skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And also, for some reason, I tend to interpret a written message in a much worse way than I do a message that is communicated verbally.

This is something that I struggle with as well. My first remote job was probably 6 years ago and the first couple weeks I was getting really down on myself because my manager would always reply to my questions with "Um" first. To me this was basically "Um.... are you really asking this stupid of a fucking question? God I am re-thinking this hire big time already". Turns out she was actually saying "Um" because she was thinking about the best answer for the question or didn't know it herself yet.

I recently started a new position where my boss ends everything with a hard period and it just kind of reads a little off to me. For instance - "No. That is not correct, we do not want to do that." To me it reads a bit harsh in my head, but I'm pretty sure he just likes correct grammar.
It's all about perception. If I had 2 less story points per sprint then I would get more tasks to fill up those 2 story points. PMs don't like it when the whole day isn't accounted for.
Coinbase doesn't have any lending products. Aside from one that will give you USD as a loan for holding your BTC as collateral which isn't the same thing.

They do offer staking but that's the not the same either. Return is generated from the networks themselves - like with ETH they are offering 4% APY after a 25% cut. That seems completely fine.
Spend time with them doing things you like, which don't bore them too much :)

I wish I would follow my own advice more often.

Ok, this is very geeky, but 2 weeks ago I sat with my oldest and did the first couple of problems from Advent of Code in Python, which he's learning in school. We both really enjoyed it, or at least he said he did.
In my opinion needing enough slack in a system certainly rings true for many jobs that rely on high intrinsic motivation (probably also academia).
Slack is also something that is essential for creative jobs, where you need the space to think and come up with new ideas.

Looking at the levels of busyness the concept of requiring slack is still compatible for me. If I am at low levels of busyness (< 4) there should be capacity for planned slots of slack, where goals can be worked on with own pace, ad-hoc meetings and guidance from peers (to fulfil the SDT motivational needs).
Did we really need 30 years to finally get a snappy way to save websites in a single file?
While using military terminology in non-military organizations is cringy, there's a good reason that military allusions come up frequently in business writing. Armies were the first large scale organizations in history and suffer from the same failure conditions except with much higher stakes. Large businesses (and similarly large governmental functions apart from the military) are much more recent inventions. The most important similarities though are a focus on logistics, team structures and specializations, as well as decision making frameworks. As a result of that, a lot of business writing is in some sense descended from military writing. And modern military writing continues to be a valuable source of wisdom in a business context because of those similarities (one of the best management books I've ever read is "Turn the ship around!" by L. David Marquet about reforming the dynamics of a nuclear submarine crew).

(Of course that doesn't stop people from cargo-culting the military without thought given to the specific context.)
That's emergent behavior (and that emergent behavior is the principle by which all balancing devices work). All it tries to do is keep the board level. Below a certain torque (which is inversely correlated to available wattage and speed) the board loses the ability to stay level. If overcurrent protection kicks in then the motor will abruptly turn off, usually resulting in a nosedive (because your center of gravity will be towards the nose of the board while speeding up). There are experienced riders who can ride pretty far beyond safe limits by balancing themselves, but that's incredibly dangerous.
Imagine, for the sake of argument, that TikTok was a Russian app, banned by Russia in Russia, and was very popular with republicans.
You might have no idea what you are talking about, if you have never experienced any mind-altering situation like a family tragedy before.
I've dabbled in APL, and a couple of jobs ago I worked extensively in kdb/q. I found it to be an immensely powerful tool in its natural environment of time-series processing, and extraordinarily painful to use outside that domain. Typically I'd write the core logic in q with a small wrapper in Java or Python to do string formatting and other tasks that kdb falls down on.

Which is fine. Not every language needs to do everything. Horses for courses.
Ask HN: What's going on with the SFLC / SFC lawsuit?
I discovered this week that Software Freedom Law Center (specifically Eben Moglen) filed a trademark dispute with Software Freedom Conservancy back in 2017.

The Register reported Moglen as saying “‘I have been trying for three years to have a conversation about some differences with some former employees,’ ...he said that any outcome he could imagine... would have the organization ‘continue to exist and flourish under its existing name.’”

So far there have been 102 legal filings with the USPTO, and the battle is ongoing now 5 years later.

From reading the filings, it appears that the sole intent of Eben Moglen is to force Karen Sandler and Bradley Kuhn to be in the same room as him. He has no intent to have them change the Software Freedom Conservancy name, but has been fighting tooth and nail to force them to give deposition in his physical presence.

It seems outrageous to me that a Columbia law professor would be abusing the trademark system to "have a conversation" with people who don't want to talk to him.

