skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that there's a lot of value in traveling beyond the beaten tourist path, especially with the bit that this path tends to have a certain sameness to it, regardless of where you actually are. However I disagree with going out of your way to avoid it. Writing off entire cities because they're big or popular is needlessly contrarian. If you're seeking the lived experience of locals, why not go visit the NYC-equivalent of their country?

Also can't help but point out your characterization of Hanoi as the Indianapolis of Vietnam is ridiculous. Perhaps in comparative size, but Hanoi is the old capital of Northern Vietnam, and remains a fascinating vestige of what "old" Vietnam was like. No offense, but Indianapolis is Indianapolis.
> The whole thing reads like some kind of fever dream.

Or, perhaps inspired by shrooms.
In a non-corrupt civil society, the solution to this problem would have to have a much stricter and more punishing criminal code for law enforcement officers - if they get special rights and protections, they should be held especially accountable, in uniform, and out of it.
Sort of like the inverse of restaurant "waiting for a table" pagers
The lawsuit can claims whatever it likes. I didn't say that the lawsuit never claimed it. I said that I haven't actually seen evidence of Alex Jones actively encouraging the harrasment. If you have that, please share.
You might (or might not) enjoy the book "Mushrooms, Russia, and History"...

https://archive.org/details/wasson-1957-mushrooms-russia-his...
In case HN readers doesn’t know, ML based MD scales O(N) and traditional DFT based simulation O(N^3) where N is number of atoms.

From first hand experience: what used take weeks with traditional DFT MD on CPUs are only taking few minutes with GPUs right now if you have trained a good ML potential. They achieved near DFT accuracy.
I think the benefits of this change for everyday development will far outweigh the complaints of language purists.
I've seen and heard and said this before... where is this quote from?
How many of these were engineers, though?

"Workers" is pretty meaningless.
Not if HMRC investigate you
They weren’t, mostly, web servers, but handled various proprietary network formats from the proprietary clients and amongst themselves. Point to point mesh connect for AIM, hub and spoke for AOL, smart clients that could route to the appropriate endpoint based on the message contents. AIM had a “reconnect here” host to client message so you could dynamically move load around for maintenance. It was a type of select or pool loop like libuv, but before we had more than a few hundred hosts to interconnect. He entire internet and all client traffic came thru one file descriptor for the dedicated Ethernet for that process. It was all straight C, timers, Various layers of network protocols (tcp, ssl, flap, etc. the AOL client servers had lots of international localizations, which could be reloaded via a TCL command. You could see histograms of al the network latencies, at various levels, in a TCL command. I think at some point we added times to the prefix of allocated memory and had histograms on memory lifetimes. (Mostly we only allocated large chunks of memory, then at steady state would shuffle stuff of of a free list.

There were a few HTTP servers written for things like AOLTV and as an RPC gateway from third parties into the “host complex” e.g. one called ewoks was used for user registration. It was headless, only gave out 302 replies or 4xx replies.
When I would get that response, I would ask for the person's unlocked phone, and said that I would be going through the browsing history, photos, and text messages on their phone.

Some people get it after that. Otherwise, I would see them makes some entertaining mental gymnastics to convince themselves that they still did not see the problem with electronic surveillance.
The thing is, this is a laughable anecdote because clearly there is no causal relationship between lacrosse and job performance. But should a company care? Surely what matters most is whether a factor is predictive of job performance. We can assume that playing lacrosse was predictive, does it matter to Amazon if the relationship is causal?

Obviously this doesn't take into account political pressures to achieve outcomes other than that hiring the candidate most likely to perform well.
It would be so less efficient that you could simply buy a 1000x more water pumps for the same price. No one sane would choose a water pump with a million switches over 1000 of the same pumps with 1 switch each.
That's now how I read this playing out at all...

>Someone gets a lower-level customer service rep on twitter

You mean the person who posts to the verified Lufthansa twitter account?

https://twitter.com/lufthansa/status/1578879849577385984

This doesn't seem like some low level rep that got called up to get manipulated.

