skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. But within epsilon of zero editors on a real production are just having it dumped in their lap without direction. It's a collaborative thing at best and the post to which I replied is the same sort of sneer-at-the-grunts attitude that makes people lecture the Starbucks worker for company policy.
One hundred percent. I spent five years at a thrashing startup and then crashed and burned at a well-known cloud workflow company. It crushed my spirit. But I remembered a very friendly recruiter who had an opportunity for a tech lead on a marketing team. I set aside my ego and pride and he put me in touch of with a team of humble, hard-working folks who love web development. No one is out to be the most brilliant. We work as a team and we all actually like one another.
Well he did do the work of helping to make The Beatles what it became, so it's not entirely unfair.
I tend to rely on online recommendations of specific articles- including the Economist - and try to read as many views as possible. I feel for now the era of legacy media 'packaged' information and views that newspapers, magazines and TV became is over, and that mastheads have lost a huge amount of their prestige. (Joe Rogan's Neilsen ratings versus cable is pretty astonishing for example).

Having said that I get up in the morning and look at the FT, WSJ & Zerohedge in that order and then typically read all sorts of things online throughout the day, often based on recommendations (thanks HN!) Twitter etc.
My mother worked for the UK conservative party before I was born and taught me as a youth to read the Daily Telegraph 'so I would know what the buggers are thinking'. This rather cynical view is how I tend to consume most establishment products...

Regarding the Economist I used to like their 'Schumpeter' free market ethos which they seem to have lost recently
Just guessing by "cheque", are you outside the US? The checking system & ACH might be more of a US-centric phenomenon. It's been busted forever, but it's just how we do things around here.
If you can provide examples of durable productivity in the face of a deconstructed ego that would help. I've only been able to find examples to the contrary, such as some of the most ego-less people also being the least productive (in the traditional sense of the word implying labor and output), i.e. monks.

To be clear I'm not making any moral or value claims here, rather simply observing the correlation between ego and productivity/commitment.
I do that when people send me money for birthdays once a year. Stick the check in the atm, i get money and the person wasn’t asked.
Ask HN: Is there a digital service to send a physical email?
I want to send a physical email to the US, is there a digital service where I can do that (i.e. preferably it gets printed and sent from within US to a US address). Anybody aware of such a service or a way to do it?
Practice. And take it easy at first. I started reading them in the bathroom :).
Excellent use of adaptive learning, zone of proximal development, etc.
Ah right :) I thought perhaps you were alluding to something I said.
Upwork would presumably say that freelancers who don’t use the Upwork tool are deciding they’d prefer for Upwork to not be part of the transaction. In particular this seems unambiguously right for “service not delivered” chargebacks, where managing chargeback risk kinda requires being able to prove that the services were performed.
Window.js an open-source JavaScript runtime for desktop graphics programming
> Every morning I woke up, reached for my phone, and checked the latest developments online.

Little to nothing in life should be treated as a dichotomy. In this case obsessing over global news vs complete avoidance are both poor choices.

Similarly, while global events may not always be directly actionable, in other cases they are. Ironically for the author, the initial onset of Covid was one of those cases.
This survey is still a year and 7 months old now. In my personal observation is that most of the folks I know here in NYC who identify as a Democrat, Progressive, etc are in favor of nuclear power.
Is there anything they could do to fix this?
The flu has had decades to kill those susceptible

The best way to compare if covid is more deadly than the flu is by analyzing the impact on young children where they haven’t been exposed to either before.
There are a few of these longer, explanatory comments in the code-base I currently work on, and while we do generally try to keep them up-to-date, personally I find they've become difficult to read. As the code evolves you have people trying to splice sentences into the middle of a paragraph, different people have different writing styles, some aren't native English speakers. Unless you're willing to rewrite the whole thing every time you make a non-trivial change it seems to end up a bit of a mess. As one co-worker put it "you need to read the code in order to understand the comments".
> But I totally agree that academia fails at rewarding people who facilitate the work of others. There is some perversion to this, since the key part of academia is precisely to spread and exchange knowledge.

What you’re describing is glue work[1].

Until recently, glue work tended to be invisible and unappreciated across a good majority of the industry. While it’s starting to get visibility, there still isn’t consensus on how to recognize it and/or reward it.

1: https://noidea.dog/glue
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
I would say that the web does not work for most purposes unless I ignore the horrendous architecture that is imposed by using it.

I bet only 1% of developers these days have written a native or desktop app. If they had, there would be a gravitational pull moving away from defaulting to the web. I can hit any API from a Swing or WPF app and look damn good doing it with blistering performance.

