skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing will change until the discussion enters the mainstream and every boring HN thread on the subject helps bring that goal closer.

I switched to DDG more than a year ago and I can honestly say that I've not had to revert to google search more than a handful of times since. A regular user would probably forget about Google in a breath if only they knew that such an alternative existed.
I don't really agree. There's no good reason why "5% for everyone" should be considered fair while "$15k for everyone" isn't. They're both justifiably and rationally fair. The only difference is that one is calculated based on existing inequality, and furthers that inequality, while the other doesn't. People who benefit from that inequality like to argue that its fairer, but that doesn't make it true.

I'm sure that any company that implemented a policy like that would lose some senior staff (maybe not such a loss if they're people who think perpetuating inequality is good), but the junior staff would be much more likely to stay. If the point is staff retention, then you have to consider which staff you want to keep.
> Mathematicians, a different breed entirely, had Leonhard Euler and Carl Friedrich Gauss who kept going until a very old age, for their times—76 and 77—despite starting very early, as mathematicians seem to do. This is not a universal trend: in the twentieth century, David Hilbert at 81 and André Weil at 92 are the only exemplars that come to mind.

What about Paul Erdős?
The original poster said they had. Not everyone will experience it, but it does exist. There are restaurants that won't allow non-Japanese in.
I agree. I also believe transparency should be there on what changes are made in some shape or form. Unlike Google, DDG could actually do this.
As you say, it's just a matter of familiarity. Sounds like you just need exposure to more programming languages/paradigms, as it's a pretty common convention. I believe it comes from the ML family. OCaml[0] springs to mind. As others have mentioned, Rust[1], Kotlin[2], Haxe[3], Nim[4], Swift[5], Elm[6], Dhall[7], and Scala[8] all use this convention.

The current syntax seems better for type inference and gradual typing.

[0] https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/ocaml/

[1] https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/rust/

[2] https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/kotlin/

[3] https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/haxe/

[4] https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/nim/

[5] https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/swift/

[6] https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/elm/

[7] https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/dhall/

[8] https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/scala/
I've stopped clicking on reddit links because it pushes its app so hard.
Not all flus are made equal, and the data about which flus are particularly deadly lags reality. If a flu as deadly as the Spanish Flu emerged again, you would be wise to worry about it. But until then? Until then, I suggest you go about your life.

We started wearing masks because covid actually existed, not because we feared that it might one day exist. Fear of hypothetical future covid strains is an example of the later, not the former. I'll consider fearing them once they actually exist, just like those hypothetical future flu strains.
Huh? It’s not difficult to learn other programming languages. I would consider myself proficient in Clojure, Python, C99, C++17, Java, Javascript/Typescript, Bash, SQL and Solidity. I can get by in Lua and once upon a time I was good at Visual Basic. I’ve also written a bunch of PIC24 assembly and a little bit of Rust. I’ve tinkered with Factor and Forth.

The latest language I learned was solidity and I was yo and running in under a day with a few more days learning about the different smart contract techniques and the standards that exist. The language itself was super easy to pick up.

I plan on learning Idris when I get the time for side project aiming I can think of one that would suit.
Deep Work in Interesting Times
Fundamentally it allows

* Locking out your ISP (data collection & introducing malicious traffic)

* geolock/censorship circumvention

* jurisdiction hopping

Other then that, you exchange one point of trust (your ISP) for another (VPN/S provider)

edit: This might sound stupid until you think about your ISP and your VPN/S providers having two different threat models and incentives.
Nah, I saw this on my last shopping trip to a mega grocery. Bought basically all the items on my list on the right side of the store (produce, other food stuffs) and then had to walk past a half dozen aisles filled with random crap (non food) to get eggs from the dairy section.
There are many actors one might comply with who aren’t law enforcement and to whom you may prefer granting access to garbage rather than the thing they’re seeking. I think the vast majority of people with debit cards would be comforted with the idea of being able to give a thief a PIN which doesn’t empty their bank account… even if they never get around to setting one up. No one would think people who do are up to something nefarious. The same goes for protecting oneself from abusers in one’s home. The set of reasons one might want this are so commonplace that the most widely used devices are set up to lock or wipe on failed login attempts either by default or by easy configuration.
>If NATO or any other EU country shoots down a Russian plane -in Ukraine- Russians will retaliate -in Ukraine- with conventional weapons.

