skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we accepted two non-democratic countries in EU, Poland and Hungary, and these are the results.

I can't speak for Poland, but the political landscape of Hungary was different when it joined the EU, and the country was by no means considered non-democratic or EU-skeptic.

> They infected all the other countries

The EU was infected by rising inequality and the degradation of purchasing power by the middle class, which is a global issue that gives an opportunity for populists to gain power, and for the population to find scapegoats, like pointing fingers at a foreign country.
It's predecessors like the EEC were set up in the fifties post WWII, but yes the European Union was only established in 1992 with the Maastricht Treaty.
The thing with WWW is links, the web. So https://news.ycombinator.com is a good starter. From there, yes, you could end up on twitter.com for example but it would be worthwhile.
Because their site is valuable data and if you automate access to it, you can re-sell their services without having to use their site with all its tracking/ads/metrics etc.

They want people to hit their site and get cross-sold, not order through some aggregator.
Actually, global elite is a few steps below actual pros - above global theres faceit level 10, then open ladders/leagues, then invite only leagues which are at semi-pro level and lastly the pro leagues

EDIT: AFAIK Global Elite starts at about 1600-1700 elo, theres a lot of room above that
Previously GA and GTM would share private data with Google but we could at least see requests going out to google, so if you had rejected data being shared with 3rd parties or hadn't been asked at all (think GDPR) you could see that the website was breaking the law. This clever solution from Google hides it from us, consumers, so that we will just have to trust that if a website doesn't ask if it may share our details with Google, or when we tell them not to share data with Google, they actually won't do that.

Just to enphasise: for GDPR it really doesn't matter where your data is shared with a third party, from the browser or server. It's your data so they have to ask your permission to share it and otherwise they can't.
I'm a massive hard retro gamer too and if you only look at AAA titles then it's easy to see how you're right. However the gaming industry is so much bigger than EA et al. There are so many fun indie games out now that have a real embodiment of that creativity you miss.

Take Untitled Goose Game, for example. It was released 3 years ago and you play the part of a Goose who's mission it is to annoy as many people in a quaint English village as possible. The game is basically a modern day equivalent of the How to Be a Complete Bastard class of games from the Spectrum era of home systems. And it's fun too!

There's also no shortage of modern games released for older hardware. On the shelf behind me I have at least 5 games released in the last 5 years for various Sega consoles. The Gameboy and Gameboy Advance also see a surprising number of new releases each year too (though I don't collect for those consoles specifically).
Perhaps it takes 'pre-orderes'.

You want a place to stay, inform the bot "give me anything good in this area when available", pay the bot extra money, and then the bot goes out and hits the good rooms in the area the moment they become available.
There's also https://libcello.org/ a popular (?) macro-heavy library which makes C feel modern.
Ask HN: What was better in the past in tech?
Not that progress should be denied entirely, but I often think that the past gets discarded too quickly and many good ideas got lost with the bath water. I'm certainly not the only one to feel that way.

So I'm wondering what such good ideas that have disappeared can other HNers remember.

I'll start:

In the golden age of sun stations, the BIOS was written in forth, and the ROM contained a forth interpreter. Not only all extension cards ROM was interpreted and therefore all extension cards were architecture independent, but you were given a Forth REPL to tinker around the boot process, or in fact at any later point once the system had started with a special key combination.

That was in my opinion way ahead of the modern BIOSes, even taking into account OpenBIOS.

Your turn?
They already make them optional for single nested statements, which causes a gigantic mess when you extend code and forget to add them.

if (a)
doThis();
andThat();

is interpreted as

if(a){
doThis();
}
andThat();

Some compilers are nice enough to throw around misleading indentation warnings, but without an explicit block termination like FI this just causes issues all over the place.
To clarify, what is needed are:

1. static if conditionals

2. version conditionals

3. assert

4. manifest constants

5. modules

I occasionally find macro usages that would require templates, but these are rare.
There can be good reasons to keep prices "below market value".
This is just too good. It must be a joke on the author's part :D
I still miss Adobe Fireworks...
Depends on where you are in the world.

the Netherlands, this doesn't apply. Cyclists might be dicks (especially in amsterdam) but everyone cycles.

In the UK in the big cities, there tends to be lots of cycling. Adherence to the rules of red lights is lax amongst <15% of cyclist. However they are the obnoxious noisy shites whom everyone hates. (fellow cyclists included)

Again, not subhuman, but classic dickheads.

In the US(well NYC), from the time I lived there, cyclists are either raging hippies, or aggressive couriers. On the westcoast it was more of a lifestyle choice.
GitHub App to set and enforce security policies
(edit: I started learning Japanese at 18. I'd say) I became fluent in Japanese in my late 20s. I'm close to 44. My wife is Japanese. I live in Japan. Japanese middle-schoolers (edit: ok, maybe high-schoolers) are more fluent than I am.

