skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you require a full-blown argument for every piece of advice or information you ever hear? You are supposed to weigh it yourself and see if you find it applicable to your situation or not. I think this list is great exactly for this reason: it gives you material to meditate on. I don't want any arguments for or against it, figuring those out is part of forming an opinion about it.
My strategy against this is listening to music on Spotify first, but if I really like an album or an artist and keep returning to them, I'll buy the CD.
I really like my applications to at least try to reestablish dropped connections though. But I do appreciate the minimization mindset with respect to secrets.

The last time I was responsible for the scaffolding of a new software service it supported reading secrets from a file. It confused the operations team and I was just told to include support for an environment variable. Oh well, I tried.
Ask HN: Most Beautiful iOS Apps
I wonder if there is a list of really good crafted apps somewhere, with unusual interactions or animations. Most of the app ranks I found on Google don't even try to find shining diamonds, rather presenting most popular apps with decent UI.
Ah, I really like the /now page movement from Derek Sivers: https://sive.rs/nowff
My girlfriend has a farm on the Thai countryside and sometimes she buys bags of pig poo for use on her farm. She always asks me to help her pick up the bags and move with our pick-up to her farm. Then afterwards I have to carry the bags maybe 100 meter to her farm.

She told me if she pays people to carry the bags, it would cost her an extra 5 THB per bag.

I always feel like I am wasting my time, as I feel my girlfriend doesn’t understand that if I’d spend the time working behind the computer, I’d be making much more money. And to spend an extra 5 THB per bag would be a negligible cost for me.

Or perhaps she does understand it’s more cost effective if I work behind the computer, but she just enjoys seeing me do some “hard labour” (she tends to show a grin when I am carrying heavy bags around).
> I've worked in NY offices and got paid in UK (

If you're doing ordinary work I think that violates the terms of the B-1/B-2 visa - even if under 90 days.
I went on a solar power course at the Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales (~10 years ago, so perhaps this into may be somewhat out of date) and they'd calculated that the extra energy generated by moving a panel to the optimal direction during the day was less than the energy it took to move the panel, let along the extra costs of the mechanics. Bear in mind that in Wales there's plenty of cloudy weather during the year, so light is often diffuse, and it's quite a long way north (the gulf stream tricks people into thinking the UK is further south than it is, but the CfAT is 600 miles further north than Toronto). If you're somewhere with lots of direct sunlight that calculation might be different, but as others have pointed out, that doesn't take into account the cost of the mechanics and controllers.
Tangential, but s it possible to build cars with zero infotaiment, lighter and yet safe?

I want to upgrade from my second-hand early 00s Fiat, but everything, even "cheap" cars are expensive, bulky, and loaded with screens and stuff I don't really want.
It was extremely popular brand in Europe for many years. At one time almost everybody had a good Nokia or Sony Ericsson. I saw Motorola Razr like one time in the wild.
It's literally turning a teachable moment into a resentful one while simultaneously teaching them that littering is okay.

Please point me to the parts of this method that are good or effective.
https://www.megaknihy.cz/foto-video/22886-fotime-mobilem.htm...

Can't find it at home to provide some scans, sorry :-/
No, if you're performing paid work like that it's still violating the visa.

Just that normally no-one ever checks or cares.

It could be a problem if you later try to become a resident in the same country though.
Some dude coined these terms, and they caught on for a while during the cold war. Third world typically being of little interest to first and second, and often poor.

So eventually "third world" came to just mean "poor countries". After all, there has now been as much time, post WWII, without the cold war, as there was with one!
Are there any good discussions of how in the past new currencies have historically been received by the public?

Crypto is a little unusual compared to other Ponzi targets in its nature as a putative currency. It "makes its own value" in a certain sense.
Outsourcing SWE work to India and Eastern Europe is already very, very common. I don't know if that has had an impact on the availability of doctors, but in Poland, Ukraine or Belarus you'll find most of the IT workers work in outsourcing. The solution for the tax issue is to either have a subsidiary in the low-cost country or buy the outsourcing as a service from a company that's specialized in this arrangement.

I'm in Europe so this is my point of view for the outsourcing recipient countries. I suppose US companies might outsource to Latin America for better time zone overlap.
Solar followers have been around for decades and do not need ML or complex models.
I think most less attractive people would rather get to the later stages of the interview process where they'll get a chance to advocate for themselves. It's better than being screened out early and not knowing whether it's because you're ugly or because the qualifications listed in your resume aren't impressive.
Well, it appears that your earnings from this time are non-monetary, which probably have a higher value that what you'd earn (value and cost being different things).
At my university, I had an (optional) course called high performance computing, which was 90% about writing cache efficient programs.
...but fitness is definitely a signal for discipline and mental strength

No, it doesn't. Not being fit merely tells you that they might have lifestyle choices different from your own.

