skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me it means "being a better visitor" and "providing a better visit". The idea of living like a local is very extreme and not what I think the person that you replied to was really suggesting. The use of the term "non-touristic" is pretty common amongst non-native speakers, but it means a lot of different things.

I would only include a few of your bullets, begrudgingly, as things that I'd put in the "non-touristic" box. For example, someone if someone is trying to select a restaurant, then highlighting the more authentic options which resonate are something that I've had locals do on virtually every trip. Local people to me sometimes includes other business owners or tour guides I've encountered on the trip. I've normally done some research to find the the better spots, but a local person may know which one offers a particular delicacy that is prepared in a traditional way. They may even just know which one doesn't really require reservations.

As an example, I was in Kyoto in 2019 with my wife. For various reasons we got to our ryokan (guesthouse) later than expected. We were on the fence about planning a fancy Kaiseki meal later in the week for my birthday because only one of us is an adventurous eater. Our hosts asked us about our plans for the week, if we had food, etc., and suggested an amazing local place that we would never have found on our own. In a way it was intimidating given that no one spoke English, but our hosts had really greased the wheels with the husband and wife who ran the place. This is absolutely not the kind of setup and assistance that you get from a concierge in hotels where there is a degree of risk avoidance.

The mundane is only something you have time for on an extended trip. By the very nature of being long enough on a trip that your hair grows out, you'll likely need a trim. You may have the choice of somewhere that's easy and comfortable for a someone from a different place, or you may see that your comfort with the location has changed to open different possibilities. Of course, if you like to throw yourself into situations you can skip the haircut before leaving and try to find something when you arrive. Your personality impacts how comfortable you feel with that.
musicPart.play(drum, sticks);

Basicslly you can replace the module namespace with a class namespace if desired. What module could that be?
> caches SHOULD first normalize request content to remove semantically insignificant differences, thereby improving cache efficiency

This feels like a bad idea, since (a) different caches will support different content types and normalize them in different ways, leading to unexpected changes in behavior and (b) some servers may behave differently depending on something that a cache considers to be a "semantically insignificant" distinction. I'm not sure, in other words, if I trust caches to get this right.

It seems like it might be better to require clients to submit requests in a "pre-canonicalized" form, or to have caches allow this behavior but disable it by default.
I've heard before that watching 4K video on a 1080p display is still better than watching the same video in 1080p - is that because there's a kind of supersampling going on there?
Yes I think that was it! I never used it for Windows XP but I definitely used it for earlier versions of Windows.
But why do you need to be an expert (20 years experience, and whatnot) to be a good mentor?

You don't need to be an expert mathematician to be a great Math teacher; you don't need to be a happy well-rounded person to be a good therapist.
There's nothing inherently poor about the production/animation quality of Chinese animations (donghua). The animation/art can be just as good as most anime. In fact, a lot of high-quality animes outsource much of their production to Chinese animation studios.

The real problem with donghua (IMHO) is the stories. Ugh. Even when a donghua is about someone getting reincarnated in another world (like a Japanese isekai) it's all the same old stuff about spirits, martial arts, and cultivation (aka xianxia). So rather than answer the question, "what if?" the Chinese isekai equivalent is more like, "what if we told the same old story but changed the scenery?"

It annoys me for the same reason that certain scifi/fantasy shows/movies annoy me: They're just drama, "in space" or drama, "in the future" or drama, "in another world" with basically zero plot elements relating to the differences in technology, science, magic, etc. No one is exploring the possibilities or problems that certain differences could entail.

They're not even weird! Which is another common appealing point of anime--even when the basic plot is the same as many other shows (e.g. "the hero has a shield permanently stuck to their arm that they can't remove? haha; what‽").

As soon as I see that cultivation is a major element of the show it's akin to watching an anime and being like, "Oh a demon lord? How creative." =)
> Learning the less common language was like gaining membership in an exclusive cultural club

This is the problem: every language is an exclusive cultural club. I want to have one that isn't an exclusive cultural club.

> I learned things that simply can't be translated into other languages without long paragraphs of explanation that would actually require the reader to accept some knowledge of the language to understand them

What would be an example of this? For example in Korean there's the concept of 정, which is a Korean-specific feeling of love/loyalty/bond with another person. You could write paragraphs about how it's subtly different from Japanese Jyo or English love/loyalty/bond, but at the end of the day either you need the concept and create a word for it in the global language, even "Jeong" or whatever, or you don't need the concept and don't create a word for it.

You don't build all of FORTRAN into CSS just because you want to borrow the concept of variables. You borrow what you need and make sure it fits nicely with what's already there.

