skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
False equivalancy trump is like jim jones
I expect that if someone stumbles on a true "fix" for body odor, it'll involve inoculation of better microbes, from live soil maybe (many animals love to roll in dirt for some reason), and then avoiding killing those microbes. Also finding a diet that creates less odor for you. Maybe always rinsing off sweat as soon as it shows up. And so on.

But not that you simply stop washing and keep living as normal.
> That was 20 years ago.

Correct. Longer if you count people in the 80s working to fix affected code that caused problems for 20-to-25 year term financial arrangements and so forth. I'm not saying it was recent, just this is a good example and one I don't think many have sufficiently learned from (too many think it was a fuss over nothing, when really it was a fuss to make sure it was nothing).

> Plus, it's not a good thing that people are "pulled out of retirement" to fix things.

I make no claim that it is a good thing. Just that it happened, has happened far more than that one big event, and similar things will continue to happen at different scales.

I could (but for commercial and legal reasons, shouldn't and won't) name specific examples of companies relying on systems written in elderly languages/frameworks, apparently locked to old versions of software components or hardware that they just hope won't break before they finally get budget for something new (which isn't likely to happen for a reasonable definition of "soon" under the circumstances) because finding the right people to fix it would be somewhere between gloriously expensive and actually impossible.
No more donations to Mozilla and The Tor Project. I don't support bully organizations.
The growth at all costs model also tends to treat things like hygiene standards as annoying red tape.

I remember seeing a journalist a few years ago demonstrating, tongue in cheek, how there is zero vetting of restaurents. He set up an account as a restaurent, put up a barbecue in front of his house on the same day and got an acquaintance to order from him. Driver showed up shortly afterwards to pick up the food (which had been dropped on the floor to make a point for the camera), no questions asked.

They're happy to run marketing campaigns about "Food Freedom" [1], but it seems like it's old "we're just a platform" selectively applied when it suits them.

[1] https://invidiou.site/watch?v=o2HaQEH6MPo
Our microservices are not antifragile
Hello rijoja, I'm currently thinking about it.

I'm writing the book with Lyx. Lyx documents are converted to LaTeX docs, then converted to HTML with pandoc.
Then I have a homemade Go script that generates the VueJs components (one per chapter).

This question is asked a lot so I will write something about the system because it can help other writers.
I presume we're talking about the time he worked as her campaign manager?

If he was placed into a role which brought him into direct contact with vulnerable individuals, that would be very reckless, as sadistic offenders are commonly referred to as high risk in the scientific literature.

I'd like to imagine someone wouldn't risk doing that while on bail (the alternative is very terrifying), and perhaps, he would not, but it would still be very reckless.

Thank you for your post, I got a bit confused as some comments are insinuating the father was the moderator, and others insinuated the husband was.

I'll stand by my points about the husband (as it feels like people are trying to punish him by association + trying to shame him for his personal interests), although I wish Reddit had E2EE or some feature, so that no employee (no matter whether it's publicly known they're dodgy or not) can read someone's private messages. And if there isn't a strong audit trail, there should be one. There shouldn't be one super role with access to everything either.

A stable job can help to keep someone out of trouble. Someone who feels completely hopeless, and that everyone is against them, might just decide to take the step to committing a terrible crime.

The risk of any particular person with such interests committing a crime is very low, and it usually takes additional factors to push that up. I don't see enough things to give me reason to believe he would, so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt here.

If it does turn out she turned a blind eye to her father's abuses, then as far as I'm concerned, she is complicit, and shouldn't have the role at all.
C# - good quality debugger, GUI interface. I like windows forms, easy to do simple GUI, which is all the GUI I do. IF you want fancy stuff you probably need to use the WPF.

In C# I use Entity Framework to interact with the DB.

If you are doing this, just for yourself, I found SQLIte DB to be wonderfully easy to use. The DB is a library, not a separate application opening up ports for the world to abuse, and the DB is stored in a simple file.
Well empirically, most restaurants (at least where i live) did not deliver at all or beyond the immediate vicinity or required an insane minimum order size to deliver before these apps came. Now i can get what i want affordably from the place I like without going to the restaurant. I also don't take up valuable table space so restaurants can serve in person traffic too - lunch and dinner traffic is as busy as ever and hasn't come down. What's happened (again where i live) is market has expanded.

Gross margins on restaurants run typically higher than 70% to 80%. Your employee cost is usually fixed, so by even giving off some chunk of the gross margin to these middle men, they're growing revenue and profit.

