skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I swear I've posted this before:

I used to have a job that required me to be up at 4 or 5am. I am not a morning person, and this requirement was equivalent to a normal person being told they need to write their weekly sales reports using a pencil taped to their knee. Or something.

Anyway, I had this early wake up time, but a problem with shutting my alarm off without actually waking up.

So I took a normal alarm clock, cracked it open, and soldered a 5m length of speaker wire to the circuit board. I drilled a hole in my headboard and mounted an external speaker there. The alarm clock itself was placed in a backpack, with the zippers tied together with a key ring, and the whole thing stuffed in my closet.

So each morning, I was forced to get out of bed, go to the closet, fiddle with the key ring to separate the 2 zippers, then finally turn the alarm off.

I had roommates at the time; they weren't very happy with me. But they were my brother and a good friend, so to hell with them :)
TLDR: "my $1,200 alarm clock didn't work as expected" :)
How to build your own Silicon Valley and keep your soul
Shocked, really?

>...even he was surprised by RAND’s findings. In fact, he says that before the report was completed, he had done his own “back-of-the-envelope math” and wound up underestimating by a good 40% the degree to which workers’ incomes have failed to keep pace with GDP. “It’s startling,” he says...

...except this [0] graph has been floating around for years, and the 40% failure to keep pace is visible plain as day on it. I'm glad there's more comprehensive research about it, but come on - this isn't even remotely groundbreaking. You'd basically have to be living under a rock for any of this to come as a surprise. There were even protests about it a few years back - what were they called? "Occupy Main Street" or something?

[0] https://i.redd.it/szwd5045fzl51.png
it's human-caused, all right. Just not in the way you are implying.

The number of recent antifa firebugs being caught either actively setting fires or scouting along roads, matches in hand, might have some relation to this, don't you think? Ignoring the actual arrests, it's not a stretch to think the types that set urban fires might also do the same on a rural area.

Look at a map of the fires. Isn't it interesting that most of these fires happen in close proximity to state highways and secondary roads and not in unpopulated rural areas?

Not willing to admit the obvious? Then, let's go baack to your claim that it's due to climate. You should be able to describe the specific climate changes have occurred in the past 5 years to cause this dramatic increase in fires where the occurrence was rare, before. That should be an easy data point for you to call out. Or if that's too challenging, what specific climate variable must change to increase fire. Speculate, if you like. Educate us all.

But I think Ockham's Razor applies here.
> Nintendo insisted that the 3DS was not being replaced by the switch, in the same way that they told me that the game boy line would keep going after the DS began.

If the Switch had been a market failure (or had the DS been, back in its day), Nintendo probably would have kept the older system alive. But once it became clear that the Switch & DS were runaway successes, they could wind down the older hardware without losing their major source of revenue.
> distinguish actually being offended

... how?

(There's the "reasonable person would find this offensive" test, which appears in various places, but libel is specifically about reputational injury)
This happened to me too. I was searching the domain on a variety of tools to make sure it wasn't like, secretly a swear word in another language or whatever, then a couple days later it was registered by GoDaddy. I wasn't sure which tool leaked it, or whether that was actually GoDaddy or their domain holder protection. But it was pretty annoying.

And they registered it for two years.
Somewhat offtopic but IBM announced a 1000qubit system to arrive in 2023. Of this is to be believed, that's only 500 qubits or so fr factoring ecc.
I just confirmed this can also work using AWS Session Manager (a "secure" and easily-auditable way to provide shell access to EC2 instances):

$ aws ssm start-session --target i-XXXXXX | tee base64.txt
Been meaning to try Forge, thanks for the reminder. Honestly, Magit alone is enough reason to use Emacs. Projectile is a close second for me.
I really like Bazel as well. As you said, cross language dependency management in CMake is hilariously annoying. However, I'm at practically a C++ only shop so it rarely comes up.

Where I am we were using CMake 2 for our build system for a long time and it got into bad shape. When we made the decision to rewrite the build system (across a few dozen subprojects), we looked at a few - Meson, Bazel, CMake, etc. CMake was hard to argue against because of the recent work (last few years) by Microsoft to support CMake projects directly (File -> Open Folder). We wanted to try to get away from maintaining separate IDE projects for every platform for every project.
The 3DS, in particular the "New" models, I think are really recommended to pick up cheap. They are well built devices that are supremely hackable with access to lots of fun games.

The 3DS library is good despite somewhat lacking in diversity. But the 3DS also has native compatibility with the entire excellent DS library, and after hacking it can also run the entire great GBA library without emulation (like Matroshka dolls, the 3DS hardware includes the complete DSi hardware which in turn includes GBA hardware, and it has firmware support to access them both).

