skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. There is no possible benefit to a monoculture of language that would justify the immense loss of culture and of different ways to see the world.

Cultural spheres have always managed to come up with a lingua franca that enabled them to exchange ideas. English fills that role currently and will probably endure to dominate. Even if something goes monumentally wrong with the Anglosphere, it will endure until another language manages to step up to that role.

Children are perfectly able to learn multiple languages within a few years by pure immersion. I can't see what further optimization here would achieve.

Still, judging by the events of the past, languages that are not sanctioned by some state will probably all die out by the end of this century. Further erosion is very unlikely though. The language of any country with at least, say, 50 millions speakers is probably safe.
So that's a red flag that you're likely not to stick around on the same salary and undervalue your work :P
Yuck. This is the worst sort of corporate damage control speak I've ever seen on here. I was dubious about your company before, but after your post, I don't think I'll ever use you as a payment processor.

Cut the crap, please. Have the CEO step in and stop your broken automated flags. Put real humans in the appeals process and give them meaningful powers. Stop giving people the run around, and stop posting meaningless fluff.
I’m going to have to read this comment many times, but this part is totally confusing to me:

> You can then cast rays through 3D space mapped onto 1D space, with one ray per GPU thread.

I can’t figure out what this actually means, to map a 3D space onto a 1D space?
The workaround is trivial and painless, whereas “solving the original problem” would require fundamental changes to decades-old systems conventions. I was responding to the “annoying” part, which is effectively solved using an alias.
The people working at a company are the company culture.
I assume people who own samsung phones and want a smartwatch buy a galaxy watch and not an apple watch. Or am I wrong about this?
Ask HN: How to get started creating content?
I want to start blogging, creating youtube videos and some other type of online presence on tech related topics. However, I don't know how to start and how to baby step my way into it.

I used to be very creative as a teenager and young adult and had many ideas on creating funny videos and game related content, but that died as I grew older and now I feel like I don't have any creativity left, how do I get some of it back?

Are there any online communities around creating content as a beginner that I can learn from?
> you should have a hard time to program Python in a way that makes it run into undefined behavior

Iterating a data structure while modifying it can get some very weird behaviour in Python.

I think it qualifies as undefined behaviour. Python recommends not to do this, without any safeguards in place.
Plastic recycling remains a 'myth': Greenpeace study
It would be interesting to know which of those patients were vaccinated and which weren't...
more like 'screwed by the US'

Bannon may be in jail but we are playing out his timeline, where the destruction of China is the sole orientating principle of US foreign and domestic policy.

TSMC could've been sitting pretty servicing both markets, but now effectively has its TAM cut in half, whilst also seeing the inevitable rise of business competitors in Mainland China who now have a free hand in the worlds largest single market.
> I believe the motive is more ethnonationalist than is admitted to in polite circles. "Culture" or "jobs" is the euphemistic front, but the true reasons are fear of crime/terrorism, and fear of becoming a racial minority and the consequences that will have on their voting power and racial supremacy.

In the Brexit case, it was white Eastern Europeans coming in to UK and taking over low-paying jobs. So, neither a threat of terrorism nor racial supremacy (they're all white). I guess one could be afaid of some regions losing its inherent British culture though.
> No you cannot scale up grass fed meat

I'll need a citation on that, because the world certainly doesn't lack grazeable grass.

(Cattle is fed farmed grains today because it's more efficient logistically, not because there's a shortage of grass.)
It's still a language, even if it is not a verbal one. Words and voice are just a way to encode it.
As a child in the 80s I was living in a house with a large garden area (fasce) in Genova, just a bit removed from the bulk of the city.

Every summer evening the house and surrounding garden were filled with fireflies, it was mesmerizing.

Thanks for making me remember this :)
Gitpod URLs are generated every time you start a new environment (usually every time you start working a new feature/bug fix), and it doesn't have static URLs. So you would need to update the endpoint URLs manually.

