skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a few diverging forms of Mexican food in the US; Taco Bell is the mass-market version of the 1960s school of thought that said "I've already browned this hamburger meat; if I put the rest of our old jar of ground cumin on it, that makes it 'authentic'." Midwesterners with no Hispanic ancestry at all who grew up with "taco night" are familiar with this. Then there's the taqueria style, where people who don't like cilantro or onions suffer through them anyway, because at least it's 'authentic'. And then there's the Chipotle "we're gonna need a bigger tortilla" style where any pretense at 'authenticity' was traded for jamming another starch in there.
All of that's great... but wouldn't it be much better to render the latex, mermaid etc server side? I'm a bit baffled that apparently Hugo can't do that.
> So you get around the taxation

And pay a lot more tax in the process, than if you were able to exercise early. IRS always has to have its cake and eat it.
If you want bigger than 32 bits but not the whole 64 bits (up to 53 bits I think) you can just do Math.floor(). But you'll want a range check in that case.

On that note: why does |0 and >>>0 needlessly chop to 32 bits when they can represent more?
Still waiting to find one of those - so far I've only found the 500mAh versions.
Exactly. It’s death by a thousand cuts.

Half of my family is in fire service and we live in an old city - houses don’t burn down anymore for a variety of reasons and haven’t since the 80s. The response to any critique of building code generally amounts to “better than dying in a fire”- it’s intellectually lazy.

For a remodel project I did a few years ago, easily 30% of the costs were driven by compliance requirements that have no meaningful impact on safety. Ended up spending something like $5k in unnecessary plumbing because per code, I cant be trusted to not scald myself in the bath! New lines required copper and flux, because the city code is driven by the plumbers union, etc.
Bitcoin works fine for payments, just hope you didn’t put your life savings into it at the top of the bubble.
No, it's a GIF. This is explained in the FAQ I linked, but the file suffix (which probably made you think it's a JPG) doesn't matter. If you check the magic number, it's a GIF.

I changed the file suffix to "trick" some apps/extensions into treating it as an image instead of a movie.
This rings so true with me. I have a side project [1] that I try to promote and it always feels hard. Where do I start? Should I post comments in random subreddits? Should I write blog posts that may nobody read in the end? Start doing ads? I think having the multiple options kinda freezes me and it is so hard to start doing something.

[1] https://androidcalculator.com/
Please note that this app ("Onion Browser") is not affiliated with the official Tor project [1], and their website never clarifies that anywhere. Intentionally very misleading, and leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

The code does appear to be open source, but on iOS devices there is NO WAY to ensure the code that's on the GitHub page [2] is what's running on your device, and sideloading isn't a realistic option either.

[1]: https://torproject.org/

[2]: https://github.com/onionbrowser/onionbrowser

CORRECTION: As child comments point out, it appears that this app is loosely affiliated with the Tor project, and is recommended by them.
Fast track jobs for laid off people
Sound concept, used https://bountify.co/ over the years for small coding tasks, really good pool of engineers.
So so, electronic waste landing everywhere while illusion of closed loop electronic recycling is being sold as a solution. My proposition: deposit of 25€ for small electrical devices and 50€ and more for bigger ones so that these do not land in landfills.
Are you sure? I can't help but think of the VW emissions scandal. A "quick update" might seem a better choice to some managers than grounding the fleet.
Absolutely, in fact they already have! We support bounty payouts from (and to) anywhere that Stripe does. - Ioannis
We’re in a content renaissance. We have more access to more content at completely unsustainable prices.
Since I've read that the key WASM person quit her job after a burnout, I'm quite pessimistic about WASM. Not surprised if it dies in future years.

To be completely honest, WASM helps having cross platforms things, which is ALWAYS against the interests of companies who always divide their market territories to guarantees steady revenues. I'm also a bit curious how they managed to make WASM happen in the first place.

I'm also still waiting for C++ toolchain to directly output WASM. I haven't touched bynaryen since, but it was not a great experience.
Thanks for reading.

