skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would Apple determine between an mp4 that is a pirated movie or a personal video you've downloaded to edit in Final Cut?
German is an LSB language.
gone in 60 seconds "i gotta get my tool"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJN6VHWaerA
C++ hex floats are an interesting combination of 3 numeric bases in one!

the mantissa is written in base 16

the exponent is written in base 10

the exponent itself is a power of 2 (not of 16 or 2), so that's base 2

One can only wonder how that came to be. I think they chose base 10 for the exponent to allow using the 'f' suffix to denote float (as opposed to double)
Not quite what you asked for, but I’m an American who went to Germany for five years and then came back recently. Quite happy to be back, though certainly there’s things I miss dearly about Munich.

The people talking about a lifestyle downgrade in the US aren’t wrong, exactly, but it does depend on your own preferences and values and situation. For me, the lifestyle in the Seattle area is better overall I’d say, but I definitely miss the transportation system in Munich a ton. Seattle is practically drowning in nerd culture, which I adore, whereas Munich had relatively little.

Also, not everything is as the stereotypes go. The public school our son is in here in Kirkland is fucking awesome, way better than the private school he was in in Munich (we were going to do public school there, but the system didn’t want him). Part of his better adjustment is obviously being a native speaker, but that’s not the only thing that’s better.
As an argument in favour of privatised healthcare, this is valid, but in the context of Europeans moving to the US, it doesn't seem relevant. The US is not going to reform its healthcare just because a few Germans don't immigrate.
Could it have been this one? http://forums.indiegamer.com/

>> "When the original Dexterity Forums closed in 2004, Indie Gamer was born and a diverse community has grown out of a passion for creating great games. "
I never said it's wrong, I just said I don't understand it. I think my post sounds a lot less moralizing than the one I am replying to. On-call is not some kind of basic virtue. It is simply part of a job description, and that's a business contract.

I personally think that a much healthier alternative would be to look for a position where one can maintain their physical and mental health, and give back extra income to worthy causes. There are many organizations much more worthy of my time and money than a bunch of managers who are too cheap to hire people for a follow-the-sun support org. But I'll accept a job with on-call if I think the rest of the deal outweighs the negatives.

It's still fair to call out on-call as a negative though. It's something to be aware of when accepting a job and for companies to keep in mind when recruiting.
Labors of Love: Translations of Dante
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If you look at it from that perspective, there are two factors. First, are the digital values identical? This is something my research can help with, using exactly the same exponential values (bit width, rounding, etc.) Second, a digital synth produces an analog output, so even if the digital values are perfect, the digital-to-analog conversion is going to produce its own distortion, filtering, etc, which can be pretty substantial.

Also see raphlinus's answer.
no, they just havent completely rolled out the change yet. it has 2 parts

- removing the UI element: half done

- removing the server data: todo
I think constant moral judgment can have a chilling effect. But to throw it out altogether is not the solution (it’s certainly not working at 4chan).

Claiming that everyone has their own morality is only true in the sense that no two snowflakes are alike. It may be correct at the molecular level, but snowflakes are more similar than they are different. So too with human morality. Mine may be slightly different than yours, but the overlap is huge and consistent.

I think perhaps more importantly (and the reason I made the comment in the first place), morality is contextual and easily influenced. If we never talk about it, no one knows what sorts of behaviours are appropriate. So I talked about it to put a peg in the ground. You may disagree and that’s fine. You drive your peg in to the ground somewhere else. But knowing there are two pegs is important.
Experts seems to be awfully late to what every John Doe has already figured out, it's easy to be called an expert when there's zero accountability for the expert's advice. If you constantly get stuff wrong, then your opinion is as good as some random person walking the streets.
I haven't had any problems viewing things formatted for 8.5"x11"
There's a nursery rhyme, Sing a Song of Sixpence, which has "Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie", so numbers were once written out in English the same way they are in German.

I checked the King James version of the Bible (1605), which consistently writes out numbers in this way, e.g.

Leviticus 12.4: And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days ...

Genesis 11.16: And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg ...

Genesis 11.12: And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years ...

What about more recently? In David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickens, we still find:

About five-and-twenty boys were studiously engaged at their books when we went in ..."

‘Six-and-thirty years ago, this day, my dear,’ said my aunt, as we walked back to the chariot, ‘I was married.
>UBI is a non-answer to this, implementing it won't allow everyone to quit their jobs and make art instead. Ideally it's meant to be a social safety net, not a way to sponge off of "billionaires paying their taxes" and no ideal survives contact with implementation. We could hope for a marginal improvement on welfare at best (and that would be a good thing, even small improvements count).

