skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ian Hislop, the editor of Private Eye magazine and regular star of the satirical TV show Have I Got News for You, made a documentary 12 or so years ago - Ian Hislop Goes Off the Rails - which looked at the Beeching cuts and, more broadly, the history of the UK rail network. It's nicely done, and never descends into an anguished, hand-wringing rant. Sadly, it's no longer available on BBC iPlayer, but it's on YouTube (split into six episodes):

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ian+hislop+off+...
Hi, yes there are several sources:

https://www.golem.de/news/landgericht-muenchen-einbindung-vo...

https://t3n.de/news/google-fonts-illegal-urteil-dsgvo-144769...

https://www.derstandard.de/story/2000138472819/datenschutzan...

All these sources lead back to this verdict:

https://rewis.io/urteile/urteil/lhm-20-01-2022-3-o-1749320/
These perverse incentives (publish or perish; using big words to appear more serious) are far bigger problems than peer review being single-blind or not.

Yesterday I started looking for a token embedding method, and my search turned up word2vec and GLoVe. After skimming both papers I am leaning toward word2vec solely because it was easier for me to understand the big idea, even though GLoVe may perform better.

Personally I would rather see code than a LaTeX-typeset equation. With typeset equations, the author has plausible deniability that you didn't interpret their notation just right, or oops that was supposed to be a boldface capital X, which implies a different data type. But if you provide code, anyone can run it and independently verify the results.

Maybe the fact that no one can independently verify your equations/pseudocode is a feature, not a bug.
Thanks for all the comments. Just to clarify, not really asking how to learn a specific language or how to code. Question is more if one were doing a survey of various languages to understand disadvantages/advantages of each and for a general working knowledge, what's a good relatively quick baseline exercise to do that comparison ?
403 Forbidden from Europe.

Maybe https://www.npr.org/2022/09/14/1122902945/northeastern-unive... is better
In the unlikely event you are unaware, person to person wire transfers just scream fraud to a bank. So write out a check. Big deal.
That’s also why you have to be extra careful when reading, especially in discussions with strangers.

When I read something where the author sounds rude, I try to step back and think if there is another way to interpret it.

It’s unlikely that strangers will accept advice on writing styles, so I try to adapt my reading style while I wait for a perfect world.
I have 50% success. Mom is on discord in our family channel, but dad isn't.
The article talks about this (sending boys to school later than girls).
It also talks about why it happens more in some circles than others.
The author also discusses a range of reasons for different development pace.
Etc.

Really interesting.
This is really exciting work - it has the potential to make Linux software services way, way more efficient.

I look forward to seeing the impact that this change has, for example, on future builds. A significant amount of time is spent at the beginning of a process spawn, setting things up - being able to batch things up without the process startup load, is going to make things much, much faster. Process pools? Yes please! :) I will definitely be a customer of posix_spawn() when its ready ..

One has to wonder, though, given Josh' work with Rust, if any of this work is going to be done in Rust? One can dream ..
And this is something you want enforced by the state? What other unenumerated rights should be enforced by security forces? In North Korea, security forces have the responsibility of making sure that people express the appropriate amount of worry and fear when a Kim might be ill, and the appropriate amount of rage when a Kim has been insulted by a foreign leader.
Azure stopped supporting TLS 1.1 recently as well.

If these are old systems, it could be this... if they're running .NET apps compiled against framework pre... 4.7? 4.8? TLS ain't gonna work...
The kind of person who doesn't understand that trailer tires have some pretty substantial tradeoffs in car use is not going to be loading their classic van heavily enough and then driving it fast enough to have issues with some random car tires that don't match the OEM weight rating.
https://archive.ph/7HrxI
On a similar note, it's also a common cliché in the context of international group introductions:

"Hi, I'm Olaf and I'm from Lund, Sweden"

"I'm Francisca and I come from Córdoba, Argentina"

"My name is Jayalalithaa and I'm from Erode, India"