The old models emulate a lot of 8 and 16 bit consoles well, whereas the New models have nearly complete compatibility for 8 and 16 bit consoles and additionally can emulate some Playstation 1. Moreover, hacking the 3DS has become even more accessible due to recent newly found exploits. Still getting a lot of fun out of mine.
Triggering a response means your body has recognized something that isn't itself. In doing so it defends itself.

This is immunity, even if it fails or causes more damage than good. It is fighting the foreign agent.
Paul Erdős

https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/the-mathematical-nomad-p...

Over the years, Erdős accrued as much fame for his personality as he did for his mathematics. Described by his biographer Paul Hoffman as “probably the most eccentric mathematician in the world”, famously Erdős developed his only language to accompany his unique nomadic lifestyle, referring to himself as a PGOM, LD, AD, LD, CD, a “poor great old man, living dead, archaeological discovery, legally dead, counts dead”. Famously, possessions meant little Erdős, who carried most of his belongings in “two half-full suitcases” as he travelled from institution to institution, living with friends and colleagues.
I could fit my New 3DS XL with “clip armor” https://gameidealist.com/news/a-look-at-the-pdp-new-nintendo... in some pockets. I also had a sweater that I could fit the 3DS inside between the pockets and the innner lining.

The games were the last and only software I paid for with actual money, until I joined the FSF.
Good for you, but the statistics on desktop OS usage are pretty clear that you're in the minority.
masks (and lockdowns) are safety theater, for the benefit of seeming like good, caring citizens because of the high visibility of wearing a mask, when the hard work of preventing spread comes down to distancing properly even when that’s socially awkward, like at a gathering which is where mask usage also dives, because it’s private and the humans involved are overly trusting and complicit.

masks are a distraction at best, helping only at the margins when worn vigorously where distancing is not possible. we don’t need to solve a mask shortage problem, but rather the social distancing problem that masks are only marginally helpful for.

npr loves talking incessantly about masks, both as virtue signal and click getter, even in stories where its utterly, entirely irrelevant.
Only very narrow kinds of disinformation that would meet the extremely high standards for libel in the US. Most of what is deemed “disinformation” or “hate speech” on Facebook would not be actionable.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this supposed price increase in Stjema's analysis only based on the maximum reimbursement allowance for lawyers? Hence, this only pertains to the potential for increased costs, not actual increased costs. Also, the obvious advantage of a European court is that one does not need to enforce one's patent in all State jurisdictions separately, right? Stjema shows how this duplication is actually lower than assumed (bc most companies choose to only enforce it in one country) but wouldn't the assumption be that the need for enforcement in more than one jurisdiction increase as the internal market for knowledge products becomes ever-more integrated? Although I see how it could be more expensive right now (and software patents still suck)

I would mainly love to see a response regarding the legal side.
That's pretty funny, and would be better without the old "blonde" trope. I forgot that was ever a thing.
I'm glad you linked this, so I didn't have to dig it up :-) An excellent sketch.
The untold history of macOS System Preferences
Is this coming full circle: Git -> GitHub -> GitHub CLI?
Those methods were invented by Judea Pearl, a computer science professor at UCLA who won the Turing Award in 2011 partly for that work. He's written several books on the topic. The most recent is The Book of Why. See here for previous discussions of the book including one just two days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24487135 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20889143 ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18871450
Immunity has nothing to do with ability to spread. It only relates to self.
Throughout reading the article I kept wondering why they didn't pursue the obvious solution : build a normal house next to it and move in. They have a nice plot of land and cost of conventional construction in Arkansas is low.

They could rent out the stupid underground house as a mushroom farm or bat sanctuary or just fill it with concrete and put a garage on top.
> 1. yucca mountain can not sustain a million years due to strong seismic activity

Where does it say this? Here's the paragraph under earthquakes:

> DOE has stated that seismic and tectonic effects on the natural systems at Yucca Mountain will not significantly affect repository performance. Yucca Mountain lies in a region of ongoing tectonic deformation, but the deformation rates are too slow to significantly affect the mountain during the 10,000-year regulatory compliance period. Rises in the water table caused by seismic activity would be, at most, a few tens of meters and would not reach the repository. The fractured and faulted volcanic tuff that Yucca Mountain comprises reflects the occurrence of many earthquake-faulting and strong ground motion events during the last several million years, and the hydrological characteristics of the rock would not be changed significantly by seismic events that may occur in the next 10,000 years. The engineered barrier system components will reportedly provide substantial protection of the waste from seepage water, even under severe seismic loading.

It sure doesn't seem to conform to what you're saying. Later in the article there is one sentence claiming it's unsafe:

> Nevada National Security Site officials in April 2019 assured the public that the Device Assembly Facility on the Nevada security site was safe from earthquake threats. In contrast, Nevada officials claimed seismic activity in the region made it unsafe for the storage of nuclear waste.

