skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The college kids are paying money for food and lodging. They're basically paying for an adventure and a cozy feeling and they get that.

People in poor countries don't need scrawny wealthy college kids to help them build mud huts that are "good enough" as long as they look like they won't collapse. Not to mention that most of those kids probably have no prior experience building anything by hand or the physical strength, energy and motivation to be truly helpful.

Considering how much HN celebrates entrepreneurship and "disrupting" established business models, I wonder why you think they're more likely to be inept enough to benefit from an untrained, unskilled and likely undermotivated foreign kid helping them build things than having figured out there's a business in selling the "foreign aid" experience.
> I’ve had the pleasure of working with more than twenty thousand publishers in the five years since AMP’s launch, and I don’t believe I’ve ever heard a single reason that a publisher uses AMP other than to obtain this priority placement.

So I know nothing about AMP, but I've skimmed through the Google's documentation of signed exchanges, and it seemed like a good thing. I assume that it is the foundation of AMP. Isn't the point of signed exchanges that you, the publisher, don't have to invest in beefy servers and CDNs, and instead rely on third parties (for fee or free) to store the (signed) content? Of course AMP being a Google service the monopoly thing is hard to ignore.

> AMP created all kinds of problems, from analytics to ad serving to logins.

Oh no, it hinders competition with Google for surveillance and ad spam!
Maybe worth checking the long term effects before forcing these vaccines on other things.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33300001/
COBOL is rare outside the USA and Western Europe, I'm pretty sure.
Because streaming music is a trivial task, computationally-wise. It could have had some performance impact in 2000, but we're in 2021 now.

And nothing else related to the functional differences between Spotify and WinAMP can explain why Spotify is slow. Done properly, it should feel snappier than WinAMP felt in 2000.
I do not know much about Canadian conventions to have made such an informed choice. I use en-US simply because I hate to see the red squiggly lines when I am fighting with someone on reddit
There are recon pods for the F-16, so not sure what the vigorous denial was about for imaging forest fires or earthquakes.

What's cute is that there was a recon version of the F-5, made for KSA. One of the designers said it worked well with no vibration problems, but Northrop technicians had to tell the Saudi airport workers to stop X-raying the palettes of film. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_F-5
If you define the term "full" like that, then we need a word for a node which stores all the history.
The US took a step towards that with CASE Act that was recently passed, establishing what is basically a small claims court for copyright infringement. The big problem with the existing situation is attorneys fees can be over $50k for a relatively simple case, and the average case costs over $200k. With the new system the process is streamlined and there is no need to hire an attorney, and attorneys fees will not be awarded to the prevailing party, except in cases of bad faith. The total damages are also limited to $30k, and $15k in statutory damages per infringement, so if you prevail it is less likely to be appealed

Parts of the UK and several EU countries have a similar system with a small claims court for copyright cases under a certain limit with a limited discovery, where attorneys are not needed in addition to the regular courts.
That's when used without any identifiers - use a specific URL: https://www.sharedrop.io/rooms/d602bb4d-5277-413d-b302-62d5f...
And cross-network transfer is doable :P
> Gold actually peaked in Aug. 2020. You'd think that at least some of the bitcoin interest would have gone to gold, but it hasn't. Maybe people are selling gold to buy bitcoin, but again, they don't act similarly.

To add to this discussion, gold traded range bound for 20 years from 1980 to 2000, across many different economic realities, across several different Federal Reserve money supply increasing policies, in slow bleeding downtrends for half a decade or more, over and over again.

Gold as a perma-bull meme mostly culminates with a Gold ETF being approved. Which took a long time for the SEC to approve as well. The SEC just doesn't like commodity trusts split into shares, and they still don't like digital commodity trusts.

Gold perma-bull's latch on to that as price correction and returning to an arbitrary correlation, and that's what they will say 20 years from now too, even though the point wasn't to live your entire life not making any money. Pick your battles wisely. Are you part of the market that just wants exposure to the price of something to preserve your generational wealth, are you part of the market that wants something that's harder to seize, or are you part of the market that really is here to wait around for gold to rally to $5,000 two decades after your favorite youtuber said it was supposed to while its price ignored every macroeconomic reality that was supposed to be relevant.
i enjoyed this counter tirade. thank you for the read
This is clearly a separate discussion, but it’s interesting to consider why we’re always so eager to jail people for street crime, but it “seems really excessive” when it’s a white-collar crime.
>>It's amazing that people can just come out and say "I know what the God meant, while people who lived this tradition for thousands of years, carried it over several continents and kept it alive through wars, plagues, genocides, raise and ruin of empires - they all don't know what they're talking about". It certainly is gutsy.

