skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recall them having competition. In the mid to late 90s google was far from the dominant search engine, at the time everyone I knew was using yahoo for search.
Ask HN: What tool would you buy to make your life easier?
Could be anything - dev tools, blogging platforms, SaaS...
Mine would be some (hypothetical) way of making it so I could see what accounts I had with any given service (Trello, GitHub, etc), what signin methods they used (password, social, etc), and could merge/rename/delete accounts and signin methods without going through tedious confirmation processes or support tickets. Something about having a fragile web of interconnected user/password combos and email accounts makes me anxious whenever I think about it or create a new account somewhere. Almost every service I've used seems to make big assumptions behind the scenes about what to do when someone invites you to a team using email, for example, and you already have an account using GitHub signin - so you end up having either two different accounts or merged accounts when you don't want to.
I'm certain I once wrote a long rant about why I think the concept of PowerShell (using objects instead of text as interface) is interesting but it fell flat on execution and felt like something in the uncanny valley between *nix shells and Python/Perl, with a thousand papercuts. I'm not gonna dig that out, but to add some points I can remember at the moment to yours:

- Write-Output and friends try to be smart and print different things situationally. I hate "smart".

- Try to get something akin to set -e -o pipefail, i.e. exit if a command fails. Pain.

- Try to get something akin to set -x for tracing. There's Set-PSDebug, but the trace level also applies to all the cmdlets, so say you use Expand-Archive, suddenly you have a million lines of crap in your trace you don't give a shit about.

In general, IMO the biggest advantage of PowerShell compared to scripting languages like Python/Perl is the ability to natively interact with Windows' COM stuff. That advantage is nonexistent on *nix.
"That's the Neat Part, You Don't"

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/thats-the-neat-part-you-dont

(couldn't resist. Sorry)
Nitpick

> baby crying for a deaf moms

Or a deaf dad. Nowadays it's not just women handling babies. "a deaf parent" would get you covered :-)

(could also target babysitters)
If someone buys stocks from a third party in the open market, are they financing real projects? It really feels like it’s all speculation since the value of my shares doesn’t actually entitle me to that portion of the company’s profits, unless I can sell back directly to the company.
Why did your reply started with an advert?
HR business partner is assigned to a specific department/division/whatever of the company to be their “HR person”. If you’re in that division you talk to your HR BP, they’re the one who will do the yearly baselining exercise with the managing director etc. So basically the public face of HR for that division

As opposed to the people working on company-wide stuff like salary guidelines, rulebooks, “the way we work” brochures, recruitment, etc
While this is all true, it's a lot of eggs (or a very big egg) in one basket. Tanks are powerful, but not invulnerable, as the past two months have shown. The usefulness of a tank is always a balance between what it can dish out and how vulnerable it is. Especially in close terrain (urban, forest) they're very vulnerable to infantry with anti-tank weapons, whereas in the open field, they're vulnerable to air attacks. Whether or not a tank is useful depends on how well you can defend against those threats.

This is why for many attacks, missiles or drones are more practical than tanks. Those are expensive per shot, but cheap to deploy and lose. In heavy fighting, the relative cheapness of individual shots makes a tank more affordable, but the deployment itself, especially if you want to give the tank the protection it needs, is quite expensive.
Are there really counterparties with millions of dollars of privacy preserving crypto in every country?

Like say you are a cocaine kingpin. You instruct your minions in countries where you sell your product to buy crypto. How do you access that value where you live?

Or say you are a wealthy Russian with millions of rubles that you want to move out of the country. Is there really a seller with unlimited willingness to exchange their crypto for rubles?
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hello sir, how do I create webapp without html/css, thank you
While I’m on a tech rant – who invented this piece of pure sadism?
This should not be flagged.

But I think the answer is that be people here understand what it is from a technical perspective; you would get the same level of anti-crypto if you went and asked a bunch of computer scientists.
There’s a clear agenda when accessibility is the 3rd course.
I don't see a conflict, unions would still be obligated to represent officers. It is just criminal behavior investigations would be shifted entirely to the DAs office (to prevent Joe from investigating his friend Bob).

Also an FYI police cannot strike! See https://grahamfactor.substack.com/p/im-sticking-to-the-polic... for an overview.
It is so curious that you use the term “fiduciary duty” to describe the relationship between a miner and the signers of the transactions it includes in its mined blocks.

The primary rationale of fiduciary duty is trust. In contrast, the whole reason that miners even exist is so that the service they provide can be performed in an entirely antagonistic environment, without trust.

