skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I kind of assumed they were trying to show that they are getting something right. I'm sure they have heard lots of criticism.

They do mention it being a great leg up on hiring competition, so there's that too.
How fast do you go through it, and would you add stabilizers so it spoilers slower?
How does this differ from gold-backed currency?
The problem with this retort is that of course it is okay to be white, and the details of such a campaign are what make all the difference. But the person who isn't already with you on this will just ask "how is it not ok to be white?"
> And the brown leftover,after making ghee, milk solids tasted amazing with a little sugar.

Wait, what? I love ghee but have never made it. Are you saying there's something even tastier to be found in the process of making it???
I believe (s)he's making a sarcastic reference to oil in the ground.
What happens when Saudi Arabia collapses? Does the royalty get the fuck out of town on their private jets with as many gold bars as they can carry?
And if you can use a phone number to redeem the points, use Jenny's number. You night have to pay inside vs at the pump for that. One could also try getting a replacement card that has Jenny's number attached to it. That might be considered fraud though; I'm not a lawyer.
The user name is making me think - maybe? Although also making me think googling working conditions etc. might not happen as much as implied.
I paid $0.97 at a Costco in Wisconsin the other day.

That said, I’m not sure why it was so cheap there. The going rate at other stations was about $1.39 and they’re usually closer together than that.
Ask HN: Mobile vs. Web Development “Gotchas” Personal Stories
Would you be willing to share any major "gotchas" from personal experience about getting started building mobile apps when coming from a background in web development?

Assumptions from web dev that don't work in mobile dev? etc.

Particularly curious with regards to working in React Native vs React but any insight would be appreciated.

Thank you!
From the article:

"The study found respiratory infection was much higher among healthcare workers wearing cloth masks.

"The penetration of cloth masks by particles was almost 97% compared to medical masks with 44%."
With these profit margins I should easily be able to afford a fancy national marketing campaign to cover my ass. I can see it now.

Oil – It comes from the earth. We're just returning it.
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Dvorak still has the alternating hands rhythm that Colemak lacks, being more built on one-handed finger rolls than Dvorak. Most people I speak to prefer the finger rolls of Colemak, but some people (like me) prefer the alternating hands rhythm of Dvorak.

(That said, I still use Colemak because it happens to work better for my native tongue. If I only wrote English, I would have been a Dvorak user.)
> Consciousness as a useful frontier, in my opinion, will only have utility as it intersects with neuroscience and artificial intelligence.

So by neuroscience and artificial intelligence I'm guessing we can assume you're just referring to western science.

How about the Buddhists? Or the shamans in tribal societies around the world? Was there no utility in their understanding and manipulation of consciousness (which was often achieved through the use of psychedelics)? In many ways the shamans and other spiritual practitioners are far ahead of western science in terms of understanding consciousness. However, that is rarely acknowledged in western society, especially among technical folks such as ourselves. Western science is not the only valid way to understand reality.
Internship status of companies – Covid-19
What's the "misinformation" I'm spreading?

You've cloned an open source project for vague reasons, expanded the extensions permissions vastly and recently started to change the accounts hosting it.

If that weren't already sketchy on it's own you insist on never really answering any question at all.
> but in a way, that was his secret power because his code almost never failed in testing.

Reminds me of the stories about Stephen Hawking and how it seemed like he was just sitting there miserable but he instead he was thinking very deeply and how his disabilities forced him to be able to think visually in his mind and compensate because he would only get a quick chance to absorb input.
Once an oil well is producing the operators can't necessarily just turn it off. If they do cap it that can impair future production.
Would you be comfortable posting the source, so that others could host their own copy with their own API keys?
They had a story on this at Marketplace. Storage is limited and not free, with oil tankers being used as extra storage units during the glut, at an increasingly large cost. Also capacity reduction is not trivial either, particularly for smaller wells that can't just shut down (vs larger wells that can slow down extraction).
(Sorry, wrong term used here: I don't mean copyright per se, instead I mean any number of intellectual property 'methods' that we currently use on this planet (siloing, patents, copyright, licensing, etc, etc))
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With a grocery rewards program (Kroger) I filled up 12 gallons for $1.20 the other day :o
It's definitely simpler to not have a toggle, but I like having the choice. Some websites I frequent often have a dark mode I don't like much, so I switch to light - and vice-versa.

Just because a user generally prefers dark mode, doesn't mean they do everywhere!
For some producers that's easier said than done. You can't just shut the operation down and then start it up again.
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I worked remotely 17 years for a large SV tech corp doing work that was global in nature. 5 years in, they instituted a policy of having salary modifiers based on where you lived for both remote and onsite employees. Your salary wouldn't immediately change, but when it came time for increases, your compensation rate was considered. I had no problem with this policy because I lived on the side of a mountain and my house cost 1/5th a Bay Area home. Instead of a 1.5hour commute home, I would have a 1.5hr mountain bike ride out my back door. Now, the salary difference wasn't 50%, it was more like 25%, but I would have taken 50% to not have to live in the Bay Area.

