skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>people who rely on word of mouth from their friends and colleagues are generally happier.

The problem is that the vast majority of my non-grocery items are not purchased by my friends & colleagues so word-of-mouth information isn't available. E.g. I buy stuff like hi-end camera gear, woodworking tools, audio equipment. Even more common items like books don't work because my friends don't read the same type of books I do.

Even your example of a computer monitor doesn't work in my situation. About 15 years ago, I wanted a large 30" monitor but none of my friends had that so I have to research on my own. Likewise, they also can't depend on my experience with computer monitors because a big external 30" monitor is never something they'd need because they just use the builtin laptop screen.

A lot of times word-of-mouth works great for recommending local restaurants or grocery items such as the Costco brand of paper towels and olive oil being good buys. For all other items that your social circle doesn't buy, you have to research external information sources.
These neural networks know what they’re doing
> The solution is easy: play a game with a good ranking system

A lot of games do this, and the cheater’s response is to deliberately lose a bunch of games so that they drop down to the lower leagues, where they can more effectively harass the noobs
I switched to it on all of my personal (TypeScript) projects after upgrading to Phoenix 1.6 (where it is required). I normally have a separate lint step during production builds so its lack of type checking isn't an issue during development as VSCode catches and highlights type errors anyway.

It is crazy fast. It feels like the Turbo Pascal 3 of web development.
M1 MacBook pro no competition
I wonder if the scale of cheating in games like CoD Warzone tends to be inflated due to skill-based match-making which would tend to put cheaters (with high kill/death ratios) with content creators (who tend to be good), who go on to complain about it and get millions (/billions?) of views. My anecdata is that I'm a very average player and I haven't noticed any cheaters in lobbies for at least 24 hours of play time which seems at least an order of magnitude longer than the MTBC (mean time between cheaters -_-) for a content creator.
I started as a painter, discovered multi-color 3D Printing and learned basic coding skills. I'm currently working on a Blender Addon that lets you modify G-code inside of Blender.
Shifting more and more to the developer side of things, but still trying to work with both, can be a powerful combination.

G-code importer can be seen here:
[link redacted]
Some results here:
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It is somewhere between a co-working place and a café. I stayed for some month at an Anticafé in Paris. It was great. More noisy than a coworking but more alive. It is casual, cozy and chill.
"Interesting jobs tend to not be easy and vice versa." .. unless, I would argue, you work in the public sector. Well actually, and some good private sector companies too
V3 games ran on 8 bit computers, but v5 games (most of modern ones) only run well under a 16 bit one.
As for epubs, netbsd runs on Amiga and Classic Mac, and if lynx and unzip work, so do epub files with a crappy script.

It's 2020 and an RPI or an ESP32 are dirt cheap, and you can get a 486 machine even for free.
Biggest bummer is that they're not using AMD chips. Does anyone know why?
There is sub 100ms input lag in good conditions with cloud gaming, and it goes as low as 60, and it will be better as more servers come online as everything from gets optimized for latency. Is it worse than PC with same games? Yes. Is it worse than game consoles? Not really. But it removes whole sets of "who shot first" problems, and if we are talking about actual latency for your decision to take effect(input lag+network lag) cloud might just be better in many scenarios.
I wonder about how they handle the biodegradability Morton's fork. If wood doesn't rot at all then it is no longer biodegradable. If the wood does rot then it will eventually become a safety hazard and either be torn down or a "Fallingwater situation" where burdensome maintenance leads to it being more of an architectural show piece than something actually proliferated.

I am not sure of the nuances of the local climate and wood durability and how applicable it would be in other countries. Some places can have medieval wooden buildings intact like the Bourgand Stave Church. Meanwhile others have disposable barns that they expect to have to burn and rebuild occasionally.

I know some is building technique, things like "a stone foundation is important so the wood doesn't touch the dirt and rot from the ground up".
Thunderbolt 4, especially since I use an eGPU to turn my laptop into a gaming machine.
I think it would be useful to know what kind of profile you fit, because everyone's must-haves are slightly different. For example, I would add:

- at least opens 180 degrees: I often find myself having to do the odd bit of work in the car - which is a nightmare generally, but having a laptop that can open flat is essential.

- Fingerprint reader (that works well under Linux): this is one of the saddest things about my current computer. It's a nice to have, but a very nice to have - especially if I end up doing work in a coffee shop with a thousand CCTV cameras.
I don't remember the music either, possibly because i turned it off the first time i played, and never turned it back on. The menu option to turn music off doesn't work in the web version, sadly.
I’m gonna add good webcam and sound to the mix. These are essential for remote work.

