skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Google Calendar because when meetings get changed or updated I would like to know about it at once and not after 15min or 30min or whatever time it takes the default calendar app to get its act together.

I also use Google Sheets on iOS because it’s significantly more useful than Numbers.

Google apps and services + iOS is the sweet spot for me.

iPhone is significantly better than Android for me as a hardware device and OS.
But Google apps for productivity are miles ahead of anything Apple has.
They aren't being bumped from the list out of spite, its for statistically better outcomes.

Medical science trumps stupid beliefs whether you are Steve Jobs or some idiot feeding off facebook.
I don't see how this changes anything. You can accommodate any address format, or any finite union of multiple address formats, including any computed or materialized views of the address with a custom type (AND including an "I give up" default for when everything else fails).

> there’s no standard, it’s entirely dictated by local conventions, which can change street-to-street, city-to-city

Well, that may be an international issue. In my country's case, it's quite clearly defined by law. A type for an international case might by necessity be a union of unions.
This is by far the most interesting thread to me in years.

Thanks for kickstarting the discussion!
It all comes down to the fact that doing a skeuomorphic design is a lot more work than blurting a few colored rectangles.
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True, and a good point. I scoff at Webkit ITP because Apple has tried to "balance" the needs of the advertising industry vs Safari users. I prefer a more aggressive solution - prevent the tracking cookies in the first place. Take the example you cited - if uBlock Origin removes the Facebook widgets, and blocks Facebook tracking on all websites I visit, I won't have any tracking cookies in the first place. That automatically prevents cross-site tracking within a particular session. It must be obvious this solution is much more effective and hence why I consider ITP inferior.
Bill Bryson reflecting on this quote

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/br...

"So, on balance, I was wrong. You can go home again. Just bring extra money for road maps and remember to ask for spackle."
The worst rule that I have seen was that you can't have the same character next to each other.

So "Pasword1234#" was "strong" password, but "ha_ivrkbs(i5HzJzee%Ii3jsk#7jaot" was considered weak - note "ee" in the middle of string.
I can't answer for the parent, but the fallacy I often hear is that it is too expensive *and* dangerous. But it is just taking the same argument twice.
Nuclear in Japan before Fukushima was in fact quite cheap if I'm not mistaken.
New reactor are expensive but shouldn't be dangerous anymore.
So the corrupt government should remove corruption from itself, regulate lobbying, and magically it will know how to efficiently allocate resources?
And of course it's more nuanced than that, with stuff like accelerated depreciation, preferential tax rates on investment income, charitable lead annuity trusts, etc. ad infinitum.
I know this is not a perfect benchmark, but TechEmpower runs benchmarks with tons of different libraries and frameworks, here is the latest round, filtered by just Java and JavaScript technologies: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r18&hw=...

First JavaScript on that list ranks 21th.

If you check out the complete listing (all languages, https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r18&hw=...), then a Java program comes at 4th place, after two Rust programs and one C.

Conclusion, Java is not as slow as people think, and absolutely faster than anything involving JS.
Government announces three-year plan to tame China’s algorithms
True, I've also seen enterprises where central architects decide for what framework/solution the whole company should go.

The answer to questions like 'what is the best DB' is online always 'depends on your use case', but in enterprises is usually 'what upstairs decided'.
I think they mean there is not even an opportunity cost once batteries are full.
I’ve received offers from a bunch of startups over the years. None of them would disclose their cap table. Most of them even refused to tell me the total number of shares outstanding.

Are people getting enough info for any kind of due diligence? Do people know how to play the game or did they get lucky?
I mean that's just a well-dressed tautology: reducing what you can say reduces what you can moderate.

The point is the fraction of things you rule off-topic by becoming "mission focused" is infinitesimal compared to the the topics that can disharmony can form around.

It's in people's nature to find things to discuss, and eventually some of those discussions become debates.

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You might as well play both sides by allowing yourself to support causes, with the explicit understanding that doesn't give anyone free reign to shit on their coworkers for their beliefs.

That's just good business since beliefs don't have to be political...
Nah.

I was slightly off in my memory, but I went back to some of the original blogs [1] and news reports [2] and there was indeed a specific employee demand that leadership acknowledge the customer list as something to be included in the pyramid of hate, as contributing to a colonial, genocidal culture. That this would require an apology was not explicitly stated, but it goes without saying, since there had already been apologies all around for the lesser offense, the general inappropriateness of the list.

In his blog post, DHH pointed out exactly where the dispute was: "It's still inappropriate for us to be laughing at individually named customers in our company Campfires, but not because there are any racist or colonial overtones to it." [emphasis mine] DHH simply didn't want the list spuriously connected to the serious moral offenses of bigotry and racism, with all the consequences that would open up.

