skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man, India seems like the Wild West. I lived in Vietnam during a brief explosion of internet connectivity and online consumerism -- mild by comparison. This isn't the kind of "democracy" or freedom of speech we would like to export as a civilization. I feel like American consumer/industry has just opened the doors to every kind of scam possible in countries which were not prepared for it. And many of them rebel as if it were a conquest, but it's not. It's progress. It just becomes grotesque when it's left to places without law.

Let me explain.

There is an important turning point, I think, in every country where you develop antibodies against the worst kinds of scams. Scams we may have let loose. But by the 1920s, most Americans would not trust a witch doctor (even if they would have trusted him in 1890). In the case of Russia, their leadership longs for 1890; they reject western modernity altogether and want to reenact a medieval war. For China it's more like: let's take the methods and eject the "false" morals. What they don't realize is that our (possibly stupid) individual morals are the only thing that hold the fruitful methods of capitalism in check for us, in our country. Our so-called morals are not for others; they are the way to restrain ourselves.

To be more specific, Russia has a morality misaligned with successful capitalism - they think rejection and revanchism are the key to prosperity; China has a morality too aligned with it - they do not see that individual freedoms and happiness are crucial; and America has forgotten its meaning altogether, because it no longer cares about individuals or the group, only identity-disordered affinity groups.

So tl;dr capitalism is a big tree that will uproot your house, or it can be tamed into a small tree that provides shade and sustenance; or it can be chopped down leaving you with nothing. The progression of 19th century societies who had no prior history to work from was to go through those three phases and return to a median. The progression of societies just encountering the full brutal force of lying, mercenary, vicious capitalism for the first time will probably be the same trajectory... but it would be helpful if they learned from our mistakes and (legally) stopped these things. The legal system is the best brake on abuses of capitalism; it's the natural counterpart that evolves over the years. If you want to fix this problem, fix the legal system.

I'm from a history of Jews who were all lawyers. Not allowed into universities. Not allowed to partake in the mainstream civilization of Germany or Russia or Ukraine or America... but versed in their laws and the contradictions inherent in their laws. You find this shit, this data that shows horrible mismanagement and crime in your country? Learn the laws better than the ones who wrote them know them. Then, sue the motherfuckers under their own laws. That's how you get a civilized country.
Is the single aisle a 4-4 then?
Are you responding to the connotation of, say, Cold War intelligence with the use of ‘file’? For me it’s pretty trivial that Facebook can pull up information per IP, correlated IP (via accounts, usage, magic pixel) and try to work from there. I doubt it’s legal under GDPR to store all that data, but it never sees light and they could argue that they need it for compliance with things like law enforcement and keeping their own platform usable regarding bots and misuse. (Not giving my opinion regarding this tracking by FB here.)
I don't know that they are exceptions. The wikis for moderately popular but kinda niche games are often in good shape. For example, wikis for The Long Dark and the Kingdom series are two I've used in the recent past. Detailed information. Even the comments are good.

Both games are fairly popular within their spaces, but not mainstream or AAA.
M. Torvalds never expressed an objection to auto-conversion. Xe expressed an objection to mass conversion, with patches that mass change function calls with little scrutiny and even less actual regression testing of all of the affected code paths. Because xyr past experience was that that was what happened in practice, and stuff broke as a consequence.
It boggles my mind that the C standard hasn’t officially added support for this. It seems like such a small change that would dramatically improve the quality of C code.
For the uninformed, what’s sneaky about it?
My bad — I assumed the “80 columns” was listed in the guise of a complaint about narrow wrapping in the age of 40” widescreen displays.
It's definately not true. In Vancouver, Canada where there's been a bull market in housing for over thirty years straight, builders make a pretty good living. I've met some earning 250-400k a year. As a software engineer, I felt I was in the wrong business. That profit is part of the cost to build, yes. But it also doesn't have to be that high, that's really enabled by market conditions.
Its as vaid and narscistic as any entertainment product is.

