skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you also still using an ink pen that will smear all over the place unless you are pointlessly neat? As a left handed child learning cursive in school was an exercise in frustration since the school system mandated that it had to be done using the most outdated and counterproductive tools they could find. So instead of "properly" mastering it I noped the fuck out the moment it was an option.

> It just profesional

Most professional texts I am dealing with are digital and cursive is not the default anywhere as far as I can tell.
I think watching the success of RoadBlock (the wedge-shaped one which was just one big flipper) had quite a big impact on me: it was a perfect example of keep it simple and just solve the problem at hand, and do what you do do well.
If you actually take the time to learn it, you realise that it is one of the most consistent handwriting systems and actually surprisingly legible across authors of varying social background.

Can you give some sources regarding "objectively hard"? What objective measurement did you use?
Text files and a paper notebook (squared).

Text files are organised in yearly folders with a file per month. Each file is basically an ini setup, each day a section with either free text or boxed tasks: [ ] or [×]. If I need associated files, dated folders.

Paper notebook is pretty much a bullet journal without the flowery nonsense you see on Pinterest.
Axonometric, Isometric and Dimetric Projection Convertor for Inkscape
If the OP is a valuable employee and the company's options are to lose them or let them do something the company doesn't care about there's no harm asking at all. Don't ask, don't get.

How would discussing your contract with your employer get you sued?
The expiry date of the credit card needs to be updated every couple of years. How can AOL keep charging a credit card if they don't have current information for it?
Swapping out unique_ptr/shared_ptr for some other smart pointer container doesn't negate what I said.

New/delete are still basically deprecated territory. Qt isn't any different here, other than it seems they are behind the curve with make() variants of their pointer containers. So you'd want to make your own of that, and then go back to the world of "new/delete are deprecated"
Ask HN: How to Get Good at PPC?
I'd like to get good at PPC ads to help get traffic and conversions to my app.

Some people can seemingly sell anything via paid ads. I take it they find gaps in the data?

Are there any tools, books, courses etc that can help someone get good at PPC?
The name “working memory” is neat. I have been trying to settle on a specific working memory, right now i am on Craft. The woking memory things can change from time to time, I just make sure everything can eventually go to an online note, a Markdown based online “notebook”.
> That's not what a quote operator does; it does precisely nothing,

This is what gives Lisp murky semantics; you need something (quote) to do nothing, while having nothing (no quote) does something (evaluate).

Lisp lacks referential transparency, even without the use of variables. An evaluated term can be evaluated again, yielding something different.

> Where/how does that become λ 1 again?

By decoding it, which is what mostly what the LC self-interpreter does, as detailed on pages 6,7 of [1].

[1] https://tromp.github.io/cl/LC.pdf
Similar experience so my advices are mix of Tech & Non-tech

1. Stop cribbing
2. Start using version control/git, Build Test/UAT environment
3. Upskill your team - As you mentioned your current team MUST have also inherited the code from someone else
4. Try tools like dead/junk code finder, lint etc
5. Try other refactoring tools and techniques
6. Most imp: Try to gain trust and Read 1.

A) Is current system stable [Understand it is messy!]?
If it is stable there are ways and means to build/design/architech parallel future roadmap without adding more mess.
I'm probably confused by the smileys, but I don't see any embarrassment. It is just a factual observation that corrects a headline, which in turn might try to normalize insect eating on behalf of the cricket protein industry.
Ask HN: Why are web fonts double-downloading even with `crossorigin`?
Calling all web developers...

(And, yes, I know the very use of web fonts is highly unpopular among many HN readers, but humor me, please.)

Here’s the deal. There are plenty of places on the web (including MDN and various Stack Overflow threads) which explain that, when using `preload` to improve website performance, you must use `crossorigin` to avoid double-downloading of preloaded web font files. As an over-simplified example from a `head` section:

<link rel="preload" as="font" href="/fonts/webfont.woff2" type="font/woff2" crossorigin />

<link rel="preload" as="style" href="/css/index.css" />

<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/index.css" type="text/css" />

Fair enough. But what if you follow those instructions and *still* get double-downloading of the font file? That’s what I keep running into, and it doesn’t seem to matter about the hosting platform, the actual font, etc.

In addition: on the thought that it might be simply an artifact of the browser inspection process when `Disable cache` is activated (a common setting to check for problems like this), I ran it by GTmetrix as well, and the resulting waterfall showed double-downloading of the font file.

Now, after days of searching in vain for other descriptions of the same problem, I’ve come up dry; so I’m hoping one of you out there can tell me what I’m doing wrong.

Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to offer.

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*LATER EDIT for others with similar questions who find this*: It now appears it was host-specific. Doing the procedure noted above doesn’t cause this glitch elsewhere.
Russian advertising efforts get so much more results than anyone else's; seems like we should be examining the techniques in more detail for use in our own marketing efforts.

