skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ebikes are simply fantastic for personal mobility. Get someone on them once and they love it - and they work doubly well in hilly places by eliminating the slog involved.

Definitely the future of personal mobility.
The legacy that matters is not the plastic cube engraved to commemorate you winning the 2021 Q3 Mid-Atlantic Region Corporate Synergy award.

I'm staring at one of these on my desk as I type this, and it took me a solid minute to even remember what I won it for. Everybody involved, including the VP who handed to it me and the product it was for, is long gone.
We really should update that page: looking at git blame, it hasn't been touched for several years :( I'll file an issue.

Dart is used in almost every product group at Google.

- The Ads team continues to grow, with hundreds of SWEs primarily writing Dart code.

- The Google Play Console that lets app publishers market Android apps: all Dart (https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/06/introducin...)

- The Google Nest Hub and Hub Max devices: both the UI and a lot of back-end code are written in Dart

- Google Pay: Dart (and Flutter)

- Family Link, Google One, Stadia, Cloud Search: Flutter and Dart

Several other really big apps are being rewritten right now in Flutter. In all, there are thousands of SWEs writing millions of lines of code in Dart at Google.

And outside of Google, of course, there is the likes of BMW (https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/global/article/detail/T032861...), Sonos (https://tech-blog.sonos.com/posts/renovating-setup-with-flut...) and over 500,000 other Flutter apps that are all Dart-based.

Redmonk, the developer analyst firm, is pretty bullish on Dart: https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2022/05/16/flutter-propels-dar...
Do you feel the same way about forth? There you will find your answer
In the context of the linked letter, quite the opposite...
Gen Z actually hates working from home
From covid or with Covid? Covid is treated differently than the flu in healthcare. They naturally have been testing all admissions for Covid. If someone comes in for a broken arm and test positive, then they’re counted against the Covid numbers.

Flu numbers typically are a small sample size and extrapolated based on respiratory-like illness admissions in hospitals nationwide.
Another perverse dynamic: higher rates mean less new developments. Supply stays the same while demand grows in places like NYC would also increase rents.
jart, you are a crazy person.

Nicely done and if we're ever at the same conference link this comment to me and I'll buy your next drink.
I took 10mg of escitalopram during 2 months for anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts. It had no effects. I'm currently on week 3 of 50mg of sertraline. I didn't notice any change yet.
No they don't. Stop peddling the narrative that corporations want you to push.
The article mentions nothing about warrantless searches or entrapment.

The word "warrant" appears once: "Uber turned over records not initially available to authorities after they produced a second search warrant."

The word "trap" does not appear at all.

Is this the "entrapment"?

] The company, which had received a tip that an enforcement action was coming, learned that authorities were using people that Uber described as “mystery shoppers” to order rides with the intention of impounding the vehicles when drivers arrived.

It doesn't seem to fit the definition of entrapment.
https://searchhut.org/about/domains returns 404, by the way.
I suppose that's true, but is it as true if there's literally only one area that most people should probably be much more cautious in for objectively more intense safety reasons or unpredictability?
For sure, the UK was deeply responsible for so much death and suffering from the Opium trade in China in this era.

Just like modern China (and Mexico) should be considered deeply responsible for the current massive opioid crisis in the United States:
1. https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/DEA_GOV_DIR-...
2. https://www.science.org/content/article/underground-labs-chi...
3. https://www.npr.org/2020/11/17/916890880/we-are-shipping-to-...
4. https://www.brookings.edu/research/china-and-synthetic-drugs...
Police do not decide what rape kits are processed, prosecutors do.

There are a variety of reasons kits are not processed, including the victim not cooperating, the accused confesses or dies in prison, there turns out to not be a case (such as: victim claims Bob raped them, but Bob was at dinner with someone else and his phone/credit card records confirm it, and so on.)

Prosecutors don't just go "fuck women, don't test these kits lying around!" despite what you might be led to believe by a lot of folks trying to generate outrage.
Yes, why do you think Demoscene was such a huge phenomenon in Europe?

We needed to have those computers around.

Outside work, the PC only took off at home around Return to Castle Wolfstein / Doom, with AdLib/SoundBlaster and 3Dfx, Matrix, NVidia,... as standard gear.
The 970-HA-JOKES Payphone Project
Lots of broken links from https://searchhut.org/about .
sounds like what your boss did might have been illegal
SearchHut was built to this point in about a week by Drew and contributors which I think is amazing.

It is also meant to be very simple to run in the case you want to index your own category of sites. For instance cooking content is specifically not indexed but if _you_ wanted to you can spin up an instance and index cooking sites yourself.
I used it when building assembly cells where it provided an easy way to prevent clutter and force standardization.