This isn't to deny that a completely different sort of list, in a completely different context, could be validly cited as within the pyramid of hate. And it's fine to bring that up, so long as you note that what happened obviously wasn't that. But the angry employees didn't note that, because it wasn't part of their game. In fact, demanding that leadership frame the list as the sort of thing that contributes to colonialism and genocide, rather than merely being immature and inappropriate in the workplace, was a first step in setting off a moral panic where the instigators would call all the shots. Again, those of us who have been paying attention have seen many examples of this.

Other points of controversy, like the implicit demand that leadership take sides on the existence of white supremacy within the company precisely because an employee denied it was present [3], present even clearer examples of the Kafka-trapping and moral panic-mongering that was unfolding within the company.

Hansson and Fried were smart to nip it in the bud, and nip it in the bud publicly. They set a great example of how to show these people the door.

[1] https://world.hey.com/dhh/let-it-all-out-78485e8e

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/27/22406673/basecamp-politic...

[3] https://www.platformer.news/p/-how-basecamp-blew-up
Last time I complained about something like that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27951099 (it's okay to quote myself, right ? I am allowed to ?) I was told it's a UX FEATURE and apparently some people like to be treated like that when interacting with computers. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I posted this earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21862160

There's a much more evil prank than that:

A user was having a really bizarre problem: They could log in when they were sitting down in a seat in front of the keyboard, but when they were standing in front of the keyboard, their password didn't work! The problem happened every time, so they called for support, who finally figured it out after watching them demonstrate the problem many times:

It turned out that some joker had rearranged the numbers keys on the keyboard, so they were ordered "0123456789" instead of "1234567890". And the user's password had a digit in it. When the user was sitting down comfortably in front of the keyboard, they looked at the screen while they touch-typed their password, and were able to log in. But when they were standing in front of the computer, they looked at the keyboard and pressed the numbers they saw, which were wrong!
Nuclear waste is little different from other toxic waste, the only difference is the potential to poison at some proximity without direct contact and even that is mitigated by encasing radioactive matter in non-radioactive matter. Yet we see nuclear waste singled out, for ideological and political reasons.
> For me, Europe is an socialist dystopia which punishes individualism, risk-taking, private businesses, and where people don't have a passion for much, no hobbies, and no aspirations.

I'm from the EU and I totally agree with you, I'm always having trouble fitting in because you are required to be so passive.

I need to have some sort of aspiration for every day, that's what gives me purpose and meaning, and in the end happiness. And I get really depressed and demotivated when I'm forced to stagnate from idleness.

I guess you can always argue that it's a matter of preference, if you are the type of person that wants to have a safe and secure life, knowing that you're cared for in every day, and knowing that tomorrow will be identical to today. Or if you're the type of person that thrives on hopes and dreams and need to be motivated and stimulated by some kind of vision. But I'm also having a hard time seeing how Europe will stay competitive and innovative with such a culture, even if it can be argued to be "morally superior".
Right, that makes more sense. I assumed that they advertised this offer.
Because we need a lot of energy and soon - to scrub all that CO2 gas, coal&oil threw and are still throwing into the atmosphere.

Also because we need baseline power for when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shinning.
It seems to me that investors have figured out other ways of zeroing out startup employee equity, too.

I think the days of people getting rich from working for a successful startup are over.
Frankly, this would still be a good start compared to the norm today: You can't even find information about account deletion from most mobile apps, let alone initiate the process.
January 2007
EU court rules no EULA can forbid decompilation, if you want to fix a bug
I don't disagree with anything you said. You should definitely move to the USA. It's tailor made for people with your perspective on things.

For people with mine, Europe is perfect. For instance, I think this is just an obvious fact

> People see their bosses as their enemy

and I think this is a great idea

> Mandatory (!!) union participation

Also, a big part of your comment was about the amount of stuff available. What I always tell young folks I talk to here that are thinking about moving to the US is this: If you want to own a lot of stuff, move to the US. If you want anything else stay here.

Edit: I missed this line that I do disagree with:

> people don't have a passion for much, no hobbies, and no aspirations.

You should have applied the same distribution analysis here as you did for cheese. People have plenty of hobbies, just in a narrower range (ie regional outdoors sports). There are even motorsports, but for common people it tends to be confined to tuning VW hatchbacks.
As a general class operator under 40 I wish it was the latter.

