skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, why would COBOL be considered a DSL? Is Java a DSL too then?

Second, you make it sound as if COBOL would be somehow better than using Java, C#, ... because it is a DSL. But that's not the case - or can you give some more concrete points for why it should be better?
I miss those forum banners a lot. One of those things that you could really make your profile yours.
Poignant but ultimately true.
Do you really think a higher minimum wage would end the expectation of tipping? Asking honestly, because I just don't see that as a solution to this problem. There's a discussion to be had around minimum wage, but that feels like an entirely separate issue.
Arrays of anonymous structs are also useful for non-global data:

static struct {
const char *key;
const char *value;
} elems[] = {
{ "k1", "v1" },
{ "k2", "v2" },
{ "k3", "v3" }
};
for (int i=0; i<sizeof(elems)/sizeof(*elems); i++) {
printf("%s => %s\n", elems[i].key, elems[i].value);
}
How the Hell Do We Keep Losing Psychic Wars
Read the Theranos book (Bad Blood), you very much can be sued for exposing scams
The Jacobin - jacobinmag.com/ - for the socialist perspective and analysis.
Heard great things about it and really want to read it. However, a warning to anyone thinking of getting this book on kindle: It's unreadable. It literally will not download on a kindle device. Just purchased it recently but will have to refund.
One thing I have never got my head around as a European is that tipping with the Americam interpretation is self defeating its original purpose.

When I tip (outside the US) its done so as a genuine expression of gratitude for good service. It's my way of encouraging and rewarding good service. If its done under compulsion than its no longer a tip, it's a charge and good service is relegated as less meaningful.
1. Everyone stop tipping.

2. Greedy enployers can't use the promise of tipping as an excuse so they start to paying minimun wage.

3. Government intervenes making sure minimum wage is paid.

It starts with (1).
Back in the 90's, artist Jenny Holzer famously wrote, "Lack of charisma can be fatal." The problem in the current pandemic isn't the science, it's that the quality of people in leadership roles is not sufficient for people to align behind them and move together. The explanation with the most predictive power in all of this is that the (mostly conservative) anti-mask people today are the visible face of what is really an anti-lockdown movement. They are revolting against what they perceive to be unworthy leaders, who demand they sacrifice their livelihoods and accept the direct consequence of generational poverty, to protect a group of people (upper middle boomers) who express open contempt for them.

Johnathan Haidt's old "Righteous Mind" was one book that talked about some of these values and mindsets. The mindset also means that they are willing to take a %0.003 risk of death to continue to provide prosperity for their families and communities, but accepting poverty for their families and communities at the behest of people they perceive as not taking the same risk is anathema.

They co-operated in initial stages of the pandemic when the viable action reinforced their cultural heroic understanding of action, but leadership everywhere has forfeited that by using the pandemic as leverage for a pre-existing social management agenda, and now we've got anti-mask protests.

A few years ago, I had a conversation with someone from the Sierra Club about whether they thought better technology could resolve the climate crisis and whether they'd be interested in a VC model for investing in moonshot green tech. Their response was it wouldn't matter because the technology would not provide mobilization for the true goal of global justice. That deceit ended my support. This same conversation is happening everywhere about the pandemic today.

The various conspiracy theories around masks are expressions of this underlying dynamic. If we want to contain the pandemic, there are absolutely ways to do it, but if people find their leadership is using deception against them, the pandemic will be the least of the risks our societies will face, in my opinion. It will have truly been a lack of charisma that was fatal.
Ah, somehow I missed that. Thanks for the correction.
Amazing. Great site. So many awesome models.

Why are Lego models so compelling? Often times as compelling or more than other scale models. Trains, doll houses, architectural models, recreations, etc.

Much younger me worked for a toy startup, a modular terrain and architecture system for scale model trains. The boss man collected toys, which we'd play test and learn from.

