skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all: it can be done!
I friend was flight attendant 10 years ago and is a SAP Abap developer.

Focus on the side that has less friction to you: backend or frontend. I am in the backend and I believe it changes at a slower pace than the frontend, but some people thinks otherwise.

Spend some time working with new leanguages. Since you know PHP and Javascript, both Python and Node are good options to explore. With PHP you can start working remotely writing plugins and integrations for CMS like wordpress but it is not as widespread as Python and Node.

Backend path where with _little_ friction:

- Javascript, Node, MongoDB.
- PHP, MySQL/MariaDB, Laravel.

Frontend:

- Typescript, Node (npm), React, CSS

You'll hear a lot about microservices. In fact, you'll end up coding some microservices yourself - learn about them, and try to implement what might make sense to you but don't get obsessed.

Learn about CORS. It is both your friend and foe.

And read code from other people.
A lot of code. The more, the better.

I was lucky to be able to read Charles Petzold articles in Microsoft Systems Journal 20 years ago and I learnt a lot just reading his code.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine an AI watching a human — forever.
Meta VR headsets won't require a Facebook account to use
I really appreciate your comment, and value honestly, but this:

> Recently met an older (early 30s guy) and it was seriously cool having a sexual experience that didn’t end with “don’t bother I’m just not going to finish no matter how long we go.”

Reading that was like reading that your worst nightmare is actually true. nervous laugh

As a guy in their 30s, on multiple occasions I've comforted myself with "self, it doesn't matter to them if we finish, they're probably so appreciative that we're more focused on them than ourselves. you're doing great, self." And your comment is just NOPE and slashes my self esteem to shreds!

And this too!:
> by e.g. not smoking so much weed...

CUTS DOWN MY MENTAL SUPPORT FRAMEWORK LIKE A SCYTHE. :) <3

I needed that solid slap across the face, I was in danger of becoming too comfortable with my sexuality, now I have the ammo to fuel my insecurity and shame, and push it back down where it belongs. A million thanks.
Quaise Begins Testing of Potentially Disruptive Geothermal Drilling Technology
What would a shopping list in Toki Pona look like?
I've been using it lately and I'm not a fan.

But more importantly, how the fuck can they spend $400MM building a webapp? I mean.. how ..
I've been doing some digging on German (type) stenography some years ago. Interestingly, it seems to be rather difficult to get this to work fast, in my understanding due to its grammatic structure.

Hand written stenography is still the fastest writing system of all for the German language and hand written stenography is still the default for federal government sessions and in most state parliaments.

More about German hand written stenography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Einheitskurzschrift
Even better, just don't send nudes to someone if you don't trust they're not gonna forward it.
Nuclear energy united Europe. Now it is dividing the club
As much as I dislike facebook, dropping the Oculus brand is probably a good move for the bet they're making.

Oculus is too associated with gaming. Facebook wants VR for telepresence, they don't want the gamers market, they want the facebook market.

I think VR sucks and I hate it, but if Zuck convinces my mum to strap on a headset, there won't be much I can do about it. And he has powerful means to convince people...
Rapid prototyping of Angular-powered Bootstrap 5 apps without coding
He also has a whole playlist with lectures specifically about Toki Pona: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjOmpMyMxd8T9lZjF36c4mn4Y... Great channel; I second the recommendation.
I mean coverage of the announcement; there is plenty of that.
after a hard burn out I can assure you I saw that my brain actually left my skull (and is now tiny far away on the horizon)
It can't. The NYT article says:

> After the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York declined to prosecute the case, Judge Kaplan took the rare step of appointing a private law firm, Seward & Kissel, to prosecute Mr. Donziger in the name of the U.S. government.

So the real problem here is people not reading the article, jumping to conclusions, and spreading misinformation in the comments (on HN?!). And probably the SDNY being too biased to enforce the law against a lawyer who cheated in a case against an oil company. Anyone who's been following the SDNY in the news for a while shouldn't be surprised about that.
> Children do not have a right to privacy from their parents.

They do everywhere outside the US, under article 16 of Unicef's convention on rights of the child. Of course this right is not absolute and many will say that the right to a child's safety comes before the right of a child's privacy, but children do inherently have a right to privacy. The convention does not exclude parents from this right for good reason.

There are parents who will demand their 17 year old child to hand over their private conversations, search history, you name it, and there are those that give 3 year olds unrestricted access to the internet. Neither extremes are healthy for children, but this "guidance" for the internet can last into children's late teens for certain parents.