Are you under the impression that hollywood stars of yesteryear weren't shilling stupid products to make a buck off their followers?
Slack's leadership likely think that Slack is already so ingrained in corporate settings that people will go for it by default, without word of mouth from people using a free plan. There is enough word of mouth from people who used it on a previous job. Sort of like Jira.

I started using Slack in 2015, and never in my life used a free Slack account.
Well technically that's implementation-defined, but yes.
You know I thought this initially but at the rate people are consuming social media, they're not really wrong.

It only happened if it's posted om social media, is kind of stupid but unfortunate reality.

I hate it to death but it is 98% of the internet for most people.
What is superior about RISC V technically?
All I want is an umbrella strong enough I can use it as a coracle. Is that too much to ask?
succinct and accurate, transparency triumphs, though there are some details that should be kept among a few until the deal is done. It definitely depends on the size of the company
This is just a sybil attack without the blockchain
What don't you like about it?

How is it any lazy

I found especially the Fermi paradox interesting (throwawayacc2 thanks for mentioning)
Not 200, like 10. Someone added a false one, and it found its way to serious websites. German source: https://bildblog.de/5704/wie-ich-freiherr-von-guttenberg-zu-...
Zulip is a pretty good open source alternative to Discord / Slack.
I did work at one company where the main means of communication was an IRC server on the intranet. Calls were done through VoIP and file sharing was via the usual shares --- usually the coworker's machine, but central servers were also available. Of course this was a company that specialised in networking and communications products, so perhaps they were more inclined to do such a thing (and we "dogfooded" all of our products too), but nonetheless it was a great experience.
Surely for an individual restaurant a website is a better fit? I’m less likely to download an app to order food from one specific place, but I may well do it via a website…
Pretty near Chomsky in the realm of ontology are the thoughts that the objective reality isn’t findable by respectively the average person, people in general or at all.

I wouldn’t call people lazy for being unable or unwilling to find out the objective reality. What domains offer enough rewards to do that for? A proper quest towards objective reality costs you from weeks to a lifetime. Humans are satisficers, not optimizers.
Could this be money laundering? By running 180 separate 'companies' you split any large amounts 180 ways. Anyone who checks if they can order sees that, indeed, each of these businesses is 'real'.

Normal money laundering with cash businesses has the problem that each bit of storefront can only plausibly earn so much money. This seems like a pretty nice way to get around this limit.
the 'ng' sound is problematic. Kuningatar (queen) is an example of a word that is pronounced differently than written.
Yeah - it’s from Animal Farm by George Orwell.
Just look at that Windows mess (ehh 'base' install) from the Site:

https://images.ctfassets.net/b4k16c7lw5ut/95VgtrEkyNEPkTKQ0r...

Candy Crush and McAfee....really Microsoft??
How “WP Optimize” is cheating PageSpeed and other testing tools
Can’t forget this classic: https://youtu.be/4YBxeDN4tbk
Ah yes, the no true scotsman defense.

If i, as a person who dont give a shit about celebrities, know who she was, then she's probably reasonably famous. At least as famous as a modern B-tier influencer.
Send a GDPR request to delete it to their support.
If the question were Is Trump actually a unique evil? this would be an excellent answer. The question I asked is:

If you rely, for your mental picture of what is... important and what can be dismissed, on the same institutions that suppress true stories and promote false ones, then how even are you making these choices?
Stacking is best controlled by order and nesting in the document structure. If the year dropdown is nested inside the data picker which is nested inside the modal form etc., then you get the desired stacking automatically, without having to set z-index on any of them.
It's interesting that this sort of thing is not something native speakers actually learn in a classroom or textbook sense; they just learn it by natural language acquisition. But foreign language speakers have no choice. Quick, native English speakers: How do you define the word "the?" Or "a?" How do you explain when to use "the" and when to use "a?" This is not something we can really put into words easily since we never intentionally learned it themselves; just acquired it. Same with native Japanese speakers and all the little words here.

