skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about the Fire tablets that flip the volume control hardware button whenever you change screen orientation from portrait to landscape and vice versa? I always mess up because of that.
I'd rather not have the app than have a version that feels out of place on my system.
No cults, no politics, no ghouls: how China censors the video game world
That link does not really explain anything, only tries to sell the book.

Also the article emphasizes the difference between share price and shareholder value, which is correct, but I did not say about share price.

So, that link really adds nothing to the conversation.
Software exploits and tooling don’t need to bug free, they just have to work some of the time on some devices under some circumstances.

Luck too.

The birthday lottery still plays a roll: being born with the particular set of predispositions, and the right family and environment to encourage strengthening those predispositions.
Delightful! I loved this comment.
How would they know? I'm a parent, I didn't know until this thread. It's not like the arcade tells you that.
pretty naive to think that datacenter is only made of engineers/admins

but anyway, even sys admins use both - windows and linux.
No, it's all fun bar stool conversation. I'm not sure anyone actually talks about another as a "Michael Scott" or a "Dwight Schrute" for reals. I just wish young people talked about Boomers in a more nuanced way. We used to be known as the "Me Generation," which I think that is more apt.
"C++ stdlib provides almost exclusively data structures you shouldn't use"

The containers according to [1] are array, vector, deque, forward_list, list, *set, *map, stack, queue and priority_queue. All of these are good general implementations that can and should be used for most C++ software.

Some classes of software require better performance or certain special guarantees and then it makes sense to consider specialized implementations.

[1] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container
My main point was they are way ahead of Kuiper, which is obviously true. SpaceX has launched over 1600 satellites, Kuiper has launched zero so far. SpaceX has launched over 700 satellites so far this year. SpaceX has a public beta in multiple countries. Kuiper can't have even a private beta since they haven't launched anything yet.
Perhaps saying it hasn't got any better was uncharitable—thinking back, when we first started using it I don't think you could even have more than four people visible on a call at the same time.

But the basics—the things that I mentioned in my previous comment—have remained all but unaddressed for the lifetime of the product so far, and it's utterly miserable to use because of it. They're just piling new features on. I understand why, it's just frustrating.
Didn't that act (plus a timely infusion of cash from none other than Microsoft themselves) more or less save Apple from (not quite as imminent) bankruptcy as well?
My windows 10 pc goes from off to login screen in under 5 seconds and opening a remote session to my Amazon windows server takes about the same. So I’m sure that instant on experience isn’t too far off. I agree the latency will be brutal and even with a gigabit connection typing on my Amazon windows server is irritating.
We were using S3 as ternary storage for our time series database by moving values from the secondary SSD based storage to S3. Each of those values contained all the values for a full day. By using HTTP range queries and placing an index in the SSD store we were able to combine 30 days of values into a single S3 value to decrease the API PUT calls by 30x.
It exactly applies to a warp drive. Just saying "warp drive" doesn't have magical qualities - it's exactly what Einstein was talking about.

So you put in the numbers in the same way as that numerical example on Wikipedia, and it shows the same thing.

Edit: the only exception I can think of is if causality can be reversed.
Yawn, this is what happens when you let people save an infinite quantity of money without having any borrowers for that money.

http://neir.de/en/natural-equilibrium.html

Super long EDIT: Interest rates above the natural equilibrium encourage excess deposits that cannot find any credit demand. Central banks are artificially holding interest rates above the equilibrium rate via the zero lower bound leading to exponential growth in deposits that cannot find borrowers.

This happens not only with interest rates near the zero bound. It also happens when you raise interest rates from 2% to 3% even though the rate should be 2.5%. You will then have to lower the interest rate below 2.5% because you overshot the equilibrium rate. It's the same right now. Persistently running at 0% makes the neir fall even when it is below 0%. Raising the interest rates "just because" will create demand for deposits without loans and then require the interest rate to fall even deeper below zero.
According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Valentine Fleming died on 20 May 1917.

https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-det...

He's buried at Templeux-Le-Guerard British Cemetary, France, plot 2, row E, grave 40.

https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-det...

The epitaph on the stone reads "The heights hold peace".

https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-det...

In 2021, that's just a few clicks away. In 1964, the reporter of the New York Times would have been hard pressed to find and access that information and likely relied on an incorrect second hand source.
I thought this was known, too.

I imagine the losses are going to be far worse for those plush toy claw-grabbing machines if this case succeeds. Especially as they attach cash envelopes to them where I live. And those block stacking machines, too.

It’s clearly gambling for kids, I suspect when the first company got away with rigging the game everyone else just assumed it must be legal and ran with it. Now they’re literally everywhere.

The publicity alone will likely cause an EU ban. They don’t like to be seen as trailing on consumer protection law.
How this is enforceable at all? Won't China simply fake the origin records?
I've not lived in the west, so I could be wrong. My take as a teenager in the 90s is that the world changed post internet. The second half of the 90s is when the web became mainstream (in the west).

