skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the main reason is that Microsoft controls it - in contrast with say Go or Rust where it's controlled by a foundation

To my knowledge, and according to the website, Go is effectively entirely controlled by Google, not a foundation.

I don’t have anything to do with web development (and detest web applications and the idea of browsers as an application runtime) but use TypeScript elsewhere - any comparison to coffeescript seems misplaced. TS at this point is simply far too popular and widely used industry-wide to disappear, whereas coffeescript was always niche.
I use that feature on Apple TV (normalize audio levels) and it's STILL too dramatic for watching unless you want to wake everyone in the house up. I have a 5.1 setup with the center channel even increased (to try and boost talking) and I still have to play the volume game at times.
The Last 1%
the funny part is that you can easily bypass them if you want to (again, you are hurting only legitimate users)
Trianglify.io – Low Poly Pattern Generator
Framework are not needed to test. I've been testing and validating my code way back, in C. Not because I was an early adopter (I'm still not), but because I needed to debug it, so... faster.
Inspired by "Automatic Differentiation in 38 lines of Haskell", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32879734
> Cursive is vastly superior. It’s not even close. It’s way more efficient. It’s easier to read. It helps you think in larger units reducing mental burdens (you think of writing in terms of words, as opposed to single characters, because if you’ve written them frequently enough, a word becomes a memorized unit in itself).

I've never experienced this, it has always been harder to read for me and humans already skip over parts of words when reading in print, it's not a cursive phenomenon. That's why you can read through a paragraph of text that has letter jumbled in the middle of words and almost not notice.

> The only reason I would not think this is important is if as a society we agree that with the rise of typing writing itself is not important.

I think that ship sailed over 2 decades ago. In the late 90's I was 8 or 9 years old and it was clear that cursive was a waste of time as I was learning it (and then turning around and teaching my own teachers how to use the computers in the classroom).
Make the cultural changes needed, and the technical changes will flow through afterwards.

If you can't change the culture and get your boss(es) on board, then you will fail.

Right now, the business is likely "mostly happy" with things the way they are. They're getting their changes made (but not as quickly as they'd like). Their costs are low (3 junior devs, with just their laptops and a production server). Convince them that unless the changes you want are made, their business will become stagnant. Use phrases like "invest for future growth" and "protect the business' current investment in the product"
First read the book:
Modernizing Legacy Applications In PHP
Get your code under control in a series of small, specific steps
By Paul M Jones
https://leanpub.com/mlaphp
I'm sure that's true, but also there's a lot of very interesting HN-relevant stuff on Wikipedia, and it's perfectly reasonable to share it when you find something pithy.

I've certainly done it and contrariwise have often enjoyed Wikipedia articles (including this one) from other users.

Apropos of which I wish I'd had Wikipedia when I was a kid - I recall being utterly baffled by Brittanica's "explanation" of the term "parsec" and only much later reading a definition that put it in the context of how stellar distances were actually resolved.

Edit: Looking at swibbler's submission history, they're clearly not a karma farmer btw.
Sounds like a parallel topic to the poor sound mixing trouble to me. High art existed before muffled conversations mixed with loud sound effects or music. Also high art can coexist with balanced sound and articulate conversation. Or balanced sound can be used for 'burger' movies for their benefit.
If you can't hear it, you can't criticize it.

"But he said it with such an air of gravity..."
honestly, it sounds like you need to take a vacation so these very common issues don’t feel overpowering.

“endless” is the problem, not that the technology moves forward.

you need to make space for yourself to exist outside of work, and carve out time to keep up with where the industry is going.

what you’re describing will lead to burnout because you’re always comparing or second guessing what you use and what you know to what someone/something else.
Very fun puzzle! As for my suggestions:

- consider writing key rules on the page. I've had an incorrect assumption that the dog and the bunny cannot occupy the same square.

- displaying a restart button would be useful once there are no legal moves left (for ex. all characters stuck at the yacht)
And when are you supposed to do it? During office hours when you should be working on your regular job, or after 6pm when no business will be open for your sales call?
Curiously, the same goes for the stahlhelm which is widely seen as the signature item of the Nazi military. In truth, it was simply the traditional helmet of the German military which the Nazi wanted to replace with a more modern design, but it was already too late for them, and it was the GDR military that ended up using it.
They could easily do this on device, but I still see ads for apps I own (including my own apps). Often right above the organic App Store search result for the same app
They broke the game by themselves, because Franklin was intended to be broke, like you expect someone with his background to be, but for some reason (preorder bonus or somehing similar) you immediately receive a huge amount of ingame money after the game starts. Totally breaks the beginning.

