skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meta's hints at “self-selection” as layoffs ramp up
> see what metrics one can use to visualise this sentimen

the Gini coefficient goes some way.

In percent:

Norway 27.6

US 41.5

Brazil 53.4

See https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gini-coef...
Hilarious. Do governments not realize when you broadly offer things that improve affordability it just increases prices but doesn’t really get people into houses (except for a few first movers)?

It’s like fighting inflation by giving out money.

Canada offered 40 year mortgages (federally insured) and then quickly stopped when prices jumped with people maxing out their “lower payments”.
I’m a Sonic customer, and have a fully working IPv6 connection from them.
I've had a similar experience, especially with skin tones. The out of camera jpegs can be a little aggressive in making skin and grass colors "pop", but they still beat Darktable (even with significant tinkering).
Curious on why self hosted MC vs Elasticache MC?
Brandon Roberts created a POC starter for Angular+Vite :

https://twitter.com/brandontroberts/status/15429548608989102...
It's high time we have native local sandboxed and easy to install apps again. Maybe through browser for ui api if we don't know anything else, maybe using a store. I'm not sure somebody has to watch everything I do on a pc.
The drop in wealth isn't even close to linear... the pareto principle suggests the decline would follow a much steeper curve...

A percentile drop of that amount is likely 2-3 orders of magnitude smaller.

Probably not poor by any means... I don't see most of those girls being happy pairing up with anyone below upper middle class..

Equivalent of 50mm usd to 1mm
As a contributor to Tatoeba, I'm always interested in checking out how people use our data.

The interface needs work to be usable on mobile, but I guess you know that.

I'm not sure whether the TTS you're using is really good enough to be usable for learning a language. I tried it in German and noticed quite a few TTS bugs, like pronouncing "Tu" as if it were an acronym "TU" instead of the verb "Do", as well as switching to an English pronunciation next to English names (pronouncing "Hallo Roger" more like "Hello Roger").

Tatoeba also has many recordings in quite a few languages (e.g. German https://tatoeba.org/en/audio/index/deu ) You should try using them if possible. For download instructions, see https://tatoeba.org/en/downloads
> Then, industry took that distributed approach and strapped project and team management systems with web based front ends like Github, GitLab, etc. around git and created CI/CD pipelines that built ontop of or in parallel to those environments--all of which were centralized.

A different view on this is that my CI system is a kind of colleague, responsible for a lot of what testers, ops, and build eng people toiled at before. It is another aspect of the decentralized system where a robot can also check out and work with the code even while humans continue to write more, which is considerably more painful under e.g. the SVN model. My human colleagues and I still share plenty of code directly, via git pulls and other tools.
The Pilgrim's progress. John Bunyan
Count of Monte Cristo
I'm not sure that the solution for loud talking is more loud talking.

I mean when our washing machine goes into its death spin cycle, we don't stop talking.

Instead we up the volume or move away and enjoy the benefits of the inverse square law at 6db per doubling of distance.

On the other hand, it sounds like a great jumping off point for a Youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/c/simonegiertz
The downside is you will waste a lot of time and money and will ultimately accomplish nothing. Not what you want to hear but it’s the truth.

SPACs are mostly scams and most have done very poorly. You got caught up in one, reap what you sow.
Unobvious things you need to know about key-value stores
Thank you for sharing that seed. Yes, I definitely feel some therapeutic role of it.
Dutch university wins big after Bitcoin ransom returned
Well, there are already companies that accept nigh-unlimited liability for the consequences of car accidents - insurance companies. And drivers are used to paying enough in insurance premiums to cover the costs of the payouts.

Accepting liability for car accidents isn't necessarily a death sentence for a car company, any more that it is for an insurance company. Just instead of paying a $x00/year insurance fee you'll be paying an $x00/year self-driving subscription fee.
I can't tell if this is a 'by definition' comment or if you mean that Netflix is the only major service which blocks VPN IPs.