I'm just amazed that all of the thousands of years of experience, of wars famines struggle, of tradition of practice of worship of deep religious study was required to come up with a conclusion that somehow flipping a light switch is work. I'm not saying I know better, after all I'm not a follower of this religion, but this article was very specifically about a way to avoid pressing buttons because once again, all of those thousands of years of tradition decided that pressing buttons is work. Ok, cool, I'd like to point out that it doesn't make any sense to me. But then I forgot that religion doesn't have to make any sense to exist.
Exclusives are explicitly not multi-source. I want to be able to buy the games I want to play on the platform I want to play them on. This isn't always feasible, and that's OK, but it really grates when it's deliberately pushed in that direction.
This might relate to the UK/US differences, but:

> American-style crosswords, on the other hand, require both knowledge and a degree of lateral thinking.

> One question that Prof Klein is particularly proud that Dr Fill got right was: "Pasta dish at the centre of a murder mystery."

> The answer was poisoned penne.

Does "poisoned penne" actually mean anything as a complete phrase? This clue is very different from a UK cryptic crossword - wordplay features heavily, but answers still have a coherent meaning. Maybe this is why the US crosswords are more complicated for an AI.
Aimpoint Comp M4 vs. M5
>> This is a company that actively fights right to repair and implements software DRM to lock out non-Apple authorised replacements.

But they do all these things for obvious reasons. Reasons you and I may not agree with or be happy about, but still obvious reasons. In the case of repair/replacement it's just because they want you to use expensive replacement parts, they want to lure you into their Apple stores, and they don't want any liability/accountability for repairs with 'unofficial' parts.

I don't see how providing specifications about how their GPU's work so someone can make a Linux driver out of it hurts their commercial interests or liability though. Yes people may screw up their system if they install Linux on a Mac and it doesn't boot anymore, but as long as you can still take it into an Apple store and they can restore it to MacOS, why would Apple actively fight the extremely small minority of people who want to do that? And even if more people (developers/enthusiasts) would buy M1 hardware and immediately slap Linux on it, why would they care about that? They still made the sale, and these people will still walk around with a machine with a big fat Apple logo on it?

They previously spent a lot of effort accomodating people who wanted to run Windows on Macs using Boot Camp, so why would they be worried about people running Linux on M1 macs?

Edit: I can imagine Apple want to protect their IP and hence don't want to disclose anything about out it, period. Much like NVidia and most other GPU manufacturers do. But if AMD and Intel can be OSS-friendly, Apple could be too, apparently IP protection does not have to be a deal-breaker.
With an experiment of this nature,

I think the thing I'm objecting to is that this is a valid or meaningful 'experiment'. Placing there, to me, is already inaccurate framing.
YES it's the real deal! If you ask Hackernews it's like a better ruby, a better java, a better everything!
If you ask Tiobe index it's the number 48 most popular language (between Haskell and FoxPro (?) ) , so if u wanna invest your time in that language go ahead. Lots of FoxPro and Elixir dev jobs out there for sure!
And if that is set up properly, you can combine it with o make some great interactive visulalizations like https://3dbag.nl/en/viewer
"Glitch" is an interesting word. I've rarely heard it used to describe problems within the software industry, and almost never by actual software developers. Yet journalists seem to love it, and you often see headlines like "Software glitch costs bank $500m a day" or "Report says software glitch caused fatal accident", even when stronger-sounding words like "defect" or "failure" would seem more appropriate.

And politicians seem to really love it as well, perhaps because it is a funny-sounding, non-threatening word, implying a minor hiccup rather than a serious defect. So, whenever some new, high-profile software system crashes and burns upon launch, you get lots of folksy talk about glitches: there's just a few glitches, they're fixing the glitches, you've got to expect a few glitches, etc. Whenever I heard such talk, I like to imagine the difference between the attempts to downplay the problems, and the likely reality of stressed-out engineers scrambling to fix a system that was released in a half-finished state due to an unrealistic deadline.
LinkedIn is dead (basically facebook), but I digress. There are 2 ways that I look at this problem.
1. Only connect with someone that you have worked with, and are happy to vouch for (good work ethic). Sometimes I add recruiters to see what they are slinging, but give them just a few days to sling, and then remove them if they are just collecting (pokemon style).

2. With colleagues its a bit harder, but you can add people and then remove them, and linkedin will not notify them that you have done so (or so it says).

For the first colleague, try not to get too wound up about it, in future you may start to see things from his POV. The second guy sounds like someone that would really bother me, so I would remove the connection probably immediatly.

I also do a mass culling of connections when I change jobs. Staying connected to people whos work ethic I repsect.
There is nothing wrong with having savings but right now pretty much every government in the world is trying to encourage consumer spending to get the economy going again. And the way they do that is by making the alternative (saving) less attractive.
central banks all over are running on IBM.
I saw this a lot with Y2K. Suddenly all those places that had been ticking along for a couple of decades on their COBOL line-of-business systems with minor maintenance had to make some major changes.

