skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> USSR, Ukraine

Many former USSR countries are doing quite well with their new democracies. Consider, for example, that Ukraine had basically as much democratic tradition as Poland had (big parts of it literally being parts of Commonwealth of Poland for centuries), and yet Poland’s democracy has been doing much better.

I agree that culture and traditions matter, but with your examples, you are overstating your case.
Web technologies are default-slow while native (except Java on Android) is typically default-fast. One needs to go out of their way to create a slow native app, even if it's of course possible.

Slowness is the natural state of web applications and creating a fast web application is much more difficult and requires a senior team with knowledge about browser implementation in order to avoid or work around the performance pitfalls.

I also have the feeling that such performance comparisons are done with the assumption that the apps under test are almost the only thing running on the machine. If every applications were to start 10 processes taking 1 GB of RAM things would get uncomfortably slow.
Blogs were started by only one person, now worth millions dollar
It is a great algorithm. It is, however, a boring method and really takes a lot of discipline to make it a habit. For me, the best way to learn anything is have it tied to a fun challenge or a personal project. I've never been successful in the type of just-in-case learning.
https://archive.ph/ER80R
I’m not sure why you imagine that wartime wreckage and artillery is often recycled?
tbh I've had dramatically worse type-aware IDE features with Go than almost any other mainstream language. gopls routinely misses trivial things in the same file. Goland does substantially better, but it still has major problems gathering a complete call hierarchy, and basic things like moving a file to a different package (with no compilation issues, just import rewrites) still don't work reliably.
Burning Mountain: coal fire that has burned for approximately 6k years
It has for me. I had been working on a Mac app but decided it wasn't worth the hassle.

I prefer the platform but there is no way I'm going to sign up for an abusive relationship with Apple.
Contactless payment is also needed for Google Pay/Apple Pay (and others), which are more secure than chip and pin.
California beach dunes once teemed with plants and birds
I wouldn't get tax advice from random people on the internet. If you make above a certain amount of income, and if you have stock options you likely are, it is worth your while to hire a CPA to do your taxes and get tax advice from.

It might sound expensive, but the alternative is worse. Consider a friend of mine during the 1999 stock bubble who had stock options. The bubble burst, and he owed taxes on the bubble amount, even though he never sold the stock. He was bankrupted, lost his house, and moved in with his family to a trailer. He had no idea about the tax consequences of his options.
If memory serves, you (only) need two or three times the memory for GC which work well(low pause) than for manual allocation --> I'm surprised that developers of PC games didn't switch to GCs 'en masse'..

And no, I'm not joking: I work in C++ and I know exactly how annoying memory errors can be.. Thanks a lot valgrind|ASAN developers!
It says that you can implement your own scheduler for virtual threads so presumably you can make one that schedules back to UI loop.
Your appreciation for Path of Exile may be akin to OC's joy of "make believe": joy of the act of creation.

This OC feels both unfinished and too big.

I really like comparing the grinds of producing and consuming a game. I half hoped to a Marxist or Socialist critique. (Sam Adler-Bell is a Socialist.)

I didn't really follow the bits about prayer. Am always a fan of name dropping Graeber and Bullshit Jobs.

To your point, though grinding in games like Factorio and Farmville and WoW have frequently been compared to work, modern work doesn't have analogs to loot boxes, gacha, and other gamifications. I'm almost afraid to idly wonder what that kind of employment would look like.
nah, just let him/her play
It’s so odd that people treat this as if that money has evaporated. It was spent by the US in the US. I don’t know any billionaire defense contractors but I could be wrong. That means the money was spent on workers and equipment. The former creates jobs the later pushes our envelope of technological know-how forward, think DARPA => internet. Lastly the dollar is the world reserve currency. We’re not really paying for every dollar we spend, there is a lot of leverage we have in deciding what countries get to pay what portion of each dollar we borrow. To fight this, is the main reason euro was created and why the European Union came to be. Last I checked Eurozone is not doing so well economically.
Funnel Tool for Customer Success?
So, we're an early stage startup and I'm trying to manage our customer success process in a funnel tool our team of 4 can use...At present, the sales team uses closed.io , and it's way too expensive and specific for our success team, and I feel similarly about other sales funnel tools. What is everyone using to manage a proper success funnel? Thanks everyone and best of luck!
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It's always a quiet little pleasure when someone uses "disclosure" correctly. :)
It's much more fun to watch native video / read native materials and put in whole sentences that are just on the tip of your foreign language understanding (i + 1 theory from stephen krashen).

