skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is a troll, right? MacOS is much better for most users than Windows or Linux, and I say this as someone who used desktop Linux for 10+yrs before throwing the towel in.
Ask HN: How much are you making in Vancouver?
With the way real estate and inflation is like, in Vancouver BC in particular, have you increased your salary dramatically in the last two years or tried and failed? Are you working remotely for a U.S company or elsewhere and is that working out for you? It's tough to get a sense of where the local market is at. Also, what do you do and how much experience do you bring/what do you call youself?
Were your cats raised in a househould with a dog? I have only had one cat (bengal) that sleeps in my bed and it was. I've read it really helps cats be more outgoing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG0S5NzWrLo

Also, it being cold in the house seems to have a big impact too.
Ask HN: Tech Hiring – Skills or Capabilities?
Non tech person here interested in understanding what forward thinking CTOs/CIOs/CDOs consider when hiring tech talent.

Is the hiring focus on technologies studied and technologies used? Or are capabilities hiring more important? i.e. is experience with the x, y or z tech currently used in your business a non-negotiable prerequisite or is tech hiring more focused on a suite of personal and professional skills necessary to to learn and adapt to the current stack and to drive the future tech stack?

I understand this is a very broad question dependent on numerous business factors but let’s consider this in the context of innovation intensive companies and CTOs looking to establish world class tech teams that build the future an leave an impact.
You're right that sanctions and restrictions could impact the price.

What I'm arguing is that this impact doesn't cause the price to be zero, requires global coordination to have a big impact, and that even in this case, the self-custody capability of crypto is still something better than the alternative (no access to any funds or any ability to transact). We're also discussing an extreme worst case (and even in that case it's still better than frozen non-custodial fiat funds).

Flagging wallets to exchanges also requires targeting and many people wouldn't get hit by this. There are also a lot of cases that benefit from self-custody in a world that doesn't have this extreme global coordination to sanction crypto.

Imagine the case where you're a random Ukrainian citizen in Russian occupied territory trying to get your wealth out across a hostile border. Your crypto wallet is not likely to be flagged to exchanges (even if it was most exchanges wouldn't care). You can memorize the seed words and get out safely with the ability to recreate your wealth on the other side.

This has already happened at least once: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tatianakoffman/2020/06/13/why-b...
From reading the title I expected it to be a study along the lines of “if your cat decides to sleep on your face, then your sleep will be of lesser quality than if it decides to sleep at the foot of the bed.”
There's a folk belief (or maybe a legend of such belief) that when moving into a new house, one should let in the cat first, observe where they choose the resting place, and promptly install the bed there.

It's a very sensible belief! Cats are quite sensitive to drafts, so (especially in days when houses were draftier and lacked central heating) sleeping in the location the cat picks is likely to be much healthier than picking a location at random.
Swift 5.6 already got a few changes, with more on the way.
Jenny?!
Just like every other post in r/maliciouscompliance is from the person at the bottom of the totem pole who is somehow the only person in the company who knows how to do the thing keeping the company afloat. One, the company will be fine without you, and Two, assuredly part of your job was communicating what you're doing so no you are not the best worker in the company. Sheesh.
>This has been pretty much obsoleted by improvements in metallurgy, machining tolerances, and lubricant improvements

Is there a source for this claim? Also, what year is the modern engine cutoff? 2000 or 2010?
We can call it:

https://www.tatler.com/
Yes if you have to buy only one, Moonlander is the right choice. If one has access to a 3d printer, they have a community set of cad files for useful accessories (e.g. more tenting support, if needed) [0].

[0] https://www.zsa.io/moonlander/printables/
Repeating a comment from earlier:

As a former Mormon myself, I appreciate where you are coming from.

I plan to read the recommendations folks made here, but due to the proselyting culture and the mystical emphasis Brighamite Mormonism puts on the Book of Mormon I want to offer a more substantial and impactful recommendation. In its place, I recommend Sagan's Demon-Haunted World.
Dropping a pin directly on the correct street gives a distance of dozens of meters -- what? The street isn't that wide.
Reading through the documentation it looks like this emulates the legacy IOS model of announcing all BGP routes to neighbors by default unless there is a policy configured.

