skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is anecdotal, but back when I was working in architecture (10ish years ago), I visited the principal of our Chinese sister firm in Beijing, and we walked around and talked about his experience as a native Chinese architect with experience working in the US.

His greatest frustration was the lack of quality in the finished buildings he'd design. As he put it, the designs that Chinese firms were putting out were just as high quality as anything in the rest of the world, but the end result was always worse. It was largely procedural -- in the US, the architect is involved not only during the initial design phases, but throughout the project, and is responsible approving any changes and for certifying that the result matches the intent. In China, that's not the case -- they make a design, bundle it up, and then hand everything over the contractor. The contractor then makes whatever changes they want during the construction process, without any input from the architects. This means materials may get changed, the wrong construction methods may be used, etc, and no-one knows. From a distance, the building will look amazing, but the details will have been skimped on.
As a grownup i would like to say sorry to younger you on behalf of other grownups. And to the younger you: go be whatever you want! Infact: if there is a teenager reading this right now that have been asshatted by a grownup about coding, don't take in a single word of the asshat: go be brilliant in you if-ststements and create new wonderful stuff. Please do.
Mac does too. I’ve read that they made OS level changes to fix bugs in flagship locations like the adobe suite.
Old cast iron skillets had a collar under them to better fit on the pot belly stovetop.
I personally dislike replies like "you didn't even read my comment" because, let's be honest, I don't always read very carefully the comments I'm replying to. But I do have to quote my comment above :)

> But putting numbers makes your position vulnerable - because on one hand global warming does have some good effects, and also wealth and tech more than compensate the ill-effects. For example you may find numbers on extreme weather increasing - but if you look at people affected by it, it's steadily going down.

I really doubt you can find numbers of people suffering more than 20 years ago. You might be tempted to say that it isn't fair, that the developing countries are a lot less poor now - a lot less starving children in Africa, China is middle class and so on. Which is exactly the point - industrialization is more than compensating for anthropogenic changes, and it keeps doing that at an accelerated rate. I don't think raising ocean level is a good thing, but I do have to point out that Netherlands is dealing with sea level a lot better than West Africa would - and in another 50 years West Africa should be where Netherlands is now.

Anyways, I'm not against limiting climate change. I am very much against knee-jerk reactions like the OP, because they do real harm. Post-Covid Europe went ahead and pushed climate legislation, ignoring the pandemic and the economic crisis that was already peeking from around the corner. They cut a lot of slack from the system, and the next shock sent energy prices and inflation soaring.

A more informed and balanced policy would have prevented that. But comments that call an opposing view as "delusional" aren't really helping on the informed and balanced front.
>WhatsApp > ... > Facebook Messenger

why? They're both end to end encrypted but owned by meta.
Chinese clothing giant Shein conquered the UK – and undercut rivals on tax
Hopefully that day comes soon. It will make it easier to quit social media and focus on the things that matter. The greatest advantage one can have in the modern world is being able to avoid these distractions while everyone else is turned into an impulse zombie.
Maybe this helps:

- https://solidproject.org/TR/protocol#identity

- https://solidproject.org/faqs#webid

- https://solidproject.org/faqs#fewer_passwords

> Does Solid mean we won’t need so many passwords?

> Yes. When you use Solid, you only need to login to your Identity Provider. You can then use applications that interact with your Pod without logging in each of them individually, which is (in our opinion) simpler than having to create accounts on each and every service. However, you will still have to manage what data you would like to share with each application.
+Snapchat. Twitter also is experimenting (experimented?) with endless video scrolling.
https://archive.is/nVTZ4
How does this differ from https://solidproject.org/about
It was. Now it's just an $8 a month symbol. The folks changing their name to Elon Musk were pointing out the stupidity of this change.
I'm curious why the code couldn't be run in an ide. You don't happen to remember, do you? I cut my teeth on VB. I have only ran into 2 bugs in visual studio (personally) in the nearly 2 decades I've used it.

Anyway, sorry that happened. :(
The alt text on that XKCD has aged so well.
threads last week, 16,13 and 7 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33424587

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33407015

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33405541
asciicker is absolutely stunning :o
"Generic Associated Type".

Explained in other terms, a generic is just a parameter for types, analogous to how `x` is a value parameter for the function call `foo(x)`.

Meanwhile, an associated type is just a type alias that's associated with a trait (a trait is a class, but with no state), similar to how traits can have associated functions (which are also known as "methods").

GATs, then, "just" let you use generics in associated types, which was previously unsupported in Rust.
If you can afford it, a high end induction stove might be an upgrade you both enjoy without needing gas. Higher end ones have more precision and consistency and easier controls.
The search engine can't tell it already has it in its index? Also a sibling pointed out that it's in the source. That doesn't seem right.
Whenever I read something from Christian spokespeople it always sounds so comically tone deaf.

