skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's certainly hard to localize everything but billions of people use ios/android in India, China, SEA, MENA, etc... i think it's fair to say that at the end user level, computers are in fact usable by non-English speakers.

Its important to contextualize these discussions in socioeconomics. Computers are not just fun play things. They are serious tools used for economic activities. Their usage, through their design, has significant impact on the social systems of society. Non-latin-language speakers are able to use poorly localized computers, but they are only able to use them less well than the latin-language speakers. At least in South Asia, there is a huge economic divide between those who can speak English and those who can't, where causality runs both ways, and in more recent times exacerbated by the inability of some to use technology. And that economic divide then causes huge sociopolitical problems in societies.

If computers are means for economic progress, we shouldn't put the condition that one has to somehow learn English to use them well. But isn't localization sufficient? No it isn't. Ignore even that localization requires some members of your language to be dual speakers. The current era of economic progress is characterized by software development. But if the only way you can develop software is to learn a foreign language, then surely we are denying economic progress to some communities.

P.S. I will repeat. Nobody has to do any work to help other communities. But to assert that such work should not happen is plain wrong.
> similar (or even the same, depending on font) characters which can be used in malicious ways

These are called "confusables" and boy does that well run deep: https://www.unicode.org/Public/security/16.0.0/confusables.t...
But why would the result of the new elections be different unless they disqualify that guy? It's not like there is a way to somehow force his voters to forget the illegal ads etc.
So China has learned how the US did it using the IMF and World Bank.

Loans with strings attached to ensure ongoing dependence.
> I would also bet that EV manufacturers will standardize on a port location similar to how gas vehicles have

No need. Just make the cables longer and the problem is solved. Even Tesla has put longer cables on their V4 chargers.

Here's a long cable on some EnBW Alpitronic chargers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK2shbCwDYM
So I just brute forced every UUID in existence on my RTX GPU and loaded the dataset into a HA opensearch cluster on AWS. It took about 5 years of calling ‘uuid.Random()’ to effectively cover about 64% of the keyspace which is good enough.

To facilitate full-text search I created a langchain application in python, hosted on kubernetes, that takes your search query and generates synonymous UUIDs via GPT o1-preview before handing over to opensearch.

Opensearch returns another set of UUIDs, which I look up in my postgres database: “SELECT uuid FROM uuids WHERE id IN (…uuid_ids)”
I moved up to Director this year, and explicitly called out that if I needed to give up any more direct interaction with ICs and "contact time" with the real builders I had probably topped out. I've mitigated this a lot with an awesome team of leads and managers, and a (hopefully good kind of) lazy, non-prescriptive management style.
well said. China & Russia took too much credit
It sort of happened with me by default. Probably didn't take as much advantage as I should. And "retirement" is much less retirement than it could be.
It was decided years ago, but some politicians and shareholders decided it was a good opportunity to exploit. Also the Russian economy was supposed to collapse few years ago because of UE sanctions. Still waiting for that to happen.
Since I started painting miniatures most of my time has been spent trying to recreate colors that I first mixed on a palette before scribbling down the recipe on a notecard.

It’s maddening. I ended up needing to buy a scientific scale and vortex mixer just to match my custom bone color, “Skel-u-Tan”. I mix it a bottle at a time now so I don’t have to think about too often. Don’t even get me started on Turquoise blends.

Skel-u-Tan Recipe: Mix Vampire Fang (Two Thin Coats), Dragon Fang (Two Thin Coats), and White (AK Intense) at a 1:1:8 ratio.
Wild house cats are called feral cats. They exist all over. They are extremely fearful and/or avoidant of humans. And by "all over" I mean in cities, living among us. A dog, that is lost in a city will invariably find a human to take it in. Sometimes cats will do that, but cats are pickier about their humans than most dogs are. The first generation of cats born in the while will essentially become completely wild once they are adults and the chances of domesticating them is very low.

