skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet Europeans and canadians are allowed to discuss American politics and even completely trash American values repeatedly. It's funny to see canadians be so defensive when someone else does it to us when we are usually extremely smug about doing exactly the same to our southern neighbors.

And by the way no, sorry but that's absurd. There's a huge line between being a freedom gun loving American and being against enacting emergency measures that do away with due process because of a protest. To think canadians support this just to... own the Americans online? Is so ridiculous that it might border on satire.

Remember, trudeau is still in a minority government and lost popular vote twice in a row to the conservative party. The conservative party has voted against enacting emergency measures. So you might be living in a bubble where everyone actually supports this, but it's not representative of the electorate.

Trudeau is completely, completely losing it and that's coming from someone who has met him a few times when he was my MP. I also volunteered for his campaign back in 2015 and 2019. Yet to me he seems completely unhinged at this point.
Soviet, not Russian. French speaker, so mardifoufs got it right as well ;-)
What's crazy to me is that I was promised Back In The Day that everything would be sunshine and roses in software design, and especially in Web design, once the "digital natives" took over and all those bad ol' print designers retired or got pushed out—but it sure looks to me like the exact opposite happened.
It's just wild how bad people can be at their job and sometimes no one stops them. And this guy even manage to fail his way to success.
My thoughts exactly. I half expect a drove of VCR manufacturers to step forward and take credit for the concept of a logo that bounces around on your screen...
Which reminds me — I was fascinated to learn that the Spelling Bee [1] is mostly an English-speaking thing, since many English words are derived from a variety of languages [2]. There is no such thing as a spelling bee in Germany, for example.

Germany actually enacted an orthographical reform in 1996, where they modified the spelling of certain words to make the language easier to learn. This was remarkable in and of itself, since it involved an international agreement between multiple German-speaking countries. As I've been learning German, it's been a strange and pleasant feeling to hear a long word and then be able to spell it correctly 99% of the time.

Ironically, because of my parent comment above, Mark Twain also has an essay on how much he hated learning German [4] (more due to grammar than spelling, although he was learning it before the reform).

[1] https://spellingbee.com
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_language_influences_in...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_orthography_reform_of_1...
[4] https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/twain.german.html
The states who play these games have terrible economies to show for it.
Interestingly, they actually are:

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/apple-developing-fol...

I know it is the frequency illusion, but 2022 seems to ve the year that satire keeps coming true.
Sounds pretty cool! Anyone libraries for this yet
Salespeople work hard to generate leads for Ali and his imaginary cofounder. Ali doesn't follow up. Or maybe he does follow up on one or two that sound like they'll be fun, but the cynical mid-tier firm marketing execs see right though him or his pitch is just a bit too average.

I assume the sales team operated like a third party leadgen operation: salespeople spam the market, forward on the handful of responses and have no further involvement in the sales process. If they're getting good performance metrics and being told the company execs are on the cusp of closing big deals based on their work there's not much reason to question them, especially if they're from a different continent and culture but they've been promised a visa and a Western salary once they've passed their first six months.
I view a remote relationship as strong enough if I would willingly refer someone for a job and they would refer in return or I would trust them enough to do a small contract project with them.

As for how I am perceived on Slack, I view my team as a single point of failure and make sure that I am always in a position to get other similar offers. Makes how I am perceived not really matter as I am not the kind to go for an internal promotion anyway as it is more complicated, and again, a single point of failure.
Oh right, I forgot about Las Fallas and waking up to the sound of firecrackers!
To be fair, I think Swift does have a reasonable selling point in that it's an easy-to-write language with ADT's, named function parameters and excellent nullability handling. It really can be quite nice to work with.

But I think it's over-sold as a systems/low-level language. Relying on ARC for all reference types creates a significant floor in terms of performance which makes it unsuitable for a lot of systems programming applications - unless you resort to unsafe Swift, in which case you're not really writing Swift.
C# will not rest until it has every feature of every language.
Strictly speaking, treating the word list as a ring buffer might actually make it a little smaller. Perhaps more importantly, the cycle makes the problem almost exactly analogous to the Traveling Salesman Problem (Although there is an acyclic TSP, it is somewhat lacking in interesting properties like isomorphism)
I had a hard time with that article because it kept swinging between two very different display technologies. OLED and Mini LED are not related and the monitor they are talking about is Mini LED, so why even talk about OLED?
I left the field entirely a few months into lockdowns. I pretty much went in the opposite direction, I now spend my time on explicitly social things.

