skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear you on the "it must be aliens!" argument. Really, I do. And until at least the concept of the "Alcubierre drive" came out, one could simply claim "there's no possible way for any being to physically come here from any galactic-level distance because of the amount of time it would take at sub-light speeds" and that would be the end of the story. (Even then, my response was usually "no way that we can think of"...)

I am well aware of all of your other arguments, as I was a Psych major who specialized in perception.

I'm of the government's stance on this currently: I think it's a real phenomenon, I trust most qualified eyewitnesses especially if it is in concordance with radar data, and I refuse to concretely claim anything further. And it is a mystery.

But I AM free to speculate.

I could claim something like "assuming there IS some alien intelligence controlling these hyper-performing craft... if another intelligence was advanced enough to even make it here in the first place, ostensibly they also have fairly full control over all elements of the interactions with us, which includes not showing themselves outside their craft", but this is also the Conspiracy Fallacy. Two thoughts on that though: The Conspiracy Fallacy does not disprove conspiracies (which is why I am openly stating this is speculative). And secondly, this also means that (if this claim is at all true), they are likely voluntarily showing themselves at some "pace" as to not overly upset us. Why that? Well, perhaps you've heard of systematic desensitization (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematic_desensitization) as a treatment for phobias? That might be going on here. And it's apparently working, since nothing crazy's happened since the USG openly admitted this is real. This is a far cry from the Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" broadcast days.

So, no. I can't say it's aliens, at least rationally. But I do speculate that. ;) And honestly, I think it's fun to think that not only might we be not alone (wouldn't that be amazing??) but that we're kind of in a galactic kindergarten. ;)
Depends what tooling you care about.

There is plenty of C++ tooling for GPGPU, game engines, IDE, GUI programming, HPC,... that Rust still lacks.

In what concerns cargo, vcpkg and Conan are good enough, and support binary libraries, no need to compile everything from scratch.
I think the problem is going from completely anonymous to a date. You could be putting yourself in a really vulnerable position with a rando. There's really no proof this person is not a psychopath, to put it bluntly.

In social groups, there's at least some social proof of this other person is likely safe. You know them by reputation. You may even be introduced to them or someone vouched for them.

IMO, for this reason, things like meetup groups, or other IRL social groups, with some level of group norms, where relationships can develop organically (into friendships, or whatever), with really no expectation of dating are probably the most appropriate. I met my wife in a local hiking group. It was its own social circle, and we went on trips together. Some people dated. Some people became friends, etc...

So, I guess, no there's no way to fix online dating :) unless you can solve the underlying social proof problem that develops more organically IRL settings.
There are plenty of gigs out there but finding them when you're first starting out is difficult.

I've freelanced about half of my career and ~80% of my gigs have come through my network. Sometimes I'm referred by friends and acquaintances and sometimes by people I've done work for in the past.

I've grabbed a few off of the monthly HN "who's hiring" thread, there are often a ton of freelance gigs in there.

I work primarily in startups, though, so YMMV at larger organizations.

If you have questions, feel free to E-Mail me.
What did the author mean by renters should get land titles? Is this person saying that renters are entitled to suddenly own what they rent? I'm not getting what they meant with that point or how that would work.

Look, I love a good rant as much as the next bloke, but renters are not forced to pay X% of their income. The word force has a specific meaning, and somebody choosing to rent a specific flat isn't force. Renters choose to pay large amounts in order to live in a particular area. The reason that rates are so high is that there's many, many people that want to live there. There's certainly less expensive housing than a desirable apartment in the best London areas. What's a fair way to determine who gets to live in a nice place in the most desirable areas?

Prices are based on supply and demand. Everybody, in every market, charges about as much as they can get. If your supermarket could sell a big bag of rice for $9,000, they would. If you could charge your employer $9,000 per hour for your services, you would. The reason that prices don't inflate like this is that there's always competition. If somebody tried to charge $9,000 for a bag of rice, the next person could charge $5,000, or $1,000, or so on and so on until the price that meets demand is found. If you tried to charge $9,000 per hour as your wage, your employer could find somebody else to do it for less too. This is how prices work. Landlords only manage to get $XXXX because there's many people willing to pay that.

So if we're complaining about rental prices, what's wrong with supply and demand in cities? Many things, but in many cities, they do their damnedest to both reduce housing supply (stuff like price controls or building regulations that prevent new construction) at the same time as they're increasing housing demand (the big cities where housing is most pricey are always filled with politicians trying their hardest to agitate for mass migration and bring in more economic migrants. Nothing wrong with people trying to better their situation, but this demand for housing necessarily puts pressure on housing prices).

