skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typescript is amazing. I didn’t get it until I built a large project with it. Now I can’t imagine working without it. Every-time I join a vanilla JS codebase, I can’t help but notice the multitude of bugs and setbacks we run into that would have been avoided entirely had they used TS. And the productivity gains scale exponentially with the size of the project- just as the harm scales in vanilla.

Doing justice to the advantages TS provides would take a proper blog post though.
Next-gen solar cells could make single-use batteries obsolete
This sounds interesting, out of curiosity... What is it that you're trying to do?
Whoops! Nice catch, I love Silverblue but forgot this was the Silverblue KDE spin.
Tanenbaum's original critique, which is quite readable, for reference.

https://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/Publications/Papers/euteco-1988.pd...
Most people work within some kind of incorporated structure, as employees or contractors on hourly wages or salaries. Unless they're also invested in the corporate structure, i.e. they're the providers of capital, they'll see no real benefit from the success of the business other than avoiding losing their job when the business crashes.

The solution is pretty obvious, and is fairly common in Germany at least: employees and investors must be viewed as equivalent stakeholders. This means worker organizations should have as many voting seats on corporate boards as the investor organizations providing the capital do. It's not one or the other - generally speaking, no workers means no business, and no capital also means no business. The result would be that profits get distributed equally to workers (as bonuses on top of wages/salary) and investors.

Otherwise it's the same problem as communist countries had: why work hard and be productive if you get the same reward for it as someone who sits around doing little or nothing? In response upper management will trot out lines like 'we're all a family here' and 'you should enjoy the pride and satisfaction of a job well done' and similar nonsense.
There is a difference between public forum and private communication.

This is a public forum and I am replying to you because I want to have a public discussion with you. I understand that when I reply, my message will be stored in the US. I consent to this by creating an account on this website, signing in to my profile, and taking part in this discussion. Both of us consent to this.

We also understand that this is a public forum and messages posted here can be scraped and stored in other places for eternity, depending on jurisdiction.

It’s not the same with iMessage, for that matter. When I use iMessage, I make conscious decision to send my message over iMessage and have it traverse and be stored on iMessage infrastructure. If that message is to leave this infrastructure, I assume there will be some dort of consent action required from my side. Am I wrong?

If my contact wants to continue talking over another medium, say Signal, I choose to install Signal or not. What’s wrong with that?

Otherwise, if there’s no consent, why are my private iMessage messages suddenly shared with Signal?

After all it was my explicit decision to cancel my Facebook account, and Whatsapp account. So what’s the assumption here. That I am now going to be coerced to have my messages shared potentially with Facebook because my contact doesn’t want iMessage and prefers communication over whatsapp or Facebook messenger?
Clock Signal: an emulator for tourists that seeks to be invisible
Do you think everyone pulling the same minimum will ever happen? I don't, and it might be important to come to terms with that concept... otherwise I imagine you'd harbor some malice towards people who don't.
> you have to be incredibly careful about allowing new complexity

Right, this is my point, the W3C just seems to make it up as they go along and pick and choose.
Having to run the Rust compiler just to update my CAD model is a non starter though
The definition isn't explicit. That curve - and several other - is the result of a single CSG operation. It might be possible to describe it in terms of the things that generated it, but that's way harder to do than selecting it with a mouse.
Well, and Tanenbaum's original paper is very clear on what the statement does and how to interpret it: https://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/Publications/Papers/euteco-1988.pd...
Ergonomics are important, and ignoring or powering through something that can injure you is a poor choice.
When I go to the movies, 100% of the money I spend disappears. It's ridiculous.
My favorite subs that I keep going back to are very lightly moderated. I have rage quit many subs I used to really enjoy, purely because of absurd and unnecessarily heavy handed moderation. In such subs, mod comments literally outnumber on topic ones, most comments get removed, and most threads get closed. But what you see isn’t the clean result of vigilance, it’s all the artifacts of the mod carnage, like heads on pikes by the road. The subject and content of these subs is the mods.
Mortgage rate soars closer to 5% in its second jump this week
Walled gardens are popular due to comfort & financial viability, It has nothing to do with security.

People will still use Android or iOS even if you build a state of art mobile OS based on SeL4 completely written in Rust & ATS, with more features and customizability than Android or iOS. Because it doesn't come preinstalled on their devices, and does not have popular apps.