"Hey everybody, my name's Peter but my friends call me Pete. I'm from Columbus, Georgia, and I'm super excited to be here"
I find it interesting how many Americans are pissed off ITT about the EU fining a US company for malicious practices. I didn't see the same reaction from Americans when the US was suing VW, Toyota, or other foreign companies for theirs.
“If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.” - Cardinal Richelieu

Nothing has really changed since.
Unfortunately the "magic green >>Build<<" button (at least for JDK11+ projects) is still missing :( Check: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-20072
Holding "not my king" poster has nothing to do with "deep solemnity" and does not prevent anyone from grieving. Yet they still got arrested or questioned.
> That studio owner literally made a billion dollar mistake by not simply being fair early on to the team. Never, ever, treat a team that has achieved rare success as replaceable cogs. If they've shipped, they can find more money people any time they want.

That wisdom applies to that specific industry. In gaming, the people you hire are the asset. However the same doesn't apply to all industries. Sometimes people are more and sometimes less replaceable. If you are running a fast food chain and manage to piss all your employees, yes, it is likely a problem, but if you hire new people and fix your behaviour it is likely that the business will continue to run as usual.
The amount is in Euros, but the government may choose to accept US dollars or British pounds (or goats, or whatever they like) as tender.
Doesn't seem like a quick exercise to me. LOL.
Never thought I'd see WordArt coming back 20 years later but here we are.
I typically write a raytracer while attempting to stick to a small set of "best-practices" for the language I'm trying to learn. I also use this exercise from time-to-time to test new language features (for example C++20 ranges/coroutines recently).

I also recommend this same exercise to others through the book "The Ray Tracer Challenge" [1] by Jamis Buck, because it describes an entire implementation of a raytracer in pseudocode. Beginners mostly just need to plug-in their language of choice & still end up with a satisfying visual result. Experienced programmers can extend it by adding the ability to load non-trivial .obj models, which will necessarily motivate adding concurrency, bounding volumes, & other general performance improvements.

I'm planning on tackling it again in Elixir soon, which should be fun & interesting.

EDIT: Almost forgot to mention the free bonus chapters [2] that get you started on bounding volumes (AABB), soft area lights, and texture mapping.

[1] https://pragprog.com/titles/jbtracer/the-ray-tracer-challeng...

[2] http://www.raytracerchallenge.com/#bonus
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sponsorblock-for-youtube/id157...

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/
The whole thing is opt in for a given project now so that "should" avoid rando projects who don't realize what is going on getting inundated with spam.
If you’re a participant, only PRs against repos that opt-in to Hacktoberfest will be counted. So that solves the spam problem immediately.
Just to make sure, I didn't say illegal, just unlawful.
I agree with everything else you said.
The change they made last year, which remains in effect, is that repos have to opt in. It probably should have been that way all along.
When you are hurting the community you are pretending to help[1], and refuse to listen to them[2], then it's definitely a bad thing. Remember that most popular OSS devs are already walking a fine line, adding an extra burden to them is Not Nice™ IMHO.

[1] https://blog.domenic.me/hacktoberfest/

[2] https://twitter.com/domenic/status/1311355857465225218
It's worse than that even... Historically, (before balance bikes) a lot of kids would progress from having training wheels all the way down, to two-wheeled dynamics. The problem is, having training wheels all-the-way-down means you have a tricycle, which doesn't have countersteering dynamics. So as soon as you pull the wheels up, they have to totally forget what they've learned.
Especially as EU is also fining European organizations.
If you define your market narrowly enough you can make everyone a monopoly. Sometimes what is needed is to step back and say the definition is too narrow.
hah. I didn't see this before I wrote my comment. Really makes you wonder about this common SWE fantasy of mew ways to turn cars into big electronic touch screen devices, whether the people dreaming these ideas up have ever actually driven a car.
Meta-answer: I like to pick a project I wouldn't mind doing a 2–3 times in that language. It's hard to learn all the best practices, idioms, etc. of a language in one sweep. Having a project that you can repeatedly do in X language—making it more "X-like" each time—is a good way to learn how to refactor things and structure things "natively" in language X.
This is actually my argument for the 2nd amendment too.