Nothing was as compelling as Legos. Play value wise, Rokenbok was the only competitor, but its construction system sucks. Our own toy system was "neat", like a less cool Christmas train display in the store window.

--

I was trying to do the software. Think MineCraft meets LegoCAD. I failed, of course. I'm still clueless how MineCraft succeeded where so many others have failed. Just build everything with cubes (voxels). I would have never thought of that. My personal "worse is better" war story.

We also wanted something like rebrickable.com. Allow customers to share designs, play around inside each other's worlds. And then let customers buy those parts as custom sets.
Tipping isn't the problem here. It's about establishing baseline pay. Restaurant staff shouldn't be paid lower than minimum wage, which is already pretty low and be expected to make it up with tips.
No big problems using GIMP here, for the last 15 years. A lot of the tools are genuinely useful.
> The amount of NOx and CO2 emission is a direct product of use, and not (or hardly) congestion.

We're talking about electric vehicles which don't have that. That issue can obviously be solved for gasoline and diesel vehicles via fuel taxes (which encourage people to buy electric vehicles).

> Same for wear and tear.

As discussed, nearly all of the wear and tear is a result of large heavy vehicles and the amount caused by passenger vehicles is negligible.
Curious, why don’t you like ‘.’ and ‘&’?
Guidebooks are written by ill-qualified peoplewho are just out for a buck.

The questions are usually from recent question papers. So the guidebook author just makes stuff up for the answers.

Ignorance is quite refreshing, if not actually bliss.
Athens looks promising, too.

https://github.com/athensresearch/athens/

https://www.notion.so/Athens-67e1c6068cb449ff935d10e882fd9b0...

While mighty impressive, looking at the tech stack[1] for both Athens and Roam I can't help thinking this is too much to support my note taking (if I want to self host).

[1] https://www.notion.so/Athens-67e1c6068cb449ff935d10e882fd9b0...
Hello K0s (key features explained)
History: 30 Years of AMOS programming language
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Community_Access_C...

A more recent and more relevant precedent that cuts against your argument.

Btw I would be sad to see the first repealed, but I'm happy enough with Google and Facebook's moderation powers. So now you've met one person who has a principled commitment to free speech who thinks that Google and facebook should be allowed to moderate content.
Yes, it dominates. We don't talk about it a lot, because talking about things working isn't all that interesting. We don't talk about it when things don't work, because the failure isn't the language but the design.

We don't talk about COBOL so much as we talk with COBOL. I have email after email with COBOL snippets discussing various projects (and I'm an analyst here, not a programmer). No one mentions COBOL by name, but almost anyone, even nonprogrammers, understand it to a degree that they can reason about what is happening and point out errors in the assumptions made by the programmer.

There are IVRs that talk to mainframes via tn3270 to execute CICS transactions. Most CICS programs are written in COBOL. There are external websites, internal web applications, even VBA macros that rely on tn3270 and CICS, thus COBOL.

While other languages may dominate the business of languages, COBOL dominates the business of business.
They didn’t consider hand-chiseled morse code?
1. Finding the size of a struct member (lifted from the Linux kernel)

#define FIELD_SIZEOF(t, f) (sizeof(((t*)0)->f))

2. Not strictly C: using `pahole` to analyze how structs are laid out in memory

https://linux.die.net/man/1/pahole
Check your version and likely you should update (if you don't rely on plugins that aren't ported yet). Startup time was increased by a huge amount some time ago (can't remember when exactly).
I don't necessarily disagree with the idea of services like this, but in order for the Certisfy Partner's certificate issuance to mean something, it can't just be J. Random Noob who works out of the café down the road selling attested signatures for five bucks. The whole point of PKI is that I'm trusting a third party to perform verifications on my behalf--it rather defeats the purpose if the third party in question is no more trustworthy than the person requesting their attestation.

