skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Microsoft and Google get into a war over who can be the most obnoxious to people using the other's stuff, that sounds like great advertisement for Apple to me...

"Use Safari! It won't yell at you for daring to visit a competitor's website!"
> And yet, when a man and his wife are shot and killed just because they happen to be royalty

It also happened that they were occupying Bosnia, where neither Austrians nor Hungarians lived, but Serbs did.
E.g. iterm2 has a set of custom escapes that control aspects about the window.

https://iterm2.com/documentation-escape-codes.html
Remote work definitely comes down to a company culture issue. For most engineering jobs I would say flexibility is a massive competitive advantage. There are so many great engineers out there who prefer not to be in the office it's a great talent pool, but needs to be actively managed in order to get the best out of it. Having said that, Amazon comes across as exactly the company that would require you to be in the office, I'd be kind of surprised if many people joined Amazon not expecting an extremely high pressure, highly demanding, strong cultured work enviornment.
Or a North American Fiber-Seeking Backhoe.
Sorry that's not how this works. These organizations bring in a few handfuls of middle wage jobs. If they eventually pollute the site and move to Mexico to save $0.11 a unit, that's my successor's problem
Note that you just says "yes, we do need hundreds more dead in the hopes of putting tens of thousands of people out of a job". Not sure I'm down with that.

Boeing lost hundreds of millions (that it already worked into its budget) from cancelled orders alone. Just because the law didn't do enough according to you, doesn't mean you should be okay with (let alone advocate for) people dying just to teach a company a lesson.

What you want is for a company whose planes end up causing catastrophe to stay in business and never make planes like that again, because no one wins when a large aircraft manufacturer gets shut down. I would like to see all the execs involved in pushing through the "no no it's still a 737 no new training required" bullshit to get fired on the spot, without bonuses, but that's not my call to make, nor even the law's. Unless they want to sue each exec individually, which would have to be brought before the courts by "not the government". Because government is (for good reasons) not allows to meddle with how a private company is structured internally.
I'm willing to offer lagniappe 2.5% equity vested over 5 years if they build this for me. Which reminds me of something I read once on the internet, paraphrased ... "build the thing that you want or be forced to build the thing that somebody else wants"
Yeah, we're trying to strike a balance between being concise and completely answering complex questions. Answers are deliberately long at the moment as we would rather completely answer every question than optimize prematurely by leaving out important details on occasion.

We're thinking about ways to enhance readability by breaking the core of the answer into its own paragraph.
Found on Reddit. For more context: https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/comments/118d18...
Yes, they found elevated rates of some cancers in people who spent their careers in poorly ventilated vinyl chloride production facilities. For the sort of concentrations and durations we’re talking about in East Palestine, it’s not carcinogenic.
The complaints are also getting old. If you were hired with the expectation that you go in the office, RTO is an eventual expected outcome.

I do see the psychology of taking away what many see as a "benefit", but it's really just going back to the norm.
I didn't know this - I thought they were just sales prospecting tools with tons of features, but nothing involing to finding company tech stacks.

Do you have experience working with these products and seeing its capabilities in finding the technologies companies are using?

Thanks.
I've had the opposite experience. System.Text.Json adheres extremely close to the RFC and barely handles any edge cases. Newtonsoft will happily serialize invalid json. Not that you want that but if you have a legacy system it's not worth migrating. James Newton-King is a Microsoft employee btw.
Employees are forced to accept a bad deal due to asymmetrical market dynamics. Without the job they would be worse off until they find a replacement. The person with the money (Bezos) has all the power.

Not so with church members. If they stopped attending they would have more money. They are the ones with the power. So why would a grown adult willfully hand over their money to an organization that already has all the money it could possibly need?

A better counterpoint would be - Why do people keep paying $60 worth of streaming video subscriptions per month when the content delivered is increasingly just lame irrelevant re-hashed bullshit?
Actually, the church's policy is to help everyone regardless of their religious affiliation, and anyone can get food and other help from the storehouses mentioned in the article. The help sometimes includes even cash, but it's far from just a spend-this-however-you-want blank check. That money typically comes from local donations, so the people administering the relief have an obligation to be careful about it.

No doubt there are some inconsistencies in how it gets handed out, and it's unfortunate that apparently some people had some experiences that included deviations from the church's policy, but for every person in that article with a bad experience you can easily find 1000 people who were blown away that the church helped them without any sort of pressure to join that church.