Yeah true, legacy code must be a factor. If most people in C++ are working in legacy code bases that don't leverage many thrid-party packages then I guess there is little desire to standardize on a third-party package manager.

Another issue is more social. C++ has lots of package managers which is almost worse than declaring Conan the standard. Communities standards are hard to retro fit I guess?

(Not to pick on C++ by the way. Every popular language eventually sees itself competing with newer incumbents. It's like the innovators dilemma for PL. )
But its a lot more than just about the "need to suffer for a foreign country", isn't it? Its about the geopolitical interest of Europe. To be dependent on an autocratic foreign power (in this case gas) shows the problems.

For example, if Russia takes over Ukraine, it would make Russia by far the largest exporter of wheat in the world (from 22% to 33%) (second: US 16%) [1]. They would gain additional power in other market commodities like corn, sunflower, steel, etc.

Russia is already playing with their resource exports, I expect them to use it more whether or not they managed to achieve their goals regarding Ukraine. And other partnerships are building and increasing too like BRICS, CSTO, SCO.

Step back and think for a second: Countries staying neutral because they are dependent on the aggressors export resources are exactly that type of influence that superpowers like to have.

Sources:
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wheat_exp...
I don't think the math works. $5k + $500/m, for 6 months: that tops out at $160,000 yearly revenue for the 20 projects. Even if it's the same 4 employees spread across all projects, that's $40k yearly salary each as a base. Sounds bad!

It'd take years for any winning bets to pay off and I don't know how you'd pay your employees.
Fyi, HN uses a limited version of markdown which doesn’t recognize standard markdown list syntax. If you want to make a bullet list, you have to put blank lines between each bullet point, like this:

——

- "No trackers, no javascript, no stylesheets"

- inline js.

- inline stylesheets.

- uses favicon which can be used for tracking.

- not self hosted.

- requires an account to sign up

- "TOS" > "Bear may disclose personally identifiable information under special circumstances, such as to comply with subpoenas or when your actions violate the Terms of Service."

- can't be bothered to indent the html.

- payment system could require real identity
Haha, genuinely curious, how did you end up linking to smart speakers instead of VR equipment?
Posting names of employees with their company affiliation on your landing page seems like a questionable move. FAANG contracts typically include a clause that the company owns any work done in your free time unless you have explicitly gone through a process to transfer ownership. Whatever work these SWEs have done on your platform, if it's successful, it's entirety possible that a FAANG will come after you/the buyer to claim their IP. Or the employees might get in hot water for leaking trade secrets if their contract work is even vaguely related to their main job.

It looks to me like you are putting everyone involved at risk for the sake of your marketing.
I have and I do use it, and it helps me a lot. But it still feels like there's an underlying laziness to myself. Maybe I should try other medication because I sort of stuck with the first one I tried, and only trialed the doses after that
An ad blocker is still a must have, and there are several available.
Dev shops aren't broken, and this idea does not make sense. No quality work can come out of it, and honestly it sounds more like a trap or a funnel for scammers to front as entrepreneurs.
Personally I'm not super familiar with its benefits if any on the server and would actually not use it on the server myself and just build binaries directly, probably using Go. But I've seen some references to Wasm on the serverside for something similar to containerization or loading plugins. It does seem less obvious to me than the client side.

What makes you say Wasm is a server side runtime / imply that it's meant to be one?
Limiting Work in Progress as a Manager
The thing is, as a solo developer, you just have to be ruthless with cost/benefit. Either I give the same experience to maybe 2% of the users, or an overall improvement to 98%. Is it ideal? No. But a lot of things are about tradeoffs and deciding where you spend your resources.

Ok, people here don't like it. They can make their own tradeoffs. But in my opinion my choice is not that crazy.
Taking 1 year of life from person a and moving it to person b is fairly neutral, yes. If, without intervention, both of them were likely to live to 80, now one of them will live to 79 and the other to 81.

