skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's actually a great idea. The estimated cost of each query is cents, so we might very well be able to retry everyone on each update, for less than the cost of keeping them imprisoned.

You're thinking like a developer and you're absolutely blind when it comes to the lives and families potentially destroyed by something like that. And that's exactly why technocrats should rarely be in charge

"ah really sorry dude, we released you last year but now you're on death row, wait for the next update, if it comes before you're fried on the chair you might get a lesser sentence. The last dude forgot to uncomment a branch in a switch/case and you were flagged incorrectly. Sorry for the inconvenience xoxo"

> Me personally? Afford more than a fairly small case.

That's a regulation issues, not an AI issue.
He doesn't care about developing games, he just wants to spend more time with you. Developing games is just the angle he found because you are a developer.

Source: I have been in that exact same spot (same nationality, even). We toyed with Scratch and similar apps for a while, but we eventually switched to just doing more things together and less computer stuff.
Sort of related: https://asdf.com/asdfemail.html is still going strong.

"You would never guess how many people use asdf@asdf.com (or some variant form) as a filler email address across the Internet. Opening up @asdf.com lets in hundreds of email messages a day pertaining to porn site registrations, real audio downloading, mailing lists dealing with Windows NT ... the list goes on and on! If you would really like to send us an email, you can do so here."
Service Now

Teams - slow, memory hungry

Defendpoint for local admin - when you end up having to put your password in 20 times to install something from Microsoft, for example

Jira - maybe it's just the way ours is configured but TFS/AZdevops seemed so much better

Microsoft Dynamics...
To note, this isn't always true.

My family moved to Portugal in late 2020. Covid played havoc as they had to find ways to digitalize many things their offices were doing. It took my wife 9 months to get her DL exchanged and me 11 months.

During that time, you are not driving illegally; you are driving from your foreign license. As long as you have the paper with the exchange info and a picture, you will be fine.

It also helps if you hire a relocation expert who knows the system. We paid ~$1,500 to a Portuguese American lady who helped us with everything. She handled setting up all our health care, apartment negotiation and contract review, set up all our utilities and phones, all our residency paperwork, DL exchange, bank account, and more. I highly recommend her and any group like her. They know how to work the system. My mom does similar back in the USA for newly arrived expats for companies.

Covid was a real shock to office-heavy organizations; it has been a mad scramble to change culture, paperwork, operations, etc. I think they are doing decent and hopefully, in 5 years, it is night-and-day difference.

I've lived in Egypt as well... the bureaucracy there worked really well (before revolution). I just had to go to a giant building and spend half a day there, done. Sure I had to taxi to a DSL place to pay, but that was pretty easy as well.
Just for most active searchers maybe.
Legal mediation in which both parties agree to an outcome. Typically used for debts, property disputes, etc.
Here are some concrete issues. These aren't "web is bad" kind of things but more like "sometimes the web is bad at certain tasks and that can't easily be fixed".

1. Not layered in any meaningful way. Seen another way: you can't implement a web browser using web tech.

This matters because a typical way to write apps outside the web is to pick an opinionated high level platform that you think will do what you want, but if it turns out at some point to not quite work in one part of your app you can drop down to a lower level. You can use the operating system's text rendering but you don't have to, and if you don't for some reason you won't really lose much performance because you can use the same lower level APIs that the OS's own text rendering library uses. This ability to drop down a level when you hit the limits of an upper level is significantly limits development risk and makes planning easier, because you know you will always be able to do something, it's just a question of effort. On the web, if you hit the limits of the platform, you're just SOL.

2. GUI only paradigm. Useless for CLI apps, servers, etc. There's no deep reason for this beyond history, inertia, business models and so on.

3. No working notion of software components. This has actually got worse with time: web components got rolled back, plugins were removed, HTML includes don't exist. That's something ViolaWWW got right in 1992! The web's leading component technology is React which doesn't even come from browsers and browsers lack obvious features it could use to improve performance. See how Sciter doesn't even need ReactJS core at all because they've got a DOM extension that does DOM diffing and patching in C++, but regular browsers don't!

4. The DOM model is not high performance. It's highly optimized in Chrome for what it does but the DOM is an extremely complex and generic system that nonetheless fails to deliver modern and competitive widgets causing a high level GUI API to be treated as if it's "low level", even though it isn't. It can't really remove anything, so browser code is absolutely full of slow branches, lookups, workarounds and so on. If you take it as given then browsers are fast because Google and Apple invested so much into it, but if you take a step back and say "what's the best way to render documents and GUIs fast" then it's not that great.

