skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But how much is this due to Meta suddenly blocking international users?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/meta-blocking-vp...

Besides, while I am not a fan of Zuck I think most people can agree that he is not batshit crazy and have somewhat competent people around him that will eventually get this right. Can't say the same about the other guy.

(Discalimer: I haven't tried Threads and quit twitter 5 years ago)
The USA is probably the global capital of media sensationalism.

There are plenty of Americans who were properly able to parse the WHO press release. Our corporate media doesn't hire them because they choose more eyeballs with strong emotional reactions (to sell to advertisers) over a well informed audience.

It's naive to think WHO could have crafted the release in a way that US major networks would have reported on it responsibly.
Kinda? But that was a very short cycle, both promises and generators were added to the language in ES6 (though the community had been coalescing around promises — “thenables” — for a while), the first draft for async functions was actually created during the development cycle of ES6, and it was shipped in ES7.
Here's my ultimate advice that I myself am not following as I should: get off the Internet and social media. Our brains are tribal, and we're not meant to be constantly inundated with news from the other tribes. It seems obvious in retrospect, but I have realized that a lot of my unhealthy fears, wants, desires, etc. are triggered by things like Hacker News, Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn. LinkedIn may be the most unhealthily triggering these days.

Any benefit, like hearing about something I hadn't before, is overwhelmed by the negatives. If I instead spent all this time reading my unread books, I'd have a lot more discovery anyway, without any of the social media shame, pity, and jealousy.
Are you serious? Sorry to be so pointed here, but Container Tabs are a nerdy niche feature that no normal user cares about.
Do you mean beta amyloid?
we're now available at https://www.gnip.io (or gnip.app or gnip.dev)
1) Length of therapy is strongly correlated to school. CBT and it's forks are relatively short and ability-oriented, where psychodynamic is very long with hazy endpoint. And generally CBT should be pushed much more, as it's faster, more goal-oriented, and less prone to, let's say, therapist biases.

2) Although I get the idea that people need friends and family, it's easy to forget that people with severe issues do not look like they have them. And taking care of eating disorder/personality disorder/*PTSD/whatever else treated through therapy, not medication patient is a lot of work to which most people are not equipped, and which drains a lot, to the point of resentment (if they can't run away) or just ghosting. Also, it's not that people do not hear "harsh truths" - it's more about not being able to comprehend them, due to broken thought patterns.
> Midlife crisis is simply myth. It is a description of the long awaited convergence of money and youthful desires.

You say it's a myth but then just aptly described it in a way that makes it seem inevitable.
Don't forget a huge post-war economic boom, plus a bunch of racism and white flight.
They will and less information will be put into places that are freely accessible. If it's put anywhere at all it'll be put behind login only/paywalled/unscrapable places that LLM's can't access.
I have this strange thing where I can smell better than most around me, but it's very faint and not very detailed. It almost feels like I have a really bad sense of smell, and yet I smell many things that others do not.
I really like Crystal but until the devtools improve, it's a bit of a pain to write Crystal without a fully function LSP. Crystalline does an amazing job, but there are still some shortcomings that need to be taken care of by the main language devs to help the LSP come along better.

Other than that Crystal is fantastic and I hope to use it more in the future
This tweet talks about the "Eurozone", (those countries sharing the Euro), rather than those countries belonging to the EU.

Furthermore, any EU figures will have been badly skewed by the UK having left the EU since 2008. Comparisons should take this into account.
At my current place they have just replaced the build system.

If I want it deployed to the "higher" dev environments I have to watch it for 20 mins so that I can "approve" the override that my base image (that I have no control over) has security risks and I accept them.

If I want to deploy to production, I have to watch and approve the 20 min gatekeeper, them again at 40 mins, and then at 120 mins accept that I want a change ticket.

If I miss any of these then I have to restart the build process. This is an "agile" workplace.

Fuck everyone who claims they agile doesn't work, just stop calling this shit agile.
These articles about extrapolating the value of a minute of wasted time into a years worth of value, always forget to divide them by the average productive hours a day. I assume you’re not optimising for zero breaks.
IR35 was full of good intentions. Businesses were abusing the system by forcing low paid workers into self employment and contracting. This allowed them avoid paying national insurance or any normal employment benefits.

Unfortunately highly paid consultants have been swept up into very badly implemented legislation.
My point still stands — Linux syscalls are documented, the Win32 APIs and syscalls aren’t.
yeah, windows already ran in hyper-v anyway for protection of high-level processes at the hypervisor level, so it probably wasn't even that much of a leap to introduce other VMs alongside windows (aka WSL2)
Windows Restricted Traffic Limited Functionality Baseline

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/manage-con...
I think we've already seen the first shoots from that nascent new system: https://webassembly.org/. And this hilarious talk will continued to be viewed by future generations for marking the 2013 inflection point: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
You can use Wise [0] as a sort of bank (to receive money on) and the nice thing is, you can open accounts for many different types of currencies. This way, your clients can pay in their native currencies and you can just (cheaply) change into your local currency if needed, as Wise exchange fees are generally lower than most banks.

