skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can be both things at the same time. Maybe you go into a casino once, on your birthday, have some fun with $500, and never again. That doesn't mean that casinos don't fuel addiction for profit.

What's important here I think is that while saying that payday loans are bad, I don't mean to take away your positive experience with it. Just that looking at the bigger picture, they do more harm than good. That they exploit the desperation in the people, and that's immoral and should be regulated more.
"Oh, and we decide when you take those vacations."

This is sort-of normal elsewhere, actually. Even in Europe, employer has sway over vacations. Not a dictatorial power, but No will often be No for a certain period. It makes sense in many industries; you can't have a power plant running with too few qualified people present.

Edit: downvoted for a perfectly neutral response. Yes, looking at my own country's labor code, vacations are determined by the employer. They will likely meet you halfway and approve vacations for July and August (slow season) without too much hassle, but they do not have to. As said above, it makes sense; certain skeleton crews must be maintained at all times in many industries.
“I can prove it to you - I bet when you saw this you thought it was going to be about passwords"

Nope. My first thought was about hash tables and Git style associative DB’s.
Statistical process control after W. Edwards Deming (2020)
$180 to play grayscale games when everyone who would buy already has a 1080P+ super-computer in their pocket?

Nostalgia really got people gassed up.
My summary of the book: https://www.2uo.de/deming/
Personally I favour an apolitical head of state, I’m not too fussed whether they’re a figurehead monarchy like the UK or some other form of selection but I think giving a single politician kingly powers is a monumentally bad idea. I prefer a cabinet with collective responsibility making the actual decisions, preferably indirectly appointed by a democratically elected parliament rather than direct popular vote (which can only lead to deadlock eventually). The head of state not being a politician helps a lot with this.

Politicians who reach the top tier are as a breed inherently untrustworthy, anyone who seeks power for its own sake is usually morally unfit to wield it. Concentrating all this power in the hands of a single man or woman is tempting fate with disaster, collective responsibility is like the “two man rule” on steroids. We’ve seen how dangerous a presidential style of government is here in the UK which traditionally uses a parliamentary system, we’ve seen Parliament sidelined in favour of unaccountable executive diktats throughout both Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic including really dangerous policies like the abolition of the right to protest.

I think power in general is best made as diffuse as possible, the problem at least in the UK is that the system is based on gentleman’s agreements in a place that’s long stopped being gentlemanly. The system is designed on the premise that nobody ever goes into Parliament and lies, the idea that bad actors can exist among MPs is anathema. What we actually need is a system that admits bad actors are rife in politics and is actively designed to limit the harm they can do. We need a system that’s institutionally distrustful, a system that treats corruption like blasphemy rather than tacitly encouraging it, a system where political power is treated like plutonium - extremely useful but also extremely dangerous with plenty of safeguards to prevent disaster.

I want a system of government that’s designed by cynics and pessimists, not a system that’s effectively a rabbit warren for the wealthy and powerful to protect their interests.
How? This just gives more control to the OS. It's the OS's job to ensure that process priorities are enforced. I don't see how you get around that.
I doubt that the vast majority of people cannot understand a youtube video explaining how, nor that the vast majority of folks cannot oil a chain. Most folks can use a stud finder and put a screw in the wall and it seems like a rather poor reading of humanity to judge people on this, especially considering how many folks live in apartments that disallow holes in the wall (and have never had a need to learn the skill).
I think the claim here isn't the fact that you can ping, but that you can do it in context. I haven't played Apex, so I can only go on descriptions that I find online. It seems that the system allows players to convey a lot of information with the type of marker they set from a radial menu. And supposedly you can even even put markers on specific items in dead teammate's inventories to call dibs and stuff.

