skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's nothing that hasn't happened in Blade Runner. Watch her take the pleasure from the serpent that once corrupted man.
Brings back pleasant memories. I certainly loved the one I had as a child. I can still smell the _almost_ burning plastic that the device created in operation.
As Japan’s macaque population grows, clashes with humans becoming more frequent
>You're pushing a false narrative by not only ignoring evidence but also misinterpreting or lying about the evidence that's available.

In the past month Australia has not had a mask mandate, NZ has. NZ has had more than twice the per-capita deaths and hospitalization of Australia. If masks worked it should have been the reverse.

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/new-zealand
I primary use Telegram and sometimes Signal when I need to.

Telegram >is< very – very, very – shady but it's hard to argue with the extreme polish and attention to detail with which all of it's apps are made.

Signal does not even come close in terms of user experience (neither does Matrix) and Signal also does not seem to strive to catch up. Their position seems to be that security as a feature has to be enough.

I'd love to have an alternative to Telegram, but Signal ain't it.
They should give the Covid variants relatable human names too
I have a similar experience with xdebug for a PHP shop I used to work at.
It feels very similar to being a nerd back at school, rescuing peoples home work, and being rewarded with some respect.
Go watch some of the police interviews of pedophiles. That’s what they say.

But again, people come up with excuses all the time for things they know are wrong. Doesn’t change the fact that those things are wrong.
yeah, when I started utility woodworking i.e making a bed my old boss who dabbles in woodworking as a hobby told me forget nails. wood glue has more strength.
Thanks I stand corrected. I see Laws have changed and local municipalities are now able to capture some of this revenue even with out of state vehicle purchases or direct from dealership purchases
Which is consistent with many Romance languages, where it's called a variation of “commercial and”. Including the Italian “e commerciale”, Portuguese “e comercial”, and Spanish “y comercial”.
This makes Nikon look like a company that supports all its products in the long term. That's some seriously good PR.
Around 300 BC, S and Z were removed — and G added:

https://www.dictionary.com/e/z/
as opposed to the appealing German scharfes (ß)
Manuscripts were very large and time-consuming to create. Ligatures save time, space, and materials (paper and ink).

Most of these conventions carried over into the printing age and were slowly phased out.
That's the thing, yeah. In Germany, this changeover started just a few years ago, and it has only been dominant for around two.

About the regional differences - I remember visiting an Amsterdam restaurant in the mid-2000s that still served the food in styrofoam trays, many years after those had been phased out in Germany. And being able to pump my own ketchup and mayo into little waffle cups in another one in Denmark. There are quite a few regional differences.
Never?

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22and+co%22
I’ve been a night owl since I was a small child. My dad is also one. No caffeine after 2pm.
Anecdotally, in the US we name tropical storms and hurricanes. There have been cases in the past where storms that were just as severe that did not originate in the Atlantic were never named and caused significant damage.

There was a push several years ago by popular weather broadcast channels (that effectively re-package and re-sell National Weather Service data and forecasts) to begin naming winter storms in the same fashion as hurricanes. The NWS put out a strong warning to their own forecasters to NOT use those names in official materials.

Then there is the trend by news media to replace “hurricane” with “Superstorm” when a storm causes a particularly high dollar amount of damage but may not have maintained hurricane force winds or simply because it hit a densely populated area.

The definition of superstorm precludes any other named meteorological event such as a hurricane. But superstorm sounds better than hurricane.
> The enormous majority of Master’s degrees awarded in most fields are for taught Master’s that bear far more resemblance to undergraduate study than Ph.D. preparation.

That's a very US-centric assumption that's wrong for Europe, Russia, the better universities in China, India etc. Some masters are 100% research, some 100% taught, some are a mix, some are highly specialized, some are all-round, some are interdisciplinary, some have internships. You're aware of that, right? Not all countries' university systems balance their books by farming foreign MS students in short 100% taught courses. Some of them actually do legit research.

You bring us to a related point: most US recruiters and sourcers, and many programmers, don't know how to evaluate credentials of applicants or institutions from the rest of world, especially the parts that don't speak English as first language. If the applicant is from (say) a 2nd/3rd-tier part of China and did their MS(/BS) there, and unless their parents were rich, raw English fluency is not a very good proxy for subject-matter knowledge, only for their parents' wealth level. I've worked with some brilliant people who didn't come across sounding that competent in interviews, but were great programmers. Many candidates don't sit the GRE/GSAT. (Beware of builtin cultural assumptions and biases in assessing applicants. It took me years to figure out which ones.)
Actual title is "Countries can’t hide from monkeypox as WHO issues orders to act"
Yes. Try describing in words where you are in huge crowds of people or in open fields or beaches.
In Memoriam – Martin Kersten, creator of MonetDB
As a former DJ, this article seems bizarre.

