skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Retirement/social security is the carrot: "work hard until you reach age xx and then you can relax." Some people need a reason to keep going, and society needs those people to keep working for most of their life, or institutions will collapse.

Yes, some people enjoy their jobs, or are motivated by moving up to a better job or more pay, but the reality is there are many people for whom these will never be possibilities. They do jobs that are not fun or rewarding, that can be performed by nearly anyone so will never be forced by the market to pay more than minimum wage.

It used to be the motivation for these jobs was the stick, but we've progressed, and now offer a carrot instead.
> And our spelling is the least rational, least consistent thing I've ever seen. In addition to the weird way we spell a lot of things, many of the sounds are not pronounced at all, or pronounced differently, in different countries.

That's because we use the Latin alphabet for it, but it clearly wasn't mean to encode English. Contrast it with Italian, for which after learning the basic pronunciation of letters you can pretty much read out loud any words and be understood.
One of my favorite purchases as well! I bought a two-person hammock because I'm a big guy and I can't believe I used to sleep on the ground. So snug! The only downside is when I'm hiking above treeline, there aren't aren't any places to tie up to. Then again, as long as there are trees around you can setup camp anytime. With a tent, it's not always possible to find a large enough flat spot to place your tent.
It wasn't mentioned in this article, but a commonly repeated complaint during COVID times is that season tickets don't work for people who commute 2–3 times per week and work from home the rest of the days.

A possible flexible solution is to have the option of buying bulk tickets for a discount and using them whenever you want.
Got I hate my Cafelat Robot. I never use it. I feel like you really have to be a hobbyist coffee drinker to appreciate this thing... Not only did I need to buy a gazillion dollar grinder to get it to work, I almost always spill the water trying to jigger that pot thing into the bottom of it. Each to their own I suppose. :D
I see no ads as a subscriber and the subscription terms explicitly states ad-free, unlimited browsing for 1 year for $10, subscription benefits listed here: https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/wired/121743?source=AM...
I'd never had a problem understanding a native English speaker from the US until I met a truck driver from eastern KY. Couldn't understand a single word he said. He was driving with his wife, who translated for him.
Dutch civil servants used social media to spy on citizens, says study
How We Saved $428/Mo and Boosted App Performance by 200 Times
I'm going to second this. I don't understand why people keep buying cast iron when steel has the same core traits(durability primarily) but so many more upsides. Thinner, lighter, heats faster. Steel is where it's at IMO. Enameled for anything acidic otherwise your seasoning is gone.
Fukushima may not have caused much loss of life, but you also need to consider the economic damage.

Natural disasters, terrorism, and unanticipated design flaws (generators below sea level) are important considerations. Those add costs that aren't always accounted for.
The types of surprises that I've seen have to do with inferences that the compiler draws: this program would be undefined if foo was negative, therefore foo is not negative, therefore I can optimize away this condition.
Physicists identify the engine powering black hole energy beams
> I believe he’s arguing that they were more sane/pragmatic compilers

I can’t imagine they have any actual experience with Borland or Symantec’s C or C++ compilers, then. These things had notoriously shakey standards compliance and their own loopy implementations of certain things, along with legions of bugs – it’s not hard to find older C++ libs with long conditional compilation workarounds for Borland’s brain damage. Microsoft’s C++ compiler was for years out of step with the standard in multiple ways.

Part of the reason GCC ate these compilers’ markets for lunch was the much more rigorous and reliable standards adherence, not just the lack of cost.

This reads like nostalgia for an age that never was.
I have these same ones and AirPod Max as well. Both really amazing for focus, deep thought and traveling.
What else does anyone use the term satellite dish to refer to?
So the article is arguing that we should take the safety net away rather than businesses paying their employees more? Insane.
I don't think there are fixed categories of people for this. I've never met a child who wasn't intrinsically motivated to do creative work. E.g., I think of the many hours I spent lost in drawing and making ascii art.

I think it's mainly a matter of training. People who want us to do things for them train us in responding to extrinsic motivation. That's not terrible; some amount of it makes the economy work, after all. But for me one of the essential characteristics of adulthood is deciding how to train ourselves. If you want, you can reconnect with your intrinsic motivations.
> Vanilla C no longer gives them the tools to do that on a modern processor

Can you elaborate on this point?
Sometimes you don’t want the grandparents around. There’s a reason many people move out, ya know? The amount of shitty parents that don’t deserve a single thing from their children is massive.

And for that reason, we do need an industry built up around elderly care and facilitating independence from elders.
How the Internet Turned on Elon Musk
Isn't that the point? Making the engine decoupled and embeddable just wasn't on Mozilla's radar, and it suffered as a consequence.

