skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Naming things can be hard.

How would you describe the distinction between these two command types?
Please stick to the point: do you actually feel entitled to speak in a position of authority on a subject just because you read a wiki page?

I feel you're operating on a grossly inflated and completely unrealistic sense of insightfulness, understanding and self-worth. I mean, think about it: if you manage to become an internet expert by taking a few hours of an afternoon reading a wikipedia article, do you actually believe that level of effort is out of reach of everyone around you, specially those who actually specialized on the subject and made it their life's work?

Quite frankly, you sound like a parody of an internet expert, from the lack of self-awareness and humility to the way you speak down to everyone.

Please stop.
Text anxiety: why too many messages make us want to throw our phones at the wall
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation says

> In economics, inflation refers to a simultaneous progressive increase in all prices (including wages) in an economy.

Of course, you might have a situation that mixes general inflation with a change in relative prices, eg the relative price of labour might decline.

In fact, sticky wages are one of the leading contenders for why we have (demand side) recessions at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominal_rigidity
If you have a document with mixed languages, you need to be able to edit each language in its natural direction after the fact. That requires storing directionality in the document.

And keep in mind that if you store RTL text backwards, as you propose, every algorithm now has to be able to process backwards text. Backwards spellcheck is a lot of extra work...
Sounds like the word impedance could be fitted in there somewhere.
The sky is the limit.
> so you can't fault anyone to think the project is dead.

Why? It has regular releases including one in 2021. That looks like the opposite of dead to me. The only time there were more common releases, was 2018 when it was new, so the release page by itself screams "mature and stable".
It’s proper doublespeak isn’t it!!
Generally those are the places that are doing so well there is no good place to work and earn money. Which is why everybody young is running away and prefers doing everything else.

So, any good job would also have to be imported somehow.
Many older people saved large amounts of money in their bank accounts, and were expecting to live off the interest in their savings account once they retired. The interest they were due was effectively stolen when the central banks started giving away free money, it was a massive transfer of wealth.

Many of that same generation counted on Social Security, and CPI adjustments to help save them from poverty. The CPI numbers were pushed down to keep the costs of benefits those retirees were entitled to receive artificially low. Another transfer of wealth / theft.

Now the rest of the population has seen their crappy but steady wages evaporate on a whim, and will no longer settle for less than an actual living wage. A rebalancing is going to have to take place, and somehow the wealth needs to be transferred back to the working class, or things will get very violent, very quickly. Once that kicks off, our near peers will funnel weapons into the US, and a civil war will make us the latest 3rd world country.
Almost nobody would have reported on Trump doing positive things like this, even if it is achieved by doing nothing or by accident.
Focoult moved into poststructuralism, a school of thought which was sceptical of clear explainations (they had very valid reasons for this in my eyes).

This means poststructuralist texts can be extremely hard to read and understand, especially to non-philosophically trained people or those hoping to get a logical theory about the world instead of a multi-facetted view onto some phenomenom within it. That doesn't mean you cannot pull a lot of interesting stuff from those texts, it just means it is very hard and never clearcut. Critics and people who failed to parse such a book dislike poststructuralists for this.

Focoult however wasn't a typical poststructuralist anyways and many of his books are very well observed and describe power relationships within society on the base of some other phenomena. As any philosopher with a precise language his books stand and fall with the quality of translation. I liked the German translations better than the English ones, because English as a language doesn't really lend itself to auch thinking..
Don't believe everything you read on trendy tech blogs. Java is still the 3rd highest ranked language on Github.

https://octoverse.github.com/
Your rent has gone up 30% in a year? Most places in the US have laws which limit yearly rent increases to the low single digits.
Do they not like money?
That sounds like a bad planning problem in which you shouldn't have left yourself vulnerable to loss of electronic services. Not a tech issue that justifies intrusive spyware.
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>The scanner needs a static field that's homogeneous over the region you're imaging.

Does it? Couldn't you let go of that assumption with heaps of compute power?
in 10th grade Latin class, the older class (3rd year) had a potluck and left some of the food, one of the items left was named garum (or explained to me as simply: fish paste).

It smelled awful, but I was dared. A spoonful later and I was using every muscle in my body not to vomit everywhere.

I'm not a fish fan unless it's deep fried properly with a decent batter, and I can't stand Salmon, so maybe I'm not the best to critique it, but I still shiver at the memory.

