skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some parts of "English" deliberately lean on Latin and Greek and get no further - I suppose we call it the classic influence. I'd like to see English crack on and continue to subsume words and concepts from foreign parts.

Now, here we have evidence of a really old civilization and I'd like to see English words being extrapolated from the languages (lingua - Latin) extant (Latin) of the region (Latin - regio).

I think it is time that we start pinching Anatolian names and concepts. It's quite a large region and over 10,000 years it must have had quite a lot of ideas and concepts that we take for granted now and given the age of the place - probably invented them.
You can't cut and paste in Draft or Sealed, which were my games of choice.

I found constructed to be far more pay to win and copy-based for my tastes. But draft forces you to make due with the cards you get at random.

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Cards are uniformly random according to rarity, but picks are not. If you get passed a rare and 3x uncommons in the draft, you know the left-hand player picked a common card. After 8 passes, your original stack comes back and you can get a feel for everyone else's deck. When pack2 opens up, you start working towards the 'underrated' colors at the table and going for the meta strategy no one has picked yet.
True, those double width keys will really screw with your muscle memory even more than the regular half-height ones, especially when you're frequently switching to an external keyboard.
Chording isn’t hard but my hands cramp faster when I do it. I’m working on a Karabiner config to force me to use right modifiers.
What a silly distinction. The rules aren't an actual obstacle; they can change the rules whenever they want, if all 50 Dem senators agree.

In fact they've already done so at least once:

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/585192-senate-passes-bil...
Standing up for your quality of life and questioning stupid company policies isn’t being an “asshole” or a prima donna. More of us should be doing it, and more of us are.

Apple’s arrogant attitudes regarding its employees were always going to have consequences, given the caliber of people they employ. A lot of us don’t like being forced to work in an office, in no small part because the people who are most vocal about wanting us there are often obnoxious, toxic coworkers who make it harder for us to do our jobs. I expect the companies who continue to be unreasonable about these quality-of-life issues will find themselves at a disadvantage when it comes to hiring and retaining talent.

Good on him; hope to see more of this.
You know what they call the person who graduated last in their class in medical school?

Doctor.
This isn’t a laptop I would personally buy for many of the reasons others have put in this thread, but it’s incredible to see such a focused SKU from HP here.

This will likely be a small volume product and it is almost certainly based on something else in the HP portfolio (advantage of being such a huge OEM), but it’s nice to see a developer marketed laptop in this way. And running a distro other than straight Ubuntu or Red Hat, even.

To me, this indicates that the market research teams at HP have seen the success of Framework and the various Clevo/Sager/Tongfang machines from Tuxedo, System76, XMG, etc. to see this as a viable market worth testing. Obviously, Dell has been doing this for years with the XPS Developer Edition or whatever they call it now, but it is nice to see a product from one of the other big laptop makers.
Yeah it's very hopeful there is a delay built in when pressing that, like Apple does.
Which social programs have the Republicans killed?
If they are going thru trails then they have probably found a way to attack a mutating virus that others had not. I wonder if they are targeting multiple areas on the virus at one time. One of the advantages of mRNA vaccines is that they can be very precise as to where they attack the virus by getting the body to create the needed antibodies and the vaccine can be created very quickly. Moderna talked about creating the covid-19 vaccine in days once they got the virus' DNA sequence. That seems like an advantage for combating the HIV virus. Can you imagine being able to create a custom vaccine per individuals after the virus mutates? Sounds like science fiction but it seems like a possibility given the technology.

Does anyone have any idea what their new approach is?
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Make decision by considering blockchain as data structure of distributed resilient auto-clearing accounting system. I don't think learning that would make you more "technologist" if such system doesn't serve you any purpose, cryptography and data structure rather make one "technologist" in general.
does selling 0days make you focus on these issues more frequently? legitimately in the legal sense but perhaps it bothers you morally? that it's contributing the exact things that bother you, such as ransomware.

I did infosec for years and felt similarly, knowing infosec I avoided using social media and even cloud services and such. to the point it's beyond bothersome. finally I let go of infosec and went to do other things, but that's just me because I wanted to build something rather than break.
> If Poker was a good competitive game, there would be an ELO system and people would play because they care about their skill ranking more than they care about gambling.

There is an ELO system of sorts, it’s the size of your bankroll. If you are a skilled poker player, you should win more than you lose.

Tournament poker is different than cash games, there’s a limited pool of chips and the goal is to win them all.

> Poker is an economic scheme where the House and the Sharks work together to lure people with real jobs into unfair competition / gambling with bad odds.