TBF I don't think the author meant to imply that we should "allow everyone to quit their jobs and make art instead". If we agree that the article is largely lamenting the extortive/exploitative nature of modern society cum digital medium than I'd wager what's in mind is UBI as counter-balance to the increasingly extortive/exploitative labor relations many people are living with. We're sorta getting a taste of this with the effect of exceptional unemployment benefits but that's temporary.
Maybe I've just been unlucky and come across the wrong people but here are some things that left me a bit disturbed tbh

- medical staff demanding to know if I'm Polish or Ukrainian in the middle of a big medical procedure where I am already in tears and in pain

- easier to get things done at banks and other admin places if you call the customer service number and speak (good) Swedish

- first thing that anyone asks in any social interaction is "Where are you from and what are you doing in Sweden?" Might not be malicious, but it's starting to grate on my nerves. Where I am really from is probably the least interesting thing about me.

And by the way, I am originally from another Nordic country and look Western European. I can only imagine what it's like for someone who looks different.
As long as the container isn't leaky, the benefit there is that it makes recovery, back-ups, and isolation easier. For example, dev VM isn't where you would have your creds for bank, SSH keys, etc. So isolation of (more) sensitive, daily-use data is easier. Snapshots of VM are cleaner and fast to rollback, etc. The OP was looking for reasonable mitigations that don't make daily usage a complete drag. I think VMs or other containers fit some of that bill.
That would be awesome :)
PoS encourages centralized exchange-held staking, which means that there are only a handful of failure/pressure points. In other words, a government doesn’t have to buy 66% of the stake - merely compel the exchanges.
I've thought about this. The thing is that the current relevant browser environments (basically Safari, Chrome, and Firefox) require, what, a billion dollars a year to maintain? 2 billion? And this doesn't even count the various JavaScript frameworks, auth systems, CDNs, etc.

Any replacement technology/protocol which does the same "write once, use everywhere" thing and manages to perform better would still need to achieve wide adoption. And I feel like users would still want that to be able to play seamlessly with everything in their lives that they have online.
I’ve found most CI checks like this are a crock. Forgot empty parentheses for that function definition with an arity of 0? Bzzzzzzzt! Sorry! Build failed.

It’s just foolish.

The only reason a CI should ever fail is if it catches a defect from making it into production.
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It's not an argument. It's just the reality of health insurance in the US at this time.
Absolutely the best content I've found. So many free resources.

In addition, their youtube channel is a great place to start.
As of a couple years ago, my state (Maine) added an option to calculate out-of-state taxes as a percentage of your income instead of tracking.
I blame Apple for a lot of this. When the iPhone got big, they kept it all closed off in a walled garden- you couldn't/still can't even look at the files on disk! Other businesses saw how locked down you could make something and still be successful and replicated it.

Why let you easily download a video if that lets you post it elsewhere? They want to keep you on Reddit/Twitter for longer and longer so that they get more engagement from you and can show you ads.

Minecraft is a great example of this, too. Why let you run your own server for you and your friends when you can pay Microsoft to host the server for you on their centralized server? Never mind that sometimes the data center gets too much traffic and your little server gets deprioritized and your ping skyrockets.
> It is a cultivated myth that we would not have any streaming services for music, film and TV series if Pirate Bay did not exist. Those who claim it do not understand how technology development works.

Someone forgets how legacy copyright industry fights tooth and nail against any innovation, until they realize it's futile and then they try to start using technology instead of fighting it. This hasn't changed a bit. They literally do it every step of the way trying to slow progress down for the sake of their obsession with control.
I think the author's problem is that he watches pornographic videos when jerking off instead of reading sex stories. He might be better served by literotica.com or (if he wants "real-life" sex stories) reddit.com/r/gonewildstories.
I write long lines from time to time, but only because I've messed up and made my subroutines into magical do-everthing monstrosities that need a million arguments. It seems to me that (while there are exceptions) the real problem is the existence of lines that want to be long, rather than things like whether the language supports line breaking lines inside a function call or whether your terminal has enough columns. It is unavoidable sometimes, but if we're trying to reduce the burden of figuring out what's being passed to a function, that would seem to indicate something has gone completely wrong on a deeper level.
BMW removing touchscreen from a bunch of models due to chip shortage
Except for the part where eclipse attacks can be resolved by simply feeding my node more data (it's not a problem if some of it is lies), while "weak subjectivity" requires recourse to an external authority.
>You got refunded but in my country many sites have implicit rule "Once you purchase it, we can't return it back".

Do they specify what you actually purchase, I can't figure out what is it you purchase in such cases.
I haven't looked at the envelope chip, but I hope to examine it at some point.
I usually target around 120 characters as a right margin, allowing up to 130 before I start seriously considering a hard line break.

Anything more than 140 or so and it gets harder to scan (too sparse). Anything less than 100 or so and it gets harder to scan (too dense).