That was way better in GTAIV where you constantly struggled for money and only after the big bank job became somewhat flush.
As a French dev, I divise US salary by two to get a a French equivalent.

If you are making 70k in France, absolutely don’t go under 6 figures in the US.

I would target 140 and asks for 150k.

My rationale is that when your French boss give you a sweat euro. He give 1 euro to the French gov as well for your unemployment / medical / retirement fund.

Also… empirically: it works.
Side hustles. Always be building SaaS products in my spare time. Surfing Hackernews for interesting content to read and chew on. There's no excuse for boredom or 'voidness' when you have The Internet.
> Not sure I understand the question.

Let's say that treatment for medical condition X is currently set at $500 on this price list. If there was a market for medical services, how would that price list price compare? Is that price too low, too high, or just right? And what are the consequences of a price being set too high or too low?
Electric Vehicles Took Off. Car Makers Weren’t Ready
Don't rock the boat, baby!
Don't tip the boat over!
I'll add one more reason -- TV shows often require you to pay attention to every word now.

Thirty years ago, if you missed a line of dialog, it wasn't usually a big deal.

Now if you're watching Westworld? If you misunderstand a single line that might be the entire difference between "solving" the episode or not.

TV has gone from a "casual" experience you can tune in and out of, to a kind of literary-precision experience that demands your undivided attention, for many shows. CC makes sure you understand every word, which just wasn't usually that important previously.
I'd change the word "Get" to "Move". I spent a minute trying to figure out how this game worked but I think changing those Gets to Moves would've helped
You know the condition burn out?

Some people have this as default, after being grinded down enough.

There is then also no more rich inner life.

Only different grades of sadness, stress and numbness.
Sound City deserves its own documentary.[1]

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2306745/
looks like a great project! Found a typo: "Less then 1 minute"
Sounds right - my parents (early 70s) don't pay attention to what they are watching even tho watching TV is the only thing they are doing at that time. They both even regularly fall asleep watching TV/movies at night and literally don't care that they missed most of the show/movie they were "watching." They aren't interested in watching the parts they slept through in the morning.
Which western apps stole the super app concept?
There are no natural advantages for Pakistani firm over other when it comes to global expansion. On top of it, this is a start-up with almost all operations in Pakistan. I am not VC either, but even I know that you have to size the market before making a valuation.

If these investors baked in the international expansion in valuation, they got what they deserved.
There's probably not a better time to show your opposition to an unelected head of state than when it takes command of his new position.
That’s half the problem. The other half the problem is that if you do manage to create a really open platform it will be destroyed by bad faith actors and trolls. These will drive away the good stuff and turn your platform into some kind of echo chamber or worse a hate and psychosis ridden hole like what the chans became. The bad chases away the good.

Deep substantive discourse requires good faith argument not propaganda techniques, straw men, and trolling. It also requires maturity.
The American government is doing the same thing the EU government has been doing for years: setting up defences against influences from foreign tech companies.

Most of the world's social media used to come from the USA and that wasn't a problem for the American government because they could control those companies. The EU was all up in arms against this but the USA did not care as there was little need to give any concessions.

The result was the failing of Privacy Shield and more and more American companies and services now becoming illegal in the EU. I bet the GDPR wouldn't have even existed if it weren't for Facebook and Google.

The fact your Congress is so afraid of what American tech companies have effectively been doing happening to them is quite telling. It confirms that every other country's actions against American tech giants is warranted.

As for your points: the shortening of one's attention span is quite noticeable if you use these apps for a while and then take a break. The constant dopamine hits of videos you like are addicting and are definitely having an impact on children. This is incredibly hard to regulate and I expect this behaviour to continue for quite a while.

As for your second point, the less data you collect, sell, or transfer, the less likely it'll be that you run into trouble. If you want to be sure about what you can or can't do without a legal advisor, assume that wherever the law is vague about something, it's probably preventing you from doing something.

For most American states the privacy laws are incredibly forgiving as long as you make sure to not have any children under 13 on your platform (COPPA) or collect health INFORMATION (HIPAA). California was the first state to set up privacy barriers but they're not as strict as other countries' laws.

If you (plan to) cross borders, though, you'll have to stick to the lowest common denominator or do some very creative corporate structuring. In many cases this also means setting up subsidiaries that cannot share any data with your American company and physically store the data in the legislative area as many countries ban storing customers' private data in a foreign country (i.e. in the EU, in Russia, and I believe in India as well). If you're afraid of giving user data to a foreign government, don't operate under those governments.

