skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Going on an intense hike usually helps me focus for a few days.

It feels like taking out the trash for your brain. It gives you some time where you don’t need to focus on anything.

I am sure running does the same thing for a lot of people but I live in a suburb and that is too overstimulating for me.
Back when I was playing Metal Gear Solid V I would be driving around and looking at shipping containers and wondering what kind of resources were in them.
Thanks for this!
It really puts things into perspective.

Is the reason PS5 and and Xbox are so low compared to Nintendo because Sony and Microsoft are american companies now ?

Or is it the fact most people are leaning towards a switch/steam deck/portable and a pc globally these days ? My son has NO interest in consoles, he plays pc games with his friends or mobile games on his phone.
> some Wikipedia editors warned that the incident had “shaken the credibility of the current Chinese Wikipedia as a whole

That might have been the goal all along.
This is what agile is for. You have a backlog of work in priority order and it can change whenever you need it to. If you get an unplanned request, instead of saying "yes" or "no" go review the backlog and see where it fits. It's a true existential threat to the business, it can go straight to the top. If it's just a thing they want, it can go in with the things everyone else wants. If the ask is incomplete, you work on completing the ask before asking a developer to look at it.
GamePass is one of the smartest moves that MS made with the Xbox. For a casual gamer who doesn't need to play the latest and greatest every time, the value is just unmatched.

Also liked that i could jump straight into downloading games when I got it and didn't have to pick which game to spend money on.

The one downside is the storage though...
Has this happened in the 48 states (all but California and Hawaii) where ferrets are not banned? How about Canada where they appear to be legal in all provinces?

All I've been able to find on this is the paper "Environmental Impact and Relative Invasiveness of Free-Roaming Domestic Carnivores—a North American Survey of Governmental Agencies" [1] which looked at the impact of non-native domestic carnivores (dogs, cats, and ferrets) in the US and Canada.

It says this in the discussion section:

> Aside from an occasional “stray”, there were no reports of “feral (breeding)” ferrets; nor were there reports that of “free-living”, or “naturalized” ferrets anywhere in the continental United States or Canada, including California. More importantly, no jurisdiction reported ferrets impacting local (native) wildlife, including ground-nesting birds, or threatened, endangered and sensitive species.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5664037/

Edit: this comment seems quite controversial. In a few minutes it got several up votes, then quickly got twice as many down votes, then quickly returned to about even. I'm quite confused by this.
Jetbrains doesn’t get my money because of how much of a confusing mess their product lineup is. They have a bunch of different IDEs sold separately that ultimately seem to be identical except for language support. Why isn’t language support implemented as plugins if all the IDEs share a common framework? Last I checked, it seemed like they do have an “ultimate” version with multiple language support… except that one doesn’t support C/C++.

I was interested in buying CLion, but also needed to be able to work with Python in the same project. I couldn’t tell if that means I have to also buy the PyCharm IDE and deal with two different IDEs running at once.

It also doesn’t help that they have a subscription licensing plan. Even though they do have perpetual fallback, it doesn’t seem like a giant bloated IDE like this will hold up very long without updates.

So in the end, I just use Sublime Text. It’s far from perfect, but I can make it do nearly everything I need it to without having to strain my brain at the checkout screen.
Good IDE will usually highlight style and basic issues as you're typing them, and you can get a better idea of what 'canonical' foo-lang is. I'm not a ruby expert, but using RubyMine I'm reminded of some things while I'm coding, and (some) errors (or just style issues) are spotted before I run.
When you don't have to deal with boring things like permission to build, consent of landowners, keeping roads open, etc., building a railway is very quick and easy.
Right, the third one is non-negotiable. In no scenario would it be ok for a requestor to come in dictating how long it would take, and any language about that would always be reason for having a conversation to set that expectation.
If you're interested, I can share my khal config with you. It also displays 3 months, and syncs (via vdirsyncer) with Nextcloud to show my personal and work calendar events, all right there in the terminal.
You see old people losing their life savings—the only money they have to live on—as being better than them having certain very obviously fraudulent financial transactions questioned, and potentially delayed?
Anything that gets used by people interested in power, ceases to be value neutral.
The plugin worked well for some time for me, but support is really bad. I once had an issue, where the OWA page would require me to log in again, but of course they f'ed up their login to require JS and that JS did not run in Thunderbird (does any?). The plugin then only showed me the login page. When I contacted them, I basically got a shoulder shrugg as an answer, close to "Ah that's bad for you.". Then a while ago my e-mail account in Thunderbird simply disappeared and I still have no idea why and am assuming the plugin had a bug, which deleted the account from my Thunderbird. Haven't put any effort in yet to get it back working and am using IMAP, unable to confirm calendar events and such, because Outlook also wont load in Firefox for me. Good job ...
As a professor within 10-15 years of retirement, wouldn't the selfish position be for him to strongly support entirely free tertiary education? He'd never be out of a job, and it'd take a while to have a surfeit of qualified economics PhDs who can't land jobs outside of academia, I assume.
No, "Fake News" is a term coined to allow a blanket dismissal of anything made public that political leaders don't want to be heard. There certainly can be factual falsehoods in news, and it is worth evaluating how well news organizations are reporting facts... but "Fake News" was the opening salvo before following up with stating that fact-checking is insulting.

