skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We now feel that it is "over", so we relax instead of buckling down and asking ourselves "how can we make the next time this happens not such a shitshow?"

The cultural rot that prevents iterating on effective government runs deep, and has little to do with exhaustion. In _Spring 2020_, i was shocked by the strong reaction I got from my friends at even passing mentions of the FDA/CDC's significant and severe early failures.

In the usual reductive framing, I'm a pretty "big govt" guy. While govt is horrendously incompetent, as a baseline, it allows us to choose from a wider array of goals, more precisely than the market does. But I learned that even my nominally-intelligent friends are too simple-minded to understand this, and that their support is rooted in religious belief in an omnicompetent govt that provides flawless protection from the world's dangers.

An environment that can't even see failures is not one that's going to improve upon them. Already, the excuses have been lined up: every single failure was due in some way to Trump, and now that he's gone (hopefully), the gov't can go back to its usual, hyper-efficient mode of function (lol)
Apparently someone somewhere thinks you're more likely to get your account/routing number correct if you type it in by hand than if you paste it in; it's absolutely infuriating and insane.
As long as everyone involved trusts the server operator, and the risk of the server being compromised is negligible, you would be right. I do think that removing it from the list here was the right call, as most people probably aren't going to self-host.
Just tried some of the tutorials – good stuff!
I personally disagree. I'm a software dev and software is still exciting to me.

What kills enjoyment it's not proffesionalism but efficiency. You stop exploring new things and start doing things the fastest and least effort consuming way. You stop wondering what new cool things a technology could offer and start thinking what's the shortest path to a functional product.

Being playful is the opposite of that. Being playful is about going out of your way to explore a new thing, setting your curiosity high and your expectations low, and coming back with a new experience. Let it be a spark of excitement or a total bummer because that new thing turned out being crap.

But don't expect that to happen in your job. Any company will always optimize for profits over cool tech. Even if you only have 1 hour a day to spend in a tech hobby, that hour will be more exciting then the previous 9.

Another problem is that, when you have a solid knowledge about the foundations, there's a tendency to disregard abstractions or quality of life advances. If for every new language you say "It's slow and heavy compared to C and its advantages are crap" well, you are killing your excitement yourself.
Remember kids, father and mamma have to put bread on the table somehow.
Value of the dollar relative to a foreign currency is very different metric than value of a dollar relative to a real asset.

If foreign currency has 20% inflation, and US has 10%, the dollar index will go up. But the USD still lost value in absolute terms
I find it hard to take seriously someone who is "suprised" by the existence of flat roofs in traditional North African/Mediterranean/Middle Eastern architecture.
> I think the EU should ally up with China and Russia. Korea and Vietnam will probably also want to join us.

So is this about human rights, or just monomaniacal anti-Americanism?

I'm sure you're aware of the quite Nazi-like aggressive war of conquest happening in Eastern Europe right now, where civilians are being indiscriminately shelled. Why would you want to ally with a country doing something like that?
just go back, car cdr your way into happiness.

take some wood a 2" display and pi zero and build something

tech has never been a solution to anything
Go look at the number of ships parked off China right now and tell me with a straight face that the supply chain is getting back to normal.

Europe is having to restructure it's economy to deal with reduced energy and materials inputs from aggressor nations.

We still face a massive shortage of workers, particularly in logistics.

I suspect we will see inflation remain steady or even increase later this year, barring a recession.
One of the great things about electricity is that its sources are highly substitutable - the end uses don't care whether their energy comes from wind, solar, hydro, nuclear, natural gas, etc.

Also, the inherent intermittency of wind and solar makes it even harder for generators to hold the market hostage, as they don't control the timing when they generate power. To curtail energy supply would be to undermine the economics of the capital investments into these projects, as it would be missed revenue.
Another theory I read was that some signal from your hippocampus (memory storage) fires, so that the rest of your brain believes erroneously that the current sensory input is coming from memory.
> no advantage over "US International" for typing languages other than French

Uh, did you not even bother to click on the link or something ??

The easy access to all Greek characters (and more math symbols) alone is great if you work in a math-related field !
Phished credit cards? For a long time a silly credit card generator got past whatever simple
check was performed when an account was created, allowing you access for a week or so until I guess an actual charge attempt was made. (This must have been around 1994 or 1995).
The current version (6.3, just released) is free and open source.

You must be confused with the LTS which is the commercialy supported version. And yes, if you want a commercially supported version, you have to pay. Isn't that normal?
> They keep, and some people on HN, keep calling it a conspiracy when you mention actual inflation is a lot higher than reported, my question is what is this crowd's reasoning?

I wouldn't call it a conspiracy, but throwing out random number like "25-50%" because you noticed your one specific grocery bill is more expensive also isn't an argument I'm going to give much credence to.

