skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> doing the groceries

Is there a shortage of groceries? Are people hoarding? Are they just 'bad people' or does a rational person change what they buy during a shortage? Why? Would you expect a Government saying "don't hoard" to have any effect?

> playing a musical instrument

Is there an orchestra you want to join? Will a particular instrument get you in the door easier than any other instrument?

> sport

Soccer. Why do you see so many obvious dives in professional soccer? Why do grown men hold their shins and cry when the replay shows they weren't hit?

Sumo. When a sumo wrestler is one win away from a promotion in a tournament, and he's facing an opponent who has already guaranteed his own promotion, what are the odds the first sumo wrestler will win?
Very, very few people know how to make cheap tests.

I have one guy who writes fixtures that couples all of his tests. When I need to add functionality, first I have to replace his fixtures with basic stubs, just so I can add another bit of functionality.

And we have two people who copy his coding style. Probably to fit in.

I think, based on my own experiences and working with people learning to write tests, that 'simple' tests often feel more like the pejorative meaning of the word. They get uncomfortable, like you're debasing yourself to write such boring code. Surely I can write more interesting tests.

Yes, you can write more interesting tests if your goal is for nobody to ever touch your code. Mine, mine, mine. The best tests, I know where my new code went wrong simply by reading the test output (not the test). If I refactor I should be able to maintain that coverage even if the order or structure of things gets completely switched around.

Complex tests begat complex tests. If your old test is 2-3 lines of code, I just delete it and write a new one that does the same thing.
Having read Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy and watched the Mars docudrama on Netflix, I'm afraid you're probably right.

Second country may be equivalent to second 'corporation'.

I'm not sure what the ISS model is, but at least that has been working well for a while.
As long as dynamically loading code at runtime is allowed, proving that there will only ever be one implementation of an interface isn't going to be possible. That makes fully optimizing away the cost of the indirection difficult.
Again, I'm not saying it's right, I'm just saying it's the way things are done, and it's no more or less just or unjust than China supporting Ugandan dictator Museveni in pursuit of its regional interests, even as massive electoral fraud is perpetrated against the democratic opposition Bobi Wine.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3122668/ch...

Not to mention, it's quite presumptuous to claim that the self-determination of the people of Taiwan are simply a tool that benefits the "white west."

Finally, your value judgments don't really contradict anything I stated, which is simply that "great powers will meddle in the affairs of smaller nations."
I’ve spent months in China and often rural areas. What you’re saying is definitely not true, I’m not sure how to convince you though. I don’t remember specific stories.

Nationalism is helluva drug.

Just look at the HK situation.
You can uninstall any app by using adb shell:

1. sudo apt-get-install android-tools-adb
2. Connect phone using usb, choose file transfer
3. In terminal type: adb shell
4. On phone allow dialog that appeared
5. In terminal in adb shell type: pm list package
6. Find which app is it and uninstall it: pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.facebook.services
> both parties are happy enough with the transaction to actually do it

That part often isn't true. These companies frequently list restaurants with whom they have no relationship, and when a person makes an order on-line, they just send a driver with a credit card to purchase it takeout and pick it up. It sounds fine on first look, but the way it plays out, this causes huge brand management issues for the restaurants. Customers are charged more than they expect, not realizing delivery company is misrepresenting prices, and complain about delivery problems (which are frequent) to the restaurant, despite that restaurant having nothing to do with delivery, and often no knowledge of it. Sometimes there are even darker shenanigans happening. GrubHub replacing restaurant phone numbers with their own comes to mind.

All this is done to collect/encourage usage data, and then offer the restaurant a formal relationship, in a form of borderline extortion. And as owners of ever growing network/distribution channel, these companies can very much force businesses into accepting very unfavorable deals. They don't care if they're burning these restaurants to the ground, because there will always be more. They make money off the churn.

Don't get me wrong, I like being able to order from a wide variety of restaurants using the same, streamlined interface. But after learning how bad a deal these companies are to the restaurants, I steer away from those platforms. I don't like when multinational corporations are using their weight and dishonest tactics to crush the small entrepreneurs from the community I live in.
Yes, poor landlords sell to rich landlords. Having less landlords is a good thing. (it really isn't)
I've been trying to say for quite a while now that it doesn't matter why something/someone is not present where they should be, if the consequence is people will die. How hard can it be to understand that? :)

Those people are still dead.
So instead you'd prefer to be forced to use a Google account? I feel like not having to have my financial transactions streamed through the same bannable Google account is a positive.

At least here in Switzerland I've found TWINT, which is pretty much the same as this new GPay, to be significantly more widely useable because all you need for a transfer is the phone number. It even works with iPhone users who don't necessarily have a Google account.