I gotta get me to one of these parties to see it in person.
Such as? Sure if you are operating on massive scale or have a remarkably steady load that 20% margin might be feasible, but that's the exception not the rule. Especially for a lone piece of physical hardware that can't scale up/down.
That's interesting that such a similar process happened so far apart. In German it's simply known as "Und-Zeichen" ("and-symbol") or "Kaufmännisches Und" ("mercantile and" or "business and") due to its popularity in company names.
Oh ... so that is why McDonalds is bad now. I wondered why the hamburgers are cold nowadays. I did not realize the slides were heated.

In the same way the fries seem to be cold from the complexity of all the different menu items messing up their flow.

95% BigMc and fries must have been so much more easy to organize around.
> other great methods of communication.

Really though? From my perspective, it seems as though an option can either be a great academic solution or it can be widely adopted. I've used Signal service discovery to decloak a whole mess of colleagues. I'm talking about people who have firstname@aol.com email addresses. Good luck finding another messenger with penetration that deep and a material dedication to user privacy or security.

Alternatives exist, like Telegram I guess, but I perceive the list of viable alternatives to be very short. That's not to say we should accept Signal because it's inevitable, just that network size should be a strong consideration when considering how to advocate for changes or decide between potential alternatives.

Example: Signal requires a phone number as an identifier. Do we spend resources lobbying Signal to accelerate deprecation of phone numbers or advocating that people use other software? In my view, the size of the user base makes lobbying Signal worth the effort.
The German Wikipedia [1] has a slightly different variation than MW and you which makes a lot of sense to me:

The letters which were also words were prefixed with "per se" (it was not bracketed like MW says "I per se I" - why?).

So, when schoolchildren recited the alphabet, they'd say

"per se A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, per se I, ...".

Now, the "&" was at the time considered the last letter, and it was introduced by "and", as the last item of a list often is ("Peter, Paul and Mary"), thus the schoolchildren would end

"... W, X, Y, Z, and per se &." [1]

French, similarly, ended in "X, Y, Z, et per lui &."

That seems to me a very plausible theory for ampersand and esperluette.

Note, however, that the English Wikipedia mirrors the "A per se A" explanation from MW.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Et-Zeichen#Englische_und_franz...
They didn’t say the job description was a complicated puzzle, they said the puzzle (in this case implied to be the position trying to be filled) is poorly described by the job description. Which is honestly a pretty accurate summation. There are a lot of things that go into making a candidate a good fit for a position, not all of which can be well captured in a job description
Here is a YouTube Link to the commercial which was embedded in the post. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PnWpcwnR2YA
Wait, I thought Facebook was going all in on VR? /s
I agree. Plus it's only relevant for very simple (in terms of API usage) CLI programs. Good luck compiling a Qt app with this for example.

I think WASM is a much more promising avenue for true cross platform executables. You don't have the architecture issue and aren't using weird old formats.

It has some way to go though.
I get your point. However it relies on an example that actually requires an unbounded lookeahead. This is where I'm confused. Sure, these ambiguous blocks (I'm not sure how many examples there are other than color:hover) aren't prefixed, but they are conclusively postfixed. So any lookahead required should be easily bounded. Where does the unbounded aspect come into it?

Reposting my earlier painfully phone-typed regex to illustrate the point: https://regex101.com/r/aOc2Pz/1

Edit: I should add that I don't doubt that those involved know what they're talking about. I know nothing of briwser-level CSS parsing. I am certain it is a nightmare. I would really just like a better example to explain the unbounded aspect. Especially when it is being given as the primary excuse to cripple / greatly obtusify a syntax I'm being asked for an opinion on. Maybe it's just me but I would expect that an evolution of this magnitude would afford a bit more compromise elsewhere.
I didn't say it did. The post I replied to, which wasn't you, is arguing that Signal is successful. Therefor it is highly relevant whether it actually is. I don't know which goalpost you are talking about.
I once suggested this kind of strategy at a previous job...and internally, everyone liked it. But what ended up happening was: our fans of the content kept complaining that they were sharing the /latest url but "the website kept breaking" (in their mind) because last week it pointed to the blog post they wanted to share, and this week, its pointing to a different blog post, and please fix the website, etc. Clearly, our fans misunderstood about redirects...and our fans were vastly, overwhelmingly non-techies...so try as we did to educate them, it became a lost cause...and we stopped employing that tactic. Our fans as i call them were real estate agents who affiliated with the real estate company that i worked for...and these guys i called fans because they were the most fervent, avid followers of the company's brand, and they sold million-dollar plus homes...so they had plenty of pull with the senior leasders at the company, but to be fair they did follow the brand religiously...so like i've heard poeple say: support your most ardent fans. In any case, since that time, i'm careful to set expectatins about expected behaviors as it pertains to links, web resources, redirects, and such. (Of course, such a tactic might work for other audiences too.)

