skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the most awesome books I fondly remember from my childhood are Soviet ones. One awesome thing about those books were that they were translated to regional language and were printed/typeset in equally high quality papers and hard bound as the original. One reason most comments here are able to relate with the post is because those books were accessible to them in their mother tongue. Russia/India did a fabulous job in translating those books to Indian languages and still maintain high quality print and typeset. Unlike now in those days English language was not accessible so all the education and learning was in the child's mother tongue.

Physics for Entertainment -- Yakov Perelman [1] is one such book.

[1] https://www.amazon.in/Physics-Entertainment-Book-Yakov-Perel...
They shouldn't be allowed to privately participate in that market. Since that leads to conflicts of interest with their job.
Chances of Recovering a Lost Wallet
I have a family member affected by those "targeted ads" and can tell you this is hardly comparable to news agencies writing favorably or not about someone. Some people are seriously fucked up because of this. Just look what happened on January 6th.
There is also Sid Meier’s Pirates! which is a newer redesign from 2004.

https://www.gog.com/game/sid_meiers_pirates
Simplest solution would be to just remap keys you don't use with something like Autohotkey.

If you want a separate keypad a cheap solution would be to use any old keyboard and then remap that one specifically with a tool like http://www.hidmacros.eu/whatisit.php (optionally you can paint or add labels to the keys to make it easier to use).
I experienced the same thing more than ten years ago. My coworker and I we were even of the same CS class, and my grades were better than his and I worked two years longer than him in the company but yet he turned out to become my boss.

In my case it seems to be simple to explain why. Have a look at my profile and perhaps you discover the probable cause.

Now I stopped working as an employee and I look forward to never return at slaving away.
Thanks, ya the next phase is going to be fun as I start building up the traffic/audience.
I didn’t realise Tegel finally closed! What a dream airport that was
Me too, it is a nice problem to work on and I am hopeful that in a few years I can make a dent.
The player should be playing the role of the Fed.
Surely in the preceding decades someone has written an explicit LKML client, that, rather than implementing email and encouraging you to post to LKML, specifically implements the much narrower spec of the locally acceptable post/patch formats. `git send-email` really cannot be the apex of open-source contribution tooling evolution, can it?
I think it’s more because of the police at Kotti
I think it depends whether you are following more mainstream opposite-position sources or following sites whose entire purpose revolves around hating the outgroup. You allude to this with the reference to "politically engaged".

A place like the various incel forums tend to degrade into being about hating womem, coontoon genuinely hated "niggers" and the more extreme social justice places genuinely do hate cis "white" men. But if you can find less extreme places that have another purpose other than hating the outgroup, you'll be able to converse with more reasonable people who aren't caught up in virtue/hate spirals. Find the average incel/racist/sjw and they'll have more nuanced views and can actually be talked to without them just repeating how much they hate you.
True! I think since in the CI case you're bootstrapping a fresh machine for every build, you'd have to apt-key add their key as part of installing the package, so an attacker would just make a new one of those. I bet the compromise duration would have been shorter, though; there's got to be one engineer that installs the Debian package on their workstation and would be confused when their release system's signature stopped working.

(And honestly, an attacker that can build a Debian package and update the public key for apt-key is probably harder to find than one that can edit a cleartext bash script. Security through hoping your adversaries can't perform tedious devops operations is no security at all, as they say, but in the real world it probably helps a tiny bit.)
Thanks!!!!

I didn't remember the name of the series and this is it. Found my favorite logarithm book:

https://mirtitles.org/2012/09/05/little-mathematics-library-...

