skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The reason for climbing corporate ladders is to enrich your own life and give you more wealth, which can make your life far more comfortable and gain you respect and recognition amongst peers...

But that's the thing- I don't actually need any of those things. My upper-middle class life is already comfortable. My peers already respect me. Sure, there could always be more money and respect, but that would always be the case, no matter how high I climb. There will always be someone with more money and respect than I have. There is no "Final Boss". Even Elon Musk (currently the world's richest person) probably compares himself with historical figures whose wealth would put his to shame (Alexander The Great, Mansa Musa, Marcus Licinius Crassus, etc.).

It's like the old (and probably apocryphal) story of the conversation between Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut [1]. I have something the ladder climbers will never have- enough. I can either continue deferring happiness until I reach the next rung of the ladder (and there's always another rung), or I can decline to climb at all and choose happiness today, right now.

1. https://alearningaday.blog/2019/06/04/joseph-heller-and-enou...
> First World War would have ended much sooner if the belligerents were unable to steal the wealth of their populace by printing money

Historically, warring kings just took the money. Our ancestors used hard money. This didn't keep them from being brutal. Pretending hard money saps authoritarians of power or war-making ability is a good pitch, but it's hollow.
What Cocktails Share with Cicadas
Infinite scroll is one of the several cancers of modern web development. It breaks the scroll bar, it ruins search on the page, the back button stops working, it's a pain for people with accessibility issues. Never use it!
We were talking about security updates.
The majority of books written don't even get published - so the majority of books are definitely read by less than 12 people.
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We'll take our pav mate, but you can keep your electric fence and zorb ball.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted but this is totally correct.

Which is why I don't like the Buddhist idea of getting rid of all materialistic attachments.

If you get rid of materialistic attachments you also get rid of meaning.
And while it's true, things don't mean anything in an abstract universal sense....

Human beings live in a human world not in some void in space and meaning is important to us and can give us great happiness and joy.

Obviously life means something to all of us because we're still breathing every single day and most of us wish to continue to do so.
Every browser / os can have different emoji fonts

Emojipedia article for "Tent": https://emojipedia.org/tent/
>Forcing private companies to not moderate though is different - that is itself a violation of the company’s speech.

Damnit, companies should have no recognized "right to speech". Citizen's United is a bloody scourge. A corporation is a vehicle for risk distribution, and should have never been allowed to become anything more. Theoment we started inferring rights to legal fictions we started going stark raving mad.
Neither are the other communities listed artificial(maybe the brands? not sure). Open source projects communities I'd relate more to the comp.lang.$language, and I guess the social interaction would be relevant, but are there really enough people contributing to a project to have a "vp of community"? this is what raised the red flag for me, well that and someone making up a "cute" name to refer to themselves as part of an in-group like languages were youtube channels("Rustaceans"). I guess the edit I made would clear up where I was with my previous comment.
> Take periodic cicadas, whose life cycles are always a prime number of years. Some only emerge every 13 years, and others every 17. As 13 and 17 are both prime numbers ... The result is that the two types of cicada will only emerge simultaneously every 221 years, so they avoid competing with each other for survival as long as possible.
well, keep an eye on what this diet does to liver and kidneys and if it's high-fat watch out for gallstones. But hey, if it works for you and you can do what you need to do, go for it.
so does posix_spawn, since you can leak file descriptors into parallel spawning threads/processes before the execve (where they are closed if having O_CLEXEC).
Here's a great video demonstrating it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISfIT3B4y6E
>in order to discourage folks from using common web components I'd definitely need to see some actual evidence of this phenomenon w.r.t scrolling.

I mean, this whole thread is rife with people telling stories of being terribly annoyed by the shenanigans that infinite scrolling causes. Including issues both involving the scroll bar as well as other forms of navigation that break down with infinite scrolling.

I'm sure you have also experienced moments of disorientation when something you were using (not necessarily infinite scrolling) suddenly decided to do something all on its own and left you to figure out what just happened.
What region, if you don’t mind saying?
If this got much bigger I would switch it to quickjs
I suspect you missed the parent comment's point.

Many parents feel strongly that their childrens' wellbeing is deeply significant.
There would always be companies donating to charities and advertising - just only the ones below the threshold. And the variety and number would be a lot more vibrant

Word-of-mouth would actually be what the mega corps would aim for in this hypothetical system. They would be forced to treat customers super nice and actually lose money. Consumers would win and competition would improve. I propose the increased number of competitors would actually increase the donations made to charities. It just wouldn't all come from Coca Cola Corp and instead from hundreds of others
Hypothetically, do you think it would be nice if you found out common things you shared with you co-workers right from the start? For example not going 5+ months not knowing that they support the same soccer team that you do. That is 5 months worth of convo that could have happened from the start.