Strictly as far as housing prices go, unless something is worked on with either the supply or the demand, I don't see how any substantially better result emerges.
You gotta use multiple (machine) words to represent them. The ADT can't be recursive and the closure environment needs to be small enough. E.g. for delegates, the closure environment is just the receiver object, so using a fat pointer of two words (one code pointer, one object pointer) is sufficient.
Not everyone uses/prefers TypeScript, and not everyone is on a team that builds and maintains a large ambitious SPA. There's room for both frameworks like Next.js and small libraries that work without build steps.
As somebody who could possibly be in the category you described, once I learned about Arc+Mutex, I pretty much write code the same way I used to. That and maybe OnceCell/Lazy?
That patents genes spread lightly onto his field didn't give him a "get out of patent free card" to then concentrate those genes by spraying the field with herbicide. The courts properly understood that intent and actions matter here. The farmer was in the wrong and justice was done.
django admin? https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/ref/contrib/admin/
What do you mean by "encryption is inherently complicated"?

Conceptually, and thus in a cli frontend it should be pretty simple: you specify a message, a public key and a destination to encrypt, and then a ciphertext and a private key to decrypt. What is complicated?
So what? I should be able to do whatever the fuck I want on my field as long as I don't use pesticides or processing that has been banned by law, without anyone being allowed to sue me for that.
Why is this relevant in this context? The question is which entity should be liable for abiding by this regulation, and the clear intention is that the answer is the one that Stallman himself would agree with: responsibility should sit entirely with whoever is distributing the software and making money off of it.
Ironically, the common opinion that that was just sooooo impossible is itself incorrect. There is no problem whatsoever with writing a virus to run on the computer system that was under study for decades and simply delivering it with a Mac. The point is precisely that in this case, this wasn't a blind exploit, and delivering with a Mac is no more particularly challenging than delivering a Windows exploit payload from a Linux scanning machine.

This accusation demonstrates the accuser's own lack of understanding about computers; Hollywood actually got this one right. Personally, I rather suspect this was coincidence rather than anybody on the production sitting down and working out this logic. But nevertheless, the movie is right on this point.

There are similar scenes in other media that are ludicrous. I am pretty sure I recall a scene in Voyager in a later season where the crew encounters a computer they've never seen before, from a species they'd never encountered before, on a piece of hardware they have only a vague idea what it does. They beam aboard, stand in front of a console, discover they're locked out, and "hack" past that in about literally 5 seconds. This is stupid. They shouldn't even be able to read the text on the console, and they've "hacked" it in five seconds. One wonders what the hack exactly was. Hollywood makes this mistake enough that I'm pretty sure that Independence Day getting it right was just a coincidence. Probably if the story didn't include a downed fighter being studied for decades they would still have rolled with the virus idea. Then it would have been silly. But as written, it is not silly.
> how does the buyback help them to be valued as a growth company

Buybacks are what growth companies do, dividends are what value companys do (for whatever reason). But more generally, FB needed to show profit growth to go back up in value, and the easiest way to do that is lay off a bunch of people.

> Also doesn't the fact that he paid for the buyback with employee layoffs really damage FB as a prospective employer when FB at some point in the future again needs to hire? What was the logic here?

Maybe it does. But if they offer shedloads of money, I can't see people worrying about. For context, FB performance reviews are hardcore, so it's not like people were resting and vesting there. I dunno what his real logic was (I left in 2018), but the above seems reasonable, to me, at least.
Says who? I love prototyping things in Rust.
I wish, wish wish there was a portable mini split (not a portable air conditioner).

The closest thing is this:

https://rollibot.com/product/mini-split-ac-room-air-conditio...

but it sucks.

I don't understand why these things have to be permanent fixtures of your house, necessarily.
nobody wants an AR headset
> The biggest barrier to hacking is often the fear that you’ll break something while poking around. But you have to break eggs to make an omelet; likewise, you have to be willing to sacrifice devices to hack a system. Fortunately, acquiring multiple copies of a mass-produced piece of hardware is easy. I often do a bit of dumpster diving or check classified advertisements to get sample units for research purposes. I generally try to start with three copies: one to tear apart and never put back together, one to probe, and one to keep relatively pristine.

I love learning this kind of stuff through this site. In the world of reverse engineering or hacking stuff together, it feels like such a fumbly exercise that there just isn’t any discipline to it, but experts definitely learned some tricks and learning from them is such a treat. I’ll have to download that book and give it a read sometime soon.
> Municipal broadband: the best broadband in the entire United States is provided by the municipality of Chattanooga.

