skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife works in fashion and sometimes has SaaS ideas that fill a niche in her world, and which I never would have thought of myself. Unfortunately so far my programming skills are not up to snuff to fulfill her needs. But I’m working on it!

The ideas generally fall into “my company is paying lots of money for some really powerful, complicated software, and we use about 5% of what it offers. Why not create cheaper software that just does the 5%?”
Yes, but it's an incredibly vulnerable single point of failure now, not just as a hypothetical.

I found out that when I added a backup email to my gmail that it had the opposite effect that was desired - losing access to the backup email meant I couldn't recover the account even though I still had access to the primary. I still can't get over the perverse, Kafka-esque feeling, years later. Partly because I am still logged in, yet I have no way of restoring my "ownership" and using it again.
Alphabet CEO backs temporary ban on facial recognition Microsoft disagrees
Well, go to this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bony_fish

That will redirect from "bony fish" to "Osteichthyes", the name of the scientific category that represents bony fish.

And there is a cladogram on that page. And it includes whales, by virtue of including tetrapods (it shows a picture of a salamander).

It also says on that page "Osteichthyes can be compared to Euteleostomi. In paleontology, the terms are synonymous." And "Euteleostomi presents a cladistic view which includes the terrestrial tetrapods that evolved from lobe-finned fish". And yes, as mentioned, whales are tetrapods.

So, while I didn't say "whales are bony fish", I said "whales are members of the bony fish clade", and I'd say wikipedia agrees with that statement. (to be clear, we humans are also members of the bony fish clade) And if you consider bony fish to be a paraphyletic group, well, then it isn't a clade.
Leave it to the HN comment section for talking about databases instead of relationships and life decisions.
I agree with this, AGPL is aimed to be comprehensible in its permissiveness, but most folks don't know AGPL from GPL and, even with AGPL, there are ways to have infectious copy-left licensing if the raw binaries are directly linked into an application.
Doom 3 Running in WebAssembly
Do the paper timetables even exist anymore?

I never tried to "analyse large numbers of routes for business purposes" using those free printed guides, but I did use them sometimes when planning trips, real or imaginary.

Rather than "can I go to Paris and Brussels and back to Venice again in three flights" what I wanted to know was "what airlines fly between cities 1, 2, 3, etc. and what are all of departure and arrival times for the flights they have on those routes."

Today I might use that information when deciding what to price information I want to scrape.

I wonder if today there is a digital source of that information, free for public access. Probably not.
Well said. It's frustrating to be on a train of drugs that become less effective over time, necessitating the roulette wheel of trying new ones again. And when they work, you don't feel better, you just feel less worse. Furthermore, they work by deadening the edges of your personality, so while you don't feel worse, you're unable to feel as happy as you are when you're not on them. They're the worst, but they're why I'm still here commenting, so I take the good with the bad.
That's one opinion. I'm happy with free and occasionally down rather than paid and always up.
Neil Peart, David Bowie, Gordon Downie. I’ll know we’ve made significant advances if a celebrity can use his/her status to get cured.
But I was told billionaires own all the wealth and pay all the taxes.
If the method of death is going to be brought up, the context is relevant. I would agree with you if all they did was list the year of death. But once they say "poisoning", they leave entirely too many unanswered questions for readers.
It's like saying "he was killed in 1954" about someone wrongfully executed by the government.
That's a good point. I forgot how highly politicized this topic is, which means there is a high likelihood for a flamewar, which means people would rather avoid touching it, which creates a conversation vacuum easily mistaken for a taboo.
Also switch to Bitwarden. Never had any issues. Open source and free.
I hope FreeBSD we’ll get more love in the future.
Just like Postgres vs MySQL.
Ah, good thinking.

But is that true? Basically, the license is copyleft now, but if certain conditions occur in the future, it will become BSD-like (let's go with that designation for familiarity).

Thus, the license is effectively (copyleft | BSD).

A project which uses regular old predatory copyleft can therefore use it now and continue to use it, whichever way it plays out.
I been daily driving FreeBSD for the last 3 or 4 years. I was frustrated by a lot of things in Linux at the time, no this wasn't just because of systemd. I don't actually mind systemd on my desktop.

Everything was very easy much like Debian maybe to get going. There's over 10,000 ports most are in package form at any time. Sometimes the build process fails and a package goes away for a short time, but you can always install it via ports.

My biggest gripe is and always will be the fact I can't use my spotify account on my FreeBSD desktop. I don't see this ever changing though. What I have done is gone back to relying on my local music collection a bit more again. I also bluetooth stream spotify from my phone to my receiver, but I'm lazy, hate phones, and don't generally like to do this.

It also has easiest operating system upgrade path out there that I have experienced. Just freebsd-update, reboot, done.