The latter isn't quite true, sometimes a site is having a bad day and sets up Cloudflare rules which make VPN access impractical or impossible, but it's more true than not: I can usually use Netflix off a VPN, just not consistently.
Last I tested Vite (6 mo ago) it didn't support web3 lib and a few others. Has anyone tested recently?
It really isn't. You likely have a phone, there's a whole App Store full of calculators, and in a pinch there's always Spotlight.

PCalc has been on iPad since just after iPad launched. https://www.loopinsight.com/2010/04/07/pcalc-now-available-f...
Thanks for the link, I hadn’t seen that (not from buzzfeed). I agree the company won’t be in a strong financial position to pay out a huge penalty, but they have plenty to pay me a settlement for a fraction of my damages (real money to me and insignificant on the scale of a public company).

Interestingly, the law firm we’ve spoken too seems to want to avoid arbitration (the opposite of the buzzfeed case). Maybe that depends on the arbitration terms and end goal. (For us I assume it would be a pre-trial settlement.)
In theory, how would a commoner marry into aristocracy? Asking for a friend.
I'd recommend using ESBuild directly. The following article helped me recently to figure out how to build a browser-side library to publish to NPM, as well as bundling a Node.js server to deploy.

Build A Library With esbuild - How to bundle ESM, IIFE or CommonJS libraries with esbuild

https://medium.com/geekculture/build-a-library-with-esbuild-...

---

I had to figure out a trick for Node side to exclude external modules. In my build script:

const esbuild = require('esbuild')
const { dependencies, peerDependencies } = require('./package.json')

const external = [
...Object.keys(dependencies),
...Object.keys(peerDependencies)
]

await esbuild
.build({
entryPoints: ['src/index.ts'],
outfile: 'lib/index.mjs',
bundle: true,
sourcemap: false,
minify: false,
splitting: false,
format: 'esm',
target: ['esnext'],
external
}),
HAL Laboratory's Three Arcade Ports
Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
No. It's sacred to travel to a precinct polling station, and stand in line so as to hand mark a paper ballot. Also, whatever the count is at midnight Wednesday, November 4, 2020 should be the official results.

Sarcasm aside, online voting can't really be recounted or audited. Vote by mail states like CO did risk limiting audits to increase confidence that tabulations are correct. It isn't out of the question that rolling over a carry digit fails. It's very low probability, but it could happen. Without a risk limiting audit, you just won't know

There's a lot of material on this topic from the 200x's, the... unusual... 2000 and 2004 presidential elections caused a lot of examination of voting systems and procedures. Internet voting, as it was called back then, was proposed and scrutinized closely, and found lacking.
If I’m reading this correctly this survey only focuses on web usage. They even go to the point where their no. 1 takeaway at the end is „design your mobile web site first“.

So I guess the web really did win, even on mobile.
I’ve always wondered but if we were blind would we be able to ever know anything about “speed of light” or photons?
Can second that, I use Vite to bundle the assets for a static site, and it… just works. Frontend tooling like I expect it to.
Pretty sure companies force their app for monetization reasons and because they know it’s a better experience and want you to see that.

I remember when Reddit started throwing the app in my face everyday until I eventually downloaded it. Now I always open for an app. Even for newspapers. The web experience on mobile blows.
Off topic:

"I could care less.”

I was under the impression only Americans use that phase, and others like Brits and Canadians would use I couldn't care less.
Don't forget the question mark at the end of the clue, it's quite significant!
Ask HN: What tricks did older word processors use to keep up with fast typing?
For example, what did WordPerfect 5 do in this regard that was noticeable to the user?
Yeah, when I worked for Microsoft it was pretty common.
Wonderful share, thank you. The voice of this is so pitch-perfectly 20th century American. Full of folksy little observations that are actually enormous in their scope without being remotely alienating, like this one:

"It looked like only a few of the bears knew how to use fire and were carrying the others along. But isn’t that how it is with everything?"
Durable "streaks" are built on worthwhile days.

