skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with this advice is the same as with most advice for how to get ahead: It just does not scale, not even a little. It only works for a few. If more people follow it, it's just more stressful and/or expensive for everyone.

I mean, if this is the kind of society that any poster of such advice has in mind than I won't complain. Who am I to dictate what the end goal is? If people want a society for winners, so be it. I just wish that advice givers were aware of that and would show it. As it usually sounds like such advice is given without any thought for scalability.

Or you subscribe to the idea that a huge number of people could indeed have this 0.1% super idea. I can't really disprove that this would be possible I admit, a huge number of people suddenly having crazy good ideas all at once, and all or most not requiring a lot of resources (which they would compete over, and with all the old industries).
> You just need to learn at your pace and take an instructor.

I think this is right. I had friends drag me to Whistler for a weekend. I had never snowboarded. We went to the top of the mountain and they put me on a blue run and left me. I fell down the whole mountain that morning. We had lunch and then it clicked the afternoon. And then for the second day I was fine. My elbow and hip was destroyed but I stopped falling.

So I thought it was easily and I advised my novice friend to do the same next year. He fell down the mountain for the morning session and quit entirely.

I think I was just more coordinated than him (he later broke his arm after tripping during a run). I think if he had taken instruction and just cruised greens until he stopped falling he might have learned to love it.

I would never advise someone to learn like I did after watching my friends interest get snuffed out by my bad advice.
How come there are two active threads on this? It's pretty confusing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30428788
Can you name some countries you think are "major players" if the US isn't or won't be?

>it’s not just the TSA i should dislike.

You should try interacting with Australian or Canadian border forces if you want to see a true organization you should dislike. Hard to see Australia or Canada being even minor players if they can't deal with that dysfunction.
Ha! Thanks for including ElReg :)
Hey HN, this is just a super simple browser extension that I put together in a few hours to fix the annoying issue of bookmarks becoming outdated (e.g. the bookmarked page being deleted or removed). Just run the extension every once in a while to update the favicons and move dead sites into a trash folder (where you can then decide whether you want to keep or delete them).

Thanks to hrez for the suggestion in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29796099

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Repo: https://github.com/samueldobbie/remarkable-extension

Chrome Store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/remarkable/mjmbcbg...
Centre For Information Resilience: https://maphub.net/Cen4infoRes/russian-ukraine-monitor

This one seems much better than the original link. Probably the best "live" map I've seen so far.
Is it possible to not land on your tailbone when you fall on heel edge? I feel like the board guarantees I hit exactly the same spot each time. I took my first snowboard lesson a week ago and while the morning was fine, the groomers had been scraped away to reveal the ice underneath in the afternoon and I did a number on my coccyx...
SQLite does not support column based optimizations. Time series data is insanely compressible.
I wonder, what is the current state of satellite technology available to military? Can they stream near real-time hi-res images that would "prove" that one side or the other is effectively responsible for a certain escalation?

An (non-existent) international institution to analyze and take action is the other part of the puzzle.
Even the streaming stuff will include it subtly though. I was watching a show on Netflix with my wife the other day, Sweet Magnolia’s and it seemed about as controversial as a Hallmark channel show. But these days I notice whenever specific catch phrases or expressions are getting used across multiple news outlets and it puts me a little bit on guard if a suddenly notice a phrase being used excessively…as if the point is to normalize it in your language.

That show constantly used variations of the “Your truth” thing, which has always seemed in opposition to “the truth” or just “truth”. It’s one of the shadier expressions out there because it seems so harmless IMO.
That's what you get from disabling exceptions: a call to std::abort instead of a throw.
Burton has some new step in bindings that seem to resolve a lot of the issues people had with older styles.
I run my personal mailserver on Hetzner too! They seem to do a good job of keeping their IPs off blacklists compared to most VPS providers.

So far no problems delivering to Gmail. I was initially junked by Outlook, but that fixed itself after a while since I had sent enough emails to build up reputation.
It really isn't.

People need to stop making trivial benchmarks and draw ... silly ... conclusions.

http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/~robby/courses/322-2013-spr...

It is a fact that C++ exceptions are largely low overhead, and that you also don't have to use them. In fact, C++ can make everyone happy, because you can choose which parts you like.

Personally, knowing how exceptions are implemented and having implemented small parts of the ABI, I can safely say that I will be using exceptions where appropriate in all my C++ projects. Parts where real-time behavior is needed we can use custom containers that don't randomly exit on failure. On low-memory hardware it is beneficial to have either tiny exception footprint or no exceptions at all.

