skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder why French is absent.

Meanwhile they have Persian which is not even in the EU.
This varies massively by school or district. I teach history to undergrads, and some of them come in having had entire high school classes on the history of civil rights--these students are usually either from majority-black districts, or from elite private schools. Others had history classes that don't even acknowledge that slavery was the cause of the Civil War.
Life is unfair. But forcing me to work harder to pay for someone's 4-year country-club undergraduate experience is more than unfair. It's obscene.
I think their jobs are to serve AND protect, not just serve. If police officers optimize on not making anyone unhappy, it seems like the protection part won't be done as effectively (e.g. someone who drives dangerously but never gets a ticket won't have much incentive to drive more carefully so other drivers on the road are then put at risk).

Like almost everything, there needs to be some balance. I'm not sure bad ratings due to "I was breaking the law and he gave me a ticket instead of a warning" would be best for society. But if the officer was cordial and courteous in that same interaction and they received good feedback, that would probably be a good reinforcement loop. A complete totalitarian police state wouldn't be good for society but going to the other end of the spectrum and having lax policing would also be bad for society, I think we need to try to strive for the least bad balance, which seems like it is incredibly hard to do and then of course no one will be completely happy and lots of people will complain. They have a very tough usually thankless job.
Was the defacto?

Learna needed a new maintainer and is now moving to Nrwl who develops Nx and seems to be the better choice for future projects?

https://nx.dev/
interesting

i was always hesitant to switch out the launcher, worrying that it might make my phone unusable if i get an unstable version.

what bothers me the most about the default launcher is how difficult it is to move apps from one screen to the next because when i drag an app to the edge to jump to the next screen, it is again at the edge and keeps jumping until i move away from the edge. that makes it really hard to organize the apps into some kind of order. also folders are not convenient to navigate with the way they are opened and closed.

but discreet launcher seems to sort apps alphabetically, which i find even worse. i have more of a spatial memory than remembering names, so i prefer to group apps by type
I thank you for the correction.
They get 25% of crown estate profits, but I’m not sure they really ‘own’ that land per se. And in general, the elite own a huge amount of the UK (most notably Oxbridge colleges with incredible land ownership). We can make a case to take ‘back’ the Queen’s private or crown estate land, but why just them? IMO, casting judgement on what historic ownership is ‘rightful’ is really hard.
No notation, ROT13 encryption [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROT13
There's also a lot of bias here, since most people don't have a lot of contact with police, unless they did some bad stuff.
I also love hexes. Have you seen this guy's blog before? It's a treasure:

https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/
Google’s messy Reminders system just keeps getting messier
Help what?

OP is likely getting downvoted because the East German doping victims weren't "accepting a tradeoff", eh?
Well, I think that is a valid worry, but nevertheless my point was that i believe we are headed to a mild recession and that is a far better outcome than a severe recession. But yes, a robust recovery is also better than a weak one and you seem to be focusing on the kind of recovery we might experience. So it seems we are talking past each other.
> I'm still willing to celebrate this happening. An exception to normally bad behavior, and the first instance of a genuine change in approach, look identical.

That why they do it. For you. If the story that got some play in the media gets very publicly fixed (after being completely promoted from the regular support flow), people will will defend them, although nothing has changed.
In the California Bay Area cherries go for 4.99/lb and if drive out to Brentwood and pick your own cherries it's $4/lb.
That is not arguable. Chia's Proof of Space and Time uses Nakamoto consensus (like Bitcoin) and is even more decentralized.
The ones I went to involved being told I needed to make "anti-casteism" part of my identity and pick arguments with my aunts and uncles when they make 'problematic' statements

I admire that you kept your composure in the face of such ludicrous demands. An employer has to be insane to think they can even suggest how I should interact with my own family.
Bacteria store information to kill viruses (but not themselves)
I've been out of it for a couple of years. Not because I disliked it, just had other opportunities come up. I expect some things are very different today and some the same. Pay was great, it has only gone up since. Projects are people are extremely varied; some of the most talented people on the planet working on compelling ideas to scams and more general time wasters. Sometimes all together in the same company.
The root account was written when it was fashionable to be object-oriented, so its resource allocation is all due to inheritance.

Scotland in particular is upset because of certain issues due to multiple inheritance.
It's weird to me that even games that seem focused on story, atmosphere and graphics with pretty simple gameplay - like "Control" or "Death Stranding" - can manage to over-complicate it with confusing menus, lots of micromanagement of upgrades, pointless subsystems, etc. I like both these games well enough but I don't think I will ever get through them simply because I don't play often enough to learn all the fiddling.
The word is Vernuftendlösunggrosseproblemenmacht.
What, exactly, were you going to min-max in Mario 64? Strategy guides have literally been a thing since the 1980s.