And my memory was hazy. These are 70-80 pages rather than 20-30. They seemed like short books when I was reading them :-)
So when you use a word, it means just what you choose it to mean, and we don't know until you tell us?
Holy smokes this is awesome! Kannada being my mother tongue I can read (more or less ;-)) Telugu! BTW do you have Stories from Russian History? I had its Kannada edition as a child; been searching for it for a while. The book title (in Kannada) is "Russian Itihasadinda Kathegalu".
""a ridiculous fee for shuffling some documents around""

Wait til you buy a house an realize the title company handles all that.
Thanks to the comment by yantrams:

https://mirtitles.org/2012/09/05/little-mathematics-library-...
Yes, truly one of the best computer wargame ever made.

So many very, very clever decisions went into its design.
It's absurd that I have to block hundreds of unwanted, expensive (on mobile data) requests.

The page is nearly unreadable without it. https://i.imgur.com/DlCy3J4.png Several paragraphs of text. WTF?
“Why are people who work so much, so rich?”

Sounds like a stupid question when you put it that way, doesn’t it?
A majority of the google image results for "treadmill" don't have an obvious guard, so the Peloton one doesn't seem uniquely dangerous.
About 60% of SimCity is watching the algorithm grow the city (including placing buildings) according to rules you set. The only bit you must build is core infrastructure
The perk is your charity gets the money, the point of giving to charity isn't the tax benefits...
> a) The buyers want to look at multiple properties as quickly as possible

Surely this could be optimised far beyond what (multiple different competing) real estate agents can offer, with the right tech solution? In my experience, real estate agents can be difficult to contact and schedule with in themselves; a central portal with assisted scheduling would improve things?

> b) The sellers don't want to or don't have the time to be manage all of the requests for viewings.

- very good point - e.g. if a seller works regular hours, viewing opportunities would be greatly limited. I guess this is (a lot of) what you pay the %3 for.

- could be somewhat mitigated by better tech - the industry is slowly adopting (e.g.) 3D online house tours (partly driven by the pandemic lockdown) but there's probably lots more to be done in this area.
I mean, that sounds like more of a feature than a bug. You shouldn't know exactly what people are doing on your site (too invasive), but this approach gives you a rough idea of which requests are being made.

I personally find it to still be too revealing in some cases, which is why tools like the nginx IPscrub module[0] should be the upstream default IMO.

[0]: https://github.com/masonicboom/ipscrub
Creating Einstein's Voice
That's completely normal and does not only apply to India but all other offshore centers like Eastern Europe or the Philippines.

You guys are a cost centre.
Well even if you know that nobody can be identified from your data alone, if everyone releases data, it will become easier and easier to cross-reference and still identify people.
> I write webapps for a living.

I’d imagine most people in this thread do or have. Myself included. It’s a pretty massive industry :)

What you’re missing is that whatever you do to remove fingerprints does itself add a unique metric to fingerprint. This is also compounded by how easy, cheap and legal it is to add fingerprinting tech to ones site. Literally the only way to break fingerprinting is if the majority of the web browsing population ran systems that randomised fake responses. But as it stands at the moment, it’s possible to:

1. Identify when a plug-in it overloading a builtin function

2. Identify which users are consistently doing so because so few are and there’s methods of fingerprinting that exist outside of your JS VM.

I don’t have the link to hand but there’s a website that you can visit and it tells you how identifiable you are. I used to think it was possible to hide until I visited that site and then I realised just how many different metrics they collect and how a great many of them are literally impossible to block or rewrite without breaking the website entirely.
I don't think that necessarily indicates that their interests aren't represented (which was the statement I objected to).

A group can have plenty of political representation and institutional and legal support and still struggle for other reasons (e.g. historic oppression or cultural problems depending on whether you lean left or right).

Though on second thought there still are a few laws with racist intent on the books aren't there? Though they're being undone at a decent clip.
Podcast – Growing up unafraid in public as a developer
> This is like those magnet toys that got banned because some kids ate them.

Tiny neodymium magnets are still readily available. You wont find them labeled as toys. The problem is not that some kids ate them (that will happen with any toy containing parts small enough to be eaten) The problem is that when eaten they cause horrible internal injuries. They can cause a kid to go from “fine”, to “has a tummy ache again” to “dying in front of your eyes” relatively quickly and you can’t even diagnose what is wrong without advanced medical imaging. This property is undesireable with something marketed as a toy.

