skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meld is great. The only nitpick I have is that winmerge was more efficient in resolving a file with the alt-down alt-left/right commands going one diff block at a time.

In meld, these commands operate depending on focus. When the focus is in the left file, alt-right merges to the right, but you cannot do alt-left to merge from the right file.
Any photos of your work? I work on houses in my spare time too... but its not a full time thing.
The first site is useful, but the second feels parasitic and slimy to me, sorry.
I try a few times, and always I get back to kdiff3. I feel less confuse with the 3 way view and separated merge output view.
Because otherwise it'd be a case of the perfect being the enemy of the good? That scenario would happen anyhow even at market rate.

As a taxpayer I'd rather see some money wasted, and some progress being made, rather than nothing getting done ever.

Corruption and waste are tolerable to some degree, IMO. "Government wastefulness" is too often code for not letting the government do anything at all.

I just don't think our current societal bottlenecks are due to a budget or GDP crisis. There is so much wealth locked away, I'd rather it be spent on public works even if it means losing a few cents on the dollar to corruption along the way.

It's not like the private sector is risk free, or that the government doesn't waste money on wars and questionable foreign aid already.

There is such a backlog of infrastructure to build, whether roads and bridges or prisons and schools and climate change mitigation or renewables or nuclear... we gotta do something about that. If that means a slumlord getting rich, I guess it's a cost of doing business?

Or what's a better alternative?
I had hoped to be the first person to do germline editing in a human (in the late 1980s, as a teenager, that was my goal). I spent about 20 years learning everything I could about human health and the relationship between the genome and visible phenotypes (from molecular to organismal). I concluded that while in principle, you could do germline editing ethically, the technology, and people's ethical maturity are both not at the point where we can do this. Also, if we did it, it would be a group effort not a single scientist acting rogue who didn't even get the details right.
I like the "Copy successful traders if you don't know technical analysis." feature. I've always wanted that as an option for stuff like this.
Have you looked through this list? https://github.com/rust-unofficial/awesome-rust#system-tools . zoxide is one of favorites plus the ones you mentioned.
why do you hate it? (ur personality matches dev better than pm? not sure how to read your comment)
I'm afraid this sector is soon going to be saturated.
Literacy, individualism, lack of tribalism/clans, a 'mechanistic'/logical/Aristotelian view of reality (which led to the development of science), a 'general' of separation spiritual and civil powers (Matthew 22:15–22, Mark 12:13–17, Luke 20:20–26).

Max Weber (1864-1920) was one of the first people to ask this question:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Weber

For more recent thoughts, see The WEIRDest People in the World by Heinrich:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WEIRDest_People_in_the_Wor...

And Toby Huff (The Rise of Early Modern Science, Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_Huff

Intellectual Curiosity makes some interesting observations from the historical record: the telescope was invented in 1608 (where it ended up revolutionizing things), and the Europeans brought the technology to Imperial China and Mughal India. They brought it as 'supplicants' to the court to try to grant greater access to each nation; the Jesuits in China used it to show that their 'superior' knowledge of the universe and reality to help with converting folks to Christianity/Catholicism (e.g., by better predicting eclipses).

Neither country was interesting and continued, through a top-down decree, to simply do things the way they always did them.

The telescope arrived in the the Ottoman Empire by osmosis, and they didn't do much with it either.

Fast forward 100+ years and the scientific/technological advances made through curious minds allowed by a different worldview allowed the Europeans to develop more efficient (product output per energy input) economies and then walk all over the rest of the planet. The Indians and Chinese were arguable equally (if not more) advanced in the 1600s, but by the 1700s and later they were 'primitive' in comparison to the Europeans.
Windows 1.0 Easter Egg discovered, featuring Gabe Newell
I just moved from a full-stack engineer position to AI researcher of an R&D lab in a software company.

Honestly, not much of a career change, but given the new position, I can be much more exposed to new technologies, get to try out new things, like IoT and Blockchain as well. Hopefully with the new knowledge I acquired, I can start my own business someday. Mostly since somewhere along the road of coding 8-to-5 as a developer, I want to create something for myself instead of building other's dream.
If I were president, I would give Hotz a mid-tier medal, as its people like him that empower America, lead to our world dominance, and create the billion dollar industries we profit from. I'm waiting till their product gets a bit better but I'll be a buyer once that occurs. It's damn close for the comma three
Show HN: Creating Real-Time Charts with FastAPI
It's a stale list (checked into git) of the top 1m sites according to alexa.com, back when it was still maintained. Will need to update it to https://tranco-list.eu/ some time.
This is why we have licenses:

… PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE

I think it’s particularly clear, and that part is even in all capitals.
I did software engineering for 3 years after graduation. Now I teach mathematics in a high school since '20. Software engineering was very stressful for me and I also wanted to sync holidays with my kids. Parents seem to value my background. Pay is low but I have a reasonable amount of extra time to tinker.
>"If our systems are unable to establish that a viewer is above the age of 18, we will request that they provide a valid ID or credit card to verify their age.”

