skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My impression is that interest in JRuby has gradually declined, in favor of CRuby (MRI).

I guess both because CRuby has gotten a lot faster, and because in practice any difference is easily paved over with extra hardware (which is cheap).
Can you name a recent prime minister who wouldn't have been found guilty under this law?

We have already argued for Blair and Boris.

Cameron was bombing hospitals so he’s going to go too…

It wouldn’t be manslaughter, but what about the windrush scandal? Maybe we could get May for that too.

Brown might be safe, is that it? All others behind bars?

In terms of COVID being worse than the Second World War for civilians I think this takes a very rosey perspective of the Second World War - for instance you are only counting “civilian” deaths but let’s not forget that there was a mandatory draft so the soldiers were effectively civilians with guns, and millions of our civilians were forced into the battlefield (but I guess we did have to sit around in our underwear and watch lots of Netflix). While each death is also a tragedy, I also think we have to take age into account, and appreciate that those young men in the battlefield had a lot more life left in them than the average COVID death.
My favourites are the posts by those who have had accidental success, who feel qualified to hold court as though they have some magic technique.

I say this as someone who had accidental success, and ran that successful business for over a decade, completely aware that luck and timing played a far larger part than quality.
I read on HN or maybe reddit don't remember that there are people on the internet who solve captchas all day and night for you for like $0.01. It could make more sense to have them do this instead. It could be actually useful for people with disabilities, or people who type urls in google, etc.
Not the best example, but tax code. Rather than a flat % tax that all corporate entities must adhere to, there are thousands of pages of tax code, with hundreds of ways to 'optimize' hidden within them. A corporation would consider itself to be 'not doing the best it can', if it doesn't utilize (one may also read that as "exploit") those optimizations ("loopholes") while its competitors are doing so.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm genuinely not sure how the comment you replied to is implying that? I read it as saying the US woman should have adjusted her behavior.
> where you are the product

Isn't this true for all major social media platforms?
People make plenty of economic decisions that aren't long term profitable. Go to any struggling downtown, and it will probably be chock full of predatory loan and check cashing places, which are universally considered to be a horrible economic decision to use.

I'm not necessarily saying that driving Uber is quite at that level, but the fact that people are driving for Uber isn't evidence that it's a profitable thing for them to do.
That should not be necessary. Bicycles don't need it, do they?

Moreover, with modern blind spot cameras, automatic collision avoidance systems (which will probably, cheaply, equip every electric car), I hope these concerns will completely fade away.
I owned ride 6-7 different motorcycles, and I believe there's a special place in hell for those who put on loud aftermarket exhausts.

Sure, it sounds nice to them. It shows an astonishing disregard to thousands of other people they impact daily. Let alone your next 10 neighbour houses who put up with it on consistent basis. ... :O

There's no increased safety factor - there's no real location or distance clue such loud exhausts provide and in my experience they only stress and antagonize other drivers :-/
Absolutely. To you.

Other 10,000 people you pass be dammed.
There are different laws for different audiences. Many laws - such as constitutions - have the express purpose of restricting lawmakers. I believe that is widely considered one if the core advances of modern democracies in contrast to monarchies.

The details surely differ, but the general principle applies to the US as well as Germany.
NYT also use Adrian Zenz' report and have a long history of lying to benefit US foreign interests.
Yes and no. It does come from the longform well-wishing but it has been a separate greeting for a decently long time which is reflected by the fact that "guten Morgen" became "Guten Morgen" in the spelling reform 25 years ago. (Though, they did allow both variants a decade later (as is the case with a lot of other words), "Guten Morgen" is still the recommended one.) So that means if you are wishing someone a good morning, you are wishing someone a good morning + greeting. If it is just a good morning, it really is just a good morning (for you) + greeting. I do use both variants but actually wishing someone well is more reserved for people I've been interacting with for a long time (like certain cashiers in a supermarket (if there is time) or employees of a bakery), really friendly strangers or special cases (like someone is being a dick and one is being sarcastic).
I agree with most of this but all that adaptation and behavioral complexity could also happen to a race of p-zombies. And I still struggle to see how "I" (as distinct from behavioral patterns mostly indistinguishable from "I"-hood) can emerge in a materialist univere without some substrate that has properties beyond the mechanical.