I suppose it can be said that a miner’s “social contract is very similar to more traditional fiduciary duty”, but only in the sense that a thing is somehow conceptually related to the exact opposite of that thing.

Miners are anti-fiduciaries.
It’s not just that, it’s also the fact that they are assigned to a part of the business, as opposed to internal/company wide stuff (like the global compensation guidelines, or organizing graduate recruitment drives)
Like apple, google wasn’t first in their fields. I suspect those ahead of or moving with these companies had distracted or disinterested management or were just not paying attention and thought their lead was insurmountable. All businesses have to deal with this problem, but I think it’s especially common when a new area is opening up - things that are too small for the spreadsheet aren’t worth talking about.

Software is a business where “a few people in their garage” are fully capable of putting a dent in the universe.
Consider upgrading to MongoDB 5, which finally offers usable schema validations. It may warrant a drink of lower proof, and maybe even avert a hangover.
More chance to chat about random things or casually ask work-related questions.

> I've learnt way more reading papers and documentation than being in the same physical space as more senior colleagues. People sometimes bring this point up re: onboarding but I don't quite understand what people learn that they can't do otherwise remotely

It is much harder to gain tacit knowledge (The important stuff) when you're remote. I read a lot, and it's no match for picking a skilled person's brain for even just 30min-1hr.

I've found I generally have to explicitly ask if I want someone to explain what they're doing and why. There is very little 1:1 teaching/mentoring. In an office I think there is more informal mentoring.
I'm not sure I have the faculties to address what bothers me about this comment, but there is so much tied to traditional society the comment seems to ignore.

- Voting districts - obviously tied to physical land, with different styles of vote counting system per area, often according to local cultural needs. I come from a society where special voting considerations exist in order to achieve actual peace. Prior to that system being introduced, there was war. The right to vote and the manner in which the vote occurs is an essential and inalienable attribute of all democratic societies, often deeply saturated in historic customs taking centuries of diplomacy to achieve stability.

- Public services - voting and taxation are directly related to policy in a local area. The tax that I pay my local council is accountable almost directly to me because I can schedule an appointment with the very people whom I elect to spend my taxes as I desire. My physical address in that locale entitles me to an opinion on the use of those taxes, and a stake in ensuring awareness of local policy, and that the policy works for myself and the people around me.

- Land rights - a requirement for a physical address, or the alternative of no requirement for a physical address, (is/is not) an implicit endorsement of land ownership and encouraging long term placement of people within fixed communities. Community quality and composition varies greatly across every region of the world, and for folk spending most of their life inside cities, it is easy to forget the concept of a community exists. Establishing a physical local presence is essential for many kinds of growth, not least, starting a family and therefore the continued growth of a healthy society.

So to summarize, I think what bothers me is that the only possible way to arrive at what the parent comment suggests would be to avoid participating or contributing to any of these essential traits of civil society, which is to say it is an opinion explicitly rooted in contributing to civic decay. It's not "incredibly outdated", a physical address comes with many essential implications that ought to be encouraged.
This is just another way of taking ‘images’ of emergent phenomena.

Some people take pictures of nature, and some people take pictures text output that emerge from the corpus of all human writing.
> Your tax residency will be based on where you spent the most time between all those and then all the other additional factors.

Also false. Depends on the tax laws of the countries, but most likely you wouldn’t be considered tax resident anywhere, absent of having a strong economic interests in one particular country (and tax havens wouldn’t care about this, and the burden of proof would be on the tax authority).
I think this illustrates my problem with PHP well: There are ways to do common tasks properly, but they're often hidden, obscure or basically require creating your own "stdlib extension", as seen here (I only heard about filter_var from this discussion, and I specifically searched for string conversion functions).

Your function proves my point: It looks correct, but actually breaks for as_int("0"), since filter_var with FILTER_VALIDATE_INT doesn't acutally validate the int, but parse it, and zero is falsy.
A required next step, for the removal of cash from society.
How does your human support handle a user forgetting their password?
I have Gmail accounts but none of them are for anything critical or important. I create a new one with every android device I get.

Google lost my trust for anything more than a random account I need (Google makes you need) for using an android device when years ago they made me provide a DOB, and I misstyped it putting the current year instead of my birth year in.

Next thing I know my account was locked because I was too young to have one. At the time I was able to contact them but had to provide ID and confirm a credit card for age verification. I reluctantly did this because at the time I had important stuff in that account. After that I moved anything critical to a trustworthy service that isn't selling my data to advertiser and shut the account down.

I'm glad I did because things have got worse since. Now I don't use any Google service, with a few exceptions.
The actual real reason is *nix had mature shell scripting many years before powershell was conceived.

