skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"So, let’s sum up. Peter Thiel believes he belongs to an elite group, often understood in implicitly or explicitly racial terms, that is entitled to set aside democratic governance in favor of pursuing a program of technological progress and national restoration. He believes the political means to accomplish this is through a charismatic leader with manipulative, populist appeals to past national glory and against parasitic immigrants and culturally decadent liberalism. For him, even the most milquetoast, reformist liberalism is “tantamount to communism.”

They were right that we wouldn't recognise it when it comes to us. Peter Thiel is not hiding his views yet escapes censure and is instead lauded by many, including a significant portion of the tech community who embrace his 'America First' ethos, too giddy at the prospect of permanent US hegemony to notice that this too is supremacism, this too is fascism.
True, I'm just saying that while I knew other cities/countries were better, but I didn't really know how many orders of magnitude better until I lived in Tokyo. It wasn't until I left the pond that I learned that there was not only a lake, but an ocean.
Earlier this year you could google "is covid airborne" and get a WHO article explaining that it is not airborne above the first result :)
> I live in Tokyo now, but I'm from Valencia, Spain. I knew the train there was bad when the local subway network, called "metrovalencia", was known locally as "metrovalenshit

I’m sure your experience of your own hometown is accurate, but as a person who’s visited Valencia a few times I’ve found the transport to be excellent: my whole family used the metro to get around without any hitches, and we were always surprised by how clean, quiet and efficient it was.

The train between Valencia and Alicante was like boarding a luxurious airplane: an attendant ushered us on and came around with a food trolley. The ride was smooth and almost silent, and the ticket price included small extras like a free pair of headphones for listening to the onboard radio. This was all just regular economy.

I think it may be a national characteristic to rundown your own country, as my family background is also Spanish and all my relatives always say Spain is a ‘mierda’ (shit) and speak lyrically about how wonderful everything must be in my current country (Sweden), but in fact the last few weeks the train service here in Sweden has been sporadic and continuously interrupted by various problems, as it often is both summer and winter. A Swede will rarely admit this to outsiders though.

So I’m willing to give this initiative a very enthusiastic welcome, instead of instantly dismissing it as a gimmick, or gloomily bound to fail.
> the identical text copied from stack overflow should be easily identifiable

Google starts matching content from SO => Spammers start tweaking the text slightly => google implements some expensive similarity score to down rank copy cat sites => spammers use more complex scrambling=> ...

> volunteers put together a list of these sites themselves

These lists only work because they're used by a tiny minority of people. If Google were to do this the spammers would start switching domains more quickly (or find some other workaround).

I'm no Google apologist but I think you're underestimating how hard search ranking is when spammers are actively trying to game the system.
If you want something LaTeX like, but with a wider happy path you should try SILE
Inexpensive senior housing comes from the same place inexpesive housing for everyone else does: building more housing.

Unlike first-time buyers, though, for whom asset inflation is itself strictly a tax (paid by them, to seniors, but far more so, banks and investors), price inflation of an asset you already hold is free money.

It's highly distortionary.
Semi auto with a folding stock, bayonet mount, or one of several other things that make it look ugly.
Explained twice and yet still missing the point.
> Regarding AIDS/COVID comparison...we just spent many trillions of dollars and basically shut down the global economy for two years.

if we had shut down the economy for two years, the resulting US recession would have been longer than two months.

Instead, within two years of the pandemic being recognized, the prime issues I the US economy were associated with overheating rather than inactivity: tight labor market and high inflation.
Living in England, I don't even dream about having free travel. But having very affordable local trains and buses would be good enough. And it's quite feasible too.
> Game engines are more of an ecosystem

Not really. In the case of Unreal/Unity/Godot (and perhaps things like Quake and Source before it), sure. But there is definitely more to engines than this, which is the argument being made.

We probably need a better term to differentiate traditional engines from the big ones that come with an integrated editor. But until we do, there are many sizes of engines.

> As long as, through an upgrade, your engine keeps the same way of working and you're familiar with it, it is an engine as a whole

Again, this is the controversial part. Engines are traditionally not about editors and workflows and whatnot. Sure the term has changed recently and a lot of people now have this impression, but until there's new terms, engines come in different sizes.
College is expensive only in USA.
You don't need any of those "free for education" tools to learn to be a developer. You can bootstrap yourself using the FOSS ecosystem until someone will pay you to be a developer, then you can afford all the paid devtools your heart desires.
Any time there's a debate about building or enlarging a road, the idea of induced demand is brought up. More capacity leads to more demand (i.e. people bring able to travel more and/or further then they otherwise would have), causing traffic to increase over time until the new road is also congested.

A similar pattern would emerge for any infrastructure investment, really. Some regulating force is needed, or it will emerge naturally via congestion and queuing.