Instead of just 1 to 1 vocab mapping, look for chinese tv shows that you enjoy and start to slowly build up vocabulary by mining sentences.

Then when you do reviews, not only will you remember the vocabulary, you will also remember when it occurred in the story and have a cool memory of some of your favorite tv shows / books / etc.
Pre-2017 Plaid was awesome. You were able to just feed in a username and password of a bank account you collected with your own UI and it would spit out its transactions.
Goodness. Vaccine rates in the U.S. are stalling at 60%. Now the plan is to do booster shots after 8 months. What do you think is going to happen to those rates with the first booster? The second?

Vaccines are great. Therapies are also great. This is absolutely not wrong.
Nice man. Yes, why not use both immersion and spaced repetition?
I would love to see something like this adapted for YT music?
> but from an end user's perspective it was pretty awful.

Wasn’t it more that it never reached critical mass? Every time I read or hear about Windows Mobile, users seem to have loved it.
To be fair I could see why they might want to be extra careful about 3rd party keyboard software. The potential for malware is huge.
Pandemrix was also similar to previous vaccines but caused an increase in narcolepsy, no? Immune systems are complicated.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01059-y

For reference, I simply typed “Nature Human Behavior” into google.
I don't provide honest answers to them and discourage my family from doing so as well. I simply treat them as an additional set of passwords to be written down using pen and paper.
Same with me dude, I'm getting burnt out just waking up, sleeping, and playing in the same place again and again. Used to have a lot of fun with other people in the office too
Some BPs have tap here too. I've seen the hardware at a couple of Speedways but it didn't work last I tried.
Someone else already posted this, not sure if you will pinged from them.

Please read this article about learning math with spaced repetition.
http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html
> You can leave for Nevada, Texas, Washington or other no-tax states,

Not anymore. Washington now has a 7% capital gains tax.
> Surprised I never saw anyone try to inject ads into RSS feeds.

Of course people inject ads into RSS feeds. Daring Fireball is a well known example that sells the advertising spot in the open: https://daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors/

If you’re talking about ads in the body of each entry, I’ve seen that too but can’t give an example off the top of my head. That said, it’s more common for publications to give you a small excerpt instead to lure you back into the ad-laden web page.
The immune system already does that and its the responsibility of CD4+ helper T-cells.

The 2009 pandemic was significantly blunted because people born before 1957 had partial immunity from cross-reactive T-cells to H1N1 which was endemic in humans from 1918-1957. So after mutating in probably billions of pigs for 50 years the H1N1 virus that hopped back to humans was still sufficiently recognized by the immune system of older people to take any edge off of that pandemic.

I'm also fairly skeptical of the data coming out of Israel about waning immunity. Everyone is taking that data at face value while entirely ignoring the disclaimer: "(Potential confounders include the fact that the very oldest Israelis, with the weakest immune systems, were vaccinated first.)".

We really need a lot better data on much better matched cohorts to determine actual immune waning in the presence of the same viral variant.
>This is pretty clever way to preserve end-to-end encryption and satisfy requirement not to store anything CP related on their servers.

It's a pretty clever way to normalize adversarial devices, there's no preserving of any kind of privacy going on here.

I contend that if they are storing encrypted data that they cannot decode, then they are not knowingly storing CP at all.

If someone then downloads that, decrypts it with the key that only they know, and it turns out to be CP, then they are the ones storing CP, which as we all know is already illegal.