It's amazing how infrequently they use their miraculous powers. If they can shape public opinion so effectively then how is it they've used that power on things like this but not on sanctions or border disputes?
The missions are the least interesting part of the game. Who even plays the missions for any reason other than just to open the locked portions of the map?

EDIT: Also, your description of the "mission structure" is so vague it could apply to any mission-based game, anywhere.
I found being able to start up quickly, compress link, are the important features of the working memory.
I don't understand, how could a company own your IP if you work outside of business hours on your own computer?

Unless it's in direct competition with trade secrets of your employer's business I don't see how they could claim ownership over anything. They can't enforce ownership over generic things like writing a user management system, a billing portal or creating a searchable and sortable data view?

Loosely related is way too ambiguous. You could make a case that almost anything is loosely related to programming because it's general problem solving applied to a specific context. Any time you spend doing this process can help you in other skills. That would mean you wouldn't be able to do anything.
Well, I would prepare 3 envelopes.....

No, seriously, some projects like this are lost causes. The company wants to just get maximal return on minimal effort. A rewrite is going to be a sunk cost with no return.

Basically, your job is to limp it along if you can't prove that a rewrite will make them more money.

If you don't like that answer, you might as well look elsewhere.
You can't fix the code until you fix the team. Do they trust each other? Are they capable / comfortable working together? Is there a process in place that works and they all understand? Are there skills deficiencies? Is the culture bad? Are they afraid to make or admit mistakes due to blame culture? You can't fix anything you fear to acknowledge.

Get the team functioning well, then improve the code.
There are 4,000 code teams scattered across the country right now asking themselves "is this us?"
Credit card information is often automatically updated, the CC networks have services for that.
Guinea Pig, right? Instead of Hamster
Not the other guy, but for me majority do B2B where you are a contractor (VASTLY, vastly preferential taxation in Poland - 12% flat revenue tax + health insurance), some insist on employer of record (effective tax nearing 30% + you have to pay for retirement you are never getting).
Why lol? I do have some nonprofit experience not as consultant but as voluntary admin and I did consider google dependence a problem. But there was no other easy option, that's why I'm asking.
>need to write by hand a lot

There are less and less needs for this, so I think this is a good development
All these "Gen Z don't do X" type articles are unuseful, redunctionist and usually wrong.

I know quite a few Gen Z and younger people, and in my small sample, they're amazing groups of people filled with empathy, critical thinking, patience, emotional intelligence and more.

That's my small sample, and these articles have equally skewed views and samples. Their views on the matter are as useless as my own.

Generalising a generation is a bad idea.
Have you read https://www.martinfowler.com/books/refactoring.html ? It's a pretty good guide and it's very useful to have a reference / authority to point to when asking a team to do something.
Word. I learned Orthic recently. It's easy to pick up, unlike the other system (at least that's my impression after a day of investigating)
In practice it has been stable on GCC, clang and msvc with their respective stdlibs since 2015. There are kids today learning programming with scratch that weren't born the last time ABI changed.
> A noun phrase is not necessarily a sub-category of the original noun.

This is actually something I had not fully considered. I had always considered odd modifiers to create a non-central example of the category, rather than creating a new category.

To take your example of a sperm bank, I had always considered that to be a kind of generalized version of a bank. A general "place you can deposit things for future use".

Do you have any other good examples? I'm gonna have to let this roll around in my head for a bit to see what the implications are.
What your grandparents learned would probably have been sütterlin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCtterlin
The food system in Valheim was the best I've ever seen. It isn't really survival, you don't have to eat to stay alive, but it gives you significant enough buffs that it is basically required for anything past the easiest fights. But your character is basically functional without food (you can walk around your base and do stuff; you won't, like, slowly die).

Too many "realistic" food systems feel like a tedious system to be engaged with just to avoid punishment. This somehow feels more like a reward.
That was fun. GG!
God-Tier Developer Roadmap [video]
I'll add "Royalty-free format with an open-source reference implementation". In other words there's a chance this will see real adoption unlike the many previous attempts to build a JPEG v2.

> outperform the still image compression performance shown by HEVC HM, Daala and WebP

Naw, the real competitor is AVIF which recently got desktop and iOS Safari support. Chrome and Firefox have supported AVIF since forever and Safari was the final holdout.
I don’t know if it’s still as bad but Raspberry Pi’s used to have a bad habit of destroying the SD cards that contain their file system, which is a big problem in commercial products.
The tracking pixel was made my scaling the company logo down to a 1x1 image.
Apple TV had to introduce a feature that makes exactly that for you. Apparently this problem is that systematic. Movie makers ruin sound that the streamer device have to correct.