If you use VS Code locally to connect to Gitpod instead of in the browser, all URLs are mapped to localhost, so then it shouldn't be an issue.

But I did some digging and it looks like they're aware of this limitation and are working on solution: https://github.com/gitpod-io/gitpod/issues/898
Erm, don't think many of Facebook's "moderators" in India are paid any better.
I think most BPO/call-centre jobs pay as much (it's about the GDP-per-capita of "rich" states like Karnataka).
Because Python is the new BASIC, the big difference is that at least BASIC not only has compilers for decades, it was originally designed (Dartmouth BASIC) as JIT based language.

The interpreters got famous on the 8-bit machines because there wasn't space for either JIT or AOT compilers.

The latest talk I saw regarding Python performance actually addresses this charade, with a profiler that helps locate which parts of Python code should be rewritten in C, some people really love their "Python".

"Python Performance Matters"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVUnCXKuNOg
Nice and funny. Adding more details in grasses would make it awesome.

The sounds are especially nice.

On physics side, the car will really stick to the ground, even when jumping beyond a hill.

Also, where are the horse/dragon versions? :D
Have the exact same experience with my mothers laptop. Some acer shit.

Within a few months of her using it she complained it’s slow, takes ages to turn on etc. After removing almost everything from the manufacturer it was usable. But even now she barely uses the machine and never installs anything and it’s unusable slow with essentially zero usage after a couple of years. She’s not even ran any updates. It wouldn’t surprise me if these machines are built to die.
> But China is ruled by the Chinese Communist Party. So yes, communist, at least by their own declaration.

Actually, no. The CCP is communist only by name. From the Chinese constitution[1]:

> The People's Republic of China is a socialist state under the people's democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the alliance of workers and peasants.

The second part of this sentence is arguably false, but they define themselves as strictly socialist.

In the same document, we see:

> Citizens' lawful private property is inviolable.

> The State, in accordance with law, protects the rights of citizens to private property and to its inheritance.

So the abolition of private property, one of the core tenets of communism, doesn't exist in China.

Economically, modern China is built on a capitalistic system, where private companies compete on an open stock market.

The only traces of communism in China is an autocratic government, and some limited benefits for citizens like free basic healthcare and primary education.

Bear in mind, I'm not an expert in politics, nor in Chinese related matters, but if we're looking for a label to use to define their system, communist wouldn't be one of them.

[1]: https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/China_2004.pd...
Just my two cents. Please consider brain dumping while the memories are fresh, as there is strong evidence that our memories evolve over time[1]. It sounds like you have a valuable story to tell. Editing can come later.

[1] https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2015-09755-001
This is a slow process which takes many years, or even decades.

And what language is really the alternative? There is no clear answer. Many languages might somewhat be ok but I'm not sure. Python has grown so much because:

- It's very simple.

- Its syntax almost reflects algorithmic pseudo code.

- It's a managed language with garbage collection, you will usually not see segfaults or other memory corruption, and also not the simple kind of memleaks.

- Debugging is easy.

Those are features which are really nice for newcomers from other scientific fields, but also for professionals when Python is just the gluing language which orchestrates some heavy workers, e.g. TensorFlow or PyTorch. Or when it's just used as a better shell scripting language.

I'm myself using Python mostly for machine learning (TensorFlow, PyTorch), and as a shell script language alternative, and for other small utilities. And I really don't know what alternative language there is, which would be a better fit for this, even ignoring the state of the tooling and library support.

Some people might say Julia. But Julia is more complicated and more difficult to understand, esp for newcomers. And Julia has slow startup times. Slow startup times already disqualifies Julia for these applications, or at least it's a very huge disadvantage.
Manipulating light can induce psychedelic experiences
If Ukraine and Bulgaria can have very livable cities I don't think it's a stretch for developing countries to have them. It's much more expensive to keep resurfacing streets and roads over and over due to the immense amount of car traffic that an undeveloped public transportation system pushes to.

