skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe it’s only really a good option for files because it’s old and there are many obscure providers. I don’t see anything about Usenet itself that makes it well suited for sharing files. In fact, quite the opposite. The fact that each file needs to be split and reconstructed after download results in an esoteric user experience.

All that said, I love (or loved) Usenet for communicating on Newsgroups. I’m glad that they still are around. I hope Newsgroups and IRC never die.
I love how people like to talk about Apple vs Intel.

But Intel already had been beaten by AMD, and for the foreseeable future as well. Even on the mobile side, AMD has more performances with less power.

How will Apple stack up with AMD is the real question. This move is great for their low powered devices. But when it comes to The Pro devices, I'm sure they would have more performance for the next half decade if they just moved to AMD.
its a poor term for it. I prefer to look at our organisations as seperate life forms that for now are symbiosis but dont have to be indefinetly. I consider them seperate since people follow their job description and the choices made or emergent behavior doesnt have to be acceptable to anyone in or outside the org
> No one can make 50 year plans for China, like they can do with US

Five years ago, I would have agreed with you about the US. But the direction that politics have gone since then makes me a lot less sure.

The rate that corruption has grown under the Trump without repercussions is absolutely astonishing. Like any relationship, I don't know how that break in trust between the government and its citizens can be repaired.
Switzerland are now at -0.75% and still getting investors.
It's used to commit insurance fraud.
Dark web markets have escrow systems as well as review systems which show how much each customer paid for the service. One can see if a vendor is well reviewed and it's unlikely the reviews are astroturfed if they are on large transactions because the fees on these markets are relatively high.
Have you evaluated Tantivy/Toshi as possible alternative to ES? I only ask because of your native use of Rust. PGX seems like a more robust offering than pg-extend-rs. This is a great addition to the community!

Also, v.0.0.3 doesn't create much confidence about stability! I'll keep an eye on the project and wish the team the best.
I don't know then. I might be wrong and might have been using vim in a local session but over a UNC path (and did other stuff with remoting, that didn't need an editor). It's been a while :)
I can accept that. I edited my post to indicate that it is my opinion.

That said, I think (again my opinion) that there is plenty of evidence to suggest that the behaviors that are deemed to be bold, authoritative, disruptive and direct even bordering on hostile when displayed by men in the workplace are tolerated or even rewarded while such behavior displayed by women are not.

"He" will be the tolerated jerk, the lone wolf who plays be his own rules and get things done. "She" will be the office bitch who no one wants to work with. Again my opinion based on experience working with fortune 100 companies, public and private universities, and at a half-dozen startups.

Edited to Add:

I did a quick search and found this:

"Untangling the relationship between gender and leadership"

https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/GM-09-20...

I'm imagine there are counter examples, but this study seems to confirm my personal observations:

"women leaders who go against the typical gender stereotype might be penalized"
Not to downplay the difficulties that you've faced. But that's extrapolating on very little data. Luck is another (big) factor in life.
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what does paper/cardboard biodegrade to?
I thought that cave diving was much more dangerous than scuba diving. 4 weeks really?
For those who can't read the article (site is crushed under the load): The article is about resisting pressure to cave to the status quo. It's not about being a jerk for the sake of being a jerk.

I agree with the general message (don't unquestioningly accept the status quo just because you want to be liked). I disagree with the idea that being a pioneer in your field will necessarily make you disliked. If anything, the society of 2020 reveres people who go against the status quo in a push to innovate, even if they fail.

The trap is when people confuse being a jerk with being successful. Or when they assume that being creative or successful is a license to be a jerk. Neither are true. People like Steve Jobs are the exception, not the rule. If you want to accomplish anything in a modern organization, you need to make an effort to be at least somewhat friendly. This doesn't mean you should become a pushover, a yes-person, or otherwise flatter people around it. It does mean that you need to listen, demonstrate mutual respect for others, and behave in a professional manner.
> and that's why we have such a breadth of phones available today

We really don't. Apple came up with the notch, everyone copies it and obsesses about edge-to-edge display, managing to implement it to very varying degrees of success.

> I think the only thing we should all be able to agree upon is that rounded screen edges make it extremely difficult to design a good phone case which protects from all angles.