Agreed, it’s Wall Street in the form of a table game.
I hate how the industry has become, but I chose to be compliant. I recently substituted all my free time playing video games to leetcode-ing, b/c it's the only way to become hire-able at any given time. I'll most likely do this for the next 10 years and then become a manager of some sort so I don't have to do this for lifetime.

Did I become unhappy b/c of this change? It's arguable. I'm sad that I can't play video games anymore but I'm happy to know that I'm interview ready at any given time, and can exercise my will to attempt to get higher salary jobs at any given time. So it's a give and take.

We don't have to, but we'll have less pool of jobs to choose from.

As for solving leetcode problems; it's just like a riddle. You become better at it the more you do, b/c you start to see a pattern. However, if you choke or don't get a question you solved before (or you solved before but can't remember) , better luck next time.
> However, I'd expect the prosecution to make a case for that all being irrelevant just as it would be for regular cruise control.

I can imagine this being a major issue in this case. Elon isn’t known for keeping his mouth shut, especially when it comes to bragging about Tesla. I can imagine that his statements and Tesla marketing being compared to the fine print on Autopilot. Or worse, he tweets counter points live.

Especially complex if Tesla gets involved further as part of data discovery.
Amber alerts on the phone are foolish. Either you are not in a place to do something about it, or you are doing an activity where the phone would be distracting.
Working on a compiler for a “Universal Programming Language” and adding features to a Roguelike game in Unity I have been working on for a while.
Don't forget: in 45 min, without bugs
shame about the non centered trackpad
Created it as a side project.

Build with Angular / nodeJS.
Fun part is the Social timeline.

Audio NFT's also work on the dev domain

https://dev.easy-nft.app

You pay about a dollar per NFT without strings attached (like re-sell fees etc).

Is also a PWA, uses 0 cookies and trackers.

Posting it here cause I'm just curious anyone even cares :p

Let me know, thanks
> ETH isn’t the most profitable thing for these cards to mine.

You can mine shitcoins on a small scale for maybe a bit more profit. The issue is always unloading a lot of shitcoin in a very small volume market. Even ETC has a 6.5 day deposit time on exchanges like Kraken. Nobody is going to want to deal with that.

> The ETH proof-of-stake switch isn’t going to be the driving force they causes GPUs to be abandoned in bulk.

The GPUs will move to other shitcoins, which will cause the prices of those shitcoins to go down as people will mine and dump them, which will cause a lot of GPU miners to shut off.
> Nope, it’s quite simple. The people in positions of power want her dead & see her as a drain on society no matter what she may bring to it (not that that should matter)

This is exactly how the Conservative party in the UK feel. Every one of their policies oozes this sentiment.

Some people might be shocked by your statements but I’ve dealt with and suffered the policies of the welfare department (DWP). It’s spot on
The story point was just an example, not the main point.

OP is aware about what your wrote and didn't mean it in the silly way you assumed.
That’s terrible. And then IT staff was unionized, too?? Well that’s just the icing on the cake, ’innit!
OK, topic shift.

In all seriousness, I appreciate it. No snark, I don’t care if we don’t see eye-to-eye from a policy perspective, I appreciate what you’re doing.

Disability is a really hard experience. I can’t describe what it’s like to lose these things we take for granted. Being without pain. Making choices for yourself. Going to a movie.

By giving a disabled person a home, you’re giving some of that back to them. If you’ve never done this before, you might be surprised by how hard it is, the rewards for the disabled person aren’t necessarily always visible, but what you’re doing is important.
A Melville bio might be sobering.

Melville's Moby Dick was so widely ignored (at best) that he quit writing prose for decades before starting Billy Budd a few years before his death. By that time, Moby was out-of-print ... it wasn't a 'work of genius' or a 'great American classic' for decades longer.
I ask candidates to write code, but I tell my interviewers that the point is not completing the task but rather the conversation around it.

If they can’t write code at all, obviously it’s a hard pass because we’d just be setting them up for failure. But, if they’re maybe not the strongest dev ever but ask good questions and provide good observations I will be fairly likely to hire anyways. Honestly having people with room to grow just gives the rest of the team opportunities to teach… which in turn helps them to grow too.

I also tell my interviewers that we absolutely must start with the assumption that we will hire the candidate, and passing on them requires objective concerns. I really work hard to relate to my team that we are not so special that we should only hire the absolute best of all experts. What we do is not rocket science, and we don’t need rocket scientists. We need collaborative, intelligent team members to help /us/ grow.

All of this is to try to limit the impact of ego on the hiring process. It’s not about the candidate proving that they’re good enough to work with us, it’s about us being good enough to be worth working with. The candidate should meet the bar of helping us to make that statement true.