I'm veering dangerously close to mysticism and the non-falsifiable here. But it seems inescapable for the same reason Descartes clearly stated. My "I"-ness is the only indisputable fact about reality and the one from which all other beliefs follow.
> I dislike the American corporate environment, their soulless "corporate culture" media materials. There is this one American school of "how to become successful" and that's it.

Ironically, a lot of people in the European country in which I live feel this way about domestic companies compared to the vibrancy of US corporate culture. Maybe you can elaborate on what you're referring to, preferably with less generalizing of a whole continent of corporate cultures as "European?"
In practice in other existing MMOs, you have bounded areas of the game where people are in view of each oher, with player counts designed to work within the technical constrians of the tech. Then teleport/portal around to get to other areas.

But even within an area you can cut down on the n^2 in various ways, with one set of estabilished techniques cutting down server side compute and other set for network communications.
Just like Facebook: ignore the ”newsfeed” part, and the rest of the service is pretty decent.

For Facebook that means e.g using the events functionality. For LinkedIn that’s private messages and network graphs (“do I know someone at X company”).

The “feeds” that are front and center on both sites is the worst feature and in no way necessary for using the service. It’s their easiest method of ad delivery though, which is why they want you to view it.

For Facebook the newsfeed is full of viral crap, ads, and if you are unlucky, toxicity. On LinkedIn it’s recruiters and workfluencers pushing posts that seem like parody but isn’t.
We already solved those problems with containers (I know, half of HN doesn’t like containers and everyone should manage heavy VMs or bare metal machines just like our ancestors did). Notably logs and metrics are exfiltrated, detailed logging and monitoring largely obsolete debuggers for production (indeed, they aren’t even balle into the final image nor are they installable since the app user oughtn’t be root). These practices seem pretty portable to the unikernel model and they don’t require any hand-rolled workarounds or thousands of machines of scale.
If it was every EU national then mainstream media outside of the Guardian bubble would be all over this.

That does not appear to be so, heck all countries have border checks that vary and you can always find instances of social drama to paint a picture that distorts the average experience.

When I went to the USA I had eye scan upon entry - bit more personal than fingerprints and happily understood that.

In the UK we was warned that due to EU regulation that travelling to the EU after UK left the EU would entail fingerprint checks etc, https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/775886/Brexit-immigration-...

Heck even EU countries must comply with various checks and regulations regarding border control and let's not forget EURODAC and the many other fingerprinting/security check systems they operate and are they evil - nope, case of a product of our times and how border checks always operated. Just a bit more automated/technological these days.

Back onto border checks - this is something all countries do and things like this you can watch upon many of the TV shows that literally documentary film such things. TV shows like Customs UK, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439351/ etc etc, fair few TV shows that work around such aspects of life.
> strict licensing terms made it hard to get code upstreamed back

How come?

Right now, the phone ecosystem isn't perfect. It's hard to update phones. Why is that? Because manufacturers don't care about long-term support. But at least you could ask them for kernel source, fix their drivers and eventually upstream everything, like postmarketos does.

Now, with a stable driver ABI and permissive license, drivers won't get released. Hardware vendors still have no incentive to support old hardware, so bugs will remain unfixed, and hardware will decay as usual... Oh, sure, maybe you'll get one more update before reaching an edge-case in some driver? I also expect manufacturers to put all kind of ugly things in the kernel if no agreement with google prevents them to do so. Cue "branded" kernels, with drivers incompatible with each other due to some extra or removed APIs. And back to square one, but with only binaries and no source this time around.
What's New in Swift 5.5?
> We can create viruses just like the ones in nature.