My interpretation is that the system was specifically developed to convey a significant portion of the information that is usually communicated verbally between teammates when in a match.
They say bread is the main reason we get sick so easily.
Letter from Christian Leaders to Prime Minister on Vaccine Passport Proposals
I would very much like this line of thought, but elaborated even more. Maybe with real science thrown in. Can anyone recommend books, articles, about Demming's ideas tested empirically, about deadlines' influence, estimation psychology etc.?
Was the shift to full Java that important? I'm still baffled it wasn't a bigger deal. But the reality is that no one slapped on a new skin and recompiled their desktop java application and then ran in on Android

Even all these years later it's still basically impossible to make a Java application that runs on mobile and desktop (it's technically possible with Gluon but I've never seen it in the wild).

At best the shift allowed you to reuse libraries .. which is not a small win, but seems like a fraction of whats possible

I'm not deep in the Java mines so maybe I've missed some big picture issues around convergence - and why it wasn't even attempted. Would be curious to hear from the gurus :)
https://webcrate.app - OSS bookmarking tool to help you organize your web

- Vue / Nuxt / Plain CSS

- TypeScript / Node / Express

- Hosted in your own personal cloud thanks to Deta Space (https://deta.space/discovery/webcrate)

Nuxt made the frontend super simple and fast to build, it takes care of a lot of things for you! Deta is also awesome for devs
OpenVaers.com has the truth
> All that striving for greatness is indivisible from the selfish need to inflict cruelty on your dominated foe. Take away the latter and there is no sports. It’s just exercise.

I cannot empathise with someone that has this mindset.

It seems like the author thinks that all masculinity is toxic - or, at least, that it's called "toxic" by progressives or whatever - and I would strongly disagree with this. When people use the phrase "toxic masculinity", they don't mean "masculinity (which is toxic, by the way)": they mean " the parts of masculinity that are toxic".

There's also a whole paragraph dedicated to saying that women aren't at the peak of sports excellence, and shouldn't be covered by Nike's clothing range. I don't think the author has watched any women's sports games before writing this piece.

I have plenty more issues with this writing, but I'm gonna stop here because I feel like I might be falling for a rage-bait article.
-Ubuntu

-NGINX

-PHP

-MariaDB

All running on 3 VPS's. Everything I want to do can still be done with this stack.
The worse than status quo comment of the grandparent refers to privacy, in the current system your bank (and whomever they sell the data to) knows everything, in a public and transparent ledger possibly everyone knows about what you use your coins for. It's not the case of Bitcoin right now but this move is concerning in this regard.
Just because the cost in relation to alternatives is low does not mean that you can easily afford luxurious maintenance. Some folks are poor, and spending more on x means less for y - and sometimes y is food or electricity.

Heck, that last one is true even if you aren't doing luxurious maintenance.
Technically in the UK a monarch can only rule with the consent of Parliament, but given our last experience of republicanism was a repressive Puritan state the idea is still somewhat tainted in the public eye. Ironically, there’s an argument that some of America’s tendencies are a result of the influence of the fleeing Puritans who were deposed by the Restoration.
Having a GitHub etc. you can share with prospective employers really goes a long way.
While proof of residence isn’t necessary, you do need some sort of identification right? This due to anti money laundry laws. A bank in Europe must be able to prove that an individual is who he is. The identification will indirectly prove that someone else has verified the individual’s residence. If you then move, it doesn’t matter since you are already identified.
Can anyone explain why I'm seeing JQ all over the web?! Yesterday a vendor gave a presentation saying that we should use it when using their command line tools, what's going on?
Granted, it's a factor 2.5 difference in height, 1.6 in rotor radius and 6 in rated power, but Equinor operates a floating wind farm with 100 meter hub height outside of Scotland.

(I'm assuming that the article reported hub height and not the highest point of the rotor).

https://www.equinor.com/en/what-we-do/floating-wind/how-hywi...
If that's the way it works, then estimates aren't "estimates." They're "commitments." I don't make solid commitments unless I'm 110% sure I can get what I said done by the time I said it would get done, and I imagine many others don't either. So, the rational response to "estimates cum commitments" is to only promise what one can deliver with high certainty.