The real downside was that I had minimal mobility because most of the tech world is still in the dark ages of management by proximity. Doing a job search in the startup world in the age of Covid, I assumed that there would be an explosion of WFH jobs, but most are not.
Why would anyone trust facebook with this data?
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They are. The world is simply running out of suitable tanks. Yes, that's a thing when global oil demand drops by 30% but production is only cut by 10%. Even if you disregarded every law regarding oil storage and started filling up water towers and tuppaware containers, exactly how many of the ~25,000,000 excess barrels of oil now being produced DAILY do you think that would account for?
Dictators/Kings can survive on a very tight budget btw. It takes a long long time for those structures to crack. The only reason they would leave town would be something related to the virus (like other western rich folks are doing now)
Whether you go on a cruise or not, it’s essentially impossible to live a modern life and not have a net negative effect on the environment. The marginal damage done by existing plus going on cruise vs. just existing is infinitesimal.
Now, the kickers behind the headlines (that nobody told me up front):

1. The majority of the games do not support multiplayer on Linux, due to dependency on Windows-specific anticheat software.

2. Many, many of the games themselves aren't totally stable on Linux. So, expect a crash or two at critical gameplay moments.

That said, Proton is a great effort and it's great they're pushing Linux forward.
I don't believe WSL has any graphical capability whatsoever.
I was quite fond of Elm for hobby stuff early on and stopped following it too closely. Mostly I wasn't able to apply it in any meaningful way at to my $$$ day job type work and my side projects moved on.

It seems there is a lot of emotions and frustration in the community lately, at least based on these last two posts which I can kind of understand. Are these developers rallying behind something else? Reason or Purescript?
I believe the term is "corn finished".

Similarly: Iberico ham -- the pigs are fed acorns several months before slaughter.
evryone has ethics, maybe not yours but still ethics.

Found inf 10 seconds of DDG'ing:

Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct.

again, not necessarily YOUR right or wrong.
Personally I've had less issues with the Linux desktop (KDE) than with the Windows desktop (outside of course of dumb things I did myself, like messing with GPU setups, or removing a vital library for rendering).
Explained here: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/compensation...
MonoGame implements the XNA API and lets you write games that run on Win32, UWP, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, Xbox One, PS4, PSVita, and Switch. That's probably the best cross-platform support of any game framework.
You can try pomodoro timers technique. You try to focus for only 25 minutes at a time and then give yourself some slack. Hopefully after you will see what you achieved in those 25 focused minutes will motivate you to repeat that exercise. I use FocusBit app for that, but there're plenty of pomodoro timers, you name it. The main trick is to get a ticking timer in front of you if nothing else can motivate you.
Also I think COVID has forced companies into trying it when there might have been fear or apprehension before. It takes time/resources/commitment to even try out a work from home policy - but now everyone has been forced into it.
You're not thinking outside the box. Buy the oil, burn it for power, sell the barrel, and use a portion of the profit to pay for carbon credits.

Voila, an infinite supply of clean energy.
Adding to the anecdata, but steam Proton has been great for me under Debian. I've been gaming on linux on and off for about a decade (mostly with wine before or the few games that did support linux).

Proton has been a perfect experience for me.
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Is this the same thing as... not pumping it?
I do not think such a world is desirable. It would just distort markets. Everyone will charge more for everything, starting with rent.

If you cover the basic needs of "everyone", the number of everyone will just go up and up and up until you can't cover the basic needs anymore. Do you think earth can sustain infinite people? There has to be a mechanism preventing people to increase their number to unsustainable levels. The current world already does a really bad job at that, I don't think we have to make this worse.

I think the most desirable world is one with a build-in pruning process, where only the most adapted people survive, thus preventing the number of humans to reach unsustainable levels, while still progressing to greater heights. After all, if you just put a cap on the number of children people are allowed to have you're just going to stagnate. It's better to have a large pool to select the fittest and prune the rest, resulting in the same number at the end, only with much better quality. Historically, war was such a pruning process. But I don't think it was an especially good one.
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I use a refreshable braille display. I use it mainly on the Linux console, but I've been thinking about rigging something up for use with Sway.
UAE and Saudi Arabia imo will be ok. They are trying to build themselves into big entertainment and tourism hubs with their ventures into sports and investment in tourism etc I think though they will definitely suffer they may be able to weather the storm. Kuwait and Qatar on the other hand I'm not so sure about
It's not altruism, I'm being perfectly rationally selfish, I just prefer to help those in need and give the bad people money to stay away from me while not wasting any time and money to make the distinction.
People moved across oceans and continents for careers back when those moves took months. Being able to go back and see family is a perk that's moved its way down the income latter with the advent of cheap air travel but I don't think it's making or breaking anyone's decision to relocate or at least not in numbers large enough to matter.