I forget which phone I had with a display that went to the vertical edges, which were curved slightly. Damn thing was almost impossible to hold without it thinking I was trying to actually touch the screen on the edge. The best case I could find stopped that from happening, with a slight trade-off that I couldn't touch anything right on the edge of the screen (very rarely ever needed that)
Crash by API
it might be in a plastic bottle for vagrants perhaps

whisky should be in a glass bottle
Without a doubt, the coming wave of evictions and foreclosures is going to pop the bubble. Once the tent cities (maybe we should call them "Trump hotels") start springing up in every metro area around the US, I think the market will finally lose this steam. The US is headed for a dire economic situation. At that point, the only thing that can save us is an effective vaccine that confers long lasting immunity. Anything less means total economic annihilation.
> Or does it essentially never come up because a typical Indian would use lakh/crore instead?

Exactly. USD is almost always implied when million/billion is used
I'd be interested in total take-home pay when comparing Canadian taxes to US taxes + employer-sponsored healthcare coverage.
It doesn’t know what I download on BitTorrent. I only download from a private tracker that is 15 years old, nice try :)
Tried it from my phone. I guess cool to see people torrent from their mobile connections? I'd have to ask for a loan in order to do that.
Using ".af", the top-level domain for Afghanistan, so your domain is pronounced "primo dot A.F." is a little on the nose.
I love the movie and the book and love the review but you have to be careful with that "f"-word, particularly I don't think you can say any movement outside of 1900-1950 is "fascist" because of the unique historical circumstances (Mussolini beat Lenin to the punch of revolution by one year!)

I remember the blue-and-white "Stronger Together" signs that were rushed out by the opposition during Brexit that were copied almost exactly by the Hillary Clinton campaign. I'd talk to people who were putting the signs up and although they were allegedly "globally minded" they did not know that the same signs had been test-marketed and failed in the U.K. (You'd know if you read The Economist.)

The feeling behind "Stronger Together" is the same as the bundle of sticks after which Facism is named (the "fasces") each which would break individually but would be unbreakable together.

It's a bad lawn sign because people don't believe it. There is cynicism and an expectation of irony. There is the "fear of a fascist planet", or just the reality that (as K.R.S. One says) "The [police] officer has the right to arrest, and if you fight back he put a hole in your chest".

Yet people sometimes do need to come together to fight a threat and it something we're going to have to figure out how to do with this virus, which is only a fire drill for what to do about global warming.
JavaScript is still pretty strong these days.
Ask HN: How do you build dashboards for city teams to analyze metrics on areas?
Hi HN! If you belong to a company with any ground operations, how do your city and ops teams measure area performance?

Do you have an internal dashboard or do you use a BI? If you have internal dashboards, how do you update metrics on it and maintain it?

If you use BI, how do you go more granular than areas? I am talking specifically about orders, routes, users and so on!
You're forgetting about the blacklist/whitelist renaming.
But this doesn't work on Chrome right?
The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. ~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn

You have to regard yourself as a cloud, you see, because clouds never make mistakes...have you ever seen a misshapen cloud? Or a badly designed wave? Whatever you do it'll all come out in the wash some way or another. ~ Alan Watts
I've looked into them. It seems they're designed to work within a single process, and it's not quite clear to me how sharing the underlying data files across postgres backends (even with proper Postgres locking) would work.

That's not say they aren't good frameworks. I'm sure they are. It just seems like they're designed for different use cases.

That said, I have other ideas on this front that I can't talk about today. ;)
This is an area where the concepts of 'proof' and 'truth' don't really apply since any two people observe fundamentally different realities. It's not about bashing each other over the head until one of us agrees the other was correct about the One True Reality all along, but about sharing our observed worlds with each other so we can build societal systems that serve everyone.
Usenet is still a good option for 5+ year old videos. I've noticed I'm getting 10+ years retention lately and some of the files that were missing started working again. However, there are services that you pay for that cache popular torrents and also provide premium file hosts leeches for the stuff that is missing on Usenet.
There are some important points raised here, but also a lot of sloppiness. If so much is riding on beauty then it should be important to be precise so as to understand what is going on.

Beauty is inherently subjective to the point of including wild contradictions such as Europeans going to great lengths to tan their skin while Asians may poison themselves with attempt to bleach their skin to make it lighter. This is not some simple scale even if there may be examples of people that are considered beautiful by many.

Modernity has made it common to be out of shape and overweight, so people who put extra effort into maintaining their health tend to be considered more beautiful than others. This means that to some extent beauty is a parameter that can be controlled. This leads to complex trade offs where beautiful people may be strongly desirable, but end up eating and exercising in a very controlled way which makes deep socialization with ordinary people awkward. Want to share lunch or a snack? Sorry, I don't snack and am not eating lunch today or most days. Want to share a drama? Sorry, I am going to the gym and expect to come back too low on time and energy for that. And so on.
I feel like I ran out of room before I really covered all that I wanted to cover, but maybe it's better that way. I wrote a tome, as it is. The market for multi-page screeds about how great ancient programming systems were may be limited.

