skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people prefer cheaper (in this case box wine) because it's often sweeter and it's supposed to be consumed right away.

I do agree with him on the '(most) wines nowadays are pretty good' but I disagree on the 'so there is no reason to pay more than $10 for a bottle of wine' part. Once you get to maybe 30-40$ it can plateau but you can get some amazing wines for 20.

Also the sample size is only of 8, and even if they are 'veterans', some couldn't discern a white from a red...
Assuming you are conscious of the impulse. :-)
Agreed. The article takes a bunch of wine drinkers and tries to turn them into wine tasters. Those are two different circles with a very small amount of overlap.

I found just keeping wine in my mouth for 20-30 seconds before swallowing (or spitting in some cases) drove home the difference between a $90 bottle and a $15 bottle. You won’t appreciate the $90 bottle if you’re taking half second swigs.
"value stocks are all a black hole of distraction."

If you want value stocks, or any metric/sector, you can get it through stuff like VOOV.
I think "all corporate income" is doing some heavy lifting in that description. It would be a hell of a trick to pass a bill that made business expenses taxable.
Your IMG might be from Gem Paint? I remember that extension from my first computer, and that's what we used. It's about the right age.

EDIT: Ugh, maybe not, I looked at LINEN.IMG and there's a lot of text in there.
Apple Music isn't a great example because depending on which OS and version you're running, it's essentially a hosted web application.

Or given how new it is, it's likely majority written in Swift when presenting a native app
I find it a bit problematic that the form for registration is transexclusive (as in man/women) are the only option in a mandatory choice.
I've made this point in the past, but I find it absolutely hilarious to see the number of kids these days who are rediscovering awk. Awk was dead; like dead-dead, totally useless legacy silliness, for decades. And the reason was that literally everything you could write in awk could be more easily and more powerfully expressed in perl. In a world where every system comes with perl and every admin knows perl, there's no room for awk.

But then... perl kinda died back. It's no longer default in many distros. Most new unix kids aren't learning it. Perl is the old weirdness.

And... in a world without perl, awk looks pretty cool I guess. But folks: perl is still there.
It is possibly that you could get inconsistencies between systems, but you mitigate that with durable event streams (e.g. Kafka) and by ensuring that each data entity in your enterprise has a system of record that can be used to resolve conflicts.

This is really not that different than using ETL jobs to move data about, but taking a streaming approach vs a batch approach.
The amount of users doesn't change the fact of the tooling quality, but no wonder, UNIX folks tend to only take free beer, so what do they know about fine wine.
I'm currently mentoring someone from scratch and they're using autocompletion a lot. Have mixed feelings about it to be honest. I'm not a big fan of tools like Copilot and it'll be really hard for someone to convince me of its value.

On one side, it's as you mentioned. If you randomly pick a "solution" and hope that it works, you won't understand why you use that specific solution. And sure enough, many times they'd use autocomplete and get a solution that doesn't really solve the problem.

One particular problem I remember was a type difference issue. They had a string and needed to compare it with a string in an object. Easy, just do something like myObj.myVar == "string" right? But autocomplete suggested myObj.equals("string") instead. This is java code. Then I had to explain why it didn't work as intended even though the code compiled.

But observing it more, I decided not to stop them from doing it for now. I think it can be useful for learning purposes especially at the start. It's not that great for understanding but it does help them familiarize with all the different syntax and possibilities.

At the end of the day, I don't think it's that much different from randomly copying solutions from stack overflow until one works.
Utils*
The site got the HN hug of death.
Yup. Like Tesla, I am certain that extra features will not transfer during resale. If they already plan to lock us out of working hardware, you can be damn sure they plan to charge us for those same features every time that chip is resold.

Seriously, does anyone believe otherwise? This is straight out of the rent-seeking playbook.
> After World War 1 Germany surrendered. That did not result in a good outcome.