Or they might be female with PCOS. Or they might have a disease that causes fatigue or pain when they exercise. Heck, that might be the very reason for their desk job. Or a history of food insecurity and really need the insurance the job provides to be able to afford therapy, if they are even to that point. Heck, they might just not be knowledgeable enough to separate bad health advice from good health advice and despite trying things out, feel stuck. It isn't like I learned how to care for my body in school, after all. Health class focused on STDs and parts of the body while physical education classes were more focused on sports, rules, and being a good teammate.

The reality is that being overweight only tells you that they are overweight.
using nil = std::nullopt;

I don't think that compiles? The right hand side is a value, not a type.
It would be as much a Ponzi scheme as gold would be.
Was that retroactively applied? Because my music from pre-2009 remained DRM'd, but maybe I just needed to re-download them. On top of that, it was all AAC, and I regularly had to convert the files to be usable anywhere but Apple's products. It became such a chore, that I gave up on the Apple music ecosystem entirely, and I don't really have any regrets about it.
Pennock's books look interesting and I wish I had more time to digest
them. "Curiosity and the Moral Character of Science" especially so.

His parting line "Integrity in science involves a community of
practice, unified by its shared values." is really powerful. We cannot
do it alone.

Notwithstanding stumbling across a new atom bomb, physicists have it
easy compared to computer scientists, I would say.

Our problem is that to the extent we are scientists, in the business
of "Truth", our lot now inescapably intersects with the scurrilous
worlds of advertising, surveillance and malinfluence - the world of
deception and concealment. Computing is embattled to maintain its
integrity against the worst sides of its principle funding and
applications.

One cannot neatly separate out contemporary software issues of
privacy, dignity, agency and freedom, from scientific integrity while
using tainted tools - which is what I think Pennock means by a moral
community of practice.
I don't owe my employer anything. They pay for my services and that is it. If I don't get enough back in terms of pay and comfort I go somewhere else.

Dreams? You are stuck in some weird emotional place.
Will the above infrastructure be able to handle my requirements? Can it be improved?

Not necessarily an improvement, but a different perspective on the computing section. I assume you run the services in containers. Instead of handling EC2 instances, you can run the workloads in ECS Services with the Fargate Spot capacity provider and autoscale based on the number of requests per target group or cpu load or time intervals. Github Actions can continuously deploy such services after you terraformed the infrastructure.
In my experience having gone on vacation in a caravan, generally you don't live inside the van for very long; it's where you sleep or take shelter from the weather, the rest of the time you're outside, or (in the case of a caravan) in a tent attached to the front that's usually 2.5-3 meters high up.
Swedbank customers positive balance turned into negative due to an update
This is major. Positive balance turned into negative for multiple customers.

This guy went from having a million SEK to million SEK in debt: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/marko-ligger-1-3-miljoner-minus-pa-kontot-sanslost
I think this might answer your question.
https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/departments/how-nasa-decid...
Everything is discrete. Computers cannot handle "true" real numbers.
I am not attractive and it's not something clothes or styling can fix BUT I can confirm how perceptions make a massive difference. About 20 years ago I started wearing ties and dress up, not just for work. If you never done this, try it out, get some normal (or as they call them now, "classic" fit) trousers, jacket, shirt, tie and marvel at how everyone treats you better. It's the kind of thing you only notice if it happens to you suddenly.
Here at least in Portland, we sort of differentiate between people who live in the houses they own, versus people or companies who own property for speculation/rent collection. Most of the homeowners I know are simply happy to finally own a place they live in and stop paying rent.

It's still somewhat possible here; for example, last month, a friend who's a 42 year old bartender and just had a baby finally bought a house only about 30 blocks east (east is cheaper); if he'd had enough money for a down payment 5 years ago we would be living on the same block. I make about twice as much as he does. I want him to be living on my block. That's the kind of city that I want to live in, that's why people want to live in Portland in the first place. That's why I decided to buy my house here.

Airbnb is extremely corrosive to a "working city" environment where people of different social / income classes are able to live and work in the same neighborhoods, because it encourages petit homeowners like me to take a paycheck to abandon our properties so the hoteliers extract rent. Yet it's exactly the mixture of working class life which made Airbnb's most attractive tourist cities like Madrid and Lisbon, Portland and Amsterdam so popular with tourists.

IMHO Airbnb is a blight for landlords and renters and there's a very good argument to be made that no property outside a city-bonded hotel should be rented for less than 3-6 months. I said this about taxis not being driven by civilians back when I was a cab driver and Uber showed up, so, I can see I'm on the wrong side of history...
Well, I can understand maybe, for example during the summer months, you can disable the renew for the “heated seats”, or during the winter the “a/c in car purchase” etc… I font have other explanation.
I think of more like a combination between russian roulette and a ponzi.
Assuming you refuse to sell at a loss you mainly risk being stuck.

