skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like Pascal with some evil twists.

Using assignment time to specify constants is clever, too clever.

Having multiple assignment symbols is broken

Mixing variable declarations with code just smells bad

Otherwise, pascal, with tweaks.
These are both really unique and interesting! Curious to know how you've publicised it so far, and if you think spending more time/money on publicity can get them to grow a lot more
I can confirm that there are Zeroaustralians
Yep. Latin was the lingua franca (or at least one of the major ones) in Europe until 1800 or so, more than 1000 years after the fall of the western Roman Empire.
For those of you jumping ship, bitwarden is pretty decent if you'd rather not kludge the keepass route across devices/mobile.
More dystopian stories to distract us from the real dystopia swallowing us - dwindling health care , 16 hr waits in the emergency room, rising copays while administrators whose work consists of emails and making short sighted decisions continue to take home fat paychecks
California used to have a better funded GATE (gifted and talented education) program - like maybe in the 70’s - but like much infrastructural social investment in America - it has undergone long term atrophy of decades.
I'm prefer subtitles as opposed to poorly voiced and dubbed versions that are prevelant. Also how will marvel.ai add nuance that is missing in subtitles? The missing nuance is not always about tonality but the context that is missed by machine translation.
I think you underestimate the US military a lot. The petrodollar or whatever is only powerful because the US is able to protect economic interests with its military power. Last I checked the next best countries are a decade or more and several hundred billion dollars behind. Although, a good argument can me made about internal fighting and political in-fighting and weak stomach of the US voter-base, which can be remedied with the next Iraq/vietnam.

Several parties playing a game. One plays chess, the other Go, and yet another checkers. Long term victory,Long term dominance and permanent superiority or win a lot of short term battles and exhaust your enemy. I don't know who will win but make no mistake this is a war, if not cold then maybe deep-frozen.
What exactly is the health difference between GMO and non-GMO soy? Any reputable sources you can share?
This is such a silly "gotcha". Baby food has an expiration date and goes bad (some time after the expiration date, but still), so somebody is eating them even if they change hands a few times first. Nobody is just deciding baby food has value and exchanging it as currency based on that agreed-upon value.

Only the Treasury is allowed to do that :) https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/faqs/Currency/Pages...

"Federal Reserve notes are not redeemable in gold, silver or any other commodity, and receive no backing by anything. This has been the case since 1933. The notes have no value for themselves, but for what they will buy. In another sense, because they are legal tender, Federal Reserve notes are 'backed' by all the goods and services in the economy."
I finally learned the term "pill mill" last year when I looked up a doctor I had seen for a physical when they prescribed me over 8 medications when I had never taken nor needed any prior. I didn't fill any of the prescriptions and believe it or not all my vitals with my new doc are just fine for my age without any new prescriptions.

Money and fear of losing money has infected almost every profession and business lately, especially due to the pandemic. Even online reviews and advice are hit or miss and even fabricated completely. Getting a second opinions and asking my elders (65+) questions have served me better so far in life than just outright trusting what random professionals on the Internet and TV regularly tell me. I am vaxxed mind you, enough facts were there and I'm pretty reasonable.

Pill interactions are also a big big issue... A doctor sees each patient for maybe an hour, its important to be able to make sure you also feel comfortable with following their advice (live or die) of course.
That's incredibly cheap.
Excellent comment and the current business structures have made it even worse:

If the security incident is actually really terrible, simply fold the publicly-facing company and pivot with all the IP in the IP company. Maybe white-label it, or maybe just wait a little and start the exact same type of company under a new brand. Only the papers get a slap on the wrist.
Still have my dad's "Programming Univac Systems Instruction Manual 1" from 1953 when he started working for Sperry Rand. 1950s-1960s must have been a phenomenal time to work in the nascent computing industry.
wikipedia indeed says the rolling resistance for rail cars is indeed 0.002, so you are off by a factor of a round 100. 3.24 kg/mile is not that bad. Actually even 10kg/mile sounds very acceptable to me, so they may end up being able to use cheaper batteries like NiMH.
Here’s a similar app for mac https://devutils.app (but one big difference - not open source)
FTC has some oversight authority, no?
There's a 2003 movie version of Paycheck with Ben Affleck, Uma Thurman, Aaron Eckhart, Paul Giamatti, and like 4 other people you'll probably recognize. I watched it when it popped up on Amazon Prime last year. Seems like it's not reviewed very highly but I enjoyed it going in with no expectations and not really knowing what it was about.
The Bottomless Complexity of Hybrid Work
The timing on this story is coincident with the recent outspoken professor.
> gold is the least reactive metal

Platinum I believe beats it. But it is rare to find in antiquity because of the high melting point.
Yeah, good call.. feel free to remove "Zoom" as you're reading. I agree, it's irrelevant in some aspects, however, i would posit he likened to the idea of Zoom for dismissing his staff, as he could do this without actually looking into the the 'whites of their eyes' while dismissing them.
Bush Sr promised that NATO wouldn't expand into the former Soviet Union, then we did anyway. Russia can not accept Ukraine joining NATO.

We shouldn't have pushed the coup a few years back, and we should leave our mitts off now.

Oh, and lets stop starving Afghanistan while we're at it. The last time we screwed them over, Bin Laden came back at us.
I’ve visited Berlin three times and most people I interacted with spoke English perfectly. The English level was about as high as in Montreal.

Perhaps it’s different if you live there and have to interact with more people; I’m not sure.
I don't have a citation, just a hunch this coincided with the chemical revolution of the 1950's. I strongly suspect though smoking may have been correlated with poor health before then, that there probably were not 400K Americans dying of smoking-related illnesses every year until after the chemical revolution and the cigarette industry intentionally taking advantage of addiction by standardizing on precise and elevated nicotine-dosing as well as the infusion of 300 some carcinogens. So Big Tobacco loses a big case in the 1990's, must pay billions of dollars for intentionally making their product extremely addicting, but this punishment is lifted in the early 2000's without full payment. But, astoundingly, the Big Tobacco case and settlement overlooked a major detail (that the intentional addition of 300+ carcinogens, for the purposes of increasing addiction, were, in fact, extremely deadly, and that the industrialized process of creating deadly cigarettes isn't at all necessary for producing and selling tobacco products), which allowed Big Tobacco to continue creating a far more deadly and far more addicting product than tobacco, and thus, inexplicably actually, go on killing 400K Americans annually, and however many more worldwide. It really is the craziest thing.
Visual Studio 2022 when doing .NET stuff when I'm on Windows

JetBrains Rider when doing .NET stuff when I'm on macOs

Visual Studio Code for Web Front-end development (React/TS)
Couldn't the same be said of Norway? I believe Allied invasions on Norwegian islands (Lofoten) and other places (Narvik) contributed to German army being forced to station there, when all they really wanted to do after 1941 was to attack the Russian Convoy route. But, think how much better things might have been if British hadn't faced the loss of Norway for other reasons.

It's argued the british walk-out from Norway precipitated some of what happened in Finland and Sweden.

A functional defence of Norway surely would have been as viable as Sweden or Finland? (the Finns completely hammered the Russians. Ultimately to their geopolitical cost by 1945 but at the time, they were doing ok. I hate to imagine what a finnish attack on Leningrad (they stood back) would have done)
Exactly. Public safety is central to Engineering practice. Bridges and buildings come to mind but many life-critical software projects in aerospace, medical devices, automotive, also have emphasis on safety. The development process is way more controlled in embedded industries compared to web/IT/enterprise.

Even Google and financial services are really just services that scaled and acquired a massive userbase.