I believe it was made using the full fish body, over a few weeks fermenting in the sun. Homemade, too iirc. I'm surprised I didn't get severely sick, to be honest or food poisoning...
Just no. This page should be censored from HN. Consult this instead:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28821316
OK, but wikisource or wikiversity (https://en.m.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page) would fit.
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Let's see how this sounds when we flip it around.

"That is one thing news aggregator commenters should learn: while it might be fun to just put one's ignorance on display for the world to see, when publishing, come up with a modicum of curiosity and willingness to learn about and engage with for the craft and its culture that one is part of."
>Most places in the US have laws which limit yearly rent increases to the low single digits.

Even if that were true, how does that knowledge help? Legal fights of that nature take resources and time, which most people don't have.
Hotels I have visited recently have all stopped cleaning rooms, due to "COVID-19 safety". But, when you request so at the reception, they will clean it (fresh towels is nice when you stay a week).

Don't get me wrong, I think this is actually smart, because most guest don't need to have their room cleaned every day. This is a massive cost saver for hotels. However, you'd expect prices to go down by this cost saving measure, but instead, they have gone up. Less service, higher prices.
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>We’ve started talking about speeding up our release cadence to better reflect our recent activity.

reports of the death of the English language are increasing.
Nah. The system is worse than that.

The true disruption would be to get rid of the "journal" format. Of maybe even the article format.

Academic reviews seem to be a bad joke most of the time. Either you have "Reviewer 2" picking at straws to try and find issues with the paper, at the same time some reviewers let complete crap through.

There are improvements here and there but mostly punctual.
The Economist publishes a fun and simple metric called the Big Mac Index.

They present it as a way of looking at forex rates. If 1 USD buys you 1 swiss franc, but a Big Mac costs $5 here and 7 CHF there, then maybe the franc is overvalued. In any case you lose McDonald's purchasing power by converting.

But you could just as easily use it for inflation.

Big Macs are a stable product. A Big Mac sold in 1985 is very similar to one sold yesterday. Also, it includes a good mix of basic inputs. Land rents, transport costs, labor, and food ingredients.

Here's the raw data.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TheEconomist/big-mac-data/...

In the US, a Big Mac cost $2.54 in 2001 and $5.65 in 2021.

That works out to 4.0% annual inflation.

https://www.google.com/search?q=(5.65%2F2.54)%5E(1%2F20)&oq=...

The official numbers were 2% that entire time. Those come from a complex calculation using an always-shifting basket.
Should You Buy a Home in the US?
> we essentialy won the war on terror

Are you serious? The US looks terribly weak against terror because the fear alone makes them infringe on civil liberties on a massive and broad scale.
But they still don't get it right, they explicitly allow not identifiable Unicode identifiers. The C20 committee recently allowed also insecure identifiers, completely ignoring the Unicode identifier guidelines. They stated that nobody cares, everybody wants them and making them secure would need the entire Unicode database. Why do they allow noobs into such committees? What is needed are the normalization tables (tiny), the script list (tiny) and the two xid lists.
> "less" also shows all the non-printable characters

Only if you pass -U.
"software devs could easily correct the privacy problem by not working at Facebook or Google, only they choose not to because they don't care."

This pov is ridiculous. The same goes for the academic equivalent.
Stable coins are all the rage to fight inflation.

'Regular Joes' call them dollars, they exist as pieces of paper you can hold in your hand. They don't need to play silly games with crypto scammers.
Very cool.

I feel like the pipeline of knowledge could do with more published lists of "promising pairs" that others could follow up on.

It will be an interesting data world when everything significant we do is auto logged, hopefully in personal private logs, by our smart watches or glasses or something. Seems inevitable.
This sure sounds like conspiratorial thinking - unless you have any evidence thereof. A quick bit of googling found this: https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Wirtschaft/Preise/Verbrauc... which sure seems to suggest the basket was last changed in 2015 (i.e. this isn't something being fiddled by anybody, let alone on a political whim - it's too slow moving for that). And the actual inflation currently using that system is 4.1-14.3% depending on which of the three baskets you're looking at.

Also, consider that inflation numbers are necessarily lagging reality; they're not updated live by tracking residents or anything like that. For example, september's numbers are available and quoted above, but October's are not (and are projected to be higher).

