skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> what English dialect it's from?

I assume American English.

Prior to the sexual slang made popular by the movie Clerks, snowballing in the context I used basically means to blindside or con someone.

One definition on Urban Dictionary:

"A situation where a criminal has found themselves in possession of an easy target and proceeds to rob them and leave them mortally wounded for fun, a synonym for getting iced."

There's also snowballing meaning a problem getting bigger and bigger when unaddressed. I'm probably using it in an older, not-exactly-mainstream way.
Eh, we’re not at serious risk of hyperinflation here. We are at risk of regular old plain vanilla inflation, which is adequately obnoxious and harms real wages plenty.

As a net debtor, I might see see a 50% fall in the real value of my mortgage in 5-7 years at current inflation rates, if the politicians are feckless enough about it (“Milton Friedman isn’t in charge any more,” Biden tells me.) I seriously doubt I will see it in a month (the threshold cited in TFA).
As if the others aren't government supported and coddled monopolies.
Yes but marketing, generally considered a low barrier to entry, arguable low skill position.
A small stdlib is good, and any crate that can, should allow for no_std. I think originally the justification for a small stdlib was so that people didn't deprecate parts of it with a better 3rd party lib. They would bring libs into std as it became obvious they were the de facto standard already. They just haven't been terribly aggressive about doing that.

I think if there was a no_std package and stdlib+ vetted and slower to change package (and available through yum or apt or a tgz instead of crates), safety and security critical applications would move towards it more quickly. It would also make air-gapped development networks easier to provision.
Same. Ideally this "proxy" should just cache the front-page for 1-2 minutes and serve the cache.
Volkswagen targets $70.1B to $75.1B valuation in planned Porsche IPO
Needs caching or consumption via algolia on the backend to avoid the ban hammer.
Interesting. I wonder what the motivation for doing that is. It seems like it would be less of an accounting burden to just treat the revenues as personal income (which it is).
Yes, I like physical books
How would banks make loans if not for taking deposits?
The entire advertising industry should burn down, as far as I'm concerned.

Advertising ruins every form of media it touches. From radio, television, newspapers (it's arguably responsible for killing journalism), and now the internet, and all the services we use it for.

Web search is useless because of it. Most websites are pretty much spyware. A large percentage of them are SEO spam, existing only to serve ads. Most content on YouTube, the largest video platform, is unwatchable due to constant ad breaks and sponsored content. Astroturfing is everywhere, promoted posts flood social media sites. Advertising is instrumental to spreading of disinformation, propaganda, toppling of democracies and companies like Cambridge Analytica. And if all that wasn't enough, _paid_ subscription services have started serving ads. It's the same business model from TV, but even more intrusive and lucrative since user tracking and microtargetting is now possible.

Stop. Just stop. Users want none of this. Of course, everyone loves getting services for free, but what adtech companies are getting in exchange for user data now is worth much more than the "free" services they offer. *They should be paying us instead.*

We need new business models that are as easy for content providers to implement, yet don't come at the expense of user experience, and don't cause services to deteriorate into a privacy nightmare. This should be easier nowadays with cryptocurrencies. I still think the Basic Attention Token[1] is a step in the right direction. Are there more examples of this?

[1]: https://basicattentiontoken.org/
That"s understandable. HN was launched in 2007 :o)
I was taught to use a slide rule in 5 minutes. It's just one moving part, and you read the numbers off the scale.

Yes, I'd teach kids to use a slide rule. It's not necessary for them to become expert at it, just get comfortable with it.

Why learn exponents? People will never learn compound interest without getting comfortable with exponents. Not learning compound interest will forever financially cripple them. Hell yes, it's worth while.

My accounting class was taught by a former used car salesman. He'd tell me stories about how poor people made very bad choices in financing, and when he'd explain how compound interest worked, they'd assume he was trying to cheat them.

For me personally, knowing math and trig, etc., has provided me a lifetime of payback. Very, very worth it, in dollars and cents.
I see. have you tried magit as a comparison? while magit can do everything it's got a very easy interface for most tasks. I don't use emacs for anything but magit to the point where i have a magit command on the command line to open up emacs in the current directory and then a spc-g-g opens up magit. it's that good.
AFAIU it wasn't clear if it really was a breach of the Convention, and the videos appear to not involve intimidation nor public curiosity mentioned in the art. 13. So I didn't mention it. But at least some af them violated POW's privacy because their faces weren't blurred.
is that any different than going to Disney World and having coke products shoved in your face?
I get excited when I hear of something like this, but then it often turns to indifference when "terminal" UI is shoe-horning GUI elements into large grids of UTF8. There's a time and place for GUI if that is the motivation, and for anything short of that my Pine/Alpine familiarity is going to be hard to beat.