How is this a societal overreaction? Let me reiterate, you are still able to buy the thing by the bucketloads they are just in the diy department not in the toy section.
Which exact Zenbook, do you have a link? I've struggled with Asus' website many times.
$15 internet, $2000 rent, checks out.
They were building like crazy where I live. Then they realized geography is limited absolutely everywhere, even without geographic barriers, so instead of houses they switched to building apartments everywhere. The result is that over the last year everybody’s houses went up in value 50%. The last month inflation hit everywhere from all of last years mega stimulus money. The consequence of that is everybody’s house went up 10% in just the past month. Now houses are about 67% more expensive than they were a year ago. This was a low cost area. More housing seems to be making things more expensive, not less.

My house has already double in value from what we bought it for. I mean double even the fees and closing costs. Once it hits triple we are selling the house for cash and moving into an isolated rural wilderness.
You mean like self selecting billionaires?
Suppose you tax wealth at 70% for anything over say 4 million. Now do that annually or at least periodically. What ends up happening is that unless that person’s wealth grows at greater than 70% for that period, you end up taking all their wealth above the 4 million. Your 70% tax is really a 100% tax minus 4 million.

It’s just math. .30^n as n goes up approaches 0. Do it once and you take 70%. Do it twice and you take 91%. Do it 5 times and you have taken about 99.75% of their wealth.

The factory system as you call it is generating most of the growth in the economy. The rest of the system is increasingly inefficient. Go look at education, healthcare, media, etc... Those are where costs have increased the most for decreasing benefits.

Your approach slows down the growth of the pie and reallocates it into leeches in the system, entrenching them further.

Notice how there is suddenly zero talk of decreasing healthcare costs or making education work better as a whole? Those industries hopped onto the bandwagon and are all for printing money which indirectly go to them.

I am actually for some UBI. My opinion is you create an AMT on revenue and use that to fund UBI. Also, I am for a higher estate/death tax. It resets the playing field but keeps the incentive structure for people to create wealth.
The main difference here is that perfectly functional, working as intended boiler won't suddenly suck you in and kill you.

The actual comparison here is industrial lathes. And you are welcome to read what can happen with those when safety is lax.
This is obviously very impressive, and far better than I could ever do myself.

But I must say it bears more than a passing resemblence to the version below, first uploaded to YouTube in 2009. Including the specific appearance of the robot and the graphic design of its eyes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mWHVvKb1hM

Perhaps worth acknowledging that prior effort? (I have no relationship, just feels like that effort--with 2009 technology--deserves some credit.)
> Capitalism has lifted more people out of poverty than any other political system in the history of mankind.

Not really: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/29/bill-g... , https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/2/3/pinker-and-global-...
Yeah, if someone actually asks for food, I'll probably help them out--certainly if I'm holding it in my hand. That's only happened once in all my years of walking around cities (and I generally walk a lot wherever I live--which is why I recognize all the habitual beggars).

For almost a half-dozen of my too sympathetic friends, I have introduced them to the local beggar population that they wanted to help by saying: "All right. I'll split it with you. Go there (whatever close food source), buy some form of sandwich and drink--no mayo, and come back and give it to him. He'll still be here; trust me on this."

They have quite the reaction when the cursing starts and the food gets thrown back in their face. It's been sadly invariant.
Sadly there are still things you cant programmatically override/proxy, like storagemanager

await navigator.storage.estimate()
I don't understand your point. I don't do any offset. I just pick 500 keys by cursor.

insert into temp select id, date from tbl where id >= c_id and date >= c_date order by date desc, id desc limit 500

I don't see doing any offset over the whole dataset.

> And we add the cost of materializing the slice (if even just in memory)

The alternative is to transfer 400 full rows of data that will be used just to compute pages.

