skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In certain crowds you could also get away with still water w/o ice, since it looks like a vodka-water, especially if you're a woman (tends to be a women's drink—not pushing that norm, just observing it).

In either the still-water or sparkling/soda-water case, just get it in a highball or Collins glass and you'll fit right in. The glass is what sells it. 99% chance you won't be the first one to make this request to a given bartender. Unless they're a jerk they won't charge you for soda water from the bar's tap, and a slice of lemon or lime.

You could also ask for a coke without ice served in whatever they serve jack & coke in (collins glass, lowball glass, old-fashioned glass, could be any of several). Even if someone hears you order any of these, unless they're socially clueless this will signal some things to them and they'll know you are pointedly Not Drinking, for whatever reason, and they won't bug you about it or offer you anything. This is assuming you're around people who care that others aren't drinking, to begin with (I'd still use the specific-glass trick just not to look out of place, regardless, personally).
> IRC is essentially useless on mobile without having some man in the middle server to convert IRC to http.

That's not true. I used HoloIRC client on Android with no problem.

> It's even pretty useless on laptops or desktops that aren't always running.

There is no need to. If it's about talks history, chats are not right tool then, forums are more convenient.

Chats are suitable for casual or urgent instant discussions. In all other cases forums are better because user doesn't have to present during discussion, he can return and comment any time he want.
He used to use Facebook for these things, back when he worked there.
That sucks, I'm sorry to hear that. If it helps, the people reviewing these applications are different than the Yellow people, and are really nice. Also there are more of these glasses to go around than there are Yellow spots.

In terms of process, Snap has during the past 12 months made a sustained and well-funded push for racial and gender equality, and that should help a lot to make nepotism impossible in the new process. Here's an important example of Snap's racial equality initiatives: https://www.axios.com/snapchat-cameras-overhaul-racism-6a01b...

Another example, which is not featured in the press but I am very proud of, is that the computer-generated voice we used in the Spectacles V4 out-of-box experience tutorial is a gender-neutral voice. We did this as the start of a journey of attempting to convince the software industry to stop making A.I. assistants be female so often. Having female A.I. assistants perpetuates the gender wage gap by creating the idea that assistant jobs are a women's role. This is a big issue that needs to be tackled and I'm proud to have helped with it in a small way. If anyone reading this works on Siri, Alexa, Cortana, or Google Assistant, please consider asking your management to adopt gender-neutral voice technology.

Here is UNESCO imploring companies to do this:
https://en.unesco.org/EQUALS/voice-assistants

"[UNESCO] advises companies and governments to, among other actions:
end the practice of making digital assistants female by default;
explore the feasibility of developing a neutral machine gender for voice assistants that is neither male nor female"
Ask HN: Do you regret choosing Java?
I'm the de facto CTO of something that might become a startup, but for now is just an exploratory project. We have a handful of motivated engineers with various degrees of experience, and we're trying to settle on a tech stack to get started.

We have a pro-Java faction, because Java is easy to hire for, standard, rock-solid, great tooling, yadda yadda yadda.

We also have an anti-Java faction, because Java is bloated and verbose and unpleasant and not modern.

Did you regret choosing Java for a new project or startup? What went well? What went wrong?
They should call it "The Omnion" to avoid confusion with America's Finest News Source.
I didn't know about this (the Nobel prize bit), I've heard the argument in different ways. I find it infuriating that this amazing machine of pricing just gets ignored, taken for granted or worse.
I don't know if it's just me but I find migrating from Parcel 1 to 2 exceedingly hard and frustrating. I tried a few times for the previous betas, and just spend 2 more hours trying and still failed.

I'd love to finally benefiting from tree shaking and faster build times but I can't get anything to work. I hope they'll improve for the stable version, because Parcel 1 promise was that it just magically worked, which it did! I'd hate for Parcel 2 to regress on this side.
Accent is another sore point, I find understanding non-native speakers' accent to be way easier than understanding what some native speakers say.

Probably if you're a native speaker you've been exposed in your life to the different dialects and accents - as a non-native speaker the chances of you knowing how the different dialects influence words and pronunciation are much slimmer.
Only Su is named, so only he is supposed to get the noble? Sounds unrealistic
The current racism in Oregon is certainly not something I want to understate but it's unfair to compare Oregon now to the deep South now. The whole of the United States was founded on slavery but a lot has changed. Not nearly as much as has changed in the South. For example, President Obama lost the national white vote 43% to 55% in 2008 (1). In 2008, more than 89% of the voters in Oregon were white and voted for Obama by 59% to 41% (2). I think it's fair to say at least recently, the white people in Oregon think very differently than the white people in the South. Of course, issues around race continue to exist in significant and meaningful ways in Oregon. But saying it's all the same is deceitfully misleading.

