skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm european but I moved to Hong Kong to dev software. I d like to come back, but when I joined a startup in Paris, for 3 years the other devs talked day and night about class warfare, the state was taking 2 months of my salary end of year (now they take each month directly from your salary), 20% tax on everything I bought, a few hundreds in local taxes, criminality was unlivable, the boss stopped sleeping at some point out of financial stress because the gov made a mistake and took 2 years of corporate tax at once, unemployment was reaching 10% and muslims were killing you in the weekend if you went to a concert.

So I scrapped together some savings, learned English and bailed and Im happier for it. Maybe our roads and hospitals were beautiful, but it wasnt worth the constant frustration. All I can do now is vote and wait they wake up.
Yeah this article makes it sounds like algorithmic trading is wrong by design, but that’s not really true in this case at least
I bought a pile of transparent, clamshell (full size) SD card cases. I label those, and keep my microSD cards in them.
> Why should it matter who did the code?

Largely licensing issues. For example, from SQLite's copyright page [1]:

> In order to keep SQLite in the public domain and ensure that the code does not become contaminated with proprietary or licensed content, the project does not accept patches from people who have not submitted an affidavit dedicating their contribution into the public domain.

[1]: https://sqlite.org/copyright.html#notopencontrib
I've been reverse engineering a modern ABS control module. It has 2 cores, and they are separate CPU's with their own memory (although one cpu can access the RAM of the other CPU) and role. One reads/writes the CAN bus and does verification on that data, the other CPU is the one that monitors wheel speed sensors and determines when to control the solenoid valves. There is a cleanly defined area where data is copied from one CPU to the other.
Deconvolution. Haven't followed that in awhile, but getting to original function was next to impossible. Recording calibration image and/or recent AI developments might've taken that into something awesome. I'll go and catch up on material!
The government needs to do that when the market fails to do it.

I don't think somebody should honestly call themselves an "engineer" if they can't be bothered to make their systems usable by the masses. It is an utter lack of professionalism.
My thinking is that employers can pass this burden off to the employee, so they will. (Once they are done worrying about being underwater on real estate.)

If you can't work well from home, but your company is remote, you will be an underperformer. It would be your responsibility to rent a co-working space (cheaper than most monthly commute costs) or create a home office.

The artificial need isn't the mental space to concentrate; it's that your employer has to provide that for you.
Cool. A way for me to "market" good software design to others without them realizing it's just normal modular design with reasonable best practices. Sadly most people need a fancy name and slide deck for this.
> bitcoin survives

What does this mean? I would bet that there'll always be Bitcoin miners, so the network will never completely "die". If you're talking about BTC/USD rate, it's hard to meaningfully interpret given how unregulated (and possibly manipulated, see Tether) the market is.

As a technology, it's probably more interesting to look at, say, the number of people who did a cryptocurrency transaction in the past month or week.
Our ancestors extirpated the beaver out of a mania, which developed among the former, for wearing the skins of the latter upon their heads.
I know there are some Unix specs that say that page size is reported via runtime interfaces, but I suspect that eg on x86 if you built a Linux kernel that gave userspace a 2MB page size, and started returning that from the sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE) interface, many (most?) apps would break and shrugging that away with "those apps are just broken" would be a nonstarter. But maybe just counts as a a de facto user expectation and is not documented anywhere architecture in Linux ABIs?
Congrats on the launch, we're currently using https://stoplight.io/ which seems to be a bit more feature-complete but lacks the "assistant" bit I feel your team is focusing on more.
Are you french by any chance? Most ambitious french devs I've met have either moved to Switzerland, UK or the US, citing the lack of VC money and a stingy and overly bureaucratic government taxing the living daylights out of you.

Also a french dev I knew, moved with his family to Warsaw, Poland citing a higher safety than in Paris.

Then again, I also have a friend who moved to Toulouse, France to work in the aerospace and defense sector (Airbus) and he's very happy with his life there.
>Probably a pro-Russian troll
I'm not sure a pro-Russian troll would claim that Russians committed 30,000 war crimes
What a miserable world we live in where this is definitely the case.
It's a shame it's not installed by default on most distros. Intentionally installing reduces the humor/surprise/terror.
If page size can be chosen per process (such as 4K pages for Rosetta apps) that's not unlike the existing hugepages. Are we sure that it cannot be easily adapted to support both 4k and 16k processes?
Without paywall on archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20220319112653/https://www.washi...
Most software does indeed ignore leap seconds, thereby generally matching UTC for times, but being discontinuous at leap second boundaries, and not matching UTC for durations. Sometimes this matching of POSIX behaviour is spelled out, but mostly it’s not.

As an example, since an ancestor comment was talking about JavaScript:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... says Date.now() “returns the number of milliseconds elapsed since January 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC”, which wording would suggest the inclusion of leap seconds (since they have certainly elapsed).

However, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... mentions that Date.now(), Date.parse() and Date.UTC() ignore leap seconds; what it fails to mention is that actually it’s just that ECMAScript follows POSIX for time measurement throughout, though in a milliseconds base rather than seconds, meaning that everything to do with Date ignores leap seconds. (Citation: ECMA-262 §21.4.1.1 <https://262.ecma-international.org/12.0/#sec-time-values-and...>; warning, 6.7MB HTML document, slow to load.)
> because more and more people will get into it

Why do you believe that? Are you talking about pure speculation?
There is an interesting discussion here [ 1 ] although this particular project has since modified their stance

Summary from thread

1. Too many small contributions takes a toll on core developers

2. Issue of copyright assignment and knowing chain of ownership

3. Social cost when a PR is rejected and the submitter is mad.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25940195
> Something tells me that the anti-NATO folks on the Far Left who hold ineffective anti-war rallies don't understand the need for the threat of force if agreements aren't followed.

As Putin's recent addresses have been denouncing gays in the West, and the vast majority of conservative republicans to liberal democrats in the US congress have voted to send more arms to the Ukraine, I suppose the provenance of peace in this conflict is, as you say, on what is called the "Far Left".

Whether anti-war rallies are ineffective or not I can not say. The lowest estimate for the London anti-war rally in 2003 was 750,000 people. In my experience when more than 750,000 show up against something it has a political effect. Of course rallies and marches alone do not change things, a sustained campaign of education, organization and agitation is needed. Historical records show the anti-war movement during the Vietnam War had political effects in preventing escalation.

There is the far left, and there are architects of the Vietnam War like Robert McNamara, who was Secretary of Defense during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He spent his retirement warning of the dangers of a small conflict between major powers spiraling into a full-scale nuclear conflict, and that it was something that could happen, he was in the room when these decisions were made and he helped craft these decisions. Not a far left view, but a Republican Ford CEO who worked to crush the Cuban and Vietnamese revolutions.

The point being there is danger on either side. Nuclear proliferation and escalation seems more dangerous than moves toward disarmament to me. Nowadays the US, UK, France, Russia, China, India, Israel, Pakistan and North Korea are all members of the nuclear club. And Russia and China both have significant nuclear triangle capabilities.

In a class-based society of nation states, where idle class heirs expropriate surplus labor time from wage workers, over a long enough timeline, a war involving nuclear weapons seems an inevitably.
Sacrificing people at the margins at the altar of holy capitalism is not exactly a system I'm excited about.
Slower than a google search certainly, but not problematically slow

Median response time is 0.9 for most engines
I’m insulted every time an app has one of those forced tutorials I have to click through.
Eh, it's not so much that it stopped working as it is that it never worked the way you thought it did.

Quotes have ~always been an exact match on the tokenized query text, not a substring match on the corpus text. No synonyms, reordering, gaps, etc, but the matches -- and failures -- are sometimes not obvious at first blush.

If you search for "don't stop me now", for instance, that "don't" tokenizes to "don t", so it will match the tokenized strings "don't", "don t", "don-t", "don, t", etc ... but not "dont", because that's outside tokenization.

On the other hand, snippets mostly are substring matches of the query text, so if you see a result to a literal query that doesn't have a snippet, you know it's probably one of the weird matches.
Everywhere we look we see distinct structures.

This might be us being in an isotropic bubble where outside of the bubble is forever gone for us to see due to expansion of universe... Not sure how CMBR falls into that however.
> Produce is labelled not just down to a country level, but to individual farms, and often you'll see meat for sale in shops include not just the code for the farm, but the full name too.

Is this true across all of Europe? If not, what country are you in?
Anecdata isn't helpful here; when you are one of millions of users, thousands of people may be inconvenienced (or killed) before you have personal experience with a problem.
Universal Atari Keyboard Case
Is there an alternative search engine right now that is both good and not based heavily on an incumbent by a large tech company (ie: bing)? If not then the argument isn't disproved.
Your reasoning in itself is faulty: It pitches perceived good for one group ("young black women in Chicago") against perceived good of another group ("wheelchair users").

Let's for a moment disregard that there are a lot more wheelchair users than young black women in Chicago, and that the wheelchair users obviously are a lot more disadvantaged - a government is not a business. Its goal is not necessarily to use money "ideally beneficial" in a utilitarian way - its goal is to keep a society working, which in our liberal democracy environment means protecting the weak and keeping things relatively fair (in the sense: to help those who cannot help themselves).