I think this is a sensitive area where acting like there is any certainty is dangerous. I can't agree with your assumptions about 2nd order and 3rd order effects because there are too many known and unknown variables to consider.
Yeah WTF. Respond with a letter that says they need to respond within 7 days or they owe you $10 million. There is a 50/50 chance no one even reads it for a week.
It doesn't say anything about the actual demand, but about human tendency to take the path of least resistance. There are many things that might benefit me but I won't go out of my way to do, and that's the same for everyone else as well. Opt out means that I don't have to do anything but do get the benefits of that thing.

What is perhaps problematic is that it's not visible enough that this feature has tradeoffs or that there is an option to opt out, or even that the feature exists, but that problem exists for all sorts of software on the phone.
I'd love to use substack if I could turn the tracking _completely_ off for my subscribers. Do you plan to change that?
Since flat earth theories never posed any relevant problem, this is just a straw man to justify propaganda mechanisms.
The filling can be skimpy, but for the price of the sandwich (less than ¥200 typically) I’d say you get what you pay for.

Are sandwiches in the UK similarly inexpensive?
Why? We already have a digital currency if you use any bank. CBDC just unifies all of them into one system.
> In the US and much of Europe. In other countries they absolutely were the norm.

Only ever for people who actually felt sick. Not for all people by default regardless of how they felt. If I'm wrong please correct me, I'd love to know of this land where wearing surgical masks was the default expectation of everybody all the time.
> last 2 years open relationship

I'd like to make a counter suggestion that your relationship ended two years ago, but you have not really ended it nor started a new one. There's a very good reason we have a tradition of choosing exactly one person to grow old with. Are you able to explain it in your own words? If not, I suggest you have an immature understanding of love. Please officially end both the relationship that died and the affair that you're having. Then go ask some old happy people for advice on relationships.
I never really thought the sandwiches were anything special, the real gem was the fried chicken, the Famichiki or its equivalent that the other places had. You could grab a couple onigiri and a famichiki for the price of a sandwich and it would be way more satisfying imo.
> some arbitrary number called "inflation" vs overall pressure from the labor market

They should in the end only care about market pressure, but there is connection between the two. The way I see it, if you are a new hire, companies pay you more to get you, so they stay ahead of the inflation and keep up with market rates.

If you want to stay, a company's reluctance to keep up with inflation (and the market) will make it a very hard decision, even if you like the job, the people and the company.
I once found a big wiki like list of several thousand screens on the market. It was possible to sort by resolution, or price tag, an other metrics. Unfortunately I forgot the link. Maybe the HN crowd could help out.
Interesting read for a European. A lot of things started falling into places. thanks for a valuable resource.
> FB/Twitter are not one community, they are a million different communities

You can apply the same arbitrary granularity to bodybuilding.com (different subforums) and 4chan (different boards) too, and say 'such and such subforum isn't as toxic as these other ones...'.

The point is that all four platforms spread and foster toxicity. And given that Twitter and Facebook are magnitudes bigger, they also do so much more than 4chan or bodybuiding.com.
In addition, if the CBDC replaces cash, there might not be a way to avoid the central bank taking your money. This is how they could implement negative interest rates, which could be used to prop up asset values.
>Now, I also encourage people to not use Tor. I feel it is backed-doored and mostly controlled by Nation State actors to identify 'interesting' subjects via meta-data analysis alone.