> and introducing the potential of DoS-ing our server with this temporary state if we're not careful.

I don't see any DoS vector specific to this but I'd be thrilled to learn of one.
There is also an attempt [1] to collect and (largely) synthesize a program for every OEIS sequence in an intentionally constrained DSL.

[1] https://github.com/ckrause/loda
I've made the opposite experience (in germany). No company will ever fire anyone. If they really need to, they give you a generous leaving package. The only exception is if the company going bankrupt, in which case the state might help (Kurzarbeit or bail out).
Nothing that comes from Nato think-tanks like the Atlantic Council, or US' and allies' intelligence services can be trusted. The US (and to varying degrees, its allies) are waging economic warfare against Russia and China and this includes a propaganda campaign of planting stories in the MSM, who uncritically act as their willing mouthpieces. Fortunately, it appears that some push back is coming from European countries which are beginning to realise that it is not in their interest to continue supporting the US. Ideally, Europeans will eventually realise the correct word for European politicians who promote US interests is "traitors".
Thank you for saying this. It’s frustrating to see all the hate against employers. It really depends on the company and people you work with, and that can be said for both the employee and employer.
Yeah those seem like terms that acquirers will just be cool with
Capitalism is an economic system... Yes, capitalism has the ability corrupt, and as in the case of the USA has corrupted the political system we have which is a democratic republic.
I was a physics student in Italy in the early '00 and math and physics MIR books in Italian were beginning to be hard to find as newer editions were coming out. I remember the feeling of pride when I snagged a copy of a book on calculus of variations for a couple of euros. I still think the graphic design was amazing [0].

Obviously Landau-Lifshitz was also a must read (though it was starting to show its age in some subjects). I also recently found a MIR Russian translation of Gardner in a market in Kyiv (illustrated hardcover for under $2...).

[0] https://www.ebay.it/itm/Edizioni-MIR-Krasnov-Calcolo-delle-V...
The rules regarding real estate transactions are carefully worded to protect the industry. An agent must bring all offers. But her advice about whether to take an offer? Completely unregulated. In general, agents see all transactions, and as marketeers, necessarily develop a better feel for pricing. They learn to avoid “having” to do a transaction, which is not true of the average buyer and seller. Finally, with fixed percentage commissions, the strike price delta is first order for you, but only second order to their commission. This is the underlying reason that legally, both buyer’s and seller’s agent WORK FOR SELLER.
The Secret Life of the Refrigerator – Remastered
How fit can you get from just walking?
That's just misinformation. The tutorials and manual existed long before Nim in Action was published and was the two pieces of information I learned Nim. I also looked at https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/nim/ and asking people on irc. Btw Nim in Action, which I also bought a few years back, has sections with a number of practical examples it builds on. It's a nice tutorial but can't teach you CS, for that people usually rely on educational institutions.

There were incidents of people coming and having demands, like change X so I can use Nim, frequently because they knew the main devs were hanging there and to cut a story short, people like you are the reason why we cant enjoy nice things... :) I am sure since then, you found some other online community to become a burden.
Ironically, our company started using Codecov as a measure to improve security. I don't know how far a high code coverage correlates to a secure code base, but the security incident certainly had adverse effects.
Well, C doesn’t have great IDEs because of its reliance on text-based macro magic.

And that is your opinion, not shared by many. There is nothing inherent in the language that makes it hard to write from a text editor. It’s definitely not made for scripting, but with like 4 additional lines you have to write as a main method, I wouldn’t call it infeasible.
I loved a hardcover book as a child called dada ka chashma. I remembered that book seemed to be from Soviet union. I just searched for it and it's called grandpa's glasses by Georgi Yurmin.

https://archive.org/details/GrandpasGlasses/mode/1up
The plan I have had in my drawers for about 3 years now is that I want to make a civilization game but where the focus is on keeping your own civ together.