A quick visual check could confirm the state of the cell and there was no doubt where things went. I can't imagine a production environment without it, or something like it.

We never bought foam and would take closed cell foam from the garbage, cut through holes, and fit them in trays painted black for contrast. Quick, easy, and cheap.
Well, the commenter was calling bullshit on the physics and I just pointed out that the numbers are actually completely reasonable with some simple back of the envelope math. Please correct me if my math or assumptions are wrong in any way.

To be honest, I think this vehicle is a bit extreme but I don't see any fundamental reason why it wouldn't work as advertised. The design looks simple enough (but a bit wild and maybe not very practical). The square meters add up to the advertised solar capacity and the narrative as to why this would be efficient seems plausible as well. Probably there are going to be a lot more practical vehicles that you can buy for 25K pretty soon and probably cheaper than that even. Some of them even might have some solar panels. Why not?
Oh yes, very loud ones too who have magically obtained PhDs in biology, virology and immunology all in the past 2 years. It’s amazing!
Alcohol is never good for people period. It turns into acetaldehyde [0] in the human body, a known carcinogen.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetaldehyde
Yeah, our court system is vastly underfunded...police generally aren't, though some departments are having enormous difficulty finding qualified people who want to work for them.

Ironically and sadly, it becoming such a hated profession means we really don't want the people who are willing to do it. It's a grave they dug themselves, though.
I agree. The lack of naming-and-shaming in these threads makes the anecdotes worthless except for commiseration purposes. When will these companies be held accountable? Only when people find courage.
The Android sandbox on ChromeOS was pretty weak until recently, sharing a kernel with significant attack surface with the underlying chromeos.

Android 11 on ChromeOS is being deployed as a lightweight VM, called ARCVM: https://chromeunboxed.com/how-to-check-your-chromebook-new-a...
It’s similar to how the Linux VMs on chromeos work.
Well, looking at their post-collapse valuations, they certainly aren't major anymore.
Danish DPA bans Google Workspace for municipalities
You can ... kind of ... use Algolia in this way. It's pretty easy to search for the top submissions of the past day, week, month, or year:

Day: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=last24h&page=0&prefix=fals...

Week: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=fal...

Month: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa...

Year: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal...

I really wish there were an easier way to list top stories for a specific period --- month or year would be good. Algolia does have a date-range-picker, but like many, it's cumbersome. It also generates date specifiers based on Unix timestamps (seconds since 1970-1-1). So here's the Best of 2012:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1356912000&dateRange=custom&...

That is:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1356912000&dateRange=custom&dateStart=1325376000&page=0&prefix=false&query=&sort=byPopularity&type=story

Where:

dateEnd=1356912000
dateStart=1325376000

I've suggested using a shell script to generate URLs of interest. This could also of course be done in JS or the programming tool of your choice:

for i in {5..15..5} do
echo "https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=$( date -d "$i years ago" +%Y-%m-%d )"
done

(See earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28806795)

There's also the "past" link, which can be used to show any one day's top stories: https://news.ycombinator.com/front
My family is sick with covid right now. My wife and I are overweight and so the doctor prescribed us Paxlovid. Day one was terrible, the sickest I've been in my adult life. I literally had pneumonia a month ago and it wasn't as bad.

Things have been substantially better for my wife and I since we started Paxlovid. Our seven year old is feeling fine, and our three year old who is disabled and tends to get sick fairly often has a fever and slept for a day straight and had the world's worst diarrhea. Her doctor (who almost exclusively sees disabled kids like her) seems completely unconcerned about it and said to just treat it like any other illness, push fluids and give her Tylenol and Ibuprofen alternately to keep her fever down.
You should either change “ (like myself)” to the proper “(like me)” or just remove it entirely from the website.

It also seems like the app did not help when recording the demo video. It should be much shorter than two minutes.
> #define I unsigned
#define L double

Gross. I appreciate the overall idea of the article, but have some taste, and learn to touch type so you aren't tempted into such atrocities.