(fwiw, the Salt Lake Tribune has been writing stuff like this for 150 years - sometimes it adds value, but often it's disingenuous)
Buddhism also teaches love. The Heart Practices are an example.
I think the biggest wins from covid will just be that we did a massive 3-year WFH experiment and overall it went just fine. Great, even, if you account for the fact that it wasn't just a WFH test in isolation, it was accompanied by a generation-defining negative psychological and virulogical event. We all went fully remote for three years during a terrible humanitarian crisis and nothing exploded (except inflation but that's not our fault)
It does not, but I'm not sure if that matters as your downvoted comment didn't suggest that you were referring to anything besides the bit you quoted.
> If you less this txt file, your terminal plays a sound

Actually, no it does not. My less displays the bell characters as ^G instead of showing them as raw.

Whether you hear the bell, or simply see ^G, depends upon how you have less configured. I leave mine configured to use the caret notation for control characters (which for my version of less, is also the default).
handy! Although, for something like that, I'd probably use Joystick Gremlin instead.
I see that you are targetting the Web ecosystem. IMO using Bazel in this case was pretty tough, and may still be. The way Bazel does things may not make sense for 95% JS projects (and 99.9% FOSS projects), so I wonder whether it's better to simply drop the mention of Bazel. Just don't compare to Bazel.

Better “monorepo-ish” (whatever that means in the frontend world) tools are still valuable, but as GP said, it's pretty crowded here.

I don't know if you have talked with people working on C++ or Java projects (I see that these are not among your supported languages), but if you do, you get to see why people are talking about Bazel.
I'm not certain about that, but I do think companies believe this is a simple way to kill two birds with one stone:

1. Trim headcount.

2. Keep the most "loyal" employees (or those who need the job the most and will say yes to anything, which is a double-sided sword).
They also increasingly seem to be released in various broken fashions. AAA are not quite as bad at the perpetual "alpha"-ism, but still, many are quite broken at launch.

Things cyberpunk, BF 2042 in the same genre etc.
> Of course this ends up not mattering in practice since we can convert a problem with arbitrary (bitstring) output into a decision problem.

Not always. My favorite counter-example is coloring k-colorable graphs. Consider that for some reason (and there could be many), you are guaranteed that all the graphs on input are k-colorable. Still, the input is just a graph without any coloring. Your algorithm is tasked to find a proper coloring using the smallest number of colors.

It is both a problem that has been already studied in terms of approximation and at the same time an optimization problem that has no good decision version, as far as I am aware.
Isn't Text.json also faster at this point because it uses all the new span goodness and the like?
Modern terminals are not supposed to allow things like this (though there are bugs!)

There's historically been stuff like "type the window title as if it was text entered on the keyboard"; since you can set the window title with escapes, this allowed Bad Things, and has subsequently been nerfed by major terminals (e.g. iirc xterm just reports "xterm" regardless of what the window title actually is)
And, for avoidance of doubt, I do think immigration is both a good thing and a necessary thing. Of course, being an immigrant, I am somewhat biased.
If you say that philosophy tells us that even the smallest observations we make require some belief about how the world looks, yes, that is an interesting assertion (though I feel philosophers make a much bigger deal out of it than what it's worth). I'm not arguing that.

But when you state "Everyone has to belief in something", that is just a trivial consequence of the above. We've defined 'belief' to be something that is inherent in the most trivial things we do in our life every single second of every single day. With that definition of belief, of course everyone necessarily believes.

At least from my view. From you view, as I now realize, "everyone has to belief in something" is a summary for the theory of knowledge, and thus not trivial at all.

> Its not about the laws changing, but quite literally the world the law is supposed to speak to.

I feel you're playing with the meaning of words like I feel philosophers tend to do, causing all kinds of misunderstandings. The laws of physics don't speak to the world; they try to describe the world. When I say that the laws don't change, what I mean is that the way the world itself works doesn't change.

> You could imagine another world where experiments yield very different laws, but it would be no less science, and no less a world.

I could, but that has nothing to do with the world we live, or what I do and don't believe in. I don't see how this is relevant at all.
I simply can't believe the gov is that efficient
Constructive dismissal is still a layoff.
I think it's more illuminating to talk to people who tried to use Bazel and failed, often wasting months in the process.
I mean unless proven otherwise most companies do believe that. What happened to that Vote with your feet / vote with your wallet thing?
The order states that Norfolk is paying for this, but the EPA is supplying the contractors.

> Identify and clean up contaminated soil and water resources.

> Reimburse EPA for cleaning services to be offered to residents and businesses to provide an additional layer of reassurance, which will be conducted by EPA staff and contractors.

> Attend and participate in public meetings at EPA’s request and post information online.

> Pay for EPA’s costs for work performed under this order.
Yeah I'm not a fan of the shell script piped to bash trend in readme files.

I don't understand why they can't just distribute a package with the same install script.
Japan is well known for its excellent rail system, which is almost entirely privately run.

For European countries your point stands.

If companies in the US and Europe had the same sense of social duty that companies in Japan do, this wouldn't be an issue in the first place, though.
Daily Sketch 3
Yes, you are totally correct that such a person would probably not visit Seattle. That part of my reply was an abstract clarifying question aimed at "It gives you an actual sense of what is dangerous rather than one built upon fear of the unknown and media spin".