Civilizations fell more often because of internal dissensions than because of enemy attacks.

Tech and actions would all be about finding things that make two cultures a bit closer, two groups work together.
There's lots of very negative points rightly to be made about the Soviet Union, but lack of investment in high quality childrens books is definitely not one of them.

These things were heavily subsidised, so cheap even by USSR standards.

I've got a few Latvian language ones I'm particularly fond of. A compilation of Baron von Münchhausen stories for example - one of them the etymological source of the word "bootstrapping", or Astrid Lindgren's Ronja the robber's daughter.

Most Latvians I know, especially the ones of Latvian culture extraction, have very good reasons not to enjoy their memories of the USSR occupation, but childrens books in particular seem to be exempt. Within the boundaries the USSR set, there was an incredibly rich and high quality production. A sharp contrast unfortunately to a lot of what is currently happening in that space.
It’s common to dislike everything about the industry when you’ve never done a transaction, and when you’ve done ten transactions. In between, you find you pretty much have to play ball with these people.
I found it difficult to read this comment due to the usage of "they", as my brain subconscioisly interprets "they" as a group of people. I am not sure what the goal here was, because revealing the gender does not deanonimize the subject.
Nice points. Going through SICP and solving problems using scheme, I did experience the “brain amplification” sensation.

Once you flesh out the idea in lisp, it’s just a matter of implementing it in the language of your platform. It’s like doing ‘architecture’.. Lisp is about aesthetics and beauty
This is an opinion piece from a 39 year old economic anthropologist.
A similar feeling I get from some of the Paradox games, they claim to be complicated simulations etc, but eventually much of gameplay boils down to waiting for progress bars to fill, which is exactly what is the gameplay in idle-clicker phone games. Thats what got me out of Paradox games.

Even Civilization games are essentially computerized board games, there is nothing of fidelity in its historical topics or in its simulation aspects.
> You are not driving prices down by regulating them, you are driving them down by introducing more choice and competition
Deregulation has proven _not_ to work for internet service providers. They're natural monopolies and oligopolies and as such antithetic to free market competition.

There are some relatively good examples around the world of regulated, utility like fiber networks in particular that _do_ work at actually encouraging free market competition between internet service providers.
Has anyone tried to calculate the energy expenditure of the fiat currency system as a comparison, ideally per "unit worth" (whatever that might be) since fiat still vastly outcapitalises cryptocurrency?
Are you a non-profit?

How can you work on this and handle "verified handpicked" content without getting some money in any way?
Well yeah, DOS drivers are clearly going to be run through a DOS subsystem. That shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. But you could easily run Windows 95 without DOS drivers (and particularly if you don’t plan on running DOS applications).

You have to bare in mind that Windows 95 was the first time Microsoft had asked desktop developers to switch away from DOS and given Windows graphics and sound API calls were still pretty unoptimised and that the platform as a whole was new, it’s understandable that it took some developers a few years to turn their backs on DOS (particularly games developers). But please don’t mistake developer pragmatism for Windows being a DOS shell. Windows 95 was actually a very clever design evolution and an OS in its own right.

And yeah some of the early 90s competitors didn’t have protected memory, but neither did Windows 3.x. Some did have preemptive multitasking back when Windows didn’t (Win 95 introduced that), and other features Windows sorely missed too. I’ll agree with Windows 95 did up the game somewhat but frankly Microsoft needed to.
How much would 300 pounds (money value) weigh in Medieval England?
The phenomenon of fashionable buzzwords?
It doesn’t matter where it is used up, the point is that it is unnecessary work taking a huge amount of energy, that could be used for better things. Even using up purely renewable energy makes every other industry rely more on non-renewables, so it is a lose-lose either way.
Your mention of "highest" goes to the direct opposite of the quality you make us expect by "verified handpicked".
And you have a point there. Certainly people have different concrete definitions (and wishes) for success. I'm not your average struggle porn/ you can also be successful-morons :)