skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still don't see why you think researches would resort to selling bats to a wet market to make a little extra money.

They'd be fired for sure if caught.

They also would make almost no extra money... The going rate for bats isn't much...
Insane how you as well as OP have the same setup as me. I also initially tried Dendron but did not find the experience that pleasant as it was basically the same app in which I was programming in (VSCode). So now, I have decided to take notes in these two apps (I had commented the same thing a while back) for a longer period and then compare these two.

I just cannot decide :(
I work at Meta and I use tools written in bash, C, Java, Go, TypeScript, Kotlin and Dart daily. I've definitely noticed that some C++ tools are moving to Rust. I would have preferred to see D in its place, but it is what it is.

Personally I'm not a fan of Rust, but it is interesting to see how the language is growing as it hits mainstream. Lots of similarities with Go back when it was cool and hip.
Buck2 in rust is already functional
Completely understandable that it’s annoying. What’s not obvious is whether this annoyance is a big deal and outweighs other tradeoffs.
>Zimbardo demonstrated the principle by interfering with his "study"

After he broke the car window, he noted that others would jump in and do the same. And he is by far not the only researcher to test the hypothesis on many, many areas.

As to how recent work is, the Google scholar literature is more recent than any on Wikipedia. I provided a link. Look at some.

There are thousands of papers on Google scholar, a huge amount form this year, about where the hypothesis applies. Almost none claim it is not a valid effect. The research centers around where it shows up and detailed causal effects.

A criticism of some hypothesis is not an invalidation, especially when the majority of the literature overrides.

There's published critiques of a everything from general relativity to climate change. It doesn't invalidate the overriding evidence in those cases, nor does criticism invalidate this.
This seems like a useful tool for annotating ArXiv papers! Definitely going to try it out. All the best.
You are just restating that for the EU, bureaucracy is more important than genuine research. Furthermore, the "gaming" I referred to is of course the legally allowed game that the EU is actually expecting you to play, and that you advised in your previous comment.
Organizing Bookmarks as a Software Engineer
Solo creators on YT haven't been profitable in almost a decade. There was a brief period around 2010 where you could make money alone just from AdSense. But this quickly ended once it became a viable business venture, and production companies started up that focused solely on YouTube. As the production process formalized, income shifted from ads to sponsorships, merchandise, and external business ventures. YouTube now pays out significantly less, because they know the full time YouTubers can make money through other channels besides AdSense. Even if you make a million view video every week, it's barely equatable to an entry level career. If this article was written in 2012, the numbers may be different.
https://archive.ph/bQFAt
I never knew SafetyNet was a thing, and wow, what a bullcrap thing for the basic consumer.

Thank you for being a smart banking app developer. There is so much bullshit in most of those apps that I consider them as "worst apps on my phone", but due to management incompetence rather than developer incompetence.
Filipino lawmaker wants to punish people for ghosting
"We don't do that here" is a jewel of passive-aggressiveness.

I clicked on the link hoping to find something related to "Not invented there", but ended up with a new way to issue heavy threats with small words.
Hack has an interest pivot though.

It started with their PHP to C++ compiler, then someone started a JIT compiler, and eventually the JIT proved to be a better outcome in tooling and performance, that they scraped the compiler and kept the JIT instead.

It had the side effect that proper PHP now enjoys a JIT as well.
Radioactivity--particularly waste/water.
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A somewhat interesting short essay about grief, inspired by the game of Nethack. The title comes from a message that appears in the game in certain situations.

I remember everything2 which was sort of a forerunner of wikipedia, and better in some ways. The contributor community was much less obnoxious. I'm glad it is still around. It's been ages since I looked at it.
I wrote a shortcut to create a new note every day, but admit it's a bit of a pain in the neck.

Are you sure about Shortcuts support, though? It doesn't appear as a supported app in Shortcuts, and their website only documents x-callback-url.
They _are_ renaming the (commercial) IDE while keeping the name of the (open source) IDE. Using two completely different brands doesn’t seem a good idea either.
Maybe this would just make me a bad service admin, but if I believed that I would be literally saving someone's life by sharing data from one of my users with law enforcement, I would be hard pressed to hold their privacy above another's life.

Exactly what it takes to be reasonably convinced that I would be saving someone's life is of course not a simple question, but in at least some situations it seems like it would be worth the tradeoff.
That’s just a WISP, which have existed since the 1990s.
I have a question,

How to do font fallback? For example, a user uses an English font "Arial", and suddenly she types a Chinese character. the character doesn't present in Arial, so we need to find a fallback font that does.

Let's say we find one, but the fallback font has different sizing. How to scale the character to match the other font? What about kerning and other positioning issues?

