skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well... thanks again! To be clear, I’m not arguing for you guys to drop the subscription model. Surely it must cover some needs. I’m simply letting you know that a bunch of us want to make a contribution. So something not as full-featured as the subscription product but maybe with another bell or whistle could be a way to implement this. (Personally I don’t need an improvement. It’s already great as it is.)
This is veering into C and undefined behavior territory, but with List<T> there's a guarantee that you cannot modify the list while enumerating over it, so could the compiler theoretically assume that when using foreach?
Java's language spec also doesn't dictate how escape analysis or remapping from classes into structs gets done, for example.
How do you expect to be able to set up a server with a click of a button, without paying for it, without hosting it yourself, to work without SaaS? What you want is a predatorily priced VC funded SaaS that only offers this cheap service to get you into their ecosystem. It's not possible to do this in a self-sustaining way.

Ofc you can use IRCCloud Teams, create servers with one click, but also pay for that.

And what other modern features ate you looking for? This is IRC today: https://quasseldroid.info/assets/images/phone.png and emoji reactions, typing notifiers as well as threads are already supported in some clients and being standardized.
Persistence Personified
One of the most inclusive, satisfying social activities - which serves as a cure for so many of a technologist's ills - is one most likely to be dismissed out-of-hand.

This activity is:

* physical and active - you're required to 'get in' your body, which for HN head-types is very healthy

* extremely inclusive: your age, height, weight, athleticism, looks, coordination, social skills, background, race, gender, sexuality are all irrelevant to participation

* social, but not social: you have to interact to some degree, but it's not necessary to be a hyper-social extrovert at all. Participants can be introverted, suffer social anxiety, or fall somewhere on a spectrum and still be a part of this community

* global: once you master it to some degree, it's easy to drop-in to many cities and towns across the world and have an instant community to interact with

* intellectual, but in a different context: it's possible to 'switch off' from your day-job problem solving, but still explore and enjoy solving in a different, 3-dimensional space

Partner dancing is predictably dismissed by so many - particularly males - as they immediately self-identify as a non-dancer with 'two left feet.'

That's a shame because, in the case of the males, the gender ratios are often reversed compared to the tech sector: there's usually always women in classes and at socials standing out waiting for the next available lead to dance with.

Also, while 'meeting someone' is possible (as in any social activity involving multiple people) if that's part of your loneliness problem, it's not the primary focus for most dance scenes, and the requirement to continually learn a skill to a level of competence quickly filters out people who misunderstand the primary focus of the community.

Those that come with the right intentions and are single do often end up 'finding someone', but that's as a secondary side-effect (and remember the filter means they don't have to deal with a scene of predatory competitors)

It's really worth stressing the inclusivity bit too: is there a more inclusive group activity than partner dancing? Nothing comes to mind. Some of the most popular dancers in communities I've been involved in have been very heavy-set, or old, or not 'good looking'.

There are so many scenes to pick from depending on your musical tastes: Brazilian Zouk, Kizomba, West Coast Swing, Tango, Salsa, Bachata, Rock N Roll and many more.

As a non-dancer who dived in a few years ago, I wish I'd given it a go a decade or two ago.

Highly recommended.
Daily, it's my primary online social communication tool. Nothing else compares.
I sincerely can't fathom how Go can be considered a "better C". It's like comparing cars to sheet metal (or some better analogy).

Go is fundamentally incompatible in most contexts C would be your go-to. A moderately heavy runtime with both a scheduler and a GC unable to compile down to a ".so"? C++ and Rust can both do those things readily.

Languages aren't just syntax/semantics, they're ecosystems within ecosystems. They fill niches with particular their capabilities.

A more appropriate comparison is Go to Java. Distict approaches to "half batteries included" robust application and service development.
This happens way more often than you think

A very simple example, you do something stupid on a remote machine (either high network usage or CPU usage) over SSH then you can't undo it because SSH becomes unresponsive
>> Wealth is not a zero-sum game. Everybody in the world can have a house.

