skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Colonial powers (not just the US) pour cash and military support into dictators supported by dumb nationalists, with the overt intention of helping them marginalize or exterminate their intelligent populations. And I don't mean that it happens inadvertently, I mean that we actively search for the effective influencers within rising movements happening in countries that we're draining the natural resources from through friendly dictators, and we inform those dictators who we also arm.

We're actually breeding for stupidity.
Nice! would be cool to sync the scrolling. love that i didn't have to sign in and could immediately start using it. I will definitely be using this with friends.
No, rutracker is blocked in RU
I never understand how people in large companies would be motivated do anything immoral or against the law. If you are an individual entrepreneur and stand to gain something from it, sure. But if you are just a cog in the machine, you just work strictly to contract and regulation, and don't go out of your way to do something illegal just to help the company. That would not just be against my self interest, but in fact against my whole professional ethos.

It is really surprizing that stakeholders manage to create that kind of pressure in corporations. Maybe what is needed are much stonger labour laws, so that if you actually stand up to your boss, they cannot just fire you the next day.
Unfortunately the dub for this one just wasn’t good enough to keep my attention. It constantly failed to match the expected tone of the scene to the degree that it pulled me out of the story and I shelved it. I, like a majority of Netflix subscribers, don’t enjoy movies with subtitles as it also destroys the immersion to be constantly reading. No doubt this is at least one of the primary drivers for its low penetration into the English zeitgeist.
> Been looking into SIEM tools lately, and via an ad I was just made aware of some data center appliances for security.

Would you not have come cross them if you were actively searching for data center appliances for security? Were Ads the only way to find them?
https://archive.ph/nAoKk
The next step is obviously employer-provided XR systems that allow control regardless of your physical location. Just think of the potential for analytics based on things like gaze metrics!
I used to use long ago. That sort of thing seems very heavy to me now. These days I prefer just gluing something together with polka and MikroORM, and some express middleware (works with polka). If I wanted something more structured out-of-the-box, I would reach for NestJS or AdonisJS.
What is your main way of life in Canada if you are not working? Are you retired or will you need to seek employment later?
I should have phrased it differently but I was just speculating. I think it's _possible_ the war is "partly motivated" by getting Russia more under the control of western regulations which includes copyright laws.

I don't think it's a wild conspiracy theory because Russia has been labeled a rogue state for some time and the US has an interest in regime change. It's not official policy but enough people have warned the US that regime change is a bad idea, including the NYT, that I don't think it's easily dismissed. I think it's quite possible there are western corporate and regulatory interests in having a Russian regime that cooperates with their interests more. But I can see how this is an extremely cynical take and I didn't mean to suggest that was the only reason for a war.
Definitely. This is because design is an overloaded term. Creating a great looking website is a kind of design, in the same sense that interior decoration is a kind of design. But there's another kind of design which is more about solving problems or achieving some result given a set of requirements and constraints. This is the sense in which design is about "how it works" and not "what it looks like".

Both are valid and useful, I just wish that there was a richer taxonomy to describe such different activities.

In the same way that telling someone you're a programmer can lead to them asking you to fix their printer, telling someone you're a designer can easily lead to them asking you to pick paint colors, or make a logo for their school newsletter. From the outside, these seem like overlapping activities, but they are often unrelated.
Creating a fictional character is not a bad thing but what they did is the claim that it is a real story with a success story that he got a job offer from Google and package in crores(INR) all being a kid. Ran this ad nationwide on all media and mislead many parents who already have FOMO.

When asked about this kid wolf Gupta they sent a full legal team to threaten anyone who raises questions mass reporting bad reviews as a task from their employees.

And when it got out of hand they acknowledged that it was all a lie and continued misleadig parents like nothing bad in it.
This configuration is for streets without enough room for a dedicated bike lane. An edge-lane road is as wide as a standard two-way with no bike lane.
log(tx)/2sin(x*t)/4+0.5

Has some pleasant aliasing effects.
Indeed! The best of which is Redford trying to get in the office cumbersomely holding a cake and balloons while Phoenix comes in to frazzle the guard.
This makes me think about installing wireless chargers down the center of lanes so you charge while you drive.
This is a terrible analogy.
I think authors should recover and read the classic Internet Manifesto...
Are you really surprised or upset to see those types of comments when the article itself is fundamentally about trying to adapt Go to become more Rust-like?

Personally I think people can't help but notice the trend of Go users rediscovering bug-by-bug and frustration-by-frustration why Rust was designed the way it is.
I’m not a fan of trying to pass legislation through trade deals, but specifically on the issue of anti-piracy: why shouldn’t content creators have a right to protect their content?

