skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I know what you mean; I have that or more accurately had that but unfortunately I also discovered I really like beer and I like myself on beer. I am more creative and indeed social on it. I met all my clients and friends and girlfriends and wife on it. I read and practice formal verification for fun and I write interpreters for fun and I could just do that forever, but it is lonely. I am an atheist and the universe doesn’t give a crap wether we live or die so I try to mix my intellectual challenges with fun. In the end neither will move any needle anyway; most of us will be completely forgotten in 100 or so years, even with kids. So I try to do good and be nice; it just works better with a couple of drinks when it involves others.

I do 6 months on and 6 months off (0 alcoholic drinks) every year; I am far more productive in the off months but less creative and far less social.
In vim there is `\zs` and `\ze` where `\zs` is the `\K` equivalent in grep.

Basically

:%s/hello \zsworld\ze out there/planet/g

would find all `hello world out there` and replace `world` to `planet`.
I stand by my statement.

Your entire argument boils down to the idea that musicians shouldn't own distribution rights to their work and that sass software licenses should be free. It's a stupid position to hold that falls apart immediately.

So yes, either you're under thirty and haven't thought it through or your ability to reason about this stuff is limited.
Thank you, do you have a link with more info on the plan?
Personally I'd like to see both those sites start off with -50 karma when posted to HN. And TechCrunch.
I have those same physical traits, and this comment was helpful. This has been really frustrating as a junior developer, it's just impossible to get any critical feedback or have someone take a mentorship role. I've been in so many dumb situations where someone more experienced or knowledgeable should have just told me I was doing something dumb.

I am certain it is a net positive without trying to abuse it, but I've been thinking about it a lot since graduating. Everyone just treats me really well and places a lot of completely unwarranted trust in me.
PoW is worse w.r.t power concentration. PoW is just PoS with additional steps. Such as having connections with energy providers, being able to buy newest bitmain ASICs early, etc.
It obviously does.

It will be interesting how much of a shift we'll see with more work from home. Do the same effects carry over in calls and async communication? Will "more video calls" mean attractiveness plays a larger role? Will doing voice calls weaken that (or focus it on the voice alone)?
Yeah it’s the region. London used to be fine but lately not so much.
Replace "social justice" by "performative social justice" and you have a much more accurate description.
Strange, since often I find people use the phone simply to avoid committing anything to writing and to cover up ignorance with ambiguity, which is more obvious in an email.
> under Truss we are seeing tax cuts for the rich funded by borrowing

Any reduction in government income is funded by borrowing for a budget that is not in surplus, which seems to be the default state of things these days.

And what's stupid about government reducing income and borrowing in a downturn?
On the frontend, one thing that I discovered when implementing color spaces into my canvas library was that the CSS HWB standard[1] allows the hue part of a color (which is an angle value) to be supplied supplied as either 'Ndeg', 'Nrad', 'Ngrad' or 'Nturn' values. Other CSS color spaces involving hue don't see to accept 'turn' (though I could be misunderstanding them).

[1] - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color_value...
It's a correct description. (Perhaps further refined as "technically correct".) The following are not exact values of π or τ, only approximate ones:

>>> import math
>>> math.pi
3.141592653589793
>>> math.tau
6.283185307179586
I forgot the link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFbTUbY-bcU
Why would you bring privilege into an unrelated discussion? Also you're assuming a lot about my background that would surprise you. I wasn't born a software engineer. I chose the field deliberately as the best way to make money, and then fell in love with it after the fact. I'm self taught, a child of immigrants. I had a typical middle class childhood.
Only one turbine and that one is sitting for several months in Germany, waiting for Gazprom to actually request delivery of it. Nevermind that Siemens Energy states that there is nothing wrong with the existing ones and that there is actually a spare turbine sitting in storage on site of the compressor station that could be installed.
Everything needed for Russia to continue supplying gas was explicitly exempt from the sanctions.

There are another two gas pipelines that are available to Russia (bypassing Poland), which they have also used a bit during the first NS1 shutdown, but they reduced/stopped deliveries via them too - NS2 wouldn't change anything about that either.
At this point it's obvious what Russia is trying to do.
They went all-in with stopping of the gas deliveries to try to get the West to stop supporting Ukraine.
But it looks like they might have played that card too late.
> At this point I’m carrying so many electronic devices with me or at home that I’ve give up on going out of my way to prevent getting tracked

As much as I hate the guy, Kissinger made a great point in an interview with Eric Schmidt paraphrased:

'We have lived a fairly peaceful period in the last century with a stable world order, we should not assume that this is guaranteed to continue forever.'

We usually don't like to think in centuries or decades. But a democratic state today can become autocratic 50 years from now.