This is false and the people who say this tend to be in elite circles so they don't see the scarcity which is obvious to everyone else.

The fact is that there aren't going to be enough builders to build houses for everyone. Why? Because those people are too busy building mansions, building yahts, building private jets, mining gold, making jewelry, mining diamond, working on useless rich people startups, etc... Rich people create scarcity through their consumption. Also rich people pay better for the same work.

And yes, investing in a useless startup is not real investing; it's consumption; the real purpose of most startups is to bring pleasure to a rich person and their friends when the startup gets acquired, not to serve society.
> I think that intelligence is much more environmentally driven rather than genetic, though I don't have any proper references for that.

Long time lurker, but since you look like you could use a good source I made an account.

Here[0] is a well-referenced Wikipedia page, so that you can base your understanding on fact in the future (something we all should aim for if we want to know the truth).

The key quote from the article intro is

> The heritability of IQ for adults is between 57% and 73%[6] with some more-recent estimates as high as 80%[7] and 86%.[8] IQ goes from being weakly correlated with genetics, for children, to being strongly correlated with genetics for late teens and adults.

This means that opportunity for intelligence is very heritable, like height. Sad for those of us who hoped we were blank slates with equal chances of success in the information age. My personal take away is that the world always has been brutal, so "fear thy creator", and get your act together with the few IQ points you were given. I hope all the different people of our planet with can succeed in creating prosperous societies despite this, like westerners and east Asians have today.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ
I agree, everything is much more complicated than your original comment implied.
I do the exact opposite: I keep my personal finances in GnuCash and I absolutely love it. It really changed the way I perceive and spend money. It took me about a day of learning basic accounting and watching Youtube videos before being comfortable with the software.

But I do the accounting for my company using a SaaS because it knows everything about local tax laws (deadlines, online filling...).
What I have learned from an XSS Challenge
Yes probably you are right. What I forgot to add on my comment is probably the most important IRC fact: That IRC is a totally and completely open protocol; anybody can create his own client or server and either join the existing IRC networks or create his own.

Actually, even if you don't have an IRC client you can right now just telnet to irc.freenode.com port 6667 and enter a couple of commands to join a channel and see the discussion: http://protofusion.org/wordpress/2009/08/irc-via-telnet/

The fact that IRC is an open protocol is of course what makes it "non-trending". You can't easily monetize from IRC and you can't hide the data of IRC behind closed gardens. Everything is there in the open.
There is no matter being accelerated but space itself is expanding, which is why distant objects may accelerate beyond the speed of light, atleast that is what it looks like.
You mean sand? :D
> I believe mov ah,al is one byte for the mnemonic and two bytes for the registers for a total of 3 bytes.

Two bytes in the 8086 mode:

88C4 mov ah,al

And inside, ah and al are encoded with the 3 bits each, spending just 6 bits for "from which register to which register."
Google SRE too according to https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/managing-in...

And as everyone knows Google have a lot of chat products!
That means a task which is only run every few years, so there's not much experience with it, and it's harder to test and predict.

You normally prepare for such a task for a month, and then you hope it will work. In my case (I brought down one the core DNS in Austria for a few minutes, for a very trivial oversight) everyone knew, and after the caches ran out we immediately restored the backup. We weren't on page one in the news as Google.

In the Google case they had no idea of the root cause, so they had to run after this guy who caused it. Only after 4 hours they found him, and they could stop this job. Reminds me a bit of Chernobyl, where nobody told anybody.
Why would Chrome return non-deterministic bytes for a versioned release?
It's toxic, literally.

I'm shocked when I visit EU countries. They are quick to regulate anything and everything, from fuel to food to drugs, and in contrast with the U.S. they act on the premise of something needing to be proven safe before authorizing it, as opposed to the need to be proven harmful to be banned like in the States.

