skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Replacing criminals and state overreach with foreign adversaries may be more salient.

Or if you're in the US, depending on your audience, Donald Trump or Joe Biden.
In Taipei, and Taiwanese cities as far as I've seen, it's the same! The main benefit is just how convenient they are. For example there's a place in Taipei where you can walk to 72 different 7-11s with a 10 minute walk [1] -- and that's just the 7-11 there's tons of FamilyMarts and some smaller stores too.

My personal favorite food to get there is the chicken breast and protein drink with 45g or so of protein for about $3.50 USD, great on the way home from the gym.

The biggest and strangest difference I've noticed about the difference between Taiwanese and Japanese konbini are that you can't buy vegetarian or vegan onigiri in Taiwan despite there being a ton of vegetarian and vegan people here. My favorite flavors, which are vegan, are only sold in Japan.

Also to give more context for the function of konbini in Taiwan (and probably Japan), they're for a lot more than just food: I pay my bills there at the counter, occasionally pick up packages (they act like PO boxes), and print out documents there when I need a printer. So really it's a multi-function store that's open 24/7 with pretty decent food and is on every street.

[1]: https://international.thenewslens.com/article/68424
I worked on this handbook quite a bit — thanks to OP for posting it on HN! A pleasant surprise :)

To answer your first question, dilution has little to do with how you structure the equity and more to do with the price at which you sell it (and how much of it you sell). The more your company is worth, the less you will need to sell to raise the same amount of money.
Zig has C++ FFI
A centralized and permissioned digital currency is not a cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrencies rely solely on cryptography to authorize transactions. There is no legal access-control based on identity and governed by a central authority.
Re Vassily - from wikipedia: She noted that he started to drink alcohol at the age of 13, and in drunken episodes would curse and attack her.[9]

Molotov certainly was a hardass - hence the cocktail. But he was also very loyal to Stalin, hence his comedic (and tragic) use in the film.
Implemented!!!! Signaling has begun, it should activate on main net in the next few months. David Burkett of grin++ implemented mw extension blocks as an opaque mw side chain. I think this is a good model in that exchanges can operate in pure transparent taproot LTC (which is also signally and should go live soon), or mweb chain. I think in practice it will behave more like zcash with most of the coin remaining transparent side but those that wish to tie their tongues if they dare.
Unless you have a key position in a competitive FAANG company, the answer is always the same. If you want a real raise, change jobs. Historically, US companies have set this precedent and it hasn’t changed for anyone but people working in either FAANG or certain fintech or finance companies.
That's true, and the way people use addresses plays a big part in traceability as well. There's honestly a lot of work to do to bring better practices into the mainstream, for instance HD addresses allow you to generate child addresses for every transaction, yet most folk hold their crypto on an exchange with a single address for all transactions. The industry needs to focus on security-usability and education, and we're starting to see that as new wallet apps are developed with the user (rather than profit motive of exchanges) in mind.
Freezing is slightly different to usurping.

Freezing is where your assets are still yours in name, but is unable to spend it. There may be conditions where it is unfrozen.

Usurping is when they no longer belong to you, and there's no recourse. I would be wary of normalising usurping assets by western Govts, rather than merely just freezing.
> Making crypto illegal will ensure that only criminals have the ability to use it.

The right to bear digital arms.
Inflation is not arbitrary. To some extent this should be like the minimum a company should offer. If not, it means the money you bring home might not be able to cover all your expense + saving.
I feel like I had that experience in Brussels. Its as if the sandwich started with a chance to be perfect, and nothing in that simple construction gave up any demerits.
If you ever make it to Hawai'i, check out our Minit Stops - shockingly good food.
This would be even easier to game than Google SEO.
The late 900 and later models were also after they were bought out by GM/Opel and converted to their common platforms. Which I guess explains becoming un-Saaby.
My best advice (in the short term) is to contribute to a huge open source project. At the depths of my boredom I contributed to dotnet, who better to learn from than the people who make your tools? Amazingly bright minds to learn from.

Contribute to React. Contribute to Boost. Contribute to Scala. What are you using, or what do you wish you could to use? Contribute to that.
AVRs too. But in both cases they are stored-program computers; you don't have to reconnect the hardware to run a new problem on them. And they are commonly used to run interpreters, the possibility of which was the key insight of Turing's paper.
Fascinating! How do you plan to stay sharp if I may ask?
Please we don't need more hatred nor more call for escalation.
You also can't use integrated graphics with it, which is silly.
Right! the dplyr functionality seems to match 1-to-1 to what a cursory look at SQL told me - hence my confusion as to why they reinvented the wheel instead of using an industry standard

The async table access is an interesting angle - assuming you're doing mutations that probably places some constraints. But in the case of in-app databasese my SQLite that's generally not a concern. From what you've said, at the end of the day, it sounds like the people using tables/dataframes are just too lazy to setup and use a SQL? I don't really see any distinction btwn the two domains then
I appreciate the information and advice you have shared.
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Hackers fork open-source reverse tunneling tool for persistence
One example were those self destructing drones https://www.zdnet.com/article/darpa-develops-disappearing-de...