Does anyone have a more constructive perspective on this?
California stares down $25B deficit after years of record cash
In this case this tiny religion embraced him, so yes many would blame that to a degree as well.
I am 100% resolute in my opinion that turning off comms in online games and treating your teammates as if they were really advanced bots improves every game. If I want to play a game with someone I will call my friends on Discord and ask if they want to play. nearly every game I play has a workable ping system so if I am playing with random players, that's how I communicate. Otherwise I don't want or need the validation or opinions of randoms.

The small funny moments of friendship you might get from that is drowned underneath a torrent of racism, sexism, spite, anger, and random nonsense that is draining and, maybe more importantly, seriously distracting. Nearly every serious player I know will full mute even their friends during intense moments requiring mechanical skill.

If you are 30+ and play competitive games to meet new people you are in the wrong place.
IMO there's an often unspoken divide here.

There's the group of people for whom doing these "Algos I" problems in university was relatively painless; not that all problems were "easy" but there's an ease to approaching the problem, and with enough continuous effort the problem is solved. These people also tend to have good retention such that 10 years later, they just need to practice LC for a few weeks and they're back in top form, even if they've been building the easiest CRUD apps for years and not working their brains at all. I've seen this firsthand.

There's another group of people who, for whatever reason, are lacking the facilities to calmly and clearly approach these problems. Doing "Algos I" was a serious grind, and the Brain Toolbox for solving these problems falls apart quickly once the final has been taken. Even if doing relatively complex work at their jobs for years, when it's time to practice LC, it may take months to get anywhere near "top form".

Obviously everyone is on a spectrum between and beyond these two groups, and I fall closer to the latter.

Now add on the fact that there's a person watching you who is going to dictate whether you get a paycheck at all or a 20% boost in income. Or you're like me right now and you've been laid off. Now add on that you need to do it in 20 minutes, each minor mistake potentially becoming a devastating error if you don't catch it quickly.

I envy anyone who can just focus on the problem and remove all surrounding context. Still trying to figure out how I can add stress distractions while timing myself.
Indeed. It's no different than if I kept a hand written ledger in a paper notebook and sold entries onto that ledger for USD. In this case, people would see its a piece of paper and scoff at the idea that having their name written onto this paper is worth any money, even if someone else paid money to put their name on the ledger, but doing the exact same thing with cryptocurrencies fools people because the fake spot price and fake market cap is broadcast across the internet as if it were real, obscuring the fact that each of these coins is just the digital version of someone's personal notebook.
You being in a position to affect change while expressing obliviousness of the blatantly obvious is frankly terrifying.
Maybe, since you're missing something clearly witnessable by tge world at-large, you might help out by exposing what does not compute per your means of cognition.
(Gender joke about travel here.)

Unripened ones contain urushiol just as raw cashew nuts, raw pistachios, and poison oak do. I can't believe health and wellness sites seriously suggest eating raw, unripe mangoes.
Discussed at the time:

Peter Thiel turned a Roth IRA into a $5B tax-free piggy bank - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27616090 - June 2021 (775 comments)

Peter Thiel Has Accumulated $5B in a Roth IRA - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27675736 - June 2021 (56 comments)

Peter Thiel’s $5B Roth IRA Tax Haven Is the Hottest New Investing Tip - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27743427 - July 2021 (68 comments)
Oh! We had Aurora apples in upstate NY recently, they were wonderful. We were in Apple Valley right around Syracuse/Finger lakes region.

Can't seem to find anywhere to order them shipped though.
Many people, if you ask them if they want a gift, will say no just to be polite. In this scenario, if somebody said "I'd like to take care of the lawn for you if that would be helpful," I would deny the request because I wouldn't want to impose on them.

Just going ahead and doing it for me would be amazing. The number one gift anybody could give me in a tough situation is to not force me to make one more decision.

Which is to say, I guess it comes down to knowing the person.
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For things related to car maintenance I think there should be a special class of tickets available, a "Provide proof you fixed the problem by {date} or pay {fine}$", they already informally exist (I've known a few people who got a ticket along with the officer's email and told if they provide proof the officer will cancel the ticket).

This would take needing discretion out of the question, and also provide better incentive to the driver than "I hope the same cop doesn't pull me over again and remember they already gave me a warning".
h5 subheader “The definitive list of good and bad apples” is overlayed by the title on large screens

Check Elementor's page builder responsiveness

https://imgur.com/6v04O7y
Hiya, 40s COD player here, you'll notice a lot of groupthink in shooters where players get very predictable. That is where your old head pattern recognition comes into play and you can exploit that play style. With proxy voice chat now, mind games get even crazier. I would use this very often in Rust to trick players into doing things, or faking them out with other tactics.

