skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're making the tips they're providing to the NSS/DoD publicly available. It's a basic training guide for government employees seemingly based on normal internet research, no reason to make it classified.
A slightly more colorfull version

https://freechess.netlify.app/
People don’t realize that culturally that is the ‘fashion’ of the U.S.

Read Anathem by Neal Stephenson, it has a funny take on this :)
Let's say the US introduced a rule that required Uber to route an order to any "venue" with a "better" price. Litigate the details of "better" and "venue" later.

Do you seriously believe that no venue would pop up that yields the driver >70% of the trade price, allowing them to bid lower overall?

This is exactly what the SEC did with Reg NMS and transaction costs declined precipitously.
i am not sure if improve is the right word here :)

i believe losing linguistic variety is almost a tragedy.
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This is also why it's important to FILL the freezer as much as possible if you know you might lose power.

We lost power for 4 days, but I packed in every water bottle I could find before hand, and everything remained frozen for the entire period. Literally almost no space left for air.

We also did not open it, of course.
> I actually started using C for my side projects since two years precisely because I want very long term backward compatibility (that is, being able to leave a program for years without maintaining it, then make a small edit in it and build it with minimum pain).

Rust actually takes a very strong stance on maintaining backwards compatibility, and Go's stance is arguably even stronger in most cases. You're implying incorrectly that these languages are just breaking things left and right for no reason other than "innovation!", which isn't true.

The overwhelming majority of Rust and Go code from years ago will compile without problems today. Any code from post-1.0 that doesn't compile today was (inadvertently) relying on buggy, incorrect behaviors that have since been fixed... and even then, not all incorrect behaviors get fixed because compatibility is considered so important.

C is fine for certain applications, but no one should choose it for side projects based on some notion of backwards compatibility, in my opinion. If some company is building a business application that needs "backwards compatibility" in the sense that it can run on all sorts of arcane microarchitectures and operating systems, then sure... C is still a really painful* choice, but it might be the right choice then, or if there's an existing C code base, then it probably doesn't make business sense to rewrite it any time soon.

* yes, having no protection from footguns, no real standard library, no built-in concept of asynchronous code, and very little of anything useful is definitely painful. If C is the only valid choice for a project, then it's the only valid choice, and that's what you have to do. The number of projects where you simply can't use something other than C is diminishing by the day.
Are you saying that Google et al should not sell advertising services to Chinese companies seeking an international audience?
I've set up a similar approach with 3rd party apps on reddit.

Give me top threads and a level below them to see a rebuttal -- if I want to see more I'll break them down.

I do wish there was a way to see if there are high value or low value posts below, like someone got gilded or got 400 upvotes or something. Not sure how this would be implemented though; I could see terrible pun threads getting too many upvotes and throwing that off.
Ask HN: Early 30s SWE feeling stuck
I'm an early 30s SWE with a MSc Data Science recently completed. Have about a decade of diversified experience, but mostly app dev in financial contexts. Currently working as a Senior at a financial institution, but little to no growth left for me here as I am trying to get much much more ML and Data Science exposure, and all such projects have been shut down here since pandemic.

I have gotten interviews at other places, but everyone has adopted leetcode style at this point and I haven't managed to get through. Since interviewing this year, I've probably done about 7-10 interviews, and have only made it past first round a couple of time.

I keep practicing leetcode and trying to get my DSA chops back to where they need to be. I have started exploring ML and DS side projects to keep my self fresh in that space, but I'm worried I am getting left further and further behind my peers and at my age I only really have ~5-7 years or so before ageism sets in and I need to leave pure IC roles.

Any advice on what to do at this point?
I don't mean this to sound bad, but I don't think people are that skinny any more.
Inform yourself before engaging in snark. It's not a democratic/republican issue. It's a current POTUS vs. responsible leader issue. The problem that we're facing are novel.

To my knowledge, the US has never used unemployment to provide benefits to non-employees. UI is an insurance based program and always has been -- the business model is to loan money to the state programs during an uptick, which then gets recovered through UI premiums.