Let us not validate the concept by embracing the term. It is a weasel word for people who want to promote their own flavor of misinformation.

As far as Wikipedia goes, this shows a loophole that needs to be closed. I'm amused by it - I can also understand why others are not.
This is definitely my favorite approach. I've found that Friday night date swaps are the best kind of swaps because they are so simple. Can be tricky with a younger child (Age 3) because they have an early bedtime and are too little for sleepovers, but one option (if there are two people in both couples) is that one parent goes over to the other parent's house and watches the friend's child while the other parent stays home and watches their child. And then they get a date night credit! So you're not in fact watching two kids at the same time, you're just giving a night of babysitting to get one in return.
Ah, my bad. I'm on Arch and it packages cal, not ncal. Wasn't familiar with it and it looks like the flags are different. Because why not...
You're talking about the algorithms for TLS? Or hashing as in hashing a lot of things in your application?

Either way, I stand by my bet. They're irrelevant compared to the cost of the prevailing mentality of DX over anything else. Combined with the industry leaders having machines with 128 GB of RAM on 10 Gbps connections, this mentality guarantees software gets slower way more than hardware gets faster
I was very enthusiastic about Meteor in the beginning. I used it for a fairly large prototype.

I wanted to code in Typescript but I had problems with that and eventually dropped Meteor. It really was an amazing project.
Manipulating text within the editor is pretty common; e.g. I use shell-mode in Emacs, which is mostly just a normal text buffer (except Return acts differently when the cursor is over the commandline!); eshell is similar.

What I was describing above is manipulating such buffers with external commands (similar to Emacs `shell-command-on-region`)
All of this stuff reads like spherical cow.

"Two of my MDs have talked to your leadership and this is your priority now."

"This is a dependency we just discovered while trying to close this audit MRA."

"OK, we understand how important your roadmap is to you. We'll have Eng Mgr X rescue this strategic project instead."
According to weather.com, the predicted humidity for when it will be 100F in Austin next, is only around 50-55%, giving a wet bulb temperature of around 30°C, which is below the 31°C from this study.
Meteor came out before async-await was a thing for Node. Meteor solved the callback hell with fibers. However fibers introduced concurrency bugs. A fiber has pre-emption points when doing IO. If some other code then changes some state then it can be dangerous because of data races.

A friend of mine got stuck on a bug where sometimes he got a different value than he expected and after a walkthrough I showed him what happened. So Meteor is not really friendly to beginners if you have the bad luck to provoke a data race.

This is the main weakness of Meteor. I was not surprised that MDG pivoted to Apollo.

My friend is still happy with Meteor, because I told him where to look for concurrency problems.
I doubt it. By 1987, Office was already well on its way to its dominant position, and whatever presentation tool Microsoft bought would have become the de facto presentation tool, be it PowerPoint, Keynote, or some other tool that's been forgotten, simply because it was available in a package the business was already buying.
Controversial, but I largely disagree. I don’t think I’ve ever read the wiki page on something I’m an expert on and found any inaccuracies that weren’t due to advances in the last couple of years.
What do you do with the extra 5 or 6 days? Create a 13th mini-month?
Most of my startup was built on top of Meteor back in 2016-2018. Although I wouldn’t make that choice again, the productivity and “wow factor” we could do with so little always impressed our customers.

The coolest thing about the text is seeing what the original Meteor team is doing nowadays. They went to build companies like Apollo and Chromatic and found new tech like Vue.JS and Storybook.

