skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Setting aside the fact for a second that our system requires us to vote strategically instead of based on our actual preferences, I'm pretty sure there's no one I can vote for that is seriously championing making it illegal. But even if they were, there is so much corruption and money on the side of keeping it legal, I can't imagine they'd be able to get it done in the face of the enormous opposition. Telling people to vote is a bit of a copout in the face of systematic corruption.
Worth noting that the professor spent more than a year in jail, without conviction, for accusations based on his ethnicity.

‘Murica.
That is a bad assumption to make. It absolutely has to be able to handle scenarios like that since it will need to be able to navigate low visibility corners and very unpredictable drivers. There are some videos on Youtube of a Tesla navigating tight hilly suburbs and it is surprisingly aggressive given the low visibility and low margins for error.
> Churchills speeches are good to read too.

I'm no fan of Churchill, but he was a great rhetorician, and very quick off-the-cuff:

"Sir, you are drunk."

"Yes madam; and you are ugly, but in the morning I shall be sober."
Not my rules or ideas… if you try to invoice different companies to get around defacto employee rules we have here, then it is fraud; you probably won’t get caught. It’s not fraud ‘for me’, it is for the tax office of my country and, as other people have said, also maybe for the employer side. So I play it safe to make sure it’s neither, however, that is far different from taking a contractor job for one client for a long time; that often will be flagged as defacto employee and taxed like it.
Totally agree. I find that I eat more mindfully and appreciate various ingredients and flavors to a greater degree.
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Exactly, it would have crashed at the previous intersection already. /s
> Failing to recognize the limitations of an idea or technology is the #1 way innovators, inventors and startups fail - they lack the critical thinking rigor and fail to nip bad ideas in the bud because they are too emotionally attached (by ego or by lack of brain cells) to KILL their bad ideas. You attack your own ideas as aggressively as any competitor would to get good ideas.

I vouched for this comment based on this paragraph. I have watched this play out in press releases over and over: an innovation is presented as the next huge revolution in X, where it is actually a great improvement only in section 3.5.227 of X, and overextending it to try to revolutionize the entire field kills the innovation.
Does anyone here run their own whois for their own domains using srv records? If so, how many hits per day do you get? I'm curious because I have never seen anyone request srv _nicname_.tcp. from my nameservers.
You might not want that. I was going to post some quip about RDJ's (aka Aphex Twin) code, so I'll do it here.

I could tell this app wasn't written by RDJ, because it's fairly well laid out, and his code has always been that of a messy tinkerer.

He's released several bits of code on the web, most of it pseudonymous and it's always been a hacked up mess. I've "uncovered" him a few times, just by recognizing his chicken scratch code.

Edit: I won't mention any of his pseudonyms, except one that's semi-public and long-retired: eric_hard_jams ("richard james" with the "e" moved). He used that one around the turn of the millenium. If you Google it, keep in mind that some fans later co-opted the handle for their own use.

Edit 2: Also, hi Richard! I'm sure you're reading, and I hope life and fatherhood are treating you well.
Not my experience at all. I spent a whole lot of time on the endless sphere forum (forum for building PEVs) when I was in my teens and early 20s, and in my 30s now some of the technical threads from back then are still relevant and going strong. The discussion on there is light-years better than Reddit and HN for anything related to power electronics or EVs in general.
It's phone geo data.

Not sure if Instagram makes the exif data available
Added to the post details.
Thanks, I looked into Sciter a bit. It’s so close! I didn’t list them as hard requirements, but its closed source nature and required JS engine make it not quite what I’m looking for.
I read articles like that and they talk about reducing land usage by not having cattle or sheep. How they cause groundwater pollution.

Then I walk on the moors or the highlands with scattered livestock and I struggle. I believe the problem is mass production, factory farming, not meat. The issue is trying to keep meat insanely cheap such that it can be eaten every meal.