“Software Engineering” is really just an application of civil engineering project management to programming projects. The job title of software engineer is used too liberally however.
I dont understand Spanish or Portuguese, but I think a lot of emotion that is conveyed in the way the languages are spoken is lost in the dubbing. Reading the subtitles and just hearing the actors say the same in Spanish conveys it better for me.
Microsoft may have popularized the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish modus operandi, but Google loves that play too.

Honestly, I don’t understand how anyone can trust them.

It really only seems like a matter of time until they have stabbed every single one of their customers in the back.
Developer Relations.
Developer Relations
> pay off all debts

Why would you pay off your debt if you thought civilization was going to collapse?
That was a heartbreaking story and all, but the victims of these crimes are the world's richest man who is shipping his belongings on a railroad that pays a billion dollars per quarter in dividends. If I am stack-ranking petty crime then yes I agree that the cops should go stand post down at the corner grocer and the UPRR can patrol their own property, since they are uniquely empowered under the law to do so.
Conspiracy time:-
Red cross was illegally 'reuniting families' in regard to state/country laws, bigger org laws(EU) or international laws.
Or they were leeching off funds/donations. Hackers not only got personal info of people but also their fund mismanagement.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210524181821/https://familylin...

The reality probably is that the people who were trying to find their family members are from regions where, if the info leaks out, it may cause harm to them or to the missing individuals.
If you want blocking to be effective you will need China style GFW. DNS block + IP blacklist + deep packet inspection.
This is just completely BS

Legumes are great for you - keep eating them.

Obviously don't eat some super processed soybean adjacent "food".
Life is complicated with many facets, a charitable interpretation is that they are comparing one facet from the past with the present and have found it lacking.

It’s entirely possible that some facets of the past were much better, e.g. today almost half of the US is obese, that certainly is a large change in 50 years…
> It may not be soy per se. It may be GMO soy that's the problem

No, to the extent there are endocrine issues with soy, it has nothing to do with GMO soy.

> From what I gather, a very high percentage of soy is GMO, far more than is typical for most food items.

94%, about the same as corn @ 92%.
Your ProtonMail account most likely includes access to ProtonDrive. Proton's services are also encrypted at rest. So for cheaper, you support a company fighting for user privacy. $72 for GMail is unreasonable considering you are also the product by merely hosting your data with Google.
$950 being a misdemeanor isn't unreasonable on its own. It becomes unreasonable when you combine it with misdemeanors not being prosecuted, so it's not fair to compare the threshold in places that do prosecute them with places that don't.
How did you land your first 5 customers and validate your idea?
First adversary to "crack the code", will then use the photo selfie system to defraud everyone. And then government will most likely come after the persons stolen identity for compensation.

You could deepfake someone in realtime using publicly available photos. I don't know what the answer is, but photo biometrics sounds like a, "this can't possibly be hacked because I wouldn't know how to hack it scenario". Like when a naive person takes a jumble of shift, xor, and, to create a random number generator and then it turns out it has a cycle of 1024.
Other sites reusing the code are listed in this README: https://github.com/18F/analytics.usa.gov#readme
In India it has been used extensively against social activist, victims of court cases, journalists etc. List goes on and on. It is prime example of how power and money corrupts a system.

Shame on the engineers who developed it.
The list of core services is defined here: https://workspace.google.com/terms/user_features.html

Anything else that happens to work is an additional service.

My guess on the "may" part is that there is no guarantee it'll work, and the product teams of the non-core services won't go out of their way to make it work if it breaks. But they also won't go out of their way to turn it off, and so it will probably just keep working for some time.
In my experience a lot of tech people can't do smalltalk, so it might go down well
> If this isn't handled right, all of us in the US will have to face the consequences of no longer being the world's reserve currency

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why MMT does not work. Budget constraints are a thing after all, whowouldathunkit.
so the alternatives are: A. lifetime benefits from being challenged up to their real potential during their most-formative years, versus alternative B. being cooler for a few years during puberty when being different is a bad thing.
Ah yes, the good old religion of peace.
It’s like Kevin Smith says in one of his “evening with” DVDs:

We think that only the best of us are making money but If you can consistently make even a small return on the investment money, you basically have a job as long as you want it. They don’t care if it’s crap, they just care if you give them more money than they started with.
Didn't the derailment happen after the thefts?
> What would be more beneficial than calorie counting would be dietary education.

