skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a weird thing among Seattle residents where they get extremely defensive about our social problems and act as if nothing is wrong and these are 'normal city problems'. They're not. I am a longtime resident and while this area has never been the greatest in the last 5 years it has turned into an absolute shithole if I can speak honestly and frankly. I've seriously considered whether or not Seattle is some sort of progressive social experiment where we're all the lab mice blissfully unaware of our surroundings.

Just a month ago an engineer at AWS, a young Asian woman, had her skull cracked open when a random assailant hit her in the head with a baseball bat completely unprovoked. This was in the same neighborhood by the way.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10492101/Moment-hom...

The assailant had 26 offenses on his rap sheet, another graduate of our "catch and release" program of combating crime. This story was buried in the media rather than creating the widespread outrage it deserved.

The amount of social disorder this city tolerates is untenable. It was once a beautiful city that in the span of a few years was destroyed under the watch of a small crew of activist politicians. Many stores have closed because it's become too dangerous for the employees. The whole situation is very sad.

Yet the city squanders resources and prides itself on absolute nonsense like making plastic grocery sacks and straws illegal while the amount of trash on our streets or in our parks continues to increase. I'm not just referring to general litter either, we're talking syringes, feces, and toxic waste from derelict RVs that are allowed to park wherever they wish without fear of reprisal.
I recommend Kagi: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29835756
Pret a Manger is something I look forward to when travelling in the states. We don't have them where I live but they have that same appeal this article alludes to. If that adds anything to the understanding.
You've mentioned it a couple times - their analytics may support that fewer users are using the chronological sort. I wonder if it's because they are frustrated and moving off to alternative viewing portals to get the feed experience they like.
https://archive.ph/GplnO
Can you elaborate why IBM global services is horrible? Somebody…. I know accepted an offer recently.
Inflation is a really flawed concept that is very hard to quantify in any non-subjective way. There is a real effect of prices going up but any measurement of it is subject to biases, because of the choice of which prices you look at.
They almost certainly do not. However they do count them (well, maybe the intern counts them, but they are counted). And if the counts get big enough, they do start paying attention.
What VPN Providers do you suggest?

I would not like to "just" fire up a digitalocean, AWS or a Raspberry pi. Something reliable enough for a daily driver, no-logging, and a speedier experience from a user in a corner in India.

I have used ExpressVPN but then they exited. I had the opportunity to used ClearVPN for a while, OK but too many bells and whistles. I think I also got IVACY in some discount sale for 5-years. This one just kinda works and I might actually stick to this if nothing bad happens.

I had had tried Mullvad for a few months but was slow from India (2020-ish).

I'm not worried and am not hiding anything from any country's 3-letter institutes. However, I like have one handy that I can go in as my bubble to feel comfortable in.
This toaster has several failings. Probably the biggest one is it’s always live and will kill your if you touch the inside even if it’s not toasting. But then a number of minor failings like not having the railings that clamp in so it can’t handle thick cut toast or crumpets since it’s fixed to the side of bread.
Sure makes me glad cryptocurrencies were invented to set us free from the totalitarian nightmare of everyone using cryptocurrency.
Allegro Common Lisp now has a browser-based IDE
> There isn't going to be one for Russia either.

I'm not so sure about this.
What makes you believe so?
> It would be great if it felt as safe there as the rest of Seattle. Not sure what the city can do to change it, though.

Well, there's some other sketchy parts, but it'd be a shame if the whole city felt as sketchy as 3rd and Pine.
"The U.S. census is a direct count of every resident. Required by the Constitution, it has taken place every decade since 1790."

"The data it collects is used to determine political representation in Congress and to direct more than $1.5 trillion in federal funding annually."

Serious questions...

1.) What data are they anonymizing? Especially by "randomizing numbers by taking numbers in one place to another place", doesn't this defeat the purpose of a census?

2.) Are they asking your political affiliation? I never got asked this, rather just: "how many people live here" - this is all I was asked.

3.) What other questions are they asking residents? Is it different in each state? What are they doing with this data? Is it legal?

4.) Isn't this then number used to assign how many "congressional seats" go to which state?
I am under the impression that this is what Russia wants.
No, I’ve never had to contact support. But I see they have a phone number. As much as I dislike taking on the phone, I feel like having phone support is still actually a good sign. Most of the time when I send emails to companies for support it’s a 2-3 day turnaround time and they ask the same questions over and over. Sometimes I just want to talk to someone on the phone and get my problem solved quickly.
Some questions that I find interesting
They have been for ages but marketers are less able to control the narrative and SEO optimise for reddit.
The short answer is that is the way they made it. They being people in power corrupted by greed and megalomania.

