skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't buy a $1MM Amazon gift card. That would be incredibly useful for illegal activity but more or less useless as a gift card.

When financial instruments are primarily used for licit activity, we tend to add features that make illicit activity more difficult but accept that some illicit use will occur. That's why we still have $100 (but with serial numbers) and don't have bearer bonds any more.
There is in Chile the term "desacato a la autoridad" which is basic to the functioning of police because without it, like you can just insult the policeman as an escalation, with impunity. Although that's what's happening now, everywhere, "A.C.A.B." (stands for "All Cops Are Bastards", like it's all over where I live, I don't even have to cross the street to see an ACAB, it's plastered, also "paco culiao", "culiao" being an insult endemic to the Southern Cone...what else, I mean, there has to be a limit. It's an escalation!

And I would argue insults, libel and slander are more harmful than physical harm. The opposite of the saying, "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." On the contrary, broken bones are no dishonor, but words are dishonor.
That's assuming they were paid dollars for those USDT by exchanges.

An exchange could borrow the USDT, and when returned, they could be burned - with no dollars changing hands.
Flying drones around all day could be a fun minimum wage job at least. Well, maybe not, i assune they look down on doing flips.
> However, towns with 300 houses with different variations of the same vendors and assets would not be immersive to most modern players.

Less immersive than an ostensibly grand city that only has a handful of named NPCs and a few guards? The best and worst city Bethesda have made thus far is still Vivec. Best because it has enough NPCs and redundant economy to feel like a plausible city. Worst, simply because the structure of the cantons is poorly conceived, and because the exterior is barren.
> Make sure that figure is never out of date

For anyone with a software background, this is pretty straightforward - once you start thinking of the latex file(s) as source code rather than the document, it's a short jump to setting up a build environment...
In my case, I had a team of mature, experienced developers. They all had decades of experience, and at least a couple of them, were smarter than me.

I stressed that we respect each other, and I also managed each as an individual. When there was conflict, I generally looked for common goals, and stressed them. I treated them as family. I made sure they all understood that the company's goals were always foremost to me, but that they came second; even before my own needs. I gave them whatever time they needed for family and/or personal reasons. I supported them through life crises, and had their back.

I also -and this is important- acted as a buffer between my team and my company's rather rapacious HR. This actually got me in trouble, a couple of times, but was really appreciated by my team (and also by some very highly-placed managers, in Japan).

No ridiculous team-building exercises. I used to take my team out for a nice dinner, every holiday season, and my own expense (the company would not cover that kind of thing). This was very much appreciated, and my team did not abuse it. We still get together, once a year (if possible), but these days, it's dutch.

The team stayed together and highly functional, for over 25 years. When they finally rolled it up, the engineer with the least tenure had ten years.

I'm fully expecting a deluge of fairly nasty and abusive posts about this, but that's my story, and I'm sticking with it.
> Downranking Russian state propaganda from the search results for people searching general news about the war in Ukraine is useful and makes the results better

Considering most propaganda we see are US/EU propaganda, wouldn't it be better to downrank US/EU 'news'? Why target one propaganda but not the others?
Yeah, be careful in what you wish for. My wife and I were remarking the other day about life being a string of paths taken and paths not taken. Seems commonplace, but is yet profound.

If I understand that story correctly, the universe got stuck in a loop at the end.
That's why Switzerland is such a poor country and disappeared from the face of the Earth. The people who want you to believe other people are dumb and direct democracy is a bad thing are the ones benefiting the most from the current inbalanced form of government.

I mean if you think the people as a collective entiry are extremely dumb, why would you want any form of democracy or even society at all? Also, I have bad news for you but reallisticly speaking unless you are the unlikely strong outlier the average person is you (and me).
We don’t spray pesticides on fruit to make people sad. Without them then fruit would be inaccessible to many people.
The dues are also 1% of total compensation, which includes bonuses and RSUs at Google. For the bulk of L3/L4 Googlers, this is $1800-$2600 per year. This is typical for union dues on a percentage income basis, but very high on an absolute basis where the average is apparently $400 per year. They constructed it to have 4-6x the funding per member of the average union.