Equally, today caring about my privacy is just adding a lot of friction to me daily live. 50 years from now, I have no guarantee that myself or someone in my family becomes 'a person of interest' for my government.
It's a shame that the - much needed - vision and philosophy behind mass-adoption of decentralized data storage/distribution is being contaminated with "Web3.0" crypto-garbage.
You'd likely lose a lot of money trying to do that, you're vastly underestimating the cost of maintaining the data network for that kind of installation alone, even before looking at the cost of physical installation.
Reminds me of the quotation attributed to Edgar Degas, who it is said was in a conversation with Jean-Louis Forain that was interrupted by the state-of-the-art technology that the latter had had installed in his home: "So that's what the telephone is? Someone rings a bell and you hurriedly attend to it like a servant?"
This is why you never let inexperienced people to come up with standards, patterns, and api-s.
It is impossible to get rid of crap once it is widely adopted.
During mid last year my employer decided that everyone should get back in the office at least 3 days a week. I have resigned (many others too) and took a remote job for a -20% paycut. I do not even care for the paycut as I’m so much more happier with WFH: no commute, no noisy open space, no aweful coffee machine, etc.

I wouldn’t mind going to the office once / week for workshops or team building, if the commute would be like 10-15 minutes. But this is almost impossible to have.

IMO - work that can be done from home should be done from home, while workshops (or the like) are better in person.
"math never decreed that sine and cosine have to take radian arguments!"

This is at best questionable and at worst false.

If you only want to use sin and cos as functions for doing trigonometry, it is true that you can choose whatever angle unit you like and stick with it and it will be fine.

For most other stuff, e.g. differential equations, complex analysis, signal processing and mechanics, it's pretty much inescapable that the zeroes of sin are at integer multiples of pi, and that's that.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments or flamebait to HN? It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

We've had to ask you this multiple times in the past, and we ban accounts the keep doing it, so please don't do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> two very talented devs I know that took $11/hr CAD jobs personally

When was this?

Note that $11/hr CAD is below the current minimum wage of every Canadian province and territory as of June 1 2022 [0]

As an aside - what leads to a talented individual doing dev for $11/hr CAD? I'm not able to conjure up a scenario where that is the case other than they were working for their own startup ... ?

[0] https://www.retailcouncil.org/resources/quick-facts/minimum-...
Not at all. When looking for my current job, having some in-person time was one of my top criteria. I was initially trying to find something 100% on-site, but that proved pretty hard to find.

I'm currently doing in-office 2 days per week, which isn't great, but it's less draining than fully remote at least.

I'm hoping that over the next few years things will normalise into some companies being fully remote and some fully on-site, rather than everywhere being "hybrid" (ie. bad for everyone) now. If it stays as it is I can't see myself working in tech much longer.

As a side note, I've found many job boards that have a "remote" filter, but not many that allow you to filter for "no remote".
You probably mean 13 mini.
Perhaps. But all the more reason for Amazon to streamline it's UI and UX. Instead it's consistently a textbook case of TMI. If you're not paying close attention you're likely to miss something.

Maybe you didn't see the Footnote:

Footnotes

[1] "Jeff Bezos is an infamous micro-manager. He micro-manages every single pixel of Amazon's retail site. He hired Larry Tesler, Apple's Chief Scientist and probably the very most famous and respected human-computer interaction expert in the entire world, and then ignored every goddamn thing Larry said for three years until Larry finally -- wisely -- left the company. Larry would do these big usability studies and demonstrate beyond any shred of doubt that nobody can understand that frigging website, but Bezos just couldn't let go of those pixels, all those millions of semantics-packed pixels on the landing page. They were like millions of his own precious children. So they're all still there, and Larry is not." https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611
If it's a bargain, take me up on the offer then.
This is pretty strawman. You've got to broaden the mind a bit.

"We need change to have silly hat day and every one needs to scream at noon., if you don't understand the need for this change, maybe try to understand it first before trying to tear it down."
- you can't understand it because I made it up, just then, nonsensically. It is a valid change that me and my supporters are pushing for.

The difference with tradition is that there is a time bound element to it. Tradition is made up over time by rituals and force.

Your parents make you wash your hands before dinner and it becomes a ritual. By the time you're 18 years and become sufficiently atheistic to question everything to do with rituals and mysticism, you forgo washing your hands without fully understanding why that ritual was there to begin with.

Sure, now that we have understanding about germs and diseases, we know why this tradition is a good thing.

But we don't know everything about the mind and about humans evolution, we've got hundreds of thousands of years to catch up on with our new scientific method, so to throw everything out without understanding it would be naive.
Good looking people have always an edge.
Tall people always appear more competent than their shorter colleagues.

These are biases. They can be overriden by the experiences of people in a community quite easily, but towards unfamiliar people these biases can be quite strong.
While I agree that "turns" are much more convenient in some applications than radians, there is no need to invent a new terminology.