It shows whenever project owners start asking developers to work around or prevent the use of browser based navigation like the back button.

The browser is like a hand grenade being rolled under a software project. The ultimate shitty dependency.
Well it's wonderful all these black Americans you think so highly of live in states with good public transit so they can get to the pharmacy without a car, and have labor rights and money in the bank to take an unpaid day or two or three off of work to recover.

It's even better they all have a smart device or personal computer and internet connection to make the appointment or even know it's available for free. What really makes us a first world country is the knowledge that all our citizens, including ethnic minorities, speak our unofficially official English language with fluency to navigate our fragmented-but-free medical system.

And lastly it's better still that they live in a country with a rich and storied history of medical experimentation on black people that drives down trust in the first free medical intervention in modern memory.

In seriousness, close friends of mine are an hour from the nearest pharmacy. Millions of Americans live in remote areas, and we have zero infrastructure in these areas. Food deserts aren't just lacking food.
Equally rose-tinted user here. My first unix service ever configured and started, was eggdrop (and it took me hours to get it running on a shell account).
It doesn't prevent clients from logging communications in that server. I know the same is possible in slack or teams, but they don't consider that from a legal perspective.
> but that it should in some way be compatible with non-Apple platforms

It is fucking compatible. Messages falls back to the most compatible option between platforms and carriers: SMS/MMS. RCS has been a shit show, even Google has had to run their own parallel infrastructure for it just to avoid the implementation problems of carriers. Google also has proprietary extensions for RCS for E2EE which only works on Google's infrastructure and only between clients running Google Messages.
The staff of a Bible belt school are just as guilty of this as the SF admins removing advanced maths. None understand that computers allow us to promote people upon mastery of a subject (what we actually want) rather than time.
Availability of service is number one. Can you even get care at all. If you have to wait a year or more for service, that has a major impact on your life.

These are for what in the US are considered relatively routine and available services - things like a pacemaker. Or knee and joint work.

“The pain is so bad now I don’t want to live much longer,” she explained. “I get up in the morning [and fear] making it to the bathroom without wetting myself as the pain and stiffness overwhelms me. Then, after losing my dignity, I attempt to make it down the stairs."

So we need to begin with just the basics - can you even get care at all - period.
Definitely not the norm with the boomer generation. It's not people under 50 that are really victims of covid.

Harsh point to make but at this point I hold what I consider to be a very justifiable grudge.
Physical Speech Elements
I agree, Andrew Ng's course is overrated.
> If I buy products on Amazon Marketplace with a stolen CC,

> does Amazon demand money from the sellers? I sure hope not.

Of course - if the seller says "I do not have FedEx tracking number, but here is the picture of me walking to the post office". Or the seller says: "I trusted this buyer and I just drop it at his house".

The key here is that there is no verifiable way for Upwork to know that this hours really happen.
Logitech K800 for years, got 2 in the box for if one breaks.
I disagree about scroll lag. There are plenty of WebView apps (and websites obviously) that have zero scrolling issues.

Non-standard UI elements is something I don't personally care about. Some people do, but I think this is an issue that is often overstated (or perhaps rather overestimated as a factor) by platform enthusiasts.

What does matter a great deal to me though is launch speed and battery usage. Mobile apps are often used for short periods of time. They must launch instantly. And battery is the scarcest resource in mobile computing.

Nobody will voluntarily use an app that is slow to launch and shows up at the top of the battery usage table in spite of only having been in use for a few minutes.

As a developer, these are the issues I would like to learn more about in respect of any new cross-platform technologies.
Amazing results.

Reading the paper I'm frustrated they aren't releasing the full model. Their reasons seem really weak to me. They think it can be used to generate offensive pictures or deep fakes and it encodes hegemonic language (e.g. "girl toys" gets more pink and fluffy toys than "boy toys").

These arguments don't make sense for a few reasons - only academics and people capable of reproducing their results should have access to convincing deepfakes? Why is that "safer"? To me it seems less safe, if everyone had this power images would quickly become untrusted, if only a few have this power they could exploit trust in images longer.

Second, this argument would hold for things like Photoshop. It makes creating fake images easier. Should Photoshop be banned or weakened because people might create offensive pictures with it?

Third, the moment some company implements a good version of this and integrates it with their tools they will make it widely available to users. What use is there in delaying this capability for a couple years so some other company can profit from it?
Brilliant however in many cities in California this legislation has not yet been applied.

By that I mean the local building and safety offices, city planning offices, and others do not have memos on how SB-9 will work in their cities.

