skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am someone who feels a lot like him, and what you describe would be depressing beyond belief. I'm also not all that depressed. Some of us are able to be relatively content while always holding rational beliefs about how horrible many things are. I often think that the depressed are the rational ones, while those of us who function are broken in a useful way.
Certain Spanish people especially those in bureaucracy come really close to not doing anything.
I've asked for a certificate at my local town hall that takes them 3 minutes to print. This was 20 days and three in-person visits ago. They just don't want to do it.
I told them I needed it to pay taxes, and they just shrugged their shoulders. Pretty crazy.
You need to make transit come every 10 minutes or less before it is really worth it. In places with really bad traffic - Manhattan for example - you can sometimes get by with worse service, but 10 minutes between service is minimal service - cars are overall cheap and they go when you want to, transit needs to compete with that.
Do doctors learn about surgery on the beach in those countries? Or do they work extremely hard for years and years?

Together with millions of other highly specialized and trained people that effectively pay for the social safety net?
> The only reliable way to have bug-free code is to prove it. It requires solid mathematical foundations and a programming language that allows formal proofs.

I'm going to be the "actually" guy and say that, actually, you can formally verify some studff about programs written in traditional/mainstream languages, like C. Matter of fact, this is a pretty lively research area, with some tools like CBMC [0] and Infer [1] also getting significant adoption in the industry.

[0]: https://github.com/diffblue/cbmc

[1]: https://fbinfer.com/
I am taking notes for a sci-fi romance novel.
I believe the movie focuses on what was about a page and a half in the book, and expands that into an entire movie. They're related, but you're right that they're not telling the same story.

Even so, Philip K Dick was apparently very enthusiastic about what Ridley Scott did with his story.
Modern science differs from Middle Earth knowledge in having the willingness to admit ignorance. No scientific law, concept, theory or idea is sacred.

I don't think Middle Earth Christianity, Islam or whatever other premodern traditions of knowledge would agree in those two views. Everything that was important to know about the world was already known and written in the Bible, Qur'an or the Vedas.

How on earth there was going to be any secret of the universe yet to be discovered by mere immortals?
Mruby/C 3.1 has been released
What if you BYOD though? Say a Pixel...straight up Android. I'd assume they just track your data traffic at that point? Either way, it sucks.
cries in turkish lira
The “Hollow Abstraction” of Web3
The dark side of Graph Neural Networks
This is covered in the article, comparing population density with several real world cities pre-industrial revolution.
It’s great but what if the small company gets outcompeted by a competitor? Or management changes and environment deteriorates? You lose your steady salary, and if you don’t push hard to achieve then when you try to look for new jobs you find you are outcompeted or your skills outdated.

If might sound dumb to work hard to achieve but those people at the top have very little trouble finding jobs, ie they are not as dependent on a specific company to make a living.
Easily accessible guns require tools that were absent, like screw making machines etc.

There were weapons, powerful weapons at that, but they depended heavily on artisanal production even if certain groups managed to reach manufacturing scale.

Also, Middle Earth is still licking wounds from the great wars with Melkor, which took away most of the advanced regions, and what Gondor and Arnor tried to rebuild got heavily whacked down by wars.

Random subsistence farmers spread across small hamlets do not make for industrial base, whereas Saruman and Sauron could use force to speedrun the development to provide resources for their forces (as both had knowledge of how to do it, even if we only take into account their experiences during wars of Beleriand - meanwhile the wizards other than Saruman stick to their oath of non-interference)
The BuzzFeed SPAC Fiasco Is Only Getting Worse
Thank you for elaborating!
I still have a question though if you don't mind? Wouldn't a Wordpress or Ghost or anything similar be that GUI? I understand that neither Wordpress or Ghost is SSG but I simply don't see why a photographer, let's say, would care about the underlying technology as long as their art is published online on a nice-looking web page?
I am not trying to downplay your idea. Just really curious if I am not missing an interesting, niche project idea here.
Thank you
Scientists find remains of cannibalized planets in Jupiter's cloud-covered belly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN_Games

(also known as Zone.com - formerly known as The Village, Internet Gaming Zone, MSN Gaming Zone, and MSN Games by Zone.com)
hmm, does he do weed, based on some of his tweets... um...
Very not relevant to the case in question, in which the TLD follows the norm: it is the title of a local paper.
Good point, but if my package contained illegal material, I'd know I'm being played. Of course, they'd just arrest me instead in that case, but maybe that's preferable?
Ask HN: What has replaced lanyrd as a way to find tech conferences?
> Formica, who has been in the UK for almost three decades, said in a telephone interview that his departure was down to personal reasons, including wanting to be closer to elderly parents. He plans to move back to his native Australia.