This outdated model has caused countless route leaks over the years. Any new or updated BGP implementations should require an explicit allow policy for any route advertisement to take place (at least to eBGP neighbors). IOS-XR and JunOS require explicit policies.

This is covered in RFC8212: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8212
So all citizens are for-hire police officers... ok.
Is it meta to point out the intellectual bankruptcy of posting low-effort meta-posts, or is that just this post's joke working on a second level?
They're assuming your complaint about spending a few extra seconds activating the pump implies you're then climbing back into the vehicle after starting the pump, as a few seconds on a several minute encounter with the pump really isn't that much time.

Also, FWIW its not that crazy about asking about a car wash when its freezing outside especially if you're in an area where they salt the roads a lot. From what I understand a lot of people will do a lot of undercarriage washes when things get salty. I don't live in those areas so I'm not the best to offer advice in that, but I do know briny water and metal aren't good for things you want to not have rust to nothing in a few years.
Can you think of no other laws or situations where the same incentivized system was in place?

Personally, I can see both sides of the argument. I hope that most people can as well, even in today's polarized world, where sensationalism and tribalism abound. Ultimately, if one's action (privilege) poses a danger/risk to others, I tend to favor curbing that privilege, even if I don't like it. The key issue is the balancing act between the real danger/harm posed vs. the cost to privilege/right. In this instance, most people would agree that a city like NYC has plenty of privileged vehicle operators. So, curbing that privilege by limiting idling of diesel vehicles is more than acceptable.
I'm sure making a false report for money is _already_ very illegal.
The most expensive and difficult thing about fission is, always, getting it built. It is so very expensive that, often, we give up after spending, literally, billions of dollars beyond what had been projected for completion. Other costs are also high, and seem small only by comparison. Fusion projects promise to cost an order of magnitude more than fission to build, and correspondingly more to operate.

Any place where renewables, local storage, and power delivered via transmission line are all unavailable, even if only temporarily, can surely get by on synthetic fuel shipped in from places that have reliable-enough power to make and stockpile that. So, it is hard to understand a claim that extremely cheap renewables "cannot do everything, everywhere." Indeed, we all are long used to relying on liquid fuels shipped in from across the globe, and I do not know why we would abandon the capacity.

I also see no need for extremely expensive "baseline plants" when the cost for storage is falling much faster, even, than the cost of the energy to be stored. Besides the very mature pumped hydro, we may turn the similarly mature liquified-air technology to storage. Factories for iron-air batteries are under construction. Synthetic hydrogen, methane, ammonia and even kerosene are known to be practical. Even long-distance transmission will often be a cheap substitute for drawing down storage stocks.

While chemical storage is less "round-trip" efficient than some other alternatives, it offers the important advantages that, when the tanks are full, the product is always immediately useful industrially, so synthesis equipment need almost never sit idle; and extra tanks are very cheap, anywhere more would be useful. Synthesis efficiency will only ever improve.

So, supposing somebody did manage to get "net-positive" Tokamak fusion as early as 2030, it is hard to imagine who would still care, by then. Do wake me up, though, if you find a way to get aneutronic D-3He fusion going that I can use for outer solar system operations.
As someone who very recently moved to NYC (and therefore isn't an expert), I have had zero issues with crime, garbage, or theft, but have been annoyed by car exhaust and other pollution more so than living in California.

Wrt to wealth inequality, yes that's definitely a more important issue but also one that is completely orthogonal to car idling and cities can work on more than one thing at a time.
i didn’t know it was him ahead of time but when i watched it on a flight a few weeks ago i pegged it as standard zimmer work. it was like blade runner 2049 and gladiator had a baby. quite derivative. enjoyable, but derivative.
Toilets must be permitted to ensure they meet local standard for water conservation.