But what would be interesting is "command-line" for a modern email client. Similar in spirit to the old mh, perhaps. Concise commands for viewing folders, threads, searching, composing etc. Which integrate well with grep, xargs etc. for bulk operations.

Rather than IMAP support, the heavy lifting of sync'ing Maildir folders could be done by dovecot, with searches by mairix.
You're not the customer or the product: you're the developer.
AdaCore themselves direct you to use Alire to install what used to be their community edition. You don't have to use any of the crates if you don't want to.
I love that my home screen is now jammed full of bullshit and it cannot be used without a Google account and if you use your personal Google account Nvidia needs a ton of permissions.

Other than that I actually do the love the little device but I feel more and more jerked around when I shell out only to have junk foisted on me later.
It is more than just tasks for me. Ideas. Somedays. Etc. not losing things is important with adult ADHD. There are still only a few important tasks per day, but not losing track of things like “call someone this evening” reduces cognitive load for me.
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One of my favorite reads was <The Sextant Handbook> (Bruce Bauer, 2nd edition). I bought it because I wanted to learn how to use a sextant. This book is THE book for learning how to operate a sextant.

I quickly realized that actually I didn't want to learn how to use a sextant.

I read it cover to cover. All those important points, so well structured and organized, and I didn't have to remember a single one of them! I could just let it pass like water.

More relaxing than fiction. No plot to follow, no characters to remember, just beautiful, detailed instructions which I could blithely ignore.

best vacation book of the decade.
Yeah, I work at Ubisoft and we officially sponsor the project too - it's used pretty much on every production we have.

You can see it here being used in Rainbow Six:
https://montreal.ubisoft.com/en/ubisoft-sponsors-user-interf...
Dillingham’s housing crisis has teachers sleeping in the school
Mostly dreading the next workday and postponing hard decisions I need to take. Mañana mañana.
I use Googlebot as my fake browsers user agent for years. It's really interested to explore the web, when everyone thinks you're Google.
>I call it CVops instead of DevOps. CV being another word for resume...

I might borrow this, although I'm leaning towards Res[ume]Ops
Hm, yeah so a problem would be that I have no degree, nor any desire to attain one.
Not Perfect, Just Better
If you're in Europe you could do a subject access request, request phone calls or whatever way you entered into the contract and see if they messed up.
The overt purpose for the money printing is to increase inflation beyond the level it would be without it. Essentially no one has the delusion you discuss.
As far as I'm concerned, the internet is rapidly becoming totally worthless as it is. The same arguments used to justify spam removal are also used to justify removing naughty political speech - in addition I see this as a red herring.

Because email, which is a horrific spamfest, is still usable sans censorship.
Math Is the Great Secret
Stepping in? Blame Japan for us entry and all of the downstream effects. Hitler was being careful to not give fdr an opening.
This here reminds me of George Carlin:

> People add extra words when they want things to sound more important than they really are. "Boarding process". Sounds important. It isn't. It's just a bunch of people getting on an airplane. People like to sound important. Weathermen on Television talk about shower activity. Sounds more important than showers. I even heard one guy on CNN talk about a rain event. I swear to God. He said, "Louisiana's expecting a rain event". I said, "holy shit I hope I can get tickets to that!"

> News people like to say “police have responded to an emergency situation.” No they haven’t, they’ve responded to an emergency. We know it’s a situation… everything is a situation!
Here's one of the most successful use of MC outside of the field of nuclear physics:

https://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/veach_thesis/thesis.pdf
The schematics, engineering drawings, 3d models, CAD files, process documentation etc for making a car engine (or anything else) are all copyright protected. So how exactly is software special?
AGI Alignment Folks on Twitter
In my secondary school we had teachers who dictated their lectures out of their notebooks and we had to write it all down & learn it line by line basically. And then during oral exam recite it back at them. I remember some kids would ask to go from the beginning when they lost track.
Will be much cheaper by then provided society does not collapse first. If it does, replacing them will be among the least of your problems.

Roving bands of supersonic aluminum Nazi hell zombies from beneath the hollow Earth may figure prominently among the latter. (Maybe they do already?) But securing dietary calories would probably present more frequent difficulty.
In California malls and other privately owned public spaces are required to allow public speech they disagree with.

There was a case of a mall using the private property claims to stop union picketing and organizing, but the courts found this to be illegal.

If the space is generally open to the public, you have free speech rights in California.

This has stood for decades and has been law for longer in California, yet California is doing fine, and I would hardly consider California to be stifling free speech. Far from it.

We make bakers write things they disagree with on cakes with their own hands. In contrast facebooks cooperation when hosting content it disagrees with is much more remote and requires no manual intervention.
That's fair. I more meant that there's not a native way built into OS/browsers that will do it (without installing these additional tools). Firefox had it but got rid of it: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-happened-firefox-s...

