skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once read that the Paris metro drives on the right, specifically so that it can't interoperate with the mainline railways.

I wonder how true that is, though. The metro is sort of a glorified tramway, and trams have to operate the same way round as street traffic.
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This is so very helpful, your feature suggestions are obvious but I never saw it, extra pair or eyes are nice to have, thanks.
I didn't say that the alternatives didn't have their own issues with vendor overreach, it's that the reaction you can imagine from staff in an average organisation now if you said "We're moving from Windows to [some other OS]" today is almost certainly going to be very different from the same announcement to an average organisation 20 years in the future.

Agree that Windows has a massive lead.
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There's a mention of continental Europe driving on the right due to Napoleon. The story I heard is that in the French Revolution, many changes were made purely to make a symbolic break with the monarchy, and driving on the right was one of them. Napoleon then enforced this wherever he could as a symbol of conquest. There's every chance that this explanation is bullshit.
Capture customers and unreasonably hike the prices is a business plan as popular as subscription services. I hope consumers and businesses will notice how unreliable this is and start choosing more user friendly products more often.
Oh, that's like German "begreifen", no? (Which means "to grok".)
> their practices are probably outright forbidden in the EU.

The laws are very much for small and medium business only. The whales get individual treatment based on how well they can grease the wheels so to speak.
> Meanwhile C lacks any such keyword

It's a hassle. But not the end of the world.

I usually search for "doTheThing\(.+?\) \{" first.

If I don't get a hit, or too many hits I move to "doTheThing\([^\)]*?\) \{" and so on.
Cop during a traffic stop: "I need to take this back to my car to run some checks."
Yeah I forgot to mention Kotlin.

Yes, I am keeping an eye not just on Rust -- but Zig and Odin.
I personally like Odin, but I don't think it will shake off its reputation as a gaming language (like Jai) -- but I hope they change that marketing strategy.
https://archive.ph/31sdm
1. That's true, but where did you see support for Hamas mentioned anywhere? Nobody was doing that.

2. Companies don't have morals, their priority is making money regardless of morals. Otherwise they wouldn't be using slave labor, damaging the environment or spying on everyone. All their pledges agasant imoral things are just washing and pandering based on the curent consumer views and trends.

French concrete giant Lafarge was caught doing contracts with Isis to get their trucks though conflict territories in Syria. You see, companies don't give a shit about morals or even laws, as long as they think they can get away with it and make a buck. Like the video said, Google would sell out gay people to people who want to stone them if that was the public opinion and it would make them money.
That pisses me off because you can't get prime video UK content in Ireland, even though the shipping works. You get some subset of it.
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> Otherwise it’s like asking people whether a color is red or yellow, when it’s clearly a shade of orange.

No it's like asking people whether a color is red or green, when it's clearly a shade of yellow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_wheel#/media/File%3ALine...
Imagine you’re standing on a double-track section. From your perspective, the track on the left leads away from you, the track on the right leads towards you.

As to why: having this uniformity is useful in placing, eg, signals (which face in one direction).

Much more confusing in railways is which track is the “up” line and which is the “down” line.
There are many formal definitions of (machine) learning. For example, see:

A Theory of the Learnable L. G. Valiant 1984

https://web.mit.edu/6.435/www/Valiant84.pdf

Also:

Statistical Learning Theory Vladminir N. Vapnik, 1998

https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Statistical+Learning+Theory-p-97...

And:

Language identification in the limit E. Mark Gold, 1964

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001999586...
I really got moved just by reading this. Honesty is so rare these days. I can easily imagine if it happened today, the person responsible for that would be both fired and sued by the company for acting against its best interests.
astgrep is a very useful tool when grep fails: https://ast-grep.github.io/

It's not as easy to use as grep but I think one can script it to be nearly so. It has huge power but without learning it all one can do searches that grep finds difficult. e.g. finding all the locations where a method is called and showing the parameters even if they are on multiple lines. You can then use rewrite rules to do CLI code refactoring.

I think it also has potential in a build toolchain e.g. to look for patterns you want to discourage as a pre-commit hook.

ultragrep - https://github.com/zendesk/ultragrep - I don't love this quite as much but it does have a way to build indexes so you can do fast greps across a big codebase. It also has a text mode UI if you want it and I find that almost worthwhile.