I agree that it doesn't look like it's coming back - in fact I'm not sure if my city is coming back (London).

The growth thing doesn't bother me, it's just that the job is now pointless to me. I don't care about shuffling pixels about, I care about actual people in the real world. Card games over lunch, pub at the end of the day, chatting shit, that was the point, the work was just a vehicle to give us the excuse and fund it. We are social animals, there is nothing more.

Something sticks in my mind though, which is that most software developers have a strong preference for just sitting inside. I was one, then I made money and I realised there was a world out there. But some of them just want that forever, and that's fine, it just means I can't work with them any more, that chapter of my life has closed, we part ways and so it goes.

It's like a partner or old friend that you just outgrew.

Eventually I'll give up on HN too I guess.
The situation seems a bit more complex.

The Martin Agency’s proposal was rejected, but the idea of the QR code that they suggested remained in some minds.

The creative firm they did the ad with was Accenture Interactive, see this: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6898989...
But the <%-preprocessor would be the most powerful metaprogramming tool, would it not? Simply because the programmer would have at their disposal the power of the entire real programming language as opposed to being limited to whatever template language happens to be built in. For instance, if I want to generate a piece of code to define an enum and, at the same time, have a method to serialize it (say, into XML), then with <% it is a trivial task, whereas in C# I need to define and use some weird "attribute" class, while C++ offers me no way whatsoever to accomplish this, with all its metaprogramming power. Is D different in this regard?
Any suggestions for platform like Squarespace to make product/app launch page?
I'm not to familiar with existing platforms for making landing pages. I've built enterprise UI applications before but never really made landing pages or cool web sites, so I have no idea how to make something nice looking fast.

Checked out Squarespace and wix, but wondering what else anyone here has used.

Thanks
Brave and Vivaldi are the best of the bunch IMO. Brave for maximum privacy, Vivaldi for customizability (they have all the toggles).
I've been using the cleaned up list, so it's possible that changes the behavior a little bit.

But more likely one of us has a bug in their logic.
> What happens if the biggest player has an unlimited supply of money they can just mint at will and use it to drive up the price that you pay?

That's what central banks do, and a lot of cryptocurrencies. It's very very hard to do though with Bitcoin.
If I could remove a key from a full keyboard, it would be Num lock. Why does it exist? I can't think of any situation where you have a full num pad and don't want to use it.
It's funny because it mirrors MS' approach to product development in general.
Right. And that is why many in germany oppose it. With the recent developments, it might be dead completely.
Can’t win the game of you’re not willing to lose a few pieces.
> Python’s GIL does exactly nothing to prevent data races (or any other concurrency issues)

That sounds good and authoritative. Unfortunately the Python documentation itself is silent on the subject. And more importantly the Python community is filled with people who believe exactly the opposite.

It's a real hole. And the only solution right now is to tell everyone to avoid threads. The Python world simply isn't prepared for them.

FWIW: I'm one of a handful of people who have found and fixed race conditions in python scripts. And it was largely because my background is in racey C code and my eyes were primed to see it. And even then, I genuinely thought (based on incorrect advice like the above) that this sort of thing was impossible and kept looking before trying the obvious synchronization solution. And it was only then that I realized what a mess concurrency is in the mind of the modern python developer.
... which one's that? Fn?
What, you don't want your hourly dose of dopamine-fueled rage?
As a Canadian, this type of rant makes me wish crypto was banned. They are already used for fraud, money laundering, tax evasion and now to interfere in other nations internal affairs. I imagine they could/will be used to bypass political spending laws.. Enough is enough..
Why is it a bad thing that they removed potential words that might be politically incorrect?
No, that's how you get to Carnegie Hall (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doK9Jo0wVx8 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nAUk87v9No)
Time to fork.. it’s pretty obvious now the language is being driven to a weird direction that nobody outside of apple really care about, and far from its original goals. I had no idea chris lattner was being pushed away from core, but everything makes more sense now.
> It does seem like he was intentionally or unintentionally building a universe where it was the "internal team" who developed it

That's a lot of fancy words to say "he lied".