This essentially leads to the same result as when estimates are actually estimates, except that I might feel free to overestimate my capabilities a little, but I'd never want to overcommit at all. In other words, if you just let me estimate instead of commit, you're likely to get more work out of me most of the time.
> It is true that, as arethuza said, knowing that a Teller-Ulam device can be built certainly contributed to the Soviets, British, French, Chinese, Indians, and Pakistanis building their own hydrogen weapons. But that is not the same thing as those nations having specific knowledge of the US's pioneering method.

If the end result is the same, does it matter? It doesn't seem like keeping those details secret slowed those other nations down by much.
Except in the race, your goal is to be the first, not to eliminate your competition. On the market, your goal is literally to crush your competitors in any legally possible way. Making the best product is one way to do it, though not the most effective one.

People seem to forget that the market, as a system of competing actors, doesn't care. It's like the lawnmower/Oracle mentioned elsewhere in the thread. It just doesn't give a damn. All the wealth any member of society enjoys is merely a side effect - the same way the motive force for a car is a side effect of combustion in the ICE. Gasoline doesn't give a damn about you being late for work, it only wants to violently oxidize. We make the market economy work the same way we make a car work - by carefully harnessing powerful forces that, inadequately constrained, are deadly.
Another common trick is to use two stones, spaced apart with (1 inch) steel nuts. Stone at the bottom acts as a heat deflector and nuts prevent the top one from overheating.
https://grapheneos.org/usage#camera
You have a point, but my meaning is I will not adversely judge his accomplishments by listing his failures in other aspects of his life.

How Steve Jobs treated his daughter, for example, is between him and his family. Diminishing his business accomplishments because of that is simply small-minded.
The way I see it, Proper error logging > Stack traces >> No stack traces. Proper error logging requires effort whatever you do. In some languages, even if you don't put in any effort, you still get stack traces (most exception-based languages), in others you get almost no context (C++, Go, Haskell etc).

If your team is spending time on good error messages, then it doesn't matter as much what language-level error support there is. If this time isn't being spent, I think you'll have a much nicer debugging experience in a system which at least collects stack traces.

Even for your example, let's say the stack trace is:

NoSuchHostException in stdlib.LookupHost() line 341
called from stdlib.HttpGet() line 6131
called from applicationLogic.DoSomething() line 123
called from main.main() line 3

In Go, with similar effort spent on error reporting along the way (if err != nil { return nil, err } vs automatic exception propagation) you'd find

Failed to do something: "no such host"

I think there's a much better chance to figure out what happened in the first case.
I'm finding it hard to decipher if this comment is satire.
Sadly it seems that everything is based on linux beyond Android. Wish there were more choices kernel-wise.
> When people use the phrase "toxic masculinity", they don't mean "masculinity (which is toxic, by the way)": they mean " the parts of masculinity that are toxic".

This is technically defensible, just as "the patriarchy" is technically an abstract term.

But keep saying "masculinity" always prepended with "toxic" and "toxic" swiftly becomes an adjective, not a subcategory, just as the patriarchy becomes an active global conspiracy it's okay to get people fired for in the fight against it.
jq is unsurprisingly Turing complete, so I wrote a Whitespace interpreter[0] in jq. It is able to handle real-time I/O by requesting lines on-demand from stdin, which is the main input source, with `input` and outputting strings in a stream.

With a relatively large jq program like that, it is critical that the main recursive loop run efficiently, so it's annoying that there's no way to detect whether tail call optimization was applied, other than benchmarking. It would also be nice if object values were lazily evaluated so that it would be possible to create ad hoc switches.