This is simply not true. We have a limited set of tools that can be used to manipulate a gene sequence, a limited set of sites and sequences that these tools will bind to, and a limited set of changes that we know can be used to some resulting effect that we wish to accomplish.

I think what we really need here are people who have no idea what they are talking about to maybe STFU. Listen a bit more and spend less time demonstrating how much you do not know.

> My conclusion was that government officials lying should be a criminal offense, and academics doing so, a civil one.

And what should be the punishment for ill-informed and internet commenters who attempt to deceive through either malice or ignorance? What penalty should we apply to your crimes against Truth?
My uBlock Origin filters for linkedin which completely cut feeds and all sort of distracting things out (some filters might be outdated, but things work):

www.linkedin.com##.feed-follows-module

www.linkedin.com##.ember-view.feed-shared-navigation-module.overflow-hidden.Elevation-2dp.left-rail-container

www.linkedin.com##.ember-view.pv3.feed-shared-news-module

www.linkedin.com###launchpad-wormhole

www.linkedin.com##.right-rail

www.linkedin.com##.artdeco-card.share-box-feed-entry__wrapper

www.linkedin.com##div[class^="feed-shared-update"]

www.linkedin.com##.ember-view.community-panel.mb2.artdeco-card

www.linkedin.com##.ember-view.mn-abi-form

www.linkedin.com##.ember-view.app-aware-link.text-align-left.link-without-hover-state.t-bold.t-black.t-12.feed-identity-module__anchored-widget--premium-upsell.feed-identity-module__anchored-widget.link-without-visited-state

www.linkedin.com##.Elevation-2dp.share-box-feed-entry__wrapper

www.linkedin.com##.ember-view.artdeco-dropdown--justification-right.artdeco-dropdown--placement-bottom.artdeco-dropdown.mb2

www.linkedin.com##.scaffold-layout__aside

www.linkedin.com##.artdeco-card.feed-usher-header

www.linkedin.com##.artdeco-card.share-box-feed-entry__closed-share-box

All this leaves out is the leftmost side (where your number of connections are seen), and the top blue row. The feed is entirely gone. You can still read and message people, see your connections, etc. But no more viewing the feed. It's made my linkedin visits so much easier to bear.

Edit:

Some HN searching shows a single filter which blocks out most of the home page, and is probably cleaner:

www.linkedin.com###voyager-feed

Sources:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24528438

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23489785
Debuggers aren't quite as useful with C++ indeed. But that's a good reason to use C++ less. I diagnose issues drastically faster with a debugger all the time. Often I'll write a unit test that reveals a bug, but just looking at the code doesn't quite reveal where the bug is. But sticking a few breakpoints in the right places and examining the data structures directly makes it really obvious.

Eventually, I learned to write code that was so obviously correct and had such good error messages that I haven’t needed to use a debugger in a long time.

Nobody needs to use a debugger, just like nobody needs to use most tools. They're just very helpful when they work correctly and are used correctly.
A loud bike has the benefit of being a giant "f you, I'm an antisocial idiot" to pretty much all the innocent passerbies, race colour gender political affiliation OS preference aside :). It shows to others exactly what your post does so succinctly.
That is exactly my train of thought sans the Microsoft worries :).
There is no utf8 bom. Utf8 has no Byte order ambiguity. Only utf-16 needs a bom.
I find LinkedIn really cringy. And I haven't seen ONE post there that actually added value to my life.

It is also toxic as hell.

But I know people who got employment offers from LinkedIn. So it adds value in that sense.

I just mute and block those influencers. And check LinkedIn maybe twice a week.

One of the things I cannot find any excuse for is how fake people are. They are behaving in a fake manner even when they don't have to.

Like, someone makes an IoT project (usually copied from GitHub), and markets it like this- "I was having X problem. I though why not solve it with modern technology? So I made this innovative blah blah copy of something".

