skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I caught a train in Poland once, trip to Krakow in 2006 - the train froze to the track half a mile from the station at 3am, god knows where with nothing else in sight (may not mean much, visibility was very low), so we all had to walk to the station and wait until another train happened to stop at it going the direction we wanted.
So almost 10% drop relative to the Euro in addition to both of them falling against the dollar. I wonder what's behind that particular weakness for the pound.
>What's unbelievable is the scale of the ops, the high quality of ppl, and the amount of work that happens behind the scenes and yet the output is garbage. Money making garbage for sure....So the only worthwhile thing to do, if you have a choice, is to go work on something controllable. Or break the machine.

Or go find value in something else in the world besides your job. I work on a big team that's a small part of a big product that's a small part of a big company. My work is in Java, not the latest hot frameworks. It doesn't involve machine learning or any buzzwords (though we get asked at least once a year to consider a hackathon on how we could try to shove some machine learning in there to do......well, that's for me to figure out). If I make the most catastrophic screwup I can, I won't move company revenues by anything close to a percentage point. If I am the biggest success I could possibly be and motivated my immediate teammates to be their best selves as well we would not increase corporate revenues by anything close to a percentage point. So we do fine work, and at 5PM I go home.

.....and I love it. I have friends, and hobbies. I ride my bicycle without worrying about having to be on-call every other week, I go to experiences, I come home and spend time with my family. And you know what? My bonus target and salary band are the same as a bunch of people working crazy hours doing "worthwhile" things in divisions that have higher stakes. They're dramatically higher than most of my friends at startups working long hours trying to "change the world" right until their company goes broke or (best case) gets acquired making the founders rich and leaving all other option-holders underwater.

So you tell me which of us has the job that's worth doing.
As someone who software engineers and builds physical shit from time to time, yes, but money helps making this true.
I hear this a lot, and as a user I simply don’t care.

I deliberately bought a giant high resolution monitor that I want to fully use. If I stretch my browser window full screen, I expect your web site’s content to expand to fit. I don’t care what some researcher thinks is “readable”.

I wish web developers would stop second guessing the user.
Eh, if you don't like it, you don't like it. No need to force it. :)

That all said, I found the v1 formula really didn't work for me - something just tasted... off. v2 is good enough to pass for me, though I still prefer to just east standard veggie burgers if they're on the menu. I would be curious for your take if you tried v2!
> Could modernization have been done with a dedicated protocol? I guess so.

But probably not because it adds an other layer of friction and complexity to deployment, which doesn’t do much good to your odds.

And it requires an entire additional ecosystem of inspection and protection capabilities to appear.

Not to mention the parsing and serialisation of a bespoke protocol, and the risk of all the usual framing and escaping errors in the protocol.

It also requires going to Iana for a port.
What's wrong with 5.1 FLAC?
I can only talk about the people I personally know and I've asked this question myself (because it's funny and interesting from a cultural perspective) and most people I asked said "Sunday", although as I said it's not set in stone.
In the Unlikely Event
There were two very talented devs I know that took $11/hr CAD jobs personally. I know of more with rough salaries $40,000 and below. Even me; when I was in QA, my salary was $52,000 for 9 years of experience. And that was after a raise.

Like it or not, there's people willing to take those positions. No where near as many as Canadian companies would like, but they are there.
> hierarchical

On the point of hierarchy they are messing up their categories:

mcmaster.com/raw-materials/

Hovering over the links in that category, you get links such as:

mcmaster.com/raw-materials/foam

But clicking "foam" takes you to: mcmaster.com/foam/ and there's no link back to raw-materials. This is a mistake. They've booted you out of the hierarchy and neglect to offer breadcrumbs or equivalent category navigation.

Clicking "browse catalogue" menu fails to identify what category you're currently in.

If I'm in mcmaster.com/fabricating/ and click "drills", why am I taken to a page called "hand drills"? The naming is a mess. Why am I seeing screwdrivers on that page?