Chances are, changes are coming that will erode the free ride that "employers" of Uber have been enjoying. The states are broke and facing big increases of UI premiums. Once the door opens, it's hard to close. People will start looking at things and asking awkward questions about things like Medicaid and SNAP expenses associated with gig workers, etc.
Apple sells tons of subscription-based services: Music, News, TV, Games, Storage, etc. (+ their slice of App sales). If this keeps up, they don't have an incentive to track their users and sell that data. (They could still track them to find out what's "hot" and what genre(s) they should produce next, like Netflix did)
This aligns with the idea of running what users have really downloaded at first. Apple removed apps who wanted to run ad-hoc code before. I'm curious why it waited years for realizing in-app app stores might occur similar issues.
His net worth is estimated to be in the $1-5 million range. Choosing to live a lifestyle we associate with being poor doesn't necessarily mean he's poor.
>Haskell (leading FP language)

Scala is the leading FP language (thanks to Spark, Kafka, Akka, and other massive projects). And TIOBE puts Scheme and Lisp ahead of Haskell. And Emacs Lisp probably has more installs than GHC.
Nice work to get something written and "out there" ... kudos. Please accept what follows as an attempt to be helpful.

Based on the website I can't tell what it does, how it works, where the data will be stored, whether it will sync across devices, whether the data will be encrypted, how to import data, how to export data, what features are actually there, what it will run on, or what is needed to run/use it.

I have a workflow, and you're asking me to change it. Creating a workflow is a significant investment, and you're asking me to change it with no indication of why the workflow you offer might be better, how I can convert to it, or what happens if I change my mind.

My immediate reaction was just to close the site and move on, but I thought I'd offer some details on just why I'm not going to sign up. In short, it's not clear what problem you're solving for me, especially given the investment of time and effort you're asking from me.

I've been in your situation, and I hope you can see a way through it.

Good luck!
Because those companies are ignored while everyone jumps aboard the Google hate train, and if anything is going to be done to fix it then those changes need to be applied equally to all companies at the same time. Otherwise it does more harm than good.
Buy a used station wagon.
Great, thanks. So I guess pressing the clearly designed cellular icon does not turn off cellular and the real action is hidden in a popup.

Very intuitive! /s Glad I wasn't doing it for a more serious reason (in which case I would have just left the phone at home, but still..).

edit:
comment chain got too deep to reply to. But I think the fact that I failed to see a difference is clear evidence that the airplane mode icon is NOT an adequate indicator.

Airplane mode means turn off all wireless, everyone knows that much. But that isn't what I wanted, I still wanted bluetooth with nothing else and as such turned off the unwanted radios individually.

Airplane mode intuitively to me means just a quicker/easier way to toggle them in one swoop, not a completely different action that you can't accomplish with the individual buttons.
Well the Carthaginians were semitic people from modern-day Lebanon IIRC, so it's a bit of a stretch to call them African.
Do you have any evidence at all for these extraordinary claims? Why would Urban Dictionary go to such lengths to suppress a competitor which posed no threat[0]?

I also notice that the homepage hasn't been updated at all for at least 8 years[1]. I suspect this may have had something to do with its decline.

[0]: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2004-01-10%202...

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20120107121814/http://onlineslan...
To add to this: if you burn one mol (16g) of CH4 you get one mol of CO2 (44g) and water and 900 KJ of energy. If you burn one mol (12g) of C you get the same mol of CO2 (44g) and only 400 KJ of energy. Overall you get more than twice the same thermal energy for the same amount of emitted CO2. What's more, the most efficient power plant can only convert 42% of the thermal energy into electricity, while the most efficient gas power plant can convert 62%.
>Anyone who suppresses politically incovenient, yet relevant information about minorities, actually doing disservice to them; it is a worst kind of racism and "white privilege", to set arbitrary boundaries what is true and what is not wrt to some group of people.

People bringing up racial crime statistics as a valuable scientific avenue of investigation has contributed to hurting and discrediting me and my community throughout my life and historically. Even if the correlation exists, can we meaningfully act on it other than as a mechanism for discrediting programs that holistically address the issue in a system where guilt by association or ethnicity means nothing?

Denouncing statements about correlations between autism and airplanes haven't done people with autism a disservice in this sense either; it's driven research towards holistic and sensible studies and interpretations.

I hope one day you do not dismiss the issues that minorities like myself have encountered for generations as "white privilege" in the future.
I'm not sure what you are arguing. That remnants of the British empire still exists? that present is derived from past? or that there are current events as well as these historic ones?

Whichever, is it then more constructive to focus on who is the most guilty? or try to prevent bad shit from happening again and look at the finer points rather than invoke vengeful attitudes?