But hey I live in a country where 55% of the population are self declared atheists. We all live in a bubble.
It is very obvious that your comment is from the perspective of a man. It is important to empathize with women and realise that “data” is not the ultimate source of truth as many supposedly data-driven but racist AI algorithms will show.

Women face many structural and social objectives that make “aggregate” data on sexual violence almost meaningless and often counter-intuitive.
> Most likely the game designer will change the design, and then everyone wins.

This is most likely based on SCP-3008 , which parodies the hard-to-navigate nature of Ikea (and adds some horror elements based on it). A generic store will not have the same impact.

[0] https://the-scp.foundation/object/scp-3008
I can’t believe the younger generation is doing something a member of the older generation doesn’t care for and is making sweeping proclamations about what will happen if things change.
Gattaca was protecting innocent children from inheriting inferior genes. Coronavirus 99.99% of children recover, but bad genes are 100% for life!
Pretty sure that it's not for ideas, but for specific implementations of ideas, patents being criticized as abusive when they are not specific enough ?

One example I saw just today :

Thomas Savery getting a patent on "make, imitate, use or exercise any vessells or engines for raiseing [sic] water or occasioning motion to any sort of mill works by the impellent force of fire,", which I assume subordinated Thomas Newcomen during the patent's duration = all of his life to Savery, despite Newcomen's engine being much more advanced & commercially successful... (at least he didn't end up destitute, like some of the previous steam engine inventors !)

https://technicshistory.com/2021/05/05/the-pumping-engine/
Doesn't matter if the developers can't afford to fight it.
I accidentally started an fb vertical video and thought "Why does tiktok suck today?" until I realized the hole I had fallen into.
New NitroPhone 2a with Low-Priced High-End Level
> The problem is big public companies live quarter to quarter.

I think that's a bit of a myth. Apple should (and probably does) have the longterm view on this, I'd hope. And I'm pretty sure proper accounting would present the requisite massive investments in a light that shareholders do not disapprove of.

> I'm pretty sure that with a large enough investment Apple could make phones in the US for cheaper than they do in China (including the entire supply chain).

That I am not so sure. The infrastructure and resources available in China are tremendous.
I wash with cold water and a gentle soap.

After shaving I apply olive oil. This makes my skin real nice.

If my skin feels dry I sometimes apply coconut oil.
The assumption that it is a single person taking action against mislabeled parody accounts (like you suggested, by saying even Yoel disagreed with OP) is amusing, because naturally it isn't the case.
Actually I find C++ concepts much easier to grasp than GATs.

Zig still has to win the love of the giants that ship C++, and increasingly Rust, in their products.
I'm not sure. I don't like @abc.xyz.com at all.

@xyz.com/abc has the nice benefit that it is like https://xyz.com/abc with only the https:// part is changed.

But "Written by @joe@someinstance.com" reads much nicer than "Written by @someinstance.com/joe".
One already exists:

https://gitlab.com/marnanel/chapeau
Samsung has announced the start of mass production of 3D V-NAND TLC flash memory chips of new, 8th generation, writes Tom's Hardware portal.
The new chips have a capacity of 1 Tbit (128 GB) and presumably consist of 236 layers, although Samsung does not specify this aspect.
This just drives home how crazy it is to have every piece of conversation archived forever.

Being a little bit of an asshole sometimes is human. If these interactions were ocurring in real life, maybe Harthur would've said, "Hey, you're being an asshole" to Klabnick et al., they would've apologized, everyone could've hugged it out and had a beer, and that would've been the end of it.

Instead, a decade later suddenly random people on the internet are putting the behavior on trial.

Pretty brutal!
Other options were tried and rejected, or aren't viable. Eg, you have this 1.5GB of stuff, what's there? Probably:

1. Graphics and videos. Nice, high res, smooth animations showing how to operate the printer.

2. Frameworks. Because Qt libraries don't come with Windows.

3. Various dependencies

In turn, each of those explodes due to human needs and convenience. Eg, you have an animation that says "Press here" in text. You sell the printer internationally. You'll probably have 20 different versions of it in every supported language.

A large amount of complexity works down to human convenience -- Unicode requires large fonts and complex software

Some is because the platform is what it is. Windows doesn't have a package manager, so it can't pull in libqt5 for you when you try to install an app -- so it has to come with the app.

We've also agreed that every app shall bundle its own dependencies, because DLL hell was really hell, and trying to have one system-wide copy wasn't working.
Its fine to think that - and you're probably right. But again the solution will never be to ask people to change their consumption habits and their way of life. Its a non starter. The smarter thing to do is tweak incentives. A simple tax on electricity for example: now its more expensive to heat or cool a large house, leads to smaller homes, leads to more energy efficient units. That has a way way more impactful result than telling individuals what to do and how to do it.
Typescript.