Frankly, it seems to me like if a studio wants to show their movie for $1000 dollars, only available on their windows phone app, geogated to just south east Arkansas, they should have every right to do that.

I’ve always found the HN crowd really good at separating “what’s good for me” from what’s actually right.

What am I missing?
> evidence

There is a logical evidence: those attracted to that area will invest more in it. Exercise of natural Intelligence also involves avoiding "early stopping": there a determined personality, facilitated by an interested personality, will push forward.
No need to shit on someone’s artistic work.
Are they paying SV rates with RSU though as FB and Google are definitely paying noticeably less overall as that was the point of the OP?
It’s PHP. Laravel in particular is very productive.
No offence to the process and tools (e.g., Tailwind) but Bootstrap solved this sometime ago. The gist of the idea begin: Follow our lead, stay within the guardrails and you won't muck it up.

Of course there's room for others doing the same. But Bootstrap did have an element of being a "design tool" for design-blind engineers.
Wow, I would say the reverse insomuch as I don’t trust the majority of my fellow random Americans, without adequate oversight, to work a) hard and b) with detailed compliance to process and procedure. I absolutely trust the majority of my fellow random Americans to not shoot me, and I live in a state with constitutional concealed carry and a city where it’s not abnormal to see open carry.
Just use railway.app - free tier just works and you can deploy a sample app on a free account in seconds. It will give you a general idea of how Heroku works.

> It no longer makes sense for me to run weekend projects on AWS outright, thats really for large enterprise applications.

depending on the type of site, cf workers is ridiculous value. single button availability of your content in every corner of the world and you wont pay a dime
So...assume the most extreme views are correct and start forming our own personal thoughts based on this assumption. Just in case they do turn out to be correct. I'm just not buying that.

Side note: I have yet to see a satisfying definition for this sense of the word "erasing". As best I can tell, it's just an emphatic way of saying "disagreeing with a position of personal importance to X".
"...look something messy like Scala", I feel bad you feel this way as Scala is an incredibly powerful and elegant language.

It's ironic because you're throwing shade at Javascript when JS developers are doing the same thing against Typescript. Fearing what you don't know or understand under the guise that change is bad or things are "good enough".
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The greatest design can be undermined by careless content. Spell-check. Proofread. If writing isn't your strength, get a competent editor and proof-reader to help.

A big, bold title with a grammatical error such as "create a great looking websites"[1] does not create a good impression.

[1] Is this supposed to be singular or plural?
React fails the main requirements: “Server rendered web pages, no fancy client side js, just good old websites.”
I keep bringing this up, but I think it is very illustrative of the problem with media companies and how they leverage copyright: Do you all remember when Kodi plus Covenant let you watch very nearly anything, at any time, with a wide variety of audio and subtitle language choices? That was the last time I felt like I lived in the future. I would have paid good money for that, but no one sells it, at any price, because everyone want their own fucking fiefdom.
That seems to be a very theoretical approach to me.

But in the end I have literally sat in an interview with someone who has professional experience and who couldn't write a function to find the smallest element in an array without significant help from me. That's just a fact. I'm not sure what the theoretical basis of that was. I'm not sure how the person could have experience and not be able to complete such a simple thing. All I know is that it literally happened.

Trying to argue from some theoretical principles that it couldn't have happened doesn't make much sense to me given that, like, it actually happened.
Reminds me of the fictional highschool prodigy musician "Ling Ling" that the "Ling Ling 40hrs" subreddit created
The first street I lived on in Munich had only enough space in the road for one lane of traffic + one lane of parking. This meant the road was safer, not more dangerous -- the very fact that it was so narrow meant that cars traveled down it quite carefully.
This is the point, you dont consider the instanceof approach, is just wrong. You already know your types in advance.
> Norwegian researchers analyzed the IQ scores of Norwegian men born between 1962 and 1991 and found that scores increased by almost 3 percentage points each decade for those born between 1962 to 1975

Statements like this have always made me question these tests. Ten points in IQ represents a movement of one standard deviation in intelligence. To believe the quote above would mean that there was a massive increase in intelligence between the 1960's and the 1990's. But an increase of one standard deviation across any trait at a population level is very very unusual, and likely would have been noticed long before any studies were conducted.

Put another way, do we really believe that someone with slightly below average intelligence in 1962, say an IQ of 85, is the intellectual equivalent of someone with a significantly below average IQ (e.g. 75) in 1990? An IQ of 75 typically means you're not in public school or if you are, you're in Special Ed.
The phrase comes to mind: "it's impossible to make a man understand something if his salary depends on him not understanding it".

