skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, bestbuy seems to have gotten better within the last few years. 8 years ago I definitely agreed with you, but in the last 2 years over half of my tech purchases have been from them. Their prices have been either matched or cheaper than Amazon, and not having the to wait on shipping is really nice. Plus, I don't really worry about counterfeit goods like I do with Amazon. Still nowhere in the same league as microcenter, but unfortunately there isn't a microcenter anywhere close to me where I currently live.

Although the overpriced premium cables are definitely still a thing...
Lately I checked Libre Writer on Windows 10 it had problem with kerning (not equal distance between letters) which made text looking quite bad. Did they fixed it?
If every option you have is oppression, what is the point of calling it not a dictatorship? Life is shit regardless, you may as well live where it is cheap.
All good. I went back and edited more. I would hate the author to think I was denigrating the article.
There's a program in my university called "Management Information Systems." I suppose I should look at what kind of things their majors do, and what their jobs are usually like?
cat key | xclip -selection clipboard # is even easier after you alias the second part (edit: or whatever the Wayland equivalent for xclip is)
Having a simple search engine who's purpose is to answer querries like "What is Lady Gaga's bra size" is fine from a ethical and legal standpoint. It is the ever present spying I distaste.

Now Google probably have me tagged as a HN user thanks to their landing page getting a visitor spike from HN.

Even if I hadn't visit the site in Chrome to check the spying effects they surely pair me with other HN readers who use Chrome.
> those are just UI/integration issues. I don't think they're because of electron

Electron makes integration harder.
How about automation? I used to work in an automation company (as a dev), and the work the engineers did seemed to fit your profile pretty well: Electrical engineering, project management, customer support and some dev to put it all together. I'm guessing the roles will be more distinct in larger companies (we were about 60 people total), but ICS is a nice middle ground between EE and programming.
Ruby has that latter quality in many scenarios. For example:

p 'Friday!' if Time.now.wday==5 || h
How about electrical or computer engineering? You would satisfy your 'how does it work' jones, and also get a healthy dose of physics.
I often upvote the heavily downvoted comments for that reason - they usually make a good point, even if it’s unpopular. And, I find I often agree with the unpopular post anyway :$
Took me 30 seconds to figure out how to move to the next screen. Web designers, please do not assume that all your visitors are using a mobile phone.

BTW what is the meaning of this activity? Just some fun I guess?
This has about as much to do with "music" as analyzing grammar when talking about poetry.

Musical notation, and lots of "rules" that come with it, came after the fact. Just like with natural language.

And just like staring at grammar rules is a terrible way to learn to speak a new language, analyzing music "theory" at this level does not teach you anything about actual music.
Ok, so an examples of what I mean:

Ionic (the company) have the Ionic Framework and Capacitor for mobile development. They also provided consulting services, paid plugins, and build automation for it, all very much optional. It’s open source and they give every impression of maintaining it for the long haul without going closed sauce.

I means they are actively invested in it for the continuity of their business but also committed to it being an open source platform that doesn’t require the use of their paid services. But they are there is you want them.

That’s what I like.
can you send money to another country using UPI? if you can probably it uses swift under the hood

crypto currency network replaces swift which is a more cumbersome system with higher price and delay of days to send money between countries
Sorry but to me that logic applies more to crypto than countries. Crypto is a solution with no problem and it’s flush with 100s of billions and so all those billions are hell bent on finding a problem and keep pushing for it
Please Delete Your Recordings: Inside a Police Conference
Well that’s just the point: implementation is not worth fifty thousand dollars, but the solution to a business problem probably is.

“Consult”ing with problem-havers and working out how to make the problem go away.
How is this a Windows issue?

Most of these issues exist on other platforms as well. Try running a QT or GTK app in Mac, or an opposing widget kit app on Gnome or KDE.

Things have certainly gotten better (similar to HiDPI support, multi-monitor, etc) as developers have standardized or learned the tools, but an individual app can choose to do it’s own bespoke rendering on any platform.
I think they're just holding it wrong.
There is a biological need - the only reason that the specimen exists is because their parents had that urge. Evolution will 100% select those who want to breed over those who don't. Those who don't won't pass on their genetics and their evolution will end.
Hypocrite that you are, for you trust the chemicals in your brain to tell you that they are chemicals. All knowledge is ultimately based on that which we cannot prove. Will you fight? Or will you perish like a dog?
> Blockchain does not make banking obsolete

It doesn't, but Satoshi thought it would. See for example the Genesis block.

> There is a whole crypt banking sector that provides exchanges, custody, lending...

Back in the day, the idea was to make every citizen financially sovereign. It didn't work in practice because those services you mention are useful. (Just like crypto has trouble working as a payment infrastructure, because chargebacks are an useful and demanded service)
And it’s bound to happen. The issue here is that Newegg is not careful, as well as not trying to help the customer once they sell them something broken. Amazon makes up for it by basically blindly trusting the customer.
When I was in college, I worked CSR for a software product, and we definitely had an escalation path.