Overall, I feel Meteor was too ahead of its time - being early and being wrong are the same thing in our world. Nonetheless, if you build a great team filled with passioned people, you eventually find your “thing”. Its just a matter of time, effort and iteration.
I always wondered how the folks that stormed beaches in Normandy did it.
Where did they find the courage to face death ???.
> they claimed the American territories as Spanish

Against the will of all the natives living in the territory. You can't just show up to a house and claim that it's yours and simply take everything out of it and then take it somewhere else and claim that technically you didn't steal anything because you first claimed it yours lol.
Again, we’re not talking about SMBs, we’re talking about tech companies generally. (What share of SMBs are there doing serverless or with any cloud footprint at all?)
Well I get upset when IT guys complain about stuff being not free and price hikes.

It is a pet peeve with the software developers whingeing about the cost of tools.

I guess I overreacted to your statement. I remember spending over $300 in todays money for Delphi when it first come out in 1995, and in my view it was well spent.
It wasn't even in employment related then. I considered the tool useful for my personal desires.

So seeing professional people complain about the prices of tools which are extremely low-priced when adjusted for inflation kind of bugs me. As the guys said their prices haven't gone up for seven years.

If you consider JetBrains subscriptions expensive, try Delphi, or the commercial versions of Lisp and Smalltalk.
> I think there's also a tendency for everyone to want to do their own CPU now.

I wonder how many of these are actually vanity projects? Apple spent billions for more than a decade on ARM development before using their own design as a central processor.

OTOH MediaTek et all don’t worry about any of that.
I got it wrong,

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

XEmacs is the Lucid one, https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LucidEmacs
Technology shock, fewer shotgun marriages, and the rise in unwed births (1996)
GitHub Pages allow for static hosting of plain HTML and a free custom domain. If you need security, lock down the GitHub account with 2FA.
One other item I'd add to this is that as a single person with no children and no nephews or nieces, I love babysitting my friends' kids for free. In our culture, it often feels uncomfortable to ask friends to do a favor like, this but it can be really gratifying for both parties. Here's a blog about why I babysit for free - and how I get as much as I give. https://manisharoses.medium.com/why-i-babysit-for-free-b311b...
I do not want my product checked constantly -- I want to pay for a year and then leave me alone ! The trend is towards constant monitoring and associated disconnect immediately with a monthly payment. I object to that model.

I pay for a large jetBrains product right now. Not a problem to raise the price a bit. Excellent company and products in my experience.
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Days_Hath_September) mentions a Latin version:

Junius Aprilis September et ipse November
Dant triginta dies reliquis supadditur unus
De quorum numero Februarius excipiatur.

But I'm not sure if this counts as the same poem or just another poem with the same information in it.

Googling turns up a French version "trente jours ont novembre" but I don't know if this is actually taught in French-speaking places.
Product growth and community lessons from Musically's (TikTok) founder
yeah very interesting, I have full sympathy with the state operatives involved. They swore an oath (I think the country rather than the office of the President?) so have to make a judgement call as to whether the Presidential instructions align with this. You could not criticise the agent had he accepted Trump's command and drove him up to Capitol Hill
Can’t find it. The title was along the lines of global warming might result in a net increase in usable land.
It's possible but difficult. Mainly, it requires setting expectations well, communicating what you're actually working on and why. Your field teams (sales, account management, customer success, sometimes even product marketing) are key for this. It's important to have good relationships with them such that they're highly informed partners.

The hardest part about this is that the problem does not get significantly better as you scale. There is always a biggest customer and they always matter a lot. Even AWS and Azure have to deal with this phenomenon.
6174 – Kaprekar's Constant
The surprising revival of eastern Germany
I was in a call with some folks from Amazon (AWS) yesterday where they presented via PowerPoint.
Thanks for the feedback, I would definetly do it
Unfortunately Microsoft forces .Net developers to use Visual Studio since they don't really offer a compelling .Net/C# answer in VSCode. OmniSharp exists, but outside of toying it is worse than Visual Studio Community.

A lot of developers looking for that VSCode experience are actually switching to Rider, even those who already have a Visual Studio license/MSDN via their employer. Ultimately Visual Studio is just a laggy, micro-stuttery, monolith, with a UI designed to create Forms for Visual Basic back in 1995. The x64 migration has helped, but it feels like a band-aid.