Marconi and the other greats in the history of radio were people messing around in an unregulatedish space. The only place you find those kinds of hams anymore is in THz operators who do some crazy shit.
Title needs (2020)
How many people are you shooting?
$ bc -l
bc 1.07.1
Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2012-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'.
exit
0
quit

Gets me everytime.
Where is mobile traffic the most and least popular?
Distilling juniper :)
Thanks! The goal is simplicity, so it doesn't attempt feature parity with a more comprehensive tool like yours. Collaboration features, along with any features that can't be implemented on simple static hosting, are out of scope.

I really like the collaborative nature of what you've built. I can definitely imagine using this in meetings or group planning sessions.
This sounds to me like a "just draw the rest of the owl" solution.

You're right in that there's nothing you can do with JSONB that you can't do with a custom type, but the larger problem is "do I even know how to make a custom type that might fit all of the various inconsistencies that I might face with this data?"

The answer, for me, is no. I have no idea, and I'm not going to pretend. I can throw it all into a giant chunk of JSON and leave explicit note that address handling isn't, and at least that way no one actually thinks that it is, which is probably safer for everyone involved.
I'm happy Elon Musk is taking a stand against these borderline socialist politicians.
Eight million Britons unable to buy essential food items in last fortnight
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Chernobyl killed less people than air pollution due to coal does in Europe in a year. The difference is that Chernobyl is a big, visible event, while coal plants in Germany and Poland are a slow poison, and people don't notice slow poisons.
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On every major OS except niche ones
Europe is crap for entrepreneurs to be sure. However, Europe is high up on the value chain for many industries that actually require a "move slow and don't break things" mentality. Aerospace, etc.
Is this implemented by Facebook holding 3 hashes of your password? It doesn’t save your actual password clear text (or encrypted clear text), does it?

A related question: when a password system tells me I need to change my password, and it has to differ by 3 letters from my previous password, is that system storing my password text rather than the hash of the password? Is that safe?
That’s what the talk radio shills and similar right wing folks tell you.

The reality is that when you have enough cash to justify, you roll your assets into a series of South Dakota trusts and that money is perpetually tax-free.

Another tactic is to use Nevada and Delaware corporations to buy real property everywhere, and use that to avoid most taxation.
It’s hard to believe that people paid $50 for this back in the day.

https://books.google.com/books?id=7k7q-wS0t00C&pg=PA59#v=one...
Also the people formerly of Fukushima. Many, perhaps most, of those who had to leave will never return.
> Its so strange to think of rainwater collection as illegal. That is utterly dystopian. But there it is across multiple areas.

Which states? The only one I saw was Nevada, which is a desert. In a place with not enough water to spare, bogarting it can cause serious problems for other residents.
So we agree that nuclear energy make waste that is easier and safer to dispose of, as you don't need the extra step?
People understand things they can see, like, someone is short, then, how good s/he can get at basketball is a bit limited (right). Or, someone having a body shape good for running, but won't lift much weights.

But mental capabilities are invisible, and then it's harder for many people to see that there are different and personal limits.
I don’t mean to be terribly cynical, but wouldn’t it be just as effective to simply ignore equity entirely when evaluating a startup offer?

An offer from an established company has a fairly clear value - a chunk of cash and some relatively-well understood stock. A startup offer amounts to a chunk of cash and a box of lottery tickets. Given the wide variety of possible outcomes, it’s essentially impossible to assign any value to them - so they might as well not exist for the purposes of evaluation.

I tend to think of this kind of choice as one that you’d make based on the company and work environment, rather than the compensation - so long as the startup can pay enough cash to maintain a standard of living you want. Then it’s a case of deciding if the work environment, team, product, mission etc. are something in which you’re interested enough to give up the stability and income from an established company. If it does work out and you get rewarded through an exit, then that’s great! But if you’re going in to it with the expectation of becoming wealthy, you’re almost certainly going to be disappointed.

YMMV of course, I’m personally quite risk-averse!
No, they most definitely just transform the text to all the acceptable versions, do the encryption and compare it with the encrypted stored one.
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I would say it is the most important grid. Or least replaceable.
Pretty sure ScreamTracker ran in text mode, so it's a TUI. It just used a custom font, instead of most TUIs using the stock BIOS or video card font.
Very problematic article. The lede shows the headline is at least somewhat misleading:

> New wood burning stoves billed as more environmentally friendly still emit 750 times more tiny particle pollution than a modern HGV truck, a report has shown.

> Only stoves that meet the ecodesign standard can be legally sold from the start of 2022 in the UK and EU, but experts said the regulation was shockingly weak.

The title says "pollution", but actually this is just one kind of pollution, PM2.5 pollution. The HN title would benefit from this edit.