I.e. the negative feeling one gets when one is in a city with people living in tents as they do in Seattle today is not necessarily strictly or even primarily due to media consumption, because (I assert) a theoretical human unexposed to media would still have a qualitatively-same instinctive negative reaction. Do you disagree? If so I am interested in why you disagree.

For example, if you somehow talked an orthodox Amish person into visiting Seattle with you (and perhaps had them read a few books about what cities are like in general first), they would still be shocked by the tent areas and find them unpleasant, despite never being exposed to whatever news outlets you consider inflammatory, immoral, incorrect, etc (and I do agree that all news outlets are all of these things, I personally avoid the stuff).

Relatedly, if you then asked the Amish person if they would prefer to stay in Seattle and help try to fix the problem, or to just return to their Amish village and ignore the problem, I think they would 100% of the time go with the latter? Are they wrong?
If I wanted to know what tech stack a site is using I would just pop open Maltego and find out. Which it seems like you are doing but just automating over a large list of companies and storing results in a db.
> at best we can get as good as an average set of humans

Whisper is already superhuman, more accurate than experienced human transcribers.
They already push Chrome on you if you’re accessing a google property with Edge.
Anecdata: been doing it since 5/15/2020. With best effort “social distancing” up until a few months back.

As a layman, in my unprofessional opinion, people in generally good health should not perceive the office as a death trap.
3. Separate the wheat from the chaff. The chaff come to the office.
> Do I live in a different world than everyone here?

> The response time is like 10 minutes or less

I have to say, you do, and I want to live in it. I've asked detailed, well formatted, clear questions and they usually got like 10 views in a month.
Wasn't the mandatory evacuation order only for a 1-mile radius?
I've had the same sort of experience. This leads me to believe SO could age off answers, or maybe even questions, and everyone except history buffs would benefit.
Turing completeness. No, I'm referring to using Python (waf, conan, etc), Javascript (nodejs scripts, esbuild, etc), and other "real" programming languages.

It's incredibly frustrating to have to configure a build with something as shitty as YAML. There's a tangible amount of money I have wasted in organizations on it.

A build is not actually a static configuration of another system. It's a program and deserves everything we need from programming languages.
Cursory googling throws out various different numbers for the rail length with english wikipedia saying that they're both roughly equal size at 210 vs 220 Mm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_rail_tran...) with old UIC data, the German one citing the cia world factbook which specifies 230Mm for the European union and 300Mm for the US (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/railways/).

I highly doubt that the US rail network is twice the size of the EU one by most metrics, I guess different methods for counting length were mixed there (e.g. how is single-track vs double-track counted).

This is taking europe as in the EU, as anything else is annoying.

It'd also be pretty interesting to get the frequency of passenger rail derailments vs freight derailments to more accurately compare the numbers given the high amount of passenger rail in EU. As a very rough idea, the first document I found giving any indication about the distribution had 2 dangerous freight derailments and 3 dangerous passenger train derailments in germany for 2021 (https://www.eisenbahn-unfalluntersuchung.de/SharedDocs/Downl... P. 16ff.).

The EU also differs from the US in that that cargo trains are much shorter, leading to more trains needed for the same amount of freight cars. So the question is does the rate of derailments scale with the number of individual cars or with the number of trains?

EDIT:

Looking at the floridarail.com link, they say that the US has a broader gauge than europe. Since almost all of the US is standard gauge and almost all of europe is standard gauge or wider, this is just wrong. It's also news to me that europe (specifically germany) doesn't allow toxic chemicals to be transported over rail. The article seems a bit iffy.
definately modern art.

The question is the purpose
I haven't exactly had "bad" experiences on SO - but I do feel like it's generally a waste of time to ask questions on it. Basically - SO is very good at general knowledge questions (kinda ChatGPT territory) but bad at corner cases. A good example was this fiddly CSS / font question I had that had some constraints from a static site generator where you could inject custom CSS[1]. People really wanted me to accept answers that would not work for my constraint set, and I think the implicit answer is that the combination of formatting tools does not support what I want to do, but the whole thing was frustrating.

I mostly think that, once you get to a certain level of proficiency, you're going to lose time on SO rather than gain it. You will spend a lot of time crafting a detailed and clear question that does have an answer - but on balance if you just read the docs / source / whatever you'll get the answer you need faster.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66619732/can-i-write-css...
"Some rights reserved" is a still a sometimes useful, though cheeky, signal for copyleft, Creative Commons, or open source, though. (From what I recall, it started a branding/marketing choice from Creative Commons, but in the wild I've seen it in more places than just CC licensed works.) It's not legally binding in any way, just a fun signal to humans that they might have more rights to play with than full copyright.
The current US stockpile is 3750. Plus, 2000 retired being disposed of. New START limits deployed warheads to 1550 but doesn't limit the number in reserve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_of_the_United_...