As for Haskell, their motto is "avoid success at any cost" for a reason.
I used to be a cook in a a few michelin starred restaurants, so you can trust my opinion here.

Gas is far superior to electric heating elements because of the speed at which it can change temperature, and makes flambeing a cinch.

That being said Induction ranges are several orders of magnitude superior to gas. As are ovens with humidity and air flow control.
I'm filing this one along with Monads and Haskell as programming concepts that I'll never understand. Rust is my favorite language, but that explanation, lauded directly below it as This is personally the easiest to understand example I've seen of GATs., was incomprehensible.
Perhaps Fortrans wasn't designed as a general purposed programming language.
But at least that's what was used by Niklaus Wirth to write the first Pascal compiler... :D
“I’m in favor of freedom of speech… but I’m fine with it being limited if I don’t care about it”

Amazing how quick they switch up
Yeah I mean I felt like it was clear-ish that Dolores was going to channel a Ford persona inside a big virtual simulation of the Wild West, probably eventually “remembering” him enough that he is technically reborn as immortal.
The left-leaning bias is not limited to just "news".

It is also very much present in various tech and fashion/style publications - check out Ars Technica and GQ as examples.

Both owned by the corporate mouthpiece Condé Nast Inc., by the way.
Absolutely. No way to tell in advance if a big new release is going to work, and it's all too easy to make a product better in 10 unique ways that just don't matter. You can't A/B test yourself out a local maximum, and some point you have to go for a big new release despite the risk.
I'm sure I'm more dangerous in an automatic, every time I come to a traffic stop I try to put the clutch in first.
CD Projekt Red's Release Schedule Is a Recipe for Disaster
Aren't GATs equivalent to nested template classes? I.e. they are really orthogonal to concepts.
You can donate plasma for money, yes. It's not just homeless people, rarely it is. College students trying to make drinking money and such are very common. It's considered less exploitative because the cells are pumped back in, with just the plasma being kept for later use.

You cannot sell whole blood donations though by law, that's all volunteer.
When I was doing my civil service (19), I was not very good at it. One day, one of the people at my workplace went off on me for something like ten minutes. I started crying. Then I apologized for crying, because I had no control over it. I didn't want them to think I was trying to manipulate them or anything; it was just something that my body decided to do without my input.

"You have larger issues" is not an actionable strategy. By all means, if you can tell me how to not break down at intense personal criticism, I will gladly stop doing so.

("Can you just not?" No, I can't. I literally don't have the capability.)

(Well, that was then. I've gotten a lot more confident since.)
Parody requires that your work be a commentary on the protected work you have repurposed specifically.

Weird Al actually secures permission and never relies on parody protection, but if he didn't then "Fat" would fail, Michael Jackson was many things but notably fat was not one of them, whereas his "Smells Like Nirvana" is a parody because it's about Cobain's incomprehensible singing and other aspects of the Nirvana song.

So what's the commentary here for IKEA?
My implication is that these schools are artificially made "rare". We live in a golden age of information accessibility, and the knowledge these schools teach is by no means "secret" or "rare". Hell, Matt Damon learned it all from a library in the 90s, and he was an ill-tempered janitor.

As for whether these schools are "precious", well, their students certainly are judging by the number of trigger warnings and emotional support pets.
GATs are an essential part of Rust's long-term async/await story. It's not language-wankery, this is driven by actual real-world use cases. Rust's own stdlib would have benefited from this in many places had this feature existed years ago.
I find that the 13 mini is about the largest thing that is comfortable in my pocket while sitting or on a bike.

As for a coat/suit jacket I can always tell when someone has a large phone in their suit jacket pocket. If you care about that sort of thing it really ruins the line and drape of the jacket.
> Because web browsers are supposed to render HTML, not markdown.

Ok but they could also render Markdown.

> When presented with a file full of markdown, how should the browser present it?

Render it on the screen.

> Black text on white? Opposite? Something else? ...

The browser can pick a sensible default, just like it does with HTML. How do you think GitHub manages to render Markdown? It picks a sensible default.

> That's not considering the dozens of flavors of markdown

Send the flavour in the MIME type. (Not sure we have MIME types for different flavours, but we could do that.)
Tokyo builds for half the cost and the quality and safety is light years ahead of NYC results.
But that's not how invention works : what about advances that seem trivial after the fact... yet nobody has thought of for centuries, despite all the "ingredients" being available ?
And Microsoft Office for Mac is never quite as snappy and quick to launch as on Windows.
I mean they had clearly telegraphed what the next season was going to be about (she’s going to bring everyone back, duh).