To be clear, dev roles can be difficult, demanding jobs. I’m not diminishing that, just reigning it back into the realm of reality. The industry treats hiring like people are going to die if we make mistakes, and unless that is actually true maybe it’s worth asking if what we’re doing is actually reflective of the job requirements.
While it may be threatening Americans have so many nukes, they are very much not making desperate threats with them, like Russia currently is.
Well, for all practical purposes, ITER was shut down.

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/ITER-tokamak-ass...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-nuclear-fusion/ite...
Niche subreddits for medical conditions I can’t imagine anybody would spend the time of their days LARPing in, my own medical groups in which people tend to also face severe financial issues for a variety of reasons with ~30k combined people & ~5k active

Over 12 years of dealing with things myself & making friends along the way in person & online.

Spending countless nights trolling through comments in countless amounts of old threads of very vulnerable people trying to get away from things like domestic violence while also facing severely disabling medical issues (often but not limited to younger people with abusive parents somewhat controlling their lives via their disability) & reaching out to/begging quite literally wherever they’re able & overwhelmingly being turned away.

Of course, you can always say that they/I are LARPing & there’s not much I can do about that unfortunately.

If you’d like a bright side/silver lining to any of this - places that attract minorities/marginalized groups are often the most helpful (geeze, wonder why) & if shit ever truly hits the fan in your life, make your way to your nearest Sikh Gurudwara.

As long as you show the most basic humility & respect the few things they ask you to observe in their place of worship, they will go so far out of their way to try to help you in every way they can. Unfortunately, malicious people tend to take advantage of this in bigger cities & some are starting to get slightly jaded. I cannot blame them, such is life.

I’m not trying to say all religions orgs & charities are shit across the board. Perhaps it seemed that way. I’m just saying that they’re very much not as much of an answer that some of society seems to think they may be, & there are some truly awful people among them that will kick you harder when you’re already at your lowest point. (As with everywhere/everything)
Google has allowed this for years unfortunately.
My favorite, idiotic decision from a higher court this year was the judge that argued in her opinion that the federal government's legal authority to protect the public from infectious disease did not extend to mask requirements because the law says they can require sanitation, but wearing a mask doesn't "sanitize" anything.

Ignoring the fact that the point of a mask is to "sanitize" the germ filled air coming out of or into your mouth, the same law says "or other measures" as needed to protect the public.

It was such poor logic, especially considering the context of the original law at the time (fighting tuberculosis) and the potentially damaging aftermath of such a precedent (not hard to imagine a future, more deadly virus that some politicians decides is a political inconvenience).
What has changed in the past 20 years? Because this sounds like the same shit I’ve heard since entering the industry. And it isn’t like this topic is new at all.
The same arguments was true for asbestos as well. Asbestos building materials are totally harmless if left undisturbed. But eventually that wall will have to be be repainted/sanded/drilled into/knocked down.
>Quelle surprise, the staff never unplugged their smartcards, and instead borrowed someone else's card when they needed to move around the building.

And now that the staff is used to lending out their cards an attacker pretending to be a new hire can bypass both access controls
> The U.S., although gaining steam economically (pun intended), was still a backwater, rural, nation isolated by a whole lot of ocean

A "backwater"? That forced the 49th parallel on the british in the 1810s? That took oregon territories from the british in the 1840s? The "backwater" that "took" louisiana territories from france and alaska from the russians? The "backwater" that took texas,california,et al from mexico? The "backwater" that took control over the yangtze river from china in 1854?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangtze_Patrol

The "backwater" that forced japan to open in the 1850s? Which no european power, including britain, was able to do?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Expedition

It wasn't the british navy that dominated the seas mid 1800s. It was american whalers.

By the civil war, we had been shitting on the british and the rest of the great powers for decades. Not bad for a "backwater".
If the difference is big enough, you'll start feeling lonely in a way. And/or frustrated and bored. When the others cannot truly understand you
Pike looks pretty clean as a language. Nice.
Do you have a ZBook? Those have always had the middle mouse button (probably for people who use CAD etc). EliteBook trackpoints never had a middle button.
> DPRK IT companies and their workers normally engage in a wide range of IT development work of varying complexity and difficulty, such as:

> building virtual currency exchange platforms and digital coins,

> DPRK IT workers often take on projects that involve virtual currency.

> Some DPRK IT workers have designed virtual currency exchanges or created analytic tools and applications for virtual currency traders and marketed their products themselves

@bitfinexed lol
> Control your workspace. Increase your productivity. Never look back.

And the power button right on the main keyboard. You know, the button you hit multiple times in a day, like delete or backspace.

