skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a well done video and Helix is cute. But I feel like this is more of an Emacs-y batteries included attitude and therefore blasphemy.

Configuring Neovim from scratch is part of the fun of learning your editor and isn't that much work.
Consider a projector.
I have definitely evaluated function calls in rust-gdb.
Yeah, my question was around legality too. The FAQ seems to imply that because it was educational or improves interoperability, that it's somehow legal. Not sure how that's supposed to work, but it would be interesting to learn about.
You realize that a mortgage is a loan, right? You’re paying both interest and equity on it over time, which you need to take into account. The longer you pay it, the more of your payments are really going right back into your own pocket. Renters get zero equity in exchange for their rent.

And yes, I’ll agree that some portion of the ROI on a house is the expected appreciation, but we’ve setup a system where that’s effectively guaranteed in many locations and simultaneously unavailable to renters. There’s a reason “be a landlord” is now the go-to “get rich” strategy for a large number of people.
Actually Yom Kippur war went well for Israel's armour in the north (Golan Heights), the largest tank battle ever if memory serves.

Can you reference the relevant active protection systems?
You need to spend at least as much time marketing as you did developing your product... just to start getting initial growth.

I encourage you to spend the time to really try marketing. Think about how long it would take a marketer to learn how to program and create an MVP. It's a massive undertaking with lots of roadblocks and failures. You need to spend that amount of time learning marketing well enough to start making a dent. You have many many painful learning curves to get through.
Why do you work so hard to get it wrong?
I used to have an original copy of this book. I had a relative who was a career officer in the US Army including WWII who had died and the book came to me from his wife when he died.

Interesting book but Milton Mayer was an interesting character (he opposed the US entering WWII IIRC for example) and there was a lot of weird stuff in the book where he showed how willing he himself was to go along with the same kind of things that led to the Nazis coming to power. For example he sometimes came off as having a blind side because he was nearly McCarthyist in his treatment of communism. With 60 years of hindsight you could see he made comments that made you think he would have gone along with a corrupt regime if it was able to contain communism, no different than Germans were taken in by the Nazis.

I don't think things are that different today. All governments are shades between good and evil, and we all subconsciously ignore things governments do if it is obviously far more personally convenient to tolerate that kind of behavior. Self preservation can easily take precedence over being against evil if you are already in the "in group" that is protected by the evil.
25-75% of your salary every month, until the clause expires. So if you were making $100k a year you are getting $25-75k a year until it expires.
> If you have the budget it's great to live in a nice big city, you don't even need a car. Just Uber everywhere, get some groceries delivered, put your kids in fancy but expensive kindergarten, and buy a nice large house right near that park the kids love. Bonus points if the city is walkable or has decent public transportation.

It's kind of distressing to hear someone express "Just Uber everywhere" as the ideal template for a car-free lifestyle, with walkability and public transportation relegated to "bonus points." I live car-free in the metro area outside of D.C. and primarily get around by bus and bicycle. I suspect that it requires a much lower budget than Ubering everywhere and you can live a lot more healthily by doing so too.

edit: I'd also like to point out that when you impose such a high price tag on all of your spatial displacements, you discourage yourself from doing it more. With walking, cycling and public transit, you open yourself up to a lot more serendipitous and impulsive trips. Today I cycled a few minutes to the park and did some work on a picnic table because I just felt like I wanted a change of scenery. Then I came back an hour later. Doing that with Uber would have felt absurd.
I'm 25 years in and have the same problem. I feel like I could have written this. I have a side project (which has a software component but doesn't require that), but it's not monetizable yet. Like you, I still have to sell my skills in the marketplace -- one that has changed dramatically since I entered, and in all the ways you pointed out.

Software development used to be fun, and many parts of it still are. But a sad new dev culture has taken over which I think hurts both developers and the products we create. This leads to junky software that no one likes.

I wonder how much of it is due to the VC-backed philosophy of "selling to the next greater fool." As long as a company is just waiting to sell out to the next round of investors, the folks at the top have little incentive to make a great product or a great work environment. After all, those things are not counted in company valuations.

In the enormous list of job postings on HN this month, I can see many companies which are obvious failures from the get-go. And many others which are clearly scammy, purely opportunistic, or vulture-based business that simply tax others and profit from their misery. I'm sure those places make money -- for a while. But I can't believe that these are sustainable product ideas or places to work.

What's to be done to fix our industry?
I [mistakenly] believe[d] this whole situation originated in a /r/legaladvice reddit thread.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/topi...

Edit: As pointed out below,not the same case, but a case of the same thing happening.
>while also weighing the risks of continuing to support Russia.

There are many options. Specifically, Germany can...