I think if I source grass fed meat properly my impact is minimal. But. Maybe I am wrong!
Modern fake meats (Beyond, Impossible etc) are unmistakeably superior to legacy fake meat. I don’t know what you were served, or how it was prepared, but if it was indistinguishable from 90s microwave “meat”, it wasn’t representative.

You should try a Beyond Meat burger from one of the many restaurants who regularly serve them. I wouldn’t say it’s indistinguishable from meat — and it’s totally fair to hate it — but it’s in a different league to the fake meat of the 90s.

I recommend the McDonald’s McPlant, it’s a great representation.
oh, yes, i'm not saying all is lost (even if that's how it may have seemed), but that it's frustratingly slow to get people to discover and coalesce around actual truths, when special interests[0] are highly motivated to undermine truths and the general welfare time and again for personal and outsized gain.

it's tempting to throw out simplistic solutions like "let's skepticism!" but almost impossible to actually change people en masse like that. which then points to your second course of action, changing processes (via the systems that implement them), and that's something i truly believe in, but still find frustratingly slow.

[0]: plus the expert fallacy, which i mentioned before. i was just having this conversation last night about doctors, who know next to nothing in comparison to how complex biology is, but we still as a society feel compelled to venerate (and remunerate) doctors irrationally because they hold people's lives in their hands (understandably). but that outsized veneration (and remuneration) often leads to egos that can't admit ignorance or doubt and that leads to millions of unnecessary deaths and countless people with worse health outcomes. and that's not a condemnation of doctors, but a realistic understanding of where our collective knowledge lies relative to the long arc of evolution, but the societal distortion persists nonetheless.
You've probably looked into compromise solutions that let you do these things in the same way you've found a way to use the internet that's compatible with your values. Can you share your thoughts on those for people looking to get away from smartphones without losing access to things? You might have some insights that provide a solution to someone.
> and plant based burgers have about 10g of sugar in it

Where are you getting this? Impossible’s nutrition facts state < 1g per serving.
I'm a weight lifter and consume 100-150g daily. I think everyone should consume around 75g daily (I should add: as an absolute minimum)
> With this weeks' news of the 4090 using 450 watts at peak,

Flagship GPUs like the 3090 Ti have had 450W TDPs for a while now and they work fine. It's not a new thing with the 40xx series cards.
This seems perfectly reasonable advice. However I do wonder how many people actually struggle with this sort of code quality. It's certainly more than a few, since I've encountered bad code with these issues. But it's not exactly the most pressing issue either. As the author demonstrated, you can refactor this with a little thought. It's the code equivalent of tidying your room, sweeping the floors and putting your stuff away.

Whereas the refactoring issues I'd love to learn more about are the equivalent of a sinkhole in your living room. Stuff like "you have data dependencies that go in, out, left, right, and through the code", or "the codebase is a mishmash of React combined with Vanilla JS that is hooked up to a custom PHP MVC". Basically refactoring that involves issues that cannot be cleaned up all at once, that involve deep architectural decisions and that require some amount of buy-in from the team.

Mostly I'd like to know more about this because I've realized that I'm not very good at it. My inclination is to just refactor everything and that's not a feasible strategy. I also struggle to balance it with getting feature work done. Definitely something I plan on reading more about.
Or the image boards that have all of the instructional photos from 10y ago disappear, or go premium but the original poster is MIA/dead.

Faaaack, I’m still maintaining this 17yo Toyota. I need those brake change pictures!
That’s probably due to the ISO country code being “GB”.
I always liked the quote "you need to be twice as smart to debug a code. If you write smart code, you, by definition, cannot debug it" (sorry I have no idea who said this). This is why I still code in C. No smartass bullshit, just plain old undefined behaviour and out of bounds access. Lovin it.
Solanine poisoning can even be done by gas inhalation.

