skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having a kid made my internet addiction 100% worse. When your free time only comes in brief, unpredictable snatches, and your smartphone is right there in your pocket and can be held while rocking a baby who can't quite sleep, guess what happens...
FYI that reads as extremely rude and uncaring to me as a US person, to the point where if you kept doing it I wouldn't be comfortable being friends with you.

Unless by bad service you mean something like spitting in your food or calling you a slur, you should just consider a 15% tip a part of bill for anything where you sit down and have food brought to you. 20-25% for good service.
This reminds me of my university prof who wrote some recipes in Haskell [1].

[1]: https://github.com/djoerd/fokkingcook/blob/master/SalmonPast...
Learned C++ in school. Dont ever want to go back to it. It's just too complicated.
Well, if you were paid $0 base salary, but $300k at the end of two years if you meet some high level of performance and keep it there the entire time, does that count as money? I wouldn't put money on that money. You can't pay a mortgage with that money, or feed your kids, or pay rent.
I think there are limits to what anyone can know about ancient history. I think the ToB story was written so long ago that no one can know the origin of the word "Babel". "Babel" (בָּבֶל‎) could mean babbling, or it could mean Babylon (בָּבֶל), but how can anyone know either way?

It's intriguing though how the spellings בָּבֶל‎ and בָּבֶל are completely identical, including which beths are beths, which veths are veths, and even their vowel marks!

So chances for Babylon:babbling are 95:5 for me. I'm not good at Hebrew though, so I don't know how to accurately assess the probabilities. Thanks for that!
I’ll take macOS bugs over Windows bugs any day of the week.
Opera shows ads for own products on competitor's websites
During this conversation, someone inevitably posts this without comment, as if it is a rhetorical slam-dunk.

Could you expand on this? Your point is the Flash had vulnerabilities?

What software doesn't? https://www.cvedetails.com/product-list/vendor_id-1224/Googl...

Remember, Jobs' contention was that Flash's problems were inherent. Can you support that?
I found some documents about it a while ago, I'll see what I can turn up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_renminbi

Careful what you click on when researching DCEP/E-CNY. You have been warned.

Here's a VirusTotal graph I made based on a pdf about the e-yuan. Not saying it's a virus, but some of the things on that graph are, so do tread lightly. You can safely view the graph of linked content without worrying about getting infected. You will need a VirusTotal account, but they are free on the low end.

https://www.virustotal.com/graph/embed/ga2848f99331c4f9ba9c9...

Here's Google's cache of the same pdf, which renders in browser but not as a pdf, apparently. The header includes a direct link to the pdfs, or you can grab it from the link itself, if you're so inclined.

Progress of Research & Development of E-CNY in China

Working Group on E-CNY Research and Development of the People's Bank of China

July, 2021

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:RbBnR4...

Roadmap to Implement Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) in China
(2020-2022)

Jointly released by the People’s Bank of China, the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, the China Securities Regulatory Commission and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange

November, 2020

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:PYIGv5...

2021 RMB INTERNATIONALIZATION REPORT

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mth3ID...

China’s Digital Yuan:
An Alternative to the Dollar-Dominated Financial System

Rajesh Bansal and Somya Singh

August 2021

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:-Bgrxd...

Good sections to check out in that last one:

Bilateral Trade in Dollars Between China and Russia Hit an All-Time Low

Rise in Alternatives to SWIFT
That description should also supply a warning about a difficulty that UX designers, and Apple in particular, have struggled with over the years: they're going to a great deal of effort to optimise their designs for the first hour of use.
Looks super cool. I read about Neural Pathways in grad school, and seeing all that theory in action feels great.
That works really well in Vegas, I tipped $5 on our first drink and then $1 per drink there after, the drinks are free while you are gambling. Our server made sure to get us another drink before she finally shed her shift and our glasses were never empty. This was about 10 years ago.
Many Ukranians understand Russian. Say you had already started learning a little Russian before, now you'd like to brush up on it for volunteering or helping out in some way, but you're not allowed to?