Germany accepted a temporary cease fire and because of that and economic blockade their society collapse throwing them into social revolution. That forced the government to accept unconditional surrender.

> Even if they wanted to fight to the last man, the most hawkish Japanese military heads would have considered it infeasible to strike out again after WW2.

You would be surprised how fast countries can rebound. See Germany and Russia in WW2. Literally everybody in the free world believed that it would be insane to fight another war like that but just 10-15 years after WW1 both countries were hell bent on overthrowing the WW1 world.

And its almost 100% certain that a 'stab in the back' type legend would have developed in Japan too.

And having an enemy that is just waiting for the next opportunity to start a war again, isn't exactly a great strategy in foreign relations.
There's a somewhat prevalent mindset here in the US that it's better to have a lot of honestly down-on-their-luck, "not-their-fault" poor and impoverished people struggle in order to avoid buying one meal or one nice jacket for the freeloader who simply doesn't feel like getting a job. I imagine even in countries with good social safety nets that you have a certain contingent of people who feel the same way.
I am not talking about reasonable needs here. I am talking about people who are Cleary feeling entitled to receive loans they know the can never repair and would not even be willing to try.

I myself had to live on 345 Euros a month for quite some time. And even longer was living below what Germany considers the amount of monthly income that one would qualify to not be called poor ("Armutsgrenze"). I know the feeling and hear you. The only difference is that I could not even get a contract as no telco would find me creditworthy enough. Needed to do prepaid and see how I would get any old mobile.
1TB BX11 is €2.9/month or € 3.45 monthly incl. 19 % VAT

These are standard prices...

https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box
If you know any other options that satisfy the constraints in the comment I linked, I would be interested to hear about them. I haven't been able to find any in my research.
Suspicious?
How do you know that these values can't be taught? It's not like it has been tried with any seriousness as of late. On the contrary, these values (literacy, education, strong self-discipline, public-mindedness) used to be rather widespread in the 19th century, pre WWI, and that seemed to help poor folks cope a lot better with their circumstances even in a society that was both much poorer as a whole and much more unequal!
> So I saw a comment once which suggested all intel cpu's are the same and they just disable certain features before its sold.

Really not true. What happens is that during manufacturing of a particular design, you get a distribution - not all units will have all features working. They analyze the data, and partition the units into segments based on (common) features that do work. Those on the tail end of the distribution (on the positive side) are the most featureful and sold with a premium. And so on from there.

If they actually tried to manufacture different CPUs for high and low end features, then each of those would have their own distributions, and they'd waste a lot of units for not meeting the spec. This way they can simplify the production and not waste the units.
You need /r/bogleheads
Linked topic: where do you buy a working (used) ZX Spectrum nowadays? The ones I quickly look at eBay are "untested".
Absolutely agree about the tremendous amount of money wasted on the military and policing, but not sure why you’re putting “social justice consultants” in that same category, when they have many orders of magnitude less impact on the budget.
It really wouldn't be that hard to do. The syntax would be trivial, and the whole point is that you want it to creep so people actually use them.

There's no overhead to doing it, but you save a bunch of bugs earlier, all for stopping conflating arrays with pointers, which is something not much code does these days anyway
Definitely not 50m high.

Maybe 50 feet 15.3m? That's the height of standard 5 five storey building like in the pictures.
It might be measured from the basement floors up
> It's a choice, that is not a choice

How? I laid out precisely what the choice is in my comment, but I'll lay it out here again: smaller, inline ads vs larger, out-of-mailbox ads.

There are positives and negatives to both. The only sense in which this is "not a choice" is that you will be served ads regardless, but "free service has ads" is not "a new dark pattern", in any way.
Same. It never occurred to me that technology would need to get involved.

We have a filing cabinet where we store important papers.
UNIX is to C like the Web is to JavaScript.

