skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, the top two words on the list right now are “gyro” and “gif”.

The problem with trusting anyone’s pronunciation of the former is that the word actually comes to English from the Greek language, so what we should really do is require pronunciations only from Greek speakers. But what credentials are required for speakers? What credentials are provided?

For “gif”, this is further complicated by the fact that the man who created the word insists it is pronounced with a soft “g”, like “JIF”. But there are those of us who insist that it should be pronounced with a hard “g”, because the term is an acronym, and “g” comes from the word “graphics”, which has a hard “g”.

There’s too much “record whatever people want to say” here and not enough editing and putting the word in context.
Otto Celera 500
I had an aeron for years. Great chair.

I bought a used aeron for home ~ $250 and I noticed it had some play in the column and sunk a bit.. $50 to amazon and I replaced it. Now it's a year or so later and I'm suspecting that the web mesh could use a refresh (the pan assembly is ~ $220)
I think I have the right to blame them for creating accessibility nightmare which are unreadable without modifying CSS for many people while claiming it's a
good helpful thing.

> You do realize that the chair you're sitting on, device you're writing on and building you're (likely) in are all designed by designers.

ANY designer having gone through design school can tell you that low contrast text is a no-non.

So maybe we should just say that the people doing designer jobs without learning about the basics of color, contrast and accessibility are unqualified to do their job in the same way a architect is unqualified if they design streets to small for cars or similar.

Btw. if you have problems with to bright whites (which I increasingly feel is related to OLEDS but that's just a wield guss). Make the background non-white but keep the text black or very close to black.

Also just to be clear I think no on is blaming all designers but just such which do thinks like gray on gray. And then believe it's all okay because their expensive OLED display displays it still kinda readable (again I'm just guessing about OLEDS, I think I have to make sure to get my hands on one to check that).
You might want to play with your recline angle
BJP, India’s right wing party, has super majority seats in parliament and looks to be the only relevant party in the foreseeable future. So I think if they want to deal with India, they’d have to deal with BJP regardless of their political leanings.
I feel like my bullies have grown up to be successful while I ended up being a loser and it turned out that I wasn’t as smart as I thought I was. My hard work didn’t amount to much and the things I sacrificed for it were the things that actually mattered.
Stackdriver/Google Cloud monitoring is backed by Monarch, so if you want the flavor of a Monarch distribution-valued metric, see the docs:

https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/ref_v3/rest/v3/Typed...

Since the distribution is represented by a CDF of buckets, there's no guarantee that you'll get an accurate representation of the median or any other quantile. On the other hand you'll get an exact average.
Not really; an airfoil that’s generating lift makes noise. The bigger the airfoil and the slower its moving (relative to the air stream), the less noise it creates. However, you can’t have those characteristics with this kind of aircraft.

Multi-rotor copters like this rely on light and fast props, so that the speed of the prop can be changed quickly. This changing of the prop’s speed creates the tilting and rotational movements shown in the video.
If my experiences with Satisfactory have taught me anything, it's that the answer is usually more conveyor belts.
Why is being humble important? and a valued trait?
Are all of those drawing significant current though ? If you just have some small component with an odd voltage requirement that doesn't need much current couldn't you supply it with something a lot simpler than a dc-dc converter, like maybe a voltage divider or linear regulator ?
LALR being so popular is just a result of computers being so slow at the time. At the time Knuth's LR parsers took prohibitive amounts of time and memory to construct. LALR fixed that by discarding the look ahead. It made the problem of automatically building a LALR parser from a grammar tractable, but limited the grammars that could be used so much you had to really work to get a working grammar for a real language.

That's all changed. LR parsers written (eg http://lrparsing.sourceforge.net/ can compile grammars) in a reasonable amount of time, and its written in an interpreted language. The Python parser it creates can process input in about 25us per token, which isn't too shabby. It doesn't insist you write productions directly, but rather has a more succinct language that compiles to productions. This language has the same "power" (it, can parse the exact same class of languages as BNF), but handles most of the things people struggle with when using raw LR productions - like lists, associativity and precedence. And, the old clumsy error messages that required a PhD in computer parsing are gone, replaced by messages most people can understand.

