skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that was literally the words used probably need to enforce that it's "you're number one for departure" so that you can't inadvertently think takeoff meant cleared for takeoff
"Turn that frown upside down" is a way of saying - don't be sad, be happy. Instead of having the corners of your mouth point down (frown), have them point up (smile). The joke is that if you move the eyes to the other side of the mouth, it remains a frown.

Expectation

:( becomes :)

Subversion

:( becomes ):
>vegan options such as nuts?

Yep! Trade them with uncontacted tribes in New Guinea!

Seriously though I think we can be upset about unhealthy food without need to offer up a solution to the problem of corporate accountability.
I hear this all the time, but the more I countries I go to, the more I see the same trash foods in all the stores.
Yes, I’m looking at joining a new space and part of my selection process is asking if I can have events there (without paying). More neutral territory is great.

However, someone’s got to get the pizza bill! I’ll probably cover it to start and maybe reach out to dev tool / B2B startups to see if they are interested in helping out.
That's an interesting take, but Google won't suffer before the advertisers decide that they are wasting their money on online advertising. Some topics should already have dried up, but perhaps scams are fueling the advertising machine for now on those. You can't really use Google for things like fitness or weight-loss. When we remodeled it also became clear that building materials and especially paint have become unsearchable. In the end I resulted to just go to the store and ask, it as the only way to get reliable information and recommendation.

Google is still working for most areas, but where it's really good is the ads for products. If there's something you want to buy, Googles ads engine will find it for you, you just have to know exactly what you want.
IIRC one strategy for insecticides is to entice them to eat things they can't get any energy out of to starve them. Like you could make an excellent completely nontoxic artificial sweetener that killed bugs by them stuffing themselves with it, thinking they're full, and dying of malnutrition.
That there has always been terribly-rendered dreck on the Internet. Badly-written copy by semi-literate self-appointed "authorities." Kitbashed plagiarism that only half-understood its sources. Conspiracy theories galore from garbage-minded gasbags. Totally muddle-headed hot takes. But it was manually generated. Or semi-automatic at best (like bad machine translations of foreign language sources).

The issue with AI is the fully-automatic engines behind the process. It's not that bad web pages are unique in history. What is unique is the sheer volume and velocity of drek that is being and will be produced.

Combatting this will need technology to, in effect, provide a mark of authenticity. "This was created by a human," in effect, and, more specifically, "By this [human|set of humans]." Contrariwise, "This is a product of system X."

Of course, people will lie and claim their AIs didn't ghostwrite their content or create those images. So against authorship and identities there will be an increasing need to rank authority/authenticity/veracity.

Not all AI-generated content will be horrible. And not all human-generated content will be trustworthy. There will need to be a way to mark reliability based on community-oriented standards. For AI-generated content (and human-generated content too) there will need to be ways to cite sources.

This will all become highly politicized, commercialized and gamed.

Yet if we don't work on such standards, we will continue to be beholden to hidden search engine algorithms of trustworthiness. Why did something get to the answerbox or SERP1? Was it simply through keyword packing? Or did whatever author behind this — human or machine — actually know (or at least seem to know) what the hell they are talking about?

There will need to be Internet-wide ways to create community-oriented ratings. Thumbs up and down.

Maybe this is a popular page with the public. But actual professional astronomers see this as factually misleading.

Maybe this page is popular with political faction X. But others point out it is rife with factually incorrect conspiracy theories.

Just like there are now "community notes" on Twitter (X), the whole Internet needs the equivalent way to ascribe qualitative judgments on any arbitrary page.
Doubt it. Microsoft offers sweet deals for academia.
I wish I could use Thunberdird. It grinds to a halt far too often for me. We have very large inboxes, so maybe that's a factor.
LLMs at Google aren't going to augment Assistant, they're going to replace it. With something that isn't an assistant, and doesn't do anything useful.
Circle confidentially files for IPO following banner year for crypto stocks
I like the basic idea of htmx: respond to user input by making server requests that return new html for a subset of the page. However, I think there's a pretty significant language design problem and htmx's solution is language proliferation. There is a very low "expressivity ceiling" for what can be encoded into html attributes. The hx-trigger attribute defines a new, very limited domain specific programming language for expressing side-effects with few means of combination or abstraction. For anything slightly complicated, hyperscript seems to be the favored solution which is yet another new language. All of this caused by trying to shove logic into attribute strings.
Everyone knows lisps are superior, the trick is not to rub it in.
Named Types in C++
Fixing meetup, or making something that works is a fun mental-challenge.

Something like geo-specific chatrooms that unlock IRL functionality once you get enough members, and remove it if nobody shows up might be worth a try.

Or maybe most people in the US live in low-density suburbs and won't go to anything because parking/driving is a hassle, idk.
Have you ever used Tailscale? Just installing it on each device (and logging in with an account you already own) is the only thing you have to do to create a tunnel. You enable HTTPS certificates requires clicking on two links and enabling a switch.