Obviously this isnt a problem that cant be solved by controlling sales, because people will just drive to neighboring counties to get toilets that actually work. Mine takes 3 flushes.
Ask HN: Why dont websites use _blank for external links anymore?
Was it always like this? I find myself right clicking > new tabbing for every link now. Not to mention that the problem is exacerbated by “enhanced” js scrolling.

Some HN links from just today that do it
https://fullstackeconomics.com/why-america-cant-build-big-things-any-more/

https://patrickcollison.com/fast

https://gankra.github.io/blah/fix-rust-pointers/

https://gashamola.com/2022/03/16/the-elephant-in-the-event-loop.html

And just for a nice change here’s a link that acts as you would expect

https://migrant.substack.com/p/how-google-fi-suddenly-struck?s=r
> They seem to regard all abstraction as simply unnecessary...

I would be surprised if the video author agreed with this statement. My understanding of his point is something more general and almost trivially true, i.e. a given set of abstractions can't solve problems the same way as a different set of abstractions. The strong version is a Venn diagram

┌──────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ Implementations expressable │
│ by abstraction set A │
│ │
│ ┌──────────────────────┼───────┐
│ │ │ │
│ │ Implementations │ │
│ │ expressable by both │ │
│ │ │ │
└───────┼──────────────────────┘ │
│ Implementations expressable │
│ by abstraction set B │
│ │
└──────────────────────────────┘

In particular, if you are still in the "this problem isn't completely, rigorously nailed down" phase, then building abstraction-hierarchy A implicitly means that you cannot explore some of the solutions available to abstraction-hierarchy B.

Said another way, abstractions cut down the space of possible solutions.

Cutting down the space definitely has large upsides. If you're trying to build a nuclear plant, we probably want to weed out the cake-baking solutions. For especially large and complex problems with horrendously large solutions spaces, abstractions function as a way of compartmentalizing some of that solution space into manageable sub-problems. However, maybe there is a better set of sub-problems?

After a year hammering on some software development project, you probably have a much clearer idea of the problem's nuances than when first starting. Wouldn't it be great if we could perform low-cost rewrites? If you can hold the entire source code in your head and cognate about it, that's probably even possible. Could any one human hold all of Firefox in their head?

One point from the video stands out to me: abstractions might just be a necessary evil. They are effective tools for helping humans cognate about complex problems, which involves limiting our ability to cognate about potential solutions.

Anyway, I am reminded of the surprising solutions found by genetic algorithms and their ilk.
For anyone wanting more details on the sound design team:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkf_rdROyWw

Great discussion on decisions and concepts from all of the member of the team
Cool, I've never gone up to another human while he barks at me, and pee directly in his face, but apparently it is now justified due to my "psychiatric disorder". Thanks science!
> So now you really have to call into question everything that was said from the people with the perspective that Putin is a genius tactician.

Actually, the people who spent the last half-decade telling me that Putin was "playing chess" are the exact same people who are now telling me he's unhinged and mentally ill and that we need to send F-16s to Poland.

But really, the specifics don't matter to me.

Biolabs or not, doesn't matter. Putin is a genius with a legitimate beef or he's a nutjob with a brain tumor and short-man syndrome, doesn't matter. imo we should just be avoiding WW3. Everything else is secondary. Maybe that means Ukraine is not defendable.

It's probably good I'm in an armchair. But from where I'm sitting, the people who seem to be getting us closer to nuclear war are also the ones yelling "you're carrying water for Putin!" whenever anyone asks a question.

I was an adult during the Iraq War. I'm cynical, and that clouds my judgement.
Is there a non-"team green" solution that works well? With all the bad press about Deere these days (including a few HN comments from suppliers to Deere that revealed they deliberately ask for slightly tweaked parts to avoid being compatible with regular parts), I wonder if there's a suitable alternative.
HTML does have the <ABBR> tag. I use it all the time on my blog any time I use an acronym [1]. At least Firefox and Safari will display the title attribute as a tool tip, so hovering over the following HTML: "<abbr title="Border Gateway Protocol">BGP</abbr>" on those browsers will show "Border Gateway Protocol". I'm sad that it's not used more often.