I don’t believe we need guns atm… but we are unsure of what the future holds and surrendering such a monumental right would be next to impossible to “undo” if the time ever comes.
The range of crypto -> gift card or crypto -> virtual credit card options have improved quite a bit, and you usually get ~2% cashback for purchasing these which can help to alleviate some of the loss through fees. In the US and AU you can pay a lot of bills with crypto through sites like Bitrefill. I find that you can basically live on crypto in Australia now, but this probably wouldn't be true for people living in poor countries as Visa/MC/ and the gift card vendors don't bother with small/risky markets.
HiFiMAN has really destroyed the audiophile market for other brands. Every single bracket of their products perform like any other company +50% extra price product

Sundaras were amazing, but the new edition XS were just the last straw for competitors, never a headset of that quality was so affordable, the equivalent from other brands can even cost 2x the price.
Bob doesn't have any of the original details of the originating bank and loan, he's sufficiently likely to trust the person who seems to know what's going on and who messaged him out of the blue, saying "Please, please, I beg you, transfer the money that just showed up in your account [from Loaning Bank] back to me, at Different Bank by means of Western Union." Bob, being a kind and honest person, is unlikely to guess at the existence of the loan.

If the person does look up the details and just transfers the money back to the loaning bank, that doesn't cost the scammer anything.
> Whatever happened to assume positive intent?

I think positive intent is different from truth.

To make good decisions, I need to drill down to the truth of the situation. People can be super honest and be wrong or conflate ideas.

So for me, I work on being politely skeptical and assume it’s false until substantiated.
It was tested in court. See here:

https://rewis.io/urteile/urteil/lhm-20-01-2022-3-o-1749320/

Therefor selfhosting a Google Font is the way if you still want to use them.
More like the initial design concept was defined over a weekend. The actual detailed design, even for highly successful programs like the F-117, took much longer. Nobody ever designed an aircraft for serial production over a weekend, not even back when planes were build out of canvas and wood.

EDIT: After reading the article, what Boeing did back then was the same thing as Boom coming up with a rendering and a high level design concept over the weekend. Also, back then times, and technology, were different.
I don't have time to thoroughly research the topic and come back to you, so maybe you can do some leg work.

But I do know people over estimate what can be accomplished in a year and underestimate what can be accomplished in 10.
yea, it's so much easier to lock the rear tire when braking hard. i've owned two different Suzuki GS500s (a 1996 GS500e and a 2006 GS500f) and both of them were notoriously easy to lock up the rear wheel on
Everyone starts somewhere though.

What alternatives would you suggest to introducing beginner developers to open source?

For many, getting the smallest update on a big project (although annoying to maintainers) is a huge and very motivating accomplishment.
So a fly by wire aircraft might not have physical cable moving surfaces, but most of them have a backup mode that relies basically entirely off of physical switches and direct communication with the surfaces. Those modes are only used in extreme emergencies but they are still designed into the system. Also what works in airplanes doesn't always translate to cars. Aircraft have rigorous maintenance requirements, while cars leave the manufacturer and might not have any sort of inspection or maintenance done for 20 years.
Alledgedly a Bugatti W12 and W18 engine was sketched during a train ride on the Shinkansen on an envelope.

https://de.hoffmann-speedster.com/media/image/e0/14/3f/Ferdi...
Ruby code can be generated and evaluated in runtime.
Report shows near-total erasure of Armenian heritage sites
"but can hardly be called an invasion"

