skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are not fully understanding the situation, so making inappropriate judgement. War is not a sick leave and it is wrong to make such comparison. She is not incapacitated, neither she is looking for an escape route.

Currently there are many thousands of people in Ukraine looking for any type of the job. They have chosen to stay or were forced to stay because men cannot leave the country. Some of them are learning programming and coming to job market as engineers. If hiring someone is a way to help and a win-win situation (at lower budget you can offer same netto salary as in Germany), I use this opportunity. There’s only as much as we can do to help, so yes, now, given the circumstances, I focus on making them succeed on the job, because that is the best I can do both for them and for our business.
U.K. Regulator to Investigate Apple and Google’s Mobile Web Browser Dominance
> But let me know where it’s not doing what you expect and I’ll fix it.

I would expect > 0 results for the above search

Same search on SourceGraph: https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=context:global+kong.New&pat...
Finally, this compelling hypothesis is getting the attention it deserves.

> It need only happen once for the results of this scenario to become the equilibrium conditions in the Galaxy.

The only logical step missing is realising that any civilisation capable of generating these self-replicating probes would also be smart enough to look at the game theory and think "Either we become the berserker, and set the equilibrium conditions to be the ones that favour us, or we sit back and wait for another civilisation to do that to us."

This is a bit like the thinking that must have happened when US strategic planners in the 1940s considered the consequences of other nations gaining nuclear weapons, except they could have relied on the (questionable) possibility that mutually assured destruction could lead to a permanent stable equilibrium, whereas that doesn't seem to be an option when dealing with berserkers.
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Exactly? I wasn't the one who classified Drew Barry's work, widely acknowledged as some of the very best and most accurate in molecular animation, as "lies" ... so, not really sure what you're saying? In reality, humans can't see down to the nanoscale with their eyes, yet there are real 3D structures down there that have a physical form. If we display them as being a couple of inches large so that humans can see the shape, is that misleading? Should we never try to visualize anything for fear of it not accurately representing reality?

I guess my point is, as someone who has done a ton of work in this area, there are a million choices one can make when choosing what to visualize, and the lines between truth/reality/lies/accuracy can get muddled. A lot of it depends on context, use cases etc. For example, a star high school teacher may show one of Drew Barry's animations to their class and use it as an example of the limitations of visualization. A creationist could use the same animation as evidence of "God's perfect design".

What I'm understanding from the article and from your arguments, is that unless you can guarantee that a piece of work 100% represents reality in all its complexity, it does more harm than good. I'm politely disagreeing, I think it's better for these works to exist: "Perfection is the enemy of done".
The transport and fate of microplastic fibres in the Antarctic
Great! Let me know what you think, and if you have any suggestions.
> treat your customers well

That's why it took a lawsuit to get refund support for Steam.
Reminds me of this article from Derek Sivers: https://sive.rs/bronze
New features haven't been added to WSL 1 for some time, but because of backwards compatibility guarantees, I would expect to see WSL 1 exist for many years.
There's also something childlike about elders as they experience mental decline. There's a reason we try to protect people from "elder scams." Personally I hope if I'm found in front of the TV absorbing conspiracy theories for hours a day somebody clocks me on the head and drags me to safety.
Self awareness in criticism on both sides of the equation is really hard.

Some people derive ego out of criticizing, some are angry, spiteful, ideological, personal - and frankly, I think all criticism have a least small hints of all of these things.

But as someone suggested 'etiquette' with a hint of self-awareness, even as simple as 'Do I need to do this?' 'How can I make this about the work and not about either of us?' etc. might help.

Wrapped in a bit of 'tone shifting' to make it feel a bit nicer ... then debate ought to be encouraged.

On the receiving end, I really think that a bit of 'adversity training' would go a long way. I think people are incredibly resilient, and you can 'pretend expose' people to all sorts of stuff (even some personal attacks) and they will get used to it very quickly. In sports, even in the military, you see people develop certain kinds of resiliency that I think comes from doing challenging things, camaraderie, teammates chirping you when you get to big for yourself (or for any other reason). Confident people don't perceive questions as threats, even if they are reactionary in the moment.
Sorry. I wrote that piece before that fact was known.
I'll post a correction later after looking up current sources.

EDIT: I have posted a correction at the top of the page.
I love seeing innovative tech like this spring out of the Pittsburgh region… Once the nation’s capitol of industry innovation, maybe it can be again.
A lot of people can’t fathom actually doing what they love for a living and what that really means, the implications that is has on your decision making process etc. I completely understand why he’d do that, and can imagine lots of cool problems that I’d do the same thing to work on. We’re blessed.
Participation trophies are 100% bullshit.

