skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with the "fundatory" phenomenon is not whether or not it actually is fun (sometimes it can be), rather that the motivation is not genuine. When you organize a drink with friends, there's no hidden agenda.

A corporate drink may still deliver fun, but not for the sake of fun itself. It's a means to an end that ultimately benefits the company.

If you disagree, and are a manager that genuinely wants to add fun to an employee's life without any secret agenda, ask them which they consider more fun: leaving an hour early or staying with coworkers they already see more than their family.

You should then have no problem with the "leaving early" answer since you're all about maximizing fun. If you find that answer disappointing, you never cared about fun in the first place.
That’s a good point!
Nothing really, except our preferences. We could ban all plastics tomorrow in the US, if we wanted to. But I don’t think we’d be happy with the quality of life trade-offs.
You say this, possibly as someone who knows a lot about this stuff but there are plenty of people (including engineers) who don't know enough to refute the bold claims made by the crypto-evangelists and who be convinced that "obviously X is bad, but our product is completely different".

I personally have lots of misgivings about various crypto but I really don't have enough expertise to argue against someone telling me that I just don't understand and everything is fine.
You know IPv4 and IPv6 can coexist, right ?
Self study is weird. I'm having a hard time finding good resources because I feel like the content is either too easy, not applicable by me, or completely impenetrable. I lack vocabulary and kanji knowledge to actually utilize grammar I've learned, but I also don't do well with rote memorization so I need material that's interesting and practical to learn with.
Your employees have also been trained by other managers to explicitly not be honest and speak their mind to their managers.

"You're being disrespectful."

"The team's productivity and morale is more important than you."
jQuery never did make the migration to being packaged/delivered as a modern (i.e. post-2015) JavaScript module. This precludes it from being used in a lot of modern JavaScript workflows.

No matter what the library itself provides, to use it you have to go back to working like how developers in 2014 and before used to work with JavaScript, so that's a very real consideration that the "I still like to use jQuery" folks never mention. Are they writing all of their code as pre-2015 'classic' JavasScript as well?
You can do quite a bit without Javascript too. A lot of websites don't need much more than simple menus.

Steve Gibson's site is an example:

https://www.grc.com/default.htm
I'm assuming your comment is given in good faith.

What you're describing there is intentionally or unintentionally capitalist propaganda. What this ignores is the extreme power imbalance between the employer and the employee. It also ignores human history where the improvements in labor conditions through the Industrial REvolution came through labor organization.

Maritime is a good example of how market forces don't work in the favor of worker safety. The Titanic is a famous example where there weren't enough lifeboats for everyone on board but that capped off centuries of ships that weren't seaworthy and other issues.

What really changed was in the 1970s many unions in the US had become bloated and corrupt. A famous example is Jimmy Hoffa continued to be paid $100,000/year as the union president from jail in the 1960s. The late 70s saw the rise of Thatcher in the UK and Reagan in the US. In the 1980s, labor unions were completely eviscerated. Thatcher in particular went on major union-busting efforts gainst the coal miners and the newspaper industry.

Is it really any surprise that real wages have remained stagnant since the 1980s? At what point are people going to realize that the only way to correct this is for labor organization?
> I have pretty good vision and I don't notice individual pixels on my 1080p screen.

1080p doesn't mean much if you leave out the screen's pixel density. There's a world of difference between a smartphone with a 5' 1080p screen and a 24' monitor with a 1080p screen.
Next blockchain killer app: To-do lists.
I don't feel like the title reflects the essay very well -- I almost clicked past it, but I'm glad I read it. It's an interesting question: what, if anything, are you losing by standing on the shoulders of the giants who preceded you? I don't think that the essay is completely correct, though. After all, some current engineers built Electron for others to build on top of. The expertise still exists. I do think it's probably diluted, however. The size of the industry just keeps increasing, and most of that new work is not foundational stuff.
Maybe not design but I would say it is a bastion of usability.
Yep, Jio launched their network in 2016ish, and didn't get many IPv4 addresses (probably didn't want to spend the significant amount of money to aquire addresses, maybe couldn't find large enough blocks for sale), as a result they require their branded devices to work with IPv6 and pressure their partners to do IPv6 as well.

I have no stats, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was the largest single action driving v6 adoption ever.
Bye-bye Glitch union.
Can you elaborate on what is meant by "the wrong question"?
> What about a recovered/recovering alcoholic employee liable to slip into this enabler trap?

I absolutely hate that, and yes, that strikes very close to home. Over the years, I've had countless coworkers, peers and even a couple of managers, pressure me hard to drink. The pressure they're willing to apply skyrockets as they get more drunk. All I'm saying is, it's easier to deflect over zoom.
No in-line images. No animated GIFs. No reactions. No cutesy junk that wiggles and tells me jokes. Lack of those features keeps users who want those things away.
same here, gitea for a few years, works great for all my personal git repos. it's essentially my own github/gitlab that runs off one binary.
Buddhism is definitely a religion with a specific epistemology, claims on the supernatural (karma, cycle of samsara), manifestations of the divine (Bodhisattva), rituals, chants and prayers. Some Buddhist sects can be pretty radical, even.

