skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I presently use VS code at work as well, but not because it so nice, but rather that I can setup it from scratch to the tolerable state within 20 minutes including extension installation time and it works very similar on Linux/Mac/Windows (I need to work on all platforms and cross-platform functionality is a must). Plus it works on huge source tree like Chromium with fast file opening and whole tree search with almost no setup (VS Code hits some default limits on amount og Git modules, but that can be adjusted).

I stopped using Emacs like 10 years ago after realising that if one needs over 1000 lines of init.el then I am not the target user of the editor. I tried to reduce that via using external packages, but that has not helped much.

And for hobby projects I am happy with Geany on Linux.
Like I said, I'm assuming they're just going off "X milliseconds of content streamed".
What trouble? Also for reference, Apple and Google both do the same for their operating systems - iOS, macOS, ChromeOS and many Android flavours.

Edit: My point being, in this case it's an end-to-end experience, it's not a question of being able to configure anything. You get Windows with whatever Microsoft decides you can do with it. If that's not what you intended, then another vendor's defaults or an open operating system are a better choice.
The article gave me hope and inspired me.
It aligns with many of my ideals like:

"Good is the enemy of perfect"

"Done is better than perfect"

Iterative (agile) improvement

"2 steps forward and 1 step back" and then then one of the 2 next steps forward will fix the previous step back.
To me, that’s enough exceptions to not generalize about “Europe”.
> With very few exceptions, there’s nothing healthy or normal about living in chaotic, densely populated urban areas with high crime and endless noise, air and light pollution. In addition, there’s nothing natural about needing to work a bullshit job just to survive.

That's how I feel too. The only difference is that where I live the crime rate here is not that high. But the rest is the same.
Actually we use horizontal offset because it is more intuitive. Angles are deceptive for very tall buildings. You end up with a tiny angle eg 0.1deg that it sounds too small.

Also what people don't realize that the swing at the top floor of such a tall building due to wind may be actually about also another foot at worst case.
Yeah, that is true. And npm as a whole doesn't really have a good track record in being worthy of a lot of trust.
I don't know, when I use my debit card it just goes out of my main account, done, don't have to worry about it. On my credit card I'll have bigger purchases I made some time ago and I'm working towards paying them off - if I put all my monthly purchases there too, I'd lose track of how much of that I need to pay off monthly and how much I've got left on my main account.

And yes, it can be easily worked out but I guess I just can't be arsed. And for purchases under £100, credit cards offer no additional protection whatsoever, so for my daily shopping I'd just be making my life more difficult for no reason.
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing. You make a good point that it’s not so simple as just drilling to bedrock.
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Oh, I think you replied to the wrong person then? Monzo (as well as everyone else in the UK) uses Open Banking, not scraping.
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I'm in Melbourne, Australia. Land of the lockdown. Currently building the obligatory todo list as a pure javascript web-based application and ios/android app for it using flutter. Probably do a React app as well to build up. I'm not a beginner but I'm rusty so I'm refreshing knowledge as I go.
Agree. I found it to be ok, but basically felt like an overstretched black mirror episode IMO.
If anything, that's an argument in favour of the whole thing being government controlled -- it's clearly a natural monopoly with a large capital expenditure requirement and a comparatively minimal (as a percentage of transactions) ongoing charge required to continue to run it. I mean, it clearly doesn't cost Visa / MC any more to make a £/$/€45 000 payment than a £/$/€5 one – database writes are not cheaper or more expensive if the fixed point value you change is smaller or larger (subject to fitting within the range requirements, etc)...
I would love to have a small farm. It's just not economically possible without another job to get benefits through. I hope to do this as a retirement job. I fear I won't be in physical shape by that age though. Not to mention my wife doesn't want to.
Indeed, the oath is a theatre prop and not much more.

I reside in Israel these days, which has a system similar to NL ttbomk. The doctors that treat you (in the public system) are not incentivized other than to cure you, except perhaps through the occasional marketing cruise.

But high up ministry of health people have been indicted (including through corona) for pushing and in some cases mandating useless treatments after receiving a bribe.

The doctor at the hospital just got the memo “the recommended treatment in case of x is y”.

These indictments are for what can actually be proved. I’m sure there are more cases that have not been found, and also in other countries.

The only one who really has your best interests in my mind is yourself; if you are capable of doing research, you are likely more qualified for your own situation than specialists.