And also, is your cache ever increasing? Imagine a user zooms in, do you retire those small glyphs?
Made me laugh. C++ isn't close enough?
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Yes.

Marriage is a union where two people make a lifelong commitment to each other: their identity is now united. This is a normal and good thing.
Hack has become essentially a domain-specific language for the frameworks used at Meta. They evolve together. There's no going back to PHP because there's no reason to rewrite the frameworks and give up on the flexibility afforded by being able to tweak the language to fit the framework.

It's basically the same situation as Apple has with Swift. They'd never switch from Swift to C++, no matter what features were added to the language.
Sure, but not using Google for search, and having an ad-blocking browser circumvents 99% of that threat.
Maybe that's my problem. I'm from the Southeast US (rednecks) and we pronounce them both dth-i-n. It's hard for me to type out but it's a harder I sound as the vowel. We use the same vowel for PEN (It goes PIN) and the name Ben goes BIN like BIN laden.
It's a cropped image of a special GitLab keyboard with a GitLab keycap for a giveaway: https://about.gitlab.com/images/blogimages/2021-gitlab-keybo...
Apple Maps wasn't super helpful for me when I was there. Even within cities. They don't have a big enough team on the ground (yet?) to detail the maps out
Didn't we know this already as early as Feb 2020?
Just checked my EverNote stats for me to comment here. I have 1500+ Notes spanning more than 10 years (since 2011). I have 18 notebooks as major categorization of work-company-A vs ideas vs bookmarks vs project-x .. etc. I use this daily, for tasks, snippets, basic todos both work and personal, and attach rich media (screenshots, code, links) in most notes.

Syncing is also what I'm after and all my devices have EN: macs at home and work, my spare windows laptop, tablets and smarphones (Android). Principle: if its for my personal consumption, I usually put it in my EN, but work stuff are in GDocs/GDrive for shareability. I also limit putting in my notes any sensitive info and credentials, at the very least, for sanity and security purposes, as I have a KeyPassXC for that. I also don't use Evernote specific groupsharing/tasks/other features; it's just the sync-all-my-notes-across-my devices. Syncing works best in their desktop apps for the most part, but buggy in Android (dups, conflicts). Paying $2+USD/mo for this so im not complaining. But it could be better.
I don't think Rust is easy to learn, it's has a kind of famously steep learning curve. The tooling is great which helps, but it's not easy for new-ish systems programmers.
True. But maybe additional confirmation that this pathway really works will help spur research into a way to replicate the same effect, without requiring the full bone marrow transplant process?
Not that you need to be a fan, but what are your reasons for not liking Rust? As a Rust developer, I'm always curious.
Subscriptions have some sort of grace period after the expiration date. That wouldn't work if the card number changed.
I don't think I can find 5G modem for 40USD, but I think for 40 or 45€ I could get pre-paid internet good for a year or two from all three operators here.

And at least one of those will likely work. If not, I probably don't have much power anyway.
I find solace in nothingness after death. We go to bed every night and wake up every morning yet we hate the thought of oblivion or nothingness. The desire for meaning seems like food for ego to me, personally.
Andrei is now at NVidia, and I bet most likely for his C++ skills.

It is a pity that D never found its enterprise sponsor to push it no matter what.

Even the recently announced Carbon could probably have somehow built on top of it.
Creating an In-Browser Kubernetes Experience
I went to UCSD (a public university) for undergrad and then Stanford for grad school (PhD). Both programs were CS.

In my opinion, the average CS undergrad at UCSD is honestly not that different from Stanford. At Stanford, there are a few truly, truly brilliant undergrad students; and possibly more than a school like UCSD. But you'll still find more than zero of those at UCSD, and it's not as if you're swimming in them at Stanford.

Having said that, there is definitely a difference in perception. People (especially people who haven't actually gone to Stanford) seem to expect everyone to be extraordinary at Stanford, even if most of the students are "just" modestly smart.

At Stanford, I had a startup founder walk into my office and just start pitching. I'm not sure what they expected to accomplish, but I thanked them and sent them on their way.

I've also met starry-eyed VCs who seemed to be of the impression that everyone in CS is starting a startup, and that I would (as a CS grad student) just be connected to all these people.