If you're doing Web Development in Asp.net Core in 2022 you don't really feel at home, not least of all because you may be using VSCode already to do TS/SASS/CSS/JS/etc.
And Then Steve Said, ‘Let There Be an iPhone’ (2013)
Childcare is extremely expensive in this country.
One good option I've seen is people hiring an au pair.
The kids might be able to become bilingual and a young person gets a great experience living in a new place. Nanny shares can also be a great option.
Temperatures are already unbearable in South Asia when there are heatwaves. It's estimated ~1500 people per 3 days of heat wave in Bangladesh. An increase in the average by 1 or 2 C could have very serious effects.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1603322
The "technology shocks" were legal abortion and increased use of contraception, especially the pill. One of the co-authors, Janet Yellen, is Biden's Treasury secretary.
Differences in Civic and Legal Attitudes Towards Drugs
The thing is that they never realize this until it's too late... once it's too late, they are too usually too proud to ask you to come back. That's what easy money does to people, it makes them proud and complacent.

Most of the tech industry is built on easy money. Fast growth which required little effort.

All of these people think that they worked hard for their money, but what they call 'hard work', I call 'easy peasy' and what they call 'very risky', I call 'low risk'.

99.99% of the population would probably turn to communism if they had worked as hard as I did for so little reward... That said, my stance is apathetic. It's all the same to me.

If you can get by in one hopelessly crooked system, you can probably get by in a different hopelessly crooked system.
Ask HN: Functional vs. Imperative Implementation of Algorithms
There is always a tussle going on between functional vs imperative language people.

But nowadays most languages are mixed paradigm. Still there are differences.

Functional people give arguments like:

1. Code is easy to reason about

2. Can be verified easily and less prone to errors

3. Use mutation only when necessary, not as a default.

Imperative people say:

1. More efficient as close to the machine

2. More space efficient hence faster. (although functional languages can be as fast with compiler optimisations)

Functional languages are used in industry now at large scale e.g: Jane Street, Twitter, etc. Imperative language has always been used in industries. I bring up industries because it proves that the languages are scalable.

Functional programming experts say that their code is efficient because the compiler translates it to an efficient representation on the CPU. They have TCO and other things. But they don't mutate data and hence every function call creates a new data in memory taking up space. How do they overcome that?

Also we can switch between imperative and functional implementations. Basically an algorithm can be implemented eitherwise.

Now my question is where do I learn about these nitty gritty's? Should I read about compilers more? Or systems? Or what?

Can you suggest books/blogs/courses?
Tooling and an active ecosystem around a language are generally more important for most projects. Lang-feature-X, on its own, is almost never the reason a project succeeds or fails. An active community fostering discussion about the best ways to address particular problems, with an ecosystem of libraries and examples that show one or more ways to deal with those problems - that is useful. As the language develops, the ecosystem will incorporate those newer features to build on the previous approach.
Last week, it was reported that a part-time soldier in the UK army’s psychological warfare unit, the 77th Brigade, was also Twitter’s head of editorial for the Middle East.[..] Twitter says that MacMillan’s role has been reviewed by the company’s compliance teams and is not currently in violation of the platform’s policies. [..]

But any potential bias may also be connected to groups that help social networks investigate online disinformation. Facebook has engaged the Atlantic Council, whose board includes people like Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and several former or current heads of the CIA. [..]

Twitter, meanwhile, to help decide what media is state-controlled has relied on input from Freedom House, a narrative management firm that is funded largely by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a body that is in turn directly funded by the US government, and was set up in 1983 to push regime change in foreign nations. FireEye, a cybersecurity firm relied on by Facebook to decide which accounts are inauthentic, was founded in 2004 and received early funding from the CIA’s venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel.

Imagine you're from somewhere in the Middle East, and the same people doing regime change in your neighborhood, are also in charge of policing Twitter and Facebook. You would, rightly, regard those social media as enemy territory.

Or if that's too difficult, try imagining if the Russian FSB was funding Twitter's anti-disinformation groups, and Belarusan psychological warfare officers headed it's editorial department for Eastern Europe.
Range of motion. You can pick up a stick, hold it above your head, and throw it with significant power and control. A chimp can't do that.
On https://account.jetbrains.com/licenses if you click "Renew" for the appropriate product then on the next page, under the Subscription dropdown there should also be a "Purchase Period" dropdown. It's probably set to "Default" rather than "1 year", but can be changed to "2 years" or "3 years". Does that option not appear for you?
Too late to edit, so I'll add a reply: if you really feel like something in your brain is holding you back, you might want to do some tests with a specialist. I know people of all ages who have done this and benefited from the insights. GL.
When would you say that the legal framework flipped to the modern sense, from the sense used 300 years ago? Actually interested, not a troll question.