skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m always amused by these kinds of nonsensical usage for Turkish in Germany (ü->ue) but the thing that really trips people up is that Turkish has two letters that look like i, one with the tittle and one without — in both cases.

Germany relatively adopted an uppercase ß (and got it into Unicode) to try to help with case roundtripping but I’ve never seen it in the wild. And let’s not get into obsolete German Fraktur ligatures like tz or ch which also had no upper case equivalents.
> The reason I say this is to try and dissuade anyone from rejecting SQL as "yet another tech moving so fast it's barely worth learning".

What's fast moving about Javascript? It has certainly picked up some features along the way, and compatibility across implementations has improved, but the code I remember writing 25 years ago would still work just fine. Overall, it's quite stable and slow moving.

The 'ORMs' of the Javascript world, to stick with the analogy, have a reputation of being replaced every few months, but that's a different topic entirely. ORMs of the SQL world aren't much better. All the more reason to focus on the core language in both cases.
> Devil's advocate, but isn't the point of being nude in public that you are destigmatizing it?

Destigmatizing doesn't mean people are free to stare or film you. It's the same if someone were filming on a regular beach because they find people's bodies in bikinis attractive (or to have a wank, as admitted by that old creep). You probably wouldn't like that very much.
Got told snap had offers to buy Zenly out. They refused because they think it's not in their best interest to let a competitive social network live on.
A simple confirmation step with a relevant warning could possibly make developers think twice before proceeding.
Tom Scott did a video on it that's sufficiently visualizing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCQEc736GO4
This is what I consider the modern face of Fascism.

I know you're not supposed to use that word, because it really upsets Fascists.

But really, long passionately argued essays about how democratic governance is stopping us from returning to the good old days and we should let the powerful do whatever they want.

Using dubious emotional arguments like laundromats can't be historic buildings? Calling things dictatorships, run by the articulate? Warning that nations fail if everyone gets a seat at the table?

This is not a good thing.
I'm reminded of the "cryptocurrency is easy to secure if you just follow these fifty three steps with no errors" advocacy.

(I used to run my own email and gave up years ago, it's too much hassle to do part time)
People talk about regulation as though it's a single thing. There's a difference between ensuring that food doesn't contain melamine and dictating the precise temperature that a steak must be cooked to. We need terminology capable of capturing the difference between common sense regulation versus hyper-regulation.
I started working in 2012, and my colleagues used usb keys to pass projects around. I was a bit... surprised.
Holy false dichotomies Batman!

“Talking” and “doing” are not zero sum: good results generally involve talking about what to do, doing it, talking about how it went and what to change, and trying the new thing in a virtuous iterative cycle.

Regulation is not a scalar: regulation preventing municipal fiber is good for cable companies, bad for municipalities. Regulation mandating bathroom breaks is good for warehouse workers, bad for bond villains, erm, titans of industry. Regulation preventing nuclear power plants is good for fossil fuel companies, bad for carbon emissions (and Ukrainians apparently, somewhat shocking). Regulation preventing new houses is good for the asset class and bad for the working class. “Regulation” is a lot of things, pretty much the only constant is that there will be winners, losers, intended consequences, and unintended consequences like any mechanism design change.

I think the author might be a little skittish about saying what he means: I want the regulatory regime to continue to favor people like me and my role models, in fact I’d like more of that please. Here’s an argument for how that could benefit others enough to get you dear reader, on board with it.
They talk about muslim people being so influential but choose to forget the cultural imperialism and unnatural prudishness of the US of A.
There's a documentary on Netflix, "Sex and Love around the world", the "Berlin" episode was mostly around how weird are Germans for going nude.
Yeah like "everyone has an email address", of course not everyone has one, but if you don't, you're simply not going to be our client.

And I'm not even sure what this "everyone has exactly one email address" is about.
> made their first datacenter GPUs and they are no longer dependent of NVIDIA

Russia did that? Right...
Yes, more deregulation and less democracy. It has worked so well so far.
Every time I encounter a mandatory "ZIP code" feature I use the one zip code that non-Americans are likely to remember: 90210.
> Who wants to give over their financial life to a computer program?

Where do you think your income and bank balances are tracked and stored? On pieces of paper?
The amount of developers who don’t know about “bisect” alone makes me sad. Such a powerful tool especially when you’ve got a good replication of a bug in some kind of test-like thing you can run.
Oh that's a good tip, thanks!
Crypto.com Mistakenly Transfers $7M to Woman Owed $70 Refund
that cannot be true. I think you meant john+doe

edit: wow. goodbye gmail

"if your email is johnsmith@gmail.com, you own all dotted versions of your address:

john.smith@gmail.com
jo.hn.sm.ith@gmail.com
j.o.h.n.s.m.i.t.h@gmail.com"

>johnsmith@gmail.com and j.o.h.n.s.m.i.t.h@gmail.com are the same address and go to one inbox

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150
> ...sometimes even simply offering an executable that you are supposed to blindly trust.