Potatoes are inherently poisonous, especially if they are sprouting. But in the potato tuber itself, the doage is low enough not to worry... as long as you're older than 3 or 4. Beneath that, and you can subject children to poisoning accidentally.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/08/14/girl-8-orphaned-...
The app you are referring to is called FindFace

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FindFace
I wonder if the the Director of Meme reports direct to him too.
what's wrong with Brazil
I believe in you and trust that you'll ultimately find what works best for you
Ground source is also just a lot more work, and often has a large part of the job contracted out from your average HVAC tech.
But that is what happens when you watch MSNBC and CNN, and the vice versa when you watch Fox. An entire generation now exists incapable of having intellectual arguments thinking beyond party line just because the people they follow in the media (social and news) continues to drive the argument in terms that is very close to derangement syndromes.
Both sides are responsible but one one side is more amplified due to their majority presence in HN.
Corporations (often) have more wealth than those rich men heading the corporation do.

For example, Disney's CEO is about five million dollars. Disney the corporation has about 13 billion dollars cash-on-hand.
1 gram per lb of body weight
I inserted the details into my comment to save you the trouble, and accidentally didn't edit out that sentence. I have to be careful not to reveal my identity by saying too much.
Yes, scrollbars are not completely trivial, but what you describe used to be a solved problem on desktop UIs, and the reason for making scrollbars invisible were purely aesthetic.
> However, a key observation is that even LR(k) is not enough for many industrial language features.

Yes, although sometimes a minor hack is all that's needed. For C/C++ you can maintain a symbol table while parsing, then have your "lexer" return a different token for a type-name vs other identifiers.
A lot of foreigners work for the big companies, such as Volvo, H&M, Klarna, Spotify, King, iZettle.

The visa process is relatively painless. Much simpler than the the process for USA or UK. All you need is a job offer.
I think demand is a big part of it.

Vegetarians and vegans are willing to endure a lot of costs, financial and otherwise, to adhere to a special diet.
You forgot a KEY property of a function: this is an abstraction. You don't (and in most cases shouldn't) care how this "black box" does what it does, you identify it by the name and move on. So a function collapses N things to understand to 1, not how you have described it.
You can nearly hit 75g a day with PB&J sandwiches. That’s not exactly difficult.
> 500cal deficit per day

Does this assume the body expends a constant amount of energy, or do you actually work out until the deficit level is achieved?

Because for most people trying to lose weight, the struggle is not only to reduce calories in, but in preventing the body from being more thrifty with those calories...
I think the challenge is what lured many of us into programming. If you're challenged trying to solve a hard problem, it can keep you going. Once you accomplish it, you're hungry for another. As things become more demystified, however, I think the desire fades somewhat. I can't speak to learning to program later in life, but I imagine it would be the same.
Cybersickness Could Spell an Early Death for the Metaverse
their "donate" pages on the homepage have an email address
At least some of these images are used for the website.
Never cleaned up the most obtuse part of that code snippet - why are we only keeping the last three parameters?
No, exif data is wiped from photos by any of the large social media companies and public photo hosts and has been like that for years.

Edited to add comma.
SpaceX Has a Major Problem with Its Starlink Internet Connections
I'll just leave this here:

https://github.com/KxSystems/kdb/blob/master/c/c/odbc.c
North Korea also got nukes. Should we allow it to invade South Korea if it wants to?

Also: Russia is not USSR. I find it highly questionable that a country that can’t even manufacture ordinary cars has the capability to refurbish nuclear warheads.
It’s 2022, the entire planet is online now. The “no girls here” meme is dead.
I have written a lot of Powershell in the last few years. I eschew the clever powershell ways of doing things if someone else may end up owning it (think: where-object, foreach-object) in favor of expressions that resemble other languages (foreach, for).

If I'm writing it for myself, and only ever myself, I'll use the more clever powershell ways of doing things. Expressions like:

1..10 | % {$_}

If you're coming from another language, you're going to have to run it to understand it, or look it up. That is time lost.
There is a vegan ice cream chain which seems pretty successful because it doesn't try to recreate traditional flavors. Thus, you have no point of comparison and you can't be disappointed.

