skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I think the tangential successes is what many people miss about technology. Computers are by far the best example of this. At one time they would have undoubtedly been seen by many, perhaps even the majority, as a waste. Governments were spending many millions of dollars (when that was a lot of money...) developing building-size machines that needed large teams of professionals to maintain and operate. Yet they were little more than glorified calculators. For instance the first general purpose 'super computer' was the ENIAC [1]. It was capable of a blistering 40 divisions per second!

And it's literally impossible to even imagine all of the ramifications of creating a sustainable civilization on Mars. Being able to manage, and ideally control, atmospheric conditions is just scratching the surface. For instance it would signal the beginning of the end of scarcity since suddenly we now have effectively infinite land open up to colonization (as success on Mars would not be the end of planetary colonization efforts, but the beginning), infinite resources, and so much more. Again I think trying to imagine the implications of this is akin to trying to imagine the implications of computers - it's simply not possible in any meaningful way.

But the great thing is that we live in a free society. So everybody is free to pursue their own vision. Plant a tree, build a spaceship, work on carbon scrubbing, or whatever else you personally think is a good idea. This is perhaps the one very good thing about the rise of mega-wealth. At one time you'd need governments to build and develop spaceships - governments whose ideology, views, and values tend to take a 180 every decade, if not less. For instance Nixon killed the space program in no small part because of a personal animosity he had with JFK, one that his death apparently did little to sate. And in modern times government space ships like the SLS are 90% pork barrel and 10% real. Yet now in an era where many private companies revenues exceeds the GDP of small nations (and accords corresponding private wealth), space is just becoming another industry.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC
Beyond radio comms, I think a telepathic "Hey [Siri/Alexa/etc]..." could have some startling social implications.

It might even be the killer app to make elective brain implants mainstream. (Of course if this could be done without hazardous and expensive implants, all the better.)
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Metal Camera – iOS GPU Shaders
AWS Lambda and S3 and Ffmpeg = Timelapse
Anything that requires VB is not friendly.
Of course there's a sheets equivalent using javascript, which you can say the same thing about
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Simple Telegram Message with GitHub Actions
Sending the same reply regardless of whether the user is using Js or not is not a feature. It's lazy. You wouldn't even need to change a single thing about the front end to fix this on the back end, since the js request via Ajax already has an additional header field (x-sent-via: Xmlhttprequest or something along the lines). This might be as simple as wrapping output generation in a single if-statement.
>all that tracking, google services and integration has a LARGE cost, not just to your privacy!

Of all browsers I've reviewed recently, Firefox is one of the most active upon installation. I think it may be the only one to immediately collect telemetry data too.

https://twitter.com/jonathansampson/status/11658589780578631...
Would you say theres an actual qualitative difference between frames, or is this purely psychological?

Your comment seems to be pointing at both, which may be the reason for the down votes.
How to manage technical debt like financial debt
Deploy Eleventy Site with GitHub Actions on AWS S3
Yea I agree with you, it is more of a Display typeface. As far as ugliness or beauty, that is in the eye of the beholder. It reminds of me of Futura.
Youth justice study finds prison counterproductive
OP here

I'm sorry you feel that way :(

> idiosyncrasies of their code

I've only had about 6 months of processional work experience, 3 months of which have been open source code, so even just learning _their_ code had a huge learning impact on me because I saw it as "wow, this is how code works in production". I think I learnt less about code itself though honestly, and instead learnt the systems and how those people thought about things. A lot of my code reviews on other people's PRs were "Could you explain to me why you did things this way" since I was just learning.

I don't know where I'm going with this. I'm less than a year out of uni and am still learning new things every week. Taking a year off doesn't sound like a terrible idea - though I know I personally couldn't motivate myself and would end up just playing DotA the whole day ️

I'd love to keep chatting if you'd like and talk about it and how we could learn stuff. Wanna DM me?
I think it’s because the kernel’s module name is “nt”. It’ll show up like that in stack traces on occasion.
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein.
This is going to vary across cultures. I have seen cemetery picnics in South American cities, the UK, France and here in New Zealand. There were many many families at weekends at cemeteries in Chile.

It seems that family picnics at the cemetery used to be common in the US too.

It wouldn’t be appropriate during a funeral, but why is it not ok outside that time if it isn’t disrespecting graves or mourners?
https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/www.atlasobscura.com/articles...
Did you read the book?

It’s kind of hard not to at least consider the Arab and oil similarity to the fremen and spice on arrakis.
I think this is a big part of it. If you compared material quality of life among similarly aged groups, you would definitely see a downward trend among young people.