But this is a one-off statement that doesn't seem to be backed by any sort of studies.

> onkalo stores the waste in iron that is probably corrosion prone

And when those containers corrode, how does the waste escape the bedrock that's surrounding it?

Nuclear power represents the only way for countries to decarbonize their energy sector. Solar and wind offer cheap bandaids, throw up a few solar panels and you can reduce daytime use of electricity. But they do not offer a real path to decarbonization without spectacular breakthroughs in energy storage. By comparison, France has successfully produced more than 2/3rds of their electricity with nuclear power since the 1980s.
For anyone who has dealt with Autodesk in a professional setting in the last 2 decades, this was 100% expected.

They are an awful company whose entire business model is "the first hit is free, kids!".

I can get things like limiting cloud storage (if they actually offered offline storage). But removing .step export? That's just 100% "screw you, now we have your projects and you can't get them out".
It might be completely automated, but there could also be an algorithm that selects searched domain names and then puts them in a "review" shortlist for a human (or a team) to scan through and flag for purchase.
And Golang is killing it for these kind of applications.
Under-the-Radar Fairytale and Folktale Retellings
Is there a safe method to search for domains?
Controlling information is how people become stinking rich. Think about it. Either on a very context-specific moment (think deal-signing) or on a very large scale (think Putin), large fortunes are made via information asymmetries.
It's not news. Fire management folks have been preaching controlled burns for decades.

https://www.propublica.org/article/they-know-how-to-prevent-...
No it's not. GoDaddy has to pay the domain registry (verisign, donuts , etc) for the registration plus a small fee to ICANN. Domains are typically extremely low margin and profit is made up on add-ons.
All of GH improvements have become irrelevant for me since they vanished one of our repos. No notification, no warning, no recourse. Just gonsky. It was just a simple library we wrote to talk to a public IP2Country REST service. Pushed to GitLab, end of.
I had never thought of multi-winner districts. And thank you for the reference!
AFAIR there may be browser extensions which allow site blocking from SERPs. None that permit reranking based on site of origin though.

The bang hacks are convenient though.
I think you'll also find a lot of conceptual overlap with Phoenix Contexts; they'll generally all start as part of the same monolith/app but are sufficiently discrete that you can separate them out more easily than the Rails situation in TFA.
As I just said, I do not believe you are an agent, but I do believe your comments are astroturfing. I do not care about the Wikipedia article, I’m not sure why you’re linking it.

It seems like a rhetorical deflection to try to make the discussion about semantics of the word “astroturfing” - which I do not agree to participate in.

Your communication habits throughout the thread cause me to believe it would be fruitless and possibly dangerous to actually talk to you outside of these comments.

I’m not writing any of this to engage with you or convince you, just hopefully as a thought provoking warning for other readers who come across the thread.
They also say "domain unavailable" if you include "godaddy" in the domain name. Any other site will let you register profane domains with "godaddy" in them.
GAN Demo – Paint Like Bob Ross
Worse. They ignored the easily inspectable fact that the part was worn halfway through.

There must be many more like this. Have the been replaced?
It's more about automation than about end-user (developer) UI. CLI gives you a simple way to automate tooling for your team's processes (simpler than writing code to call into REST API's), and it's code, so you can maintain it as code and not some set of configurations on a UI somewhere.
By understanding their business really really well.

For example, if I know that an automation that I can create for a client is going to take me 100 hours to setup and save them £20,000 per month I can either:

Charge 100 x £100 per hour - so a one off income of £10,000. Seems like I'm earning good money right??

OR

I can charge them £100,000. They'll make that back in just five months. A BARGAIN. Most businesses would bite your hand off.

The catch for achieving number two is knowing the value I'm providing. I can only do that when I know their business really really well.
They allow and support known spammers and scammers. They make reporting of spammers and scammers arduous. They play dumb when asked about their barriers and repeat inane responses rather than answering questions.

In other words, they have a history of clearly, unambiguously showing themselves to be unapologetic assholes.
Never heard of Azure Repos before. Do they have any unique features that could be merged into Github?
Yeah this is huge— I used to use `hub` for this one thing as well. The alternative is even worse if you cloned from a repo you don't have push access to, so your first step is going to the web UI, creating the fork, switching the remote on your clone, and then _finally_ pushing and creating the PR.
That's weird, that's not the case for me. Mine still goes through the length of ringing with the call on the screen.
RRF and Yagni in Practice: A Lesson with Kent Beck
Thank you for the explanation of polarity, I found it helpful.

I just remembered that people use the +/- notation to denote covariance and contravariance (such as in OCaml syntax and Scala syntax). I think it's possible that the author saw this and then related the +/- notation to polarity, even though variance is unrelated.
Almost none of it is unique to Rust, but it does draw inspiration from a wide variety of influences, so it can feel like that for sure.