Yet you see people smoking everywhere in streets and cafes, even young parents pushing a stroller with one hand and smoking with the other.

Some cities' streets are literally covered in carpets of cigarette butts. Paris, Rome...
So why not ask exactly that? "What are some of the factors and tradeoffs to consider when implementing X / deciding between X and Y, etc.?"
Anyone know of other public resources like the one from PagerDuty? The SRE book and workbook at https://landing.google.com/sre/books/ have some details, but curious if there are others people would recommend.
You can add a tab with an arbitrary URL to your 'team' - it's the "Website" Tab type. Presumably you could put the vs.com link for your team's board in using that?
When I have questions that I don't really expect Google to have answers for, I use IRC.

Mostly about second opinions, in depth technical stuff, or when I don't have time to create a question on stack overflow because Google can't always find the lexical context between my Google search and the actual solution.

Chat is also much better than forums when you want to interact. Slack and discord are bloated software, which are centralized. IRC is much more lightweight and simple, and most of the time logs are available. It's more open.
So he's arguing buying stock instead of a nice car will make you wealthier? No argument here.
Carl Sagan once proposed an interesting concept of terraforming Venus by floating some kind of bacteria in its atmosphere. The bacteria would be constantly drifting down to the surface and dying, but with no predators and ample resources, multiplying quickly enough to replace the losses, and small enough to be kept aloft by air currents. Gradually they would transform the carbon back into solid mass, and bring the atmospheric pressures and temperatures down to earth levels.

Later on in his career he decided against that scheme, but with our progress in biotechnology, it might be the only feasible approach.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Venus
Not very effective sex organs at that. Eventually, we'll be dispaced by something that does the job more effectively.
> Naval can sometimes make things sound grander than they are.

Please share a specific thing. Just curious.
> But to these I’d add that a sufficiently smart engineer has never been burned by arguments above his skill level before, has never had any reason to develop epistemic learned helplessness. If Osama comes up to him with a really good argument for terrorism, he thinks “Oh, there’s a good argument for terrorism. I guess I should become a terrorist,” as opposed to “Arguments? You can prove anything with arguments. I’ll just stay right here and not blow myself up.”

Wow! This explains why so many antivaxxers and the likes are highly educated people, often with engineering-like background. I never realized that until reading this. They're smart enough to never have developed a thick enough skin against convincing-but-wrong arguments, which means that once someone does convince them of something (despite their smartness), they're (we're?) all-in.

Makes me wonder how vulnerable I am to all this. I'm sure in the target demographic here. Maybe Osama would turn me into a suicide bomber too? Or into an antivaxxer :-)
Doesn't that also apply to Netflix? If Netflix shuts down (and there is a real chance of that), what will happen? People will lose all those TV shows and Movies forever.
As far as I know, the Chromecast Ultra has no Bluetooth or USB support. That's why the new controller has direct Wifi support.
You don't think that photoshopping has really been a problem and you think people remain skeptical?

I guess if you think that epidemics regarding images of male/female body image, body dismorphia, self-harm, anxiety, and using celebrities to sell products aren't connected to it, but I've found exactly the opposite.

I love photography and I am utterly unable to talk to non-photographers or convince them about what happens in the production of most images they see in most forms of commercial media.

It goes something like this:

"Hey ACowAdonis, how much of that photo do you think was retouched?"

looks at photo

"All of it".

"All of it? What do you mean?"

"I mean all of it."

"But that's Reese Witherspoon! (or insert popular celebrity here)"

"Yep, and you can see how her eyes have been adjusted, her skins been adjusted, they've changed the shape of her arm, taken a few pounds off the mid section, increased the boob size, changed the colour of her hair...and i'm pretty sure that's not her hand".

"Nah, you crazy..."

"You want crazy...pretty much every photo in every fashion magazine and every media item involving that celebrity has been adjusted to a similar extent"

"Nah mate, you're having me on. You're nuts."
UXSS in Safari
Ask HN: (Cheap) U2F Tokens?
What 2 factor authentication tokens are you using?