WHO recommends against remdesivir. FDA and IMOH promote it as a wonderdrug. Who would you trust?
As someone who just heard about this engineering failure and checked wikipedia too to confirm, I wouldn't recommend my friends to invest in it. It could be profitable if they manage to fix the building, but right now I will bet on a demolition.
Yet, they in fact delivered and got paid, and (pay attention!) would not have delivered and not got paid, otherwise. Risk is speculation about the future. Here we have full benefit of hindsight, and the choice taken was manifestly correct, despite all counterfactual speculation.
Normally I'd agree with you, but that website is a particularly horrendous shade of green. I had to put on sunglasses to read the article
The Australian practice seems fair though.

If you force cash and credit card transactions to be the same price then the extra 0.5% is charged to everyone, and outside of extreme cases like this post there is little incentive for credit card operators to lower their fee.
Could it be the advert for his book 'Be slightly evil: A playbook for sociopaths' by any chance?
More like an incel.

There's a difference between detachment and objectivity. The article in question makes a lots of leaps of logic to connect unrelated ideas and the site in general gives me the impression I'd expect from someone who still thinks Malthus was right. Acceptable output from an angsty teenager, not so much from an adult professional.

I wouldn't armchair diagnose the author with sociopathy but they do seem like they'd give the expected answer when prompted with the hoax "psychopath test" funeral riddle.
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On what port does finger run on?
I had this same issue with a number of French companies. Couldn't figure out why they weren't cancelling my contract despite repeated letters until someone told me you have to send the letter with proof of receipt otherwise they just ignore it.
Microsoft got ed.
> Visa have a larger market share overall (80%, including debit cards [1]) but Mastercard leads in credit cards.

I worked in credit card payments (on acquiring side).

Any market share advantage between Visa and Mastercard is very, very fragile. It is basically your choice which card to pull out for payment.

It is also why Visa and Mastercard these are so alike almost in every aspect. When one does something, the other copies it.

The only reason this is still split between two companies is exactly because of this parity between products. People have no reason to prefer one over other and simply toss a coin to make their choice.

When I had chance to configure my phone to do NFC payments, my bank supported it only for Mastercard, so I configured Mastercard and that's how it is now. I know a lot of people got Mastercard because here (in Poland) it was tiny bit faster than Visa.

If Amazon bans UK Visa, people will not stop using Amazon. They will either pull out the other card or grumble for couple of days and get Mastercard.

It is likely Visa has NO negotiation power here. They are the ones that have commoditized themselves and are easily replaceable for their competitor. It is likely Amazon is well aware of this and this is just a show of strength that will be followed by Visa submitting to it because they have no choice.
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Look around at GitHub, for example.

There is, for example, mine:

https://github.com/Release-Candidate/Emacs
>> We’ll have to wait and see how this plays out in the future, but it makes Edge look bad, which is a shame because it’s not a terrible browser at all.

No, it's just evil. An axe is just a tool unless wielded by a dark clown. Edge would probably be a reasonable browser in the hands of literally anyone other than microsoft.
Of course, but there are probably thousands of other decisions we make through life that could increase or decrease our chance 1%.

Yeah, statistics and graphs can be a special type of evil
I am also trying to learn modern DevOps techniques. While researching i found that many people recommended the courses from KodeKloud (https://kodekloud.com/).
I have not taken them myself already, but i think they also include labs so you can practice the techniques.
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Communists in USSR killed about 10x more innocents than Nazi. (Did you heard about Holodomor?). Why Nazi bad but USSR isn't?
They can try as much as they want, but they'll never manage to make the majority use Edge.
> many serious anti-Ivermectin arguments in the past

I haven't seen any of these. I just run into irrational and offensive people like you that accuse me of wanting to drink bleach when I bring up the topic of Ivermectin.

This article removed all doubt for me. I needed to see the thought process while pouring over the studies.

You shouldn't make so many assumptions about people based on your political bias. Some people want to understand. That doesn't make them foolish or antivaxers.
In addition to that, it's worth pointing out that even the architect of the Swedish policy defending his strategy acknowledges it would have been dramatically worse if Swedes hadn't mostly worked from home and observed social distancing anyway (i.e. the exact opposite of what most anti-lockdown campaigners want). Also, they imposed strict external travel restrictions to ensure they never imported as many cases as the worse-performing European countries did, and deployed all sorts of restrictions short of lockdosn like banning gatherings of 8 people or more. It's really not the poster child for muh freedom
That's essentially the UK's law too -- but many arent aware.
Microsoft returning to its early 00s attitude. I wonder if the EU will step in and make this an anti-competitive thing.

Yet another reason to not install Windows 11, including telemetry, adverts, an always on internet connection, and abandoning perfectly functioning hardware in favour of TPM chips.
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The vaccine mandate isn't taking away the livelyhood of a single person. Go get the vaccine for free and stop putting yourself and everyone around you in mortal danger.