EDIT: typo fixings.
Where I live, there is tons of empty retail space because of Amazon, eBay, etc. I would assume that would push commercial rents down, but I evidently don’t understand that market at all.
I agree, but I expect Matrix to catch up in the long run.
There is nothing in the Matrix protocol that fundamentally blocks it from having a great UX. The client apps are just not as good as Signal's yet.
The problem is that big tech would all need to get behind a concerted effort to improve email, but they have no incentive to strengthen a decentralized, nonproprietary communication medium.
The measurement of success. First it was R2-D2 (I meant E2e, but I like the auto correct so I’m leaving it) encryption, then easily exploited vulnerabilities, now somehow phone numbers got drawn in the mix.

Basically you’re you’re shifting anytime you get pinned down and it shows.
That's like how the symbol @ used to be called "commercial at" (this is its Unicode name). This is because of how sales were listed on receipts and such, think "4 apples @ 50¢ each".
Ask HN: Advancing a Personal Project?
I've been building some novel software about compiler optimizations that I currently think has potential to greatly improve an optimizing compiler. I really want to invest in this project further, but at the same time I have a full time job (in compiler engineering) so my spare time is relatively limited.

I'm struggling to come up with a potential plan of how to advance my project more seriously other than just slowly increasing my saving so I can take some years of work to devote to the project.
I'm looking for advice and strategies that I may be missing or stories from other developers on the matter.

Notes about me, in case they're important: Located on Europe, working remotely on compilers, I can survive around half a year on my current savings.

Thanks HN!
> Or are you supposing that because we have allowed some companies to damage society through abuses of technology, that the situation can never be remedied. No laws can ever be brought to bear?

I can't speak for the rest of the world, but in the United States? Absolutely yes.
>Coming up next, names for cold snaps, tide surges, landslides and solar flares.

I assume that heat waves are now named by the mass media to give undeserved importance to the topic of global warming.
I love these kinds of websites! I'm not into following crypto news, but the concept (and i'd say design) of this website is great! I look foward to the days when gemini is more popular!
Fond memories of trying to draw an ampersand back in college when my exams required me to write c code with a pencil on paper. I think I ended up making them backwards.
building an open, white-label, embeddable Instagram/Tiktok as SAAS solution at alvin5.com. The idea is that communities and individuals can create their own Instagram like social media app/feed (Shopify for Social media), would love to meet with interested parties.
I think LEGO used to have a publicly-available CAD which could give the building steps, given a model.
>>It seems like they are just trying to create feature parity with WA and Telegram. Which, honestly they are pretty near that already and the differences aren't worthwhile.

Yeah, I don't know about that. I started using Signal about 6 years ago, I think. I remember back in the day there was a stable native Telegram desktop client that just worked (keeps working without single issue for years) and web WA client that just worked if the phone is online (mildly annoying, but very rarely a problem). Over time Signal developed an Electron-based client that annoyed me every time I use it. It requires relinking to the phone, it can't decrypt messages read from mobile, it can't send messages, it can send them, but the other party can't read them. I try it again every few months hoping that they fix these problems. Instead I get stickers and reactions =/

Yeah, I get it, multi-client encryption is hard, but WA seems to solve it using the same protocol. What I experience with Signal desktop client reminds me of Jabber OTP client compatibility issues 10 years ago. I almost stopped using Signal despite shiny E2EE. 90% of my texting is from desktop. I need it to work reliably. I don't care about stickers and reactions.
Block Fake Disposable Email Addresses
Communicating with someone without disclosing a phone number is a pretty important feature.
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For those saying it's silly and what's the point... Which one do you remember hurricane Katrina or the hurricane of 2005 ?!
On a high level read looks like Dendron supports process graphs through mermaid. Does Foam support this? I'm unable to determine
How is £$165/year not nutty? That is more than I pay per year for Amazon Prime, Spotify, Disney+, MLB or The Economist. All for basically being able to just write text in a browser and store it.
Can these problems be solved with a good UX developer in Matrix? Or is it more fundamental to the platform? (I havent had the chance to try it yet)
Disney says Hulu will accept political issue ads
Probably because these people have a false sense of control when they drive.
Actually I am. Rental trucks are not cheap if you use them for any period of time. If all you need is to get a sheet of plywood from Home Depot a couple times a year, then rent. Fuel is cheap, even at $5/gallon, compared to the costs of a rental, so it only takes a few times per year of renting before you are better off just paying for fuel in the truck.

