skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> why would locals want to meet you?

Why does anyone want to meet anyone? Does every girl at the bar want to meet you? Does every co-worker want to hang out after work? The answer is obviously mostly no, but sometimes yes. So you go out, talk to people, maybe it goes somewhere, maybe it doesn't.

> Locals stay the hell away from tourists hoards at most destinations

So don't act like the tourist hordes? Act like a normal person? And go somewhere that the tourist hordes don't?
Huzzah, that extension supports other browser engines as well. It's not nearly as atrocious an issue on DuckDuckGo but there are still some of those re-post heavy sites that aggressively get through, as well as some low quality content farms. It's nice to have a tool available to do local/personal fine grained refinement.
They broke up cabals by nationalizing individuals member of them? Or you're just doing "red govt bad"?
Excess mortality stats show this to be obviously false
> There are some exceptions among talented and well-educated developers who seem like it, I know, but those seem to be exceptions.

I have to disagree with this (but agree with the rest of your post). The issues with go are there, but it's still a robust language with great tooling, a solid underlying ecosystem, and is actively improving. It performs pretty well, and idiomatic go is mostly transferable across projects (as opposed to say c++ where you have to pick your favourite style guide). I think it's a great tool for developers, even given its shortcomings
+1 In India, at least some of the blame lies with the film industry. Having had a monopoly for so long, they were lax in saving prints of their movies and making them available on DVD (now streaming platforms). There is no Indian equivalent of the Criterion collection and this is really killing them. The internet and a lot of Gen-Z Indian kids have picked up all the "bollywoodrealism" material (which is easily memable) and ignore the treasure trove of films that India has produced.
This looks like a big, time-consuming project that would rely on a private Google API that can change any time. I think it's not worth to invest your effort into that. I wish more people would help to improve FLOSS, peer-to-peer search engine YaCy instead, https://yacy.net.
Instead of spending energy to change Google, why not just leave them for good?

Start with changing default search engine to DuckDuckGo or something else, install uBlockOrigin and Privacy Badger to disable tracking, and gradualy reduce using every Google or application, starting with Chrome.

Be the change you want to see.
Can I ask what region you live in? Pronouncing <womb> as /wuːm/ is the dominant pronunciation in every English speaking country, so much so that I can't recall ever hearing it differently, and I'm surprised you've never heard it. It's not a recent change either, the /b/ disappeared somewhere before the 14th century.
Sounds like you just want to write an API and host it locally?
For somebody unfamiliar on how start-ups on that scale "work", I suppose this edge case offers some valuable insight.

I more often than not had a hard time understanding what some well funded start-ups I had contact with are actually up to.
From personal accounts of the people involved, the common modus operandi seemed to be "let the money stream not ebb and we will figure something out in the meanwhile" as supposed to "you finally do not have to be preoccupied about the finances and can start focusing on solving the problems at hand".

I wonder how efficient the system really is, purely in enabling indivduals to develop their ideas into some form of actualization and even if the "start-up" fails completely on its promise.
And also how much room to appreciate the efforts made so one can at least activley learn from mistakes/misconceptions made.

Elon Musk is an interesting example as it illustrates that there seems to be a goldilock zone of over the top "predictions", a hypnotic dance with investors and the public: "How long for X taking place?"
Aside from his PR, at least he delivers on some actualized forms of engineering feats.

As the pendulum swings from government funding to private funding, the high concentration of wealth ("resources to enable") on either side make it prone to that scale of fraud.
I wonder how this is similar/different to the Qualcomm take on it? Semis curate seems to not be a fan: https://semiaccurate.com/2021/12/01/qualcomm-8cx-gen-3-too-d...
Having worked in the prison system as a counselor. I've seen plenty of white people attacked violently for the color of their skin. It's pretty prevalent there at least.

These people were also told that it wasn't a racist attack by other counselors who went through social justice esque programs because they were white, and racist attacks cant happen to white people. This was back in the Obama era, so this has been going on for awhile.