You're acting like those arguments are unbelievably novel, strange, like gamers are practically aliens. The alien in those conversations is you, my friend. The average person - and gamers are very average indeed given the industry's mass appeal - does not struggle to understand why hardware security exists. It's obvious, especially so because games companies say explicitly what the features are for and always did. It's because lots of people will break the rules if they aren't forced to follow them, and that leaves those who do follow them at a disadvantage.

If you are an honest person who does buy software, the optimal outcome for you is that a really good, transparent implementation of DRM (that never gets in your way) wipes out piracy completely. In that situation the expected price you'd have to pay will be lower (for a fixed level of quality) because the costs are being spread over a greater number of people. Additionally you won't feel like a mug for paying for something that your friends are pirating consequence free.

The cheating angle is by the way not specific to video games. The sort of tech that video games use to block cheating could also be used to block other kinds of "cheating", like bulk spamming, many kinds of hacking (e.g. SQL injection). Many kinds of software or network can be abused, but EFF and similar organizations typically act as if networks and two-sided transactions don't exist at all. Indeed it's really only on places like HN, the EFF, the free software community etc where this stuff is actually controversial. Outside those worlds a rant about DRM will just result in people being baffled. Gamers migrated to consoles en-masse because they understand the tradeoffs.
My tips:

- Design is a skill you can learn but you need to put at least a few days or weeks into it to make some progress. A lot of people who say they can't design have barely spent a few hours working on their own designs or following tutorials. For example, I don't think anybody would say "I'm not good at Java" without trying to learn it first but people do this with design all the time without giving themselves a fair chance to try.

- Don't design and code at the same time. You'll waste time and burn yourself out getting lost in CSS rabbit holes, trying to make the code look pretty etc. and then when you get it working it and you step back to look at it, you realise the design doesn't work and it needs more iterations. Design a mockup first in something like Figma or InVision and only start coding when the design is ready. You can iterate on the design an order of magnitude faster this way because you can just drag/drop things around instead of fighting with how to align and style things in CSS.

Generally once I have an initial rough design drawn in a design tool, I duplicate the whole thing, tweak it (like changing the colors, sizes, fonts), duplicate that, tweak it etc. to explore and combine lots of different design ideas until I happen upon some combination I like. It's hard to replicate this process and avoid tunnel vision when you're designing in an IDE instead.
PoC||GTFO files render correctly in all major PDF readers, so if it isn't following the letter of the spec, it's at least adhering to a common interpretation of it.
The question is whether we'll actually face mass starvation because of unsustainable use of non-renewable resources.

Nothing you've said above indicates to me what you think the answer to that question is.

If all you mean is that birth rates are going to drop, well, that's already been happening for a long time.
This is true.... Old guys know nothing... for years we told the javascript guys the mess they were doing, and voila, all dynamic languages suddenly started to convert into statically-typed, and at the end, they have this webassembly, that runs in a schizophrenia-type VM wannabe. Congrats. You lost 10 years of your life because you didnt listen to us when we said that we have learned something from Self and Smalltalk.
From: https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/02/decriminalizing-pro...

> According to the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey, 19 percent of all trans people, and 47 percent of black trans women, have engaged in sex work. This does not take place in a vacuum but in the context of pervasive societal discrimination against trans people in general, and trans women of color in particular.

Due to various injustices, sex work is very dangerous. The 19% of trans people who have done sex work are exposed to elevated risk relative to the general population. That 19% is large enough to put a thumb on the scale.

It's like saying men are more likely to die in workplace accidents. Why might this be true? Probably because a lot of men work in coal mines, which are very dangerous. Does that mean I, an office worker, am more likely to be crushed by a falling filing cabinet than the women I work with? No, probably not. The group statistic doesn't tell you everything you need to know about the risk an individual faces.
> I have not noticed any aspirations from them of heading to Berlin.

Yes, the profile of the people that go to Berlin is different from people who'll go to a software job somewhere else in Germany. Very rarely you'll have that situation of someone going internally to Berlin. I might say that Berlin have few engineering offices of the biggest (non-Berlin centered) German companies.

> I think the dream of finding ambitious and cool people in a hot location and succeed with a true startup, i.e. not something backed or done by people who are already successful or well connected is dead anyway even in Silicon Valley and never really existed anywhere else.

Very possible. But the cultural draw of Berlin is much bigger than SV. Hands down.

Dublin and London also attract some profiles (given the companies that go there) but not many people think Dublin is the coolest city.
They announced that they got government funding to develop SMRs.

