skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never heard of SideKick before reading this but after some cursory googling, it sounds like a thing I wouldn't touch with a 10-foot pole.

> switching between Chrome profiles

You don't _have_ to switch between Chrome profiles, as in close one to open another... you can just have one or more separate windows open for each.

> Browser extensions are still vetted by respective vendors like Google & Mozilla

No, that is a common misconception. And it's what the browsers and smartphone app stores have somehow gotten everyone to believe. The truth is that anyone can upload whatever they like to all of these. The uploaded software might be run against various scanners to check for commonly-known exploits and API rule-breaking but they can't check for everything that an attacker can think up, so "real" threats are basically never discovered until some critical mass of users complain about it.

But I digress. Anyway, it sounds like what you want is Firefox and the Multi-Account Containers extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
For me(GP) it was this. Some of desk toys and electronics I'd considered were like that.
React, at this point, has a weird vibe where it's easy to learn but hard to master, which is why it has multiple (if not thousands) videos/articles/tutorials/even frameworks that explain the basics, but a few ones go really into the weeds.

Too many entrances for going to the same room
Until the language/runtime gets better support to model those kind of things, I think frameworks like react will be stuck with a suboptimal solution of some kind. It will always either be magical and convenient, or it will be clear but boilerplatey. hooks/useEffect are the former.

I hope that there will be improvements here (maybe through typescript) that really allow a better and more explicit concept/expression and composition of effects.
There are standard committees you can join if you want to share your opinion on how disabled people should be increasing their font size and having components run off page.
Well, as engineers, the only criticism of mr. Musk that matters is that all his companies are authoritative, very badly paying companies that work their employees to the bone. Very bad places to work. At the very best they're like a doctorate: you work your ass off for a minimal number of years not having a life, but you try to learn a lot and go anywhere else.
In general dealers are relentless in maximizing their profit on each deal and turn the negotiation into an all-day grind of dealing with overpriced unnecessary add-ons and inflated financing rates. Dealer employees are not employed by the OEM so they don’t care how much damage they do to the OEM’s brand with their tactics.
My primary phone number rings a payphone in my office. I missed having them around.
I'm sure you could find a buyer, but the price would be on their terms.
Awesome advice on the weighted backpack to keep the calories burning.
If you seriously think that Nintendo would tweet a picture of Mario "flipping the bird", you don't come across as a neutral arbiter, you come across as someone ridiculous.
Firstly, apply, and then have the bad luck to be accepted... ?
I really do find the idea that we’ve pushed everything into the render cycle and then provided means to filter out the running of said thing quite weird. I’ve started using zustand and init functions to set things up out of the rendering loop and I almost never have a useEffect that isn’t wrapped in another hook to name it (especially as is often the case my use effect is doing something like “useStartLeaderboard” which only triggers under quite complicated state setups). They are adding an even more magical hook (another special case) called “use” for dealing with promises.

I really don’t like the use of a closure to manage if useEffect triggers and generally prefer code that is explicit. I suppose I could mitigate that a bit by naming the dependency array something like:

const depsRenderOnInitOnly = [];

useEffect(() =>{}, depsRenderOnInitOnly);

Generally I love React but these are my main concerns right now. First class support for promises + asynchrony/await will be great, I just wish it wasn’t another thing hacked on top of hooks and the render/diffing loop.
Not for Portuguese designer, many authors and photographers, tons of schools,...

We only had one Apple official reseller store in Lisbon for the whole country, and outside a couple of university labs and companies with headquarters on the capital, they were only seen on computer magazines.
Your just-so story is fine when thinking on a local and small-scale level.

On a holistic level, "but the millionaires will move if we offend them by asking for taxes" is a race to the bottom; a tragedy of the commoners. It's long term utterly and unfathomably destructive.

Also, yacht building is one of the least morally defensible industries on the planet. If the industry crashed to 1% of its current level it would be a net boon to the Earth and humanity.

Your insistence that hoarding money and spending egotistically are mutually exclusive is kinda weird. Can you explain why it's not possible to do both? Are you just being unreasonably pedantic? ...
As the author of the book mentioned, I agree.

It seems like the eslint plugin (eslint-plugin-react-hooks) attempts to patch over the beginner-hostility by telling you what to do, but it doesn't actually explain why you should follow its advice.
Good news. It’s about to land. One nice thing about Dart is that they are extremely transparent in how they design the language. You can check out the entire repo here for an example of what I mean but if we are talking about these specific features this is a good place to start

Here is the intro:

https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/master/accepted/f...

Here is the spec of what they are currently implementing:

https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/master/accepted/f...

I think they both serve as a really good example of the kind of thoughtful approaches the language team are known for which coming from some different language communities previously I wasn’t accustomed to.
> I’d much prefer the free market approach where there are multiple actors each making different bets on future demand than some overarching rule about how future demand should be planned for (thats how we get famines).