This syntax was taken from OCaml.

Incidentally, nobody really loves it, but nobody could come up with anything clearly better either.
The COVID "new cases" data for New York state seem to show something like herd immunity, despite numbers that should be well below herd immunity.

I suppose it could be something else, like New York residents being more diligent about masks, social distance, etc. Anecdotally, though, that doesn't seem to be the case.
This is a very good, if a bit windy, argument.

There would have been no technological progress we were able to enjoy in the past decade or two without the foundations laid by the open PC platform, and the Internet based on open standards.

These open foundations are now slowly being substituted piece by piece with proprietary walled gardens, and conversely we can now witness the pace of innovation subsiding.

In the current environment, there could not be another Google emerging as a successful contender the same way the original Google did, very much like there could not have been another Disney for quite a while, due to all the regulatory restrictions put in place largely as a result of the lobbying on the part of the original Disney: only this time it's more than Mickey Mouse's future that's at stake.

However, as the situation appears to be largely made possible by regulatory failure, the problem is inherently political, and any lasting solution would also have to be of such nature. Thus, while I wish Purism all the best, expecting them to be able to significantly change the situation is unfortunately not realistic.
I use domainr.com often and never had this problem. Just in case you need a nice alternative.
How many people die from loosing power during winters and freezing to death? How many more would that be if everyone was using solar which can't provide enough power in winter?
Roofing is dangerous, but using a product such as Tesla or GB Sol solar tiles means that installing solar is no more dangerous than roofing without solar.

Presuming you have to reroof anyways.
The only solution to the wildfire problem offered by Trump is that California should do a better job raking up leaves/pine needles and should remove more dead fuel from forests. I think that is much more intellectually dishonest, especially given that Trump is in control of the US Forest Service, which is the agency that would be in charge of raking the leaves and removing the dead trees...

If Trump drastically increases the budget to the USFS and starts a new and improved forest management program, I will gladly applaud the effort. Sadly, I doubt that will happen.
By this logic, Osama bin Laden did nothing wrong. Sure he inspired young men to join the movement, he gave them direct orders to perform acts of terrorism ... but blaming the speech in whole or in part removes agency from those who choose to react in a negative way.

> One may hear or read words that provoke them to violence

At least you acknowledge that words can lead to violence. If such violence occurs, we will certainly blame both the perpetrator and the person who incited them. But the most effective way of stopping such violence isn't catching perpetrators after the fact, it's preventing the incitement in the first place.
Just use the `whois` tool?

man page: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=whois

source code: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/usr.bin/whois...
My god I can't imagine a million lines of untyped code. Must be hell. Presumably you spend all day writing tests?
Yes, and schools were never fully closed.
Well, the question is in drawing the line between founder/co-founder and early employee, and that's pretty clear to me: technically speaking, a founder is someone/group who "founds" the company. That's it.

That said, I've seen plenty of founders that have had minimal impact on the role and growth of the company, and are pushed out as the company grows. You don't need to know anything about the market to found a company, you could even totally misunderstand the opportunity and the company pivots down the line to something completely unrelated to the original intent. Sometimes the founders are recognized in the story, sometimes they're written out entirely in favor of the people who came in and actualized the company that we know/see today (i.e, McDonalds, Berkshire Hathaway come to mind).

But to your points, I think the "being able to hire the right people" is the important part in early company success. You don't need to know the market as long the business opportunity you've identified has _some_ merit and you've brought on the right people. In fact, serial founders often work this way.

The first employees that you hire will take on a disproportionate amount of work and will set the foundation for much of what will follow. So it's important to be able to (a) hire really well at the start, and (b) reward those employees with leadership, visibility, and equity/stake in the success of the company. At some point, it's worth being honest with that ideas are a dime a dozen and coming up with one and incorporating a company around it is meaningless unless you succeed, and success comes from being able to create a viable business. You'll need developers, you'll need operations people, you'll need marketers, you'll need sales and customer service folks, and experts in whatever industry you're playing in. No one person will be able to do that, unless you've got a founding party of 10 people with clearly delineated responsibilities (otherwise you'll have a ton of infighting over who owns what part of the company's vision/strategy and it will all collapse).

So yeah, I think it comes down to hiring the right people, because no company can succeed or grow on the strength of just one or two people. You'll _always_ need to bring on outside expertise. The question is what expertise you need to bring on, in what order, and how you reward it when the company is just getting started.
Wow, this is a blast from the past. I know Godaddy got busted doing this years ago. I forget whether they were sued or just hounded with bad P.R. but I thought they promised to clean up their act. I wish I could find the article now, but Google only pulls up stuff from the last year or so.