If you want to mine data like you're describing, get yourself someone who can give you legal advice. Tiktok is breaking the law in many places but unlike you it's got enough millions to burn on an eventual lawsuit and settlement.

I'm no lawyer but the simplest answer I can give you is "stop mining so much data unless your legal team signs off on it".
https://archive.ph/JJyM8
We also need OP to do some self reflection and decide if this is really spaghetti code or they are just lazy learners. It is easy to look at complicated projects and only see the complexity.
Your arena would have to be very rough for legs to have an advantage over squishy wheels or treads. Legs in a melee robot are just too fragile.
Same here, unless I am concentrating super hard my block letters don't even look like another of the same letter. My handwriting is just not consistent. I've long theorized that nice handwriting is like 90% "do you make letter consistently the same" verses anything else, I can't do it (or have no patience to spend seconds on each letter, which still look wiggly). Typing is just better in every imaginable way IMHO.
I didn't see one either until I turned off my dark mode browser extension. If you also use an extension that modifies stylesheets, you might want to try disabling it for this site.
The "get to some location" part was better in GTA IV. Not only was the dialogue more interesting, there were two sets of dialogue for every mission, so if you falied and had to do the "get to location" part again, you got a whole different set of dialogues. But it seems noone ever noticed and there are almost no mentions of it on the internet.
Roku has that feature; you can enable remote listening via the app and pipe sound to your earphones.
>The company had a clear sense of mission — their goal wasn’t transport or groceries, but to have an “impact” on the country

Yea that sounds real clear
Wider selection of movies, from all over the world. Dialect, accent, unexpected word choices can make whole conversations illegible in that sense.
No, no, no. Roleplay servers do not require human moderation. What all these servers seem to miss is that you should enforce your design objectives through game design rather than moderation and rules. Eve Online is the best example of this; it's what every role-play server aspires to be. Moderation is minimal; the game takes care of all issues that arise long before human moderation has to get involved.
As I moved the last piece I was 75% expecting to be rickrolled.
If you need really good synchronization primitives while Glibc is fixing things then I've had a lot of success with *NSYNC https://github.com/google/nsync which is what Cosmopolitan Libc uses to implement pthread_cond_t.
Their ToS mention collecting file names but not necessarily uploading them to the cloud. They may be pseudonymised or hashed before uploading or they may not be uploaded at all.
I stayed 2 months on a 4 million LOC qt thing, it was quite awful. Like it was said, indeed, rewrite things slowly, or maybe rewrite the most essential parts.

Or just quit that job, it might not be worth staying there.

Resistance mean it is a situation of hostage taking: https://neilonsoftware.com/difficult-people-on-software-proj...

It's very serious and coders do this for job security. Don't accept this BS.
That's the theory, the practice is different. Also, the purpose of a market isn't to have a market, it's to have robust infrastructure.

That's why the Texas electrical grid is such a basketcase. Generators are paid for production but what you really need is spare capacity on peak days. The price excursions on a few hot or cold days are not nearly enough to incentivise building capacity that sits unused most of the year. In New England, on the contrary, generators are also paid for capacity, which is why one grid works and the other not at all.
Very fun.

I also found it took a while to understand the rules, which I enjoyed, but others may not.

You could add a restart button to encourage experimentation, or flash preconditions red when blocking passage to communicate rules more clearly, or start off with a simple puzzle that illustrates one rule then allow people to level up to more complex puzzles with additional rules.

Nice job.
> I have to find a strategy to fix this development team

Clearly responsible for team outcomes

> without managing them directly

Not a people manager. Most likely a tech lead or a technical project manager
Works fine on an iPhone
I'm 40 and this is my understanding of social media landscape. Do others not think this is true?

I thought we all agreed that Facebook was for boomers, Gen xers, and millennials who are boring a few years back.
I cope by ignoring the hype and focusing on technical problems that I personally find interesting. There was a time when I followed the in-crowd and learned whatever framework happened to be flavor-of-the-month at the time, but I just don't care anymore. Yes, there are certain jobs that require you know the latest trendy tools, but there are a lot of jobs that don't.
Not really: ICEs for instance have enormously reduced their pollution, sure they can't be "green" but a modern European diesel engine is an order of magnitude less pollutant than one from just 30 years ago.

Some energivore process in various industries have evolved to demand far less energy, cement is a good example using the EMC process [1] same others have not evolved, not because they are evil but because we do not found anything better to evolve; mining is one of them.