Jails are great, but they need work to be a bit more modern at this point. Docker has kinda showed some type of image repository is a nice feature. I'm not sure we'll see this right away, but BastilleBSD is working on some nice jails based solutions. Based off of FreeBSD, i'm pretty excited to possibly use this in the future.
I wasn’t just thinking about the features themselves, but the big picture. It does seem a bit exploratory to me (weren’t the non-V8 parts written in Go once?)
The fact is that the overwhelming majority of new techs disappear in just a few years. Look up the "lava flow" antipattern for the effect of adopting each new thing.

The more money spent hyping a thing, the sooner it vanishes. About the only exception is Java, which was hyped from here to Saturn. Everyone jumped on it, at the time, to get out from under Microsoft and other lock-ins.

Proprietary lock-in is the worst thing ever.
Ask HN: Bypass App Store Subscription Fees?
Anyone have any suggestions on how to get around Apple App Store subscription fees? Netflix and Spotify do it, but also several smaller apps too. I can't seem to find the magic combo for Apple ignore it in an app I'm developing.
C99 has the restrict keyword, which guarantees that the pointer won't be aliased. As far as reordering struct members, there's no reason why an implementation can't provide that as an optional optimization you must explicitly turn on. Providing such an optimization and corresponding compiler flag would not disqualify it from being a conforming implementation.
They also note most of it is a loose port of Go's standard lib, which is quite good imo.
It was a bit odd that the reporter seemed to see nothing odd about Julia Turing claiming to be his daughter.
rest and odata?
This journalist does understand what being an officer of the Order of the British Empire means.
Cognitive abilities, energy, stamina, singular focus on something (or someone) tend to decline with age. Apart from being unenforceable, "encouraging students to wait until their 50s to pursue PhDs and research work" makes as much sense as encouraging people to wait until they are in their 50s to start playing sports professionally.
Wouldn't you need to wait the 1 minute before the next write can happen?
And Deno is literally Node shifted 2 letters over
I think that's probably poor writing rather than anything malicious, but perhaps you're (or parent comment is) right.
I recently spent time in hospital, and came away convinced that the one thing that could reduce the greatest amount of human suffering would be a really good 24/7 painkiller without long-term side effects.

Time after time I saw patients pleading with a nurse for more pain relief, and the answer came back, "You can only have so many in a 24 hour period, so you have to wait for another hour before I can give you any more."

The number of people I saw on one small ward who had hours each day full of really bad pain convinced me that pain relief would be one of the best places a philanthropist could spend money. If you're in that much pain you can't think properly, can't enjoy life, and it's all ultimately unnecessary, because, once a doctor and a patient agree there's something wrong and what to do about it, additional long-term suffering doesn't add anything to the experience.

People can have cancer. They can have arthritis. They can have a bad back, or kidney stones, or pancreatitis. I do think all those should be cured if possible. But the one constant misery for so many people, even if someone simply has old age - is pain.
Here is an example of a Max/MSP patch that uses l-systems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3hoAuS3qzg

If you are curious about algorithmic compositions you may want to check the British duo Autechre. Their 2013 EP, L-Event, is probably a reference between l-systems and eleventh (interval): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKtrcF_Y16Y
>The problem is that I replaced it with nothing, and I think the same pattern has repeated across many other people and many other traditions. The temptation is to suggest MeetUps and other things built to connect people, but those suggested replacements don’t come with the same assumption of trust built in like many traditional organizational and family ties do.

That's how I see it as well. I find all those "organized" attempts fake (and commercialized ones even more so). I include anything, from AAA meetings, to "meditation" schools in 21st century West countries (where you go do your Zen study, and then go on to your otherwise unaltered 21st century life in late capitalism), to the meetups you've mentioned, and so on.

They can't replace organically grown over the decades (or millennia) traditional institutions and mechanisms, the same way canned laugher can't replace actual audience laughter. They're like a 3D printed sculpture of an animal compared to an actual animal, warts and all.

That's not to say the old organic versions are not damaged and unable to sustain themselves.
> It's perplexing how similar essays on natural world, not taking into account any research on physics in the last 100 years or more, would not be nearly as appreciated.

I mean there's the "sequences" on Quantum Mechanics at LW. Or the uncritical embrace of Bayesian statistics as metaphysical panacea in this circle of the Internet.
It's weird to specifically note the poisoning angle without going into more depth - just stating "he died in 1954" would be one thing, but the author appeared to cherry pick a relatively minor note about his death for a quick synopsis over much more relevant points.
That's right, he was an OBE. They probably do get the difference and just using this colloquially.
I thought Deno was supposed to be Typescript native?

Edit: It still supports Typescript (since TS is a superset of JS it can be a native runtime for both, right?).
I wonder - are there importing tools already written that that imports complex 3d files from, say, blender, or other apps?
Pragmatically speaking, the majority of machine learning researchers right now are not trying to make a leap in AI, they 're just trying to get in on the money while the current funding frenzy lasts.