80 is just painful.
Thank you for the perspective!
At the moment, establishing a social life has proved so difficult due to constant relocation and general difficulty of socialising in Sweden, that I'd prefer to go somewhere where at least I'd have better career opportunities in tech.
One of the people I admired immensely in F1. He truly went after his dreams and achieved them. His wife get a lot less credit than she deserves because she also had a lot to do with his success. Rest in peace, legend!
I bought lockpicks for the kids when covid hit for something to do. Within an hour, everyone could open the practice lock which is in a clear casing. Within a week, we could all open your typical masterlock and my daughter could open any of the locks you might purchase from home depot.
I feel that having longer lines means you can scan through a program more easily, by quickly scrolling through it vertically. Then once you're at the part you're looking for you can start scanning the text horizontally for more details.
Clean Code was the first book I read that suggested (with concrete examples and rules!) that I should use code as a communication medium to other programmers first and foremost, the orders you give to the computer comes second.
It is an opinionated book and there are some dumb rules in it but it did way more good than harm to the dev community. Definitely not a fraud...
I feel as if I was a christian and God himself had just materialised in front of me and said that he doesn't exist, after all.

An utterly confusing situation.
Online spending on Black Friday decreased for the first time
I think the parent commenter was making an interesting point which is that linux users are bifurcated:

1. The group you described (conscientious sysadmins)

and

2. IOT vendors throwing Linux on devices without thought to updates and security.
What do you find stressful? Personally when I want healthcare I just find a doctor that accepts my insurance and go.
That's not true in the US.

The very non-privileged get moderately ok, free healthcare via Medicaid (along with numerous other programs for poorer people, including coverage for children, SS disability and so on). That covers the poorest/worst off quarter of the US population approximately.

It's the working poor and middle class that really get screwed with the US system. The well-off pay taxes to cover the free healthcare system that the US has. The working poor and middle class often can't afford the healthcare system, are more frequently at risk while unemployed, and their employers are less likely to provide good coverage as a benefit.
UK —> US (when it was still in the EU), I was approached by a top 5 company right as I graduated (to helps to put in internship applications). West coast. I've since got my LPR (Green Card), and changed employers 3 times now. I now work for a tiny company that I partly own.

Definitely worth it: my total comp is 3x-4x what it would be in the UK for the exact same kinds of work.
The main problem I often run into is not wrapping when reading code in an editor, but rather wrapping when reading side-by-side diffs, for example in a github PR or review board RB. You get not only double the code width, but also an extra 6 or so columns on each side for line numbers, plus margins and scrollbars; so 80-column text is really more like 180 columns wide that your window needs to be if you don't want any wrapping.

On my typical developer laptop a full-screen terminal window (which I personally never use) with a system default 11pt font is 202 columns. A modest bump to 13pt drops that to 176 columns, meaning I can't view a side-by-side 80-column wide PR diff without some line wrapping.

That's great that you have a 350-character wide display. Requiring everyone to have acres of screen space, either because they can afford a 34" monitor (or 2 24" monitors) OR because they have good enough eyesight to be able to use a microscopic font is excluding a lot of people.
Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training by Mark Rippetoe is a must read if you are looking into "getting in shape." It contains a thorough analysis of the main barbell lifts, and compelling arguments in favour of barbell training (and against other types of training). You'll find a lot of learning material on Youtube as well.
New York is like that too - everyone has the “transitory” mind set and won’t waste time on long term social ties - even the people who have lived there for 20 years.

I don’t know if that’s how the rest of the US is, never having lived there. But from my own experience and that of friends, it’s very different in Germany, Britain, Ireland and Israel.
As an immigrant to USA, I think inequality is valid but I have never faced any racism or seen any in engineering jobs. It is overblown. There might be some racism in blue collar work (probably same as EU) but my observation in tech/engineering jobs is always professional.
Eh? Your Prolog system must be broken…

?- length(X, 3).

X = [_1586, _1592, _1598].

?-
W is the bare minimum, it’s a function and a conditional or loop, 3 or 4 is pretty common.
ZA -> UK 5 years -> US. Transformative for me. I ran a job search engine in London. There was no startup community to speak of and talk poppy syndrome is very real. Got to USA and relaunched it here, and found it laughably easy to do business here, incredibly supportive, failure is celebrated and there is no easier place in the world to raise cheap, enthusiastic and helpful money. I now run a 40 person cybersecurity company with the help of amazing US based investors and mentors, most of whom are also immigrants.

That’s my perspective as an entrepreneur. I actually worked for eToys.com in the UK and spent time based in the USA in LA and loved it. Faster moving, no classism, faster advancement and plenty of other amazing businesses surrounded me.