It seems that you are pretty social and take extra steps to build the connections. So, wondering if it would be easier for you to not have to do the leg work and be able to get into the main things you and your co-worker can talk about for hours.
The new employees are obviously happy about it lol. Your mentality is generally the main issue with unions - old vs new.
Neat! Ukraine is gonna have a lot of unexploded and unused explosives after the war.
these are such minor things, where exactly to catch this
well, you have a different 150 than I do, I'm afraid, and I was also at a FAANG. A really high percentage of people I know have O'Reilly books on their shelves.
It's transparent to the apps, it's included in all GPS (or technically GNSS) locations. GPSTest has a built in accuracy test mode where to can measure your phones location accuracy. Read more about that here: https://barbeau.medium.com/measuring-gnss-accuracy-on-androi...

I noticed a huge difference when I switched from my older phone to my current with dual frequency, and I usually log runs, walks, and bike rides so it's easy to compare the tracks. But maybe my old phone was just bad, my Garmin watch uses single frequency and it's usually quite good anyway. I've seen a few reviews of new Garmin watches and there dual frequency seems to make a small and not always noticeable difference.
> Your people seem to be screwed under the current system and things aren't exactly looking up. By some accounts I've heard from your countrymen, only 'most' instead of 'practically everyone' being screwed would actually be a step up.

This is simply not true. You've been listening to one-sided propaganda.

Note I'm not saying things are well. But it's not as extreme as you put it. Living in Argentina is not hell, or anywhere close to hell. It's quite a nice country. Us in the middle class love to complain a lot, but many of us are doing quite fine.

Yes, the situation is uncertain, inflation very high, and it's all politically volatile. But it's not anywhere close to a nightmare (your "practically everyone is screwed"), and whoever told you so is lying to you.
Yeah, I'm aware. In one of my comments here, I link to a piece I wrote with a title along the lines of "I believe California is the dumping ground for the nation's homeless."

We have a nationwide shortage of affordable housing. The fact that the homeless flock to someplace temperate and relatively dry with soup kitchens and such in no way changes my point: Money cannot buy what does not exist to be bought. Anywhere in the US.

We need to fix our housing supply issues. We need to fix it across the nation, not just in SF. SF is suffering disproportionately, but my point stands: Throwing money at the homeless won't fix this. The solutions they need aren't out there. They need to be built.
Seeing the same in Sweden
And why should those competent, employed individuals pay the cost of having an incompetent government who's willing to steal around 75% of their salary through unfair taxes? You receive, for example, 2000 USD and are forced, by law, to convert them to pesos in 5 days but to their fantasy exchange value of around 147 pesos per dollar. Fantasy exchange value because try to get someone to sell you a dollar at that price, it's impossible, the real value of the dollar here is the one most people can access which is around 280. And also, besides that you have to pay all the ridiculous taxes from just exporting your services and invoicing.

No thanks.
I’ve heard some wild things about the old SAIL stuff. I never had the chance to encounter it though. I got on the TeX train in 1985¹ with TeX82/MF84. AMS/TUG still were using the am* fonts for their publications.

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1. My very first exposure was DEK’s article “TeX and Metafont” in a copy of Dr Dobb’s Journal that was part of a trove my brothers got a hold of—and then in 1984 seeing someone in the IIT computer lab paging through a copy of The TeXbook, so when I found out that UIC had just installed TeX on their mainframe, I was one of the first people to use it there.
A lot of American local news sites started blocking all of Europe after GDPR went into effect, it's probably that.
Wonder whether this would get a discussion posted outside the weekend. He made some great points in this weeks email.
What is better in an unfixable race condition (the time before the execve where stuff leaks)?
I had no idea about Poundbury's link to CRIII. I live in Yeovil, roughly 30 miles away and I have a customer there too.

From memory it is quite different to the norm - lots of space is one impression I had. The road system is a bit different to what we expect in Britain too. Can't quite put my finger on it.

I think I might toddle on down and review the place with my eyes open.
There's a weird interplay between comments and submissions on HN. Popular comment about Bellard yesterday? Bet you'll see a write-up of Bellard submitted today.

The third stage will be tomorrow when comments casually refer to information gleaned from the article submitted today as if it were common knowledge. There will be an article about a new JS framework and someone will make a comment like "of course, programmers like Bellard[0] managed to be quite productive without the use of a similar framework."