Pardon the pun, but if I drill down to the hammer drill product page, the URL is:

mcmaster.com/29835A69/

What? That's ridiculous. The URL should be:

mcmaster.com/fabricating/drills/dewalt-cordless-hammer-drills/[product-name/ID]

Sorry to interrupt the "best website ever" theme!
If you want a good idea killed, have it presented by the wrong person. We attach an outsized amount of meaning between the two, sometimes so much that we kill the person delivering it.
Depending on the nature of the business, it’s not uncommon to have negotiated rates for 2nd day shipping that are really good, and essentially retail counter rates for ground. Sometimes that makes 2nd day service cheaper than ground for a lot of destinations. It’s weird.
Nothing special just flavor, strength and the consistency of those qualities. The best I've determined is from someone whose job requires them to make coffee but also basically to drink it as well. E.g. the overnight gas station attendant and diner waitresses. They want to make good coffee because they will also be drinking it. Of course you can find someone who fits that description and their taste buds are completely shot out or they just have very different preferences too, so compatibility matters.
If all goes well ---

In 20 years, we'll finally have capability based security in our operating systems. We won't need virtualization, containers, "safe" programming, or the chiding of users.

We'll finally get back to the levels of productivity that we had back in the days of HyperCard, Visual Basic, Delphi and SmallTalk.

We'll have renamed the mutex and lock to "bottleneck". We'll have a far better understanding of the physics of software when you have multiple processors.

Source code won't be straight text. You'll be able to include other media in the source.

If all goes wrong ---

Software will only be written in legally authorized environments by legally licensed people using clearly specified "safe" techniques.

General purpose computing won't exist.

All data will be periodically scanned to protect the children, protect against forbidden ideology, etc.
It looks from the diagrams like the plan once the keywork is done is to have some of the keys operate what look to me to essentially be bicycle cables (Bowden cables), which for some reason I find totally delightful.
Circumstantial evidence that seems to be contradicted by other evidence is still evidence. To claim that there is 'literally zero evidence' is literally wrong.
Web sites should just serve the text and let the user-agent make the readability decision and decide how to appropriately render it. Browsers have handed over way too much layout and stylistic control to web developers.
This sounds interesting but makes my eyes glaze, even as someone actively working with CRDTs as an end-user developer. And that's okay! But can someone translate this to mortal?

My weak attempt to parse this leaves me with the impression that the goals are conceptually similar to the Elm language compiler, where if you can stay in your lane (so to speak), you are given assurances about immutability and the theoretical impossibility of run-time errors.

If I'm way off, well... now you know why I'm asking for an assist. Who is this for, and what do they do with it? Is it a cool proof or something with practical implications?
JSON's not a network protocol, either. It's a data storage format, too. :p

Yes, they all have problems. That's... Our industry. You pick and choose your problems. Hence why it's easy to point out rough edges in JSON, and it's easy with mbox or maildir, too.
It’s nuts. I’ve had mcmaster packages come from far enough away overnight that there were hardly enough minutes for UPS to drive it this far. But definitely not flown judging by the terminals it went through.
Cheers to that! I'm super hopeful that the next thing the economists do will totally smooth things out, for good this time.
This person hates it so much whenever there is a link to their content on this site, they go on huge massive rants about it with threads spamming as much as the OP, it's hilarious.
Gravity too low, too cold, weak sun, no air. Really, all Mars has is dirt, and that is corrosive. We could do much better building spinning cans to live in, out in orbit. Even Venus cloudtops would be a better place to camp than Mars.

Peanut butter reliably on the shelf certainly is a greater achievement than people on Mars would be, if we ever bother. When Elon quits hyping it, Mars will slip out of the collective consciousness.
Another layer to this is that numbers one-off the factors have nice patterns too. For base 10 those are (2, to include the factors), 3, 4, (5), 6, and 9 sort-of, since it's one below 10. Just think how awkward 7 and 8 times tables were compared to the rest. With base 12 I found that all numbers, even 7 and 11, end up having usable patterns and are easier to count by. Of course, I'm still not used to having 12 digits, but on paper I could tell they would be pleasant to count by if I had learned base 12.