5. The web is absolutely not malleable as a platform. It's not at all bazaar like. Take just one obvious pain point where some malleability would be nice - a malleable system would let you use non-JS languages! The web's current attempt at this is WebAssembly, which can't do anything useful unless you call into JS to do it, which imposes a large performance penalty vs native code and which doesn't even really work for anything higher level than C++ or Rust. If the web was malleable someone would have fixed that years ago, but in reality the web can only be changed by Google and only via a convoluted and opaque political process.

Don't get me wrong, the web gets a LOT right! There are dozens if not hundreds of lessons to learn from its success. But the critics do have concrete issues.
Me either. All over the US, I have only ever heard “row-ter”. And my British family says “roo-ter”.
Alan Kay made scathing comments [1] on the World Wide Web browser (reinventing a broken wheel) at length in a lecture "Normal Considered Harmful" for computer science students at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

For context: Alan himself invented WYSIWYG at Xerox PARC. He was present at "the mother of all demo's" by Douglas Englebart [9]. Ted Nelson who invented bidirectial hyperlinks 'outside of the file' and Xanadu [6,7] got Alan in touch with his future wife [2] and Alan was there at Apple when Bill Atkinson made Hypercard.

He mentions that when he told Tim Berners Lee about the much better previous designs of Douglas Englebart, Ted Nelson and Alan's group at Xerox PARC, Tim was chagrined (that he had not read any of the papers about earlier and much better designs of 28, 25 and 20 years before the WWW browser in 1993).

Of course Alan also discusses how the web should have been done. In short, it should be that when you click a hyperlink you load a virtual machine in a secure sandbox of a Operating System Kernel. The virtual machine would then render the (bitmap or vector) pages. Operating System 101, well known in 1965. Of course, Alan's team did implement this (several times). I can demo all this software if you contact me. I also give lectures on this.

Email me at morphle [at] ziggo [dot] nl for a video where Alan Kay, Douglas Englebart and Tim Berners Lee meet and talk about this at a forum discussion. You can ask me about anything related to Alan, Ted or Douglas, I maintain an extensive archive with all scientific papers, emails, talks, interviews and lecture video's.

Alan, Ted and Douglas worked closely together and where friends. TED's beautiful eulogy [3] for Douglas is a wonderful speech where he bitterly indirectly refers to the ignoring of Douglas' work by Tim.

Alan made a demo with Apple in 1987 on what the WWW should be able to do [4,5].

[1] Normal Considered Harmful
https://youtu.be/FvmTSpJU-Xc?t=963

[2] Alan Kay's tribute to Ted Nelson at "Intertwingled" Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnrlSqtpOkw

[3] Ted Nelson's Eulogy for Douglas Engelbart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMjPqr1s-cg

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bjve67p33E

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umJsITGzXd0

[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En_2T7KH6RA

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu

[8] https://golden.com/wiki/Project_Xanadu-P6JE4

[9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
You mean the value system that got us the dark ages, people burned at the stakes for “heresy” (or hanged, or many other form of death), silenced people because what they were saying was against what is written in a non particularly good fantasy novel (aka the Bible), caused all kind of toxic behaviours in families and communities if someone was not following stupid rules in the aforementioned book. And the alternative is not embracing every stupid trend appearing on the internet… ethics is a topic philosophers have been engaging for more than 2 millennia!
Just use as little or much as you like. You don’t have to use every variant of a type of command.

Shift-zz is great as it uses only one hand and can be done in a rolling sort of movement.
An idea about the student pass: The friction you mention is probably to provide verification, right? What if you removed that part entirely, and just trusted the user? There would certainly be customers lying about being a student, to use it for free - but you want more consumers to use your product, and after a few years you can still ask them to provide student verification / start paying.
Show HN: Timezones Calculator App
Helpful tool for remote work to track time in different cities
it's my favorite pokemon
It’s fine, it’s vim and it’s all random, but I just can never remember ZZ so much as I can wq. That’s all
> There is nothing illegal about looking like a scam. It is only illegal to be a scam.

Unfortunately, investigators, client banks and other people you'd quite like to use for short term liquidity or long term profit opportunities don't tend to take "actually we're only trying to look like a scam" as a nice straightforward answer to their questions, so you get most of the problems of actually running a scam without the money even if authorities ultimately fail to find something they can put you in jail and confiscate your assets for (intentionally looking like a scam to manipulate your asset price would get you prosecuted in more regulated markets anyway). Is that worth it to earn a slightly larger and more downward-skewed spread on smaller volume? Certainly not if it's only matching cash equivalent yields you'd get without that (though I'll concede just because a strategy isn't worth the risk doesn't guarantee a crypto company won't try it).