I've resulted to just uploading to my Dropbox/Google Drive and pulling it down to another device, but I'm always worried about Google deleting my account if it somehow finds the ebook/whatever objectionable due to a trigger word.

EDIT: Okay, I didn't know about https://instant.io/ that might be interesting for non-sensitive/non-personal transfers. Thank you for sharing!
And yet we've 61+ comments discussing note taking yet again.
I'm not saying that math and trig are not valuable.... I'm merely questioning whether a slide rule has the best payoff of those few minutes vs. say, watching Powers of Ten by C & R Eames.

I don't think you cultivate the kind of intuitive understanding of exponents and logarithms you're describing with a few minutes of casual practice with a slide rule.
Ideally, it should be using the API, which isn't rate limited.
> It's good to hear that Amiga users are finally getting their act together and doing the open source thing

AROS has been around since the 90's. I remember when Aaron Digulla first posted about it on comp.sys.amiga.misc around ~'93 or so. It's not instead of the fighting over AmigaOS, but in addition to it. Different people.

> Because at that point, on an 8mhz 68000 with 512kB of RAM this was, frankly, mostly silly.

The Amiga showed it wasn't silly at all. We used the multitasking heavily. I usually had multiple productivity apps up at once, alongside music players and other stuff.
>Anyway, I do share the pessimism of the design community. For us it's a disaster, comparable only to Adobe acquiring Macromedia back in the day, followed by messing up or killing all of its great products.

But the design community adapted. Just like the technical communication community adapted when Adobe bought Framemaker and RoboHelp. The pain's going to be short term while that community finds an alternative. But, if history is anything to go by, an alternative that community will find.
GNU doesn’t strike me as an organisation which places a lot of value on software quality and reliability.

That's not surprising, because their main purpose is to promote the GPL and "free as in freedom" software. I've heard theories that their software is deliberately overly complex and uniquely different from other implementations in order to make it easier to find GPL violations. In other words, they're optimising for something other than quality.

I've inspected the glibc condition variable implementatoin (while looking at what may be a slightly different bug, or it could be another manifestation of this one; not sure at this point since it was years ago) and the first thing I noticed was that it is disturbingly complex.
My assumption is that Google and Facebook are pushing stories about how they're in a precarious position and actually have a lot of threatening competition, some of it dangerous, foreign, and in need of investigation.
It's not a duopoly - it's a cartel:

"a combination of independent commercial or industrial enterprises designed to limit competition or fix prices"
> remote work normalization will put even more pressure on western developer wages

I'm not sure..
1) The issues with putting developers in 'low-cost' countries are the same as before..
2) it's true though that there's/will be increased competition with all the devolopers in your country..
No it did not. Corporations have certain rights as collections of individuals with rights. That is all
Except that not everywhere in Canada requires chip and PIN.
It's no surprise that many former colonies are on this list. Many were subjected to economic retribution from attempting to establish their sovereignty in a hostile global trade environment. Many colonizers imposed enormous debts on colonies in exchange for their freedom[1]. Runaway inflation is one of the many indiscriminate tolls sanctions impose on the people of a country.

Why sell the products you produce on your farm to locals when you can ship them overseas and get dollars to exchange for medicine? Medicine that is illegal to produce in your country if your country hopes to operate in the good graces of the WTO[2].

All of this history is condensed by the author into mere "haphazard fiscal policies and civil struggles." This gallery of currencies is a stunning visceral departure point for understanding macroeconomic policy, my only wish is that it went deeper.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/20/world/americas/haiti-hist...

2. https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/trips_e/pharma_ato186_e...
But doesn't it imply that the only way to not be the product is to be the customer? In this case, we see that being the customer is insufficient to not be the product.
Okay. I'd rather be the developer than the product.
TikTok is better product than Youtube shorts or Instagram reels, money have nothing to do with it, especially while FAANG have more money than ByteDance.
This would cost more than 50 EUR per year

Try: €200 at current forecasts :/
Which is all increasingly done on computers
The offer did not take me, to be accurate :D
Always, and will keep them pointed at you until you are detained.
The advertising duopoly is a crown with no kingdom in 2022. Online advertising is dead - most people online aren't worth advertising too. This isn't 2010 when most people online were from wealthy countries. Google and Facebook are having a harder and harder time finding high-net-worth individuals to advertise too, because they all use adblock or avoid the open internet, preferring to stick to walled gardens like reddit and tiktok (which serve their own ads).
I have learned about 5 new languages in the past 5 years, mostly by creating a Tetris clone every time. since all of them pick up the same patterns except for Rust, I only read quick guides to get acquainted to the syntax. then started learning the languages from specific concepts I needed to touch on before delving in the architecture of the project.
With rust I did read the entire https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ but it was enough for me, CTRL+F is a big thing for me, and the book here wasn't slow as most big programming books are.
But all of this was after +12 in programming.
I do remember reading C++ & PHP from a book and loving it. But those were my first books and my entry level books which I wouldn't apply now.

tl;dr if you're new, a book might be the way to go. If not, I do not see why you would need a new book, just go here https://learnxinyminutes.com/
You re the customer, and the product
Okay got it. So WhatsApp can censor my phone calls but not the telephone company because Whatsapp has a WhatsApp icon on the screen.