Interestingly, food production is heavely planned through regulation, subsidies and incentives in most countries precisely because the free market cannot be trusted with such a sensitive matter. Famines cause riots and that's bad for buisness.
It's 8 examples of programs/components that use the function and that all takes 47 pages, which is nothing out of the world IMHO. A how to learn by examples is usually lenghty content but not too dense, specially compared to other ways of learning (like explaining the concepts, or by first principles, or docs, etc).
Not quite. HST was initially supposed to be a 3m telescope, but they had to go down a bit in size for budget reasons. And the reason for going for exactly 2.4m (instead of 2.5m or 2.2m) was that they could save even more money, because the mirror size of the military spy satellites was exactly the same and they could use some of the same manufacturing process.
The rest of the satellite is quite different to a spy satellite however.
"Is it alive?" is a classic trap because it may create a broken state if it's a person that is dead. You will never know how someone will respond to "yes, but no" facts, and since it's such an important question you may end up in the wrong half if there's a mismatch between your interpretations.

Probably the question that leads to most "but you said!" situations.
Founders must invest all their energy in their product, team and clients
Why must technology startup founders not cut costs and not fundraise in the medium term?
Founders must invest their energy and resources in their product, team and clients. And wait for better times down the road.
They are middlemen adding very limited value. It's not nothing; but maybe also not the thousands of dollars of a cut that they take. The fact that they need protectionist measures like state legislation to prevent competition that simply cuts out the middle man, kind of proves that. It's more of a tax than a value add.

Tesla organizes test drives too. And you can bring your Tesla in for maintenance (well not in these states obviously). So, it's not like you don't get any service.

It's the protectionism that is bad. Without it, more manufacturers would cut out the middle man and sell directly. Because why give that big of a cut to a middle man you don't need?
First signs that Biden's Executive Order on Data Transfers will be challenged
Ubiquity auto-install + Cloud-init to build, Ansible for anything cloud-init can't do, Prometheus , promtail, Loki, grafana to monitor.
Not for astronomy only; one customer among many.

SpaceX and trailing competitors are trying to make it cheap enough to get stuff out of the gravity well (including people and our more advanced products) that more permanent installations other places can get started. Elon says Mars a lot, probably because it's popular with the public. It's still expensive to send things up a gravity well, even if it's less expensive. The moon is shallow by comparison, and the asteroid belt far away but barely a dip. It would be safest to send robots first, bootstrap an installation that can manufacture local propulsion of any sort, O2, water, maybe even refine useful building materials, metal, or other resources. Anything so less is sent up.

Hopefully among all those things would also be materials to make large mirrors (optical and other portions of the EM spectrum), in less gravity, where it's cheaper to move them to useful areas of space, or even just truck them to spots around the surface of the moon.
> this thing would have been far better.

China has about 1.4 billion people - and all-time 5.226 COVID deaths. The US has 331 million people - about a quarter of China - and an all-time of 1.1 million people, about 200x of China.

As much as it pains me to write this, but China did the morally better thing here and actually cared about the lives of its citizens.
Polish. Bike is "Motor" (engine) or "motocykl", bicycle is "rower", scooter is also basically "skuter" but it is just about the form factor, not the engine

Also 50cc ones are called "engine bicycles" although that name isn't really used that often.
I run a b2b tech company and do not own a cell phone. It started as a month long detox and I found I was happier and never went back. All the 90s ways of doing things still work fine.
American dealerships(only ones I’ve dealt with) make a lot of their money on the auxiliary purchases, so they keep you in rooms, passing you around managers to try to get you to buy these things(extended warranties, extra options, tire changes, yadda yadda). They are also pretty difficult to negotiate with.

The service they offer is convenience and possibly peace of mind(over an owner sale), but they sure do take an arm and a leg for it.
I don’t know, throwing a hissy-fit whenever something doesn’t work out as he intended (pedo-guy, everyday twitter posts that are later altered/removed, etc), coming up with “a tunnel, but with cars” that is a fire hazard and has the capacity of horse-pulled metros from the 19th century, having only a single contribution to teslas in the form of a.. door handle (did you honestly think he knows anything about cars and rockets?), and having a tendency of overhyping and underdelivering with all of his stocks being grossly huge bubbles, meanwhile those companies have considerable government funding, and literally forcing himself into buying a company way overpriced that has never turner a profit and driving it into the ground —- I’ve never gotten the impression that he would be what I consider smart. He definitely wants to sell that image, but he is just a narcissist manchild.
Whether they provide value is kind of irrelevant, because one (at least in the US) _has_ to go through them. Is their markup equal to the value they provide? We'll never know, because we can't choose to not go through them.