It's not a good idea to assume restaurant owners who sign ip to these apps are idiots. If their revenue and profit was not expanding, they wouldn't be still on the platforms
In the covid-homework-lunch scenario, I want one app where there are daily lunches from all restaurants around that deliver to me. I dont want concrete restaurant, I largely dont care which. What I want is to look at list of daily menu options and pick one of these.
How to edit existing YC Recommendation
How to edit existing YC Recommendation on YC Application? I have a 2 dozen of contacts submit blank or testing content into Recommendation page by weird ways. They would like to save the corrected comment on YC Startup Recommendation.
> Werman might be barking up the wrong tree but you do get wapman (literally penis man, same root as weapon) showing up alongside wifmann. That says nothing about how common it was or whether it was the preferred form over man, but it's something.

I'm sure you are referring to “wæpnedmann”[1] here, which is quite a different word, and did survive as “weaponed man”, which does exist but it's number of attestations are low.

The common words to refer to males and female humans simply seem to be “wer” and “wīf”; “wīf” is quite a bit more common than “wīfmann”, even during the middle English period.

Your links are not accessible, by the way.

[1]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/w%C3%A6pnedmann
Ask HN: How do you teach jr devs in your team to write manageable code?
I have been working in a small software company (~60 dev) as a senior developer, managing development for a couple of products. I have 3 developers in my team (with ~ 2yrs of dev exp), they are from premium institute, highly paid and are very good at logic/reasoning but not so good at writing/managing code. Their code is like a one giant function with weird names , often too long. I have been working with them for close to 2 years and I have spent countless hours reviewing their code and 90% of my comments are on using correct naming, managing code with smaller function, using language feature etc. Today, when I was reviewing their code, I just want to give up. I don't know how to teach them to write good / manageable code. How do you manage to do that? Any tips / pointers are highly appreciated.
Hello ! Thank you for your feedback ! I added this to my TODO
The reason that mathematical contributions are accepted from anyone regardless of other proclivities, is not because the people who find significant mathematical ideas are very rare. While that is true, the reason that their contributions are accepted is that it doesn't matter who the person is, or what they do, or anything. It only matters if what they came up with is true.

To reject a completely correct mathematical concept because it was contributed by an awful person--even the worst person in history--would be madness, and any attempts to suppress or disenfranchise the work of "inconvenient contributors" indicates that you're not actually pursuing mathematics, but engaging in political warfare.
Ever Given is still stuck in the Suez (as of writing)
You're right, but in practice this means that the gigantic buttons are part of the application, not part of the desktop manager itself. Even if Gnome 40 tried to remove the touch-friendly buttons, it'd be up to the applications themselves to actually make the interface work like that.

The buttons and styles are a choice by the developers of the applications. Often, they follow the Gnome design language (which is good, because that's how most of the Gnome ecosystem delivers a unified experience), but very often they also make their own decisions about where the buttons go and what size they are. It's possible to change a lot of this with custom themes, but changing the size of components often breaks applications or layout because the developer did not intend the size to be changed.

I personally enjoy the look and feel of Gnome and I don't have any problems with the UI, but in the end my experience is dictated by the people behind the application. There are plenty of application on my system that don't follow the design language of my desktop environment, and if the Gnome design team redesigns their preferred UI, applications will have a mishmash of styles for at least a few years until things have stabilized.

Had the decorations been server side, then all that needed to happen was a quick change to the theme and maybe to the rendering components and the theme would've switched.
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From an investors point of view the last thing you want is an Uber situation, where you have to classify all drivers as employees and take on a new massive cost. It's one of their biggest risks at the moment.

From a human point of view I hope that does happen.

They even admit it's a huge problem with their profitability plan: https://london.eater.com/2021/3/24/22347981/deliveroo-delive...
But from a practical point of view, if you are building a design tool (which is what the demo is), and the purpose of the tool is to apply adjustments across screen sizes, it needs to be in an environment which allows for different screen sizes. The entire point is that you can adjust how the type scales based on viewport size: if you cannot scale the viewpoint size, the tool is effectively useless. The end target of the code produced by the tool is not the same thing as the environment the tool runs in. The vast majority of GUI design tools are for desktop, for what should be very obvious practical reasons.

Like, Adobe XD (to take one prototyping tool) doesn't work on mobile. You can view the end prototype on a mobile device, but the tool itself does not work in that environment, and it would make no sense for it to, the environment is too restrictive.
No. The items I linked to all criticise the entirety of the events they describe, not just how to be a better imperialist. Please point out where in the linked to items you get your interpretation.
Glad to see that America still excels at exporting our culture. Here they call this practice “Right to Work”.
I couldn’t agree more! If we’re not careful we could have anyone unattractive being chronically labeled a harasser for innocuous social behavior. I’ve experienced it myself. I don’t want to live in a world where simply being unattractive makes someone less than human. That’s clearly a form of violent prejudice.
I don't know... Trump successfully convinced half the country that the entirety of social media was controlled by Marxists, filled with lies and propaganda and cancel culture extremists out to get them, and that they had no hope of free expression anywhere within the mainstream (which was never really true, but as a meme it caught on like wildfire.) And now he's investing in providing the "alternative." Or at least licensing his name to the alternative, as with most of his investments.