No, you should encourage them to use it as much as possible to increase the anonymity set. Tor is not 'backdoored' (it is Free Software) and it is incredibly unlikely for most relays even to be malicious.
Rather, Tor has a defined threat model and in the interest of offering high performance with low latency at a low cost, eschews the so-called 'Anonymity Trilemma' and it is thus possible to trace connections through the network if you can monitor the entry stream as well as the exit stream.
There are a large number of entities who control various parts of the physical infrastructure between each link of your Tor circuit, from your router, to your ISP, to the local internet exchange point, and every other hop along the way to a destination. If an adversary controls even one of these entities in between you and your chosen guard relay, and between your chosen exit relay and the destination (including even the destination logs), it may be possible to perform correlation attacks to confirm whether or not a particular user connected to a given host (something which is easier to do if the stream is more 'distinct' from other streams, as well).

Tor is a tool which serves to significantly increase the cost of undermining user privacy, and while it is true that it should not be treated as some end-all-be-all of internet privacy, I fail to understand why it should be discarded, rather than treated as just one of a number of tools in the toolkit.
For example, if you are attempting to make it more difficult for these global adversaries to trace you, you may consider physical indirection (driving around), adding a layer of wireless relays before the connection to the Internet backbone, exclusion of relays in countries which your own nation can more easily influence in your torrc file, inducing dummy traffic in some capacity, preferring anonymity over pseudonymity, and a myriad of other techniques.
I subscribed roughly one year ago and asked for a refund within the first month (I think it was a month) because I decided to go with raindrop.io instead.
Even though the website stated I would get a refund, the email was ignored.

This story suggests this problem is ongoing.
I hate Twitter for all the change they've made-more spam and useless engagement features. I noticed this in testing some time ago, constantly making it hard just to see what I want, not the Algo suggested tweets, other peoples likes, spam etc.

Every tech company is going down the same route, spam and advertising until they force power users away in disgust.

Just this week I've had the same annoying random Chinese language influencer advert force shown to me on Youtube on every video view, and I can't even speak Chinese.
In the UK, Tesco brand stores have a similar sandwich made with shredded cheddar, scallions and mayo.

It is off-the-charts delicious and if you get lucky you can find it with a yellow label — a discount for food that is approaching its end of life — for 69p.

(Shelf life dates are ludicrously conservative. Yellow label basically means the sandwich has been refrigerated for 12 hours.)

I recommend washing it down with a Meal Deal including McCoys salt and vinegar crisps and a bottle of fizzy mineral water.
My comment was unclear; I didn't mean to say it was fuel rationing. I meant to say it was fuel-inefficiency rationing. (Unfortunately, "fuel consumption" is more easily interpreted in the way I didn't intend; I meant "fuel consumption per kilometer", a concept for which I will use "lpkm" below.) Each car is allowed to consume up to a certain lpkm, averaged over the manufacturer's offerings. It's true that a strict rationing scheme would simply stop sales rather than merely levying a fine, and that being stranded on the way to work is a worse outcome than either one.

There are two key aspects of the CAFE that are more ration-like than Pigovian-tax-like:

1. The fine is zero for manufacturers whose "fleets" are more efficient than the standard requires, so it provides no incentive to reduce lpkm below the quota.

2. The quota is averaged across all the manufacturer's vehicles, so it is in a sense a per-vehicle lpkm quota that the manufacturer can choose to redirect from some vehicles to others, so a luxury car maker can evade the "tax" by merging with an economy subcompact car maker.

There's a third aspect, though, that cuts in the opposite direction. CAFE is calculated on reciprocal lpkm, so I think adding excess lpkm to an already-inefficient "fleet" costs less than adding the same excess lpkm to one that's just violating the quota. So a car maker that greatly exceeds the quota can reduce the "tax" by splitting a division that roughly meets the quota out into a separate company.

