skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've gotten back to traveling over the past month and a half or so and the restaurant business is a complete sh-tshow even outside of fast food (which I rarely eat--at least at the big chains).

Have eaten at a place the past couple of days that was only operating at about 50% capacity outside seating (I assume lack of staffing) and still had about a 20 minute wait. A couple weeks ago was at a place in a different city. Arrived and just got a seat at the bar shortly before 3pm closing because the place was packed. Wasn't opening again until Thursday.

Personally I wouldn't care if McDs went away tomorrow but obviously a lot of people depend on or at least think they depend on stereotypical fast food. (And a lot of "fast casual" at places like Five Guys is a fair bit more expensive. Non-chains are often cheaper.)
I would really appreciate an option to skip flags and only ask about name and location.

That said, this is a really cool project. Thanks a lot for making and posting it!
Ask HN: Why does my cup move by itself?
Can someone explain why my cocktail jigger moves by itself?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW9tdNsTer8

I was making a negroni and noticed this. There was some water on the counter, I assume that's related? Maybe causing some weird suction effect?
But it also seems like they aren't too happy with their new jobs. I think they pulled the trigger on the strike a little early. "Hey Bradford, 100% of employees here think we need a raise of X dollars an hour. Need to hear back from you end of week latest. Thanks." Might've been a better approach.
Nowadays, 99% games are based on a game engine, so you have to choose a game engine like Unity, Unreal, and I suggest you choose Unity since its easier, and many people already built VR/AR projects with it, you can check on Youtube, tons of tutorials there.

Then you need get familiar with the Unity, and its language, then maybe follow a good step by step course, learn how to tackle each obstacle you will face later, if stuck somewhere, ask questions, learn maths or how to solve them, then publish your 1st game on App Store.

Good luck
Society is a pendulum. Give it time. We move in decades.
I agree that a dramatic change is very difficult and the level of difficulty varies from person to person. However, obesity is probably one of the worst long term health predictors. If it leads to diabetes, almost all outcomes get much worse. The change is worth the difficulty.

For me, I quantified what I was eating and simply reduced it a bit by careful tracking. I also did quite a bit of relatively low heart rate exercise and did do some shift of the calories away from carbs. I also identified some intake that was purely habit and not sustaining, like late evening snacks, and eliminated or modified those. Lost 35 pounds in a few months. It may take a while, but the math works over time. It is relatively simple, but it is not easy. I kind of turned it into a game and that helped a bit. At any rate, I wish anyone who decides to try the best of luck.
What a strange article.

First, there is no need to put pressure on yourself to learn 'quickly' - that's counter productive.

Second, you need to find a good teacher.

Finding good teachers is how you learn 'quickly'. Now the way to do that is to have parents who can help you.

Really, the way to learn 'quickly', is to be born into a family that's loving and competent at life. Then it just happens - by the time you develop the ability and interest in looking around to figure out what's going on, you'll have been in after-school activities and a good school for like 10 years.

There's a bit of an escape hatch - if you're good at academics or sports, you'll get to have secondary father/mother figures and that'll be your chance to catch up. If you don't, you're kind of fucked :)

If you weren't born with loving and competent parents, you'll be floundering through-out life, in relationships, in your career, in lack of self esteem. It's a near guarantee, because whatever short comings your parents had, you'll be solving and then some. That's just how life goes.

Anyhoo :)
> A SIM card is a full blown computer with its own CPU and memory.

I read something to this effect years ago and mentally filed it away as “huh, that’s interesting.” This article is the first time I’ve understood what it actually means in practice, and it’s an eye-opener.
I think irrational is something like retaining a false belief despite it being clear that it is false. It’s got something to do with holding on to a point of view despite its inadequacy.
If you take out online schema changes and sharding, what's the use case for vitess?
There has definitely been a great deal of disillusionment. I’m constantly trying to digest it without giving in to cynicism.
What actual reasons do you need to preserve your merge mistake? When will it be needed again, and what for? Why should people who saw it need to see it again later? Do they want to build the code with the mistake, or do they just want the fix? Who is going to look for the mistake? Who is going to complain if they can’t find it?