You can even get 25G from EPB now, though the 10G is good enough for me, frankly. That being said, there's several locations in the US where 10G residential fiber is broadly available; frequently either municipal or co-op (e.g. Utopia Fiber in Utah), though I believe EPB was first in 2015.
Is that really relevant?
Exclusive is an interesting description in this context because it describes the semantics of the mut as regards the borrow checker. "mut" in Rust means much more than just "mutable".
I assume in home that don't have ACs, that they also don't have ducts. Do these ductless homes filter their air, control home humidity, or bring in fresh air from outside?
The headlines these days are definitely hostile, though. C++ is unsafe, a legacy language, etc.
How Amazon RDS Replication Works and Why the FAA’s Database Problem...
"the United States restrictive immigration policy prevents this."

It is more than a restrictive immigration policy. Many other caregiver policies exist as well. I have an acquaintance that runs an adult foster care home with 5 rooms. When he added a second facility he went from providing care to being a paperwork pusher for the federal, state and local governments. This is the real reason is costs so much.
C++ modules....
He did something that only made sense if it were deliberate and intentional violation of the patent. Intent matters.
As a long time c++ developer there's a big difference between when something shouldn't happen and when it can't happen. Rust makes certain classes of issues fundamentally impossible (ironically, leaks are possible in Rust), while in C++ it depends on how well you can enforce certain code guidelines on yourself and anyone that works on your same codebase. Also, you get like zero assurances that other people code has been written with the same quality standards as yours, as long as something is very easy to mess up, it will probably be inadvertantly messed up by someone.
wholeheartedly yes; this addresses nearly all the concerns i had in my comment.

the only other concern is the ability and the added time to make changes to these dependencies. what this sometimes means in practice:

in terms of time: you may have to wait for upstream to accept your change. alternatively, one could maintain a fork of the package and replace the dependency to point to the fork while waiting for changes to be accepted, however doing so adds back-and-forth work.

in terms of ability: upstream may reject a change.

after the change is merged upstream, you are required to vet commits in the dependency between the last previously vetted commit and your currently merged commit, all at once, before you can upgrade the dependency in your original project.
Steve Jobs and Apple were a fan of small teams…

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/leading-apple-with/9781...

But some people still have this belief that 9 women can make a baby in a month.
In any sort of Catholic education, this is learned immediately.
What's nefarious is being coerced to take on foreign debt to buy these seeds and then watching the country fall apart because the food is for domestic consumption and not for export, which means there will be a trade deficit as the seed exporter is not obliged to import products from your country (which violates Say‘s Law that so many people seem to hang onto). So your only option is to send all the bright people in your country to the seed exporting country so they can earn domestic currency so that your country can afford basic food production.

You can then chalk all of this up to corruption and incompetence and government mismanagement even though it is quite literally just a trade deficit that could be solved by having the other country import your products. This is why Keynes suggested his Bancor system, because it gets two countries to fix their trade imbalances instead of pointing fingers and starting a blame game that helps nobody.
eBay is awful, I don't understand why they haven't improved their site experience at all since becoming popular in the noughties.
Yea, you cannot post in /r/news for instance without a verified e-mail. Automod will remove your posts/comments.

I don't know what they think they are accomplishing since burner e-mails are trivial, but perhaps it gives a semblance of doing something.
Google Finance looks nicer on the surface, but doesn't have nearly as much data. It doesn't have options for example. I feel like Google had a great opportunity with finance and let it wither like so many other things.
However, being that Apple sales probably shot through the roof, and how popular microchip commodities were in general, I'm sure they had almost more recent hire than Google did.
> What claim do you have to say that? Here is a 30-minute lecture from the guy recording himself producing a track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfEhLdITOac

Joachim Garraud, among others, has been producing David Guetta's tracks for 20 years.
I was thinking more about the things being contained rather than the containers themselves. But you're right - they are all data structures.
> Yes! Cryptocurrencies were a major feature / selling point of so many industry tools and services. What does it do? No idea, but it uses cryptocurrencies to do it so take my money. So many businesses just screamed about cryptocurrencies. It was honestly kind of a bizarre furor in the early 2020s.
Maybe someone can help me find an obscure XML feature that I’m fairly certain I didn’t imagine:

Is there a way to refer to another part of the XML tree from elsewhere in the document?

I vaguely recall hearing about this feature, but now I can’t seem to find it, even after skimming the spec.
It means that you haven't taken the proper care to prevent it from happening in first place.
That sax is awesome!
India and China developing medieval combat weapons for fighting in the Himalayas
The link to the documentation page gives 404
Google used to have a "forums" search type option which brought up some great results from forums. The "reddit" trick seems similar to that.
Article really lacks specifics. The reason so much of the USA grows “patented” seeds is because they’re created specifically to be sprayed with herbicide and not die. There’s no alternative to to patented seeds without making fundamental changes to agriculture practices.