> “I just want to go sit at the beach and do nothing,” he said in the interview. “I’m not thinking about anything else.”

Slightly misleading / clickbaity title. It sounds like it was his response to "what's next" and he wants to enjoy some downtime. Not that he never plans to do anything else but sit on the beach and do nothing.
I've followed on and off what Lukas has done over the years since the Amiga expansion board he did a few years ago, lot of fun projects, we should all do more of this kind of stuff.
The hardest things in CS are also the simplest things:

* Strings (think Unicode, collations, string sizes, etc)

* Numbers (think currencies, precision, explaining floats to people, etc)

* Dates (as mentioned in the post)

And it's funny that we start teaching programming with these concepts.
This is just covering his ass. I remember when the CEO of a popular startup decided to step down to "spend more time with my family" and it was picked up be the media as a nice story about a man who feels it's OK to stay at home, etc. It was a total fabrication made up only to not make the struggling startup look bad and failing. Firing the CEO is a bad look.

They brought in a new CEO, the company went public years later and is doing splendid, but it was contentious for awhile.
The UK's Planet Computers already occupy that niche, albeit with a focus on Android (although Linux can be installed on their Gemini PDA and Cosmo Communicator models): I'm waiting on the (long-delayed by COVID19 factory shutdowns and supply chain dislocation) [Astro Slide 5G](https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/astro-slide-5g-transforme...), which looks like an interesting -- if obsolescent on delivery any month now -- smartphone/keyboard/PDA hybrid.
Yes, it was the morning after the Russian invasion. I just wasn't on the internet. Before that moment, Russia was just posturing on the border.

This is my point, it's easy to just not know something at any point in time, let alone some things you will only know if you have varying news sources, even if it's many years old.

How many of your friends, family and acquaintances know about the civil war in Ukraine for the nearly past decade?
>All in, I get the idea. Engage with the community and participate in discussions before doing self-promotion, which makes a ton of sense.

No. I can't speak for anyone else, but I generally ignore/downvote "self-promotion" type stuff. And AFAICT, others tend to do so too.

If you want to be a part of this community, great!

If you just want to use HN to shill whatever it is you want to shill, and think that a few comments here or there gives you license to spam here, you're wrong.

That said, I'm not telling you what to do, say or think. Just a bit of friendly advice.

Good luck and I look forward to your contributions to the community.
I think we don’t have ENOUGH frightening architecture. Where are all the gargoyles? The Dark Arcos?

I’m talking about REAL character, here, the stuff children will remember the rest of their lives and tell their grandchildren.
perhaps they stayed up all night finding a mental connection as they discussed quantum physics late into the night.
For the Cybersecurity field, I would also advice to join some of the Cybersecurity (offsec and defsec) discord channels, and generally the communities surrounding CS. There you can at least scope the topics. As for finding a entry level Cybersecurity job; I don't think that blogging is a good route to take, unless you really have some skills to show off. But I do see companies hiring people right after attaining certain certificates + being active in online communities.
I feel you. It comes down to prioritise a d you have made yours clean. As many others act the same there are only very few at the meeting to voice with your side. We only need to mobilize a few to go to one meeting....
Maybe there is correlation between them? Isolated people don't have energy to do those things and then feel even worse and its a negative feedback cycle.
I think almost everyone who writes Haskell has in the past written in other languages, and clearly those who stick with it prefer it.

I'm personally far more productive in Haskell than in any other language I've tried. I don't know what's the Right Way, but it's the Best Way I've found so far.
Yeah I don't think I've ever used a sharpening system that let me go from "well at least it cuts things now, that's better" to shaving-sharp.
Official Codification of Party Ban
> I also don't recall running into Nazgul and Orcs while growing up near Oslo, and imagine facing that might have been a rather severe deterrent to growth.

But you did have trolls, right? :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trollhunter
Being enlisted in the armed forces is a hard go, what with little pay and stability. Being an officer is better but that requires time/OCS or college. Once through college, there's way more lucrative ways of going than military. Yeah, there's a tradition in some families and they continue to serve. But the military is seen as more a right-wing activity, and of late, there's a chance you'll have to actually do what you're trained to do...