I think the lesson here is that if your verified twitter account says something ... people take it seriously.
I come up with some requirements and weights, both my own and my team's (like how will this impact the lives of designers, managers, etc.). Rule out things that won't work. Of the few remaining options, build simple prototypes and list out their pros and cons. Invite the team to take a look at the results. Vote on a finalist or two. Someone makes the call.
Does the United States Have a Plan in Ukraine?
eh, at least with Pinkerton PIs they are not literally on the same payroll as prosecutors and judges. There can be a little daylight between them.

Maybe I'm part of that "capital class", I'm not sure what that means exactly but I know I'd much rather look after my own affairs.
LTT did a video on the testing Intel does for new CPUs. Some nice shots of the custom test rigs they use.

https://youtu.be/BtFdraQWVtM
Edge is not free. I wouldn't seriously consider using a non-free application for something as essential as everyday web browsing.

You can't really have usable vertical tabs in Chromium via plugins either, unless you're content with wasting a lot of horizontal space for an ugly sidebar and vertical space for uselessly duplicated tab bar.

Firefox is the only actual choice I'm aware about.
The trick, I find, is to start small and see what you like doing.

My advice would be - go to Rotterdam. Take the Eurostar there, pick literally any hotel.

Open up Google maps, find some bars. Pick a couple of museums or parks. Built a rough itinerary for, say, a long weekend. If there's a Pride event on, that's fun. If not, just go wandering.

Everyone there speaks decent English. Food and beer is great. Good culture. Adequate weather. If you're gregarious, chat to people in bars, clubs, concerts. If not, look at Greeters - https://internationalgreeter.org/

They're locals who will show you around the city.

Have fun!
Even if you have the app installed, the link to open in app just opens the app store. What a dumpster fire of a mobile web experience.
The problem with B. is that there are infinitely many alternatives.

Perhaps Silicon Valley would be even better off if all the developers had pet llamas at their disposal. But there is no llama industry that would lobby for that.
Allbirds are pretty good - and some of them are made of wool. I became a devoted fan because of their odor resistance.
Thanks for the reply. I've been eyeing the eink devices with pens for my next ereader, but I've worried about interoperability.
Are you being intentionally dense?
Ars has definitely gone downhill, both in-house stuff like this and in the spamming of other Cande Nast junk. What is today's Ars-of-10-years-ago?
US opts to not rebuild renowned Puerto Rico telescope
Their own index? What does that mean?

Is the idea that they're trying to figure out if search engine X is actually forwarding requests to search engine Y?

Using the user-agent string is the naive, and probably worst, way to figure this out. But of course, it's the easiest conceptually.

What they should be doing if they want to see if the indexes are unique is to query the index itself ie: send in query strings and see what comes out, then compare them. But then they'd have to figure out a way to compare the returned results and determine if they're "different enough." Using their methodology all they have to do is count.
Only ~13% of CS grads are women last time I checked. So yes, the filtering is happening, and it's before the candidate even looks at the job advertisement.
Saves: the tool to help you organize your favorite content on Stack Overflow
"it's no different from Google" seems pretty factually wrong to me.
self-aware General AI who's existence is entirely made of simulated eons of watching tiktoks
Thanks for responding
Saying things are cringe is the cringest thing of all.
How much do you think being stalked, harassed, and threatened is worth?
Either works.
From the article:

>"SpaceX is not asking to recoup past expenses, but also cannot fund the existing system indefinitely and send several thousand more terminals that have data usage up to 100X greater than typical households. This is unreasonable," Musk wrote on Twitter on Friday.

The anti-Musk sentiment is reaching ludicrous levels.
How do you not get the PB&J through airport security? You can bring any food. The ban on liquids is because liquid explosives can’t be frozen. So anyone bringing most okay liquids (e.g. soup) can just freeze it but people trying to bring something very flammable (e.g. ethanol) wouldn’t be able to.
Typesetting in the Sky: Hobbes Launches “Aerial” Font for Drones
When I was in law school, in the before times, libel and defamation were treated as a holdover from British common law. We learned how they had been winnowed down in the long “arc of justice,” starting with the Zenger trial in 1735. This trend of weakening libel and defamation laws, and any constraints on speech, was treated as uniformly positive.
There are a lot of causes for misspelled words. Most of them are not of mechanical nature.
Victim blame? Excuse me?
I prefer `sl-h`
Looking at the page source it's very plain and simple.