My level, to any peers who might know about the specific issue, to our management, and then to engineering (if technical) or our support VP (if business). And it was critical, because inevitable engineering "Oh, that doesn't work that way, but we never wrote it down" or "Oh, I guess that would be a thing people would want to do."

Sadly, after the company was bought the system was collapsed down to the standard front-line-or-close.
If I had my time again I would have sold part of CertSimple to Google with the aim of integrating with Google My Business so Google would make money from verification.

I feel this would prompt browsers to care about robust identity - both in terms of better verification and better display.
I don't move money, but if I did I would do it like we do for most objects in our system (like interacting with S3 objects for example), I'd represent that transaction (in the money sense) in Postgres with a state and the job would be expected to do work and update the state. The transacting job itself could be queued immediately for convenience but ultimately there should be a periodic job that attempts to transition states of any outstanding transactions and the job that does that work should be able ensure uniqueness (in the runtime sense) and idempotency.

In this sense the job acts on data, it doesn't hold data, and you can build in backstops in the event of any kind of failure, not just Redis. You'd want to build this into your architecture regardless of what your background job tooling and infrastructure you use.
Oh, there are nice sites in Europe that aren't listed there. Old mines have been discussed, for example.

I'm guessing that the big problem today is that there isn't a large price difference between night and day. I'm sure you can find an old mine with enough land to build a ground-level water reservoir above it, but you can't buy nearly free solar power at noon and sell expensive power at night.

Once there's enough solar/wind power generation capability to cover its needs on average days, there'll be cheap power to be had for anyone who who can use power only when the sun is shining brightly or the wind blowing strongly. At that point the economics of these schemes may make sense, and it may be worth someone's while to try to solve the practical/legal problems.
ugh - steel like 40mm is routinely cut with water jets. If anything using a water jet to cut an iphone is similar to using a pneumatic hammer to kill a fly.
If you look at the cost the calculated originally for the Skylon, it doesn't actually beat Falcon 9 even.

And when I listened to some presentation with the people involved, it seem they had no real understanding of some of the complexity involved. Their history is mostly in academic and British space industry, and all the project they worked on before are canceled paper studies that were kicked around in Britain.

When asked about the structure of Skylon the answer was vague hand waving about some new materials that might exist. Nothing at all concrete that has even begun being tested for high complexity air frames and high requirements.

Elon himself was asked about this when he presented in Britain. And he answered by saying that investing massive amount of complexity in the easiest part of your flight was counter productive.

Pushing the thrust of your traditional rocket engine a little bit higher, is far, far easier then engines.

And if you are really optimizing to that kind of extreme, doing even more advanced version of second stage engines and structural optimization on the second stage would likely always have a higher pay off per complexity invested.
Nazdar Ivane :)

Have you considered just straight-up bundling the functionality in a standalone Electron app? I'm sure businesses would eat it up.
People in the west may have no idea about India's institutions and the progress they have achieved. RBI (banking), TRAI (telecom) etc regulators have been amazing. For ex: UPI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface) etc
If you want some more random stuff to try, look into working in the semiconductor industry. There are a bunch of jobs with varying degrees of programming. It would be difficult to get a digital/analogue design job as a CS major, but there are a bunch of things you could do.

Production Test Engineer: You write code that runs on every device before it's marked as good. You're trying to optimise for test time (every extra second costs money) and minimise false negatives/positives. There are many opportunities for statistics/physics here, especially in the mixed-signal space.

(Field) Application Engineer: You help customers use the products produced by your company. You help make reference designs for PCBs, write demos that show off the product etc. The field version travels to customer sites and helps debug problems.

Verification Engineer: You'll be writing lots of code to test stuff written by the digital designers. This profession is in a really weird place, most people that get hired are EE's, but verification has basically become software development at this point. Lots of high level software abstractions exist now and lots of people that work in this area are struggling with them (at least from what I've seen).

Quality engineer: honestly, not too sure what they do. Lots of statistics, maths and complaining about shit :).

Probably more titles I can't think of right now.

Anyway, just some ideas to try which might be things you haven't heard of before. I have no idea where you are based, but many semiconductor companies offer internships where you can get a taste for some of these areas. It's difficult to know if you'd enjoy any of them though. I didn't quite get what specifically you hate about CS :).
AMD isn't a comparable business for this list, because it no longer has fab facilities. That was spun off to GlobalFoundries.
Some feedback: I would expect this page to work really well on mobile because that's the kind of information you need on the go. However, on mobile everything just get's squeezed. The left side color bar takes as much space as the information it contains. On mobile you could really stretch the information on the right to take the whole width of the screen, and just keep the color bar on the top (toggle).

