skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, they do ultimately depend on the voters believing that they will have some kind of integrity. If they have to go up against a challenger in the fall who says, "Senator X is so corrupt they voted to continue insider trading for themselves", that's a risk they have to manage.

It's not an automatic win for the opponent. Some people are incensed by it, but I don't think it's really on anybody's top 10 list. ("The economy" is always #1. Currently, guns and crime are #2 and #3. "Size and scope of the federal government" is the closest item on the list, and it's #11.)

No matter where you think their self-interest lies, it always runs through keeping their voters happy. Voters hate Congress in general but are usually strongly in favor of their own representatives. Challengers use anything they can to upset this, and there's a wedge issue here.

One other thing: most legislators don't get any of the access they would need to seriously inform trades. A few do, and they tend to be on the most powerful committees -- meaning they have seniority, which means their constituents like them a lot and aren't easily deterred by things like this. But other Congresspeople aren't relying on making money this way and aren't necessarily fans of those who are (even within their own party).
Not to get into a semantic argument about specific words and their meanings, but my broader point is that there are certain categories of bugs where I wouldn't care if they ever got fixed or not. Maybe this is nit-picking and maybe it's my cynical brain coming out of 25 years of software development where people can't even seem to agree on what constitutes a "bug" vs a "change request" half the time, or how we prioritize the severity of bugs etc. but my point is that sometimes "it's not broken" means "it's good enough."

Would I be upset if the developer "fixed" these categories of bugs? Of course not. But would I avoid using the software at all if they never did?

...

"I guess that really depends on what it [the software in question] is."
I remember seeing a couple of people post on here about basically becoming their own consulting company, by applying for the position (as their real selves) and then farming out the work to junior devs. They said they could juggle half a dozen "job" like this. Good for them, I guess, but that's real work, too; just very different work than programming.

Then there was the guy who said he had enough rep to take jobs, do basically nothing until they figured out he wasn't producing, at which point they'd fire him, but meanwhile he'd collected 6 months of salary. Again, he had a half dozen of these "jobs" in the pipeline.

In my own job, I've gotten roped into a years-long email chain where a legitimately hired programmer, working in our affiliated consultancy, in a foreign country, couldn't figure out how to install NodeJS to satisfy his ReactJS stack. LONG story, but who's at fault for hiring someone so clueless that they couldn't figure out one of the first steps of modern web development?

I helped interview a replacement for a position I was leaving, and sat across the table from a guy who said he'd programmed several .NET and Rails applications. He was hired. When it came time for me to do the "knowledge transfer," I watched him literally open a browser, and type "Ruby on Rails." He'd never even heard of it. Again, LONG story, but they threw away everything I had written, and he used Java. It was the only thing he knew. He'd made up projects on his resume, and lied to our faces.

All of these examples in this thread are just different data points along the sliding scale of trust. There are many different places to inject mistrust, and -- human nature being what it is -- someone will always find these holes, and try to take advantage of them.

Don't trust. Verify.
I'll try to find an example of the syntax error I was mentioning, but I regularly trip up the parser with dumb mistakes which cause it to give completely useless errors.

> Syntax errors are caught well by the parser which tells you exactly where they are.

They aren't necessarily caused where the actual error is, just wherever the parser gets stuck, and the error it produces is usually not reflective of the human thought process that went in, but rather the automata's state.
Since your comment is only tangential to the story, it feels like this is something you just wanted to get off your chest. But now that we're here, let's explore it further: what kinds of changes would satisfy you?

If it's about making it easier to invest in the stock market, then what's so hard about it now? Lots of non-rich people are in it now (especially if you count retirement funds), and investing in index funds is an easy way to get a historically reliable 8% return.

If it's about rich people not paying their fair share of taxes, then how much would be enough? Is it a certain percentage, or a certain compliance rate, or just until you stop hearing from the New York Times about how this-or-that company is paying too little? By the way, if it's about this, I'd encourage you to make friends with a company owner in the $1-10 million per year range. Ask them about how much tax they pay, and how much time and money they spend on compliance. Ask how their tax rate compares to their secretary.

You were kind of vague, so I'm only guessing here-- apologies if I'm way off the mark!
I think you'll only get access to this API if the user has explicitly installed your app as a PWA, not just when visiting it as a webpage.
North American also built the Apollo CSM and the Saturn S-II stage, then became Rockwell which built the Space Shuttle.
But also:

"An expeditionary detachment of US Navy ships led by the universal amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge days ago was in the Baltic Sea

It was 30 km from the site of the alleged sabotage on the Nord Stream-1 gas pipeline and 50 km from the threads of Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline"

(from: https://twitter.com/azmilitary1/status/1574758898086694912)
The title should be "weather" not "wheather" - though the original site has this same typo.
I’d call this a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32994723 which is the blog post / context with a link to this repo at the beginning of the post.
I suppose it's not unexpected in that pregnant women have to avoid most vaccinations for the same reason.

