skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure the French/Belgium split is that relevant for several reasons (correct me if I'm wrong, I'm French and don't want to wrongly appropriate Belgium culture):

- most if not all of those characters are french speaking

- lots of collaboration on those characters by French and Belgium author. For example Goscinny worked on Lucky Luke with Morris, the character of Spirou was created by Rob-Vel who is French, then worked on by Jijé and Franquin, etc

- though many were published in "Spirou", there were "Pilote", "Pig Gadget" and all which are French.

I think the whole concept is named "Bande dessinée Franco-belge" (at least here in France, maybe the point of view is different on your side of the frontier ^^)
> Start by not requiring a screwdriver in the process of changing batteries. I remember the early days of Samsung/Android phones where you only needed to pry open the back cover using your nail and the battery was easily taken out

God no. With those designs you lose so much capacity to the extra stuff required to support it.

You effectively need two backs—one to cover the battery and another to cover the components inside. You also largely lose the ability to do non-rectangular/multi-cell batteries, which is critical to maximising capacity in many modern phones.
>increasing an economy’s population tends to increase its aggregate output at an even greater rate than the headcount, ie average wages increase.

That's true only if you cherry-pick certain countries with already booming economies, like the US, where adding more workers adds more fuel to the fire, especially in the low interest environment of the past 10 years.

But most other countries with much slower economies, won't benefit from even more workers the way you described ( average wages increase) but more like average wage decreases. Adding more workers won't benefit a stagnating economy.
Some services use usernames for login instead of an email address, so I keep the per service email address in another field. Or I use a different name & birthday for a service etc.
I think as a species, we tend support people who we percieve could or might do something for us in the future. It's not just about rich/poor or race, it's whether you think the people being rescued could provide future opportunity for you or your group. There's also the question of whether the risk you are taking to rescue someone will be valuable to them. Are you going to risk anything to intervene in a dispute between apparent meth addicts, or move on?

The calculation is based on your perception of the quality of their choices leading up to their circumstances. Like if there were the hands in the water of people drowning that you can pull into a boat, when do you grab the one with the possibly-racist tattoo?

You rescue small groups of adventurers because they are engaged in a socially valuable activity. The whole point of having search and rescue helicopters to rescue skiiers and hikers is that hikers and skiiers represent people who help themselves, and they are part of the positive group we have organized our society to encourage and incentivize. Some societies encourage and incentivize corruption and exploitation, and so they don't need to rescue hikers unless they can be used to extract favours from foreign governments. There's a limited amount of effort you're going to make to rescue a narco-sub crew because they're a hostile and invasive force that is importing poison, violence, and exploitation into your society. There is a notion of "us," and "not-us," everywhere in the world, and in the case of some rich toursts in a sub, they were still "us."

The sadistic glee about these rich people dying in a sub, and the fantasies some people have written about their suffering, makes me wonder who among us would be really worth saving.
It always kind of cracks me up when I hear someone having to explain the difference between between these 2 breeds of VM.

At one point back in school a friend said to me "hey, I can't figure out how to install and boot JVM on Virtual Box. I need to use it for homework in another class. Help me?"

I wish I had been able to explain it as succinctly as you. Instead I sat there laughing in the guy's face for a good minute, eventually realizing from his expression that he was being serious, which only made me laugh even harder.
If QR is the only option, I make the server tell me what's on the menu.

I'm an old guy with bad eyes I'm not going to try to read your menu on a 5" phone screen in a dim restaurant.
It got expensive, and limited by software.
It is a ponzi scheme in the sense where the last person to buy in will be left with something that is worth a lot less than what they bought it for. In practical terms they lose all their money as most people would buy real estate with financing now. You pay $10million for $50million property. The property value drops to $35-40 now the bank owns the property you have $0.
> Now Patented!

Yippee. /s
I was a stay at home dad for both of my kids, and still do the lion's share of caregiving in my family. If nothing else, the experience showed me exactly how unbalanced the distribution of caregiving work is between men and women, both in concrete terms and in people expectations of who's job it's "supposed to be."

There's plenty of petty sexism around it, I had plenty of people say things like "oh you're giving mom a break," or, "you're babysitting the kids today," and there's very much an expectation that men are worse at it than women. You could view that as misandrist, but (imo) there was often the unspoken assumption that my wife wasn't living up to her responsibilities because I was doing "her" job.