The US signed the convention but did not ratify it, so you're correct that children don't have this right specifically in America. Legally speaking, the UN convention should ensure the right in all other recognised countries, though.
NGINX has a very nice status 444 that silently closes the connection, I think serves as a great way to deal with uninvited connections.
I have a custom Stylys(there was some shenanigans with Stylish) CSS. It is called "Hacker News Readable Dark" https://userstyles.org/styles/160459/hacker-news-readable-da...
I don’t really know why, but now I’ve found this to be less effective than IRL for some reason. Like I have to make more of an effort to be properly understood, and come away less certain that we’re on the same page (and that we have to follow up more often because there were indeed misunderstandings). At least I experience this with some people, less so with others.

Not sure if this is due to something I lack, or if (some) people are less attentive/perceptive/focused in phone/video calls.
OpenSimWorld, Directory of the OpenSimulator Metaverse
You're right that not all engineers get to WFH but more can than you'd imagine.

I know defense contractors that are working from home. Two of them did so before the pandemic too - remoting into hardware they're not allowed to physically touch even if they were in the lab!

A neighbour is a civil engineer and the huge screens he needed to do his job were only in the office. Now that he's moved that huge screen (and I mean massive, it's like a telly), the office have told him that he only needs to go into the office to meet clients.

I have a product design dear friend who bought himself a Prusa 3D printer and now can pretty much 100% WFH. He prefers it because he no longer has to share resources.

A neighbour is a network engineer and he spent 2020 decommissioning hardware in the server room and moving it into the cloud - something he said was inevitable for his business but the pandemic hastened it. He now WFH pretty much 100% of the time.

I know someone who works for a SSD manufacturer in the states and they WFH most of the week.

All the web/data devs I know WFH pretty much full time - except one but only because his boss is draconian.
Meta owned meta.com, the m+infinity logo trademark (https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=5548122&caseSearchType=US...), the Meta trademark (https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=86852664&caseSearchType=U...).

These trademarks covered: “promoting the goods and services of others via computer and communication networks using targeted and non-targeted methods; operating on-line marketplaces for sellers of goods and/or services … providing advertising space via the global computer network … creating on-line virtual communities … hosting electronic facilities for others for organizing and conducting meetings, events and interactive discussions via communication networks”

So pretty likely to conflict with Facebook.

However, they transferred all of these to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in May: https://assignments.uspto.gov/assignments/assignment-tm-7299..., and as you mentioned, are now shutting down.
It’s not a great look. I would feel pretty bad if I had devoted years of my life to building meta.org to now see how it was used
Small correction: Each year you have a (1-0.5^(1/100))≈0.69% chance of seeing a hundred year flood, if I'm not mistaken (and assuming hundred-year-floods happen independently of each other).

At 1% chance each year, it would actually be 'sixtynine year floods'.
You are super harsh and low key condescending to the people who like the book.

There are a lot of good things in the book. One food example is when he tells you to write done what would be your ideal life and how much it would cost to get there and what step you could take. Its a really good exercise that helps you project yourself and write down / organise random thoughts you've had along the years. It helped me so much have a macro vision of what i want in my life

The has the value you make of it. If you feel its not good for you then too bad but its not the case for everyone.
considering typing time isn't even close to the most time consuming part of programming, I don't think this will be relevant to programmers apart from the programmers who want to do it for fun
I don't quite see the connection. Metaverse is a virtual world, not a simulated world: the people are made of real atoms, not bits.
Bravo! :D
Israeli Police Officer Sentenced to 4.5 Years in Prison for Rape by Deception
SSRI withdrawals/side effects are the least worst out of medications like Xanax, beta blockers and other anxiety medicine. So… there are drugs with more devastating effects.

This problem isn’t just related to mental disorders. I think you are also undermining how difficult changing human behavior is, especially in relation to mental disorders and addictions. Ideally, SSRI’s are used to make behavioral changes easier.
This is the perfect time to get acquired.
What tangible thing does systemd do that hurts your usage of the OS?

If I would hack into your computer, install systemd and set up a few clever aliases for your sysvinit commands, would you ever notice that I have done that?

I see this hard anti-systemd sentiment from some vocal people, but I have yet to see any actual problems that systemd has caused.

I know that systemd is not a POSIX standard, but neither is sysvinit.
There is also a phenomenon similar to (inverse) traffic jams where a bottleneck wanders up the supply chain. Just in time delivery has some disadvantages and we basically use the road (or rail, sea) as warehouse nowadays. But ships, trains and trucks might not get filled when production halted because of lacking parts. Still the trucks and ships are bound to their current job and are sitting empty somewhere. It will slowly entangle as transport priority gets reordered.
Do you mean 90% of developers? Because 100% of the developers I work with agree with me.
Can you please point to a summary of NVC for me? I have really tried but I feel like it is very subtle and doesn’t reduce so well.
I'm someone else who doesn't really care for activists. Like I don't really care for you, and the law shouldn't either.

The reason that so many statues depict justice with a blindfold is that the law shouldn't care whether you're an activist or anyone else — the law applies equally to us all.