[0]: https://github.com/andrewarchi/wsjq
This seems overkill. You don't need to understand Turing completeness to work on the backend. OP just wants to get out of web development.
One second on the site and one can tell it started on HyperCard; for some reason the name didn't flag that for me. Seriously old school.
It's coming for everyone...the woke abusers think they're insulated lol
Seastar is sort of a C++-ification of node.js. Now that C++20 has coroutines, I wonder if those could have been used instead of all that chained method stuff.
I was halfway through suggesting that your former terp moves to a different Muslim country, but the

"we let our girls go to school"

grievance would be too much for most Muslim countries too. There is no religious ban on education of girls in Islam. He can move mentally into the 21st century or, well, sod off back, Taliban warts and all.

This is a serious cultural gap. We would not be able to integrate our own ancestors coming directly from year, say, 600. We won't be able to integrate contemporary people coming with mindset fit for early Middle Ages, unless they are willing to shed it.

Which is unlikely in adults. I wouldn't be able to remake myself to become a good Taliban fighter either, and I wouldn't be willing to. If your former terp sees us as degenerate and godless, he will cling to his old ways bitterly.
At least here in Germany, even "let's maybe have a speed limit on all the Autobahns" is highly contested. (And one half-joking suggestion has been to introduce a speed limit only for ICE cars as a motivation to go electric)
Frequency illusion

> The frequency illusion is that once something has been noticed then every instance of that thing is noticed, leading to the belief it has a high frequency of occurrence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
How about you build a actual sustainable business that doesn't take part of its profits out of cheating its "employees".

If you can't pay your employees you do not have a sustainable business model in the country you operate.
I very highly doubt we are going to get there until electric bikes (even if electric-assisted bikes) are the standard and affordable. Bikes might be great for most folks on flat land, but mountains are an uphill battle (pun intended) for anyone starting out as an adult and simply put, not everyone is going to do such a thing.

Additionally, most places I've lived didn't have bike racks (small to medium sized towns in Indiana), nor did a lot of workplaces put much money into employee break rooms. You can change out of those wet clothes in the public restroom, but it would be unacceptable to show up wet with sweat.

Cars just require parking spaces, and employers don't have to provide those.
So many companies including Google use "make the world a better place", or "make a difference" terminology in their recruitment. There are also a huge number of people that will chose a job over a higher paying one for the supposed purpose it provides.
The choice of clients absolutely affects people's perception of their purpose and it is thus a completely ludicrous idea to me that Google's choice of clients doesn't affect workplace conditions.
The article shows evidence of sloppiness, not really of fraud. Neither would really surprise me, given the high political stakes. But I suspect that if Russia went for full-on fraud, they would do a much better job than this.

Case in point: the doping scandal at the Sochi winter olympics. It was evil, yes, but you cannot help but admire how detailed and well-executed the operation was. They designed and built a whole building around the scheme! Supposedly, even the FSB (reincarnation of KGB) was involved. If not for a senior whistle-blower, I think we would never know.

I'm sure that if there was some top-level prikaz to cook the books, there would be no discernible flaws in the data whatsoever.
The rule seems to be that the less a software developer knows about how to build X, the easier it seems to be for him/her/it to build X.
Not only is it possible, as a couple of commenters have already shown, but, due to the many variants of CSV out there, it's possible to construct a CSV that has different contents depending on which dialect you tell your CSV reader to expect. I'll leave the actual construction as an exercise to the reader, but, it would work along the same lines as the ambiguous TSV/CSV files you've seen here already.
That title though.
I use it. You can feel their severe development resource constraints everwhere. The browser is years behind. Native apps are rather limited. I bought the newest supported hardware 3.5 years ago. It is stuck at Android 4.4, which is supported by fewer and fewer apps.

