skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There used to be a link to request new cities. That might be part of the eclectic selection
I see "cloud" here but it's really just cloud storage, I also see email and chat but I prefer to use protonmail and signal.

Either way, this sounds promising since it's based in the EU (even if the EU is becoming less privacy friendly recently)
Local taxes pay for roads and schools. Federal taxes pay for the F-35 and corn subsidies. The "people beside yourself" who "benefit" are the likes of Lockheed Martin and Monsanto.
Jobs probably thinks he was responsible for being acquired.
Deciduous: A Security Decision Tree Generator
The TLDR for the article is that it appears to be a combination of chromosomal and hormonal differences that are responsible for observed sex differences in autoimmunity.

Are you asserting that a combination of chromosomal and hormonal differences are also responsible for the observed sex differences in incidence of long COVID? Or are you asserting that autoimmunity is directly involved in long COVID? Or, are you saying something else?

It's an honest question. It's ambiguous what you're saying. Maybe you're saying something interesting, but it's difficult to tell without specifics.
> I am fortunate enough to have the access I do have when I have it, but I can only sympathise with the plight of those in Australia.

Australian here with 250mbit at home and 5G on my phone.

I still hate Electron apps though.
My attitude towards Islam is roughly equivalent to my attitude towards any religion. And it starts with a strict separation of religion and the state, which is something Iran currently doesn't have (and which the UK also doesn't have, and in both cases my position is pretty consistent).
Or rather economic reasons, the difference between the median income for Asian Americans is about the same as the difference between white people and African Americans.
The most interesting thing about them making games is the amount of leverage they have with the consoles. Netflix video streaming is absolutely a killer app and I could see them using that to make some really interesting moves that wouldn't otherwise be possible.
The leaders of my country don't understand a thing about IT. So I guess I'm doomed.
You will never get Germans to switch away from cash.
"48,477 votes Reply to specific message in chat on desktop app"
Now that is a quotable quote when it comes to being told something has a bad UI and choosing to do nothing about it.
I've never gotten the obsession with prescribing form factors to breakout boards.

What do I lose buying a generic breakout board for half the price of a branded shield/hat/wing and hooking it up on a $2 piece of protoboard or with some jumpers?
Oh all sorts of things. Mostly it's just a development instance of whatever I'm working on, which is usually something in Go these days. I use Caddy to route to various internal services based on the domain the request comes in on. I use Cloudflare to have a wildcard DNS such that I can just start using anything.vps.example.com and have the traffic show up at my machine. Also other bits and bobs like a Discourse server, photo gallery, etc.

My local firefox doesn't do anything fancy back to the VPS. It's just a browser, but it does spend a lot of time accessing the dev instances I'm running on the server. It's nice to be able to easily access my in-progress code over a proper domain, over the proper internet, with proper TLS rather than localhost. Browsers handle localhost differently than real domains and it's handy to shake out those errors early on in a project.
The advantage of cloud storage is that it gives you a remote backup, which a local NAS or external drive doesn't.
Bonsai (YC W16) Is Hiring a Head of Growth Marketing
House prices are out of control in New Zealand everywhere, but this is a very expensive suburb. The sale price is land+demolition costs. It could have been purchased by a developer who thinks they can sub-divide the property in the future or is buying up multiple properties on the block.

There is also a bizarre (to me) trend among very wealthy in Auckland to gut/demo these old "character" houses and keep just the street facing facade. No doubt this signals real wealth since it must cost a lot more than demolishing the house, while also appearing humble. See Tall poppy syndrome:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome

In 2018 the govt. banned overseas investors buying most classes of property. Prices have only soared since.
I had the same problem when I moved to Germany. I couldn't find the eggs until I saw them on a shelf near the produce.
I was recently looking at getting starlink. During my research I got a good chuckle at the realization that it’s more cost effective for SpaceX to launch thousands of satellites into space for starlink then it is for someone to dig a goddamn hole to provide adequate service.

Even slightly rural places it’s not cost effective for traditional isps to dig a cable so what’s the markets solution? Launch thousands of satellites! I don’t know why you’re being downvoted. The market has failed, requiring external forces to intervene(the government). Whether it be Title 2ing them or allowing municipal competition something needs to happen
Ever heard of the SAGA pattern?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_Freestyle
I think some people (especially kids) do assume they're fair, and nobody around is inclined to disabuse them of that notion.
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There are systems, such as international shipping and financial technology that simplify many of those difficulties for you, at least to the point of making revenue from a great many countries. Complying with the local laws (including paying taxes) is indeed where it gets hard.
> Reality is that people with families and bills to pay will end up with a minimum wage job after having a higher paying job, and it's not enough for them to support themselves.