Then don't trust them. It's easy. If you don't have access to the source code, then assume the worst. If you absolutely MUST run executables of which you don't know what the hell is going on inside, then maybe run them in a secured container or something similar.
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
Obesity can be an indicator of health, but I'd be careful about drawing the conclusion that obese people are dying at higher rates simply due to their weight.

Being physically active looks to be more important than losing weight: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41366-022-01209-w

When it comes to Covid, I'd bet on a physically active obese person having a better chance at survival over healthier looking people who aren't active, smoke, etc.
The interface isn't very clear on how to use it. Some instruction like "paste the application questions here" would go a long way
Without decent documentation, it is.
It is interesting that this article could have been published in 1992, 2002 or 2022 but probably not in 2012.
Let's leave Palestinians for a second. Israeli settler living in occupied territories can vote in Israeli elections. Israeli living in Germany cannot. Both are living abroad, but have different laws applied to them. Having different legal systems for different groups of population is apartheid.
Is there a good reason that the CLI is able to close a contract with money in it?
Yeah, I'm not touching this with a ten-foot pole.

Software that changes my system configuration for their own benefit is something I try to avoid for eternity. I wouldn't trust such a development team to make smarter choices in the future.
I don't think that SQL itself is such a great language, so much that the relational database model itself is quite powerful, and transparently takes care of so many things for you. The thing that slightly frustrates me is that databases typically have several things all intertwined:

1. Users, network transport, etc (except for SQLite)

2. The SQL language

3. The query optimizer

4. Transaction functionality

5. Persistent store functionality

If you want to write a new database language, you need to either generate all of the above functionality, or "compile" your language down to SQL. What I'd love to see is having an official intermediate layer between #2 and #3, similar to llvm and gcc's bytecodes, with a range of different language front-ends; and ideally, the ability for a language to integrate directly into their type system.

Imagine writing queries natively within Rust or Golang, knowing that the types would be checked properly by the compiler; but that the query could be executed efficiently inside the database itself.
Group flow: definitions, theoretical approaches, measures and findings
> When the price tag is “everything you own”, how is this an improvement? Who wants to give over their financial life to a computer program?

You can strike out "financial" and that's already the realty we're living in. We got lucky that Y2K was not an issue today. We wouldn't probably be able to fix enough code and nowadays much more is under direct computer control than back then.

Nobody "wants" that but it happens gradually. With crypto, it didn't happen organically but crypto blasted onto the scene from the side of complete digitization. Looking at that, it's easy to say that nobody would want that but while you're looking this way, traditional finance is creeping towards complete digitization as well, just behind your back.

> This aspect of crypto is a 1960s paranoid computer fear come to life, and somehow it’s often presented as an improvement over the existing system of human checks and balances.

I'm not saying that crypto is an improvement as it is now. Nor that it will ever be (it might but I have my doubts). But what you're missing is that crypto is complete wild west, like traditional finance was maybe in 1900. The whole history of finance is a sequence of fuckups and laws and regulations that were imposed to prevent similar fuckups to occur and we still got the 2007 financial crisis, after 150 years of improvements.

I can try to stay as far away from crypto as possible but as I said in my previous post, there are aspects that are interesting even if most of it is completely nuts.
"everyone will use lowercase (like they pretty much always already do anyway)"

This in itself sounds is a falsehood!
Advanced cyber-attack: NHS doctors' paperwork piles up
this looks like asp.net core
No, but people being free to stare at whatever they like in public means that they are free to stare at you.
This is why coins/tokens/contracts shouldn't have the code be updatable when they contain money...

If you want something where some developer can change the rules anytime, then just pay the money direct to the developer, and hope he pays you back one day.
A lot of fun. https://geotastic.net/ is also a good alternative.
It's 2022. If people using the internet don't know about "downloading malware can be considered harmful", then something is wrong with these people. I mean, it's like "using a knife can cause harm": that's obvious, right? So (most) people use knives with care. Software should be used with care as well (i.e., don't execute executables from shady sources in your personal machine).
> When you use “velcro” as a noun or a verb (e.g., velcro shoes), you diminish the importance of our brand and our lawyers lose their insert fastening sound. So please, do not say “velcro shoes” (or “velcro wallet” or “velcro gloves”) – we repeat “velcro” is not a noun or a verb.

Weird, the word they're looking for is 'adjective'.

As the name of the company it absolutely is a (proper) noun.
>> Team orders have been banned in F1 since 2008 [0]:

> This statement is misleading, as it gives the appearance that this ban is still in effect.