https://blog.coursera.org/coursera-response-to-the-humanitar... is the blog post – it makes sense to suspend business, but if they actually wanted to help, they could make the content freely available.
> 0days after 0days

[Citation needed]
Ask HN: Can links for Google meet be forced to opet with Firefox?
My primary browser is Chrome. And it works great for me except when it comes to Google Meet. If more that one person is in the call it is totally unusable if I use external USB camera. I've tried using it with two difference cameras (both from Logitech), and result is the same. If I switch to built in camera on laptop - everything si great. If I open Google Meet in Firefox - external USB cameras work great.

Is there some plugin for Chrome that would tell "If the domain is meet.google.com start Firefox and go to that URL"?
Carl Sagan was also incredibly wrong almost every time he talked about history.
In many ways he was vanguard of the kind of hubris we commonly see today on social media, self assured of his own knowledge.

Just to give you an example. He repeated common misconception about Library of Alexandria being something unique and it's burning being the break between high civilization and barbarism. But it was nothing of the sort.[1] The very fact that the library has been ransacked, burned or otherwise damaged both before and after the "pivotal event" Sagan describes, is a strong indicator of his ignorance.

And doesn't stop there. Whenever Sagan talked about "Dark ages" or anything remotely related he was wrong. The very term has been considered inaccurate at the time, and it is even more so today.[2]

[1]https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2020/02/05/carl-sagan-was-...
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography)
Insurance is great but it's not going to help how stuck you are when you're out and your bike's just been nicked.
Minor nit. Ceaușescu was removed in 1989, the eclipse was in 1999, 10 years later, not two years.

In 2022 small time corruption in Romania is still a big problem.
According to the Israeli ministry of health the kid got infected with the virus from the vaccination that includes a living weak virus, a vaccine that is not given in many countries and have been not given in Israel for almost 20 years.
The decision to give the weakened virus was based on live viruses found in the sewage of Bedouin community in Rahat.

Also the ultra orthodox Jews in Jerusalem are pro-vaccine and the number of the anti-vax people among them is much lower than the anti-vax secular people in Israel.
Very few drugs have life threatening withdrawal symptoms.

Alcohol does but you have to abuse it to an extreme degree to reach that level. Most people with issues around alcohol are a huge distance away from getting dangerous withdrawal symptoms.
A Monk’s-Eye View
When I've encountered it, it has usually meant something requiring very low effort or resources. Example:

* Mental resources ("Adding another auth provider to the ones we already support is 'trivial'/straightforward")

* Time ("Re-implementing this with the proposed approach before release should be 'trivial'/not require much time")

* Machine resources ("Doing this additional operation in the iteration is 'trivial'/won't have enough of a performance impact to worry about in this case")
Damn, I wish I was a slightly quicker witted so I could have said something like:

No, I think you're delusional.
Great points, I especially loved the focus on DX. Still very much undervalued to this day!

Great points also in being equally proficient in working on greenfield as well as brownfield (legacy) projects.

Thanks for sharing this
This will end up without wheels and with its frame kicked bent.
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Apple has a unique pricing strategy to differentiate their products (2020)
This is a great way to kill a car company. People in tech here know this can be done but the general public does not.

Remote bricking would cause a large % of potential customers to avoid this company completely.
We are in a state of war. Don't be lulled by a sense of ease - the stakes have never been higher. If you are not directing your attention, it is being directed for you. Infinite scroll is much more dangerous on phones than on computers. Your breath is den. Good luck.
Not sure why they just seemed to stop at IFS as the generating-formula.. I guess finding coefficients for it must be easier? Now (as sibling comment noted) neural-nets have totally owned this type of thing, but I reckon that there would now be ways to make neural-nets produce coefficients for more complex generating formulas, such that the compression ratio could be utterly insane. (Could be like the demoscene "4k intro" of the future?)
> can no longer be used

...Can no longer be used without fumbling into people that assume the rest intends to speak demotic, "Fixed That For You".