This is not common. But at the same time, we can’t optimize for tail risks. If your hypothetical occurs, and a family have to share a one bedroom, then so be it. People are subjected to far worse every day.

Ultimately minimum wage cannot and should not be comfortable. There simply aren’t enough resources in the world for everyone to have everything.
Interesting and inspiring story.
Ask Me Anything with Mobile Security Framework Maintainer Ajin and Aviyel
You've GOT to be kidding. That's the new volume control "slider"?!
The parents/guardians?
Sadly Google isn't your mom and pop convenience store at the corner of the street. Arguing it is just a regular business is dishonest and you know it
Here be Dragons: Gaps in the human genome and how inverting the analysis helps
Sleep is one problem.

The other problem is how the backup software reacts to the possible failure modes.

A backup tool should identify the backup destination in a reliable way and nountpoints is clearly not a reliable way to identify a backup destination
What many people forget with these x$/month is that you will have to pay this for the rest of your life. That's why I have chosen an option where you pay a higher fee once (about 3 years cost) and then it does not cost anything going forward.

Another issue with storing all these photos for your whole life is of course that once you die, what happens? Who will take charge of all these photos? Who will continue to pay? Who will clean up and take ownership of it? Or will they just be lost once you are dead and all this money for what?

The third issue is of course that the more random unsorted pictures we have the less we want to look at it because 90% are bad and only 10% are good. It's important to clean up just after taking the photos.
You can however just break the guidelines and eventually dang will ban your account.
My audience knows that when I tell it to kill all the Apaches, that it’s advice to kill each forked process of Apache2. The consuming madness that causes others who do not speak the language to conclude that I am calling for genocide is not something I choose to engage with.

I have a tool. It is effective. Cope with it or don’t. It’s not my problem. Having just realized this tool isn’t going away, I no longer feel the need to continue this conversation.
If the people want a free-speech-respecting public square, they should petition their state to create one that is compelling enough to become the choice of the majority, not let private citizens do the hard work of creating an effective square, and then use force to commandeer it.
These kinds of replies are the bane of interesting discussions because they're aggressive and don't contain any information... What is someone that is unfamiliar with the C++ standard library left with after reading it? At most an uneasy feeling, which is not based on any facts.

So here are some facts:

* A good reference for the C++ standard library is https://en.cppreference.com

* The standard library is not as large as .NET or Java, but it covers many essential concepts of which the containers and algorithms are the best known. Besides classics like doubly-linked lists, dynamic arrays (std::vector) or maps, there's also sets, a singly-linked list, stack, queue and priority queue. All data structures have complexity guarantees defined in the C++ standard, which is surprisingly very rare for programming languages.

* The algorithms include sorting and searching but don't stop for example at a simple sort and instead also include a partial and stable sort. Besides binary search and linear search, there's also functions like https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/algorithm/lower_bound or https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/algorithm/equal_range and several functions for working with heaps, such as make_heap, push_heap, etc. Other interesting algorithms include those for permutations, counting, working with ranges and modifier functions like rotate, sample or random_shuffle. C++ offers a world-class algorithms library.

* The numeric library offers support for many pseudo-random number generation algorithms, and many distributions (https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/random). There are dozens of usual (https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/math) and less usual (https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/special_functions) mathematical functions in there.

* For systems programming there's the date and time utilities, file system, threads and atomics.

* Although standard for most languages at this point, C++ does offer regular expression support in the standard library.

* Many other smaller types and functions such as tuples, complex numbers, a modern union type (std::variant), streams, etc.

When the above is not enough, there's boost, a series of high-quality libraries with a long history which are like an extension of the standard library. My personal favorites from boost include state machines, graphs, numeric conversions, logging, program options, signals (subject-observer implementation) and ASIO for all sorts of IO.

But there's tons of stuff in there, from additional algorithms and containers to JSON parsers to HTTP and web sockets, from process and shared object management to userland threads, IPC, lockfree data structures and so on and so forth.

And if that's still not enough, there's almost certainly another library for it. C++ is one of the most popular programming languages out there and it has decades of history behind it.
Thanks for taking the time to reply. Insightful and I hope you get to achieve a few things in the future :)
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"Then, I threw out everything which is either not needed or looks complicated. We only need the string formatting functions anyway, let's remove everything else. Th result is a crossover of musl 1.2.2 and arch from emscripten for musl 1.1.15. YOLO!"

Lmao
They have a big existing subscriber base.
Well now that I know, I think you should pay a licence fee for using our intellectual property. Please take an appointment to the Romanian embassy in Belgrade. Your money will help us develop even more the haystack technique.
I used to think like this. At it's core, it's a variation of "never give up", mixed with "the power of habit".

I agree with "the power of habit" part.

From the "never give up" point of view, I've changed my mind, thanks to books like The Lean Startup, Blitzscaling, and my own experience.