The circle of life is majestic to behold.
You aren't really hanging out with the guy who wrote that tweet when you use zig. And it seems a bit hasty to extrapolate his behavior to be representative of the entire community, if you think that matters.
That’s something I’d worry about on a Google platform, not so much iOS.
I agree with your broad assessment that the glory days of Hollywood are over, but am not quite as optimistic on the future of Asian cinema.

Chinese media is crippled for the foreseeable future by heavy state censorship, including micromanagement of plotlines: can't do anything that lets the bad guys win or shows the state in a bad light.

I also note you don't include Japan, which is rich and has a population of 100M+, but with the arguable exception of anime has not produced any global blockbusters in decades.
First, I’m not a zig user, or a zig community member so I don’t really care that much whether you use it or not. But it comes off as a bit immature to let a single person’s actions turn you off from an entire language. I’m sure it would be easy to find some shitty behavior from some individual in almost every community. There are dozens of examples in linux, in ruby, in python, in rust, etc.

Open source communities are not homogenous, and they involve humans. People have bad days, people say things that aren’t well thought out, some times it takes a while for someone to come around to why what they said was hurtful, counter productive, etc. I don’t know the country of origin for this person, but some cultures have a much more direct and confrontational style of communication.

Use the language or don’t, but if this is the reason you don’t, maybe spend some time reflecting on why a relatively unimportant interaction appears to have affected you so strongly.
> Compare the success of the free market at raising the standard of living as opposed to other forms of government - by a lot.

Generally alongside massive government-directed/-financed social programs, often much higher tax rates than we’ve seen for decades, alongside a powerful labor movement, and alongside substantial regulation like antitrust. To the extent the raised standard of living has been anything remotely like equitable, anyway. To wit:

> For example, people like to rag on Amazon, but Amazon's products and services has personally benefited me greatly. Shopping online saves me a ton of time, and wear and tear on my car.

That’s great, for you. And the conditions their warehouse workers experience more closely resemble the conditions of workers in similar jobs a century ago, than the conditions of equivalent jobs which no longer exist many places Amazon operates warehouses.

In the same time that this more-free market has been allowed to grow such behemoths, wealth and income disparity have ballooned incredibly. To that point, if I said something like this to many family members and several friends:

> As for equity portfolios, anyone in America can invest in equities. Etrade, Robinhood, etc., have done a great job democratizing investing. Want a piece of the action? Buy some equities.

They’d either laugh out loud or stop speaking to me. Buy some equities with… what? They’re struggling to keep a roof over their heads. Given the circumstances, where I’ve taken over mortgage payments for my parents so they can have a home and where there’s hospital bills much larger than the value of the house, I suspect some of them would disown me for being so callous.

I sincerely am glad that you’re enjoying the benefits of the free market such as it is. But you shouldn’t be under the illusion that it’s anywhere near as available to others as you seem to think.
Orientation uses the accelerometer, not GPS.
The point is that you shouldn’t _want_ it to include taxes, as that incentivizes worse behavior in governments. You should be reminded when you purchase something of how much is added on top by the locals.
"...aspartame – was associated with a 17% increased risk of cerebrovascular events, while acesulfame potassium and sucralose were linked to increased risk of coronary heart disease."

Here we go again! Aspartame is one of the most studied food additives ever with respect to safety and the general consensus from ~40 years of research and dozens of research teams is that it's safe–that is, up until now.

If this chemical is dangerous then why hasn't any of the copious research demonstrated any causal effects up until now? Moreover, aspartame is a relatively simple molecule and its breakdown metabolites are also simple and that the elimination of them from the body is well understood.

Like millions, I've a vested interest in these sweeteners. I'm not diabetic but I try to avoid sugar as much as I can so I'm a consumer of them.

Stories like this aren't very helpful if science repeatedly hits dead ends in its attempts to show why these sweeteners are dangerous and always concludes they're not.

If the sweeteners themselves aren't dangerous per se then perhaps there's some other factor involved such as the way we actually consume sweetened food.
If you western union yourself you get the street rate.
> It has shown that GC vs manual memory management has a third option.

Objective-C has only existed a few decades now.
(Changes to grep) Time To Stop Using egrep and fgrep Commands, Per GNU grep 3.8
And all they had to do was have their scientists work 20-hour days!
I mean, if people hate your speech so much that they are willing to spend resources to silent you, you have to consider how much you value your freedom of speech.

because a private company surely don't value it as much as you do and won't protect you especially if what you say ends up in a DDOS attempt for them.

mainly because they don't have to.

your freedoms are your responsibility.
Many sentiments, compassion included, were "invented" in the sense of being popularized in different times (and in different cultures), as opposed to being always inherently the same across time and place. That doesn't mean they didn't exist, but that they were much more subdued.