Chrome team was advcied very early in their development by none other than Android team to go for WebKit because it was easier to work with. Not Presto, not Gecko. So at least since back then, thud feature was at least somewhat on Apple's list of priorities. I'm not sure if it got carried over from KHTML, but if it did, they didn't break it intentionally.

Back in IE horror days I remember using Avant Browser. It used IE to provide fancier features like tabs. I never remember Gecko anywhere in discussion for being a platform to build on top of, except for other Mozilla projects (FFOS, Thunderbird) that Mozilla dropped sooner or later.
The ownership structure was very much not clear to the volunteers. They had no contract with this company and as far as they knew the company (which freenode as a network predates) owned little to nothing of consequence. (and volunteers are very much stakeholders in any project, just usually not shareholders)
E(n) Equivariant Normalizing Flows for Molecule Generation in 3D
I think one of the best attempts to solve this is the attempt to classify undefined behavior into "bounded" and "critical" UB, which is a distinction that hasn't gained as much traction as I'd like.

Something like 1<<32 is "bounded" UB, and can't result in anything happening to your program... it is permitted to result indeterminate values, it is permitted to trap, but that's basically it.

Critical UB is stuff like writing to a const object, calling a function pointer after casting it to an incompatible type, dereferencing an invalid pointer, etc. Basically, anything goes.

This is part of the "analyzability" optional extension which I wish would gain more traction.
I dunno, as a native-English speaker of (bad) Czech which has similar-ish thing to what you listed I am not sure these are such a mindfuck after all. If you threw all that at person at once they’d definitely lose their mind, but realistically they’ll learn it in something like this order (edit: updated to use similar example “hrát” - to play):

- conjugating verbs, “hraju” = I play, “hraje” = he/she plays

- past tense of verbs, “hrál jsem” = I was playing, “hrál” = he was playing, “hrála” = she was playing

- that verbs have a “perfective” form, so “zahraju” = I will play, “zahraje” = he/she will play

- naturally the past tense of these follow, “zahrál jsem” = I played, “zahrál” = he played, “zahrála” = she played

- that this can be conditional, “zahrál bych” = I would play, “zahrál by” = he would play, “zahrála by” = she would play

It’s not a stroll in the park, but the path that leads you to constructing those little sentence fragments isn’t too bad IMO. There are other complications tho (I just showed first and 2nd person singular, no plurals, I didn’t decline any nouns or adjectives, didn’t cover positions of words in a more complex sentence)
That's right, I'm from Brazil!

The meaning is the same, both in Brazil and in Portugal.

As a curiosity the two countries (along with others) are part of the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 [1] whose purpose was to create a unified orthography for the Portuguese language, to be used by all the countries that have Portuguese as their official language.

Nonetheless there is a lot of differences in usage, mostly regarding the "popular" vocabulary. Some heavily used words in one country are less frequently used in the other. There's also a noticeable difference in the accent.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Language_Orthograph...
What are the 10x more problematic issues with solar and wind?
> The only "good" social network site (and really the only good forum in general) is one where real names are banned.

Not just this but any identity markers like gender or age. This is the only way to get people to face uncomfortable ideas, when they can’t dismiss it because “oh it’s a man/woman, of course they would say that”.
I worked with a few people from JG. I also worked on a bunch of J2me games. It was an interesting time to be in mobile.
Is it really Twitter or the habit to write everything there, even lengthy posts?
I used cast iron in my apartment for five years. My range was even electric.

The cast iron community of the internet overthinks its care and usage. To season, just use it. To use it, don't restrict yourself (some recommend against tomato sauce because of the acidity, for. example). To clean it, get yourself as scrubber [1] to remove the high spots and wipe the remaining residue with a paper towel. Done.

It's a hearty hunk of metal that's been in kitchens for generations. It can withstand a lot.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Cleaner-Stainless-Chainmail-Scrubber-...
>> Sergio Serrano has participated in many international scientific conferences across the globe. "In a typical situation, a group of foreign researchers are discussing a complex technical issue with very precise and elaborate formal English," Serrano says, "until an American joins the group."

I'm not American but I don't like this. If an American author had written that everything is fine until "a foreigner joins the group" there would be a twitterstorm.

What's more, this is not about Americans, or even native English speakers. I'll give you a completely different example of how a group with a common language can exclude someone who doesn't quite share it.

I knew a couple were the woman was Greek and the man was from Chile. They lived in Greece and hung out with Greeks. I witnessed first hand, dozens of times, how the Chilean guy was left out of conversations. It happened in three phases. In the first phase, everyone would speak to him in English. This lasted for a few minutes, time enough to exchange greetings and pleasantries and so on. In the second phase, the Greeks would revert to speaking to each other in Greek. In the third stage, the Chilean man would try to join the conversation in Greek. At that point, the Greeks would reply in English. Then the process looped back to the second phase.