My point was that when we are so focused on who is worst, who is the evil one by framing things in terms of blame, the entire scenario is coloured that way. This doesn't seem useful, it's just a fairy tale, the evil vilain in a Disney film that does not exist in reality. I think this can apply to present day events as much as past - I think I was foolish to hang that extra argument of "past" on this more fundamental one since all the replies are focusing on that.
You can blame Sir Alexander Grantham and successive incompetent Governors such as Chris Patten who failed to implement democratic reforms well ahead of the handover.
Launch HN: Rally.Video (YC S20) – Dynamic video platform for social groups
Hey HN!

My name is Ali and I am one of the three co-founders of https://rally.video/. Rally is a video application that makes it easy to hop between breakout conversations. Users can see and hear other conversations around them, as if they were in a shared space.

We started Rally because we needed to host a virtual birthday party, and existing solutions suck for larger groups. At the same time, we noticed bars and restaurants closing, and wanted to build a platform that emulated these physical spaces. With that in mind, we added venues, rooms, and tables. A venue (like a bar or banquet hall) can consist of multiple rooms (like a patio, DJ lounge etc). Each room can fit 35 people, and people can form tables (groups) in a room organically. Tables could have up to 9 people, and can be joined with a simple click. Users can create multiple rooms, allowing for events of all sizes, and we are working quickly to expand the capacity of each room.

What’s magical about this is how much more it feels like a real party, as opposed to feeling like a meeting. Instead of being stuck in a giant gallery view or siloed into breakout rooms, you are free to switch between tables and rooms as you like. Instead of everyone being on mute, you can choose to vibe off of the audible laughter and chatter from neighbouring tables in the room. You can also create private tables for more personal conversations and take the stage to present to everyone around you.

Since launching, people have used our platform for happy hours, team socials, hackathons, brainstorming sessions, conference networking, trade shows, virtual parties, and community gatherings. We know a lot of people are using Zoom breakout rooms for these types of events. Those work fine for board meetings, training, structured workshops and interviews. We think our platform is more valuable when you want less structure and a more social element. Simply put, if you want spontaneity, our platform works. If you want formal structure, use the other tools.

Rally is a web app, with video being streamed using WebRTC - so no plugin installation is required. It works best on Desktop Chrome. We are also working on a mobile version - coming soon.

I am really excited to share our startup with the Hacker News community. I have tried and failed at building a number of companies, and reading a lot of the content here has helped recharge my batteries and helped me keep going.

We are free for anyone to use until the end of August. We are still testing out different use cases and seeing where demand for our product is the strongest. I recognize the space is competitive, and would appreciate your feedback on our product. We’d be grateful if you tried it out for yourself, or joined us for one of our happy hours today or this week. We’d be super grateful if you’d be willing to try it out with a group of 6 or more people, maybe with your work team, and letting us know what you think!

Start your own room by visiting https://rally.video

Attend a happy hour by signing up here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/happy-hour-at-rally-bar-tickets-...
> most of users and us are currently NOT protected from it:

available in Safari since 2018. it's part of the ITP feature.
OP might be referring to "Trump derangement syndrome":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_derangement_syndrome
A national ID wouldn't change anything about voting in the US. The US national government doesn't run elections. Elections in the US are run by state governments, who already issue the IDs that most Americans use.
axel rauschmayer's books are pretty good: https://exploringjs.com/

(edit: a more direct link: https://exploringjs.com/impatient-js/toc.html)

I remember learning the fairly deep == type-inference algorithm by reading something he wrote, but I don't recall which thing it was in. A lot of the material is suitable as reference, so I haven't sat down and read much like a novel.
Oh god, I remember this as well. We had a small chest freezer in the basement. It had this one "feature" that if the power went out it would not startup again until you flicked the power switch. For extended power outages lasting days this makes some sense but for a limited outage of a few hours this was bat shit crazy. Similar experience from the article, rotting meat, had to carry the freezer up the garage to clean it. Water + soap, bleach, lemon juice and many other combinations. Nothing would get rid of the smell even cleaning the rubber gaskets and seals. I even tried spraying the entire inner surfaces with Fabreeze odor killer and leaving it closed for a few days.
The top marginal tax rate was in the 90%'s for much of the 1900s. Also, the estate tax was in the 80% range for much of the 1900s, now it's effectively zero. Moving huge quantities of un-earned wealth from generation to generation is a great way to create and maintain inequality.
I'll be sure to keep you posted.
I take issue with the word "improve" there. Whilst I definitely agree that a common language is valuable in many ways, it would be preferable if a common language could be achieved without a loss of diversity (i.e. additional to, rather than replacing, the existing languages).