What is shocking is that "trusted news" claimed this wasn't true just last year. You'd think the vaccine cured cancer with just how perfect the news portrayed it to be.

Without delving into conspiracy theory it does certainly seem like 2020-2021 was the greatest period of sponsored, deliberate, misinformation spread by previously trustable sources in history. The level of irresponsibility with such an important thing to society (vaccines) will likely forever drive people away from taking them. The irony of all this is the misinformation peddlers seem to have actually been the news with their by-the-minute update on "debunking anti-vaccine claims". Certainly many anti-vaccine claims are far-fetched. But, the less far-fetched ones seem to be coming true by the day.

Will we see vaccine providers and news agencies in court for deliberately misleading the public? Signs point to unlikely. Maybe it'll make an interesting documentary our grandchildren will watch, though.
I don't get this comment. The 286 was extremely successful. It wasn't until the 1991 or 1992 that 386 started outselling it.
Oh look they turned Chromium into IE6. Forced ads, difficult to eviscerate search engines, proprietary extensions, dubious security posture! Oh goody!
And now the button appears. See reply right above you.

And you're wrong - lying about MATERIAL facts, events, or qualifications to get a job is a crime.

Lying that you had a dog when you were a kid (when it's not relevant), for instance? No problem. That's not likely to be a material fact.

If you're interviewing to be a host of a kids show about dogs?

A problem.

Just not one most people are willing to make a case over. There also is the court precedent about 'mere fluffery' or 'puffery' not adding up to a lie, which would need to get worked out somehow. See [https://contractslawinaction.law.miami.edu/?page_id=171]

There is a line, for instance, between exaggeration and lying, that not everyone would agree where it sits.
If you want to write scripts to target bash, target bash with your shebang.

If your shebang is `/bin/sh`, then it's nice to have a strictly POSIX-compliant shell.
EVEmu – An EVE Online Emulator
Ask HN: Good Zig Code to Read?
What would be a good open source project that’s written with what may be considered clean best-practices zig code?
I had no issues with the standard maturin way of building wheels – but my requirements were not special at all. I also did this maybe 5 months ago, so maybe it has indeed gotten better, I cannot tell.
I was told when younger that infinity is "at least twice as big as the biggest number you can think of". Somehow that definition still works for me :)
You do realize they have never found product-market fit and have spent millions on marketing, right?
Did you find better? Do share
I'd vote for Russia too, not direct evidence obviously but makes more sense than anybody else. Elites who decide see that EU wants and will cut itself off from Russia anyway, just a question of when and its coming soon. So harsh punishment of this pesky EU right before winter starts to feel the consequences of daring to break away from Russian dependence.

Russia made tons of money in past months on oil and gas due to elevated prices. Money ain't what they need desperately now, rather massive civil unrest in EU to weaken Ukraine support and punish. Those who decide have stellar-size egos which are getting continuously humiliated by recent development. Don't underestimate pettiness of a ego-maniac person who has tremendous power and thinks about themselves as somebody larger-than-life and on a life mission. Anyway financial consequences of not selling gas anymore won't affect anyhow the folks on top, and clearly russian population is just cannon fodder for them.

Its political and military move. Realistically only US and Russia have the capacity to do 3 attacks like this simultaneously. This all benefits US too in some ways, but if I have to decide between those 2 options, for me personally its a no brainer.

Has anybody checked Russian reaction? Sometimes its quite obvious from how they say things / what they don't say whats really happening and how much they actually care. For me its not easy to see this in western media and I don't speak russian to check source directly.
The stock market is a rich man’s game. Small time, retail investors who think they know what they’re doing almost always get burned in the end.

In my opinion, most small-time traders have no business being in the stock markets in the first place, except if it’s relatively safe index funds administered by the likes of Vanguard and BlackRock.
> Destroying the infrastructure doesn't give Russia an additional capability (degree of freedom).

It's not a bad strategy per se. As the parent comment said, this could be done to limit the choices that the future government of Russia will have. And in the present, this fact being public could be used by some political forces to create extra leverage.

There was a good game-theoretic example explaining why limiting your own future choices can be a good strategy which I can't find right now. So I'll try to re-tell it. Suppose you want to buy X, and you're willing to pay as much as $20 for it. You know that the seller is likely to agree even on $10, and they know that they know that you're likely to pay more for it. So for both of you the bargain happening is better than not happening as long as the price is within the range $10-20, but both of you know that both of you know this, so you both will be trying to squeeze as much as you can out of this deal.