The current state of anti racism takes that a step further. Those people deserved to be attacked and the results of that attack were justice because of their ancestors.
The point is there's nothing about YYYY vs yyyy telling you at a glance that there is a significant semantic difference in the result.

Imagine an API which had methods 'getYear()' and 'GET_YEAR()' where the latter returns the payroll week year, while the former returns the, you know, actual year.

That's what having YYYY produce the week year feels like - a blatant violation of the principle of least surprise.

Which is why your op was saying this is like having an API where year() returns a surprising number thta isn't the year.

You know, like JavaScript does.
Burn My Windows
Yeah! Tell me more
William Playfair: Economist and Spy
I’m from Southern California and pronounce it the same way.
Also, that statement doesn’t say it will transform it in a good way :)
If you got your vaccination 3 months ago, I don't think you qualify for a booster yet anyway? Maybe in Germany, but not in the States.
> On a country-level, we've successfully normalized a given language across large populations and large geographies. Often without involving genocide or prison camps.

Well, what do you call beating school children for not speaking the "proper" language? Because that's basically the minimum you need to do (see: US, Canada, France for specific examples).
> The James Bond series have all been popcorn flicks for decades - I'm not sure using this particular example solidifies your point at all.

Yes, indeed. I went to see the last Bond because I was tired from my job and I wanted to see road races and big explosions. To see something simple that doesn't require brains to process. But it ended up so boring, that I've slept in an uncomfortable (for sleeping) cinema chair.
I instantly thought of the same film. I do rather enjoy the movie although it's a bit long. It's pure drama and there are some well known actors and very good acting. Highly recommended for a Saturday or Sunday afternoon when weather forces you to stay indoors.
TIL about the Island app. Thank you!
I had the same question :D from other comments, it seems a bit controversial, no?

Another one I, as a non native speaker, find odd, is "iron". People just say it as "ion", dropping the 'r', right?? At least that's what I hear.
SEEKING FREELANCER - REMOTE

Our side project OpenDocument Reader - an open source mobile app to view ODF documents - turned into a profitable project. We have a few ideas on how to further improve the app but don't have enough time to do all of it on our own since it's still just a side project for us.

Possible ways you could help, sorted by priority:

- Build JavaScript implementations to display various file formats that are out of scope for our core library, e.g. RTF, markdown, video, ...

- Build sample app that uses our C++ core in a web app using WebAssembly

- Support development of our core library in C++ (https://github.com/opendocument-app/OpenDocument.core)

- Help us grow the app using UI improvements, ASO, etc (only if you come up with your own tasks and can prove the ROI)
You must be a posh RP speaker ;-)

The way I hear them here in the North (of England), from most common folks, is Of-Ten, An-th-ony (with TH from "the"), and Tor-Toy-s. The T in "often" can be very short but it's definitely there.
But also note that its not a penalty, just normal taxation added to your AGI or MAGI, so you can reduce or nullify that current year tax by having lots of expenses (borrowing against assets and using them for deductible expenses, donating appreciated assets to charity etc)

This can be done strategically, such as one year where you need traditional pretax 401k / IRA tax deductions you just contribute to those. And in a future year you convert those to Roth and report the income that you reduce with expenses

Talk with a CPA about it to make it make sense. People act like a random person on the internet mentioning something about legal/taxes is the most heretical thing possible, but the point is to point you in the right direction and bring up the same topic with licensed professionals. Lawyers and CPAs aren't going to procedurally generate all possibilities to get you the best result, you have to inspire them to look in particular directions and verify along with implement if it checks out.
You can use something like Nextcloud to run your own webDav server, if that's something you are okay with. I haven't tried this, but I believe you can then share out files using Nextcloud via a unique link. Actually, I know the sharing works, just not sure if it's easy to do with a Zotero back-up of PDFs.