I find these different wishes kinda funny - neighbouring HN topic will have people complaining how everything is bound to a single Google account and this topic has people complaining why their financials aren't bound to a Google account :)
PRC-ROC is unfinished civil war with a literal countdown timer (2049). Reality is reunification with Taiwan is the ultimate political get-out-jail-free card for any Chinese leadership. It doesn't matter if PRC is democratic or authoritarian, taking Taiwan will supersede and overshadow any large domestic issue that could undermine legitimacy. And PRC will face many in the coming years. If she successfully negotiates them, then missing the 2049 deadline itself will be overwhelming issue determining legitimacy. PRC moving on Taiwan is inevitable, even the mildest forceful reunion option (quarantine) could lead to total-war because that's just how escalation spirals.
Have you considered something like [ROBOT 9000](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Munroe#Other_projects) for HN? Not perfect, but it could be fun and a nice reminder to stay original.
Hey there Are you looking for PHP Sanitizers?
how many of them are posting and who gets the upvotes?
The books are very pro-Soviet. The satire is directed toward people who are considered to be "behind the times": a priest depicted to be not much priesty, the former "head of local nobility", and so on. But the main protagonist somehow came out so lively that we totally sympathize with him :)
Vivaldi has a similar option: you can pick the tab position between top/bottom/left/right. I don't think it has the tab area reduction to show the icon only that edge has, so it does take extra screen scape.
I don't think that's a perfect analogy because the worker can win in boxing in a way that they can't as a prostitute and there is likely far less of an appetite for compelling your workers to fight you than there is for compelling your workers to have sex with you.

I agree we shouldn't normalize employer/employee boxing matches (although I'd be willing to participate in some instances...) but it seems a lot less consequential a choice as legalizing the hybrid prostitute role.
Ask UNSC if they would allow that.
We need to be precise here.

Firstly "accepting a law" implies - in western liberal democracies - a legislative process in which a law is proposed and accepted by some kind of parliament. This is not what happened here - in Switzerland, laws can be given to the population directly by non-parliamentary, non-governmental organisations in referenda, which then become binding. The law you are referring to was accepted by the general Swiss population with about 51% of the votes yesterday.

2. The law is not specifically forbidding women particularly forbidding to wear burkas. It forbids anyone to hide their faces when in public (with the exceptions of traditional customs, e.g. during carnival season). The basic idea behind this is that in a free society, we meet each others face to face. This generally good idea was abused by right-wingers to point out that this prevents visible Islamisation of an ultimately christian-conservative country, and by left-wingers to imply it was sexist and islamophobic.

3. Men and women can still wear whatever they like ... in private. In public, all societies have acceptable clothing standards. Try going out wearing nothing but three straps of leather and a gimp mask in front of a school, anywhere in the world, and see what happens.
> Should China or some similar power of the time have meddled in the US civil war? Or maybe the War for Independence?

France, a country from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, played a decisive role in the War of independence.
Because Taiwan would like help, and it's in our interest to give it. It's not like the US is intervening against the wishes of Taiwan.
I just started taking that course last night from Coursera.
Maybe an internet led edit of Ratatouille can add it to the beginning of the movie.
For a country that introduced the concept of talking in elevators and urinals? I'd say drinking in the afternoon is a lesser evil, if at all.
The ones that have stuck in my head over the years have been Daywatch and Nightwatch, Leviathan, and How I Ended This Summer. I’m sure there’s a few more I can’t remember right now. (I highly recommend all of those...)
IIRC in the first 10 episodes they did say that if the podcast ever ended it would be like this.
I would be fine with that if there weren't rent control. But combined with onerous rent control laws, and that seems very unfair to the landlord.

Specifically, rent control laws that prevent you from raising the rent more then X% per year and laws that give someone automatic month to month terms after the lease expires..

This is because right now rental rates are artificially depressed. The landlord might have built their financial model on normal market rents. If someone can lock in a way under market rate due to the pandemic and then keep that rate after the pandemic, then the tenant is taking advantage of the market based pricing when it goes down but disavowing the validity of market based pricing when it goes up.

If rent control exemptions were create that allowed the landlord to raise the rent to what it was prior to the pandemic once this is over, then that would be fine. But as it stands, it doesn't seem fair to force the landlords to rent at under market rates (traditional market, i mean) and then also force that rate to be locked in for the future.
A friend of mine used to say "Is your grandma so senile that she can't type `configure; make; make install`?"

The problem GP is pointing at is that uninstalling an unwanted app shouldn't be hard like that.
Meeting European VC Champions: Globally Ambitious B2B Companies
Considering their record financials and stock value, I'd say they had at least some successful products in last 5 years :)
Huh. I’m American and we had a change room at work and all the guys would walk around nude and nobody thought anything of it.
I know that, it was a rhetorical question to shed the illusion of some "hollier than thou" "intervention for good".
Yeah, you'll find lots of surprising stuff if you care to look. For instance, when I took NASSCO certification I was exposed to the sewers that are made of brick in San Antonio. Pipes made of redwood are new to me but not that surprising.