It is true that C++ exceptions as they are implemented can be improved upon, breaking ABI. There are also other contenders (Herbceptions) that show great promise, bringing another way of handling exceptions that is not source compatible. Either way, many who work with custom C++ code do not care much about ABI, as everything is source compiled, and such would benefit from a new ABI generation.

Zero-overhead exceptions by Herb Sutter: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p070...
U.S. President Bill Clinton signed the agreement to protect Ukraine from a Russian invasion in exchange for it's nuclear weapons. However the agreement was never submitted it for ratification by the U.S. Senate. So in effect in the words of the Brooking institution it became a 'politically binding but not legally binding agreement.'
I've come to think about internet usage as "high-stimulus" or "low-stimulus".

Low stim internet usage would be things like looking up the actor from that one movie, and then getting the name. When you get the name, you get a low level of stimulus. You just go "oh yeah, right".

High stim internet is an unregulated and extremely addictive drug. So much of the internet is meticulously designed to elicit the biggest possible emotional reaction from its users, who may then get caught in the undertow of looking for the next big emotional rush.

Content is irrelevant; the same content could be styled as "FIFTEEN AMAZING FOOD HACKS, NUMBER EIGHT WILL BEAT UP YOUR FATHER!" or it could be styled as "hey did you know you can crunch up breakfast cereal and use it as breading"

Twitter, reddit, instagram; these and many other sites are just ranches for people who are caught up in the undertow to spend half their day on, bleeding out personal information to whomever wants to buy it.

So I guess I'm not baffled by how negative it is, how little you gain from it once you're on it long term, or why peopl euse it long term despite that. It's a drug. They're addicted. No one's stopping the pushers. It's not going to stop on its own.
The remake is so different that I don't think it could spoil it. The character / art design, voice acting, format of missions, etc. are so different that it's basically just an homage.
C++ STL is a strong selling point for c++, disabling exceptions mean you lose all of STL in the library, unless you're fine to use STL without any error reporting at all.

In the gaming case(no rtti, no smart pointer, no exceptions(thus meaning ctor|dtor are "unsafe")), what else do you leave with c++ then?

I use c++ but I'm always struggling with yes-or-no for exceptions.

c++ is deeply rooted with exceptions, bad or good.
What sort of things broke for you? My experience has been that maintenance has been little other that adding the features designed to penalise spammers.
Since all the local TV stations and newspapers were bought out by conglomerates, they have been ruined. Local TV news is just random crimes and feel-good stories, and the newspapers are stories about restaurant openings and closures and sports.

Feels like meaningless dreck to fill the gaps between ads.

The Economist remains a good rag, and Wired is surprisingly good, albeit full of ads. But for true, long-form, thoughtful discussions I look to YouTube and podcasts these days.
I once heard someone say that depression is a spiritual problem, as in the cause lies with your relationship (or lack there of) with a higher power.

I just had a thought - what if there is a biological or evolutionary quirk that believing in a higher power results in more happiness? It would certainly explain why some people who seem to have a supernatural outlook are so happy dispite what seems like terrible suffering.

E.g. Carlo Acutis [1] was known for his cheerfulness despite suffering and dying from leukaemia.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Acutis

Edit: spelling
disagree essentially because I believe we'd get into a situation where the problem becomes heat dissipation.

the problem is the human psique, not technological capabilities.
In Canada, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) allows you you to leverage existing relationships with banks and credit unions, "Sign-in Partners":

* https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/e-services/...

* https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/e-services/...

* https://verified.me/government-sign-in-by-verified-me/

You can also create a stand-alone account with the CRA if you wish. Other federal agencies use the 'partner' system as well.

It's basically SAML.
hope it has linux based OSes compatibility increased (pure ELF64, full libdl-ing, etc).
is there some specific memorandum of understanding or something with promise not to expand NATO east ?
Well, WRT Google Calendar in particular: https://www.discalbot.com/

I understand that's one of at least several, and that if Slack isn't actively making trouble, looking for alternatives is a switching cost that may itself be prohibitive -- but if Slack is becoming really troublesome, it might be easier than you think.
> that implies no bias on the part of WAPO.

No news source is completely unbiased, WaPo included. But WaPo is an outstanding journalistic outlet with a long history of accurate reporting and worthy of being a singular news source if you had to pick one.
How are there two active threads on this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30428142

It's pretty confusing.
When I lived in Indiana, the Indiana State Police (which most residents would consider to be the equivalent to "highway patrol") investigated a lot of things that had nothing to do with patrolling highways. I imagine this situation works the same, but with poor labelling ("highway patrol" serving more like "state police" in at least some situations).
Depends on why you do it and what you do there.

