skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clever is bad, boring is good.

As a senior engineer, you see things like this all the time from more junior engineers: way too generic code, done in an overly clever way, incompressible to most. I've spent countless hours telling junior engineers to "dumb it down" and "make it less generic". Not all features that exist must be used. And no, you don't have to combine them all either. That's why I dislike Scala, and like Go. Go has like 3 features, and Scala has 100. It's very hard to make something overly complicated with 3 features (this is hyperbole obviously;I like Scala as a language, but not how many humans use it).

Code is written once, and read 100x, so it must be easy to parse by humans, and easy to understand in a split second. Junior engineers will have to understand it. New team members will have to understand it. If you have the occasional function like this, that's fine. If your entire code looks like this, or you are proud to have written a "clever function", that's not so good.

I try to write dumb code wherever possible. Do the expected, do the boring.
Microsoft Teams has some of the most consistently designed emoji:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/view-all-availabl...

Apple’s are good but are not super consistent in terms of style.
Also Emacs will reapect files being placed in XDG directories, it just doesn't put them there...
Why would this be your default assumption

I am not saying it is fair, or that I would make this assumption.

However, car insurance is the same way. If some indicator shows correlation with a bad driver, eg age, birth sex, type of car, rates go up!

Same thing with unpaid/delinquent debt. It is an indicator. If you have 10 good potential employees to hire, and one has bad debt....
Ah war stories.

Just a few weeks back a user came to us after failing to migrate GBs of their data off of Evernote. This, of course, included attachments. They had successfully imported & synced 80K items, but when they tried to login on their iPhone, the sync was really, really slow. They had to wait 5 hours just to get the count up to 20K items. And that's when the app crashed resetting the whole sync progress to 0.

In short, we had not considered someone syncing 80K items. To be clear, 80K is not a lot of items even for a local-first sync system, but you do have to optimize for it. The solution consisted of extensively utilizing batching & parallelization on both the backend & the users' device.

The result? Now their 80K items sync within 2 minutes.
Which brand of the vaccine?
Second sentence in link: "They allow full control over the simulation, including profiling, debug and trace."
This is crazy tech!
> Baddies keep ruining all the fun for the rest of us.

IMHO the blame rather lies with our politicians who are unwilling to take the steps necessary to cut the baddies off from the Internet. Let's see just how fast India, Pakistan, Turkey and other scammer hotspots clean up their act when the US+EU threaten to cut them off from the Internet and SS7 unless the scam callcenters are closed down for good... the amount of corruption regularly exposed by scambaiters on Youtube is insane. Billions of dollars of damages each year [1] from that bullshit and our politicians don't. fucking. care.

[1] https://www.vibesofindia.com/fraudsters-in-india-cost-americ...
You forgot to mention that he can't remember details about one of the biggest tax frauds in German history. Personally I don't think that he should be chancellor at all, but I guess we don't have many choices.
I see it more like:

(1) A huge dependency in the project for reading Excel files.

(2) Everyone needs training, as usually people in my profession have rarely if ever any need for Excel.

(3) Visuals != contained text, so the config might be different from what you see on screen as the config value.

(4) No proper version control, even a csv file would be better.

(5) scales? lul, have fun trying to solve merge conflicts. Also don't come with any Excel git plugins. It will only make the bad decision worse.
It’s completely consistent with Amazon’s behaviour though. Their use of union-busting techniques is well documented
Yeah, the more you move away from standard tasks in top languages, the more errors you find. As a test, I asked ChatGPT to generate R code to run a T test for every group of my dataframe. It took the average for each group and then ran a T test on the resulting single value. It still spit out results, and if I didn't do stats for a living, I might not have noticed the error.
OTOH, the French regulator publishing a product removal from market ON THE DAY of the marketing PR for the new iPhone is a distasteful attempt at raining on their parade.
Vector Embeddings as the Antidote to Psychotic LLMs and a Cure for Alert Fatigue
Haha yeah. Their language was hilarious “we’ve been doing this for years guys! Now you can charge your iPhone with the same cable as your Mac and iPad!”

I guess they have to spin it. Good on the EU pushing the issue.
The age argument doesn't seem to be holding up since cancer rates are growing for younger people:

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/16/health/early-onset-cancer...

Better screening could be a factor.

Also, population growth doesn't matter for a *rate*.
I think the author did not try to justify retributivist's view in this article, but, rather, suggest consequentialists cannot make better argument.
And /run/user
The EU is solving this:

https://www.fleeteurope.com/en/new-energies/europe/article/f...
A rubber mat should work too
Care to elaborate? That's a pretty big claim.
Back in around 2008 at the University of Utah I participated in a study someone was doing about detecting touches on any surface using a camera. When you touch a surface, the blood under your fingernails moves, and that movement can be detected with a camera and turned into a usable signal. I think they were even able to get force and direction as well. It was very interesting, but I haven't seen or heard anything about that method since.