Buddhism as conceptualized in the western world is a marketing strategy that appeals to people thanks to the fact the Buddhism is exotic, the same reason Christian symbolism is à la mode in Asia (just see how many anime have Christian themes). If you could repackage Christianity to convince these people that it is new, exotic and exciting they would convert immediately.

By the way, there are philosophical traditions, both in Buddhism and Christianity, that reject any supernatural claim and see religion as a useful but not true moral framework, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_atheism

P.S.: I'm an atheist. I'm not defending a religion or another.
Medically there are two separate phenomena here.

You may have "passed out" -- which is a loss of consciousness.

At some point you recovered from being passed out (if you were-- we can't trust your memory), but you still had enough alcohol in your body to be "blacked out" which is the inability to form memories.

People can be surprisingly lucid during a blackout.

You also could have gone home mostly sober and drank enough you can't remember the evening.
Nope. I actually laugh at it sometimes. All just to get my paycheck.
When I started out in dev, you could use Mysql, which then had no consistency checks and was known for losing data.

Or you could pay big for DB2, Oracle or MS Sql Server.

(Could be PG existed, but if so, no one had heard of them - which means the company wouldn't trust them)

Now, I take it for granted that my Postgres instance is (as far as my needs go) no less capable than any of the paid databases, comes free - and doesn't even try to spy on me (looking at you, Oracle).

A great thanks to the very, very talented and dedicated PG devs and team. Much appreciated!
I think it was mainly independent mortgage brokers who were telling borrowers to lie, not the actual banks who were providing them
SideNote: this was published February 22nd, 2022
How does Picovoice Leopard compare to other speech-to-text options?

https://github.com/Picovoice/leopard
Andrew Ng updates his Machine Learning course
- HyperWeb [ Internal project name for first ~year ]

- HyperDev [ First public branding / early launch ]

- GoMix [ First major relaunch, now with Anil as CEO ]

- Glitch [ After acquiring the sweet glitch.com domain from the kind folks at Slack ]

Source: I helped work on it
What you are saying is true for many scopes, but there's another reason I've mentioned this particular one: you just press the "Auto" button. It's not only easier to use than some digital scopes, it's easier than analog ones. IIRC Auto even takes care of showing the right inputs.
If you're getting 80ms response times for user requests, consistently, then it doesn't change much.
If they are unregulated then it isn't a crime until it is a crime, and in this case, by then far too late to sort out.

Even when it does go wrong, there still might not be a crime any more serious than being an idiot, obviously would be different if the company misrepresents itself for gain, which would be fraud.

I suspect that many of these people genuinely believe their own hype, which is how they convince others to buy into it.
What you've explained here sounds very much like a low-grade Maoist struggle session. Or "denunciation rally".
They are missing on a lot of expert backed Jquery optimizations e.g. https://github.com/jquery/jquery/issues/3143
> powerbanks, powerbanks cases, and even magnetic or clipon wireless charging powerbanks exist and can cheaply be tailored to fit tons of phones

This is true. This is also irrelevant if nobody actually does it. My nexus 7 tablet survived 6 years with a dead battery due to having qi charging. For every phone I've bought since then, I have searched for charging cases and not found even a single one at the time. This includes the moto e2, moto G5, moto G6, and my current Samsung phone (a32 or something, can't recall at the moment; it's the free T-Mobile 5g phone). Basically I wanted something that ideally supported wireless charging, but at minimum was semi-permanently attached to the charging port (charger built into the case itself to protect my port).
I don't quite know what you mean by "chess nowadays".

It's always been the case that the players who make the best moves win more. And it's always been the case that memorization is a part of making good moves. Nothing qualitatively changed nowadays, it's always been true. What has changed quantitatively is that the quality of the average player is going up over the centuries, and memorization is part of that. So basically, what you said is equivalent to "with the amount of effort I'm willing to put in, I'm in a low percentile nowadays".

Well, yes. And that's a good thing.
It might be quicker to just invite all non-Turkey NATO members to join a new treaty, and then plan to secede from NATO some time in the next 10-20 years (so that Putin can't claim to have ended NATO).

The new body could even be called the Not Accepting Turkey Organization just to make it clear which country is the problem. However, if Turkey relents and allows Sweden and Finland to join (original) NATO, then the replica NATO can disband instead.
I don't mind so much gov.uk using jQuery, but I noticed recently that the UK government's 'parliamentlive.tv' has a dependency on jQuery loaded from Google's CDN, when there was a Google outage in the country I live in (I think it was something to do with routing on Vodafone's side, rather than an actual Google outage).