It's really the more natural way to learn in the end. In all my studies I feel like I never really retained the differences between へ and に for very long, and the same with は and が, but I managed to get to a point where I could use the right one far more often than not based on what just felt right. So don't sweat it too much if you can't remember all these particles; just keep practicing and it should fall into place eventually.
If they exist but are very rare that has some reason. Perhaps because it's fine tuned crystal structure which requires very high purity reagents. Or very specific unnatural angles like the recent experiments with multilayer graphene.
And the first class on both of those planes is amazing.
It's not that simple.

People who are used to slack will pressure their boss to buy slack for work.

The slack company will just see a boss reaching out and buying. They will not relate it to the fact that it's the employees requesting it.

Bosses want to use microsoft teams, because it's included in the company's subscription. They accept to use slack because of the employees.

But if the new employees will not even know slack exists… they will not be asking for it.
Yeah I think it's in their interest to identify internet users for targeted ads, so they have what would amount to Stasi-like files on people. Correlating all the info they have to try and determine an internet users true identity, and they sure have a lot of information.
> Also it's not green. The mining of the fuel isn't, nor is its transportation, vitrification, fabrication, refinement or enrichment. The concrete and cooling of the plant isn't nor is the waste stream side of the equation. It's the classic hyperfocus on a small part of the chain and writing off everything else as externalities.

By the same token, no energy production technology is "green". Solar panels use rare earth metals (and require clearing land in many cases), batteries use lithium, and wind farms have to have replacement fan blades every decade or so (which are not recyclable, so much so that the current state of the art is to burn them[1]) and kill larger birds of prey as well.

> The back end is a trivial cost because it Has Not Been Dealt With.

There are viable solutions for this[2] and given how natural deposits of uranium fare (even without containment they move very little on geological timescales), it seems deep geological storage really is an incredibly simple solution to this problem.

[1]: https://youtu.be/knX7NkJILhs
[2]: https://youtu.be/4aUODXeAM-k
I'm with you, fix the language to allow for proper strings. And tell anyone that doesn't like it to use std=c89.
Repeat business with a driver is really hard. And at least the uber app has strong remediation and selection of drivers.

Restaurants do allow for repeat business, and apps have less remediation and less selection. Less selection is because a bad restaurant causes much less PR damage than a bad driver.
200 years after Napoleon's defeat, French and British are still exchanging shots
Does this point to improvements that could/should be made to other Lisps?
Beautiful text.

About the end of the Chinese civilization technological advantage in the 16th century:

> War had ravaged the lands, laying waste whole cities. Plague had struck, killing millions, men, women and children buried in mass graves...

> (but) the force that put an end to the Chinese arc of progress was deadlier by far than all of these together, yet seemingly intangible as metaphysics. By the 16th century, the fleets had vanished, the proximate cause political; to this day there is no consensus on the underlying factors.

Also:

> The saving grace has always been the outside: when one nation, one civilization, faltered, another picked up the torch and carried on; but with the march of globalization, there may soon be no more outside.

Perhaps the direction the world is going in the last couple of years, with less unity, is not that bad.
Experimentally compiling PHP code to Rust
They were afraid of the C++ situation where there are 3-4 different string implementations in every large project.
>Another reason is the artificially low interest of the Eurozone, designed so that Italy and others do not go bankrupt when servicing their own debt

That is a very odd way of saying German banks don't want a debt cut. It is very easy to blame Italy and others when Germany runs a structural export surplus by cutting imports which means money is flowing into Germany only to be reinvested abroad where it flows back to Germany through structural trade imbalances. The fact that this is unsustainable shouldn't be surprising, but we want to keep the farce up and point fingers at every other country.

>The Czech central bank raised interest rates (we do not use EUR yet) and the prices of houses stopped climbing very abruptly.