I know about the following (open source ones I think):

* u2fzero

* solo keys

* nitrokey

* tomu + the right firmware (which I guess is not really cryptographically secure)

I'd lean towards the solo keys since it's open source, and I haven't seen any criticisms, but tomu is quite cheaper.
Also, which one support “cloning keys” at the setup phase so as to have a backup of your key?

What are your experiences? Recommendations?
DRAKON flew and landed Buran. I wouldn't count it as failure.
Hey that's actually me :) I think there's better explanations elsewhere in that thread (and this one as well). It a was vastly simplified description for a non-technical friend of mine that I replied to.
It could be good done in the style of Cliff Stoll's Nova episode.
Stopped 4 years ago. I only come back for the yearly CCC conference channels.
How Big Tech Funds the Debate on AI Ethics
It is on my watch later list: thank you for reinforcing it.
Large European routing leak sends traffic through China Telecom
They all wear those stupid flag pins, so why not have them flashing a digital signature in IR? This is almost so bizarre it's genius...
It's definitely wise to use both a salt and a pepper when hashing passwords. Don't bother with the switch statement, though, it's just security through obscurity. You're much better off keeping your security-related code as simple as possible so it's easier to notice bugs in it.
I never saw any unnecessary padding there. The initial commit was 512 bytes for .com.

9e7101f
BIN +512 Bytes invaders.com

One can also boot directly from the 512 byte floppy disk image .img, e.g.

qemu-system-i386w -fda invaders.img
> I think a federated chat system with an open protocol is pretty neat

Have you looked into Matrix? It still has a few kinks to work out, but it seems to fit the bill, and the idea of bridging to other protocols (namely IRC and Slack) is an interesting idea for reducing friction.
You might already know this, but Carl Sagan proposed exactly that plan.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Venus

It would probably require more advanced bioengineering and understanding of ecology and extremophiles than we currently have, but it might still be the only feasible plan.
Best IDEs for C/C++ Programming or Source Code Editors on Linux
Now that's meta-meta article
I'd suggest to try Notion and AirTable. Notion is slightly more then just personal database, AirTable might be useful if you like working with tables/databases.
> What's the alternative, are you going to build your own cluster for such kind of things?

Are there any such games that require a cluster of computing power? I don't see any listed in the launch offering.
No idea, but to me it seems a conscious decision. From season two on I get the impression that there were some common themes underlying the episodes - exposing the darkest part of human psychy, future world building, this thime it seems to be near-future effects of technology on our humanity that we can already see.
To me this is just another symptom of our hyper-individualistic libertarian culture. (Yes, political party fortunes aside, modern culture is increasingly libertarian:

- every person for herself

- selfishness is a virtue

- everything she does, good or bad, is all on her
(meritocracy rules!, you have no one to blame but yourself)

- whatever the market pays is what she earned, even if
it is 100 or 1000 times what other hard workers get
(government, keep your stinking hands off MY money)

- life is transactional.
(sure i can do that. what's in it for me?)
Slack holds your old messages hostage until you pay their ransom. Reason enough not to use it
I have no understanding of chemistry, but you mention that it was contamination which caused the change.

Does this imply that despite the repeated references in the article to the crystals being identical, both when tested in the 19th and 21st century (with "modern structural analysis techniques"), the crystals are in fact different on a minute undetectable level? i.e. "a single molecule in the air" which causes the change?
That is a step backwards.

Java 12 -> Go aka Java 1.4
Ethereum 2.0 – Technology which you can trust
that's a long glyph, but I'll take
As crazy as this sounds smoking weed can help if you are feeling lonely. It will help you disconnect from outside stimulus but too much and you'll find social interactions not as desirable as they are now.
Ah, I see what you mean. That's interesting. I feel for people who'll get banned because they are too good given Google supports reputation :)
So you just admitted that also in Amsterdam bike lanes are made for the convenience of motorists.
Having recently joined an SRE team at Google with a very large oncall component, fwiw I think the policies around oncall are fair and well-thought-out.