I, too, would love to see and hear about the cats of Chernobyl.
Kind of feel like maybe any other date would've been a more appropriate example, but I get it. 9/11's just one of those things you can never forget.
I don't buy it. People aren't that easily influenceable; they are just extremely tired from decades of failed liberal policies and out of alternatives. The populist right-wing wins we're seeing all over the world are the expression of the immense frustration people have with the system.

You want democracy to work? Give people real choices, not the usual binary bad or more bad. Make them feel like their vote matters for once.
Simple problems call for simple solutions. The vast, overwhelming majority of webpages are simple problems, solved by a server serving HTML.

A 'simple API server' sounds lovely, but it's not getting your website to anybody without a frontend - and the complexity of the frontend offsets any savings made by simplifying the backend. I'd also very respectfully push back on this 'simple API server' business - serving /fie/fo/fum.json really isn't very much simpler than serving /fie/fo/fum.html; you have identical business logic, plus you've now got messy bi-directional JSON objects and hundreds of Ajax calls over unreliable end-user connections to contend with. It's the voluntary introduction of hundreds of unnecessary failure points. For most 'simple API servers' there's an alternative, and much simpler, much safer, much saner HTML server.

For that tiny number of websites that do require accompanying apps (mobile, etc), 97% of these could be solved with a thinly wrapped web-view. Those that cannot generally have special needs, and therefore cannot be solved by simply serving the same API endpoints across web and app anyway. If you're already separating your web and app APIs, plus now you've got a tangled web frontend to contend with, I'm really not seeing the benefits of reorienting your backend around APIs to begin with. A backend serving HTML to web, and a custom API to mobile is much more elegant and flexible (and doesn't actually require a soup of Javascript anywhere).

But we're already in the 3% of the 3% here - truly unusual applications. The vast, vast, vast majority of use cases were already solved by a server serving HTML.
I wasn't aware that EA was owned by VW, I thought it was a separate business. Suddenly all the complaints from friends with EVs make tons more sense.

From wikipedia:
(Electrify America) is a subsidiary of Volkswagen Group of America, established in late 2016 by the automaker as part of its efforts to offset emissions in the wake of the Volkswagen emissions scandal. Volkswagen, as part of its settlement following the "Dieselgate" emissions scandal, invested $2 billion in creating Electrify America.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrify_America
I actually think it is good for kids to have exposure to:

- entertaining themselves

- working/providing for themselves

- having to do things that they don’t want to do

- being told no, and dealing with unfulfilled desire

All with balance, I am not proposing that kids are just left to fend for themselves. Caring for your kids materially and emotionally is important, but so is living your own life and making them live theirs.

I may be having kids in the not too distant future, and when I think about how I would parent, I consider 2 families I know who I have seen raise children.

In one, the kids are often denied requests they make for objects they want to own and activities they want to do. The parents drag their kids along to things that they (the parents) want to do, rather than not doing the thing because the kids don’t want to. At family gatherings, their parents expect that they will take care of and entertain themselves, while the parents enjoy time with the other adults.

In the other family, the kids are showered with toys and attention, and their mom goes to great effort to open any door for them that they express interest in. At family gatherings, the parents are always checking on their kids, and indulge every request the kids make of them.

Which family has happier, more capable, and well-adjusted children? Which family has happier parents? The answer to both is the first family.
Remember? Most of my coworkers still do that, including some young ones.
CAN you have taco trucks with legal immigration?

Say you live with your family in Juarez right now - what do you think statistically your chance of legal immigrating to the United States is (and lets up the ante, say you have legit proof that every mafia boss in Mexico is hunting you and every member of your family)...?

I'll give you a ballpark - your chance of legal immigrating is similar to me marrying Gisele... there is a chance, I am very good looking but you know...