It was an invasion in support of one of the sides in Russian civil war. Russia made peace with Germany 1917 [0], the intervention started in 1918.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice_between_Russia_and_t...
Working Hybrid
In most cases working hybrid is better than both in office or full remote. What do you think?
It's honestly a fantastic case for incremental improvements over time. There's practically no single part on a modern B-52 that's original to the 1960s since everything has been overhauled and modernized decade by decade. Every attempt to replace it has been (or will be) retired before its EOL.
Theory: The cloud took over the same way most trendy tech took over: resume driven development. Everyone on all the teams pushed for it because of how much value it adds to their resume and gradually more and more companies bought in, which accelerated the process because company d started feeling worried that they were behind the times since companies a-c already switched

The cloud is great for startups and tiny companies though
There's a variation where somebody owns money, sends it to you, convinces you to send it back, and then reverses the original transfer.

Maybe GP's description mixed two similar frauds, maybe both variations exist
In the future, there are no fonts. We will just send and receive streams of strokes.

And then people who need it will use OCR to translate into text. Which won't always work very well.
It really depends on where you want to work. If you want to work at a large organization, I really recommend it. Thing big blue and such. A lot of their government and f-500 contracts are with entities that have contracts which state, "all our employees/contractors are certified."

I have been told by recruiters they can easily double most people's salary, this is for AZ-204/400 certs.
Taking every legal means to resist a warrant is your right, not actively breaking the law.

At the very least, it's obviously passively breaking the law, unless you consider refusing to obey an activity.
After so many cycles, Bitcoin has become one of the most respectable pyramid schemes available to the general public (only behind real estate speculation maybe).

I think we'll see another even worse cycle unfortunately within the next 10 years.
I always interpret it to mean "if you're going to hate anybody, hate me". It's deflecting blame away from his staff. "Full responsibility" is a bad term for sure.
Here's an interesting quote from the article:

"The cerebellum, for example, plays a role in “emotional, cognitive, and regulatory capacities,” according to Gokcen Akyurek, an expert on executive functioning at Hacettepe University. It reaches full size at the age of 11 for girls, but not until age 15 for boys. Similarly, there are sex differences linked to the timing of puberty in the development of the hippocampus, a part of the brain that contributes to memory and learning."
I know AWS is the most used cloud platform among the many out there. But wouldn't you be missing on really talented people that have only worked on Azure or Google Cloud for say 10 years? Or is it the expectation that any OPs engineer should know the fundamentals of all the big players?
Why not the Excel column / row notation?

On a side note, it is so irritating that chess notation is different than Excel notation.
The government is not a great tool for getting what you want.
I used netbeans in high school when I was learning Java. The WYSIWYG swing editor is really nostalgic for me and helped me a lot, I’m glad to see it’s still active. Netbeans was actually an extremely good editor at the time, it was as good as IntelliJ and better than eclipse (imo).
Just like almost anyone else which makes it a deflection and not an answer.
Surprised people aren’t just mass rejecting requests for the week. Ie just disable it outright
PBS has a great documentary about silicon valley that goes into some of this.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/silicon...
This makes me feel old. I'm glad that the option is available for people that want and enjoy this kind of design, but for my part I'll probably disable this feature and continue to block custom fonts.

Still, it's interesting to see that there's still room for innovation in the font space, even if I'm not in the target demographic.
Are you by any chance running windows?
i'm not alone...

got a tiny bit excited for a couple seconds here
But if it was not an erroneous transfer (maybe, as some have speculated, an unannounced bug bounty) and this is not made clear before estimated tax payments are due, I suspect the default IRS response will be to charge penalties and interest on any late payments. One might get them waived, but not without considerable trouble and cost.
> if all swans in the given universe ARE white, and you have no way of inspecting every one, you can never PROVE

Yes, you can. Math is not physics. Pythagoras was able to prove his theorem about every triangle in the universe without inspecting every triangle in the universe. The trick is that "the universe" is not the physical universe, it's just a choice of axioms.
MDs that don’t actually do doctoring tend to be very ineffective leaders and possibly just generally toxic. Not all, but there is a trend. I think it’s almost like how the best CEOs are a little sociopathic, something in med school or maybe the reason they go to med school makes them think they know everything and anything not medicine is trivial monkey work.
It works perfectly on Firefox :)
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Nabla
1. You can store cash but, in most developed countries, if you try to actually use a large amount of that cash you will find that no-one will accept it or you will get repeatedly audited. The only reason to hold large amounts of cash, in the view of banks and the govt, is tax avoidance...which is usually correct.