What costs are you talking about? There's nothing too expensive about doing decent urban planning in line with the resources you currently have, it's much more a question of follow-through on long-term plans than absolute cost of implementation...

The issue is much deeper and nuanced than cost, it's corruption, it's short-sighted politics due to populism and uneducated populations, etc.
Powers of 2 are just as arbitrary as any other number.
Your solution is multiple copies of libcurl all over the place, all compiled in different ways, probably different versions, and that's supposed to be more secure and maintainable?
Randomly, I think I may have been the first person to do (or at least write about) 2D GI. I taught a bunch of people about it (and rendering / path tracing in general), some of whom became a lot more popular.

Here's the oooold and very cringy article I wrote as a teen in the 90s, there are some old crap images in the gallery: https://web.archive.org/web/20031207162649fw_/http://www.cfx...
Also I think a widescreen is a bad choice for a bussines notebook. I still have an old notebook at home with a 4:3 monitor. I think is better format.
Is 13% increase in NAEP scores worth all the increased the public school math / STEM investment since 1990? And that's being charitable - believing that the increase is not due to mucking around with the "representative sample" or "accommodations" that have been granted.

And why is classroom instruction important for basic maths anyways? People bought and sold goods, kept accounting books, had investment portfolios, mortgage-style debt instruments far before there was ever a "4th grade" education, much less a 4th grade NAEP score. The ones that need to learn such things will learn, far faster and better than in a decontextualized classroom. I highly doubt people got 13% wiser in managing money or whatever other pro-social thing this increased NAEP math average is supposed to be a proxy for.

So, it doesn't produce more Galois' and Gauss' and it doesn't make people wiser with mathy things... literally what's the point.

One should also mention the enormous costs - all the public expense diverted to this pointless endeavor, the stifling of the truly mathematically gifted in structured "lesson plans" fit for mass mediocrity, and torturing future truck drivers, dancers, janitors, and burger flippers for years with equations.
> "I hate being an employee. I want to work on my own projects on my own terms." Is there a word for people like this? A philosophy?

I think those people are called entrepreneurs :) Seriously, I think the GP would be better suited to found a startup that to apply for corporate jobs.
how much money did that make though
I worked somewhere for 3 months and did pretty much nothing for all of it. Then I quit because I hated feeling useless – most stressful job I've ever had. I don't think I'm well-suited for $BigCorp jobs.

In most of my other roles, I think I've often become a valuable contributor being able to "pull their own weight" within 1 to 3 months. On a number of occasions I think joining with a "fresh mind" who will say "you guys are doing what?! lol that's crazy, $this is so much better!" has been a real advantage, sometimes even in the first week. I'm not trying to paint myself as some sort of rock-star developer or anything, but in small teams people can get kind of stuck in a sort of an acceptance of the suckage they have, even when it's not needed. One example of this is adding a real database migration instead copying SQL queries from the company chat. Simple stuff really, but does make a meaningful difference.

I do think longer tenures are an advantage because people will have to live with their choices. I have a former co-worker who brags about what he did when he worked for us as being brilliant to this day, but we literally threw it all away because none of it actually worked well; it was complete garbage. But he never stayed long enough to have to deal with any of that.
You sell a money making course course generator and sell that
> If the book attributes its content to Wikipedia, it’s perfectly legal.

Sure, but I remember seeing books which didn't attribute their source. I only noted the "similarity" while searching for info on certain topics. Sorry, I didn't document them, because I just thought, ok, the next scam.
Personally, I think hidden files are OK, but we have lousy defaults, regardless of OS.

By default, Explorer hides hidden files (and goes one step further and doesn't display file extensions: why???), so do Finder, Dolphin, Nautilus, and even `ls` by default.
Symbian Was Right
I am using a "smartphone". Here are the specs:

A 5-inch qHD+ screen, a quad-core processor with 1GB of RAM and 16GB of storage, 5MP and 2MP cameras, 2000mAh battery, and runs Android 11 Go Edition.