I did, and still do, think it's a great idea.
In the US, the terms of service are much better for credit cards than debit cards, so even folks who pay off their cards every month (for example, airline miles cardholders) prefer credit cards because of superior ToS.

The terms on credit cards are expensive for issuers, so debit cards were introduced with terms more favorable to issuers. Even if they improved the terms, consumers would still be hesitant to use them because US debit cards' reputation is tainted.

Europe has much stronger consumer protections, so I can only assume EU debit cards dont share the disadvantages of US debit cards.

[Edited for balance and clarity, thanks]
I had one of these AtariLab kits, probably leftovers from the school library(the source of a lot of retro gear and books in my youth). And yeah, it was badly misreading the room temperature in the early 90's, too. I was hardly prepared to figure out how it might be calibrated and the deep dive here would test me even now. Just one of those interesting curiosities where the intent got ahead of the practical utility.
Apple's September Event was a flop
A clawback tax would do the trick.
Do you mean other cars in the same class?

Either way, it undermines the statement that the increase in car size is primarily due to new legislation which makes it impossible to build a small, safe car.
Cool list! I was looking for something like this
This is ridiculous, IMO. When you go out to eat you should optimize for pleasure, not the difficulty of constructing a dish. Avocado Toast was chosen in the "young people suck" articles because it was trendy, not because it simple.

Look at the other complaint - espresso drinks at cafes. People whine that young people could save more money if they just stopped buying lattes. Given that virtually nobody has an espresso machine at home, this is the polar opposite of the "well, you can make it at home" situation.

No. The complaint is "young people should stop complaining about their economic fortunes because it is their own damn fault." Nothing to do with trading money for convenience.
I don't know how Milton Friedman being extremely libertarian is a reason his criticism of unions should be taken more seriously. Libertarians (in the modern political sense, i.e. right libertarians) are generally anti-union because they want free enterprise and unions interfere with the freedom of business/capital owners.

But you're right to an extent: unions are a stop gap. The better option would be collectivization, turning the business into a cooperative so all workers have a stake in the success of the company and unlike shareholders have a strong interest in its sustainability, which may in some cases involve lowering wages (to weather a loss of income during a market downturn or to allow more room for investments, not to increase profits in quarterly reports).
My interest list:

Ad/content blockers

/End
You can certainly make some RISC-V platform standard that fixes addresses if you like -- as the PC did by totally copying IBM's machines -- but people want to avoid that.

There was a large ecosystem of MS-DOS computers before the IBM PC took over that had very diverse hardware and depended on the BIOS for compatibility.

We lost a lot when we all had to copy IBM's 640k RAM limit and A20 bug. Other, earlier, MS DOS machines allowed more RAM than that e.g. DEC Rainbow supported 896k of RAM. With a suitable expansion card the Sanyo MBC-550 could make 960k of RAM available to MSDOS.
It was a good comment with the sarcasm included.
The one case I'm aware of in Europe where debit vs. credit makes a real difference is car rental companies.

They will only accept credit cards, not debit cards. Unless you also agree to pay for their shady and useless insurance (useless because typically the broker already offers better and cheaper insurance, so in this case you double pay).
> Apple's newest event didn't give us any iPhones

Did we watch the same event? Sure the 15 is arguably a 14 Pro but did you not see the 15 Pro?
Only installers I’ve seen are the .installer bundles, which leave behind a manifest for automated uninstalling.
How do I uninstall Windows?
This is what I’m interested to see. Lightning was limited to USB2 (?) speeds, USB-C offers a much bigger menu of capabilities. How many of them does the iPhone 15 utilize?

I suspect not much… this generation seems like “fine, EU, we’ll swap the connector.” It’ll take another product design cycle to take advantage of the new possibilities it offers (beyond continuing to sell iPhones in the EU)
For the most simplistic row-wise formulas, sqlite has generated columns.

I’d assume the issue will be that an sql table is not free form, you can’t randomly decide to write in some other cell.
You're absolutely right

https://xkcd.com/1200/
Are you suggesting that immigration has had no effect on the price of dwellings in the developed world, and that two years of low immigration during a period of unprecedented economic slowdown and intense inflation was enough to prove that?
I'm convinced there is a similar campaign going on to promote the disgusting plastic wrapped individual slices of American "cheese".

I grew up believing I hated cheeseburgers, since that was the only cheese available at family cookouts and at the fast food restaurants. I really only realized how terrible things like Kraft singles were after I started cooking and buying my own ingredients.