For a long time, including the 19th century, the plane angle measurement unit corresponding with 4 right angles, i.e. a complete rotation around a point, has been named "cycle".

That is why in many old physics or engineering books one will find wave numbers measured in "cycles per meter" and frequencies measured in "cycles per second", for example what is now called as a frequency of "10 MHz" was called as a frequency of "10 megacycle per second".

There are 3 important measurement units for the plane angle and each of them is the most convenient unit for a certain class of applications: the right angle, the cycle and the radian.

(An example where the right angle is the most convenient unit is when expressing a complex number with unit modulus as (i^x) instead of the (e ^ (i * x)) that is used with radians.)

Using the inappropriate plane angle measurement unit for an application causes a loss of precision (which can be large for large angles that must be reduced to the 1st quadrant) and introduces extra arithmetic operations that are not needed.

The radian is used much more frequently than it should be used because many standard programming libraries provide only trigonometric functions with arguments in radians, which is a big mistake.

The recent versions of the Floating-Point Arithmetic standard recommend the functions sinPi, cosPi, tanPi, atan2Pi, asinPi, acosPi and atanPi.

This is another serious mistake, because one normally needs either the trigonometric functions of (x * Pi * 2), i.e. with angles measured in cycles, or those of (x * Pi / 2), i.e. with angles measured in right angles, and never the functions of (x * Pi), which are recommended by the standard.
Stop parking apps from exposing your location
This is happening because, 14 years ago, France and Germany intervened to bail out French and German banks by loading Greece with a generation of debt? That's one theory I guess.
> > And yes, if you're ill but can't be arsed to call your NHS GP, then you're clearly not sick and shouldn't be tying up already strained public resources

> Doesn't the NHS provide an app to do this exact thing asynchronously?

It does. I book appointments directly through the NHS app (have done twice in the last few weeks, in fact). Back in 2017 when the article was written things were almost certainly a bit different, though that feels about right for when I would've first been booking online using the Patient Access app.
Short guys have it extremely tough. No marginalized group would ever recognize the struggle of short guys. It’s a tough life, extremely tough to match, tough to get people to pay attention professionally (at first), and just tough to not make people subconsciously infantilize you (“Aw cute!” “Impressive!”).

I think the fact that most people would not seriously consider short guys as a marginalized group is proof itself of how marginalized it is. It’s hard not to be resigned to it. The biological marker that associates height with (physical and mental) fitness is just too strong.

At the end of the day, we are all blessed to have an opportunity on this mortal realm and we all have to move on and live life, but sometimes I wish that more people had the same empathy that you’re showing.
"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."

If there's nothing interesting enough to generate a thoughtful response, not posting anything is also fine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's a poor characterisation, I'm not convinced any developer can say with 100% certainty they've never missed anything in the release notes of their dependencies or had any unexpected behaviour in changes that made it to production. Mistakes happen.
Why is this guy posting absolute tosh when the world is about to end?
I probably inherited some values from the group of software engineers, but it's not a well defined group. Can you point to any values we might have in common? I would say a love of logic and the scientific method, but even that isn't universal. I don't find software engineers much more logical than other people of comparable intelligence.
Hi Kelteseth,

Yes we store your games for you but you must upload your own game. Kind of like how google music worked when it first launched.
To be fair to Apple, the 1st gen SE came out in 2016 with a 2015 chip and a 2012/2013 body, supporting it for this long is very impressive. There's still the later generations SE (I'm very happy with my SE2) or the 13 mini.
As soon as you put a huge identification plate on your vehicle there’s no expectation of privacy.
I thought this relates to our project: A cow bluetooth mesh. cows wearing sensors to record if they have enough hours in the green, so their milk and meat can be labelled green, and sold more expensively.
Not so much to learn from that, ethically very disturbing.
A bike is a great mode of transportation when you don't need to carry anything heavy, bulky, passengers etc. and when weather permits.

It's not a replacement for a vehicle, nor will it ever be.
>If texting didn't exist and everyone you talk with had to switch to talking over the phone, how many people would you have to answer per day?

I understand the purpose of your question but it's not constructive to the discussion because you've framed it in terms of not having technical choices to get the response you want. Therefore, the obvious outcome is that people have to have a non-zero amount of answering the phone. Putting constraints on technology (no texting) in a hypothetical question to force people into tautological answers (aha, so you were able to respond to voice calls without bleeding to death which means your feelings are illogical.)

Same idea as interrogating people who don't like boats and ships with "gotcha!" style questions: "But what if airplanes didn't exist and you needed to cross the ocean?" -- Obviously, you'd have unhappy travelers that forced themselves to use ships that didn't want to. People do what they have to do which overrides unpleasant actions.

