skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would have said the same. But then I moved last year at the beginning of the pandemic. There were restrictions already in place in Germany. Basically you were only allowed to meet up with a very limited number of other households. So asking my friends to help out would have meant to also ask them to break the restrictions - and possibly endanger their health. It was a pandemic after all.

So I hired a moving company. Boy, I will never again move myself. Best service I could imagine. Everything done in half a day. No bothering of friends and relatives. No heavy lifting at all for me. Everything insured, so if something breaks, it will be replaced. All furniture in place in the new appartment. And it wasn't that expensive after all.
>> This kind of analysis used to be needed only by intelligence specialists. Now this should probably be taught in schools.

Not just schools, this should be taught to everybody.

One wonders how propaganda would react if this were to happen. Right now it is mostly non-physical information.

But when you have a critical mass of people & environment which is not conducive to standard propaganda, perhaps it will resort to creating a physical reality as a base to anchor upon. Not that this hasn't happened earlier, but it will become pervasive.

Would we be able to believe what we see then ?
I didn't know HN allows someone to posts that much. This would be a full-time job for a person. Hidden motives?
I'm well aware of ETC. It's not going to happen again on Ethereum, with any level of certainty, anyway. So crypto exchanges and similar won't be able to count on that.
I can attest to that the fundamentals of Wordpress are truly awful. Will never return and can not recommend it for anything business related. It is a damned fine blog software though.
Conspiracy charges require actual evidence of ordering people around or of knowledge of operations.
This includes certain kinds of money laundering and tax evasion.
An African no-code AI startup
Very accurate. Trying to explain to people this is cultural and not my individual personality is a tough sell though.

It's a bit tiring having to praise things you don't believe in to provide honest feedback. In German culture the strong separation between work persona (with a shared mission on behalf of the company / shareholders / customers) and personal life makes it pretty easy to be straightforward at work. People don't define themselves by their job unlike in the US (or certainly SF) where one of the first questions may be "what do you do (for work)?".

From my perspective US colleagues overcommit (say yes to too many things) but don't ask enough detailed question to design solutions that can be of high quality. I'm not surprised you'll find Germans frequently saying that something is crap :D Germans tend to be cautious upfront, asking many questions (to understand scope and to mitigate risks). This often seems unnecessary to the visionary leaders, but a tactician will understand the importance for execution. Nothing wrong with saying "No, we can't do that. But if we reduce the scope, or change this or that we could deliver something."

In the end there are many cultural differences that are subtle but profound. Invisible to either side and usually expressed as what appear to be individuality / personality differences. It takes a lot of experience to understand which elements must be attributed to culture.
> but they're really just creating a dictionary that's prudish in a different way.

I think you have the wrong end of the stick: "Gay" did not become a common slang term for homosexual until "mid-20th century" (1)

In the context in which the dictionary entry was written for English academics in 1889, "gay" did not not homosexual at all, it meant "bright", "happy" and "cheerful". i.e. that these clothes were colourful "glad rags".

No prudery is being inserted, instead outdated _English_ that would be misinterpreted by modern readers as rude has been changed. Ancient Greek is a dead language, but English is living and changing.

Not to mention, the modern identity of "Homosexual" simply wasn't relevant to ancient Greeks.
(2)

> The ancient Greeks did not conceive of sexual orientation as a social identifier as modern Western societies have done. Greek society did not distinguish sexual desire or behavior by the gender of the participants

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_ancient_Greec...
Why is your normal volume so loud?
Looks like the license doesn't allow you to do that

"This License gives no permission to license the work in any other way, but it does not invalidate such permission if you have separately received it."
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html
I agree with that, but in set theory the symbol {} is used.

I have nothing against it, I just think it should be emphasized more.
Here's the book in Swedish: https://www.adlibris.com/se/bok/den-mycket-hungriga-larven-9...

Anecdotally I'd say well over half the people I know here in Sweden with kids of the relevant age own a copy. I also definitely read it as a kid, had it read to me in kindergarten, and even remember it as an 'animated' TV show (basically panning shots over the illustrations as a narrator read the story).
Playing games with moral-oriented storylines and choices has changed my attitude on life as a whole. Playing games with moral-oriented storylines and choices has changed my attitude on life as a whole. I play many games, right now I play CS:GO to improve my gaming skills and I always check csgo results at https://tips.gg/csgo/matches/ . Want to become a pro and start playing with a pro team.
It's another way of saying a distant relative.
There's a couple of books in this comment.
What Is the Great Loop?
> Similarly, I think gay women in this context means "overly" promiscuous

No, it does not. "gay" did not mainly mean homosexual until mid 20th century. That dictionary entry was written in 1889; well before that.