There are a massive amount of mediocre to absolutely terrible recipes on the internet. However, there are a few individuals and groups that consistently post high quality recipes, recipes that when I make them for other people they often say its "the best version of (X)" they've ever had. Yet in a lot of recent videos involving burgers or any kind of melted cheese on a sandwich I've been seeing a lot of recommendations to "not be fussy" and just use a Kraft single or some other disgusting plastic wrapped cheese because "it was created to melt". Implying that somehow the most difficult part of the sandwich is getting swiss, provolone, muenster, or any other halfway decent cheese, to melt. Most notably Kenji Lopez consistently recommends it, but I've seen it cropping up in other's recipes.

Maybe I just have a particular hate for that "cheese" and it is just me. But I don't know of anyone who actually would prefer it on their food, just people who won't complain if that is there only option. The actual market for it seems like its just made up of fast food places buying the cheapest cheese possible, cheap relatives that have been placed in charge of getting toppings for the burgers for a cookout, and parents making school lunches for children they don't think will know the difference. It is just really making me question why such high quality recipe outlets would suddenly recommend such a bottom of the barrel ingredient. The same outlets that often times ask the reader to spend the money/time to not substitute or leave out higher quality ingredients. The American cheese isn't even that much cheaper than much better alternatives unless you're buying in bulk.

This article really offers the only reason I can think of for the sudden increase in recommendations for it.
Indeed! A bit annoying.
It's the most successful durable product line in history in terms of revenue and units sold. It sells far more than dishwashers. The tech also tends to be a lot more of an upgrade than a dishwasher gets.
> That's not an explanation.

This article was not trying to explain that.
It was a challenge to consequentialists' view.
I have a Samsung watch without cellular but with bluetooth communications instead.

Can someone eloborate what the difference is between celluar connections and other wireless tech like headless phones or watches? Is there any difference except strength etc.

Never believed it before, but suddently the thought of wireless technologies being bad gave me a reality check and I realized I have never questioned it.
If you are in Europe or the UK GDPR is your friend!

If you get contacted by a debt collector, make a Subject Access Request while you have them on the phone for all information they hold on you. In the UK they will require a 'notice of assignment' from the original issuer of the debt and any subsequent owners, along with a signed copy of the credit agreement. If they don't have this they are toothless.

If you get issued with a county court claim form hit them immediately with a SAR for the details above and reply to the claim form stating that you do not recognise that debt, that you have asked for the details above but have yet to receive them. You can make a claim from them under Civil Procedure Rules to make them hand over the docs that their case relies on. Google is your friend on this.
You could say the same thing about using a cell phone and a massively complex backend infrastructure to call a cab instead of your hand. I think the next generation of devs will come up relying on these tools, just like how I'd have a hard time going back to writing code through telnet like I did back in the day.
I mean it was actually this forced change that made Apple finally upgrade from the USB2 speeds they were stuck on until now for this connector.

Ironically Apple are also demonstrating on their laptops exactly how you might keep the current connector but add an additional innovative charging connector (MagSafe). They did the same with the pogo pins on the iPads.

I don’t think that’s necessary in any case, USBC itself was essentially designed by committee before a single device was shipped and I’m sure the next standard will be too because that’s what it takes to coordinate the whole market. Innovation still happens. The world doesn’t fall down.
Related in name only. Open emoji battler
https://game.open-emoji-battler.community/
I honestly doubt literally anyone in the government cares about Apple marketing
If she was vaccinated after infection, she probably has enough level of antibodies. (1,2) I hope she consult that with her doctor rather than online noise as you think.

(1) https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.04.21267114v...
(2) https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.12.21263461v...
Same for the death metal
Create your own video templates
Probably not the kind of physics knowledge you're expecting, but your regular phone probably also tends to be "tied" to your thigh in your pocket or to your hand when in use. If that's fine with you (weight and distraction concerns aside), a watch isn't that different.
Ransomware crew hits Save The Children, steals 7TB of data
As an American who has spent a couple of years in Sydney, there are a few interesting observations:

- Tradies (construction workers, train workers, etc) are super common, it's a well-respected job, and it pays well (something like $25-30/hr AUD).
- Sydney has so many construction projects. Every little bit of road is endlessly built, ripped up, redesigned, and built again. There are MANY train stations (~200?) and many of them constantly get refreshed and made super nice.
- Speaking of trains, there are like 7 competing public transit train systems in the greater Sydney area. Many of them are not interoperable
- Construction is FAST here. From train station upgrades to apartments (though they're cookie cutter like the US), everything goes up in like 6-12 months.

A part of me feels they have so much money to slosh around everyone's got jobs, and they can throw it on endless civic projects. It's like playing Sim City with an infinite money cheat.

The joke here is that Australia makes money "by selling pieces of it to China" but that will probably end sooner or later... and that's when unemployment will soar, and the good times will end.

Until then, let the good times roll (on one of the competing train lines)
There are some small predators with excellent binocular vision who would like a word with you.
VoCore – Coin-sized Linux Computer
Notably American-tinged comments here. I mean, HN usually is, but especially so.