That probably doesn’t matter much to either a child or a middle aged person, to be honest, since neither of them has much idea of exactly how many years they have left.

It probably matters quite a lot more to a 78 year old, though.
Sorry I'm not the person who wrote that comment, so I don't know if this is what they were thinking, it was just a guess. It is confusing for me what they meant too.
I opted not to use GH pages because I wanted to stay open to the possibility of adding some dynamic elements (e.g. comments integration)
> The central problem here is trust: either your kid trusts you enough to discuss things with you, or they don't.

I don't think it's that simple. A predator can catfish as a high school girl, send raunchy texts and images to the boy, and the boy might be tempted to engage but wouldn't tell their parents out of embarassment (just like how a teenage boy isn't going to tell their parents about their porn watching habits)
When I wrote good access, I was really thinking that Java would have needed to provide an API at least as good as JQuery, not just a low-level way to walk nodes in a tree.
Hey all! Thanks to everyone for checking our prose!

We just launched support for custom domains and plan to add image hosting shortly.

We also have two sibling services that leverage the same technology:

- https://lists.sh — microblog for lists

- https://pastes.sh — pastebin

Also happy to answer any questions!
Absolutely the Australian government have put in some questionable (bipartisan) security laws in the last few years, and Apple _may_ comply with a request under them (even though it famously hasn't many times).

However the Australian government attacking you specifically isn't the only problem this solves.
I checked and it looks like Mike Tigas is a Tor Project core member, he is listed here as author of iOS Onion Browser: https://www.torproject.org/about/people/#core
Co-founder of the project here. This is an earlier proof-of-concept that’s not really representative of our product in its current state. We’ll be releasing a largely rewritten version soon.
DevTools I think... although FF's are solid, Chrome's are just that much better.
> "I'd still absolutely love to see the code behind this feature."

Windows PowerShell has a cmdlet ConvertFrom-String which "supports automatically-generated, example-driven parsing based on the FlashExtract, research work by Microsoft Research."[1]. Then when they open-sourced Powershell, that was one of the cmdlets which did not come over and is no longer supported, so no way to see the source code there, sadly.

(Video [2] shows that FlashFill and FlashExtract and Excel / PowerShell uses are related, and he says it generates many possible programs which fit the given examples, and uses 'machine learning based ranking techniques' to choose which one fits best).

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-k9WjRJvIY
Tooling is extremely important. However there’s one thing I think is worth mentioning:

Java tooling (IntelliJ and Lombok) is incredible. Yet Java is still on the most dreaded list.

Why is that? Honestly I don’t know, and I actually think Java is a good language exclusively because of its tooling. That being said, current tooling doesn’t fix all of Java’s flaws.

- Gradle and maven are reliable like npm and cargo, but super verbose and confusing

- Standard library has some issues and quirks. Like URL#equals sends a network request, apparently that will never be changed. Some other packages (log4j, JAX) are similarly bloated

- The “billion dollar mistake” untyped null. People tried to fix this with @NonNull annotations but it’s not far enough.

- Java is in a lot of legacy software, which often cannot use Lombok and requires Java 8 or even Java 7.

- I just have to say, IntelliJ and Lombok really do fix Java’s verbosity. Both reading and writing. Indeed, tooling is the new syntax. But maybe some disagree.
A friend runs a long time diner in a popular college town.

He was thinking of buying a box of lobster tails a few months back. Wholesale price was $800 for the box. He ended up passing.

Just think, wholesale prices are out of control, how can a restaurant not raise prices to stay in business?
That is an unreal amount of money to be spending on subscriptions. I can't imagine paying more for software every month than my mortgage.
similar to when they said it’s transitory?
Highly recommend an app like truebill or something that analyzes your bank account! I found subscriptions to things I had totally forgot about etc. and saved a significant amount of money right away.
Onion Browser is an independent project created by Mike Tigas[0] a member of Tor Project team[1].

[0] - https://github.com/OnionBrowser

[1] - https://www.torproject.org/about/people/
For that matter, there are open source options for most of the relevant productivity software categories.