Majority of people arguing "illegal" vs. "legal" immigration simply fail to look at statistic to see that "legal" immigration is vaporware - just a term to use to try to prove some point which cannot be proven with that argument...
Why did they wait for the elections to do anything about that, though? Or do candidates only have to report their spending after the voting is done?
But where will they find 12 random jurors not biased against health insurance companies?
I build internal tools, do BS support requests and push little initiatives that align with my core values. Like get a dozen people in-person for a technical watch party - cheap, easy, super rewarding.
> Even a screen share only shows up in a tiny rectangle. There's no way to increase its size.

You can resize it.
Judging by their current SFT program, that's not true at all.

They started off somewhat strict and have gotten to being extremely strict about what data you can finetune their models on, running each dataset through multiple layers of filtering before kicking off runs.
Keep in mind that there are plenty of "useful idiots" willing to recite straight up Russian agitprop, usually associated with more extreme political views. On the far right, there's a whole subculture of people who seem to sincerely believe that Russia is some kind of "proper Christian country", whatever that means. On the far left, some people will simp for anyone and anything so long as it is anti-US and anti-West - in that retelling, Russia is somehow "anti-imperialist".

In Russia itself there's also no shortage of people who genuinely support the government and its outlook, and some of those people hang out on Western platforms (often, ironically, using VPN).

Which is to say, you're certainly bound to encounter a certain amount of rabidly pro-Russian takes even in the absence of any deliberate targeting.
Why are you using the Calendar API in Java? It is full of issues like this.
This is like cooking for yourself vs cooking for others. It is perfectly reasonable to do it for your own health or enjoyment. But you can get a lot of it if you level up and cook for others.
The DOJ Finally Scrutinizes the DEA's Cash Grabs at Airports
The original title is:

> The DOJ Finally Decides There’s Something Wrong With The DEA’s Cash Grabs At Airports
We drove from Addis to Arba Minch and back, which is about 900km total. We also drove from Gondar to Bahir Dar and… lots of other driving.

But the main point is what you ignored. Have you ever seen miles of brand new highways falling apart before a single vehicle has driven on them? Spread over hundreds of kilometers, not a one-off mistake.

Furthermore, the only reason I know it was a Chinese-built road is because our guide was explaining the differences (pro and con) between the Chinese (cheap, fall apart, but built quickly) vs Ethiopian (decent quality, but incredibly slow progress and never completed) road projects.
I completely understand and fully agree with this idea even if I still have to see one political with a strong conviction that are not paid out in a way or another.

Anyway, if the ideas illegally disseminated through this campaign material convinced the voter to choose this candidate over another, what other choice does he have ? Vote for someone that he wouldn't vote in the first place because of his opinion ?

May be I'm wrong assuming people vote for ideas and opinion...
> Icons are converted into Go arrays using the 2goarray tool. Scripts (generate.bat and generate.sh) handle the conversion.

Barring any particular reason not to, I recommend switching to Go 1.16+'s native embed mechanism, which doesn't require code generation and should improve build times.

https://pkg.go.dev/embed
> My bet is that your friend can't really afford a car but is well off enough to try

It's an old beat up car with 150k miles that was given to them.

She goes to Western North Carolina University. There are no buses, there are no sidewalks, every road is essentially a divided highway. It's not a lifestyle choice where they are living 50 miles away from where they work. Even then, the car was used to go to Hurricane Helene Relief volunteering, otherwise it's for groceries, and to take them to trail heads to hike.

Even then, I'm speaking to the point that they have NO extra money. The lifestyle of burning $30/month in gas is not the point nor the issue.
Paul Krugman's "How I Work" essay
Ask HN: Best dev environment for C in 2024?
Accepting suggestions about anything: IDEs, compilers, editors, editor extensions, etc.
Offshore labor is already penalized: For tax purposes under Section 174, costs for US devs must be amortized over 5 years, while costs for offshore devs are amortized over 15 years.
you should grow some thicker skin :(
> There's a lot of people summarizing this whole situation as "the candidate who should have won didn't so they cancelled the election".

