skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I studied at an IIT in India for quite some time (loved the institution and the student body). I’ve seen more than most people I guess (from Ladakh to Mumbai to Varanasi).

In places without tourists people were generally honest. The street vendor living off a few rupees each day for bananas would not take a rupee too much. I wish I could believe the “the dumb tourist tax is helping the needy and poor” - but it only fills the pockets of the (relatively) wealthy. It’s their sense of “entitlement to the money of these wasteful Westerners”.

India and China (lived there for > 1 yr) were pretty much the same 25 yrs ago in terms of GDP and population. That was long after any British influence - yet both developed very differently.

If I had to make a guess, it would be: how people treat family and society. As a foreigner, it seemed to me that Indians never care about society or anybody except their own family. In China, people are very focused on society and less on family. In India, people were mainly interested in their own immediate gain - in China they had some “boundaries” at least.

Cleanliness is not “we can’t afford better” it is “people genuinely don’t care when it’s outside their house”. The slums in Mumbai were among the best organized and cleanest places I found in India. People cared because they had to and wanted to - not because they could afford.

In India whenever I asked an official (police) for help or advice, they would sell me off to some relative. In China I never experienced that.

I can’t generalize a couple of years abroad in different countries, but I would kind a take the guess that if you worked on actually “trying go make society work beyond immediate personal gain” things might look different in India.

I have a complex relationship with India - because of many positive and negative experiences. As you continue to rip us foreigners and tourists off - we will stop spending money in your country. I’m tired of being accused to “be too dumb to inform myself” when the police and society are just rigged to steal from me because I am white and “look rich”. I am tired of being accused that the entire world is just taking advantage of Indians when the trading balance tells otherwise and it’s Indian people that care so little about each other.

It was really sad and heartbreaking to see how in China pollution gets less and less whereas India really became “totally unbearable” in the recent years.
Formula 1 events draw big enough crowds that they experience helicopter congestion - spend $1000+ per seat for a helicopter taxi service and there's still a queue

I'm sure surge pricing attracts more drivers, but it's no panacea¹ so long as there's finite road capacity at any price - if you want to avoid waiting in line entirely, attending major sporting events is not for you :)

¹ Unless the price surged so high taxi drivers could afford to build extra road capacity - which to me seems unlikely.
Seems very related to garden path sentences (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence)
This looks pretty good. Are there any other tools like this for different platforms? I'd be especially interested in something like this for the .NET ecosystem.
Did you not read to the end of his comment? Here you go:

> They’ve already committed to the debt, and if they stopped paying it, they’ll loose the car, which is all they have as assets.
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There should be a dB indicator telling you how noisy the crowd is.
Some emergency carbon capture/ sequestration (CCS) measures might include:

- ferrous phytoplankton seeding in open oceans, which requires very little iron

- kelp: fertilizing, harvesting, minifying and capturing carbon; the bloom between Mexico and Africa is especially fertile and already washes thousands of tons onto Mexico's beaches per day

Rather than plant a few trees and declare "mission accomplished," we should exploit biological processes at scale for permanent BeCCS rather than fall for populist, feel-good, ineffective, half-measures.
Inputs that are either random or subject to change (api responses, user prompts i.e.)
...relax
I believe there is one for NBA basketball, too. Someone posted a terminal program for reading its scores on HN once, but since I have no interest in basketball, I didn't bookmark it.
you don't really need that. just add ddg in your browser settings. the extension shows you a rating for each site and blocks some stuff but if you are using other extensions like ublock origin, https everywhere etc then you don't really need it
They should've put this note at the very top of the page:
"Mac OS only for now!".

What is the point of promoting this to everyone at this stage?
One starts to wonder if they will ever get stability under control.
We never rely on patients telling us their blood tyoe, or even past lab results. A test must have been performed recently (in my hospital it’s within the last seven days) for the blood bank to dispense blood.

If there is a major haemorrhage the patient will receive the universal donor (O-) while the test for definitive blood type is performed.
> Website, API, Git (ssh and https), Pages, Registry, CI/CD, Background Processing, Support Services, packages.gitlab.com, customers.gitlab.com, version.gitlab.com, forum.gitlab.com

How come all of them are down all at once.
McMindfulness: How mindfulness became the new capitalist spirituality
> The fact that the people currently running your country can legally oppress the speech of their political opposition is terrible.

And how could they do that?
So do you already have any intuition of what training does to the initial GP? Obviously the training adjust the various weights in complicated ways, which to me feels like it should correspond to some sort of marginalisation on the GP, but I'm not really aware if that's a thing people do (undoubtedly someone has tried it though).
Huh, Print to PDF has existed in a long time in Firefox.