[1] An example: http://boston.conman.org/2022/02/16.1
Instead of talking to the driver you emailed your local council?
> NYT uses some of the worlds most valuable advertising space to push a story about idling vehicles?

It's in the New York section of the paper. That's the part of the paper that New Yorkers read to keep abreast of the city's happenings, including smaller human stories like this one. Thinking about it as "advertising space" is completely flipped: ads are worthless if nobody reads your paper, and stories like this do an excellent job of bringing readers in.

Put another way: you wouldn't bat an eye at a home-style cooking story in the Cooking section. Why are you surprised by a similar level of provincial interest in the local section?
A good older book on this subject is “Inventors in Action” by James Thomas Flexner.
Or worse, deploys something far more insidious. A keylogger that quietly sucks up your credentials for example.
I drive a 30 y/o diesel van and if I don’t warm it up for a while in the morning it runs like shit/dies. I had to explain this to a lady while I was loading it up for volunteer food delivery once.

Probably doesn’t apply to most vehicles though.
Gas pump UX is some of the worst of any computer system I have to deal with on a regular basis (ATMs are about as bad). From awful keypads that miss numbers and obscure non-secret things like your ZIP code, to tap card readers that only work with debit cards (but the magstrip works with CCs?!?), to slow ass multi-step questions, misplaced buttons, "decline car wash", "no I don't want to play the lotto today", pumps that shut down at certain times of the day, and general slowness of every single step of the process...

And the cherry on top: loud video ads that you must stand there and watch while enduring all of this. THOSE have good screens and seem capable of playing back video well enough. If only they could dedicate a fraction of that compute power to making the purchase process less awful.

100% not surprised that these were programmed probably by a junior right out of college back in the 80s then never updated.
Mathematical paradoxes demonstrate the limits of AI
Turning into a nation of snitches with this and the Texas bullshit law and California’s ironic equivalent.
"The Kingdom of God Is Within You" by Tolstoy is definitely a top book for me. I find that I understand it in a slightly different way each time I read it.
Depictions of Native Americans in Video Games
What are you talking about? Neither one of them has ever shipped a AAA game.
These fellows did work for free for Microsoft? Very generous of them.
Considering the anti-user trajectory Edge has been on as of late I'm surprised anyone would want to work on the flatpak version.
The fair thing would be to prorate bonuses like this in cases of involuntary termination.
TASS, the Russian state news agency reports that the Russian "ministry of defense is reporting preparations by Ukrainian nationalists to use chemical weapons" https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/14125007

I think that they might be fabricating a pretext to justify the use of tactical nukes, as a nuclear response to a claimed chemical attack. Yesterdays they declared the use of hypersonic Kinzhal missiles, so that is also a kind of lowering of the nuclear threshold.
News on Kinzhal missile: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60806151

I mean a lot of people prior to the 24th of February thought that it won't come to a war (me included) now everything is possible...
>the USPS sucks

No it does not. The USPS freaking rocks and comparatively trounces the competition. It delivers better and more reliably on time than any other carrier in the nation. The drivers are friendlier and more accommodating. They also deliver at sane hours and no matter the weather.

Amazon? Absolutely hands down the worst delivery retail experience. I've almost been run over by more than one amazon driver.

FedEx? Don't honor delivery instructions, regularly mark things delivered without delivery, leave ridiculous 'missed you' notes for signed packages, inconsistent service across the nation.

UPS Probably the better privately run one, but way more expensive than USPS and the drivers aren't nearly as friendly as postal delivery people.
> I have a high salary (350K USD), which is problematic .. it makes going to small companies hard to stomach (I see engineering managers get paid 150K in some small companies) and the larger companies (FANG-Amazon) pay a lot more but seem impossible for me to get into.

My condolences. Ooof.
> Any wrong doings of authoritarian state being covered in a pile of "whataboutism", any mistake of west inflated into mortal sin.