Not that the writing needs defending, got pretty bad after season 1.
No, while the visible majority of mold grows on the surface of things, it also sends out tendrils that penetrate through the medium. That's why you shouldn't cut mold off of bread or soft cheeses and eat the visibly "ok" part, you should treat the entire thing as contaminated. Hard cheeses that have only a little bit of mold can be scraped, but anything soft will get explored pretty thoroughly.
It being an asshole thing to do to people in positions of power has been the reason for parody for literally thousands of years.
Centralizing the decentralized... what's old is new again?

Seems like the centralization of relationships and credentials ought to be client-side, or a portable protocol all its own, so we don't repeat the mistake of centralizing the most-important data.
What to Do If Your New CEO Is an Incompetent Moron
Well let’s go back to your statements

> The first group buys for status,

With 50% of the population in the US having iPhones and 33% in the EU, where is the “status from having one”?

Besides, in the US, the difference between buying an iPhone on a 24 month interest free payment plan and an Android phone on the same payment plan is minimum. Even at minimum wage that’s less than 5 hours of work. But with todays worker shortage, even fast food workers are making $15/hour. This gets back to how is it a symbol of “status” when you have the same phone as a teenager flipping burgers?

> the second group buys for convenience,

You mean people buy stuff that makes their life more convenient? Isn’t this like saying “water is wet”?

> and the third group because the repairs are cheaper and easier (fewer models)

Repairs are easier because Apple has retail stores all over the country and actually have good customer service.
It's pure supply and demand. People want to endlessly scroll for content, that's what they will get.
You also can't see any replies for the tweets that are still up (one of the three in the screenshot was deleted) so there's no context. I guess Twitter has some data retention policy going on for 9yr old tweets? Or they never actually got any attention in the first place
Twitter conversion rates are terrible however they do offer something that other platforms don’t or at least not easily and that is sentiment analysis in response to ads and direct engagement.

Retailers, CPGs and other brands as well as many ad agencies and data science companies in the retail use the Twitter APIs to data-mine tweets for analysis often hand in hand with the promotion, ad or engagement campaigns that they or their clients are running.

On other platforms you often only get a binary match with a certain level of confidence to a sale as you can’t easily get what people are talking about.

With Twitter being primarily a public platform you can get much more than has a person bought an item within X hours/days of having an ad served to them.

So the “marketing” spend on Twitter is split often between servings ads and consuming the analytics API, and the latter is used more often however it’s only valuable as long as brands advertise and directly engage with users on the platform.

This is also why advertisers dropping Twitter as a platform is worse than just lost ad revenue since it also harms their only other major revenue stream.
'Magic mirror': Hidden image revealed in reflection of centuries-old artifact
Running from the Seizures (2014)
I like the show, because I like Sci-fi.

I think the show gets a lot of flack because people were expecting a modern Western, and then it morphed into just modern Sci-Fi.
GATs don't actually let you go full monad, so not quite. :P
Research Report Military Movement Risks from 5G Networks
Then why are they creating new factory for iphone in India and not in US?
>If you don't realize this yet you're young or stupid.

Or engaging in an ever-complicated web of motivated reasoning and mental gymnastics in a vain attempt to shore up the falsehoods that underpin their world view.

Watching people try and act like these organizations do not harbor evil and malfeasance in quantities that would be outrageous in any other context reminds me of how the "the world is the center of the universe" model had to get more and more complicated to explain away ever increasing observations that seemed to contradict it.
Economic conditions don't determine when it is a good time to freelance.

People throwing money at you to take their project, is an ok time to freelance.

To a first approximation, there is no good time to freelance because to a first approximation, every potential freelancer is under-capitalized.

Yes, there are success stories, but generally building a successful consulting business means years and years building a base of good clients and even a little initial good luck (like landing one good client right away) doesn't change that.

Good luck.
Ask HN: What, if anything, could replace Twitter?
From where I'm sitting, dissatisfaction with social media platforms in general is at an all-time high. Twitter is in a lot of turmoil right now. Whatever its numerous flaws, I use it a lot for information about things I care about. If you curate who you follow, it can be great for discovery. If Twitter is going down like some people think, what takes its place? Will it be more than one platform? Will other platforms take up some of its functionality? Will it just go extinct with no replacement?
Same here. I presume that one day I will have to write something using a GAT, and then the understanding will click with me, even if I don't speak the terminology.
This is awesome! It also made me think of https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz/

How do I learn the basics of creating these kinds of shaders?
I applaud your efforts and wish you much success. A lot of people talk, few take action.
Japan Joins Key NATO Cyber Agency
Aren't they correct?

I would ballpark Delaware court IT security requirements as similar to DoD Secret level clearance.

And as far as I understand a higher security cloud solution is usually a custom ask and really expensive at any of the major providers, simply not affordable for smaller organizations.
If you bothered to read the link you would have found out that it is about firmware written in Ada/SPARK, that is even lower level than raw drivers.
Only because of the way modern web is developed now. If you build for a slow network it is much faster. We had internet when infrastructure was much slower you know.. And why to not mix both.