Android Go is touted to be the OS that is easy on the mobile resources.

But my experience using this "smartphone" is dismal. The battery life is a joke. The applications crash. And privacy is, well no words for it.

Looking at what was available before the availability of Android and iOS, we see that Symbian was a world leader in the mobile OS space. And they were fanatic about battery life, security and reliability and customisability of Symbian OS. They use to go an extra mile to see to it that the development of the OS does not affect these basic requirements.

Symbian was right all along in its approach to mobile OS development.
I don't promise anything, my github is a collection of forks from projects I find interesting, some stuff I rescued from university and technical school projects since 1990, and a few basic utilities I created to make my life easier.

That's it, and I can refer HR departments that enjoy reading github profiles to that pile of code with various levels of quality.

Nothing else and I post all my own code as GPL unless forced otherwise by existing licenses.

I do not work for others for free.
How do you secure your site against a vulnerability which an attacker knows, and you still don't? And for which a fix is not available yet?

No layer of defense is useless. Hiding the host name is a pretty noticeable layer.

Running a private server only inside a VPN is, of course, even nicer, when you can afford it.
When I do that the text is unreadably tiny.
I love this analogy.

One could also interpret the "safe behind painting" (common ports) as the common practice and the "safe under carpet" (shifted ports) as security through obscurity.
Pixel is not reference design. If you go any major city with mass transit, you’ll notice that Google has absolutely taken over physical advertising space with Pixel 7 spots. Watch any NBA game and you’ll see the same thing.

I understand why one would bucket Pixel hardware into that old played out “reference hardware”. That has been Google’s approach over the years.

But herein lies my point: Google has changed their tune. The top brass have now bought into the integration of hw, sw and services ecosystem that Apple had set out with from the get go. This isn’t some Googler asking Sundar for budget so they can make some vanilla smartphone. This is Sundar putting a stake in the ground with real long term budget to saying: 10 years from now, if we continue to execute on pixel, the US market and perhaps more will be a healthier mix of Apple and Google phones. And I think a reasonable target is like 2:1 iphone to Pixel.

Given the importance of the phone as the primary computing device in peoples lives and the amount of profit Google draws in from consumer computing activity, and the lack of leverage Google really has over other OEMs phones, it is super important for Google to eventually hit something like 2 iphones to 1 pixel in sales. Its no a long shot either. With enough money and time this will happen.
So, you don't consider multi-trillion dollar valued companies, whose annual revenues are greater than the GDP of the majority of countries in the world, and who have sole control over platforms used by over 1/3 the world's entire population, to be "authorities" capable of censorship.

OK, well, good luck then.
Pro-war fiction? That's like the standard movie for several decades from Rambo to Michael Bay's epics and Top Gun Maverick, and in movie form that has far wider appeal, 10000x the audiences, and is way more glamorous! "weird pro war fiction" would be very low in effectiveness...
- photos :: instagram
- videos :: tiktok, youtube
- posts :: HN, reddit, dev.to, substack, mailing lists (yes, people still use those)
- events :: messengers (telegram, whatsapp, etc), email.
I just didn’t do them and never heard about it again.
Here in the ultra-dense Netherlands, threats to insects are magnified. As such, it's easier to point to specific causes.

Butterflies: 50% reduction in 50 years. Beetles: 75% decline since 1985. Ladybugs: 50% reduction in 20 years. Across the border in Germany: a 75% decline in flying insects since 1989.

It doesn't take much of a scientist to see the trend. I've been hiking the forests here multiple times per week for 20 years. You can clearly see how some groups are disappearing whilst others remain.

There's several root causes but the primary one is a lack of native plant diversity. Since agriculture over here is done in close proximity to forests, the soil becomes acid due to the nitrogen disposition. This benefits the growth of a handful of plants at the expense of all others. In some of our forests, the soil is now so acid that snails no longer develop a case and bird eggs collapse.