It's basically what Fox News did IRT marketing themselves as the "fair and balanced" alternative to the bias of "liberal" media, and they were clearly successful at it. It's probably just another grift for Trump but it might not be a complete failure.

It's at least more on-brand for him than the steaks were.
You could also abide by the law while voting for a party that supported whatever minority viewpoint you held.

Of course if you voiced unpopular opinions publicly you might get shot by someone who cites Violet Gibson or Thomas Mair as an inspiration.

Or you know - we could not put up plaques to attempted murderers.
The easiest way to achieve this on a desktop browser (or Firefox for Android) may be to add custom, named filter lists to uBlock Origin. The name will show up on the block page ("Found in: $LIST_NAME") It's not network-wide, but at least you can host your lists on the web to keep them up to date across your devices (and to share your efforts with others!).
Gumtree/Facebook Marketplace is still mostly cash in the UK - neither the buyer nor seller really trust the other with their bank details. Nobody is 100% sure that bank transfers are irreversible (they are, but if you complain loudly enough to the sellers bank they might mark the seller as a fraudster, ban them from banking for life, and transfer the money back to you).

Cash protects both buyers and sellers more from crazy people.
Related: "Why ambiverts are better leaders" https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210319-why-ambiverts-...
Android does that too. The elephant in the room is denying internet permission. Nobody implements it because it'll hurt their bottom line.
It's not binary. For example, passive snooping and data collection aggregation (like Snowden's NSA revelations) is much worse than the direct attack possibility with humans involved. E.g. it's much less likely to be targeted by NSA employees without too loud crimes than been analyzed and targeted after some automatic scanning and anomalies findings.

And the article as well as comments assumes that the whole world lives in US! It would be nice to be protected from US and China espionage workers for other ~200 countries citizens and their govs. Moreover, that's strictly necessary to develop those countries and grow healthy competition.

And free software is much easier to review and modify to security and military services of other countries.
One would think so, but not so much. MENSA forums are rife with conspiracy theories, as any MENSA member can attest. Anecdata, but shrug. It's all anyone has, AFAIK.

I suspect that high IQ people are in fact more susceptible to conspiracy thinking than most. The randomness of the universe is scary. Sometimes bad things happen to good people for no reason. Much easier emotionally for some to live in a world where things happen for a reason, even if that reason is due to malevolent intent. At least a malevolent conspiracy can be fought or exposed or understood.

IQ measures pattern recognition. If one is mentally ill, or otherwise intent on finding explanations where none exist, one might see patterns where none exist. If you have a high IQ, the more plausible and internally consistent your narratives will be, and since you're generally right about a lot, all the more reason to believe that your theory isn't a theory at all, but reality.
I've been shocked just how well global JIT work has continued despite the pandemic
Thanks I appreciate your feedback !
As a counterpoint, I'm not in teaching but many of my colleagues workdays are heavily disrupted by childcare, so they compensate by working odd hours, sending emails or slack messages at 5am or 1-2am etc.

It's not that they expect everyone else to be working these odd hours at all, just that it's the only time they themselves can catch up on work.

One colleague who is a manager even has a note to this effect in his email footer, explaining he doesn't expect others to action or respond to messages outside of normal working hours.
Car factories may be in trouble, but consumers are not. There si plenty of new and old cars. Maybe not exactly the car you want, with your color of leather and level of trim.

Conflict was here long before globalisation, it has nothing to do with just in time delivery and smoothly running supply chain. Taiwan is a problem, because of chips. The world economy is stronger than some south american country. The "western world" is pretty much ok until someone decides to bomb us. Europe will switch from eating rice to more bread, and everybody is satiated. And the rest wasnt doing any better 50 years ago than is doing now. Except for obvious war zones, which pains me very much that in this age of abundance we have to deal with shitty psycho leaders and tribal mentality warriors.
Also stress. Stress smells too. Probably the stuff that's exuded via sweat differs based on how you feel.
New generation of carbon dioxide traps could make carbon capture practical
And fundamentally that is to preserve existing institutions of legalities, so that the dictator can wield the power of the state and not have the state itself dissolve.
> the historic employee classification that the supreme court ruled against Uber

When IR35 changes come to life in April, this will not be relevant, as Uber and others can just issue in-scope contracts to workers and bypass employment laws altogether, legally.
$4/month for 1TB of storage and 1TB of bandwidth? Just get a 1TB Storage VPS (+8TB BW) from https://www.time4vps.com/storage-vps/ for 3 EURO a month instead and stick Minio on it ;) (Just a happy customer)
We are planning on releasing more information about this in the future. Using erasure encoding we can copy it to lots of devices, say 60, then only require 25 of those 60 to retrieve the object.