In this case, artificially reducing your own capabilities and making it public can help convince the seller to sell it to you for less than $20. Say, you can sign an agreement with a third party saying that if you pay more than $10 for X, you will have to pay 11$ more to the third party. Now your possibilities are limited and you can't buy X for $20 anymore, so the only acceptable price for you is 10$, to which the seller has to agree because they know that otherwise the deal won't happen and they will lose.

It gets funnier if both you and seller sign these kind of contracts quietly, and then announce together making the deal impossible.
Seems kind of pointless. Browsers are basically just virtual machines that run web applications at this point. I can’t even think of any plain text and image websites besides my own.
I don’t see the point of them selling a car. Expanding CarPlay is more realistic. Let the automakers produce the vehicle code and apple takes care of the screens and what nots. I’d love to be able to build iOS apps for my car. Though as someone who values consumer and ownership rights, it might not be a great idea after all.
Are you serious?

This has got to be the dumbest attempt to legitimize Kiwifarms I've seen yet.
Imagine not being able to control basic aspects of your car like heating and stuff because you forgot or choose not to use a smartphone!
Unfortunately this happens in all sorts of consultancies and agency work. The partner makes the sale and (hopefully) at least reasonably supervises the associates or others doing most of the actual work.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/alstom-pleads-guilty-and-agre...

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/novartis-ag-and-subsidiar...

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ericsson-agrees-pay-over-1-bi...

It is the view of the current set of people in law enforcement that the United States government has jurisdiction over any person who participates in transactions using dollars.
> aesthetic

Most people find European cities more beautiful. SC is an ugly city. Even SF is much more pretty.

> ecological

It’s pretty well established that cities are ecological superior to suburbs.

> socioeconomic

Money extracted from the economy by landlords is money not flowing and being used to spur economic activity. VC firms have lamented that they have to invest in bigger rounds because growing headcount in expensive-rent cities is their greatest expense.
Where is USA sabotage?
I did have issues with 2 Pinecils breaking on me. The first one they replaced under warranty. I still use a 3rd I have, so I don't mind recommending it because I can get a Pinecil for cheaper than a TS100, and I doubt you'll get better support for a TS100 if something does come up within the warranty period.

Oh I should mention I have both the TS100 and Pinecil, and the Pinecil does everything the TS100 does.
That's already built into Firefox (maybe Chrome as well?) and doesn't require the /.

You can just pass a keyword in your bookmark setting and it will go to the URL when you type in the keyword.
Not if you fill it with a service rather than durable goods.
It's good you caught all of you're typos.
Detector of ionising radiation, Gamma Spectrometer, RadiaCode, works w. Android
It's in my top 3 criteria along with reliability and energy efficiency. Performance is probably dead last for me, assuming some reasonable floor (i.e. I can safely merge onto the highway).

It's something I'm going to interact with on a near daily basis, so it's important that it doesn't piss me off.
Not sure, but a car with good physical controls might jump to the top of the list.
I'm convinced that position:sticky wouldn't exist if browsers weren't beholden to advertising traffic. Someone needs to create a rival foundation to Mozilla, with some advertising and transaction processing chops, figure out how to sustain enough revenue to tax deduct enough smart promotion, and ideally, I'd personally wish, fork Pale Moon.

The German Zugabeverordnung law was very strict against any "free" commercial offer tied to the obscuring of linked purchases. But instead of being extended to embrace the creation of sponsored funnels providing free entertainment websites, as is probably now long forgotten but fallacious doctrine, the internet instead made "free", "free".

https://marketinglaw.osborneclarke.com/marketing-techniques/...

https://competition-attorneys.de/lawyer/zugabeverordnung-ger...

The law was scrapped in 2004, unlikely [ed] not [/ed] coincidentally with establishing peak web commercial libertarian lobbying, the more political and in earnest post dotbomb.
It's speculation, not conspiracy. There is no legitimate course of events that leads to the blowing up of the pipe
You're talking about both hedging and leverage and this is a very important difference.

Turning a long-only equity strategy into a long/short strategy or an "outperformance" strategy[1] with added leverage can seriously affect the volatility of returns and the risk of ruin so it's really important to understand well before embarking on this, because it will affect position sizing and a bunch of other things. You can indeed bet millions for $100k, but if your strategy has 10% volatility unlevered you can get completely wiped out in doing so whereas the risk of ruin of the unleveraged strategy is far lower.

[1] You could say long/short is where you long some things and short some other things generally whereas outperformance is where you long some things and specifically short an index. So in the latter case you are betting on the outperformance of your picks in particular and in the former you are just saying you have the ability to pick both things that go up and things that go down.
Thank you!

I used Excalidraw (https://excalidraw.com), and I highly recommend it! It gives me 'xkcd' vibes.
You might be interested in the github project to recreate the DLOAD server protocol on modern hardware. https://github.com/TJBChris/dload_server
Interesting how they provide evidence that the apps were removed from the Apple store, but they make the very strong claims that apps are "almost 100% owned" by a governmental agency without providing any links as a source, further proof, or more reading. Doesn't seem like strong journalistic standards... Does anybody have a link for me to do some more reading? Not sure what to search for that won't pull up mainstream media articles instead of primary sources.

