skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I‘m not sure if building a Nigerian solution for an American problem is really the way to go.

If I were you I would try to think of a Nigerian problem that can only be solved by a Nigerian solution.
Yes, it only makes sense if organizations monitor their domains for unexpected certificates and actually react to that, which probably not enough people do.
At one point I was working in the gaming industry and really wanted out. I was talking to a hiring consultant and asked if it'd be helpful to give my notice now so I could be available for an interview at the drop of a hat... to which they responded "Hell no, not only will you put yourself at financial risk - it'll likely take you longer to find a new job." I've been unemployed and snapped up for a job before - but it was that gaming job and I wanted to hop over to a place that offered a better work-life balance.

It's been my personal anecdotal observation (enough qualifiers yet?) that unemployed folks are similar to the last pear in the supermarket. Sure, that pear might look fine and be perfectly ripe - but two hundred people picked two hundred pears from a pile... and no one picked that one. When you are unemployed and looking for work I suspect you end up getting rejected by a number of places out of hand since, while there's no solid evidence proving it, you might have something wrong with you as an employee since no one is currently employing you. Once you've landed a position - especially if your LinkedIn shows several title bumps during your tenure - all the vultures salivate over how likely it is that you're a high value employee.

With engineering in particular, solid reliable team-players are worth their weight in gold, and, from the outside, there is a strong perception of vast differences in employee skills that I think is mostly driven by the extreme wage disparities we can observe "Sure I've got Sharon and they're a really solid developer - but I only pay them 45k, those hackers in SV make 250k plus bonuses. I can only imagine how amazing they are!" I think this is somewhat further entrenched by the extreme role experience with similar problems plays - and the really deep levels of specialization we have in our industry. Database specialists are absolute wizards when it comes to database stuff and can resolve problems in a fraction of the time someone who's never touched a DB would[1] - and yet both of those developers might be employed as full stack developers. Engineering is really complicated and our field has yet to fracture as much as it really ought to into specialization - so the majority of folks dip their toes into a lot of different pools.

This is totally based on opinion and personal experience but I think that specialization is what really makes it hard to "break in" to engineering - and that specialization makes overcoming the unemployed stigma even harder than in other fields.

1. This isn't an insult to the other developer btw - it's just a lack of experience and possibly a pre-disposition. There are plenty of people who are wizards with a database that will just fumble like they've never seen a lego before if given a ticket to resolve having to do with ops - or systems programming.
>He is asking me about why a JS compiler is removing his comments

Huh ? language parsers remove comments because they're comments, that's literally by definition. Are you (or your past interviewer) using "comments" in a different sense ?

(Also, not trying to be a pedant on you I swear, but technically JS is traditionally interpreted. Most mature runtimes have compilers but it's not part of the API. It's just a juvenile pet peeve of mine when language implementations are generically referred to as compilers.)

>he actually said as I was leaving "make sure you understand databases for your next interview" with a massive shit-eating grin

I sincerely hope from my heart of hearts that company or department is in it's well deserved position in the depths of the toilet now, or at any rate that specific person.
> The fact that their "post-sales targeting" can overwhelm other advertisers who are just doing "market expansion" targeting doesn't tell you much at all

It shows me that the simplistic method of "advertise to people who have already bought our product" performs vastly better than any of the other sophisticated targeting that advertisers like to tout.

To clarify -- I'm not talking about the proportion of an individual company's budget -- I'm talking about the proportion of the overall market for that product. Every time that someone is shown an ad, that ad is the result of a bidding war. If a large proportion of those ads are retargeted that means the market has decided that the vast majority of advertisers are less confident about their targeting systems then they are about a simplistic, vaguely annoying heuristic.

We can make an assumption about the market as a whole because we believe that the market is at least somewhat efficient. If advanced, targeted advertising that used tons of demographic data and personal information was competitive with these naive targeting techniques, then a higher proportion of those ads would outbid retargeted ads on any given page.

> doesn't tell you much at all

I also want to broaden out a little bit here. In the OP's article, the main complaint being made is not that advertising has zero ROI (although the author is critical of the effectiveness as well). The criticism is that the ads provide no benefit to the user, that they're annoying and reductionist, and that they fail to live up to the promises of companies like Facebook that claim targeted ads connect people to new products that they'll love.

Independent of whether or not we can be critical of the effectiveness of ads for companies, the proportion of retargeted ads also tells us that advertisers broadly, as a market, are incapable of delivering on their promises to consumers and are incapable of building a system that is mutually beneficial to both companies and consumers.