In the printer list, the option "Print to File" should exist.
The Uncertainty Machine
Based on the grandparent, it sounds like race-conditions and random number generation fit the bill.
Not very just, and his biases are not needed for him to make this case.

The UK is a specific 'legal status', one could easily argue that the nation predates it's own legal status, particularly given the deep relationship between Scotland and England having literally shared monarchs, co-ownership of vast tracts of land, integrated nobility etc..

In terms of applying 'personal character' I think it's pretty reasonable actually.
Sony makes the best noise cancelling headphones/earphones now anyway. (assuming noise cancellation is important to you)
> They are right there in the court ruling you linked below, in the first sentence of the ruling

The first sentence of the ruling says that the paintiff's rights under articles 1 and 2 were affected, but that doesn't mean that those articles are the only relevant parts of the Grundgesetz.

> The court also detailed the reasoning in the paragraphs below, always referencing the actual laws.

Yes, I've had the idea of looking at that myself. That references at least articles 1, 2, 5, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26, 59, 93 GG, as well as at least the European Convention on Human Rights, the Treaty on European Union, and GDPR.

If the OP's point was that this ruling follows directly from "two or three articles" of the Grundgesetz, the OP was wrong -- even if speaking figuratively. The actual reasoning is based on much more than that, including EU law. Unsurprisingly, the issue is much more complex than the OP made it out to be, otherwise it never would have made it past the appeal before the Bundesgerichtshof anyway.
Useless without add-on support. I'm going to be avoiding Fenix until I can install a proper adblocker.
This strikes me as odd, because if there's something gitlab engineers are known for, is their unmatched competence,
Selection bias. People who go to tech conferences make up a tiny share of all the people working in the industry. Plus they're far more likely to look towards other people going to those conferences for "trends" than to the majority who don't, thus reinforcing that bias.

Even most designers I know personally don't use macOS. But if I was going by what I see at JS conferences, you'd think Apple has a 99% marketshare (although things have improved in recent years with "full stack" bringing in Linux folks and Microsoft's investment in dev tools making Windows more appealing).

This is similar to how everyone at these conferences seems to have one of the latest iPhones yet (depending on where you live) the majority of smartphone users uses Androids and those who are using iPhones generally hold onto them for years before upgrading.

Also FWIW as a long time JS dev, it seemed to me like Rails actually was one of the major contributors to the macbook monoculture because Rails (in the early days) was popular with startups who also often focused on iOS apps first, which means they had no other choice than to use macOS for development. As iOS became less of a focus than web dev, the macbooks stayed and only now seem to be slowly replaced as Microsoft is making a heavy push into web dev relations and the opinion of Apple's quality gets tarnished by dev-unfriendly decisions and hardware problems.
Influential? Please..
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Pretty big list of new features: https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration74.new-features.php

Happy to see the proc_open() feature of NOT spawning a shell, and interested in the FFI implementation.
The ability to install extensions, especially uBlock Origin, is the only reason I switched to Firefox on mobile so it is good that they have changed their minds. But what do you mean by "add some popular ones"?
Ha! I used The Print Show in an Apple IIc back in the day. My parents must have loved them for all the paper and ink ribbons I chewed through. I still see the Brøderbund logo as blazing green on black in my mind. (google, google ..) And Captain Goodnight! Nostalgia overload!
I don't want to hijack this thread but what was the end result of the decision of Gitlab not hiring _in_ certain countries anymore? A lot of media coverage when the incident happened but no idea what happened afterwards and can't easily find it.
This is a way better help to drivers than forcing them to become employees. Uber used to charge a flat 20% but now optimized to squeeze out as high a percentage as they can take. This is the real problem for drivers. Not employee / contractor

It’s unions pushing to force drivers to be employees, not drivers.
Why not? A huge portion of developers uses Macs and windows support is coming at some point. Better to get an actual feedback from the developers.
AI Reveals Second Playwright’s Contributions to Shakespeare’s ‘Henry VIII’
Here let me be even more clear for the downvoting-without-commenting cowards :

> It's a wretched, insidious *code* sneaked in by very bad
> actors into mainstream open source repositories.

How would have OSS projects historically dealt with code pushed by someone, which was deemed detrimental/inferior to the overall intent and purpose of the software ?

Isn't it the presumption that whatever gets absorbed / pulled in, reflects the consensus of the community involved and that the future of the project is determined by the sort of natural evolution ? ...the bazaar ? So, if the bazaar now puts value on CoCs ...you may either contribute or dissent and start up your own competing replacement. Isn't that the way it was supposed to work ?
This blew me away a bit. Is MacOS this popular in the Web frontend crowd?