That is before we account for rentals often being sold out. The fact that you don't have to plan ahead to use your own truck is worth something as well.
How difficult is it to build a CRPA receiver? Apparently that’s how the military avoids GPS jamming, and likely why HIMARS is able to remain accurate in the face of Russian jamming (or INS).
Subway crime rates have risen substantially in the last two years; it remains to be seen whether that’ll become a long-term trend. In particular, as ridership numbers return to normal, the rate seems to be going down.

Even with the 2022 rise, the subway remains substantially safer than any other form of transit.
I guess it's great but gosh I hate stickers, to me they are over-engineered emojis.
This is the real truth. It’s definitely useful to get the feedback about how you are coming across, but you have to take it with a huge grain of salt because some other interviewer may see things completely opposite! At the end of the day I chalk it all up to fate and move on. The jobs I was rejected from turned out to be blessings as the biggest leaps in my career happened after something I thought I wanted fell through and I went in a new direction that turned out to be way more prosperous from a skills and comp perspective.
"@" has a lot of interesting names - monkey, herring, pig's tail, strudel, mouse, elephant's trunk, and "arroba" (a unit of weight, like a bushel).
Why do we want to blame the oil companies? So the bad guy isn’t consumers? We need 100 million barrels of oil a day! Bottled war, plastic containers for takeout food, SUVs, …

40% of global electricity is from coal. That’s much worse than oil.

We burn more coal than ever.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/265507/global-coal-consu...

Let’s all watch Carl Sagan from 1985 and figure out how to solve this multi-generational problem.

https://youtu.be/Wp-WiNXH6hI

He warned us not to use coal. Did we listen?

At the very least, we can buy ourselves a couple extra decades.

Update:

Got immediately downvoted so clearly I can’t respond.

Now I’m going to optimize my website so it uses less electricity then blog about which computer language uses less electricity.

Climate change is a form of bike shedding. We talk about a bunch of irrelevant ideas rather than addressing the real issues.

But hey, oil companies knew and didn’t tell us what we already knew. We’re off the hook!

Let’s keep sending climate change deniers to Washington:

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/climate-deniers-117...
Are you personally involved in this war somehow?
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For land transport, the typical solution is supply dumps over a large number of partial trips.

Your caravan has a max range of N days; you instead go N/3 days, drop 1/3 of your supplies, and then return. Do that twice.

For your third trip, you can load up your caravan, travel N/3 days to your supply dump, and reload using half the cached supplies. Now you travel another N/3 days, drop 1/3 of your load, and then return, stopping for the cached supplies again on the return.

You still consume increasing amounts of resources, but unlike rockets or boats you don't have to carry them all from the start.
I still can't stick to doing any exercise at home. But boy am I good with a pressing iron and a mop these days.

The direct feedback you get from chores really does help.
I think the parent meant identical in concept, not in the technical format. All the valid points you raise could be fixed with a new format and related conventions without changing what email is conceptually (e.g. distributed threaded long-form asynchronous decentralized communication with Subject/To/Cc etc.), as opposed to turning it into a chat system.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - social media is not the root of the problem here. I believe that there could be a great social media platform that respects its users and their privacy. But the minute you let marketing and sales into the room the game changes. They are the ones that see their users as the advert dollars, not the people building the platform. The highly paid executives whose only goal is to squeeze every last penny out for their own personal gain are the issue. This is a systemic problem in technology today: when the goal is profit first, the end user is lost as the target market.

I'm working for a small company currently and am watching the same thing play out on a much smaller scale. The company was growing organically at a good clip. We've had zero customer churn in 6+ years and service some of the largest companies in their respective verticals. Company fires the current CEO based on board recommendations, hires a CRO who was in sales at Oracle for 7 years, CRO brings in his overpriced underlings to "manage", CRO starts refocusing all concerns around the sales process (starting with making everyone spend an inordinate amount of time learning/relearning MEDDPICC) and tying up hours of the work week in unproductive oversight meetings. Now I haven't been here long but I've seen this play out before. CRO will sit here for 2+ years and milk it into the ground blaming everyone for every failure but himself. He'll even throw his guys under the bus if needed (which is why they're there in the first place - ownership buffer). We're starting to see product issues because of the focal shift internally and the distraction this guy is creating. It's so unfortunate - I've yet to hear the CRO talk about a customer outside of the subject matter of revenue. It's sick and twisted. These types of "executives" are narcissists through and through and they are the toxic seed that kills great companies.
In polish the name is borrowed straight from Latin, et