Until then, wonderful lead gen.
Classic. Yer Baby and Bad Finger are my favorites.
get off my lawn!

how many existing scripts have you broken?
You might want to include a "new releases" section. Sometimes they release good stuff that is not rated yet.
Abisxir/alasgar: 3D game engine for nim
Right but without any legal aspects, what use could they be?

Anything in them can be copied trivially, so on their own they are per definition not unique hence fairly worthless.

If they're only useful when two parties agree they are worth something during an exchange, how are they different from plain cryptocoins?

I mean this is a bit similar to the GPL, it would be useless if courts declared it can't be enforced.
> This. Also don't underestimate how hard it is to get the money from a client if they decide not to pay you, even if you did a good job.

It's not too bad in my opinion. I've been freelancing for close to 20 years on my own with no 3rd party platforms. I've had assorted clients from around the world.

I've only been legit ripped off once out of issuing hundreds of invoices and working with a bunch of individuals and businesses.

The amount I got cheated out of was 2 hours of work where the client requested work, agreed to pay but didn't pay. Other than that one time it's been smooth sailing where mostly everyone pays on time without issues. I've only had a handful of cases where someone forgot to pay within 30 days and a single follow up email resulted in them apologizing and paying. In some cases they even gave an unrequested tip because they genuinely felt sorry for missing the first email. These were all cases of people being busy and forgetting by accident.

I'm also very lax with how I request payments too. I send out an invoice at the start of every month because it's more convenient for everyone involved. Sometimes with new clients this means doing let's say 5 hours of work on the 3rd of the month but not invoicing them until the following month.
>It has been one of the deadliest pandemics in history.

By percentage of global population, I beg to differ:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics

It also overwhelmingly killed the very elderly, an age category which didn't even exist at the times of most of those other pandemics in the list.
I would argue that patient communication is a vital role in healing. Some doctors might get by beeing bad at it, but there should be someone in the system who explains the situation and possible tradeoffs to the patient instead of them. After all, the patient is the single person who is most motivated for healing to succeed. Quite a few doctors never grasp this concept (to be fair, they are similar to many engineers in this), which is a shame.
For some reason some people are absolutely enamoured with mailing lists. Maybe it's an (Internet) generation thing, because i also consider RSS to be a much better way to "receive" content, and email is either for spam or serious communication (bills, taxes, etc).
Sergey Brin, Larry Page show conflict of interest in advertisers, search engines
First mover is definitely an interpretation.

There are tons of places offering this service, they just dont post on HN.
My findings exactly, if an impactful project ships in a forest and no manager is around to see it will you get promoted? Not in my experience
Ergodox EZ. 80% resolved pain in my hands after years of stupidly using the MacBook keyboard.
Out of curiosity, how does it handle the storage limits imposed by browsers? I've had a lot of ideas for browser apps that use things like localStorage but got demotivated by the low storage limits. It's fine if ThinkType doesn't address it, but if it does I'd like to know how.
In Germany you can use epost.de, a service from deutsche post.
That makes sense and forgive me if I'm ignorant on the subject, willing to learn.

What I am talking about is charts like this from the NOAA: http://www.climate.gov/media/5147

Thes resolution is yearly going back only about 2000 years. Everything beyond that, the resolution is much lower. Where is that data from and don't you see how much "smoother" it is?
GP is comparing the integration experience and API layer.
Interesting that the article states repeatedly that there is zero safe level of alcohol when it comes to cancer.

A lot of food we eat contains small amount of alcohol, bread in particular. Vinegar, fruits and juices too. And generally, we are well equipped to deal with it, and it only starts to become problematic when we start to run out of the required enzymes and are left with the toxic byproducts that cause hangovers.

If the threshold is zero, it means that even "safe", easily metabolized alcohol is a problem and we should find correlations even between non-drinkers based on diet.
The secret sauce is to read slowly and not care about where you are in the paper. It’s the same with marathon running. If you keep thinking that you haven’t made much progress you’re quickly going to give up. What matters is progress. And then, out of nowhere, you’ll have read that paper. The more you do that the faster you’ll get.
Agree. I suspect the difference of opinion might be down to systems like Javadoc, that transform code comments into API docs. But Javadoc comments are often auto-generated from function prototypes, which results in Javadoc comments that add nothing to the raw code except bloat. I don't think I'ver ever seen good documentation produced from doc-comments.