While every young black woman from Chicago can stay in school, attend night school, or spend time in a library, not even the most athletic wheelchair-user can consistently hop their wheelchair (plus body-weight) up the stairs. And even if every single black young Chicago-woman becomes a new entrepreneur, resulting in a larger net-good for society as a whole, the wheelchair-user still would have the same problem.
You should try Budibase
Land Gained and Lost: A Fermi Estimate
Quick Introduction to the Bloomberg Terminal
Reddit for $10B? It’s going to be worth more than $50B by June.
In my experience Brave is better than DDG for tech topics. But DDG so far is noticeably better for non-english content and image search, so I still use it as a fallback.
> I tend to side a bit harder with the landlords, but I don't want people tossed out on the streets without any sort of warning either.

I expect that that hardly ever happens. Landlords aren't in the business to make life unnecessarily bad for renters, they're there to make money.

A tenant who stayed in the same place for 3 years, always pays on time and never damages the property is preferably to an unknown. Landlords know that starting an eviction can cost them up to a year of income, plus there is always the risk that the new tenant is going to be even costlier.

Why on earth would a landlord roll the dice on someone new? My guess is that many of those sob stories you are hearing from tenants are their side of the story.

They aren't going to tell you that the miss rent sometimes (and they'd have to miss a lot of months before a landlord will start the eviction process).

They aren't going to tell you that the landlord had to make substantial repairs to damages that they caused.

They aren't going to tell you that they sublet to "their cousins", and have 4 people to a room in a 3 room house.

When you listen to a landlord's side of the eviction story, it always comes down to money: "that house is my income and I wasn't getting it anymore".

No landlord is cutting off their income stream for several months just because they want to throw tenants onto the street.
Unfortunate time zone names in the United States
That's called being a professional. Engineers create useful and rigorous systems. What other professions get to complain about having to do the "unfun" parts? The world runs on software. I'm unhappy with the idea that the software running the world is just built according to what some people find fun.
Interesting how the internet has given people more power to act, and the freedom people have has also made it possible.
Twitter's Chonky Boi Metrics
Docker for Mac has been so bad for so long. I finally moved to running all docker images on a linux box and using syncthing to sync code changes. My battery thanks me.
Governments are terrible at scope and requirements. Bring 10 local governments together to run development of a new FOSS software thingy and you’ll get something that none of the 10 would ever use in practice, if it ever gets finished at all
Why social-media can give a skewed-account of the War in Ukraine
The idea is that you don't need to convert to fiat. Everything you buy would be via crypt. Like cash. You don't know if the cash someone uses is stolen and no one cares.
This is one of the best nutshell definitions I've ever read.
Whereas in the UK part of the attraction of beavers is as part of the amelioration of climate change and the flash flooding it can produce. a few additional swampy areas and floodplains upstream can reduce disasters downstream
My guess is they are aiming to exit with a cloud provider that isn’t doing this stuff themselves yet, or one that doesn’t want their competitors to acquire this team.
Try this and search by your username:

https://camas.github.io/reddit-search/
https://gitlab.com/dwt1/bash-insulter like this?
Here is was hoping for a venue to vent my anger with how using Microsoft’s recent products around Office kind of insults any sane person using it.

OneDrive syncing away files, created on that very same machine just to be not available anymore while you are working on a business trip with sketchy network connections?

Word just outright freezing to death on trying to create a OneDrive link to the current file?
Yeah I too used this tech many years ago.

Instead of what I consider spam and then all the bots/fanboys. It would be great to hear about how they implemented it. Or how they made it seamless. Much more interesting than an apple circle jerk.
I used it for about 30 minutes years and years ago and didn’t really like it but Carrot Weather for iOS fits this bill. I believe it insults the user and generally uses snarky language. That’s pretty much its whole schtick, so it’s not really a hidden feature or easter egg. I don’t even know if it provides any more accurate weather information than other apps; I think people use it mostly for its ‘character’.

Again, not really my thing but it’s featured on the App Store a lot and has won numerous awards.
100%
Zones system with spot metering is what you did before the advent of live histograms.
Digital flips the bias from overexpose to underexpose and the response is far more linear than film was.

That said its good to have learned these concepts and have them in mind as it makes you a better shooter even in an auto-everything digital photo world.

For example understanding the gray level the camera meter is averaging for and how that impacts the exposure compensation if you are shooting say a bright white snow scene vs a dark blacks & grays street scene.
https://archive.is/WHpV1
Not endorsing any side of the conflict, but just the fact that humanity is able to make missiles that fly at 1.7 km/s is mind boggling to me. Imagine watching that fly overhead on a clear day. Actually I suspect one might totally miss the sight even if they were told “It’s coming. Watch for it.”
Not GP, but something generated by CoPilot (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/copilot) would generate constant-time constant-memory C code from a specification written in a DSL. That is what I would start to consider "proper" safe for stuff where it is really important.

It depends on what you consider to be absolute requirements for proper concurrency safety of course, and how much of the hardware is allowed to fail before it starts impacting the software.
The “norms” were rules which were developed after everybody saw what the alternative looked like. Humans have a lot of rules around conflict and fighting because it’s very costly for everyone to have an all-out war.
Agreed wholeheartedly. It’s something that has been bugging me for a while. I can consume information maybe 3-5x faster (or more?) via text vs video but every trend I can see points to video being the preferred medium for Gen Z.