It's not that we don't have those responsibilities, it's that we (as a group) are overwhelmingly less likely to be primary caregivers and to have to adjust our for-money work lives around the those responsibilities.
I've been using the PurpleAir website (map.purpleair.com) for many years now, mostly out of concern for heavy wildfire pollution and winter inversions vs personal outdoor+athletic activities; one interesting aspect is that you can buy your own sensor and thus join the community of local sensors for increased accuracy of measurements. They let you pick between various international standards and types of pollutants. They seem to have a dense network of sensors in North America, not sure about the rest of the world.
QR codes can encode many things, including a url. If your restaurant already has a reasonable menu online, you can just link to that. No need to pay anyone, other than if you fancy print the qr code notices.
We had issues with postgres on x64 when changing underlying OS, maybe you didn't have to.
Can you encrypt columns or compress data with vanilla postgresql? Why not?
Postgresql is REALLY great, PostGis is awesome, it's not perfect and other RDBMS may have other useful features.
What is 'it'
>I tried to simply remove the modal in the browser Inspector. It sort of worked, but I wasn’t able to scroll any further on the page.

Usually when sites show a modal they also set CSS on the html / body element to disable overflow scrolling, so you'd have to find and remove that too.
It really is incredible how damaging it is that we use GDP as a measure for how well a society is doing. Heart surgery? Yay! GDP! The endless hamburgers, Doritos, and misc junk that helped contribute to heart surgery being needed: also great little GDP contributors.

We need a better measuring stick.
Take-home should be made illegal. It offloads the cost of hiring on the candidates.
Reddit’s mobile web experience really embraces this–even as a logged in user there is a frequent “Use our app!” popup that has been made progressively more obnoxious.

Once upon a time there was a preference option to disable the popup, though it would periodically become unchecked on its own. Then the option to disable it disappeared. Then the popup started appearing not just on page load, but after a period of time while you’re partway down the page reading, instantly jumping your scroll position to the top and making you lose your place. The ultimate effect has been that I swore to never, ever install their stupid app, and I spend way less time there on my phone, which is probably a good thing anyway.
Shit, you're right. I've become too desensitized. This sucks.
Yes, this is why we love functional programming! "What happened along the way" equals to the call stack, as long as there is no field mutation involved.

And, of course, async/non-blocking calls, as tracing a call along different threads or promises may not be available all the time.
Aren't QR codes just a fundamentally flawed system due to how much easier they make phishing attacks?
AFIAK those pictures-of-menus don't come from the restaurant owner, but from the people dining there. I believe they're partly scraped from restaurant review sites like Zomato (where the pictures-of-menus are interspersed with pictures-of-the-food-itself) and partly the result of Google doing Google Lens things to your Google Photos to figure out that you took photos while inside a restaurant, and then asking you if it can use them.
Oh... one thing I forgot to mention. I was concerned about strain on the USB-C connector, esp w/ the hub, so I added a magnetic USB-C connector. It's worked both to protect the port and break away if the hub was mispositioned and adding strain at an angle.
"Principles of Imperative Programming" is a misnomer.

The course is really about developing techniques for reasoning about low-level software. You build up abstractions in C by leveraging contracts and writing proofs of correctness based on those contracts.

Explore the "Learning Objectives" section to read about what the course really entails: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15122/about.shtml#LO

This was the first computer science course that I took at CMU and it was absolutely mind blowing for me. I had previously taken AP CS and had played around with making games in flash and writing little programs for my graphing calculator. But this course taught me how to reason about my programs (and why that might be valuable, to begin with).
This is the real reason NT's epoch starts in 1601. This is just cover: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20090306-00/?p=18...
The Ultra-Secret Underwater Spy System That Might Have Heard the Titan Implode
I feel like the mask is coming off these tech/hedge fund guys. It was ZIRP the whole time. They're smart but they're not god damned geniuses.
Search engines have always penalized sites that serve different content to users vs. the search engine.

This fuck you pattern feels like a variation of that trick so in my opinion it should be heavily penalized.
Welcome to shareholder capitalism, extracting rents from all sides of the market perpetually to enrich shareholders. This is why utility tokens were such a big game changer for me.

Remember Zuck was an open source bro who turned down M$ for $1M and ended up open sourcing Synapse. He built Wirehog, as a decentralized file sharing network.

I was attending TechCrunch Disrupt 2010 in NYC and personally heard Sean Parker speak proudly about how they “put a bullet in that thing” — because it threatened corporate profits and rent extraction.

Sean Parker learned not to mess with corporate profits, when his company Napster got sued into oblivion by the other “lock up the IP monopoly” industries — music and movies. MPAA and RIAA. So he started Plaxo and learned to be VC.

Then he brought Peter Thiel, the guy who seriously advocates “competition is for losers, build a monopoly”. He gave Mark a lot of good advice and the VC industry turned him from an open source bro into a corporate golden boy who buys up the competition, the founders of which leave in disgust after their golden handcuffs are off (WhatApp, Oculus, and yes Instagram).

This isn’t an isolated story. Elon owns Twitter. Bezos owns Amazon. The nicer guys like Ohanian and Jack got out, after selling, though. And they all want decentralization now.