OP seems to be someone who cares about blind justice. "Symmetric" isn't the word I would choose, but I think you see how it has nothing to do with activism and everything to do with fairness and equality before the law.
Corn prices could be driven by the shortage of fertilizer for next year.
> The Germans and people from eastern Europe are usually straightforward in their communications.

May be, Germans (and most Europe) are "straightforward" from an American perspective. I find Europeans with their own shade of "subtlety" which you could only learn if you were part of the culture. Otherwise, they are "subtle" and "measured" too.
Rule 42:

> A person being prosecuted for criminal contempt is entitled to a jury trial in any case in which federal law so provides and must be released or detained as Rule 46 provides. If the criminal contempt involves disrespect toward or criticism of a judge, that judge is disqualified from presiding at the contempt trial or hearing unless the defendant consents. Upon a finding or verdict of guilty, the court must impose the punishment.

What the heck are they claiming he did that warrants 6 months in jail? This is absurd. Hopefully, they can immediately appeal.
It sounds like it's a workaround for dealing with bad co-workers? You can still have these in async communication and others will just give up eventually. And then the guy who gets asked something but doesn't reply until at least two others pester him via phone repeatedly.

Assuming you have a well-working team, real-time still seems more efficient to me, at least at my current job.
Interesting that the creators of Esperanto and Toki Pona are both Polish. I wonder if there is something in Polish culture / "mindsphere" that encourages language creation.

Ironically, Polish, by comparison to some other European languages of comparably-sized nations, is very uniform and devoid of dialects / regional accents. There are a small few regions that speak a proper dialect (not mutually understandable with regular Polish speakers), but otherwise, with minor exceptions, you cannot tell at all where in Poland someone is from based on how they talk.

In the UK, by contrast, this is still a big thing. I believe German dialects are very diverse, heck, Dutch ones can pinpoint people to a village sometimes. French had very diverse language base before Napoleon. Spain still has regional languages that are very much alive and in use, Italian accents (dialects?) are too quite distinct.

Maybe Poland is compensating for this here, by inventing whole new languages?

EDIT my bad, the article mentions a Pole, Marta Krzeminska, but she is not the language's creator. It was a Canadian who created it. Oh well.
Can you post a video of someone pronouncing that? I have a hard time imaging how sock and talk can rhyme.
> Ordinary matter as an explanation for galactic rotation curves has been dead for about 40 years.

I wasn't aware of that; I didn't know that galactic rotation had been known to be peculiar for such a long time.

I also wasn't aware that DM isn't just an example of "more stuff". I mean, I realise that DM can't be like other stuff; from what I've heard, it doesn't block light like other cosmic dust, and it doesn't seem to obey the same gravitational rules as other galactic stuff.

I have no standing to tell experts they're wrong! But every lawyer knows that once the person you're talking to knows you're a lawyer, they'll start arguing with you about law. Lawyers often keep schtum about their trade, for that reason. So here I am, in a forum where there are people that know stuff, and I don't think it's wrong to ask questions.
Very apt topic for HN.
Why would that be? It's not even executable code: someone would need to 1.actively request it, 2.actively save it somewhere 3.actively try to extract it.
Within the context of logic, you cannot imply anything about other cohorts from this one statement alone. However, if general population use remained steady or rose, it would definitely imply that fall is attributable to said cohort.

Does the article have anything to say about general population?

> "While drug use during individual lifetimes among the general population appeared to increase in the decade following reform,"
I would listen to your users, and think about your customer acquisition channels. Unless you rely heavily on SEO for customer acquisition, I doubt it’s going to be an issue. People are still going to call Facebook “Facebook”. Nobody calls Google “Alphabet”.
Do you have any source on this? Im interested in reading about reproducibility of pshychological experiments.
Of course, downvoted for point out how a dumb screen ratio is bad. Typical HN.
I care for activists, and still think everyone should be equal in the eyes of the law.

They're not mutually exclusive, which I assume is why GP asked.

Activists usually oppose forces with an outsized legal sway which puts the activists in huge risks of being unfairly treated, as we know the law isn't as blind as it should be.

It's not that they should recieve special treatment, but merely that both the law and us observers should be extra vigilant that justice is indeed served.
> I'm reminded of the old sarcastic comment that "Linux is free, if your time has no value".

Wow, a thread about supply chains and you manage to take a cheap jab at Linux. In response, try running Windows on a computer you only use once a month. You can watch it update every time instead of getting work done. Linux you can update while working.
It doesn't matter whether it's interesting or not, it only matters whether it's happening and who and what it's affecting.
Yeah I did. In 2005. With 1024x768 square screen laptops.
I don't think Carmack would run into any problems finding other 8 figures jobs, and he has been rich for a long time now anyway.

