skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main difference is that with Wordle there is very little "marginal creativity" required for each new puzzle. It's literally just another 5-letter word.
This article mentions inflection points, but doesn’t delve into clientside apps significantly (e.g. SPAs). How far away are we from transitioning from component based JavaScript frameworks like react, to something which compiles to wasm?
I thought lawyers were notorious for hanging on to WordPerfect for years after most everyone else had moved to Microsoft Word. If Word is now the de-facto legal document format, I guess that shows that accepted formats can change.

Plain text does seem to me to be the near-ideal format for legal documents, as it's most likely to be readable for the longest time. I can still easily read plain-text documents created 30 years ago. I can't say the same for WordStar, Wordperfect, or other long-forgotten word processing formats.
Upgrades to the rail system were necessary. The shared passenger and cargo lines weren't workable.
when you google Wordle, google header is animated in Wordle style.. I don't even know what this wordle is.
There will be one ad but it will be Punch the Monkey and it will hover over the keyboard until you go to type. It will then move to the row below the one you are guessing.
Switzerland banks and merchants have refused several of my US bills that were in quite good (but still imperfect) condition.
Legally, the computer is company property and thus company can do whatever they do with it (sometimes there are exceptions, like "stop looking if this looks like personal documents"). Even if there is no one manually looking at the specific computer, there is often antivirus/antimalware which reports to IT department. This makes sense -- if an employee went to a shady site on a work PC and got infected with malware, central IT should know ASAP about this to stop the spread / block stolen credentials. Even if the employee is unwilling to report it.

https://www.findlaw.com/employment/workplace-privacy/privacy...

The situation is different if the employee's personal computer is used -- then it can be expected to be full of personal stuff. This is why a lot of bigger places prohibit placing company code/credentials onto a personal device.
Interesting. It's 신호등(shin ho deung) and 信号灯(shin go tou) in Korea and Japan. Both literally meaning signal(信号, 신호) light(등, 灯), so I would have thought Chinese would use something similiar (I can see 灯 is being used). I wonder why that happened. Maybe because red is an auspicious color? Or maybe because the word may have originated from Japan and they wanted a different word? or maybe simply because that's what people started to call it and it stuck?
I am only moderately not a biologist, but this seems essentially correct -- vaccines are trying to address false negatives, but allergies are (in theory) caused by false positives. The mechanics of T cell training in the thymus for self/nonself discrimination are only partially understood, but any approach to rewrite antigen recognition would be (A) extremely risky, by potentially inducing massive autoimmune effects if anything went wrong, and (B) much more impactful for e.g. organ transplantation than allergic response.
I hope then that the NYT vetted the word list before buying the app. I can tell you that there is at least one Scrabble-banned word in the answer list.
I can't in good faith give so much money per month to a company with such terrible user and creator support.

No visible dislikes.

DCMA takedowns that put the burden of proof on creators rather than destructive soulless auto-claim bots.

God help you if you lose your account.
NYT does also have some simpler games, like basic pattern matching. They might view Wordle as a good gateway from those to the mini crossword.
Have you heard of Google? :-)
As an engineer I think I can confirm this. The best work relationships were where it was like that. When it was like that, formally scheduled 1:1s were hardly needed anyway. On the flip-side if you really only talk about the stuff that bothers you - and there's even a push towards that - that's the recipe to make such meetings as unenjoyable and intense as possible. Considering that happens with all team members the effect on the team as a whole cannot be too good. Sometimes also people tend to underestimate the time and effort to successfully solve a certain class of difficult problems. Most people are happy when one major problem gets solved eventually instead of a lot but in a quickfix kind of way.
Regarding efficiency, for your "average car", driving at 160 kph requires 3x the energy as 110 kph (aerodynamic drag mostly), while only increasing velocity by 1.45x. Simply put, you're requiring 2x the energy per kilometer, which pretty neatly lines up with losing half the manufacturer rated range.
Yes, they are such services available. You can find them on ethnic forums online.
Ask HN: Do you use 1 ultra wide or 2 dual monitors?
If you could add why and pros and cons if you have used both setups?
My interpretation is that REST is such a complicated definition that no-one bothers to understand it. It's just too complicated (insert reference to Fielding dissertation). At least, whatever Fielding wrote, terms and languages are too esoteric for people including me to bother with it.

REST is now in practice an API using JSON over HTTP with appropriate verbs. And it's 'stateless' in that the server doesn't have to track the clients prior requests to understand the current request. That's about it I think....

Does anyone think that's stupid?
I was wondering which names are currently available. Apparently there is a first-come, first serve domain ending in ".pin" but the server is down. "Bad gateway."