Wise also offers a debit card, but not available in every country.

But I am not sure if Wise is a real bank, so might not be covered by protection schemes. This is something you'd have to verify by yourself.

My previous US client paid to my USD account at Wise, my current AUD client pays to my AUD account at Wise. If I need to send money over from The Netherlands I use my EUR account at Wise. I usually transfer money over to Thailand, and Wise does the currency conversion (cheaper than banks from The Netherlands).

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It was definitely not an adaption - I was intrinsically motivated to keep going and read where the story was going, or what exciting new thing I could learn (my parents gave me a children's encyclopedia for my tenth birthday that I would carry around and read everywhere). So hyper focus on the dopamine hit of learning something new, I guess.
ELI5: What does it mean by “There was no time before big bang?”
Having driven stick shift since I started driving (22 years ago), it becomes totally automatic: you simply start relying on the engine noise to switch gears when needed and are not really thinking about it.
This mere suggestion will annoy many C programmers but I completely agree with you here. With all of the ioctls, the atois and the strncpy_ls I just stopped trying to understand what the names are supposed to mean and use them for their effects only. strlcpy may as well be called qpdixhwnai for all I care, I'll have to look it up when I need it anyway.

I've learned C on Windows and the Windows API is friendly in comparison to the C API. When Windows beats you in API design, you should really reconsider some of your policies.

Is mem_copy really that much worse than memcpy? Why not memcopy? What do we gain by leaving out that single o? Why is settimeofday not sttmod if munmap is how you write memoryunmap?

It feels to me like POSIX is still being optimized for people manually poking holes into punchcards. We've had autocomplete for decades now, a few extra characters won't hurt, I promise.
> forgive me if I am wrong. what I can see from rudimentary search on IR35 is that it is meant to make people pay the same tax whether. employed or working as a contractor.

Yes, it is meant to, and that's perfectly reasonable as a starting point. That's how things are here in Australia AFAICT, without the need for this sort of legislation. If you are found to be inside the equivalent legislation in Aus, it mostly just affects what sort of expenses you can claim.

In the UK though, there is a legitimate question about why tax should be different if (for example) I go into business selling my skills and sell them to a client company vs IBM selling my skills to a client company. Why should the big firm get to pay its people a salary with a part of their fees, then give profits to its shareholders as dividends, if a one-person operation cannot do the same?

Also, as a contractor I am not an employee. I do not get employment benefits. I do not get pension contributions. I do not get paid leave or cover for illness. Does this mean I should pay less tax? Perhaps not, but it does mean that the concerns are different.

That all said, in general, I agree with you, the same rough tax rate should apply. I didn't do contracting/consultancy as a tax dodge.

The root cause of the issue that the government is addressing here, very badly, is that the tax rates are badly coded and favour investment income over earned income, something which I think is deeply wrong in UK society anyway. Normalise these and the whole issue goes away.

> so if a contractor just sets aside the same amount as they would have had to pay in a salaried job (including employers contribution) then all should be good?

No, as I called out in my comment above, the outcomes of status investigations are not "make up the difference", it's "pay all the tax without taking into account anything that's already been paid". And that's before we get into legal and accountancy fees, the fact that expenses incurred in doing business will be re-evaluated and likely denied as ineligible, and you won't get any of the benefits you would have been owed by the business or by the government as an employee. You'd have to put a lot more aside than the difference, it ruins people. And it costs a lot more people money - there are a variety of forms of insurance people take out to cover the costs of investigations, court proceedings and even the eventual liabilities.
Is it battery friendly and is it handling deep sleep properly? No? Then this is yet another board with a esp32 (but overpriced)
Where I live most cars have 4 doors, but since we are expected to pretend this is a well-posed problem we must assume there are literally 3 doors at the game host location.

Evidently the participant entered through one of them and already knows whats behind one door. If he saw the car during entry, the correct choice would be the door of entry. The host can open (and close, and open, ...) doors with goats all day long, the participant would know the car is where he just saw it.

If the participant did not see the car during entry it must be behind one of the remaining doors: either behind the back door, or behind the emergency exit door.

Clearly it would be highly illegal to obstruct the emergency exit door with a car, so under Standard Assumptions (see assumption 42, the last one in the code) we can assume the host did not park the car behind this emergency exit door. Especially since emergency exit doors open outwards.

Hence the car was parked behind the remaining backdoor, and since this follows from the Standard Assumptions we can conclude the participant made the same (by definition valid assumption) as described here, since its a Standard Assumption, and assumption 1 of the Standard Assumptions is that in the absence of necessary knowledge, everyone makes the Standard Assumptions.