The bottom line message seems to be "keep insisting and you'll be successful". I spent 3+ years working in a game that never took off as a side project. In hindsight, I should have taken the hint of the lack of traction early on and dropped the whole thing. Instead I sank countless hours into a project that never worked out. How many prototypes could I have produced in the same time?

Bottom line, habits are good, so long as we don't mix it up with the concept of "don't give up and you'll be successful".
> Primates and rodents living in research colonies, feral rodents living in our cities, and domestic pets like dogs and cats are all steadily getting fatter and fatter.

All are fed with human produced food. Also as someone noted our food (raw food) is decreasingly nutritious when it comes to micronutrients and vitamins.
I didn't make it to the conclusion. I didn't make it past:

> So there you have it: the three aesthetics of the creative class. Some people are playing Dwight, some people are playing Michael, and some people are playing Andy.

I only have so much time left in my life to waste

But I'm glad the author and I came to similar conclusions. The author takes a turn I agree with at the end, which I didn't see coming from the prior paragraphs (copied the line again for emphasis):

> As the internet becomes not only where we draw our cultural and aesthetic cues from, but more importantly where we go practice them and rehearse them throughout our adolescence, our emerging aesthetic as adults will have a lot less to do with our parents and our inherited social standing, and a lot more to do with where we happened to have spent time on the internet frontier growing up
Worst combo ever.
for the west, I feel like the pre- and post-9/11 world also was very different
I'd say that if you had to choose a desktop platform to build paid apps for Mac OS is the best choice. Mac users tend to spend (more) money on software.

BTW. there is a paid native slack client:
https://shrugs.app
True but the parent didn't say how the backup is happening, It could have even been a rsync.
And we've been saying this for decades, nothing happens. That's the sad reality. Any progression on this front is, in my book, a victory.
What a scam...

You're not building an app to fight climate change. You're trying to cash in on a trend to fill your pocket and ego, to feel like you did something while doing absolutely nothing of value.

And stop spamming.
The problem with probation periods is they are there in writing but you don't know what to expect. Do they expect to fire half of the probationers? Is it just a formality without even a meeting confirming your continued tenure at expiration? Probably what will happen is you get some comforting words that will not ease your mind.

Most times probation is just a thing in a contract where nobody even mentions it after the time is out, but I've seen some things happen with probation. The first time, my boss hired two sales guys and knew he was only going to keep one. They found this out a few weeks in. Awkward as hell.

Second time, he hired a guy, I started working with him setting up a trading desk. The boss then went on holiday, where he met someone who knew the guy. Rumors came out about him. The boss figured out the probation period hadn't ended yet, so we should just fire him. So he phones home to get the guy who "won" the sales race to do it for him. The lawyer tells him that thanks to the probation clause, he doesn't need to even give a reason to the guy who is being let go. In the meeting, of course the guy says "WTF, give me a reason", and it was just silence. A thoroughly shitty way to treat someone.
Mediocre, agenda-laden writing and EA... What could possibly go wrong...
Maybe it is normal in your country, but where I am from in the US, parents want their kids to be self-sufficient as soon as possible. The author herself said it was embarrassing. I'm not sure what the economic situation is in your country, but housing is very expensive in the US too. But hey, if it gets expensive enough then parents will start buying their kids houses...
"All the work that I have done in my life will be obsolete by the time I'm 50, Apple II is obsolete now, Apple Is were obsolete many years ago. The Macintosh is on the verge of becoming obsolete in the next few years.

This is a field where one does not write a Principia which holds up for 200 years. This is not a field where one paints a painting that will be looked at for centuries or builds a church that will be admired and looked at in astonishment for centuries. No, this is a field where one does one's work and in 10 years it's obsolete and really will not be usable in 10 or 20 years. It's sort of like sediment of rocks. ... You're building up a mountain and you get to contribute your little layer of sedimentary rock to make the mountain that much higher, but no one on the surface, unless they have X-ray vision, will see your sediment. They'll stand on it, it'll be appreciated by that rare geologist, but no, it's not like the Renaissance at all. It's very different ..."
I'd say that Powerpoint is a large driver too
AMA with Mobile Security Framework(MobSF) Maintainer Ajin and Aviyel
It was a great browser, which even us hardcore Macians had to admit. It was so much better than the Windows IE, and MS took great care to make it feel Mac-like. So apart from the strange in the top right corner, it was a very good Mac app.
We live in a world that is well described by Euclidien geometry for many applications. It doesn't mean it is the only possible useful geometry. If we define Pi as a ratio C/D, it can be different. Look at the example in the article.
Apparently he has moved to Twitter due to “fewer ethical qualms.” Never mind his new employer has built one of the most polarizing and divisive platforms in the history of humankind.

