skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Dormant Hacker News accounts suddenly springing to life years later?
So I'm a long time lurker of HN and like to randomly inspect accounts/users to see the account's other comments and submissions. But one thing I noticed sometimes when I do that is I see the account (for example) was created FIVE YEARS AGO with two or three comments made five years ago, and a recent 2021 comment with long durations of time between each comment.

I imagine the accounts are lurker accounts where the person is signed in, refraining from commenting and then bringing some life into the account on a whim.

I'm not mentioning any accounts since I respect the privacy of those types of accounts, but with some digging you can spot them all over HN.

Also I've seen some accounts with no comments, with the account created 6/7 years ago and then suddenly a comment appears. Why do people do that? It's weird. Anyone else know this situation but haven't actually expressed it yet on HN?
Everyone always argues “the universe is so big there must be aliens”. But as soon as you ask why aliens don’t act like us, it becomes “the universe is too small to have that kind”! I think the heuristic is just fine.
Show HN: Fast Steghide bruteforcer with detection/decryption, useful for CTFs
I would recommend a quiet, distraction-free environment.
This sounds like a placed PR statement.
The reason for the ban is that the tweet violated Twitter's policy against "dehumanisation". The text of the tweet is the following:

"Study shows that in the process of eradicating extremism, the minds of Uygur women in Xinjiang were emancipated and gender equality and reproductive health were promoted, making them no longer baby-making machines. They are more confident and independent."

While that "baby-making machines" is tone deaf, I don't see how this is per se "dehumanising" without taking a precise stands on what the real actions of the Chinese government are with regards to the Uighur population.
No, there was a pretty big discussion about 0 and 1 index ranges on HN yesterday.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25833557

The year the new century started on was part of the discussion. People are still debating as to whether the century started in 2000 or 2001.
Ask HN: Joined a new company, feeling lost
Hey HN! I joined a large corporation in an R&D role right after a year and a half stint in a university research lab. Ever since I joined as a Research Intern, I've been feeling lost. I have an idea of what I should be working on, but I feel lost once I get involed in the details and start working on stuff. I read stuff and I feel like I'm missing bits and pieces here and there. I joined earlier this year and it's been about 3 weeks and I keep feeling this way. I don't have colleagues who check up on my progress either (my manager calls in about once a week), and whenever we do talk, I feel like there's some confusion in my role. I keep feeling like I'm wasting my time, end up irritated which shaves off more of my productivity.

What do I do? I'm genuinely helpless and I've no idea how to cope. I'll be here for another 5 months before I head for grad school, and I honestly thought that this would be a great experience, an opportunity to give it everything I've got.

How do I focus on my work? How do I establish relationships with my colleagues, especially in this remote world? I'd love to hear your thoughts on this HN.

Many thanks!
Both statements hold some truth. It’s a shame when a failing financial system pushes ordinary law-abiding citizens into financial alignment with their enemies. History is full of these situations.
I understand the frustration. Good luck with OneDrive not crashing.
I think that this is often a case of "history is written by the winner".

What I mean is that our view of history is often written from a western perspective, and therefore biased in favour of western civilization.

As a consequence of this, when we learn that something we had previously thought to be true, might not actually be true, it is likely that the new information portrays western civilization in a less favourable light.
The version of the joke I'd heard doesn't include the waitress' attempt to meaninglessly memorize the answer. She simply nods when initially tutored, then later surprises both mathematicians that "an average person" knows how to properly solve an integration problem without any help.
These goings-on make me very aware of the fact that I'm still not settled on the matter of free speech. I used to be very pro-free-speech, but on the other hand, I'm anti-fascism, and I don't know what's worse: Giving fascists a platform to spew hate, or set a precedent for potentially limiting my own speech down the line?

It's nowhere near clear-cut, and I'd like to hear some opinions on this.
Headline says "most apps", body text says "facebook, tiktok and three more apps". Sigh.
The thing is - there would not be a one-size-fit-all exercise for each muscle group; you would rather need an exercise for each combination of A, B in "muscle A is weak but surrounding muscle B is strong"
Personally, I get a bigger chuckle out of the HTTP Header X-Build-Back-Better: https://usds.gov/apply more than I do the HTML comment.
Oh, but they do require flu shots in some places! You know, when you could make others very sick indeed.