LL parsers aren't are powerful as LR (meaning the can recognise less real world languages). But, and it's a big but, a human can hand code a LL parser for a language whereas noone in their right mind would manually construct a LR parser by hand. The hand written LL parsers are usually called recursive descent parsers. Because they are hand written the humans writing them can cheat. They can look ahead an arbitrary number of symbols, they can collate and refer to information a LL or LR grammar can't use, like types. The result is they can more than make up in the difference in power between LL and LR. But it comes at a cost. The cost is mixing of concerns. Your parsing, type, macro, and generation code gets intertwined.

Still in my view LL and LR parsers win the day. They both take a fixed and and very small time to process each token, and also fixed and very small amount of memory. The language they recognise is always well defined, by with I mean if there default action if they don't know what language is to stop, whinge and refuse to produce a parser. Whereas parsing techniques plough on anyway. God know what language they are recognising if you get it wrong.
This doesn't make sense to me. If there is a real risk that a timeout can happen (and there always is) then the payment system should be implementing a two phase commit.
Skarsta ($239 with mechanical crank): https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/skarsta-desk-sit-stand-white-s5...

It is well designed, sturdy, and meets both my sitting and standing needs. It does take about 70 cranks to move from one position to the other, but honestly that takes just one minute or so (and I rarely move it anyway).
it is interesting - perhaps a sense of entitlement I was thinking - more likely to be from wealth, but not necessarily.
> It's pretty mind-blowing to realize that the less risky, more tortoise-like approach to a career would have been so vastly more profitable

Isn't this the definition of risk? If it was a foregone conclusion that you'd make more money this way, it wouldn't be risky at all.
I had a real psychological aversion when doing this with my wife’s new car, but at a certain point why would you not extend the loan at free money rates?
Unfortunately browsers have lots of objectively bad defaults (e.g. h1 { font-size: 200%; }) so we have to decide which defaults we should fix and which ones we should leave alone.

I agree that the user should have browser defaults that they prefer, but motherfuckingwebsite.com still looks awful in most browsers.
>Ink and paper manufacturers go to great lengths to make inks and papers with the darkest blacks and brightest whites

That this is the top comment and yet no one has refuted it boggles me. I cannot think of anything I've read recently that uses bright white paper. Sometimes I see reams of bright white paper for sale for a few extra $. However if I'm printing a resume, it's on x% linen slightly off white. If I'm reading a book, it's on warm-colored paper. If I'm reading music, it's on even warmer colored paper- and dare I say it as a musician for decades, the stuff on bright white paper (a photocopy, or self-published octavo for example) is the HARDEST to read!
Just to clarify because the title sounds like the opposite.
"Microsoft Edge 85 packs some brilliant features that could tempt Google Chrome users looking to switch browsers."
The beauty of comptime is that, unlike with macros, you don't need to think on two levels. The semantics is the same as if everything were done at runtime. To read a comptime function you can completely ignore the distinction between compilation time and runtime. To write it you need to know that some operations are only available at compile-time.

See my comment here about "Zig' ": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24293611

Perhaps now you see what I meant when I said that Zig's simplicity hides its radical design.
If you read the news about people falling victims to frauds and scams, you will notice most of those interviewed are young adults and old people. This is not a coincidence. You can educate people all you want, but those too young to have absorbed it or too old to be able to retain it (due to mental decline) will remain vulnerable.

Mental decline happens to everyone. Not necessarily to a severe level that would make one incapable of living independently, but enough to make them less sharp. You may be young enough to spot a scam from miles away, but your senses will most likely dull over time. In a couple of decades, you may be just as likely to be featured in a news piece about victims of a scam as the ones you are calling uneducated and greedy now.
E INK is developing 2nd generation color e-paper for e-readers
> Why does it stay in business? Because there is nothing wrong with a company that exploits the greed of individuals.