And an even deeper insight is that it doesn't really matter that much and isn't worth shaking up the whole world to change. We're not going to be better or worse at math because of our number base.
To be truly free, we should be paid by no one.
Hi HN, I made this while developing my website. It's nice to be able to have webpack and other build tools report to a central progress display. Because progress bars are awesome. All the while keeping any console.logs. you can even run this in a standalone node script that listens to node-ipc, and pipe statuses in from other processes. There are still some behaviors that I haven't ironed out, like overflowing texts in the status area.
I don't believe you really think that. Not being able to keep a TCP connection open is not some trivial aesthetic or nostalgic issue. Pretty much all information transfer on the internet is over TCP.
You forgot another one: portion sizes. Seriously, just focusing on this would help a lot IMO.
No

Cash works when there's no power, or internet

Cash works even when you're a repressed minority

Cash works when you can't afford a bank

Cash works to route around damage, no matter the source.
Weird – I have been able to order parts for a client in the UK. I've used it mainly for connector harnesses.

I love their connector harnesses and I have standardized all my prototypes around them. It sounds expensive at first, but it's cheaper and less annoying than making them myself or hiring someone to do it for me.
eBook: The Good Parts of LibVLC
You can buy one today, they're in stock.

https://direct.playstation.com/en-us/shop-ps5 for the curious.
There's lots of English speakers in Tokyo who never learn Japanese at a conversational level.
You just want to ensure they don't take up space in your struct body.

Otherwise, const is fine.
It's a cultural thing. The cultural norm in academic or technical circles is extreme precision as well as fear of being held to account by enforcers of that norm. It's a spillover of rigorous academic publishing norms into general conversation. It's a fool's errand given that speech is intrinsically imprecise, and given that everyday speech is just a communication tool and not a vehicle for perfect applied epistemology.

We should hedge statements depending on whether the context makes it self-explanatory that there's uncertainty. Any less, and we're being deceptive. Any more, and we're adding words without adding information.

You know what would be a cool? Some notation to denote the level of certainty that doesn't take up horizontal space in the sentence. Or an API to a fine tuned GPT-3 that can strip out caveats and hedges from text on a screen.
Agreed. A comment can also explain things that a function name cannot.
I’m all for splitting code into paragraphs with a well written comment above each.
Of course I also extract functions, but only when there are obvious benefit, like removing repetition.
So was "abolition".

You can decide you -disagree- with the ideas of 'social justice', or the implementation, or whatever, but I think you'll need a stronger case than "it's political" to warrant the dismissal of an educational institution trying to incorporate the term.
The latest crash in value is a direct result of two things last week -

The Bank of England monetary policy committee deciding on Thursday to show “restraint” in only putting the interest rate up by 0.5%, because they want to wait and see what the Chancellor’s “mini-budget” would bring on Friday.

That mini budget being a clusterfuck of unfunded tax giveaways to the already high-earning and wealthy.
Just make sure you keep them warm.

It's been a while since I've done any high-altitude mountaineering. I honest don't know what people actually use these days. Certainly GPS watches didn't exist when I was climbing. Not sure if people use power-hungry watches that need to be charged these days or not.
The government just announced tax-cuts backed by borrowing, so likely to increase inflation even further.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Undoing_Project
England has surely earned the meanest spirits that the Irish and Scots (perhaps even the Welsh) can muster?
That, and unprofitable companies taking on larger and larger piles of debt to continue their operations. IIRC some 15-20% of listed companies fall in that category.
Tonally, this thread reminds me a lot of the short story "With Friends Like These..." by Alan Dean Foster: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/35128.With_Friends_Li...
https://archive.ph/5ED75
Does this hold true even after the removal of LM hash v1 support?
Which particular content have you noticed a big difference on?