JavaScript also runs outside of the browser nowadays, so what.
In my opinion Stalin had literally zero chance of invading Japan. They didn't have the ships to do it, and the US would certainty not transport them there.
I don’t know much about your neck issues but there’s always a good chance they’re caused by a sedentary lifestyle and computer use.

In which case making yourself highly active (I’d recommend adding weight training to the routine as well) stands a pretty good change of fixing you up.

Or, you’ll end up in unrelenting excruciating pain. Which will probably also be an effective way to distract you from thinking about software engineering.
Russian language was banned by Ukraine after the Maidan Massacre and anti-Russian revolution. So this is part of Ukraine strategy to move away from Russia and toward The West.
Your first 10 years in this industry are mainly learning standards, patterns, and foundational information. After that ten years, everything just clicks. It's like one day the fabric that underpins most of your day to day becomes apparent.

With that said, in my 20s I crashed through many of these subjects. I did well enough, and now maybe I'm a bit young for my level, but there's not a ton to show for that. My advice, take your time and treat learning like a marathon. The big salaries and opportunities will always be there, and the stronger the relationship with that foundational fabric the more in grasp those opportunities will continue to be.
Fun thing is... Everybody always told me learning new things is my job, my logical conclusion was that I get paid for that... Turns out no they won't pay for that - so we'll fuck them, yes I will learn something on my own time, then find a new job where I get paid for this new skill and the skills I already have... Well I am now working freelance now and it's great, sure I had lots of exciaty in the beginning, but I choose who I work for, when and how I work and I set my price point... Another tip... If they don't try to pay you less, you where much to cheap and should double the price for similar work - you can always go lower, but not higher (and ignore what everybody says - the goal is not to work harder or longer, if that is what turns out to be - go back to a 9-5job... Goal is to work less and get more money, like I am only working 24hours a week for same/more pay). Getting an expert in everything is a fools errand
HN Birthday Paradox?
as a customer i doubt its coordinated.

their marketing is always extremely, how should i phrase it.... old? i'd seriously doubt their PR department is even remotely aggressive enough to even think of influencing social media.
Easy have kids :)
Looks like it may have been a mistranslation of sorts with a 5-0 ft wall
Or someone has confused meters and feet.
That's outdated information, Hetzner launched a cloud service a few years ago.

Provisioning of cloud instances is pretty much instant.
I wish D was more widely used, as it seems to be good as a systems language, too.
Yep. When I was a student I worked in a restaurant with an ex convict who described his previous job at the meat packing plant in precisely those terms. He told me it was a hard dangerous s*** job, and back of the house in the restaurant was a lot better. He said safety measures and equipment were inadequate, and some of the other guys that worked there wanted to kill him (his remarks on your other areas of concern would be ill suited to this forum).

That put things in perspective for me, because I had thought that the back of the restaurant was a hard dangerous s*** job - - in fact the hood fans and ac didn't and work, the food thermometer in my shirt pocket regularly read above 110F, and I was generally surrounded by sharp things, hot things, greasy floors and boiling oil, and the shift manager chest bumped me and screamed in my face. But for that guy it was a promotion.

That was in Texas, which is a "business friendly" state, so those progressive reforms might be more... incremental than the average hn reader might wish.
Often they are exploring bugs in the legal system which unsurprisingly give arbitrary output when litigated.
I have, quite often. But, for example on arxiv, the date is on the page that lists papers and that has the links to the various versions of the paper. And, in case the author has neglected to include the date in the PDF, arxiv adds the date, embedded in the PDF, vertically at the left of the first page.

Added: But you’re right that authors often neglect to include date on the the manuscript or preprint versions, and this is a problem. I guess because journals often don’t want this, as they will add the submission and publication dates.
It looks closer to 20m to me.
I’m comparing US. Not global. Since the article is about the US.

Research into “accidental deaths” a bit more. You’ll find it’s not that “accidental.” A lot of things get ruled as an accidental deaths when they’re not. This is due to the US trying to save face. Work in the military enough and you’ll see what I mean.