I don't think Google is complaining too much. Especially if it gives them an excuse to collect credit card data (reducing a significant amount of friction when they sell YouTube premium / google drive subscriptions).
You don't have to LOVE your job/profession per se, but hating is certainly not healthy for you, it sounds to me you at least have the choice to pursue a different career.
Ok, so what’s the real reason the government wants this?
- Synthetic Stocks (that trade 24 hours a day)

- Decentralised Money Markets (including forward rate curves), biggest analogue to this is the emergence of a nascent eurodollar market in the 50's

- Trustless Borrowing and Lending

- Evasion of sanctions and capital controls (N.B. this is not necessarily negative)

- Allow decentralised autonomous organisations (D.A.O's) to manage treasury assets (e.g. are a key part of coordination)

- Allow me to self custody my wealth outside a traditional institution and outside of inflationary govt. backed currencies
just injecting routes. There are a bunch of looking glass implementations that use exabgp though.
Been living as an exchange student in USA when Price per gallon was roughly $1.

It was really weird for me seeing people leaving their car engine running with air conditioning on whilst going shopping for 30 minutes
Do you have Blepharitis? - https://www.nei.nih.gov/learn-about-eye-health/eye-condition...

Blepharitis - Symptoms and Causes - Mayo Clinic - https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/blepharitis/s...
Where do you get these information? It's unbelievable that people still denying climate change and it's effects.

The oil industry and conservatives did quite a good job spreading lies for personal benefit which already destroyed the planet irreversibly.
Maybe it's that fat people have low self-discipline. A collection of fat people will likely also have low self-discipline, ie, a group of fat people may not care about fiscal discipline. It seems like a short road from not caring about fiscal discipline to corruption.

Trust is not so simple as "don't trust fat people". I might trust a fat person to cook a great meal for me, but not trust them to handle grocery shopping on a strict budget.
Elon Musk’s satellites help Ukraine dominate the skies
It's amazingly ironic that in America, that the people tasked with enforcing the law with state-sanctioned violence and should be expected to know it, are the only people allowed to use ignorance of the law as a valid excuse to break the law.

The rest of you plebs, tough luck. Didn't know. Still guilty, not a valid excus3
Space: The FINAL Frontier

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That's essentially a book of just-so stories/post-hoc hypotheses.

Edit: See a more specific critique here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/6meq1k/a_det...
A sneak peek to the newest addition to the Sam460 family
How much money did France lose from its colony in Haiti?

Oh right - Haiti was forced to pay for all the property France last.

Including paying the former slave-masters whose slaves had been freed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti_indemnity_controversy

I trust you aren't including that payment as part the money actually lost to France.

Did France ever pay back the damages they did to Guinea before leaving?

> In Guinea, for example, the French destroyed everything they could not take back to their country. They burned food, killed cows, and destroyed buildings and books. These outrageous actions were all because Guinea wanted independence. - https://afritechnews.com/french-colonial-tax/

> In response to the vote for independence, the French settlers in Guinea were quite dramatic in severing ties with Guinea. The Washington Post observed how brutal the French were in tearing down all that they thought were their contributions to Guinea: "In reaction, and as a warning to other French-speaking territories, the French pulled out of Guinea over a two-month period, taking everything they could with them. They unscrewed lightbulbs, removed plans for sewage pipelines in Conakry, the capital, and even burned medicines rather than leave them for the Guineans." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea#Independence_(1958)

How are those counted for in your bookkeeping?

Several African countries are still paying for the infrastructure France built during colonization - infrastructure that of course was forced on them. And France forced its ex-colonies to give France economic advantages that persis, like "France has the first right to purchase any natural resources discovered." and "French companies have dibs on all government procurement bids" - https://afritechnews.com/french-colonial-tax/ .

Are you tracking those on your balance sheet?

Finally, how much money did France lose in French Indochina, a colonie d'exploitation économique, and where did it go?
I am aware. Was speaking colloquially. Maybe “custom domain name with email” would be better. But I was on my phone and just trying to get the point across.

It’s worth noting that while my email does use a .com as a backup, it’s primary is a gtld .email
> It astounds me when I encounter people decrying Western values.