Secondarily, don't be too suspect of the city not knowing where in-ground infrastructure is. This business is tricky. You have to take calibrated GPS land markers out (that are hopefully properly calibrated) and document things like depth. Often it's contractors doing it rather than the actual city workers, and they're usually paid on a per inspection basis (but this can vary). Much of this was drawn on really huge maps that went into equally huge books back in the day, now of course ESRI is used for everything but much of that was lift and shift in most cities that I'm aware of, so data should be trusted but verified.
Make a pin hole in the box with the disk right above the disk, unroll a paper clip, put it trough the pin hole. When the wire is against the disk it should stop. You can scotch the wire from the outside to maintain it in its exerting pressure position.
> This makes it sound like a lofty goal…

Sales pitch 101. Sell your weaknesses as strengths.
The current season of For All Mankind deals with this too, gonna get interesting.
SK hynix Starts Mass-production of LPDDR5-6400 chips with 18GB of RAM
After a long life you will get involved directly or indirectly in many industries/areas. Summary: All suck. Why? Because human suck, we are greedy,selfish and status-oriented and for many people they use or have to use those traits at their job. Want to be happy? Sacrifice as much as income as you are comfortably with in exchange of 1) Autonomy (you take the decisions, especially if only about you). 2)Meaning. You dont have to cure cancer, but at least dont drown in red-tape and bullshit.
You seem to be suggesting there would be logistical problems with the idea of the prostitute/receptionist, but I think that even if those problems were solved it would still be a bad idea. If there was a clause in the contract that sex had to be outside the workplace and the money to pay for the sex act had to come from the entertainment accounts and the company had no problem attracting female employees or retaining workers, would you support it then? That would seem to answer all your logistical concerns.
Our society glorifies pornography and sex-work, but condemns the objectification of bodies. Our society condemns fat shaming, but makes idols out of instagram models.

We are very, very confused. Huxley predicted a world where sex became God. Orwell predicted a world where sex was taboo. Unsurprisingly, the reality is that our society has become a paradox by adopting both.
Sounds like a great addition! Are you perhaps also planning a linux version in the future?
can I ask a stupid question: does China really want to invade Taiwan? The Mao Zedong's China did, sure. However, for the current China, it might be better to "invade" Taiwan through cultural and economic means.

As for why the tension, Taiwan is equally guilty for the previous regime (the KMT) tying their identity to a(nother idea of) unified China. Given all the propaganda built up all that time, China could not backtrack now even if they wanted.
I just skimmed a little bit of the paper so I'm probably missing a lot of context, but would restricting to one core even help in this instance? Information is leaking via the L3 cache, which is shared.
China imports according to google 7,620,760 barrels of oil a day.

A similar lookup gives that the largest tanker trucks can carry 176 barrels of oil.

So that would, if all capacity was by truck (I know it will not be) over 43000 truck loads pr day over very bad road conditions.
You're missing the development time dimension. The point of the SO post is that, given a limited development time, they chose to focus on performance and sacrifice testability. Many years later now, they are choosing the opposite.

This doesn't make their initial decision wrong. The site exists and has thrived, and has achieved all of its performance goals. So the decision was correct. If it has now become too hard to maintain, perhaps the decision to sacrifice some performance to achieve testability will be correct as well (since it seems they haven't finished yet, we can't judge the results).
This seems to be assuming the share price ends up at the same place. It's simply a question of whether the IPO should be priced lower or higher.
FYI this is what it looks like on my iPhone
https://imgur.com/gallery/A5ltUKC
You don't know if it's right to be naked around children? How are they supposed to learn about normal bodies?

Here in the Netherlands a new children's TV program started: [0], kids ask naked people questions. I applaud it, finally, a source of naked that is not porn, The kids ask stuff like: "What are you most ashamed of about your body" and things about new hair growth they are about to experience, not even sex so far. And they get to see realistic penises and breasts while they are learning.

I guess I'm finally starting to understand why I like old Dutch movies like "Turks Fruit" [1]. Or modern non-US series for example from Spain, where people have sex (even in their 40's omg!) and go to the toilet, and where women are strong. I like Casa de Papel for example, Raquel is very sensual, intelligent, funny, flirty and strong, and usually fully covered in clothes, perhaps the antithesis of this new asexual trend. It's refreshing and normal and liberating. Of course it helps that she like's the nerdy "Professor" ;). Although this nerdy professor can, in contrast to all stereotypes, flirt quite well ("Intelligence can be very sexy") and knows how to engage with her. Also: refreshing.