And yes - seems closer to 105:100. Just ignore under age 5 age count if you’re bothered by increased infant mortality. You’ll find it’s still 105:100…
Big Oil. They had lots of folks making expat life safe/comfortable and obviously tons of political influence.

He was probably technically a contractor so the company had separation from the bribes that took place. Probably not practical to find someone like that for a short vacation but if you’re an expat or spending an extended time there you could find someone like this. It’s not cheap. Sounds horrible, but At the very least, hire a guide to be with you and take the fall for anything that happens. Mostly this means Hire a driver and don’t operate a vehicle. Other things are pretty low risk if you’re just engaging in typical tourist stuff in typical tourist areas.
Ask HN: What books are recommended to learn the semiconductor industry?
I want to understand the ins and outs of the semiconductor industry. What resources would you recommend for beginner, intermediary and technical person?
I am with you. Shitty entitled customers calling female tellers whores that need to be f**ed to loosen up a bit (happened more than once) do not absolve banks from their abysmal policies. Or the system that not only enables but sometimes regulates/necessitates these policies.

I am not siding with banks in general here. I was just exemplifying one aspect to show how it is not always black and white.amd how there can be unreasonable customers.

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There's a typo in "Distribution" in the "Boosting up the purity" section.
What is a storage box? That price seems relatively good - how does it compare to other offerings?
Canadian Court Freezes Millions in Convoy Protestor Funds–Including Bitcoin
if you want to self host using vps, please give my tool a try as well
https://github.com/newbeelearn/sserver
I claim it yet again on this very comment.

Without UNIX spreading with its free beer into universities, C would have been a footnote on the history of system programming languages.
BX10 (which is what you could get before, but which is no longer available) used to be that same price for less storage capacity.

Current users weren't automatically updated to the new plan, so for them it's a big storage upgrade at no extra cost.
Wow. A great hoaxer indeed! The perils of slow and unreliable communication from the New World to the Old kept his sham going. Plus, scamming a bunch of rich important folks ensures you won't spend long in jail as they don't want the embarrassment and will have you quickly released.
It's easy to quibble about some aspects of the Speccy - the rubber keyboard or the limited BASIC for example - but the key thing is that it offered an awful lot for the price - starting at £125 in the UK when the cheapest BBC Micro was £300.

This made computing with colour and enough memory to write programs that were substantial and interesting available to a much wider group than before.

Sir Clive Sinclair had a unique genius for designing and then marketing products that caught the public imagination. Sadly, he seemed to lose interest in building on his success and quickly moved on to the next project. Famously the C5 electric "car" but also wafer scale memory! [1]

If anyone hasn't seen Micro Men, on the Sinclair vs Acorn rivalry, its definitely worth a watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXBxV6-zamM

And seeing some of the participants watch it and recall their own versions of the story is good too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaonVYOTSsk

[1] http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/3043/Anamartic-Wafer-...
Yeah, sounds about right. 50 feet = 15 meters.
If Japan was not caught napping, I believe 100% that this operation would fail. If 100s of suicide attacks those ships would sink with troupes and all. Even if they land, an land invasion supported by sea based logistic is incredibly difficult.

And the troupes in Japan were not at all like the army left on the continent.
Apple doesn’t even back up its local storage to iCloud, so if you have to restore an iOS device, anything stored there is lost (e.g. wordl progress)…
I find the white vs. red results shocking, I’ll need reproduce the same wine tasting at home. Having said that they used botabox for all their white vs red, and bota box indexes on the sweeter side + normalizes flavors —- I can see how that blurs the lines. I can also see how choosing oddball wines would make it difficult for example: Willamette valley pinot noirs don’t register for me as a pinot. Go ahead and try for yourself: buy the willamette vs. sonoma pinot noir from la crema: the sonoma oozes pinot while the willamette I would categorize as a cab.
Agree. "A better C" than C++ claims to be.
Seems to have been hugged to death, mirror:

https://archive.is/0gcfh
Does it solve this to set a different app as your default app for texts? (Hopefully a more secure app.)
Wanted to say maybe 50 feet but since I never measured with feet I was not confident enough.
Yes, you can increase power density with sufficiently neat plasma physics.