Sometimes I don’t know where to begin processing people like this.
I don't use twitter, in fact, I deleted my account and created a new, blank account in case I got sent anything on Twitter. Twitter is, to me an ugly place dominated by cliques with everyone else trying to shout the loudest in the hopes of being noticed by said cliques.

I in no way feel safe or comfortable contributing to a platform that is that toxic and has a long track record of people trawling through every little thing you have ever said in the hopes of destroying your career and life.

And people who say the solution is to follow specific people or use certain ways of viewing your timeline underline the other problem which is if the platform requires me to make a significant time investment to get a non-toxic, non-awful experience, then I'd rather go without and be blissfully ignorant to anything happening on that platform.
But then, what didn't? ;-)
> If I disagree with googles rules I can avoid google.

That's exactly what Germany's highest court denied if they "move into a dominant position and take over the provision of the framework conditions of public communication themselves" because it is not easy to avoid Google/YouTube.
Always interesting to read stories about privacy and online tracking... after being asked to accept cookies that do the following:

- Store and/or access information on a device

- Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development

- Use precise geolocation data

- Actively scan device characteristics for identification
Critical Vulnerability Detected in WooCommerce on July 13, 2021
I recall that but I don’t think that was SpaceX. Some other satellite firm.
Yeah, it's a pretty good movie.
The arch is “vax”. Awesome.
This is nice, but as an American I unfortunately have no strong sense of what celsius temps feel like. Could you tweak it to have a toggle for Fahrenheit?
Fossil fuels are certainly finite, but if perpetual demand existed for a hydrocarbon based fuel (“oil”) we could produce as much as we wanted by fixing carbon from some source and using thermal depolymerization — hence my whole point about ingenuity.

Shale and oil sands are in a sense ‘unfair’ to the original notion of peak oil which was focused entirely on cheap to produce crude that literally bubbled out of the ground in some places. But then peak oil is semantic; yes, it happened for some flavors of crude in the U.S. but we did and will find ways to produce more (if needed).

Pending some fantastically cost effective way to mitigate all the externalities of burning oil, I certainly hope we reduce our use of it.
> The idea of having computer simulations so good that it replaces human decision making at the executive level is ridiculously far from being reality, it's pointless to worry about it.

It's already reality, see for example video recommendation on youtube (and it has far-reaching consequences like promotion of extreme political views and conspiracy theories to the point of influencing election and interfering with vaccination).

Nobody in google decided "let's make people believe vaccines have 5g chips in them".
Excel recently got variables with LET and functions with LAMBDA
"viral"
Having tried this at $MEGACORP on this specific issue, can confirm it's less true.
22/7 as well
Maybe his old employer was worse?
> Men get advised to donate blood to lower their risk of heart disease.

I had never heard of that and did not find any article supporting that from a quick search. I found observational studies concluding that men who donate blood are less at risk for heart attacks, but did not control for selection bias (men who choose to or can donate blood are healthier) or for causes associated with the blood donation (e.g. you might discover you have high blood pressure while donating and seek treatment afterwards).
> machines that nobody expects to be fair

I for sure did. In fact, on my long list of "someday/maybe" projects, there was this one entry sitting for some 15 years now: build a little machine for the claw crane game, that would time a button press perfectly. I just saw the video where Mark Rober does this to another arcade game[0], so I won't bother anymore - I can already guess the outcome.

I also don't know anyone else in my circles who thought the claw crane was a game of chance. It looks like a game of skill, it behaves like one. And sure, maybe the crane wasn't oiled in a while, but nobody tells you that in the end, it also rolls a dice to determine whether to allow you to win.

It's a big deal to me, and I think it should be a big deal for everyone. It's yet another violation of trust in society. Yet another seemingly legit business out there to scam you.

When I grew up, we saw arcades as fun places to be with friends, and if we lost on what looked like a game of chance, we assumed we just sucked and need to keep playing to get better (or rather, until all our sources of coin money go dry). We didn't know the cake was a lie.

When my kid grows older and I take her to an arcade, I'm going to tell her up front - you can have fun here, but these games and these people are out there to scam you. Your joy is your own - you have to take it in spite of, not thanks to, this place. I don't want to be telling her such things. I would like for her to live in a world where she can default to trusting businesses and taking their offers as good-spirited attempts of mutually beneficial transactions - not to be constantly on the guard from technically legitimate businesses trying to scam her.

So, I'd very much like to see every single one of these arcades to be investigated, dragged to court for selling illegal gambling services to children, and the entire industry to be beaten up with criminal code, until every such game is either banned or has its exact rules posted on it, in a clear and unambiguous form. Fuck caveat emptor - the measure of civilization is in the things you don't have to actively worry about.

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[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27841623