The government is actually very transparent about how they calculate inflation and what goes into it, so if you're going to argue that they're bullshitting you need to argue one of:

1. The basket that they use to calculate the price index isn't a good representation of most people.

2. They're fibbing on specific prices.

3. The "smoothing" they always do can hide some of the recent acute inflation.

If you want to make any of those arguments, with data, great! Please go ahead. I've certainly seen plenty of good arguments related to points 1 and 3, not so much point 2. Otherwise, it's fine to say you notice things you buy seem a lot more expensive, but that's not an argument that the Fed is somehow fudging the numbers.
Unconscious people being taken by an ambulance to the hospital. The falsely accused needing legal representation and to pay a bail bondsman to get out of prison.

Do those examples work for you for people being physically punished for refusing to take on debt? Because I'm also happy to include sick people who need medical care and people who need money for food/heat/shelter/clothiers as being punished physically for refusing to take on debt by being deprived of those things
I think saturation is a big part of it too. I feel almost overwhelmed when I start researching a new tech these days. I agree, I get a little bored now too.
>So basically you stopped at the subtitle, which makes it dubious that you got the context. The author is an historian and is not argumenting but presenting.

I stopped where I stopped. I don't even know if I can believe they are a historian. They think lying is allowed. Is the greater good allowing them to lie about being a historian so they can make their case?
What puts Qt on the map are the companies keep paying their developers.
Exactly! This is an amazing attribute.
Or more importantly books you want your kids to read. Same goes for movies (too late to easily find many) and music.
'Those silly bastards': A report on some users' views of documentation (1984)
You don't need a centralized authority. Every manufacturer can issue their own keys.

I take a digitally signed photo and tell you "I took the photo with this tamper proof Canon camera, and I can prove it by taking more photos of any subject you ask for and signing them with the same key".

If you worry that I made an authentic-looking counterfeit Canon camera (but you're satisfied I couldn't have extracted the private key from a real one), Canon can confirm that they sold a camera with that key.
The Getty Museum contracted this out to https://media.monks.com/
That's not how stock prices worked in the 1970s, so no. A lot of the stock price is essentially driven by social psychology, not earnings.
I grew up poor, now I'm 26 and making 6 figures. Yes, being smart and working hard is part of the success story, but it's not the whole picture.

The reality of the situation, is that I got lucky at a young age with math and logic skills, got lucky to have some decent teachers who helped me develop those skills, then got lucky to adopt video games and computers as my main interest. I was lucky that software engineering just so happens to be a lucrative job. Everything else that has happened since I was a child has been an extension of that foundation.

Most people's success trajectories are not largely defined in their 20s, it just feels that way because that's the point in which you start really having agency and independence. Your 20s don't really determine if you are going to be successful or not, but rather how successful are you going to be.

Pitfalls exist, you can definitely be on the right track until the age of 22 and then screw up so badly that you never recover, it happens.

You got lucky, now go help other people get lucky, because the system isn't robust enough to perfectly equate success with hard work and/or intelligence. You got lucky, and that's ok, but there's no reason to look down on people, even if it seems that they are the ones screwing up their own life. You may have more wisdom than them that brought you to your current situation, but the idea is that you got to your level of wisdom through a series of lesser and lesser wisdoms at earlier and earlier points in time. You are not living the same life as that person, so you can't expect that person to do a full 180 overnight. Success takes a long time, you just didn't realize it at the time.
I don't think 'QT makes that a breeze' is true for anything but the most simple of UIs on mobile. It seems to work better for desktops I'll admit, but just seems grossly underprepared for anything smaller than a desktop screen that isn't embedded. (Although I personally really dislike QT interfaces on a mac)

Literally any other cross platform mobile solution is better, possibly the fact that QT tries to stretch itself across mobile and desktop is why it is so frustrating to work with on mobile. The apps tend to come out like desktop apps someone did their very best to shrink down
What was Play's strategic mistake?
Yes, Gtk is a joke in feature parity.
> Why would you want to ally with a country like that?

Same about bombing of Korea and Vietnam. Why should anyone want to be allied with the US?

> where civilians are being indiscriminately shelled

North Korea.

You are quick to point fingers, fix your own country first.
Taxing those land/dwelling holding corporations just creates a pass-through situation where the end-user ends up footing the cost of those taxes. It ultimately just raises prices even more.

The best fix (and proper one) is for states/feds to step in, override zoning, and start mass construction of new multi-family housing.
At this point I would need the hash table analogy explicitly disproved because I see something more and more like the computers we develop

Short term memory operates radically different than long term memory

Co processors doing specialized processing, with a limited ability of other processors to do it

Each having their own currently unknown instruction set

Bus between the processor with varying bandwidth constraints

Modules for processing certain kinds of input, maybe some completely vestigial after deprecation
I took it to mean "[...] managing expectations is important. A lot of places wanted something the size of facebook but to only pay $500."
> This leads one to suspect trolling.