The reward you get is learning that hard work is its own reward.
Influencing Long-Term Behavior in Multiagent Reinforcement Learning
Some notable Linux gaming failures for me:

Roblox. Kids really wanted me on this but I've never been able to get it to work. Technically not on Steam/Proton, but a notable failure.

Eador: It runs but the graphics are completely garbled.

Anything VR: No luck at all getting QuestLink working on Linux.

Several games don't like later versions of Proton and I have to force them on older versions. This isn't a huge problem except that it it an annoying amount of fiddling to figure out which version is working.
Not burning coal also kills people. This isn't something you can reduce to platitudes, particularly if you are a first world professional who never has to worry about the price of fertilizer, about the lung diseases caused by burning dung in a small home stove, about freezing to death in the winter, or not being able to power a water treatment plant, etc.

When you are rich, you can spend a lot more to do all of these things, but when you are poor, coal is often the only option because it's all you can afford. For a lot of nations, upgrading to natural gas is a dream that is unavailable due to the cost, and the same nations lecturing poor countries about the harms of coal are also bidding up the price of natural gas as well as oil to make it unaffordable to the rest of the world, effectively forcing the third world to burn more coal.
Better yet, why not snuff people when they get to 30?

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> In my eyes, the most important ones are faster compilation and allowing metaprogramming via unrestricted compile time execution.

I'm fascinated by languages that are adding more compile-time programming features, in the context of a low-level performance-oriented use case. Would love to know more about the history and state of the art of this area.
I think your real niche is going to be creating software for luthiers that enables you to design the flamenco guitar of your dreams. Critically, you discover the ideal guitar body for flamenco is incredibly heavy…
Fair comment. :)

I was referencing Bergmann's Rule [0], which really only applies to warm blooded animals but there's also a theory that evolving a larger size helps ectotherms maintain a stable temperature also. [1], and relating to your question on carrying capacity of the food available - the Jarman-Bell Principle [2] that larger herbivores can subsist better on low quality food than smaller herbivores.

And, for interest, Allen's Rule on body appendages for temperature regulation. [3] There's also Cope's Rule - that animals just tend to evolve to get larger, until that's no longer viable. [4]

I can't comment on how valid any of them are, as I'm just an armchair biologist :D

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergmann%27s_rule

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantothermy

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarman-Bell_principle

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%27s_rule

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cope%27s_rule
This is a great point! I think a lot of people, myself included, do the same thing with YouTube videos or even long Netflix shows; it's playing, I'm half-listening to it, but I'm also accomplishing some annoying or semi-mechanical task. If you asked how much video content I consume, you might be shocked at the answer, but I wonder if we should count that as "wasting time".
Can you elaborate? I'm not seeing VW present itself as a paragon of virtue, just not advertising on a platform which no longer has teams capable of managing advertising (e.g. ensuring that you're not showing your advertising next to pornography or white nationalism).

No one is playing the virtue card here, it's just practical business.
Not to endorse this attitude about my end of the population pyramid - but it does raise an interesting point about how TV screen time was measured for the older folks.

In long-term care facilities, hospitals, doctors' offices, etc. - where the TV's are just left turned on all day, "turn it off" isn't an option, and a fair number of the older folks may have failing hearing / eyesight / cognition (so they might have a hard time following the content on the TV, even if they wanted to) - was that "screen time" added into the numbers?
Actually, being extraordinary is something most people can do. Now, by definition that seems illogical. However, here me out. Most people tend to view extraordinary along a single dimension: really good at math, or really good at running. In this one-dimensional view, most people can't be extraordinary.

However, you can be extraordinary in your own unique way. For example, running. You may not be the best runner, but you could have a lot of insight into running and a good writer at the same time, and thus be extraordinary at writing about running.

If you take the entire sum of your own unique talents, and find a way to combine them properly, you can become extraordinary simply by finding a new way of looking at the world, even if the individual talents you have are not outstanding compared to others.

Take programming as another example. You may be just a "good" programmer, a "good" teacher, but not necessarily outstanding at either. But maybe you have a third skill that will make you stand out when you are teaching programming. Maybe it's your sense of humour, or your ability to put people at ease, or even a talent for drawing that comes out when you draw diagrams.

Being outstanding or extraordinary in my mind means combining everything you have to be inspiring, because the proximal/end result of extraordinary really is just that: having the ability to inspire. Sometimes one-dimensional measurements like amount of money or raw strength measure that, but sometimes they don't.
Gamepass is a gift and a curse, on one hand, it makes Windows gaming dirt cheap. But it also makes Linux Gaming like this pointless.

If half the games I want to play are locked to Gamepass, I'm not having fun with Linux. Now, if Gamepass could run on Photon, we can talk.
"The masses stand up to be the owners" was a lie then huh
Yeah, Last.fm is really good for playing a playlist from a single scene. It's not necessarily a single genre, just bands who tour together, or guest on each other's tracks.