Hybrid seeds are also different than open-pollinated in that the children do not grow true to parent. Even if we removed the patents, they wouldn’t be valuable without a way to create them again (using two specific parents).
I think https://svelte.dev/blog/virtual-dom-is-pure-overhead might give you some answers to your question.

My very rough understanding is: It's nice to be declarative and just re-render everything on every state change. This is impractical to do with actual dom, but maybe works good enough with vDOM and dom diffing. Still, doing vDOM and them actual DOM updates is more work than just doing the DOM updates that are needed. And I guess tools like svelte let you be declarative and only make the necessary DOM updates while skipping the vDOM.
Phone verification raises account creation costs to at least 20-30 cents an account (assuming you ban VOIP and only take first world countries, can be lower otherwise), email verification if you still allow yandex rambler outlook hotmail addresses raises it to a cent at max.
I’d love to chat more with you about this. My emails in my profile… feel free to ping me.
Robust in comparison to what? Is the current coreutils lacking in robustness?
Hmm, is the article talking about party members, or just people who identify with certain beliefs? Its seems to me like you risk comparing apples and oranges.
That won’t preserve things like event handlers and it will perform increasingly poorly as you need to render more often, but for simple use cases it’s probably fine!
Ground source/geothermal would significantly reduce your heating costs but it would be significantly more than 10k. For that large of house something like 40k+ wouldn't be out of the question, with the largest expense being drilling.

I personally think geothermal is great, sadly New England's geography makes getting a ground loop installed more difficult. In the midwest lots of people would do a horizontal loop by trenching like 8 feet underground laying pipe in there. In many parts of new england that isn't really viable with all the rock so vertical drilling is used which is significantly more expensive.
A few days ago we were criticizing Nintendo because it was making too much money per employee and didn't hire enough. Also, we criticize Google for laying people off and Amazon for everything else (overhiring?).

One wonders why Apple gets high praise for "hiring cautiously".
Predicted by Stephenson in Termination Shock! Or maybe he based it on this?
This looks awesome. If the 'fillet' works, that'd be enough for me to switch from OpenSCAD. Although to be honest, having a utility library like BOSL would be necessary too, or at least some way to make threads.

I'm going to download but another thing I would need to switch away from OpenSCAD - the ability to use an external editor, where the 3d model reloads correctly every time I save the program. Maybe your already has it, I'm going to check it out :)
I work on Yahoo Mail for the web and appreciate your comment! Our team is currently hiring for several engineering roles and we’re investing a lot into the product this year.
I started off as a soloist in the government contracting space which is a bit of a different beast.

But, I would focus on business development efforts where you have a good existing relationship with the customer and if possible, the person who had enough pull to make the admin weenies and middle management bring you on.

In government consulting, that would be the program manager for the contractor.

I’d also focus my efforts on companies that have previously brought on independent consultants. In your case maybe web development agencies. They will take a cut, but you can use that to get relationships with the end clients too.

You might want to do a little business admin like form an LLC and such but prioritize getting leverage via relationship building with potential clients and identifying companies that you know work with soloists.

If you happen to get in the government contracting world I wrote a book on the topic. A few people who are not I. The industry have found it useful for general freelancing/consulting advice as well.

https://1099fedhub.com/
A bump allocator + state of the art compacting GC is MUCH faster on a naïve basis which is why it is important to minimize number of allocations in non-GC langs and use stack based RAII when possible. When building things like trees in a non-GC language, arena allocation should be considered for max performance. This is just another low level vs high level trade off IMO.
You can do the same with any system that treats templates as expressions that return a value (the big innovation of React, IMO), it doesn't require vdom.

In Lit, we do this with tagged standard template literal expressions that return what we call a TemplateResult. You can compute, store, abstract over those however you want - they're just JS values. This indeed gives programers a ton of expressive power.
Taking that analogy further, Catholicism didn't die out. Protestantism definitely grew, then there were hostilities and outright fighting for hundreds of years in some cases.
Lots and lots of applications make the exact same mistakes with Json.

Read the entire document into memory and let Jackson parse it out into a heavyweight object graph. Blech.
As a farmer with experience growing roundup-ready crops: In order to obtain roundup-ready seeds you have to sign a contract with the vender. In said agreement, you agree to not do such things.

If you want to do whatever you want with your field, don't enter into contractual agreements where you agree to follow certain rules.
strange :C I have had no problems with amazon firewall :c
Even in DE, there are issues around "Scheinselbstständigkeit" if you don't have a UG or something. Most companies prefer to work with other companies, even if those have just one employee.
Yes I agree. This just emphasizes OP's point about how we can't make these accounts throwaway as there would be no content to judge.
Platforms take rent