9/11 caused untold suffering and divided the world, but the internet was the line between the 80's world and the present.
> What position do you have to be in at Google to be able to upload your side projects to "google.com/X"?

Software Engineer.

You just need to pass code review to make such a change - convincing people reviewing it would be the tricky part but not impossible. You could brand it a "20% project" or something.
Feather is cool but note that this is from 2017.
I will quote him directly:

> "The mismatch between what they say and what they really do is growing," Cornet said. "The thicker the gap is, the easier it is to point out that hypocrisy."

Maybe Twitter internally completely recognize the bad side of the platform and work accordingly.

I personally make a big chunk of my money from oil & gas, I recognize that oil & gas for transportation should die, but I know we need oil & gas for materials at the moment (but should reduce, reduce and reduce the use as fast as possible). Sometimes part of your work is not all unicorns, pink and friendly, having the honesty to deal with it and not being hypocrite about it is really important.
> I argue there are plenty of competent Excel alternatives

Which are they? Libreoffice calc has a lot of jagged edges, google sheets is very slow on even modest sheets.
Show HN: Nebula – An IPFS DHT Crawler
Too speculative and too explicit, frankly showing some very horrible things. Not watching again.
But first the artist has to get a gallery to show his work.
As mentioned in the article, they're available on https://goomics.net/

Super cute comics, though there's a lot of references to internal Google culture or figures that I had to look up at times to get the joke.
Show HN: Super minimal, simple and inexpensive 24/7 uptime monitoring service
Why? We could let the free market come up with competing solutions and regulate where necessary.
Velo-Dog
The directory of home furnishings in virtual Apple keynotes
So your logic is as long as we are honest and authentic about our work destroying humanity, it’s all good? What drivel.
> it's because I care less about what they think of me

This is the key point. I figured the same thing out some years ago and talking on the phone has gotten a lot easier.

You are not the main character, nobody cares who you are or what you do. 99.99% of people you meet every day won't remember you at all.

Just talk, be cordial and go about your day afterwards.
What do you mean by `Mac-native UI`?

I guess they tried to make the app look like a native app?

The interesting part is that this is even worse IMHO. Because you get into an uncanny-valley pretty soon.
Hey guys and gals, I’ve been working on this super simple, minimal and inexpensive uptime monitoring service as a side project the couple of past months. It is one of my first personal projects I am releasing in to the wild. There are so many uptime checkers around the world that offer far more features than this project does. But they are more expensive and usually more complex to use. I really wanted to keep it simple with his one. I’d love to hear some feedback or general points of improvement from you guys and gals! Thanks everyone.
That's very impressive. I envy you.

And I wonder how you do it. How are you able to suspend and resume work on a complex project like this? How are you able to stop thinking about it when scheduled time is up, and then pick it up the next day, without paying a huge time cost of loading yesterday's state back into your head?

Could you elaborate on this? I'm asking seriously - I myself wish I could do that. The way I work today, in irregular but long bursts of high focus, is somewhat effective, but doesn't lend itself to having a balance in life (work-life balance, but also "personal interests - life balance").
Looks great, will consider it for my domains. I like its simplicity.
So you wasted their time and money writing “traps” in the code? Sounds really unethical.
Young Scientist Jane Goodall’s Exuberant Letters and Diary Entries from Africa
I don't think "in retrospect" is the right ready to look at it. Certainly now Excel is the most valuable part of Office. But in 1998, people weren't doing business by emailing spreadsheets back and forth (at least not like today). They were writing documents in Word, printing them out, and then snail-mailing or faxing them to people. And "desktop publishing" was also a thing back then.
Yes. I would recommend org-roam too.
i didn't enjoy staying at home with my first son either. i just didn't know what to do with him. i didn't have any role models. it got better when the kids got older...

but do you think all mothers enjoy to stay at home? mandatory maternity leave sounds like terrible idea for women who don't want it and just reduces a womans freedom...

the leave is not just for you but for your child too.

btw: the pay gap is not in the pay levels for equal work in equal time, but in the fact that on average women spend less time working and get promoted less into higher paying positions. and especially that last point is a problem.
Interesting. In Spain first the state takes a cut from the moment a coin goes in, and from the remainder they're bound to return 65% of the money collected, minumum. The machines have a government-certified black box to perform this accounting.

Now, the law doesn't say anything about prize structure, and it's common knowledge that big prizes tend to appear within 10 plays when it's "cooled down", because machines increasingly shut big prizes down when they notice they have a compulsive player on them.
Check out The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine. Covers a lot of things you mention.
Hey, thanks for the detailed questions (and link to WaltzDB)!
This is like saying human traffickers use phones to organize their crimes.