Then their initiatives are focused on contractors, which don't really incentize employees to join, and larger public social justice where the union might lack sufficient teeth to effect change.

There isn't really enough self-interest to join, so your average Googler is probably better off taking the company match on a philanthropic contribution.
Being from a recognizable brand and available at Staples/Bestbuy/Walmart are big things.

Sometimes people who are deep into things forget about that. You've done 100s of hours of research. You've chosen X Y and Z for reasons. You've built this and that, tried some of those.

Most people's keyboard choice is about 3 minutes in the aisle. Done.
I know about matrix bridges, but I'm sorry to say they're a pipe dream.
First of all I would have to manage them myself, which is a pain and costs money.

Secondly, anything could break at any time: the vps provider, the domain provider, the matrix server, the bridges themselves could go unmaintained or suddenly not be compatible anymore.

It's truly a flaky hack, and in truth you shouldn't need a flaky hack to send a photo to your uncle using whatsapp
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Ok, wow I'm dumb I didn't even try the dropdowns.
Unless I missed something, it’s completely self reported and only following people working in healthcare. This is not a very convincing result.
You need a mac computer and the bridge reads some local folder as far as I know
The way to answer this question is to look at the assembly code generated by the compiler with various optimization levels and see whether the compiler ever inlines the compare function.

https://godbolt.org/ might be useful for this exercise.
Sounds like a win-win to me. Either you installing the thing alerts you to the problem, or instslling it makes the whole problem disappear. Either way it’ll be fixed.
Collections.sort() just copies the list into an array, sorts the array, and copies the sorted elements back into the list. So it also just sorts an array under the hood. To eliminate the temporary array (at least for ArrayList), the List#sort() method was added in Java 8.

Arrays are usually still preferred over collections in the case of primitive types (int[] etc.).
I plug in 3-4 cables on my laptop a day. I don’t see why plugging in a dock is so difficult. Hell all you really need is a USB hub that connects via USB-c. One cable and done.
There are three books that are worth looking at to get plain TeX. I’d start with Viktor Eijkhout’s TeX by Topic (which I think is free in PDF on CTAN). Then the TeXbook to really get everything (the PDFs that float around the net are illegal. Please buy your copy. DEK donated his royalties to TUG so your purchase will help support the continuation of things like CTAN and the LaTeX project). And finally, if you really want to dig deep, Stephan v. Bechtolsheim’s four-volume magnum opus, TeX in Practice will tell you more than you ever wanted to know.
No, they probably didn't earn billions from that code. Their biggest cash cows were feature phones (non-Symbian) that sold 10-50 times as many as Symbian phones and were developed with many times smaller budgets. While some Symbian phones were pretty good for their area, there were probably at least as many failed projects as successful ones.
You can certainly do static polymorphism with macros in C, it is just very painful and unpleasant.
Believe or not, Apple offers a lot of keyboard layouts when compared to most computer companies.
How large were the SQLite database files you were working with here?

I've been thinking about building systems that store SQLite in S3 and pull them to a lambda for querying, but I'm nervous about how feasible it is based on database file size and how long it would take to perform the fetch.

I honestly hadn't thought about compressing them, but that would obviously be a big win.
Oddly, this seems like the perfect phone for elders that from my experience have:

- dropped the phone into the toilet, on ground cracking the screen, etc.

- can't figure out how to end a call.

- get addicted to reading garbage news on their phone instead of trying to use a laptop for thinking about news, writing, organizing instead.
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I don't know how pricing compares to local brands, but T-Mobile is majority-owned by Deutsche Telekom. I imagine this explains a related benefit:

"With our Magenta plans, you get unlimited texting and data in 210+ countries & destinations. No international data-roaming charges. No setup. It just works the minute you arrive."

https://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/roaming
> and the fact that it's Logitech, honestly, and will bounce off

What's wrong with Logitech?