In some ways I think this is due to our ongoing demographic shift. More and more of the US is getting old; old people typically have more assets than young people and need to rely on social security (which young people bear in taxes) and their investments to generate income. I think this is partly contributing to an asset bubble and definitely to the housing shortage (though there are other factors). I don't know if society has ever had a time where more households were not working but still drawing incomes.
Same can be said about the strong force and electromagnetic interaction. So why gravity would be the one that's weird in the context of the second law?
I mean, it's a novel about the politics of foreign powers trying to extract a valuable resource which is crucial for transportation from a desert region that is explicitly described as looking like a cross between Mexico and the Arabian Peninsula (even to the point of Arakis having date palms and saguaro cactus), so uh...

...what was a turn off? That the author felt the need to point out the glaringly obvious?

(Obviously the book explored many other themes about power, religion, culture, environmentalism, etc., plus it was a pretty good story. But you can't really pretend the Middle East and oil weren't also major themes in the book.)
I like markdown, but also like asciidoc for when you need your documents to be a bit smarter.
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That's what it reminded me of too. Futura is also used for serious display text such as cockpit controls by Airbus (?) if I am not mistaken.
I'm working mostly in Erlang and from what I can tell there is quite some demand for Erlang and Elixir developers. Also there seems to be a lot of demand for Scala developers which while based on Java is not the same as those 10 languages. I've also used PostScript in a work context (which is stack based like Forth).
Tinycc gets RISC-V support
Accessibility was my first thought. For as long as there's been the web there's been an ongoing struggle between visual improvements and accessibility. One thing we've learnt is that many developers don't take accessibility into consideration, so messing around with the simplest concept of HTML, text, seems like a negative in terms of accessibility.
Hmm, for me, unless I had an outsized position to gain from lots of autonomy, I would see that as a negative. Sounds like a lot of pressure to perform well without enough gain for it. Might as well just start my own company so I can have more upside.
> I remember reading years ago how much trouble the company was having getting the US Defense Department to even consider using their ejection seats

The US counter-intelligence chief who approved a Russian supplier in US military jets would need firing from a large cannon, largely because the Russian intelligence chief who didn't use it as an opportunity for all sorts of mischief would also need firing from a large cannon for gross incompetence.
I'm not protesting, I was just providing exegesis
I vape dry herb, should i be worried?
> If your work doesn’t get more interesting you’ll adapt to fight the boredom by becoming dumber.

This matches my experience also. And is transversal to all fields.
> Are people regularly buying far more than they can consume?

I think often, the answer is a resounding "yes". In the UK there was a major push a few years ago to get rid of BOGOF deals on food as it often just led to more food waste.

I've not really seen much tangible change from that, but supermarkets are competing so much on "deals" that it's often better value to buy more than you need than trying to buy "enough".
When you just have to think about buying something, and Alexa orders it for you :O
I can't speak for what bugged the above poster, but that sentence is worded in an incredibly awkward way.
Technology Adoption Lifecycle and Hype Cycle and PST Model (2016)
Number one has got to be look at the execution plan. If it's complicated, try to simplify it, and that's where all these particular things should be checked.
Why AWS CDK?
All European welfare states have been in the process of dismantling & privatising post Reagan/Tatcher (e.g. in Berlin the city sold most public housing estates to private investors decades ago).

They haven't deteriorated as fast as the US and UK but the trend is clear.
Read it as "both decelerate more slowly and rotate more slowly" and it's an accurate description of what happens when you sweep in front of a curling stone.
I would love to see a reference server implementation for OAuth 2.0 & OpenID Connect Core 1.0, as it would be quite helpful when I go to add OAuth 2.0 to the libre software suite we use at work!
Answers for Young People – Tim Berners-Lee
No need for custom header or query param, Ajax (xmlhttp) requests already have an extra header field set automatically, so all is needed is some if statement server side, assuming registering the upvote and rendering the page is not entangled in some super crazy way.
Real URLs for AMP Cached Content Using Cloudflare Workers (2018)
What do you find in other services that you think is better? Like proton-mail vs gmail.
I think Zerzan was on to something with his claim that things took a nosedive after the invention of symbolic language.
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I self host my personal email. We use gmail for work.

Gmail randomly filters github commit emails into Spam for us. It randomly filters messages from our own hosted domain, that pass DMARC into Spam.

As far as false positives go, for me, Gmails filtering is crap. Much worse than an untuned SpamAssassin setup.

They have crap filtering, a crap web UI, and crap mobile apps. And yet people still use them.
That would be a terrible implementation strategy. You would simply copy each argument into the communication ring buffer. You can also use specialised strategies for some types, for example string contents can be transmitted inline instead of copying the strings themselves.
I had the same issue on mobile. Annoyed me so much, I made a browser extension that increases the padding around those and the collapse buttons. Not useful for you, but for anyone using Firefox for Android, see here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/sihn/

(It could use some tweaks to keep everything aligned, but the small usability tweak was most important to me.)
Neat. I was always wary about unintended side-effects of doing something like this in the main openssh server instance because I did not trust myself to configure everything securely enough without accidentally exposing more than I wanted. While more work than the solution in the blog post, what worked well for me was using [0] to implement a separate server that only exposes whatever you explicitly want it to. It turned out to be pretty feature complete for my use cases (including certificate logins, SFTP, exec and working fine with curses-like applications).