> And people who grew up speaking this language have their entire life experience wrapped up in it, and their entire family history wrapped up in it for thousands of years.

You're saying that if over a generation they were to switch from one language to another their children and grandchildren would be without a history?

The children in our family don't speak the same language as their grandparents did. They don't know any of the culture-specific words. This doesn't seem to matter in any way that I've noticed, and certainly they themselves haven't.
> Did you review the airworthiness certificate of the last plane you flew on? If not, do you “deserve” to crash because you outsourced to the FAA without verifying it yourself?

Am I a normal airline passenger/pilot or did I sign up as a test pilot for experimental / new / freshly repaired aircraft?

The latter get higher pay simply because that risk is part of their job, and to my knowledge test pilots have the option to refuse jobs they deem to be too dangerous. Same is for investors, with the difference that human lives can irrevocably be lost whereas money is only a virtual thing.
Oh that's easy.

Faster internet for residential service also requires faster interconnects. It requires public infrastructure, residential modem upgrades, residential line installations, backhaul and datacenter hardware upgrades, new servers to mine all that extra data, more expensive equipment to fix/repair line breakages, and better trained technicians who also understand fiber too instead of just copper.

Why waste money on that when the plebs are perfectly "happy" with ADSL or cable and pay a hundred bucks for shitty service and almost zero human support?
75% of Webb telescope single-point failures retired
How do I open the Mercedes EQS’s hood?
Could be. My experience (in multiple cases) was that they accepted bank deposit slips and Quickbooks invoice records, though.

It also has implications for unemployment insurance and SS calculations.

Your social security payout will be lower if you spent 20 years earning $50,000 than if you spent 20 years earning $100,000. Unemployment checks (which you can receive even if you're a self-owned s-corp) will be smaller too.

The long-term benefit assumes you weren't an idiot with the extra income. Even if it's post-tax, tucking the extra $$ away in your favorite safe investment vehicle will probably leave you better off over 20 years than whatever extra Social Security you would've made when you hit 65.
Not sure if the Sun will remain a main sequence star long enough for this to work...
Aren't most dating sites full of low quality thirsty profiles?
Still, it is odd that a GET-like method is allowed to have side effects.
I don't know why it's downvoted but it's the hard truth, I just need to be a better engineer and put the work in to improve myself.
I miss that feeling. Desktop moves at a much slower pace today.
I don’t know the details of the Delta conspiracy theory, but the evolution of Delta looks abundantly natural, so whatever that theory is, seems unlikely.
I can also recommend the book Bad Blood (Carreyrou 2018)
What you describe is social anxiety.
Actually some tricks from introverts might work.

I find that if I know about someone and like them it’s easy to want to greet them. Get to know the people around you. There’s usually something interesting about each person. Make it your job to find out.

I’m totally introverted, but I can overcome my inclination and get to know people if I try. Imagine you’re trapped on a ship. You’re on your way to a colony. Everyone around you will be the seeds of that colony. If everyone is going to survive people will need to work together. If you’re going to thrive you need to know the people who will be important. The colony is your future. You and the people around you are colonizing it. You need them. Get to work.

Greetings are the first step. Just say hi. The next step is to let go of all your predictions about what they may be thinking about you. You’d be less concerned about what people think of you if you knew how seldom they do it. It’s actually rude to assume someone is thinking something without evidence. It removes their agency. Talk to them and figure out what they actually think not what you imagine they might think.

Another trick I’ve found is to find people who care about the same things as you. Socializing is not work when you’re all there for the same thing and can talk about something mutually interesting. Find something you really care about, find a group of people who also care. Hang out with them and practice.
It's such a shame that something like this has to exist and that the creators have to resort to a fairly fixed playbook of SEO techniques (like whole life story, recipe development etc etc).

From my personal experience running a small tech tips site - it seems that I constantly end up further down the rankings cause I refuse to stuff each page with information that is not relevant.
Considering this method would be through an ad-block extension, it doesn’t seem as if they would be giving their money to google.

Side question, is there a max number of sites you can block on that list?

Edit: fruedian misread. I thought this was through ublock origin.
Show HN: PageSpeed for Nginx – Fresh Debian Packages
Nope: that much I remember. It was over a decade ago & I was only peripherally involved so the details are hazy, but IIRC it was pretty much just the name-drop by the nephew (I think it was a nephew) that got the ball rolling, and we took the initiative from there. I'm pretty sure we reached out to the politician's office to "clear things up".
Linguists call it "spelling pronunciation": pronouncing as written, pedantically, despite not hearing it spoken that way. It's silly, but less silly than many other things. Of course, the more it happens, the more other people hear it that way and come to believe it is normal.