I have an (older) LG OLED, and haven't seen anything in DV that I didn't think would be just as good in HDR10, although I haven't compared the same content in both DV and HDR10 directly.
They're alright for the Mitutoyo calipers, it looks like.

Kurt DX6: $650 on AllIndustrial, $737 on MSC.

Bison 7-866-0800 (a 3-jaw 8" forged steel chuck that I happen to own): $1090 through USA Bison retailers like Ajax, $1376 through MSC. I bought multiple Bison chucks through a similar site to Ajax: www.lathe-chucks.com (extremely old school web design, person owns several sites that sell different tooling, way better prices than MSC though you sometimes have to email for a quote).

Don't even get me started on their "value line" which is their Taiwanese or Chinese imports, only you get some intense MSC markup to go along with it vs when you buy the same item from a site like AllIndustrial.
Why would I think of a weekend not as a weekend but as weekendS, which is 2 days, one of which is the end and another is beginning? It's called weekend, as in the end which follows the week. Which therefore starts on Monday and ends on Sunday.

I mean I get it that Sunday being the first day of the week is a leftover from religious past but this does not make it any more logical when applied to the workweek/weekend cadence. Moreover, most of European countries where workweek starts on Monday already consider it the 1st day of the week, why can't US do the same and be done with it?
Really good insight is there any books other than Beat Racetrack ? Thanks
Yes which implies the pound is sliding against the dollar significantly faster than the euro, at least the last 60 days.
Travel insurance is cheap.
I've seen advice for using chained VPNs so trust isn't placed on any single one. But wouldn't the resulting traffic from one VPN to another (which would be a very small fraction of all the traffic through any given VPN) and then back along the same route be very conspicuous under correlation analysis?
Well, there were also accounting rule changes.
Software already is a big part of this. The whole stack of any organization is plugged into software. From communication, to organization planning (jira?), to spreadsheets. What you call software literacy is already here, but it’s not code for management. Why would they work in code?

I would guess it’ll never be code. If code can handle advanced resource management, then at that point it’s probably AI and there will still be managers just dictating the parameters of how to manage.
Try Udemy
As a not-at-all neutral observation, you post an enormous amount, are obnoxious in your confidence, and frequently wrong.
I use Zola [0] to generate static site from markdown and host it via GitHub pages.

[0] https://www.getzola.org/documentation/getting-started/overvi...
Thanks! I was wondering specifically about how the logic of “you can’t claim something as a loss if you never had it in the first place” meant that you can never lose a job or source of income, but it sounds like that’s not really what they meant in the post I was replying to.
Is that a rip off or are they genuinely that much harder to make?
I feel like much less of a wage slave as a remote worker
The thing about Apple products is that no serious professional would use a Macbook, no one with a job requiring critical connectivity will use an iPhone, no serious photographer will use an iPhone. Until they do.

They ate the business Thinkpad. They ate the Blackberry. They ate some portion of the SLRs.

And each time they weren't serious.
Just keep smashing the ESC key when loading a NYT page if you want to read it.
But isn’t inflation usually an effect that happens after such an event, rather than something that’s being speculated on?

Unless large institutions decided to sell their pounds, but that has to be a huge supply of pounds to make such an impact.
Of course justice involves political agendas. How do you think poll taxes and literacy tests were eliminated? We don't even have to go that far back -- the legal recognition (& protection) of same-sex marriages is something even zoomers have a memory of.

People opposed to social justice aren't apolitical or morally neutral. Banning books, getting educators fired, and forcibly de-transitioning children are all charged political agendas in and of themselves. They all fall under the umbrella of "anti-SJW/woke" brigadism.
How do companies that don’t use email keep track of long standing communications? Stuff that isn’t resolved within days but may take weeks, months, or even years to be resolved?