Maybe this is how a lisp programmer writes C, but as a C programmer, this is offensively disgusting. Jesus, at least use a typedef rather than abusing the preprocessor. Not that single-letter Fortran-esque synonyms of existing types are any sort of approximation of a good idea.
I have done my own (simple) testing on Postgres 13 and was unable to make Postgres elide the join.
I could verify your address for 60¢
Yes, I myself have done a lot of things that have no logical reasoning but gave life a purpose, or at least it seemed to. That was my “religion”. I really cannot say I am opposed anyone else’s religion. The big issue is that many religious people want everyone else to follow their religion and any refusal or reluctance means target on your back. This is why religions get bad name and produce negative impact on society, for example attempts to squash scientific progress in medieval dark times or formulating laws based on one religion to a force on to everyone else or forcing religious education on all children and actively preventing them from learning scientific concepts like evolution etc. Not everyone does this and in fact most religious people I know are very private about that aspect of their lives.
It's not even worth applying without a degree. If you're lucky they will interview you and waste your time and not hire you. Good luck as a construction worker. Your best shot is to learn to be a foreman and work your way up as a construction worker. Or learn to be a machine operator so you can break your back less. Nobody will ever hire you to do software. The interview process will just waste your time. They will use you to fill a checkbox and say "we interviewed several candidates and chose the best one", without a degree you are always the low tier last choice. Not many people can develop software and get paid to do it. It's easier to be successful as a manager. All the big names in software and industry are business managers, not software developers.
The (arguable) tax advantage is that the employee isn’t taxed until they are able to sell the RSUs for the same value they are taxed at (since company is public and lockup is past) so you avoid a tax burden on a non-liquid asset.

The “double” trigger is the ipo requirement plus the usual time-vesting for stock grants
I like a lot of the ideas in dhall, but but I disagree with some of the design decisions.

The syntax for objects with dynamic keys seems unnecessarily verbose.

The arithmetic capabilities are very restricive. No subtraction, division, or modulo. Addition and multiplication only work on Natural. No numeric comparison. = And != Only work on booleans. There isn't really much motivation given for why it is so restricted.

Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like if a type has a lot of optional fields, which is pretty common, you have to explicitly pass None for all of them. Maybe the pattern is to merge a default record with a smaller record that has what you actually want? But I didn't see any examples of that. Also, how do you deal with cases where null, and the absence of a value are treated differently? For example if leaving the value off means use the default and null means to turn a feature off. From what I can tell optinals are either always null or always absent when None.

It also seems like it would be annoying to have to specify types whenever calling functions like List/length.

IDK, maybe in practice these aren't as bad as they seem.
Are you implying I was being disingenuous or claiming one "side" believes in free speech or others don't? I wasn't aware that I was even talking about "sides".

> The problem with bad free speech is that people aren’t accountable to it. If you convince someone of a quack cure and they try it and die as a result even if they have proof they tried it because of what you said it’s very difficult to hold you to any legal accountability. The net result is speech that has freedom from responsibility.

I don't know what "bad" free speech is or why people wouldn't be accountable for it. People absolutely should be accountable for damage to others caused by their actions (including speech). That is the foundation of the civil legal system and does not mean you can't have free speech.

> If you convince someone of a quack cure and they try it and die as a result even if they have proof they tried it because of what you said it’s very difficult to hold you to any legal accountability. The net result is speech that has freedom from responsibility.

Well fraud and other things should be able to cover a lot of situations like this. A lot of the rest should be covered by the listener taking responsibility for themselves too. And what is left... I don't claim to be perfect or immune to abuse. I don't see how you are constructing an argument though. "Here is a bad hypothetical thing that I'm alleging that free speech might allow to happen". So... what's exactly the point here? What does that make free speech worse or better than? Does government and corporations mass censoring people stop them from lying to one another or convincing each other of fallacies? And it can just as easily be spun the other way too here's my hypothetical -- if the US government and their corporate owners and media sycophants had not lied and bullied and intimidated and effectively censored people into not speaking out against the war in Iraq, trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives might have been saved.

My position isn't that "free speech" is perfect, or that it has to be absolute without limits or not at all because that would apparently be hypocritical. It is that those with the means and power to enact censorship have also been the ones responsible for lies, atrocities, theft, wars, and injustice. And that we shouldn't be comfortable with censorship whether its directly by the government or by corporations at the behest of the ruling class who happen to own the government. And that people shouldn't be fooled (for the nth time) by their crocodile tears and pleas about the greater good and how they are in it together with us (and therefore they need to keep us quiet).
A toilet flush costs me exactly 1 cent. I'm flushing until the financial incentives change significantly.
Its bad enough the internet is being used as one big phishing device, but what else would you expect from various Govt's with the collusion of big businesses and various employees! These people are blinded by their righteousness, just like religions who invented the ultimate psychological warfare program called GOD, thousands of years ago.
This one has sat in the back of my head for a long time. I wonder if any of the little ligatures or strange letter variations people write today could be preserved in the same way, or if the shorthand systems could be.
The issue with pushing this responsibility onto companies if that they can only help with reactive measures. They can't easily take a proactive approach. How does a company prove someone is not who they say they are when all they require is an email and maybe a name to create an account?