1) Continue with BAU, which is Germany paying the costs of closing the reactors and relying on Russian gas.

2) Restart them as quickly as possible. This would minimize the costs of relying on Russia for gas, but would increase the risks of reactor problems from natural disasters.

3) Harden them for natural disasters while restarting them as quickly as possible, which costs more.

4) Use the money spent to harden them on other sources of generation/storage/load shifting/etc, which I suspect costs more.

5) Some of the above based on the specifics in each case.

In addition, Germany would still be reliant on Russian gas for other industrial uses even if nuclear/renewables/coal/storage/etc were able to completely replace gas in the grid.
It's unfortunately a very human tendency to shift baselines, to judge each individual step only relative to the last one, without considering the situation in the absolute.

This applies in much lower stakes environments as well: the workplace, relationships. It's surprising how reliably someone's attitude can flip from "if ever X, I'll quit" to "X isn't that much worse than X-1, this isn't worth making a fuss about" if the change happens slowly enough.
Python Digit Classifier
I’m not making the point that Cameron is Hitler. If that’s your take away from my post then I communicated it poorly.

I am making the point that we can buy into ideology that is antithetical to our own rather easily.

Not everyone who voted for the Nazis wanted Nazis. They didn’t win a popular vote and hell: who the hell would think that world war 2 would happen as a result.

I’m equating my “being duped” with nazi voting Germans.
Always comes down to the same argument – I need social interaction therefore everyone must come to work.
I'm very excited to see the results of the post-quantum crypto competition. Most of it is above my head, but it's neat to read about lattice problems. Asymmetric cryptography in general is incredible to me.
You're conflating how you view him and how the voters view him (those that voted for Trump).

They don't see him as an insider President. They see him as an outsider non-politician and wrecking ball that is fought by the establishment at every turn.
Seems like the person walking may be waiting a very long time then.
Announcement post: https://fusebit.io/blog/everyauth/
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/fusebit/everyauth-express
Yeah all of this could be solved as far as I'm concerned by just selling the TV with a bundled smart stick, a built in USB supply on the back for it, and a port angled so it would still be thin.

What would I do with a dumb TV without apps? Only watch broadcast TV? Drag my laptop in? Pay as much as the TV itself for a media center PC that probably won't be as reliable and snappy ad Android?
And now you’re watching stuff at an even worse quality than you would on Netflix.
This chapter encapsulates much of data oriented design: https://www.dataorienteddesign.com/dodbook/node5.html
The premise of this article, and in some way a major point to all "return to the office" arguments, is nothing more than an artifact of the system devised around the inability to work remotely. It is a secondary effect. It's not a deliberate benefit to working on location, it is just how things are when you have to spend all day in a room or building with other people who also have to do so. And there are also many non-beneficial secondary effects to having to commute to a location.

A technological revolution that changes how we need to do things is going to take away some of these secondary effects. But it will have it's own. Some of them will be positive and some will be negative. But overall we don't do things how we do them because we get to lay in beanbag chairs (at the office) or on the couch (at home) while working, we do them how we do them because they're the most efficient and reasonable way to do them. Commuting was once the most efficient way to do information work. With worldwide high bandwidth networking this is no longer the case, therefore we will stop commuting. Inertia slows this but it doesn't stop it.
I'm impressed by the speed of this release. I started checking out Bevy after reading Hands-on Rust[1] and wasn't expecting any updates given 0.6 came out in January.

[1]https://pragprog.com/titles/hwrust/hands-on-rust/
I wouldn't use the Ukraine war as an example of the US army being competent (except for maybe logistics and intel). We're supplying then, but we're not doing the actual fighting.
This response would get you laughed out of the medical software industry (but welcomed with open arms by CMIOs and hospital administration). Physicians are known to click through all kinds of red-flag warnings because the legal team insisted they all be turned on to maximize patient safety.
They disabled windows update because it is spyware? Are they providing their own filtered update channel??

Ok, so PSA: if you don't want "Spyware" don't use windows. In Forensics, you learn there are many many ways windows tracks what you do, some of which can be disabled but it is all architectures into the OS. If you looked at a specific folder in explorer, that can be proven in court, executed a specific program? At least 4-5 ways come to mind . Take a peek at c:\windows\system32\winevt\logs\ (equivalent of /var/log/) and that's just one place.

I mean the spyware has measurable and valuable security benefits. If you wanna really test your malware dev skills, leave cloud submission turned on Defender and write any basic malware (harmful not just undesirable) and avoid detection for longer than a day. It was very hard when I tried it (for legit purposes).

I bash on Linux because of all its problems (only because I love it and want to see it improve) but if you want privacy, use Linux, the cliche holds true. You can always use windows in vbox+seamless mode for most things or on a separate device if you can afford it.
What you're saying is absolutely crazy, and it shows a wanton lack of empathy, a clear sign of stone kind of anti-social mental episode.