Romantic love, for one, has inspired artists and caught plain folks off guard for millenia, but our modern understanding of it, the idea of passion as important to love and marriage, a big part of life, and so on, and even particular expressions of it, came from around the 15th century or so, and then was made even more prevalent by books like Werther and early romances and then with movies.
"2018" post.
Is there a simpler way to explain them, though, or is that level of complexity required for the explanation to be both 100% correct and complete?
The article says "internal version of the Uber rider app", which makes me think it's some sort of internal/beta/debug build of the app that everyone else gets. In that case it makes sense that many of the features would stay the same, including stuff like ads.
I was thinking the same thing; link to the file on Github, with the same title text as is there now, and it saves me an extra click. And any time I don't have to visit Twitter, I consider that a win.
Thanks, I don't pretend to know how all that works in Argentina.

So cuevas are buddies with those in power? Wouldn't that mean they get extorted to stay in business? And if they don't come up with the requested bribes, or otherwise run afoul of their "sponsors" then they get shut down and the customers are SOL?
On the same note, the original Atmel8/16 chip datasheet. It made me fall in love with electronics
So should they update MacTCP for System 7 for my old 68K Mac LC II?

They already provide updates for phones and iPads back to 2013 as recently as last month.

That was the first phone that supported LTE. Any phone older than that will soon be inoperable as the carriers shut down their 3G network.
The general acceptance of the term "Quiet Quitting" tells us quite a bit about how we currently view the relationship between labor and employer.

Somehow we have accepted the idea that showing up when you are supposed to and doing the tasks you are required to is not "doing your job" but rather "quiet quitting".

It does not seem that these people are goldbricking or maliciously complying or really doing anything wrong at all. They are just doing their jobs. Doing the minimum required is a bad career move, but it's certainly not "quitting" or somehow stealing from your employer.
I don't think it is just you. That was a very thoughtful reply. I agree with everything you said. I would never want to give up WFH but had a lot closer friendships back in the day.

Do you think you would be interested in a world where WFH stays. But companies offer a way for you to connect with your co-workers based on your most passionate interests? For example if you love soccer, watching tennis, massive Star Wars fan, love taking cruises, you end up seeing your other co-workers who like the same things. So, you can start conversations based on those interests. Meetings would be more fun when you guys talk about the US Open tennis matches or what cruise was the best etc. While being WFH.

I want to know what you think about something like this.
Yeah, at some point you have to question if it's worth spending time maintaining a quirky, error-prone, ever-growing mini-JS interpreter, or just adding a dependency on v8 or node or something. And then you don't have to worry about supporting new scripts, as they'll just always work.
Neat. Glad this is being used. Ukraine is going to have this issue for a long time.

For peacetime usage, how about one that does Morel mushrooms? Those things are impossible to find until you see the first one or two in the season and remember how they blend in.
Why does the author think they should be able to get USD out of an ATM in a non-US country? Does this happen in any country?

I can't think of any country I've been to other than the US which let me withdrawal USD from an ATM.

When telling friends about some of the benefits of Crypto, I often use Argentina as an example, but this one comment regarding ATM -> USD I think is hurting the credibility of this author.
I have no idea what’s even the point of making such comments. We’ve seen dozens of programming languages in the last few decades and all of those languages have their own unique set of features.

I’ve learned Rust, Prolog, Fortran, and licked a bit of Ada in the last 4 weeks only. That adds to at least a dozen I worked professionally in the last 22 years. All I can say: yeah, whatever you do in your programming language X, has been done in the past. We all stand on the shoulders of giants.

What was that quote? “Talk is cheap. Show me the code”?
I've pretty much refused to watch any of his videos because he looks lone of those open mouthed clowns you throw balls into at the carnival.
Maybe the point is not that nothing matters, but that life is ephemeral so put your energy into the things that matter to you.

I was just telling an anecdote of when my first child was born and I took parental leave. I was shunned by some colleagues, and even my own father, for what was considered a career-limiting move. Looking back now nearly six years later, I couldn't tell you what we shipped in those weeks before or after my leave. I can barely even recall what broad initiative I was working on. But I do remember the days and nights with my wife, getting to know my child, and think about it often. Had I taken the advice of so many around me, I would have missed a once in a lifetime opportunity that I will remember and cherish for the rest of my life. Nobody will remember that about me, and the memory will be gone when I die, but it matters to me.
Please, where can I read about that? I need it to back my point why putting too much trust into CF is not good.