I see that's now removed, but Recaptcha is still there. The site works without it, but it seems a bit odd to me that by default, my data is shared by my government with a third party company when I want to participate in democracy online.
Both. Intuition tells you which moves are even possible. It's like having a voice in your head that tells you "sacrifice the knight here", since the pattern of the pieces looks like it "has that move" in it. But you don't know how. This is where the algorithmic part comes in, you brute-force the most likely ways to do it by playing your best move, then your opponent's best move and so on. Your ability to win is defined by how many moves you see and how many moves ahead you can think.

Of course, it's more fuzzy than this. Intuition can be wrong. Sometimes the messages are along the lines of "there's some good move here", or "my opponent has mode some sort of mistake", rather than something definite. But when it all comes together, it feels like you're a pattern-matching wizard machine.
Very often, the policy violation cited is very very broad, and "worst case", but not enough information is given to find the specific issue.

In this case, it is my understanding that firstly it isn't clear what the actual allegation is (making it very unhelpful for the developer, as they can't meaningfully respond), but that the suspicion is it may be linked to an (off by default) option to show the favicon of a sending email domain.

That would entail making a DNS request to the domain in question, and then looking for a favicon on the domain. That doesn't seem in any way related to spyware as it's off by default, user requested, and not sending information to a third party.

Valid point around the exact APK uploaded for distribution - I'm not sure of the state of the art for reproducible builds on Android, but the full gradle configs are in the repo for creating GitHub or Play Store releases as far as I can see - if reproducibility in android has got any better, you can likely get to the same binary, modulo API keys and similar, as the developer seems pretty diligent at tagging releases etc.
It makes him sound like a 16 year old who just smoked his first Christopher Hitchens.
Similar idea in neuroscience - listen to neural spikes during task/training/experiment to help troubleshoot experiment setup and get a secondary source of info before visualizing data[0].

0. Sonifying and Visualizing Neural Data https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~mindyc/256a/final/
Tesla Loses Spot on S&P ESG Index Due to Crash Concerns, Working Conditions
>Kotlin has been the official language of Android for a relatively short period of time, true, but it's entirely interoperable with all Java code, and improves maintainability _significantly_.

Has the JavaScript culture of rewriting everything every two years purely for the sake of change infected android now too?
By this definition most crypto wouldn‘t be a ponzi.
E.g. bitcoin doesn‘t claim that funds are invested in productive entreprise.
It is clear that it is only a value store (like gold). Whether it is any good at storing value long term, we will see.
Used to host gitlab on my Synology. But it's so resource heavy I stopped. Also the migrations between versions weren't always pain free and costed me many hours of my time.

I'm looking at alternatives.
Millions of Brits exposed as traffic camera data left open to public
>Then you realise, that chess nowadays is purely a memorisation exercise of the first 20 moves you can make

Not even remotely true. I'm 2000+ rated on chess.com and I can't tell you the first 6+ moves of any single opening.
> Email clients alternative to Gmail, as well as any app that accesses what Google deems "sensitive user data" (including emails, calendar, fit data etc.) will now require an expensive (talking of at least $4500 a year) and intentionally cumbersome certification process, and such a certification needs to be renewed on a yearly basis

Isn't Google required under the GDPR to verify the security and privacy compliance of any third party apps they send user data to? This really starts to cast doubt on the rest of the story for me; any app developer who hasn't been hiding under a rock since 2010 must know why modern companies insist on certifying third party apps with API access.
> And this syntax density is one of the reasons I stopped advocating for the use of Rust in our systems.

Trouble is I've found this type of genius is most languages. There are always some esoteric functionality that few people understand that some people will choose because its "the most appropriate" but largely because its a challenge. Of course such talented people move on to the next project quickly as maintaining their crap is not fun.
Haha ye. I hate "mandatory fun" unless it is soccer or longball or whatever I never have chance to do otherwise. Strangely, those events are usually actually not "mandatory" but just enthusiasts wanting to play team sports.
Crypto doesn't solve this, you still need to pick a currency/exchange and pay them transaction fees. That on top of the potential delay issues/fraud is much harder to deal with in the crypto-sphere etc.
> I think your reaction is understandable, since "Everyone is/has a little X" is commonly used to dismiss or minimize the severity of a condition the speaker doesn't understand.

Personally when I hear people speak like this I assume they're trying to root someone in an empathetic perspective. I'm not sure I've ever heard it from someone who was arguing against the seriousness of the subject.
and as a counterpoint: FDroid gave FairEmail a clean bill of health.