The most valuable workflow is the one you have been using and happy with. I wouldn't wish a changed workflow on anyone in this state. I would only suggest another way for someone who is unhappy and already regularly changing. Stick with what works.
Love it! Like Couchsurfing back in the 2010's where you offer to meet up. It all depends on the community. I'd love to meet more HackerNews folks in person, for example.
English has inherited too much French for this to work well, unfortunately.

Our hour writes the right mnemonic sandwich.
Lots of replies here are against what you do, but I, on the other hand, think you're living (the/a) dream! I don't know about legal consequences or background checks, but would just like to ask you how do you get those jobs, and how do you manage your day-to-day? Do you have time for hobbies, family, etc.?
>Google's algorithms didn't create this situation; people chasing high Google rankings did.

You're technically right. You'd be more right if you said people chased the highest spots on search engines for the widest breadth of queries.

If there were implicit alphabetical ordering of search results I guarantee you'd end up a bias toward A's, Z's or otherwise in people trying to get top spots.
Maybe someone with a legal background can weigh in more intelligently, but skimming through the US Code that she was actually convicted of doesn't make any distinction between past and future. Most of it is centered around claims of material fact (i.e., not subjective) and intentional and realized damage.

I think some of the grey area with Musk is the marketing of the product, like terming it "autopilot" which has a very specific connotation in the public perception. I'm granting that's not fraud in the same sense as the Theranos case, but I think it (probably deliberately) walks into a grey area of ethics. I think the damage claim is readily apparent but the intentional claim may be more difficult, in part because I don’t think there is a standardized definition of “autopilot”, even if it knowingly means something specific to the general public.

If I create an EV model named the "ThousandMiler" but put an asterisk in the manual that says it's only capable of 500 miles, maybe that's not fraud but it's skirting the line.
There are several examples. Here's one that involved fining people for not speaking the lingua franca in public:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen,_speak_Turkish!

I'm not sure exactly how I feel about this. I hope we can get everyone to a global language without so much as a $1 fine, but if it did require a generation of fines and public shaming, it could fall into "the ends justify the means" territory.

In my modern/developed country we fine citizens heavily for entering without presenting a valid PCR test against covid. That's because we believe the public good of having everyone free of covid outweighs the public evil of fining people for simply existing as they are.

Would the public good of switching the globe to a unified language be worth fines and social pressure?

I don't know the answer to that, which maybe correlates with my score on the "Darkness Measure" we've recently seen posted here on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29734100
What kind of thinking? The one where you worry for your elderly unvaxxed family member when fatality rates for the unvaxxed elderly remain quite high?
A word of advice: I'd eliminate photo avatars to reduce the creep factor. Go for symbolic ones or something like Apple's custom emojis.
Whitelisting and greylisting is still fine. The current movement (primarily in the USA, but not only) to replace the word black where the meaning is associated with something negative is quite superficial and happy with simple swaps. And this fine because if we went deeper, we would have many problems related to the fact that many positive values are associated with light and many negative with darkness. So people would either have to rewrite the fundamentals of our culture (and maybe even biology), or to accept the fact that these two - the pigments in our skin, which is neither white nor black btw, and the culturally-influenced meanings of various colors - belong to two different semantic planes.
The fact that health authorities have not been vaccinating young children on the basis of the data we do have has made some contribution to the fact that young children haven't had reactions to it.
It's just a parameter to let the Android OS know that it's running in an emulated environment as opposed to running natively on a physical device.

For example, the GPU stack has to be somehow emulated using a custom OpenGL driver (in this case `mesa3d`). There's software emulation (swiftshader) and host GPU mode (GLES).

For performance reasons when using the host GPU, the GLES commands from the guest have to be serialized and sent over a kernel pipe to the QEMU and to the host OS. The commands are deserialized on the host and executed on the physical host GPU through the Shader Translator library (taken from the Google ANGLE project). The Google's QEMU fork (aka Android Emulator) usually loads this library and then takes care of proper rendering, such that users can see the rendering output of the emulated OS properly inside the emulator window on the host machine. You can do the same for the docker, otherwise you'd have to implement some other trick to share the GPU. `virtio-gpu` is a Linux kernel facility that is meant to replace QEMU pipe in the future.