I am afraid walled gardens are logical conclusion of the field, for the things industry tends to optimize.
Or hire an economist. That doesn’t scale the same as software, but if you get your econ students from poorer countries that might be one solution.
You are describing a project manager. I would search for free-lance project managers. They love spreadsheets, outlook, sharepoint, and they really like to talk.
Dutch Disease
Google Ordered Russian Translators Not to Call War in Ukraine a War
If you are pretty good at your work that minimum might only take 20 hours?
Does it say that they are going to sell gold at that price? If you can't exchange your rubles for gold at a fixed price, you can't really say the ruble is 'gold backed'. All you can say is the Bank is forcing miners to sell to them at a discount.
You know what you're doing right now. Stop it. We are not dainty wristed aliens yet. I love velcro shoes and elastic waistbands as much as the next guy, but this is bordering on comedy. How do you people lift a coffee cup with a straight face while saying this type of stuff?
You’re free to look away.
I went down this road a few times. Tax laws, contract bidding, and money are the main reasons. Plus, writing such systems requires a large overlap of technology and medicine, which means a lot of high salaries on your payroll. Then you need to find places to buy it. That means getting hospitals and the like to break their usually multi-year contracts with Epic (they are largely subject to Sunken Cost problems as Epic costs a LOT of money).

And so on.
> The myth is that barter arose spontaneously throughout history and that currency arose as a more efficient means of mediating barter.

Interesting. Did you actually read Debt? Because Graeber himself says that economists don't claim a barter system as a historical fact:

> It's important to emphasize that this is not presented as something that actually happened, but as a purely imaginary exercise.

As I suspected, it seems you're arguing something else entirely
Also check out Peter Santolini, another YouTuber who recently interviewed the guy from SWU.
I think overwatch is the best fps in the world. I love the game mechanics.

Meanwhile, Im realizing blizzard encourage smurfing, meaning have several accounts, to constantly win against lower skilled players in competitive, instead of playing against players of their own skills.

You now see entire teams "deranking" meaning losing on purpose, to lose skill rating, so they can climb all over again. It ruins the game.

Other games add barriers, like sms, or scanning for ip.

Blizzard does make a lot of money that way.
Thanks again, good info!
> News makes you scared of highly dramatic and highly unlikely events (plane crashes, shark attacks, terrorism etc) while also being oblivious to insidious and creeping risks that are low-key and hard to make dramatic and visual (say antibiotic resistance or indeed chronic stress caused by being in a news-induced perpetual state of physiological arousal).

This is perhaps one of the most important points in this post that's buried pretty deep in the article.

The author here is not advocating for "head-in-the-sand" avoidance of reality.

Often when I see real, systemic issues brought up on HN or elsewhere: climate, the overshoot of industrial society, resource depletion etc. These concerns are often dismissed as "the media just wants you anxious!". But, by and large, the real scary pieces of information about these topics are not published by major media.

The media wants you anxious, but not so concerned that you seriously question our mainstream mode of life. You should worry about nuclear war with Russia, but not about the war for natural gas that's really going on. You should be anxious about climate change, but only enough to make you recycle, not so much that you question the economic system that is fundamentally unstable.
Regardless of who participates in drafting standards, those five control the de facto standards anyway as they make the five largest browsers.
Language is a rathole.

Interesting AI synthetic chemistry systems work ab initio modeling how a molecule interacts with proteins.
Typical Migration Approaches
Recently struggling with the fact that most critics appear to be writing for other critics with their off-the-wall views representing art of its own kind - posturing for others in the field.

This one was much better for a non-artist. The crux of the thing appears to be that women were not shown looking at the camera in that age and this painting therefore challenges that.

Additionally, the theft of the painting added significance to it.

All right. That’s pretty neat. I only skimmed the article to try to get to this so I may have missed more.
I am thinking more like a self-hostable coursera, which institutions and companies can use to provide open education resources in form of courses.
You've also suggested Flatpak as a panacea for packaging several times. There's really nothing to discuss here; I'm just letting people know that from a user perspective, dealing with Flatpak feels like a second job.
I don't employ anyone. I'm not coming from a place of a disgruntled employer complaining about the workers being 'lazy' or whatever.

I'm coming from a place of what the blog talks about - someone who came in starry eyed doing good work, only to find out you won't get paid 3x for doing 3x the work relative to everyone else, but instead they'll try to get you to do 4x the work for a 10% yearly bonus, until you drop dead of exhaustion.

Oh, and your co-workers will hate your guts and try to undermine you. Nice system, right?

That's the dynamic I'm addressing - if you're enthusiastic and starry eyed and think people are out there wanting to change the world for the better or at least take a modicum of pride in their work - be very careful, the real world is not like that, at all.
good course for web developers: https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/hack-yourself-first
> Rather than a 10 second toy ad "hooking" a kid, you have a program that can spend an hour or more "hooking" a kid with tactics that aren't as immediately apparent to regulators in their manipulation.

Fun fact, in the US it was not permitted to advertise to children on TV at all between the late ‘40s and early ‘80s. It was only because Reagan reversed these laws that advertising to children because permissible and common on tv.