Not quite. The statement is false, because it states outright that the ban is still in effect.
But it would change the equation a lot. Russia in very reliant on its fossil fuel exports both to finance its imports and its internal economy; the EU would like sanctions to affect both of those fields, but one is better than zero.
That's something I don't understand. I've always given my email as john.doe@gmail.com, and I sometimes receive emails - addressed to Another John Doe - sent to johndoe@gmail.com.

That Another John Doe never, ever had access to johndoe@gmail.com, they just gave a wrong address. That's not gmail's fault.
Has worked for me. I find the UK food labels on most products quite informative as a rule of thumb. I remember initially being very surprised at some food contains when I started paying attention and how very small things like Mars bars can have so many calories comparatively of course. I think there's something sinister about not wanting the consumer to know what your product contains.
Adding one more:

"An email address is the global standard to sign up for applications/services"

False in China, where the norm is to use their phone number. Doesn't mean they don't have an email address somewhere, but it's not how they sign up or sign in, typically.
Whole team is in France. Non compete are hard to enforce there. They are time and geo bound. You must keep paying majority of the compensation as long as non-compete is in place.

Can check details here (in french ) https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F1910#:....
It’s Solana, so there kinda is. It’s pretty much centralized.
Let's be clear about one thing: The hyperloop was intended to cast suspicion on infrastructure investments, primary rail. Who knows what will happen in the future? Maybe low pressure tubing will rule and no one will use rail? Then your investment will be for naught!

It's an age old method, the same as used in telecom to justify not spending on fiber infrastructure. Who knows what will happen in the future? Maybe wireless? Look at this idea what a future wireless service might bring!

(Completely ignoring the fact that fiber is what drives economy and innovation. Wireless is just a question of capex, if the fiber is already in place. Quite similar to how low pressure tubes have physical limitations that makes it unrealistic to replace rail.)

This is not only an obvious observation by now, as Musk has been pretty clear about what risks he saw with rail investments, particularly in California but also across the country.
It's not a bad layer, it's quite effective. If you do not have root, there is no way to access 1-1024 period.
This is yet another article that misses the point, which that these art generators create images from stolen copyrighted art on the web.

None of the winning piece belonged to the winner!
Is this service still maintained? I used to use it more but it feels like it's dying.
Distinct neural representations for pro-social and self-benefiting effort
From personal experience - no it won't. I have made mistakes with overriding warnings - when under pressure, hyper focused and already in the mental mode of - of course I am sure I want to do it - your slow brain is just shut down so you are moving a bit like on muscle memory.
Probably! It would need a little detangling from the proprietary stuff but not much. Please drop me a line at ben@rocinanteresearch.net so it goes on my todo list (which I’m a bit behind on this week, I’m aiming to clear the inbox tasks this weekend).
Robots can be used to assess children's mental well-being, study suggests
Our economy hates full employment so people are always scared of being the one who is unemployed.
Just because there is physical distance it does not mean it is not harassment.
No, it's true. Can place a dot anywhere and it arrives in the same inbox.
There's also a certain irony in looking favourably at the building speed and cost of an era when Depression labour oversupply could get a bridge built quickly and cheaply (with only 11 construction deaths!) but the longstanding invention of running water didn't find its way into grandma's house until well into the second decade of her life. And even people with running water saw it collected straight from the same rivers untreated waste was dumped into until the era of regulation.

In that sense, the history of smartphones looks a bit more impressive than that of running water...
They just shipped impressive new 3Dmap tech, independant of Google & apple tech. Too bad they didn't try to sell that.
Looks like it's working:

> The answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is 42.
... games that come on multiple floppy disks! :-D
Possibly, but this dates back to .. maybe the 7th century and Carolingian Minuscule?
The Scientific Straightjacket (1981)
Pay/Registration wall: https://www.printfriendly.com/p/g/cDPg3S
My employer hired a guy from this company! I wasn't involved in the interview process but was tasked with mentoring him. His resume was covered with DevOps buzzwords and he obviously said the right things in the interview, but the guy could barely move a mouse around the screen...

He took extremely long to do anything and then when he presented the work, it was very wrong and obviously copied from a bunch of stack overflow answers.

To this day I'm astounded my employer hired him and even more so that it took 2 months to fire him. Just think, he was on a senior salary for a couple of months for doing nothing... not a bad scam if you can do that a few times a year.
> string-compare-case-insensitive(x, y) => true // Right way

what is inside that function?
IIRC I had to patch the Ninja executable path-resolution to get around differences from how pip installs it. A sibling has asked for a patch, I’ll try to remember to post it here when I extract it from our thing.
For something as significant as keeping your population warm in winter I don't think this is "hindsight". This is one of those things that a government should pay core attention to because of the consequences of it going wrong.
No one is depending on it. Security is an onion. The more layers, the better.

I still haven't read a good argument on why that layer has to be removed at all.
Every aspect of this is loathsome. At simplest level its cheating because the fake match leaves the "winner" fresher than their opponent because their opponent had to actually complete in the first and subsequent match.