So it seems like more of a software project than a running service at this point?
Yeah, sure. But what does that have to do with anything -- how does it make Adidas "come from the same culture as McDonald's, Beyoncé, Marlboros, General Tso's chicken, and Spiderman"?
This is only kind of true. If you are asked "why is X true?" and you go on critique the epistemological basis for saying that something of type X could be true or not, you may be giving an in-depth and intelligent answer that is responsive to the prompt. But you are also not demonstrating the knowledge that the question was designed to probe; i.e., that you have learned and retained the particular arguments for the truth of X that were covered in class.

These discussions sometimes go off the rail because it's a bunch of STEM folks critiquing the humanities, so I'll share a STEM example that gets the point across. A too-clever friend of mine got marks off in our Analysis course because he presented a constructive proof of a theorem on a test, and that was not the proof technique that the test was designed to interrogate.

Superficially his answer was "correct". But then, as his professor pointed out, on an even deeper level it really was incorrect, because our write-ups of proofs are really high-level descriptions of formal derivations, and the student was describing a proof a different axiomatic system than the one assumed by the question, so, to be totally correct, he would have had to embed the proof that his proof in constructive analysis mapped over into normal analysis. Which would have been quite a bit of work that the student, at the time, was unable to do (and probably no one could do in an exam setting).

But, again, the real point is that this part of the debate is pedantic because what my clever "friend" really didn't understand was WHY the question was being asked. The answer is supposed to demonstrate a certain piece of knowledge in a certain context; it's an exam answer in a closed curriculum, not a Treatise.

Besides, you are ALWAYS writing into a audience and context; if you want to write to a "pure" audience, you may do so, but consider saving it for Sunday morning prayers.

Which, since that friend isn't paid to write analysis proofs these days, were perhaps important lessons ;)
My GF and I, both Moderna double vaxxed, were exposed to Covid last year. Same place, same time, she got it, I did not.

I still quarantined the whole time but not a sniffle, no fever, multiple negative covid tests for myself.

If the HIV vaccine works, some people will still get HIV given enough exposure at just the right time, for instance, undergoing cancer treatment notoriously wrecks your immune system, so you might be at risk even with a vaccine then.

You can still get the mumps and measles and everything else you've been vaccinated against given the right circumstances, but you do have far more protection against it than without the vaccines, and in an ideal world where every person was completely vaccinated and any sources of animal to human exposure were eliminated, then should your immune system suffer a setback there wouldn't be anything around you to take advantage of your weakness.

That is what herd immunity is, which was never supposed to be "if 90% of the population is vaccinated then the other 10% are safe" (which is a whole different story).
Thez bought a redirrct from the current website to their domain. At some point in time all wordle players will move to nytimes.com/wordle or similar at least once.
The article I saw said the UK is removing or has removed most restrictions.

It went on to say that by contrast, we're far from out of the woods in the US.

When I look up the last week's cases per capita, the US is 57th from the top and the UK is 64th.

So at least they are in the right order, but it seems a bit like spin to ignore the first 50+ countries.

Notably, Germany, Australia(!), France, Italy, Spain, Sweden(!), Netherlands, Switzerland, Portugal, and...Denmark.

Denmark and France are near the top, seeing several times the number of cases per capita as the US.
> If 73% of millennials started tweeting about their bowel movements tomorrow, would you be trying to monetize the toilet as the hottest new social network?

Isn't that exactly how tiktok was born?
From experience, if you can take on more work, you will do so until you can't anymore. 2 jobs was fine for me, 3 is too much and some clients felt the heat. I always prioritized the ones that were most burning, technically. Undeserved flak is easy to remove.
To continue the Java bytecode prior comment, at one point, java was in all browsers of the time (i.e. Applets). However, it lost, and seemingly removed with extreme prejudice with no nods to backwards compatibility.

Java also enjoys multiple HLLs that target its bytecode (Scala, Kotlin, Groovy, Jython, etc) and there's nothing in the runtime capabilities that tie it to any kind of constrained platform (threading, IO, async)

Don't get me wrong, I'm really hoping that WASM succeeds but I'm concerned that the same set of slam dunks we thought back in 1996 don't result getting posterized (again) by DOM/JS.
I know, and normally the understanding is that it's hard to gather that information unless you speak directly to the people experiencing these bottlenecks in a... 1 on 1 conversation.
But can older processes be made much cheaper than they where when they were launched?

Is it an under investment in these processes because the price was too low?
Happy or miserable would be subjective based on how the person takes it. But I can tell you the "prematurely age" part is simply because of the amount of work it takes to raise a child. This is universal, for all children. I don't think anyone who doesn't have children can correctly estimate the amount of work and effort a child takes to raise. That amount of work takes a toll on your body and the aging is the result you can observe of that parent.
This, it baffles me to no end that people insist on using Raspberry Pis, which are almost comically slow and not really that energy efficient, to run things like K8s scheduled containers, sometimes even buying $200 backplane boards to do so, which also defeats almost any sort of price advantage.