Caddy (a webserver which, surely, the OP of this article must be using, if he’s serious about keeping things simple) comes with Tailscale support built-in, so you get your automatic HTTPS (ACME) with one line of configuration (adding `machinename.tailnet-name.ts.net` in the Caddyfile).

For fun, here’s the full configuration file for a server which serves a “what is my IP” service over HTTPS, only served when you are connected to your VPN:

server1.cat-crocodile.ts.net {
templates
respond "{{.RemoteIP}}"
}

(I should probably show how to remote proxy, to stay relevant with the article’s point, but I wanted to show off my Go-template-fu.)

Do you think installing software, clicking on a few links + a button (switch) on a website, and writing one line of configuration is unreasonable or complex?
Well, they are seemingly explicitly calling out Debian as your new favorite place for SSHv1 support :-) Who are no more paid than they are.
It's not different rounding modes, but different floating point formats. Google is doing something very weird that is also base 10 related. Not sure about TCL.
I wrote this blog post for myself for whenever I have to configure email again: https://www.uxwizz.com/blog/stop-others-use-your-domain-emai...
> Pesticides are carcinogenic.

Some pesticides are very likely carcinogenic.

For others, the mechanism of action is acetylcholine esterase inhibition, essentially insect-sized nerve gas dosing, metabolized by things bigger than insects, and then there are nicotine analogues for more neurotoxic action.
Seems like a Canadian artist thing to do

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_from_Above_1979#You're_a...
Seconded. I was in a similar position and then realized I’d never get “unlimited” access to try all the Azure services like that. Tried them all without worrying about the cash aspect, and learned a ton.
OK, so the things you don't like about it are effable rather than ineffable, but none of what you say changes that I do, in fact, like it[1].

To me, it's fine that it has no named characters, no dialog. One of the most grating things in plots with aliens is the names, no matter if they're American names like the spiders in A Deepness in the Sky, or the Star Trek pattern giving us random apostrophes and internal capitalisation, where "Q'ting'pAh" could easily be either Klingon or Vulcan.

[1] Not all of the output of 4, like I said it's mostly bad, but that I like this particular result.
One problem is that the important compilers are today mostly controlled by C++ people, and smaller C compilers and C users are underrepresented. Every change in C that is different to what C++ has already is an uphill battle.
MUC++ organizer here, yes we are probably the exception. We are based in Munich which is south Germany and did stick to roughly one event per month, even though we went online only during the pandemic. We have been doing more on-site events for the last year and are back to a ~40-50% no-show rate. The Rust Meetup is also doing better than ever. So I'd argue your experience does not generalize to all tech Meetups in south Germany.
Ah the fond days of being able to identify a machine remotely by ejecting its CD-ROM drive.
No doubt now archived forever and available in ChatGPT.
Using the internet in general is a false sense of security. If you want total security crush all of your technology and go live in the woods.

The point of cyber security tools like VPNs is to limit tracking, data sharing and reduce the potential for malicious actions to be taken against you.

You can't honestly say not using a VPN is better than using one. What's the alternative? Unencrypted web traffic? Your ISP harvesting your web data and selling it? Exposure on public networks?
> ...it appears the company has transformed its email app into a surveillance tool for targeted advertising.

It's not just Microsoft's email, it's all of Windows too. I tried Windows 11 for the first time not too long ago and it's an abomination of an ad delivery vehicle that makes ChromeOS look magnificent.

After too many years of Windows, I finally bit the bullet and installed Linux on my desktop. Within a few weeks I was more productive than I was on Windows and my OS is no longer trying to sell me something constantly, and I should have done it sooner.
Yeah, just lock your versions without updating in the JS ecosystem with typical projects having thousands of dependencies, and watch your CVE count go up every day you don't update.
First Steps with Pkgbase
> I think it should be up to the wrench owner to make this decision, and not the wrench seller (who collects money for calibrating wrenches).

That would depend on the accreditations involved, yeah? One would certainly hope that the manufacturer goes through a rigorous design and testing process to ensure that the recommended service/calibration interval is accurate and occurs before the tool wanders out of spec for whatever its intended task is.