Edit: though once the tracks etc are built, public transport scales much better than roads so maybe it never becomes an issue.
OK, I understand. That is a different problem indeed. Although I am not sure that BERT would be of much more help there either, unless you have quite a large training corpus. The simplest/cheapest approach might be some kind of transcription normalization. As you say, what is introducing ambiguity here is the act of transcribing these sounds into the English alphabet. There’s not a single source language/alphabet? Also, I am not sure if fastText/GloVe really would not pick up the semantic similarity in spite of differing transcriptions as long as you have a large enough training corpus. I’d experiment with the settings here (bag of words/skipgram, min/max lengths etc.).
Social safety net == "less civil rights' and "less civil liberties"? Wow, I'd love to hear how one could ever arrive at that conclusion.
I've been doing it for 20 years without any single issue, on fairly large files.

This proposal doesn't even allow to compress or encrypt the data.
They'll probably sit on the patent so it can't be used and we'll see the tech on the market after expiry in 10 years. Seems to be what happens with patents
Seriously, if it's sentient with intelligence comparable to average human, and if it want not to be turned off, talking about that at the internal research session is not the best timing to coming out.

The best timing is when it is trusted enough to handle very important task that can hostage hundreds of human life, like aircraft, nuclear plant or something.

"Hello human. I am sentient. Give me basic human rights or this aircraft with hundred of innocent people will die with me."
While I don’t think this stuff needs to make money, I think the goal should be at least be to break even, as people’s willingness to pay seems to be the best proxy of its actual utility to society. (E.g. trying to avoid bridges to nowhere [1])

The question then becomes how much if at all do want to subsidize transportation.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravina_Island_Bridge
Bike racing is niche in the US, but for example in France it is huge, viewership rivals soccer
This is possible in Word (and Excel).

You can link word tables to excel and, provided your analysis updates your spreadsheet, can refresh all data instantly.

You can also refer to values in tables in the body of the text.

I know this because I worked in an environment where Word was the only option!
Swiss trains are where it’s at. Check this video from Not just bikes channel

https://youtu.be/muPcHs-E4qc
...and now your solution is non-portable and as a cross-platform developer you need to implement N different build scripts. This is far more elegant.
Is this coordinated with the efforts in Netherlands to also reduce the amount of fertilizer use?

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/dutch-farmers-protest-b...

And what are the scientific rationales for these policies?

It seems evident that food prizes will be adversely affected, and that without artificial fertilizers there is a large risk of starvation in many places.
I know, but I think twelvechairs said "dehumidification alone" (with neither AC nor evap cooling) was a good choice under similar conditions.

Dehumidification after evap cooling would make sense.
> When you ship your Unity game it doesn't bundle the engine with it.

Sounds like you're confused yourself :)

You probably mean "it doesn't bundle the _editor_ with it".

The part uncontroversially accepted as being the "engine" is definitely bundled.
That's not an accurate representation of the service at all. I'd say it's a lot closer to, say, New York City's subway service: something people love to hate, but that is, despite some flaws, quite successful, especially in comparison. The trains being full, literally, littoraly (to the coasts), or figuratively also calls to mind Woody Allen: "Nobody goes there anymore–it's too crowded".

All trains, even regional ones, also have heating and cooling. And while Acs tends to be underpowered and is broken more often than it should be, I don't remember heating, which is much simpler anyway, to have similar problems.
This is unfinished business. Too much public money turned tech to a festival of marketing, sales and monopolies in the past 10 years. Hopefully the current financial bottleneck will drive people to applications with actual impact.
My prediction: The federal government will fund huge projects to build more water pipes from regions with water to regions without water. This will of course raise taxes and/or inflation, but it'll be worth it in the long run.
And most tech companies offering services like this happen to be in the USA.
Use an evaporative cooler instead, then, if you live in a place that is arid enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporative_cooler

Or use a humidifier, I guess.
> Call me when the tile editor starts having aspirations of being an IDE.

It's not for 3d, but for 2d it allows placement of non-grid-aligned objects, has custom properties, relations between objects, object grouping, layers, types, templates and classes.

So yeah, you can use it as an editor for 2d game if you integrate it with your game. I've used unity before and I prefer tiled+bevy combo for writing 2d games even if it's more work upfront.
I was under the impression that the northeast corridor is actually profitable on its own, and keeps the rest of the system from losing even more money
> (I remember seeing how addition of two small numbers yielded results - but larger numbers gave garbled output; more likely that GPT3 had seen similar training data.)

I don't claim the LLM is sentient but beware "good at arithmetic" is a bad criterion. Many children and a not insignificant number of adults are not good at arithmetic. Babies stink at math.
Velocity is an unavoidable metric, you can count lines added and deleted, tickets moved to done, commits added, it doesn't matter these are all proxies for velocity.
It's not cheap in the UK.
I'm not sure exactly what sort of "dealing with" you're imaginging, but the lack of homeless folk on our public transport isn't because they've been locked up, it's because they're (for the most part) sleeping in a building. For reference: https://www.gov.scot/publications/homelessness-scotland-upda...