I see a lot of praise for the MX Master mouse and keyboard, I use the mouse myself and it's been great.
Will this make me less addicted to my phone? If so, worth it!
I like this stuff but I'm a big no on nag screens. Would rather pay for app. Free not needed but don't want nags or ad.
Well, nothing's impossible but good luck convincing your landlord to spend money on a car charger that doesn't provide him any benefits.
I've written code just like this. Another option is to make the entire sort function a C macro. This would be feasible for something simple like quicksort.

But generics provide another benefit: in theory with them, the compiler should be able to determine that two high-level types are actually the same machine type, so in the above example, SORT_ELEMENT_TYPE int and long would not generate duplicate code on many machines.
Hetzner has a datacenter in Ashburn, VA nowadays as well: https://www.hetzner.com/unternehmen/rechenzentrum/
iPhone 14 Pro Screen Refresh Rate Upgrade Could Allow for Always-On Display
Among fellow students countless hours were lost playing with spaces, line breaks, font sizes just to get tables/figures stay or move to the next page.
This did look like an endless task: adding few chars in a chapter could have messed up positioning of bunch of figs.
This is typically why they include extension cables so you can move the dongle in a more receptive area.
>ultrasonic washer are by far the best way to wash fruits & veges of these things

Is this claim backed by anything? Or is it just a claim by the manufacturer?
It’s been around for years https://www.serverless.com/framework/docs/providers
The subject here is Digital Ocean. Yes, I get spam from seemingly all providers. However, AWS takes action and DO does not. DO will simply pass my complaint on to the spammer and my problem becomes worse.

I've setup a rule to simply drop mail from DO IP addresses, no legit mail ever comes from DO.

Sending a spam complaint to DO will do nothing more than verify to spammers that you are a good target.

If DO wants a better reputation then they can earn one.
It needs you to run the bridge on either a mac or a jailbroken iphone.

Connecting matrix to non-open ecosystems is a bit hit-and-miss in that it often requires you to run bridges in special ways and there are sometimes ways it breaks unexpectedly. I expect that to improve if the EU passes its law to force more interoperability.
> What is the intended use for LaTex these days?

Writing anything with complicated mathematical typesetting, for one; their have been improvements in word processors and thinks like MathML/MathJax, but they are still behind.

Works pretty well for autogenerated docs with more going on than is easy in Markdown, also - but that's often a bit of a wash.
I’m (cautiously) optimistic about this. I’ve found that magic of writing code evaporated for me when I joined the industry and spent most of my time fiddling with environments. Your workstation crashed? Be prepared to spend an entire day doing nothing but getting another one initialized.

After a few weeks on the job this dies down, but I can’t count how many times I’ve been curious to try something, only to dismiss it because I might have to mess with my environment for a good chunk of time.

I’m so sick of the sensation of getting a ticket, knowing immediately the 5 minutes of coding I need to do, and then spend the rest of the day with a flaky environments until my tests successfully run. This is at a major, FAANG-size tech company.
I think your equation isn't apt. Facebook likes run through personalized networks and are fed to users by privately curated algorithms which prioritize engagement and serving ads to benefit: Facebook.

In contrast, a pure democracy would be open questions and elections to any adult who is a citizen, without algorithms and corporate motivation interceding. This would theoretically benefit the aggregate voter: the citizens who vote.
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I use the calendar (installed from f-droid) and I don't recall being nagged. Haven't found an alternative calendar that I like better.
> Is it a store of value based on [insert lurid fantasy about digital energy crystal magic on the blockchain]? No, see above.

To play devil's advocate, I do wonder if once the get rich quick ponzi scheme ends, it will come to represent the "value" of it's investors innate skepticism and hostility toward the institutions that govern the global economy.