Git doesn’t erase mistakes. It presents a second, separate graph of commits after rebase than before. Both graphs are still there, nothing is erased, and nothing is destroyed. It’s quite important, as a VCS, that nothing is destroyed because it means if I do it wrong, I can undo.

> To erase an entry in the financial ledger of a company is fraud. It is a felony. […] I believe that VCSes should be treated similarly.

You want people who fix code mistakes to go to jail if they don’t keep a record of the mistake? Why? There’s a very, very good reason that actually lying on financial ledgers is illegal, while quietly fixing a merge mistake is not. You are conflating so many things in this broken analogy that it’s difficult to respond to.

Financial ledgers are one of the very few things in the world where history is required by law to be sacrosanct, and companies know this and agree to it in advance. The number of editable things in the world that aren’t expected to preserve history and aren’t illegal are uncountable. Nobody’s going to jail if they erase a bad chapter in a book or movie script. Nobody’s committing a felony if they tear down a house and rebuild it. Nobody is being called a deceitful liar when they erase a mistake on their math test and write down the correct answer.

Your belief was not shared by the designers of git (nor of any other DVCS before Fossil). This is the core of why your claims about git are wrong. No promise was ever made to preserve history as it happened, that was never part of the intent in its design. Therefore the very argument that git is being deceitful is a dishonest argument - it’s a projection of your personal goals onto other people and other’s people’s software, not a true story about why git was designed the way it is. The fact that your telling is motivated by trying to convince people to use Fossil over git just makes the hyperbolic framing seem extra cheesy.

> If you want to say that commits to your private branches are not part of the permanent record, and that you should therefore be permitted to edit those private branches, then I think you have a stronger case.

That is, in fact, the primary use of rebase, by a mile. I’m certain you already know this. Which is a big part of why all the hyperbole about fraud, lying, deceit is ironically not an honest narrative.

> Shunning is a mechanism for removing illegal and illegitimate content.

So is rebase. Sometimes that’s how it’s used. Maybe it happens, but I’ve never seen public history intentionally rebased other than in emergencies.

So what, exactly, is preventing people from using shun for legitimate content day-to-day? Are you policing it’s use?
> Vaccination slightly reduces the risk of transmission for individual interactions (at least for a while) but that just stretches the curve out a little...

That's a disingenuous statement though because vaccines also help prevent getting infected in the first place, which reduces transmission. This study seems to focus on vaccinated people who had a breakthrough infection. If you read the 'Interpretation' section:

> Vaccination reduces the risk of delta variant infection and accelerates viral clearance. Nonetheless, fully vaccinated individuals with breakthrough infections have peak viral load similar to unvaccinated cases and can efficiently transmit infection in household settings, including to fully vaccinated contacts.

The first sentence implies vaccination reduces the risk of getting infection. The second sentence is talking about vaccinated people with a breakthrough infection having similar viral load. Therefore saying "Vaccination slightly reduces the risk of transmission for individual interactions" is untrue because it ignores the infection prevention mechanism of the vaccine. It's a lot better than 'slightly'
So let's ignore that Japan teaches Etiquette and Manners in school and that's part of the reason they are friendly and polite.

Let's look at any country in Asia. If you're lost, and you see a couple of people just chit-chatting with each other, in no hurry. You approach them and ask them for directions. The vast majority of the time they are more than willing to help, and in my experience, I haven't had someone not try to help. Singapore, Cambodia, Thailand, Korea, Vietnam, Indonedia, Taiwan... Now do the same in Tokyo, the majority of the time they don't want to help, were rude, walk away, get flustered even if you try to speak Japanese instead of English.

Yet you go to any other part of Japan and this is not the case.