The biggest change is not the players. The biggest change is the monetization of games that you have already played for and the sad hamster wheel that companies have put players on. While Elden Ring is mostly about exploration, most AAA games being developed nowadays consist of a set of mundane tasks that don't even make sense when putting them into a real world context.

Kill 10 X. Collect 20 Y. Walk to Z and stand there while you "survey the area." It's all bullshit, but instead of just being able to enjoy the game by exploring to progress through the story, you have to do all this dumb crap.
never thought of it like this. The Treat of Bern is super interesting, thought you were referring to Tim Berners-Lee.

There is a 2.5 network I think....Minitel in France for example or Nintendo Famicom Network

Your fourth generation Network is quite interesting. I think its impossible to move physical items over the wire even in the future, instead something that approaches 4th generation via progressive improvements with other areas of sensory feedbacks: tactile, olfactory that could be stored and transmitted over the wire.

Like I imagine a situation where you could order a basketball on Amazon and it instantly appears but it feels, smells, tastes (lol) exactly like a real thing, but it works only in certain zones where it can be conjured up digitally. Perhaps some advancement in ultrasound where objects can be created, and is able to detect collision with your body, and simulate tactile/olfactory feedbacks
90% of Women in India Are Shut Out of the Workforce
“She added that NuScale's take on the paper is supported by information it presented to the National academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, and said that the study applies conclusions that don't apply to NuScale's technology.”
Don't double post, just email the mods to add the Show HN: prefix. If you're here to talk about your thing, this is already a show hn.
As I understand it, it's geopoloticial. Japan, the country, is making a big bet on hydrogen. I may be getting the details wrong - but Japan is less independent under an EV transition; it makes them more dependent on foreign metals in order to produce cars; and they would be forced to compete with china (and likely lose) on those metals. Hydrogen doesn't have the same problem.
I struggled with the easy, then found a method for medium, and then medium was easy:)

I can solve rubiks cube <30 seconds, and it definitely reminds me of it.

Thanks!
This isn't the only place this pops up - commit hooks are another example, since they live in .git they don't travel with the repo when it is cloned (or maybe when it is updated, don't remember the specifics).

I really feel there needs to be like a git --pull-config option or something to pull all project configs (including submodules, commit hooks, etc). Or perhaps move those things into the top-level folder and allow them to be git-add'd.
Do you know if this will be open-sourced, or if the repo is already available?
Not sure what your point is though.
That's true, a little is necessary to keep up with inflation. But, qualitatively, 11 months and 12 months are pretty similar, and I suspect lots of people track their expenses imprecisely enough that inflation is in the error bars.
In the past, I'd put a "typescript:main" field in package.json and configured my bundler to prefer that field. I gave up at some point - probably when I migrated to rollup.

Moving forward, I'm going to use wireit for these things. Pure modules get built with tsc. At the highest level (e.g. where it needs to be embedded in a page), make a bundle with rollup.

wireit has two nice properties: incremental building and file-system-level dependencies. Within a repo, you can depend on ../package-b. However, if you have multiple monorepos that often get used together, you can also depend on ../../other-project/packages/package-b. No matter where in your tree you make changes, wireit knows when to make a new bundle.

I've just started with wireit (it was only launched recently), but it seems to be a nice solution to wrangling dependencies between related JS libraries.

[1] https://github.com/google/wireit
CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking news”
This is people self-reporting about unexperienced hypothetical situations?
This may be where the disconnect is. The definition I provided was from a biology domain and not from humanities domain ( not that there no attempts to do the same in biology ). This is not discredit anthropology as it is a fascinating study. I just do not think it is relevant here.

I do happen to think that, where there are clear physical differences ( gasp ) between white and black people, it may be a good idea not to try to cover it with yet another social construct. Unless, naturally there is a disagreement that there are real physical differences ( for example, if we wanted to move from skin pigment, there are documented issues that affect black people more than whites ). Are those issues racist?

That said, it is somewhat interesting that the main quote on the website provided does not come from a renowned representative of the group, but relatively unknown historian ("[Racism] is not about how you look, it is about how people assign meaning to how you look"). Quite frankly, that is not racism. That is otherism and it goes back to the previous comment about how the waters and definitions are muddied further to pigeonhole something for one reason or another.

To be blunt, there is a good reason for a society ( and its members ) to not be focused on race, but pretending race does not exist is a disservice to that society as it is hiding the reality from its members.

Maybe I am approaching it the wrong way. Maybe I should try Socratic method here.