If the rumours are true, the new M1X MacBook Pros being announced this Monday look perfect:

- high performance + battery life

- exceptional build quality

- great screen, sound, and webcam

- decent port selection
> highest GDP growth

GDP fails to measure the most important factors of life (freedom, happiness, equality). It also fails to capture environmental concerns: industrial growth is like cancer growth... impressive but not desired.

> Russia transformed from a backwoods feudal mudpit into a global superpower.

Russia was already a global superpower before 1917. Their imperialism spread so far and wide their political police (Okrana) cooperated regularly with the political police in France (Sûreté de l'État) to hunt down the anarchists.

Also, how is creating more global superpowers a good thing? If your end goal is to do away with capitalism and imperialism, how is creating a new Empire (or whatever brand of "republic" you call it) helping in any way?

> Some aspects of China's economy today are still centrally planned

Yes, they're producing tons of stuff (why? do we need all of that shit?). Yet they have some of the most grueling pollution problems on our planet, and still have plenty of poverty. How is that a role model? To be fair, i'm not saying western neo-colonial republics are any better: we are facing the very same issues here in France.

> giving complete lead to the anarchy of production -- has proven to be disastrous for average working people

Unregulated business has proven to be disastrous, but that can hardly be called an anarchy, as there is still strong powers (capital) dictating what should be produced and how resources should be allocated.

Anarchy of production and distribution sounds great. What's wrong with self-organized workers cooperatives producing what we need, and sharing according to anyone's needs?
Can I give an AI a bunch of drawings and it will make a text adventure out of it?
I thought it was about designing bridges
We have a few in France, but I don't thing they are that popular.

> Do young people in big European cities have no problems with finding a place to meet friends?

It's a mystery to me too how people do this. From what I understand it's mostly through studies and/or work.
How did you first learn about anticafés?
Not sure why any CEO would want a public social media account. I know a G2000 CEO who keeps a private personal Instagram and that’s it.

The current climate has social media positioned as a permanent system of record for your career.
Something you said that was OK in 2010 might get you fired tomorrow. It’s just not worth it.

This makes it very unappealing to CEOs who don’t need to risk saying the wrong thing, or show a lack of support for the boogeyman of the week Twitter issue.

The need to “build their personal brand” is greatly outweighed by the risk of being assaulted by a Twitter mob.
The original copyright is not extended, no, unless i have some serious legal misunderstandings. For example, translations for a book will have a newer copyright, but the original text's copyright will not be extended by receiving a new translation.
No issues in itself, but would rule out my use as Australia to Europe latency is bad enough but it seems to be that hetzner how some of the higher latency routes
Single founder of a self-funded business here.

If you'd rather depend on a larger company, you have to take into account that:

1. The costs will be much higher, because somebody needs to pay for all those salaries, benefits and offices. Hope you are ready to cover those.

2. It's just a façade anyway: a "serious company" makes us feel all warm and fuzzy, but can fold at any time without warning.

3. If it's a VC-funded company, there is no eventual exit outcome that is good for you as a customer: the business will either get acquired (with the service you are using being shut down or folded into something else), go bankrupt, or in the extremely rare case do an IPO (the service you are using will then degrade as the company will be adding mass-uptake features and upselling, see Dropbox). In other words, you aren't really a customer: you are growth material for the company, to be used and discarded once goals are achieved.

In contrast to that, single-founder businesses can be stable, mature, and sustainable over many years, much more so than services offered by larger companies.
Absolutely this.

Just a couple of days back, something had been bothering me about some new-ish commenters I'd encountered on Reddit, so I did an unscientific check. I realised that about a year or so back, Reddit quietly made it so that when you create an account, they autosuggest a username of the form "Word1-Word2-Number" or "Word1Word2Number", making it hard to tell apart from automated bot/astroturf accounts.

(Try it out -- look at the profiles of any account you encounter that has the above form, and they've been created pretty much always on/after October 2020)

My conspiracy theory is that this was a growth marketing hack to muddy the obvious differences between regular people accounts and bots/spammers.
Why do you prefer SIM over WiFi? Almost everywhere I've been it's been slower and more expensive than WiFi.
wish I'd known about this sooner - thanks
>I went on the Gatsby website, picked a theme, and went to work. And right away, the problem was clear: it was too much.

>Beyond all the extra stuff Gatsby ships with, a lot of Gatsby blog themes try to make things "easier" for you by abstracting away the internals and exposing a config.js file, where you add your name, a bio, some links, and Gatsby does the rest.

>But that comes at a cost. And that cost was made clear by me hunting the favicon file in the directory for a while only to find that some plugin auto-generated it based on a path for a profile photo you could set in the config.

Software design should adhere to the maxim: simple stuff should be simple, complex stuff should be possible.