The States is amazing in my opinion for employees and entrepreneurs.
I do the same thing in English, especially when counting to estimate time. I'm not thinking "twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two" I'm thinking "twenty, -one, -two'.

I think I prefer English's ordering for that. When I say "twenty, -one," it sounds like twenty-one, but as it's the twenty-first item that's not terribly confusing. Were it "neun-, zwanzig" it sounds a bit more like "neunundzwanzig."

I suppose that problem just moves to English if you're counting down, though. shrug
not sure that the investments the parent made 5-10 years ago are good investments today.
IIRC, the original Hebrew also writes most numbers this way.
You could always go after the classic text adventures (Adventure, Zork, etc.).
Thanks Malcolm, very scientific. As we all know, maths is all about memorising short sequences of numbers, and always being sure to say them out loud or at the very least sub-vocalise them. My maths teacher always liked to read us our numbers like it was storytime, gather round kids, we're going to learn about the lottery again, so many of you struggled with that last week. And of course, those Asians beat us every time, us poor whites could barely string three or four numbers together.
So I weigh about 84kg I should be shooting for ~150g protein daily? I don't really track closely but even with my ~30g post-workout drink I am guessing I don't get that much. I should keep a closer eye on it.
Same in London.
I disagree with 14. Imho 'we' are implementing cruel measures by neglected and obsolete destructive systems like global unrestricted capitalism, causing a structural hunger problem and mass death in exploited/unprofitable regions.
Even if we argue the very disagreeable notion that European healthcare is:

1) heterogeneous

2) subpar

3) public only

Then we’re still left with the fact that most big companies do offer private health coverage in Europe. Mostly this is for less than life threatening illnesses, psychological help and physiotherapy.
Yes. Pandoc just got disabled (due to build failure) from my Linux distribution because the Haskell/GHC ecosystem is unhandy.

Maybe AWK is an ugly language, but its an on-board tool on all systems im using. In terms of getting it to run its superior to Haskell.
I'm still waiting to hear what this "metaverse" AR/VR peripheral device are going to be. I am going to assume some sort of glasses. Many don't understand that those who have crappy eye vision, AR/VR becomes very hard to use.

Having to buy third-party lenses that fit in front of Valve Index headset, works, but it's far from perfect. To have a pair of glasses which act as LCD displays, am I going to pay extra to have them crafted to my prescription?

The human eyes are great devices when you have perfect vision; to those with malfunctioning ones, everything is a crappy experience.
Meme CLI
VS Code plugins extend the functionality of VS Code, not the apps you write with it.

Many of them are excellent, and it doesn't make sense to eschew their use just because you can't realistically audit their code.

And I guarantee you're also using a huge amount of code you don't and can't audit.
>To those that say, "Hey, it's just time for white males to find out what it has been like for women and ethnic minorities"

The only people saying that are bitter idiots.

Reading all these anecdotes of disinterested people of color just confirms to me people want to strawman this issue, as they always do.

Nobody is talking about forced hiring of disinterested people. The problematic situation is when several candidates who are perfectly confident, able and willing are not hired, because the hiring manager for some reason just liked that white person better. Every single time. Just... a gut feeling, since they were all pretty much equal.

That practice, where the person hiring always defaults to the white person, even in a mixed group of people with equal skill, is what's problematic, and what needs to be tackled.

Yet people have already begun imagining the most extreme fantasy scenario possible... bad thing is that when you start imagining that, some people actually start doing it because they think they have to. Repeat a lie enough, and people will start thinking it's the truth.

From a more long term point of view, it's also important to increase diversity. Simple from the argument that the more groups you get interested and comfortable with joining a certain industry, the more skill and competition will eventually come around.

Giving more people starter positions and the chance to learn, is exactly how you robustly increase a workforce. But more importantly: having strict rules against abuse.

Here's my time for anecdotal evidence: known several people, perfectly skilled, who just left tech companies because of the casual racism and sexism that HR just decided to ignore.

And when only 1 or 2 people are involved, you can keep the larger workforce thinking there's nothing bad going on. And so when people see a thread like that, they go "I've never seen that". Well yeah, it's being kept out of sight...
Senna died in 1994, and Williams won their last championship in 1997.

The evidence on exactly what caused the Senna crash is equivocal. There is a theory that the crash was caused (or exacerbated) by failure of the steering column. However, there is no evidence that conclusively rules out the simplest explanation (driver error).
If police unions defend officers from all accountability...surprise! They're not accountable to anyone. This means they don't engage when they don't want to and engage with unreasonable force whenever they feel like. We've got the worst of both worlds: cops who both shoot civilians with impunity and don't engage with criminals
Well if we're just speculating here, I'll add that since Chinese is tonal, Chinese speakers will remember the tune of sequence, not just a list of values. It's easier to remember a melody than a phone number.