Are there black people?
I had an incident involving someone forcibly entering my home that required police assistance. The two responding officers would have absolutely received a 5/5 rating from me. The next day the same asshat decided in his short time in my home that I was woefully short of canned vegetables, and graciously delivered a can of peas through my front window. This required a second visit from the police, and the two responding officers that morning would have received 1/5 rating from their rudeness and absolute lack of caring accusing me of "maybe smoking a little something and being just a bit paranoid". Then accused my house of being a grow house because I had a couple of Kino lamps from doing product photography. Absolute joke of a uniform and prime examples of why police have such low appreciation with the citizens.
> Lie flat does not exist for those of a normal height if you're talking about the luxury pods.

> Just six foot?

The average height for men in the US is 5'9" [1]. The Netherlands is the world's tallest country with an average height of 5'11" [1].

[1] https://www.healthline.com/health/average-height-for-men#u-s...
Be an expert with the ability to generalize in your back pocket when you need to. A generalist skill set does not mean you have to do generalist jobs either.
Dysconomies of scale? Sounds like Google should be arguing that they should be broken up if these are inevitable.
Awesome, tested the German model on dw.com, surprisingly fast and accurate.
Based on some recent experiences I've been thinking that police forces need something that is almost like a JIRA taskboard. Incidence type, officer name, data, upload picture/videos etc.

It wouldn't just be for police positive/negative interaction. Any crime could be entered, any criminal behavior.

We have an incident in our school district with an individual who has shouted at children and parents and on a few occasions has tried to enter the school. Obviously bad stuff, obviously particularly concerning given recent events.

During a school board meeting it came out that the police only knew of 3 incidents out of probably dozens. There's not a clear path from seeing the behavior, reporting it to the school, reporting it to the police, and being able to put all this information in one place.

It's probably a pipe dream to think that someday we could have a dashboard where everyone could monitor these issues, but it might address a lot of problems.
Surely this is some Black Mirror joke or a rhetorical question which is meant to (by inference) dismiss the original idea of rating cops as too intrusive.
That doesn't contradict the parent's claim. Moreover, they're not drawn from the same population, there is a filtering mechanism that reasonably skews for police to be above-average even if we might want it to be better.

Moreover, I'm also skeptical of the simplistic idea that our policing problem derives from "too many immoral officers". It seems more likely that it's an emergent property of the incentives and constraints we put on police brass (including the police union system).

Further, if we're going to reform police, it would be nice if we focused on policies which weren't predictably counter-effective. Rather than the de-policing policies which have increased homicides by 9k/year (relative to the time period before the de-policing movement kicked off in earnest with the largest increases in the "communities of color" in whose name the de-policing initiative campaigned) for no appreciable difference in unjustified police killings, it would be nice if we instead pursued one or more of: more police training, weakened/abolished police unions, restructured internal-affairs departments, tightened background checks, mandated periodic psyche evals, etc.
The Fuzzing Book
> We expect that you have experience with HTML, CSS, Javascript/Typescript (React Native stack)

What are Web3 technologies you're working with?
In this case, it seems like "recency" was a big issue - the change wasn't recent in any sense of the word, since it seems like the feature has been there since at least mid 2020. [0]

The explanation in this case also seemed to focus on a (false) assertion the app uploaded the user's contact list - the app wasn't doing that. If a user turned on fetching favicons (it was off by default, with a red-coloured privacy warning in the app), then the app would fetch a favicon for received emails in non-junk folders, directly from the server in question.

If apps are expected to treat the user's DNS server as hostile, then web browsers had better talk about how they send user browsing history to third parties (by querying DNS!). Similarly, the app connecting to the site and asking for a favicon is not really a leak to a third party, as the domain is owned by the sending user. If they chose to outsource their website to a third party, that's their choice (and problem).

If the app was uploading user contacts to a third party, that would be very bad. It wasn't. But rival apps do (for monetisation etc.) Making benign apps write declarations that suggest it is doing something akin to that is (to be cynical) helpful for Google and other ad/data supported business model actors, who benefit from obscuring their practices by forcing others to make similar-looking declarations.

[0] https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/commit/57cf22b1193b43ca979...
I’m not sure that clarifies anything or makes the point you want to, since it would generally be a good thing for a car’s energy consumption to be independent of distance traveled. (“O(1)”)
This is exactly why I come to Hacker News.
Updated and more realistic version of Sim City 4
In the context of photography, I have no idea how to answer this point:
"...doing good in the world"

Probably no need to be Ikigai. As long as I'm happy with my work, then it's more then sufficient.
Reply that next time I ask "make up an entirely new system with the same human factor problems but now rogue actors acting with impunity, no oversight and fewer avenues to democratically influence them" rather than "fix it"

If you live in a democratic country, you actually have ways of fixing it. And no, you don't need to give up your freedom for blockchain panopticon in the process.
As far as I know you'll still have to write a program for terminal applications.