> some words can no longer be used because they resemble offensive words

I find it very interesting on a specific historic case that the original group, of difficult pronunciation for Europeans, in the Gulf of Guinea area, "n·gr", meaning "big river", naming the Niger river and nearby countries, happened to be so close to the Latin for "black" - which is already in a way offensive, with its potential as some "reduction to appearance". (Of course, the Republic of the Niger and the Federal Republic of Nigeria correctly just shrug the coincidence off.)
FWIW, Steve was not at Mozilla before Oxide. He was at Cloudflare (IIRC). Mozilla was before that.
(Most?) Flash apps didn't adjust for responsive web. It was also full of security issues. Most flash applications were running at a certain FPS, instead of reacting to UI changes/redrawing. Flash was nice for games, but for the rest is was a pain in the butt.

Also, look at how slow Adobe is in keeping things updated for newer platforms. I'm happy flash is dead, and I hope creative suite will follow.. Probably not though.
I second that.

I've worked for many companies whose goal was not to make a profit, but instead to make the world better for one group of people.

They did profit, but that was really just so they could afford to continue to help their target audience.

I've never really understood the anger toward share holders. Most people have a pension, and that's invested in the stock market. When people say "share holders" I think of teachers pensions, and nurses pensions, my welders-widow grand mother. The "share holders" are people.

RE tax.. I can't think of a better way to light money on fire. Australia recently spent nearly 100million on a Covid safe app that tracked people. It was an utter flop, and I'm not sure it tacked down even one person.
100 Million $ on a 100% predictable flop.
TikTok was so instantly compelling that I was scared away from further interaction with it, but Twitter is my weakness that I sometimes feel like I've conquered, but as soon as I allow myself back in to check my DMs...
They succeed in part by insulating their children from Western culture (no TV, no Internet, little interaction with outsiders), and by giving them very little in terms of secular education, so that getting a career is not really an option for most.
I'm pretty sure peertube does that, stuff like picking an instance is confusing to new users though and they get scared off.
> was pretty much alien for Adobe and Flash

This is another weird collective retconn that is not true.

Apple was not alien to Adobe the creator of Photoshop and Premiere and After Effects. If anything, Adobe is less comfortable with Windows, which usually lagged a bit behind with versioning.
Just flag and move on. There is no point to be dragged in flame wars for every C++ submission.
Miryoku – An ergonomic, minimal, orthogonal, and universal keyboard layout
Not that I’m aware of. But bipolar disorder is (very) poorly understood. Asking for evidence would imply for instance, that we know what bipolar IS, and from my knowledge, I don’t think we do. In order to have evidence that meditation and bipolar interact we would have to know what bipolar affects in our system that causes it. As far as I know we don’t know what causes it/how it works exactly. We have some inklings of what’s involved.

What we have is some medications that work with relatively extreme side effects (I am now pre diabetic due to daily Seroquel use) and sort of folk tradition of what to do and not to do - ie bipolar people are advised to stay away from religion for instance.

In my experience both the medication and the folk tradition are mostly right actually, as weird as that might sound. It’s not like psychologists are performing huge studies, but they can see patterns in the individual cases when they are studied in bulk - ie religious individuals might have more psychotic episodes etc.
You mean virtue signaling. Replacing an established and perfectly fine word has never helped a single user in the history of the universe.
Vitamin D supplements lower risk of autoimmune disease, researchers say
But the "use for themselves" thief is deterred with even the cheapest U lock (even with a moderately strong cable) as long as it's not trivially pickable.
I've lived in the US my whole life and I have never seen this. Tipping is certainly expected, but, like with restaurant wait staff, typically done when you settle your tab.