I might be miscalculating that result though.
> It's one of the key goals of Russian information warfare

They seem to have pretty smart people to be able to predict this behavior then. Doesn't mean this behavior should be condoned.
I'm trying https://kagi.com/ at the moment, was mentioned here a few months back when it was still in beta and I finally remembered to switch one of my browsers to try it.

So far, pretty happy with it. Before that I'd been using ddg but found myself so frequently !g that it was almost pointless.

DDG feels absolutely rubbish at local searches, but I may have just lost patience with it.

To be honest, I don't think DDG has a future purely because of the name. No way I'm telling non-techy friends that as I'll just get "what? Ducky go? Duck what? Are you being serious or is this a joke?"
> Attention spans on mobile are atrocious (notably, the fulcrum is screen size having a neurological impact on ability to pay attention - this is a biological fact) – very little real reading takes place.

If you have any further reading on this please share.

n=1 with exception for scientific papers I do essentially all my reading on my phone and I do not experience any attention difference. I also have my phone on perpetual DnD so notifications and other distractions are not a thing.
This feels really confused. You know the leetcode answers are just during the interview, right? Once you get the job, it's a job that involves solving real problems.
Seconding Mullvad, but I'm in the US and not India so it might be different.
It may be coincidence, but around the same time that the "Google Search sucks" articles and comments starting becoming more frequent I am now getting pop ups on the Google Search results page to rate the results between 1-5 stars.
The claim that the OP made was that inflation is an arbitrary number. The underlying phenomenon is not a number, more accurately it would be a vector containing all price deltas and any particular inflation measure is an arbitrary choice of how to project that vector onto a number. There is some validity to the claim. BMI is an interesting choice of comparison as many of the flaws in the measure are related to the arbitrary way that different body types produce different ranges.
*less often, not more
A Kicks is in the “slightly weird shit from Nissan” category. I don’t think the parent poster was referring to it.
what, no, strongly disagree. It is true that a lot of science is made whilst young and this is more likely due to the fact that they had a lot of time, no family, or kids, also you are unconstrained by the weight of your own wisdom.

Correlation does not imply causation
What kind of crackpot wrote this? Most new money "printed" is already digital and created through debt. If anything a digital currency would allow central banks to create more money without creating more debt.
All the more important to not rely on mechanism that mirror Putins crackdown on information. The damage from disinformation is just smaller than to openly crack down on content you dislike. Fact checkers don't exist for too long and there are countless issues where they just reiterate the "correct" opinion.

I think there is a lot of projection in your goal here, but that is beside the point.

DDG also already downranks outlets that are not related to Russia.
This comment is written in an intentionally "hand wavey" way so that they can say nothing substantive about the proposed bill text, but maintain an air of alarmism.
So cool! My nephews will love this. Thanks
Firmware Software Bill of Materials
And all I got was a knobbly biro in the form of a Charlie Chaplin walking stick. Part of the PC Junior launch, I think.

Oh and (full disclosure) a meal in the canteen at the IBM Greenford site, and one at their South Bank site. No alcohol. Hey, if you want to sell things to programmers, provide alcohol (yes, I know it was IBM policy not to do so).

This was in London, in the mid/late 80s.
>London recently had to suspend nickel trading because the price was astronomically high.

Chinese owned LME suspended Nickel trading because: "China's Tsingshan Holding Group, one of the world's top nickel and stainless steel producers, had been building a short position in nickel since last year, betting prices would fall, three sources familiar with the matter said."

It was a short squeeze and Chinese company was about to lose a shitton of money so they closed the market to cover their own.
Happily married. The only general advice I can offer is to ensure you have the same primary priorities and make sure they’re someone who you’re willing to put before yourself. Easier said than done, but lasting love isn’t easy.
Are you saying that C++ doesn't have you learn a "ton of new practices" over time? That only makes sense if you're still writing C++98.
Disagree here - you can insert things into a chronological timeline just fine - it's no more jarring than an algorithmic one.