Lately seeing a "whataboutism" from a random person in Internet I end communication unconditionally because it seems a distinct feature of Russian propaganda. It is it's main weapon and if person is slipping on it then it is either a worker from a troll-farm, or a person brainwashed by a Russian propaganda precisely because he/she believes that whataboutism is a good argument.

It is Russian exceptionalism at work, I believe. The thought goes like "Why USA can invade Iraq, but we cannot invade Ukraine? Are we not exceptional enough?". "Am I a trembling creature, or do I have the right?" (Crime and Punishment: "Тварь ли я дрожащая или право имею?") But it is obviously stupid and we are all had read Dostoevsky as teens, we know it is stupid and ends with a deserved punishment. So it is reduced to "what about..." which sounds less stupid and allows to change topic of the discussion.
Why would anyone do free work for MS? Or use Edge on Linux? Sounds like the author just wants a job at MS.
yea; card skimmers are more appealing because stealing gas requires physical presence of a heavy and hazardous substance. CC skimmers require a 10-second installation then they just send CCs via cell networks for a week or until they're discovered. Do it right and they're basically untraceable, and the stolen CCs can be charged for thousands per skimmer.
Well if they started their 22 year career right after they graduated, then they were in school from 1996-2000… BGP was very new, and likely not taught.
Is it normal for unofficial apps to use namespaces like "com.microsoft.Edge"? Or am I misreading?
Replit does this for their own services, and it seems like they might give you access to it, too[1].

That post is old and not very detailed, so maybe I'm misinterpreting it.

1. https://blog.replit.com/api-docs
Yes - also, if there is a break-in period for a sign on bonus or whatever it is called then what exactly are the problems here? The reason the bonus is delayed from the start date would be to enable situations like this and everyone signing up knows it.

If this dude was an unsatisfactory employee and Amazon didn't tell them then that would be troubling. But they probably did, internet stories tend to filter out that sort of detail. There isn't enough here to get worked up about.
Please be skeptical of things you read on Reddit, doubly so from that subreddit.
None, seriously. Sorry for not giving any inspiration. I have only read technical books like Static/Dynamics mechanics, TCP/IP, Material Science, mostly engineering stuff etc. Because I wouldn't want much reading about someone else's opinion or view of truth. People may find they are useful for learning broad spectrum of perspective, but I find that they all fall into limited set of views that I never be surprised to know, actually almost anything is not new to me (i am yet too old though).

Update more info:

I'm a really fun at party guy and used to read adventurous fictions (text and audio), lots of entertaining, individual-help, business-help kind of books, they are all just opinions, not even statistical useful because you manually collect just one data point per book. Use science based knowledge and can get stuff done and be able to make money, that will make much more impact to life and family!
Yes at all levels, do you want me to tell you what we do to kill a virus ? :D

For natality dont just think today, think 50 years ago when the goal was to reduce it: forced abortion, abandonning your newborn at the nearest wet market (high volume of people) was very common. It's harder to force people to copulate, but I trust our overlords to find a way ahah

The virus however, I m more of the opinion that to fix SARS we decided to import thousands of vietnamese bats to study or such thing and fucked up one way or another. I dont think it was made to kill old people, it was a crazy large scale risky project to prevent the next SARS - the end justifies the means, but this time the means were very costly to foreigners. We dont care yet, or at least we managed to pretend our costs were still low enough not to execute every single person involved, as one should have done if millions of Chinese had died.
Certainly everyone is entitled to an opinion :).

I'll echo the posts you replied to and say that the current 2 books in the KKC series are by far the best fiction I've ever read. I've listened to them at least 3x each on audio (a combined ~71 hours per pass through the series), and I enjoy them in a new way each time.

I'd be curious to hear which fiction series/authors appeal to you and why.
At some point one has to ask, what are you guys doing ingesting 5pb of data per day?!

Unless this is google, that doesn’t make any sense. That’s an average of 7.5mb per human on the planet, every day.