Given that the participant (using the standard assumptions) knew immediately which door hides the car and given that this door was his initial "guess", the correct solution (under Standard Assumptions) is to stay with the initial choice.
Divorce is not the worst outcome of a marriage. Wasting your life in an unhappy marriage and developing lifelong resentments is way worse.
Isn't this just a ridiculous concept? Applies not just to this but so many things.

Government says "no" for no good reason other than corruption. And we all just sit back and take it. Hmm.
Generics didn’t even change up 20% of my codebase and from that 20% there where libraries, am not sure if Go or C habits has hatched into me, but I see generics as another library that one programmer from somewhere just solved something
If it ends up killing off twitter, would you consider it existing its killer feature?
I'd much rather have enthusiasts with a strong mechanical sympathy driving clapped out 60 year old sports cars than angry idiots in SUVs with twice the weight and power and controls that feel like a video game.

As for the pride aspect, it's cool to be able to understand how a vehicle works from top to bottom. You can't do that with modern cars. You certainly can't use your knowledge to coax a modern car into working in the same way. The author truly owns and is the master of his vehicle. Could you say the same for any of your machines?
Ah, winget. Another proof that Microsoft never stopped being abusive as fuck.

Inviting over open source developers under false pretenses, milking them for all the knowledge of their projects and then proceeding to ghost them for months before releasing a complete ripoff of the original open source project.

At least they wont suffer a culture clash from the Activision acquisition.
That document says in roder to do that you need to migrate to using iCloud Mail - oh well.
DataDog silently added auto opt-in telemetry
This is the case for PHP library that is used to collect data, but i guess others either already have it or will do it soon. Don't get me wrong - i'm ok with companies adding telemetry, but adding that as an opt-in by default is just not cool.

And this might be just the last straw in us switching away from DD, with all the random price hikes (them counting hosts and RAM on them and basing pricing on it?!), we will probably look into some OpenTelemetry setup we can host ourselves.
OP directly mentioned wealth tax though.

also wealth generates income.

plus taxing income is easier, less transaction costs. (no need to sell the house to pay wealth tax.)

of course non of these invalidate your observation about landed gentry, absurd housing prices, etc.
One of the worst unspoken bits is the cognitive load associated with such long running things, e.g compile or CI, which ideally are successful but that's not always the case, so you're doing something else while - consciously or not - anxiously waiting for the other thing to complete.

And when - when! - that job fails, you can be pretty sure it racks up some cortisol as one has to interrupt† your second task, pop back to the original context, curse at oneself for forgetting that comma or whatever simple thing, rerun, rinse, and repeat.

† The alternative is to finish (or reach a checkpoint) your other task, but that has cumulative latency effects on the duration of that other task that is supposed to be your main one.
Mostly no. True, the C NUL-terminated string definition is bad, but it's baked into the API. You need some semi-sane way to work with it that isn't 'Everyone writes their own wrappers to memccpy' (some people will get that wrong - e.g. the Linux manpage stpecpy wrapper just begs for misuse, and it's what most initiate C programmers will see if they know enough to check manpages).

strlcpy may not be the best API, but it's sane enough and by now ubiquitous enough to deserve inclusion. Had glibc and others engaged we may have had a better API. Regardless, glibc should never have had such a long veto here.
> Here's a better comparison.

The moment I saw the article headline, I knew the comments would be full of people running defence with fuzzy claims of qualitative wellbeing.

"Yes, our economy may objectively be underperforming, but look at the Life Quality Index, invented at the University of Copenhagen, which divides the number of UNESCO sites in a country by the number of different pension schemes...

The hard truth is - less prosperity means less money for nurses, less money for teachers, less money for infrastructure. Worse health outcomes, worse educational outcomes, worse transport and logistics. A decreasing quality of life. Less prospects for children. Increasing emigration.

Europe devotes a disproportionate amount to social spending compared to the US, so it remains competitive despite its shrinking economy, but this won't continue forever. Eventually, Europe's economy will become so relatively small, that even its outsized social spending will begin to be dwarfed by the spending of US states. It's been the case for some time that Portuguese professionals are leaving to go drive trucks in the US, and now doctors in the UK are getting poached en masse by Australian states. How long until German engineers can have a better life working as taxi drivers in China?