It astounds me when I encounter Westerners decrying other cultures' values. Just recently HN had a nice flamewar concerning polygamy. Some cultures are different from Western cultures, that does not make them worse, or better. But different. In culture like software like genetics, monocultures can be dangerous.
Ironic headline for a site which immediately throws up a full-page interstitial asking for my email address.
What would make it more useful, less parasitic and less slimy?
Not really rejected by the west. They could have taken marshall plan money if stalin didnt forbid it.
This is so much nonsense. In fact, the West actually didn't have better weapons when most of those processes started.

> Remember the colonial wars were considered small wars by the standards of the west.

You are mixing things up. What matters for this question is not why Britain was able to defeat Sudan in late 19ths.

The question is why were tiny places like Portugal able to dominate the whole Indian ocean trade.
Never undervalue work-life balance. Good move on your part, I'd say
Civilisation started there because they had, however limited by area, places with extremely good soil fertility that allowed agriculture to appear there first. Agriculture meant excess production, excess production meant possibility to have organised society by using that byproduct to feed priests/military/bosses, that in turn organised system of laws and their enforcement, and jumpstarted development.
Quickly they realised that flood control on rivers greatly increases availability of fertile land further improving their returns, and that required centralised control - so they had both ability, and incentives to build centralised states.
> The cost of implementing the 2 overflow bits is absolutely negligible, 2 gates and 2 flip-flops. Much more extra hardware is needed for decoding a few additional instructions for flag testing and clearing, but even that is a negligible cost compared with a typical complete RISC-V implementation.

That's understating things considerably.

ARMv8-A has PSTATE, which includes the overflow bit. This explicit state must be saved / restored upon any context switch.

And there isn't just a single PSTATE for an OOO SuperScalar, there are several.

Everything has a cost.
Pivoting away still costs the initial investment. Creating canals seemed like an obvious win being a useful technology for hundreds of years which justified extreme investments. Until suddenly rail took over in a relative blink of the eye.

Authoritarianism tends to efficiently solve the wrong problems which results in an overall inefficient system. Private actors aren’t limited to only optimizing for today. Going to collage is a great example of long term optimization as is getting a 30 year mortgage etc. The difference is simply one of scale where private actors may not optimize the global problem, but global optimization is really difficult.
"The worst thing to happen to the earth" is a "just" a bit over the top. But why wouldn't white people be "the reason for most of the problems in the US". It seems tautologically true, since majority of population in the US is white.
I'm thinking of making custom Kentucky Long Rifles personally. Tons of handcrafting - really woodworking since most makers use manufactured barrels and/or lockwork, and I believe there's a market for them. From a US Federal perspective, they're not even legally firearms so I don't think you'd have to worry much about red tape.
What does "need" have to do with it? The logic is more violent crime -> more police interactions -> more chances for an incident to occur. Outlier incidents do not disprove the broad statistics you had no issue in invoking before.
How about rule of law? Romans invented it and the idea of rule of law rather that just rule by force, lived through Middle Ages and once conditions became right, resulted in explosion of development. There is no economic development without private property, and there is no private property without rule of law because otherwise, you can't own what you don't control, and minority stakes are impossible.
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I can't remember where exactly I read it, but it stuck with me. "In business, strategy is what you are doing that your competitors aren't doing." This struck me as a pretty good and succinct definition.

If you are just doing what your competitors are doing, you have no strategy, which is about right.

For example, Netflix's strategy in its early days against Blockbuster (well documented in the book "7 Powers") was to not charge for late fees and to have awesome web-based movie recommendations.
These were two key things they were doing that Blockbuster (and every other DVD rental store) wasn't doing. The "no late fees" thing is a particularly awesome strategy since it "counter-positioned" against Blockbuster's main profit center.

Eventually, Blockbuster copied this strategy, but by then, it was too late, and, Netflix had shifted its own strategy toward, "Build the website from which everyone streams movies, remove the need to physically mail or pick up DVDs altogether." Even today, that strategy has been copied (Hulu, HBOMax, etc.) so their new strategy is, "Develop original Netflix movies/shows and the best overall catalog of movies/shows of licensed content, and have ubiquitous apps that work the same exact way on every device."

As you can see, all of these are strategies... and they are likely ones that opinionated executives like Reed Hastings had a say in. I'm sure many tasks, goals, and so forth for many different teams within Netflix fell out of these strategies at different times.

When a company is missing a strategy, they need opinionated and empowered leadership to shift strategy, sometimes painfully. But, that's not usually easy, especially when the company is historically successful on an old strategy, one which is no longer sound. When Netflix shifted from DVDs to streaming, it meant a lot of layoffs, and I'm sure many long-time professional relationships were soured by the experience.