I can understand the sentiment if he was just waxing lyrical about the ad, but he explicitly said "no ad agency would come up with this".
Not necessarily: Apple could permit an app developer to allow third party payments in the same app, but only if the user was in the Netherlands. That's not a difficult code path to manage.

The issue here is Apple is trying to frustrate any attempts to circumvent their payment processing: By both still demanding 27% fees, and also requiring they publish a separate app (likely requiring users to uninstall the main app and install the new one), Apple is trying to make it so onerous and painful to use third party payments that nobody will actually do so in practice.
An iPad or Android tablet works just fine.
> I feel remote work is dissipating even the camaraderie that used to exist within teams at work.

To me this was a major benefit of remote. We went from a place with informal rules and influence to one that is more formal and thus easier for me to understand. The motivations of mercenaries are nice and simple and straightforward.
Exactly. 100% a publicity stunt, and I’m sure nobody involved expected it to be cited as a serious product decades later.
Our 7mo old will sleep with a bottle of milk in the cot with her propped up by a blanket, which is our night time routine. Or with a blanket on her cheek. Or she’ll fall asleep in my arms while watching TV, but will wake up immediately and dance a jig if I try to put her in the cot. She also falls asleep in the baby carrier after 10mims if walking around, after which I can put her in the cot most times.

She’s fallen asleep while sat by herself about 4 times.

I heard white noise can mess with their development—it’s important to be able to sleep with random background noises like a door opening or a pencil dropping, so we never used it much.
,, The ability for a government to unilaterally lock people out of their bank accounts without a court order or any form of recourse is virtually unprecedented in Western society.''

Technically you are right, but for me the bail-in in Cyprus in 2013 was scary enough to diversify into physical gold and Bitcoin (I stopped the gold part since then), as I realized that I'm just a ,,creditor'' to a bank, I don't own the money that exists in my bank account, and this can happen inside the EU.
There's a big difference in this depending on why the SSD lost the data.
If it was fraudulently declaring a lack of write-back cache despite a lack of observed crash-consistency, due to not just innocent negligience in firmware development, that's far different from some genuine bug in the FTL messing up the data mapping.
what makes you think they're designing tools for you to use?

what if they're actually designing systems and schemes which use you? (in soviet russia ---and the modern day internet--- computer uses YOU)

I started trying to make a joke but now I'm not laughing :|
I spend more time these days building up the online network on Twitter, a Discord I started, an online meetup I started, and one good Slack group.

My network has grown much faster and I've met more interesting people than the old days of in office work and in person meetup, even in NYC.
https://fairtax.org/about/how-fairtax-works

My personal favorite. Eliminate the income tax altogether. Have a simple sales tax. Send everyone a check so that poor people don’t suffer.

The Irs would almost entirely be eliminated.

No taxes for reusing things so good for the environment.
> Who needs the crap „startpage“ as a startpage anyways.

I understand this 100%. Youtube is the same exact thing - the home page is total garbage unless you enjoy watching the same 8 videos you just watched. But we're in a thread about bad UI/UX, so I'm going to complain that the "default" being bad is a bad thing.
> unintentionally building a universe where it was the "internal team" who developed it

0% chance it was unintentional given that he said “no ad agency would have done this ad”

Her tweet gets her firm attention from people who may believe that Coinbase is bad/run by men who want to take credit for other peoples’ work, which is probably… a lot of people. Her tweet is probably good for business.

No way it gets litigated or that they win, given that other people at Coinbase publicly gave her credit even before she Tweeted
As a manager, the big ones are making sure that everyone understands what is going on, and feels responsible for it. So if you see a silo developing, you intentionally break it, and explain to the team why you're asking someone who knows nothing about a particular domain to own the task (and also call on the silo to make themselves available to help teach the domain and answer questions and such). It means that task will take longer, but the long term health and effectiveness of the team will be increased.

That also includes manager context; ideally, even things that a manager usually does, the team starts stepping up to do. So working with product to define requirements? Manager should include the team with that and look to have them start taking ownership of it over time. Prioritization? Team sport, until it becomes as natural as breathing, and people are better able to prioritize their own time as emergents come in. Etc. This not only helps avoid the -manager- becoming a bottleneck that slows everyone down, but it helps individuals to grow really quickly and feel more empowered.
Flaw that exposed teacher data existed since 2011
But then you have to find a place to store the key that can be securely erased. Perhaps there is some sort of hardware enclave you can misuse. Even a tiny amount of securely erasable flash would be the answer.
Ideally, there's some field in our data that we can use -- e.g. train on data from cities in several countries, test on data from cities in a different country; train on one corpus, test on another; train on climate data at one level of CO2, test on data at another. If there's no such field, I do a simple 1d dimension reduction, and pick off 20% of the data at the extremes.