Before that the primary meaning was "happy, cheerful, bright"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay
Interviewing People About Information Overload in 1979
And all it will take to remove support for blocking webRequest will be another Google $400mil/year contract (1), the ONLY source of income for Mozilla Foundation cushy jobs. Current one expires in 2023, guess we have 2 years of uBlock left.

1/ of course they will sell it as API unification, for the better good of worlds web interoperability. Of maybe for safety as this is Googles current argument for killing all sources of User defined (aka not blessed by Google and extension store) code from running in Chrome. Google is faming the issue as "disabling Remote Scripts", of course they are remote to Google, but local to Users as they are on users HDD.
Oh look, another "I've tried linux 25 years ago and some hardware didn't work and it sucked" post.

Forgive the roughness of this reply... but...

In the last 15 years every linux that I've installed on every desktop and laptop that I've tried worked perfectly out of the box. No sound issues, no network issues, no wifi issues, video card drives just work. And if you use more "user friendly" distros like linux mint you do not even need to use the command line, amd drivers are right there in the kernel, and you can install nvidia drivers right from the gui. And you can on click heads or you can think with portals or race around a city without ever needing to use terminal or to debug audio issues.
One thing I'm surprised doesn't exist yet is "podcast radio stations". Like, I want a podcast DJ to cue up 24 hours worth of programming into a channel and then I can tune in at any time and hear whatever podcast episode is on right now. Don't make me think, don't make me go out and discover new podcasts, just give me a stream of interesting audio content.
Why won’t you get a vaccine?
It isn't media fiasco. Media is a business, and they have been selling what has been selling well - i.e. people were buying it very well.

It is fiasco of people believing media without applying basic reality check. In this particular case, the people would easily believe in the coincidence of a very low probability that a virus would jump to humans at the same time and right near, yet without any connection to, the lab where the virus was being bred to do exactly that (the "gain of function research") while dismissing outright the much more probable no-coincidence version of events. Pointing that more than a year ago cost me some karma, and will probably cost me today too :)

After such profound failure of the basic thinking, the people instead of recognizing the failure on their part are still and again blaming media. And the next time the media comes with a well selling, yet failing basic logic/probability/reality/etc check, story the people would again believe in it whole heartedly. Ad infinitum...

Btw, how is that for conspiracy theory - associating the lab leak idea with conspiracy theorism, right wing nut-jobbery and racism was just a successful "damage control" PR operation by China government (and probably by some actors in US as US was partially funding that research in the Wuhan labs after closing such research in US because of the dangers of that research).
There is a name for this kind of phenomenon - Inadequate Equilibria - why civilizational scale failures can still occur even if every actor is doing things as efficiently as possible.

Some of you might want to read the excellent book that introduced the concept - https://equilibriabook.com/
Sebastian used the word cloud when I met him.
If their goal was to avoid taxes they should have moved to Wyoming instead.
Define business though, most business do fine with wordpress alone. Then there's woocommerce with about a 20% market share iirc...
In recent years? The adulteration of heroin with cheap fentanyl out of China made it much more dangerous for users because the dosage become much more uneven and this invited overdoses, while the crackdown on Oxy supplies over the past four or five years has shifted a lot of addicts away from a pharmaceutical-grade source of opioids and over to the previously mentioned dangerous heroin.
uBlock Origin is better off independent because Mozilla is funded by Google.
Discussed four weeks ago[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26991887
In the US at least, a mechanical conversion is not copyrightable. If there is a creative act e.g. colorizing an old photo by hand then that could be copyrightable.
It’s here so we may as well comment on the DB. Perhaps if something wasn’t said someone can chime in here now.
I really like the "beam" ones.
You keep calling it the system, as if rest gives scale and benefits to any system. No. It’s for large grained mostly static resources directly navigated by a user. I.e. the web.

Fielding never claimed this architectural style works for machine apis. And it doesn’t.
Precisely. If you want to do logic, use a programming language, not a data format.
18 years of polluting the planet with bloated and bad code, breeding insecure developers writing insecure plugins and themes.

Kudos!
https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/d967fd/pitfalls_an...
I know a guy who taped on of the buttons to work faster for the bonus.
How much did shipping to Africa cost?
No I don't think there is a good reason. You're completely missing that programming language syntax is designed for humans. You can still serialize all languages to json syntax trees, just like you can do so with lisp notation, Polish notation etc.
For all the hate these interviews get, they do make you a better programmer. Before doing these problems I had no framework for thinking about how to program optimally. Doing these problems helps a lot.