Anyway, overall my impression is that the difference in skill isn't that dramatic, but perception doesn't always match reality.
For research you use Python or whatever. For production you compile your models to whatever their proprietary equivalent to TorchScript and ONNX is, which is surely executed by hyperoptimized C++/Rust/Cuda code.
I was wishfully expecting to see D in the list. I suppose there weren't many influential champions after Andrei Alexandrescu's departure.
I'd create some tool that calculates your carbon footprint based e.g. on the size of your YouTube/TikTok videos or Instagram photos. Let's make everyone aware that the only way to fight the climate change is to change our behavior.
Don't be scared, anesthesia is like a really good nap. I'd do it for fun if it was safe and cheap.
That seems a bit excessive. I understand there is some emotional damage due to the stolen checks and the billed amount going to collections, but $7 billion? The lady who was killed was over the average life expectancy!
thank you all
You're correct in your first paragraph and probably a quarter correct in your second paragraph. Just to be a bit more deliberate: poor communities have experienced high rates of crime throughout human history, it's a newly recurring phenomenon that high rates of crime are now happening in communities which are not poor, and it's a problematic sign for society. Without trying to crack open the entirety of human psychology and sociology in a comment on HN, a lot of people primarily gather wealth to build safety for their family, the entire reason that they become wealthier is to insulate themselves from the criminality that is common in poorer parts of their city/country/world. The fact that relative wealth is no longer as insulative as it once was is indicative of a wider ranging issue than poverty driving crime, and results in subtle shifts and cracks forming in society.

There are absolutely cultural drivers behind crime, as well as demographic drivers, and I am positing that a big piece of what's causing criminal culture to spread and shift is social media acting as a communications platform to spread a different set of social mores and standards than those that have historically enforced cohesion within larger society and reduced criminality in wealthier areas. Again, case in point, children of wealthy families in posh schools engaging in vandalize and theft of school property for social media points. Social media is nothing if not a cultural force that creates a new demographic that cuts across other lines, their user-base.
What infection?
Slaves didn't build the pyramids:

> Animal bones found at the village show that the workers were getting the best cuts of meat. More than anything, there were bread jars, hundreds and thousands of them – enough to feed all the workers, who slept in long, purpose-built dormitories. Slaves would never have been treated this well, so we think that these labourers were recruited from farms, perhaps from a region much further down the Nile, near Luxor.

https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/were-the-egyptian-pyram...
Apple maps isn't the real competitor to Google Maps in India. It is HERE - https://www.here.com/applications/wego ... Google was forced to offer offline maps in India and EU because the Here apps offered it for a long time. (Apple maps still doesn't but it has a slight advantage over Here in that it licensed data from JustDial, an online yellow pages services, and so it can show the location of many retail and other commercial outlets better). Here had Nokia as a stakeholder, but is now owned by consortium of EU automobile manufacturers.
No, I'm saying they don't. They almost never do. So the other bobblehead says some crazy thing that winds them up and unless they are very very clever they end up wasting time on the distraction and never bring it back to the agenda they wanted to discuss.
I largely agree. :-)

>> Uncertainty is the nature of existence.

This should be seen as an observation about our universe, not as some kind of law. Existence could have been without uncertainty also. Some of the debates during the older times were like that, as the laws of classical physics have been deterministic. Some people still argue that volition / consciousness links to the non-determinism of Quantum Mechanics.
To be fair, SQL, as complex as it can be, can query on much larger databases and can get computations done at reasonable times. I haven't seen the same for pandas in terms of scalability.
I quoted the part I was referring to. I think it was a reasonable comment until OP had to throw on some kerosene at the end there - that's the thing we (I hope?) don't do here.
The authors of this paper might well be honest and smart, but they - as we all - have to rely on raw data provided by China.
This was my favorite joke at age 8
I'm very surprised that C++ is one of the recommended languages for backend services. I occasionally am interested in learning C++ but with my context as a web developer I find it doesn't really fit any of my use cases.

How would one go about building a rest service in C++? Do you have to write everything yourself or are there libraries and frameworks. I did some light looking into it after reading the article but I would love to hear from folks who actually do it and what the state of the art is for C++ web services.
I'm a dedicated Obsidian user at this point, but totally agree that discovery could be improved significantly. Maybe a context-sensitive search, like how when you're entering a new question in StackOverflow it gives you suggestions of questions that have already been asked that might be what you mean. So I'm reading a note, and in a side panel it would show me other notes that seem related, regardless of whether they're linked to this one. And when I'm typing, it might populate a window or feed in the sidebar with suggestions of notes that have similar content. I think that'd help a lot in discoverability, and in promoting better knowledge management as a whole by prompting me to curate related docs instead of editing them in isolation.
Absolutely.

> I’d much rather spend the time to educate someone about diversity

On what aspect of diversity are you conducting this education? "We don't do that here" doesn't sound very diverse. This whole piece is about how to take down an outsider. Then, "I am here to educate you about inclusion." I wonder if the author actually read the piece and realized how it comes across.

It's fitting that this is a post about "magic" phrases. Uttering "diversity" means nothing when you are cultivating a monoculture. Just stop using that word. Say what you really mean. Is it really worth the effort to try to redefine terms like diversity and inclusion to mean their opposites?