Yuck. So cringy!
Thank you! Aluminum would have worked as well, but bends a lot easier. And I think it looks cooler in carbon fiber.
Harley’s exhausts make me sick even if I cover by ears, the sound vibrates through my body. I also dislike a tool reving all the way up his standing crotch rocket in front of my house, it’s both bad for the engine and done to draw attention and annoy others, why is this even allowed? Or the exploding sound which makes my dog enter a panic attack? They install some special exhausts pipes for that, how is that legal?
There’s no need for GAI, a driver doesn’t need to solve logic puzzles or crosswords or diagnose medical conditions.

A driver needs to identify lanes, understand road markings and signs, model the physics of moving objects and predict the immediate future behaviour of other objects based on immediate past behaviour.

Also basing an evaluation of FSD on current AP behaviour is like assuming a housekeeper will be as effective as a Roomba.
"Pochemu" is closer to "why" than "how", it asks why something happened regardless of how.

"zachem" is closer to "what for".
Getting AliExpress to hand over a list of buyers of 1000 packs of edible bags might be a good way to audit that all those people are paying the right taxes on what they sell... Could prove pretty profitable for government!
Poe’s best-selling book during his lifetime was a guide to seashells
it's not just Russian, traditionally countries in East Asia are like that too. I have also heard the Brit and the German are like that
I perceive "hand on knees" gesture either as an intimate sensual caress, or unwanted groping and borderline sexual harassment.

Is "hand on knee" just a friendly way to position yourself when talking to someone in some cultures (so I know what to expect)?
[Americans] would sugar coat criticism under 10 layers of phony praise

It really annoys the hell out of me. What’s wrong with just saying what’s wrong?

The last example here on HN was a web version of flutter, where everyone was like “it’s amazing, so awesome, much controls” and only four comment levels deeper someone noted that it’s an utter crap that stutters at scroll on top hardware, cannot select text, cannot zoom, etc etc, so google reps had to start damage control.

And I wouldn’t even mind this positivity, if it didn’t put landmines in what you choose for daily use. Everything is so amazing and awesome, they love it, and when you try/buy it, it’s just a half-functioning crap that you have to finish yourself or wait until they do. As if these awesome’rs didn’t do anything beyond reading a tutorial. How can you relate positively to something that spent your days of learning and experimenting and in the end turned out to be a joke?
Growing up poor in the UK with a strong regional accent and working class mannerisms I kinda relate to this. I remember when I got to university and was around non-working class people for the first time I started getting a few comments about use of language and my accent. Being at uni though it was mostly harmless banter, but when I eventually got to the professional world it was completely different.

The worst thing that ever happened was having an interview terminated early because of my use of language. I basically knew an answer to a question but couldn’t remember the world I needed and said something along the lines of, “s*t, what’s that called again?”. I think I would have got away with it to be honest but what pushed them over the edge is that when they asked me why I swore I was genuinely confused why they were asking.

These days I’ve learnt to hide my accent and avoid all language I think could be problematic. I don’t even joke in the office anymore because I’ve found even my sense of humour to be problematic in a lot of cases. Then the other day a new guy started dropping the occasional f-bombs and for the first time in years I found myself reverting back to my old mannerisms and joking around with this guy because we share such similar social backgrounds.

As a autist I’ve always thought it was kind of weird how saying “sup, dickheads” to my friends is seen as totally normal and actually a polite way to say hi but that would be extremely inappropriate in a middle-class workspace. And it does seem to be middle-class workplaces specifically because working retail and in other working class occupations as a teenager I never once had this problem.
There was (is?) a time, where JRuby couldnt pass the ruby spec because of their IO abstraction written in Java. They changed that code to be written in ruby instead, with FFI to call out to libc, which made it more correct but slower, afaik.
» the 3G auctions sucked cash away from the infrastructure developers and providers

I don't know anything about wireless spectrum and I have no solid plans to replace what we have but I really dislike the model of spectrum auctions. Does the technology really not exist so that telecoms don't pay (just checked Google) USD 81B and in return we the people can hold them more accountable and allow new players easier access?