FairEmail, if popular, would give users the unfortunate ability to sidestep an appendage of the lucrative ecosystem of googles surveillance capitalism by eschewing the default email client.
Eating a credit card full of plastic per year sounds totally natural. Nothing to worry about!
Can anyone post a copy with intact links?
Then compare it with dog's and pick the simpler one :) I don't know what's wrong with a utils.js file that only has what you need in a way that fits your project exactly. Woof.
Not the best case to use generic as I'm thinking of composing a common pager struct within each kind of data would do, but in a bit different ergonomics.
I think it's just for brevity, rather than because a helper is needed. OP listed the entire source code of their module in their comment.
> The reason YC gave for the rejection was that Mexico was an unknown market, and they felt lending in there was too risky for them.

That's a fair and reasonable reason.

Countries have their own specificities and, very importantly, their own laws an regulations. If you're not familiar the wise move is to stay out.
Infinitesimally low probability doesn't imply impossibility. If the event is in the probability space then it can certainly happen, no matter how serendipitous we may find it.

What is so remarkable about the iPhone or the spaceship? Why is it worthy of note when compared to any other phenomena in the universe? What brings you to make a distinction between a live human body and an inanimate celestial body?
Those two things, skill and chance, are not mutually exclusive characteristics. My point is more so that poker should not be treated as if all the skill in the world can account for all the bad luck in the world. I mean there’s a reason there’s no equivalent of the patriots in professional poker. No one is going to win every single game every single time. And I think that forgetting that in the games portrayal is moderately dangerous. Because it is a game played with money. Sure you can mitigate your risk of loss with skill, but it’s never 100% controllable, and that should be acknowledged with more weight in my opinion.
I think it's because of the expression focus. Isn't it easier to make the code flow like a waterfall when it's imperative, but is harder to reason about values and state.
Maybe you can accept that no project is perfect, specially young projects and that the exceptional effort they put to have the laptop modular are a big benefits for the environment and having less resource consumption, which is maybe, maybe, more important than a retina display?
That's pointless gatekeeping. Having the most expensive pencil doesn't make you draw better. For most professionals in most fields, more than 1080p is a waste of energy.
On an i7-8700 w Kingston NVMe:

PS C:\Users\me> (Measure-Command { pwsh -c exit }).TotalMilliseconds
265.3785

PS C:\Users\me> (Measure-Command { powershell -noprofile -c exit }).TotalMilliseconds
119.481
How do I get the psychological benefits without having belief? Let me lay a story on you:

I fell in love with this girl who I had known on/off for a long time. I found out she was an escort (quietly but distinctly confirmed payment-for-sex) in her spare time (she was a student when this all happened). This was really upsetting and had me very distraught. I simultaneously could see a life with her, but also felt disgusted at the escorting.

I wished I could speak with my grandfather about it. I knew he'd know what to tell me. But he had recently passed away. "Well, what did I like about Grandpa? Could I find a substitute? I need like, an old person who has reliable wisdom and experience, not just some wino who has hung on. Why isn't this a thing? An old person a community can approach for advice on..."

"Oh I think I need a priest."

When I went looking for one though, it was all about accepting Jesus into my heart and spiritual learnings and miracles that I must accept literally happened, etc. Real hard to find the "old wise person who can help me navigate this thing".
> It really begs the question: Do we really need Ergonomy today? That's a question that GOV.UK has answered with a resounding "no".
like voting to restrict gay marriage so God will bless our country

Do we know how this is going to play out, though? Has matrimony between same sex couples ever been widely available in any civilization? Rome, Greece, China and Egypt all had various different approaches to open homosexual relationships overtime, but it's hard to find any significant civilization that broadly equated same sex unions and heterosexual marriage. I'll allow that my research on this is incomplete.

I think anyone who thinks they know for certain how this kind of social change will play out on the scale of decades or centuries is mistaken. It's possible that everything turns out great and we enter a golden era of tolerance and flourishing human relationships, but at the same time there's usually something worth fearing in the unknown, which is why we tend to.
He was obsessed with proving to himself that he wasn't aging uncontrollably and that he still had some hope for his future. It's an existential problem he is articulating, not a literal problem with beating his daughter in chess.

He also has a very small window to still beat her before it never happens again because she will simply be too strong. Which is the story of every young chess player playing their parents.
Bravo gov.uk, the design/web team do a fantastic job. I'd be the first on the bash-the-government bandwagon but their work is exemplary. If they can work with modern js alone and still be compatible to people on Safari 9 and IE11 then respect to them!
My experience with ios reviewers is closer to this:

reviewer: Hey, you broke our guidelines

me: Okay, which?

reviewer: link to whole guidelines document, doesn't elaborate further

me: Could you please clarify what we have to change?

And then the reviewer either doesn't respond at all, or just refers you back to "the guidelines" (which are more like rules set in stone, rather than guidelines).
I think the more direct comparison is

document.querySelector('#element').style.display = 'none'

That has the same ergonomics as the jQuery selector, and is just a bit longer. I feel like with editors that autocomplete, it's not enough of a difference to warrant the extra dependency.