There is an understanding of how it impacts your time, your energy and your life that is impressive? To be honest, I feel bad for being so macho about oncall at the org I ran and just having the leads take it all upon ourselves.
Thermal Decomposition of CO2 with Nuclear Heat
You're correct. A general ledger does not have an 'undo' function, it would be un-auditable!
Has Apple created its own private mesh network?
Nvidia does both. The online product is just called Geforce Now (previously Nvidia GRID)
> He attended Stuyvesant [0], one of the highest acclaimed high school educations [1][2]. I'm sure that had a bit to do with how the rest panned out compared to just anyone.

It also doesn't guarantee that you will be successful in life. My closest childhood friend attended CMU full ride and was a CS major. I last saw him in my hometown disheveled and pushing a shopping cart around. What you do with what you are given is way more important than what school you went to, or even what country you were born in.
> Offline Trips, Reader, Inbox, etc do not count. A couple of million users (at max) are just not enough.

What if Stadia under-performs their financial expectations? What if it under-performs those expectations for 2-4 years?

I'm not certain that Google will shut-down Stadia in that time-frame, but I'm absolutely not certain that it will also be running at that point.

I'm extremely confident that Valve won't shut down Steam in that time-frame, though.
Show HN: Connect your link in bio to multiple links
Creating CI/CD Pipelines
Someone please write a real-time monitoring tool for this kinda of things at home.

It would really be fun to see what continents are currently seeking packets I sent to Google and how it changes over time
This is inconceivable ... they don't have an OOB management network?
I think a lot of sales anxiety among geeky folks is driven by the stereotype "alpha male smooth talking sales guy". I sure did, but then I learned that that's actually a very bad salesperson in many cases.

If you sell technology, then the last thing you want is to convince people to buy something they don't actually need. You shouldn't really want to convince people of anything at all - you should want to learn what they need and, if they're sufficiently interested in what you have to answer that need, answer their questions about it.

I run a service (https://talkjs.com) that makes it easy for developers to build a chat feature into their apps/sites. We do a lot of sales. Nearly all sales we do is "warm" - people find us, show interest (eg by signing up for a free trial) and then the process starts. I found that this sales is a lot of fun!, because:

* I get to talk about code with other engineers
* They have a problem our product very well may solve
* There's no convincing. Just clarifying, exploring

I did, sometimes, make the mistake of going down the "smooth talker sales guy" road. It's an easy trap to fall for because it's so deeply culturally ingrained that that's what salespeople do. I got excited and started overselling, or bragging, or both. None of the companies I did that with became customers. My guess is that by doing the smooth talk and not the nerdy engineering talk, they lost trust in us as a technology provider. And fairly so.
[This might sound cynical.]

That's because it's a dirty secret. Most people selling you wealth building strategies are loathe to openly talk about how so much of it is based on "who you know" more so than "what you know". They might touch upon it incidentally in the course of their spiel, but it's either glossed over, or they don't have the level of insight/self-reflection needed to be able to articulate the value and cost (and indeed the pathways and mechanisms) of networking.
It’s like the Apple version of the Juicero.
That's a common way to save on taxes by paying a bit upfront. It's usually not done at such a late stage because of the cost when the strike price is high. It's more common in pre-A or at least pre-B companies when the strike price is smaller.

I certainly wouldn't drop 100k unless they offer a commensurate signups bonus (the 100k goes to the company so they could give you a bonus of $100k if you exercise the options which should help, though you'd still be on the hook for the taxes on that bonus).
Can You Get Pregnant While You Have a Yeast Infection?
Source Code of Nvidia’s Implementation of RTX Ray-Tracing in Quake II