There has to be something about the Pi that drives this, but I can't figure out what it is. Yes, Raspbian is easy to get start with, but no easier or harder than booting a VM locally or on the cloud with an image. Yes, Pis are small, quiet, and low power, but so are NUCs. Sure they're cheap, but once you buy 4 Pis and some fancy backplane manager, you could have easily gotten a NUC or a used PC instead.

Please just buy a real computer!

Pis are exceptionally good for a lot of real use cases where the form factor, GPIO capabilities, or pre-approved module certifications are essential. Not being able to get them because of "cluster" use is annoying.
Anecdotally speaking, it doesn’t seem like it would be hard to find examples of companies doing stupid things that could have been avoided with a more diverse decision-making team.

Apple famously took forever to add a menstrual cycle tracking feature to their Health app, e.g.
From software?
I've seen various "innovation" studies that show more diverse teams come up with more ideas and are more productive, but less diverse teams think they are more productive. A quick internet search turns up https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2019/09/09... for example.

For software, for example, there are plenty of characteristics that some engineers may think are constant that are definitely not. For example, the number of systems I've encountered that have baked in the idea that first/last name can not be changed (even though names are changed by not only trans people, but also any married woman in many cultures), or assumed people only had 2-3 names (some cultures as many as 4 last names are common), is long. When the name is used as part of a permanent key for all other data about an individual, fixing the issue can be a huge hassle.

Sure, a product focus group might eventually point these issues out, but no one's changing their name in a short-term focus group study.
The bitcoin protocol seems to go out of its way to ensure that's not true. Bitcoin balances can never be consolidated - you don't pay bitcoin out of a wallet with fungible coins in it; you pay bitcoin out of a globally-unique transaction pointed at the wallet.
Cloudflare Pages (their Netlifly / Vercel competitor) offers unlimited free bandwidth. Wonder why he switched to AWS?
Bottles – Run Windows software and games on Linux
That may be related to Benadryl link to dementia?

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/common-anticholinergic-d...
I can add https://blokada.org/ to the "Mobile" section.
What is this headline? Why “a man..” gender is irrelevant for the story and what other species could it be? If a turtle or talking hamster came up with it by all means put it in the headline.

Okay actual article headline is different and makes more sense.
Provisioning more power in order to provide streetside charging would be a boon for apartment dwellers with electric cars.

That might involve pulling more wiring through conduits, or even raising the voltage on existing wiring and placing transformers, all of which can be done.

My comment was only on whether you could charge many cars without any of that.
I completely agree. This is tone-deaf and outright ridiculous.
out of curiosity what format do the "weekly connect" take, with your partner?
> Some people think automated (as in drone) weapons are immoral but a soldier acting on the ground is ok. Some people think automated speeding cameras are unfair but a police officer with a speed gun is ok.

Not for arbitrary reasons though, there are tangible effects from automation that we worry about in those systems. We draw distinctions because there are parts of the manual process that we can point to as valuable.

We worry about automated weapons because they take a safety check out of the system. We kind of are saying what I mentioned above, that we want killing to be kind of difficult and emotionally hard to do. But that doesn't map to ads, unless you're saying that one of our goals is that we want blocking ads to be emotionally draining/difficult. But I don't think that's what anyone believes about ads.

Similarly, people don't oppose automated speed cameras because they think automation is a moral line, they oppose taking humans out of the decision making process for whether or not someone should get a ticket. But this doesn't really map to ads unless we think it's important that humans have to consciously decide to skip content, which... why would we think that? Some people also don't trust the automated cameras to be reliable. This also doesn't really map to adblockers, because adblockers aren't being used by other people to make decisions about you.

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> Not sure who you're quoting there but it's not me. I don't think it's stealing

I should phrase this differently, that's totally my bad.

I can't think of any way of defining an implicit social contract between website operators and consumers that wouldn't also define an implicit social contract between consumers and advertisers themselves. It is weird to me that people think it's morally dubious to do things that deprive website operators of profit, but that it's not morally dubious to do things that deprive advertisers of profit.

If we say that advertisers don't have a right to ask us to look at content, I'm not sure why website operators should be different.
Neighbor had 16k in damage from the raccoon living under porch. Found a screen into crawl space, destroyed water pipes, flooded crawl space and caused extensive water damage to flooring. Gut and remodel bathroom and adjoining wall.
The usual way of achieving undetectable viral load is via anti-retroviral drugs and I think this works in most people, at least so long as they get early enough treatment and keep getting it. The main reason to measure viral load in the first place is to get an idea of how well the drugs are working and if they need to be changed.
For your "average car", driving at 160 kph/100 mph requires 3x the energy as 110 kph/70 mph (due to aerodynamic drag), while only increasing velocity by 1.45x. Simply put, you're requiring 2x the energy per unit distance, which pretty neatly lines up with losing half the manufacturer rated range.
https://github.com/erikgrinaker/toydb
Specifically, Denmark had about 51K cases per million in the past week and the US ~9.4K.
Feels like something Make would benefit to have out of the box.
That could happen, but it is a nightmare scenario. It would essentially attack the agency you and your browser has; in effect, it would obligate your browser -- and your computer -- to do as a server tells. Having full control over your own computer would be illegal. It also raises questions about whether such restrictions would cover your network. For example, would it also become illegal to null-route ad servers' IP addresses on your local network?