GP is not saying you can't learn. GP is saying you're unlikely to be more skilled than those who started earlier. Also, past a certain age, there's a more limited amount of time you can dedicate to learning new stuff.
> USA does not allow private citizens to operate their own nuclear power plants.

Well, obviously not. That would be ridiculous. Private companies can operate nuclear power plants just fine. See the big list: https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/list-power-reactor-un...

I believe all of those are private companies with the exception of TVA.
Trump’s social media app will reportedly go live on Presidents’ Day
The abomination is using the preprocessor to redefine the syntax and/or invent new syntax. Supporting identifier characters that look like `:` is just madness.

Of course, I've also opined that Unicode supporting multiple encodings for the same glyph is also madness. The Unicode people veered off the tracks and sank into a swamp when they decided that semantic information should be encoded into Unicode characters.
Probably the nuance that is not spelled out (and certainly should be) is that AirBNB expects only interactive user agents, and not automated/batch user agents.
Isn't 70 y/o pretty old to retire by previous standards?

The concern I have is if anywhere is actually going to hire a 65 y/o programmer that can't afford to retire.

Obviously, age discrimination is illegal but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
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Kleppman is no idiot, and I learned a lot from his book. Highly recommended :)

This seems very usefull, but this part destroys some of the magic:

> The only case Automerge cannot handle automatically, because there is no well-defined resolution, is when users concurrently update the same property in the same object (or, similarly, the same index in the same list). In this case, Automerge arbitrarily picks one of the concurrently written values as the "winner"

I guess that's a pragmatic choice, but isn't avoiding this the whole point of conflict free types?
So something like https://yalls.org?
> If you’ve been surrounded by high achievers and motivated people who would have chosen programming jobs because that’s what they like to do every day, it can be a shock to work with people who really just hate doing anything that resembles work.

That's a false dichotomy[1]

[1] If I am reading you correctly, you're saying that there's two extremes

1. Programmers who enjoy it.

2. Programmers who hate doing anything that resembles work.

But, honestly, those two classes can't be the extreme ends of the spectrum. "People who enjoy programming" overlap significantly with "people who hate doing the work assigned to them".

You make it sound like people who hate doing the work you assigned to them must be people who hate programming.

IME, it's almost the opposite - people who love programming aren't going to be the least bit excited about mindless CRUD duties on an over-engineered stack that has 27 levels of indirection before it even hits the database record.

> Yet they’re out there, in surprisingly large numbers.

It appears that way to you because you are drawing wrong conclusions from your observations. You're looking at devs who hate working on your stack, for your team and extrapolating that to "These devs hate working as a programmer".

IOW, your observations that people hate working is accurate, your conclusion that it must be because they hate programming is not.
Careful what you wish for - it can, and probably will get worst. I still get cookie rage every time I have to deal with cookie popups.
To put things in perspective, i recommend trying to run with a pihole plugged in your network. Even just for a week or two. The difference is so stark it emphasises how shit things are right now.
The discussion reminds me a little of the one around LaTeX in the scientific community. Latex is extremely powerful but reading the raw source of a text is a pain. WISYWIG is just so much more comfortable when writing, but MS Word sucks in its own specific and manifold ways (as does LibreOffice).

HTML is still not nice to read, too much boilerplate tags required. Markdown source however is mostly well-readable in a plain-text editor, and offers the basic formatting that serves 95% of the needs.

But the truth is: the ideal text layout platform for scientific writing does not exist.

Markdown+HTML+CSS could be getting close, but it currently still lacks LaTeX's tooling for citations, support for pagination.

MS Word's "track changes" is extremely useful when collaboratively editing (and no, Overleaf's version doesn't come close, unfortunately). But references and citations in Word still are no match for the flexibility of bibtex, even with Papers/Zotero/Mendeley. Figure placing can be a nightmare, although LaTeX is not infallible, either. And you need a Mac or Windows to use Word, and on a Mac it feels like it's running in an emulator.

I have given up on the belief that one tool could solve all this. There are a few good attempts like overleaf and the less-known authorea (which I liked more), but these are cloud apps which complicates writing offline.

The only solution is to choose whatever tool works for the specific use case, learn to live with its shortcomings, and never forget that in the end only the finished manuscript counts.
It would be good if the criterium collection had a netflix like service (perhaps it does, there's a "criterium channel" website they maintain, but it's unavailable in my region so don't know how it works....
Could there be something alien and unnatural about cycling that triggers a visceral response in our brains resulting in fear, anger, and aggression?

In New Zealand and Australia there is a bird called the Magpie. During their nesting season in the spring, they sometimes get very aggressive towards cyclists. It's not unusual for them to swoop down and hit at you from behind with their claws. There are even cases of cyclists being killed by Magpies after being knocked off their bikes.