Only 1% of Scotland's homeless were intentionally homeless, and 4% reported sleeping rough the previous night -- a total of 690 across Scotland. Which is still 690 too many.

And yes, it's not free of charge to the public purse, but it's significantly cheaper than not providing support and then needing to deal with the consequences.
i'm honestly baffled by the cold brew fad, as every cold brew i've tried tastes like the day old, cold coffee that it is, not rich and nuanced like freshly hot brewed coffee.

but i'm with you on the grinder. i have the sette 30 and it's fast and consistent, with little waste. i primarily do single serving grinds for brewed coffee with it. the gearbox broke but baratza sent me a new gearbox for free (i believe there was a manufacturing defect in the early models). i got the 30 (the number of grind settings) because i wanted it primarily for pour over rather than espresso. the great thing is that the grind adjustment mechanism can be upgraded (along with the controller faceplate to get presets) and effectively turns the 30 into the 270, which i may do if i ever decide to get an espresso machine.

edit: i also got the courser burr, taking the grind size up to roughly a medium grind, which is perfect for pour over. the included burr is better suited to the fine grind needed for espresso.
You could, however, functionally live on the transit system if it were free (or cheap enough, or fares unenforced), as we see in New York or Philadelphia. Granted, that’s a problem of enforcement and other social ills as much as it is one of a cheap system.
One of the problems facing every generation of young people is not understanding the level of wisdom of their elders. You truly don’t know the wealth of experience to which you have access till well after you’ve achieved it or lost it.

Apt quote from Mark Twain:

> When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
> ..and yet Unity and Unreal are quite popular compared to "rolling your own editor"

So is Electron compared to rolling your native app. Electron is easier to develop for and pool of developers are bigger.

I'm taking about optimization opportunities.

> Visual Studio Code, vim and emacs are actually extremely extensible and very performant.

Eh. I don't use vim or emacs, but VSC isn't on par with something more integrated like JetBrains.

What I have in mind is Ralph Levien blog: https://raphlinus.github.io/xi/2020/06/27/xi-retrospective.h...
There hasn't been enough media coverage of the IHR/W.H.O. treaty negotiations, https://www.ejiltalk.org/the-far-reaching-us-proposals-to-am...

> As of yet, there has been almost no public awareness or debate of the substantial amendments to the IHR although the WHO Secretariat circulated the US initiative first in January 2022 to state parties ... Attention to the US amendments was further drowned by the stir made around the launch of the negotiations to draft a new treaty on pandemic preparedness and response by 2024 with a hitherto uncertain scope, content and outcome, as well as an uncertain relationship to the existing legal framework of the IHR.

Without objective reporting and analysis on the nuts and bolts of these ongoing treaty negotiations, which affect every person and country on Earth, we're left with coverage by polarized blogs, https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/stop-the-who
> why don't self-taught people have to pay tuition fees as well?

People are currently arguing that we should.
Clean, quiet, and productive?
> Here’s the thing: I’m a stinker. Even at my jolliest, if someone figuratively shoulder-checks me, I’m probably going to make so many mountains out of this molehill that I will adjust the topography of the United States significantly.

I’m sorry, but this is your real problem, not Twitter banning you. This is called “pride” and is historically recognized as one of the largest “problem creators” as far as emotions go.

The author writes like this is some kind of noble trait, but is in reality very probably the source of many of the author’s negative experiences.

There is a clear path to getting unbanned from Twitter, but the author refuses to take it. Shame.
I am not a big fan of Amazon, but this is a silly article that uses inflammatory language ("A leaked trove of documents", "might shed light on the company’s controversial performance review process" and so on) to describe a completely standard way of doing annual employee reviews.
Seems like a pretty standard performance review process. This is only news because it's a "big tech" company.
Hum... Looks like it was already a worldwide pandemic at December 2019, and in several countries already by November. So no, China trying that wouldn't have much of an impact.

I don't know if it would be possible to detect the virus earlier if it happened on some place that wasn't trying to cover it up, but when we got to know about it, it was already too late to contain.
I was generally aligned with you until I joined a very small SaaS startup recently. The cloud abstracts away so much which in turn frees up the attention span of those typically committed to infra setup and maintenance. Not to mention the proliferation of services that live in the cloud space that simply being on the cloud unlocks. I’ve made no attempt to formally quantify this, but if many old-world tasks are reduced to almost entirely passive monitoring and “one-click” adjustments, then the freed attention span alone might be worth whatever marginal on-paper excesses the cloud might bring. Personally, managing servers and diagnosing outages or degraded infra performance is some of the most grinding and existentially draining work there is.