If the devices storing data go offline we constantly monitor and refresh the pieces to maintain integrity.
So, I didn't realise it didn't have a backlight until it arrived. I would certainly have been more hesitant if I'd realised that.

That being said, it's an absolutely amazing device, it really is digital paper. If you enjoy reading technical papers, it's totally worth it, I've read more papers in the two weeks since I got it than in the two months before.

And the notetaking, oh the notetaking. I can now write notes much more easily, and they are automatically digitised so I can find them later, and on different devices. It's incredibly good, I suspect where I'll love it the most is for interviews, as it's much easier for me to write than it is to type (and feels much less rude also).
> But not that you simply stop washing and keep living as normal.

Eh, it's worked in the past. Japanese encountering Europeans for the first time recorded their complaints about the Europeans' odor. This was presumably not an issue for the Europeans among themselves.

If everyone stopped washing, there wouldn't be an odor problem. There would be odors, but they wouldn't be a problem. Why is that worse than the "washing" mode?
Sure, I only very recently started expanding my music horizons, but here are some I picked randomly from my library. Lately I'm into desert blues / enka / math rock / city pop.

Tinariwen - Sastanàqqàm (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vACZA9dGvV4)
Mdou Moctar - Tarhatazed (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZvPoE0EH1o)
椎名林檎 – 人生は夢だらけ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDnLHd2Ei3Y)
Tatsuro Yamashita - LOVE SPACE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNQic9N2I7c)
Mazouni - Écoute-moi camarade (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnsa9dazW04)
Stromae - Papaoutai (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiKj0Z_Xnjc)
Spitz - Yasashii Ano Ko (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkIOd78C82I)
Trio Nordestino - Forro Pesado (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwbqMR8k8gg)
Given - Marutsuke (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI_fCegBxZw)

I usually find music through radiooooo and random YouTube playlists/channels, such as below:

Radiooooo https://radiooooo.com/
Habibi Funk (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSzlOYn5Ae0KO94AWy7XeVw)
japanese math rock to listen while strolling around in the cherry blossoms (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-YDhSU4OwI&t=1661s)
japanese enka when gracefully ending an everlasting war (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spcoJ8Xcqy8&t=1055s)
japanese indie rock songs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRiruE1FaIQ)
My Analog Journal -

(https://www.youtube.com/user/zagorofficial)
Repeating something I've read on the internet: there are people who lack the sweat glands which produce the kind of sweat that stinks. It's a somewhat rare genetic mutation. Their sweat is basically almost only water. They can wear the same shirt for a week and the shirt, after drying up, is as if they was just washed!
Which OS are you developing a driver for?

Many drivers are written in C, but you still need to know the underlying assembly code.

At one point, Windows split driver development into 2 types. One at the user level and one in the OS.

Rumor was this was because of printers. Most of the calls for support at MS (blue screen of death) were caused by printer drivers. By moving them out of the OS and into user space the drivers only crashed their application.

I recall there once was a USB driver development kit you could buy. Not sure if it was tied to an OS. But it was a physical device you would plug into a USB port. Cost was like $100-
There's nothing surprising about large ships being more efficient. But a big issue is that many ships burn dirty fuel. Apparently there are no fuel standards in international waters.

As for the comparison to trains, it matters a lot whether you're talking about diesel or electric trains. Most train lines in Europe are electrified, and as electricity production switches to solar/wind, it may actually end up being cleaner than ships. (Although work is also being done on making ships cleaner. But new international laws are probably needed to get everybody on board.)

The real issue, though, isn't no much whether the transport happens by boat or train, but that it happens at all. The scale of global shipping is this big because everything is produced on the other side of the world. Big ships make that transport more efficient, but a more egalitarian global economy that didn't create incentives for companies to seek out every low-wage country and tax haven, would make local manufacturing more attractive and reduce global shipping.
The Guardian ran a few alarmist articles on them going back a while which might have sparked some of the outrage, including this opinion piece [1]. It turns out these "dark satanic mills" are often: hot, without windows and cold in winter.

I don't advocate for bad working conditions, but it must be hard for anyone who has ever worked in a kitchen to keep a straight face when reading that. Even many Michelin starred kitchens are horrible environments.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/09/dark-k...

Edit: This isn't meant to be whataboutism, just pointing out that a "ghost kitchen" is only really different from a normal kitchen in its business structure. By and large, catering is not, and has never been, a glamorous industry. If you want to stop kitchens being difficult places to work, that's a worthwhile cause, but much, much bigger than Deliveroo.