Different languages embody different cultures, and different ways of thinking. This diversity should be celebrated and embraced, not only as an aesthetic matter, but also because being able to communicate and think in different ways makes humans more capable.
I don’t really ever hear Americans complaining about Chinese influence on our culture. If you’re talking about TikTok, we love that app. It’s just a handful of politicians that don’t
Still probably the most incomprehensible API I’ve ever encountered. Simply reading the parameters tells you little about how to use it, because they interact in totally surprising ways when combined. Simply tweaking the value of a parameter in something that almost works can have catastrophic results.

Also, any recipes or scripts you find online will be written against a different version than the one you’re using, and they won’t say which one. And there are big changes to how parameters function between versions.

Not recommended.
I thought Mongolians were more on wealth extraction and less on economic dominance - essentially demanding tribute and after setting up an administrative class after a wholesale purge of the previous military elite the only demand being to keep the tribute flowing.

Less economic dominance because they were nomadic raiders not traders or industrialists.

Their complete cultural apathy is largely what makes them "not colonalism" technically. In the same way that samuari aren't technically feudalism because they aren't landowners but servants of a lord. Although they work by analogy pretty well.
Also Australia has large amounts of unpopulated flat land. Something that Malaysia doesn’t have.
Microphones too. Signage and TVs etc can emit ultrasonic beacons your devices can hear, with applications like tracking your viewing habits and your location.

Ditto the proximity sensor: it's just a photocell and a simple room light could comprise a beacon. Flashing over, say 30hz would be invisible to us.
It might be an thing for US companies, Apple is certainly not alone.

For instance Wendy's sued a local snackbar here in the Netherlands called "Wendy's". Same here, they somehow expected to win because they're big? [0]

[0]: https://www.volkskrant.nl/economie/zelfs-wendy-s-krijgt-wend... (Archive link: http://archive.is/oiFWv)
It doesn’t work for doctors in the U.S. (see opioid epidemic, pharmaceutical company deals, etc.), why would it work for Software Engineers?
You do normally get things for your taxation.
As an example, in exchange for my tax money, I got:

- a hospital to be born in
- roads to and from the hospital
- education (up to and including a PhD)
- welfare for people less fortunate as me.

I'm not sure that this maps to traditional definitions of slavery.
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> That could be a good thing, in and of itself, but it doesn't help solve the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories.

At this point it's been weaponized, and has about as much in common with actual justice as it does with a 1984-style "2 minutes of hate".
Ask Sweden. Relatively few teachers have caught COVID there. Taxi drivers have a five times higher risk than teachers. Also, it depends on the age of the pupils.
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> Preventing trademark erosion.
> However, they don't seem to have good grounds for it in this case.

Does that mean this is just suing companies for the sake of suing?
The Bark Meow pointer conversion isn’t UB itself, provided you convert the pointer back to the correct type before dereferencing it.
Thanks for the list - there are quite a few I didn't know! Hopefully more keyboard navigation is in my future.
It's a polymorphic name.
How do you think the process would have gone if you agreed to pay bribes?
I don't see that even a little bit, your cause effect isn't explained.

I should phrase it differently. Why is an absolute freedom of association more important then the freedom from being harmed by large associations with amoral machinations. The original argument asks that if large corporations inherently obscure moral outcomes, maybe they are immoral, which is an argument that puts these two moral axioms in conflict. Simply stating that one side wins is thought terminating; its important to argue for why its better.
Similar experience for me in The Netherlands while buying the house. Except that the banker wasn’t present, they had wired money to the notary’s escrow account ahead of the purchase meeting.

The bank didn’t even issue me a check book when I opened my account. Tells you something about the use of check payment here.

Interestingly, it’s been two years since I used cash. I even stopped carrying it in my wallet. And close to an year since I last used my debit card. Apple Pay is incredibly convenient.
Ah, yes, a popup asking me if I like what I'm seeing from the "DanielBMarkham Community" the second the page loads, before I get a chance to even understand what the question means. This is definitely a very good pattern that definitely didn't make me immediately click back.

https://imgur.com/lxKSA9I
Maybe you should realize that merely commenting upon someone’s word choices, inferring inexperience, and providing some elucidation, is not the same as “piss all over”. I mean, nowhere did I say anything else negative about anything in mfer’s comment; I did not even disagree with anything they said!

Ergo, please take your lecturing about “basic human decency” somewhere else.