This kind of conspiratorial thinking is harmful; it reduces trust, and thereby encourages everybody to skimp on the rules making everybody worse off. It's a classic prisoner's dilemma - we're better off just not playing that game. I'm sure the process of inflation-computation is imperfect, but let's talk about concrete, verifiable problems or better yet suggestions for improvements instead of nebulous feelings of disagreement.

By the looks of it, the official statistics confirm that inflation is spiking, but simply not yet to dramatic numbers (i.e. the kind of numbers that instantly change how we all think about money). If you feel that inflation is significantly higher, then why?
Those of us interested in bitslicing may want to check out my – now 10 years old – pedagogical bitsliced implementation of the TEA block cipher.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110813104823/http://plaintext....

Code here: https://github.com/secYOUre/bstea
This game is really impressive when you see the interactivity compared to its age.

But I hate this YouTuber for suggesting Atari and co to add micropayments. Best way to ruin the fun...
I see a lot of freedom in the US, don’t see much responsibility though.
It is more the explicit reference to toilets, which also drags the term plumbing into it, as I cannot think of something else than sewage in this context. I don't find the term plumbing by itself off-putting.

And it certainly isn't about being offended by "other people's culture". I talked to enough americans who shared my sentiment. And as we see here in the discussion, it just wasn't understood. That was the other part of what I wrote: even if the term might be completely innocent, it might be difficult to understand for outsiders.

It is not, that I haven't been guilty myself of bad naming in my projects. It can be fun or even convenient to come up with "insider" terms. But as soon as you have to communicate with outsiders to the project, the tend to bite you, even if there is no offensiveness about it.

Naming is one of the hard problems in software engineering :)
That project is abandoned.

There is an ongoing fork called youtube-dl-gui: https://github.com/oleksis/youtube-dl-gui

And an alternative called tartube: https://github.com/axcore/tartube
Never let a crisis go to waste for strategical ambitions I guess.
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If I understand well, when you will publish it, the first merge requests you will receive will be improvements of your build system. People will compete to provide the best fix for this obvious deffect. As a result, the main brake for publication will disappear quickly.
This is gonna come out really childish, but here goes:

You know those games where you select the phrases you want your character to say, and certain phrases lead you to different scenarios ?

Games like Detroit become human.

All those choices form a tree where each choice is a branching point. What I've found in RL is that negative actions generally lead to smaller paths in the "choice tree", which is generally no fun and you don't learn and enrich your brain with new information. As in video games, I want to explore all the branches, but you usually can't repeat a choice in real life, so I end up exploring the biggest path that coincides with my preferences, which is the the one with the most content that I like and, coincidentally, most of the times, this is a path that has a good balance of negativity, positivity and neutrality.

So yeah, tldr is: I see some actions in my life as actions in a story branching video game, and I actively look out for actions that give me the longest path in the "action tree" of stuff that I like to do, that indirectly makes me a "balanced" but active person.
Ask HN: With serverless getting more popular, are REST APIs/dbs/SQL etc. dead?
I’ve found it to be a combination of two things. The first thing is your calling.

What is calling you?
What is one problem in this world that you want solved?

That’s the first part. Finding the thing that really doesn’t sit right with you and you want to find a solution to it.

The second part is finding what you love to do. From music to video games to coding to sports to a hobby. It should be something that you would do even if you didn’t get paid to do it. Something that you’d still make time for it even if you had another job doing something else.

When you find those 2 things you combine them. Get really good at what you love to do, and then allow your calling to drive you. Eventually you will be able to create change for your calling through what you love to do.

The closer you get to your purpose the more you’ll start to see the world is actually a program controlled by your thoughts.

It’s important to be honest to yourself about everything.
The porcelain is where you shit into (the "porcelain throne"), and it implies that the pipes too are all full of shit.

I think this terminology was not well thought through. It's somewhat degrading.
I can only talk about my own way of handling it.

I became a more neutral person over years...I accept things as they are and don't complain about things were complaining won't have an impact (yes, stoicism played a role here).

I will be honest and say that I live in a well functioning country with a good job and a decent salary... that being said, so do some of my friends but they like to be negative and do negative spins on things.

There is an overall shift in people to be negative and to search for gotch ya moments. I accept it but I refuse to take a part of it, which means active self reflection as it is very easy to "go there".