See also some of the authors criticism of recommendation algorithms, which fall into the same boat. Who cares if Netflix's recommendation algorithm increases clicks? Consumers don't sign up for Netflix out of charity, they want a system that serves their interests, not just the company's. For advertisers to try and make the case that access to private data is good for consumers, they need to have something to show that's better than this.
Totally opposite for me, outlook desktop is so slow, regularly crashes and has horrible patchwork of UI and the web client has been great, super fast and feels like a streamlined and unified evolution. Adding ics events is bizarre and annoying but other than that, i'll never go back.
I've been dragged into Instagram.

For months now I've been searching for some good used furniture. Mostly MCM stuff. I'd prefer private party sales, but am open to dealers as well.

For the personal side I was checking Nextdoor, Craigslist, and OfferUp. Hours of scrolling and modifying search queries and I couldn't find anything worth checking out. Those sites are for $50 couches and $20 bookshelves.

For the dealer side, I was just searching the web. My impression was that furniture dealers were either a dying business, or all search engines suck. The only results I kept getting were Pinterest, 1stdibs, or Chairish. These are sites with insane markups where (I suspect) you're supposed to be smart enough to haggle down. I gather they also take a large cut, so not many dealers list with them at all.

I finally got a clue and re-animated my ancient IG account. Whaddayaknow? That's where everyone is! Suddenly I've found and followed a couple dozen resale shops that offer all sorts of cool stuff. All within an hour of where I live. Half the time, the URL they have in their bio is a dead website. Or, it exists but hasn't been updated in months. They've given up on having their own website and sell only inside the walled garden now.

It's a shame.

I still haven't logged into Facebook proper. I probably should find out if Marketplace is better than Craigslist, et. al. for classified ads.
Ah yes, that's exactly what CRC32 is supposed to be used for. And it's even quicker if you don't compute it over the whole file, brilliant!
I'm still looking forward to a single binary for each of the following:

* NQP

* Rakudo

* Rakudo programs

Building on https://yakshavingcream.blogspot.com/2019/08/summer-in-revie...
Ahh, I was thinking MySpace...
To play devil's advocate for a moment, is this different from age-gating we do anywhere else on the internet? We require you to be 18 or over to look at adult sites or view particularly edgy stuff on youtube. Is the difference just that there's an implicit wink going on because it relies on the user being honest about their age? I'm sure if we had a real ID system like China in place, laws would mandate its use given US attitudes about porn and gore.
IANAL, but I believe it would fall under fair use, specifically nominative use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_use

The existing name might 'suggest sponsorship or endorsement' by Elementary Inc, but my version does not.
>At least when I was doing contracting in the UK contracting roles could earn me almost twice as much as permanent roles (without the benefits of course).

The rule I have always followed - though I don't remember where I picked it up - is that contracting should earn you twice as much as your full time salary - that way the risk etc. evens out.
> If you're new to classical music you really don't need to worry about this. Almost all available professional recordings are of high quality, and the differences between interpretations are relatively subtle.

Agreed, but it's also important to understand that what's truly distinctive about Western classical music (as opposed to other music traditions) is it being a written art form first and foremost, with sheet music as the "standard" form for a piece and performance being subsequent to that. If you're "new" to serious/cultivated music, you really should start by learning to read the sheet music and follow along when listening to a performance. Everything else in music appreciation is downstream of that.
I think it started when broadband started rolling out nationally in the late 90s. My whole neighborhood for example was on dialup, everyone used AOL(for the most part), and just like that, it was gone once @home rolled fiber optics. AOL didn't seem to have any plan for that. Our family actually wanted to keep AOL, but they still wanted their 24.99 or whatever for the privilege, and well, few people found it worth it.
I don't think it's obviously weird. Before the age of asynchronous telecommunication, interrupting each other's lives was the only way to communicate at all. You could equally consider it strange that nowadays everyone expects all social communication to be mediated by an electronic escrow service.
I have sonar on my kayak. You can certainly use a power that is not going to hurt sea creatures. A lot of Navy ships including submarines have off the shelf sonar as well as military sonar. I’ve seen a pic of a sub with Raymarine radar they use when surfaced in channels. The subs don’t want to use their own military grade stuff because then the enemies have the frequency signature so they use off the shelf for navigating in public areas.
>That implies that 80% of the hospitalizations are unvaccinated. Which I then correlate to: 80% of the hospital bed use is directly preventable? 80% of the hospitalized cases are draining our resources better applied to other emergencies?

How can you get from A to B there.....For all you know, those people would be hospitalized even if they were vaccinated. Theres really no science there, because the groups charged with tracking that very datapoint have chosen to specifically avoid it.

One thing is for certain, we don't know why some people present with only mild symptoms and others need critical care, regardless of vaccination status. And there could be plenty of reasons vaccinated numbers are down.