I use ripgrep most of the time but while I like it, there is a limit to how many grep tools I can remember and I should probably cut down to using ultragrep and astgrep.

plain gnu grep itself is something one has to know when one is on an unfamiliar machine.
they're more like green-ish but yeah
Have you tried BunnyCDN?

https://bunny.net/

Switched away from Vimeo after knowing from this.
This was my opinion. Saying it's either blue or green when it looks to be a bit of both didn't sit well with me.
This proves it, cyan is blue.
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emh doesn't mean everyone knows everything, it means the price accurately reflects available information. if an innovation was believed to be world changing, it would be worth a lot, if the belief changes, the price changes.
If it exhibits in spoken language as well, that would be evidence for the "branchier thoughts" explanation.

That said, knowing when to use dashes—longer than hyphens—can help mix things up.
I definitely have the bias you mention. In my case I don't think it's mainly due to not wanting to push the same button many times in a row, but because I compare with the previous color, so if previously I was already somewhat unsure but I chose green and now it became slightly bluer, it "must" be blue, right?

I think I can get over it, but it requires conscious effort and even then, who knows. Bias is often unconscious.

Another possible improvement would be to alternate the binary search colors with some randomly-generated hues. Even if those answers are outright ignored, and the process becomes longer, I think they would help to alleviate that bias. At least you wouldn't be directly comparing to the previous color.
How can solar production not be modulated technically (in practice they won't as long as there's fossil power in the grid which solarhas priority over)?

You can easily disconnect solar plants from the grid - even remotely if the situation requires it (technically even gradually if it is supported by the specific plant).
This is required by law in e.g. Germany: the higher the peak power the higher the requirements in flexibility generally speaking
I'm doing it over and over again and getting different results each time, though the results seem to cluster around 174. I think part of the problem is that the response is primed by whatever you responded most recently, which means the final answer will tend toward (or away from?) whichever colour was shown first. (Might just be a me problem.)
I love that this is news. The last couple years I have tried to minimize my Amazon spending while maximizing my f*cking with Amazon.

Use all of the prime trials by saving up purchases until one is offered and then immediately cancelling Prime.

Inverse Prime Day. I save up all of my returns for Prime Day, I call Amazon (1-888-280-4331) and get them to accept the return without requiring the items. These are legitimate returns, Im not that much a rat... but Im not mailing this garbage back.
Then they filter also some red light...
DaScript renamed to Daslang – high-performance statically typed script language
At certain size the customer is shareholder.
Slack used to (still does?) credit unused licences to your account, people that have have a license provisioned but haven’t used the product during the billing period.
Or take people who are super competent, with strong ethics and world class bravery, and catapult them into the truly heroic! Think for example, Elon Musk!
> sure hope that companies you work with or for never ever have a bug

We aren't talking about a bug, we're talking about wilful negligence here (funnily, your example about Microsoft is on point - Azure exhibits the same type wilful negligence with their absurd lack of security). It's not a "shit happens" type of situation - of course bugs happen. Security bugs happen too. Sometimes even very stupid ones!

Again, we're talking about a company with highly privileged access (to the kernel) and associated potential for security exploits and crashes not doing any testing on updates. And not only releasing a broken update that results in crashes once, but fucking twice. Why didn't the they learn from it the first time? It was inexcusable once, it's even more inexcusable that it happened twice.

And yes, if you buy from random vendors without doing your due diligence on how their failure might impact you, and what they're doing to make sure it doesn't happen, you're taking massive risks. If you get burned by it and still can't be bothered to think about this, I don't know what to tell you. At least that checkbox is ticked and we have EDR so we secure, am I right? That's all that matters for a lot of cybersecurity people, hope you're not one of them.
Yeah I don't know what that is
My standard response to negative energy prices is, it's oh noes for energy suppliers and oh yes baby for industrial users.

A medium electric arc furnace consumes 60MW. 17 of those can draw a GW.
Three levels of nostalgia to choose from:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2518960/Wizardry_Proving_...

https://www.wizardryarchives.com/downloadsw4.html

https://archive.org/details/wizardry-proving-grounds-of-the-...