Originally only gold and silver were money. You could trade for money or dig it out of the ground. If you brought your gold to a government mint it would be made into coins of known purity and weight. Government coins were a trusted unit for trade. However, gold money limits what a government can spend due to a natural physical limit on supply. The primary benefit of gold money is nobody can conjure 100,000 tonnes ($6.43T) out of thin air for their own benefit. That puts the government on more equal footing with the people.
Can you say a little more about this? You signed an offer letter in Jan and then you were able to get additional equity? How did moving the start date factor in?
The leetcode companies will pay $500K+ easy for a staff level engineer. A Senior engineer will easily pull $400K.

That’s over a 100% increase from your current rate.

I’d personally recommend practicing leet code, if that’s the thing holding you back… maybe 1 problem a day. By the time you actually decide to change companies, you wont be interview prepping just before an interview.
lxc was rather new when I started looking into this stuff. Since jails were much older, I just went with FreeBSD. Also because I was a little biased against Linux because on my personal computers Ubuntu and Fedora had crashed occasionally.

Now I think lxd is supposed to be a better user experience than lxc. Same backend better frontend. Like ezjail or iocage for FreeBSD makes the management easier than doing it all directly.
> in writing

Good shit. Make that threat real ASAP.
Okay, maybe I generalized a little bit, the common people don't want war. The military industry in the US wants war, they are the real people actually wants war, nothing else.

Putin wants NATO to back off from its border, maybe he wants Ukraine, but he does not want war, war is the last resolution.
Google messed up the internet because they don't allow installing other websites' searches easily.

We had an opensearchdescription.xml for literally most of the websites, and somehow Browsers (including Firefox and Safari) managed to mess that up.

I wish there was an easy browser extension that just persists searches correctly, and doesn't forget about them the next time I clear my browser cache.

Guess I'll have to implement it in my own one again :-/

Google is so full of content farms these days, it's ridiculous. And all of them are ranked higher than the sources because they use google ads on their pages. Just search for a quote that you read here on HN or on reddit or on SO...and you'll find hundreds of them ranked higher than the source.

Maybe someone should build a search engine that downranks all websites that have google analytics and google ads? Would certainly be an interesting experiment.
I don’t think so. Even if they could, what does that mean? That it is illegal to run the software? Illegal to sign transactions? Illegal to your broadcast transactions? Others? Blocks?

Cash on the other hand, yes. It will stop being printed, and eventually demonetized.
> When i opened it to check the reason i was shocked.

Sounds like you should unplug it before you open it up.
I believe this thread is mostly referring to CoL increases, which are commonly determined annually yes. Usually the minimum is tied to ~inflation. If you did well during your last review cycle it'll be a few percent more on top of that.
If there's a road that needs to be updated/replaced, but for some reason cannot be, and if alternate routes to the most popular destinations already exist, I'd think most people would naturally seek them out rather than deal with delays and traffic backups caused by the congestion alone. There really isn't any need to put more hurt on people beyond that.

In a case like that the real solution would be improvements to alternate routes or the construction of new and efficient routes in areas where construction can take place to attract people away from the congested road that can't be improved on. The priority should always be to try to make things easier for people to move where they want to go, not to make it more inconvenient and painful for them when they do it.

I think most people would rather not deal with excessive traffic and crowded roads and wouldn't if given the choice. Many just don't really get much choice in the commuting patterns they have. If your job requires you to be somewhere at a specific time, you're going to go. If you have to pick up your kid at a specific place and time you'll be there. Most of us are already trying to optimize for less traffic and travel time. Those of us with limited options to do that suffer enough as it is.
The perhaps obvious additional downside of this is, with each iteration of "no really, trust us that you want our view," your setting is also cleared / changed / moved. Yet more friction to prevent you getting your desired view (which, to your point, will then not stick anyway).
> Or the simpler explanation is that the chronological timeline isn't actually the preferred setting, outside of a small but vocal minority.

Is this a simple explanation for why the feature automatically turns itself off after a week or two?

> just because the Tweets are ordered differently

This isn't what the feature does. More than half of the content in the algorithmic timeline was not posted or retweeted by someone I follow.
I am only worried about one thing, that is, if I now learn Godot, then one day, Unity or Unreal open sourced their engines, will this be destructive for us?
This particular article (not the subject) looked suspicious to me, since I didn't see it contain a link to the EARN-IT bill. I respect that it was created by the FSF, but they really should link to the bill's text.

The bill's text is here. [1] I don't think it does anything that is stated in the article. It's stated purpose is to create a commission that will create recommendations that nobody will have to follow. It actually says that. Then, in Section 5, (7)(A) it explicitly says that it won't affect end-to-end encryption - it says that companies won't need to stop using E2EE and there won't be any liability created for using E2EE.