There are a couple of exceptions, but only really if you weren't paying for your drinks, like at a casino. In those cases, yes, you should tip per drink.
> never had the wait-staff chase me

I have. I went to a Chinese buffet in Raleigh, North Carolina, with my family. We finished eating, went to the cashier and paid, then we left.

As we were getting into our car the 'waiter' who had sloshed lemonade into out glasses ran up loudly complaining that we hadn't left him a tip. Why such people should be tipped is beyond me.

Anyway, I further insulted him by handing him a single dollar bill, with a smile.
Have you thought that company’s “treat their employees better” because retention has bottom line benefits?

None of the major tech companies got there by worrying only short term benefits.

Did you chose computer science over something like social work for the monetary benefits?
> The problem is not reading the news.

Why is it a problem? I’ve lived years without reading any news and it had no negative impact on my life that I know of.

Nowadays I read news only because I used them as a way to learn Italian, but that’s all.
> It boggles my mind anyone would ascribe to a diet that literally requires vitamin supplements through artificial means in order to be complete.

I used to think that, but at some point I thought: what's the big deal? If you're still eating healthy, still eating tasty food, and you just also consume a pill or two every day, is that really so bad, or does it just feel "wrong"?
» I know many people who seek government jobs just so they can earn through bribes.

» In India, from the lowest level of administration- from ward (a few blocks of town/city) councillor and village board members to governor's of states to prime minister and cabinet minister- corruption exists at every level. Every level.

My understanding is the people I to don't need to personally demand bribes from the public at all. If you expect to make a lot of money with your government job, the people with the power to put you in the job will demand you pay to get that job, right?
How are you calculating that? One standard 330ml bottle of beer at 5% has a little less alcohol than a standard pour (150ml) of 13% wine. As soon as you move to a pint or 500ml can of beer you go over it. This is why a glass of wine and a bottle of beer are taken as roughly equal in terms of alcohol content.

330×5% < 150×13%
As long as you are able to purchase sufficiently fast hardware that lets you run other OSes and don't want to play games or watch videos on that hardware I guess.
Nissan Demonstrates Ariya E-4ORCE's Smoothness Using a Ramen Robot
> Flash apps didn't adjust for responsive web

This was 2009. "Responsive layout" was barely a concept. Most HTML/CSS websites didn't have responsive layout. We were still figuring out all out.
In my experience, the kinds of use cases for this level of optimization tend to be in fields where computers are used as actual computing devices. So think physics, biology, etc. I'd guess most jobs in the HPC space would allow you to get pretty close to this kind of work in practice, although your job title might still just be 'software engineer' or whatever.

Located in .nl, the oil and gas industry surely has some work that benefits from these kinds of optimizations. ASML probably does enough simulation as well. I'd guess there are probably a handful of financial firms operating on these time scales. Outside of those, the various universities will have groups in this space. I doubt that's an inclusive list, just some areas where I'd expect to find heavily optimized code for specific hardware.
Your criticisms of C++ are correct. The language is janky to use and filled with edge cases. The standard library is designed by implementers to make most things possible but few things easy (std::string::contains will be added in C++23 yay!). And using the same-ish iterator interface for vectors and hashmaps results in needlessly unsafe and verbose vector methods (foo.bar[index].insert(foo.bar[index].end(), ...)) and great difficulty implementing hashmap iterators that act like pointers.

Nonetheless the cheat sheets largely do not reflect these issues, but the breadth of functionality C++ supplies. span and string_view are simple and elegant (aside from lifetime errors caught by Rust). Personally I think algorithms try to do too much, and it's not like other languages could cram in binary search, heap algorithms, reduce, scan, permutations... in a "simple, intuitive fashion", though duplicate functionality between iterators and ranges is a problem. Arithmetic conversions and promotions were a mistake (inherited from C) though, and lambda captures and mutability are complex. Reference collapsing has a simple slide but confusing semantics. I'm not sure I see any structured bindings either (these interact poorly with lambda captures lol).
All good suggestions. I might add: ccache and distcc to speed up full rebuilds.
Washington Post have duplicates about Ukraine/Russia and Taliban news.
is there a lock that can prevent this method of theft?
Did your company have VC backers? I guarantee you that they were concerned about profits over everything else.

