skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of this harrowingly well written article about living through the Sri Lankan civil war

Some choice quotes

> People suffering, dying, and protesting all around you, while you think about dinner.

> I was looking through some old photos for this article and the mix is shocking to me now. Almost offensive. There’s a burnt body in front of my office. Then I’m playing Scrabble with friends. There’s bomb smoke rising in front of the mall. Then I’m at a concert. There’s a long line for gas. Then I’m at a nightclub. This is all within two weeks.

> [There] is not a uniform experience of chaos. For some people it destroys their bodies, others their hearts, but for most people it’s just a low-level hum at the back of their minds.
https://gen.medium.com/i-lived-through-collapse-america-is-a...
The article says LG removed the ad.
I suspect a lot of their failures to do this in the US are related to easy money from non-defaultable federal loans.

Not only is there less incentive to control costs, but there's a perverse incentive to build stadiums, fancy student dorms, and other things to persuade new students to choose your school over another. Since that student is taking out loans without really evaluating their costs prices get driven up. The student gets left holding the bag eventually.

I understand the intent behind these loans is opportunity - making it so students that would otherwise be rejected for a loan from a bank can get one, but the negative knock on effects are severe. I think ISAs (structured like Lambda's that are very student friendly) align incentives between the school and the student while also giving all students opportunity.

There's also the issue that universities are primarily selling status with some education on the side (particularly true for fluffier majors that are almost entirely status). That's a harder cultural problem to fix.

Software is a good place to get a foothold though since if lambda school can actually deliver students that can write code and pass interview questions they can build out a referral network. Since universities are generally pretty bad at actually teaching students how to write code and pass interview questions there's a good opportunity here.
Every dominant religion oppresses. In India, Hinduism takes that honor.
The Prashant Bhushan case : https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/24/world/asia/india-lawyer-t...
They were pretty confident that a valid seed mapped to that image, as the creator of the game said that they just loaded up a random world and took a screenshot without doing anything.

It's not guaranteed to be unique, but i saw 10^-20 thrown around as the chance of 2 seeds matching.
Puzzled scientists seek reasons behind Africa's low fatality rates from pandemic
Yeah; what the hell happened? Not just programming, but other technical things too. It's like everybody is gaming search so hard that search is going back to the days of AltaVista and Lycos.
It's been several decades that Kashmir has a crippled democracy, no thanks to the insurgency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurgency_in_Jammu_and_Kashmi...
> Good for you. Personally I'm more focused on avoiding societies where innocent people are imprisoned or killed by police, rather than those where breaking a law results in a punishment. <

It's interesting that you think those are somehow different and unrelated problems, but they are not. If you spend some time thinking through both problems, step by step, you will see how they are deeply intertwined
Germany uses for e.g. cigarette dispensers (those shitty ones you see in shitty districts) two possible options: (a) ID (b) bank card + PIN, where the bank verifies you’re > 18yo.

Works just fine.
Is there any rss feed? I won't check the webpage hourly for new content. Otherwise, it looks cool.
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I know it's quite attractive to compare one-dimensional statistics internationally, and I won't say it has no uses. But it can also be misleading and we have to be careful about understanding the appropriate context.

For example, there is no word on comparing household income on a purchasing power parity basis. You'd want to reflect prices, which may be higher/lower.

There is no word on the fact household sizes in the region in and around Scandinavia are typically very low, quite a bit lower than the US. (fewer dependents, lower required income for the same standard of living).

There is no word on average vs median statistics, the former favouring less equal countries like the US in the statistics, but the latter painting a more accurate picture of the typical household.

There is no word on expense requirements. Yes, direct social transfers (e.g. rental assistance) would be part of the disposable income statistics. But indirect subsidies (e.g. social housing rents, substantially below market rate, or universal healthcare insurance premiums far below market rates, or universal tertiary education costs far below market rates) are not part of these statistics.

For example, the fact university is free in Denmark, is absolutely not part of the household income. The fact public healthcare is free in Denmark, is not part of household income statistics. Yet the quality of both is very good.

There is also no word on the differential interest rates. For example, Denmark currently has negative mortgage rates. Obviously that increases household debt. But any additional household mortgage debt for example is actually creating a net income for these very same households. You can debate whether these interest rates signal economic issues, that's a fair discussion, but the point still stands that 'not all household debt is equal'. You cannot say 'high debt is worse', when many EU countries have interest rates from -0.5% to - 1.5% and the US has interest rates of 2 - 3%, and compare them.

Same with net worth, it all ties in to every other aspect of the welfare state. In the US you have a minimal welfare state and thus must accumulate net worth for retirement, kids' education, medical copayments etc etc. In many North/west EU countries education, healthcare, housing is all free or strongly subsidised and publicly funded, requiring much lower accumulations of private net worth to attain the same quality of life.