Many other countries still prohibit or limit advertising to children today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising_to_children
Surprised to see Systemax/TigerDirect and the Fiorentino brothers, who were convicted of embezzlement, security fraud and tax evasion, wasn't mentioned. Perhaps because they didn't outright scam customers. (although I do think they with run-by-night 0-support AV crapware we bundled with everything we could as a value-added service, or pointless "optimization" services that did absolutely nothing).

Don't have much to add here beyond the fact that I worked there in the 2012-2013 strech and a little beyond. Run about as spartan as could be, no LP but millions of dollars worth of equipment that were there ripe for theft and fraud with nearly zero oversight. (fraud was rampant in the store - can honestly say I never engaged, but I was offered the opportunity multiple times).
Better than me defining it, you should choose a definition. Make it rigorous and unambiguously testable and your conundrum goes away.

Furthermore, plenty of phenomena are detectable without a present conscious observer. If I accidentally drop a bread crumb as I bite into a crusty sandwich while walking in the forest and nobody notices, does it ever land on the ground? (Note that in this case, there's no linguistic ambiguity to insert a false profundity to the question. "Land on the ground" is pretty clearly defined.)

We know the answer is yes because we understand gravity. And as evidence (rather than first principles), we might also find ants later in the spot where the breadcrumb landed.
Fair enough, it's not a great comment. I don't really know how society should be run, and I shouldn't have offhandedly emphasized a couple things that I think might lead us to a solution.

That being said I'll stand by artificial scarcity being bad thing and clarify that while I don't have some master plan on how to create a functioning society where we don't have to impose artificial scarcity on the digital world; I absolutely think that is something we should be dedicating a lot of effort to. I reject the premise that we need to deny some people things that can be copied essentially for free.
There are a number of projects in that space btw. I'm working on one of them. OS development has picked up considerable interest in the last few years for similar reasoning.
Yeah, well, no. You can't really function in society these days without following 'The News' to at least some extent.

That doesn't mean you should buy into the '24h News Cycle' or the 'Extremism-inducing-filter-bubble', though. Myself, I don't pay any attention to 'The News', except as delivered on paper once-a-week via The Economist(1), and daily via their 'The World in Brief' email.

So, this morning, I learned that 'At one point an actor slapped a comedian, sending the internet into a frenzy' -- which is, like, all I needed to know, right?

Footnotes: (1) Yes, which is a relatively right-wing, centrist if you will, publication. I love it, especially disagreeing with it...
Thank you! Indeed, you're right. The ultimate goal is to be drop-in replacement. There is a PR hanging waiting to be taken up. I might look at it once I finish furnishing the foundation, but others are welcome to take it up!
What if his dog was just trying to shake? This is so bizarre.
This is the only thing that makes me pause before dismissing the article as ridiculous in cases where it's people choosing to spend money on cosmetics. There might be whales who are addicted to the spending or gambling somehow.

Otherwise as someone noted it's just price discrimination, and in a way that lets people try and play games for free. Really I love what video games have become.
Well, the bosses usually only care about work the helps produce value. They might like the fact that you know some new tech that they can use in their latest assignment, but they weren't giving you credit while you were learning it the year before just for fun.
If one were to bring back punch cards that are somehow updated or more advanced to hold more data then please for the love of sanity first make a machine that you can drop a massive stack of them into that will sort them. Or make it so that the reader can read them out of order and add parity data so you can lose a few cards or have a few coffee soaked unreadable cards. something along the lines of par2 [1]

[1] - https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline
FIFA is one of the worst offenders, because it's not just cosmetic. There's a constant flood of player cards of escalating ability, and you have to either keep grinding for objectives, or drop tons of cash, just to stay competitive. I've quit playing because of it because it just stopped being fun, even as a casual player.
Yes.

That setup required even more fussing around with window setups. I also tried one monitor horizontally and one vertically, slightly better. But overall every two monitor setup has a problem in that my best viewing area (right in front of my face) is occupied by the seam between two monitors.

As for viewing more code, I also thought it would make sense, but I'm no longer sure. I ended up using my entire vertical monitor for a single buffer/file only, because splitting it vertically resulted in buffers that were too narrow, and splitting it horizontally defied the purpose of using a vertical monitor. I then realized that I'd rather work with a horizontally-oriented monitor and multiple columns, which provide me with more useful context from multiple files.
Ha, Swatch still has its beat time (@beats) on its homepage, nice. That brings be back to the early, early, early internet days.
This was also lampooned in Adam Sandler's movie Zohan, with electronic store employees proclaiming everything had "Sony guts!".
People are acting like this is a relic of the past, and I'm surprised you're surprised. I live in a small-medium-sized Canadian town at the edge of the GTHA (not the hub of economic activity, but not exactly the boonies) and many shops are still closed on Sundays. To the extreme even—many only open for short hours (4-8) during the weekdays and a half-day Saturday. It's a relatively quiet place. We've wondered how some can stay in business. Given the area, our guess is wealthy families backing them. I don't think massive profit is their primary motivator, just involvement in the community. And social influence, I'm sure.
Not sure about the statistics but one of the most memorable vulnerabilities in recent history, Heartbleed, was exactly this, a OpenSSH memory safety issue.
More taxes are a result of earning more and not really from working more although they are usually related, so they still get compensated for that "extra" work.
One should definitely not be working hard. You need to minimize work and maximize income. The more you work, the less you actually make per-hour invested, if the income does not grow proportionally to surpass the current ratio. Unless you're in a good strategic position which ensures you will get huge benefits by working hard (think large stake in the company), working hard is a losing game.