For powershell to "take off" on non-Windows platforms, many people need to adopt it and for many people to adopt it, it needs to solve some critical problems the existing solutions don't solve well.

I think pretty clearly, powershell doesn't do that.

(I think I personally would be an easy candidate to use it on Mac... I know/use powershell pretty much daily at my day job -- so there's a minimal learning curve and I still haven't seen any reason to use it on various Mac side projects and jobs. I just do bash/zsh scripts. If it was built in maybe I'd reconsider.)

For myself, I know powershell reasonably well from my day job

Sometimes people will switch to something new just because it's new, but for , generthe new thing has to have some
I tell people who are interested in the crypto market: just look at the structures and concepts that exist in "centralized finance" and replicate them for the crypto world. (Eg: risk systems, custodial systems, index calculators, portfolio management, the list goes on, etc... )

This 2019 paper simply re-confirms that thought. Crypto today is no different than the 1900 turn-of-the-century bucket-shop pump-and-dump scams of previous Wall Street iterations.
Meanwhile, X3 keeps rolling along...
Yeah, I agree, but I suspect that React is still the "right" tool for 80% of the software out there (having all of these things in mind). Though I should give Svelte another go soon maybe :)
For anyone interested in more trees, or specific to their environment. This website hosts quite a large overview of interesting specimen and data points:

http://monumentaltrees.com
I love occassionaly putting on George Hotz's streams while programming. Here's an 11 hour stream of him implementing SLAM from a closet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hlb8YX2-W8&t=10316s&ab_chan...

The guy's a certified legend. Sadly he 'quit' streaming but the hundreds of hours in the archive should suffice.
Even if I can't hear it, I'm not keen on the possible impact of smart speakers screaming at >32 kHz all the time, for the marginal gain of it being able to play a cute sound when I walk into the room
HSBC are notorious bastards and I fired them ages ago.

They transferred £2000 out of my account randomly one day with no cause or explanation when there was £118 available in it. The next day they froze the account and a specific contact at HSBC forced me to make a repayment arrangement for the money. I refused and opened a dispute and it took me 14 months to get it back and all fees incurred for entering an unarranged overdraft. It ruined my credit rating for 3 years. Every contact I made with them was handled by someone utterly incompetent or disinterested in solving the problem even when I involved a solicitor.

Never an apology, never an explanation, never a true resolution.

NEVER work with HSBC. ALWAYS keep your finances distributed between multiple accounts.

With Santander mostly now who so far, touch wood, have succeeded in not fucking anything up. Halifax as a backup.
So you like the written “proof” so you can face off your colleagues in case of disagreement? You seem to have negative feelings about your work environment. You should consider changing jobs.
Congrats on it.

It is apparently a statistical fact that keeping salaries hidden and or confidential causes lower salaries.

So what you do here is applauded in our current world of high inflation and record corporate profits.
At least it made me dig beyong McLlroy's ~rebuttal.

Both have important points.
PowerShell works on fundamentally different principles than do traditional Unix shells. Unix shells are for loosely coupling small "do one thing and do it well" programs. PowerShell can kinda do this, but its strengths lie in the "object streaming" features which aren't based on external processes at all but on loading .NET libraries with a special API, called cmdlets. In this respect PowerShell is a bit more like the VMS command processor, or using Python or Tcl as a shell. To add a command to a Unix shell, you need but drop an executable in your path. To add a command to PowerShell that takes advantage of PowerShell's features, you need to write a cmdlet in a language like C# and then install the cmdlet. This is also why PowerShell takes so long to boot up: it's probing for and loading installed cmdlets.

For these reasons I do not consider PowerShell to be directly comparable to Unix shells, but it is an essential part of the Windows toolkit because no one wants to use the MS-DOS-like cmd.exe for anything serious.
that's why i started using Svelte[1] on my personal projects... simplicity ( and the godsend cross-compatibility between browsers/desktop/mobile )

[1] https://svelte.dev/
I regularly work for companies working for Apple, have a number of ex-coworkers who worked, or went to work to Apple.

Lose tongues are everywhere, and Apple can't seem to keep anything secret in its China RnD unit.

Shenzhen is a city of 17M on the paper, but very few people are working in Hardware now. It's a very small industry. I feel I know more than half of all companies on somebody's resume. Most of 30-40 years olds in the industry were already working for 10+ years.

Btw Most of AirPods RnD was done in China, not California.