Price never recovers to a profitable point for you (you took the bullet, those who sold to you won).

I think everyone knows that at some point, the party ends, and it's mostly about how far you're willing to take it, who will end up with the bullet in their head.
Maybe just use "dev" then? It's cool and hip and whatever...
Not really. People don't invest in gold thinking it will go to the moon. They invest in it thinking it will be a stable value to protect from currency / inflation / recession risks.
I mean, this is the way; I don't believe people actually want to go through companies like AirBnB, Uber and Uber Eats, all those in between parties if they can help it; if they can skip the fees, and especially if they can get long term tenants, then great. And if by paying with cash you can avoid taxes as well, great.

The only thing there is that it's a risk, e.g. what if they thrash the place, but airbnb may not even give a shit about that and accuse you (the owner) of fraud. That risk is also mitigated by paying up front like you said.
>> Option doesn't need any extra code

Ahh, those are both logic errors in your code. You do need the extra code to fix your errors here:

>> In Rust, you just place a ? sigil at the end

That changes the behaviour to bubble up that there was no value, the caller has been delegated responsibility and further processing has stopped at this point.

Instead to accurately implement the required behaviour and replicate the nil punning logic, you’d need ? to behave in such a way that it inserts a suitable “empty” value for whatever type the option is guarding. So if this was an optional collection for example, the ? would need to figure out what type of collection then how to get an empty one to provide here (and you’d probably want that to be a singleton immutable collection, otherwise you’d be risking introducing logic bugs).

In practice, you’d instead write code to provide that empty collection at the call site. At this point you’ve rendered the Option wrapper pointless though.

It’s the exact same story for your Haskell example.

You’ve given a different behaviour which is of course, a logic bug.
I liked abstractions until I had to keep undoing them partially because I didn't perfectly understand the problem I was trying to solve...

That's when I would feel the dumbest programming - undoing what was supposed to be me being smart.

I think I read somewhere that the worst code comes from the wrong abstractions.
It depends on the jurisdiction.

I don't know what the status is in the US, but copies for personal use are legal in the Netherlands. In fact, you actually pay a "private copying levy" for most devices capable of storing media (blank CDs, hard drives, phones, etc.)

Looks like there's something similar in a number of other European countries, but I don't know the details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy
Agreed.

I'd recommend keeping fitness a top priority especially as one gets older. Not only does everything get easier when not overweight, but the energy boost and appearance improvements certainly helps your confidence and presentation in every possible way.

I'm not someone you'd consider a "pretty" man even by a long shot, but being fit with a healthy BMI makes a world of difference nonetheless.

(I took serious stock some time not too long ago and realised weight lifting and being strong wasn't enough when actually overweight. Have dropped 15% of my body weight through dieting and the difference is amazing. I'm closer to fifty).
ex-Heroku here.

The codebase is sound. I would almost certainly expect that the reason for the slowness is the ability/diligence and paranoia levels the SFDC security teams have. They won't want to turn this back on until they are absolutely certain it's 100% again.
MorningBriefAI Is Done
Look, this project, according to the comments, seemed very useful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29218482 but it's KO now. Do you know why? Or a similar tool?
I need a new computer. The smart move, especially considering the cost involved, is to go for what I know; a decent enough desktop build with 3 monitors, linux/windows dual boot. What I've used for years.

But it must be said, I've been really tempted by the Macs. I'm not sure why, the 3 main things I do with my personal computer (game dev, playing games, watching things) are things that linux/windows can do at least as good if not better than a Mac, and yet here I am, holding off for months just trying to be convinced into the apple ecosystem.

I think its probably just the simplicity of it. I really like the idea of replacing a load of bulk (3 monitors, the vesa mount to hold them, big keyboard, mouse, bulky tower and a metric tonne of cables) with just a single laptop that I can pickup and go with at a moments notice, though Im not sure of the practicalities of that, at least for me. I don't even travel much, it just seems nice.

Edit: I know that a lot of people have a mac and a desktop to fill all needs, but that somewhat defeats the simplicity of it for me. One bulky computer is simpler for me than one bulky computer for some things and another much smaller computer for others.
you're right, depending on the country/company there are some additional implications, in my case it helps that we have a subsidiary in most EU countries, so it can work via an "entsendung". I really hope that these things will change (social and tax wise) in the future within EU to make it easier for work setups like this.
Update Life #3
I'm an EU citizen so I want EU countries to have all the power over US citizens! Just joking!

These EU/EEA laws are for consumer protection. To operate in EU is way easier for digital companies than it is for other companies. But as an EU resident you expect uniform application of consumer rights, and you definitely don't want to be surprised along the way.