(https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/tv/atvba773c3c9/tvos> "Reduce Loud Sounds")
I appreciate the use of Frodo as an example.
all my GTA knowledge is from GTA II and a few hours with III, but ... okay, so what do you do after the locked parts are no longer locked?
Not my king: do we have the right to protest the monarchy at a time of mourning?
Echo the same about RDR2. The controls were wonky and the character very slow. Not to mention all the times I accidentally did something to piss off the townspeople.
It’s good and I enjoyed it a lot! the mental problem solving is similar to https://trainyard.ca/ so I don’t think it’s a new type of puzzle but a new variant on the unlocking gating puzzle.

Or maybe even sokoban
I don't know what your country is but in a few US public schools we had fairly strict teachers trying to get us to correctly hold our pencils. They'd wander around class correcting people holding their pencil wrong, give out special grips that were supposed to force correct holding, and we were penalized on tests for holding our pencil wrong.

Not saying it worked that well, as it was only a handful of teachers who cared so maybe you'd have one year where it mattered. However they did try.
There are proposals for a language level version of this - P1061 I think
Good riddance. Kids have too many more important things to learn and too little time to learn. Unless you are going into some weird specialist field you won't use it so why spend the time learning it.

Get the kids out to more recess. End the school day sooner. Find something that will be useful and teach that. Don't waste kids time on a useless skill. (Or at least move cursive to art claas)
I don't understand the idea of cursive being useless or difficult. Are Americans learning some sort of old-fashioned lettering that I'm unable to picture? To me cursive is just the natural, fast, and smooth way to write by hand, whereas separated block letters are goddamn slow and jarring
Actually I think that creating a "perfect" note taking system reduces to finding an ideal compression algorithm for human knowledge, which Hutter showed is equivalent to solving general AI.

So you're wrong, note taking is at least as hard as rocket science, probably much harder since algorithmically rocket science is a pretty straightforward control problem plus some tuning.
Yep. I am sure about this. But I like something that is fast and responsive and can use my extreme amount of RAM available.

But we know how things are. The designer rage will fade away eventually and things will be the same.:) Designers are an emotional bunch, but they have a habit to forget quickly.
In 20 years in coding PHP going from the code style you described to what you want I have never seen it going well when a new tech lead comes in and wants to rewrite everything (always worked in similar settings though where human resources are limited).

This code is making $20mio, so something must be going well. Don't forget that a codebase like this covers all the history and knowledge.

So first make sure that you appreciate the work of the current team. As you write "resistance to change is huge" I would bet that the team doesn't feel like you're trying to understand them.

It actually reminds me of a client who I wrote an order system in PHP that made $15mio annually. As the client and me didn't get along anymore he was looking for someone to replace me, and found this new CTO who came in with "everything's shitty, nothing works, we need to redo everything". Obviously the client finally saw the chance of getting rid of me, only to ask me one month later to come back as they fired the new CTO. Seems like something was working all along :)
Let's assume the complete BS theory for a second. It would mean to switch two huge ships without anyone noticing. Repainting, changing the interior and all that involves a shipyard. Once that is done successsfully wothout anyone wondering why they are painting Titanic over the letter Britannic or something else, nobody in the crew should realize it. It wouod also mean the naval architect of those ships is in on it as he was onboard. Then it means having some ships in port on stabd by for the rescue ops, again hard to ccordinated without anybody on those ships eondering why they are still in port. In port, well, that it self is stupid. Why not have them on route and near by the Titanic when you scuttle her? Because scuttling is what you have to do, on high seas, without the people opening the valves to turn on you later. And why? Because unless there is some other shipping towing an iceberg to the Titanic to convenently hit, how exactky do you sink a perfectly good ship?

So it either all of that, or it is just an accident caused by bad technology, bad practices, incomoetence, corporate preasure ans greed and bad luck. Your pick on what you want to believe.
Ahh, almost the exact same thing you'd be served at a Chili's or TGI Fridays.
Upvoted despite the "snark" and "typos" for being an actual valid message in morse code… I actually did get a giggle out of this. :)
As a counter anecdote i have not found any uses for the above and yet my code is running perfectly fine. That just reinforces my point that they are "wants" and not "needs".
Any chance we can talk via mail? I've put my mail address in the account.
The least interesting part of the game? I've played through GTA V ~2.5 times now, I really enjoy the story missions and finding fun side quests to do. The sandbox side of the game is far less interesting to me as it's unstructured.

Sure it's not the most immersive game, real RPGs are much more so, but it's fun. I'm looking forward to playing through another story, finding more funny side quests, etc.
And among those with a 5.1 setup, most have the speakers placed haphazardly around the room and not at all as required for a correct rendering.
I'm 40. When I was 9 I made friends with a girl who was a CODA, a child of deaf adults. Her parents' TV was the first time I learned captions existed and I was immediately hooked.