Both are needed in different ways. Stuffing yourself with avocado and nuts might be "healthy" but is also gonna be a calorie bomb that will lead to weight gains.

Calorie counting is simple (albeit somewhat tedious) and makes sense and naturally leads people to healthy food.
https://scribe.rip/geekculture/usd-tether-the-largest-tickin...

You can erase medium(dot)com with scribe(dot)rip. It is a privacy-friendly frontend/proxy which disregards paywall.
> Engineers don't work with infinite budgets and they usually are not the people who are making final decisions on either maintenance or implementation.

There are plenty of examples where the problems as the design, not the implementation, such as:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collap...

Different projects have different costs for failure. A bridge failure costs more than a child's toy that breaks. A browser tab crashing costs less than a mars orbiter that burns up in the atmosphere. Engineering isn't confined to just working on things where people die or stuff explodes if you mess up.
The Digital Dollar Project – Exploring a US CBDC (2020) [pdf]
> it's a process of optimization within a solution space bounded by constraints

By that definition, almost any profession - from surgeons and taxi drivers to construction workers and cooks - are all doing "engineering"?
Ask HN: What are options to replace “G Suite legacy” when it's retired in May?
If you haven't heard yet, Google is retiring the free version of G Suite. See more here: https://9to5google.com/2022/01/19/g-suite-legacy-free-edition/

I have been using G Suite legacy for a decade with my extended family, and have about 12 active accounts.

I am looking for either free or low cost alternatives to keeping email addresses active. My main priority is to be able to send and receiving using my own domain with multiple accounts without any deliverability issues. Still being able to use the gmail web interface would be nice as well.

I'd love to hear experiences from someone who has either gone through this recently or is planning to do it soon.
Why end at subtitles, you can also do it in videoconferences.
Happy to meet another Clear Lake veteran on HN!
I love this idea. I don't watch as much as I used to, but will definitely try it out. Thank you
You forgot: 1994 - seven top tobacco CEOs testified to Congress that they didn't believe nicotine was addictive.
Mass production isn't inherently bad, and you're explicitly making an appeal to nature of questionable worth.

There's plenty to find fault with in the modern food industry: toxic or carcinogenic pesticides, antibiotic-resistant pathogens created by human abuse, contamination of water supplies and oceans with runoff, the role of government in creating various health crises by subsidizing high-carb/high-glycemic index foods simply because they're a cheap way to feed a population, ground subsidence due to unchecked dependence on slow-filling aquifers, native habitat destruction... off the top of my head.

But all of that doesn't make "natural", on its own, better for human nutrition.
"CBDC" == Central Bank Digital Currency: https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/cent...

Couldn't make the title fit with it written out, sorry :)
> Is it though?

Yes, it is.

You have a fairly reasonably consistent experience going from one Samsung to the next, or from an LG v20 to LG v60. But, going from a Samsung to an LG? Yeah, there's differences. They're skinned differently, some have their own custom apps by default that aren't stock Android. Each does certain things slightly better or worse.

As an example, in my experience and preference, I've preferred the audio on my LG phones to my prior Samsung phones (I don't use my current Samsung with headphones at all, as it doesn't have a 3.5mm plug and I don't have an adapter and I don't want wireless headphones, pure personal preference there on no wireless and I've had no need for an adapter for the duration I've had the Samsung this last 9 months). I'd say for my personal taste and use, the audio experience has been a fair comparison as I've used the exact same headphones and largely listen to the exact same music files across the different phones (literally by moving the SD card from one phone to the next, no copying involved). I'm sure someone out there will disagree, though, and that's fine.
It’s fine to question magazine articles that contain lines like “4 out of 5 doctors recommend…”.