Is it because they’re “video native” and know how to navigate it better? Surely they’re not sitting through 2 minutes introductions. Do they inherently understand how to return to the important parts of a video for future reference? My brain just does not operate like theirs, it seems.
It seems there are several independent ideas somewhat mixed together.

The idea number 0 is component interfaces. They seem equivalent to plain old interfaces in all the other languages. (Except some reflection may be necessary in statically typed languages to process the lists of functions in a generic way?)

The idea number 1 is bases. They are domain-agnostic adapters that convert component interfaces (aka language-native interfaces) into language-agnostic interfaces. (Except they seemingly do include domain logic because they combine several components before exposing them?)

The idea number 2 is project layout, I think? It appears to be more of a supporting convention at best, not sure.
Today I took the time to have a closer look. Turns out, the directional antenna for M-code is only present on Block III GPS satellites, and only four of those are currently in service:

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

So this is definitely not the correct explanation.

Besides, even if there were enough Block III satellites in orbit to provide constant cover of the affected area, it would still make little sense to tie up their most advanced capabilities to jam their own legacy signal, when you could just turn off the legacy signal when transiting the target area and provide your own military with continued service using the directional antenna.

And of course, Russia has its own satellite navigation system

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

so you'd also have to explain what the US and NATO could hope to gain from turning off GPS.
I'm fairly sure that many long-time db admins wished that was the default setting.
It's 15 acres of woodland. Wouldn't really make a very good zoo ezxperience.
amazing video. thanks.
A Growing Furry over 'Turning Red'
Ask HN: What makes some metals shine?
Metal surfaces can have those geometrical patterns, like grains a few millimeters in size, appearing only when light is at the correct angle.

Here's one picture with an example, right side: https://nnnnnnnn.co/log/210514.html
Crime is relative so to say a major application of crypto is "crime" isn't necessarily a bad thing. I've seen a Russian commentator in another thread claiming to commit the "crime" of donating Bitcoin to Ukraine (while still being in Russia). I'm sure those of us in the Western world wouldn't have any big moral objections to that.

That being said, most studies point to the conclusion that the major application of Bitcoin at least is not crime:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/haileylennon/2021/01/19/the-fal...

https://cryptoforinnovation.org/resources/Analysis_of_Bitcoi... (by Michael Morell, former Acting Director, Deputy Director and Director of Intelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA))
What The Forecast does the same thing. It is quite amusing, especially in the depths of a Canadian winter.
I use Ecosia, and the results are usually good enough. Google’s results are often better, but now there are only like 4 results on the first page.
Does forced to use electron apps count as an insult?
> very few practitioners were even aware of the existence of evidence-based clinical guidelines

shame on them. but that doesn't mean the field is not based on science any more than an arbitrary recent conference by crackpots in maths being used as proof of invalidating maths.

> Excessive diagnosis and treatment are endemic.

Which is exactly OP's point on maligned incentives. This is despite scientific backing, not because of it.

> There are dozens of journals and organizations devoted to evidence-based medicine, but only a handful devoted to evidence-based dentistry.

Yes. As expected. Since it's a tiny subfield compared to the totality of medicine. Similarly there are dozens of journals on engineering, but presumably only a handful devoted to the use of solar panels in agricultural engineering.
Russia just created its own root certificate (YouTube)
We often assume our ancestors to be idiots. Would they have done it if beavers were found to be generally beneficial? (I mean probably, because capitalists are going to sell their last breath of air if the price is right; still worth asking)
Years ago I wrote an article explaining how to do that in pure CSS:
https://medium.com/@andsens/radial-progress-indicator-using-...

It's basically the same thing, just fully radial instead of just a gauge.

Here's a working example: https://jsfiddle.net/andsens/mLA7X/ (click in the middle of it to animate to another random percentage)
Slightly more I would argue as "time cost" rarely is interchangeable between activities 1:1

But otherwise fully agree, sometimes things just make sense for certain people/tasks that seem otherwise absurd for many others
I think you're leaving out the part where one group feels like they can intervene in someone else's life and decisions about health based on a difference of opinion. The default should be "we disagree, you do you and I'll do me".
I actually think that, a few of us would be totally willing to build a new strong, fast and privacy centric browser.

Some absolutely incredible ideas have been discussed about a potential new engine (Servo based) that could be privacy-first / lightweight / fast / bloat-free. This would require rethinking the web in a retro-compatible way, and here again I've heard of some very smart ideas.

… but who's gonna lead that? And where will the money come from?
I am disappointed that you didn't use https://thecatapi.com for your feline data source.
There’s absolutely no way you’re internalizing what’s in that video while it’s playing in the background.