For the record, I'm personally not thrilled by the idea that people have voted for an extremist. However, the situation you're disclaiming certainly seems to be the actual case.

The rest of your comment essentially boils down to "I think that the people who voted for him, should not have voted for him for reasons X,Y,Z"...which doesn't change the fact that people did in fact vote for him.
For all things Git is good at, conflict resolution is most definitely not one of them. There are many ways to slice a conflicting diff into plus and minus parts, and somehow Git usually manages to create conflicts that are the least human readable. We live in an era of widely adopted and universal language servers, yet Git pretends that every change is just a char added or removed. There are many tools out there which do a considerably better job at this, for example by diffing the AST, not the text representation.
For team leads, yes - to some degree. It is really hard to get the balance right, and even harder to step out of one of those worlds as your responsibilities grow.
Gaps should not be an issue. But it’s still good to have a ready talking point around a gap if asked about it in an interview. If you are perceived as being evasive about an employment gap, it’s not unreasonable for an interviewer to draw a negative inference about that. At that point it’s not your potential employer with the problem regarding the gap…it’s you.

Just about anything can be spun to a positive or at least neutral light.
Yeah, not the issue. The issue is she has no extra money. This person is both frugal and broke.
for these IC/leaders a big mistake is taking on critical path work, then blocking everyone else.
easy: a prohibitive cleanup fee

also: make the bathroom more expensive as the flight goes on

they'll break
> pro-Russian (i.e. pro-fascist)

It's a bit funny that pro-Russian ones are considered pro-fascist, even as Russian government is fighting allegedly "fascist" Ukranians, and their official goal of their war is to "denazi-fy" it. "-You're the fascists!" / "-Oh I don't think so, you are the real fascists" / "-No, way, you are!" etc.

But to be serious, and not being too familiar with the situation, if this guy is a fascist, how the heck did he get 23% of the votes? We're talking about a EU country not North Korea or something of that sort.
Don't get me wrong, I think using UTF-8 everywhere is how things should be.

But this is not a "let's just" or "why don't we" type of endeavor. This is a major undertaking, and as such people are needed who (A) think it is worth the effort and (B) are willing to follow through with all the consequences.

Open Source software lives from contributions and if you're not willing to do it, why should others spend years of their lives for it?

In the end this is a question of: are the benefits worth the effort? What do we win? Where do things get simpler? Where more complicated? How do you pull it off if half the distributions use UTF8 and the other half uses the legach way? How would tooling deal with this split? etc.
true! I'm not really kidding when I "joke" that being a father of three has helped shape my management style. The value systems and overall approach are really similar :)
He only got 23% of the votes and wasn't elected yet, though.

Also what can they do besides disqualifying him or delaying the elections for months(years?) until he's convicted of fraud (hopefully by that point all of his voters would have forgotten all those ads)?
> What's the difference for me as an employer if someone is remote from 10km away or 5000km away?

There is not - hence there are about 1.5 million software developers in the United States and approximately 1 million just in India alone. Probably another million in other countries across the world (I have 26 on my team working from the Balkans for US company).

already at present there are more devs working offshore than onshore and that trend will continue to grow
GOP FTC Commissioners Push For Government To Block Moderation Of Online Speech
The original title is:

> GOP FTC Commissioners Abuse "Free Speech" Rhetoric To Push For Government Control Over Online Speech
I used to like r/AssHatHackers as a teenager:

> You've heard of Black Hat and White Hat, now there's Ass Hat Hacking.

> One day in Comp Sci class I created an infinite loop program that ran on my friend's computer while he was in the bathroom. He promptly called me an Ass Hat. Thus Ass Hat Hackers was born.

> For hacking to have fun and mess with people.