(1) https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/how-groups-voted-2008

(2) https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2008/results/states/exitpo...
It is one of our dreams to resurrect this: https://github.com/atlas-engineer/closure
I didn't say it was safe — I said it was safer than ethanol. With that said, I appreciate your comment. I didn't know all of this specifically.
> Most are farmers

A few are farmers. Looking back a generation or two most of the people in southern Oregon were employed by the timber industry - that number has shrunk considerably over the last generation. There are Eastern Oregon ranches but they tend to be pretty large so not a whole lot of actual farmers/ranchers in total. Yes, they employ people to work on those farms/ranches. And yes, the counties involved in these votes are pretty sparsely populated, but I'd be surprised if even as many as 20% are employed in agriculture at this point. Here's some data from the ODA:

"Oregon’s principal operators of farms and ranchesmake up less than one percent of the total population of Oregon. However, when paid and unpaid on-farm workers are included the total number of workers on the farms and ranchesincreases to approximately four percent of Oregon’s population." [1]

> There is no political back and forth like there used to be where you'd have republicans controlling things for a time and then democrats.

I'm old enough to remember when Oregon Republicans were by and large quite liberal - at least the ones who actually won statewide elections (Tom McCall, Mark Hatfield, Packwood - all Republicans, all would be considered quite liberal today). Both parties tended to have liberal and conservative wings back then, but the conservatives didn't win many elections.

[1] https://www.oregon.gov/ODA/shared/Documents/Publications/Adm...
It strikes me as though it's just jamming tags together to build a slug.

This was once really useful for SEO but is less so in 2021.
> A native English speaker would never have said that... unless they had received a really expensive education.

A native english speaker would not have said that, unless they wanted to sound like the instruction manual, or a BBC BBQ Sports commentator. It is overly formal, a common problem that non-native speakers face.
That one, anyway, is easy. Sort of. Gravity is our perception of space itself being stretched, squeezed, even twisted. So, no gravity is escaping; instead, the black hole is warping the space it is in.

The mathematics describing this process are intractable except in very special cases. In most cases, physicists are obliged to use an approximation that produces an answer that they hope has much of the character of the correct answer. At one extreme, they just use Newtonian gravity, which produces almost-exactly correct answers for small-scale systems involving just regular stars and planets. It is only when warpage gets very large compared to the size of the system, or when e.g. galaxy-scale mass is involved, or the differences between Newtonian gravity and reality are what is interesting, that they have to resort to more complicated approximations.

It was recently discovered that calculations of the motion of galaxies were using an insufficiently accurate approximation that made it seem like stuff is orbiting too fast for the visible mass, requiring "dark matter"–extra, invisible mass–to hold the galaxy together. But using a more accurate approximation makes the need for dark matter evaporate. This created a problem because astrophysicists and cosmologists have come up with lots more uses for dark matter, to explain lots of other things. Without dark matter, they have dug themselves into a hole. The response has generally been to ignore the more accurate galactic gravitational model, and double down on dark matter. They can do this because ultimately it is all just a matter of papers being published and careers advanced or blighted; there are no other real-world consequences.
I'm not sure if capitalism has a "point" but it almost incontestably has "made things cheaper".

It hasn't altered the fabric of reality to abrograte the laws of physics or human physiology.
Did some, transfer costs beetween instances that serves as plot generators are f** expensive. You need TB of data transfers, for example 15TB to transfer on the internet is somewhere around 1500$.
That sounds like something someone communicating from the future would say...
I don't think a new networking protocol is remotely comparable to an entire new form of matter.
Could it be a matter of state law?
Well, for one, you didn't really answer any of the questions I posited.

But further, you have to consider the flip-side of receiving interest: paying it. Having low-cost access to capital makes businesses more efficient. It also makes your personal life cheaper as the average homeowner ends up on a 30-year fixed rate mortgage. A mortgage rate of 2.5% leaves you with way, way, way more free money than the 12% you'd have payed in the 70s. That's true even after factoring in inflation and historic wages.
I mean, we can be doing this back and forth for a while, but again, to quote from the article:

"Judge Christopher Parker did not accept Nicholson's "wholly inadequate" excuse that providing his password would expose information relating to cannabis."

So basically he said "I know the password, but I'm not going to tell you". That's obstructing justice.

My point is if you say you don't remember and maintain saying you don't, can you be persecuted purely on this one law. Because so far it looks like you can't.
> Opening an email was snappy, no obnoxious loading spinners; it was a huge breath of fresh air.