I would also add that hardware unit side in Apple is said to be very conservative, and a mirror image of their software team. At least in China, they hold a lifelong negative score system, where -30 is you are out under any conditions, and 15 minutes late counts as -3. They also use USB sticks to move files around, and work on offline computers to prevent leaks. Also, WinXP everywhere.
Well I don't think I'm right haha. I haven't met these people and asked them exactly what they were thinking.

But I honestly think we're very biased towards assuming our senior corporate leaders are foolish and misguided.

Saying "assuming a corporation made a smart decision, why did xxx make that decision?" is usually a very fruitful line of thought.
Not regular people, just people that are super conservative and closed to all things new. There are indeed plenty of those, but it's not what most people are like.
Ask HN: What is the track app of 2022?
Years ago foursquare let you check in and be the mayor of places, maybe they still do but what is the hot track your location app of today? Did anyone crack this and get so many users they can finally do that feature of telling me who I walked past often because we post the same GPS coordinates?
As short as Macron's campaign ;)
Why do you think this works? I think it has to do with a mental and/or physiological response to loneliness increasing our stress.
I find it weird that github user cmuratori is willing to write in so much detail about how to do it and how it's only a weekend of work, but doesn't submit a pull request themself. To me, it's rather easy to make requests and speculate about different approaches, but actually implementing the solution can be much more expensive.

Not to mention, as some of the other HackerNews threads mention [1], they very well could have already gotten cmuratori's idea from another person (in fact they say they already heard it from alacritty), and it could have already been an idea in consideration but they hadn't fully explored it yet because they chose a different path to try first. The github thread you linked seems to indicate the same thing. For cmuratori to just write a few github comments and then demand credit seems a bit much.

Also note that the blog post has been updated to mention cmuratori, although that could just be to appease the outcry.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31287644
That’s a good question. Does anyone have an answer or argument for why this wouldn’t be disturbing to cats and dogs?
"does it work?" is also open to interpretation and susceptible to religious behavior.

There is a paper [0] which documents an interesting disagreement about a project: The developers considered it a huge success but management considers it a complete disaster. Very different interpretation. Does it work?

As an example for religious behavior we could look at Powerpoint. An application which is used with practically religious fervor. However, the application is mostly misused so badly that the goal of supporting the transfer of knowledge or persuading people is not achieved. Does it work?

Without agreement about the goal/requirements, you can not determine if the resulting software works. In my experience, precise goals/requirements are often missing, so a simple question like "does it work?" is also open to interpretation.

[0] Software Developer Perceptions about Software Project Failure: A Case Study by Kurt R Linberg, 1999
A spectrophotometer is a fairly easy DIY project.

Nowadays, they are done with a reflective diffraction grating, some slits and a light sensor. The sensor is either a line CCD or a DLP with a InGaAs Avalanche Photodiode (APD).

The price is mostly due the sensor. Line sensors can cost from tens to thousands of dollars (see hamamatsu S7030/S7031 CCD).

To measure absorbance, a wide spectrum light source is needed (that's why OP's spectrometer has tungsten halogen and deuterium arc). The sun, in some extent, also works for that.

To measure emission, you don't need a light source.

The difficult part is doing the calibration. That can be done with neon light, mercury vapor, etc.
Exactly this for me. I actually think an office environment is much better for many (if not most) aspects, but it’s difficult to argue with eliminating 1-2 hours of daily commute.
> So to summarize, I think what bothers me is that the only possible way to arrive at what the parent comment suggests would be to avoid participating or contributing to any of these essential traits of civil society

I don't think this take is very realistic. Most people want to live in a home with a static address. They aren't doing it because they need an address to participate in society. However, there are people who are more nomadic and the physical address requirement for some things can be a challenge.
LP is in essence live coding, what we have now with Twitch and YouTube.

And it has its merits: you see how a problem is tackled.

I believe this should be obvious.
I tried it before. It has very strict formatting. Meaning to make a card I have to change the way the note looks. I just want to be able to add cards quickly without messing with the format. This way my notes still flow well if I just want to read
> Designing a complex system generally takes at least a few days (at smaller places) up to weeks or months at larger places

That's designing it completely. In the interview, you're not expected to produce the final result; more importantly, it's not even about the result, but about the thought process and conversation.
>>We have unions for a particular company for example, here is the Wikipedia link for the Nationwide Union

The question I would then have is do the employee of Nationwide have to join the Nationwide Union or could they if they wanted choose a different union, or no union at all. Practicality or downsides aside is it legal for them do make that choice.
Nano-scale magnets made by bacteria help target cancer treatments
Does the UK government really leave this to private institutions and their "partner charities"? In the Netherlands the government will just give you a PO box if you're homeless.
Doesn't the company invest significant amount of money in the process too?