In this plant monoculture, insects depending on a specific host plant disappear. Outside (protected) forests, things aren't much better. Even the tiniest of strips of grass that would normally produce wildflowers, are aggressively mowed down. People's gardens are designed to be as hostile to insects as is possible.

Secondary reasons are invasive species and light pollution.

It's a sad state of affairs and one we should be deeply ashamed of. We're not talking about some iconic predator requiring hundreds of acres of wild forest just to survive. We're talking about insects that require little space, healthy soil, a flower, and for it to be left alone. We can't even offer that.
this is why i'm happy my dad is a programmer and my mom uses a macbook
> Even worse would be suggesting the use of the registry.

I would actually argue otherwise: the registry is the perfect place to put configuration data, provided Microsoft's guidelines[0] on registry key creation/deletion and hive use are followed. I would argue every OS should have its own 'registry' for a universal location to set configuration for programs.

On the other hand, if every application has its own configuration file, then every application shall have its own configuration file parsing/serialising/deserialising routine. It's also what has led to this explosion of 'config file formats': .json, .yaml, .ini, .conf, .cfg, .toml, .xml.

I guess this is why people dislike systemd so much: it reminds them too much of Windows.

[0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sysinfo/regi...

You appear to have an attitude of UNIX/Linux > Windows, which is unfortunate. The two OS families are different, but I personally believe neither is superior to the other. Both OSs suck in their own ways, both OSs are better in their own ways (this conclusion after using Windows and Linux both on a 70:30 time ratio).

Windows is in every way as modern an OS as Linux is, but just like Linux, has inherited strange baggage from its 40-year-old past, like 'a file cannot have COM in its name'.
Try Ubuntu (or whatever Linux you enjoy, it's just that Ubuntu is mostly hand-off for 5 years), I just bought a ~6 y/o laptop for my brother, a Fujitsu Lifebook E736 (introduced in 2016), 512 GB hard drive, 8 GB ram, some Corei5 CPU 150 eur, I did put a new battery in it. Works like a charm, 0 complaints.

But, to be honest, the guy that sold it put some super bare Win10 on it and that also felt pretty fast.

In any event, for email and web-browsing I think Ubuntu is just perfect. I have it on our HTPC and the whole family uses it without thinking twice. And it stays fast.

Oh, our family laptop (the one the kids use, and I do on occasion) is a Dell Latitude E5450, first introduced in 2015(!), I got it 2nd hands in 2019, it looked barely used. I put Ubuntu on it (but recently I installed Arch, when I regularly use a machine myself I prefer it), the thing still feels like a fast new laptop, the kids went through Covid with it, using Teams (for Linux) and doing online homework. I use it for dev work on the side. Love the machine.

My advice: Get a second hand business model from a good source (some local trader that gets good reviews, or you can visit, we have a lot of local IT people gathering on a website here that sell older business hardware [0, Dutch website]). Plus, it's nice to give stuff a second life instead of buying cheap throw-away shitware for cheap.

[0]: https://tweakers.net/laptops/aanbod/
Just start. https://stevenpressfield.com/books/the-war-of-art/
The thread is framing a chain reaction that would lead to a drop in housing prices as a bad thing.

Meanwhile, most people in my social circle (early 30s, tech) are rooting for just that to happen.

Prices are out of control. And if us overpaid tech professionals feel like that, imagine what it must be like for blue collar workers, or the dude driving our Uber or cooking our food.

We may finally see a long-due correction. The most privileged of us might lose some of their privilege as a result, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
How is this different from email spam? People will stop trusting random sources for books. Established publishers will make sure that only vetted authors are able to access the market. The only problem is that it's difficult for new publishers and fringe authors to enter the market.
No, clearly the “Back to the Future” episodes were better than the “Flight of the Navigator” episode!