Focus on the days, and the streak will take care of itself.

Focus on the streak, and one day you might realize that it hasn't been worth keeping for a long, long time.
Lol, I was about to comment here that I opened the docs, read a few pages, and still don't know how this works or how is it different from react for example.
Meditation is an overloaded term, and one of the overloads is (IMO) from people who are practicing a symptom of a more aware mind without knowing the goal.

Others above and below have pointed out a few great points about “meditation” that I find relevant:

- It serves to introduce a delay between stimulus and action

- It gives you the time to discover subconscious thoughts that you haven’t noticed prior that may be causing negative emotions like anxiety

I personally meditate by taking the time to think extensively about things people say to me and things I feel when I’m not in some urgent situation. Also, my extremely supportive and mindful wife and therapist are highly involved in this and I’d never have found success without them. I have a history of anger and anxiety issues. The mindfulness I describe has been my ticket out of the personal impulsive hell I built into my early 30s. Others discovered their ticket via meditation of the breathing, etc.

For me, meditation is sitting at my desk, sometimes idly and sometimes not, contemplating everything I feel, why I feel it, if it’s valid, what others feel, what my goals are (most important part), what my next steps toward those goals are (other most important part), etc.

Hope this is insightful. I think meditation is a very weakly defined term in the US.
Röde Orm / The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Ships

I guess it's a swedish favourite, a viking historical fiction / adventure novel. Fond memories since I was a teenager. I have only read it twice.
Software engineers: "No, it's going to be different for us!"

Education still doesn't prevent us from falling in particular traps.
And if you click through to see the US, it’s over 50%.
And it’s from the guy who built Vue - maybe try that out too? You’d be surprised to get the same feeling there :-)
I hadn't followed the link in article originally to get to https://mobile.twitter.com/RonAvitzur/status/146102321572409.... So literally the process of parsing the expression and producing the byte code is the performance challenge now? Or is it also walking the bytecode to do anything?

My basic question would be: why not go back to flex/bison/yacc/whatever via C-FFI? (But I think it would still be bad, since you'll want to get to a Swift data structure for your ops and those will still have the Arc issues)
The point (in theory) is that in efficient markets you can choose between different companies offering a product/service and that competition drives down prices / costs. The healthcare market in the US is very much not a competitive market (in part due to transparency issues which this is trying to address, in part because of the perverse incentives in the health insurance system).

It's not so easy to have a competitive marketplace for government services (though I would not be surprised if the US saw the emergence of private police forces now, for those parents who actually want police officers that have a duty to protect their kids...)
The best thing to do in this scenario is to go ahead and interview in a few small companies and startup’s. At least 6 interviews ideally
If you have no professional experience yet apply to companies asking for 1y experience. They are still open to fresh graduates and even if they’re not for that role they could open up an internship opportunity.

Don’t prepare for the first three interviews, just treat them as practice.

Prepare a little bit for the next three.

Internships are great if you want to experiment and see what you like. Do a couple internships in different kinds of roles or industries based on what you’re interested in.

Start interviewing without expecting to get a job or preparing. This will allow you to be less stressed during the interview and you will be able to learn better.

Treat interviewing like learning a new programming language. Start with a hello world.
Indeed, while 1,500 may look impressive, 30x50, less so.
And it's also possible that resolving the issues between relativity and quantum mechanics will have no implications relevant to FTL and such. In fact there's no particular reason to expect that it would. So we're back to just flat out speculation.

That's fine by itself, I love speculation, but that doesn't make this or that probable. It's the extending such speculation to making high confidence definitive statements, as though something's been demonstrated or proved likely, that I'm objecting to.
It seems dev has become a subculture forest. Everything is simple if you're in that group and follow the problems and ideas around.
Essays by Montaigne. The best way I can describe Montaigne is it’s like talking to a brilliant, compassionate best friend.
The problem with V2X (vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure) is that it is impossible to make it secure. Lots of work has been done on V2X protocols and ideas of operations, and none of them solve the fundamental problem that no one has a clue as to how to make such a large scale system secure against hostile actors. At best, every car would have to be continuously solving a Byzantine Generals problem for all V2X inputs, and those "solutions" don't really solve the problem.