That is, for example, why it is possible to find people presumably seriously suggesting to:

3. Flashcard the Deep Learning Book (4-6m)
4. Flashcard ~100 papers in a niche (2m)

As a method to "bootstrap yourself into deep learning research".

I mean, it's clear to me that the language deployed in the article is ostensibly about teaching yourself to do machine learning research when what it's really discussing is how to get hired by one of the companies that are curently paying six-figure salaries for machine learning engineers etc.

Or I'm just old and cynical. Wait, let me find my false teeth so I can chew that over.
Yeah, I could imagine some of the SV mega rich would easily pay an order of magnitude more. Personally if I had the money I'd feature them prominently in a monument dedicated to the irony of fighting a war to keep a large part of the world "free" only to emerge into the narrowly constrained post-war social freedom
My first and so far only micro went through some post-sales improvements. We ripped out the buzzer.

Best thing ever, because for those years I lived with flatmates and everyone wanted to heat shit when the others were asleep or hungover.

There should be a silent option/switch.
The author made a few pretty sloppy mistakes, sadly.
> in 2013-17 Tokyo put up as many houses as the whole of England.
Anyone from efnet #coders or #nlcoders here? :-)
>If the world is seeing a loss of identity, it is because we are being freed from the shackles of our old identity. It's normal for there to be a transition period where no one knows what's what.

The only problem is that there were other times of such "freedom from the shackles of our old identity" and they didn't end well -- even if centuries later things picked up.

The late Greek city states, the late Roman empire for one, modern Britain and France (second rate global players, politically and culturally, where they used to be first), and so on... US is close...
To me, FreeBSD represents the OS that gave me a realistic path I could travel to achieve my computing dreams.

I knew that to really achieve my ambitions, I'd need a way to store 50-100TB of data with high resilience and well-managed replication. Until I discovered FreeBSD and ZFS, I simply considered that kind of thing outside the realm of affordability and practicality.

But please know, fellow readers - it is affordable and it is practical. FreeBSD makes it so.
Very nice!

I have a keen interest in the semantic web and linked data (I have written two books on the subject, and the current book I am writing on the Hy programming language also has linked data and knowledge representation examples).

Much of the most interesting work has been done in medicine and biology.

Off topic, but I am really split by wanting to use full graph databases vs. RDF/RDFS/OWL. Different but overlapping use cases.
That goes for a lot of other media as well. Fox News has on average 2.5M viewers. In a country of 327 million (never mind the world), you can round that 0.7% viewership down and say that in practice nobody is watching Fox News. There are more daily viewers on Twitch than that, and far more viewers in total.
His suicide has not been conclusively proven (as was probably his intention) so a news article about his personal effects isn’t really the right place to discuss the broader context.
Author here, happy for any feedback or questions.
No, it just supports TypeScript out of the box.
I don't particularly care about someone's feelings being hurt on the internet. The problem with Twitter and most social media is that they have lowered the effort to interact as low as possible in the pursuit of engagement. The result is a system in which any kind of intelligent discourse tends to be drowned out by a torrent of tribally approved virtue signals. These platforms are dominated by the need to respond quickly in order to generate another dopamine hit, and actively work against deep thinking.
> Did you read too fast or something? I'm talking about people who's emailed me out of the blue.

Sorry, I did.

> Huh? What are you even talking about?

Your post. The purpose of your post. If you didn't think it was weird, why would you seek validation here?

> You don't seem to understand how to communicate via text, and seem to misinterpret things in bizarre ways, and/or put people down.

Text? I thought you said email?

> Meet who?

I was very specific in my comment.

> Distributed teams are a thing. ;)

Oh you didn't mention people you were currently working with. Your post made it seem like just random people in your past. Of course thanking people you work with for their help and contribution is normal and appreciated.

> Sounds like your life is lived very differently, and you just can't relate. No worries. ;)

Maybe. If it works, just keep doing you. Why even bother seeking validation?

If people are contacting you out of the blue and you are contacting people out of the blue, then it's a norm for you so why bother asking here? Seems strange, that's all.
You're right. Only the two most senior ranks of the Order of the British Empire entail knighthood (and the formal title Sir or Dame).

Not that it really matters in this case but it's imprecise.
I dislike operator precedence, and I also think that putting all the plus signs in between the addends is a waste time.

I like being able to do this:

(+ 1 2 3 4 5)
At least for me, being able to use Linux as daily driver on my desktop was instrumental at making me more proficient. At that point using it in the server became natural. Nothing beats the exercise of being able to use the same environment for everyday computing and for running "serious" services.