You're telling me that because Tokyo is the 1 place in Asia I've visited where people tend to be rude, agitated, flustered, walk away, etc. That I'm the problem because I'm a westerner visiting Japan. Even tho talking to my Japanese co-workers who say "oh this is just Tokyo, we are just too busy here". Nope I'm a westerner and I'm the problem.
Codidact hosts a network of communities, so if you've got a group of people who are enthusiastic about a topic, you can propose it instead of having to host it yourself. Of course, you can also download the code and set up your own, same as with Q2A or Discourse or others, if you prefer to host.

There are differences among all of these platforms (and Stack Exchange) in terms of specific features. I'm not as familiar with Q2A as I am with SE, so it's hard for me to do a detailed comparison, but some things that I think improve Codidact include: more post types (like articles), privileges based on related activity rather than overall points (for example, a pattern of good edit suggestions leads to being able to edit directly), categories, and lots of customization options for communities.
I think that’s the lesson of this article — the SIM can instruct the phone’s radio to send and receive any sort of data (including SMS) without the rest of the phone ever knowing about it.
Well actually, isn’t Google improving the value of the content ergo property itself by improving its accessibility? I was inferring a one-way street with the accumulated data that can lead to server crashes - which I don’t believe Google’s web crawl does at all (in fact that would be counter-productive).
You can improve the protein assimilability of bread by combining it with a high-lysine protein (and I'm not sure but I think eggs and cheddar might fit the bill) but you may not care if you're looking for low-glycemic-index low-fat calories rather than amino acids specifically.

I don't know what's wrong with the downvoters.
I would assume it's because the water decreases the friction needed for the jigger (the 12 year old in me thinks that's a funny word) to move across the non-level surface.
There is a whole class of premium "fast casual" places. Five Guys, Shake Shack, In-N-Out (whose prices are a bit lower), etc. As well as Panera and a whole bunch of chains in that general category.

I rather like them especially when traveling and needing a quick meal (while mostly hating most traditional fast food). But not really places where you take the family for a cheap meal. Heck, I'm in tech and I think the prices are pretty steep a lot of the time. Not that the big fast food chains are exactly dirt cheap if you don't make a lot of money yourself, but maybe doubling their prices for a better product--even if the McD fries are probably still better :-)--pretty much puts them out of reach of many.
Agreed. So much so I started two search engines, https://bonzamate.com.au/ which is explicitly for Australian sites and https://searchcode.com/ which is about to get a large index update and make it more useful.

I have often wondered if perhaps a distributed search engine is the real answer. Yacy was interesting but the results terrible. But perhaps it’s possible to use activitypub protocol to build a distributed search that has different implementations on the backend. It’s something I keep toying with in my spare time, and with what I did with bonzamate we’re the search is done in lambda functions on aws possible to roll out in a way that’s cheap for everyone to build out. The ability to federate between those providing good results, even at query time has the ability to be very powerful if implemented correctly.
“Never intended to support a family” why not ? Why is this job more or less important than another? There are a lot of these franchises so they must be important.
I just found out from this that Roger Hui had died. I never met him, and I've never done anything serious in J, but I'll always appreciate the wonderful mind-bending experience I've had solving several dozen project Euler problems in J for fun.
scoot didn’t say it wasn’t music, and i’d rip him a new one, metaphorically, if he did. he said it wasn’t musical. many people say that to mean it doesn’t have a melody they like or can attach themselves to. i also think he may have meant to say use the word ‘lyrical’ which some use in the same way. i get you though.
Exactly. Outside of the state taking away children from their parents at birth and raising them there will never truly be equal opportunity. Even then there are genetic differences which give some more opportunity than others: I got blessed by flat ass feet and bad joints from my parents. I will never be able to be an athlete and will always be somewhat limited in the physical endeavours I can persue. Being tall and attractive is directly correlated with better life outcomes, but if you are ugly or short you are just out of luck.