But more importantly, Covid is not the flu, and comparisons start failing pretty quickly. Not only do more people die of Covid, but more people have long-lasting symptoms, life-altering, after their infection.

If you don't want to, don't work for someone that requires it. It might severely limit your employment prospects, but that is your choice (obviously, exceptions should be made for those that cannot get it for medical reasons. They do not have choice).
We don't rebuild image every time. We store images in GitLab registry. Also, just because we use apt-get to install python3 doesn't mean build isn't reproducible. The actual toolchain and sysroot are highly version controlled and python is just used to kick off the build script so it almost doesn't really matter which version python is as long as it's backwards compatible with the build script.
> Why Do We Assume Extraterrestrials Might Want to Visit Us?

I'm not trying to be sarcastic, though it'll be hard to write this without the tone seeming that way, but the question alone has a pretty simple set of answers and their own problems:

(1) Our only way to study how an *intelligent* extraterrestrial would behave would be to study the behavior of other intelligent[0] beings. Our data set consists of one species. Enough of this species wants to visit an extraterrestrial civilization, and given no other examples, we assume it's probably the same.
(2) Related to (1), we have exactly zero evidence of the existence of *any* extraterrestrial life, let alone life that understands that they live on "something in space", that there is other life on a planet orbiting a sun amongst an infinite number of stars, etc.

Maybe I'm not the article's target audience, but this is so far down the list of questions that need to be answered at this point that I had a hard time being motivated to read the whole thing.

The first, and a more interesting question is: "Is there any life, intelligent or otherwise, outside of this planet?[1]" If we found, say, that samples from Mars or some other planet/asteroid had a diversity of different bacteria/single-celled organisms, etc, it would increase the probability that there is intelligent life out there "somewhere". If everything comes back empty, there's probably better things to focus research energy on.

[0] The title is missing that important piece. If they are unaware that life could exist they won't be all that interested in visiting. The mattresses (from the planet "where mattresses are grown") likely haven't pondered any of the big questions of life, the universe and... everything.

[1] Tricky problem: you sent something up from a planet teaming with all kinds of bacteria/life; I've read about how they sanitize/handle things but it still amazes me that they can say with any confidence that there was no cross-contamination, but IANARS.
This chip seems like your regular Arm Cortex M0 , like the SAMD 21. Is there something way different about this chip that makes it stand out?
Show HN: Dezip – a website for browsing source code archives
If you assume that there is a civilization that has gone to the trouble of developing interstellar transportation, I think you can assume they value the differences between different parts of the universe. Considering that inhabited planets or even solar systems seem to be much more rare than uninhabited ones, I don't think it's unreasonable to think these difference-interested beings would want to stop by to at least map out an inhabited planet.
I'm not sure they were suggesting using type-specific sentinel values (like null and nan), but to always use null or point to a value.

I like wrapping the information in a data structure exactly as you suggested, and if you never mutate the dereferenced pointer, it's equivalent to what they proposed. Big if, though.

The best is to do this generically with https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option_type , since this pattern comes up regularly, not just with this one domain concept of "Filter"
A couple of years ago I got your Docker course and I learned a lot from it, been doing Docker chores for my teams ever since. Anyway, good course!
Are social media sites trending towards “communist” business models?
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It also makes it easy to make changes and get it out to everyone on the team in an automated way.
They've probably lost[1] few months ago their most talented chips engineer, Jim Keller[2]. Ironically, Jim suggested to outsource the manufacturing of their chips, what the new CEO just did [3].