A company will pay you the bare minimum it can get away with, taking into considerations all sort of parameters (such as risk of attrition) so naturally, your optimal behavior should be to work as little as possible to not get fired. Use the extra time to invest in yourself or just enjoy life.
> Are you arguing that refusing to brush your teeth is a reasonable position?

No, I'm not. I'm arguing that poor dental hygiene isn't in the same universe as getting drunk, stealing your parent's car, and wrapping it round a tree. Or beating up small kids at school.

It seems an awfully trivial misdemeanour to bring up, in a discussion of "troubled" kids and abusive incarceration.
sincere question - how big of a problem (in terms of #people suffering) is there of people spending beyond their means on online cosmetics?

I could see <18s getting into trouble but are there adults legit bankrupting themselves from paid-for cosmetics?

How common is the pattern for paid-for lootbox cosmetics (as compared to buy-it-now) cosmetics? Wouldn't say I'm particularly deep in either the RL/Fortnite ecosystem..!
At some level it probably does. Even in Rocket League, which is more cosmetic than most, if your teammates are passing to you more than they would have with the default skin, then you'll do better.

As a medic in team fortress 2, I usually pocket and ubercharge the players with cosmetics. It's an important team resource, and the odds of someone with a "default" skin making good use of it are fairly low. Much like plumage for a bird it's a reliable signal of "virility" - if you're invested enough in the game to own a $200 hat and a coordinated outfit then you've probably played it long enough for me to trust you sight-unseen.

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f278/katietiedrich/comic26...

If you're a pro player with the default skin, you're gonna have a bad fucking time, because you're last priority for heals, you're not getting an ubercharge, etc. That is gameplay-affecting even if the cosmetic itself is not.
Pluggable auth providers for SSH sounds awesome, though I can't think of a particular use for it right now!
I'm trying to ! https://youtu.be/fMQvsqTDm3k?t=86

I'm getting 150 ms of iteration time on small cases, 200-300 on average ones
Yes, three displays might make sense — definitely much more than two. But I found that I don't like to turn my head too much, so I'm not sure if that setup would work for me.
Sounded more like if you get it done early, wait until the due date to hand it in. Them use the extra time for other stuff.
>> I mean I hate code cad but it is obviously useful to some people...

I completely agree with you. There is plenty of room for a good code-cad, FreeCAD, Solvespace, and LibreCAD. I think we need to focus on improving each tool and better interoperability, which means DXF and/or DWG for 2D and STEP for 3D.
Hash, displace, and compress: Perfect hashing with Java
Just asserting similarity isn't convincing at all.
Incredibly stupid. And the problem is if you oppose it, you're labeled a sympathizer.

There's a valid third option: recognize that freedom of speech is an essential human right. Some may choose to abuse it, but history has a way of sorting those things out.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14300598
Netflix has more direct money going into the wallets of the people in the industry though.

Also when voting, the distributor is not highlighted. So I doubt the brand had any effect on voting itself.
A password manager solves this problem as well.

Even if the user choses to use a low-entropy password for his locally stored safe, the actual passwords generated (which the user doesn't even need to know) for the services he accesses will be of high quality, and unique to every service.

The only point of vulnerability is then if the device gets stolen/hacked, but that's a proble that one entity has to deal with, instead of a problem that affects millions of users like a DB leak full of weak passwords.
Also might be more.

And with a game like Lol, where it is literally pay to win, I wouldn't be surprised if it were more.
As evidenced by this thread, Openscad is not good enough to be a proper 'code as CAD' tool. If it was, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

It is a very good tool, that does a lot of things better than visual CADs. But it's not good enough to do everything better than a visual CAD. At least not yet.
>If someone seems irrational, it’s because their shoes are so different from any that you’ve been in. You simply have never experienced anything like their life (because if you did, you’d be like them).

I disagree with this. As an example, a video came out the other day of a Chicago Transit Authority employee getting into an altercation with some guy. "Some guy" pushed him to the ground and walked away. The employee very slowly (he was quite obese) rose to his feet, pulled a gun, walked after the guy, and then shot 14 times hitting him 3 times. In short, he murdered the guy on video in the middle of a crowded station. There's no way that's not irrational behavior.