I think it's very concerning to see society actively wanting to suppress "harmful" information/apps that've been deemed "harmful" by Governments, and by extension, corporate interests. Society sees these massive companies doing it with statements like "removing harmful misinformation", "aiding in the 'fight against the evil russians!'", etc. etc. etc.

I understand that "yes, Apple is a private company with their own catered app-store experience and can control what they do and don't allow on it".

What I don't like is that there are so few competitors in the phone space - Android app store, and Apple store, the rest are single-digit percentage or low double-digit percentage market shares. And, these current companies do everything in their power to make sure no other competitors enter the scene, even though there's high barriers/costs to enter the mobile device market.

Apple (and all gigantic tech companies) have so much power to sway society and sway public opinion, purely by restricting what apps or content you can or cannot have on your devices - further more they make corporate decisions (which I am undoubtedly sure are done behind closed doors with execs from other companies and/or the US Government) that affect so many people without even a thought. Whether it's been designed that way to allow the US government to have more soft-power over it's people rather than hard power like other countries (China, Russia) or not, it's harmful to everybody.

I wish there was more active/worthy competition in the mobile phone space.
fwiw I've noticed that my 2016 vehicle is surprisingly low maintenance compared to previous generations of vehicles. From longer cycles for basic maintenance[2] to parts just not failing as soon as I was used to (eg, check out this article[1] about cv joints lasting 2-3x as long).

I wish i could say the same about home appliances.

[1]: https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/threads/how-long-should-yo...

[2]: eg cars going from 3k to 5k to 8k miles between oil changes, kn&n filters lasting 50k miles on hwy etc.
> It's mostly just premium models from GM and BMW that come with this feature.

Some Mazda SUVs (e.g. CX-3) had a HUD starting back in 2018 or earlier.
Sad to say but the only way to get administration to take these issues seriously is to transfer out. Santa Cruz is the bottom feeder of the UC system. The only reason people take it seriously is because of the prestigious "University of California" tag. There are plenty of better schools nearby (including non-UC ones like Cal Poly and several CSUs) that are more worth your money.

Or think even beyond that. I went to a top 10 school in the midwest and paid $300/mo for my own apartment. After graduating I got a job working next to people from Berkeley, MIT and Stanford with the same career trajectory as them but a tiny fraction of the debt.
No mention of Grenadier apples, unfortunately. Perhaps understandably so.

They're impossible to find in most shops due to them not storing well and being quite ugly. We have a tree in our garden and the apples are outstanding for pies, crumbles, cobblers, and Charlottes. They can hold their shape well, or turn to a delicious purée if cooked longer.
I always have to explain that we didn't come up with the name, the British did when we were first a colony, almost 500 years ago. Then the US became the first independent nation in the Americas, so it naturally became the nomenclature for us as a people. If the latin American countries wanted to have claim on the name, they should have had a revolution first instead of copying us decades later. It's not our fault they decided to live under European tyranny for decades longer. If their ancestors weren't so passive, then they would be called Americans, not us. You snooze, you lose.

I say all this just to be annoying, of course. When I'm talking to a Latino in person who complains about it, I explain it all in fluent Spanish to make sure my point is well taken.

Every country in the world has a name for its people, and that just happens to be ours and it's not going to change any time soon. Besides, not even Spanish speakers enjoy using the word "estadounidenses".
I think the question is simply wrong. If there was such a place as an easy answer, it would soon be full of men seeking women. The answer thus is basically: everywhere where you're confident to make a connection with the opposite sex without making it awkward. I.e., learn to make yourself attractive and flirt.
> Good people leads don't lead people whose jobs they can't do.

That just doesn't work. I don't need to know how you achieved something to know I want it done. Unless you expect every people lead to have all the skills of all their reports, so each level becomes exponentially more impossible to achieve.
I've never heard that. Jon was just reallly nice person who genuinely wanted to help. personally I think he would have been a little offended

oh, I'm right https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel
Some things it's worth paying for because the person you're paying has years of experience - I can hang and tape drywall but I absolutely suck at it and will willingly pay to get that done.

Other things are worth paying for because the tools to do it easy are very expensive.

But in many of those cases, you should still have a general idea of what is going on, or have hired someone who does (this is often the general contractor).
Yeah, we sold cars for the better part of a century without digital entertainment systems, so we can go back to that not being a differential.

Particularly when it seems like none of these bespoke entertainment systems raise the bar, and instead the standard seems to be “not annoying and in the way.”
In my mind, the Ukrainians are the only party who could blow the pipelines without being dirty. It's a strategic asset of a country they're in an active war with.