In general, I am against regulation, but this bill doesn't do what the article claims it will do. Yes, it is absolutely politicking, but it doesn't seem to do much of anything outside of wasting time and resources.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/353...
Hey I've been playing with your app, I'm very excited about it! But, it seems like the site is pretty buggy, having just tried it on a few different browsers. Specifically, the test review doesn't show relevant information that was available while taking the exam, (i.e. the constants are missing, not even whitespace where they should be). I could share screenshots of what I'm seeing with you if you like. Also, it keeps saying I have 20 tasks for today- I click and it has me take another exam, and afterward, I still have 20 tasks to do.

That said I'm getting a lot out of taking these exams and I'm very excited about this project!
Do you REALLY think that any call to violence on platforms like Facebook will remain within any stated limits?
Hotels can try boosting user retention, as measured by minutes spent in the room, by hiding guests' belongings while they are away.
here's the script I used to control my Hue lights on a similar curve to f.lux from Linux:

https://github.com/beaugunderson/sleep-lights
The car warranty amuses/annoys me for the same reason, I drive two cars over 25, well past 200K and both from defunct manufacturers, so I really doubt any warranty would touch them. Same thing with the "student loan forgiveness hotline"-- I haven't had any for years. I used to have a bit of fun with the "Microsoft tech support" calls, since we didn't have a Windows computer in the house.

Recently I've had a few calls that just said "I'm actually calling to inform him now," so I think the callers don't really care what the content of the call is as long as they can get you to call them back. And maybe if you're gullible enough to call them back, you're gullible enough to give them money.
Reading your comment it reminds me when I was drinking 4 to 5 times a day from the coffee dispenser at my first job.

Was it good ? Hell no. Was it cheap ? Actually no, granular coffee would have been cheaper. Was it convenient ? Yes, it was the only hot drink available without going outside and lining at some register.

If someone came to me and said “that coffee is awesome, so distinct, why can’t people enjoy it more ?” I’d be dumbfounded.

As you say, we shouldn’t brigade people from enjoying what they enjoy, but we shouldn’t be barring people from criticizing what they think is really subpar either. As long as it’s just an opinion and nobody’s feelings are hurt, it shouldn’t matter.
Those calling for total disconnection of Russia seem to be often missing a really important part: exclusion is only good when it works and is undone, otherwise it is shooting yourself in the foot. The excluded will suffer for a bit, then find a way to live with, work around and even exploit/deepen the exclusion. (Case in point: the OP.)

The integration of an actor into global financial, information systems provides leverage and control. The world historically tried to include even the bad guys for that reason.

Meanwhile, EU/US have not given themselves an escape hatch to reverse the sanctions. If Putin stops because tanks ran out of fuel, does it mean Putin is no longer a bad guy so the country can be included again? Hardly something the wording of sanctions would allow.
Are you contract? Then maybe not, if it was "contract ended, moved on". If FTE, yes, very much so. I usually don't care if someone job hops, but that's at best 7 years you haven't stayed at a place for more than 6 months...unless you have unicorn skills that I needed for 6 months I'd not take a chance on you.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30606491
As the Substack folks said: we do not have a misinformation problem, we have a trust problem.
It wouldn't be too hard. Nitter is using a few unofficial APIs from Twitter.
It made me think of how frogs or amphibians in general are considered to be sensitive indicators of toxins in the environment.

Sort of the opposite of not noticing important but subtle changes around them.

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

"Amphibians, particularly anurans (frogs and toads), are increasingly used as
bioindicators of contaminant accumulation in pollution studies.[18] Anurans
absorb toxic chemicals through their skin and their larval gill membranes and
are sensitive to alterations in their environment.[19] They have a poor
ability to detoxify pesticides that are absorbed, inhaled, or ingested by
eating contaminated food.[19] This allows residues, especially of
organochlorine pesticides, to accumulate in their systems."

I feel like this has been a well known thing for all my life, and one of the references in the article is from 1981.
When did false claims become legal? Should false claims, or claims without evidence, about something being sold be legal?
I mean you can boil tendons and make glue. Are you going to ask to have your tendons removed?
No we wouldn't. This law doesn't even ban E2EE. E2EE eliminates any liability of transferring the messages.
Made this web utility to quickly generate iOS app iconsets
Your post is based on a belief the central bankers are some all knowing, objectively factual, 100% competent organization.

The transitory inflation parade was so ridiculous that it turned into an internet meme. It’s just like the Fed was saying inflation was 2% when housing was skyrocketing across the country. They’ve literally redefined their measures to the point that their measures have become useless and a meme.
That's horrid.
Ahh, sorry about that poor experience! And thanks for sharing the domains - will pass this along. If you get stuck in the auth loop again, our support team is very responsive.
Mathematicians are comfortable with the idea that a matrix can be over any set, in other words matrix is a mapping from the cartesian product of two intervals [0,N_i) to a given set S. Of course to define matrix multiplication you need at least a ring, but a matrix doesn’t have to define such an operation, and there are many alternative matrix products, for example you can define the Kronecker product with just a matrix over a group. Or no product at all for example a matrix over the set {Red,Yellow,Blue}.