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/15846/jim-keller-resigns-from...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Keller_(engineer)

[3] https://www.extremetech.com/computing/319301-report-intel-wi...
It seems pretty cut and dry; DDoS-Guard would need a physical presence there to operate, they didn't, so the IPs were revoked. The phone call was simply a tip to investigate.
I tend to agree with this. I understand the convenience it offers, but as long as the services it connects to are "free", I'm not going to pay more than one or two dollars / euros for it. This is not being stingy, simply a subjective evaluation of the worth of such a service.
> Twitter just suspended the account of Venezuela's new National Assembly, which was voted on in an election in December

There was no legitimate election. The Lima Group (practically every country in America - North and South), the EU, and indeed the UN say it's not legitimate. Some random person on twitter says it is.

Twitter has been banning Maduro backed accounts for years, to try to link this into the recent fair and transparent US elections and the removal of ex-president Trump from twitter is desparate
For me, it's like writing 10824 "ten thousand eight hundred and twenty four".

I'd rather read a real regex using the verbose flag to comment groups:

- it shows the real regex for quick scanning and for those familiar with the syntax

- it explains things to the people that are not familiar with it or if the regex is complicated

- it forces the writer to divide the regex into logical groups

- such a system would have comment anyway, to indicate what you are matching such as "product code, date, color" for each part of the matching code.

- if you can't write or read regex and your job is programming, spending an afternoon learning them should be your next step. They are everywhere, no matter the tech stack: unix tools, IDE, 3rd party libs...

- there are plenty of regex tester UI, which let me copy the regex and test various case to see what it does, and tweak it

But I can see the value of such a lib for learning regexes.
This is just more of the same Blockstream (Adam Back) trying to rewrite history.

Back's Blockstream hijacked the GitHub repo years ago and ever since has been working hard to buy up influence and control the narrative about Bitcoin.

They artificially limited the block size which caused an increase in fees, trying to push users to their second layer solutions.
Yea anyone we label violent extremists should be completely and utterly deplatformed. Also reported to their employer so they cannot earn money that enables them to commit more violence.
I think it is like a lot of unusual things. Looks fascinating from the outside, but it gets really boring really quick.

Everything military is a good example. Who doesn't like the idea of working on secret, state of the art technology? Truth is, the secret part mostly gets in the way, because of the "right to know", you don't really know what you are working on, and you may not even have internet access on your computer. As for the "state of the art", it tends to be pretty underwhelming. Besides military-specific constraints like stealth, it tends to lag behind civilian technology, probably related to the already mentioned secrecy that gets in the way.

Same thing happen when you get to work with really expensive equipment. Sounds great because who doesn't want a machine almost no one can afford? In reality, you are unlikely to get to play with it. Because it is an expensive machine, your company is going to make sure it is used to make money and not just for your own curiosity. Personal use is likely to get you fired.
It'll be interesting if private businesses start demanding vaccine proof (at the point when vaccines are widely available) or refuse service. I guess one solution would be to make such a refusal illegal..
I wish someone could provide some concrete measurements.

I've had similar feelings about Dropbox getting slower. However, I'm beginning to wonder if my expectations are just rising over the years. Dropbox's performance felt amazing back when they launched because, frankly, I didn't have much to compare it to. I also had fewer files, and they were likely smaller on average.

Dropbox launched in 2008, back when most of us still had slow mechanical hard drives, slower internet, and slow USB sticks. Everything was slower back then.

Dropbox may have gotten faster, but I'd bet the average size of a Dropbox user's data has grown faster than the speedups.
You're not the only one. Although I was curious to read it since I haven't used Dropbox in a few years and see what users think of the experience these days.
Launch HN: Finmark (YC S20) – Financial planning software for startups
Hi HN!

I’m Rami, cofounder of Finmark (https://finmark.com/). We make it simple for companies to manage their runway, hiring, and cash.

Three years ago a bad financial model almost killed my last company. A miscalculation in our behemoth of a financial model led us to overestimate the amount of cash we had coming in, and in turn, to overspend. When we finally discovered the error after 5 months, we were forced to shift from aggressive hiring to aggressive cost cutting and had to lay off employees.

We were able to course-correct and sold the company successfully in 2019, but I kept coming back to how difficult and time-consuming financial modeling is for founders. So after taking some time off to recharge post acquisition, I pulled my old team together to start Finmark.