At best, they can make it slightly harder to impersonate a user by requiring MFA and detecting duplicate accounts (ie, accounts using the same picture). I think stuff like this will only get worse over time.
So this is my story, I won't' claim it invalidates anyone else's experience and it will have an element of anecdotal. Everyone can have different levels of depression and there are many variables at play (current lifestyle, health etc).

I found myself in an utter mess. I constantly felt depressed or under huge stress from rampant anxiety. The best way of describing my depression is to imagine wearing a weighted jacket, just constantly pulling you down and zapping all zest from your life. Here I was, working a very well paid job, loving young family and everything going for me and I just wanted to crawl into a ball and die.

I was just on the verge of going to see a Dr to get prescribed something, but I was hesitant about this from stories of side effects. It seemed no one had a consistent experience and some had a horrible time, with a few finding them great.

I went to see a therapist which really helped me to unspool everything, as my life seemed like a blur at the end. They recommended to me a book. The book was called 'feeling good' by Dr David Burns an American psychiatrist, and it was basically a manual of using Cognitive therapy on yourself. I found it laid out in away my engineering brain could grab onto. The text is a little dated, when it comes to case studies, but everything is very applicable. The premise is that we constantly shape our emotions based on our thinking and that if you can challenge your thinking, you change the way you feel. I devoured this book and within a few weeks felts massively better. I now find that depression can start to creep back in, but I can right away use some tools to get myself right again.

Some will read this and think 'if this guy was fixed by a book, it could not have been 'real' depression'. What do you have to lose though, 1/2 weeks of trying something out and $20 on the price of the book.
Right, but that was when I was a kid. I'm 34 now and I don't recall hearing of any other burglaries in that area. Just as one neighborhood in NYC can't be compared to another, you can't mix all rural areas in to one "typical" zone.
nyxt has channel (for example, different settings for youtube, wikipedia, etc) where you can customize keybindings, noimage, nojs, darkmode for each url/domain

the problem is, there is no example how to do it
> How can we marry the fine details of the computer with higher level tasks?

You don't want to, generally. Details are for the low-level grunts - your compilers and operating systems, the "essential workers" of software. High-level just executes the business logic, with no care about how much needs to happen behind the scenes to make it's job possible.

Your cashier may have the potential to be a great executive, but since his job doesn't require thinking about quarterly earnings, why would he express that potential to you? Conversely, what benefit does having the executive know the POS system inside and out have, when he will never touch a cash register?

The article does remind me that I would like to see a low-level language with a simple syntax focused on the composition of a well-defined set of powerful primitive operations (like APL and it's descendents). The terseness and readability of this style have many of the strengths of assembly, without the high code volume, thousands of instructions, and machine-specificity.
Better link: https://chromeos.dev/en/posts/making-android-more-secure-wit...
there is decent support for this claim - remote is best suited for mid career professionals with high quality, safe and controlled home environment + pre-built in person professional networks.

we might be moving towards some age stratified businesses - mid career, remote onlys vs on-premise early entry
No personal experience with SSRIs.

But if I were in your shoes I'd first take shrooms in the woods and if that didn't help, try one of those newfangled Ketamine therapies they've been doing as an alternative to SSRIs to treat depression.

Go brush your teeth, get a Sonicare, it's epic.
What do you think the IAP incentive is for Unity? It's just one of the cross platform features they wrap. It's surfaced on the pricing page because it sells the engine but there's no monetary incentive to Unity if you use it or not.

Unity takes a cut from its ads business but it just does not do that for IAP any more than the animation system.
100% positive. Even though outwardly I was a popular, social, active, easy-going kid/teen I suffered from constant anxiety and sometimes depression throughout my childhood and adolescence. (I wasn't aware of it at the time -- thought it was normal to feel that way.) I also would also often feel inexplicable dread about doing things I usually enjoyed, like music or sports. I would often make excuses to skip these things and stay home in bed... even though they were my hobbies and nobody was forcing me to do them.

Finally things came to a head around age 19-20 when I dropped out of university two years in a row due to depression/anxiety. I had no real problem with school -- but I would just get a month or so in and it would feel unbearable to even think about going to class or opening a book. And I liked school!

After the second time a doctor suggested I start on a small dose of escitalopram. Within a week I was more or less rid of the anxiety, and I think for me an overload of anxiety was what would put me into a depressive state. The biggest thing for me was gaining the ability to have some control over my thoughts. Prior to starting medication my internal monologue was basically just an uncontrollable, irrational, negative stream of consciousness. Since starting, by default I feel... "OK". Which is perfect -- they are not happy pills for me. I still feel negative emotions and I still have bad days but I am able to live my life!

I am still taking 5/10mg alternating daily 10 years later.