The real question which needs to be answered is where do institutions need to draw the line for equal opportunity? Do institutional services need to be a zero sum game? Can we offer the same services to everyone — education, healthcare, UBI — where providing services to certain individuals is not at the expense of other individuals?
Have you tried using Sympy? It's not as sophisticated as Mathematica but it's a lot more usable than Wolfram Vertical Line Alpha.
Clearly you can set it somehow, but is is hardwired? Or changeable? What if I buy a phone from AT&T and move to Verizon, does it still talk to AT&T or now Verizon?

It would be an interesting security hole if one could modify the destination number and have it just send to a third party.
Ask HN: How is the “metaverse” concept different from the Second Life boom?
Does anybody remember the Second Life boom when companies were trying to snap up linden-land and set up shop online? That failed, and I can't help but feel like the 'metaverse' concept being marketed to us is that, but with VR helmets and advertising strapped on.
Even if they were halfway through an update, that doesn't sound like dangerous driving.
rtsil - i also very much agree with your first paragraph there.
I recently noticed that a number of SO questions have even been turned into Youtube videos containing a slide-show of the answers, now :-(
GPUs are overrated. Just render things in software to a framebuffer, add more CPU cores if you need them.
In my experience, even the "high quality parts" are junk.

And regardless how high the quality is, these are still basically counterfeit products. Nobody would think it's okay for a company to sell counterfeit iPhones. Why is it okay to sell counterfeit iPhone components?
Anonyproxies.com – former YC founder's web proxy, anonyemail, HTTP proxy, VPN
This is sad, but true. One thing I've heard about is flex scheduling, where you don't know your schedule until the last possible minute. Sure, great a project for a guy in IT like me and the VP who manages him back at HQ to get some costs down, but it's absolute havoc on peoples lives. That's one example, but it's nonstop.
Web Scalability for Startup Engineers – Book Review and Takeaways
802.11b was in its very early stages of adoption in 2002. The Apple Airport only came out in 1999.
Wouldn't that cause it to move in a single continuous movement? Instead of the 3-4 little movements in the video.
...and then people leave their dead bodies on the floor in the mule pen, while packing their valuables and taking the last boat? Not sure what horses have to do with lack of respect for slaves.
Stimmt. Frankly everyone is getting treated like shit. Im in a highly trained and educated field and im treated exactly like i was when I was when I worked at a call center. My PO gaslighting me to make himself look good to our management. Basically this isnt low wage problem but a wage management problem were those manage see themselves as rulers not stewards.
> It's complicated. For people you have an obligation to, like relatives, superiors or customers at work, you have to go out of your way to be polite and helpful. But if you don't have that obligation, you don't need to do anything.

I think you've hit the nail on the head.

I've spent time in Japan, and have been living in Asia, and as far as East Asia is concerned, I think a lot of people mistake "polite" for "friendly".

Of course, there are friendly people in East Asia. You can find friendly people everywhere. But if generalizing the characteristics of populations, Japanese are probably among the most polite if not the most polite you'll find anywhere. Friendly? Not so much.

In fact, in my travels in Japan, I've always been amazed at how limited the "friend" social networks of most of the expats I've encountered are. Japan is a very, very tough nut for "gaijin" to crack socially.
This is about where you bought the SIM from, not where you bought the phone from.
try listening to einstein on the beach. there’s a lot of bullshit non musicality going on in there, specifically to contrast with the more lyrical elements. that’s one of the greatest pieces of music of all time in my opinion.
Android: Network Security Configuration
In the US you get threatened to be put in jail for viewing the source on an webpage.
I think a lot of ideas are already here, but...

Figure out which outside country or countries are going to be least expensive to call (possibly through a dialback scheme), and then find a dial-up ISP in there and try to get an account setup.

A problem you'll have is a lot of free community access dial-up systems have shut down, and setting up an account in a foreign country where you have to pay for it, may be difficult. A lot of commercial dial-up services have also shut down too.