And apple of course can censor my calls on my iphone because it reflects poorly on apple for my iphone to be associated.

Got it. Makes perfect sense. Thanks for the clarity.
> Cosco doesn't make the goods they sell - they are just being an intermediary between you and the the manufacturer. An intermediary that takes a 60+% fee for their work.

It can take such "fee" because it’s so enormous that it can negociate prices in a way you couldn’t, as well as handling the logistics and having lots of different products at the same place. It’s not "just an intermediary", it’s an intermediary that adds value.

If you want to eat a yogurt, would you prefer paying $4 a pack of four at Costco or $1500 for 4000 yogurts you have to transport from the manufacturer to your home with your own truck?
Raymond Chen talked about how periodically the devs were tasked with getting a handful of software purchased at CompUSA or w/e out of a grocery cart, opening them up, installing them and testing that they worked with the then-unreleased Win95.
For me, the goal of taking notes on paper is to internalize the information. The act of writing it down is what helps to get there, not the fact the information is written down.

IOW the best note taking system for me would be such that after I took notes I could just shred the notes and retain all the written down information in my head.
> My thesis, in beef

This is a delightful turn of phrase. I wonder if it was deliberate or an autocorrect happy accident.
There’s a dumb tv or pro mode on Sony tvs. Never used it though.
Why food is more delicious when you eat with your hands
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_c...

Does the paper have any relevance to whether teaching cursive helps (causes) learning more generally?
IRC in the 90s was wild. People called each other slurs, and society was unaffected.

I wonder what changed?
as part of graduate school, I participated in State of California hearings, studied particular regulations that were adopted after a major law was passed in my chosen field, and finally submitted (and had accepted) amendments to their final regulations. (this is not trivial, since there were more than 400 public comments and suggested changes to the administrative rulings, but less than three dozen were accepted - including mine).

What I learned: the written law is ambiguous, mostly intentionally. The reply at the time was that the legislators "set the direction" and it is up to political appointees at an agency, working with their staff, to write regulation based on the "intent of the Legislature."

The published regulations that implemented the law were written in such a way, that the references were actually circular, and the same term (noun) was used in two different places to mean two different things, without acknowledging that. I did as others suggested, and drew diagrams with notes to check the very very dense legalese in the regulations. My change was regarding that twice-defined noun, which they acknowledged by accepting the change.

Overall - what is said is not what is done -- the saying I heard in Sacramento was "never write what you can say, never say what you can imply, and never imply if you can nod or wink" What that means is cynical; that you habitually do not write what you really mean to do, knowing that it will be reviewed by your adversaries, and taken out of context to be used against you.

The regulations writing was adversarial, and the response from the agency involved was measured and ready for court, at every step. The default action in the public comment period is to ignore your comment, and they do that in most cases.
Just about anything will get you banned here, because mods have a political axe to grind you dishonest bitch.
It's slightly confusing because when a lot people (at least in CA) talk about competing with cash buyers it just means the deal isn't contingent on a mortgage. They may very well be mortgaging the property, but the deal isn't going to fall through because they can't secure financing.
> How do you even know what the compatibility should be without really diving deep into the code itself?

You can pretty much black-box the code and only deep dive when there are differences. Here's what I've done in the past for a rewrite of an over-the-network service:

1. Grab happy-path results from prod (wireshark pcap, HTTP Archive, etc), write end-to-end tests based on these to enable development-time tests that would catch the most blatant of regressions.

2. Add a lot of logging to the old system and in corresponding places in the new system. If you have sufficient volumes, you can compare statistical anomalies between the 2 systems

3. Get a production traffic from a port mirror, compare the response of your rewritten service against the old service one route at a time. Log any discrepancies and fix them before going live, this is how you catch hard-to-test compat issues

4. Optionally perform phased roll out, with option to roll back

5. Monitor roll out for an acceptable period, if successful, delete old code/route and move to the next one.

The above makes sense when backwards compatibility is absolutely necessary. however, the upsides is once you've set up the tooling and the processes, subsequent changes are faster.
We are thinking about it. There are still some gray zones like database migrations. It is easier to daily rebase big feature branches onto master, IMO.