) I just could have worked that cash harder - and that was money that I could have taken some risk with.
The observer affect is too abstract to be discussed. Simply because anything can be interpreted to be anything by an observer.

It only makes sense to discuss what the majority agrees to observe consistently and assume that, these observations are true independent of observation.
A modern attempt on an unambiguous language is Lojban.
What you're talking about typically goes by the name of "pascal strings", and while they're possible to do, C's string literals are not compatible with them, so nobody does it.
Maybe they did something wrong and it's still possible. Hard to say. The difficult piece to solve is how to get people to power through when they're frustrated and confused. That probably takes more than money.
I have HN and a terminal open side by side, and I can tell you HN is more painful to look at, simply because it's like shining flashlight into the eyes compared to a black-background terminal.
And Israel has nothing to lose from the US?

(Apart from the fact that you're obviously trying to change what you said here, as you wrote "the UK has no need to spy".)
The Microsoft approach to this was to make a set of replacement functions (strsafe.h [1]) that are very explicit and not at all “clever”, as the strsplcasdfcpy functions seem to want to be. They return an error code so it’s obvious when the operation did what was expected, or ran out of space.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/menurc/strsaf...
And unlike preprocessor variables, they:

1) Cascade (follow inheritance through the DOM)

2) Can be changed at runtime for things like toggling a dark theme

Preprocessors are still useful for other things, though. My #1 reason for using them is nested selectors, which for reasons I cannot understand haven't made it into native CSS yet.
Laptop displays are unfortunately limited to the "good enough" solution of additive light. We're stuck with it because it works well enough, so it's not important to sink tons of money and research in bringing e-ink style displays up to par. As a result, "light mode" means bombarding your eyes with... light. This is not good. Dark pixels are pixels that emit less light. This is much better for your eyes.
Wow, the simplicity of this is blowing my mind.

I don't think I have ever even considered using `white-space: pre` with generated content. Really fun, really cool!
Threads in slack are horrible. The idea isn't great in itself imo, but the implementation is a terrible experience. Constantly showing "more messages" link at the bottom unless you use the small sidebar.

A couple or groups I am in decided to avoid them entirely
By the same logic you could say that internet explorer was doing good things
I feel like I'm fine. My job is OK. I'm not exactly passionate about the specific piece of software I'm working on, but I work with some very smart people who I learn a lot from, so that makes it a little less boring.

My employer has been letting me work from home as much as I want despite having no official work from home policy, so that's contributing to a general uptick in mental positivity. When I first started at this place I was commuting 1.5 hours both ways. I would leave at 9AM and wouldn't get home until 9 at night. It was destroying my will to do anything.

I've been hitting the gym 5-7 days a week and seeing some good progress. I feel very physically fit.

I've made some new friends over the past couple of months which I feel really good about since it can be so difficult to make friends as someone going into their 30s.

Despite all of this, I still just feel like I want jump in my car and drive around the country for a few months. I want to get out. I miss having adventures.

Very few things in my life feel new and exciting anymore. The only time I ever feel truly fulfilled is driving on a clear canyon road or hiking in the mountains.

I don't think it's too bad though. I believe that every person feels this way right around my age. I just need to make sure I don't settle for a boring and unfulfilled life like so many people are willing to do.
The EU Parliament is much like the Supreme Soviet. It has votes. There are elections. Things are set up such that this can only change small details around the edges in ways the elites already approve of, nothing fundamental.

Look at how the head of the Commission was chosen. Remember, the entire Commission reports to one person. The sub-Commissioners are theoretically (by treaty) nominated by each country but in practice the head of the Commission controls all the appointments. As Jean-Claude Juncker openly admitted, if he didn't like an appointment he'd simply reject it. He isn't meant to have this power, but claims he does and I believe him. The EU is full of things like that.

So the entire Commission reports to von der Leyen. How did this woman get the job? Nobody can tell you. The decision was made in secret. No minutes of those meetings were published. No leader justified the decision. If there was a vote at all, nobody can see which countries voted for her or why. It just ... happened. Literally the only statement I've seen about what criteria was used was, "it'd be great if this time we had a woman", which came from some EU President (there are several and I forgot which one). So I guess that must have been why she got the job.

Theoretically the Parliament can pick the head of the Commission. When they picked Juncker last time around, the EU went along with it and liked to claim it was getting more democratic as a result. But this time, when MEPs committed the hopelessly un-woke crime of nominating a man, their nomination was ignored.

In true Soviet style, the EU Parliament got a vote ... but because MEPs didn't want the terminally incompetent von der Leyen, it had to be fixed. No problem - MEPs were presented with a vote in which von der Leyen was the only candidate they could vote for!