But the discussion isn't about what people _had_ to do. It's about _preferences_. The blog author eventually called Barclay's bank but he really didn't _want_ to.

A lot of people including many old people before Generation X don't like answering phones. My previous comment about learning that lesson: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21008851
> you can predict success to some extent based purely on people's yearbook photos

It's already shown that facial attractiveness can predict athletic prowess:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1474704918801369

So it's likely that people's abilities can influence their appearance. There was a lot of evolutionary pressure to develop abilities to judge people based on appearance, so we would expect humans to be really good at it.
Sounds like it's time to quit your job and find a new one.
I actually did this and took diy baristra training to be the only one on my floor to make good espresso shots. Its a good way to vanish for 30mins as espresso making time.
Absolutely, in a major way. There are piles of studies showing all kinds of pay discrimination based on physical characteristics. The meritocracy is bullshit. People hire tall sexy people. You really think the workplace is all that different from Tinder?
There is misumi but it is not exactly the same market
I'm pretty sure what he meant was that Puppet/Chef is for wrangling VMs, and for a greenfield project, there are better tools available than VMs.

If not, I agree with you, if you need them, you should use Chef/Puppet every time.
> Do others believe/experience this?

I don't think many companies operate this way. Any formal things, e.g. regulation, finance, HR, will likely use email much more. And talking to a third party company, which some people will talk to 200 of in a year, will all be email, at least to start with.
Height:

- https://www.premiumtimesng.com/entertainment/naija-fashion/2...

- https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/the-necktie-syndrome-wh...

Attractiveness:

- https://www.geekwire.com/2014/study-ugly-men-tougher-time-ra...
Really Nice.

Though as an extremely novice guitarist, can I ask why the fretboard is "upside down" with the lower notes at the bottom, rather than physically on top as they would be when holding a guitar? (Having the strings be different thicknesses might make this more obvious too). This made trying to test with the couple of chords I know more difficult, as I had to try and flip them vertically first.
While generally true, it's mostly a QA issue with mass produced rounds. Even high quality mass produced rounds rarely have this issue (see the Olympics, etc). Even if you did have the issue, it wouldn't be catastrophic since you're using it by surprise and against unarmed targets. As someone else mentioned, they may have carried more than one gun.
Thank you! This does exactly what I meant. I think this is the best solution for my use-cases. It even handles floating point operations to a correctly, something I didn't expect.
Trying to prevent children from permanent chemical/physical hormone changes to treat a mental condition is also a form of social justice.
Cpp2 actually has a cleaner function type signature than Rust IMO. Not bad.
Is that acceptable for a potential death of millions? (Let's say)

To use a cliche or overly simple examples, if no one can understand the importance of governance and economic coupling, then why not just try to make a Soviet union and see what happens?

I'm not making a farce, I think that just removing things to see what happens can potentially be more negative than it is positive.

We should be looking to tweak and change some traditions slowly but surely to make sure that whatever spinning plates happening at a super meta level - is still spinning at the end of it.

We don't know what we would be throwing out.
Well, there are some languages that semi-regularly update their orthographies to better match their pronunciations.

And yes, the grammarians arbitrarily inserting random silent letter into middle of the words so those look more regular or match the (supposed) etymologies are annoying. English "doubt" never historically had "b" inside it either written or spoken: it was "dout", and it was pronounced like this. Same happened to French "doigt" — it used to be "doit" for as long as language itself was called French, but then some Latin-loving guy decided to stick "g" in so that it would be more obvious that the word descended from Latin "digitus".
Connect the Stars: An endless movie trivia game
Harari's Homo Deus in challenging time
Ask HN: To encourage new coders should we adopt a new approach?
I think more people would consider learning programming if they understood it as a skill to add to the pursuit of their main interest. Young people see many careers as more prestigious, glamorous, or more exciting. For example, I think they could be encouraged by seeing that a research scientist who can program as having a skill that could make them more productive. They could for example automate the aspects of their job that are mundane and stretch their grant money further.

I also see many entrepreneurs come up with companies that combine programming with their primary area of expertise. I even see doctors who write programs to help do their job.

I just don't think its an angle that initiatives examine.

A dual interest person can fall back onto their comp-sci skills they have if they cannot find work in their primary interest as well.
I start to think that in an ordinary human lifetime it is more likely than not to experience disaster. If you were born in 1945 and are still alive today, you may have picked the most lucky period to have lived through of all possible. I am not concvinced the next 75 years will be as peaceful as the past 75.
I agree with sibling: I think you're giving it an uncharitable interpretation. There is an open issue and they are investigating to improve the situation.
I’m only interested in remote work. I can’t imagine myself ever being motivated to go back to an office setting. It would require an extraordinary amount of leverage to get me to leave my home each day.