Get lost.
Yep. If you have an hour to kill, there’s always good street food, or just exploring a bit. It’s not a waste.
Ask HN: How to set prices based on a countries wealth?
I'm interested in offering pricing based on how wealthy a country is - so someone in Luxembourg would pay more than someone in Burundi.

I'm looking around for some figures to base this on.

I could use per capita GDP [1] but I'm not sure GDP is all that good a measure of how much spare cash an average person has so I'd be interested in any alternatives.

I'd be grateful for any ideas.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita#Table

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EDIT: the text "... but I'm not sure GDP ..." originally read "... but I'm sure GDP ...", this was a typo.
I was involved in the dance business for a while. The first thing they teach you is steps, then patterns, then frame, then arms, then posture, then fingers (yes, finger styling is important!) and on and on. Do you know what ballroom champions do? They regularly hire a coach to go over, again and again and again and again, how to take a step.

So yeah, you can be a competent dancer without this emphasis. But you ain't gonna be a champion without a very solid foundation on your feet, as it all grows out of that.

I've advised college graduates to learn the leetcode stuff. It's foundational for being a champion programmer, and besides, with the $$$$$ that Google pays, it's a very high return on investment of your effort.

It's also easier to just learn it than expend all the effort fighting it. It isn't that hard, either. Just make it your bathroom reader, one puzzle at a time.
I don’t see the accounting for the quantized arrival times imposed by a set schedule over the chosen times availed by a private car to be “dismissing trains [or airplanes] altogether“ but rather to be applying an appropriate factor to the door-to-door transit time.

Exact same situation as train proponents [correctly] pointing out the additional time needed for airline security theater or transit from city center to airport adding to the door-to-door time for airlines, making airliners slower than trains for some city center to city center trips.
Aren't all empires horrific?
At least for their victims?
> the 1993 - 1994 congressional term[1], during which they tried and failed to do healthcare reform, but succeeded in passing bills for medical leave, NAFTA, gun control, violent crime, taxes, and education.

NAFTA doesn't really count here since it was passed over strong (but not unanimous) Democratic resistance with almost unanimous Republican support.

Or maybe it does, since while it was a break from the existing and prior policy orientation of the party, it was a Clinton policy which presaged the emergent dominance of the anti-worker neoliberal capitalist wing of the party that dominated the party from after it's defeat in the 1994 midterms until now (weakening a bit in the last several years.)
I'm not sure I have any tips, but I can absolutely relate. Maybe I will think of something as the White Claw I'm having on my cross-country flight kicks in.

It is nice to know I'm not the only one who is driven crazy by the onslaught of bad practices that result in both vulnerabilities and bad user experience overall. Some seem totally blind to it or accept it as is. Even if you find flaws, businesses are little interested in keeping them from frequently popping up. There's too much money flowing for anyone to care. It reminds me of the old days of Wall Street in a way.

My only bit of advice would be to consider how much you are willing to tolerate on the job and to otherwise disengage from worthless brain input in all areas of life. There's a certain amount you will never change, so you might as well be happy in the process. Now that you are aware of how broken things are, don't invite those broken things into your life. Only pay peripheral attention to the news. When it's appropriate, inform people of how bad the situation is, but set it aside when their eyes inevitably glaze over. Accept that you've done your part and that you deserve better than pessimism and depression. Realize that despite the worst things about tech, the world will move on and you'll always have enjoyment and serenity absent tech or even employment.
You're just _trying_ to start a fight by posting this to HN lol
I could use a couple years o'that about now.
Didn't that ship sail with Urs Hölzle?
Hunter gatherers didn’t exactly live in a state of deprivation. We also a lot of examples of cultures that didn’t farm building giant earth works, like those found at Poverty Point in Louisiana[1]. We know that a number of pre-Colombian societies shunned agriculture and developed quite complex societies like the people along the gulf coast, or the Coast Salish to name to areas of interest. Pre-agricultural forbears of the Iroquois were probably mining copper. Agriculture doesn’t seem to be necessary for organization or communal work.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_Point
No worries! You’re not out of line for being concerned about this stuff.

It’s like a lot of policy stuff: our congress critters have a very black-and-white approach to a problem that only comes in shades of gray.

And, thank you. I have a good support system these days and I think everything will eventually be OK. There’s just an unspecified amount of stupid stuff between here and there. :-)
Amber alerts playing at full volume without any regard as to what the current output device actually is is exactly why I have them disabled on my phone now.
He counted them.
Yes, I am also under the impression that Pike grew out of LPC (and I, too, really cut my teeth on LPC).
The Apple Card has this feature. You can generate a new CVC at any time, but your card number stays the same (unless you report fraud, obviously).