The remaining investors would be a cabal of cheerleaders for the destruction the current institutional structures (probably to replace it with yet another "purer' one more to their liking).

Maybe that underlying value isn't $30k but instead is only $5k, or maybe because BTC's only output is destructive (IIUC there is no future revenue stream of consequence - only the burning of fuels), it is $0 once it's "job" is done. I don't know.

But its original thesis involved undermining fiat money and bypassing tax levying authority by taking transactions away from the purview of institutions involved in both.

At it's most potent, I liken it more to a WMD against those institutions (which seems to be why it is particularly popular among the anti government crowd), not as some kind of basis for a hypothetically productive anarchist economy.

And as you say, at it's least potent it's largely, though not exclusively, a means of exchange for illicit and criminal activity.

> Is it a way for North Korea to get paid when extorting Western companies?

To be fair, Bitcoin didn't invent extortion, it is just a better tool that facilitates it at a distance - no suitcases of cash or diamonds or physical middlemen needed. Also traditional banks have come under scrutiny for looking the other way for all kinds of criminal activity, so it's not as easy to move illicit funds as it used to be.
It is unlikely to be officially bootloader-unlockable (being a T-Mobile exclusive). But I'm expecting it is a Mediatek SoC, which has known security flaws allowing for bootloader unlocks, so uh, /maybe/.

If by chance it is bootloader-unlockable, GSI (Generic System Image, generic Android custom ROMs) should boot just fine on it. As a reference, GSI work on Coolpad C558 (not flip-phone, but uh bar-phone I guess? not sure if the term still makes sense in the age of smartphones) - it doesn't work great on Coolpad C558 because of the severe lack of RAM, but should be ok on Cat S22.

Some specifics will just probably need a bit of work for PTT button, and mapping long press on "#" to vibrator. Unless you want T9 on it, or to fix random apps's broken DPAD UX, there shouldn't be more than a day of work to be fully usable.

Edit: If someone wants to send me one (in EU), I'd be happy to take a look
You brought up the worst part of OOP, inheritance. Which most modern OOP rarely uses. Since the 90s “composition over inheritance” has been a mantra. If you want to build strong arguments, focus on real issues. Not incompetent programmers abusing inheritance or abstract factory factories, because they can write just as awful code in functional programming. There are plenty of actual OOP issues to hate on, but that’s because there is no silver bullet.
Microsoft beefs up AI development on Azure with access to OpenAI models
The Logitech unifying receiver is FUBAR and no firmware updates will remedy that.
> From the looks of the side profile, this is using low profile mechanical switches, which seem uncommon or at the very least not popular in the mech keyboard community.

Where are you getting this from? I can count at least 3 people I know using low profiles. Without doing a poll. Some people want that laptop feel in a desktop board.
Only a better teacher can replace a good teacher.
I used a Das Keyboard for over a decade and loved it. Now I've switched to a Drop Alt so I can hotswap "better" switches and run QMK, which I've grown completely dependent on (https://jkaptur.com/layout/).

For me, keyboards like Das Keyboard, Alt, Ctrl, etc. are the perfect satisfice: good keyboards, at a price that's not terrible, with a time & research commitment that falls below the level of "hobby". I could easily see the Logitech keyboard fitting into this niche. The only question is how big a niche it is - how many of us are out there who like a nice keyboard, but are lukewarm/meh about soldering?
IntelliJ: How to fix the problem with long indexing?
LuaLaTeX is a lot slower than pdfLaTeX or XeLaTeX and default settings give different output than the other two, e.g., around line breaks at – or —. I only recommend it if you need it. Most people don't.
Fed swaps cleaned up balance sheets and allowed those lenders to create more loans. Loans based on fractional reserves creates spendable money from nothing. Some would describe this convoluted debt creation as money printing.
My theory is that online blogs and publications tied themselves to social media over the past decade to drive higher traffic, but now need to cut the cord because their traffic is not their audience. It's Facebook's audience, and changes in the algorithm downgraded the frequency with which publication posts appeared on one's feed.