As such, your employer should obviously revoke you access to their facilities until you are cleared by a doctor.
Putin has been in power for 20 years. It takes a while to dismantle all the democratic institutions that make is so that you can stay here without worry. Trump made an attempt to dismantle every institution from the 3-letter agencies like CIA, FBI, CDC, DOJ, the media, rule of law, even the concept of the presidency and elections themselves. We won't be so lucky if Trump has a second go at dismantling these institutions, because it took him a while to figure out how, but now he's pretty much an expert.

It seems like the institution of presidential debates that has been a hallmark of our democratic process for decades was destroyed by the GOP just yesterday, so speaking in the past tense as if the damage has ceased is a mistake.
censorship can happen at all levels, its just that speech rights only protect you from censorship by the government. The censorship at other levels can still exist, and be meaningful.
> They won't act on it for your regular employees because it costs them money to do so and developers _routinely_ jump ship, though they want you to know that they technically have the power to because you signed that contract.

This kind of thinking is exactly why these clauses get worse and worse and worse over time, I'm afraid.

People should be prepared to argue the toss over every single line of an employment contract, and seek advice for every single line.
I voted ambivalently for Remain, but would probably vote Leave today.

There are many parts of the EU that are democratically deficit, or anti-democratic, notably the Euro shared currency without shared monetary policy.

Edit: s/monetary/fiscal

Yanis Varoufakis's book "Adults in the Room" showed just how unpleasant the EU can be for its citizens.
There's nothing in the C standard that I could find that dictates that b[] has to follow directly after a[] in memory. That it works is just happenstance (or an implementation detail). The only place were order is maintained are fields in a structure definition.
Did... you read the article? It's highly critical of the hype around psychedelic research and how we have been interpreting it.

Anyways. In general, HN is a community that is highly focused on emerging technologies, and undervalued, overlooked or novel solutions.

Psychedelics, in my opinion is fertile ground for discovery and just super interesting, so it gets my upvote.
I second Ellul recommendation, FWIW. The Technological Society is a great place to start.
Because they're using telegram as their website it is impossible to even access the .torrent file. That kind of defeats the point of having a torrent.
Exactly, the reality of the mental health field is they know very little and their methodologies are largely flawed. I've been diagnosed with so many different things based on their "scientific methods" when at the end of the day they are just making rough guesses.

I get really turned off by any article that acts like we have a clear understanding of these things. Most things are actually just reactions to trauma.
> Can it really only be about how long you're in an intersection and not what is done while you're there?

Empirically, it certainly seems to be the case; the fact sheet linked in the article references a couple of studies which demonstrate a correlation between adopting the "Idaho stop" and shockingly large reductions in cyclist injury.

> Isn't this like trying to make a dangerous aircraft seem safer by only flying it 100 mi at a time? The number of successful flights would skyrocket while the baseline crash count stays about the same.

You're sort of correct, except for the small detail that the total number of intersections traversed by cyclists is going to remain relatively constant--no one is going to start crossing more intersections because of this law. Thus, if you reduce the average amount of time spent traversing each individual intersection, you also reduce the total amount of time spent in intersections.
Ask HN: What are the radiological consequences if Russia nukes Chernobyl?
I imagine that would render a lot of surrounding land unusable, but I'm not sure how much if the concrete encased core was exploded into particles
> It's been heading right or center-right ever since the_donald (2015), r/conservative, etc have gotten so huge, if there's been any political shift.

Wait - you seriously and unironically believe reddit has become _more_ rightwing in the past 7 years?
Linux newbies jumping into Microsoft's arms is still something I'm trying to wrap my head around.
Whatever you end up doing, just recognize that it takes legitimate effort to stay in touch with people. It gets harder as people get older, get married, have kids, etc.
Cryptography Puzzle?
His question is interesting (I have often wondered similarly) but your response is also interesting. So...

> unless you believe you have some sort of innate fundamental morality

to suggest otherwise would be to say that most people don't, but most people will help others - a lot of support is going to Ukraine which would simply not if Ukraine were the aggressor (and I acknowledge such ethical behaviour is patchy and sometimes not there but often it is).
Hey All,

I came across this odd site and I don't really have the skills to puzzle it out. Anyone know what it's saying? Or how we could solve it?
Surely it depends on what Trump does with his account, right? Does Chick-Fil-A suffer from it's decisions politically? If Trump incites insurrection with his account, why not just do what Twitter did? Everybody is unhappy with Twitter. Complaining about twitter is the engagement desired. It's not political, extremists on both sides are upset.