I had a Symbolics Lisp Machine in my office at Apple for several years, and I noodled around with it a lot, but didn't build anything very serious with it. It's certainly relevant to any discussion of the power of full-bore repl-driven programming, though. Now that was a repl!

To be fair, I don't think everyone will find the advantages compelling. As far as I can see, some folks honestly prefer the programming-as-carpentry approach, and a skillful software carpenter can be extremely productive, too.

On the other hand, for someone who is, like me, more effective using the teaching approach, the difference is night and day. I have actually been one of those mythical 10X programmers before, as measured by version-control-system statistics, but only when I was working with a programming-as-teaching toolchain.

You touched upon a point that I think does work against Common Lisp nowadays: it's not super easy for someone to get started with it. I was lucky in the 1980s in that there was a very good Common Lisp on the Mac that was also really really easy to get started with.

Installing Coral Common Lisp was as simple as dragging a folder icon in the Finder. Starting up a usable IDE? Just double-click the app icon. Create a fully-working application window that handled standard events properly?

(make-instance 'window)

Build a GUI? You could either make-instance a bunch of objects and stick them into the window, or you could open a UI-builder window and drag stuff together. Tell the objects what events to handle and what functions to call, and you had a working app.

Deliver the app to production? Choose "save application" from the File menu.

The core of that same Lisp still exists in the form of Clozure Common Lisp, and it's very good, but it's not the same. For one thing, the IP agreement that open-sourced the compiler and runtime did not include the Mac integration. For another, there are a lot more hoops to jump through in UNIX-based macOS than in the old Mac system to achieve the kind of integration that Coral Lisp had. I'm not saying you couldn't do it; I'm just saying it would be a lot of work.

Actually, I think you could make a pretty good try at a Coral-like Lisp, and I think it would make things a lot easier and more attractive for new Lispers. It might even grow the pool of working Lispers, and improve awareness of programming-as-teaching. It would just be a lot of work, and it's not blindingly obvious that the result would pay for itself.
Two things for your last comment - in reverse order:

- Usenet is likely the "best" option because it's super niche due to it's age. Only a certain subset of people even know it exists, much less use it, and the effort to track down anything except the most popular stuff is just too expensive.

- I think file sharing in general started to die off because streaming services actually provided a good alternative for a while. Right now, they are basically online cable companies though, and I feel like a new re-surgance of file sharing is likely coming as a backlash. As the prices go up, the fragmentation explodes and items come and go as contracts, consolidation and new launches affect availability, people will be frustrated and look for alternatives, legal or not.
It's not malfunctioning, it's that monitoring all torrents in the world is not as easy as it looks.

Still, using a VPN remains the safe option. My IP is as clean as a CPU factory.
In terms of connecting to data sources I would rather decouple the querying and security layer. Companies are going to be focusing more and more on integrations. So if we have an integration layer in rest or graphql it would make building complex rich apps a much nicer experience. Basically what you have here is a competitor of many dashboarding tools like Tableau or PowerBI. I know you are thinking wordpress and cms, but these tools will eventually power dashboards as they blend with web apps.
If you are a real hitman it seems you have a steep marketing issue to operate on dark net. “First hit free” is a bad approach.
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But here we’re talking about equity (stocks), not bonds (loans). So the interest isn’t coming from loaning, it’s coming from investing.
You would tell me "if I am able to make it to the movie tonight I will leave you a missed call around 2pm" and then neither party pays for a telephone call or sms.
I get that sense as well. I try to have a lot more restraint now when it comes to sharing stuff, after being burned a number of times when sharing something interesting or compelling to me, then finding out soon after that it was fake or misrepresented.
It's part of the app since it also serves as the dashboard once you log in, but ideally it would be separate
Biosignatures may reveal a wealth of new data locked inside old fossils
Oh, I thought it filtered out legal content. Doubly confused why it doesn't know anything I have since I've left my very infrequently changing public IP seeding arch linux isos reasonably often.
OTOH:

I can't tell you how many telemedicine (aka, video conferencing) services use Zoom, Google, or GTM as their teleconferencing solution when speaking with prospective clients.