That said, I find it interesting that a couple people on their partners list are Notaries Public--adding digital signature to the list of functions a Notary can perform would make the migration to digital signatures easier. It would probably require making the Notary's signature part of a public chain maintained and issued by the local government as part of their licensure, though, so I don't see where Certisfy comes into that picture at all.
Oh yes, the ultimate in "play once" media in my experience. You had to copy them over to a tape to have any chance of loading them more than one time.
Why does C even have two member selection operators?

Anyway it means you can't cut and paste code from one place to another without changing '.' to '->' or vice-versa.
I have a simple kitchen scale, it has become indispensable.

I measure everything: 100g of pasta if I'm not too hungry, 22g of coffee beans for 300g of water etc

And don't think I'm particularly OCD, it's just so much more convenient to have repeatable results.
> In 1942, the Supreme Court ruled that employees had an exclusive right to their tips and that their employers could not force them to share their tips with kitchen staff.

What happened to that? What I really can't stand about tipping is that most of the time it goes to some dumb "tip share" scheme.

My wife (then GF) worked at several restaurants in college and they all had tip shares. Even hosts and kitchen staff were included in the share. They were all payed under minimum wage, but the restaurant had to pay the difference if the tips alone didn't bring their wages up to the minimum (which happened more often than not).

I realized that when I tip, I'm usually not rewarding the waiter/waitress. That reward usually gets split across dozens of people and my waiter/waitress likely sees none of it. Worse still, most of the time it isn't even a bonus to their wage. The $5/hr-ish is effectively deducted from their tips so I'm just paying their wages so the restaurant doesn't have to.

What a scam. Regardless what you think of tipping, tip shares should absolutely be illegal.
Wow is slow frequency speed variation.
Flutter is fast speed variation.

To an audio person they are distinct sound artifacts.
It was common to listen to recordings of pianos in the past to hear these because the piano was the only common instrument that had very solid pitch. (invariant frequency(
I'm increasingly convinced that this is the way forward. Having a key verifiably tied to you as an individual goes a long way to enabling a broad range of governmental services. Digital voting, for one thing, but also no more need to rely on shady credit check companies for address verification, as I've seen on some (Canadian) government forms.
4-aco-dmt is nicer for that kind of thing
I don't like the concept of tipping in the first place (although I make an effort to tip well anyway), but I definitely do not want tipping expanded any further than it already is.

If restaurant owners can create an even more opaque pricing structure that shifts the rest of their employee costs onto customers they will.
Another interesting reversal is that boy's clothes used to be pink, and girl's clothes used to be blue.. the opposite of what they are today.
That goes to the heart of this argument: whose responsibility is it that the waiter is paid an acceptable wage, the patron or the manager?
I am only talking about targeted advertisement, not internet or targeting of content.

If you pay for advertisement, you would not be able to target it based on personal data of the viewers.
Well, I think the biggest problem here is that you’ve mischaracterized anti-tipping crusaders as people who don’t want to tip.

If you don’t want to listen to people complain about injustices, then surround yourself with people who just don’t care. You might not be able to go to dinner with people who used to work as waiters, so be sure to remove those people from your friend group.
Source?

It's that so they can fiddle their taxes?

Why [else] would you not want to get the same money, on average, as a wage instead of having a high per diem variance?
I know the SCOTUS has walked back that precedent --- I said that I liked the reasoning in Marsh, not that I think it's still in force and not watered down.

As for your support for Google and Facebook moderation: don't you think support for the purpose of free speech requires that people be capable of exercising that freedom at a practical level? What's the point of the first amendment protections free speech protections when it's a dead letter from the perspective of message dissemination?
Presumably an obese one.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/most-obes...
The measure "tablespoon" is independent from actual utensils, as far as I can tell.

And who came up with the abreviations tbsp and tsp to mean different amounts?