What specifically did the companies you held in such high regards do that caused them to forego profit?
What you have on your phone is likely immaterial in the equation - the mindset is one of sunk costs - once they’ve stopped you for a search, they’ll want to have something to show for their time - either to bring you in, or a bribe. You absolutely have to read the situation, and gauge how it’s likely to go down. I can tell you that in Russia, 95% of the time a bribe is wanted. The other 5%, usually greenhorns, you just work up their chain of command until you find the guy who will take the bribe. I’ve been frogmarched to a cop shop in Bishkek by an excited rookie who caught a foreigner smoking a cigarette, only to end up being given a name to drop for future occasions by his commandant after giving him €100 for a birthday gift for his daughter. Whole thing was ridiculous.

It’s also worth noting that if you are an obvious foreigner, you will be a bribe magnet, and will be accosted only in the hope of a bribe.

It’s not so much about avoiding inconvenience, it’s about moving freely in a police state.
if you use excessive language ("economic armageddon") and figures ("10 billion euros") like this and don't provide sources, i assume trolling.

i see he posted the bloomberg article now. imo, reading "Supply cut would rip through Germany’s industry within weeks" and interpreting that as "if Russia cuts of the gas, there will be economic Armageddon in Germany" is pretty extreme, but i guess people interpret stuff differently.. that's fine, just let me form my own opinion about your statement by citing a source.
Hopefully thorium SMR reactors will be a thing soon, as Norway has huge deposits of it. Won't help in the near future, though.
- bikes are extremely easy to strip for parts and stolen parts are easy to sell for a few bucks (whereas with cars you need a chop shop and many parts have serial numbers)

- most bike locks are trivial to defeat without any skill whatsoever (if in doubt, bring a bolt cutter)

- it's impossible to distinguish a stolen bike from a not stolen bike at a glance, making them easy to transport (contrast this with trying to drive away in a stolen car after you smashed the window and set off the car alarm)

- generally bikes are comparatively low value making the immense effort required to attempt to track them down after they are stolen not worth it (contrary to what TV shows might have taught you, the police mostly doesn't spend its time "solving crimes" and they're rarely successful at that, most police work consists of catching crimes in the act (e.g. traffic violations) or arresting people already accused of crimes)

- people need money to live and some people need more money to live than others (e.g. addicts) and have few options available to them so theft can be an appealing option

So in other words, if you adjust the socioeconomic conditions for a higher crime rate to arise, bike theft will be one of the crimes to increase the most because it's a relatively easy, quick and low-risk way to make a small amount of cash if you're desperate enough to turn to crime to feed your family or drug addiction.

I don't want to say the reason bikes get stolen so much is the War on Drugs but in a way the reason bikes get stolen so much is the War on Drugs (in lieu of treating drug addiction as a mental health issue and trying to address the underlying problems causing it).
Had the same experience. It is not a huge difference, but it is noticeable, especially in the incremental edit-build-test cycle.
You said slack twice
I wish Zeal made it easier to inject custom CSS based on the current docset (like Stylus in a browser lets you inject different CSS per domain), or change the zoom level independently for each docset. One pet peeve of mine is fonts I dislike or find too small/large, and browsers currently have better tools for customizing reading.
It has been literally decades since I last encountered it. In any case the title has exactly nothing to do with job listings or what may be inferred from them.
JavaScripts “Rack” equivalent is actually a library called “connect”, which express used to use under the hood as it’s middleware layer. The fact it doesn’t anymore is why I’m a little pessimistic about Tower, but it’s good to hear this has worked in other ecosystems.
‘Morrowind’ Is Broken, Buggy and the Best Open-World RPG Ever Crafted (2017)