As the end user you should presumably be able to reasonably adjust that service interval but it should require a similarly rigorous and documented process to determine how much more you can open it up, not just squinting at the wind and saying "eh they over-engineered it so I think we can get 30% more use out of before calibration"

That's where the accreditations and specs come in. If I'm torqueing down a new Ikea bookshelf, I really don't care. New tires at a chain shop? Middling, to the point that they don't over-ugga-dugga my lug nuts on and destroy the bolts. I'm gonna re-tighten them myself after a drive or two anyway. Bolts in a new airliner being tightened down at the plant? You bet I want that shit to be to-spec, and the tools, too.
Your model of commerce is outdated by well over a century. You clearly don't understand how the stock market and financialized economies work. Furthermore, it's very naive to think capitalism could ever be sustainable with or without these things.
The "little man" is the line employee, vs the machinations of the boardroom and the demands of the stock market. The salary level isn't that relevant.
How sad that the FDA sucks so badly at their job that people are now like: "I have to try not to eat in order to reduce the amount of poison I'm ingesting from all of our food". Regulatory capture at work I guess.
Just thinking aloud. Change-tracking software like git works with "patches", that is, changes applied to a source file to produce the changed file. They are hardwired to work with text files like source code, with short lines, and with line-oriented changes.

But nothing prevents such a system from working with arbitrary files, as long as there is a tool to create a "patch" or a "diff" (that is, a description of a change) and a tool that can apply such "diff". Git does have a mechanism to plug in both of these tools, depending on the file type.

I have a very vague idea of what CAD files are internally, but I suppose they are some kind of a database, and they are not colossal (unlike e.g. video files or such). They certainly could use this mechanism to allow tools like git (or hg, or maybe even perforce) be used in workflows involving CAD files, with human-understandable and reviewable changes.

I wonder if someone has ever tried that. I can't be the first person to have this obvious idea.
I like that idea. I guess such an amplification effect can lead entire civilizations astray. But still in the long run BS will be ruled out. Here, I disagree with you in that "truth" is also a matter what works and what not. Simply, BS doesn't work. It makes worse models in the heads of people (and possible artificial agents). Worse models will lead to less effective decisions.
Not FANG salaries, but managers at In-N-Out are being paid a tidy sum. Here it lists 160K in California:

https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/managers-at-in-n-out-burg...

As an employee, if I'm compensated well and have a career progression path, I would be content - I don't have to be an SWE.
I feel like somehow this is all some economic/psychological version of a heat equation. Anytime someone comes up with some signal with economic value that value is exploited to spread the signal back out.

I think it’s similar to a Matt Levine quote I read which said something like Wall Street will find a way to take something riskless and monetize them so that they now become risky.
I think OP meant software. Hiring in Pharma is different.
I hope the C++ committee will fix their designated init feature implementation (atleast for POD structs) because this single feature makes the code 10x more readable.
The problem is that Electron is superior to something like a Godot UI in absolutely everything else.

Sure Godot can be ok for trivial apps, but extracting performance out of Electron is also not that difficult for trivial apps in the first place.
the craziest part is that jaron lanier said this like 20 years ago, if not more
AFAIK communication skills are routinely evaluated in those interviews: if you have the best code but can't explain how it works, you won't score highly on them. You should be able to discuss tradeoffs, how you reason, etc.

They clearly don't help to evaluate organizational skills, but no one said you should only have these interviews. I'm guessing no company does only leetcode-style interviews, at least I don't know of any.

> I have found that there is zero overlap between people doing well in leetcode interviews, and hires doing well in their first year.

You could only evaluate this correlation among people who did pass your leetcode interviews and were thus beyond a certain bar, unless I'm missing something. The question is whether selecting according to this bar is useful, but it doesn't look like you evaluated this. Or did you do leetcode interviews and just hired anyone regardless of how they performed in them? I agree with you that beyond a certain bar, the signal becomes lesser. But being able to tell whether a candidate can write a for loop is a pretty strong (anti-)indicator for many SWE jobs.

> The notion here is that some company, at some point in time, started putting their applicants through these kind of puzzles, and it became trendy.

I agree that there's probably some of that. But companies are made of people, and if so many are still doing that decades now after they started and don't see a competitive advantage in switching, maybe it's the best they've been able to come up with, given their constraints. Again, there's real money to be made for those coming up with an alternative that'd scale and perform better.
The bigger risk frankly is that people watch so little they no longer pay the license fee because it makes no financial sense to do so.

I haven't watched terrestrial tv in a decade or more, pretty sure there's a generation of UK kids who will never bother because youtube/twitch/netflix is better as far as they're concerned.
This is not a comment on the Kagi service, but more a comment on transitions in general. I have tried Kagi and I think it's great. I really want to use Kagi. I want to support Kagi. I have a mental stickynote that says 'start using Kagi on everything'. Every time I sit down to do some tasks it just falls to the bottom of the to-do pile because I feel like there's so many devices I now need to go through and update. Google really has a powerful advantage by bundling search in with the browser product. Isn't that what got microsoft into anti-trust trouble? How is it allowed?
They don’t have screening for cholangiocarcinoma. It’s not common in the Midwest.

My partner discovered her cancer as a result of an unrelated condition: kidney stone MRIs showed a spot on her liver. We’ve been disappointed by every western medicine outcome for the last two years.