Moxie left WhatsApp and started an end-to-end encrypted messenger (Signal).
Quite - free soloing and eating bacon are on the same scale just at opposite ends of it.

Neither can really be classed as committing suicide - it has an explicitly different intent.
Where I'm from, having a temper tantrum on a mailing list because you're not getting your way is what makes you the snowflake. If you don't want to follow the code of conduct, you can submit your patch to a kernel without one.
Ah yes, that's exactly my working situation.
For that to be true reliability needs to trend upwards and the price needs to trend downward.

Over time the former is true. The latter seems to be out of control, the lower cost segment is vanishing.
The Allure of Ruins
Begin by throwing the language away. Provide a tool that converts existing CMake scripts to the new, sane language. Use an established programming language for the new language.
Do they? Most people and households I know, particularly families, have products from all categories, with those who play games gravitating to dedicated hardware (mobile, console, PC etc) as opposed to phones and tablets.

Mobile, console, PC, handheld? Potato Potahto. I can play PC games on a handheld. I can play Xbox games on an iPhone. I can play Switch games on a PC. I can play "Mobile" games on a TV box.

The industry is so busy categorizing that they missed that everything runs on everything now.
This is a bit of a tangent, but I read the prerequisites for this course and felt the same annoyance that I did when I was in college.

I didn’t major in CS, but I wanted to take some CS classes. Several times I had to go back and forth with the course instructor and the director of undergraduate studies in the department, trying to convince them to let me take the class, or at least audit it or get access to the course materials if it was filling up.

I was mostly successful, but there were a couple times where I was told I simply could not take the class because I didn’t take the prerequisite. As a lifelong computer nerd and capable programmer, I could have sat the exam for the prerequisite classes without preparation and passed, but they did not allow this.

If there are open spots in the classes after all the CS majors signed up for it, then why not just let anyone take it if they’re up for the challenge? You can warn them about the prerequisite knowledge, so if they fail it’s completely on them.
Even Jeremy Clarkson knows rear seats are hardly ever used: https://youtube.com/watch?v=wjnxDSMjh5I

Though I imagine most journeys with children in the back aren't made on motorways.
Write a manual on how to do it, and then market yourself as a writer.
What is your secret?
I significantly prefer using DConf over brute forcing some new configuration file format.

It works like the Windows registry, but now the fields also have native support for a description that tells you what the settings do.
It’s very possible we mean different things by procrastination. I’m describing things I feel enormous pressure to complete, but also feel completely overwhelmed by. In this case I can spend time on the task, but won’t make any progress. Procrastinating is usually done out of desperation, seeking for some way to feel better to hopefully return to the task and make progress. Everything I do is pretty miserable while the task remains to be done. I’m trying to give myself a way to start. “I’ll just do it tonight” would be nearly unthinkable.
You’ve got to case the restaurant, run background checks on the staff. Can the menu be read without a phone? If not, I gotta go somewhere else.
Because 90% of their userbase doesn't think about this stuff and doesn't block anything. Why waste effort trying to rope the last few people into your schemes, when they will just find some other way around it or get pissed, write blog posts that get posted to HN, and abandon your platform otherwise.
Typically networked. Perhaps file system like, but not POSIX. Something much simpler and with fewer edges.
Yep. I went to Rick Case for annual check up to have a feel. I signed up online for a regular oil change (I have 6K miles on the car because we don't drive a lot) and tire rotation. The online quote was $90. When I arrived, the guy (expert consultant or whatever they call them) said he recommends me to do wheel alignment (and the quote was $110 without tax and other fees). I pushed back and said I only want tire rotation and oil change. Then he started looking a bit displeased (as if I dare challenge his authority). So I decided to go for it (in case he put a secret note on the paper to let the guys in the workshop know to do/not do something to my car).

Then I swore myself I'll never go back to Rick Case again for regular maintenance (I'm going to have to find a good mechanic though, which is kind of tricky, but I'll do it out of my hatred of Rick Case). I had a horrible buying experience with them too (their finance guy trying to sell me $2600 'umbrella' insurance package, which when I pressed him, didn't specify anything it covers. I didn't end up taking it and the finance guy looked pissed (but I didn't care because the amount of money, $2600, is non-negligible).
> you pay for content by being tracked

No, the user doesn't know the price and isn't ever informed in clear terms about the consequences of using the site. Going with your analogy it's not payment, it's theft. We all know why Meta and others bury all the details in legalese somewhere in their terms of service - they know most users don't know how comprehensive and invasive the tracking is, and hope it stays that way.
Survivability in crashes requires mass. It's a race to the bottom (top) unless we figure out how to head it off with better regulation.
If one does any of the following and wants to keep track of it in a structured way, it might require custom fields in some password managers:

* Use a different name for each account
* Use different "personal information" (date of birth, etc.) for every account
* Track "security" questions and randomly-generated answers for each account, for services that still use that terrible approach
* Track which phone number is associated with each account, for services that uses SMS MFA codes
* Attach list of one-time recovery codes to accounts that use those
* Attach source of credential information when credentials were sent by someone else for e.g. testing

There's six reasons off the top of my head. I'm sure there are more.
Worse than that, LP notes are multi line which makes importing a bloody nightmare! Especially if you have any CSV characters in the note.