In short, the data you cite is not incorrect, but your conclusions are shortsighted and need far more interpretation and context to approximate the truth of the matter.
Once I've joined a project and there was a problem with text selection in embedded PDF.js

It took some time to find out that CSS rules clashed with PDF.js invisible markup that provides text for selection on top of <canvas> rendered document.

And I am not the only one [1]. Solution? Embed namespace in class name [2] like it is C - gtk_window_new, glBegin, XOpenDisplay.

Yes, namespaces in XPath looks awful, entire plain text XML authoring is awful. XML is application format (hint application/xml), maybe it should not be touched without XML editor.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=css+name+collision

[2] http://getbem.com/introduction/
Can you send the Q4 winner list, or where we can find it? I'm interested in seeing the list. Maybe one of these small search engines will be better in some way.
Sometimes there's good stuff on http://slashdot.org, http://digg.com, or http://theverge.com, but most of it winds up here anyway.
Thanks -- this one was already there (depending on filters).
I started moving images of my wordpress blog to ipfs using 3 most popular gateways. I'm moving slowly, image by image, but so far it was quite a success. As images expire from the gateways I had super simple and cheap IPFS nodes - unused raspberry pi! My main IPFS node is RPi 0W (the wireless one). It overall dropped my main page loading times, and it costs £5 (rpi) + £5 32Gb sd card. First images - the smallest and most often loaded few were migrated 7 months ago.

https://github.com/claudiobizzotto/ipfs-rpi
I added both, it's worth including as it's not especially well-known.
“The incident, which resulted in heavy casualties, had shaken the entire nation and the collective conscience of the society will only be satisfied if the capital punishment is awarded to the offender.”: [1]

[1] https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/parliament-attac...
Elon Musk Wants to Hack Your Brain (Elon Musk on “Sway with Kara Swisher”)
Work visa after school is also messed up for international students. They are expected to spend full tuitions and it doesn't get easier to get a job which is willing to sponsor visa and then go through a literal lottery.
Most of my friends rent. And don't tell anyone, but I've let one back into their apartment before ;)
would you mind naming the German companies paying 90K+€. I know quite a large number of people working in really big companies in Germany, which are considered very well-paying, and while 70-90K is certainly standard, anything else requires taking up management roles, which are not necessarily remote and not so many.
Also not being subject to the fairness of one huge megacorp makes a little bit sense.
If it had a stand and video input, it could be a portable second monitor.
Lol you need to stop reading biased media outlets. It’s our bad luck that none of the outlets are fair sided these days.

Tune into an Indian news channel and validate your free press claims, you will see why nytimes is biased.
Well, you know they really do use CGI on TV. This was live news footage of the budget shown on UK tv - look at the red case:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cDYKXMkSRs

The Snowden videos I posted, are a fairly dry analysis of some of the issues relating to the footage of Snowden. Its all on TV - its not real life, but I think the narrator raises some fair issues. We can agree to disagree.

I'm not sure I understand your point that its a form of mind control to believe that most people are mind controlled.

The way I would express it - as a hardcore skeptic - is that I make my own mind up, given the evidence. If the evidence isn't there, I won't accept or deny whatever is being presented. However, it seems to me that most are hardcore believers. If they are told something, or see it on TV they believe it. There is no critical analysis, no requirement of proof, no researching of evidence. Just belief.

That belief in acceptance in authority, not of evidence, is what I am calling mind control.

I may well be wrong - no problem - but I am making up my own mind and evaluating the evidence. In the absence of verifiable evidence, I'm NOT on auto-believe mode, or mind-control mode. I'm on auto-hoax mode, I suspect a trick. And in fact, although it is initially uncomfortable, the world makes far more sense that way.

Cheers.
Can I have a reference for that hardcoded buffer size please?
You listed a lot of ways to pay in time and energy instead of cash.

(Disclaimer: I own a car)
The not-so-funny part is that it would probably be about the same effort to do that compared to convincing everybody to use shared linking for these kinds of things >_<
Or try: https://www.runnaroo.com/search?term=u-boot+unable+to+select...

Your query (even without the quotes).
A tale of VoIP, NAT and some confused engineers
I've wondered about this. The TV I have (a Sony Bravia) is now almost a decade old (works fine). We got it specifically because it has a slot for a DVB-T module (terrestrial broadcast). DVB-T is now gone (replaced by DVB-T2, but I doubt this will remain in the air long), so we have no broadcast TV now, only our HTPC connected to it with Netflix, local media files, and a browser.

Frankly, we don't miss the TV channels. Streaming works okayish for the public channels, but we rarely bother.

The TV is just a dumb screen connected to a receiver, which has the HTPC as input as well as record player.