Then their is the need to lie about it a sure sign of moral wrong doing.

Then there is the act of subverting an individuals career and choices with ugly coercion that is only possible in the context of a society so broken that people may be disappeared, destroyed, or tortured for displeasing dear leader or his minions.

It's a many layered shit sandwich of gross that only appears bland when simple corruption doesn't have to give way to making good on threats.
There is a little irony in the fact these chips are manufactured in Taiwan, which according to China is already 'in China'.

So these chips which are banned from going from the US to China, do already go from China to the US.
Thank you for the amazing software!
It is true and it's not just gmail, dots before the @ are ignored.
Oh yeah. I am going to apply that to my next YC application and its cute questions.
Same observation here. Quite a bit of effort to try it out. Even a sample output/screenshot would be fine.
A more interesting version of this experiment would be to also ask people who don't claim to have synesthesia to associate a color with each month/number/whatever and see what, if any, correlation there is with the synesthesia folk.
Who doesn’t do surveillance these days? Seems pretty naive from a Google employee. A company that tracks user as one of the main business model.
Satiety is much more important than energy density.
I used to spend several hundred dollars a year on tech books. Back then, it was the only way you could learn anything.

Today, of course, you are correct. I haven't needed to buy a single tech book for years, and it's a lot simpler to learn straight off the Net.
Now ask it what the ultimate question is
Do you think HR is going to investigate? The type of company that rejects you for something like that is just going to look at the thumbnail and not mention why they haven't hired you.
This is one of those problems that “throwing money at it” doesn’t speed it up. China has been throwing money at the problem for over a decade and they’re still behind.
Which regulation do you think is responsible?

Personally I blame Right to Buy for the collapse in building new homes, as this graph [1] neatly illustrates; Local authority building collapses, Housing association building is a trickle by comparison. Private housebuilding has remained relatively stable since 1955 by comparison.

The financial crisis also has a notable effect, but it's small by comparison.

The cost of housing is fuelled mainly by lack of social rented supply, and the high cost of land with planning permission. It's also to some extent a consequence of political service to the baby boomer generation, who got high house building when they needed it, had the heyday of BTL and have constrained house building since to preserve the value of their investments. The size of houses is decreasing [2] and I can't find a source for it, but certainly anecdotally plot size is decreasing too. The young are paying more for less.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_in_the_United_Kingdom#...
/File:Dwellings_completed_in_England_1946-2015.png
2: https://www.labc.co.uk/news/what-average-house-size-uk
As a tangent, here are cats meowing at each other without humans around:

https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/wq1cs2/cats_meowing_at...
rm -rf /

Whoops, I lost everything! Computers are useless.
Oh but that is true.. :)

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150
Yeah it hung my Chrome on Samsung Android consistently. Firefox on Android pulled it up smoothly.
I tried it out with an opening from my company and the results were really good. Nice usage idea :)
It's a gradient. How you throw things down on that is up to you. Guantanamo vs. reeducation and labor camps. Paying judges to help keep the local juvenile prison full vs. harvesting organs from prisoners. Suppression of free speech and the media vs. whatever we see on Twitter daily.

Civilized or not is up to your perspective.
No bachelors degree in any field or no cs bachelors?

I can imagine someone coming from a numerical field (e.g. EE, physics, maths) could gind such a programme very beneficial.
Outside vs. inside assembly. Obviously.
Mixed nude beaches might be on the decline, but mixed nude spas certainly aren't. New ones are popping up in the Germany/Netherlands/Belgium region every day.

Japan is a bit different when it comes to baths. Traditionally many Japanese homes didn't have a bath, public baths remained popular far longer than they did in Europe. Having free hot (volcanic) water available also helps, which I guess is easier to exploit in a large onsen than it is at home. Also, they do have mixed onsen, but those are pretty rare (these days?).
I don't have synesthesia but thanks to Color Graphics Adapter (CGA), GW-BASIC, QBASIC, etc. that I encountered in the 1990s, 1 is forever going to be blue to me, and similarly, 2 is green, 3 is cyan, 4 is red, and so on.

As a result of this childhood bias for certain integers representing certain colours, it is a bit disconcerting to me that ANSI colour escape sequences use the least significant bit to represent red rather than blue, i.e., in ANSI colours, 1 is red, 2 is green, 3 is yellow, 4 is blue, and so on.
Indeed the list is VERY long. But I'll admit I will prefer Java over Malbolge.
Speedos were never particularly big in the US, so I can’t particularly comment on those.

I will say, that in 2022 I don’t think it’s necessarily shyness. We are now generally much more aware of the harms of UV damage to skin than we were in the 60s and 70s, and so there is actually a trend away from tanning and towards covering up. Which is probably for the best since skin cancer is the most common cancer in the US.