Sriracha sauce is a generic kind of sauce. This is not all about one particular brand. Whatever some Californian company calls it, it's not their own thing and never was. There are legions of brands of sriracha and apart from one country, in the other 200-odd countries of the world other brands outnumber Flying Goose or whatever it's called.

A decade ago, before the spat with their suppliers, I heard praise for this one American brand, so I went looking for it. I found some, bought it, and it was a good sauce. It was expensive, though, so I did not stay loyal, when I could buy actual Asian-made sriracha from Asian shops for 10% of the price of the American stuff. I have found that other Asian brands of sriracha are just as good to my taste, notably the amusingly-named Cock Sauce.

In fact the only thing that's notable to me is that since the successful viral promotion of Hoy Fong's stuff, lots of European supermarkets noticed that "sriracha" isn't a trademark and anyone can make and sell sriracha sauce. So now there is Tesco sriracha and Marks and Spencer sriracha and Albert Hein sriracha and so on...

Those are all rubbish with no heat and no flavour.

But if it comes in a clear plastic bottle with 3-4 non-European languages printed on it, it's probably good. :-)

And frankly, it's inexpensive and widespread so I am not going to bother making my own. Sorry. It's like bread: home made bread can be wonderful, but if you shop around, there is good bread to buy almost everywhere... even in the UK, home of the awful Chorleywood Process and some of the worst bread in the world.

If I can buy a loaf of good bread for £/$/€ 1.50-2 then I am not going to spend 4 hours making one.
Why don't you want to distribute the love runtime + .love file to your users?
How is this different from https://www.saymine.com/ ???
I can think of a few reasons why you might get different results. The plastic cover over the metal antenna might be thick enough to keep your skin away(inverse-square law). The version of WiFi has different frequencies(2.4 ghz vs 5 ghz). The Wi-Fi isn't actively transmitting at full power. Or you're simply not holding it there as long.

I'm sure we could come up with a repeatable experiment for this that doesn't have any risk of burning.
I think you're missing step 0):

0) Completely misunderstand the tool you can't use and you're about to re-write, such that you hate it, it sucks, and you can do better...
This new feature is also tracking, so you might want to worry about it too.

You might see it as a good compromise, but I don't think it is. First, I'm not interested in compromising a bit of privacy for ads. Second, ads are meant to push consumption, and we really need less of this in the world right now.
In my high school physics class we measured the pitch between the tracks of a CD using the same principle. You just need a light source with a known wavelength, like a laser. It was a pretty cool experiment!
I block ads because I don’t want them in my life but I am aware that for some type of content I would need to pay somehow and ads were the currency… In my case when blocking will stop working I will simply stop consuming, get more offline time and so on but to a lot of people that is not an option.
Yeah, and engine's name should be Unity, just to be safe. Why not just stick to Unity instead of playing no true Scotsman? Not even Unreal satisfies these.
> It is an Americanism because the term implicitly assumes two things:

> 1. That the government is split into branches, following how the US system evolved.

> 2. That executive power must be confined to a single branch, also how the US is organized.

I'm pretty sure these principles are originally French. The American system was built around these principles as well, but calling them American is a whole new level of Americentrism.

Separation of powers into three branches is basically a prerequisite for belonging to the EU, as it is considered a basic requirement for a democracy.

For that matter, the US and France are probably two of the modern democracies that have the least separation between these powers (on paper).
Is c# support a deal breaker? I'm not a game dev so I don't really know if there's any games dev specific tooling for c# that people rely on.
> version, compare

Gonna have to disagree with you here. Very few people know how to version, compare, let alone if there are multiple collaborators, Excel files. Is there even a decent way of doing that outside of Excel Online / Google Sheets?
These are great. I wanted a few icons of food things and everything I wanted is here.

I was procrastinating on HN putting off this task, these emoji have bounced me back into doing, not procrastinating.

Thanks to whomever posted this.
4 Credit cards per inhabitants ?

Does everyone have multiple bank accounts ?
I appreciate your response. I almost didn't even make the original comment because I knew I would get 'conspiracy nut' responses, as I did lol I promise, I'm the furthest from a conspiracy nut.
I think Hank covers .NET.
My Finnish debit and credit cards are equally accepted everywhere. I normally pay with Apple Pay, also sometimes chip & pin, and of course online.

For all purposes, they are the same. In fact, they are bundled in the same physical card. The only difference is that one debits my account immediately (usually, unless the point of sale is not networked), and the other collects debt I usually pay off at the end of the next month.

I've never had any special rewards or cash back programs associated with my cards. There is some kind of travel insurance bundled with my Visa Credit cards, but that's kind of worthless for me as I usually have other insurance in place already.
Indian here.

- Money.
- Remote work
- Zero assholes in my team
- Open source preferred
- Preferably IC role.
Also, the music is not bluegrass as much as it is old-time, a confusion that continually irritates old-time players.