Some of us still have SquirrelMail installed for the odd occasion. :)
Don't get distracted by money. Money isn't real. Money does't feed you, or wash your back in hospital. Saving "money" doesn't make anything happen in the future. It only lets you bid on future (then current) labour/production.

The deep problem is we developed expectations and made promises when there were 6 people of working age for every retiree, and the ratio is going to fall to 2-to-1 or worse. Money can't bridge that unless we invent magic ai robots in a hurry.
The Greater Idaho project would absorb nearly the entire water resources of the East Cascades, placing them under the control of a single state entity.

Doesn't bode well for a Western US that will be increasingly dependent on freshwater as the Earth warms.
Set up a coin such that every time it goes up, some amount of reserve is sold, and 100% of profits donated to carbon reduction projects. Give away free electric cars. Plant trees. Whatever.

Then hype up the coin. Make people bid it up endlessly just like they do other coins. Post lots of #moon #hodl crap on Twitter. Get the flock of sheep moving.

Sell hype, use the proceeds for CO2 reduction.
Twitter's engineering team is just completely incompetent. More than 50% of tweets I'm linked to fail to load on the first attempt, and many times I have to reload the page two or three times before the tweet actually loads. It doesn't surprise me at all that their tweet classifier is mostly broken as well.

It really goes to show just how powerful network effects are in social media. Any company in any other industry that was this bad at their core competency would be overrun by competition in years. Yet Twitter has been completely incapable of doing basic things for over a decade now and they're still one of the dominant social media platforms solely because it's next to impossible to build a critical mass of users on a competing platform.
Which OS do you use with Pinebook Pro?
Raymarching through a voxel world on my TI-84+CE calculator
Saving value is smart, saving money, is stupid. You can tell because on the sticker it says "will lose 2% per year in value."
You know we could solve gerrymandering entirely by using proportional representation like many other democracies do.
PBS Space Time to the rescue:

What Happens at the Event Horizon? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mht-1c4wc0Q

What’s On The Other Side Of A Black Hole? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4oYvSH6jJ8

How Time Becomes Space Inside a Black Hole - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KePNhUJ2reI

The Black Hole Information Paradox - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XkHBmE-N34
They don't offer emulated games as standalone purchases anymore (and, frankly, the idea that they charged repeatedly for games is insane to me) -- instead, now it's tied to the Switch Online subscription service.
At this point, I basically need to know or find an authorities source first. PCMag still appears to be a good resource, moreso than Tom's Hardware and Wirecutter at times (I think.) It's sort of the same shit, but they seem to put a little more work into being right. Too many listicles that are "10 best" are really "the first 10 the author saw while searching." When coronavirus started, theres no way anybody writing most of those "review rollups" ordered and tried on any of the masks they assembled into posts. There are fewer and fewer places that seem to be trying things themselves before recommending them.

https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-sony-mirrorless-lenses

Google really needs an authoritative mode that strips out or deduplicates the news cycle and blogsphere. Something that can tell that every post is basically the same thing and turns it into one entry. I want uniqueness and quality. I dont need the same opinion repeated across 10 urls.

A CTRL+F of the MUM page didnt find the word duplicate once.
> It's too easy to write off a potential solution as difficult or impossible - but why not adopt this attitude, and at least try?

You forgot the part where dude in question is a programming Jesus.
Different code depends on different optimizations. A loop on an int** might benefit a lot from aliasing optimizations, because the compiler will assume that a[i] will remain the same after writing to a[i][j]. Other code may not benefit at all.

Likewise that loop may not benefit from signed overflow; instead an initialization loop that, by way of multiple level of macros, ends up doing a[i]=b[i]*1000/100, might become twice as fast if signed overflow rules let the compiler rewrite the assignment as a[i]=b[i]*10.
A huge part of politics is distribution and use of resources. Resources are constrained by access, and distribution is constrained by ownership - not only of resources, but of the space between them. Where you are and what you have determines what you need and how you get it. This applies whether you're in space, on land, in the ocean, etc. Hell, it would apply if we were all just bits of data in the internet. It's all just relative access to matter in spacetime. Whenever people start moving around, or changing what other things move around (or how), conflict occurs.
It's important to consider that converting between the long-term store of value and the short-term medium of exchange is a taxable event, so if your asset gains value at exactly the same rate as inflation, you still end up losing money.
> I have to look up range/xrange and len and memorise

All you're communicating here is that you don't regularly work with Python.

The claim that you have to look up len seems disingenuous; I might believe it if you didn't look like a speaker of English.