Obviously I'm not a lawyer and this isn't how icloud works, but lots of companies legally store encrypted data that they can't decode.

There's no legal requirement that the storage provider needs to ensure there's no CP, only that they don't knowingly store it.

Apple just doesn't want to allow people to have real encryption that they control, almost definitely so they can make more money by forcing people to use expensive icloud instead of local encrypted backups, and retain the ability to scan everyone's data. All under the flimsy excuse that 0.1% of people might forget their password and be unable to unlock their data. Nevermind you could only allow this for power users at their own request but "it's for your own good because you're too dumb to manage a password", lol fuck you Apple.

So it's just yet another self-serving, penny pinching, thinly veiled customer privacy violation, this time wrapped in a big fat "think of the children", which as we know is corporate-speak for "turn brain off now - we want to do $thing_you_wont_like".

I'm yet to think of how Apple plans to make money out of this one, but I'm sure there's an angle in there somewhere and we'll find out eventually.

Maybe simply that either NSA or China said "give us this new scanning system or we shut you down" - and I'm not American but I do wonder about people who still cling to the belief that the fourth amendment would be respected post Snowden revelations.

Hell, I'm Australian - they're probably just planning to push that hash-matched data through servers in Australia so they can see everything, because Australia has no bill of rights, and getting more authoritarian with every uncontested bill that passes. Or some other kind of "legal" fuckery to move even closer to the dystopia they are so hell-bent on creating.
One thing that has devastated me about recent Spotify updates is that now, when viewing an Artist, you do not get to see all of the albums (or at least the first 10 newest albums) for that artist straight away with all of the tracks listed. It's now much harder to find a song that you don't know the title of, but you know an artist has sung.

It's also small changes that are extremely annoying. Pressing "New Playlist" used to come up with a dialog box asking what the playlist should be named. Now it just gets called "New Playlist". Clicking the playlist name to rename it does not automatically select the textbox to give it a name, meaning that to create a new named playlist - an action that used to take one click, is at least three clicks and two keyboard presses... I mean, come on Spotify!

The search bar used to always be visible. Now I need to click search first, then click the search bar.

To me, Spotify was the epitome of software completion five years ago. The client worked. It was perfect. It seems like every single update since they released the "Daily Mixes" has both downgraded the performance of the app, and made discoverability harder. I want Spotify how it was 18 months ago.

Spotify on my machine sometimes chews up 2GB of RAM. Reached out to support, and the best that they can give is "try restarting the app". That helps, until 12 hours later you need to do it again. A music player should not have 10% CPU usage on a modern MacBook.

Finding Psst has been a life changer.
You know what’s fascinating, I find these same things so annoying and also use it less because of that… but crucially I still pay for it. So in essence I’m their best customer. I pay and I don’t use it. All streaming platforms operate like gyms, they want the most paying customers who forget they even pay for the service and don’t really use it.

I’m guessing someone in Spotify’s marketing dept or user retention came up with an algo that determined the features/bugs that would make the service just bad enough that it’s still usable (and thus worth paying for) but too annoying to use too often.
"I'm part of the herd boxing COVID in."