When software adds so much complexity that simple stuff is no longer simple, it's time to revisit the design.
I'd at least wait until the 18th to see what Apple is about to announce. Even if you don't get whatever they announce, it might be good to view your options in light of the new products.
When looking at the GoF design patterns, I believe one should also note that they were created not only to solve a bunch of design problems, but also to deal with the limitations of the programming languages back in the day. For example, if you learn about them in the Java context, they make perfect sense as they are well aligned with the language features required to implement them. Try however putting them in Python context and they often result in unnecessary complexity.

You can actually see this in the article. The Python examples are awful (not very idiomatic). This is just Java written in Python, even with non-Pythonic camelCase naming.
And just to try and be helpful for the direction of the debate...

The issue isn't that YouTube can do this. They can, that is cool. Free world. The issue that is if they are going to do this everyone should respond. Nobody ever vetted YouTube as the arbiter of truth. They are not qualified for this, and they are going to screw up really badly.

If they're going to set themselves up for failure, we all have to make sure we're standing outside the blast zone when they screw up really badly.
In Rust, an array with 10 elements that are function pointers whose functions receive i32 and return f32 is like this:

[fn(i32) -> f32; 10]

https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/types/function-pointer.h...

That's maybe cheating because this type doesn't use Rust raw pointers; C's char* in Rust is something like const char or mut char. But, if you wanted a raw pointer (and were ok with a double pointer: an array of pointers to function pointers), it would be like this:

[*mut (fn(i32) -> f32); 10]

Which I think we can drop the (), since there is no ambiguity

[*mut fn(i32) -> f32; 10]
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"If I fail somewhere else, they are one of the largest employers in my area." Are you suffering Stockholm syndrome? Just because they're big, don't let 'em push you around. I'm sure you got some good skills that other companies, possibly remote, would be happy to have :)
Yeah, because Cisco is and always was trustworthy and never put hardcoded passwords and backdoors in their hardware. /s
Comment not related to OP's wishes but I miss the 16:10 laptop screens of 2010 extremely hard. It's the one thing I miss about my HP 8740w.
Message me at "h e l l o AT project - daily DOT com". Remove the spaces etc. I will try to keep you updated.
I am also planning on generating an RSS feed from the app itself. Once this works, you can subscribe that.
The USA are the only country not part of CRS. Have a look here: https://www.oecd.org/tax/automatic-exchange/international-fr...

The USA is always "do as I say not as I do" and they have zero credibility regarding tax evasion :

```the IRS is still not obligated to share information pertaining to:

* Cash accounts held by entities, including those that are resident in the FATCA partner jurisdiction;
* Non-cash accounts, whether held by individuals or entities, unless the accounts earn U.S.-sourced income; and
* ‘‘Controlling persons’’ of any entities that have accounts in U.S. financial institutions, regardless of whether those entities are from the partnering country, even if those entities are owned and controlled by residents of the partner jurisdiction.

```
> Why would FB ever tell me to spend less?

There's literally a team at Facebook (Marketing Science), part of who's job is to tell advertisers what actually works and often, this can lead to them telling advertisers to spend less.

And this is an incredibly smart business strategy in that FB know (from experiments et al) that their platform works, and if they can show incrementality, then advertisers will invest more in the platform.

In game theory terms, it's a good strategy for a repeated game, which advertising definitely is.
I would say it is the same in Sweden we have a few of these places here too but most people make friends through studies or work.
IDK, for Graham Chapman (Monty Python) most of his best bits were mercilessly lampooning authoritarian men like his policeman father, and others of their generation who fought in the war. He amplified these traits to make them look absurd. e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colonel_(Monty_Python)

Graham Chapman was also an alcoholic.

Sir Patrick Stewart played Captain Picard as a better man, compassionate, fair and sincere, only stern when necessary, and not a reflexively violent authoritarian. And he seems to be doing fine. Maybe moving to California and getting therapy was the right move for him.
I once built a website using the M4 preprocessor.

(I wouldn't recommend it.)
Switching to Android, then?!
> The United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_renewal_in_the_Unite...

Thanks, i was not aware that was still a thing!
I guess we're talking about different things then. I understand "cloud gaming" as Stadia, (or the older attempt Onlive), where the game is running on machines in datacenters and sends a video stream to the user.
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I can confirm arxiv.org is down.
edit: it's back up now.
High up my list is repairability, which is why I am a big fan of the Framework laptop.
How is it still down for me..?

Also, I can access my OVH VPS from an Italian IP, but if I try with a VPN from outside my country, I get error 521.
The only reason for (consumer) passwords you have to remember is lack of an accepted good universal id in general. Here in Sweden it's provided by the banks and has a 94% share of smartphone users, if you look east you have other bigger markets with similar stats. Most passwords already have disappeared or are disappearing, the laggard cases will catch up too, I'd love a similar one for my "work persona".
I spend a lot of time working in "normal" cafés.