I remember when Desert Shield was spinning up and pretty much all med-tech people who had taken the King's Shilling were being called up. They complained about possible career impact but they were reminded about contracts, etc. The world's a little unstable at the moment and that has to be off-putting. And the stories out of the Afghan and Middle-Eastern campaigns were probably off-putting as well.
Yes, scanning still needs to be done manually, but the use of hand scanners does make the shopping process more efficient. Customers can bag the products directly while shopping, instead of having to take them all out of the cart to have them scanned and bagged at the cashier.
Tolkien actually addressed Arthurian legend immediately after that quote I posted:

> Of course there was and is all the Arthurian world, but powerful as it is, it is imperfectly naturalized, associated with the soil of Britain but not with English; and does not replace what I felt to be missing. For one thing its 'faerie' is too lavish, and fantastical, incoherent and repetitive. For another and more important thing: it is involved in, and explicitly contains the Christian religion.
when I was a child in SF Bay Area, there were craftspeople, furniture, print making and litho, special castings, and among some heavy printing press, large scale painting. silver and gold smithing and more. That list is only things I saw with my own eyes. Post-2000 and especially post-covid I would be very surprised to see one percent of those, operating as a self-sustaining small business. Small business continues to close in a hundred categories.
Not that salary alone should stop you, but if you look on glassdoor for the range of salaries of COBOL devs vs react or Go, the median is lower and the ceiling is also lower.

If you just want to have fun with older tech that's totally fair.
The article is by “Tyler Durden”, is it a joke ?
If you're going down the rabbit hole of writing complex types, check out Dan Vanderkam's "The Display of Types" post[0]. It goes into how types show up in editors and error messages and such, and has a bunch of tricks for improving type readability. I really wish I read it sooner!

[0]: https://effectivetypescript.com/2022/02/25/gentips-4-display...
I don't disagree, I think it is easy to install on a bare metal cluster, although I think using HA Proxy is just as easy and probably a better solution. I was just pointing out that it has been in beta for a very long time.
thats the one!
Yeah I’ve def had grey market Levi’s jeans. As in, as far as I could tell, made by same company, but clearly had manufacturing defects that I’d never had to worry about from a store or said companies website. So somebody was putting factory seconds in the bin…. As another poster said, items intended for different markets are common too.
Map of Bell Systems Telephone Network (1910)
but she introduced him to a side of himself he never knew, now, they site on the beach and write music and poetry together
> How are you posing this as a bad thing?

It should be self-evidently a bad thing that a small number of people benefit from artificially low prices, up to 1/3rd of whom are not low income (from what I've read).

I don't have a strong opinion on whether rent should be "allowed to rise above inflation", though I don't think you understand how pricing works in a market system. There is a market clearing price, which is not dictated by the price that the owners buy it for.

I'm not opposed to more radical solutions to housing distribution, as a lifelong renter I'm certainly not happy about the money I pay in rent annually, but I don't see how the status quo of rent control does much to help control prices.

I also pay a very high rent currently, but my landlord also loses money on the building maintenance and upkeep, as well as regulatory compliance costs. So it's not that simple.
Have you been outside of US? For example in Germany, good luck using "free healthcare". If you need a surgery, you will be on a long wait list and will really need a luck to live until your turn.

Universal healthcare systems, at the moment, have very bad supply/demand problem, especially in developed countries, where population getting extremely old. And it's unclear how it can be solved.
The Psion Series 7 was a netbook-sized machine with a VGA screen. Came along just too soon to have wifi and bluetooth built-in, just too late to be competitive with the ever-shrinking notebooks like the Toshiba Libretto range.

The nearest thing to psion devices today are made by [Planet Coputers](https://www.www3.planetcom.co.uk/); their keyboards are designed by Martin Riddiford (the designer of the Psion Series 3 and 5 machines), and with fast charging over USB-C they're as close to what you're asking for as you'll find today.
I recently got kicked from a hiring process after a good third round call with the CTO because at some point I’d refused to do a leetcode. I hadn’t, but I had pushed back and asked why round one was a hackerank round, when it was a senior management SRE-team position. Not normally a role with a lot of leetcode. I’d only asked why it was necessary, not refused it. In that actual interview the interviewer (their principle engineer) said he’d looked at my resume as prep, wondered why HR even scheduled a leetcode and skipped the code review and asked questions instead.

He passed me. 2 rounds later the recruiter decided he didn’t lie I’d pushed back early on.

Personally I hate leetcode style challenges and seldom use them. Designing our recent hiring process for our org I included a take-home, but made sure it:

- time limited to 2-4 hours

- had the team practice and verify it’s doable

- clear objectives

- clear marking criteria

- any language they want

It came down to a somewhat typical platform eng/sre/DevOps type task of working with APIs, so chose our company’s public API, so it’s somewhat relevant and interesting, and asking the candidate to write something to read and process our API data.

The really key goal being to weed out people who:

- just can’t write any code at all

- don’t approach problems in a code-first repeatable way.