I mean anyone can buy a WiFi router but there are still rules about what you can do with WiFi. Why can't we do the same with 5G? At least the real 5G if we can't figure out long range T Mobile sorta kinda 5G?
https://superuser.com/questions/1553666/utf-8-vs-utf-8-with-...
Hi Jon, ... it is definitely a good thing for the project to be guarded by more than Troy's private money and legal situation. I do not disagree on these benefits. It is more about the focus of the foundation.

PS: thanks for years of "Jon loves Community"
Amazon dominates but share of markets vary
I find it facinating that in a growing population that large places like Paris have stations that became disused. But that seems to be the case upon many large underground networks that have been around long enough and in London the list is not short: https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/about-tfl/culture-and-heritage/...

Though that does not include stations part built and then never completed of which there are a fair few for London, unsure about Paris but I would imagine be some instances of part built or intended stations that never got finished.
Indeed I had a look at seems at least two got built and never saw use - https://www.renfe-sncf.com/rw-en/blog/destinations/paris/vis...
It gets me utterly sick as well and covering my ears does’t help much. I don’t think the only intention is be heard but to be noticed by absolutely everyone, awake or asleep. It’s a show off
Simplifying sentences in speech is rarely an error. People seem to ignore 80% of what you put into a long sentence, and just notice the keywords. Therefore, relying on elaborate sentence patterns to get your point across will fail in many contexts, and especially in heated situations. And it can get even more difficult with non-native speakers.
I never understood why people use LinkedIn as a social media platform. No, I don’t care about your bullshit self indulging job title
To be clear, I’m not talking about big data. More impotantly though, I didn’t say there was no place for client compute, only that it isn’t economical for datasets in excess of a few GB.
Though I know very little Russian, I know enough to say that "how" and "pochemu" do not map 1:1 -- If I asked, in English, "how is this cardboard box flat?", the natural response would be "it's designed to be flattened" rather than "someone folded it down", but the natural response to "pochemu" would be the second. The full translation that was given would be necessary to disambiguate.
It doesn't. He says it brings in $2000/month and that this is not enough to sustain his family, but he hopes to increase it.

It's nice that he's able to indulge in this kind of hobby programming, but he must have an incredibly generous and understanding family. Clearly he can hold down programming jobs at major tech firms and could therefore give his family a much higher quality of life than $2k/month will bring, but chooses not to. Well, OK. I'd like to write an OS too, but my family has slightly higher expectations ...
Actually, Spice proper used a fairly benign synthetic cannabinoid. It was only after the market showed promise and after they were banned that slew of cheaper knock-offs that became commonly known as 'Spice' (despite having different brand names) came onto the illicit market, using other synthetics that were cheaper/easier to produce, but far-less tested, and deployed and sold in higher strengths by people who were far more cynical.
Guess, it's like Twitter. If you follow the right people you get good content.

The only thing bothering me on LinkedIn are the recruiters and that got much better in the last years.

Most of the time I use it to stay in touch with old co-workers and to syndicate my articles, which sometimes (2-5 times a year) leads to new clients.
I was sick one day. They negotiated it down to half a day sick leave, which I had no say in.

There were a lot of other questionable actions in the past, especially with regards to how they treated other staff. And there were many more questionable actions after that. But not trusting that I was sick, or worse, refusing to acknowledge I was sick, that was the last straw.

In context, most of the compensation would have been a bonus on completion of a consulting project, so I needed a lot of trust because they didn't specify exactly how much.
I set it to chronological feed once and that works. Certainly doesn't feel like a "neverending battle".
maybe it's a trick because there is no you? You know, the idea of "no self" or non-duality:

Sam Harris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fajfkO_X0l0

Paul Hedderman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2T9e-uW1Dc
LinkedIn is missing a major feature, different classes of connections. Your network is meaningless when it’s full of recruiters as well as people you actually worked with.