You're going to have much more success with your team when you are honest. Don't hire someone from a different camp if this is your attitude.
I don't want to say but she was in the hospital a few times.
and also because of my helpful comment.
Even the spayed dogs are on another level regarding aggression. I’m sure it’s psychological
If the height is not street level, what's the niche that's being filled by that when we already have tons of satellite data.
Have you ever considered that you drink another animal's milk, and it’s normal?
I'm not the author, but I can imagine one problem I would personally encounter, were this my employer, would be that there is no discrimination policy.

So now you've lied to the speaker. Or you have to write that discrimination policy yourself, pushing it through HR and C-level.

And as the author says, that's what they would prefer, if they had all the time and energy in the world - and the sentence "We don't do that here" serves to say "Please don't make me have to write down a rule that says we don't do that here.".

It's like seeing a sign "Please don't pee in the washbasins in the 3rd floor mens' room". There's a reason someone had to put down that rule in writing.
> As I remember the market is between the lab and some public transit destinations. It would make sense to go through the market on the way home from work.

You don't remember correctly. The WIV is ~15km from the market and there are multiple other markets nearer the WIV if employees were regularly 'shopping.
It's fairly useless for 1-to-1 communication. But for any group communications, it means there's no one server that can go down that will take down the whole room (unless all the participants are on the same server); contrast with XMPP MUCs.

On the other hand, XMPP is a lot faster.
Bring it in for service, "Looks like there was configuration problem on your car, we had the tech swap on the correct tires for you."
No. I don't want to assist in the death or injury of any other person, regardless of nationality.

It's a big red ethical line for anything I work on.
Thank you for making it your browser startpage, that's flattering!

Regarding the previous discussions, for now I'd like to try having only the artwork and the discussion for the current day. It goes against what most content platforms are proposing today with all the unlimited feeds everywhere but I feel it's a good way for people to take the time to reflect on the artwork and get deeper conversations.

All the previous comments are stored in a db at the moment so if the community grows and would like to access the previous discussions, that's feasible.

Regarding the spam issue, posting a comment currently requires creating an account (although without any email verification afterwards at the moment for the HN launch as I know many people here can be held back from trying out when the signup process is too intrusive).

There's also a minimum word limit for the comments to encourage constructive discussions and not just comments of the type - "Nice colours", "Love it", "That's not art".

Finally, I hope that being quite niche to art lovers, that might prevent too many spammy comments. We'll see!
Links and tweets, 2022-07-27
NIH got the data from China.
>How exactly do you learn this?

In some graduate programs, Getting to Yes[0] is the first book of the first semester. But isn't this book about negotiation, you might ask?[1]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_to_Yes
[1]https://gfycat.com/likableglitteringaldabratortoise-keanu-re...
Definitely true - the full time people I know have active affiliate schemes and very active Patreon communities. Adsense just doesn't pay the bills.

Sponsorship can be very good - but you need to be able to guarantee a lot of views.
> "where you can get a whole bunch of likes by saying “microservices bad amirite?!”

Okay.
The Dawn of Crowdfarms
I always wanted a Mindstorms set, but somehow have never gotten around to acquiring one. One of these days...
> The one thing that makes me think the Lab Leak theory is true is that the Chinese government very very strongly denies the story

...well, yes, of course they do. But they would also strongly deny the story if they thought it was untrue.

> Anytime the Chinese government reacts very negatively to a story (Denial, attacking, undermining, deflecting), it usually means the story is true.

So if they don't react negatively and deny something, then the story is... false? That doesn't make any sense.
> don't want to pay ad revenue when I'm asleep

I wouldn't be inclined to give YouTube the benefit of the doubt, but one potential explanation if we were being charitable is that they're legitimately trying not to interrupt peoples' sleep.

A random YouTube ad with loud audio interrupting any random video with steady audio would be far more likelier to wake you up and piss you off royally.
Logseq has been great. As an outliner with backlinks, it makes it easy to take notes with minimal effort put into structuring while still being able to find and group related notes. Queries are awesome for filtering todos by subject. Local storage is great for security / privacy. Can't recommend it enough.
>>It seems like they are just trying to create feature parity with WA and Telegram.

> Yeah, I don't know about that. […] What I experience with Signal desktop client reminds me of Jabber OTP client compatibility issues 10 years ago.

Like for the sibling commentator, the desktop client has been working for me largely flawlessly. Sure, doing backups on the desktop (and restoring them) would be nice, and no longer needing a phone number or needing to link it to a phone would be even nicer.

Meanwhile, though, WhatsApp doesn't even have a desktop client to begin with and their web UI is still mediocre and unsafe.

And let's not even speak about E2E encryption (or the general state of security) in Telegram.

So yes, I would argue most of Signal's features are more than on par with WhatsApp and Telegram.