[0] https://nos.nl/artikel/2371530-naakt-in-nieuw-kinderprogramm...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Delight_(1973_film)
The Rogers comission was also just going to bury the problem and almost absolve NASA of guilt, Feynman fought to get his appendix in the report, and he also later said that he was being gently lead to discover the O-rings issue during his investigations.
Ask HN: Can you switch to a programming career despite nearing 40?
What tips can be given to someone who wants to change careers to the tech industry in this stage of life?
Are you sure that isn't just doing integer math? I don't have a scheme implementation handy, but I tried it in sbcl Common Lisp and while
(- (expt 2 64) (- (expt 2 64) 1)) does yield 1,

(- (expt 2.0 64) (- (expt 2.0 64) 1)) yields 0.
Eh. If you count revenue streams:

- podcast ads
- podcast subscriptions
- merch
- sponsorships
- YouTube ads
- nebula subscriptions

That’s pretty diversified and it includes paying for content three times.
Ok, but google just works for me if i type english or german queries. DDG doesn't.

I've been using ddg as a default engine and wasn't aware of this. (also !ddgde is a lot more to type than !g)
> temporarily muting users who send messages that are identical to a message that has been sent to the channel before

We already check for strict duplicates but that's so strict a test that basically no post passes it. What would be needed is software to group the repetitive posts into equivalence classes but exempt the posts that are on the same topics but add some original twist. That seems hard for software! even with modern AI. I'd love to be proven wrong though. If anyone wants to take a crack at it, the data is all public.
Rival Chinese and Taiwanese political factions are squabbling in the Solomon Islands to the extent that the largest island is threatening to secede after the government switched its support from Taiwan to China.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/02/solomon-island...

It would appear that both nations themselves have enough agency, economic power, and diplomatic clout to play their own Great Games. None is righteous, no, not one.
How do I get famous people's email addresses/contact numbers?
I think many people could benefit by reading “Revolting Prostitutes” by Juno Mac and Molly Smith. I covers how sex worker’s rights are related to worker’s rights in general.

> I believe I have enough experience to tell if a girl is enjoying her time with me

Do consider that it is in the service provider’s interest to make you think this. When you are paying money for experience, you can’t use how the experience makes you feel to evaluate how the employees feel about it.

> If a girl gives signs that she doesn't enjoy [it, I] never visit her again.

Can’t you see how in this situation it would be in the sex worker’s interest to give signs she enjoys your thing? If she does not, she looses a customer.

I’m not saying that prostitution is wrong or that some sex workers don’t enjoy they job. It just might be the only realistic option for someone.

Some things that a country could do so that people have the option to not be a prostitute:

* food and housing for people who need it

* equal pay and career opportunity for men and women

* drug treatment programs that don’t put people in jail for addiction

See “Revolting Prostitutes” for more details
There was an anecdote from one of Czech researches in Papua-New Guinea who said he was surprised that local hunters absolutely refused to sleep under suspicious, not entirely healthy trees, and were very careful about examining the spot before they chose it for rest. He considered the chance of the trees falling down very low, perhaps less than one in thousand.

He changed his attitude when the elders explained to him that while the chance was very low, the hunters took a lot of naps in the forest throughout their lives and over decades, the low chance translated to almost-certainty.
who's being selective? neither of your examples are mainstream. and isn't the Boys based on an old comic series? And it's certainly made to be a comment on the sexless trope we see in todays superheroes
My university does (a top national one) and it’s still less reliable and UX friendly than SciHub.
Rust has fine-tunable control. It‘s just locked behind an „unsafe“ block.
It's also not uncommon for toddlers to masturbate in public. I don't know how much can be inferred about innate privacy concerns from these behaviours.
I definitely agree. The system could certainly be improved.

My gripe with BankID is that it's a monopoly and it's tied to having a bank account. It's easy to fall into the cracks. For example, I know first hand more than one foreigner that moved to Sweden and couldn't do basically anything online because they didn't have BankID and couldn't get one because they needed to visit a bank branch and have an appointment, and they couldn't get one without having to wait for 2 months or more (partly due to COVID-19).

The system could be much better if there were many accredited providers of digital ID (this is somewhat already the case, there's Freja now) and there was a mandated standard protocol that the accredited providers implement, so you could have the ID from any provider and that ID would work on any site. The latter is not the case to the best of my knowledge: although many government websites are supporting Freja, most private ones like Kivra or Klarna and of course the banks only support BankID. This is not great.

It also forces you to have an Android or iPhone, and basically have a relationship with these foreign tech giants and accept their policies in order to be a "digital citizen" in your own country. If they ban your account for any reason, and you lose access to the store without any recourse, and you can't install the app, you are basically SOL. This is a trickier problem to solve, and it's not exclusive to BankID by any means, but if there was competition it would be more likely (at least on paper) that somebody might provide an alternative.

My take is that indeed: the system mostly works, it is convenient, but it's not perfect by any means. There's plenty of room for improvement. Just having real competition instead of a de facto monopoly would fix most issues.