The high-level details of this OpenGL emulation mechanism are described here:
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/qemu/+/ma...

You can find the implementation of the QEMU OpenGL pipe mechanism here:
https://cs.android.com/android/platform/superproject/+/maste...
Yes. I have never been burnt by these other software tools. I like them better. They work as advertised and any new features are new features, not fixes.
I had a paleontology professor as an undergrad who did reptile as rep-tul (reptle, maybe?), and I kind of loved it. I have no idea where he picked it up, he was from middle America and had a solidly American accent. He was quite old at the time, though, so maybe it was from when he was a kid.
This looks interesting, but the flash of white in the right pane is quite disruptive. Would there be a way to avoid that without diving into a virtual DOM?
The goal is to get this is merged into Rust's std library, they wouldn't write std on top of Rustix.

> Wonder if that means it would be easier to verify the correctness of `unsafe` use inside Rust itself?

If you mean usage of unsafe inside std (which the Rust compiler does depend upon), that is one of the explicit goals of Rustix. The usage of unsafe will be much more narrow overall, mostly surrounding the system calls themselves.
This.

Reading 3rd-party code, figuring out how it works, and figuring out how to fix it is a critical skill. It takes time and practice to develop, but the more you do it, the easier it gets.

Perhaps the biggest step is simply believing that you can do this. Remember that all the software you use was created by humans. Yes, much of it is complicated, but not as complicated as you imagine it to be.
Can you show me some examples of leftist ideas helping small businesses by regulating big businesses?
This has nothing to do with libertarianism.

Author is just whining about a scammy hype driven ponzi-esque scheme built on a fraudulent fake “cryptocurrency” and claiming it is libertarianism.

This is a strawman argument.
It's probably how "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" (an actual real thing) came about.
What did he do? Sorry, cannot read the article, is there a non-paywalled version?
Wow what a gorgeous building! Thank you for showing it to me!

My girlfriend has a thing for architecture and is always talking to me about this stuff.

Really cool, how do you know so much about architecture?
> You need to fix every single form and control.

As anecdotal evidence, I certainly did not do this in my migration of several WinForms apps (one large and several small) to .NET 6. They flubbed the default font in .NET 5 so WinForms users had to wait a bit longer, but it's fixed in .NET 6. My forms all work fine in .NET 6 without change. It would have been infeasible to revisit all of the forms.

Do you have specific examples of APIs that changed? I can't think of any. I think changing the WinForms API would have taken a lot more effort than they actually invested to get it running on .NET Core. From where I'm sitting, it seems like they did the minimum necessary to get the existing DLL to run, and then spent 95% of their budget on the out-of-process designer rewrite.

Edit: I thought of one. They removed Menu; now there is only MenuStrip. I did have to make code changes for this and I totally forgot about it. It was minor though; we used MenuStrip anyway, there was just some code with optional support for Menu that I removed.
A couple years ago the only reason I wasn't on a jury was because I wasn't one of the people whose name was randomly drawn, after they'd filtered out everybody who was unable to serve or had other conflicts that would make them unfit (such as 'visceral opinions about the nature of the charges').

Could I have gotten out of it? Sure. Could I have gotten out of it without lying under oath? I don't see how.
Having learned some Irish Gaelic in the past, I'd say it actually has much better correlation between spelling and pronunciation than English, it's just that it uses very different rules, which can cause confusion when the words are brought into other languages.

'S' for example is always pronounced like the English 'sh' if it's next to 'e' or 'i', and like a regular English 's' if it's next to 'a', 'o' or 'u'.
Yeah, I don't think so.