Oh and 'cups', who came up with that?
I've never understood why right-wingers in the tech field will scream about censorship, while congregating on sites that downvote, and shadownban, ban people. Anytime I hear "censorship" on on HNews because techies are upset a Neo-Nazi site got dehosted, I can't help but think "That word (censorship) doesn't mean what you think it means".
Whoa, okay, you've convinced me! I'm on board with this!
My problem with tipping is that we’ve carved up a small section of America and said “for these employees, it’s the responsibility of the patrons to make sure the staff are paid”

Combine that with the fact that food value is a poor indicator of work. Someone who delivers a $100 bottle of wine should not be paid the same as someone who flips $100 worth of hamburgers.
A platform is neutral by nature or it's not a platform.

Like a standard can be used by all.

Or a Foss project can be used by all.
This is one reason why turnover is so high in the back end. Not only are many overworked, but they also get bitched at by everybody in the restaurant if they don't do something right or have to make a change. Meanwhile waiters and expos don't have any actual skills.
I'd say it starts with 3 otherwise all people in tip-funded service industry get screwed by the more wealthy people using their services.
Whether masks are effective is controversial. There's a lot of "experts" saying different things. Also getting actual science on this is really hard as you need to do an ethical study on this in a controlled environment.

What we do know is that China is owning this pandemic in every possible way. Life is already back to normal in that country. They also all wear masks. Whether the masks were effective is unknown.

So basically we know that something or multiple things that China did are effective at suppressing the spread of Covid. If one of the things they did included using masks... then it may be that masks are very effective or partially effective in conjunction with everything else china did to stop the disease.

Keep in mind there's no hard science on any of this. Nobody knows for sure. We just know China did many things to suppress the disease but we don't know which thing or which subset of things China did was actually effective at curtailing the disease.

But we do know by copying everything China is doing we will for sure his that subset of effective countermeasures.

If they wear masks in China... we should be wearing masks too.
It's because TV chefs don't measure anything, they go by experience and they usually get it right.

However they have to give you some measures because between what you think is a good amount of sugar and what he had in mind there might be a tremendous difference.
Ask HN: Am I Burned Out?
I have a 15yrs experience in enterprise applications as developer and team leader.
I'm stucked in a repetitive job with legacy technologies and not organized company that constantly led me to constsant frustration, my salary is good but i always live my working days waiting to end and i tell my self that i will d dig into new tech/paradigm after work hours and weekdays, but when i'm in front of my PC i can't focus and find a motivation to commit myself on a course/side-project from A to Z. Does anyone ever been in this situation ?
This is a little off topic so apologies, but I was watching a documentary on nasa's project mercury last night, and one thing that struck me was how pro science the "america first" crowd was.

Framing it as a competition for supremacy against other countries really seemed to get people with different political views to unite.

I'm not advocating for returning to the political and social climate of the 50's and 60's, there's a lot of obvious problems in that time period too. But it was striking to realize how intertwined politics, society, and science was, and still is.

It makes me think the solution to today's anti science bias isn't just "educate more".
Wasted Talent
"Stone" is a particularly fun one. It's akin to measuring length in "pieces of string".
> the minimum accepted 20% tip

What does “minimum accepted tip” mean? How is it not just 20% taken off the prices if it’s mandatory to pay it?
This would drive me crazy. Unless you're baking why do you need such specific amounts of things like sugar? Just taste the dish and add more sugar if you need it.
In some parts of Asia, tipping isn't a thing. So much nicer than agonizing over a tip. Just charge what something is worth.

As a former waiter, I realize the importance of tips for them, but it seems like the system is broken.

I remember where I worked, waiters would avoid servicing a table where. They new the customer was a poor tipper and force the new guy to take their order.

It always seemed shitty.
> Elections are very tough nowadays because of how easy people (WHO VOTE AGAINST MY POLITICAL ORIENTATION) are influenced.