They used to go pretty deep too, like bringing in bands from 20 years before that influenced the current one.

It's not necessarily the greatest for bands that are selling out stadiums as there's too much interference from Clear Channel, but it's great for small to midsize scenes which tend to have shows from 100-1000, since those tend to be more defined.
You may be interested in a little background on Siri on device with CoreAudio https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/hey-siri
We used all these. Also Pipes. Thank you for your service. :-)

// YUI was underrated.
In some other countries (many? Most? idk) you file taxes directly on the government's website. No private third party is involved. In France for example, in a simple case (employee) it can take as low as few minutes to file your taxes for the year. Contrast that to the US dystopic situation where lobbying by TurboTax and the likes pushes people to pay to file their taxes.
Yeah, I agree that in that Python example, use of exceptions is awful (and the entire example is awful, I think).

> But whatever it does internally has no affect on the outside world. Raising an exception is definitely a side effect.

However, would you please elaborate, how do exceptions affect the outside world, in your opinion? As far as I understand, exceptions only "return exceptional value" up the call stack, to the calling function. Of course, barring total program crash in case of unhandled exception, but unhandled exception is a programmer's error, like integral division by zero or infinite memory allocation loop.
The “boob tube” was common parlance back in the day, so all those olds got it then.

But we during commute, work and school all day we did not have a phone in front of our face for 8 hours. I was watching a roofing crew awhile back and the number of times someone pulled their phone out was startling.

That said, here is a free YC startup idea: tiktok for olds. Scrape all those old shows and build memes.
Almost of the Republican dollars went to RINOs too. Specifically those that voted to impeach Trump so the whole bipartisan angle is bullshit.
super cool! nice intro for me to kubeflow as well
Rust will not accomplish this without significant language changes as well as changing cargo into something a lot more cooperative with external ecosystems.

Zig is getting an absolutely enormous boost from the fact that it is a self-contained C ecosystem that can cooperate with others. Zig has tripped into a very powerful niche--a lot of people LOATHE the build systems of the C/C++ world. If Zig gains very much more traction there, it's going to be extremely hard to dislodge.

I suspect that there are FAR more users of "Zig as C build system" than there are of "Zig as a language".
None of the advertisers reducing or eliminating their Twitter spend are paragons of virtue (or have presented themselves as such). You'll see more and more companies allocating their advertising budget elsewhere until Musk can prove to agencies that he's capable of ensuring rudimentary brand safety.
This sounds like a fairly easy optimisation, actually. Whereas a human goes "Oh, so you mentioned A, B, and C, but not the otherwise popular D" and conditions on all that information, a simple recommendation system would just go "ah I see you didn't mention popular D, that must be because you don't know about them!"

Should be fairly easy to adjust the recommendation system so that it conditions on what you specifically did not mention, assuming that the most popular of that stuff you know about already.
Last.fm has a lot of these "Human recommendation" mechanisms. they are just kind of indirect. For exple, those humans could be

- People with whom you share recent top artists -> the "neighbours" feature

- People who also like that obscure favourite track of yours -> the "X listen to Y a lot" feature (or even just a delightful Shout on that track)

I often just convert the Loved ones from their "Top 100 Tracks" into a Spotify playlist (I may even filter it by genre beforehand)

The whole point is you don't have very similar taste to them. Still, you can find some totally unexpected gems.
Interesting findings; so the NMR structure researchers won't be out of a job after all; good to know.
I have a hard time taking this seriously, it's the objections of one individual who seems to be seeing ulterior motives behind WASI... I don't think their objections are really as strong as they make out. Big red "In violation" labels are a bit much.

WASI is trying to be a cross language API for use by multiple languages that target WASM. But the author wants this API to more closely follow existing JS conventions? Sure that's useful to JS/Web, but it's not useful for anyone else trying to target WASM with a language that's not JS. And if you want to target Web API's with JS, can't you already just write native JS?

Bikeshedding over string encoding for example and objecting to WASI's promotion of UTF-8 because it doesn't match the encoding used by JS.
The problem WoW shares with TV is that for many (most) people, logging in to WoW is an easier route to a pleasurable experience than any safe affordable activity available to a person living 70 years ago or 700 years ago or 7000 years ago. One worry that neuroscientist Andrew Huberman and others have is that if you partake often in potent pleasures that do not require much effort to achieve, you lose motivation to work hard at pursuits that haven't been carefully crafted by "designers" to be maximally engaging and pleasurable or require more effort or sacrifice to access than WoW or TV require.