The choice, really, was "hire some ludicrously expensive COBOL devs, or replace the entire system". Replacing the entire system failed on every sane business evaluation: high-risk, hugely expensive, no guarantee that the new system will even work. So they hired the ludicrously expensive COBOL devs (because the devs needed to understand 1970's-era COBOL, and they were rare in the OO-frenzied 1990's) and patched up the old system.

But as time wears on, those systems fall further and further behind, and the COBOL devs who actually know how to maintain them get more and more expensive (or actually unavailable). The costs and risks of replacing the system is still too high for any given marginal change, but the marginal changes are getting very, very expensive.

And then 2038[0] rolls around and they'll face the same choice. And the same risks will come up. It'll be interesting to see what they do, and what choices are available. Because patching the old system may well not be possible at this point, because there's nobody left who understands it. And migrating the complex business logic to a new system may well not be possible, because there's no-one left who understands the old code.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
Ads being delayed seems like a win for consumers though.
From the perspective of "language designers influencing programmers", the difficulty of auto-completing to `let mut` could be seen as something positive.
The problem is the U.S. court system allows those with deep pockets to tie up the proceedings with endless delays over all kinds of arbitrary procedural matters. Those on the receiving end need to keep spending all this money to pay for their lawyers to handle all of the paperwork.

I don’t think it would be a problem in this case though. If Apple tried to do that to Alyssa I think she’d have the community jump to defend her. Perhaps even the EFF would take on her case. Apple would end up damaging their own brand with all the negative press that would generate. All of that on top of the stupidity of preventing people from doing what Apple themselves went out of their way to allow people to do.
Europe is very diverse. From "what are we going to do with all this oil money" Norway to "there are shacks with people in them" Bulgaria.
My Schwab account does international wires settled in USD or in a number of foreign currencies for free. (The official fee is $15 but it’s always been refunded for me.)
I confess that I don't really understand what is going on with the script running constantly behind the scenes in the PlantUML login page [0].

It seems to be constantly sending GET requests to a tracking pixel with data passed through a query in the URL; it seems to be either tracking or profiling (maybe even mining?). After some googling, this may be part of Ezoic [1], a forward proxy tracker.

Since it is a locally-hosted script, it would be hard to block by domain name alone.

Would this classify as a Dark Pattern?

[0]: https://plantuml.com/login/
[1]: https://datacadamia.com/marketing/analytics/ezoic
> Central banks will accommodate any need of reserves in the system in order to keep the interest rate in their choose range.

I think they are required to keep 10% reserve. Unless this changed very recently?
As a software author, the first alternative doesn't sound very attractive to me. Because as an author, I will want the upstream version of libxyz, and if the distribution provides security updates past the upstream date, this means that I need to use that exact distribution to benefit.

And vendoring in is pretty much equivalent to what happens with static linking.

My parent had suggested that dynamic linking is some great solution, and I don't see it's that great.
Ah it's the second month Elixir broke into the top 50 languaes, yippi di peep! it's #48 between Haskell and Visual FoxPro lol. Yes definite a huge and growing community.
https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
No, not at all. I hate var & val because I never can remember which is which (from Scala, which I never really used a lot).

let vs let mut is /clear/ - you can simply not mix them up.
Which is, if I understand correctly, a kind of balancing feedback loop. People are spending -> make it deflationary. People are hoarding -> make it inflationary. It will be really interesting to see if this has any stabilizing effect in the (very) long term.
Complete Guide to Datetime Parsing with Pandas
Obviously you haven't had to maintain code written by mathematicians that prefer to use one letter names for functions and variables among other peculiarities.
VGA ROM Fonts (2020)
is there a subset or option for bogans?
Loser should pay both sides legal fees by default, but the judge should have the discression to change this and also to cap costs based on what is reasonable.
I really wouldn't go far based on that list. It's mostly from the Waitbutwhy article from years ago when they were still basically a research/brainstorming group and hadn't even figured out what they wanted to do or what approach they wanted to take.

For comparison to Musk's other companies , it's analogous to Bill Cantrell or Mike Griffin or that guy from sea launch at SpaceX.

Some in this group were very briefly there like Tim Hanson.

Some I think are misreported to not be there , unless anyone has any extra information. For example , Paul Merolla was there at the last conference , even though he's reported as not being with the company.

Some I think are also advisors like Sabes , unless something has changed.