Check out NotCurses (https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses) for some nifty functionality (including pictures!)
Aside from what everyone else has stated, a ram disk like this seems to have a very very good rand4k speed, so it would be extremely useful for buffering high volume small size, erratic data loads while decreasing the number of writes to long term storage.
I've been a ProtonMail paid subscriber with a custom domain for several years. Very happy customer, wouldn't go anywhere else. I haven't needed to contact customer support often, but service was good the few times I did.
But sh... sorry "cheat" is easier to remember, maybe.
The odd couple: How Elon Musk’s fixer takes care of the world’s biggest fortune
Yes, endowed private universities should not be eligible for federal funding. It should be based on a per seat basis, with some scoring on how useful the seats generate employment with some lag to avoid flooding market with education seats that don't result in jobs (ie: what happened during the current student debt crisis where these colleges promising interesting jobs didn't deliver).

San Francisco's Academy of Art University is an example of incentives gone bad. Students can get debt, debt goes into pockets of university, student's get an education that is worth less than the debt.
In prior life, I worked at place where we had access to data that contained user searches. We could plainly see that google searches, due to autocomplete, "quantize" results in a way that bing and others don't. The result is that google searches are almost inorganic crafted things, and they contain unusual artifacts. The impact on society is definitely real.
klein dikes are amazing.

I first picked up on them while working in a bike shop. mine kept going dull but my coworker had his klein forever and they still cut stranded derailleur and brake cable cleanly. I used to think dikes were awful due to the poor quality of generics but these are surely worth the $30-35.

https://www.kleintools.com/catalog/diagonal-cutting-pliers/d...
Chicago is the exception here, though. It's the core hub of the entire system, and there are no trains that pass through Chicago. A Chicago train will nearly always leave on-time, unless there are equipment issues.
Thats super helpful thank you!

Still curious if theres a side of this idea thats about local first software in a more regional or niche demographic sense. Like instagram but just for Oakland, or GrubHub but just for Austin. Im sure there are infinite problems associated with that sort of idea but still curious if theres some movement / push for that as well as this state-related stuff.
after Mark D'Arcy left, there was a large re-shuffle and the person with the most experience didn't get the job, and left. After that there has been a steady roll of dominoes.
Here's Michael Nielsen of YC Research on memory, spaced repetition and Anki:

http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html
I had a script that worked fine in BASH but errored in Zsh. It had to do with arrays and I don't remember the problem.
It might be a nice payday for the founders but it's terrible for the business environment. It's basically a bribe to stop operating in that sector. Sure, it beats out Microsoft churning out the Teams to your Slack/Loop to your Notion, then rolling it into 365 and eating your enterprise market share alive without so much as a consolation prize, but as a user any time a great product hits the market, no matter how much I like it I have to worry if I can trust the company to be around for the long haul and stick to their offering.
Ask HN: Replace Job Applications with Pull Requests?
Instead of job applications and interviews, what if software engineers just wrote code to get a job?

Any thoughts from SWEs applying to jobs right now?

Any thoughts from founders / managers currently hiring?

Experimenting @ algora.io

Thanks in advance!

EDIT -- coding would be paid
No, those are separate, but yes I agree that stuff is toxic.
I was curious about trans people and the health risks of HRT because I have some trans people in my life as of the past few years. When I looked into it I found that there is an association between testosterone levels and mortality along with vulnerability to illness. That did indeed lead me to a particular point of view on the subject and that point of view runs contrary to the common narrative that cross sex hormones are always bad. It's my counter-narrative I suppose.

Not that you asked but in matters of gender it seems like even the most reasonable people seem to fall back on gut feelings over facts. One of those "gut feelings" seems to be that taking cross sex hormones is always or obviously bad for your health. I think it's fascinating to note the fact that much of the literature on the topic only suggests that too much of any sex steroid is bad and in particular testosterone shortens lifespan possibly because it is a weak immunosuppressant. Maybe taking estrogen offsets some of the gains of having low testosterone concerning lifespan but considering that females tend to outlive intact males but not eunuchs it seems likely that the downsides of estrogen are gentler overall.

Insofar as long term consequences, trans women have now been taking HRT since the 1940s so I suspect we'll be seeing some cohorts showing up in published studies more and more. Anecdotally trans women like April Ashley who transitioned in the 1950s, and died this year in her late 80s, and Wendy Carlos who transitioned in the 1970s and is still alive seem to be doing fine. (April Ashley was a very fascinating person: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjA9zdIYruU)
This is super super groundbreaking. Idk if people know this but because of card issuing as a service providers like Lithic or banking as a service providers, the technology cost to building neobanks has gone way down. However compliance/legal remains to be a huge headache. I am hoping this brings down legal/compliance costs (both in terms of pure $$$ and time) so people can create more innovative financial products.