Let's be honest, none of this were a scandal if Cambridge Analytica would have worked for Hilary or the remain campaign. I dont deny all this stuff influence people, it clearly does, but that is the price you have to pay for having a society with freedom of speech and universal vote. If you want to get rid of, either you have to take more draconian censorship laws or you eliminate universal voting for adults, both cornerstones of a modern democracy.
Why is the pay rate of the waiters vis-a-vis the kitchen staff of any concern at all to you? And what makes you think you have any sense of the labor market for wait and kitchen staff? Do you fret over pay disparity in other retail interactions?

Honestly it seems more like a post-hoc justification to avoid an interaction which seems to make many people uncomfortable. There is tension between not wanting to feel like a chump for voluntarily overpaying and not not wanting to appear cheap.
I've been a big fan of my stack magazine subscription: https://www.stackmagazines.com/subscribe/

It's a little left leaning when they choose "critical" works, but also I received great magazines like OH-SO (https://www.stackmagazines.com/magazine/oh-so-issue-4/) which is an all girls skateboard magazine (great photos and wonderful to see a small community serving itself) and Visions which was fun sci-fi short stories: https://www.stackmagazines.com/magazine/visions-issue-2/ If you want to support a variety of independent magazines and are okay with randomness, most have been great.
‘Backward in time’: Israeli scientists claim to reverse ageing
The case you linked is about an entire town that was owned by one company, and that the ability to remove someone from your sidewalk for distributing materials doesn't apply in a traditional sense when one single private owner can essentially 'kick you out of town'.

Twitter is used by about 1 in 10 Americans and doesn't make decisions about who or what to restrict from it's platform based on Facebook's content moderation standards. IMO the idea that a handful of private companies with completely different business models and content moderation policies have a 'collective monopoly' on public communication is ridiculous.
The increased accuracy often doesn't really translate to a better result though. And many people will taste test while cooking so that mistakes can be fixed.
The site seems to be down. Here is an archive.org link: https://web.archive.org/web/20201122140338/http://boginjr.co...
Their employer will make up their wage. You don't work at Red Robin for a living.
I've been looking into this whole area recently for a project.

The problem isn't (only) the technical issues. As TFA points out, this is easy, and even the most naive and simplistic implementation beats physical signatures hands-down.

There's two main problems:

1. Legality. Getting a court to recognise a digital signature probably isn't that hard. It's a bit like scanned images - if you can prove that this is the best evidence, then it'll probably be accepted.
However, getting lawyers to accept digital signatures is difficult. One of those awkward situations where there's no consequences for them if they insist on a physical signature but lots of potential downside should they accept a digital signature.

2. File formats, or "the standards problem". To include a digitial signature in a document, we need a file format that includes digital signatures. Every document file format has a different version of this, and every digital signature service provides a different "wrapper" format with a different signature.

This needs to be solved top-down. The SCOTUS, or the EU Court, or some organisation of similar standing, needs to say "this wrapper format is the only type of signature legally accepted, and if a document is wrapped in this format, it is legally signed". Both problems vanish and we can have nice things again.
You don't have to sell to another company, you can directly sell to the stock market in a spin off.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/29/analyst-alphabet-should-spin...
One eyeball holds about 24mm, way too much to approximate a tablespoon
This. Plus you can usually just taste it as you go and adjust.
I have downloaded and read the X server's codebase at the past because i was trying to figure out something (specifically how exactly keyboard input events are exposed). The code is very readable and i'm certain its complexity has been greatly exaggerated. A large part of it is driver/ddx code (that you can generally ignore) and i've worked with much bigger codebases even if we include the driver code.

And at the end of the day, it is code, not magic. Given enough time and dedication you can figure things out.
They also say "A process writes a new object to Amazon S3 and immediately lists keys within its bucket. Until the change is fully propagated, the object might not appear in the list" which implies that you cannot read immediately after write.
And Europe didn't get there without its share of troubles and problems.

Today as we speak, the people are getting stabbed on the road (Cardiff) and in France islam extremists are responsible for terrorism.

It doesn't seem like it will be stay the paradise for long.
If you haven’t noticed turnover in the front of the house is also very high.