The Chilean guy was trying to learn Greek, but he never could - because nobody spoke to him in Greek long enough for him to learn it. He also failed to make any friends, because everyone spoke to him only for a short time, as long as they felt comfortable speaking in English.

Obviously I noticed this so I tried to rectify it by speaking to him only in Greek. We ended up code-switching a lot but at least we could keep going for a longer time than he did with others. I realised his frustration when we explicitly discussed how I spoke to him in Greek and he said, exasperated "you're the only one!".

Language can be a huge barrier that we raise subconsiously around us- but it doesn't help to single out one nationality for it. Everyone does it.
I guess it depends on what you think an iPhone is.

If you think the iPhone + iPad is basically a video game console, then yeah, you probably think Apple's rent-seeking monopoly is ok, because it's not much different than any Nintendo Switch or Sony PlayStation or similar. People generally live with those draconian restrictions, because it's understood to be subsidized by the exclusive titles, and arguably not of high importance (it plays games and media, it's "just for fun").

But if you think the iPhone + iPad is basically a computer/smartphone, then you probably think Apple's rent-seeking monopoly is evil, because it fundamentally breaks the promise those devices imply, and is wildly worse than any Google Android or Microsoft Windows device ever sold. These devices are considered "important", they get used for legal / government / business purposes, and not "just for fun".

So, is the iPhone/iPad a smartphone/computer? Or is the iPhone/iPad a video game console?

Apple's rocking the boat here by trying to have their cake and eat it too -- they want the sell something that is ostensibly a smartphone/computer device, but they want the monopoly control and legal treatment as if it were a video game console.

> it's always funny how Apple is the specific target of this rage. nobody gets themselves nearly as worked into a lather about the evils of Playstation

I mean, people really did get "worked into a lather about the evils of Playstation" too. Notably, for a hot minute, Sony positioned PlayStation 3 as a real smartphone/computer (and not just a video game console) with the release of their Linux setup, and Sony did get exactly the same heat Apple gets today when Sony restricted it, and then later killed it)

https://tedium.co/2020/11/27/sony-linux-otheros-geohot-histo...
YM without an "about" or similar? Not very common IME, but seeing it now is probably a harbinger of more to come. Feels congruent with "because [something]" (without an "of" in between).
Sort of unfortunate to reuse this term which has been a field of study in solid state physics for a very long time:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spintronics
I'm afraid they may as well try to bail the Titanic. That ship has already sunk.
If these phones were still around, I'd imagine there'd be another option now:

- Write your game in C++ and transpile it to Java using some fancy framework that dances around never using GC.
Really? That was my favourite part of using qutebrowser.

I'm already looking at a link when I want to 'click' it, so bringing up the shortcuts puts the relevant one right in the center of my vision. I don't know if it was faster (I have the same question about vim!) but it was fast enough, and more satisfying.

Then again, the point of my i3/qutebrowser/etc box was to be keyboard-centric, and I would use it with a "the mouse is lava" philosophy. I should really stand that box up again; too much macOS is bad for the soul...
With it's usefulness it's a surprise it's not picked up as an actual word.

Pre production post production. Pre release post release. Prepone, postpone.
The story was almost certainly written with media optioning in mind, hence the human drama. It's common with longform journalism, and it's common for the author as well. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5200697/
All it means is that someone verified their identity. They are generally for people that have shown people try to copy their profile to fool others.

Nothing to do with popularity, that correlation comes from the likelyhood of impersonation.

But yes, also vanity.
>otherwise your seasoning is gone.

And iron leached into whatever your eating. I know thats considered in the myth category, but I have at least one dish Ive prepared that ended up tasting pretty metallicy. Could be expectations manifesting reality.

I think people get turned off to steel when they put a new pan on the stove, dont let it heat up, bake something to it, and its an arm and a leg to clean the first time. Unlike nonstick, it has a bit of a learning curve. Cast iron doesnt show stains the same way, and you can use a chain mail scrubber. Scratching steel does slightly change its nonstick properties, so dont use steel wool.
True, but how many projects will use either one directly and not as a part of a larger toolkit like vitejs and now parcel?
My home country allowed you to have a mix of private savings (but only certain government bonds) and Social Security. When Social Security imploded, the government just expropriated the private systems "for the greater good" and "redistributing wealth".

Funny how democracy works.
I've heard "do the needful" used by non-Indians in tech, thanks to Indian expats in tech using it.