I'm at FAANG and still learning plenty. I'm not here to hit an arbitrary goal but because I have to have a job and it pays well, so might as well turbocharge my savings.

But yes, you should always respect the journey. It never stops: keep participating in it, and keep your eyes open.
I mean... I'm looking at the current events page and there's a conspicuous lack of exhausting USA focused culture war BS. It's dry and to be honest a bit boring. If you look at the Ongoing Events pane on the right, there's a list of present issues that don't necessarily get reported on because they don't have the flash to drive ad revenue.
It has been many years since I used C++

But returning null is an obvious choice.

Combined types which return the structure or an error are another. Has the advantage of returning error information, why failure.

There are many ways
> yet they live essentially petrified of violent crime to the point of carrying a deadly weapon for self-defense on their person at all times

That's an odd way of stating it. They're concerned, so they're arming themselves.. but continuing on with their lives. Sounds like the opposite of "petrified" to me.
At this point the IRS is completely confusing as to understanding whether they've received things. I've seen a non-profit where the IRS was sending them a request for what the letter said was an unfiled annual return, while at the same time, the IRS had the processed annual return they were requesting publicly available on their own website. This is without identifying number confusion. I can't imagine what it would be like with that.

I have to assume that they have some serious database problems that they are completely unable to handle, likely because of staffing and budget cuts that appear to have been intended to cripple them.
> the hiring pool is bigger

In the US, this is only a benefit to bigger businesses or businesses with a presence in multiple states already (or those willing to take on quite a bit of new administrative work).

I work for a 15-person remote company based in a single state and the additional overhead required to understand taxation, labor laws, and other issues in even neighboring states is higher than you might think. We're putting it off and just hiring locally for now.
Show HN: A blog engine based on GitHub issue with the power of Next.js ISR
Ran a mail server for about 20 years, recently switched it over to fastmail so I didn't have to worry about sender rep, or getting hacked. Didn't realize until I switched what a weight on my mind it was having that server out there being pentested constantly. (Watch your postfix and ssh auth logs if you run a mailserver, you're basically under constant probing!)
"He confirmed that Putin is not on the sanctions list."

Why not?

They don't want to freeze his assets, or this will be the next step?
Most large nations have these kind of issues from time to time. US had the civil war. Still, I wouldn't say that historically Ukraine wanted to be completely separate from Russia in the same way as Ireland has (from UK).

Nationalists are usually the loudest minority, while the bulk of population does not really care.
So does France, hence the existence there of the CNIL (Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertes) [1], formed in 1978, to enforce that.

Because much of Europe has living memory of national registries used for fatal purposes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_nationale_de_l%27in...
Flutter has its own language (Dart) - my guess is many dart-specific questions are conflated with "flutter" while many JavaScript questions posted by react native devs are not tagged with "react-native".
> How do people who write Clojure deal with lack of type checking

If you've worked in Python, Ruby or JS it's pretty similar.

What I do is I use variable names that make it more obvious what type things are. I also make use of destructuring and Clojure Spec to indicate what keys a map has or what values in a tuple are supposed to be.

Also the REPL can help you quickly explore the state and functions which you can use to try and inspect the types, that's useful when trying to understand someone else's code base which might not have had the most readable code.

And since you do REPL driven development, as I code I run the code constantly in the REPL which will throw type errors when I make one. It has the bonus of catching logical errors as well as helps me figure out how to implement what I want more quickly.

> And auto-complete when it comes to Java library interop

You should get some auto-complete here depending on your tooling. It should lost all possible methods of an object, just not constrained to the direct type. For me that's often enough as I know kinda what I'm looking for, so I can find it and auto-complete.

If you want the auto-complete to a specific type, you can type hint the object and then the auto-complete will list only methods of that type.

Finally, I do rely on the Javadoc a lot.
> I learned a lot from him, and try to follow this example, but I still can't do this today and am humiliated (in a positive way) by this way of living.

Can confirm. Had a friend for awhile (she and her husband moved to NZ, and I barely hear from them now) who had this same "wonder at everything / happy with anything" aspect, and her entire life is practically magic; her father is similar, both in success and vibe.

> am humiliated (in a positive way)

I think the word you're looking for is "humbled"?
I'm on postfix / dovecot / spamassassin.