If I want to place an order for a vehicle (not buy one off their lot), the dealer does nothing but still makes a cut.

Not to mention, the majority of folks selling cars (even new cars) are some of the slimiest you'll meet. They are masters of manipulation.

This short NPR piece provides more information:
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/09/1135633742/economists-hate-ca...

P.s. example of manipulation: some years back I bought a used Honda Civic. The 4th person I got passed to made sure to tell me "the civic is the most stolen car in the US", while trying to sell me on some aftermarket alarm system. I of course knew this was an intentionally misleading statistic, but I'm sure many folks could fall for it.
Once I learned about it, I have never since recycled and have encouraged others not to recycle. The whole thing now is basically a gimmick and a great example of the 90s style thinking that believes touches around the edges will solve climate change. If governments want to make an impact on trash pollution on the ecosystem reduce really is the only thing that should be pushed.
> Redefine & recompile a function

not just functions, but whole classes too
Shame the Fed didn’t do that.

Instead the Fed has been pouring vodka constantly into the punch bowl since 2009. This bubble is primarily their fault and now after it burst they have decided to go the other way and raise rates into a recession.
How do you define essential? I only use open source software and do not own a cell phone and I get along just fine.
> Except there's no such thing as a zero covid, anywhere. Eventually you get covid and if you're susceptible (mainly old), you die.

Had everyone followed the New Zealand model in the first year until vaccines were widespread and available, the virus would have gotten extinct just as Influenza Yamagata strain.
I meant not to make friends from strangers, but to look for friends/connections who you know already at the company. Referal bonus is an extra for them. I recruited and cashed bonus by bringing a couple of my pro friends this way. But you need network for that.
Strange that Microsoft used OP's project in their game, but didn't bother to let him know.
Is someone willing to go back in time and let comp.lang.lisp know about Rust?
The second example is a classic money laundering scheme. The amount in question is very small but it does perfectly fit the pattern.
Leans towards cleaner in my experience.
Which country is this? In Australia, real estate agents use trust accounts for deposits in escrow, and are not allowed to use them as general accounts. And rental bonds are held by state governments.
>The undeniable fact is, if car makers, auto safety ministers and everyone else with something in the matter cared about speeding your car wouldn't be able to go over the speed limit set.

How exactly do you do this?

If your answer is GPS, this means that highways will either become very dangerous, or will need to reduce speeds to ~15 mph in many places, because there's tiny access roads parallel to them with low speed limits. GPS is so horribly inaccurate that Google Maps frequently thinks you're driving on a parallel road, so to avoid some people's cars suddenly slamming the brakes on (because their GPS thinks they're on the access road), you'll need to just limit the total speed limit to the lowest speed limit of all roads in the vicinity.

In other words, your suggestion is technically infeasible.
Rich/poor does not matter all that much to surveillance capitalists and atdech companies.

If they or their friends have the ability to vote someone will always be willing to for their data to have an advantage in swaying said votes.
And only if you don't care about SafetyNet.

The situation has got so bad that regulators should probably get involved.

Important software people depend on such as banking or electronic payment apps can't be used with relatively safe and maintained operating systems, forcing the use of unmaintained, insecure stock system just to get SafetyNet these apps wrongly require.
That's why it's a bad question that only works in group of friends where it has been established what tangible means.
Very strange indeed
It is literally catastrophe-tourism at this point. You can’t just temporarily remove the people on a social media platform, it is dying and unless something happens very quickly, it is good as dead.

The most we can do is enjoy the comedic content while it lasts, I personally had a really great time reading these: r/RealTwitterAccounts
The night sky is not ruined if you live rural, it's just like it is before, albeit with more higher magnitude fast moving objects.
Excellent idea. This one is more usable than the python ones.
Nothing to see here. It likely was added by Copilot by simply typing

//add cool retro mini-game

This is progress
Looks like it only supports a few devices (Google Pixel, some OnePlus and Samsung).
As long as these OSs don't support a majority of the devices out there, they will not really be an "alternative" to Android.
The company I work for did all the steel work and painting to build this:

https://www.gatewaycontainersales.com.au/shipping-container-...

Which is kinda cool.

I agree, they are a really poor choice for home construction though.
I agree - even if they're legally allowed to just take his work, it would've been nice to let OP know.
It's not off the books, although I can understand stringent HR requirements for the role. We had the same requirements when recruiting :P, although we needed someone to be able to hit the ground running. I guess the same goes for most companies.
Would also be good for the environment if people did something about it
As an anecdote, I stopped buying "normal" socks from regular clothing stores completely.

All I wear is hiking labeled socks from sports stores. Greatly reduces wrinkles even if you go for the cheap ones. (Decathlon's store brand for example, but that's EU only i think).
I hope such a story isn't off topic for being political (because although the issue is highly politicized it is actually an important medical and social issue).