Have you considered that maybe many of those vaccinated are also more cautious in their daily routines, are more likely to sanitize their hands or avoid interactions with others that would put them at increased risk regardless of status, such as eating out or attending parties vs curbside or takeout?

Heck i would not be shocked if there are more people around you that are more skeptical than they let on because people like you will try and paint them with a broad brush. Its exactly why, despite being vaccinated myself, i avoid such topics in public around friends and family and just say its its not their business.

>Respectfully, I find the defense of anti-vaxxers and/or "vaccine skeptics" points of view is irrelevant to this particular thread of discussion. This thread is specifically about their outsized - and more importantly preventable - negative impact on the available medical resources.

Its important to note that I am not defending their viewpoints, but moreover I am admonishing rhetoric that is divisive and serves no other purpose than to increase division and make another feel righteous.

As well, this thread is about an EU recommendations affecting an entire country, of which only portions of are seeing spikes...

You chose to paint with broad strokes and use rhetoric that serves no other purpose than to alienate rather than use rhetoric that works to bring those skeptical of existing treatments to a more logical conclusion. I find it very odd that someone is specifically choosing rhetoric steeped in emotional appeals to admonish those they attack for working off what they see as emotional responses that isnt based on fact or science...
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> Great UI

This is very subjective; I hate it ;). I consider Apple's Mail.app/Calendar.app/etc much better UI-wise.

> Android

Note that Outlook for Android (not sure about iOS version) is rebranded Acompli client, which sucked all your email into the cloud. This was instant no-go when it originally came out, so I ended up with Nine (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ninefolder...), which has an additional advantage, that the device admin rules enforced by Exchange can be applied to app only, not to the entire device.
You should try to solve local problems first. A popular solution in foreign countries may not have good crossover appeal in Nigeria.

Fortunately or unfortunately, Nigeria has several problems looking for solutions. Examples include helping people travel around more securely, finding affordable healthcare, enabling MSMEs to find more customers.
These kind of stories serve primarily to further the interests of the surveillance state and its big tech competitors/enablers by making it seem as if there is a ethical outsider community with a real chance of being an effective counter-balance. There isn’t.
The other problem Arrow had was the lack of heartlining. That is, the axis of rotation when banking.

For optimum comfort of the rider, when the track banks, the center of rotation should be at the rider's chest. Arrow fails to do this, and places the center of rotation between the rails. This causes any banking to create a significant lateral force on the rider, which whips the rider's head into the over-the-shoulder retraint. In a proper heartlined roll, the track appears to "slip" from under the train, like this: [0]

In the video I linked, the turnaround after the two vertical loops was particularly brutal and painful.

What makes it even worse is a poor design of the wheel assemblies. The wheels on the inside of the rail that keep the car centered are designed to allow a small gap between them and the rail, and they're not spring-loaded or dampened in any way, which causes extreme levels of hunting oscillations [0].

Their roller coaster Drachen Fire [1][2] was so rough and painful that they stopping running the ride out after only 6 years.

[0] https://rcdb.com/3475.htm#p=42548

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting_oscillation

[2] https://youtu.be/zhtZLRZ4p8w

[3] https://rcdb.com/112.htm
I had a chinese coworker listen and translate one. They're spam. If you speak a specific language and get a call like that, you'll probably assume its actually for you. Or at least your more likely to think that.
Disclaimer: I work for Nextcloud but opinion is my own and not the one from my employer.

There is no work underway to port Nextcloud to golang. That would be a bit crazy since all the plugins and apps wouldn't work anymore (and there are tons of them) and even just rewriting the core would take years.

Owncloud is trying to rewrite their core since two years and it is still only a tech demo and many features are lost compared to their php based product. (They are also doing weird thing like taking nosql to seriously and not using at all a sql database just files, that probably doesn't help...)
Any news site recommendations for us curious noobs? I've been watching The Limiting Factor. I don't think I'd heard about Enovix yet.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIFn7ONIJHyC-lMnb7Fm_jw/vid...

Update: Scanning your posts, you're in the biz. Of course you have a bead on things. Open to recommendations, nonetheless.
> C++-wise, you probably want to catch std::exception and "..." too.

Yeah, the "unknown_exception" in the above pseudocode represents that :)

> Finally, you said that there's two types of exceptions and only one of them is supposed to be reported to the user, but in your code you seem to report everything to the user. You should edit your message to clarify what you meant.