In some times and places it becomes normal.
I've worked with some psychologists giving business consulting, and they would use the definition from the International Coaching Federation (ICF), which is that coaching is "partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential".

So in that sense a coach would not set the agenda at all, nor be directive of what you need to do to get there, quite the opposite in fact. They keep asking questions and pushing you to figure out what you need to do to get there, which means that a coach can theoritically help you even if not in the same field as you.
Not true: here is one example of testimony:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/17/theranos-patient-says-blood-...
That has always been the case ... requests get logged, and if the server exposes its access logs over HTTP, that's one thing for which a request won't be idempotent

Idempotent etc in the HTTP specs has always been more or less an attempt at a promise to the client "you should be able to repeat this request if you're not sure about success/failure without anyone claiming to implement HTTP being able to throw the book at you".

Just like GETs shouldn't have side effects. But in practice of course, things like https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the_spider_of_doom happen
I store my passwords in plain text in an offline virtual machine on Qubes OS. Copy them into browsers with a secure inter-VM copy mechanism (https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/how-to-copy-and-paste-text/).
The SA article reminds me of Liu Cixin's depiction of science and the "struggle sessions" of the cultural revolution:

> Einstein is a reactionary academic authority. He would serve any master who dangled money in front of him. He even went to the American Imperialists and helped them build the atom bomb! To develop a revolutionary science, we must overthrow the black banner of capitalism represented by the theory of relativity!

From the fictional "three body problem", though these sessions were a real phenomena: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struggle_session
Thanks. I complained about there being too many meetings at my current gig. Then I actually got invited to more of them! It's absolutely bonkers how many meetings some of these companies have.
Surprisingly few people seem to have heard of modpagespeed which I think can be attributed to an absence of packages coupled with the difficulty of installation.

I knew I had to build something like this the day GitHub actions came out, but haven't gotten around to it until the holidays!

While this HN thread is quite old now, it still provides some context on what it's all about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11018861

GitHub repository with sources here: https://github.com/knyzorg/nginx-pagespeed

More information available on the modpagespeed website: https://www.modpagespeed.com/
I pronounce the 'b' in 'debit' to distinguish from 'debt'
Open Source Openwheel
Not sure if this comment is brilliant satire or serious.
> In my younger days some Japanese tourists were so happy to meet me we took pictures.

I am guessing you are white? I experienced something similar when we went to china, all the locals were mobbing white people in our group to take pictures with them. I am not white and no one bothered me :). Pictures with whites is a trophy for chinese locals?

We had some sort of "lunch with locals" where 'locals' were toasting to 'the beauty' of white women in our group. All non whites were completely ignored by the locals. I've never experienced such overt racism/sexism anywhere else, Really bizarre experience. screw the locals.
Warning from the dash Console:

"Only the specialist personnel of a qualified specialist workshop should open the hood. Access by the customer is not permitted.”
I'm relieved to know I'm not the only one who did this kind of thing as a child. For me it was "archive" which I was pronouncing "ar-chiff" as opposed to "ar-kive". Took a while to break that habit.
I think that Fox news has been around enough that people really don't expect any media to be neutral anymore. It just seems natural and normal for any media outlet to be vertically integrated into something. Washington Post seems to be anti union and against billionaires being taxed? Whatever.
Remember that the context of this discussion is achieving parallelism by not waiting - instead, you create promises in parallel, pass them on, and attach handlers at some later point, e.g. after collecting them in a Promise.all().

As I said, as long as you do standard stuff, which for try/catch in an async function and an "await" of all promises is the standard path.

Sometimes people create a promise without awaiting inside a try/catch, thinking they got errors handled, because they don't want to wait but start another promise-producing function right away. But that other function needs its own catch handler so they write another one below the first one and don't "await" to get both asynchronous promise-returning functions to run simultaneously without the second one having to wait for the first one, because what they do is independent (so far the thoughts are correct and good).

Since they use try/catch instead of the .then() and .catch() handler and they don't fully understand all the implications they run into this problem. It happened to me when I learned promises, after already having programmed with them for well over a year and feeling comfortable, and it just recently happened to some of my people (it no longer happens to me, it's the next generations turn...).

Other issues that make this exact problem insidious are:

- This problem can only be spotted when the promise is rejected. If your tests don't include that you will only see it when someone runs into this issue by chance, much later, maybe in production.

- Often it may not get fixed even after there is a rejected promise showing the problem. What time-limited stressed middle-level developers will do is solve the rejected promise but not the way it isn't caught. The code construct that lead to "uncaught promise rejection" will remain unfixed though, because as soon as the promise no longer rejects the code appears to work fine.
The Spider of Doom
This is already happening, at an ever increasing rate. It's likely that the majority of languages will be extinct by the end of the century.
Norton has outright been a malware company for a long time

I'd love to see the feds arrest a few people there and destroy the company.