My buddy once pranked my other buddy with an infinite loop batch file that opened Chrome a thousand times and crashed the computer. I tried to do the same thing with calculator, but found that it wouldn't loop until the calculator window was closed. Thus the Calc.EXE Hydra was born. Every time you closed one, two would take its place ;)

Beyond that, I loved talking to my friends while plugging in my mouse to their computer. I found if you maintained eye contact, they wouldn't notice even if you were being really obvious. Then you just wait and jiggle the mouse every few minutes.

Lastly, I would put people's Chrome into "compatibility mode", which meant that whenever they opened the browser, the entire screen would posterize to 256 colours and it would look crazy. One time my classmate opened his browser and freaked out, and the school was going to call IT. I said "I'll fix it, looks like some idiot changed it to compatibility mode" while shaking my head. It was me who'd done it a week earlier.
It’s a full fledged home with 2 bedrooms. I spent ~$75k on materials (outside of the $50k I spent on living expenses). It probably added atleast $100k of value if not more.
So we all agree that it's actual people and not bot that voted for this guy right ?

Does it mean that whoever control the most popular social media in Romania also controls the result of political election ? That's more terrifying to me than just a candidate funded by Putin and who lied, it's a whole generation of 'tiktok zombies' voting for whoever their influencer tell them to !

Is their no education or political education in Romania ? Legal age to vote got to be above 18, so it's not just kids anymore.
And yet, many firms continue to offshore to Central America, South America, Eastern Europe, and India for technology labor (Africa as well for ML/AI data labeling). Lots of room for policy to run here.
I take your point. I was at a very preppy east coast school whose name you've definitely heard of.

One day I was walking past a high-end apartment complex where I knew a lot of sorority girls lived. There was one of those expensive chrome-plated Kirby vacuums in a trash dumpster. I took a closer look and it appeared to be brand new.

I pulled it out of the dumpster and carried it down the street to my much more modest apartment complex and plugged it in out on the terrace. Turns out the only thing wrong was the dust bag was full. I had some extra bags, so it didn't cost me anything to get one of the best vacuums money can buy almost brand new.

I couldn't believe someone had pitched it in the bin just because the bag was full. But apparently wealthy people do stuff like that all the time.
Jeff Bezos Talks Innovation, Progress and What's Next [video]
They founded MapsWithMe, then they sold it to mail.ru who renamed it maps.me, then open-sourced and eventually sold it to someone else.
Same, but you're only proving the point that our sampling bias is of people being poor when graduating from college. Were you picturing a nice car that is driven around a lot? She was driving from Western NC to volunteer for manual labor in hurricane relief. Otherwise doesn't drive except for groceries and to go to trail heads (which are close by). Like, this is not a pissing match. The person just had no extra money for anything. Just another broke college student.
Could you elaborate on what you mean by "normal close in most examples"? All the examples I see come with a JS snippet to add an event listener to the close button and those work for me in Firefox for Android.
How bad you or I think he is is irrelevant. If the people's decision is overturned when the elite do not like it then the country isn't any kind of democracy.
I get it, to have a functioning society we need people to work. There is some paradigm in the future where a lot of the labor can be automated, we’re just not there yet.
A kid made $50k dumping crypto he'd created – then came the backlash
Looks like a good use case for LLMs!

https://chatgpt.com/share/67538beb-73e8-800a-b602-fe26b131e5...

HMU if interested in building it
Why wouldn’t that be a good argument? You might as well ask why the US president is required to be a natural born citizen.
I think this is the wrong way to think about it.

I have no idea how much it costs to run a Russian or Chinese disinformation group, but let's suppose its 360k Euros. That's like the annual salary of 20 higher-income Romanians. If this was just a one-month campaign, that's like 240 TikTok users making more than double the median income in Romania. If they just worked full-time to push stuff out, maybe using a bunch of different accounts, yeah, that's conceivably enough to swamp Romanian TikTok. Keep in mind, there's only about 19 million people living in Romania. How many committed TikTokers are necessary to sway a Senate election in California?
It's all data from OpenStreetMap, you know :)