People will move far away for their careers regardless but if the cheap long distance transportation exists then people will use it. The people who are working in one city and taking a flight back home every weekend are statistically nonexistent. The people who moved across the country and take a plane back a couple times a year to celebrate as major holiday or something are far more numerous but those people would have still moved without the cheap airfare.
This seems unlikely to me, given the low extraction costs they have for oil.

I guess the biggest danger they would face is if they have to stop "paying off" their population, and this leads to an "arab spring" type of situation. But it seems even in that case they would unfortunately have the will and resources to use Syria-style brutal tactics to contain any uprising.
It's been one of my #1 terminal frustrations, too!!! But instead of relying on GUIs and the mouse, I started to use terminal tools and wrote a plugin for tmux that helped me. https://github.com/schasse/tmux-jump
Maybe it's useful for you.
Perhaps this one?

https://www.dell.com/support/article/en-us/sln286269/how-to-...

About a third of the way down.
IIRC Saudi Arabia is a massive welfare state with significantly subsidized food, power, water and more - all paid for by oil. People might be more willing to revolt because of that going away than they would have had it never been a thing in the first place.
Not necessarily. You could probably catch 90% of people just by using some simple matching. The top social media sites have a pretty distinctive layout you could match on; and you can diff screenshots to catch people who are constantly AFK.

It's not going to catch someone who has put some thought into how to circumvent these, but it's enough to catch a lot of the non-HN people.
Strange tattoo example (and Google-able). Boggles my mind why someone would want to identify so strongly with Nazis, but obviously I strongly agree that we should receive those signals. What a bunch of idiots.
I guess the ultimate version of this is figuring out how to get your brain to generate the right image via direct simulation of the visual cortex, without painting anything on your retina at all.
This is from 2014.

Authors use Reinhart-Rogoff argument that huge government debt-to-gdp ratio hurts growth even if it's domestic debt. It had huge political impact and many government adopted austerity-policies.

It's the most famous errors in economics. There was Excel spreadsheet errors that completely invalidated the argument. The methodological errors became just a side show.
Does this not make the case for investing in renewables over shale extraction and fracking that has a price floor below which it's not economical?
It isn't 'unusual' as in strange or objectionable. The mental picture is still of grazing cows. But a diet of corn is cheap and increases the fat content of the meat, so exclusively grassfed must be sought out.
Gasoline and other petroleum derivatives are not a stable as their underlying source. However consumer gas will last a few years with proper care and storage, the real issue will be when appropriate storage runs out.
Yeah. it takes like 20 minutes to communicate the context and how this isn't so innocuous as it looks. I've had to explain this to my aging boomer parents, and they still don't buy it.

It is truly a subversive phrase because it takes control of the argument from a place that requires, IMO, a lot of basics to be explained and/or challenged... which most people don't want to sit through. It's like a self-generating mine field of arguments.
I'm working with the Satpathy lab on their project. I'm a PI at the Parker Institute. We usually do cancer, but are bringing our tools to COVID research in this time.
Testing in slums is equal to testing on rats, that's inhumane, grow up, world leaders.
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I brought this up in another thread and got flagged.

It makes me think about how 21st century slavery would look. You may not own property. The only way you get to live is constant work. Everything is rented. Everyone lives paycheck to paycheck. This would sort of jive well with a return to the Egyptian and Babylonian systems that the Abrahamic faiths were rebelling against.

I read the bible cover to cover and a huge theme in it is private property. That's one of the major differences in the Abrahamic faiths is that people can own property and the king cannot take property without adequate compensation and the king cannot take one's wife. In the Egyptian and Babylonian systems, anyone higher up on totem pole can do absolutely anything they want to anyone lower on the totem pole.
Saudi Arabia is trying to build tourism? From where?
And there lies the rub - oil in-place is often in remote, hard-to-get areas; the margin will be made in having it ready to go when price warrants, not ready to extract
I used to like to play a game whereby I would try to calculate how much computing power my house had, and what year that was equivalent to in total world computing power.

I think I got somewhere in the 1970s before I gave up :)
Why did they have to include "Flu" in the dropdown? I am afraid if that will loose a little focus of this tool and the seriousness of the pandemic.
I'm not sure if there is a good short primer on Retinal Displays or not, but I don't think this is it.

As the article itself outlines, it's been decades of research and we haven't really been able to make any practical progress yet. There are a lot of reasons for this that are as much social as they are technical.