Just remember. Don't ever hire someone with recent Norton experience I their resume. I'd sooner fill that gap in with the explanation that I was selling fentanyl laced products on the dark web
They're full of shit, though. Crack open the Better Homes & Gardens cookbook and find a cookie recipe, then search for the same recipe name online. You're going to find 1000 word essays about Dear Meema's Secret Snickerdoodle recipe... followed by the same damn recipe as the BH&G cookbook.
That's the narrative being pushed by the lying news media, but out here in the real world, there are NO jobs. Most job listings are fake, and people sometimes go to 5-6 interviews only to be told they didn't get the (fake) job. That's after putting in dozens or hundreds of applications and getting no response. The only jobs that seem to be available are $15/hr bullshit which is essentially minimum wage, with inflation having destroyed the dollar; literally 50% of all U.S. dollars in existence were printed over the past 22 months. There are help wanted signs everywhere and burger flipping jobs paying signing bonuses, and they still can't find employees, because people are sick of the mask/vaccine bullshit and would much rather stay at home and sling weed and/or gamble in the stock market.
Thank you! I knew the name had something to do with ice, but the name eluded me.
Can you sublet the Airbnb lease to someone else? Or sell the lease to someone else and manage their party from home? Or might Airbnb let you buy out of the deal for some small penalty, allowing them to rent it to someone else? Airbnb should to be able to handle this situation profitably and may need some encouragement/pleading/begging.
Meanwhile devs keep pushing Chrome disguised as Electron apps.
Here is an example by the singer / band "Marina and the Diamonds". The song is called "Forget":

https://youtu.be/17UL5ks9amY?t=169
and here's lots of alternatives since that solution has issues

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12905426/what-is-a-faste...

Also, the python solution is only relevant if python is already installed. Something that's not true on Windows and is or will soon be true on MacOS.
1Password is fantastic IMO but all these password managers make me nervous.
Cookie.ai
+1 Bitwarden. I wish they dog fooded more so they can see how bad their browser extension is though.
Slightly off topic, but a hack that i have found to read recipe websites on my phone is to use the "Print Recipe" link that most websites provide. It gets rid of most of the annoying ads, autoplaying videos and unzoomable text (or text tapping on which takes you to some random link because the page resized and you accidentally tapped on an ad).

The "Print Recipe" page usually contains just the recipe in a format which is easy to read without any clutter.
Wow did this ever take me back. Arguably my first "public code release" was a plugin ("mod" back then I think) for the WWIV BBS system -- a screensaver called "Bubbles" that would draw random circles on the idle screen instead of the dead blinky cursor at top left. BBS owners would basically need to code it as a diff in their own system and recompile the thing.

I was maybe 9 or 10 years old. It was probably 50ish lines of C code, and I made some serious assumptions about what video card and modes were present.

I really really loved computers and coding back then.

Reading the comment below about being elderly and soulless also resonates for me at the moment.

I miss the romance of it all. :) I've been married to computers for nearly 40 years now, and all of the spice is gone. It's just comfortable and regular and routine.

Oh well, on to another 2-hour interminable sprint planning sesh (sigh) -- "yes dear, I'll be right there"
What's the terrible experience you're finding lately with 1Password? I've found it to be more consistent and stable in the last little while (especially when paired with the more recent Safari releases)
Except the JWST isn't going to fly through my windshield at 80 miles an hour on 280 if it doesn't end up working perfectly.
> In HTTP idempotent is where the state of the server remains unchanged.

This is incorrect. DELETE is idempotent but changes the state of the server.
tough-nailed, pragmatic style of leadership.

That's a rough definition of realpolitik. Pragmatism over ideals or morals is baked into the concept.
Pray elaborate.
One thing I sometimes point out to software engineers Im tasked with mentoring at work is the importance of showing other engineers that you care about the code and the questions you're asking via slack etc by proof reading what you write and reviewing your own code before reaching out to others for help. The frustration of reading ia garbled slack message or pulling over to look at a code snippet and realizing the person didn't even look over it themselves is real and has real negative consequences in terms of professional perception.

Like when someone misspells radical candor in the second sentence of a blog post about mentoring.

Seriously though, everybody makes mistakes but when I do slip up like this I don't expect people to engage with what I'm writing. And I do think proof reading is an incredibly important skill for new and experienced software engineers.

[edit] I just noticed the author is a staff engineer at MongoDB. He can misspell whatever he wants. I recant my sassiness.