Whenever they support new HW, it takes quite a while to stabilize. Not sure what is the situation right now. My guess would be the newest supported HW is getting obsolete already and nothing new has been announced.
Also, in common with other massive online properties for instance Amazon, not consistently: changes sometimes roll out a bit at a time so users in different areas get different versions, either due to global roll-out being a staged process or because a UI experiment is being performed. It usually doesn't matter to a well written scraper as the core data is still accessible in the same way despite the UI sugar coat having changed, but sometimes there are significant enough changes under the hood too that the scraper needs to deal with while still supporting the older format(s).
I would expect lots of mobile apps to ship via Flatpak these days.
If they routinely pay more than their utility value, it's a good indication that the asset is in a bubble, and therefore not a good investment in the long term. Most assets are not in a bubble. In fact, they can't all be in a bubble. If some assets are overpriced, then other assets must be underpriced.

Stocks don't have scrap value because they're a financial derivative, whereas we were talking specifically about physical assets. A stock is a claim on a company's equity, and the company equity is defined as assets minus liabilities. Obviously if assets < liabilities, then equity is negative, but that doesn't contradict the assertion that physical objects have scrap value, which was my claim.

Bitcoin is not a derivative, because it has no underlying. It's not a commodity either, because it doesn't exist. It's an imaginary asset, like fiat money. But unlike fiat, Bitcoin doesn't work as money, so it really has no use-case other than be used as a speculative asset. It's a bubble asset.
It can be just `jq {q} file.json`. No need for `cat`.
It sounds like it is too easy in India to declare someone dead.
Smallest violin in the world being played for these private harassment entities right now
Absolutely love the Fermat reference at the end!
I don't care as I don't use an android as I don't trust google and actively dislike the entire advertising industry and its drain on society. It wouldn't surprise me if google did that. It should surprise me if my oven or fridge did. Sadly it becomes less and less surprising as time goes on.
Tell me about it, I also use some professional CAD tools (Revit) but on my day job.

I hate to say it, but maybe no one would really care if you would pirate it? It just doesn't seem right to spend so much money on such expensive software that is probably that expensive due to big business using it and no competition.
I learned a trick recently that has been making amazing Italian style pizzas at home.

Put a grill (top-down) on highest heat.

Put a frying pan on a hob on the highest heat.

Stretch out your dough and place it on the frying pan.

Put on sauce, cheese, and toppings.

Couple of minutes later check underneath.

Put the frying pan under the grill for a couple of minutes.

Taa daa. Like it was made in a pizza oven.
My big question is how will hypervisors handle this heterogenous architecture, and how much it will affect them. All cores are not equal which means vCPUs are no longer just vCPUs. I believe most guest workloads are somewhat opaque to the hypervisor, and as far as I know there isn't yet a way for guests to be aware of or demand on what cores its workloads are scheduled on any of the major hypervisors.
I had to block my card because canceling was too complicated.
No, it's certainly a much bigger problem in India than France. The intent was just to emphasize that “just one state in India” is not a small / low population place, but comparable to larger European countries. I did that pretty badly though.

To point out another mistake I made, I forgot to compare the population of the state alone v/s France – which is 3.5x, not 20x (as another commenter says [1]). So the equivalent case for France would be ~10k such cases, which would hopefully be reported about more widely.

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28299098
> This fee was also introduced in the U.K. back in December 2020

Wat?

I mean, I use PayPal fairly frequently, so this doesn't apply to me - but I'd be incredibly pissed off to note a random £20 (whatever) charge on my account from a service I didn't use!

How is this even legal?
If it's a single column file, you - the user - should know it and act accordingly. Yeah scripting usage on random input, II know, but in that case then you would specify the input type. But heuristic defaulting to the most common usage in case of doubt (that would be CSV in the CSV/TSV doubt) for the interactive use is the way to go. Or at least, it's what I would expect personally as a user.
There is also N1QL (https://docs.couchbase.com/server/current/getting-started/tr...) that lets you query JSON documents while using familiar SQL commands. It also supports ACID transactions (https://docs.couchbase.com/server/current/n1ql/n1ql-language...) (disclaimer: I work for Couchbase, the creator of N1QL)
I too have a Ducky, RGB (though with no computer software, purely keyboard controlled). Spilled coffee over it 2 times, cleaned it, still works. Can recommend!