Now that responsive design is commonplace (not the case in 2012), websites can differentiate their offerings a bit more design-wise without affecting usability. Frankly, the differentiation is needed, as people are not habituated to go to the website first instead of passively browsing social media, where the algorithm may or may not surface one of the publication's stories.
But that's not true. The people and the democratically-elected government are the ones that Define what qualifies as a charity.

We have said through our Democratic process that these are good things.

https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-organiz...
I think that's a false dichotomy; IMO the best default choice is to rely on the most well-tested library in any given category. That suggests to me that they should have used expat on the client side.
1) I question this premise. People who revolutionize a field don't do this with feedback from the public. They do it by having a very unique perspective that they bring into being by sheer force of will - usually against great pushback.

2) If we assume your premise is true. The public does not have a preconceived notion of what the art should be like. Presumably you would show them a style of art that they have never thought about before and they will respond positively to it.
Good thing that I never used the standalone client and always the in-browser webapp instead.
I, for One, Welcome Our Robot Overlords
This is one of the more ridiculous comments in this post.
How do you mean run locally? Like caching Stack pages?

At least, Browsh has a Docker image, so anywhere you can run `docker run browsh/browsh`, you can run Browsh.
It was in php using the built-in md5 function. I’m actually reaching out to a friend that still has the code to see what the exact string is that got hashed.

I have no idea if the database is still somewhere, if so, we can look at the git commit and figure out what the possible UPCs are and narrow it down to a couple of hours worth of time stamps. I have a feeling it would probably be more than 512 bits though. UPCs are can be longish, plus a time stamp with each digit being a byte…

I highly doubt the database exists in any meaningful way though, since the product was shut down years ago.
hard work != good content by default

If something is highly popular, no matter how utterly trash it is in your opinion, they must be doing something correctly. The right content at the right time for the right audience.
I was considering "retiring" from tech after leaving my last job. I had a plan to hack on fun side projects and (hopefully) eventually transform one of them into a lifestyle business -- something I've done before and previously enjoyed.

When I took a few months off, however, my perspective changed. After the 2nd month of doing nothing, I started to really miss the intellectual stimulation of hanging out with other engineers, working on shared goals, etc., so I decided to go back to work at a new company.

I'm now happily employed full-time, working with a larger team, and still building things in my free time. Life is busy, but I enjoy it.

I still think this may be my eventual destiny, but for now I'm happily working with other people and just trying to enjoy life as much as possible.
@yegg

Would also be very curious to hear an answer to this. Its been long rumored that Google has weights or boost/throttle values that are manually assigned to websites by humans which impact ranking. Would be great to understand if DDG is following in Google's footsteps.
> But I guarantee you that anyone with the ability to convincingly articulate why The Office is better than Rebels of the Neon God isn't arguing in good faith. And there's a reason for that.

I'm pretty sure that Rebels of the Neon God isn't "better" at parodying office work, and I'm pretty sure there are less laughs to be had in that film too.

So yes, I'm pretty sure The Office is "better" at a lot of things, and while I have not seen Rebels of the Neon God (yet) I'm pretty sure it's also "better" than The Office, but at different things.
I mean I don't sort List<Integer> more than once in a blue moon either. I'm much more likely to either be sorting a list of model objects with a comparator, or manipulating a collection of objects that's already been sorted by some external source.

In the unlikely event that I'm modeling something that can be represented as a list of integers AND it's a significant performance bottleneck then, sure, I'll consider the array methods. But I don't recall the need arising in the last year or two.

Enterprise Java stuff just isn't often bottlenecked on that sort of thing. Network latency fills far more of my dreams ;)
Wait, what? So how do you type? Minuscule touch keyboard on the screen?

Edit, yes, here's a video.[1] The thing is also a lot bigger and thicker in the hands than I realized.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVzuT6eYZUA