There's certainly plenty wrong with it; perhaps you meant to say it's not illegal.
> ...no one would agree what normal business hours are.

Which would be... great!

More businesses should vary hours to adapt to local conditions – the exact needs of its customers, employees, community, complementary nearby activities.

Hell, make the business hours "+X minutes after local sunrise today to +Y minutes after local sunset", if that's what's sleep-healthiest or matches the rhythm of its surroundings.

Anyone can & should use their handheld/Google-Maps to check a particular spot's hours, and businesses should consider it their duty to keep those up-to-date. Commercial districts that gain a big benefit from easy-to-predict hours – malls, connected retail strips, complementary business types – will synchronize on a local-consensus.

"Normal business hours" are 19th-Century holdover from a world that, lacking telecommunications, needed hard-and-fast coordination mechanisms. It's the 21st Century. Use UTC.
I don't have any swelling. That's an indication of other health problems.

I also don't stand like I'm a statue, however. I'm often shifting around a bit, and usually I stand on a nice firm thick padded mat. If nobody is around and I have some good music on, I might even be dancing a bit.
>who feels its ok to say card fees are for chumps and fund his no fee high return points wins. I think predating on ill informed poorer people who incur credit card debt and fees is wrong personally.

Are you talking about interest for carrying a balance, or the various fees you get hit with if you screw up (eg. late fees, returned payment fees)?
The download includes fairly decent documentation (although I agree it would be nice to be able to view it on the site).
Energy firm nuclear-waste fueled diamond batteries could last thousands of years
Especially 5 months after being fired. Steam should have had time to cool off.
No, looking for streamz specifically. I'd like to be able to see how each node is doing and have automatic, zero-config aggregation in k8s a-la Borg/Monarch. The service I built was one of the first large users of Monarch at Google many years ago. All because I couldn't be bothered to learn Borgmon. :-)
The statement would be far more accurate as "language X is [almost always/sometimes/often/commonly/etc.] interpreted/compiled". Unfortunately a lot of people seem to like speaking in absolutes.

C can be interpreted too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CINT
> even though SMS based 2FA is vastly inferior to WebAuthn.

SMS based 2FA is worse than useless thanks to the rise of SIM Swapping hacks, it adds an easy attack vector into your account.
They are reluctant to move the rent because commercial property value is highly dependent on the "perceived" rental value. Locking in low rents instantly wipes out the buildings value.
> We must be very careful when we think that we have more time or have seen more things or are more advanced than ancient civilization

We have definitely seen more things. I think that is beyond questioning.

Being more advanced is questionable, especially because that term means something different for any human.

But the point is that wisdom from that time can not IMO be translated verbatim to current time - you can peak pieces of it but not rely on it as truth 100%. Both life expectations and habits and priorities are totally different now that makes any wisdom arised from such system distant and foggy.
People will do dumb things with their money, but the point of the regulation is to increase frictions on lots of people doing dumb things with their money at the same time. "Beneficial to the retail investor" has nothing to do with it.

If one person can't pay their home loan for the month that's the borrower's problem. If millions of people can't pay their home loan for the month that's the bank's problem, and generally speaking that's enough to start bank runs.
That sounds like an awful lot to me on a phone that's only a few millimetres thick.
Originality is not the only Way; It sometimes Pays to Copy
I have the desktop height at the level my hands would naturally rest at if my arms were bent less than 90 degrees (so the interior elbow angle would be about 100 degrees or so).

My arms are resting comfortably at my sides, so the motions my hands make for typing/mousing are comfortable. I'm thinking of an Ergodox to alleviate some wrist rotation issues, but that's nothing to do with the desk.