No million tracking/analytics lines.

I respect that.
> Since Micosoft has no plans to fix this vulnerability the only migiration is to avoid using Microsoft Office 365 Message Encryption.

Should clinicians just ignore this or should they demand a response?
Also, if I want to know how good someone is at playing a musical instrument, I can usually get a good idea from just a few minutes or even seconds of hearing them play. There's no similarly fast way to judge how well someone will perform in a programming job. (Or at least if there was, hiring would be a lot easier.)
No it's not.

EDIT: It is not NSFW. If you think this is NSFW, then I don't think you should be spending any time on the internet. The internet is not safe for you.
you mean andreas kling
A sneaky marketer doth not a good product need.
Nuke China and India? We would drastically cut emissions for a small toll of three billion lives. Then we could pollute as much as we want! /s
Jeff Hammerbacher.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/06/12/click/
But prosecutors need cops, so they are very, very reluctant to prosecute cops.
You missed out on Saigon by picking Hanoi though :)
There’s a rather prominent base with a large power footprint. So large that it has it’s own substation right off some main interstate power lines. The state has a policy that if you anticipate your electric bill will exceed last year’s electric bill, you can request a waiver. The base facilities person diligently submitted that from 1967 to 2020 when they retired. The 2021 bill was more than an order of magnitude larger. Something like 600K to 20M if I recall. The front office had to go ask the folks in DC for help.
In particular, how many of the "public school is good enough" folks are paying four figures extra on their mortgage payment to be in an area where that's true.

In any major metro, an extra 2-3 bedrooms in a district with great schools is way more expensive than living in a place with the worst schools and paying tuition.
"very" is a comparing/contrasting word. "Outgoing" is not a replacement for "very outgoing" any more than "tall" is a replacement for "more tall than usual". And yes, I modulated the tone of my voice there.
Here is a new interesting perspective on this story...

"...Despite that, I have not seen ANY StarLink which was bought by the governments, or by SpaceX. All the Starlinks I have seen / used - were bought either by volunteers like myself, or soldiers put their personal money in.
The subscription price is also paid out of the pocket..."

https://nitter.net/dim0kq/status/1580827171903635456?t=A6a9F...
14 year olds can already get amphetamines. Getting illegal drugs was easier in high school than alcohol.
> Reddit is great

By what standard? Every non-technology subreddit (and a few tech ones) have turned into absolute echo-chamber dumpster fires. There is absolutely no conversation occurring in those echo-chambers. The level of control and removal of dissenting opinions is ridiculous. Just look at any thread and note all the [REMOVED] posts.
> A faster network is going to have a marginal effect on software getting slower.

I don't mean to be glib but: citation needed?

One of the slowest moving hardware improvements (compared to CPU/Memory speeds) is networking.

It's going to take some serious convincing to tell me that we should just fork off performance; when software is already getting slower and slower.

It's not fair to blame advertisers exclusively, we also have electron and the hundreds of JS frameworks, that's before we get down to the low level abstractions that hook into basic programs.
It's from a reworking of Howl by Allen Ginsburg, reframing it for our era.

The original is an amazing poem well worth reading

https://poets.org/poem/howl-parts-i-ii
That safety net is a societal issue and should be handled by the government - not private industry
Yes, I'm sure one anecdotal experience turns it into the absolutely worse airline of planet Earth. Worse than Air Koryo even.