You mean the price of land went down, the price of the house went up because it has gotten harder to finance it.
For newer Intel hardware, 32 bit support would be an issue
Doesn’t have to be reality. Even when a firm is profitable and has scale it can still act as a funnel for new business.

It also helps to keep some competitors out. One less toehold for newcomers to get traction in a market. Just look at the comments on the recent Heroku announcement - how many will now consider an alternative option.

More likely management have lost interest in growth and are looking to squeeze as much out of the existing customer base as possible. Not usually a good sign for investors or users.
Do you mean it adds them to your vault, in the left sidebar? As far as I know, you cannot hide them from there, but what you can do is define an attachments folder, so that any pasted image will be placed there and it won't generate noise for all the other files in your vault.
For passwords for encrypted data in data centres.....
That guy is brilliant. If I ever have a restaurant to push on Tripadvisor or elsewhere, I know who to call. And the food pictures are just great, now imagine ehat he can do with an actually decebt restaurant!
Advance Charging Controller for Android
I want to know opinions of people who are using this script ,is it worth ?
I’ve noticed that I think SkipTheDishes, or maybe DoorDash here in Vancouver has some restaurants that are marked as doing delivery themselves. I guess they get a higher cut if they do?
You should come to Waltham Forest, a borough bordering Hackney and Haringey to the west and Essex to the east. Around here, a large proportion of kids do cycle to school (or get cycled to school) on a segregated path. Walthamsterdam, as I call it.

It's the main reason my partner and I bought a house here. Eventually more councils will realise that they can attract council taxpayers by providing segregated cycle lanes and a civilised way of transporting themself and their kids around.
I posted this link to a BBC World Service podcast about a year ago of using a solar still in Somalia to produce water for a greenhouse AND salt:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cszv2l

Just thought I’d mention it heat again. Different technology, but pointing out there is demand for the salt.

Not to detract from this article which is amazing. The actual paper of which is here:
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/EE/C9EE0...
If the question were Was it reasonable to suppress the laptop story? this would be an excellent answer. The question I asked is:

If you rely, for your mental picture of what is... important and what can be dismissed, on the same institutions that suppress true stories and promote false ones, then how even are you making these choices?
The BSD kernels do not have nearly as many APIs that employ variable-length special-character-terminated strings that have to be parsed from human-readable forms, however. Whilst this is common for things like procfs in the Linux world, the BSDs favour general purpose interfaces like sysctl(3) where data are transferred in machine-parseable forms rather than human-readable ones.

So "all over the BSDs" rather glosses over the fact that whilst common in applications code, there's less need for these sorts of string functions in the kernel. (And it is the Linux kernel that is the headlined subject here.) strlcpy() is in libkern, but it's not anywhere near as frequent in the kernel as it is in applications code.
in most countries in Europe companies have to publish their accounts publicly. if the same or similar rule exists in India, or if the same or similar scam exists in Europe, company names and revenue could be matched with the food delivery dataset
IOW despite all the hand wringing on HN banning a single plane is a political issue not a safety one.

Edit: Another comment mentioned "an issue with the brakes" as the cause of a two hour delay. That's a great example of something that sounds scary but
doesn't actually pose a safety risk. Something like an autobrake or anti-skid fault would not create a safety problem at departure or during flight – the problem comes from the increased (visibility, runway length, runway condition) requirements. Those increased requirements in turn increase the chance of a costly diversion. It was likely just cheaper to front load a solution at ACC.

Or, you know, the sky is falling and Ghana has blown the whistle on a major lapse in safety culture at Delta. /s
> just keep practicing and it should fall into place eventually.

You just have to train your skull-housed neural network with lots of examples.
And the best bus is an EV bus.

Not sure if that counts as just buying different versions of the same stuff.

Nothing on its own fixes this. No one is suggesting to only do one thing (apart from maybe the people who are monomaniacal about nuclear or carbon taxes. Both good solutions but they seem mostly to be wielded as weapons to stop all the other stuff happening).
> Is it to reinforce the notion that users' actions are only to be taken as mere suggestions and ignored if they are contrary to your goals?