And that’s just internally. How do you handle stuff that also requires external contributors?
Yeah, seems like all the new WSL stuff is Windows 11 only; I guess Microsoft views it as an incentive to switch.
> February, April, and May are not known to be named for any god, nor is there any particular reason to believe they are.

May is named after Maia, the goddess who oversees the growth of plants.
What exactly would it take for you to accept that your policy proposals are a failure? Honest question here, because what I see is the UK doing exactly what you are saying they should do, but it's resulting in the general economic destruction of their country.
On the other hand the USD is also nearing a really high value relative to CAD
All sorts of things are breaking due to major miscalculations during the pandemic. I have friends who work in the fashion industry and they're all worried about muted sales. NOT because of demand, but because they made some serious miscalculations about the kind of clothes people would want in 2022.

So many of them went heavy on "comfort wear", thinking that somehow everyone will still be working from home and that going out will be an exception, not the norm. Many even expanded or created entirely new "home" lines that included selling towels, comforters, candle holders, etc.

Now they're all finding out that people want normal, going-out clothes again, and their current catalogs just don't line up with the demand.

The "new normal" was touted around way too aggressively. At least here in my reality, it's mostly gone back to the old normal with vestiges of the "new" remaining.
I'd always thought (though I don't have a specific source I can recall), that the seven days of the week was drawn from the seven non-fixed celestial bodies visible ot the naked eye: the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. The planets were frequently associated with and named after deities, so the days of the week also have the names of deities.
Most modern languages have a JSON encoder/decoder in their standard library too, making for one fewer dependency to worry about and that's never a bad thing.
pack an extra suitcase with wood pellets and you're good to go :D
Great looking site, well done.

Are the chords all hand coded? What determines which notes are included? For example some G-shape chords (using CAGED system) are missing the low E & A strings, while some are missing the high E.

It would also be nice to see all 5 CAGED versions of the chord, rather than just 4.
The problem with wokeism is that it’s more like a religion than an effective movement for change. Being seen to believe/say the right things is vastly more important than actively helping.

Woke Racism is a really good book about that. Don’t worry it’s written by a black guy who’s been fighting for social justice for decades. The fact I have to say that is one of his points/arguments.
> During the daylight hours there's still more than enough total insolation to heat the small amount of air we need to inside our houses

I sold solar panel for 10 years. Both solar thermal and PV. This is simply not true. You need to greatly oversize your panels (≥6x) and also have a passive house with a huge storage buffer (>5000 liters). In the summer you end up having to pump the waste heat into a pool. There are also maintenance costs. For PV you need huge amounts of battery storage. It's simply not economical above the 40° parallel to use solar for heating. For DHW or charging your EV it's okay, but in the winter you'll get at most 1/6 the amount of heat or electricity that you get in the summer provided that the panels are not covered in snow.
Based comment.

Same mindset applies to lots of things on HN: C vs Rust, Php vs typescript, email vs chat app.

Majority of HNers seem like they are seething that change happens and what they learnt before is the only correct choice. Best way is to appreciate and learn from the past but be still be open to new things. Being stuck ages you into obsolescence.
Paul Krugman is probably the most consistently wrong popular economist I can think of.
> Moreover, most of European countries where workweek starts on Monday already consider it the 1st day of the week, why can't US do the same and be done with it?

What benefit would we get from doing so? Metric I can understand the benefits of, though I also see why Americans are resistant implementing such a disruptive change in daily life. But shifting our definition of the week by one day provides no benefit that I can see, nor does keeping it the way it is cause any harm. The primary argument I’ve seen in these threads is “because the word ‘weekend’ doesn’t make sense,” but that’s not very convincing to me since I and every other American I know find the phrasing perfectly natural—and if we want to make the English vocabulary perfectly ‘logical’ and ‘consistent,’ there are far more disturbing malapropisms in common use to tackle first.
I wonder what platform / framework / language was used to make this website?