ADDED: Not sure the objections to this statement. If I needed to work on Word files, I'd almost certainly use LibreOffice rather than a 2007 vintage copy of Word. Certainly the open source software isn't always as good as the proprietary software but it's often a better choice than doing without or using versions long out of support.
Yes, how dare one site inspire another to make something similar. Not sure how that automatically makes it untrustworthy... would rather have more players in the minimal blog space than only one or two
Worthy question for debate, but I feel "no."
Not sure about other FAANG but at microsoft the contract is explicitly that anything you do during work or with company resources is owned by the company, not just everything you do at any time.

Just do it evenings and weekends and don’t use your work laptop.
Any group with unpalatable views to the general public don't want to have their views expressed in the open. There isn't some grand parallel to be had here. The meetings in Davos are never televised despite their influence on the masses. Recently the Washington Post Doxxed the LibsOfTikTok account creator, who's only crime was posting the views of socially liberal people on tiktok. Once your uncommon views become mainstream they become ripe for criticism on a mass scale.
You also need to address (with e.g. a land value tax) landlords' tendency to raise rents and capture wage increases that way.
That's interesting that you talk about videogames because, in Brazil, a good wage is about $400 per month, but videogames cost about $40. So if you're a child, you can't really buy them as they're too expensive. And I don't even talk about the price of a computer or worse, a game console.
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>I don't think programming education is broken so much as programming is broken; it's still a very early science.

When are we going to stop saying this? 100 years? 200 years? Fortran has been around since before the moon landing for God sakes.
I just got something setup pretty simple with Hugo, Netlify, GoogleDrive and a simple action. It's still a little much to be super accessible especially since you need to fuss over markdown editor settings for pasting images and I only know of Typora that does this well, but it's pretty manageable.

That is my vision -- Something nice and simple to use like markdown in a Gdrive folder, flexibility and theme niceness of Hugo and full automation without ever needing to get into a terminal or repo unless you're coding.

Last time I tried to do this with org mode but since decided, while I learned a lot of takeaways and had a good experience, org mode isn't something I want to use every day, or even emacs for that matter.
One of our sibling services (https://lists.sh) has support for Gemini. Because we are targeting people that would otherwise use something like Hugo, we wanted to offer rich markdown support.

Converting GitHub flavored markdown to Gemini is work and we aren’t sure if the juice is worth the squeeze. If enough people feel otherwise I’d be happy to add it to the roadmap.
Nope. Houses price will shoot up. The only thing that really brings down prices is build a lot more homes that people want. Increase supply.
Sure and that means investors are much less likely to buy the stock. They go through all the effort and then if it's a good deal someone else buys it instead. Some secondary markets will outright refuse to deal with shares that have such clauses.
I don’t procrastinate. I just don’t want to do things I’d rather not do. Procrastinate is such a “life is work” term it’s almost propaganda.
what worked for me: practice deliberately doing things not perfect, and reminding myself that perfection is subjective.

This can giving yourself a fixed amount of time for something and declaring it done when time's up (think "pencils down" at the end of a test) wherever you're at.

Though my favorite, even as a mental exercise, is described in one of Eric Maisel's many books on creative anxiety - prepare to make an omelet and right before you put the eggs on the heat, throw in the shells, cook as normal.

There's a section on perfectionism in my book "Rebuilding Blocks", here's a snippet:

"Artisans of many ancient cultures intentionally placed flaws in their works. Whether Persian rugs, Amish quilts, or Navajo pottery, these flaws are marketed as a humbling reminder that they were human and perfection was limited to the gods. Gods who don’t need to get wares to market or have bills to pay. Humans run out of raw material, time, energy, and patience. These restrictions should focus our minds on achieving our largest, most important goals and a few, small flaws are a small price to pay for a conclusion....Perfection doesn't deliver"
I've come across this format a couple times now, does anyone know how to export it to PDF?