Back then you couldn't rewind if you didn't understand and important piece of dialogue, and being able to read while you watch absolutely helped with not missing those moments. My parents didn't like my shows too loud, so captions just made them better.

I got in the habit of turning on CC all the time, except live shows which were usually not worth the effort.

30 years later I still love captions. When my children are sleeping in the next room, I can keep the volume low.

The only downside is that sometimes captions ruin the jokes.
screw around, race, jump cars, try to find all the hidden junk.
as far as i know,this is not officially supported.rust links to its stdlib statically by design. when you have to share this stdlib with a few dynamically linked rust crates it's hard to do in practice.

tried all size reduction tricks,still the size is much large,like 15x large than c,c++. even the stdlib is a 3x larger than to libstdc++
We mostly type these days and block writing’s good enough, so it’s a waste of time for the masses in my view.
> numerous sites had no identifiable information about the corporate identity of the business, ownership, or contact info

That part is mandatory in some EU countries (at least France and Germany) - legal information, as well as at least an address (usually also an email and phone). It makes it easier to know what you're dealing with.
To me, handwriting is in analogy to martial arts: You begin learning one style, but by the time you reached the higher ranks, you've basically created your own system.
Read such an example from early in the COVID-19 pandemic, where a gym tried to bill someone despite rules that such bills had to be suspended during lockdown or something similar.

I think the whole affair with court claim etc. was done over WeChat, I do not recall anything outside of it.
It's not just a case of hearing loss. Much of the time, the soundmixing is just godawful.
> Also, respect the team. Maybe they aren't doing what you would, but they are keeping this beast alive, and probably have invaluable knowledge of how to do so. Don't come in pushing for change...

Yes, 3 people creating a revenue of $20 million/year is impressive.

But what if 1, let alone 2 of them quit and/or fall ill? That's way too much risk for this type of revenue.

If a new team member needs a year to just understand how the code is organized, then a well structured and documented rewrite certainly is necessary.
I think that it is also that there are more resources for in-game help on modern hardware.
Newsom is probably their most viable candidate, true. If the population statistics are anything to go by he won't be able to win seeing how as people move (they often call it 'flee') from California to Florida (and Texas and some other places but Florida seems to be the #1 destination?). Newsom is also burdened with a number of scandals which DeSantis thus far seems to have avoided, all the more remarkable since Newsom mostly has the media on his side. California is also marked by a number of problems which Florida has largely avoided, from rolling blackouts to cities being taken over by homeless encampments and more. This would make the debate centre around Newsom which does not bode well for his chances.
I don't think I have ever finished any sandbox environment game. I've played several, hundreds of hours into each. Just... happy with just screwing around, bored with being told what to do.
Ironically we could be creating a generational divide over the fact that older people seem to like to categorize and explain away the youth without proper insight into the matter.
Half-Life 2 was not delayed because it was leaked, it was delayed because it was pretty far from being complete. You can read about this in The Final Hours of Half-Life 2.
https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/16/texas_social_media_la...

Depending on what the Supreme Court decides this might be less far away than you think.
Might take a few months of dev time just dealing with the legal and security issues from the source code getting hacked, games use a ton of middleware from many different companies.

>The guy with the data/source code for that game is just on forums taking requests like a reddit AMA, searching the source code then pulling up what people ask for. One guy just asked him to send him some code related to an ongoing court case vs TTI, and he just did it.

>Turns out the guy asking him to scour the source code is one of the GTA5 cheat makers R*/TTI is suing lmao.

https://twitter.com/APZonerunner/status/1571411248390242307

>I don't see how it's a shame. How does it ruin anything at all?
Also the main commercial reason to keep secrecy is to not cannibalise your existing products by creating an expectation that if the customer holds on a little more on a purchase..., but gta5 is almost 10 years old now.

As for the environment, the videos I looked at don't reveal much anyway.
And any accidental button-press while in a chat-app or website will leak your password. I've seen many yubikey otp's accidentally pasted into irc, if you set it to password, you just posted that. I'd never recommend using that mode.
Some employment contracts are like this.

I've ran into this a couple of decades ago interviewing with the EA (Electronic Arts). The guy literally said that if you work "properly" for them, you will not have any time left for side projects or any such nonsense. But this seems to be more of an exception than a common thing. The vast majority of companies are far more reasonable. In some places (Cal?) your right for side projects (and the off-hours IP) even protected by the law.
> Kinda nice that someone's going around showing how shitty the average company's security is. Not that I outright support crime, but it's good to have these anecdotes to point to - silver lining, I suppose.

Remember lulzsec? If not, I think you would have liked that drama.
It happens in English a little, but usually only in a really tiny differences. So it ends up being more like a funny easter-egg.