Apple and iPhone is the most evil company of humankind. They invent a device that helps facilitate human trafficking.

Coming next: road and electricity!
Managing Docker Compose secrets without Swarm
Quick and dirty search gets me a piece titled Health benefits of blood donation which says (in part):

Studies have shown that, in general, Americans tend to consume more iron on a daily basis than is necessary for good health. Ingestion of quantities of iron beyond a certain quantity can promote formation of free radicals in the body. Free radicals have justly earned their reputation for causing cellular changes which can disrupt normal cell function and increase the risk of certain chronic diseases such as heart disease and cancer. This is more likely to be a problem for men and post menopausal women...

https://medicalwesthospital.org/january-is-blood-donor-month...

I'm American. If you aren't, that might be a factor.
> What drivel.

Sagan says we're just a mote of dust. Jesus says throw no stones. Hate cannot drive out hate, MLK.

Humans evolved as carnivores, killing to survive. Bleaker still, the universe doesn't care when the tiny speck we live on boils away.

And here we are but for a brief moment. A tiny kindness goes a long way.

The parent poster was being pragmatic. They're going to die, just like the two of us.

Work to end the perceived problem instead of talking about it sanctimoniously. Because mimetic vitriol creates interference waves and drives us into factions. It accomplishes nothing and amplifies hate.
Kairo: Time, habit and goal tracker on one flexible dashboard
oh god.. this doesnt sound good.
std::string is not a mess, it's a good general string implementation which should suffice for many applications. Its only sin is perhaps that it does not support Unicode.

If you look for example at other implementations like fbstring, the main benefit is performance.
At least once.
Google trends indicate that Excel is harder to use without a manual than word, nothing else.
Maybe Google (and other companies in general) should take better care of checking for cultural fit before ending up with those "timebombs". There are plenty of Google level engineers out there who'd be proud to work for the military, consider strong border protection a good thing for themselves and their country and don't view everything from the gender angle.
What you must know about ICS cyber attacks
Thanks a lot for this. It uses sqlite underneath?
I like how it starts out as quirky jokes about tech minutiae and slowly mutates into bitter social criticism directed at the company and its leadership, presumably as the old systems of power crept in and eroded the idealism that was present when they joined the company.
I remember building those on my grandma's farm ~30 years ago. The adults woud throw hay to the top and us children would pack it down by walking on it in circles around the pole.

Another thing she would store for the winter were whole corn plant stems, arranged in a teepee-like structure around a tree trunk. The empty space between the trunk and the corn made a favorite hiding place for both us the children, as well as her chickens.
A person could reasonably believe it won't destroy humanity. Or that expensive energy could also destroy humanity.

Humanity is delicate. There are a lot of risks, and trade-offs in how to address them.
I’m tribeless, just an American in the age old traditional sense, willing to walk away from any tribe, my only issue is worker's rights, and I also think it was a bad look on Mozilla's part.
Cryptos make rich people richer, and are sold to poor people the same way lottery tickets are. ”Look at old Pete here, he used to be a loser like you, but he believed and now he’s got $millions in the bank”
I don't know where to begin processing people like you.

Your goal isn't to understand, but to criticize; and from a perspective of superiority no less.
> marketing not very clear

That’s an understatement. It’s deceptive and underhanded.
They were first social media to respond to January insurrection. The key word is fewer, not zero.
Sanctimony doesn't work that well. Incentives do. Shaming someone into feeling like a robber baron may sting, but behind them may be a family to support, a sick partner, a struggling child, a gender transition and associated medications and surgeries, and more. The world is a complicated place and reducing it by wagging a finger can only get you so far. Changing systems and incentives is key.
It was basically the same in Poland too.

http://www.polskiekrajobrazy.pl/images/stories/big/1567puszc...

But nowadays people mostly use this:
https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2017/01/02/20/25/haystack-1947...
By viewing source, you can find the data at https://www.google.com/welltemperedtraveler/data.txt

I was expecting the top temperature legend to let you filter locations by temperature, but that's not the case.
To burn jet fuel, 99% of the time you need a jet engine, which usually starts at $1 million.
>It is a reactive programming language

I'm willing to bet that 95% of users don't look at Excel the same way you do.
I hate to use such a dire trope, but sometimes it’s better to have someone thoughtful in a bad place than leaving it to the others all by themselves.
I think the point OP was trying to make was, change has to start somewhere, and it won’t happen all at once.
https://twitter.com/lmanul/status/924351827604160512
What a horrible site! I shouldn't have to scroll to view the whole comic. Images aren't text. They are supposed to be consumed as a whole.
> Know what I did? That college degree I mentioned... I got a skill in demand and became more than a burger flipper and dish washer.