It is not obvious to me that WoW's being very interactive (or its putting you in communication with real people) protects it from having the adverse effect I just described. Maybe the interactivity merely gives the designers of WoW more levers to pull in their quest to make WoW as engaging and compelling as possible -- which is more engaging and compelling than is probably good for you for something as easy to access as WoW is.

Specifically, if you binge on WoW it can take over a month for your motivational system to return to normal, and while it its taking its time returning, you have less motivation to tackle real life. Also, since pleasure causes whatever you were doing right before the pleasure to be "reinforced", if you play WoW a lot, then stop, for years afterwards whenever you are tired or under stress while at the computer you will tend to type in the command to start up WoW without any conscious awareness of intending to do so.

Of course video games, online role-playing games and TV aren't the only activities with this problem. The paperback novel for example is an invention that provides customers (at least those good at turning printed words into mental imagery) easy access to a fairly potent pleasure. This is a problem that society has been grappling with for a few centuries.
> I would further argue that business data be dynamically typed, because business data is often messy and changeabl

Huh? Static types make change and refactoring much easier.
Ask HN: Fellow devs, how do you deal with fraud on your application?
I've worked on many different applications over the years that have all been hit by various types of fraud. Some were fairly generic (ie account takeover, promo abuse, content abuse), while some were very application-specific:

- Programmatically creating HSA accounts then draining a penny from them.

- Employees at laundromats giving their friends free washes.

- Dry-cleaning customers having a friend pick up their clothes then claiming they were stolen.

What's been your experience dealing with fraud? Any memorable fraud you've had to deal with? How did you respond to new fraud on your application?
China claims youth gaming addiction resolved
Proton is literally what made me permanently go from dual-booting Windows to going Linux full time. I can play all games I care to play with excellent performance on Linux. It's pretty amazing. Kudos to the Wine and Proton team.
Thanks. I've been needing this perspective lately.
The article hangs that price on a pause until the end of 2024, which is not data from the WP article they link to.

Also holy trickle-up. One of their arguments is that the pause leaves too much money in middle and lower class pockets, which will increase inflation. Presumably the cure for inflation is to tax the bottom half of society into the ground, so they don’t have money to bid up prices?

Very odd and disingenuous article.
So if they had watched more TV would that have constituted “taking the time to live”?
> "The idea here seems to be that it's OK for people to watch hours of TV a day every day."

No, the idea is that it's unfair for people who watch 6 hours of TV/day to be trying to support authoritarian and intrusive legislation against young people on the grounds that the young people "spend too much time watching screens, which is bad for them and bad for society". The idea isn't "it's OK to watch 6 hours of TV", it's "if you want to be left alone to watch 6 hours of TV, stop trying to control the life of someone else who wants to be left alone to watch 6 hours of TikTok".

> "The issue is really that doing _anything_ mindlessly is a waste of life."

No, that's a different issue. The issue is that the government in the UK keeps pushing for more and more authoritarian surveillance and control laws over the internet and smartphones and justifying it with the kind of rhetoric used in the blog - screen time is bad because of radicalisation, spectres of terrorism, the collapse of society and community, and etc. And the Conservative government's largest voter base in the UK is the elderly.

> "There's also an enormous difference here in that older people often can't really do much else."

I'm assuming your grandma is significantly older than 65? With a UK average life expectancy in the 80s, a lot of people past 65 are still well capable of doing things; even then part of the problem mentioned in the blog post is that UK society supports little else for people to do, what with the cost of living crisis (Conservative government mostly voted for by older people policies of austerity, running public services into the ground), Brexit, mostly voted for by older people, house price crisis, largely propped up by - and beneficial to - older people, the binge drinking culture, wider social issue where the one thing to go out to of an evening is go to the pub, the car focus instead of public transport focus (Conservative government, see above).

That is, there is a big feeling in the UK that the elderly have screwed up the country's future with selfish short-term policies, which disproportionately hurts the young who have more future to care about and fewer saved resources, and are trying to control the young even more while living on pension payments propped up by the working young.
I thought this question was a joke based on the title. Our economic system itself creates inequality between nations. It's in the best interest of wealthy countries to keep developing countries poor so we can continue extractive processes for their resources. I wasn't aware the question had 'vexed economists for decades'.

You can say the same of inequality within a country. Wealth accumulates because we have an economic system where the few are able to extract value out of the many and are protected in their position both with prevailing ideology and state power.
Did Ben Franklin want America’s national bird to be a turkey?
Because it is built on top of Wine. The difference is when you try to run a game on just Wine you'll often have to do some fiddling on the command line or in configuration files to get the thing to work, if at all. Proton is much less fiddly. Stuff more often than not just works from clicking start.
Thanks for all that info, you've given me a good amount to go on with.