> Announced this month, the US research agency said Project Icarus will create a fleet of tiny, single-use drones which will deliver emergency supplies -- such as food and medicine -- to remote areas during epidemics or disasters.

> However, once their mission is over, each drone will "vanish" after landing thanks to the use of special materials which can transform their state or shatter into mere particles.

I however remembered it more in the context of this one
https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2017-06-28

>Under the FLA program, the only human input required is the target or objective for the UAV to search for—which could be in the form of a digital photograph uploaded to the onboard computer before flight—as well as the estimated direction and distance to the target.

Neither autonomous targeting of specific individuals nor the capability to "vanish" are something that has much application in disaster relief. Its the evolution of slaughterbots.
The party controls China’s Red Cross. We were highly encouraged to donate during certain events (eg the wenchuan earthquake), to the point that it didn’t really feel optional. And their is a lot of corruption in the Chinese Red Cross that is wrapped around party officials (eg the Guo Meimei incident during the just mentioned earthquake).
Tom Scott did a great analysis and interpretation of what an honest VPN ad might look like: https://youtu.be/WVDQEoe6ZWY
Wages are prices. A wage is the price of labor. When wages increase, inflation is happening, by definition.
I've been using Kagi for a few weeks now. Unlike when I trialled ddg, and found about 90% of my searches ended up being !g, I'm finding Kagi results to be genuinely excellent.

The "lens" functionality which lets you gone searches to a subset of site is really excellent and genuinely useful. Plus you can remove sites from results, too.

I'm really optimistic about where it's going. And yes, they have a "pay for it" model which reassures me they're thinking about the future.
I’ve had enough Wawa sandwiches during my several years in the greater New York area. They are not garbage by any means, but also nothing to write home about.
My experience dealing with customer support is that there is almost always an actual problem when a customer complains.

They often don't know the right words to use, and have no idea why an issue is happening, or they might come up with a completely wrong explanation. So it's easy to dismiss their concerns by saying things like "this doesn't make sense" or "it works on my machine".

It's only when you start digging deeper, investigating what exactly the customer could mean, that you eventually discover the root of the issue.

Of course, these investigations are time consuming an expensive, often the customer stops following up with you, or you might not understand the behaviour well enough on your own. So very often you don't find the underlying cause.

But calling someone a liar just because you can't reproduce their problem is short-sighted and stupid.
VPNs are just internet resellers.

You should just use them for masking traffic on your local network (but not the VPN provider, or their data center, or their ISP), your ISP (but not the VPN provider, or their data center, or their ISP), appearing to come from a different location to the service you are trying to reach, circumventing rate limiting (don't be surprised if you find someone else has already used your VPN's IP for this). And that's it.

None are better than the others for greater privacy such as in lawsuits, warrants, possibility of data being tapped at the data center location, assurance against logging, or protecting you from a criminal indictment. There is no way to prove that any VPN is good for privacy except for their own claims, even if you find a court case that was stonewalled in a way that matched the privacy claims that only is about that particular point in time, you have no way to know about the present or at any point in the future.

Yes, this includes your favorite VPN, that you read about on your favorite blog, or was mentioned by your favorite most trusted youtuber. No, their claims about being in a bunker in Switzerland doesn't increase the viability of their claims.

And yet, looking up VPNs on a search engine are only going to get you these affiliate marketing websites, harping on and on about all the privacy benefits of some particular one thats doing things oh-so-differently.
The biggest scam is that these companies call their products "VPNs" incorrectly to mislead you. A VPN actually has to have a PN that you join your client to in order to access other targets in that private network. Eg you're at home and you want to access your computer at work, so you connect to a VPN set up at your workplace. What these companies give you is just a proxy to the internet.

These products were called "proxies" back in the day, but someone realized "VPN" sounds more awesome and has "Private" in it so they started calling their products that. The only connection these proxies have to VPNs is that they use the same tech under the hood (OpenVPN, Wireguard, etc).
Sure they would say it, but none of them would be willing to live under Russian occupation.
The Left Hand of Darkness at Fifty
It's such a seemingly self-contradictory view and I love that you're sharing it because it makes complete sense in the world of ill-logic in which we find ourselves.