If you can make inexpensive calls to the US and/or Canada, you might be able to find something. I've seen references (in this thread and elsewhere) to "free" UK dialup, but it's using special rate phone numbers, so it's more like billed to your phone account dialup, and that may not be possible through whatever carrier you have available. Similar, I think for Germany.

It's worth sending a mail to xs4all; they did something for Libya, but they were also planning to shut off their dial-up service in October 2021. https://boingboing.net/2011/02/22/free-dial-up-isp-for.html (contact form https://www.xs4all.nl/klant/welcome-to-xs4all/ )
I was kind a curious of the security they have on these satellites. What if you made a worm that spread from satellite to satellite. Spoof the handshake/take control... be interesting. I'm not in the space of pentest or anything but seems like more and more of these satellite constellations for internet are going up.
No it isn't. "Lede" is a neologism arising from people convincing themselves they had inside information. It's been "burying the lead" as long as the phrase has existed. Your own link explains that.
LeetCode – Word Search
They're not rising, the dollar is falling.
For most of these, Wolfram Vertical Line Alpha seems to give reasonable results. However, for the third one, because I'm in Argentina, it helpfully converts US$79.80 into Argentine pesos, getting an answer that's off by about a factor of 2: AR$7969.44. As https://preciodolarblue.com.ar/ explains, the current bid and ask prices for the dollar are AR$195 and AR$199. Wolfram Vertical Line Alpha is apparently using the "official" rate of AR$99.45 or so; this is the rate at which the government converts your dollars into pesos if you are an exporter, but you cannot convert your pesos into dollars at this rate without special permission, granted, for example, if you are going on vacation to Disney World.
It does deter others from following in their footsteps. Once name-and-shame comes in, that deters anyone but the super-privileged from going into management. No one who can't weather name-and-shame will go for jobs like that.

Name-and-shame is... random. I've never been hit, but the people I've seen hit... It hasn't had much to do with them, so much as with the people doing the shaming.
How susceptible is eSim? More? Less?
I cannot trust Uber Eats to deliver food that has fries without the driver dipping into them. Twice in the last few months I've gotten a hand off from a greasy fingered driver and a short order of fries.

I give myself a break from cooking on the weekends and order out, it's been a pretty fast decline in the service offered AND the price has increased.

There's not much recourse either. I can remove the tip, and report the interaction, but haven't gotten my money back. A lot of the stuff I liked to get take out I just can't order anymore, and my trust in the system has eroded.
Concrete buildings don't really burn well. That means one doesn't have to be as careful with other fire safety stuff as even a major fire normally won't affect more than one room.
I have. I just overdid the practice the first time and got good enough to place well in international competitions, so to me all these interview problems are really easy, I've never struggled with an interview problem since then (of course since I always pass there isn't much need to do many interviews so I have less data than some others). I know most people wont do that, but you don't need to be nearly as good at this to pass interviews so it should be possible to get good enough to never practice again with modest effort.

My Google interviews was basically me coding up a solution in 10 minutes and explaining what I did and proving it works with runtime etc. Then we spent the rest of the time talking about engineering problems, testing, what I did at previous jobs etc. I am rustier now many years later, but It is still good enough that I don't fail, it might take 20 minutes instead of 10 but there is still room to spare. So the limit is that you are maybe half as fast as I am when I'm rusty, doesn't seem like an overly high bar to me.
I regularly travel DC-NYC for $29 on the Northeast Regional Amtrak train (225 miles, about 3.5 hrs). You do have to buy about a month in advance to get those prices though.
I lived in Geneva and worked in Lausanne (not the same periods) for a few years, and never saw anyone get fined for jaywalking in either city, not even myself. :) I guess it depends where you walk…
I live in Latin America, and we criticize our own culture for treating foreigners better than our neighbors.

Americans are regarded as irrespectful, but treated well because they hope they leave a dollar tip.

When a foreigner comes to do bussiness, not just an American, we expect corruption and exploitation to come with it. We are hardly ever proven wrong.