Despite her being literally the only candidate on the voting paper, so many abstained from this farce she still got the lowest number of votes in history.

So that's the EU. There are votes, there are politicians, there's a Parliament. Just that none of them matter.
Come east. You can make high 5 to mid 6 figures with a fraction of the cost of living.

Although I don't subscribe to the core religion here in the mid-south (TN), I have found the average person to be friendlier and more helpful.

Nashville would be a good option.

P.S. I left my last job because they pivoted to fin-tech for upper middle class. I wanted to focus on the under-served communities but was vetoed. You're not alone.
"there is no case" is a strong statement. ImmutableJS is generally the wrong tool for the job in a reducer. It's optimized for if you have a single flat object with 1000s of keys. Immer can't implement the same level of structural sharing
Sorry, it's not a weapon. It's just a molecule designed to hijack self-replication to construct a wormhole generator.
It sounds good and I agree, but I think corruption runs too deep. Our government is flush with the money of profiteers and is weak in its collective will to uphold the principles that made it good.
If your team doesn't have enough trust to answer this question there are bigger problems in your company.

That said, I've managed people who have mental health problems that results in high anxiety from answering these types of questions. As a manager / lead you have to know your employees and work with each of them as an individual.
I strongly recommend you seek out therapy in some form.

Heck, even something like using this free service [0] where you could offload to a stranger could help lift the enormous burden you are feeling and help reset your currently gloomy perspective about life.

Take care of yourself.

0: https://www.7cups.com/
The very idea of scrollbars was popularized with a desktop that was 512x342!
It can be easy to overlook. For instance I was curious about this TLD the other day

.xn--6frz82g or .移动

Not sure how apt I would be to remember the English version or know which characters those are to type it in the native dialect.
Your on the right track but there's a ton of regulation we need to get rid of before we can truely increase the supply with new innovations in housing production.
Quit. Today. This guy is sick-- mentally and emotionally ill --and you need to cut him out of your life and never have anything to do with him again.

This is way more important than that paycheck.

You'll be fine, one way or another. This isn't really about your boss, it's about you and your self-respect and fear of change and stuff like that. (I'm not going to try to psychoanalyze you from across the internet but this much is clear from what you wrote.)

Also, fire your therapist, as you are clearly getting ripped off there.
Thanks - much appreciated!
Same ballpark ($2-3 million/acre) - and yeah, you're not wrong that if you can get approval for 250 units in an acre you can have reasonably priced housing. But the hard part in that equation is convincing whoever controls zoning to allow for it - once you do that, whether it's shipping containers or traditional construction you can have affordable housing.
Office for Windows still uses Internet Explorer as the renderer for addins built with OfficeJS, unless you're on Windows 1903 and using an insider version of Office.

I had depressed thoughts when I discovered I would be having to debug Internet Explorer in 2019.
You would sooner find me living in a tent or teaching English for a pittance than putting up with this.
> Do we know for a fact that all life derives from one organism? Could the conditions that allowed it to come into existence not have occurred in multiple places?

In the sense that we have directly observed this organism and can directly trace all life to it? No.

However, the evidence for the LCA is pretty strong. All doubts in my mind were removed when I took molecular genetics of procaryotes in college. Without going into details of finding relevant citations, and hence a fairly lay (and several years divorced from me learning about this stuff), the fact that all domains of life (procaryota, eucaryota, and archaea) share common genetic code and operate similar RNA- and protein-based molecular machinery strongly implies that a single "master template" originated all subsequent life on the planet. Considering how complex a ribosome is, for instance, the fact that all domains of life have similar, but not identical, ribosomal structures seems exceedingly unlikely. Molecular machinery is as complicated as it is because it evolves randomly to fulfill specific tasks. It's highly unlikely that two organisms would evolve the exact same piece of machinery which similar construction and composition to solve a novel task. On the other hand, when evolving from common machinery (i.e. shared ancestors), it's feasible to imagine that two organisms sharing an LCA might independently evolve similar proteins to adapt to a common stimulus. Consequently, eucaryotic cells function broadly similarly to other eucaryotic cells, archaeal cells function broadly similarly to other archaeal cells, and prokaryotic cells function broadly similar to other prokaryotic cells. Finally, archaeal cells function more closely to eucaryotic cells than do prokaryotic cells. Thus, it implies that archaea and eucaryota are more closely related than prokaryota and eucaryota. Hence, the phylogenetic tree. This implies that the most elegant (but not necessarily correct) solution to the similarity between different domains of life is a single unicellular ancestor.
I certainly wouldn't trust Python to open the standard streams correctly, explicitly check the mode/encoding or reopen the descriptor.
That sounds like a terrible place to work. I'd be looking for a new job.
Not really.