I learn a lot through running it, and improved the take-home in many ways based on feedback.

The rubric offered the option to do it in a session as a leet-code style round, no one ever asked for that out of hundreds of candidates.
A reporter tried the AI Instagram wants to use to verify age
Glad to see the cave-man like debugging is brought up.

Haskell stops many classes of bugs, but lord help you if you've made a complex logical mistake somewhere along the line and are trying to figure out where you went wrong. It's high school printf debugging all over again except you can't even reason about order of execution due to lazy evaluation.

I'm reasonably proficient in a number of languages, including Python, JS, C, C++, Prolog, Java, I even have a decent amount of Forth under my belt. Nowhere else have I experienced the complete dearth of tooling that is the Haskell ecosystem. The LSP is a step in the right direction but merely a first step.
You could learn some mainframe stuff using the Hercules emulator[1], but you'd have to find some z/OS installation media somewhere, and I'm not sure if that might infringe copyright or something. Also, JCL is absolutely horrible IMO.

[1] http://www.hercules-390.org/
Start from here: http://www.hercules-390.org/

This is Hercules, an emulator for old mainframes. They also have COBOL and other important languages like JCL, the job control language.

Here the "turnkey" distribution that installs everything for you: https://wotho.ethz.ch/tk4-/

A mainframe community from youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/moshix

Have fun.
a CEO hooking up with an intern would be a great reason to quit and keep the reasons under the rug
Parallel question: what would be better to learn job market wise right now, Cobol, C# or Java?
To Washington's relief, GlobalWafers to spend $5B on Texas plant
20% is an extreme minority.
So the GUI is in Qt and the internal engine in Rust. Do you call Rust code from cpp? It's less common in that direction, how was your experience doing it? any obvious traps?
The heat is on: Traces of fire uncovered dating back at least 800k years
W3C to become a public-interest non-profit organization
Having lived in Europe all my life, I have yet to find one country with a well-working universal healthcare. Almost every single universal healthcare worker I met is overworked, rude, or straight up not even showing up.
I keep hearing stories on a weekly basis in my friend circle that people are turned away and/or not given adequate care. They just treat you like an interruption of their day and not the reason they are there for.
AI spotlights human cognitive glitch: Mistaking fluent speech for fluent thought
The government is far more efficient when it's competent because it has access to eminent domain and is recession proof. It doesn't need to deal with margin calls during recessions, has much less risk doing development, and doesnt need profit to fund new investments, so it can move faster and cheaper with greater scale.

You've never seen it work because you're presumably American, and as the title points out, America can't build anything anymore. If you care about you're country's wellbeing, that needs to be fixed, and building affordable housing efficiently and more hands on without piles of unaccountable subcontractors is a great way to get started.
Yeah, I don't think they're "paid accordingly" - if you're looking for money, just learn Java, it's easier to find resources on and it pays WAY better.
For a portable device I'd love to see a layout/controller like this [0]. I owned one for a while over 10 years ago, and while it took a while to get used to it, it was great for typing text. I gave up on it because I rely a lot on hjkl for movement everywhere and symbols for programming weren't super accessible, so it wasn't really all that convenient for my main use case, but I'd use it over any 7-inch physical keyboard (or virtual keyboard, of course).

Personally I don't think there's a good traditional (as in, flat and square mesh of keys) keyboard in those size ranges. For me it's regular keyboard if there's space, gamepad-like at around the 7 inch size, then BlackBerry style if any smaller.

[0] http://www.alphagrips.com/
I use basically variations of copy-pasted code from tutorials and (I think) pymonad. I keep reimplementing things because the last API had warts. Maybe one day I'll have a library.
I'll keep saying this, as with others.... Don't put anything on-line or on your phone or anywhere on other people's servers that you don't want revealed to all and sundry. If it's on-line it can be subpoened.

In the 50's and 60's they talked about Big Brother and The Man and how to avoid them. We've made Tech into Big Brother/The Man and have done it willingly. "Hey Alexa, narc on me please..."
Being an officer in the military is also a hard go unless you like being a politician with a gun. Gone are the days when mere ability and talent as a leader would get you to O-6 and beyond; now you're lucky to make O-4 if you aren't playing politics more than being a warrior/sailor/etc. This is why so many good officers get out after one tour: they see who is left above them on the ladder and what those people did to get there and they would rather apply their talents in civilian life.
Strange that this came up on HN. I do hand tool woodworking and respect Chris Schwarz a lot (have a few of his books). I had not seen this gizmo before. I’m curious to try it now. Looks like it’s still sold at Lee Valley.