I had to modify the native CSV with some vim magic to add a line delimiter for each record so it allowed for spanning over multiple lines in order to successfully import each entry - which also required the importer to allow for an additional EOR marker.

Even then there wasn't a 1:1 column match between pw apps.

Without this step though all sorts of hell breaks loose, and if you don't notice the columns got out of sync during import because a note had a few commas in it what good is it to you really. It's a hell of a mess that you may not notice until its too late.

There should also be a verify feature for any import that can query the original source via some API calls - or use that to do the import. Of course nobody is going to provide that because it means users can leave their ecosystem too easily - but the other thinking is customized backups to a PGP destination suitable for direct import via the sale API calls.

This was for LP to KeePass BTW.
I doubt that those techniques work very well in areas where you'd be able to run a successful air-taxi business.
Yeah, fair, I guess I’ve narrowed my vendor list a lot from when I was a teenager, probably a big part of it.
I have a few that require custom fields. I don't really have a lot of passwords saved either. Maybe 50 tops.

Custom ones are usually all banking sites. One does not use standard field names so bitwarden does not detect it. Another has an extra field for user . (Bank customer company id, password then particular user's name).
And if you have to deal with someone who can't be bothered to write an email for you, you can just agree verbally and send them a summary email afterwards. Either they respond or they accept the summary implicitly.
I mean why not get a used Corolla for something like 4k? Maybe 5k? I don't know how much you are spending, but an old Toyota will be reliable past 200 000 miles, easy and cheap to repair, and you can find one that was a one owner car, ideally a grandma or priest.

You might be interested in the Suzuki Mirage as well.

If you are stressed about reliability, don't worry. You need to do regular maintenance (oils, fluids, filters, tires) and you'll stay on the road longer than brand new cars. I had a Chevrolet Aveo that had the radiator blow up while leaving the dealer!
People are not getting as much done, low performers are harder to manage (hide easier), most importantly people don’t build the same quality relationships they used to. This is uber important at a big tech company where ppl collaborate with more ppl on average.

All of these were known benefits of WFO prepandemic, but then WFH was forced, and worked for a bit as people worked off of relationships established in the past. Then wishful thinking set in, and now reality is kicking in.

That is not to say that there aren’t people who thrive in WFH (this might be you). But a big company needs a system that works across the variety of ppl and teams it employs.

My ideal was and is to form Remote teams, made out of ppl who really are good at WFH. Mixed teams of remote and onsite ppl suck for everyone.
> Instead you edit either one of the interface configuration files and tell NM (via nmcli) to reload it

Yeah, and this would be fine if both /etc/resolv.conf told you what is creating that file and NM didn't rewrite its own configuration files all the time.

Anyway, it would be not that bad if NM was kept restricted to RedHat, because the entire philosophy of that distro is that configuration files are just suggestions and the system is free to change anything at any time. But instead, that behavior infected everything.
> maybe I'm just good at remembering passwords

I've got close to 1500 stored passwords. How does one even start to remember those?
> If car rental was more seamless and common

Just not eye-wateringly expensive would be a start. Though, having met people, I can see why renting cars to people can't be a cheap business to be in.
Recently on mobile it's stopped giving me the option to even view the page anonymously, at least for adult content.

It gives me:

"This is mature content and may not be appropriate for certain viewers. To continue, use the app to confirm you're over 18 and browse anonymously."
Anything without a useless internet connection (e.g. dumb tvs which don't exist anymore).
Have you read any of the literature from the mobile gaming industry? I don't judge the people victimized by the industry, I judge the industry, and I do it based on the way they talk about their customers. They're very open about their exploitative practices and don't even really seem to see the problem.

In my other comment, I pointed to this post by Duolingo's head of product as a good example of someone talking openly about exploitative practices without even really seeming to see the problem. This is honestly mild on the scale of industry discussions of how to manipulate people into giving more money.

https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-duolingo-reignited-us...
The project has been up for over 8 months and nobody has gotten banned yet!
This “degrowth” stuff probably makes sense if we were all at the carrying capacity of an interstellar generational ship. But simply housing, clothing, and feeding the disadvantaged humans would provide rocket growth for decades to centuries. India just passed China as most populous and only something like 60 million of their population participates in their elections. The rest are living very resource starved. That’s a huge potential for growth-simply choose sustainable ways to grow. And, great thing, they’re already largely vegetarian. And that’s just one of many populations.