Obviously there's market making profit to be had, but as you acknowledge much of that exists due to short term liquidity fluctuations anyway. Short term liquidity is a motivation to exit some of your position at 0.997 instead of 1.000 as well as for others to pay over 1.000 to get their order filled instantly; the whole coin having looked like a scam for several years is a motivation to use USDC instead. And since there's no plausible separation from Bitfinex exchange, the appearance of dodginess also means missing out on larger volumes of transaction fees and market making opportunities on all other cryptocurrencies...
> Can't think why they'd add NSFW to that site

As someone already mentioned nearby in the thread it could easily be something in the “purity test” content that has tripped an automatic naughty word filter.

It could even be the name of the site, depending on the location weapons and such might be considered NSFW (or for overly strict companies, not-relevant-for-work-we-dont-know-why-you-are-wanting-to-look-at-it-in-work-time!).
> MBAs making supply chains inherently fragile and over who valued BS things like JIT are just reflecting what is most rewarded in the corpo culture:

Also reflected in what is most rewarded by consumers: lower prices.

No business was ever going to thrive selling US manufactured goods at a significant price premium compared to non US manufactured goods.
It's not really the delays that make Portugal different, arguably most countries have long delays, it's the lack of reliability, transparency, and responsiveness.

I don't know Sweden. But we're a family of expats with multiple citizenships, so I deal with bureaucracy in 4 countries on 3 continents. Most countries have streamlined procedures, provide tracking numbers, addresses to send things in, phone lines... So it's long, but you know what's going on and what to do.

Here, even lawyers don't even know what to do. For a similar situation to get my partner a visa from within the country, we simply couldn't speak to anyone. Even the lawyer told us "well, you might have to wait a year or two to see if they re-open their ability to take new appointments." We eventually were able to get through after hustling like crazy, me driving to many different city halls to speak to officials there. Someone eventually knew a colleague there, and got us an appointment for 6 months later in a city 3 hours drive away. We showed up, it was a butcher. Their Google Maps pin was not even in the right place. Cherry on the cake. After getting turn-by-turn instructions from the butcher (who apparently does that 10 times a day), we eventually found their office.

Idk, never been to Sweden but I don't think you can compete with that :-D

Now I get it, they're vastly understaffed, Portugal is a small country. They're doing what they can.
No: one possible alternative interaction would be the user handing the program a representation of an instance of the class of object requested. For instance, if the program wants a camera, it says "drag and drop a camera here". The user picks up a camera object - maybe the real camera, maybe a proxy for the real camera that will only work once to take a single photo, maybe a dummy camera, the app can't tell - and drops it on the region.
Whereas greening the Sahara desert will require .. what inputs exactly? It's just an "agriculture" project on an infeasible scale.
You Can Trick Your Brain into Doing Hardwork (Dopamine Detox) [video]
I'd highly recommend checking out Elm playgrounds:

In ~70 lines, you have a Mario-like platformer with live code in the browser! https://elm-lang.org/examples/mario

You could use the turtle example as the basis for a racing game: https://elm-lang.org/examples/turtle

And there's even a WebGL implementation for 3D graphics! https://elm-lang.org/examples/first-person

> Another issue I'm facing is that we are French. It's a requirement for us to use resources in French for now as he improves his English along the way.

The Elm Europe community seems to be pretty large. I'd try reaching out to them and see if anybody has French resources.
enviromental effects are just one aspect of externalities, if you had to pay all of them, I wonder how many businesses would be left
And Baileys Irish Cream was invented by an Englishman, it's an interesting story: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/in-1973-i-invented-...
And somehow after 30 years of vi use, I never knew of or used zz.

I use ma, mb, etc and ‘a ‘b and ‘’ to mark and jump around, beyond the other options.
The hypervisor can generally pass real or simulated MCE errors to the guest.

See eg https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/48804eebd4a327e4b11f902ba8...
Not anymore I’m afraid. Sold in 2018

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Armory
Humanity has undertaken massive projects that took hundreds of years before (~2,000 years for all of the great wall of China).

As long as they're less than a few thousands light years out, I don't think that communication would be impossible.
> "what if I removed all the constraints, what would I do differently and how would things change?". Eg: Suppose nuclear fusion is successful, and you can actually power whole of earth for 800 years with 1 cup of hydrogen.

Build cheap and plentiful desalination plants on the west coasts of Africa, South America and Australia, and possibly re-green the Sahara and Outback.
This might sound naive, but wasn't the founding principle behind OpenAI that it should prevent powers around AI being concentrated in the hands of nations or big companies?

I really hope OpenAI won't get acquired.
Yes, but that's not the only thing running under the VM--the entire user client is in there. This is not proof that they're evil, in fact it's identical to an anti-boting technique that was just on the front page yesterday [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34285747
Ask HN: Can you recommend any resources for staff engineer starting management?
Hi HN,

I've been been steered towards line managing the small team of which I've been the tech-lead for some time as a staff level software engineer in a medium sized Org. I'll also still be an individual contributor.