I am also concerned that my browser is caching the results. I accessed this page on desktop and it showed everything normal, then I accessed it on my phone and Jubilee was delayed. I had to "hard refresh" on desktop to get the update.
Damn, you're right. I had to go back to the page after I looked at that image for a while thinking "so what?"

I still think the same, but at least I now know I can see more images of it

Edit: Don't forget the big empty space at the bottom, the 1/5 indicator (that I now realise are pages) disappearing when you scroll, and text that highlights in the same colour as the background
Sure but this is a problem the concept of web of trust should have solved for us if we had focused on government and enterprise buy in.

For finance transactions there's basically a number of well known entities who should be vouching for the data I'm sending, who have large out of band systems for identity verification.

Sadly none of that has happened.
"Not having cholera" is also social engineering. And real physical engineering. Insisting that people drive on only one side of the road is population behavior design.

Like everything from firearms to nuclear weapons to face recognition, the questions should focus on who is using the power, for what purposes, how they are held accountable, and so on.

Yes, the anti-COVID measures are social engineering. They're trying to engineer people into not getting COVID.
True. Browsing on that laptop was not a great experience. But the rest of the experience was much better than windows 10 would have been. Instead of 1-2GB RAM usage at idle I was at <500MB with i3.
I wonder what the hashrate would be if this was used for a bitcoin ASIC…
The point is worse things were happening in the summer of 2020 but governments weren’t freezing funds then. This shows the actions are completely arbitrary and based on political ideology. Protection of civil liberties is not subject to the whims of the rulers nor even the whims of the majority in a free society.
Nine-Bit CPU, Part 000 000 010
Because with its declining popularity, most people here are unfamiliar with the language except for its meme status as "that weird line noise language". Things that confirm pre-existing beliefs are easy to accept and upvote, whereas good Perl code would require (a) some actual thinking, and (b) challenging the socially accepted narrative - both of which are relatively much harder.
That’s the first I’ve heard about Mao and environmental destruction (aimed at the elimination of a disease vector or otherwise, I’m not clear what you’re denying here), and a quick Google/Wikipedia didn’t help.

What are you referring to?
MIS is like programming + business. You take regular business classes (accounting, marketing, finance, management) but also programming related classes like database design, programming, project management, etc. It skips the 3 semesters of Calc and 3 semesters of Physics and replaces it with statistics and business calc. It's more practical and less theoretical than CS. It's a nice balance IMO. You could just minor in Business if you are too deep into CS.

MIS more prepares you for building IT in regular business. It's broad but shallow; you learn about database design, project management, application development, networking, the whole gamut (depending on your school). You learn the real stuff on "the street" anyway. Companies typically treat it as equivalent to a CS degree. You can get into whatever industry that interests you.

*I switched from CS to MIS and glad I did, but this info is 20+ years old, things might have changed since.
I was using a mobile phone and it was still difficult to swipe between pictures as well. Though maybe my iphone simply didn’t want to see the needless carnage.
"Should we accept?" ... How old are you?

It's been the symbol literally since forever. There's nothing to accept.

And who is this "we" you speak of?

What kind of Narcissistic perspective is this?
The wear and tear suggest that Apple's products can't stand up to life. How they ever became worth that much, I'll never know.
Is the domain insufficient? As an end user, that's the only signal I get, browsers are no longer showing me an EV certificate any differently than a DV certificate. If I'm communicating with mybank.com and I receive a valid DV certificate that was maliciously acquired, I have bigger problems than could be solved by EV certificates.

I suppose Certificate Transparency is the tech working behind the scenes to flag mistaken or malicious certificates should they be issued.
There is a certain level of arrogance in looking at how fundamentally important the family unit is for all of human history, and then deciding that this generation knows better than the billions who came before us and that marriage / family / kids is a sham.

And shockingly, depression and anxiety is on the rise, we have a "loneliness epidemic", etc because people can't seem to fill that void.
Yooo lets go Svelte! I really love using it and I’m glad other people are discovering it. I’m even releasing my own SaaS boilerplate made around SvelteKit: https://sveltesaas.com
Actually, the abrasive is garnet, but the orifice that forms the jet is a drilled sapphire.

Source: I own and operate a waterjet.
New MeerKAT radio image reveals complex heart of the Milky Way
Another word for the process of getting a mail-order "bride" in the context of the current day is "internet dating", which everyone does. The other term is still used to evoke some historically charged negative emotions due to the implication that perhaps people are bought or relationships are started for the wrong reasons, but the modern dating scene has the exact same problems. What is left then is racism (it's "bad" because the parties are from different countries and perhaps even have different skin colour), and deserves to just go straight out the window.
Qt and GTK apps don't usually spawn 5 processes, 300-400 MB of RAM, and take 100+ MB of disk space (because they always ship an entire copy of Electron) just to show a small window.
I hate to break it to India but everyone speaks English these days except for like Japan & China because they don't give a shit

What else?
The problem with postgres-backed queues is they can't be used with connection pooling, so your workers are unnecessarily using up DB connections.
Planning to do some ML training?
This is not a good comparison to cryptocurrency for many reasons.