I always felt that the price/quality ratio was way off with MacOS, compared to a good regular laptop. By good I mean top 10% ranked by price/quality. Even if it wasn't, Apple's general hostility towards consumers is infuriating. Right-to-repair is a banal example.
3 Links for building better experiences on the web. Everyday
Well, with that frame, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's doable if the people revolt and take control of their government out of the hands of the very rich because those are the people who are standing in the way and killing us.
This looks pretty cool, congratulations! I was wondering how you set up your email server to get around the automatic filtering a lot of email providers use on the user end. For example, I think Gmail automatically filters anything from a known AWS IP address.
presumably a single point of failure - my guess would be something at the network level.
https://status.gitlab.com/
> In the UK people in criminal cases are always fully named (except minors).

If that were some sort of important guiding principle of all of the UK press in general, you'd think that the BBC would have dug up the person's name in this case. I don't have much data to go on, but I thought that the BBC might apply different standards than tabloids or the local news.
This is very confusing.

In California I am pretty sure that private property starts at high tide for the ocean and low tide for other bodies of water.

So you are not talking about proposition 20 which starts at high tide and extends 1000 yards inland, you are talking about the land between high tide and low tide which I am pretty sure Vinod does not own.

I am not sure what you think he won in this particular case. Proposition 20 still holds (from everything I can tell). To overthrow prop 20 he would have to overthrow the will of the people. This is (by the way) why most of us oppose Vinod. He might be a great guy in other ways.
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We use GitLab at work and I use it for personal projects as well, it has been very slow for several days now and they had downtime yesterday as well.

I don't mind the general sluggishness of the system that much (as I love the platform in general) but when you can't get your work (nor hobbies) done because of tools breaking, it gets really annoying really fast.
I guess talking in person or over slack would facilitate the need to discuss the pros, cons, impact etc. of the decision.

How do you socialise the decision to the rest of the current and future team?
We did some research work on model-to-model translations (in the end, it's basically the same problem) and we ended up with mixed feelings (as we explain in the article: https://modeling-languages.com/lstm-neural-network-model-tra... ).

Mostly, right now (IMHO) you can only get some success translating very short pieces of code.

We used LSTMs for that (which seems to be the more usual approach in this domain)
What does it even mean to open them in private tabs by default and why is that a behavior I would want? I use private tabs as a way to keep things out of my browsing history or to check what happens to a page when it does not get any of its normal cookies.
"Eg few if any insurances around the world pays for laser eye surgery. And it's one of the few common healthcare procedures whose costs have dropped massively in recent decades"

I don't know that an elective procedure is the best example, but it's still an example. One counter is prescription drugs. My insurance would only allow a small number of tablets for my migraine medication because the cost for them was so artificially high. When I called the insurance company to ask why they wouldn't pay for the number of tablets that I needed, I was told that my doctor should do a better job of controlling the number of migraines that I get. Where do I get this medication now that I don't have insurance? From countries that have socialized medicine, and the cost is substantially less. Unreasonably high costs for prescription meds in the US is not unusual. I recently had to take doxycycline for Lyme disease. Back in 2012, this cost 6 cents per dose. That price increased by over 6,000 in one year, just as Lyme cases were also skyrocketing.
>web developers

And and in this case web should be read as 'front-end'.
That sounds to me like saying nobody will ever make a new C++ compiler because C++ is hard and good compilers are hard - before Clang.
Here is the link: https://www.axios.com/life-expectancy-every-country-world-b3...

According to the chart the growth of life expectancy in China is pretty much inline with growth in India, so it looks legitimate.

While in the US the trend for life expectancy correlates more with Venezuela.

It's a long span (16 years) and only two data points per country. But still...
Like when they dropped their database and took a few days to recover?
Samsung reportedly gets CPU orders from Intel amid supply shortfall
Maybe it has changed later. In the mid 2000s, you definitely had to wait for approval. Some of my projects were rejected. There is still some documentation around the net about approval:

Once you complete your registration, you must wait a few days for the SourceForge administrators to review your request and set up the infrastructure. You should receive an email response informing you of the project's creation when it is ready. You can check the status of any of your project requests by visiting your SourceForge home page: http://sourceforge.net/users/your-userid/ . There, you can view all of your SourceForge projects. Also, on the 'my projects' page you can see all your projects regardless of their approval status.

Source: https://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Plugging-into-Sourc...
Is there any reason why machine learning techniques can't be used to control the application of machine learning techniques?
If you’re on Windows, try the built-in Steps Recorder (formerly known as Problem Steps Recorder)
I hoped not, but could based on what I've seen in the past it seemed like they can somehow utilise the crazies for their benefit. Now it seems things start to balance out a bit. I hope this will get more intensive in the next months and Google will be forced to really act.
In Dutch we just spell out the phone numbers digit for digit without grouping them first. No need to change the language for that. The advantages in the article may be a good reason though.
It's always DNS!
Apps are too risky.