2. It is easier, it is safer. Way easier (again, almost no places accept cash for transactions due to AML, I know a guy who used to pay for his cars with briefcases of cash, he stopped being able to do that more than a decade ago...I am in the UK).

3. I used to agree with this point but actually shutting down a P2P network is going to be very tricky in practice. If one govt in the world decides it doesn't want to do this, it won't happen. Crypto is still a terrible customer experience for regular people: fees are unclear, you can put in the wrong address and the money is gone, etc. A lot of this can happen with bank transfers too though (and does, Citi accidentally wired someone $500m in 2020, iirc, and has been unable to get it back).

I come from a traditional finance background (and studied economic history, I did my thesis on monetary policy in the 60s so I am quite familiar with the limits on purchasing gold to prop up Bretton Woods). I was initially sceptical of crypto but, imo, it is a superior technology. Not for all transactions, for example some central banks have introduced instant bank transfers, but for some. And, in some cases, it will be a superior store of value. This is already happening in the place mentioned in the OP: the reason people are taking their money out of banks is crypto, holding cash does nothing for you because inflation is nearly 200% annually, you take it out and by next month your cash is worthless, your life savings wouldn't buy a loaf of bread.
“Before the pandemic (which seems to have caused a surge in the practice), about 6 percent of children waited an extra year before beginning kindergarten. But here, too, some children were much more likely to be held back than others: specifically, those with affluent or well-educated parents, and who were white, young for their year, and male.”

Sounds like an equity problem that we can solve by disallowing parents from waiting a year to enroll their boys. It’s the only way to be fair to non-white, non-affluent girls and fight structural racism, classism, and sexism.
+1 along with Steve Blank, The Startup Owner's Manual.
What is interesting about it? It does not making sense to me. E.g. one should see German reaction in VW case and plenty of them were pissed on US fines. Same with fine on BP in US.
Official uptime did not mention any issues. Our team is mostly in Europe. Asking the crowd here seems the most simple and reliable way to figure out if this is a real problem outside of our control and whether there might be a workaround.

I don't get why so many services have an uptime service which does not help at all. Why even adding one?
All this spam for a tshirt. Do we really need it?
i havent actually done this but just pointing out that with 55k HN karma and 7 years of HN comments, you're pseudonymous at best :) maybe if youre far enough from the company i'd give it like 5 years statute of limitations before you can start naming and shaming?
I port L0pht’s hphack.c to every language I’m learning.

It covers sockets, string handling, and byte handling.
Let's say it is your mom's funeral.

One person, probably not invited, makes a scene, shouts a bunch of stuff. Perhaps they have a mental illness, perhaps they had a grudge against your mom - she might have been a judge or a teacher.

Are you just going to ignore it? Would you expect some security to remove that person so that you and others can have a peaceful funeral?
Wow. That looks really cool.
"Why are Fluke meters so expensive?":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay9wFQAW19Y

Dave Jones breaks it down, as usual, very informative.
While I would absolutely agree that journalists engage in catastrophism…

> Science doesn't deal in probability but rather in explanations. And you can either explain exactly how it will happen or you can't.

Science absolutely does deal with probabilities. It's much easier to find correlations than causations, but even with causation, there are unknowns. In the case of the global climate, while we can say CO2 raises the global temperature, we don't know what specific temperature will break any specific system on lists like this, the best we can do is give a graph of probability against temperature; while the article linked to does not have such a graph, that says more about the BBC than about the actual science.