Do note that for some reason, in standing mode it is necessary to have the monitor higher so the head isn't looking way down and hurting the neck. When sitting, this isn't as much of a problem. However, I spend most of my time standing, so I have the primary monitor height such that I'm only looking very slightly down. My eyes are even with the upper third of the monitor. Also, it's important whether sitting or standing to not push the monitor too far away. That can lead to hunching forward or craning the neck.
That was a result of a bug https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-48307 in the retry mechanism when commitTransaction failed to return a response and has been fixed in 4.2.8. Not all databases have memes, I have a high degree of certainty all of them have bugs.
Lenovo Starts Offering Up Fedora Linux Pre-Loaded Systems from Their Web Store
I've always used a mouse with my fingertips, and my outer hand bone is resting on the mouse mat. Rarely am I pushing the mouse around with my entire hand or arm...
Article is from April 1, 2020, the headline should be tagged to reflect it was from a very specific economic moment this year...

Moreover the article itself is questionable as it spins a change from 69.6 in March 2019 to 70.6 in March 2020 as “mad” despite the fact that interest rates changed from 6.4% to 5.8%.
I had to build rapport with my psychiatrist for over 2 years before she finally prescribed it. Thank god because it saved my life. I still have to deal with so many issues regarding this being so highly controlled. I hear there’s only one brand allowed in the US, on my bottle it says “Hikma”. I see how this can be addicting because it has a slight euphoria, but I’m just not interested in pushing it more. I take 5mg/day. I believe recreationally they take 50mg hits in the pipe! Meth is so safe (LD-50 wise) people can smoke a gram a day and not die. Try that with adderall. The war on drugs is bullshit and harms the people it’s supposed to help.

Here’s the thing. Since it’s improved every aspect of my life (including my sleep), If I get cut off for some political reasons, I’m going to buy it in the street and take it. And that helps me how? Hah. Thank you for reading my story.
SWIG can sometimes help with this.
Good point. That initial period is hellish (and amazing) and it does taper off somewhat but settles on a new baseline of permanently elevated difficulty.
About 5 years ago I had [contractor] job offers for Cisco and Google. I was negatively impressed about Cisco; I still don't see that changing any time soon.

I say this without rosy glasses about Google.
Wouldn't having more substations make the grid more resilient? I would imagine that allows for more flexibility routing power.
> And then it becomes more of a grey-area as to how much support one can expect.

Lol no it doesn't. The comment you replies to uses an excellent example, this isn't someone snuck into your room with the stolen key and messed it up, they burned the room down.

Their support isn't coming after you for the value of the room, but they're also politely telling you they aren't about to replace your belongings or give you a new one
Other problems:

1) Terrorism. I know you mentioned property destruction, but intentional terrorism targeting humans is a real risk. Cars are already lethal weapons. Terrorists have used them to mow down dozens or hundreds of people at a time. Flying cars could become kamikaze weapons, or could be hacked into becoming them, with far more lethal potential. 9/11 was just a bigger version of this, so the precedent exists. Yet, there would be no TSA to protect you. Would we need civilian air defense turrets?

2) Noise. This would be huge, because rich neighborhoods that have frequent helicopter traffic are already flooded with complaints. If flying cars became commonplace, the noise issue would be dramatically worse than that.

3) Light pollution. We already have an issue of light pollution that makes stargazing and enjoying the night sky difficult. More importantly, it disrupts sleep patterns, which has all kinds of knock-on effects for society in terms of mental health, childhood development, accidents, and so on. Constant lights in the sky at night would be a nuisance that even high fences wouldn't block.

4) Inequality. Those who can afford the new vehicles, which will surely start out pricey, get to perform geo-arbitrage. They can buy cheaper land that hasn't yet factored in the new commuting realities, and yet make the same wages. Would be one extra hurdle for those trying to become upwardly mobile. One more huge debt burden to take on, while striving in the rat race.
Compounding outcomes.

Someone who consistently gets just a little better every day is more likely to succeed than someone who works insanely hard for just a limited period of time.

The years don't come without the days.
Can you say reg-u-la-tory cap—ture
I mean most retail software gives what 40-70% to retailers and wholesalers, right?

If I sell something at Target for $50, I’m probably getting $25 tops. Don’t think I’m in partnership but definitely an important relationship.
> Your example of `getChar >> getChar` could be simply `[getChar, getChar]`. Why can't we just compose instructions into an ordinary list?