I'm ambivalent about it but I want give it the attention and preparation it deserves.

What book/blog resources about making this transition (or any anti-patterns to watch out for) would you recommend to read? I feel support from the Org but had no training.
It doesn't matter if it's your door, it matters if it records public space.
Aside from games, AI can do all these things only with human assistance.

It's like saying "Excel can do your taxes". Sure, it can, if you put the correct numbers and formulas into the cells first.
I can empathize with the parent comment and understand why basic commands about Vim can be bothering them. Many of us (and perhaps the parent commenter is one of them too) come to HN to look for interesting news and articles. Something interesting that has happened in the tech world. Or some interesting knowledge about the technology tools we work with or the real life world we live in.

It so happens that rehashing of Vim's documentation on basic commands does not make it interesting enough. When articles on these basic commands (that are easily and better learnt from Vim :help) come on HN again and again, it can lead to a boring reading experience. It stops being interesting. For some people, this can reduce the real value of HN.

I'll confess that my comment may appear as elitist. But hey, at least I am being honest, from my high-horse, elitism and all. If you can get past the thorny issue of elitism, perhaps you can see my point. My point is that I appreciate why these articles appearing too often can be bothering to some. I hope you can appreciate it too.

That's not to say that there is anything wrong with these posts. If the community likes it and upvotes it enough, so be it. There is a "hide" link to hide the story if it is really bothering someone. A few basic Vim articles every week is not really a big problem even if it ends up bothering some people. I can live with it and I hope the parent commenter can live with it too.
Network effect is what makes these platforms what they are - and what some, like Google Plus, couldn't achieve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
The beatings with McMaster-Carr will continue until the UI/UX people get the message and website usability improves.
Learning Verilog and FPGA
Ask HN: Managing more efficiently at work to spend time my kids?
I am at the end of my paternal leave and I am trying to figure out a way to get full pay without working full time at my current job.

Yeah, I am a “having a cake and eating it too” kind of guy.

Anyway - I work as a project owner in the construction industry. I have pretty good computer skills - hence HN.

The job consists mainly of administrative work, spreadsheets, business analysis, stakeholder management and so on.

Does HN have any tips on how to manage more efficiently so I can save some time from work to hang out my kid? Without destroying my future career prospects.
Siesta is a thing in countries with hot summer sun - still today. If you are doing physical labor outside, in the summer on the sun that started soon in the morning, having such break does not turn the work into leisure. Especially not if you then work till dinner and dinner break and then continue working.

> Also in reference to “work that need to be done” we don’t include washing our clothes or shopping in labor statistics. If you define works as any productive activity then modern labor statistics also need no be dramatically increased.

Now, washing cloth was actually massive work in the medieval setup. Unlike now, it was not question of loading and unloading machine. It was done rarely for obvious reasons, but was absolutely work that counts. They were not shopping as much as we do, given transportation issues a lot more was created in house or within small area.

But go on, count both wood chopping as work and setting temperature in your house as work too. That would be fair.

Making those cloth, fabric and bedsheets and what not DOES count as labor now. Making soap does count as labor now. Caring about animals in the winter also does count as labor now.
This sounds like a doom loop.

Global warming causes mild winters, which cause less snow, so you fly in snow in cargo planes, which increase greenhouse emissions, which causes more mild winters.

It’s a bit upsetting, to be honest.
http://steam.com/ used to be similar, but apparently they sold out later. I guess nothing is permanent.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20161013203919/http://www.steam....

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20220730090724/http://www.steam....

(The site is offline at the moment.)
Or put an "Early Access" label on that product. This will justify about any change that you do later. Fortnite was "Early Access" until 2020, when it had already made an estimated $15 billion (yes, with a "b") in revenue.
Unfortunately, many modern shells like Nushell or Elvish don't implement this feature for some reason.
> AI can .... drive a car

Yeah no. Everything in your list should be prefixed by "kinda", and "kinda" doesn't really cut it in most of these situations.

They certainly are good tools but it's very far from what it promised, even decades ago.

> still be in denial

AI bros are in denial since 1950. With ifs and buts you can write compelling arguments for anything, in the meantime reality is a thing and virtually none of what you wrote is part of reality.

People like you are still in the "everyone will for sure have flying cars by 2000" stage of the new iteration
I'm often surprised and intrigued by what makes it to the front page.
Which chain and service is that?
Wait, is this typical to had PA system in your apartment controlled by your landlord there? Can you tell more about this? I'm genuinely interested.
There's JS minification - renaming variables to single letters, eliminating dead code paths, minimising whitespace, etc - that's exceptionally common and will be the default for most frontend workflows.

That is not really 'Obfuscation', at least to the degree that TikTok is doing.
Why Microsoft? What about all the other big tech companies like, facebook, google, apple? The same can be said of any large org.