It's looking more and more like the (human-civilized) world is going to end from an environmental apocalypse because people keep working jobs they hate to buy shit they don't need. And there's nothing that can be done to stop it. It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't think the world was about to go to war over what little resources are left.

So how you doin?
I was thinking the US because of the viscous atmosphere between democrats / conservatives.

It feels like we're sliding backwards in civil discourse and it's quite disappointing. We've lost all patience for our neighbor. It's all a black and white, right or wrong, "where do YOU stand?" environment.
5 seconds.
Yes. We did all the work together. Was going to talk about that one later, but since you asked:

Synthesizing smart contracts from test cases. https://synthetic-minds.com/pages/blog/blog-2019-09-12.html
But if you lock it down by pricing out average travelers, that's not fair either.
There's no specific reason that I have to distrust Politico, or this article in particular. On the other hand, that's not really a great standard, and the trend of verbatim repeating the words of anonymous government sources needs to end... having sources that are anonymous in the government is fine, but what they say needs to be corroborated.
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Ah yes, it was a urinal. Source: stood next to him (awkward)
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Two years ago I wasn't. My mother had died a year beforehand and I was still getting through that. I had a boss who didn't accept "excuses" and was new to software and didn't know how to set expectations well. I wasn't exercising and didn't have a meaningful romantic relationship.

I'm posting this as things today are so different. I have a very supportive boss, a wonderful girlfriend and I'm happy almost everyday. Looking back I was very depressed, but time heals all wounds.

For those of you who feel helpless, please don't give up, try and take baby steps towards things that will make you happy and one day you'll wake up and things will be better.
From reading http://theory.stanford.edu/~rvg/arroyo/ (warning: nudity) linked from the ropewiki page, when hiking from the top, this journey is a combination of hiking, wading along the river and floating down it. It sounds like lots of fun. Turning around at the waterfall means that they would have to hike back as well as swim upstream, possibly through rapids, to get back to their starting point. It could be next to impossible.

I could see this being an easy trap to be caught out by if you had limited exposure to conditions in the area, or even if you had checked weather conditions and missed a rainfall upstream while out hiking. While they might be ashamed of needing a rescue, they thankfully made a smart choice and this is a cool story rather than a search for bodies.
Guns = Lethal Killing Machines, but if New York Times writes "Silicon Valley luminaries want fewer lethal killing machines in society" I'm pretty sure you'll be unhappy about the title.

Editorializing is editorializing.
you can definitely inherit from Array and Map in javascript.
> I'd rather check out and go and live in a cave on a hill, but all the land and caves have been parcelled off and sold before I was even born.

You and me both brother.
people love to pick on EFF but forget life as we live it would be very different without them.

your critic is more a matter of focus than agenda.

EFF is more focused on protocols and crypto and software per se. while usability, end user abuse etc is not high on it's priorities.
I'm in a weird place.

I've changed careers a couple times, and so find myself not as far along in my late 30s as peers of my age. My current job is great, but I also have a side project that made me a good amount of money a few years ago that I've let languish in the meantime, because doing both is difficult. I find myself longing to dive back into it, but fear of failure and general fatigue keeps me away.

Similarly, I'm single when most of my friends are married with children, and as such don't see them very often anymore - we're just at different places in life.

That gives me lots of time to date, and I date a lot, but I'm very good at finding short term dating situations and I run away when the potential to become long term appears. I wrestle with the fear that having settling down and having a family has passed me by.

On top of all that, my parents' health isn't the best.

I don't sleep well these days.
You need to do more research.

The rent increase law is 60% of CPI. Look it up.

SF introduced a new law a couple years ago that additional people can live in a unit even if they are not on the lease. They only instituted caps on how many. Google search it.

Plenty of apartments have not only water, but also heating included in the rent. If that goes up drastically, the rent board will likely tell the landlord “tough”.

And I’m not against buying out tenants. I am against them having to pay $100,000 or more.

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Sources:

This amount is based on 60% of the increase in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers in the Bay Area, which was 4.4% as posted in November 2018 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.[1]

Legislation that went into effect November 9, 2015 allows tenants covered under rent control to add occupants, if reasonable, despite restrictions in the rental agreement.

[1]https://sfrb.org/sites/default/files/Document/Form/571%20All...
[2]https://www.sftu.org/roommates/
Adding an animated image of Steve Balmer and Bill Gates dancing at the Windows 95 launch is guaranteed to get an extra 10 points on Hacker News. It's just science.
I just know that when I place my phone next to the payment sensor, the phone switches to "pay mode". So if my thumb is there, the action is just put phone next to sensor, put thumb on fingerprint, in one fluid motion. For my wife there's this, place phone next to sensor, lift phone up to look at it, then put it back down. Often times lifting it up causes the payment system to timeout.