Loyalty means nothing as an employee now (and for a while) in the same way that existing customers don't get the perks that new sign-ups get. Employees are being viewed more and more the same way as customers; is this an extension of "if all you have is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail"? It worked for customers, which are people, why can't it work for employees since they're also people and therefore afflicted with the same psychological pressure points.

It's all a calculation of the individual status: Is their leaving going to cost them more than staying for a lower-than-CPI "raise"?

The "churn" cost to the company doesn't seem to be a KPI in most places. "Seat-filled = seat-filled" may be the equation, with no preceding multiplier as to the knowledge or expertise held in each seat.
The car beeps and by the time the driver returns to earth and figures out what the fuck is going on, it will almost certainly be too late.

What you're really asking for is a car that predicts when it needs to beep. I'd imagine that in most of the serious situations, the maximum warning time will be shorter than the minimum spaced-out driver reorientation time. In fact, no meaningful scenario comes to mind where the car would want help but with a handful of seconds to spare.
> From the browser's point of view, it would essentially treat the type annotations and type declarations as comments.

V8 still has to updater its parser. Other tools that handle JavaScript parsing need to do that as well.

> You'd be able able to use typescript autocomplete and linting in your editor, and just serve the files to your browser with a static http server.

Nope, it's not using TypeScript directly, but just another language very similar to TypeScript.
> There's no reason to believe these are a bad idea beyond lowering entry cost to GPS trackers.

That's not something to be glossed over. Lowering the price of abusable technology makes that abuse a lot more prevalent. Take for instance guns, there is a strong inverse relationship between the price of a gun and the likelihood that it will be used for murder. The guns most often used for crimes are the cheapest handguns that you could get for a hundred dollars or so. More expensive guns, like rifles or higher quality handguns, still get used in crimes but a lot less often. And the most expensive guns, machine guns with collector value, are virtually never used for crime.

In making GPS trackers extremely cheap, it will be abused far more often. It's no longer esoteric technology that most people except cops or PIs wouldn't even think to use; it's dirt cheap and prevalent. Prevalence is a big part of it; it used to be that most people were unfamiliar with the specifics of GPS tracking. Maybe they heard about it in the news or in movies, but they wouldn't know where to start looking to buy one for themselves and certainly didn't have one laying around in their home already. But now that every other person seems to have a dozen of them laying around their home, the risk of impulsive use has become very real. Planting GPS trackers on people has become something the general population can do on a whim. It wasn't like this before.
To be fair, they do not claim to cover both sides:

> We are the owners and administrators of several Russian non-political telegram channels.

> We don't do politics. But we consider it important to provide unbiased information about what is happening in Ukraine and on the territories of Donbass, because we see signs of an information war launched against Russia.

Granted, I would have liked to see a "FAKE: US funding biological weapon labs in Ukraine" there too.
I wouldn't be so sure... if you poke hard enough at the interface some of these VPN clients create, I think you might find more than just the open internet.
Well, there are only 2 real candidates, so yes the likely republican nominee is a likely candidate to win. The polls all show democrats losing in a landslide in the midterms. That puts the republican nominee in very good position.
This is what I'm worried about.

Sooner or later we'll need regulation to prevent devices from requiring network connection.

I don't think we'll ever get it though.
>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.

There needs to be a new Law of the Internet that describes this situation.

"When there's little outrage over a hate crime, the probability of the perpetrator being non-White approaches 1."

Something like Coulter's Law [0].

[0] https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/coulters-law/
A lot of people here in the comments are stating that these sandwiches are a scam because the filling is much less than you are led to believe.

That is... true sometimes, but it's also common knowledge among Japanese people, and most people avoid the bad ones. See a pack of three sandwiches at Lawson 100 for dirt cheap? Yeah - avoid those.

And this kind of thing is talked about all the time on the Japanese internet.

Here's a good showcase of sandwich fillings:

https://dailyportalz.jp/kiji/160518196569
Real estate is crazier in China than in the USA when you compare housing costs to local salaries, or even when you compare Chinese housing costs to American salaries. I relocated from Beijing back to Seattle so I could buy a house.
It was not necessary for me to find a partner in the same field (CS/Engineering). Much rather I thought being a nerd, my opinions could have conflicted a lot had my partner been a co-worker. I ended up falling in love and marrying a language major.

My 2 cents: Look for compatibility. Partners should be able to tolerate or even encourage each other's tastes. I like books. She loves music. 4 years later, I know more about classical music by indulging her & she cursorily knows what's happening in the tech / ML scene & appreciate the challenges in my job.