Also what is it with this idea of "everyone will throw morals into the trash to work at X", it's simply not true, some people DO indeed posess ideals and the integrity to go with them.
Cleanliness, for one. The current state is "everyone bans truck drivers", which means that any place accepting truck drivers will be swarmed by truck drivers to a degree it may actually cause traffic jams - because who would not use the only toilet for a hundred miles? - and you simply can't have enough cleaning staff on hand to deal with that.

The obvious solution for that would be to do what is the law in Germany - you can't get a license for a highway rest/gas stop without offering toilets for travellers of all kind.
If someone wants to forward that, it boils down to just downloading it. Which cannot be protected, only obscured away. One can always download img src from a web app or take a screenshot of the image, or just take a photo of a real phone screen. But that’s not even the core issue. DRMing face-included nudes taken by yourself is like trying to sit on two distant chairs with one butt.
> "an US judge who accept bribes (sorry, lobbyist money) from… Chevron."

What is this part referring to?
So maybe be a bit smarter about it. The browser will know if the video is set to loop unless that is done with JS. In all cases it will know if it has looped and can start caching then.

And just you don't need to limit all devices by the lowest common denominator either.
Iron-air batteries are literally just fuel cells that involve iron instead of hydrogen. THe odds on favorite is hydrogen fuel cells and it probably can’t be anything else (short of some kind of nuclear solution).
And what does that have to do with the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague? And why does a UN working group's opinion on anything matter? Are they a more fair and unbiased judge than the PCA, and was the case presented to them by both sides for judgment?
I'm with you here. Did I change my approach totally? No. But it did force me to be more explicit about the time/money tradeoff, and accept that I might at times be better spending on things that would make me more productive, or take away pain points.

Likewise his podcast is generally excellent. I now have to be more judicious in which guests I listen to, but he has amazing people, and really does get in to detail, not just glib highlights.
Their lists of dependencies fully depend on the code, of course, it doesn't need to be magically agnostic of everything. But using something not available for a specific target should be a compilation error.

And there needs to be a build system that wraps the compiled outputs into deployables. It's not the compiler's job to know how to deploy the code, it only needs to know the target architectures that can be deployed.

(I'm not sure I fully understand the question.)
I mean, technically, wouldn't this make bot scanning more efficient?
The same rebalancing happened in Europe, and Europe doesn't have close to the issues the US has regarding supply chain. Europe's major ports are automated and operate 24/7, port to hinterland relies much more on rail than trucking. Overall, the US supply chain was already very fragile and outdated.
I mean, did you see the very complicated extremely optimized C and C++ code lower on the page? Despite that, they "only" got to 10% of the performance of the ASM code.
> That's a big claim. Any evidence to back it up?

There was a reason the trial was held in Ecuador only - Chevron insisted that it would be held there. That plan kind of backfired but now they insist on the corruption in Ecuador to claim the judgment is null. Make of that what you wish.

> No, he was ordered to turn over his devices so that Chevron could locate his assets. This sort of thing happens when you lose in court and the opposing party wants to collect on a damages award.

Are you saying that Chevron, a multinational making billions of dollars in profit every year, collected a lawyer's laptop and phone in order to locate and maybe sell his vacation house in Vermont or whatever for a few hundred thousand dollars? Don't be ridiculous. I am not sure he would care, his life was destroyed enough anyway (like the lives of the thousand of Ecuadorians living with environmental damage).
That's exactly how global economics work, albeit not instantly.
Both appear Japanese for me. Locale = es_ES.UTF-8
4. FB's choice to encourage divisiveness ("engagement") via their algorithm places my country's democratic future very much in doubt.
I agree with the flexibility point 100%.

On the cheaper I really do not know. Is pouring asphalt cheaper than putting rails? I honestly do not know.

It also might depend on the implementation.
I remember a history teacher mentioning that the uk built railwways providing time-limited exploitation licenses for private companies that built them (after x years they became public) and they built a vast network quickly .
( I found this pdf: https://www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/transpor... about the expansion, but it does not mention the licenses)

In the car case we need to also consider the "wagon", and the fuel cost is outsourced to the customers.
In this case, its a city operated port, so its different than a private port or one operated by a special purpose public agency outside of city government (but operation is, under the City Charter, in the hands of a Harbor Commission, so its under a special body within city government, so the Mayor, Council, and City Manager—the last holding the executive role lots of people associate with the title “mayor” because Long Beach is Council-Manager model not Strong Mayor model—have less direct role than might at first be assumed from “city operated port”.)
Maybe someone should purchase the browsing history, cell phone metadata, leaked and public web profile information, and anything else trivially accessible on all state, local, and federal politicians, then send all of those details to everyone in a 10 block radius from the politicians' homes, and their local news organizations.

We need better laws in the US, that might help accomplish it.