I suppose those who own stock are also upset, I just realized. I don't think liberals will boycott Tesla and Starlink unless they become associated with their political opponents, enough that the environmental aspect would become secondary. If that happens... well, that's a lot of sales regardless, right?
Monetizing my private life is nowhere near in the same category as killing me, unless you believe in some philosophy where privacy is as important as life.

Making an algorithm to addict me is arguably pretty evil though.
Yes, good point. Who is going to find these cases, gather evidence, and sue? I can imagine an employee suing their employer after finding out someone was hired above the range, but is that even expressly illegal?

Short answer: the lawyers will decide whether this is enforced.
Statistically 80% (might have been even higher I can't find the source right now) of drivers consuders themselves above average.
Charlie Rose Interviewing Warren Buffett in April 2022
If Jan 6 was a shock, you weren't paying attention. Trump had been broadcasting his contempt for democracy since day 1.

In the end, democracy won... for now. But it was close. I dare say that if Mike Pence had done differently on that day, or if state legislatures had submitted "alternate" slates, or if more Republicans had objected to the results, or, or, or... American democracy would be finished.

The conclusion is not that American institutions are strong, it's that they are too weak, and that they survived this attack by chance. Next time we won't be as lucky.
I'm not who you are responding to, but I think it is a different scenario.

HN has a very specific and limited topic range that is allowed and documented. There is some subjective things in what is allowed, but it is generally understood. People are not complaining about that. Nobody is suggesting HN should allow general sports news for example.

Twitter on the other hand is a general forum and so it should allow a broad amount of topics. If Twitter was a specific and targeted platform for cat pictures nobody would have an issue if they banned politics.
> I guess it's in the nature of Python to leverage internal/external modules written in a statically-typed compiled language to deliver high performance on core functionalities.

I'm aware of python leveraging compiled C or even FORTRAN to run certain functions, does it do message passing with a forked process or something else? I'm having a hard time googling for how it works since I don't know what it's called.
Shameless plug: I'm building something similar and looks like it's working correctly. Can you give it a try, link below:

https://ktool.io/read-on-kindle?url=https://web.dev/streams/
I feel like you might like the Kobo Libra 2. Bigger battery, similar size and shape with same screen resolution and size, still has yellow light, plastic case, there's a patch to make both buttons go forward. Weighs 30 grams more though.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/06/tech/twitter-employees-saudi-...
Many details are different. Beginning with the year.
False Vacuum Decay
Nobody ever wants to believe that they're the bad guys, and unless someone forces them to face facts, they're going to ignore it.

See: the United States of America.

The brutality of slavery? "Not my problem. I had nothing to do with it. CRT is the real problem dividing us anyway"

The absolutely evil treatment of indigenous people? "Christopher Columbus was a hero for discovering the New World"

The Confederacy? "Oh, it was just a state's rights issue."

Japanese internment during WWII? "But did you hear about the Nazis?"

The treatment of refugees at our borders? "Here's why separating children from their parents is actually a good thing!"
I wasn’t equating Farage, Cameron and Hitler with each other at all.

I’m suggesting that I fell for populism, the end result of that populism isn’t what I’m talking about really, just the feeling of being tricked and that it happened to me: a person who was brought up to think critically.

I’m not special. Neither are you probably. That’s my point.

Not that Cameron is Hitler. That’s obviously not true. Cameron only killed 30,000~ people due to NHS cuts. Not systematic genocide. It’s not at all the same.
Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun, spoke at my biz school ~2000. Someone asked about the competitive threat of Dell + Linux. He ranted for a long time about Dell being junk and SunOS vastly better than Linux. Everyone after felt Sun was doomed. They crashed a few years later. It was a textbook Innovator’s Dilemma case.
Fire in a crowded theater, xenophobic comments to a trigger happy crowd…
Disability aside, a lot of people don't like birthday parties at work, for various reasons. For example I think some religions forbid celebrating ones birthday. Other people just don't like it and think it's inappropriate for an office setting. I don't think it's an unreasonable request to not have one's birthday recognized at work, for whatever reason stated or unstated.
If having Trump be president is Russia's goal, their state media openly bragging about it is a terrible tactic. I find it far more likely that Russia's strategy here is to undermine faith in American democracy in general.

A large part of the right already believes that our elections have been "stolen". I see this kind of talk from Russian state media as an effort to lay the foundation for the left believing the same thing the next time the right wins.

In a lot of ways this is a much easier strategy to pull off then actually having to manipulate voters into voting a different way than they would have anyway. All you have to do is persuade everyone in the country that if their side didn't win the election it was because of fraud or foreign interference, and you've created a situation that is ripe for unrest that will distract the country from any kind of meaningful foreign policy.