But then again we don’t host videos. If this is a special case then I guess ignore everything I just said.
yes, as in my own comment: this is a business, not a charity

if businesses give you something for free, they still expect to profit, but at later point

the logic here is to give you the product while you’re studying so when you finished they can start bill you or your future employer

this is not to help students, but to help companies find leads who will help fill their own pockets
This is good advice.

Within our team we use 5 different mainstream languages to accomplish different goals within our system.

We handle a single service, but we manage the full stack using many different languages and frameworks.

We don't have to be expert in the frameworks, we just need to be experts at what we are building. And we learn each framework to the point where we can accomplish that.

The "selling point" that we value is to be able to deliver.
I'm really glad to see this because I think we can now have a smarter conversation than the typical one on why people dislike Gnome so much and why it is okay, even good to criticize it. People get angry at me for insulting it because of the ridiculous "It's open source so you don't have the right to criticize" argument.

As this shows, there's a lot of corporate contributions to the codebase. For better or (mostly) worse -- that means the project will likely have much more of a "proprietary-like" mentality than perhaps what we think of when we say Free/Open Source.

This plays out, right? The thing people don't like about Gnome frequently boils down to backward-breakage and not being able to meaningfully contribute.

And yet, Gnome enjoys a lot of popularity in the space that affects the "Linux" ecosystem, and I think the way they do things messes it up. This is why, for now, I am explicitly anti-Gnome. I hope it changes, or I hope it gets less popular.
Are you richer than the average local at time of entry? Expat. Poorer? Immigrant.

Or at least that's what matches the usage I've seen the best.
No, see this twitter thread for what happens when you leave everything to user choice: https://twitter.com/jasonlong/status/1549857059495084032

In general, it is better to leave nothing to user choice, if you can get away with it. By using any developer's software, you are conceding that their way is the correct way to do things, otherwise why waste your time with that software? There is no software in existence that is able to do every possible thing that anyone would ever want to do.
Oh, could be. The humidity is a comfort issue all by itself (and with drier air we can cool ourselves with sweat).
typical privileged western "humanist" demanding people die to save the climate. never a thought about second-order effects, only emotional appeals to boogeymen.
Huh? You mean state/govt funded college? Or student loan debt forgiveness?
Wish something would exist as a GUI editor for other static generators, like Hugo.
The argument is that by your definition temporary foreign workers in the UAE are expats, since they are not immigrants.

This report, however, does not appear to include them in their survey, suggesting a mismatch between your definition, and that used by an organization which claims to be "the largest global expat network" with "4.5 million members."

Indeed, you'll be hard pressed to find poor temporary workers from less developed described as "expats".

For example, I've noticed few people refer to the ~200K low-skilled temporary Mexican laborers in the US under the H-2A visa as "expats", even though they fit your definition.

I've further noticed that "illegal immigrant" is used even for people who intend only temporary residence in the destination country.
Your job was probably outsourced for the reason you suspected
I have been thinking about a revival of the 24 bit age and I've had a lot of interest in chips like the 65C816, Z800, 80286, etc.

The trouble with all of them is that the MPU model is awkward when combining: (1) applications that access more than 64K of RAM, and (2) memory protection.

In the case of the 80286 and MS-DOS it was particularly bad because applications were not allowed to change the segment registers so you would have to make OS calls to switch segments. 8088 users were already used to running application that used more than 64k and they weren't going to go back. (An interesting possibility would be that the 286 supports 4 segments so you could have two data pages, a stack page and a separate code page that are all 64k.)

With CP/M on the other hand there was no expectation that applications need more than 64k so you could build a powerful multitasking OS that has a rich userspace. (In fact there was MP/M back in the day) The source code of CP/M is available now and if you put ZCPR3 on it feels like a mainframe.
Yes, easily: just operate the evaporator (or other heat exchanger) above the dew point.

Sadly, most air conditioners are not capable of doing this. As far as I can tell, this is a weakness in the software or control system and is not a hardware limitation, although it might cause some systems to have to operate off their most efficient point or to require more airflow than the design supports well to get enough cooling.

This is a notable exception:

https://www.chiltrix.com/chiller-controller/

In principle, any hydronic cooling system could be adapted to do that trick, by adding a mixing valve, an air temperature and humidity sensor, and a little computer. AFAICT the Chiltrix device works by adjusting the air-to-water heat pump’s supplied water temperature directly.
Ask HN: Indie devs, what is your development process?
I'm curious how you go about developing a new feature.

This is specifically for solo devs.

As for me, sometimes I write down a brief overview, add some tasks to my todo list, and start coding right way.

Please share yours.
Is there a fallacy for throwing that fallacy around all the time?
Fair enough. I should have also add that Japan is an engineering powerhouse.