[0] https://github.com/mscdex/ssh2
Email infrastructure is very important for an open and interoperable Internet, way too important for us (techies) to abdicate it to gmail. That alone is a good motivator to run your own email services. Of course, there are other benefits.

"It's way too hard" is a HN meme I've noticed regularly. It's really not, if you have any tech skills or the willingness to learn.

I set up my email server in two days between jobs in 2011 and it's been running with minimal attention ever since. I don't have precise numbers, but to try to give some context I'd say about 2-4 hours a year worth of maintenance.

Over the years I've expanded it to handle a few more domains (consulting companies for self and family members). No issues.

To anyone even slightly interested or curious in the technology, just do it. You'll gain some freedom, gain some experience and help (even if just a grain of sand) decentralize the Internet. Don't fear the naysayers.
Do you think gravity is what keeps subatomic particles bound into atoms? Perhaps I am too much of an amateur but to my knowledge that is a gross misunderstanding... that would be the strong nuclear force and electromagnetic force that hold atoms together. Gravity is much too weak at such a small scale
Is it even legal to upload contacts under GDPR?
You're misreading what texti is all about. A comment is unix-style # and a heading (title) is using the wikipedia markup convention. You can put as many spaces before as you like it makes no difference to a comment or to a heading (title). See some samples @ https://github.com/texti/texti.github.io/tree/master/samples to compare markdown, texti and wikipedia markup using a real-world article (from wikipedia itself on markup languages).

About extensible - it's no different from markdown with two additions - 1) evolution / changes are more than welcome and 2) texti (like wikipedia markup) has (recursive) template extensions / includes built-in.
I also think it's interesting to think about when you might need to eject on the ground without moving (zero-zero). It's harder than you think, since you have to gain enough altitude to get time for the chute to open.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejection_seat#Zero-zero_ejecti...

Fascinating engineering.
The Great Suspender extension [0] is a handy RAM saver for tabs you want to keep open but don't need to use right now.

Pair that with Tabs Outliner extension [1] as a kind of visual bookmarker for related groups of pages, and Chrome RAM is manageable again.

Another benefit of Tabs Outliner is desktop organizing a dump of all Chrome pages that were open on my phone's browser (via Chrome sync, then on desktop Chrome view History, other device, open all, organize in Tabs Outliner and close tree for later, then close all tabs in mobile Chrome to free up phone RAM)

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende...

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabs-outliner/eggk...
I don't know if someone else also said it, but Bill Gates did too. He also said something to the effect that past $5m or so[0] wealth doesn't really affect your material quality of life & it starts becoming about what you can do with that money other than consumption (with e.g. business investment or philanthropy).

[0] this may have been a couple decades ago, apply inflation but it was more or less in that order of magnitude.
There are (in Sweden at least, I suppose everywhere else too) two types of dates: "best before" and "last day of use".

The "best before" kind of date is the most common one by far, and it's used on things that will be obviously bad to eat before they start becoming really bad for your health. Milk, for example, will smell and taste bad before it's really unhealthy. If it seems ok to eat, it probably is - regardless of the date printed on the box.

The other kind, "last day of use", is put on things that can become unhealthy without you noticing - most common use in Sweden is minced meat and raw chicken. This is the type of date you should actually follow without thinking too much about it.

A lot of people don't know there are two types of dates, and treat all dates like the second type.
Yes, me too. I suggested adding more spacing between upvote / downvote links for usability on mobile.
40k-year-old wolf's head found preserved by ice [video]
Can somebody explain to me how my "internal" imagination of gravity is wrong? For some reason I started imagining it as a "consequence" of different space densities. I.e. if some particle randomly moves a bit, it tends to automatically move towards where there is "more" space to be in.
Imagine a piece of paper with many small dots on, symbolising places where a particle could be. If a particle randomly jumps to neighbouring dots wouldn't it eventually get trapped in areas where there are a lot of dots? (Also somehow the presence of particles increases the amount of dots?)
Arabic and Hebrew both have a common ancestor: proto-Semitic

There's an interesting link of correspondence between them, the letter: ش in Arabic corresponds to ש in Hebrew (and Ш in Cyrillic) having more or less the same sound.
It's _meant_ to do that, but from personal experience (and one that from what I've seen others share), keeping old Reddit enabled is extremely finnicky (apparently it's an issue with the way their server handles the old/new check) and it'll randomly switch to new Reddit.