The risk that any app will, now or in the future, be hacked, sold or just changed to suck all the data from your phone and send it somewhere you don't want it sent is too high for my taste.
IIRC, they are not hiring 'in' certain counties. This is different than 'from' certain countries.

AFAIK, nothing material happened after the announcement. There are lots of companies which do not hire in certain countries.
At the bottom of the page they list availability of third party services used - Fastly has a warning symbol, and I imagine they put that CDN in front of everything.
[Speculation] Perhaps a DDoS or a disgruntled employee...

In all seriousness, hopefully these things are not related.
Man, I just setup a new project on Gitlab an hour ago!
This doesn't fix the issue of Swing theming being hard. The fix would be to make it much easier, preferably with a visual editor.
> software that grew so many "temporary" fixes and workarounds instead of necessary architectural changes that it's in permanent maintenance mode, and entire parts of it are untouchable because nobody understands what they do due to the exponential increase in complexity stemming from the abundance of these hacks, exacerbated by system knowledge evaporating with engineer turnover

Pretty much this, what else am I supposed to think when I read this : ?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17103925/how-well-is-uni...

We aren't on the ARPANet anymore - I'm expecting even low-level programming languages to use native Unicode. The way how C equates "char" to both character and byte is fundamentally broken.

(This is also/more(?) an issue with Unicode - IMHO we should have increased byte size to something like 32 bits (during the transition to 64-bit words ?) to be able to fit one character per byte - the increased hardware cost for text storage would have been quickly compensated by the decrease in developer costs. But here we are.)
> How so? They are just Linux boxes, you can just download the source code and compile the binaries you need. Pre-built packages are not necessary for functional OS.

What about dependencies? If you have the internet access required to download the source code I'd say you'd be better off just using the repos.
The crowdsourced list is fully automated. I don't sleep for a few days, so I can monitor what is added (ok, that part is manual) :-) The regular lifetime deal dashboard is fully manual, I work on it every day of the year (almost)
I've long been convinced that it's due to the routine chemical exposures that we accept as normal. It's difficult to go anywhere in the US without being exposed to hundreds of chemicals offgasing from products and people.
How to disable:
https://dev.to/tdkn/how-to-disable-slack-desktop-s-wysiwyg-e...
That could be an electrical grounding problem. In my experience touchpads are very sensitive to the quality of the power supply.
After a bit more reading, it seems I hadn't realized just how low level direct system calls actually are (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/X86_Assembly/Interfacing_with_...). Apparently it's either a software interrupt or dedicated instruction, with the constant in a register. ASLR requires more abstraction than that (obviously), and there's no point to it if an exploit can just use the front door instead.
> Fastly has a warning symbol, and I imagine they put that

> CDN in front of everything.

Check their status page, it's just a simple reroute since the 13th [1].

[1] https://status.fastly.com/
Not sure if that's what the parent meant, but there was a somewhat recent case of a German far-right (NPD) politician sentenced for denying the Holocaust in a campaign speech. It made HN at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21155849
Animals could help humans monitor oceans
So taking that xray every 3-5 years saves you from the death in a few weeks? Or should you take the xray weekly?
Latest tweet by @gitlabstatus said "We've identified an issue with database connectivity", which could explain why so many services are impacted.
Linux repos can be hosted on a local disk. Or you can order a CD/DVD through the post with mirrors of the repos.

Which OS handles this better, in your opinion?
Sorry, not American but this seems an interesting aspect of a sport I know nothing about!

Is this done because the catcher might know the batter is worse at hitting pitch type X, but is better at pitch type Y, so signals to the pitcher to throw an X?

But the pitcher might think he can't throw a good X right now (for whatever reason), and instead will throw a Z ?

And the pitcher and catcher need to somehow secretly agree on what's being thrown?

Does it ever happen that the catcher fails to catch it? It seems he has a pretty small window that he needs to catch it in, but then I guess sometimes these pitches are crazy fast and can't have much time to react.
One thing would be to get rid of as many fragranced products as you can. It's amazing how many people live 24/7 without ever truly breathing fresh air. This would be especially had with fragranced dryer sheets, as the residual fragrance will last through many washings. New mattresses are also notoriously toxic.
It took about 24 hours to recover, not "a few days".
The article would be dropped from the search engines, not the publishers...
Treat them better than average? Maybe 4 day workweeks or unlimited paid time off. Maybe even treat them as friends.
If you want to do something as a techie, I would suggest helping out projects like the ones found here: https://github.com/topics/climate-change
I would also suggest joining communities like https://climateaction.tech/
The only slightly less alarming source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03595-0