I've literally only had one that was actually using the televideo software they were pitching me as the televideo platform for our demo call. One out of many.
Upvoted, because if I have to use linux, Debian is still it (or devuan). I like to learn things that will be long-term useful and then put those learnings to use before starting over, and Debian has been best for that in my many years of Linux usage. So I mostly like their conservatism and that I don't have to upgrade as often, and that they keep providing security patches. And so many things just...work stably as expected. Some years ago, on another very popular distro when I tried using their LSB scripts in some other tools we provided to the business, it was like even the script author had not even run them to see if they had the most basic actual functioning--I looked at the script code and it was like they didn't even try, but still claimed "LSB support" (a moot point now, I realize). And their packaging system was relatively inconsistent and felt -- loose and messy at times by comparison. Those in debian all worked flawlessly, consistently, and predictably as documented (except for one package hosting tool being slow on large amounts of data, where I found a workaround--sort the data). The debian packaging infrastructure, and the debian policy for how things should work together reliably on the system, is very helpful. It seems there are good reasons that debian has more derivatives than any other distro (per distrowatch IIRC).

But I moved my laptop to OpenBSD because of the security benefits, and even greater predictability. A final motivation was when in the first release after Debian's move to systemd it wouldn't boot (with an obscure message about a net error?) on some hardware where devuan did just fine, and my firewall wouldn't auto-start any more and I didn't want to dive in to learn why right then. The firewall will always auto-start on OpenBSD. :)
Death to fear mongers.
Stalin wanted to assassinate John Wayne because of his anti-Communism.(https://web.archive.org/web/20080602054832/http://www.telegr...)
> Theres literally no where to put you money now.

Philanthropy always has room.
Here is the Volkswagen stock chart from October 2008:

https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/htt...
CEO of a company that I used to work at is one of the most likeable people I've ever met. He spoke softly and gently with sage wisdom, kindness, and careful consideration. And when he wanted something done it got done, and when he suggested an idea, people listened.

There's more than one way.
The website even has a utility to generate a URL that, when clicked, will log the victim's peer results while forwarding them to a harmless website:

https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/link/
Towards dystopia? Or away from it?
What, you only get emails? In Germany you straight up get snail mails from lawyers demanding you to pay for the damages.

But in Germany the only real bad thing is uploading, downloading by itself is more of a grey thing.
Environmental people will bikeshed you to death on glass.

Common issues:

- Manufacturing glass == high heat, heat == carbon.

- Reusing glass bottles involve cleaning, and the impact of warm water and soap is significant.

- Glass bottles are heavier than plastic. So delivering a bottle of coke in a glass bottle supposedly uses more resources than a plastic bottle. (Walmart used this to assert that Sam's Club foam cups were friendlier than cardboard a few years ago)

Basically, unless you ride a bike to the ocean, collect saltwater with an unbleached paper straw, and desalinate it using a solar-powered device that weighs less than 5 pounds, you are a horrible person.
Thanks, it slipped my mind :-)
Postmodernism 2.0
And that seems to imply that it is a valid alternative, maybe not for large hedge funds but individual investors.
I use Kiwi wiki on my phone, host the files on my dropbox, and access it via Sublime (with markdown add-ons) on my pc.

I've also been experimenting with Obsidian, which so far looks like it might be better.
What's Inside Apple Silicon Processors?
CraigTube and VinylTV is back!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saokvQeZwzI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yVrBZGT4mw

No explanation or apology it seems, but at least the channels are back. :)
It sounds like you're gripe isn't actually with Java or even the memory footprint, is that's you don't want to manage Zookeeper in addition to managing Kafka.
Why would something stop being popular just because it is old (aka 'mature')? What a weird argument.

'Best' is subjective, often the network effect wins and people will keep using something that is 'good enough'.

Usenet archives go back 10 years. How are you going to start a Usenet competitor with 10 years worth of content?
Black pieces are not equal in chess game both statistically and as a consensus among players, because white moves first, and the first move is an advantage in a chess game.
I hear they use different plastics for lego nowadays. My legos from back in the day were pretty sturdy, but the ones my kids have seem to crack more easily, just from regular play. The knex connectors do break, but they are abused comparatively more (e.g. bending them into bracelets, dragging and throwing them across the room, etc)
The danger being that it annoys various non-racists as well. Probably not so much a step in the right direction.
I've only used it very briefly, but I thought it was nice to use. What do you dislike about it?
Do you need to be a dick to be a successful leader?
Saw the recent post titled "Be more unlikeable" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23821121) and thought to share this short documentary on the same topic.

It would appear you don't have to be a dick to be a successful leader. Sometimes you might come across as one. Also, that might be okay.