Because you can't pass results from a earlier list element into the computation of a later element. You'd need a list with existentially-quantified element types such as:

{-# LANGUAGE ExistentialQuantification, GADTs #-}
foreign import ccall "exit" exit :: Int -> IO ()
infixr 1 :>

data IOList a = forall b. (:>) (a -> Act b) (IOList b)
data Act b where
Getchar :: Act Char
Print :: String -> Act ()
Exit :: Int -> Act ()

main' :: IOList ()
main' = (\_->Getchar)
:> (\c->Print ("Got '"++[c]++"'\n"))
:> (\_ -> Exit 0)
:> undefined

runio :: a -> IOList a -> IO ()
runio a (f:>fs) = flip runio fs =<< case f a of
Getchar -> getChar
Print s -> putStr s
Exit n -> exit n

main = runio () main'

where f :> g :> h :> ... is your list of instructions (rather than f : g : h : ..., which doesn't allow the response type of f to be related to the argument type of g).
Criminal vs. civil, afaik the former is gov. vs. ____. Moral terpiude, deployed a project to GCP and it deleted VMs—not my idea of a moral failure. Generally I’d not fire people for honest mistakes no matter the cost. You have to pay it anyway, and now the person has hopefully learned and probably feels honored to work hard to be better.
That depends on the definition of the market. Big Co.s under antitrust scrutiny like to present themselves as being just small parts of some huge markets, like Jeff Bezos recently saying that Amazon is actually not that big when you compare it to _all_ commerce in the US. But that doesn't make it less incredibly huge in e-commerce.
Apple with iOS is in a much clearer situation though. Simply put, they have an _absolute_ monopoly on app distribution on iOS, and iOS is part of a powerful duopoly. Americans still can choose buying outside of Amazon (though maybe less conveniently), half phone-owning Americans can't choose anything else than the App Store.
The entire thing with bitcoin that I don't get is that the owner's need to trade it for fiat currency at the end. So long as fiat currency is part of the play I don't see the value. It needs to exist without fiat currency. Govts and the central banks around the world have no power without being fiat, they need to be able to print as much as they can, and they demand for taxes in fiat. So you will eventually have to sell your bitcoin even if you most of your transactions in it, you will need to sell some and buy money to pay taxes.

The Feds "saved the economy" with the massive QE, Trillion dollars stimulus. What could they have done if currency was all bitcoin?
I agree. Many years ago I had a motorcycle accident. My bike was dinged a bit, but otherwise fine. But because the police were involved (as they tend to be for accidents) my insurance company kept on telling me they were denying my claim. The thing is, I wasn't making a claim, but they were quite repetitive in denying all the claims I didn't make.

It made me realize most of the things you can insure aren't worth insuring, because the likelihood of getting money from them is so close to zero.
I'm not saying that cryptography wouldn't help in general, or that it's not incredibly stupid that we're not using it. What I'm saying is you can't just slap crypto on this particular scam to make it go away. These people have insider access to the machines that would likely be used to sign the email. If that is the threat model, it's a mistake to trust anything not delivered in person, signed or not.
Correct, thanks for that. And, zing.
The Growth Ponzi Scheme: A Crash Course
Maybe there is more to life than computer
Sleep regressions are a thing. Our twins had a big one around 1.5 years old. I averaged 3 hours of sleep for about 2 weeks.
Such a delightful concept
Our own government perpetuates the greatest of all frauds, the lottery, over the poor and uneducated to the tune of tens of billions a year. I’ve tried all my life to get my mother to stop buying tickets and she simply won’t despite being a complete dependent of her children (and she’s never won decades later!). It’s a sickness.

Herbalife (and Casinos) for that matter feed off that sickness as well. It’s hard to rationalize banning one and not ban the others and from my ignorant perspective, American society is not in a place where it can collectively come to a consensus to end industries that feed off of the intellectual, emotional and psychological deficiencies of people. The machine is just too big.