Either the car is capable enough of operating by itself that V2X information is non-essential, or it is an extortion and assassination machine waiting to happen. Think ransomware locking away your documents and family pictures is bad already? Try "pay us 10 bitcoins or you die in a car accident on your commute home today".
Ah! I have this on my table right now.
This interpreter for a BASIC subset very much like Tiny BASIC, which was done for the Altair as a project at PCC (The People's Computer Company) in the mid-1970's. I am looking forward to reading the code.
Yes, the Ising model is complicated but so are issues surrounding zero point energy, vitrual particles and what drives the randomness of quantum physics. There are many unanswered questions remaining about them.

Here, the broader question can also be asked in connection with electric fields and exactly what is a 'potential' and what 'drives' it. Similarly, what's
'inside' the weak and strong forces? Take a hypothetical: if one were able to get inside the weak force field and sample and analyze some of its 'force' component what would one find?

Even at the highest level of physics we still talk about forces and fields as if they're some kind of axiomatic given.
i dont think you find words like "deprecated" or "sunsetted" in any field as much as front end websh*t.

react has changed a lot. i mean hooks pretty much is a rewrite or rethink of core concepts. nothing wrong with that per se, just that things just move to fast, there is no respect for long term stability and web seems to have a greater share of shiny new thing contrarian hipsters.
Not quitting of course, but I hate it when my Garmin watch informs me that the activity I just did has not improved my condition in any way.
I'll be the one who gets blamed for that, but not how to do so without well defined and properly verified requirements.

(see point about about the not understanding what is being built and constantly changing the scope)
"What if it was possible to have a local build system that would run tests etc and provide a cryptographically secure hash proving that the tests passed"

On who's system? Your? Mine? Someone else's? The purpose of CI is consistent continuous integration in a same like manner, not relying on developer A, B or C's systems which may vary greatly.
i don’t think you understand what unions are for

also, for every engineer, there is one who will claim to be able to do the job cheaper. that is why we need unions. that, and to get rid of leetcode. people already went to college and that should be enough.
It is not serving any purpose to demonstrate that your one-liner summary is not corresponding to the reality of the long history of US-RU posturing that resulted into the situation today. There is only one factual truth in that line, which does not unpack into your second and third conclusions.

What I do want to react to is you last sentence to point out that this is exactly the "self-righteousness" I point out in the narrative which that posted video repeats (it is an old one). It is your god given right to hold that view irrespective of anything, Im just pointing out when talking about state-state interaction such attitude leads only to one outcome, total war. And this is exactly where we are headed...
Using Breadth-First Search as path finding algorithm
Here's a link that gives you 30 days for Sam Harris's meditation app. I don't if this link works only once, if so let's change emails and I can generate a fresh link. I believe I don't personally gain anything if you sign up via this.

https://dynamic.wakingup.com/shareOpenAccess/e9c4eb

You can do the introductory course in that time by allocating about 20 minutes every day.

I was like you, had been meditating and studying buddhism for years. Sam's app isn't life changing (like almost nothing is) but it was different enough from what I've tried previously that it gave me a new perspective to the whole thing. Perhaps it could do a similar thing for you.
it's a quadrilogy, not a book, but I'd pick Ada Palmer's _Terra Ignota_ series without hesitation. I'm comfortable arguing for it fitting within the constraint of the question, largely because it is making one sustained argument that's carried out throughout the entire series -- it's very much one book that happens to be like 4000 pages long rather than four separate books.