Nothing wrong with showing me, and clearly denoting, a tweet that I might like in between other tweets I browse.

Don't understand this black and white thinking.
Guess it's time to start giving strong no hires to job hoppers then /s
People don't like to willingly leave significant amount of money on the table.

In the end, one of the main reason why we work is for money.
As an industry we have favored marketing of software over the quality of software. Promotion has been tied directly to that choice (expressed as "productivity" and "delivery") and then the people promoted by that system make hiring choice. It would be unexpected if the emergent outcome was not as you have described it.
Official statement by Blender regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine
OP was complaining about restaurants, not convenience stores.

I'm also pretty surprised to hear that they were "kicked out" of a restaurant. Being refused entry is an actual if pretty rare thing, but there's something more than a language barrier going on if they're told to GTFO halfway through a meal.
It's no coincidence that it's coming up at a time when interest rates hit zero.
If you back before to the time before CAD, it's even worse. An OEM I worked for braught back a couple of retirees to convert the "old" free form drawings (I'm at a complete loss of the technical term here, basically the slight curverture of the fusselage, and doors, was drawn "free-hand" on paper) into usable CAD models Simply because the younger generation of engineers never learned how those free forms drawings worked.

That's especially a pain in Aerospace, when 40 year product life cycles meet considwrably shorter software lifecycles. Tgat being said, I'm told there arw still people out yhere maintaibing COBOL, so.

I do see parallels to ERP software (something I'm much familiar with). Release changes are a major PITA, switching vendors close to impossible, and people complain evenly about each and every single option and vendor. Until you take the system they know away, that is. As someone stated above, once you understood the underlyong logoc, things become easy. It does require some major brain accrobatics sometimes, so.
From experience, the Subaru system is pretty good at lanekeeping and distance following. Never had any scary experiences with it.
EFF really failed to connect the dots here.

I don't see how, from a plain reading of the bill's text, one can argue what their letter claims.

Can someone connect these dots?
The west does imprison journalists because at least there is enough public pressure that it would never be accepted, even if the result is comparable.

But it is specifically not a question about who the good guy is. This is about hiding certain information.
The solution is to imprison criminals. The incarceration rate had been increasing for decades, and crime had been dropping for decades. It's not a difficult concept: some people are bad and should be removed from society; there's no "fixing" them.
That could also just be a bug. I remember installing an energy sucking application in 2014 on my Android; I think it was Expensify. I had noticed my battery was draining pretty fast, but then I noticed it took forever to even charge the phone. Upon closer examination, the app was consuming like 65% of all the energy being used. It must have been a bug, as there's no way they would make an app drain the battery that fast on purpose.
> It's not the rejections, but the lack of hiring.

True, but note that there is a cost for interviewing as well. Ad absurdum, if you interview 100 candidates and get rejected by the first 99, your hiring cost could be much higher than simply offering x% more to the first candidate.
Original tweet by Blender:

> Official statement by Blender regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[0]

> https://www.blender.org/press/the-war-in-ukraine/

This press-release published by Ton Roosendaal[1] (+ Blender's tweet also retweeted by Ton)

N.B. Ton Roosendaal said that “the product Blender should stay neutral”[2], but other FOSS projects contributors asking at least for posting supporting message from his own.[3]

FTR, Yorik van Havre (FreeCAD project lead) decided to help Russian to survive Internet isolation & sanctions.[4]

P.S. I'm Ukrainian living in Ukraine. Here is my statement for HN:[5]

+ My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/app4soft

+ Verified Ways to Help Ukraine: https://euromaidanpress.com/2022/02/27/verified-ways-to-help...

[0] https://twitter.com/Blender/status/1501923221096079362

[1] https://twitter.com/tonroosendaal

[2] https://twitter.com/tonroosendaal/status/1501965776001110017

[3] https://twitter.com/SolveSpace/status/1502178134187122688

[4] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1501824400546533378

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30395897