RIP, Werdna
Just want to say this looks great except that I'm in Amsterdam. Eurostar is fast but not _that_ fast :-( . If you have anything in climate around here it would be great to chat.
I think the weapon is tested and understood.

The value is in disruption. Headaches are not just headaches, but also intimidation and harassment. When there is a person working a case important to a state actor, if that person is delayed a week due to a health problem, that case is delayed a week. If they develop permanent health issues and have to leave, the case starts from zero with a new investigator.

The technology is unprecedented and doesn't provoke retaliation because the US either can't prove it happened or won't declassify documents to show the technology exists. All the other, more conventional methods can be easily traced and retaliated

The agent that was allegedly targetted has a similar opinion to this. This is the 60 minutes episode where they talk about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COWTBEl1rRc&pp=ygURNjAgbWlud...
I think it does make a difference if you cancel later. They're hoping you'll forget to cancel.
You probably want heat pumps instead for heating...
Grok is right! I'd translate Swedish "greppbar" directly as "grokkable"; "att greppa" as "to grok".
That's kinda what I'm getting at - I'm amazed that people go through all this friction just to run a particular interpreted language instead of using tooling and ecosystems which make this easy.
Not just Japanese - many languages use the same word for "green" and "blue". Linguists call it "grue".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction...

E.g. the Vietnamese word xanh means "grue", and to distinguish between green and blue you say "sky xanh" or "leaf xany".
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Eh, to give credit, cybersecurity can never be perfect.

I have a much bigger problem with cybersecurity "professionals" who have no idea what they're doing, purely engaging in checkbox ticking without considering or understanding the impact of their work. And worst of all, unable to comprehend when being explained that what they've enacted makes no sense and doesn't improve security (or actively harms it). Those are the worst.
Yeah, I mean the binary message format. It's not particularly complicated to parse if you don't care to handle all the custom logic for each RRTYPE. You parse a fixed size header, one section with a couple fields, and up to three more sections that all have the same format. The most annoying part of the core format to implement is probably message compression, but it's fairly straightforward too as long as you're keeping the entire original message around for the duration of the parsing. I'd say just skim RFC 1035 section 4 and take a crack at it. It's a fun exercise if nothing else.
I was furious when Medicare Advantage came out because I saw it as the first step of privatizing Medicare in the U.S. which forced millions of people into contracts with private health companies. It was then I was done with the Neoliberal Democrats.

I am on permanent disability and in the last three years there has been constant pressure for me to sign up and I always refuse. They want to switch me to more expensive meds when the generics work fine.

Medicare Advantage is just another transfer of wealth to the top.
Well, don't underestimate the dutch.

https://delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/damming-north-sea-good-i...
Not to mention the whole "record a video of you begging us for a job". I have no doubt that the first email (if they've deigned you worthy of their attention) will be "do this technical challenge and, if you pass, we'll give you a 15-minute intro call".

The FAANG companies over-hiring and dumping hundreds of thousands of unemployed engineers (and other tangential fields) on the market has destroyed the industry.
They actually will refund the last month if you haven't used it which is surprisingly non-shitty considering the slew of sneaky tricks to get you into it in the first place. And they do at least have the option of "remind before renewal".
> I'm not sure what do you mean by that.

I mean that "trying to argue based on (your perception of) the person you are talking to, rather than what is being discussed, is a bad argumentation strategy".

> How is this specific decision, or some of the other examples/laws you've mentioned not authoritarian at least to some extent?

Even if it is (which you surely haven't demonstrated), in what way does that imply that I (or anyone else) feel "appeal towards authoritarianism"? Stick to discussing the subject, instead of discussing the people you are talking to, if you want to be taken seriously.

> It doesn't mean that they are not necessarily or unjustifiable in every single case.

If they are legally, morally and ethically justifiable (at least sometimes), then it's not really "authoritarianism": it's just "rule-of-law".

> I kept repeating this point in every comment I made. Yet you ignored it from the very beginning.

No. The only time you mentioned it (in a response to me) was when I called you out. If you disagree, please post the supposed previous comment you made (in response to me) where you bring up the VPN ban issue.