I used to think this, too, but I think it's wrong, just like, "this woke stuff is confined to college campuses; they'll have to drop it when they get out in the real world" was wrong.

It's wrong because politicians listen to twitter (we agree that they shouldn't, but they do). It's wrong because campuses and twitter set the national conversation in a disproportionate way. It's wrong because the people responding to the Yglesias tweet I was talking about were some of the most famous and prominent writers alive. They aren't a random sample of the population and that's the point. They have an outsized effect on public opinion (especially on elite public opinion). It's wrong because twitter doesn't have to reflect the wider consensus to be impactful. It's wrong because twitter leaks out and infects the framings that normal people adopt, even if they don't know where it all comes from. It's wrong because mainstream cultural figures (like, say, late night talkshow hosts) are unduly influenced by twitter. It's wrong because what you say on twitter does affect your real life. It's not some magical place that your boss or your wife or your dean can't visit. They can and they do and it sometimes matters.

It's just wrong.

If all "twitter isn't real life" means is, "no single tweet thread is a representative sample," then, sure; that's obvious.

But in all sorts of interesting ways that really matter twitter affects "real life." It has all kinds of serious impacts on the national conversation, whether you're aware of it or not.
They are vaccinating children older than 5, you are talking about below this?

There's no evidence you have for this assertion that for children the vaccine is more dangerous than the illness. Neither are particularly dangerous at all for young children, but the disease has been linked to deaths in children.
Possibly dumb q, but potential useful to other languages?
> respected by geeks

I don't think that is true at all for "geeks" that witnessed first-hand[1] their manipulative and deceptive attempts at defending their PhDs and scientific papers in early 2000's. After that they doubled down on the intelligent design bullshit, used any opportunity to promote their books (fair enough), while attacking the few journalists that actually tried to expose the fraud.

They should have sticked to sci-fi, but even in their early days they couldn't help but try to vulgarize proper science, even though they weren't really qualified. Good intentions don't make up for peddling pseudoscience, plagiarism, and the constant smoke and mirrors. And it seems they were also facing some pretty serious legal issues in their personal life.

[1] https://forum.hardware.fr/hfr/Discussions/Sciences/topikunik...
Ask HN: How do I deal with not being able to build products
I realize this might be a bit of a strange question, but for the past 10 years, my dream has always been to build a side-project, and passively make money of it. Not even replace my full-time job (although that would be ideal), but just get a bit of extra money.

However, in the past 10 years, I haven't build a single product that was shippable, I've had plenty of ideas, many that I just didn't execute because I often overthink things.

My usual flow goes something like:
1. Come up with an idea for a product, and be really excited about it
2. Do some basic research and start planning
3. Start development
4. Quickly obsess over every tiny UI detail
5. Start second guessing the product
6. Find an existing product that's closely related
7. Give up

I've had ideas written down for years, only to see someone else build it, and be reasonably successful.

It's not that I'm a bad developer, I've shipped many products while working for different companies. It seems to be that when I'm on my own, I just can't seem to do it. I feel like I've wasted 10 years messing around, and it's really bringing me down.

Has anyone else been in a similar situation, how did you deal with it?
It seems in line with typical attitudes towards tarot decks, which might or might not be tongue-in-cheek. For example, the recent tabletop RPG Wickedness, which uses a tarot deck to simulate a coven of witches, recommends reassuring the deck that you are going to make it play a fun game.
Midwest, same pronunciation of debt/det.

Determined has a long 'e' for me.

Dee-ter-mind (the 'i' is like 'in', not mind)
"Stacks" are an ancient concept, you'd struggle to find a UI framework (other than HTML) that's missing an analogous layout tool. Java's Swing had BoxLayout, JavaFX had VBox, Qt has QVBoxLayout, etc.
Carreyrou's book is really good and I strongly recommend it - it's made clear in the book that a lot of them had family friendship connections to Holmes as well.

I imagine this may also have clouded their judgement.