Don't fall for the hate people give. Every selective interview process gets hate. It's extremely useful for your development as a programmer.

Edit: I do think it's not good when there are bad interviewers. For example, interviewers who don't give you a chance to think, or expect you to know the perfect solution rightaway. Or just arrogant interviewers :(
5/10, that timer was moving quick
I've used Binance, and as far as I can tell, their stuff works as well as Stripe or better. They are an order of magnitude bigger than Coinbase.

Whether they are likely to have a competent security team with sufficient budget is an exercise left to the reader.

My interactions with Klarna have so far failed to inspire similar confidence.
Virtuozzo has big dollars behind it. Probably going to be a stronger contender for longevity than Rocky.
You are denying the legitimacy of democratic public spending because you think it's not productive enough. Your position undermines democratic structures of governance. If the problem really is with how governments spend money, you should be looking for political change instead of a faux-protest that justifies blatant self-interest.
I thought it was a waste of time because the most optimal solutions tended to require a stateful, even pointer-diddling, style of code that doesn't align with what I do in the real world. I'm sure they're fun and enlightening to some extent, but I'm not really interested in programming like it's still the 90s.

In Australia I have fortunately not encountered a company that uses these puzzles in interviews. I feel bad for my friends in America who have to practice them every time they switch jobs.
> How many people know what the meaning of fop is these days?

Yep. the issue seems to be that while Ancient Greek is a dead language, English is a moving target. Since 1889, words like "fop" fall out of favour, words like "gay" acquire a secondary meaning (edit, actually another secondary meaning) that in time replaces the original primary one, changing the reader's perception of a definition.
I know your focus is generally pointing to prior discussion. Just to be clear, I'm looking at the evolution of the story itself, at least as reflected through HN submissions (survival bias noted).
Of course not. Google is leaving that one in place, they are specifically killing possibility of cancelling requests.
Neo.mjs v2.2: Main thread MicroLoaders for your Apps
The point is that it would be the death knell for whatever chunk of the market Firefox has been able to retain. That it would cause almost no problem to the people in this discussion as they know how to circumvent it is irrelevant, as we don't make up enough people to actually make a difference.

If you're saying Firefox should just pretend to be Chrome by default, well what more sign is needed to indicate irrelevance than being able to be shunned without consequence and having to pretend to be another.
Do you realize that without “constructing a url” you need to go through few roundtrips just to find the resource url you actually need?

You force your users through garbage you get support tickets like that. Instead of blaming the users, think why your great approach is actually problematic for them.

The single entry point has no benefits unless the api is multi-company, no one specifically hosts it. Is this the case? If no, your hateoas and single url approach is pure cargo cult.
Upgrading PostgreSQL from version 12 to 13 on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)
Totally worth getting some nice-ish earplugs IMO. Even just getting a $30 set is such a wild improvement, comfort-wise, over those horrid foam earplugs you see a lot of people use.
Replacements for existing software written in Rust
How is that a problem with github rather than STRmix? Would you accuse Bank of America if they refused to open somebody's vault?
>The German version is a clusterfuck ...

These gigantic government IT projects are also a good way to funnel taxpayer money to the right pockets, that's why they're always behind schedule and over budget (just like all government physical infrastructure projects) and if you look closely it's always the same 2-3 companies getting all the contracts.
> The number of humans will reduce rather drastically in the next fifty years.

Sorry, I should have been more exact in my choice of words with this regard, mea culpa.

Yes, total human population is expected to grow. But this growth is limited to very few places, especially found in sub-Saharan Africa (and strangely: the USA). If you look at places like West Asia, Northern Europe, Southern Europe, the more-developed-group of countries or the middle-income group of countries you will see that all across the board population is expected to fall within 50 years.

This groups of countries will have a desperate worker shortage in the given time frame and we should start thinking how we can accommodate the needs of both immigrants and residents alike.

Fertility is already falling, rapidly. There's not much that we can do in that regard (some countries are even trying to raise total fertility). We will not get rid of the people we already have. (Well, not in any way, shape or form that is ethically and worth further discussion).

I agree that we need to have a good and hard think about our resource management. We need to reduce waste. We need to reduce our footprint. We need to stop the predatory ecosystem exploitation we're currently practicing. We're moving very fast towards a cliff.

>> The number of humans will reduce rather drastically in the next fifty years.

I really should be more careful how to phrase my argument. Thanks for pointing it out.
Doesn't have to be a humble opinion. That seems a relatively reasonable standard to achieve in order to convict someone beyond a reasonable doubt to f-ing die.
If we're going to talk about the intelligence community, then the same criticism that gets used against the media needs to be brought up: the Iraq WMD.
Hackernews comments can't be edited or deleted after a few minutes. There's nothing he can do about it
Maybe they downvoted your comment because they didn't like the blog you were linking to?