I found source with similar numbers except that has much larger stockpile, but then the total inventory is lower than summing numbers.

https://fas.org/issues/nuclear-weapons/status-world-nuclear-...
My experience with Tinder does not match what you describe as "lemons". I'm an average looking guy at best. To be fair, I did hack the process a bit. I definitely do not have an average strategy ;-)

With that said, I did notice that Tinder in the US is just utter garbage, even with my strategy. The best places so far have all been in Europe (only tested the US a bit and some European countries).
I used to think this way too, back in like 2009, but the years since then have changed my mind back around to completely hating all advertising. when was the last time you saw a relevant, useful, unobnoxious, unobtrusive, just really great ad? I can't remember the last time I saw one.
The goal is faster and cheaper transactions but still secure? This is becoming an arduous march for Ethereum.
Or by barbarians as "Observe, Orie—" "TIMING!"
Rather than chase the VC money, why not just focus on first building a profitable business and product that people want?
Article is from 2015, which is based on a 2015 vox article [0], which is based on study [1] that was released in 2003.

[0]: https://www.vox.com/2015/2/17/8051367/obesity-snacks

[1]: https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/2640583/cutler_o...
Not to mention the online shilling everywhere from their social media team that tried to justify the price hike claiming Netflix was forced to do so because of account sharing ... Netflix really needs to fire its marketing team and hire some competent people.
software engineers? no. actual engineers? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malpractice
They used to bundle themselves to installers and updaters like literal spyware. I don't see how you can defend either of them so let them fight. Also their competitor Apple has normalized the idea that they have a say what gets installed to your machine and not, they can invite Apple to the party as well as far as I care.
Both answers were run through the LLM. Answer variability is caused by different web links being returned and the way we sample answers from the LLM. We're working on making it more consistent.
This is why they recommend using the Azure SignalR Service, I guess :)
They should be using Enigmail or something.
Rajiv Malhotra is a deranged conspiracy theorist who should not be taken seriously.
Microsoft does so many good things, then does things like this. I don't get this company sometimes. Feels like half the company is one step into the future and the other is stuck in the 90s. That being said, Google has so many stupid nags when I use Edge. Not a justification, but this runs both ways.
That article is really biased article that misses the main point. Twitter is being scammed by people abusing its 2FA SMS system (which should be deprecated anyway), and they're shutting off non-paying users' ability to continue to run this scam.

Anybody serious about 2FA isn't using sms for it anyway, and that should have been deprecated long ago.
As long as the API exists, so can your reddit consumption.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-explains-why-tu...
Hmm... the complaints are getting old? I guess the beatings need to continue until morale improves.

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0535/6917/products/traditi...

Hard disagree with "If you were hired with the expectation that you go in the office, RTO is an eventual expected outcome." Ask yourself why do we need to RTO? Who needs the RTO?
> Then again, I've read that 4% of Americans believe they could win a fight with a Grizzly bear.

I bet I could. Maybe on a good day. Not, like, 9 times out of 10, but maybe 1 or 2. Sure, he outranks me in muscles and claws, but I can out-think him, and really, isn't our brain our most powerful muscle? Much like how the powerful and crafty coyote is more than capable of catching a roadrunner, even though the bird is ostensibly faster.
Imagine how much faster we'll be able to generate Fake News!
> But the UX of the site is basically "post a question, get modded to shit" now.

I'm sympathetic - but have you ever noticed, when people complain about their questions being closed unfairly, how rarely they provide links to the questions?

If I'd posted 5 great questions, they'd all been unfairly closed, and I wanted to convince other people that was the case, I'd be linking to them - why wouldn't I present the primary evidence?
I can think of better ways I would want to spend a vacation.
Sure, the insight/intuition comes from diagonalization, or perhaps more directly from Cantor's theorem.

For any complexity class O(F(N)), there must exist a complexity class O(2^F(N)) that is strictly a superset of O(F(N)). If F(N) is decidable then so too is 2^F(N).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s_theorem
https://archive.ph/BLafr
What types of assistance would require action at a federal scale? it seems like a pretty manageable problem at the state level.

It seems like there is a huge outcry that "something must be done" without really examining what that something would be or reviewing what is already being done.

Do people have shelter or need it ?

Do people have access to medical care or need more?

Are safety tests being conducted or not?

Are cleanup plans progressing or being neglected?
You're absolutely correct. I was focusing on the post, but if your class is at 3pm you have to show up at like 8-10am or something ridiculous to get a spot.

Parking permits are such a scam.
Do you have any evidence of the one billboard you saw a decade ago, or this is just purely anecdotal? (I think you confused it with Shen Yun)