[1] see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energetically_modified_cement
Someone doesn’t like Smarty…
And then if you use a system malleable enough to reduce starting effort to 0 across anything (project or task) you do... you just about solve that problem
1. "That's because a human is not 1 microphone." true
2. "It's 2 microphones, with a known distance between the 2"
3. "which allows realtime 3d positioning and isolation of sound to an area"

#3 does not follow from statement #2.

The missing element is that 3D localization is due to the pinna.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.1967.005...
Right, that is how we do it. But isn't all the phase information present in two channels of audio to know how to map all the signals to an arbitrary number of angles? You'd need to know the spacing of the mics, but that could be a standard.

About the pinna, a fun way to demonstrate this is to have someone close their eyes, then you snap or jangle keys at various locations and have them point. Then tape their ears to their head and repeat. They will be way off in the vertical. We can do left right-ish (with coning error) without the outer ear. But up down is impossible.
People were sailing out of sight of land at least 40,000 years ago around southeast Asia, and possibly even up along the Aleutians and down the West coast of the Americas.

What we are certain about is that they reached Australia. There was never any way to get there except via multiple such crossings.

Whether this happened via Sulawesi and Papua New Guinea, or via Bali, Lombok, and Timor, or both, nobody knows. But at the time Papua New Guinea, Australia, and Tasmania were all one island we call Sahul, and most of the sea between Indonesian islands was rich river bottom land, going on a million square miles of it we now call Sundaland, connecting with Taiwan and what is now all beneath the South China and Yellow seas all the way to Korea.

People lived there for tens of thousands of years before the sea began to rise 20,000 years ago, continuing until 8000 ya, 200m in all, with 80m between just 12,000 and 8000 ya. The oldest cave paintings we know of are in what were then the mountains of Sulawesi, hauntingly similar to what shows up all over Europe from Czech to Spain tens of millennia later.

When the water rose, people had to move uphill to where other people were already living. Australian oral histories still record resolutions of conflicts over that event.
This makes me wonder (as a 30 year old who can't read cursive well). Can folks easily read English script writing from the 18th/19th century? The script writing from earlier eras looks fairly different from 20th century cursive.
Agreed. Background levels higher than dialog are a chronic problem. Actors turned away from the camera, so you don't get any facial cues. Yelled or hurried or mumbled lines, which don't get re-shot because, cost.

Add all that to the usual nodding actors - they don't understand what they're supposed to be feeling so they just nod as they talk. Sorry to call that out, now you will never be able to un-see it again.

And whispering as a substitute for emotion! What the hell? Character is supposed to be feeling intense emotion, so the actor whispers. The director should slap them every time, and re-shoot.
>During office hours when you should be working on your regular job,

Yes. Take a half day or duck out for a few hours.
Some of the things the poster lists is just jaw dropping, but this is the most painful one.

> - it has been developed for 12 years directly on production with no source control ( hello index-new_2021-test-john_v2.php )

First step would be to get that into source control.

> - the routing is managed exclusively as rewrites in NGInX ( the NGInX config is around 10,000 lines )

This might be a benefit actually. I'd just start a new application and route to the new code one-by-one using the Strangler approach.
Show HN: BookmarkFS – Store files as Chrome bookmarks that sync between devices
For computer note taking, I love vim wiki. I used to use a Google doc but I really like how quick it is to open and navigate in vim.

For paper note taking I like a good notebook with a fountain pen. Writing has become enjoyable once I re-discovered fountain pens for myself.
I'm not sure whether to read your comment as disputing the author's claim of having a fix for this particular problem, or that there will inevitably be other cases where condition variables fail unless futexes are fixed in the kernel.
Which article? Both linked articles describe nachos as being invented in a Mexican boarder town; the post article adds color commentary about a group of Texans ordering them
The persistent myth of “learning styles”
> We will become reliant on a small group of trained translators and experts

Within three years our iPhones will do it for us.
Vikunja looks good, thanks for sharing. The biggest drawback seems to be that the mobile app isn't at parity with the desktop version.

I've been using Remember The Milk for the last several years. At $40/year it's been rock solid.

https://www.rememberthemilk.com/
Seeing how Genshin receives a major update basically every month - the size of each major version update is comparable to a new expansion for WoW -, I wish Chinese game development caught on faster. Having 5k devs/artists etc work on a project does make faster release cycles.
Do self-destructive things like walk where you shouldn't be walking, associating with people you shouldn't be associating with, stoking paranoid delusions, throwing away your career, harming others, participating in the guilt/shame spiral, etc.