Yeah, only one will be reported because only one exception handler will be called. So the internal error will be reported to the user as "internal error" and some internal code that the user can report back to me if they want to. The other error is user error. So broadly there are only two categories of errors.
Now if only big legacy corporations like banks, airlines, etc. had better text/chat/email support, 99% of us could probably deprecate phone calls entirely in our lives. Even my 70 year old parents have embraced messaging. Unfortunately calling some 800 number and waiting on hold is still the status quo here.
Spicy. Drama only 35 minutes (or 6 hours) old and it’s already blowing up here at 1 UPM (upvote per minute).
I mentioned this on another HN thread, but I personally have my default ringtone set to a 0.1s mp3 of silence I made once. I then gave everyone in my address book group a real ringtone. Pretty much anyone in there I actually care if they call. All others can leave a message.

As for the parent post's preference for SMS. Most people I know are on XMPP (well. basically google hangouts), Telegram, Signal.. I'm not a fan of the multitude of walled gardens that the chat world has become, but SMS is pretty limiting and still not guaranteed to be free. There's 2 people I still talk with on SMS - the rest are on more featureful chat clients. I also do get a considerable amount of SMS spam, unfortunately.

Oh, also, I use google voice for my SMS 'cause my main plan does charge for SMS - I don't particularly care about this since no one I know really uses it anyway, and the few who do are easy to redirect to google voice.
Funny, for me it has been the opposite. Spotify plus Google plus Wikipedia has been awesome.
The best ways to contact me are basically ordered by how many of the messages I receive are automated, whether spam or not. WhatsApp is the best way (0% automated messages), then text (maybe 75-80% automated?), then phone (something like 95-99% automated), then email (~99.99% automated, and that's just the stuff that gets through gmail's spam filters)

More machines talking to me = I'm less likely to check messages unless I'm expecting something. If you email me without giving me a heads-up first, there is nearly a 0% chance I'll see it. The only medium where the chance of my actually receiving your message the first try is over 90% is Whatsapp. I used to work to keep the % of garbage down in my email, but realized at some point that I was receiving so few emails I wanted that weren't just transactional messages from a machine, that it was pointless (I can just search for transactional emails if I need them, because I'm expecting them and know where they should be from, so inbox clutter barely affects that use at all).
"Let's not use inheritance, it's complicated and could confuse programmers. Better to just copy-paste code."

"Source control? I don't know, this git command line is a little bit too much. Let's just use zip files and email the source"
Ask HN: What cloud providers are suitable for running mail servers
Conventional wisdom is that home internet service provider IP address blocks are unsuitable

Does same wisdom apply to cloud service provider IP address blocks
>Odds are that you are under an NDA which limits your freedom of speech.

These are mostly very specific, very limited and largely perfectly sensible. Yes some NDAs are onerous but they're quite rare. China has no concept of freedom of speech at all. It simply doesn't exist. I don't see how that's better.

>Companies will keep making what sells, even if it's bad for you.

We actually do have market regulation in the west, more in some countries than others, but it's a well established principle. You may disagree with the regulations we have, that's a matter of opinion, but we do have regulations on safety, quality, etc. If you want further regulations you are free to campaign for them, but the lack of any relations you might want is not a flaw in the system, it's just a consensus choice you disagree with.

>The CCP seems to be implementing a lot of measures which stand to increase overall quality-of-life...

All western states, even the US, have regulated labour markets including controls on working hours, minimum wages, mandatory breaks, etc. 996 is in practice illegal in almost every (possibly actually every) western country already. We are way, way ahead of China on this, so much so that you thinking China is breaking ground is frankly laughable.

Many countries already have guidelines in place on activities like video games. Public health systems recognise, provide advice and support, and even treatment for games addiction. The CCP is not breaking any novel ground on any of this. The fact is it has a woefully inadequate public health system and primitive social services that are so bad they have to resort to crude dictatorial mandates like this because it's all they have left. That is not a good thing.

>As a footnote...

Oh good grief.
What problems do your neighbours have?
I'm not in favour of governments doing this.

But I have to admit I will relish the opportunity to tell my (11 year old) son about this around the dinner table tonight (after he spent the whole day hiding inside playing Terraria and Minecraft)

And I wish as a parent I had the actual ability to enforce such a limit myself (maybe not so drastic). But the battle would be intense, futile, and conflict ridden. It's been tried.

The government has no business doing this, but there's something to be said for community / cultural standards and leadership. Parents in our society are on their own, fighting a tide of digital "addiction" without supports. And in fact key pillars of our kind of society (that is, corporations) are working to encourage screen time, rather than the other way around. A year of COVID isolation has made it so much worse, too.

I wonder what the outcome of this policy will be and if it will make China's youth more competitive and their society healthier. Or if it will be a total an abject failure and laughed at in a couple generations (most likely).
An update about Chang’e 5 whereabouts