The 'rona is in cats and deer, so it will be around for approximately forever. Vaccinated humans still get it and transmit it, though may have less severe symptoms. Will you please explain what you are boxing in?
I (and 3 brothers) grew up coming and going as we pleased, spending a lot of time in the woods, skating outside, reading or playing gameboy somewhere etc. We had great childhoods and grew into stable and good grown ups as far as I can tell. My parents always trusted me, so I trust them as well. However the danger with that kind of parenting is that your kids mistake it with not caring. Be there for your kids, but also let them make their own experiences.
I was in a similar boat a decade ago. I read the FTB documentation (FTB 1031 Sect. E-L) carefully and just accepted it would be subjective criteria test in court if it ever came down to it. I started keeping immaculate records (motivated by the IRS' substantial presence test or bona fide residence test depending on the year and where the family was in terms of which country it was in — e.g., moving to another). The main points that were relevant — memory serves — were a permanent work contract in the new country and having dissolved housing contracts and similar in CA. My advice: if going abroad, aim to promote your residency status in the new country to "permanent residency" (cf. Green Card, Niederlassungserlaubnis, Niederlassungsbewilligung) over just being permitted either temporary or long-term (cf. Aufenthaltserlaubnis, Kurzaufenthaltsbewilligung). It takes some work to earn permanent residency over the others (e.g., being in good standing, language mastery, and ability to substantively demonstrate financial independence). The idea of earning permanent residency (in a place where it's difficult to earn it) and throwing it away to return to CA suddenly would probably appear preposterous in court in terms of FTB arguing that you're just away from CA temporarily.

I kept a US driver license out of convenience in CA. Never was a problem, though I transitioned it to another state where I had family ties and a mailing address hear later.

I kept my CA bank account out of practicality. It was the only bank I had dealt with out of about six in rapid succession that was supportive and friendly with my living abroad (e.g., power of attorney, wire transfers without being in-person).

Voter registration in CA is fine per Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA). You are entitled your vote; what will differ is whether the state grants you purely federal or also local voting rights. You get federal at a minimum. UOCAVA is a bit hand-wavy with the criteria, so I did transfer my voter registration to the other state where I had the license.

For the one year I was half-in California while also being abroad, I still filed taxes accordingly for that year for CA. IIRC, I might have even filed 0 in a CA FTB form for the next year.

So: in short, multiple years with "weak" bureaucratic carryover ties in CA without issue, but ultimately transferred all matters aside from bank account to a state with deeper ties (even if living abroad). Never an issue.

The real monster, which dates back to the US Civil War, is the need to pay and file taxes when domiciled abroad. You can then add FATCA on top of that as a cherry. The CA FTB is a dream compared to the IRS here. I’ve basically accepted that this situation won’t improve in my lifetime. Maybe my children’s.
I’m not 100% sure, but I think the origin of that is https://twitter.com/daisyowl/status/841802094361235456?s=21
It’s very odd to put Erdos amongst Gauss, Euler and Tao. He was very proficient, but nowhere near as talented.
I bought my kids iPads and educational apps from Originator which taught them letters and numbers. Granted, papa lizard has given them very good genes but the result was them knowing the English alphabet and numbers past 100 at 2-3 and reading at 5. And English is not even our first language.
Those iPads were the highest ROI of parenting so far. Please give your children high quality apps.
Please, report issue.[0,1]

[0] https://twitter.com/pulkomandy/status/1426547182228971521

[1] https://github.com/pulkomandy/c.vim/issues
> Go 1.17 adds support of 64-bit ARM architecture on Windows (the windows/arm64 port). This port supports cgo.

Yay!
> native (except Java on Android) is typically default-fast

Is anything fast on Android? I have a 2017 Samsung and it's always been slow.
No evidence? I have no obligation to hold your hand.

I’ve worked in the industry for something on the order of like 15 years and have worked on extremely snappy web apps that I don’t personally care to name given my association with them.

I’m sorry you are disappointed by the web. I actually find VSCode to be an impressive achievement with Electron, though, fwiw - which is probably not much given your obvious predisposition.
There's a difference between ideals and practice. The ultra rich and multi-billion dollar corporations are allowed to directly financially influence our politicians through lobbying which is just a legal form of bribery. We're not the best example of a pure democracy.
I have had this discussion with (I believe) one of the maintainers of lumen before: but why the paren-free let?

In the beginning of my lisp journey I would have probably jumped on this, but then I found SRFI-71 that extends the regular scheme let with multiple values support in a backwards compatible way. I myself extended SRFI-71 in a small project with support for pattern matching in the multiple values form.