McDonald's should try offering some veggie Indian options, I haven't eaten at McDonald's in forever but it'd make a stop to try a their take on a curry.
If you have a supported band (which the Fitbit is not) I highly recommend Gadgetbridge[1], a Free app that respects you, doesn't require online login and never will.

[1] https://gadgetbridge.org/
Human existence being miserable perpetuates demand for half-baked solutions forever. Actually solving the problem once and for all would eliminate said demand.
And Governments are filled with people.
Interesting! I do contribute to OSM due to my exploration but I didn’t know about this. Thanks for the reference.
There’s not actually that much of a constituency for being on top of the world economically and then living in the exurbs of a third string metro. Some, sure. But by and large people are going to put the kind of incomes that are possible in tech towards living in nice places. And that’s gonna put upward pressure on land values there. Even more so considering how few nice places there are in America.
> Even vegetarian dictators don't expend their finite political capital on issues like this

I would be 1000x more supportive of such an effort than, say, Duterte's brutal drug war.
Catchy title but this has little to do with iPhones. It's more about apps which are also smartphone platoform agnostic.
Vegan are generally bunch of contradictions in other ways also. To each his own.
I wonder if low-visibility areas can be mapped and self-driving cars could route around those areas to begin with.
Also, programmers are paid better than most people and early retirement is often possible. A lot of programmers don’t need to work into their 60s.

In my own case, when I have enough money to retire it’s going to be hard to convince me to keep working.
It's also harder, with more irrational spelling, and the British are much more comfortable with irony and sarcasm. Britain's a small country, and it's much easier for us to all share the same sense of humour.

Delivering irony and sarcasm successfully (like delivering jokes) is a question of culture; making an ironic remark with a particular facial expression might get you a laugh, or a punch in the face, depending how you judge it.

I've heard it said that a German joke is a very serious matter (I believe that is actually an example of a German joke). <dodges punch>
Any cookbooks or recipes you recommend? How does one figure out which different pieces of the meal go together well?
Pixel 6 Pro using Firefox
The likely goal is decreasing the bite out of 24/7 on-call wrt customer responsiveness and service uptime

Technical user support & service uptime: can simplify by design, docs, self-healing. For a focused service, remaining timely human support can go to a new hire. If they can even handle 50% of remaining load here, and defer responses to next day/few days, awesome. If they leave, can get another. Bonus points if they can help further reduce the sting here over time by writing more docs or writing more code.

Sales: Unfortunately, someone good at technical support is often not good for sales support, and a minimum, not at the level of the founder who has seen so much more. So self-serve sales automation helps, and eventually another hire here too. Luckily, sales is generally a lower cadence, and tech support can depressure via an acknowledgement of reciept etc till actual reach out.
I love your site! Hope you don't mind that I sent you an email.

It's a fantastic example of minimal yet fully functional!
As a top comment I want to throw in additional info to help balance what it is like. I also have narcolepsy. Not everyone who has narcolepsy has cataplexy, which is the sudden paralysis or sleeping in response to emotional stimuli. But, everyone with narcolepsy has a sleep cycle where deep sleep is entirely or mostly missing.

Not everyone has vivid dreaming, but hallucinations of vision and sound while not sleeping are also possible. Life with narcolepsy and no medication is a life of great difficulty, as it's essentially sleep deprivation. You can't just sleep it off.

Diagnosis often coincides with having been sick, but it's not the virus that is the problem. It's the immune system. It really is an invisible problem to others. My own family had a hard time accepting it.