Of course, I wouldn't put it past regulators. In fact, copyright in EU comes close to doing exactly what the above would require.
Betamax was specifically designed as a consumer format. The cassette size was chosen to be similar to a paperback book.

At the time, the industry didn't anticipate that people would view feature length movies on their video cassette players.

The professional betamax format only shares the name.
> logging is an anti-pattern
Tell me you're still seeking product market fit without telling me you're still seeking product market fit
The webdesign philosophy of wordle is practically the opposite of NYT's. Wordle is free, accountless, low friction. NYT will turn this into a subscription funnel, and it will lose all of its charm.

I look forward to continue playing until it gets moved to NYT, and then dropping off as soon as they put up a signin gate.
I don't know what it is but the hype around Wordle has actually made me not want to give it a try. Is there a word to describe someone that gets discouraged from trying things that feel "mainstream"?
"People" means common folk, with their Edge, Chrome, Android Chrome and iOS Safari. There is the web that 'just works' and the web where you need to open up the back of the unit and start swapping wires.
I guess it depends on your definition of "corrupt" and where you draw the line between corrupt and not corrupt. Would it be the tech recruiter's fault if there were, for instance, a pipeline problem that sharply limited the diversity of their candidate pool? I don't think so, but that wouldn't change the reality that the pool itself is a reflection of corruption elsewhere in the system. I don't know how you could possibly argue otherwise when black people and women were effectively excluded from many industries until relatively recently.

The "meritocratic process" is laughable. Legacy admissions have always been a critical component of those systems, especially once wealth was no longer an adequate filter; allowing a few newbies through the sieve in order to conceal the real purpose of the ivies—perpetuation of an elite caste—has been the game for a long time. As universities are pressured from the left (getting rid of standardized testing) and right (getting rid of any sort of racial consideration in admissions), legacy will only become more important as an attribute. That a few people beat the odds doesn't at all imply that the system is fair or that that solution is scalable.

"Culture fit" is realistically both important and historically has been a really problematic thing to conflate with or consider alongside "merit." It is a tough problem and I don't have a great answer to it.
Exactly. I admire and agree with the ethical stances being defended in this thread, but people should know that it is very rare for those feelings to be reciprocated. As long as you know that, work in a manner that lets you live with yourself, and don’t expect to be rewarded.
Because it rhymes :)
The app works a lot better, though.
> and now they want to try gambling

That sounds wretched. I can imagine parents trying to keep their kids away from smoking and drinking feeling the same way fifty years ago.
Regarding using some notation for multiplication:

You'll be hard pressed to find any symbol/notation that isn't overloaded with other operators in math. Things like '*' and the 'x' symbols have different meanings in different contexts, and when you're doing those things, and need multiplication, you run into problems.

Personally, and I know I'm not alone, when I convert physics equations to code, the '*' symbol is one of the ones that make reading code challenging.

For function application, I can see the problem, and I'm sure most have gotten confused at one point or other where they're not sure if it's a function application vs multiplication. But as others have pointed out, the context makes it clearer.

I think one of the key differences between many here and those who favor the notation is that in SW, the wish is the formalized version (i.e. the code) is readable enough to understand, without much prose (i.e. comments). In mathematics, it usually is not the case - in fact, one of my math professors often had to point out to students that it's better if they wrote part of their answer in prose rather than purely logic symbols. In that sense, there often is little ambiguity. It really should be clear from the context whether you're dealing with the sine function or multiplying symbols. If it isn't, the problem isn't the notation, but the lack of understanding of the context. Having a guide to the notation will not elucidate much.

And for the one who uses a lot of math (some engineers, physicists, and of course mathematicians) - having to write (any) symbol for multiplication is crazy tedious - even if it is just a dot. There is a reason they opt not to put it.
So what should I do when I realize that a lot of my coworkers are HIGHLY inefficient? And I can do their work in a lower amount of time? And I have a ceiling on how much I can earn? I just go looking elsewhere in parallel.

OR - I build a startup. But I hate the buisiness ethos.
- one alias for personal/professional correspondence. Own domain

- one alias for everything that is less important than the previous point (e.g., github, netlify, aws). Own domain

- one dummy protonmail inbox for everything else (e.g., reddit, HN, pizza online, etc.)