If we know exactly the domain where our model will be used, and it matches exactly the disposition of the training data, then shuffling is fine. But if we want our model to work well in new domains, then we're like scientists looking for generalizable laws, and the best way to test this is by testing in unseen domains. It's often hard to get hold of data with this domain-diversity, which is why a lot of ML models are fragile.
Russia needs that European money too. It's 35% of their GDP and selling to Europe is more lucrative than selling to allies.

They currently have record gas prices, so it doesn't look like they mind selling gas. They sell gas to theirb close allies at ( almost) cost to reduce unrest.

Peak of the conflict was obviously not in 2015...

There are multiple reasons why he didn't do it sooner.

Here's one: https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/foreign-exchange-reserve....
There was a period around 2014 - 2016 where even if you used uBlock, ads would still get through. Even now, when I use computers that just have uBlock Origin installed, some ads, and especially autoplaying videos on news sites, still get through.
Let’s be real here. If you’re only getting angry now, you don’t care about democracy.

You care about your goddamned Bored Apes and other ways of doing end runs around financial controls.

The convoy is anti-democratic. It is not a protest in the conventional sense. They are not petitioning for concerns to be heard; they are asking to be treated as if they were the real government. Many of them have bizarre legal theories and even started to swear each other in as peace officers to justify resisting with deadly force. The end goal of their actions were to get the government to declare itself illegitimate. Hey, I am often skeptical of the state too, but given the convoyers’ aims I would not expect the government to even talk to them.

Be real. This was no protest, and it wasn’t even analogous to an Occupy Wall Street action. A bunch of gullible people who had their brains hollowed out by Q, Facebook and Fox, led by opportunistic white supremacists and at least one literal Nazi, descended on the capital and crucial economic chokepoints to cause mayhem. There were a shocking number of US and Trump flags. In my city, these shitheads scheduled a convoy to pass by every major hospital and disrupt access. The organizers seem to believe doctors and nurses are in on the conspiracy. The hospital workers were advised not to wear scrubs in public lest they be harassed or attacked. I’m happy that Vancouver bicyclists stepped in to block them. But they wandered aimlessly around my neighborhood, and I have friends who’ve been harassed on the street for wearing masks.

It’s very tempting to let the state fuck these assholes up.

But I’ve been involved in a lot of protests and I expect these emergency powers to be used against more admirable causes next.

If you actually care about limiting the powers of the state, the answer is not to clutch your fucking crypto even harder. As already noted, the government can act against financial institutions and laundered coins and assets will be tracked.

Do something useful like donate to civil liberties associations, such as the CCLA, which has taken a stance against abuses of emergency powers and will bring a suit against the Canadian government.

https://ccla.org/press-release/ccla-calls-for-revocation-of-...
Why for just minors and not for everyone?
> But currently, the App Store's monopoly/monoculture abuses are retarding progress

No evidence of this what so ever.
I am in the same boat (and country). I use PlayOnLinux.

https://www.playonlinux.com/en/app-2653-Adobe_Acrobat_Reader...
> And the company was close to being successful no?

Sure, they were just days away from closing some big deals... in the same way a compulsive gambler is just one more hand or roll of the dice away from a big payout.
FWIW, when I saw the QR, I assumed it was for something like crypto or gambling.
> We bring in outside engineering contractors all the time to work on stuff. When the feature is finished, we don't tell customers "thank you, yes we're very happy with the work our engineering team and McKinsely & Sons Contracting Firm LLC did for us"

But do you ever tell your customers "We used no contractors for this work. No contractor would ever have had the ideas our internal team came up with" when there were, in fact, contractors involved in the conception and design of the project?
I was initially happy, but the papercuts added up to unbearable. When I was powerless to stop the force upgrading of one of my packages, it was the last straw for me. I really wish AppImage were taken more seriously because it is fantastic (but I know doesn't have sandboxing).