However, the article does nothing to discuss what to expect on the market from the ecodesign stoves.
Changing the structure of our distribution network and the pattern of our energy consumption will cost much, much more (in both time and money) than building additional production into our current system.
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https://robharvey.com/advert/hd-watch-online-venom-let-there...
https://vocus.cc/article/615605b2fd89780001758ecf
Indeed I was living in the Gaeltacht (West of Galway). I didn't realise the number of Irish-spoken schools was so low in the rest of the country.

My colleagues all said that all the good schools were Irish spoken (as in everything taught through Irish). I extrapolated this to the rest of the country which is clearly incorrect. Sorry. But I wasn't too much into this as I don't have any kids myself.

If I did have kids I would have left Ireland anyway... At least in the area where I lived most schools were Catholic and I would never accept my child being raised with religious values. I wouldn't want to constantly have to deprogram them.

In fact one of my colleagues had a child who was giving a presentation about the dinosaurs. His parents were called to the school and told off because this was a subject that could not be discussed because evolution was "unscientific" and they shouldn't spread this kind of "nonsense" to the other pupils. Another colleague was shunned for being a "lone parent".

And this was actually a colleague who was living in Athlone, not in the Gaeltacht at all. So forgive me if I hold the Irish education system in low esteem :) Perhaps in Dublin it's better but I've only lived in the more remote areas.
I don't think that's the case at all. What is even a "more correct position"? Isn't that just following the consensus?
You could do the reverse and try every typo of the input in plain text on the username’s encrypted password.
possibly to do the opposite of what everyone would think you’d do?
Wow.

Um, maybe step away from the computer and go for a walk or something.
If you get caught exceeding the speed limit with more than 100% the car you drive will be confiscated and sold on auction. The money goes to the government. This is regardless if it is your own car or not. It makes no difference if it is yours, a company owned car, borrowed, leased or rented. You loose the car.

The same goes if you drive very drunk or drive so reckless that your driving is being classified as "insane driving"
For me, I've noticed a downfall in the quality of content that ends up on the front page compared to pre-pandemic times.

Quite a lot of good stuff gets lost in the "new" page.
Don’t forget hydro =/= green. Its ecological impact is significant and it’s producing greenhouse gases.
I thought this would be referencing work by Nathan Myhrvold using a new type of reactor that supposedly runs on "spent" nuclear waste and in the event of power failure just stops running safely. Not sure of the other logistic issues involved. The one thing I remember about transitioning to this approach is that Nathan said the US isn't very good about building new things, so they were going to build in China. But then it got shut down right as the anti-China trade policies started a few years ago. Not sure if there are big problems with this approach, but it sounded promising ...
Another comment mentions teachyourselfcs.com. I can vouch for that. I am a chemical engineering undergrad who taught himself computer science mostly using those resources.I had fair bit of interest in becoming a machine learning researcher and I had good enough experience in programming, so wanted to learn CS in depth.

Incidentally, I started a company called Primerlabs(https://Primerlabs.io) which creates self paced conversational CS courses to learn on your own. Although there are only two courses now.

So, I will say go with teach yourselfcs. Other listicles are too much info, Imho.
Well, the nation as an organizing principle and identity arose in revolutionary France as a way to fill the hole left by the collapse of god and the king as the feudal system was abolished. But the nation, too, as a concept has its limits. In some cases I think it will be replaced with more local identifications and political structures; in other cases more global ones. But in every case those structures need to be democratic.
Realistically this is only going to affect people on mobile devices, which looks like it'd bring that down to about 6.5%
If I had to wager a guess, getting to skip parsing at runtime, better typings known to the compiler, and having a lighter runtime all help.

Having good type info is especially powerful for compiler optimizations, and a situation that JS get a lot less often than Java. I'm assuming the JVM is lighter overall than Node, but that's just a guess, and AOT(ish) probably helps as well.
> Third one of the things that did ultimately come out of the DNC leak they were a part of was that some of the documents were altered from the originals and so they were “mostly real” but did have fake things in them. The reason for that was that it was an intelligence operation by the Russians that was specifically designed to throw the election at the last minute.

This isn't a valid criticism of Wikileaks. If the Russians were responsible - and there was so much later-discredited bullshit kicked up about hypothetical Russians in 2016 I'm not taking that at face value - but if they were they could just have posted up a big torrent somewhere to the same overall effect.

Wikileaks isn't an important cog in that plan.
In short?

Leave politics at home.
I reject the framing of The Gray Zone as anti-war. Anti-US imperialism sure, but not anti-war. They have no problem minimizing the suffering of millions at the hands of some of the most brutal regimes on the planet. Calling them anti-war is like calling Alex Jones a scientist.