So the only thing a 'TV' offers me is its screen. Is that any different from a high end computer monitor these days? Is there a difference based on the viewing distance perhaps?
Who could write "Tailors Swift" without laughing?
> slack

Slack to record meeting decisions? That has to be the most ridiculous proposition ever. Slack is a chat system, not supposed to become a knowledge repository or even remotely made for capturing meeting notes. Using effective tools for the job matter.
Yeah? I always find it too sensitive, and only use it if i have a problem with my touchpad driver (something that hasn't happened in years). I have seen a few comments like yours recently, maybe its time to try to get used to it.
A friend of mine has been an emergency doctor since 1990. A helicopter crashed with him on board once, killing the patient and causing him injuries that still can be seen after twenty years.

His comment: "We are ready to take risks. That is part of our work, just like cops' or soldiers'. Some missions are extra risky - industrial accidents or anything involved drugged or drunk people. We still take that risk."

IDK what the hazards of a first generation jetpack are, but odds are he would try it out eagerly.
I can't say I've come across these cases (stopped Firetruck for example on a highway) where AutoPilot has driven me straight into something. I'm also paying attention, as you should.

To throw you a bone, I do think that the names of the software lead people to believe that it's something more than what it is. Full self-driving is going to do things like swerve to avoid an obstacle in the middle of the road and it probably doesn't do that right now. But if we go back to the original post, the discussion was about comparisons to Waymo and Cruise. I'm not sure I trust their "more advanced systems" to do that either, and on top of that they haven't made a single production car that works in Erie, Pennsylvania and drives in the snow, changes lanes automatically, and navigates on and off ramps.

Tesla is making progress toward general self-driving, which is far and away more valuable in my opinion. Even if that progress is incremental. I look at it as more of a safety feature and something to make driving on the highway much easier.

If we want to take this a step further, I'm actually not a fan of self-driving cars because it makes it too easy to drive everywhere, and I view driving as a problem. We should be walking.
Not really. We are asking for TVs without internet access, but the market has decided for us.
Thanks.

I've fixed the filter. I'd tried to do it entirely with CSS classes, but I think that was unrealistic.

(I also removed ErgoDox EZ, leaving only ErgoDox. It's the same design, and other keyboards where there are one or more manufacturers making the device to whatever quality aren't split out like this.)
I haven't been able to test that yet, neither am aware of any research which answers that question.

IMO the only way to do that would be to either (i) block the IP (high collateral blocking) or (ii) block TLS 1.3 itself (GFC does this).

A major blocker in answering this is finding a potentially blocked website that also supports TLS 1.3
You know what Henry Ford said about that, right? There needs to be room for innovation. Not every experiment will be successful, but I think this one has potential.
Thanks for the suggestion, I've added it.
What tv can't you just type a channel number in, or press an input button to switch inputs?

If you don't plug it into the internet it's not going to be a smart tv
on the one hand, the generality of the text editing solutions is really powerful, and I see what you mean in terms of that solution generalizing to other domains. But on the other hand, I always think back to how popular Memcache or Redis were even early on when they had very very few features. Just having a fast, in memory cache of strings empowered a lot of interesting new product development. I really wonder how much the average developer on a random project could get out of an appliance that lets you create and mutate an arbitrarily large number of values of the well-known, simple CRDT types like g-counters, pn-counters, 2P-sets, etc. Most of the literature is focused on "how do we merge the most complex data type", and not questions like "how do we manage the entire lifecycle of CRDT stores", "how does a CRDT store fit into most people's stack", "should CRDT types be added to existing stores or should developers expect dedicated CRDT-only stores", or "do people generally need to define their own CRDT types or do most people just want a box full of common ones". I hand-rolled my own CRDT setup just to get the most simple CRDT types because I didn't see anything out there that makes directly consuming CRDT types by application developers accessible. E.g., you make a g-counter and literally all a client can do with it is increment it or read its value. That's it. We have that, and it's totally useful! We also do entirely state-based replication because expressing the operations on the data would be so much larger than the data itself. But our situation is just so off-base for many people because clients are only ever interested in the current state (and never care about the past state), and we can safely just ignore the problem of when to delete the data; we just keep it around until you're finished playing the game, and then delete it when the game is over.
Because community colleges have the largest proportion of people whom are impacted by the covid related economic debacle.
Samsung has crappy products? I'm shocked /s

Samsung is cut from the same cloth as Apple. Huge advertising budgets to get the sale. Abuse of customers after purchase.
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Fairly sure HN has been complaining about this for years. We're not a hivemind; it's not even the case that most posters work for FAANG, ycombinator or even "startups" per se.
You have never seen a non-startup post here? Nothing about racism or job or caste discrimination?

You can completely avoid participating in this discussion. Worst case, the article takes up two lines on the main story page. Two lines that your eyes can scroll by. You do not have to click.