The Mayo Clinic was an incredibly disappointing experience. Our last interaction there, after giving some shitty news, our oncologist asked if we ate corn, like in tortillas. She had a theory it might be to blame. I pointed out corn is everything and bitterly wished her luck.

Hopefully, my partner will see her kid graduate high school in three years.
> Although this transfer is secured with Transport Layer Security (TLS), according to Heise Online, your IMAP and SMTP username and password are transmitted to Microsoft in plain text

So like every login form in the world, which sends the username and password in plain text over SSL. This is pure FUD.
The page never explicitly states what the right answer is, but based on the output of their suggested "correct" perl, we can infer that they expect 1.

This is just me being idiosyncratic I guess, but if I see a number with a decimal place, I default to interpreting it as an fp64 unless otherwise specified - which yields a "correct" answer of 2.0 (which is not an answer I can get to in my head, admittedly)

If the question-asker wanted integer arithmetic, they'd have left off the ".0", and if they wanted something other than fp64 roundTiesToEven they should've been more explicit :P
I've thought about it but it seems daunting so I punted this idea for myself, but it depends on if you mean as an xorg/wayland replacement or if you mean to build on one of those, and even between those two they have a vastly different approach, but there are some minimal foundations that could be built on...

For example, wlroots: "Pluggable, composable, unopinionated modules for building a Wayland compositor; or about 60,000 lines of code you were going to write anyway." So it would also depend on if you mean raw WM or if you want compositing also etc.
If you print it you either devalue the underlying dollar (and therefore tether), or you risk a run just as you would if you printed bitcoin.

You can't just print money without side effects.
The intended goal was to get the other person to reply :) by inverting the mouth. Instead, the whole "frown face" was inverted.
I don't encourage people to fast but it's also not true that it's unsupported by evidence. It's an ancient and widespread practice in nearly all of the major world belief systems. Billions of people fast, and there is a massive cross-cultural body of writings about the effects of it.

Which is not the same as modern peer-reviewed medical study, no. But it's not "no evidence" either.
How could I look my wife in the eye, or expect my kids to grow up happy, if they knew their dad doesn't know how to use a regex to detect emojis in a string?
I am always perplexed by how many people deny the reality of this. Upgrading TypeScript major versions for any package of non-trivial size and dependencies is often (not always, but often) quite difficult! I wrote about that in my last htmx essay.[0]

[0] https://htmx.org/essays/no-build-step/
> Does anyone still use email for that?

Sure. Same as in the olden days. Txt for short form, email for long form. Email for the infrequently contacted.

Even back when I used SM, I never comm'd with IRL people on SM. SM was 100% internet people.
↑ obesity → ↑ chronic general inflammation → ↑ cancer risk

These two effects are widely known and the transitive property is clear. The first google result of a NIH study has ~4-8% of all cancers being directly attributed to obesity which is a lot and could well be an underestimate given the difficulty of attribution. Many cancers that have a clear genetic trigger may have been prevented or at least delayed by an immune system that wasn't impaired by obesity.
Commodity currency does have a "disincentive to investment" which has a measurable negative effect on the economic climate. This was first identified and studied by Silvio Gesell in the early 20th century, then John Maynard Keynes a few decades later. Removing this disincentive is what ushered in the post-WW2 period of prosperity and growth that we're still living in today.

The part your analysis is missing is that for a commodity currency there is a whole segment of productive, non-risky investments which cannot raise capital in a deflationary environment. If deflation is 5% and a civic works project with an effectively guaranteed 3% return is fundraising, who in their right mind would put money into that? Better to hodl than to invest in your community. There is, btw, a deep tie between this result and Henry George's analysis of the impact of rents, if you're familiar with that.

This basic phenomenon of the risk-free interest rate being non-zero, and its ramifications for the economy, is one of the most confirmed results of 20th century economic research. If you could get the risk-free interest rate to zero, it would boost the economy and lower unemployment with absolutely no ill effects whatsoever.
In person, if they think you'll have to write their name: "My name is XYZ, that uses the kanji for A and B"

As for business cards, yes, if they have some non-obvious reading they will have kana or romaji there somewhere. (Usage of romaji on business cards is wider than you might expect, since it's seen as kind of the equivalent of a modern sans-serif logo for a business in some circles)

e.g.

Card with furigana: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

Card with kana elsewhere: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

Card with romaji: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...
"since 2020, the US has printed nearly 80% of ALL US Dollars in circulation" - I've seen this notion repeated and I assume it's a reference to M1 as published by FRED: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL

The actual story, as far as I can tell, is that money that had previously been considered as M2 (=less liquid) is also counted as M1 due to rule changes regarding savings accounts.

To see this is the case, you can plot both together. If in fact, new money was printed, you would expect M2 to have the same jump as M1, as M2 is M1 + more stuff. However, you see a much smaller jump:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=1dwhY

The rule-change coincided with COVID relief measures which did include money-printing, but at a much smaller scale than implied.