I can safely clear that suspicion.

> The withdrawal was pathetic because it didn't take place two decades earlier, after ObL left Afghanistan. Also, because it has been followed by the "asset freeze" and associated starve-the-children policy.

I don't follow this chain of reasoning. Bin Laden left Afghanistan for Pakistan, the closest realistic staging area was Afghanistan (if you're going to attack this from a "get Bin Laden" angle).

> Russia isn't led by its MIC; it is led by the dictator that USA installed. Putin, who came to power via USA manipulation, is now opposed by USA manipulation. In this, he takes his place on a long list of world leaders:

Speaking of trolling...

If the US is so powerful that it can easily install whoever it wants as a puppet leader in any country, including Russia, then you should go grab a beer and relax and just enjoy your life because there is nothing you can do and nothing for you to be concerned with. The US is all-powerful and all-seeing.

Alternatively, you can not peddle very ridiculous conspiracy theories and not waste my time.
Read "The Mind is Flat" - your idea is a theme of the book.

We already have a few examples of adversarial information for humans: optical illusions being the most widely discussed.
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The SE is very important as an in road in countries and people with less available money. The price point is key. Vs the Mini which isn’t cheap.
> won't inflation lead to mechanically higher stock prices

I'm reasonably certain that is the point of inflation, since everyone seems to measure economic health based off the stock market.
> Same about bombing of Korea and Vietnam. Why should anyone want to be allied with the US?

I don't know, maybe ask some South Koreans and find out?
Good reminder to backup your smartphone photos so you don’t lose them to a brickening or lockout.
Prices don't immediately double. My layman's understanding is that it heavily depends on where you put the new doubled money in the economy, and it's resulting velocity. If you give it to banks they might park it in assets, increasing their prices, but then the money "stops" moving through the economy and doesn't have a large effect on things like food prices for instance. If you give it to people who need to make rent now, then they probably spend it immediately, often to people who also spend it soon, and it has a higher velocity and broadly affects prices before being absorbed into a slower moving asset like a bond or long term stock holding.
That's how you know you are talking about a first-world country. My dear home country had an official (likely underreported) inflation rate of 5.5% in March alone.
Okay, I'll bite. Is there any basis in scientific reality? Where is the science that says the six foot rule is not necessary for humans eating and drinking in restaurants?
Yes, the fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately-named Hitchhiker's Guide Trilogy.

The 'final' was meant as a sly dig at Eoin Colfer's addition to the series, "And Another Thing", which attempted to wrap up the story after Adams' death. I read it shortly after release and didn't give it a fair chance.
When we shifted from a culture of results and ownership to woke fantasies and entitlement.
Stocks gave an 88% aggregate return over 2019-2021. I’d say official inflation numbers are just now catching up.
Lots of government jobs.

But bear in mind, there's a big chance you'll be in a vendor lock-in, with little flexibility to work outside of those tools - at least for the larger organizations.
Same, and incidentally as people have posted about coffee, I drink maybe 6 or 7 cups of coffee a day when I'm at work and I can go days on end without drinking any at all when off work and not feel a thing. I suspect the two may be connected.
Oh it definitely was intentional and I'm grateful you pointed this out. I had no idea I had been using it wrong, probably most of my life. Thank you :-)

In looking more at the definition, I don't even know if it makes sense in that sentence even if I did spell it right lol.
Metaverse economy could grow to between $8T and $13T by 2030
There are a lot of hidden costs for not using a cloud too. One of them is security. Frankly, you won't come up with anything better than AWS IAM in the short term. If you don't care much about that, then it is a different story, but I am happy to pay the premium knowing that all data is adequately encrypted and all lambda functions have the minimum permissions required to run.
"Gaslighting" has a different meaning (go watch the movie; it's a classic).

I haven't heard the other two terms, and wouldn't be able to guess what they mean.

Sea lions spend all day fighting over [arbitrary thing] to impress potential mates. I'm certain this happens on social media, and that most potential mates are as impressed as they are by an actual sea lion. :-)

Concern trolling seems to be too specific a term.
So I remember reading somewhere, probably on HN, that we don't remember real facts but instead we remember our last call of a particular memory. I've hijacked some unpleasant memories that way. I'll add some colors, a round ball bouncing, all kind of stuff that'll alter the memory. It doesn't make it totally disappear but it kinda smoothen it.
This is where snapping comes in. You can make a fullscreen window that is made up of two applications. Really it just comes down to never fusing with your windows once you have them set up to your liking. Once everything is either fullscreen or in its corner of a virtual desktop you should never be changing how your windows work. Nothing should ever be hidden behind anything else, if it is it's time to make a new virtual desktop for it.
Completely anecdotal. ~3 months ago I started getting way more migraines than I have ever had, 2 a week for a month. Completely debilitating for 5 or 6 hours and I am someone that has generally just pushed through whatever discomfort I am experiencing. Prior to that I would get 1 a year if that.