Wow, rude.

One possible answer to your question: there is no way for a browser to detect "consent", which is a subtle and nuanced concept, but user gestures have a hard and fast definition, so that's the proxy they use.
After all, Meta is expert about building websites with high quality content, devoid of any shade of fabricated stuff.
Facebook agrees to settle Cambridge Analytica data privacy lawsuit
This happened to us with late night mac and cheese. There's a pretty awesome local mac and cheese restaurant called Home Room in Oakland and UberEats showed one near us on the Peninsula. It was TERRIBLE. Microwaved mac and cheese sludge still frozen in the center. Nowhere in the ballpark as tasty as the one from the actual restaurant. Turns out a ghost kitchen opened 5 pseudo-locations all over the Bay Area but instead of the actual food from the restaurant it was SYSCO microwaved food.

It was actually shocking to me how and why the original restaurant was willing to dilute their brand name with that sludge. Meanwhile that ghost kitchen location 6899 Mission Street in Daly City churns out a bunch of other brand name restaurant food that aren't actually located there.

Googling the address in Daly City shows a "Local Food Hall" https://www.grubhub.com/restaurant/local-food-hall-daly-city...

Park Mediterranean, a Humphry Slocombe, a Subway and also Dosa all at the same address. And the "Local Food Hall" has locations with other restuarants cobbled together in Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Milbrae and San Jose.
Dynamite traditionally has no TNT in it. It is nitroglycerin soaked in to some sorbent.

Chemically a totally different material.
Yes, and I believe the model is as follows:

- infra costs sustainably decreases, exponentially;

- user signups almost-sustainably increases, exponentially;

- OpEx may increase, linearly;

- therefore, profit and scale almost-sustainably continues explosion to a rather enormous scale, landing founders with astronomical wealth.

- and this, by the way, is why charging users for actual costs is pointless. Harmful even! We’re offering values, not collecting fees. We’re going for the moon! Forget about gases for cars, we can pay out of the pocket. That’s irrelevant.

This actually worked for decades, hence the free tier. And the first two bullet points stopped working last midnight. And now Houston is working on a solution.
That would be an omnipedia.
I find it pretty hard to trust the ratings in Uber Eats etc. I invariably find that Uber Eats has a high rating when Yelp or Google Maps has a significantly lower rating. Sure the food is only one part of in the restaurant experience but when it’s something like 4.5 v 3 it feels off…
seems cool, but why the heck did it add my beloved grepWin to the list???
An MBA could be what it takes to restore joy and vigor into an otherwise limp and depressing job. I've personally investigated alternatives, such as seeking mentorship. As such, I've had quite a few mentors in my life, but most of them turned out to be fekkeless and self-important.

The thing I like about taking chances, making mistakes, and getting messy is the feeling of a bias towards action. It's much better than slapping a smile on a meager existence because soon enough, developers in that position will find themselves so stressed, they might develop disorders like paranoid-schizophrenia. Instead of forcefully laughing your way out of this problem, take action and learn something from it.
A better way to do that would have been something akin to the "Rail Packages" of the EU, most notably the open access part. Infrastructure should be separate from operations, and access should be given to anyone at equal priority and fees. Monopolies are effectively broken, and that works for rail as well any other type of infrastructure monopoly - ISPs, power, etc.
How many times on that landing page do they mention "Windows PC"? Eleven times! We got the message!

It looks like they're trying to resist "Great software, but can you release a Mac version"?
Do you really think over produced pop idols of yesteryear actually had talent?

They also shilled like nothing else. Hell, late night shows were basically exercises in shilling with some jokes stuffed between.
GitHub is a good example of an enduringly useful (to the company) free tier.

Because devs use it for OSS/hobbies, they want to use it at work. Simple.
The Forgotten ‘China Girls’ Hidden at the Beginning of Old Films