When they have a working and certified SMR we can discuss again...
I thought this too, but then looked into and saw that fiat currency use for illicit things is an order of magnitude more then crypto (as a percentage of total use).
The real problem is the specialty formulas. AFIAK they are the sole source for some types of products.
Also, this doesn't take into account the fact that people who get a 4 year degree are more likely to have parents who are well off. In a lot of ways a college degree is just a measure of your parent's socioeconomic status.
Django, if you know Python, can be very rapid
It’s hard for me to not get emotional and keep my eyes clear from anger in topics like this.

But does anyone else think that Facebook is just pure evil at this point? Is there anything they won’t do? Do they have any ethics at all?

I don’t mean the line employees. I don’t mean the tons of hires who I’m sure are working to “improve” things with the side effect of better publicity.

I’m referring to the very top. Zuck and his inner circle. They’re creating a machine that is undoubtedly making society worse. They are evil and they don’t care.
> What am I missing?

The obvious collateral damage from creating the technology and legal frameworks to enforce this and their high abuse potential.
At first blush, it looks like a nicely done international resource:

Depending on the country and the governing agency, this roadway type can have different names. Examples include: 2-minus-1 roads (New Zealand, Denmark), Edge Lane Road (Denmark, US), Advisory Shoulders (U.S. Federal Highway Administration), Schutzstreifen (Germany), Suggestiestrook (Netherlands), and Advisory Bike Lanes (US).
Speaking of, I'm asking here because I don't know where to find out anymore otherwise: anyone know where I can find the retro gaming torrent community these days? All my sets are just sitting here not being updated or seeded to anyone and it is making me sad.
too small for me, i was looking more for the scale of the universe.
I think a major part of the problem in America (I can't speak for other parts of the world) is that it's become solely a monetary equation. Tuition is, quite simply, a non-starter for a larger portion of American families, these days. While military spending goes unchecked, America shows its priorities by not spending that money in establishing 4 year community colleges at low cost or free tuition for the betterment of society at large and to be more competitive on a world theater as a whole. This wouldn't replace the need for private, more expensive universities, just as public schools haven't eradicated private schools. A rising tide raises all boats, as it were... and with a future of increased automation or offshoring, a more educated workforce would do well for us.
There is no future in Canada. Our GDP per capita in USD has gone down 20% in the last decade [1]. We're one of the most expensive places to live and real earnings have gone down in the last decade.

Almost everyone I know is already gone, either to the US or Europe. If you're educated, the sheer amount of money you'll make in the US makes up for things like lack of socialized healthcare. In Europe, you get all the same socialized benefits (better actually), a similar to better income but housing and various day to day items cost much, much less.

We're basically a petro-state that only incidentally has other industries because we're a low-cost alternative to American labour.

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location...
A handy acronym used by British doctors: GROLIES = Guardian Reader of Limited Intelligence In Ethnic Skirt.
That's an interesting viewpoint. So the conformity somehow makes you less nervous or anxious? Does it bring you a sense of safety and comfort? I'm just really curious what you like about it?

For me conformity has always just been boring and restricting, and I consider it an all around negative. I like to try new things, and I live to experience as much of what life can bring as I can. So I find the idea of artificially restricting ones options on how to dress, sing, what to eat, how to dance, what to make of art, what stories you can tell, how to make love, how to play, how to express yourself, what to talk about, who you can be with, what games are allowed, what you're supposed to do on Sunday morning, etc. just an all around negative. It feels like a choke hold on my life, which is the most precious thing I have, so restrictions on the extent of how much I'm allowed to live and experience seem completely unreasonable and oppressive to me.

But I'm a pretty confident and courageous person, I don't have anxieties, and I enjoy getting out of my comfort zone and trying new things, learning, discovery, are all things I'm drawn too. I know people who aren't like that, have more anxieties, so I never really thought that for them maybe conformity was like a relief, a way to take out a source of stress of the unknown with clear strict rules and conventions that they can rely on.
Was anyone ever threatened with legal action for saying Ling Ling was a fictional character?
Operating During a Downturn [video]
"Stuff like the Theranos revelations or that a high percentage of programming jobs applicants can't actually program is shocking to most Americans; it's par for the course in some of the places I've lived."

I've only been in this industry six years at your average Java Spring SCRUM shop but I also find myself shocking at the claim 'a high percentage of programming jobs applicants can't actually program', like what do we mean when this gets said?
My problem is with the "just adds"... Scala made this mistake, and ended with many different ways to do the same task. It is a powerful language, but I believe languages must have only one (or two) concise way to to things.