But in my experience, if a Magpie is swooping you, the best way to make it stop is to get off your bike! As soon as the bird sees you on your feet and pushing your bike, they will calm down and back off.

I've also heard of bulls in farmer's fields behaving the same way - aggressive towards someone on a bike, but calming down when you're pushing it.

Could human brains be similar, especially for those not used to seeing cyclists so often?
If you're curious about this phenomenon, you may be interested in the book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman :)
in case you need more stats, first 7 trys

4
12 (10sec)
8 (15sec)
1 (120sec)
11 (10.91sec)
9 (13.33sec)
10 (12sec)

first try was with touchpad, rest of them with mice
that 1/120 was brutforcing, there was at least 4 or 5 similar shapes with deadzones
maybe there should be a way to rotate viewport manually (for some time penalty?) and bruteforcing should be time taxed as well though
On the other hand, choosing where to go is an emotional argument. By the time someone has made the decision to go to the US because of advertising and marketing, the fee for ESTA or a visa are secondary concerns. Even more so if the decision maker and the accountant are not the same person, as can happen in families.
Imperial measures were not about scale. They were about picking something one can easily relate to and then use that to express the quantity. If one needs more then 2 digits, one pick up a new thing as a reference. For more precision halve or quarter was used, as they were easily relate to, than decimal fractions. And for even more precision bigger units were serving as a common base to subtract with smaller units to express variations from the base.

For example one uses inches to measure things one can handle with hands as the inch is related to fingers. Then one use feet to measure size of houses. For a height of a person one uses 5 feet as a base (in past height outside that was much less common in adults) and inches to express the difference from the base.

From that point of view measuring the weight of person in pounds is a wrong way to apply imperial system as it requires 3 digits. It used to be stones. Typically one can guess a person weight in stones with no problem. And even when dieting a change of weight in one pound is mostly noise. The real change is more on the scale of quarter/third of stone.
There’s nothing immoral about taking advantage of someone else’s marketing budget. If they feel like pricing below market that’s great. If you can resell their stuff for more great. If they don’t like it they can try to stop you. You can’t fix the real price of things far from market demand without the full force of the state behind you and that usually doesn’t work either.
One can argue that the EU itself is rather undemocratic, as the Parliament does not hold much power, and there isn't a clear separation between executive and legislative, as the Commission and the Council of Ministers both participate in the process.
Something I've experimented a bit with in the past is having something like Storybook for API modules. Rather than jumping out to postman, you could just have your notebook that calls your API functions. So far the stumbling block is always ES Modules. Usually the client code uses them and Node always makes them a pain to deal with. Hopefully the situation will be better in another couple of years.
Well, the title is abhorrent and curiously self-deluded. Just consider the the wars against native Indians, south American tribes, holocaust, and all those genocidal wars throughout (and ongoing in fact) the times. Who is safer and richer? and would we really be so much worse off if there was no Holocaust (for instance) ?

First, the article navigates apologetically into saying that the ends justify the means, and second, that US goals are somewhat altruistic (in one way or another the "trickling down of benefits" is at work regardless whether planned or not). With US gone as a "globocop" the world will be worse off is what the author really wanted to say (which is self-serving conclusion, and was probably argued 100's of times by each dominant "state-power/kingdom/city-state/tribe" finding itself at the down turn of a cycle since the dawn of humanity).

However, such conclusion on its own is of no significance (no lessons learned for the future and no added value to humanity by stating that). I also find it childishly naive and romantic to conclude that state has as its biggest concern its citizens. The history of humanity (highlighted by the US history itself) is so clear about the fallacy of such view (which itself sits solid on the laws of nature). Seldom and then only for a short time (relative to nation-state life cycle) the interests of citizens and states are aligned.

I simply reject the premise and conclusion of the entire piece, and it is sad that WP would publish this ideological drivel.
But when you drive up to innocent citizens and switch off their city, do you have a functional democracy? Or is this the new way the US understands exporting democracy?
> Euro-realist

It's not realism to believe the EU can't exist within or facilitate your idealised frame of reference (assuming it makes sense and is something people should want), it's just negativity.

> I wish people would stop attributing our attitude to nationalistic resurgences.

Quite frankly nationalistic resurgence is the #1 indicator for "euro realism", so this is a very reasonable stance to take.
worked fine in my ff v97.0
The article sets out to explain the use of the term to allow more objective introspection but then only gives satirical examples. That's a bit disappointing.

You'd think reframing your own country's/culture's actions, behavior, politics or religion in intentionally alienated language (i.e. renaming key figures and concepts) would have some more practical examples.