There's another thread on the front page about literate programming; I suspect that doc-comments amount to an effort to weave code and documentation together, in a knuthian manner, to kind-of automate literate programming. It doesn't work, AFAICS. You get bloated code and bad docs.
I was really drawn to Dart when it came out in 2012 and still use it for hobby projects. I know Google uses it internally a lot and is used in the experimental Fuchsia OS. And of course Flutter. I wish Google would put more resources into doing the next version. It appears Bob Nystrom is the only person working on it

https://old.reddit.com/r/dartlang/comments/rvqivf/what_is_th...

I wrote a fairly complicated web app in 2013 in Dart. I just updated it to Dart 2.0 and nullability and it still works, which impressed me. Someday people will catch on to Dart, probably if and when Fuchsia gets popular

https://fuchsia.dev/
Auto playing animation can be a client setting. As can rendering pictures at all.

Regardless, the UX of slack, discord, teams etc. is different from IRC because it’s what people expect from an IM client
For a certain set of problems, solving them in pure SQL, with all it's limitations, allows me to focus on the problem without all the cruft. Just pure logic.

I think more people should try it.
It doesn't have to be open source. The same argument applied when most browsers were proprietary, it was just less strong because it was so much harder to create a competitor. There was still competition though, and a decentralized network of servers (you can think of links as edges in a p2p network).
I managed to get it in 6:

STRAP - ______

BIOME - __Y_Y

HOVEL - _G_G_

CONED - GG_GY

CODEX - GGGG_

CODEC - GGGGG

Cool idea, btw.
Slack has made using their API much trickier over time: getting a token to post these days (officially) is under the control of the server admin (as one needs to add a "slack app" to get one). One can extract a token and some cookies from a web browser slack session still, but it's not as clean as it used to be (where one could just generate account associated tokens that didn't randomly expire).

In other words:

- to use the slack APIs, you probably need company level buy in _before_ any code is written against the API from IT folks

- in contrast, with IRC one could just try something out and at some point in the future _maybe_ create a seperate IRC account for it, if your IRC server even has logins enabled. If it doesn't, which when I worked for IBM was the case, one can just pick a new username for the IRC bot.
6202 is strictly for consulting services (ie. no programming). was advised by anaf and my accountant not to use it as it would be, basically, fraud (since i also write code not just "advice" - which is what the romanian tax system defines as consulting). use it at your own risk as they can back-tax if they catch you.

either way thanks for this!
At the end, The Beatles weren't a masterfully technical band. It wasn't being the greatest at the guitar or the bass or the drums that made them great. It was being creative that made them great.

Hey Jude is an incredibly simple and easy to play song yet it is infamous
yeah right, it’s like founder’s church

when you launch everyone claps and congratulates
Well for comparison, I did that learning curve process with SQL and I was able to understand it. But I did the same learning curve process with JQ and I still don’t understand it.
I'm currently considering the same, does anybody have good advice (or resources) for doing this in Germany? (or maybe EU in general)
Similarly, how much do you want third parties tinkering with your airliner’s software systems? Obviously the risk envelope for an airliner is narrower than farm equipment, but farm equipment still kills plenty of people. Automotive is probably an even better example—do you want third parties tinkering with the software systems in your car? What about other cars with which you share the road? I’m not opposed to right to repair, but I don’t think proponents have seriously considered the practical implications for mission critical systems.
Though as a point of interest my small UK-based B2C has seen significant abuse of card chargebacks (i.e., chargebacks issued against legitimate charges and the banks rejecting our dispute) but never a single abusive reversal under Direct Debit, even though in theory the Direct Debit has that indefinite liability attached. I suspect this is because in practice you can issue a chargeback because you didn't like the way someone sneezed and a lot of banks will uphold it while you normally have to give a valid reason to reverse a Direct Debit transaction.
It doesn’t matter either way. America is already the richest country on Earth.

There are 2 Americas, domestically speaking; one with wealth, and one without. This so-called “repatriation” will only make the rich richer and, as a result of our failing political and economic system, this will also mean making the poor poorer.
Then the definition of both totalitarian and authoritarian needs to be expanded and made inclusive. There’s no central figure/politburo telling a believer in caste that they have to believe in it for the greater good. It’s Vaclav Havel’s description of communism - everyone’s playing along with the caste charade because their neighbor’s are.

It has suffused society to the extent that Indian Muslims will sometimes complain that a Muslim tanner (considered low caste because they work with carcasses) wanted to marry into an upper caste Muslim family. Islam rejects caste per se so this caste based thinking is endemic to Indian society, not religion.

Edit - I am not justifying caste. I’m just pointing out that the previous commenters above me were needlessly limiting the types of societies to anarchy and totalitarian. They should include fatalist societies too.
The article has an interesting changelog in the Competing-Interests section, which led to this correction: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-97682-w