Most customer rankings disagree with you. Which doesn't mean the airline should be free from criticism, of course.
i have been traveling with a similar aim, to get to know people and learn about the day-to-day life. and i wish i would have had some of your ideas. like eating at the same restaurant frequently to get to know the people there. i used couchsurfing (and earlier equivalents) to find locals to stay with.

i agree with most of what you say. maybe not the part about picking the worst season. i'd mellow that one to "avoid tourist seasons". i want to go somewhere there there are not many other foreigners.

i also went one step further after i finished studying, and went to places to actually work there, for 6 months, or a year, or more. in one decade i lived in a dozen different countries. i always connected to local linux user groups and local chapters of other communities that i was part of. (if you practice some sport, then join the local sports club to continue practicing). i went to local tech events, even if they were in a language i didn't speak. just showing up regularly allowed me to make new friends.

one thing that was important to me is that i intentionally didn't reading anything about the places i went to. i want to experience a place without it being colored through the reports of other foreigners.

and in a manner i am still traveling. i have been back home to visit, but i haven't lived there for more than 20 years.
I'm not sure what effort to teach about climate change has been spared in the past couple decades.

One big problem is that half the country has also been taught climate change is a hoax concocted for partisan political gain.

I doubt that most of them even believe this, but it's illustrative of... some deeper issue, for sure.
It’s already explained in your link. Also this is not infrastructure, which is what we’re talking about.
I was in a similar boat in 1999 - you know, back in what people envision as being the "golden days" for C++. The C++ job market, even then, was crap. It was mainly used in engineering (sweat)shops that worked in highly niche, vertical markets and used extremely niche libraries and tooling. Switching jobs was difficult, extremely time-consuming, and often involved moving to another city or region. I can't imagine this situation getting any better in the 23 years since (and in 1999 I was a 13 year C++ veteran who could cite the ARM by chapter and verse and who had worked through the rough draft of what was to become the GoF Design Patterns book). The pay was also low - there just wasn't much of a market for C++ developers and the companies pretty much knew they had you by the short hairs.

What did I do? Learned another skill that had much broader demand. In my case Java enterprise and application servers were just starting to take off and demand for anybody with any experience was skyrocketing. Well, I didn't have much experience but I did have 14 years of C/C++ experience so I found someone who take a chance on me. It paid off. In less than 3 years I had doubled my salary and employment options abounded. I was no longer stuck working for the C++ sweatshops.

What does that look like today? I don't know. These days I'm using Python (a language I thought was utter garbage in the 90's!) to quickly build serverless AWS solutions enabling me to move "at the speed of business" as they like to say and having very little operational overheads so I can keep moving. I'm way past the age most people think of for a developer but I'm considered to be one of the most valuable assets in my organization - which is a Fortune 200 company - and I'm compensated like I'm one of the most valuable assets.

My advice then is this - think about what the next stage of your journey is going to be. Realize that this C++ stage of your journey is over. Figure out what it is you're going to master next. I don't have any advice on what to do about your job situation as I've never quit a job before having another one lined up. You've learned that lesson the hard way so there's no point beating that dead horse.

Good luck, I'd love to hear what you ended up doing!
We do a ton of complex biz rule SQL, and CTEs are something we do dabble in today (w/ SQLite).

After reading this article, I think I want to push this idea a lot harder on the team. Seems there is a more elegant pattern that may emerge if you go further into this rabbit hole.
> The packing tips here are utter nonsense, as well as the suggestion that you get better exchange rates with cash than with credit cards.

I was surprised on a recent trip to Europe that my (fee-free) credit card got me almost exactly the exchange rate I see on Google. Much better than ATM withdrawal with fees or any posted rate I saw in towns. Also all the internet advice about needing cash left me with lots of unspent euros and zlotys, I used apple pay almost everywhere (in fact my cash was refused in some places!) Maybe a covid-times switch away from cash, not sure.
Weak currency plus up to 78% importing tax on some types of products. When I worked at <big hardware company> in Brazil, our math was to multiply the user price in USD by 3.7x to establish the price in BRL.

iPhone: $800
iPhone in Brazil: $3000

Now with the currency in the toilet and companies "manufacturing" in Brazil (basically just assembling ready-made kits shipped from China) the multiplier is no longer valid, but still, an iPhone 14 basic model is $1461.