One issue after I moved boxes & IPs at OVH is that Microsoft refused to accept mail from my new IP no matter what I tried. Everyone else is fine. So I have to relay live/hotmail destinations via another jump on a VPS I have.
A lot of this is addressed in Amusing Ourselves to Death (which I can highly recommend), but to address some specific points

> it's reporting on facts, checking sources

Right, but which facts? Local restaurant inspections is probably useful since it has the potential to impact my daily life. Reporting on some kid who fell down a well in some country on the other side of the planet probably isn't, since the situation will not affect me in any tangible way. Not to downplay the event, of course. To those involved it's very important, but telling me does nothing except make me feel bad.

> and providing two sides to every story. Opinions and partisan "news" are not that.

The thing is, though, not every news story or societal issue has two sides. Some have more, some have fewer. Trying to find someone to provide an opposing viewpoint on an issue that reasonably shouldn't have one means that every time the news does that in the name of giving equal time it has to go further into the fringe to find some wingnut who will provide it, legitimizing and amplifying their viewpoint instead of dismissing it. Repeat that a few times over a couple of decades and you start to see the televised discourse we 'enjoy' today.
When I was growing up I used to help run the mail servers in my dad's small-ish datacenter. One of the things we were commonly plagued by is that the email ecosystem is a giant fiefdom gated by large providers to fight spam. If you end up on their lists, justifiably or not, it's non-trivial to be removed. The other point is that providers like GMail use custom protocols that improve the mail experience quite a bit.

Nowadays I use ProtonMail and I get most of the features that GMail gave me, with the added benefit of not managing the blacklist situations.
A few years ago, seemingly out of nowhere, were a bunch of articles about how Oman was the center of terrorism in the middle east.

I had had family stationed there years before so the name popped out at me, as they'd described it previously as "open and accepting of westerners" (relatively speaking, I guess).

Anyway, this "center of terrorism" thing was front page news across the board for a solid week, maybe two, then poof, it went away. Nobody even remembers it now.

I don't really know what to make of it. What would I, Normy McYaBasic, do with the above information in any case?
You can manufacture demand with propaganda and money laundering. Unlike the US which is driven by industry, Canada's real estate market is not

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30208224

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16417623

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18319568

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30397365
I was a US person with an ITIN and have become a naturalized citizen. ITINs are very different to SSN. Honestly I've found the USA very easy to deal with compared to the UK, France of South Africa where I've lived.

The challenge with an ITIN is it blurs into immigration, visa status, whether you are violating visa terms, whether your ITIN - which you can get on a tourist visa - is an indication that you're trying to build a life here when you're just supposed to be a tourist, and so on. That doesn't even get into property ownership, or being a director or shareholder in a US corporation with an ITIN and various visa types.
title talks about part of sanctions. They also banned all trade with lugansk and donetsk republics, sanctioned 27 individuals responsible for recognition, mentioned 351 lawmakers and blocked Russian central bank from getting financing from EU.

Most strict seems to be financial sanction, altough I am not that versed to talk about it.

Otherwise sanctions seems weak.
I like weekly publications.

24-hour news is all about reacting first, thinking never.

Daily publications are better, but there's still not a lot of time to formulate thought.

Weekly publications allow things to breathe a bit more. Allows some context to be established, some thought to be had before taking fingers to keyboard.
stressing out and panicing is the worst thing you can do in this situation.

usually, keep your head cool and focus on the problem at hand.

This is also the reason why engineering/operations should be seperate from customer communications. The people who are fixing the issue should not also be the ones doing the communication with the outside world.
What would they want with the whole country, lol? Believe they would be happy if the EU adopts that economically ruined part any time, without threatening them further by pulling more and more countries .. ah anyway.. So many armchair politicians and strategists with so much far off comments here, it is getting hilarious.

And yeah, a lot of pain that will now ensue likely could have been avoided if that NATO thing hadn't started now, or maybe even taken Russia in when they pleaded for it 20 years ago? But yeah, now go on and push them more and more into their corner, where either one of us or them will soon do something really stupid.

I know I will be downvoted to oblivion, and Russias move now is very bad, but the hypocracy and the US-pinked armchair geostrategic world view here is really so one sided, cannot believe it.
So why the point about frostbite? Surely you aren't implying that this technique will protect you from that?
How do you not get blacklisted immediately?
For sure, you're right. I'm talking about base rates. The curve of human
experience has shifted dramatically in a positive direction over time. So if a genie said to your unborn self, pick and era to be born into and I'll randomly assign you a person from the era, you'd be crazy to choose any time but now.