> & means where

And that's something any engineer would know, unlike having to look up what len means?
>Given the article's mention of Rural vs Urban I lean towards the belief that this is driven by a sense of both conservative values in government and probably a lack of understanding in how the government of the people serves the people. More precisely how taxes and math work.

Given the metastasizing of the FIRE (finance, insurance, real estate) sections of the economy, and their typical concentration in urban areas, I'd say that rural areas are basically in the same position as a colony to a colonial power.

Shipping cheap raw materials to the cities, who in turn own the shares, banks, and mortgages, has always been pretty common.

Of course, if you are in favor of colonialism....
Imagine being concerned about inflation at 2-3% a year but not saying a word about bitcoin losing 30% of its value in 20 days.
At least adapting to another private API was easier because the scope was pretty small. It's probably lost forever now, but I had a project which repacked jars to add a few wrapper classes to convert Nokia-specific j2me games to be compatible with my Siemens.
I don't believe that an ASIC has been developed for Ethereum, but I'm not too familiar with cryptocurrency.
Been looking for a new chair for a while - and I really like that Aeron allows you to NOT get the fully adjustable arm rests. All I did all day on my current chair (Arozzi) is accidentally move them when I get up from the chair - to the point where I took the arm apart and put a bolt in it.

The anxiety of this image: https://www.btod.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/steelca...
I think you're referring to the CPI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_price_index), which, as I understand it, is a pretty hotly contested tool in econ/business circles today.

If you want to check out the raw data for the CPI that the US Federal Reserve uses, check out https://fred.stlouisfed.org/ - though I couldn't begin to recommend how to navigate that site.
Could you give examples? I can’t picture the use cases, I don’t game often.
In short:

Plotting is an compute- and IO-intensive process which eventually generates a ~100 GB block of data after a large number of read/write operations to that data. This is the part of the process that involves (and destroys) SSDs.

Farming is a slower process which is performed on those blocks of data, which involves occasional read operations on small sections of that data. The data blocks are typically transferred to slower bulk storage (like hard disks) for this.
wow! much appreciated, many thanks!
This is not correct. "Structuring" has a specific meaning and transferring $9,000 (or any other amount under $10,000) is not enough on its own.
“Preparation for public release” – Sublime 4 Changelog
Gatekeeper has gotten much more aggressive than when it first released. So maybe they're stopping where they are, but I don't think that's the only possibility.
I'm not sure how it is now but a few years back I had an app in the Mac App Store that got in the 'Top Grossing' top 100 for two or three days in a few European countries. I got super excited but when I saw the proceeding, reality pulled me back quick...

It was probably 180€ per day after Apple Tax. I canceled the order for the Lambo and accepted that there is just not much going on in the Mac App Store.

I still miss the days of having conversations with users on MacUpdate. In my nostalgic dreams users back then where also more likely willing to pay proper prices for software.
The Media Loves This UFO Expert Who Says He Worked for The Pentagon (2019)
Afaik if you accept the inheritance, you accept all of it. Normally the solution is to reject it, at least if you know the estate’s in the red, but you can not pick and choose.

We’ve done this for the inheritance of one of my uncles who died severely in debt, as well as his wife and children, everyone of his sibling, nieces, and nephews, had to refuse the inheritance when they came of age. For a few years that was basically the traditional birthday: eat cakes, get presents, sign letter telling the bank you don’t want that debt.

And apparently some states have filial responsibility statutes which makes children responsible regardless, which seems beyond fucked.
The last link in the article is to a paper called "Humanly Traversable Wormholes". Here is an excerpt from its conclusion "In fact, it allows for solutions where the wormholes are big enough that a person could traverse them and survive. From the outside they resemble intermediate mass charged black holes. Their big size comes from demanding that a human traveller can survive the tidal forces.", from [PDF] https://journals.aps.org/prd/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevD.103.066007
>I wonder if this is what people in the 17th century felt, a bit of melancholy at the dream that hundreds of years from now someone may be able to walk on the then newly-discovered moon...

I'm no historian. But I'm pretty sure people had discovered The Moon a wee while before the C17th.
This is a child's essay in a school newsletter. It looks like it just regurgitates the most common talking points.
Ask HN: What Is the Net to You?
With COVID around, even the most uninterested persons have to renegotiate what the net means to them. Is it part of the territory of the countries we live and work in? Just a communication tool? An international space? What is it to you?
If paying your taxes and not shoveling money to criminals is "complying with regulations from unelected bureaucrats" then you have an ethical quandry as much as a practical one to sort through.
Remember that driver education standards vary across the world - I don't know what the average driver is like in Silicon Valley, this could be a challenging road for them.
Face masks effectively limit the probability of SARS-CoV-2 transmission