I honestly don't even mind paying for them but I want the flat file.
Please, I'd love to know what singular person has such influence that their burnout spells the end of WASM?
Is it typical to spend so much on software subscriptions? I pay for Spotify and a cheap VPS if that counts but that's it. I figured the average person probably has one or two media subscriptions (Netflix, Disney, Spotify, etc) and nothing else.
given the popularity of javascript, it's about time we had better native tools for dealing with numbers in general, but it seems like the discussion is very slow on this front. for instance, the decimal proposal is still at stage 1 [1]. and no, BigInt does not solve that.

[1] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-decimal
Being in Ohio, we assume that in the Bay Area it costs $15 just to look at a menu.
They added good GPO support a year or two ago AFAIK. And if you can send a config file to your Mac/Linux boxes it can be easily managed there too.
I'm sure it does "happen when (I'm not) programming". I walk a lot (like a LOT - greater than 10,000 steps daily), and often I will realize I have covered a lot of ground without any memory of doing so. Dare I say the same thing happens when I drive?

Does anybody else get that driving? I treat it as a form of trying to be present. Usually drivers are mentally consumed with something they are driving from or to (or what is on the phone or the radio) and not with the roadway that is rapidly being navigated. Sometimes I find I have been mentally consumed with something unrelated to driving as I go from A to B, wondering how on earth I got there. I now try and be hyper-present with the roadway and driving conditions, even though my brain can process a lot more.

I am really beginning to question what "normal" really is to homo sapiens that spent the better part of two million years as hunter gatherers up until only 12,000 years ago. It's not like we have had a chance to really evolve the finer points of critical thinking.
ha I think you may be getting the yearly and monthly costs mixed up. Under $126/month for a mortgage sounds like an amazing deal
It is made by Mike Tigas from the Tor Project though.

https://www.torproject.org/about/people/

Also, the website says:

>Onion Browser is not affiliated with nor endorsed by The Tor Project. Onion Browser carries no guarantee from The Tor Project about quality, suitability or anything else.
Sure there are exceptions...to a degree. I never said money was the only factor. But those are poor examples because the other factors are unusual.

Trump was absolutely loathed, such that getting him out by any means far outweighed Biden's personal popularity for most people. Biden's slumping poll numbers indicate that he has little support in his own right.

AOC is unusually charismatic and youthful, in contrast to a somewhat dull middle-aged opponent that she defeated. But there were 3 other factors at play in that race: Crowley, the incumbent, had won his seat 20 years before in an open race following a retirement, the political equivalent of easy mode; the demographics of the district had changed during his tenure; and the DSA are decent organizers who took advantage of the general low turnout in NY Congressional primaries.

There are certainly lots of ways to overcome the influence of money on politics, but understating its influence is as naive as throwing in the towel when outfunded. Again, if things like advertising didn't work candidates wouldn't spend so much on it; and if money didn't matter political operators wouldn't put effort into pushing the legal envelope to allow more into a race.

Consider a recent case, in which Ted Cruz successfully sued the FEC to get rid of limits on the use of post-election fundraising to retire personal campaign debt (ie where a candidate loans money to their own campaign, which is not subject to campaign contribution limits). Cruz 'overpaid' by exactly $100, incurred a fine, and litigated the case. Previously, the limit of $250k in post-election fundraising put a ceiling on the amount of money a candidate would typically be willing lend to their own campaign; now you can raise any amount from your supporters after the election.

https://www.fec.gov/updates/supreme-court-finds-limit-on-can...

Going back to your first post, you could argue that bloomberg threw vast amounts of money into the race because he wasn't worried about being paid back. But that's kind of the point; Bloomberg spent $1 billion and people laughed, because there was wide public awareness that he's worth $82 billion so losing one of his 82 giga-bucks was not a big deal. He had big name recognition because of his news business, but not big personality recognition outside of NY, and his extreme willingness to self-fund ended up looking even more crass than Trump. This was the political equivalent of an army provisioned with a million swords but only 5000 swordsmen.
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