From a quick skim of it, it seems to be mostly just some guys random opinions, and I'm not finding what he has to say insightful or interesting. I didn't downvote your comment, but I imagine the person(s) who did probably have the same impression of that blog as I do.
> Thanks to their sharp teeth devils can slice the meat and crush bones pretty easily. Tasmanian devils have the most powerful bite of any mammal given the size of its body. They can open their jaws 75 – 80 degrees.

> Tasmanian devils have 42 teeth but these are not replaced after birth. They continue to grow all throughout the devil’s life and the growth is gradual. Dogs do replace their teeth.

> They can exert a force of 553 N (56.4 kgf). Thanks to its large head and big jaw-opening, Tasmanian devils can tear apart any meat including the hardest of the bones.

https://tasmaniandevil.net/tasmanian-devil-teeth/

the video in this link has more tidbits and is cute as hell.
Android developer – TV4 – Telia company
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Is this your next opportunity?
We believe you are a strong Android developer who is comfortable working in all parts of an app. Experience with streaming is not a necessity, but it’s something you would like to focus on.

In the role as Android developer you will:

Build gorgeous user interfaces by working closely with our UX designers, in order to ensure that our customers get the best service in class.
Write well-tested and maintainable code that will serve millions of our customers.
Spread the engineering vision in your team, participate in product planning.
Mentor junior and fellow engineers to advance into more technical responsibility areas.
Drive product/code quality and performance improvements throughout the team. Help to establish and maintain development standards and practices.
We write Kotlin (and sometimes read Java) code and work with modern frameworks, tools and concepts such as:

Jetpack libraries
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GitHub Actions

Jobad: https://www.teliacompany.com/en/careers/join-us/open-positio...
Yeah I find in business software an optimal algorithm is not worth the cost of readability.

Most of the applications I work with have moderate data and few users. It has to work robustly and has to be easy to modify.
I'm more inclined to think of reducing trade barriers for such nations, of enforcing strict ethic rules for multi-national corporations and foreign nation-state actors.

Yes; going there and building this new infrastructure is counterproductive. It creates dependencies and introduces moral hazards. That's not the way to do it.

The emphasis here is on help building the infrastructure, be it with knowledge, resources or context. Not to force progress, but to support it. Not to maintain strongholds on existing technologies using copyright and patents, but instead share knowledge and make it available.
Borg vs HAL9000 - that may be an absolute blockbuster ;)
Germany agrees to pay Namibia €1.1bn over historical Herero-Nama genocide
I just really wish Google would have built QUIC on top of SCTP. They had the clout, and opportunity to push for real end-to-end SCTP support across the internet. Tunnel it over UDP for IPv4 and userspace implementations but use native SCTP where possible like over IPv6 before middleboxes abound that only support TCP, UDP, and ICMP. There's too many NAT implementations, firewalls, etc that don't support SCTP on IPv4 but that's not set in stone for IPv6 yet.

SCTP would have been great for all sorts of applications other than QUIC too. It's got built in multihoming for seamless handoff in mobile environments to keep a persistent connection across e.g. WiFi and cellular. Want multiple streams with no HoL blocking? SCTP is message based and can deliver multiple "streams" simultaneously over a single connection and you get free message boundaries to boot instead of just a plain stream like TCP. Want unordered datagrams? It's got that too. Even partial reliability for a subset of messages in a connection, i.e. reliable metadata for an unreliable live low latency video stream. The four way handshake also basically eliminates the potential impact of a SYN flood.
I’ve been using tewi for almost a decade now:

https://github.com/lucy/tewi-font
Show HN: Simple and intelligent way to organize your belongings. Just ask Alexa
JavaScript Oddities and Secrets you need to know
Open Policy Agent v0.29.1 released
You missed the point. It was a deliberate simplification (hence a simplification of a biblical quote and the addition of "and so on") intended to steer the focus away from my personal opinion about debt, and towards the second point, i.e. dark patterns in order to get people to pay with credit rather than with a debit card.
I am sure they could negotiate excellent conditions because of their previous setup.
This! I tried hard to recall just why this building seems so familiar ...
No I don't think it has helped my skills at all. In the rare one or two cases in my career where I've needed an advanced algorithm, I had plenty of time to look up the best way to do it online.

I think it is important to know WHEN you're facing an algorithmic problem, and to be able to generalize your problem enough to recognize what kinds of algorithms might apply. But leetcode style questions as currently posed go way beyond that imo.