It’s fine to question individual doctors.

It’s fine to question corporate-sponsored think tanks.

Is it fine to question a scientific consensus on effective ways to fight a global pandemic?
Are you really convinced that, from a medical perspective, those are on the same playing field as tobacco?
> Higher rates -> reduced accessibility of personal credit -> lower spending -> lower corporate revenue -> higher cost of borrowing -> higher cost of debt service -> lower profits -> stock price

I think it's simpler than that. An absurd example: if T-bills suddenly start yielding 12%, capital will flee from stocks to T-bills.
Lots of popular phrases have a meaning that is different from strictly combining the literal definition of their constituent parts. In fact I think this the case for most popular phrases. If not, they wouldn't be phrases, just words.
I was startled recently to see someone on Twitter sneer at a certain celebrity for not being an engineer. I checked, and he seems to have a degree in physics, and a job title (which may not be accurate) that has the word "Engineer" in it.

So, being tired of the debate about software developers, I'm wondering who else thinks that a physicist (by education) is not worthy of being called an engineer.
> My claim (unsupported) is there are plenty of schools that run G&T programs that are not on that list of 6% that, if counted, would raise the percent dramatically- perhaps to the 75% level?

Unless you count AP or honors programmes as G&T this isn't remotely close to being true.
So? That seems like exactly the population you’d want to study if your worry is that calorie counting will induce eating disorders.
This place is about critical thinking, and skepticism, especially around wild and unlikely claims, is part of that.

The point is that this story is almost certainly a fabrication, especially since it has wild claims of teenagers making small fortunes. There's no evidence such a situation has happened, and it's extremely unlikely that it's common enough to be a thing we need to be concerned with.
California has purposefully pushed out manufacturing and energy production. Scored a self-goal there.

Edit: can't reply to gas formulation copy/paste below, so ...
CA has highest population by far and should be #1 in energy. worldpopulationreview.com

Energy is leaving to eastern States where energy can be turned into electricity and delivered to CA via power lines.
This. It’s not an industry thing, it’s a “bottom line” thing.

The ROI on just jamming the gas pedal actually means that “horrific accidents” don’t affect profit all that much.
But this logic propagates all the way down.

What if the second richest man in the US is robbed? Should we care?
What about the third?
What about your rich neighbor?
What about that other neighbor that has 2 cars?
What about that guy who has a job?
Chevy Chase and Demi Moor did a documentary about this practice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_but_Trouble_(1991_film...
I don't know. I'm not sure it's really possible to overestimate how many people hate reading and view it as a chore. Even without that not-so-charitable interpretation, there is still the "TV is on but I'm focused on something else" use case. Subtitles don't work at all for that.
I believe those cases were black market THC vape liquid that the news lumped in with above board nicotine vape liquid.
Keynes was right: he's dead.

Unfortunately for us, we are not.
Burning man being NIMBY about geothermal energy (https://www.rgj.com/story/life/arts/burning-man/2022/01/10/b...) probably has more negative impacts towards the climate than their fires.
> Disinformation isn't a matter of opinion, but crucially a matter of fact.

If you mean that disinformation involves either misrepresenting facts, or (much more common and much more insidious) carefully choosing which perfectly valid facts to highlight and which ones to ignore, yes, I agree that's true. But the excuse disinformers always hide behind when called out on this is that choosing which facts to present always involves matters of opinion and judgment--after all, there are so many facts that it's impossible to present them all, so everyone has to pick and choose. And that is true: there are too many facts to present them all. That's why disinformation is so hard to combat: because there can never be an objective test for it. It's always going to come down to one person's opinion against another about whether a given presentation is a fair one or not.

> If we disagree about what is disinformation, there's a good chance you are wrong.

Huh? I'm the only one who could be wrong if we disagree? Who gave you papal infallibility?
Oh pretty sounds, thats awesome!
Good point. MR to add the offical HN links: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/merge_request...
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