Anyway, Ada Palmer is a sci-fi writer whose day job is as a professor of Renaissance and Enlightenment-era European philosophy, and everything in this series (set in the 2500s in a world where the geographical nation state collapsed and world governments are now large voluntary organizations) is heavily informed by her training as a historian of philosophy.

She finished the series last year, and though each book has gotten nominated for the big awards, she's had the misfortune of publishing on more or less the same schedule as N.K. Jemisin, whose stuff typically wins the Hugo, Nebula, or both. The fandom is teensy tiny -- I've seen it described as "six people and a shoelace" -- but most people who read it get fanatically devoted to it.
> they don't first explain the problem they are solving

I think you're right about this and the "hero text" on their landing page should explain that in one crisp sentence. I imagine the authors of the project just aren't good at this stuff so hope they read this thread and refine the messaging.
Kurt Vonnegut "Breakfast of Champions": A yearly reminder that despite the terrible cruelty of human society and the awful behavior of many people and the indifference of most others, there are good people who shine love and creativity and it's worth staying alive to try to find these people to make life bearable.
The Book of the New Sun. I've already read it 6-ish times, with a different interpretation every time, and I have every reason to believe that would continue indefinitely. I would say The Book of the Long Sun and The Book of the Short Sun, since I like them better, but there's no way to justify calling them one book when, even in fiction, they're 2 different books.

> (Feel free to substitute “the next 10 years“ for “the rest of your life“.)

... Say... What do you know that I don't?
I think Weird Al did it well https://youtu.be/8Gv0H-vPoDc?t=67
Thanks for the dose of negativity but I left long before SPAC was the path and I’ve already sold for more than I ever expected the stock to be worth. The question is, should they get away with mishandling my stock to their benefit.
I just reread LotR, and concur. Better than I remember and makes me sad about the movies anew. But I’m a romantic sucker.
Yeah, this kind of check is useful since I sometimes dock my phone and use it with a keyboard, mouse, and 27 inch display and sites and native apps that expect the mouse cursor to be a very precise finger are annoying to use. Selecting text is particularly annoying.
The web won in the space of casual interaction and SaaS interfaces. Native is still a lot better for "pro" tools of every kind.
You shouldn't be looking for `love hack`.
Your viewing dating as a bug worth solving through teaching, activities and numbers. I view love kind as a very special kind of friendship. And friendship is not really planned. Your best friend might be very different from what a planned best friend would look like. But, life brought you this best friend and it stuck for the best. I would encourage you to just accept whatever comes your way as you would with any beginning of friendship, and accept to let it grow. :)
Permutation City by Greg Egan. The central idea presented in this scifi novel is so compelling, I can't help but feel there is some truth in it. Also, I never feel I understood everything completely. Re reading helps clarify some new question every time.
I think the idea is that if you aggregate enough of this junk, some of the noise is canceled out--possibly enough to recover the signal.
Disk failures in the real world: What does an MTTF of 1M hours mean to you?
Interestingly, Disney has included Nice Classification class 06 in their trademark, which basically seems to cover all sorts of metalworks and products made from metal in general. Class 40 (which in addition to welding covers all sorts of random other services, including printing both classic and 3D, glass making, cheese refining, waste separation, …) on the other hand isn't included, so a Mickey Mouse-branded welding business should in theory be fine as long as you don't try to sell Mickey Mouse-branded steel girders or pipes as well :-)
Totally agree. It's something I noticed a lot when I was living in SV, and I think a symptom of the cultural zeitgeist combined with the notorious superficiality of the typical California crowd.

My first wife's sister was a typical example, perfect on paper but a total trainwreck IRL. Her constant mindfulness retreats and yoga sessions (she was an instructor) had reinforced her self-image to such an extent that she couldn't see herself as anything but blameless in any manifest issue with another person while in reality, she was one of the worst narcissists I've ever encountered and a pathological manipulator to boot.

I'm not against activities such as meditation or yoga, as long as they're framed properly. They're inherently escapist and do not magically make someone a better person.