Crypto is global, inclusionary, no worry about counterfeits, highly liquid, etcetc
Many years ago, I was impressed by a colleagues efficiency in generating meeting notes in his iPad using OneNote, so I again gave it a go, in fact I’ve given it another go several times, as for note taking it can be really great. However, what keeps pushing me (hard) away from OneNote is, every time I tester my device, it asks me for a Microsoft system moving, which uses some absolutely horrific ID that is just a pain, and for some reason or other, it’s never made it into all of my other auto login apps - not sure why really, anyway, it’s a nightmare when you open the app to take a quick note, and are subjected to a long tedious app and system login that could only ever have come from Microsoft! They have to maintain their reputation I guess!
> In _The Jazz Theory Book_, Mark Levine defines playing in the pocket simply as grooving, where the rhythm section is locked in and working as a unit.

> in the pocket - When the music is rhythmically in a groove.

> groove - The “lock” between members of a rhythm section playing well together.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220216135221/https://www.nytim...

I love useful indexes. I didn't realize there were books written solely about them, though. I'll have to pick this up.
You don’t care if the banking website you’re using is actually owned by your bank?
And dynasties… people have kids and die.
I really enjoyed Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir
No? Bitcoin is a completely transparent system of record that is resistant to byzantine actors and can resist censorship/bans through decentralized infrastructure.

It's not "about" anything, it's a piece of tech. There is a bunch of cryptobro culture around it that varies depending on which part of the web you frequent, some of which slants heavily libertarian that would espouse the sort of things you are talking about.

Ultimately Bitcoin is still a solution looking for a problem. Banks aren't the problem because they happen to work quite well already.
Maybe working at a prop trading firm?
Are we really comparing the bloat of Chromium to Qt & GTK?
Even nicer if you can predict oxytocin from DNA sequences.
Why nonsense words? Aren't all words nonsense words to babies?
Why wouldn't housing prices drop if the mortgage rate increased and keep affordability about the same?
The runtime is much much smaller, fewer layers of.abstractions away?
Why is it too late to switch to e.g. physics or EE? You may tack on an extra year of school, and the financial cost thereof; and I'm sure the make-up classes and homework will be hard; but your education will set the trajectory of your adult life so it's probably worth it. You wouldn't be the first or the last to bail on a degree in their third year. Knowing some basic programming will make you better at those fields anyway.

(Edit) If you like C etc. more than app programming, do the malware analysis route you mentioned. For heaven's sake don't become another Android or web dev, you'll be in hell.
Nice question, but it reminds me of a flawed question that appeared on one of my kid's high school science quizzes. It should have been easy, here it is"

True or False, turning off the radio in the car gives you better gas mileage.

Obviously, the energy for the radio comes from somewhere so True. However, my daughter who didn't drive at the time thought that car batteries where like ordinary batteries around the house and where simply replaced when the big things ran down. When I grew up, cars were far from reliable and it was pretty common to carry jumper cables so even kids just kind of knew that auto batteries where rechargeable and that the car contained a generator (alternator).

Drawing a bike would be easy for me. I've owned numerous bikes and even taken them down to bare frames to maintain them, but I'm not educated to be a mechanical engineer at all.
Interesting tidbits:

Most Adopted Features: Nullish Coalescing, Optional Chaining, Private Fields

Highest Satisfaction (backend frameworks): SvelteKit, Astro, Fastify

Highest Satisfaction (frontend frameworks): Solid, Svelte, React

Highest Satisfaction (mobile & desktop apps): Tauri, Capacitor, Electron

Highest Satisfaction (build tools): Vite, esbuild, SWC

Highest Satisfaction (monorepo): pnpm, Turborepo, Mx
It is actually 1 year, not 6 months.

I believe it's this one:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

codified in Germany as §477 BGB (other countries accordingly)

edit:
Article 11

Burden of proof

1. Any lack of conformity which becomes apparent within one year of the time when the goods were delivered shall be presumed to have existed at the time when the goods were delivered, unless proved otherwise or unless this presumption is incompatible with the nature of the goods or with the nature of the lack of conformity. This paragraph shall also apply to goods with digital elements.

2. Instead of the one-year period laid down in paragraph 1, Member States may maintain or introduce a period of two years from the time when the goods were delivered.
The performance is really bad on my cheap android phone.

That's really the biggest indicator of the state of js.