The idea reminds me of the solution to fair sharing of a cake: have the person selected to cut it up go last when taking slices so they're incentivized to make all slices the same size. By being unable to benefit from any bias in the result (and in effect, potentially only being harmed by it) the person is forced to distance their immediate desire to have more cake from the act of dividing up the cake. Masking the country or cultural identity likewise (ideally) allows analyzing aspects of it without introducing in-group bias.

Of course I'm not sure simply spelling everything backwards is sufficient, but the article doesn't elaborate beyond this rather obvious use in satire.
I share the same opinion. Its limit make it useful only for a very small set of use cases.

It's being used a lot for code documentation, but MD is bad fit for documentation. Good documentation requires a lot more formatting and cross-referencing than you'd think. Every language I'm using that has been using MD (for embedded and online docs) added extensions, resulting in more fragmentation.

So in general I switch between 3-4 differently-flavoured markdowns constantly. The extended syntax used by various projects sucks. Where did the simplicity of MD go? It reads poorly when unformatted, which is how I read it 99.9% of the time.

I gravitate more towards RST as it's a bit more widely used, but also agree about AsciiDoc.
If this is just a container format for storage / transformation - as I understand the author promote front-end editing tools hiding the storage format, then they just try to reinvent structured text… sgml, xml and all their tools, schema description…
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Just like RIAA and MPAA you have a strange definition of stealing.
I'm not a trucker, so you would have to ask them about the gas they complain about. But there are others more obvious issues mentioned by the unions by international trucking - they have to compete with companies utilizing slave labour and sometimes even cases of trafficking. Hence my point that benefits of the EU is highly individual. Many have surely won, such as large companies, and many have lost.

>So what did the EU do that made cheaper gas more of an competitive advantage then it was before?

Enable all european truckers to work anywhere.

>BTW gas prices are something that Swedens goverment themselve handle...

I don't see how this is relevant to anything said previously, and yes, that is quite obvious.
Lots a animals become agitated by humans in contraptions that they haven't experienced a lot. I once talked with a wheelchair-bound man that told me that it is very common for dogs to bark at people in wheelchairs if the dog hasn't see that before.

Most animals and especially wild animals are just neophobic, including humans.
If you use "dictator" so loosely that everyone's parents, boss, etc. qualify - then you're just making a confusing mess with language. There are other, far better, words to describe such authority figures and leaders. Or, folks may start guessing that you bitterly resent authority figures.

You seem fairly negative and judgemental, and quick to label many people with what is (in most contexts) a pejorative term. That might be why most people (who don't share your worldview) do not find your company pleasant.

When I'm sufficiently frustrated, the notion of a dictator taking power, and throwing all the "wrong" sorts of people in prison...it does have emotional appeal. Out in the real world...from what I know of history, actual dictatorships have a poor track record. Especially on the "given a decent choice, would many of the population leave?" front.
he meant making the (a) part optional to make "if a" instead. parenthesis are (), {} are braces :)
In a sense, it's the prequel to Megalopolis. We need to know who we want to be before we can discuss how society is supposed to be.
Not sure what your point is. Are you saying I'm trolling because I'm saying that consumers will mostly be fine with farmed (and possibly 'lab grown') alternatives in the future? The sources used for our food have changed dramatically over time, no reason for that to not happen again.
Just a friendly reminder to anyone reading this — the "annoyances" lists you can enable in uBlock Origin get rid of basically all cookie popups. I haven't seen one in a couple of years.
The night shift mode on this blog has got to be the most pointless I've seen. Black text on black background with a reveal effect when you move your mouse!
I don't get either of you, at all. I greatly enjoy both.

I am not a serious runner, just ~20mi/week for health, but being outside, getting into that zone, the mental space for work/etc. as you mention (though math gets difficult with pace), or just listening to audiobooks as I watch the scenery change, it's great.

Weight training, on the other hand, is very technical. Mesocycles planned months out, tweaked as targets are crushed or missed, every set recorded with rates of perceived exertion, everything on timers, the constant strategizing over which variation of which accessory exercise might help with a particular sticking point and add a few lbs to a main lift in the long run. It's intoxicating.

I feel like people who find these things boring sat in a race car in a parking lot and decided race cars were boring.
Not the stuff in it, the universe itself.

You're sitting in your virtual bedroom, and your virtual laptop doesn't like or allow your choice of porn, or any other subject of interest.

You're in your virtual work shop, and your virtual bench and tools do not approve of the device you are building, or taking apart.

You're sewing a virtual dress and your virtual sewing machine doesn't allow you to make that design because it violates community standards, maybe by cultural appropriation, not that it tells you why...

No community established those standards, so the term is a lie, but your virtual telephone doesn't let you bring this complaint against the owners of the universe to anyone.

Taken a bit further, when you are uploaded, and the owners of the universe even own the medium you think in.