If you don't want to play with those kinds of players there are tons of other shooters, Hell Let Loose and Squad come to mind as slower more team oriented games.
I agree as well, rating apples without considering the use case is a critical oversight! Kenji set the apple rating bar pretty high:

https://www.seriouseats.com/the-food-lab-what-are-the-best-a...
this rocks also thanks for land of lisp! people like you, why the lucky stiff, and james halliday (substack) are my programming inspirations. seeing people with a passion for making cool, weird, and fun things is so great.
Coinbase makes money on every cash to crypto transaction. The price is irrelevant with that revenue. They also generate revenue from trading fees, which does though, but I seem to recall they make the most from purchases.
> But I think eventually shifted to using ghc as a frontend library?

That's right. It happened fairly quickly, part of the efforts to formally verify the language. I think when you were poking at it was around the time it was changing underneath. But, that was years ago!

> Namely a decent transactional db system where the modelling language for datatypes and workflows is a linear logical concurrent functional language with some soundness guarantees.

I mean that's largely what Daml was trying to do. But of course it lacked the transactional DB system once we tossed out our in-house DLT. The approved answer back then was, deploy it over someone else's blockchain/DLT. Well, we all know about those. So before I moved on I spun up a successful skunkworks effort to integrated it into some relational databases; you'd be surprised what _that_ implementation ended up at the heart of.

Well, patient is maybe not the right word :) You weren't ever a dick though and that put you in a small club. You can draw your own conclusions about the space I'm talking about (Haskellers, JPMorgan, enterprise DLT...)

(I'll ping you separately as I have you at a disadvantage. For various reasons I won't put my name in this thread.)
Could you give an example of a true right-wing political party, in your eyes? Anywhere in the world.
Canada can recruit Permanent Residents into Armed Forces
This is spot on. It went too far and now people make the shocked pikachu meme face when companies react negatively to their antics.
Is this the same language from the how to create a programming language book?
A co-worker who was laid off recently reached out to see if I had any room on my team. It broke my heart to say that we're not hiring for the foreseeable future either. I liked him a lot and thought he did good work, and otherwise I'd certainly have considered him. I told him as much.

We made plans instead to meet up for coffee and catch up next week. I wish I had something more concrete to help him out. This feels only slightly better than the empty platitudes mentioned in the article.
It’ll probably be fully automated in decades, if not years. It doesn’t really matter if it’s a man or a woman pulling the trigger tbh
Hell, we're already in the age of the linux desktop, we're just not calling it that:

> At 37 million units, Chromebooks represent just under 11 percent of the total PC market, ahead of the Mac, with 27 million units and a 7.8 percent share.

https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/chrome-os/chromebook/262126/...
No true Scotsman ever wrote a bug in C, eh?
At this point, if HN is any indication, they deserve it.
In the US we actually use quite a bit less healthcare than some other places in the developed world (Japan, for example). Which is what you would expect, that our high prices would reduce the consumption of healthcare. We in the USA have come to believe, as a society, that healthcare is exorbitantly expensive. But it's not actually exorbitantly expensive to provide healthcare, we just pay exorbitantly high prices. Which actually helps convince us that healthcare is, by nature, exorbitantly expensive.
Thanks for linking that thread. Looking through the comments is a trip.

As it turns out doing things the right way like Coinbase looks "boring" sometimes, while fraud might look more exciting.
Interesting discussion in the other recent thread about Warp:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33628205
Nitpicking but

>if we turned off all bitcoin miners today, bitcoin would go to zero instantly

isn't true. You couldn't trade them normally with the miners off but you could start mining up the day after - it only takes a couple of computers really.
Yesterday: 162 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33628205
> You can go all the way to reserving an entire computer to run mission critical code but you don’t know if it is future proof in terms of electrical specifications.

See, that's a beautiful example, just not in the direction that I think you intend it. I can, in fact, take an appliance that's a few decades old and plug it into a modern outlet and it'll work just fine. I do not, in fact, have to preserve an entire electrical grid just to run my application^w appliance, because the underlying infrastructure maintains compatibility.
Look, Baltic states have my sympathy for what you managed to achieve in 30 years. I understand you needed a few years to establish yourselves as independent nations, assert/reclaim your national character and show it to your big bad neighbor. However, 10-15 years would be sufficient for that. Having that same problem for 30 years is just bad and you can try to explain it away as much as you want.
Maybe, I started coding SingleFile (for Chrome) almost 13 years ago
I wonder if this could result in another round of costly SOX-like regulations?
No, and I've been playing CS since Beta 3 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Arm aiming is the way.
Bernie Madoff ran his scheme for almost 20 years before being caught.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madoff_investment_scandal
Show HN: Free FEA Simulation for 3D Printing
Markforged just announced FEA simulation for their 3D printed parts. You can apply simulated load cases to your parts and validate their performance before printing. They even optimize your part to print faster and cheaper while retaining the strength requirements you need! They have a free trial running right now so you can try it out yourself all in-browser.
It's also very handy if you want to draw a nice looking circle. Much more accurate.
The reasoning I understood was to provide liquidity of currencies, not money in general.