Most people would be surprised to learn I have it, but medication helps a lot. I also still take at least one nap a day. The medication administered for daytime use is stimulant class drugs, and this causes being tired as well with higher heart rates. But it's better than no medication. I am super thankful for medication that helps. Xyrem is such a simple drug and I frown on Jazz pharma squeezing every $$ they can from it. But from a treatment standpoint, I have a life again.
Last I heard, Instagram strips EXIF data on upload.
Except, for the vast majority of people, that is definitely not true. It's actually extremely rare for your average person to get locked out of their Google account (though, of course, it does happen, as chronicled so frequently on HN). It's extremely common for people to lose their hard drive, or have it otherwise damaged by a fall or fire, or just have it crash due to age without a sufficient backup.

It order to fix the problems with modern corporate surveillance, we can't keep pretending that storing things in the cloud and using cloud services doesn't have huge benefits. Just telling everyone to only store things in flat files on their local disk just brings up the "old man yells at cloud" meme in my head.

What we need are stronger laws. For example, if one company is acquired by another, and that company demands a new login scheme that can link additional data, I think they should need to give you the option of a full refund.
Typically, relatively unspecific names like "i" or "size" are good enough. It's better than not naming at all and producing a complicated expression tree instead. More specific names cost energy, both inventing and reading them (because they are typically longer). Err on the side of short and not too specific.
> When your LinkedIn profile has keywords like "senior" and "lead" you start getting scraped.

And some people still say that titles don't matter.
break it down and solve it in a correct way

I do not believe hackers think in this way being a correct way. A hacker will pride themselves in finding a thousand ways to accomplish something with emphasis on finding the smallest, simplest, most unorthodox ways that nobody would have thought of. A hacker will not be bound by doing things the correct way. These are people with an incredibly powerful and unlimited imagination.

An example would be that someone writes a massive program to break encryption on something, then a hacker comes along and reverse engineers the protocol and writes a 10 line python script to exploit a design flaw/bug and accomplish the same end goal in less time, using less memory and less CPU time.

Hackers are good at understanding the big picture and breaking things down into generalizations that can be attacked or can not be defended against. Another example would be corporations that make super expensive firewalls that are meant to prevent data exfiltration, then a hacker is told data exfil is not possible because of the $2 million dollar firewall. Challenge accepted. They will find a way around that can not be defended against. This is not a theoretical example. I observed a friend play this cat and mouse game with one of the biggest firewall vendors. In the end he could not be blocked. Shout-out to The Godfather

I will leave the software development examples to the proper software devs here.
Why can't the same thing be said of human intelligence? If we knew more about neuroscience it'd probably seem just as trivial. Wetware trained on examples we've seen. Experience encoding neurons. Neurons running on the laws of physics. Data goes in, endogenous processing happens, then outputs. I don't see why it's categorically different. ANNs are just demystified because we made them and know how they work.
I like that this is editor agnostic, but I also think that obsidians killer feature is the effortless linking between notes.
That seems to me like it would be much easier to do with an editor plugin.

Do you have any plans to add something like that?
Who does this? It's maddening.
Ask HN: Should we have a web standard for cookie banners preferences?
Cookie banners are ruining the web, why don't we add a webstandard and less websites check for user preferences?
He did write a sequel of sorts to Generation X called Generation A in 2009. I haven't read it so I can't comment on it, though I suspect it is already 'of it's time' in the way that, say, Microserfs is. It's a fun novel to be sure, for something that emanates a huge "now-ness circa 1994" it's still very enjoyable today, but maybe that's because I can vaguely remember life back then. I'd wonder what a younger reader might think about it?
Another article about web dev that fails to mention bare metal web components and Lit. How does this keep happening?

While it's true that bare metal web components don't handle routing or state for you, in many apps those are problems that you can solve yourself -- and in a way that makes sense to you, rather than to the framework developer.

In my experience with Lit and bare metal (browser standards-based) web components that you hand-craft (not from a library), there are fewer bugs and the ones that exist are ones you designed -- rather than ones that come from a misunderstanding of a framework. Without a framework to learn, your cognitive load consists of only your own inventions and abstractions -- which are far easier to remember and deal with than something designed by a committee and documented with some largess.