One of them is just a neurosurgeon , but they already have a whole surgery department with a lead now.
I think the main difference between any toaster manufacturer and Nvidia/Apple is: at some point toaster manufacturers don't even supply their R&D with the means necessary to actually make new stuff nowadays. E.g. if the head of R&D says: I want to try this new heating element I've thought of, management will say: "sure, where can we buy it?". At Apple and Nvidia I suppose there's the infra in place to make it happen, even if you can't buy it. How long that will still be the case, is an open question (just look at Aerospace for the downfall, with private equity eating all their manufacturing capabilities)
Richard Stallman saw that same watershed moment a few years ahead of you...
Ah yes, the world changing technology of putting a potential fire hazard in a narrow tunnel with no escape routes. What could possibly go wrong? [1]

More information https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RPMt_FS-s8

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Tunnel_disasters
The same Vanguard that could have millions of dollars of investments in your account? What’s the appropriate time out?
> The commenter asked for free research, which I'm not about to reproduce for them

Not really. You specifically wrote that anyone using Docker Desktop is now liable for breaking NDAs and that a "HUGE" amount of sensitive data about your system is being sent to Docker without consent.

I mean, I'm taking for granted here that you didn't wake up yesterday with intent to write those sentences without having ever done the research yourself at least once. You're the one making these claims. If you've done the research, why not just post it here so other folks can verify what you're saying?

What I'm getting from your latest reply is you're trying to make it sound way worse than it is and are using a lack of information to guide folks into thinking the worst case scenario by filling in the gaps with their own interpretation of what you wrote.

Transmitting a crash dump is much different than them sending sensitive data without your consent, especially considering you can turn the "send usage stats" option off which no longer sends crash dumps, and the dump itself is only sent on a crash. Also the help text under the option says that it sends crash dumps too.

Your original reply made it seem like every time you run a container with a volume, the contents of your source code is sent to Docker because in a lot of people's minds that's a "HUGE" amount of sensitive data and ties into your "private code base" and NDA liability sentence before.
> Why is this a feature of a specific application and not the WM?

Presumably because it's quicker or easier to implement this at the application layer rather than at the WM layer. Also, it makes the functionality available no matter which WM one is using, including ones that don't support this natively.
It was probably this one (Dutch): https://decorrespondent.nl/4060/wat-is-oersaai-en-gaat-de-we...

It actually argued for lots more bureaucracy, not accountants particularly. And for a cadastre / land registry. And indeed mentions Hernando de Soto's work in Peru and Egypt.
I wish that word would die. It is used far too often to imply that software made a mistake (presumably had a bug) when in fact the user misunderstood something or pushed the wrong button.

Its overuse leads people to mistrust systems more than they probably should.

It also allows people to excuse actual faults as if they are unavoidable realities of life, ultimately leading to increasingly relaxed standards and more future flaws.

Similar examples are "thing", which you use to refer to something you don't know the name of or can't be bothered to name specifically (because you are mentally lazy or you haven't tried to learn and remember), and the new popular "fake news" -- the phrase you can use when you don't believe what was said, or you don't want to believe it even though you know it may be true, or perhaps you are unwilling to accept the information and want to suggest to your listener that they should also ignore the information.

Glitsh, slippery slope indeed.
Worst piece of software I have ever had to use as a developer. The API is horrible and clunky.
How about magic wormhole https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Yes, it is often used to imply a software bug which may or may not exist, but without taking any responsibility (or rather, pushing the blame on developers).
I did a reinstall of windows pro N last week, and had the PC connected to the network. It required a few non-prominent buttons, but I manged to only make a local account. I was still caught out by the security questions though.

I suppose this might be the difference due to the N version. If I recall this leaves out some of the default media encoders to avoid some anti-trust legislation in Europe. Might be that they are slightly less aggresive with these dark patterns in that version.
> To those surprised by this: do you have lots of savings in regular bank accounts? Why? Why not invest it in some instrument like a 0% fee money market fund with a low yield/risk?

Funny world. Negative interest rates would have been unthinkable a decade ago. Yet, here we are about to normalize that savings in a bank account are not okay.

> I learned "max 2 salaries in a bank account because you are being stiffed otehrwise as the bank doesn't pay interest rate" since I was a kid. It's as much hammered into me as "keep N months salary in savings".

There was a time when you put your money in a savings account and the bank will pay a reasonable interest to cover inflation and give you some extra. (The power of compound interest, anyone?). People's memory are insanely short.

Here is also what you might be missing: Central interest rate will gradually affect all aspects of economy and thus all investment vehicles. 0% interest means that any investment with yield will carry risk. Negative rates will mean that for society, on average, they'd be losing money on their investments.
Why should I care how old the battery is? I'm paying to lease its capacity, whatever the charge management system says it is. I don't maintain permanent personal relationships with my other batteries, so why should I cultivate an attachment to my car battery?

I'll never, ever understand this particular argument against swappable EV batteries.
You should let copyright owners to know. Then it's up to them.

GPL is just a license. Those who released the code in GPL still own the copyright. What happens next is their business.