Probably unpopular option, inspired by NNT, is to straight go to the "go f... yourself" when someone obviously is taking the most negative aspect of an opinion and is try to hook you for his own "gotchya moment".
This cuts through the charade and illusion of respect when in fact the other person is not giving any.
How do you believe we have won the war on terror?

We have very visible and emboldened domestic terror groups despite whatever state preemptive capabilities the Patriot Act brought in

And for Islamic extremists, the US mainland was barely ever the target. It just remains an eligible target due to an interpretation of jihad as long as we are seen as an invader in traditionally islamic lands.

Al Queda has more extreme offshoots which have destabilized regions including the effects of so many refugees sent all over the mediterranean

Strict Shariah from “not terrorist groups” are back in force despite 20 years of US wasting its resources and dividing itself over the budget overruns. This includes the extreme interpretation of Jihad that endangers US and all NATO countries.

Can you tell me more about your influences? Like how is your world, your newsfeeds, thrown you into such a niche where you can only regurgitate a 17-year old DOJ report to support it and believe it
Lucky. I could used to get weekend rentals for £45-80 total, now it’s £190-250 (so I don’t bother)
Compound that with the remaining employees getting increasingly burnt out working at a short staffed restaurant.
They don't even pay dividends on current profits. how do you expect them to pay on future ones?
More idiocy from the crank in chief
Most other countries have tennancy boards and things so you can enforce your rights without expensive lawsuits. Does usa not have that?
> our near peers will funnel weapons into the US

There are enough weapons in USA, no need for anyone to do that.
Flagged for toxicity.

The internet is an interesting social experiment. People have a few basic options when confronted with new information that conflicts with what they know (and therefore makes them do work -- rewiring the brain is evolutionarily expensive).

1. Fairly evaluate the idea and engage intellectually and curiously. There is simply too much information out there to do this for every new idea you see, but imo that's kind of the point of a site like this. You should just go to 2. if you are too tired/busy to give it an honest try.

2. Ignore/dismiss. Plain and simple.

3. Get angry and lash out. Make it personal. The most basic and primitive response. This is the one that doesn't belong on HN.
This is great. MPTCP never got enough adoption to really have an impact, but being able to do the same with a performant open source solution at a lower layer would be great. There are many use cases from LTE + WiFi on phones to Starlink with backup DSL in homes.
In fact the airlines are charged per book, but if and only if the look to book stays within reasonable bounds. If it rockets up, they’re on the hook for the penalties
Savings accounts only ever paid like, 2% above inflation, right? I wouldn't advise keeping so much money in a savings account you thought you could live off the interest -- you'd be way above the FDIC insurance limit.

The transfer from the young to the old in the form of federal support of stock and real estate prices, and various subsidies to health care, is probably larger than the 2% interest and 1% CPI the old have lost.
I need name for my startup it's a hosting and web dev startup any idea?
Not much. I think it’s greed. I saw regular new car deliveries at my local Hertz over the last 6 months. They’ve not lacked inventory from what I can see for a while now
You’ve chosen the one thing that has risen in price the most…steak. Why do you think you’ve done that, and is ribeye steak a very necessary part of your diet?
Is it really fair to use gasoline as an inflation marker? Geopolitics cause the price of gas to fluculate wildly.
Speaking of region, $5 a gallon of gas is _still_ incredibly cheap next to our euro brethren.
How about "infrastructure" and "interface"?
Not sure quite how much is required for something to count as an an rpg, but I have seen a couple experimental games where the way the difficulty ramps up is that after each level, the player has to choose which skill to lose / level down.

Didn’t have much of a plot though.

Just “you are fleeing a deep cavern or something after stealing a great deal of arcane power (more than you have the mental capacity to hold onto)”.
Never saw how it ended. I imagine it is either meant to inevitably end in defeat, or it ends with the character having lost all the power they stole , escaping with only their life, or perhaps, having lost all of it, being unable to continue to evade capture.
The original title "Message: Nuclear must be represented at COP26, says World Nuclear Association" reminds of meme "The cat is being starved, according to cat".
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I've noticed a strange phenomenon going on with myself. Prices in the HORECA have gone up so much on avearge than shelling out the extra money to have to enjoy the high end options. TO give a contrege example: a beer at my corner bar goes for €4.5 now. The Sofitel rooftop bar in town will have them at €5.
30% since 2019?
gas was 5.05 in the bay area today. not sure what the price of ground beef is but my steaks i buy went from $20 to $25 over the last year and they're worse quality