Perhaps there's a smoother motion, double clicking, then face-id then press. To me, the finger print sensor just means I'm tapping my phone on the sensor.
You can throw around ideas and ask questions etc. Just try not to sound judgemental, in this case sounds like OP was. That was my point (I want to edit my comment but it seems I can't).

I also look forward to what ideas new people bring. That's why you want a flow of people in/out of the company.
That's new to me too. For others curious, here's the developer.mozilla.org page on it:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Using_CSS_c...

And the CanIUse table:

https://caniuse.com/#feat=css-variables

I look forward to starting to use this in 2024.
IIRC is talking about function programming in the sense of J, not about functional programming in the sense of Haskell.
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JerryScript and Espruino aren't that good yet, but embedded JS is an option.

You'd probably just be better off with embedded Python or Lua in most cases (MicroPython / eLua). Sadly, eLua doesn't look very active since 2016-ish
Yeah I had to completely stop and restart the Slack app before the new feature showed up
> nested selectors, which for reasons I cannot understand haven't made it into native CSS yet.

As I understand it, browsers don't look at a selector and navigate, but rather go node by node and see what selectors match. Having complex selectors that require looking at parents and siblings is worse, performance-wise, than having a simple selector. I imagine nested selectors don't make it into CSS, because people don't want to further encourage the use of complex selectors.

Here, this is where I read about that:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150304005354/https://developer...
NSA Domestic spying kept secret 30 years
Area 51 kept secret 39 years
National Reconnaissance Office kept secret 51 years
Operation Paperclip kept secret 53 years
US service members who died during d-day rehearsal kept secret 34 years
Amnesty to Japanese war criminals in Unit 731 kept secret 51 years

The truth is UFO’s and the alien pretense are too big to keep secret that his why there are already so many leaks from within the military, but until things are officially acknowledge the public is still just guessing.
Your racism is showing.
> how is the US/Mexico border a "defense" issue?

Well, whether you agree with it or not, part of the justification is that if anybody can cross easily, terrorist groups will, too. IIRC, the 9/11 hijackers didn’t fly into the US since we were looking for them, they flew into Canada and crossed the border (although Canada’s not Mexico, of course…)
This is a gem. I created an in-house mail builder based on its styles.
Yes, those are a dime a dozen. E.g. GString[1] is one example. Rather than strict "Pascal strings" like the sibling comments rightly points out would be stupid, they're a light struct with a char/size_t len (and usually also size_t alloc_len). This allows for skipping strlen() on them before e.g. copying, while using them as a C string by getting directly at the char.

1. https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Strings.html#GS...
Sounds like it would be better to create extremely high fines. Idiotic "influencers" should be bankrupted for adding nothing to society and spreading waste.
Funny that as Discord releases a light theme, Slack releases a dark theme.

But in seriousness, does Slack really have any value proposition over Discord beyond Screen Hero these days?

I switched my organization over to Discord based on the ability to create public channels for testers/customers to communicate with my team on the server without any role-based overhead (also because my target market is largely the Twitch/gamer crowd - most of whom already have Discord set up).

I understand that there are less integrations baked in, but most are easily worked around with webhooks.
Not only is the 20k savings a barrier of entry for most people, but this type of advice comes with massive assumptions about one's own life.

Good luck doing this if you're in a committed relationship. Good luck doing this if you have kids, for example.

For anyone who's put down even basic roots, this is a difficult bit of advice, if not downright unhelpful.
If you lasso the car with a deceleration rig or an elastic cord you can accelerate safely tho because it adds delay to how fast the energy is transferred to you.
They have to manually intercept your bags from being transferred to the next flight.
Ironically, all this voice input stuff is making the regular people bend over backwards so that the computer understands what they want. The one extreme is programmers who completely bend over backwards to tell the computer exactly what to do with each byte.
Right, let's ask Dropbox:

https://blog.pyston.org/2017/01/31/pyston-0-6-1-released-and...

(And after that blog post, there are no commits in the github repo you linked to).
Does that mean Americans deserve to be subject to the cartels and MS-13?
the reason rent control works in that case is because the difference between the rent control the amount dictated by the free market is very close. In that case, efffectively, the rent control doesn't really do much at all and hence isn't interfering with the pricing signals and incentives to build. In CA, the rent controlled prices are currently so far lower than the current cost of building it makes it pretty much impossible to build.