You have the option of not opening up your services to EU residents, and when the GDPR became effective I've seen websites that did just that. On the other hand GDPR and very similar regulation is going to become more prevalent. You have the CCPA, which is a distilled version of the GDPR, you have the Brazillian LGPD which is a derivation of the GDPR, and other countries are in the works of setting up their own.

In the end, I think that GDPR, thus far, is the most strict of them all, and if you implement universally what the GDPR requires, on a technical level (needs to be emphasized), you'll comply with any other privacy regulation.
I have long wished for an AMD based Raspberry Pi like device... or at least something of vaguely similar size and capability. Though I have to say at $368 this doesn't seem very appealing.
Since 2019, there exists "The Conference for Failed Approaches and Insightful Losses in Cryptology", a.k.a. CFAIL [0]

[0]: https://www.cfail.org/
No the Air Force has far more fighter jets than transport aircraft.

https://www.airforcemag.com/article/2021-usaf-ussf-almanac-e...
Traditional paper-bound journals are intrinsically limited re: number of articles that can be published. OTOH online publications aren't so restricted, so why not publish all that are worthy?

I think the real question is the quality of peer review. A "high rate of acceptance" isn't bad if accepting an article happens only after good quality peer review. But a high rate of acceptance without adequate peer review would be a big source of concern.

Not sure which of these publishing considerations applies to this article. I'll have to go over it again in detail when I'm more rested, anyway on quick overview I didn't spot any glaring problems in it.
A simple, free app that just asks you only one question.

No ads. No distractions. No signup.
Are you under 40? I think when I was in my 20s and early 30s I would agree on (1). But when I got married and had kids case (2) became optimal, because my social circle filled up with people who had kids of the same age / went to the same school.

The pandemic then pushed me between (2) and (3) - good social circle at work etc.
One problem with the "old apps are inherently bad and must be updated" mentality is that it accelerates the obsolescence of old devices. It used to be only Apple ones, where if the latest version of iOS available on the device is too old, apps that have always worked on that device can no longer be [re]installed because meanwhile they've been updated and now require a later version of the OS. Currently an iPhone 6 that we have as a child's toy is in that situation, with some apps no longer installable.

Android was better - you could install modern "Play Services" on the most ancient devices and then modern apps would work, albeit slowly sometimes. But that seems to have changed. Now we also see "not compatible with your device" on lightweight apps that have no real reason not to work on that hardware.

Of course we can afford to just move to a later device for the grownups. But we have a child who "wears out" devices at an alarming rate.
The part before 'but' can be informative and shape context. I strongly disagree with this statement.
> My guess is about 50% in super markets still wear them, with regional differences.

My personal gut feeling (being German, but also having been influenced by a "privacy-consciousness bubble" ;-) ) is that there exist people who like the situation that it has become socially acceptable to wear a mask in public (without being concerned about COVID-19 in the slightest), for example because

- this enables you to say a big "f... you" to surveillance cameras

- this might possibly be even a socially acceptable and semi-legal way to "circumvent" the "Vermummungsverbot" on rallys (concerning "Vermummungsverbot": in Germany, you are not allowed to wear face coverings on public rallys; the police often uses this as a pretense to take action against protestors when it does not like the goal of the rally)

In this spirit: Let's continue the situation that disguising yourself in public stays socially accepted. Thus, I will continue wearing a mask in public and simply give the pretense that I am still concerned about COVID-19, or that I believe to belong to a group that is more vulnerable regarding COVID-19.

TLDR: Do not believe that everybody who now still wears a mask in public in Germany does this because he is afraid of COVID-19.
Oh boy do I feel silly for that mistake. It's there in the name.
It’s a small example and won’t claim it’s life changing but if you get a spare hour some time, i’d definitely vote for broadening experience horizons and playing with an example.

Specifically to your point about the hard crash, I’m interpreting this as meaning “i want the programmer to be told they’re mistaken”, if I’ve got that right, you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
I had a lot of fun checking these out today!

I’m not sure if PICO-8 games would fit with this list, but there are a lot of fun quick ones such as:

Snowfight: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=mb_advent2019

Sonic16x16: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=97365

U Dead: https://eggnog.itch.io/u-dead

And several others (I have a curated list here[1]).

They work on mobile and desktop, don’t require registration, etc. But maybe you wouldn’t want the list to get overwhelmed with PICO-8 games.

[1] https://memalign.github.io/p/pico8.html
But as I said, no hotel would ever propose going above that minimum, so all you’ve done is change “$1000” to “10× the room rate”. That’s not a substantive change; it’s still an arbitrary number, customers still have to decide whether to get travel insurance or forgo it, etc. I doubt it even changes anything for most people, since most people don’t carry thousands of dollars of luggage with them and cheap hotel rooms are less than $100 a night.
Github actions are your friend friend:
https://github.com/AkhileshNS/heroku-deploy
https://github.com/pmbanugo/heroku-review-app-actions