Finally did some introspection and figured out it was due to stress and fully self induced at that. Obsessing over things that were either really not a problem or not that big of a deal. I self medicated by taking a hit of marijuana in the morning before work for a week to blunt the onset and mentally walking myself through why life was good and I was just stressing myself out. Headaches stopped in a week and have been migraine free for a couple months. Stopped the morning cannabis as soon as the headaches stopped and I have been good. Stress is a killer.
Not sure that financial services (banks) are less likely to be perpetrating a Ponzi scheme than Uber, etc.
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Wish there was a UK version of this!
Walmart are big Azure users... including Kubernetes, CosmosDB etc.

https://medium.com/walmartglobaltech/tagged/azure
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If you pay $120 for a year, you’ll be let in relatively quickly.
I've been taking some time recently to do an exploration of programming, by reading programming history and ideas about different paradigms and domains. I started focusing on how our abstractions get destroyed at the boundaries of programs.[0] I was surprised to discover a link between Hexagonal Architecture and functional programming.

Both try to drive towards a functional core. With HexArch, you'd need an imperative shell to interact with the world at the boundaries. With pure FP, the boundaries are manned by I/O monads and effects manager in the underlying runtime. [1][2]

[0] https://interjectedfuture.com/destroyed-at-the-boundary/

[1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/funct....

[2] https://deque.blog/2017/07/06/hexagonal-architecture-a-less-...
This is a bit misleading in where the "Type Checker" box is pictured, but I think it's due to an understandable confusion about how the compiler is structured.

Importantly, types do not affect TypeScript emit[1]: you can take a TS program, replace every type with Banana and the compiler will have the same output.

(I am not sure, but I think the TypeScript emitter does use a "type checker" object for type-adjacent things like resolving scopes. But it does not use such an object for checking types during emit. Another way of saying this is that type checking can be done during emit but conceptually it's a an optional segue on the side, not the box immediately leading to .js files.)

[1]: http://neugierig.org/software/blog/2016/04/typescript-types....
Exactly. I run a static site over SSL with zero trackers, analytics, etc. but I get a B+ from DDG for "unknown privacy practices."
If you press Cmd-Tab, then let go, and press Cmd-Tab again, yes, you get back to the first application you were in.

If you press Cmd-Tab, hold Cmd, and keep hitting Tab, you cycle through the available applications.

If you press Cmd-`, get the window you want, and do something in it, then press Cmd-` again, you get back to the first window you were in.

If you press Cmd-` repeatedly, you cycle through the available windows of the active application.

There is a slight difference in how you trigger the two behaviours—and the behaviour of Cmd-` can sometimes be a little opaque, I grant, since "do something in the window" is not always 100% clear, either to the user or the computer—but they do have analogous behaviours.
Can you point to some less biased source than the US military?
I agree with all the comments here and would like to add that this really isn't anything new. Back in the 2000s with the onset of Livejournal/AIM/Tumblr/Memes 1.0, we saw a similar kind of "internet language" develop as a form of codespeak or shibboleth communication for the in-crowd. Granted, in this case the motivation to create this language is for a different purpose: to get around algorithmic censorship.
> Good indie games like Super meat boy & Hollow Knight take more human resources than AAA-gamechanger Doom did

I just read "Masters of Doom", and this struck me as wrong. People tend to only remember Carmack and Romero, but Doom had a team about as big as Super Mario World, another AAA-gamechanger. So I looked it up.

15 people worked on the OG DOS version of Doom. Many more of course when you start including developers and producers on its ports and localizations.

The crediting of Super Meat Boy is more complex. If you exclude the guest artists who did one-off pieces, then the original Windows version comes in at 7 people. This balloons to 48 when you include the guest art, XBox port staff, and localization staff.

All numbers from MobyGames.
Qt is licensed under LGPL v3

https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/licensing.html
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Overview of climate change mitigation options and their estimated cost ranges
I don't think this take is fair to the people dying. The majority of people dying are old vulnerable vaccinated people. By making bold statements with possibly true per capita stats you cast the dying as people who took things into their own stupid hands.
Not true at all. Pinephone runs on a SoC with no binary blobs user has to install.

And the SoC can do all the stuff my Rpi 2b does, and more (has a proper audio codec, for one, real gigabit ethernet, working suspend to ram, etc.), does suspend to ram, accelerated video decoding, and has much more open documentation... Rpi 2b's soc is pretty terrible usability wise comapred to A64.
California literally dictates the emissions standards for the US car market. Single states are already making multi-nationals comply with their rules and are much smaller than the federal government.
He's just explained how to achieve the same result without having to get a job.
Ideology.