The vaccine absolutely, definitely, without a single doubt in the mind of any sane person, does stop the spread of contagion. To claim otherwise is a direct and clear lie. By repeating this, you are lying. As far as I can gather, christians are not allowed to do so.
"but maybe you've been programming Vue for the last 6 months, they didn't speak to you, and so sent over a React test. Either way, it's an absolute shitshow to interview right now, with a lot of variability in all aspects."

Yep, this is what I've been seeing a lot of...even for the internal job postings that require a code screen.
I remember wondering why "return" is in the Monad class when you can just use "pure" from Applicative, and why (<>) and "mapped" both exist, so it's cool to read the historical explanations here.

They are all logical, but will unfortunately add to the burden of new learners who read books and guides that contain obsolete references. I know a lot of the material I learned with will be confusing when examples start spitting out compile errors. I didn't see if there are efforts to account for this with some custom error messages that notify you why the obsolete code no longer works and suggests how to fix it, but I think that would be helpful.

Edit: It looks like that concern was already raised and addressed, glad to see it.
IAP for in app purchase.

There are currently two ways to sign up for the New York times online, one is via the website and the other is via a subscription from the various app stores(an in-app-purchase).

To unsubscribe from the website-based subscription requires a call to NYT’s customer service based in New York which have limited operating hours- here they’ll try their best to convince you not to unsubscribe after waiting in a phone queue.

However if you chose to subscribe through an IAP then you simply browse to your active subscriptions and press a button - far simpler and on par with how easy it was to sign up.

Making subscriptions difficult to cancel is not new in any industry, NYT’s behaviour here isn’t unique, or even the worst example. I use it as a demonstration that even reputable companies use these tactics.

This is one of the reasons why certain businesses loathe IAPs, (regardless of the cost). When providing your details to a business there is a lot of added potential for lock in, follow-on marketing, increasing the cost at irregular intervals and selling your information to 3rd parties.

I say "regardless of the cost" because many types of digital goods have minimal costs to provide them. For example a 15% or 30% cut of such purchases is negligible when selling an in-game currency because there is no genuine cost for providing that currency. Even if the app store charged 0% instead of the 15% or 30%, the business would still be missing out on using your personal details for all of the other valuable ways they can extract money from you/your data.

To use Amazon as an example - I receive extreme levels of spam for the custom email address that I use with Amazon, many vendors I have purchased from have immediately on sold my contact information.
There are Helicobacter pillory ulcers. There are Cirrhosis ulcers. There are stress ulcers.

Who is spreading the misinformation that all ulcers are caused by H. Pillory?
I don't think Netflix and movie theatres are even remotely comparable. To see a movie open at theatres you need to travel to the theatre, queue for limited seating, buy a ticket, etc. most people wouldn't go more than once in a while. Netflix is a monthly fee and available 24/7 in your home. You can turn it on and half watch a movie while you're doing other things around the house. I think their numbers are perfectly accurate and am not at all surprised they outperform the box office.
In Germany, we have our own debit card scheme called 'girocard' owned jointly by a group of German banks that has very low fees.

Unfortunately, this card does not work for online payments, which has lead to PayPal being extremely popular. Other solutions, some national, some international exist as well, but have comparatively high fees.

Amazon Germany allows users to pay via SEPA direct debit from any European bank account. That incurs virtually no fees (iirc it's a flat 8c for a successful transaction), but comes with other problems regarding authorization. Only the biggest merchants tend to offer this option.

The European Payment Initiative (EPI) [0] is an ongoing effort towards online payments that work without trusting one particular private institution.
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Will there be Iconways and Themeways as well? It would be nice to skip reading through 52 reddit posts to figure out how to fix appearances after an update.

Also what are Colour Schemes or Palettes?
The "engineer" part usually starts a discussion because in some countries it's a protected term so software engineers can't call themselves that. Or some people think that because the word engineer is in the title, people with the title should be held to some higher standard or somehow regulated - this isn't a thing anywhere for software engineers as far as I know.

> Is being a software engineer a state of mind or an actual profession that comes with certain prerequisites?

It's a job title. If your job has the title of software engineer, then you are one. The rest is either stories that you're telling yourself ("I do not consider myself a software engineer") or bullshit gatekeeping ("you're not a real $x until you do $y"). It doesn't make any difference whether your title is software engineer or software developer.

Titles aside, if you have a problem with confidence, spend more time learning and doing difficult things.
Thow would be a great idea if I weren't already off track (rating). They will hold that time off against me, especially since it would be a leave of absence. They would have to approve it too. I dont want to be put on a PIP.
Question is what you want to learn exactly?