I hope it goes mainstream some day, at least in tech.
The main argument against "performant" isn't linguistic, it's technical. "Performant" is vague. It can always be replaced by something more descriptive like "fast", "uses little memory", "asymptotically optimal", "parallelizable", and so on.
Best practice was to pre-allocate everything, or at least not allocate insane amounts of objects per-frame if at all possible such that System.gc() would become a no-op up to tracing and maybe defragmentation anyway.
Maybe neither would be good. All playgrounds don't need more bullies.
Could be nice but I'll be avoiding parcel like the plague after being confronted by its complete lack of maintenance of parcel v1 while v2 is in beta, and not the working kind of beta, the broken kind, while the solution to old problems is "use parcel 2" (https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/issues/5695
https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/issues/5294) . In the end I replaced parcel with webpack, less sexy but it's kind of the standard.
I probably have an unusual use case here but I would love something like this that supports websockets. I understand that it means that the instance can't be stopped until the last connection drops but I'm happy to live with that.
If you are a fullstack dev, I think you should learn a simple growth hack strategy that is helpful:

- Take your idea, build a simple UI (not the app at all, just the UI)

- Take that UI, and get a sign up modal on it

- Take that and run ads that point to it.

- See if you get enough conversions that justify you actually building the thing. What's that number for you? Dunno, but you'll learn quickly. And then you'll have a small mailing list of beta testers.

You can toil away and build a thing, or you can find an audience, and then build a thing that those people will pay for.

Everything will follow from that.

(or if you are going for a 'global scale' leveraged play -- you need to get users, cover the costs of the platform, and then get VC backing to figure out your monetization strategy)
Try copy/paste of the URL into a brand new browser tab. Works for me, every time. Which means it's probably something to do with the Referer header being set? Anti-flooding/hotlinking maybe?
Meanwhile in America, you will often hear a satellite dish be shortened (incorrectly) to just being called a "satellite."

You'll even hear the word "satellite" mis-applied to parabolic antennas that are not directed at an actual satellite!
My point was to try and get the poster to tell us how we can be critical of welfare programs without being racist. Since they never answered I'm going to assume, like most people with this stance, they think ANY criticism against it is racism and no discussion should happen. Assuming that every black single woman is a 'welfare queen' would be racist but the idea that there are individuals who take advantage of the system is not, especially since it's true. Focusing on a term that some find offensive seems like a waste of time and a distraction from real discussion on the issue.
Sorry you are right. Xscale was an Intel cpu :)
Vine had almost as many active users as Twitter, yet there are users actually claiming no one used it. smh

The service failed because it was in high competition and they lost momentum. While Tiktok succeeded simply because it was fresh, appeared at a time when demand for personal and videos was growing, and offered the right combination of UX that satisfied its target audience.
Even on modern processors, an ADD instruction does not corrupt memory. The C standard, in declaring that an integer overflow results in all-bets-are-off UB, is not enabling compilers to provide valuable optimizations.
Since when were NDAs routinely limited to 10 years?
Honestly, even in business class, sweatpants are just the better choice.
Did two Masters, one in genomic medicine. Basically spent most of my adult life up to now in academia. Then moved into industry, from bioinformatics to business management and web dev.

At every step I basically went more and more practical and further away from theory and science.

I think the problem here is that studying complex stuff is glorified in our society. We naively think that every problem can be solved by studying it hard enough and that productivity is at least linear. I mean, it is true that we need science, but there is a universe of well-paying existing jobs (and those yet to be created) that are way easier and provide a decent payoff for workers and society.

I am convinced only a small fraction of people are suited for the lonely grind of academia. Most others would be better off getting more practical experience.

Smart people end up studying, so university degrees are associated with smart people. But the chance that they would have been successful without a science degree is pretty high for a lot of them.
The original intent was for signed overflow to be architecture-specific (not everything was 2s complement back then).

On x86, the correct behavior was previously (and obviously) “perform a 2s complement wraparound”.

To “ignore” the situation used to mean “delegate to a lower level”. It now means “silently generate code that violates the semantics of the target microarchitecture”

As the article argues, I think this has gone too far. For example, people are starting to claim that asm blocks are undefined behavior. They’re clearly implementation specific (so undefined by the spec), but also well defined by each implementation.

In current readings of the spec, compilers are free to ignore them completely. Doing so would break all known operating systems, and many user space programs, so they have not managed to do so yet.

Edit: for signed overflow, other architecture-specific behavior (such as optionally trapping floating point exceptions) would also have been permissible, assuming the architecture supported it.
Yes please! It's long overdue! The state of current rail services cannot possibly be any worse!
For me the Aeron chair. When you're working from home for a year, shelling out a few hundred dollars for a nice chair is worth it. I bought mine from a chair repair shop which usually deals with commercial clients, it is a refurbished chair with some gratis extras added by the owner after we agreed on a price ($450). I like that I bought it from a chair repair shop because I can always go back there if there is a problem but I have not had a problem.
I wrote "started by refunding". There is no reason we should have stopped there.

We are currently incentivizing many people to not work through unemployment. We should just give them that money unconditionally so that they go back to work.