> Also it's not a different subject, it's intrinsically related to the decision made to ban Twitter since that's how the judge decided to enforce it.

From what I understand, the only thing that was banned was the use of circumvention technologies for the purpose of accessing Twitter (which seems legitimate if his previous ruling is to be effectively enforced). From what I understand, the blanket ban of VPN technologies (which does not seem legitimate to me) has been reversed.

> The point that different countries have different laws? Well that's a fact, not sure how can I address it.

The way to address it is to accept that US laws (and US standards of free speech) do not apply to this case, since it is outside of US jurisdiction. Furthermore, to accept that, if a company wants to operate in a certain country, it kind of has to abide by its laws and regulations (regardless of whether they are legitimate or not).

> However I'm curious where do you draw the line? e.g. the USSR had laws, Russia has laws, Venezuela has laws so does China, Hungary and every other country. They all have vary different attitudes to freedom of speech and a bunch of other matters, do you believe that they are all equally valid, reasonable and legitimate?

Obviously not, but the fact remains: if you want to operate in USSR, Russia, Venezuela, China, Hungary, or wherever, you need to comply with local regulations and laws. Or, of course, you can choose not to, but then it is quite likely that local authorities will do whatever they can to prevent your company from operating in their country.

Musk/Twitter has no problem complying with Turkish and Indian court requests and laws, even when it involves censorship. Yet, it can't seem to do the same when it comes to Brazilian court requests and laws. Strange...
Yes, I do. That's precisely my point. It's based on law. Brazil is a democratic country. The law is the will of the people, or at least it is as much as bullshit USA-based representative democracy goes. Still much closer to the will of the people than Musk's personal opinions and whims.
Free returns are why I still use it over websites like eBay/aliexpress.
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Considered it and have tried repeatedly to get it to work with mixed success. As you wrote, it takes "some time" to set up. In my case it would only offer marginal improvements over plain vim, since I'm not that interested in the LSP integration (and vim has that too, through a plugin).

In the environments I often work in I can't install anything or run processes like node. I ssh into a server and have to use whatever came with the Linux distro, which means sticking with the tools I will find everywhere. I can't copy the code from the server either. If I get lucky they used version control. I know not everyone works with those constraints. I specialize in working on abandoned and legacy code.
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It's suppressed for everyone who don't have Starlink or the mean/knowledge to pay for a VPN on their phone.

Only fighting against account deletion when the demand is above-board like in Brazil, and secretly comply when it's hide and you only see side-effect like in Turkey is indeed anti-transparency, as you are announcing to the world: 'Text me and I'll do it, but not in the open'.

Yeah, obviously it isn't a personal attack, I must have been wrong, it was a perfectly good faith argument, so I will respond:

I'm saying that Elon Musk see himself above Brazil court of justice, and act like a supranational power. If an individual thought himself above the law, or will of the people in DDR, I would have been on the wall. My father still has a part of it btw.

I will add that i apologize for the sarcasm but I will let it there, because that's what I would have responded in real life. If you _really_ didn't intend it as a personal attack, you should consider how you communicate with your peers. The first message wasn't any better and close enough to an ad hominem I considered not engaging, but I thought I wasn't clear enough and i needed clarification, so it was a good vehicle. Sorry again if it wasn't a personal attack.
I don’t use or miss Amazon. The quality of the goods is poor and wading through hundreds of scammy sellers is tiring. Most high street stores have decent online experiences, fast delivery and some guarantee of quality. I think Amazon offering value is now a myth.
I don't know. This picture was taken on a beach, where people are used to see topless or barely dressed people. Out of curiosity I and my partner have been to nudist beaches and ... once all are equals it becomes a new normality and all kind of erotism from being nude disappear regardless of the attractiveness of people around you.

Same when a woman gets a boob out to feed a baby. No erotic at all unless you are some creep.

I believe it is more the behavior, context and baseline than the actual nudity that triggers us. For instance I wouldn't notice some moderately attractive women in very short skirts and crop top in a danceclub because the club would be full of lightly dressed women. However I would if she is the only one dressed like this in the street while most people have regular pants and a jacket and it would probably trigger something inside that wouldn't in another context.

Also a male teenager might have a different view on this than most adults.
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