I like Europe and I wish it would right course, but there is an aggressive myopia on this continent when it comes to how quickly the rest of the world is moving past them, and how very bad that will be for Europe in the mid-to-long term. Europe's slide into irrelevance will be a net loss for us all, but most of all for the quality of life of Europeans themselves.
In my view, this isn't accurate. Chrome was created at the time because browsers weren't great and Google wanted browsers to be faster. Chrome grew in popularity not because of pushing but because it was genuinely a much higher quality browser for a long time.
Thank you for letting me know. I can't replicate it -- in what country/state are you?
I'm reading this comment as opposition to the rule of law

The law they broke is of the type where you can't be known if what you're doing is allowed or not in advance. Dictatorships love these sorts of laws, but unfortunately in the West companies are made to deal with a bunch of them
And the link in the subsequent tweet talks about "Europeans", apparently not knowing that European Union != Eurozone != Europe

The following diagram might be worth sending to the author(s): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Supranational_Europe... ("Euler diagram of supranational European Bodies")
> I just feel like, based on everything I read, hear, and see, that we are all just donkeys chasing the metaphorical carrot tied to a stick.

Something that is less analogical and more biographical: we are primates chasing and arguing over the shiniest and new type of banana. The analogical part left is what the "banana" might be.

As primates, we are unbelievably ill-equipped to handle the Internet. This dream of the Internet connecting us together turned into the nightmare it is because it taps into our primitive emotions, which ends up being most of them.
I like automatics but learning on stick turns it into a skill game. Mind you not too much skill because basically everybody is doing it fine. But it does give the learner a clue that you're operating something serious, not something where you can push a pedal and be done. With that kind of attitude comes overconfidence. Like the manufacturer would have thought of everything. If I can reach 100mph easily, it will stop just as easily etc.
This is an unfair comment. First, people do have to get started somewhere and early career is rarely as glamorous as late career. It’s highly possible that the only jobs in that industry for new entrants are in mini-rooms. So the choice becomes not working in one’s chosen industry at all or starting out in mini rooms — I say starting out because you’re talking about inexperienced folks. So that part of the comment isn’t really fair.

The other part of the comment that isn’t fair is the “sponging” part. Generally this implies loafing or laziness, someone taking their parents resources and being lazy with them. But we’re talking about working people who are new to their career and putting in the sweat and willing to work in mini-rooms. I don’t think using parental resources is sponging when someone is early career and trying to work hard to get ahead.
As always, it's a speed limit, not a speed target. Overtaking lanes exist for a reason. As long as someone isn't going unreasonably below the speed limit (which is also unsafe), then it's completely fine.
More specifically, some valuable types of activities are not even measured in GDP - if you build your own table out of roadside scrap, then you might be immensely satisfied by the table, but it will contribute $0 to GDP. If you follow free instructions online (and look various stuff up on Wikipedia), that will again improve your life but not GDP.
You're combining empty nest syndrome with midlife crisis. They are two distinct phenomena.
Creative endeavors can be especially difficult because it can mean lots of work with very little chance of financial success. You really have to enjoy the process itself (or at least find a healthy balance between the creation and business sides of it). If you do, there's not much risk, you'll get enjoyment out of it at least. But you really have to be honest with yourself about your expectations. (That is, even if you tell yourself you're doing it for fun, but you're secretly still planning to "make it big", you're probably setting yourself up for disappointment.)
> A good accountant/tax advisor can help here.

Until that accountant gets evaluated as a Managed Service Company provider because they gave too much advice, and you get hit that way instead.

The whole space in the UK is a minefield.
I don't understand why you (and others in these comments) are so judgmental; it's an old-timer, it's a hobby.

Nobody has these replies when it comes to older computers, electronics or software. I mean the equivalent in more usual HN posts is how to exit vim or do anything in emacs, but people get super excited about it even though the software is as old and complicated to use as this car is.

Let people have and enjoy things.
But if the tweet is about the Eurozone, then the UK would surely not have been included in the first place? They never had the Euro.
Also, what happened to proper lighting? Even in a night scene, we would actually like to see what's going on, otherwise I might as well listen to a podcast drama.
> So ultimately I think that not only is survival not the "ultimate purpose," I think it's difficult to argue there is any intrinsic purpose there at all.

Maybe I was not explaining it clearly enough, but I agreed with this. Similarly to what you said here, I said in the original post that to survive and to reproduce is more of a tautology than a purpose. What I meant is that if there must be a purpose of life, survival would be the closest thing to it, but in some strict senses of "purpose", it is not a purpose.

What's more interesting is the second implication, which suggests that there would be no objective morality if the three premises were true. I wonder if you agree that there's an objective morality. Or, to put it into a question, how do you think humans, almost universally, can distinguish good from bad?
Why is there no equivalent page with the overwhelming successes of this technology in the real world?
Ask HN: What motivates hackers to hack things?
I’m currently studying security, and decided to focus my efforts on the psychology of cybersecurity.

I realise hacking is just one aspect of that, but I was curious, what motivates hackers to hack things?
Yeah, over the last years (at least according to my impression) 90% of movies have been either remakes, sequels or comic/video game adaptations...