For purchase parity calculations: $1461 is about 7 minimum wages in BRL. If that held for the US, an iPhone here would cost some $7500.

Harsh.

When the currency was strong, it was even worse. When I moved back to BR in 2011, BRLUSD was something like 0.9 (strong BRL), and a VW Jetta cost around USD 45000.

Harsh.
Well I'll be damned. They have everything from my (accurate) current salary to my weekly paychecks from my movie theater job in 2006.
Therapists are already kinda non-professionalized, in that many already do not have a doctor piece of paper.

I’d say coaching probably is a different framing, maybe some different techniques, but similar goals as therapy? Idk, just sort of speculating.
>At a certain point humanity's chances with the warming are zero. Just depends on how many dominoes start to fall and how fast. We could conceivably wipe out just about all life on the planet.

The hyperbole in your claim is laughable and completely unhelpful for anyone who's on the fence about climate change and climate change measures. Even the worst evidence-based predictions of the UN and the IPCC come nowhere near the extinction of all life or anything remotely in the same ballpark.

What you're saying seems to be part of a doom and gloom fetishism that has always been innate to humanity (see centuries of apocalyptic predictions under any number of pretexts you can conceive) and has nothing to do with real science, real risks and real, possible solutions. Today, for many, this fetishism happens to have latched onto climate change, and steals some of its apparent legitimacy from the fact that the underlying problem is a real one, though not a genuine doom scenario.

The Earth has warmed drastically at many times in its past, and it will survive along with life, without problems despite even our worst human-caused warming. Even with our predicted warming trends, humanity will be a long ways from being in danger of extinction as the climate changes to a warmer one because of our economic activities. As we've already done many times in our past, we will simply adapt.
A worthy successor to http://isgrudengoneyet.com/
I don't think it's really possible to have a HN-quality level of moderated discourse on some other site.

People come to sites through a shared interest, so frankly, I wouldn't want to discuss economics and politics on Bodybuilding.com message boards. Nor would I want to discuss say, design, on a politics forum.
I will check out that reddit!

Shoes are hard.

Personally, I tend to use one of:

- Astral Loyaks, which are minimalist boating shoes. Fine for casual style, and can work out in them
- Chuck Taylor's, again casual but super flexible style. Again, you can work out in them
- Good leather town boots. Can walk anywhere in them and they dress up excellently.

For the rest of my clothing, I tend to wear things Lululemon's collared shirts and long pants, which are technical fabric but look downright dressy.
Substack vs. Micro.blog
The Blue Ridge Parkway in the mid-Atantic has massive stretches of cellular dead zones. The entire road is a popular destination, and many at the most popular destinations for views and hikes are dead zones.

Peaks of Otter comes to mind as a fantastic day-trip or weekend destination from DC. Despite being a very popular spot for day hikes, and having a lodge, it does not have cellular service. Nobody would think their rental car would be inaccessible at a popular resort area.
Never heard of Greeters before, that sounds fantastic! Also nice to finally have an idea of somewhere to go, that helps tremendously

Cheers for the help!
> You spelled it wrong.

It’s not so clear-cut: https://github.com/GutHib
Communication is inherently subjective, and the subjective content conveyed by "very" above was part of the intended message.
You Can Now Google the Balances of Ethereum Addresses
FCC to ban all new Huawei and ZTE equipment on national security grounds
I don't write off entire cities. I do make choices with limited time. As I write,

"That doesn’t mean entirely ignoring places like NYC, Istanbul, Seoul, or Tokyo. Some cities are so important they can’t be missed, and every city is a confederation of very different neighborhoods. NYC is as much Dyker Heights as it is Upper East Side.

That makes where you stay in a city more important than the city itself. "

I wasn't attempting to suggest Hanoi is the Indianapolis of Vietnam. I was Just using a stretched example to go to the less obvious place. Maybe I'm wrong, but the vibes I got here in my world is Hanoi is the less obvious place compared to Saigon.