I've been really dismayed by the vitriol by which I hear a lot of people talking about these issues. On the one hand the "right" calling doctors child abusers - the article mentions how doctors both against and for puberty doctors did not want their names used in the article - while the "left" label the right as existence defying, and hate-crime committers.

Looking for good reading materials on trans issues is very difficult too with most books I can find seeming to belong to one of these two camps also. I would love suggestions.

My opinion is that there is a hard and maybe unsolvable problem at the heart of the matter; trans children/teenagers clearly exist, and it may be that puberty blockers are useful for people who will eventually transition. However, the effects of the drugs are profound and long lasting and may have a deleterious effect on some. And we are giving the choice to take them to people too young to be allowed to vote, drive, or have sex. It is a moral paradox that might not have a clearly correct solution, but a failure to accept this paradox seems to be leading the polarization of a large swathe of society and the long term effects of that polarization are hard to guess at.

It seems that people want so much to be right and be on the right side of this issue that many of us our being blinded to the fact that moral paradoxes do not always have a right side. (I'm thinking of the example of whether you should swerve your car away from one pedestrian towards another one.)
Meson, a build system for C/C++/Fortran/D will reach 1.0 in the next release
Yesterday took a look and looking at the docs and to my surprise! https://mesonbuild.com/Release-notes-for-1-0-0.html

After 10 years of development, at last, Meson seems it will reach 1.0 status in the next release :)

As it has been a long time and this is my personal favorite build system, I would like to share here what makes Meson worth a try in my opinion.

For whoever does not know Meson, Meson is a build system generator just like CMake and it is becoming the standard for many uses in the Linux world but it also plays well in Windows, unlike Autotools or Make, which are quite hard to handle in non-unix systems.

It supports C, C++, Vala (for Gnome), Fortran, D and limited support for Rust and Java. It can mix and match native binaries as well when compiling and it comes with the usual tweaks for flags, etc, per binary, project, etc. It has its own package system, wraps, and a very well-thought subprojects model (dependencies) but it is also compatible with Conan via pkg-config.

Some of the features that make Meson a good alternative to CMake:

the DSL is much easier to grasp

it has an integrated subprojects system, wraps

the DSL has types, so it catches many errors at the time of generation. No more empty interpolation or guess-how-to-make-your-if-condition-work. Unsurprising dictionaries, lists, ints and powerful string manipulation with a Python flavor (but it is not Python).

easy to mix and match binaries from different build systems

zero-code switch dependencies for subprojects or system dependencies (a feature usually useful for packagers in Linux distros)

way better typed options: combo, booleans, features, ints, lists

unsurprising and predictable project layout: by default, subprojects go always into subprojects and options into meson_options.txt files. Build files are called meson.build. No tricks, just everything where you would expect for any project.

Consume your CMake subprojects from Meson (subject to non-guaranteed working, but never had a problem in practice, even with Capnproto, though someone in comments claims problems with gRPC). As a fallback you can have wraps (needs meson.build) and Conan.

superior cross-compilation model. Easy to grasp files without a lot of extra programming and (native: true|false) flag.

On the side of criticism that usually comes for Meson:

you cannot extend it with your own functions

it does not provide anything similar to macros

files must be called meson.build and there are no equivalent of include, etc. for meson files, so sometimes they can get somewhat bigger (even if they are easier to read than CMake in general terms)

You can get a hand out of it in here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCZLnopmYBM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUxgbXEXAoU

Here it is an incomplete (and outdated I think?) short list of projects using Meson:

https://mesonbuild.com/Users.html
It’s as good as building a supermarket in Chernobyl. Surely, there will be traffic but not for a reason you want.
It is easier to achieve your architectural goals with greenfield development than modifying an existing system. However.. once you have an existing system, why are you going to throw the whole thing out, waste all those man-hours spent to make the thing, discard all the bugfixes you had to sweat over. It is very hard for a large organization to justify making something new.

It is the reason IBM had to set up a secret ninja tiger team to make the pc. They tried a few times before, and ended up with really nice systems, far nicer than the pc. but they cost 10,000 dollars, in 1980, you are not gong to conquer the small business market for computers with a 10,000 dollar machine. so they set up a secret team, far away from the rest of the ibm mothership apparatus with the mission to make the cheapest computer possible, and they did, it cost 3,000 dollars had nothing compatible with any other ibm and sold like hotcakes.
Twitter Financials Are Confusing
Best books of 2022 (according to Time)
Having actually looked at and run Mastodon, of the problems Mastodon have, and there are quite a few, the choice of Ruby is far down the list, and your focus on it suggests you haven't spent any time looking at where the complexity is.