You got lucky. Like really, statistically, you were incredibly lucky. Good genetics, lack of disabilities dire enough to stop you from working, no medical emergencies serious enough to put you in permanent debt, and obviously received some decently schooling on the government's dime as a child if you just "got a skill in demand" and a "college degree". Yes, the hard work helped to captalize on all of the good luck you had, but it didn't create the circumstances that allowed you to succeed. So if your argument is "why should these people who are less fortunate than me be allowed to live decently?", the response should be "you should be that person living in squalor, but you lucked out".
An intriguingly different story on censorship. HN tends to approach the question through a specific historical framework (itself a political football) and miss out on a lot of the interesting psychological ramifications. worth your time.
Finding the right no-code solution will take more time than doing everything in Rails though.
Actually I think that website's owner will be delighted if a MITM leads to you wasting your money by sending it to the wrong person.
> By the time they reach high school: Every kid should know [statistics]

Maybe things have changed. But when I was in highschool in America in the early 00s, statistics was an optional math class offered to juniors. Nobody had taken stats before reaching highschool, which is what the GP calls for, and kids in the "artistic track" weren't required to take stats at all.
From someone who spent 10 years in the UK Payroll industry, good luck! I’ve spent many hours thinking about doing this myself.

One question that’s not clear from your website, what part of the market are you targeting? Payroll for a 10-person company is vastly different from a 10,000-person company (As I’m sure you are aware).

Regarding the API, personally I wouldn’t say the payroll processing API is a feature I’ve seen requested, but I like concept. The most common API requests are for employee data. No matter how good your integrations are, somebody is going to want names and addresses they can extract on demand.
The exercises are great, and I like that the feedback is quick, as soon as you solve it you get a checkmark and it's already ready for you to do the next exercise.
Normally I would be happy to defer to the New York Times but there's some easily seen evidence that their date is wrong. Here's a British Government website listing wills which includes a reference to Valentine Fleming and gives his date of death as 20 May 1917 - https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=Flemin... . And here's an obituary published on May 25 1917, of course it's possible the obituary was being published long after his death but unlikely I think https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/valentine-fleming-an-appr... . His being awarded his DSO immediately after his death, as recorded here https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30111/supplement/5..., is also much more likely than months afterwards.

BTW in case there was confusion being "killed while fighting on the somme" is not the same as fighting in the Battle of the Somme. The battle was a distinct period of some months, while fighting on the Somme occupied a period of years for the greater part of WW 1.

EDIT: In order to fix a typo I removed the text "to have occurred soon after his death" from the last sentence of the first paragraph
Where does HN fit into this classification scheme?

The technical posts seem pretty neutral, but the more philosophical ones give off real Michael vibes.
Thank you Mr Health and Safety!
I'm sure it was. MS Works had tonnes of limitations that you hit pretty easily.
When I read stupid contracts like this, it becomes so obvious that the Universe wasn’t created by lawyers.

It’s just so in conflict with the creative process.
Needs South African cities.
I think it says more about the person that wrote the email than the target of their ire.
FFS can we stop politicizing everything? Crypto is right wing? Is this guy for real! What a weird and delusional thing to say.

If anything, this just shows that propaganda can get smart people as well as dumb people. Probably smart people are even more subject to it because they think on some level that they're somehow immune.
I'd argue that the NYT remains a paper of record, but there is no way to perceive it as such for all groups present in the US.

I emphasize the reduction in common ground, over any real change at the NYT.
Meanwhile, mere days ago similar news about the Pelosis (again) loading on options before another legislative shakedown received 2 commands and was ignored (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27777562).

(It's actually worse than that - several attempts to share that news were flagged by HN activists; the one above didn't)

HN has become one of my favorite sites for getting a good laugh.
With their good (enough) recommendation engine they could try to become a Steam like platform. I wonder how well that will turn out. Mixing entertainment is one thing, but juggling both platforms is a big thing.

Cobbler, stick to your last.
"NVIDIA's CUDA Compiler (NVCC) is based on the widely used LLVM open source compiler infrastructure."

https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-llvm-compiler
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Cambridge data shows Bitcoin mining on the move
Head too far down this path of thought and you hit an existential crisis pretty quick though: "why are you storing photos?" "who will look at them?" "will anyone be looking at them in 200 years? 100? 50? 10?"

On a long enough timescale we all die and are probably forgotten. I've actually spent a decent amount of time resisting the urge to just delete all my old photos (I have things going back to early high school - taken on a Sony Mavica that used floppy disks).

There's a very liberating feeling to the idea of just having no history at all - probably similar to the appeal of the idea of having all your works crumble to dust when you die, which is also something I've seen people refer to at different times.

But, since I haven't done that yet, and since managing an on-site server or disks is it's own stress (i.e. eventually my house will burn down or flood and I'll lose everything...so what was the point?), then paying that $x/month is basically the price I pay to defer having to really think about it.