Setting up only the cluster?
- Start by porting your local setup to a local k8 (minikube etc.)

And i would suggest to invest some time into terraform to setup everything the way you want it.
On the other hand, shifting to electronic payments is building up an incredible surveillance mechanism.

Let's just take an example of who is endangered... a 16 year old girl from a strictly religious family who had unprotected sex and needs Plan B. In a cash environment, she'll pay for it with her allowance, and her parents won't ever discover she had bought Plan B. In a cashless society, her parents can see the evidence by checking her bank account.

Also, un(der)documented / "illegalized" people literally won't have a way to survive, as their access to bank accounts may be revoked or the government demand a live feed of all transactions, which means that e.g. the police can be dispatched to a supermarket where that person just bought food.

IT (and politics) definitely needs ethics education, as all the tech bros and other hypers of "going cashless" never take into account who will be negatively affected by their ideas!
Rather interestingly my bank (First Direct) in the UK swapped over from a Visa Debit card to a Mastercard recently - I wonder if perhaps there are things going on behind the scenes that consumers are not currently aware of.

Rather annoyingly most of my spending with Amazon is on my Visa credit card - can't quite figure out why they are now more expensive to process than the historically expensive AMEX.
What about all the free money you're leaving off the table in miles and cash back? I've had a credit card for about 3 years, and while it isn't much, I've never paid a dime in interest and I'm up roughly $800.
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Relentless, critical implementation of individual performance testing (e.g. football teams) might help shift organisational sclerosis.

How can this be done for white collar roles?

Maybe like Amazon? - See this article : https://chrislaing.net/blog/the-memo/ (just a suggestion)
How so? Did leaving EU imply giving up laws already adopted while in the EU?
> He doesn't give any examples of "good" diegetic explanations, only bad ones.

Because the video isn’t about diegetic explanations, but the practice of using diegesis to defend against criticism.

The titular Thermian Argument doesn’t come up unless criticism is levied, so “good diegetic explanations” bear no relevance. Dan’s point is that it is a weak defence.
Having a credit card is the hardest part to me.

All of setup step is simple, there're many resources that you can follow and learn all in 1,2 days.
> If you see tech monopolies as a fundamental societal problem … you’ll find an answer in decentralization. If you see income inequality as a fundamental societal problem … you’ll find an answer in decentralization. If you see government overreach as a fundamental societal problem … you’ll find an answer in decentralization. If you see monetary policy as a fundamental societal problem, you’ll find an answer in decentralization. There is no meme that you won’t find an answer for because how someone sees decentralization is like a Rorschach for their fears and tragic flaws.

This is sort of true, but also there are lots of problems that on their face don't make sense with decentralisation (e.g. the problem of how hard it is to disseminate expert information, which is enabled in part by decentralisation). This is just a list of problems that decentralisation could actually help with.
This is a huge factor. Dumbing things down creates a dumber audience. If you look at newscasts and newspapers from the 70's and compare them to today the difference is amazing.
The same way we ramp up on anything: by building a system that (actually) needs it. The XYZ (service mesh, provisioning, etc) will fall into place, from there. Or not -- if it isn't really needed.

But in general: learning by building stuff based on a real need -- even if that "need" is just to scratch the itch of some personal project you've always been wanting to do -- has about 10x the staying power (and "interview cred") as what one gets when starting from the mindset of "oh shit, I'm falling behind, I gotta cram on this stuff".

And on top of that: knowing when you really need X or Y, and when you don't -- is often as valuable as, or even more valuable than simply knowing how to do X or Y.
>Another example is prostitution is legal but you can only advertise yourself.

And then serious criminals are out of the advertising business, but can still offer consultation, business and personal protection, and, of course, forced sex labour through human trafficking.
But that’s what always happened. I would be more concerned of living next to a heavy industrial city or country like Shanghai or New Delhi, sometimes even a single concrete production factory can affect sensible people like asthmatic (as it happened to me for a short time of my life). Same story for landfills, or agriculture regions which have the tradition to burn rests from their activity causing serious air saturation.

As said I would be more concerned of other factors, including pollution, general climate, time to nature and sustainability of the city for a good work life balance. And king would be: time to commute work.
In my country at least people were paying a LOT of money for Ivermectin. Someone was definitely making a mint.

Just a reminder that while snake oil was a "patent medicine" there were never any actual patents involved.
>In 2021, people are forced from employment over authoritarian (and bad) vaccine mandate, created in secret in 2021 by so-called leftists

Is Joe Biden really a 'leftist'? He supports the private ownership of capital. I think most in the US would describe him as a liberal, and most self-identified leftists would describe him with unkindness.