It's also very hard for individual contributors in a large company to shift the company's strategy. But it's not impossible. Arguably this was the original thinking behind Google "20% time". A project like GMail shifted Google's strategy, but it came out of experimentation by engineers. Easier said than done, though.
Seriously cool project!
Meld already supports text filters!
No, as corobo says below, we never _say_ miles-per-litre; not even really young people who have only known litres at the pump.
> Chomsky is a demagogue

Would you care to provide facts supporting such a claim? Else it is nothing but an ad hominem to denigrate a person.

> he has a particular worldview

Who has not?

> any discussion of history is secondary to that

Examples? Proof? Sources?

> He has received wide criticism

Who, being a public and outspoken figure, hasn't? That doesn't say anything on the validity or quality of said criticism.

> he has a particular worldview he wants to push

Exactly what you are trying to do here.

I know nothing about Chomsky. I have not read a single line of his writing. Nor heard any interview with him. I can neither defend his ideas nor critique them. I can just see someone not arguing in good faith for the betterment of a discussion but denigrating someone to push one's own agenda (without providing any sort of support for one's claims).
Au contraire. “faang” ( with the exception of the “n” ) engineers aren’t on average smarter than gen pop devs. They are simply willing to grind leetcode and put up with a lot more behavioral stressors ( large companies are incredibly difficult to prove impact and all the low hanging fruit is done, so the fights are more bitter because the stakes are lower )
Lot's of people shit on NFTs, but they are certainly a use case.
I use Beyond Compare mainly for sync of folders by comparing files (sizes, dates) and not for file contents diff as such. Part of my backup strategy while copying/syncing file between windows/mac/NAS ;-)
I was a SWE at a FANG. Left to get an MBA, then went back to FANG to do other things. Finance, Operations, Product.

My role now still has me involved in solving problems, and I will still review technical architecture (eg why are you proposing a GraphDB for this highly structured data, how are you going to address the fact that Cassandra is eventually consistent, etc.), but it’s a lot more people and solutions driven. A lot of email, Excel, and Zoom. Very little writing scripts and running queries, which I do once a quarter or so.
I'd love to see examples of the things that you state. Thanks.
Works fine for 2-way diffs too
Based on a cursory reading of the links you provided I don't believe so, but I'll still be sure to mention if to my optometrist just in case, thanks for making me aware of the condition.
This is the most difficult part of FOSS projects, and why relatively few of them match commercial products in quality or usability.

FOSS programming tends to be largely recreational or a labor of love, and a lot of the discipline and organization required to make good software is not fun, and will be actively avoided in recreational projects, especially for people who do the "not fun" parts of projects in their day job.

A really successful project has to have someone (or several someones) at its head who can organize everyone and keep things moving in the right direction. Part of this is being willing and able to say "no" even if it means someone may walk away from the project.

If you want to produce really, really good open source software, provide a stipend for the programmers so they don't need to keep day jobs and pay market rate for a small number of managers with the skill to organize, the charisma to get agreement from the team, and the knowledge of when to tell people "no".
Fahrenheit when it's hot, celsius when it's cold...
I switched from development at startups to a solution architecture role at a Fortune 500 and then eventually to a business executive role at the same Fortune 500. Hated working in big company IT and the business role gave me a significantly larger role in decisions and influence.

Compensation wasn’t really effected one way or another since trajectory has been steady upward. I think that slows down nowish since I didn’t come up in the traditional business and many more senior roles are filled by traditional executives.

Like many people right now I’m evaluating options for better work-life balance and really actually miss learning new domains. The downside of looking at other options is the role is so unique I don’t fit exactly into most roles at other companies. So it’s been hard to get a foot in the door with other companies outside the industry I’m in.
Could you point me to something that Chomsky said that is a clear lie? Thanks.
And how did they get all these colonies? How were they able to steal all these things? Were the other people not trying to prevent stealing?

How did Portugal go to India and manage to steal everything?

Why were the Ottoman not more successful, they had far more colonies. In fact, the countries that went from unsuccessful to successful were those that didn't have colonies. Colonies were the result of their success.

This explains literally nothing.
I was a manager, for many years. I ran a development shop, but did not write paid code. I was good at it, but hated it. I wanted to code all the time.

During that time, I wrote open-source stuff, on the side (unpaid).

Since leaving that job, I am now writing code, more than ever, and still not getting paid.

Not what you're looking for, I know, but that's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
> (1) multiple, competitive peer states, (2) freedom of travel for intellectuals, and (3) a shared intellectual tradition creating a marketplace of ideas, propelled by high literacy and the printing press.

How would this fail to apply to the area we now call China? It consistent of a bunch of different states which regularly went to war with each other, conquered each other and broke apart again, not unlike the various European states. It had a thousand year tradition of the Confucian exam system. It had block printing a thousand years before Europe.
Just don't follow entirely in Bill's footsteps. If someone offers you a ride on their private jet to meet some women...say no.