I'm struggling to see the benefit of paying for time and having sustenance (e.g. coffee) be free, instead of paying for sustenance and having the time be free.

I've never once been asked to leave a cafe after I've paid for __, and subsequently spent a few hours there.
FTA: “A while loop doesn't execute "while" its condition is true, but rather until its condition ceases to be true at the end of its associated code block.”

For me, the canonical version of “a while loop” is “while f do … od”, not the “do … while f” that that assumes, and which, I assume, they would like to replace by something like Pascal’s “repeat … until not f”

I also disagree somewhat about the use of finite precision numbers. I think people (¿still?) will be familiar with them from using calculators, so having finite precision with propagating error values, IMO, would be fine (for signed int, I would use 0xFFF…FFF for that. As a bonus, it would mean restoring symmetry between negative and positive integers)
Like, this is probably true for advertisers who have a well known brand. One would expect incrementality to be lower, because everyone's already heard of the brand.

However, if you are a new entrant/small business this is not the case, because nobody has ever heard of you.

As an example, look at TikTok. They spent insane amounts of money on FB ads to get as many installs as possible, but I'd suspect that they don't do this anymore because they've got enough brand equity that it doesn't make as much financial sense.
The actual teflon, the coating becomes toxic. Permanently.

It is an inert, non-organic reactive substance prior to being damaged. After, its molecular structure changes, it is bio-reactive and toxic.

So no, the solution isn't better ventilation, even for some of the questionable things you mentioned. And yes, you attitude before was "meh, gonna happen anyway".
Whether or not this would suit your own needs or you would rather use Jekyll etc., these sorts of things are great exercises and experience for devs.

Use your own favourite language etc. but I wonder how many people who call themselves devs would be able to do something equivalent in a few days, considering all of the little gotchas with parsing, performance, flexibility etc.

Maybe this sort of thing would be better than a normal FANG interview where they just want to see how you would actually get something done?
I saw that, but none of that adds up to a 100x speedup.
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I learned with QBASIC because you could put text and pixels on screen immediately. It is beyond useless to start with syntax, fibonacci and prime numbers.
I'm sure it helps. It doesn't help 100x
I wouldn't get too excited. Have the last gen Intel MBP 16". There is a known issue where after waking the speakers pop loudly and regularly making it unusable for audio. Before that the MBP 15" which had so many parts replaced I thought it was just bad luck. Apples product quality is not what is used to be, far from it in my experience.
> Bluetooth has to be good

Does this even exist? Never met a reliable (even in context of using within a single meter of range) BlueTooth in my life. Only Apple seems to offer reasonably good.

For this very reason (although my experience comes solely from earphones) I hesitate to buy a BlueTooth keyboard which I would normally prefer over occupying a USB port with a separate wireless KB dongle.
>I've never once been asked to leave a cafe after I've paid for __, and subsequently spent a few hours there.

I guarantee the proprietor will be complaining as soon as you have left.
I don't understand this perspective. Everyone only has so many hours in a day, and there's only so fast you can work.

If he's writing esbuild that is taking time away from being the CTO of Figma. Either he's working a shit ton, one of the things (Esbuild or Figma) is being somewhat neglected, or his output is actually not as high as it looks.
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It is incredible that even in 2021 people still parrot Chen's original _WRONG_ post about Pinball not being available in x64 Windows. We already even mentioned that in the original entry of his blog before the comments were removed.

Tens of "YouTube videos" appear in this thread and all of them simply parrot the same statement from Chen and not a single one of them even bothers to actually try Windows XP x64 edition and check whether Pinball is there not. Again only in some comments people seem to realize 'hey, you guys may be wrong .. there is a x64 pinball here after all, at least'.

I guess it's a sad reflection of our society.
It won't fizzle out, that's the problem. There's no maximum GHG dose atmosphere can't take. And the planet has been hotter in the past too.

The thing is, there were no humans at the time and life was a bit different.

We're talking some 50 year timespan to terrible effects, that means most everyone here will be affected. They may be affected more or less. Current trajectory is on more, bordering on deadly. The time for low impact has passed, thanks to people like you dismissing actual scientists as alarmist. We've known this for 40+ years now. It's become public knowledge at least 25 years ago.

The climate system has a lot of inertia, century scale at times, once pushed too hard humanity might not be able to stop it, no matter what we do.
from my PoV Vite.js is much more mature project than esbuild
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This seems to rely on inotify which is not always triggered when files change when they are watched.

In the following scenario realtime syncing would then fail silently:

- You have a server A which contains files which you are editing.

- You have setup realtime syncing between server A and a machine B.

- On server A you have a Docker container which runs Samba and is hosting the directories of server A which contains the files you are editing.

- You are editing those files on a machine where you mounted those shares. Upon saving, the files on server A would be modified, but inotify would not trigger and the file would not get synced to machine B.