So if I want to sell my ABC token for XYZ token, they are borrowing your XYZ token that you have gaining interest to make the transaction work. They are then taking the ABC token I sold to credit an ABC token they had borrowed from someone else.

I may be completely wrong on this but that was my understanding of why this worked. Of course it doesn't work when everyone wants to take their money out. I would assume a responsible entity would use the money earned from fees to help provide liquidity.

I would also assume a responsible entity would want to stop transactions of ABC token if there was no longer enough liquidity to support the above borrowing & trading.
Exactly. If you cannot treat programmers as widgets to be swapped in and out why bother? Functionality schmuctionality.
Another comment to the OP mentioned a hose from the exhaust being used to apply heat to the windshield. Prior to the adoption of pressurized recirculating engine cooling circa 1930s, which allowed for internal heaters, some automobile manufacturers offered instant heating of a deadly variety: direct metal ports off the exhaust manifold. Often it was a matter of just sliding open a door to get the hot air circulating. What could possibly go wrong? A bit of corrosion, a cracked weld, and suddenly the folks inside got very, very sleepy...

EDIT: I just remembered my dad's old VW Beetle had manifold-heat ducts down by the shifter. We had another Type 3 VW that had a gasoline-powered heater mounted in the front compartment just ahead of the passenger front seat. Consumer safety was not their high priority back then, it would seem.
Ask HN: Are you experiencing Amazon service quality issues?
I'm interested to see if my family's personal experience matches what others have been seeing, especially given that a class action lawsuit has just been filed in California alleging they are failing to meet expectations of two day shipping for Prime.

https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/lawsuit-news/amazon-class-action-lawsuit-and-settlement-news/amazon-class-action-claims-prime-customers-do-not-receive-2-day-shipping-as-advertised/

I've been buying a ton of stuff on Amazon recently, the majority of which is infant related. I've noticed that maybe 1 item in 3 now takes a month or longer to arrive despite it being fulfilled by Amazon (and initially promised either 2 day or within the week), and I even had one item go MIA completely, and week by week amazon just automatically moved the delivery date back. After a bit of pestering someone in the Amazon support chat with a bunch of questions, it seems to me that what's happening is that Amazon serves as a fulfillment center for a lot of overseas companies who ship things to the US on a timeline of 40+ days. I don't understand why Amazon isn't publishing accurate shipping times for these items, but its driven me to the point where I'm just going to cancel prime, because for most baby items, if its needed, its needed relatively soon, and it's not reasonable to wait 40 days for a safety item they promised would arrive in 4.

For years now Amazon shipping seems to have only gotten faster and more reliable with each year, even through covid, so this rather abrupt change is very disappointing. Anyone else running in to these sorts of issues?
Also, Rosetta surprisingly does not do much for optimization, opting for correctness and leaving speed to the silicon.
I LOVE the idea but the language itself is so ugly I don’t want to learn it. It looks really ugly. Sorry.
In the US many crimes have highly flexible sentencing, like between 1 and infinity years in jail. Showing that you attempted to minimize the the harm, even after getting caught for it is commonly taken into consideration when sentencing.

Quite often it will be the defenses own lawyers telling the accused to remove particular pieces of information from public view.
This doesn’t actually work, it will still overflow the stack. The vec! macro will just copy its arguments into the heap; the arguments are still on the stack to begin with.
Removing such a huge mass from the solar system is a larger endeavor than most believe. Believe it or not, even Pluto at a mass of 10^22 kilograms and a distance between 4 and 7 billion kilometers is still bound by the sun's gravitational well. To just "throw something out of the solar system" without the potential for it to disintegrate and come back at us in the future is an incredibly difficult feat. To have the mass of some kind of life sustaining cylinder capable of supporting the activities you've listed coming at us at solar orbital speeds would be a catastrophe our local nuclear wars could only hope to emulate.

There seems to be a pervasive belief that we can just eject huge quantities of mass from the very strong, very isolated gravitational well we are bound to. To say nothing of the possibility of building such a cylinder, the realities and consequences of the situation are far more dangerous than people yet consider.
Just this week I ordered for my orchard of weird little apples:

Almata, Arkansas Black, Hudson’s Golden Gem, Keepsake, Northern Spy, Pipsqueak, Ribston Pippin, Roxbury Russet, St. Edmund’s Russet, Trailman, Wickson

The only one this site had was Arkansas Black, which is very mild right off the tree but sweetens in storage. They hated it. I wonder if they ate it off the tree.
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Thank you. I feel like I'm halfway to understanding. I'm afraid I'm not quite sure what the part "this is specifically about American government" means. Is it that the American government is afraid of this being done to Americans by the Chinese government? Are there any concrete concerns like, "China wishes to destabilize the US by decreasing social cohesion/increasing social divide" or "China wishes to destabilize capitalism itself"?
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