But no, the fundamental limit on power density in DT fusion doesn't come from plasma physics, it comes from engineering (specifically, limits on power/area on the first wall, coupled with minimum reactor size set by the cross section of neutrons w. blanket materials). You might have a sufficiently sucky design that can't even reach that limit, but once you reach it all the improvement in plasma physics or magnetic fields you can imagine doesn't help.
> If instead on the first run, the application asked the user "Where do you want to store the data" and the user selects a file or a directory, that puts the user in full control.

It doesn't, not realy.

Both Safari and Firefox are now very wary and weary of asking the user for anything. There are so many things browsers already ask the user for: camera, location, notifications, microphone... In case of Chrome, additionally: USB, Serial, HID, ...

All the discussions about such features inevitably boil down: it's impossible to properly explain to the user what the hell is going on and what the implications are. At one point the user will just click "ok" without reading.
If you think that Japan didn't have the ability to defend, you are simply not informed.
Well at least it was a court. Are there reports of non-judicial entities doing freezing without a court order?
Everyone but ZX Spectrum owners understood that the C64 was superior in every way imaginable.

The Speccy owners tried to prove otherwise during countless arguments in the schoolyard, but deep down they knew.
Fragmented platforms ain’t helping. I decided to finally check out this game (I had a good time with Witch Beam’s first one but this just does not interest me much) and discovered it doesn’t seem to be on the iPad I’m typing this on despite it looking like a total natural for that. It’s on Steam, the Switch, and the Xbox. It is at least available on the Mac via
Steam but I would have not been at all surprised if it was Windows only, which would have meant I own nothing that could play it, despite it probably being built in a framework (their previous game was in Unity) that easily exports to the iOS tablets in my hand and the PS4 in my living room.

This is likely due to them signing exclusivity deals that got them money to finish making the game on, but it creates a distinct hole that clones fill, the same way there were a thousand Pac-Man clones on the home computers and games of the eighties.

I don’t want to blame the victim here but this kind of feels like I am. It’s a huge goddamn mess that’s as much the fault of the companies running huge centralized app stores with moderation guidelines that are, in this case, way too loose. Or are exactly as loose as they can legally get away with; see the part where Google Play’s reaction to a game that was clearly a traceover of Unpacking was basically “we will do nothing, go get your own lawyers and fight it out in court”.

I would say maybe “lawyers” and “someone to hassle with takedown notices while Witch Beam gets on with their next game” is a thing their publisher should be doing, but they seem to be self-publishing. Which is a whole giant pile of stress that I’ve been through with comics, turns out publishers do a lot of boring bullshit for you that’s maybe worth their cut so you can get on with making the thing you’re good at making. Vlambeer hooked up with Devolver after Ridiculous Fishing, hopefully Witch Beam will find a similar indie-focused publisher to help with this stuff soon.
Not the OP, but why? If you only start taxing the property if unoccupied for more than, say, 3 months in a year, it gives the landlord a lot of opportunity to renovate between tenants.
> It really annoyed me when Linuxes dropped the basic vi everywhere in favor of nano. I’d be fine with nano as a default for accessibility, but at least have some vi in my path.

Don’t nearly all distros still have something (usually nvi or vim) in /usr/bin/vi out of the box?
Price! C64 cost £399 at launch, while the top of the line Spectrum was £175 (and there was a cut-down model for £125). In today's prices it's around $500/700 for the Spectrum vs $1600 for the Commodore. And the UK was considerably poorer than the US in the early 80s too. The Commodore certainly did more, but entry price really mattered.

[All prices from Wikipedia]