I guess a good desktop experience has the same utility to the freebsd ecosystem.
This is about right, and it's changed to be more this way over time. Early versions of OS X had user lands which were more BSD-like than they are now (and optional! Used to be you had to install the "BSD Subsystem" package from your install CD if you wanted to get a proper POSIX environment). For instance, early versions used BSD init, but that was replaced with launchd.
If someone is paying me well to learn a new technology, I have no problem taking it on.
The natural reading of the “worst” part, to me, is that Ryanair is a business built on greed. These sound like the practices of a company whose owners want to squeeze all the money they can out of it in a short-term sense, leaving none “in” the company to grow it or pay its employees well.

And you’d expect such a business to have high margins; i.e. to be charging a lot for a little, maximizing earnings at the expense of reputation.

But instead, Ryanair is extremely low margin. Which actually is surprising. (I mean, not in an economic sense; the greedy Ryanair would die, where the cheap Ryanair would, and does, live, serving a niche. But it’s still surprising in the sense that it means that the archetype you were expecting to apply—that of the greedy owner—probably doesn’t.)
I highly recommend looking for a bowl-shaped keyboard as the second priority after split. Kinesis advantage is popular, and similarly priced to the keyboard.io. There are also maltrons, if you're willing to shell out a little extra dough. There was also a project to make a bowl-shaped split keyboard you could 3d-print at home. I can't remember the name.

I was also very excited about the moonrim, a project that portended to go a step further and change the hands' orientation, so they would face inward instead of down. Sadly, it ended up not taking off.
They seized his diploma, maybe? I don't see how a degree can be seized.
Yes in this sense it's good. But usually for analogies it's just relating one obvious fact to another obvious fact and the relations are so flush with each other that you fail to see that all you're being told are obvious facts.
Adult Physical Inactivity Prevalence Maps by Race/Ethnicity
Twitter is a firehose of information. In order to have a good experience on Twitter, you have to curate who you follow so that you don't see things you don't care about. Once I have done that, I see plenty of extremely intelligent discourse on Twitter, from humor to book recommendations to deep tech discussions to intelligent/sophisticated political takes, to analysis on startups, etc. So, no, I would have to disagree with you.
a couple of years prior to that era i worked for a Giant Electronics manufacturer who used WD desktop class drives in RAID and CCTV/DVR systems. we had insane corruption issues, burnout issues and so on with a large number of our devices. at the time i was running an rma shift for the product line so this was notable to me. we also had devices come in with Seagate drives, but they had been in operation much longer before they showed any issue and were from a few previous model releases. at some point the drives were "value engineered" and WD was selected. in the end they had to suck it up and put in a server class drive (something with a high duty cycle rating). once they did the fails slowed dramatically. when we went over the data it looked like all most of the failing devices were installed in 24/7 video monitoring applications, and several were installed in poorly (or not at all) ventilated spaces. after a while we put temperature tags on the inside of the chassis to get a sense of the max environmental temp (yeah, didn't work if it had been on a truck for week in transit, but at least a field tech could check).

if i had to guess, i'd say that the digital signage company was "value engineering" the system components ;) i was in industrial controls and never had a sense that the signage folks were laughing on the way to the bank...
You got a tough job buddy.
I implemented this in ShaderToy if anyone wants to see it run in real-time:

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/WlGGzt
Just wanted to throw my opinion into the mix.

I watched multiple of the videos he has listed and from what I can tell the phenomenon he is demonstrating is real and reproducible.

Whether or not he's crazy, who's to say?
I want to upvote this 10x.
>I'm a woman. This is an overwhelmingly male space. No one here can physically assault me the way they could in meatspace.

And yet women managed to exist in outside society and participate in all kinds of actions in the 60s and 70s for example (including protests, acid tests, trips to India, and all kinds of stuff), under much worse conditions (re: average societal sexism, etc), without all today's drama.

It's like how in general violent crime is at an all time low, but people are more scared and panicked about it than in past 20th century decades (when it was 2x-3x as much).
to be clear, after we saw that we were all positive that Blade Runner was going to happen before we graduated middleschool...
It sounds pretty odd that you didn't get any responses. As someone in a similar job situation, it would be interesting to know what you think the reason was? Did one of your references work against you?
Every built-in browser password manager I've seen seems to be just a password-protected list of (URL, name, password) tuples. They're the most bare-bones possible implementation.

There's no (non-cloud) syncing, or easy backups. There's no file attachments, or custom fields, or non-website-based accounts. There's no automatic checking for duplicate passwords, or old passwords, or alerts for websites known to have been compromised.

I don't use a web-based password manager like LastPass because I don't really trust it (for either security or reliability), but local password managers are great for storing all kinds of private data. How would I store my driver's license, my storage unit lockbox combo, or my marrow donor registry ID in a web browser?
> think the gutting of middle America is a big part of it

Middle america is _the_ thing that is causing most of our social and economic problems.