I see a lot of users are triggered by the reality of whats happening in India. In general, we see a lot of that when any anti-caste or stories not favorable to the current govt are posted.
What's Your Alternative to Fundamentalism?
A medivac out of the Grand Canyon can cost $15k. If you could use a $400k jet pack to
stabilize someone until a ground crew gets there it could be a win for everyone.
My pleasure, you’re welcome!
> How do you align that with minimum wage if some people just take too much time for their assigned task?

Ideally you'd combine this in a world with UBI.

Some day.
Yeah, I've put more work into explaining the results of a benchmark I put on pastebin.
I’m not so sure about that, the reason is that the total number of programmers in the world are just increasing and more importantly more and more non-programmers program code today than ever before.

It hard to convince non-programmers to see the beauty of a type system when they only want to print some html.

So what I see is a bright future for languages that can do both, types or no types.
But Afzal was hanged when India was ruled by Congress. And all parties including Far left supported it. So that case cannot be used to measure judiciary sleeping with present government.
> when when someone new joins the team

What happens is that someone new joining the team will not even bother searching thru dozens of channels, they will use the chat system to ask questions instead. Completely failure of knowledge management.
>a cheap publicity stunt

I bet it's anything but cheap.
In the case of TVs I think it also has to do with there being no real hardware difference between a fancy Smart TV and a dumb TV. A dumb TV nowadays is going to be implemented as essentially a computer and monitor running a set of TV applications, just like a Smart TV. The only difference will be that fewer programs will be loaded onto the dumb TV.
Don't buy a TV, buy a screen and connect it to your own media source. Preferably offline media. You can be a lot more deliberate about the content you consume and there won't be tracking (though there might still be ads in the media).
This is something I would definitely try if you had a free tier (just to get a feel of the app, maybe restricted to 1-2 goals) or at least a free trial without CC info/commitment.
Each of the benchmarks seem to take a single-digit number of milliseconds in Elsa/QuickJS.

My guess is that these benchmarks were chosen because the startup time for QuickJS is probably less than the startup time for V8, but I struggle to imagine that V8 is slower once the code has warmed up.

Any meaningful benchmark with JIT runtimes should take several seconds, at a minimum, in my opinion. 8 milliseconds is not enough.

From what I can tell, the benchmark is including the startup time, and it isn't keeping the interpreter warm -- it starts a fresh instance for each iteration of the benchmark.

This is one of the benchmarks: https://github.com/elsaland/elsa/blob/master/testing/bench_s...

Literally a single line of JavaScript.
When western journalists use 'colonism', 'genocide', 'ethic cleaning', or 'racism' to describe things, I often feel that they are doing this on purpose to reduce the weight of things whatever people have done in the past. So now CCP is nazi, and suddenly kids look around and say, nazi is not that terrible. Are you guys (activists) redefining the world genocide whenever you want? Western media lost credibility immediately afterwards.
I've not added "normal" (traditional layout, non-mechanical, mass-market) keyboards, since there are plenty of other sites that gather reviews etc.

I have added a link at the very end to one such site, http://xahlee.info/kbd/ergonomic_keyboards_index.html , where the Goldtouch is listed and reviewed.
>2020

>ram is cheapest component

>8Gb

Ok, one more useless shot from lenovo.
DLang can sort an array at compile-time using a normal function: (CTFE)

void main()
{
import std.algorithm, std.conv, std.stdio;

"Starting program".writeln;

// Sort a constant declaration at Compile-Time
enum a = [ 3, 1, 2, 4, 0 ];
static immutable b = sort(a);

// Print the result _during_ compilation
pragma(msg, text("Finished compilation: ", b));
}

It can also reflect at compile time on user-defined annotations, which can store arbitrary metadata on any symbol, to generate arbitrary code at compile time. They serve a similar role to procedural macros from Rust, but they're easier to use than the earlier. Thanks to mixin templates, you can inject arbitrary symbols, making D's UDAs just as flexible as Python's decorators.
You’ve got to be kidding.
direct i/o forces 4k buffers too :/
The best engineers are aware of the fact that the higher your salary, the more pressure there is on you. Some will opt to take a lower salary. If you make their salary extremely high, the step down to a cushier, less-stressful but also lower-paying job is MUCH lower-paying, so fewer engineers will take that route.
Should the world be ruled by philosophers or engineers, or neither?
Is it just my skewed perception of more or less recent reporting about India's politics or is the supposed largest democracy on Earth slowly turning into an authoritarian nationalist state to a degree it hasn't seen in many years. Honestly curious, not a rhetorical question, in case anyone can clarify this with better information or first-hand understanding.
Shall we correct it to "Every dominant ideology oppresses"?. What religion is doing oppression in China?
It just happens that the "reputed source" itself is under question for source of their funding.

What you consider reputed is your opinion, not a fact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Amnesty_Internati...
Do you actually own one? If so, can you please clarify my doubts [1] about viability of digital signage as TV?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24626743