I personally wound up using an extension[1] to keep old Reddit active, which so far has taken care of the weird behavior.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redir...
This. Please spend a little more time on the css. And a somewhat bigger up/downvote arrow would be great. I don’t have fat fingers but still accidentally click the wrong one every now and then.
Your assumption here is that the other commenter is projecting some kind of perfect planning, coordination, foresight and execution onto these agencies.

But they can be doing evil things which are in their interest without it being some situation of perfect control. It's simply that: evil shit they hope they can get away with, which if successful will probably be in their interests.

Throughout history, this has been the norm for any group with power but without sufficient oversight.
I just use a bookmarklet to increase the font size. It requires an extra tap, but I'd rather do that than use an app.

The bookmarklet:

javascript:(function()%7Bvar%20n=window.document.createElement(%22style%22);n.setAttribute(%22type%22,%22text/css%22);n.innerText=%22html%7Bfont-size:1.2em!important;line-height:1.3!important;%7Dbody,table,tr,td,.default,.comment,.comhead,.pagetop,span.pagetop%20b,.c00,.yclinks%7Bfont-size:inherit!important;line-height:inherit!important;%7D.pagetop,.title%7Bfont-size:1.2em!important;%7Dtable%23hnmain%7Bwidth:100%25!important;%7Dbody%7Bmargin:0;%7D%22;window.document.head.appendChild(n)%7D)()
> No one said anything about SPAs. You can keep the site modern whilst still serving content in separate pages with a little JavaScript here and there.

But that's not modern web development, that's jQuery-style coding. Modern web development is about heavyweight SPA frameworks like React or Angular.
> Objects with higher temperature have higher entropy

That surely must be a bit too oversimplified, since that would imply that the beginning of the observable universe had more entropy than the current one (given that it was way hotter than the present)
India puts 1.9m people at risk of statelessness
Ergodicity Economics [pdf]
Bugatti has broken the 300mph barrier
> Stop Building a Spaceship to Mars and Just Plant Some Damn Trees (motherjones.com)

Or you could just get off your lazy ass and planet trees? Anyone can do it today, with minimal money.

Or a really crazy suggestion, since you're too lazy, don't attack the people actually doing things in the world moving it forward and nicely ask for their help.
That's something I've been thinking about a lot recently. Not so much accidental orders, but rather who these software assistants will be owned and controlled by in in a foreseeable future where this sort of tech creates tighter couplings between software assistants and our own minds.

If the software assistants are sufficiently useful and tightly coupled with the human mind, I think it quite likely that the line between self and software might get blurry for some users. The ability to think a question and hear a correct answer as a voice in your head is the sort of profoundly powerful user experience that I think might plausibly alter the assumptions people make about what it means to be themselves.

If these software assistants become apart of the users' own mind in their own perception of themselves, what responsibilities do the owners/operators of those systems have to their users?

I guess we'll cross that bridge when we get their, but the relative immaturity of FOSS software assistants is starting to unnerve me. In 2040 when Amazon starts selling "god in a box" to the general public, a two-way telepathic connection to a state of the art quasi-AGI living in the cloud, will there be a viable FOSS alternative?
> People have been consuming large quantities of cannabis oil that were saturated in pesticides for over a decade without this kind of crisis.

This. People have been vaping THC e-cig cartridges for years. Same for using other concentrated products like wax. Yet it seems only very recently that this has become some kind of 'epidemic'.

I'm not saying that it's safe, but it seems very sudden that all these cases show up. Or maybe they were happening before, but because it seemed so hard to diagnose, people weren't connecting the cases?
I'd mention one thing which I think no one has mentioned so far.

Today we've more freedom than ever, more access to people and more prosperity than ever.

This creates a dynamic were people cluster according to their outlook. No one accepts a "downer" in a happy group.

I'd say more happy, more prosperous country, a country which has more freedom will see higher sucide rates due to loneliness.

I wouldn't be surprised if the examples of this like Scandinavian countries have higher sucide rate if not highest.

I'd be lot better being a "sad" person with other sad people than being the only sad person among all other happy people.
Ask HN: Do you know any sites with live technology / coding / JavaScript stats?
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Linux Patch Workflow with Mutt
I would also be depressed if my education nets me excessive debt. Probably manageable for lawyers, doctors, engineers, etc., but general higher education seems to be something restricted to people with rich parents.

I don't know the details since I am not based in the US. But from outside it seems that there are incentives to willfully sabotage the educational system. And the raw numbers about the accumulated debt look terrifying.
Have you looked in to what’s required to balance-charge the cells?

I’ve seen some blog and YouTube videos where people have repurposed 18650 lithium ion cells.

There’s a bit to it, but it’s doable.