None of this would have been possible using a clojure-style let.
What is wrong with cash? It is one of the most fail proof form of payment. Stripe fail, chip fail, NFC fail, internet connection fail, phone line fail. But cash work almost all the time.

In last year, I have bailed out quite a few people stuck in the checkout lines because whatever hi tech form of payment, they were using, didn’t work and had no cash.
In my opinion the underlying assumption autopilots are built with are wrong. It is assumed that the road is free to drive on. Only when the vehicle computer detects a known object on the road that it knows should not be there it is applying brakes or trying to steer around. I would feel safer if the algorithm would assume the negative case as default and only give the „green light“ once it determined that the road is free to drive on.

I agree, but it will up the false alarm rate in a system without good depth perception for all objects. This is tough with cameras only. Reflective puddles are a problem; they're hard to range with vision only.
Anything that doesn't range well, which is most very uniform surfaces, becomes a reason to slow down. As you get closer, the sensor data gets better and you can usually decide it's safe to proceed.

Off-road autonomous vehicles have to work that way, but on-road ones can be more optimistic.

Waymo takes a hard line on this, and their vehicles drive rather conservatively as a result. They do have false-alarm problems and slowdowns around trouble spots.
«Googler here: Yes, we are killing RSS and it is now effectively dead. I don’t even know anyone who knows what RSS is, so it’s safe for me.»

Yeah-yeah, that’s the attitude.
I felt the same way, I was tired of it all for months, burned out working 14-18 hour days trying to keep up with demand as traffic on the site I work for grew 200% from Covid19 lock downs (people had more time to spend online).

I was in lockdown and just worked, stayed home, slept a bit and worked out, probably lived a prison lifestyle.

I've moved out of the city and have taken up some more outdoor hobbies which has been good, but more importantly, I just stepped back, now working 4-8 hours a day max.

I saved some cash and I've decided that if I lose my job for taking it easy, then so be it. Funnily enough, I seem to be more productive now.
The 'mystery' is Gobekli, the (disappeared for me) article is backed up here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210815221449/https://www.bbc.c...
> Where's my cherry flavored Covidquil?

Where's my portable cold fusion generator?

Vaccines just fucking work right now. Much like wind and solar.

Effective antivirals are like thorium nukes and carbon capture. Very hard problems that nobody can adequately solve.
I have also noticed this. There isn't even a way to see songs, you always have to go to each album. I don't remember the album! Or the name of the song!
No, not at all. There are ways to implement this without making it a requirement to use the app. For example, you implement a counter for each user of the app, so they can only use a subset of the API requests allowed for your application.

Then if they go over their allocated amount of calls, or they have been a user for X days/weeks/months, you give them a guided walkthrough on how to register their own API key.
> Surprised I never saw anyone try to inject ads into RSS feeds. Or maybe they did and I never saw it.

The default list of articles most often already contains them - considering the rise of sponsored (and often unmarked) posts.
Yeah a less liability inducing and common thing to do is that you can use these to make accounts at exchanges and private equity that exclude people from your country

Usually US and China and the OFAC list are excluded due to differing regulations

Nobody knows or cares. The financial institution, the capital raiser, the person with their ID used

You’re just trying to get into some presales or trade derivatives and that doesnt have criminal liability
I'm the original author of Leaflet and also (as of last 8 years) core developer of Mapbox GL JS. Not pursuing vector rendering in Leaflet is intentional — it's designed to be extremely small, simple and lightweight. Vector map rendering is so incredibly difficult to do right that it's pretty much impossible without many years of team effort by top engineers and millions in investment.
Discoverability...

I'd pay handsomely for an app that did discovery on tracks and not artists. Last.fm kind of but not really does it. It took me many years to get from Sirenia: Seven Sirens And A Silver Tear to the Midnight Sonata (I can't remember alas who did it -- was it reddit or a forum on a now defunct tracker? all the great trackers are dead) and from there I was able to branch out. But this shouldn't be so hard..? We already have several music matching apps, surely closeness is a solvable problem.