Tensors require some algebraic structure, usually a vector space.
Confirmation bias. Look at the historical numbers, 2004-2006 was worse. This is Seattle, you're not going to find any simple answers, and any solutions won't be friendly to either side of the political isle. You're going to have to put yourselves in the shoes of someone whom would commit violent crimes if you want to know why and real solutions to resolve it.

Just as a note, small government also means less police, and less money in policing. Chiefs in California and many major cities make over 1 million a year.

Police are largely responders to violent crime. Theyre not there to prevent it. The various laws and beliefs prevent individuals from defending themselves.

Police in major cities are a big political token. The city depends on policing to make money and retain power. They're not acab, or defund the police. Those are typically what you see on Twitter profiles not on city councils.
I probably did not explain enough in my original post. It's not about having an audience even. It's the right to spin up some storage for encrypted data, run an encrypted matrix node for family, use a VPN, have a small blog for people to follow your travels and thousands of other options afforded non-Chinese nationals.

You can't anonymously access information as almost everything is tied to you ID number. You can't buy things, chat, watch TV (smart tvs), or do most anything with any sense of privacy.

Living in China as a Chinese means living with a drastically different mindset when it comes to these sorts of things. It's hard to understand how it changes you unless you've lived there.
But who can _prove_ the biggest number https://github.com/codyroux/name-the-biggest-number
The advantage is that, supposing the a pointer to the head of the list is stored in some other container, like

struct Container {
struct Foo *first_foo;
...probably more stuff...
};

then the first entry can have its `prev` field simply be `&container->first_foo`. (Each subsequent entry, as the OP said, has its `prev` field be `&previous_entry->next`.)

That way, you can have a function that removes an entry from the list, given only a pointer to the entry:

void foo_remove(struct Foo *foo) {
*foo->prev = foo->next;
if (foo->next != NULL)
foo->next->prev = foo->prev;
}

No need to keep separate track of which container you belong to, and no need to special case the first entry of the list.

The FreeBSD sys/queue.h macros use this pattern for the LIST type.

(The disadvantage of this scheme is that despite it being a mostly doubly linked list, you can only iterate forwards.)
They save people time!

You can check your bank account and credit statements anywhere and any time. Even cashing checks. No more walking (or driving if you could afford it) to the nearest location. That’s value.

You can check the news anywhere. You can make sure your mom hasn’t fallen and hurt herself, that’s stress relief. You can educate yourself (and many people do) in very nuanced topics from the bus stop. You don’t need a second TV/computer for the kids to keep everyone in the home happy. You can quickly find great recipes from your kitchen to cook more healthy. Even just looking up stuff like “calories in salmon” have made me healthier. Yea some of this could have been on my computer, but that would take more time.

These are value!
That's just another proof that google doesn't care about it's users.

If they quote a search term they expect to find the exact term visible on the website.
Not in alt text, not in invisible text, not any meta data.
Quotes means this exact phrase visible on the website.
I mean it’s just spam evolving to users realizing that, for a time, you could get better results by putting the year in the query.
The argument is (1) that a CBDC would give the government a lot more power and (2) that we need structural protections to prevent government abuses rather than merely government policies, so (3) we need to not have a CBDC.

You seem to disagree with premise (1), but you give only very weak reasons to reject it. Biden's executive order strongly supports premise (1), as do the Chinese CBDC policies mentioned in the article as well as the other arguments it gives.

Sometimes people disagree with premise (2) on, for example, naive Rousseauian grounds: the government merely represents the will of the sovereign people and therefore cannot do anything harmful to that people. After 232 years of the most heinous atrocities being committed in the name of the Will of the People it's amazing that some people still believe this. Checks and balances, which is to say, limits on state power, have been essential protections against changes of government policy since states have existed; totalitarian states have never been happy ones.
Seems like basic legal definitions. How do I structure my equity so that it isn't diluted by braindead investors? What do I need to know to convince investors that they're absolute mongrels who have no idea how to run a business, they just exist to give me their money because they lack real ideas?
pretty much -- must users won't bother to learn search operators for same reason they didn't learn LaTeX and will resist learning markdown. sure it works and lot of work to recall something hard to master only use every so often.

it's the layperson's version of recalling regex if only need it every few weeks -- lots of cognitive load for minimal return, easier to ask friends or reddit.

yes, search operators seem intuitive to perhaps the average HN reader or SO coder, etc. That's a small set of people compared to 7B+ people attempting to recall oh, right ~term adds synonyms -- easy for most people here, mostly useless or not worth remembering for most of the world.
Did you look into a PWA instead of an app? Especially since substack doesn't have device locked features.