We don't take ourselves very seriously. Keeping ego aside is very important. Making a clear division of responsibilities too. I nitpick on folding clothes & keeping organized. She takes care of the letters, paperwork & bills/credit card.

Conjugal relationship needs to be healthy but not an absolute make-or-break. Humor, honesty & keeping each other in good company are far more valuable. Looks fade, jokes go out of fashion, clothes & get-up even faster so - what counts is if the person is your "go-to-person" when any crisis falls. Fun times only last so much. Crisis & difficulties test the true character of a relationship. If you think this person is more likely to stick with you, whether fun or serious, that person counts in your life.

Edit: Its much easier for a serious person to loosen up, but quite hard for an irresponsible person to be responsible.
Do markets and inflation not go hand-in-hand, although sometimes slightly out of step, like I thought they did?
Then why change anything?
In Poland, the Baltics and Northern Europe you can get very good food and drinks in petrol stations, especially Circle K - which is originally a US brand. They have self serve coffee machines that make fresh bean to cup coffee - it's usually cheaper and better than what you will find in chain coffee shops. Then they have a selection of freshly made sandwiches and other hot food that is made in front of you.
The Code Review Pyramid
do you have some reference?
You seem to have a very naive view of how the financial system works. It's not like there are a lot of options for small depositors, it's one of the set of too big to fail banks. And they can get all the free money they want from the Fed. If you are someone with millions of dollars of annual deal flow through Chase, yeah, Dimon will go to bat for you, but if you are some retail depositor, as long as they verify it's the government, they'll do whatever they want. (And they don't even really care about verifying anything under normal circumstances, which is why identity thievery is so easy.)
The languages I listed don't really suffer from JS impedance mismatch or other major practical problems. The interop of course is still a hump from a programmer POV, a FFI to another language is always a portal to another culture.. But even there the shared object system and GC makes it much better than interop between native code languages.

WebAssembly suitability for general HLLs is possible in the far future but there don't seem to be many eager consumers. People prefer JS interop, browser API access, and builtin high performance GC and a JIT of JS that can efficiently handle dynamic constructs with advanced compiler magic. Reimplementing those in your wasm targeting compiler would be a huge effort and complexity cost, and added bloat to compiled programs, even if wasm supported it.
This is a meta post. A discussion rose up on HN, so much that people at New Yorker took notice, cited HN, and that article is posted here too.

A couple of observations since I last wrote my thoughts on this (last time i said this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30348492) :

- People who work in tech do not constitute the avg internet user now a days who uses Google to search. Naturally, google evolved to serve the lowest denominator by default, and that would probably not be satisfying for advanced users. (which opens up space for a new competitor I think?) Half the searches are when people are asking basic questions - hence they do not even result in a click. I have searched multiple times for a random calculation because google is faster than opening a calculator on mac.

- Adding site:reddit.com is a feature, and it's a utility of the engine that Google is allowing us to concentrate search to a subset. Same goes with many other operators, it's just another phrase. Ideally, there could be a wrapper which does these things for us, but I doubt it would work well. That does not mean Google search is dying, but more like we are now realizing the dependency we had on Google and the laziness when it comes to finding things on the internet.
partially agreed, I would love to see tools and supports of WASM being put on a higher priority and people improves dev experiences there. JavaScript syntax is already coupled with too many factors being a scripting platform or a compilation target.
I've also felt the need for something similar in various moments. It would be certainly interesting!

I have no idea on even how to start building something like this, but don't you think an OS / community hosted wiki like would fit this use-case well? Especially when/if aiming to make it free.
As a side-note: a good test of when social networks turn the corner and become evil is when they start conflating liking and sharing by implementing the "You follow x, and he liked" feature that you described. Since this clearly violates the user's intention (if you wanted to share something, you would have shared it), this serves as a subtle but distinct signal that manipulating users has become more important than listening to them.
> I assume from the day I start that I will be gone in less than 18 months.

This is my mindset now, but man, I would like to be able to actually stay at a place for 5+ years.

My father worked at an engineering firm for over 15 years. Although this had its own cons like everything, I'm jealous of the camaraderie that my father had with his coworkers. I suspect I'll hit local maximum for pay/career at some point in my future and try to find a job where I can stay long and cultivate meaningful connections.
I wonder how much of this is an urban legend

There's a reason why refrigerated items are usually at the back: fridges usually face a wall. You can have a shelf at the back sometimes but that's not always possible

Also, for those quick purchases you can always go to somewhere closer, a gas station, etc.

In fact in Europe some places do have the quick purchases right in front of the store so you don't need to go around (Tesco as an example).