At my previous company a few years ago we took a crack at a concept [1], but never got it off the ground because prototype costs were in the millions and there are only a few places that we could source the kind of hardware you need to build these things.

Last I checked in 2017, Oculus/Facebook was making the most progress on this but even then were having trouble miniaturizing things. I'm really curious where they are with it.

[1] https://pdfaiw.uspto.gov/.aiw?docid=20180131926&SectionNum=1...
The gold bars are already in the US, as part of the Nixon-Faisal agreements. That should not be a comfort to the Saud kleptocracy, as the Shah of Iran discovered.
https://twitter.com/WTMMP/status/1230324073323991042?s=20
And is also a different product in the US vs EU.
It could be good idea to learn about accessibility API-s (MSAA, UI Automation, Accessible 2, ATK), in case you want to contribute to improving the screenreaders and/or create new accessibility tools, now or in the future.
This is a rather naived perspective on the strategic thinking and planning of the Saudi Royal family. They are heavy investors in renewable energy tech.
No, they don't want to hire this guy.

This is recruiter spam that nearly everyone gets if you have the word "software engineer" in your profile somewhere.
I understand making small machines is fun, and I did it once myself. I regretted it every day I used that machine, though and have gone back to "normal" sized cases.
Imagine if it were the norm though. You could move out of the Bay Area and afford a home with a dedicated office space. I worked remotely for 17 years and I found ways to create a separation. Sadly, I fear you are right though - there may be a slightly larger WFH push, but inertia of management by proximity will still be the norm.
Nonetheless, I had already purchased the masks last year, and was persuaded not to wear them by the CDC, because I was asymptomatic. I haven't bought any additional N95 masks in months, so I wasn't a part of the lack of supply problem. Luckily, I haven't developed symptoms yet, but I would say the CDC's "guidance" was rather misguided.
technically wasn't the ayatollah that had to pay that price?

You're talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_frozen_assets right?
Probably. I have to say though, their advertisements for tourists were a bit.. out there. 50°C+ outside? Come visit us, you can hang out in the AC mall, or go skiing in our fantastic artificial ski hall (all powered by fossil energy of course). Yeah.. no thanks.
It's hard for me to imagine that they can keep up with this level of income with just tourism.
The idea is that you'd be able to sustain if you lived _very_ frugally. Generally, people don't enjoy that. They like to eat the nice food, go to places, buy things, all of which wouldn't be covered by the UBI.
Saudi Arabia’s extraction costs are about $3/barrel, their nation state budget require $80/barrel to break even.

They are burning through reserves at these market prices.

Edit: To your point, it’s going to get ugly locally if market conditions persist.
Interesting, I feel like I have the same problem for the opposite reason - things I cared about came easy to me in HS and college, so I never learned to put in effort as much as others had to; if the task is daunting I am likely to just give up.

I found that what works well for me is breaking the task iteratively into (sometimes, ridiculously) small steps, writing them down (that is important for the approach to work, at least for me) and forcing myself to just do one small step at a time.

Interestingly, this approach affected my skillset for software development too... for example, on my current team I have a reputation for being good at debugging difficult issues, even though I dislike debugging and I'd rather never do it. I dislike it so much I always narrow down and break down the problem into very small parts, which apparently is a great approach to debugging.

Btw, another thing that helps me is playing challenging videogames. There was this article I can't find now about CRPG and action games, where you are either often rewarded for just sitting there, or actually have to learn a physical skill. I found that forcing myself to suck and improve a little bit in RTS and action games, instead of playing (awesome) CRPGs all the time, is a nice low stress way to learn to make effort :)
Man I'd forgotten how much time I used to spend scrolling through build logs 10-15 years ago. I loved watching the things people would come up with, particularly in the case modding world.
"Dandelion-yellow and uncommonly expensive, St. Clair's butter is served at Thomas Keller's restaurants and is only available once a year to consumers."

On the one hand, reading about this article makes me drool.

On the other, it generates such bullshit highbrow scarcity that it makes me hate haute cuisine.

....I'll take my my first world problem.
The knock-on price is to refined gas, but when we talk price/storage of oil that's not ready to put in your car gasoline.
Dubai is definitely a tourist destination for a small number of hyper-wealthy people. The tourists get to be in the part of the bubble that serves alcohol.
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I haven't done much research but that's pretty funny if you're correct. The middle east has done their darndest trying to make sure women feel as unwelcome as possible in their domain. Gonna be tough to establish a tourism industry when you've alienated half the world's population (this isn't even a commentary on women's rights - you simply can't alienate half your customer base and think it's not going to affect you).
You may feel it's crap only because you aren't able to run it. Players whose games cheaters are being excluded from are more likely to be glad for it.