We built Finmark so all founders, not just finance pros, can easily create, update, and share custom financial models without having to spend weeks laboring over complex spreadsheets. While the flexibility spreadsheets afford is great, they are also susceptible to human error, challenging for collaboration and version control, and time-consuming to create and maintain.

Finmark takes complex financial concepts and calculations, distills them down into a simple dashboard, and makes it easy for startups to create and share their financial plans, manage burn rate and cash, forecast revenue and expenses, and plan for fundraising

Finmark is modular, so rather than using a template that might not be a great fit for your startup, you’re building a completely custom model based on your individual business needs. Finmark integrates with your entire stack to reconcile your actuals without manual data entry. It is also very easy to create, compare, and share as many different scenarios as you’d like, e.g. a base plan, upside plan, and downside plan.

Since launching in Fall 2020 we’ve had over 1,000 companies sign up for our waitlist, and have onboarded over 400 companies so far.

Subscriptions start at $25/month and increase based on a company’s monthly revenue. You can check out our pricing calculator here: https://finmark.com/pricing/

We are skipping the waitlist for anyone signing up from HN. Follow this link for a 30 day free trial: https://hubs.li/H0Fc7Ss0. We're looking forward to your comments and are eager to hear your feedback on Finmark and your experiences with financial modeling in general!
Why Electron Is a Necessary Evil
Do you really need exercises to target niche muscles ( can understand if you are doing rehab post injury or actually bodybuilding to enter a contest)? Most folks who want to be fit, only need to focus on compound movements ( bench/incline presses, squats, deadlifts, pushups, pullups) which target all muscle groups.
crazy person yelling at cloud incoming. all opinions and i do recognize much of this is completely unrealistic for most users

Personally I learned HTML through General Assembly (though I remember it being free) and didn't really use it for a couple years. Eventually I had an application (in the sense of something to which to apply HTML, not one of those godawful electron webapps) for my knowledge and just fashioned my site out of <P>s, a <TITLE>, and the appropriate <HTML>, <BODY>, <HEAD>, and closing tag.

That's all most people should need! If a webpage is just text without any images it shouldn't need dividers, buttons, sliders, GDPR notices (why the hell are you tagging my browser when I'm trying to read your blog?), or a ton of empty space. If you need margins add a stylesheet and if you need pretty colors that's pretty easy.

I write my HTML by hand, in a terminal text editor, and save and refresh Firefox to view the updated work. And it works! Really well in fact. When I wanna make a new page I just `cp [the smallest file here] [new file]` and change around the title, canonical link, and header. It's lacking in terms of weird meta tags for Twitter and Facebook but I don't really want people linking to my stuff from those useless sites anyway. Every image has alt text, every page works decently in Lynx, and I'm quite happy with it. If you have to spend time on every line of HTML you quickly learn to stop adding useless code to your website.
All the woke mob knows is anger and destruction. Leave them together alone and they'll turn on each other. This is a documented phenomena at this point.
Explain: Average anti-vax talking points. It is generally useless to argue against them, and rarely are such points used for, say, legalisation of weed or stopping employment drug tests. Not only that, but vaccinations affect more than just your body. Such a choice can kill someone else if they get a disease a non-vaccinated person carries.
These groups are already generating social conflict. De-platforming ISIS from Twitter and YouTube worked to stop their massive growth of new members through propaganda. There is no reason to believe it won’t also work on American right-wing terrorist and Christian terrorists.

“Capitol Hill Attack Video Shows Rioters Pray With Lifted Hands After Violating Senate Chamber”

https://faithfullymagazine.com/capitol-hill-attack-video-pra...

“How QAnon uses religion to lure unsuspecting Christians”

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/15/us/qanon-religion-churches/in...

“How White Evangelical Christians Fused With Trump Extremism”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/us/how-white-evangelical-...

Edit: Changed “American right-wing and Christian terrorists” to “American right-wing terrorists and Christian terrorists” to remove the ambiguity on whether I mean “American right-wing” as an adjective or a noun (I meant it as an adjective to the noun terrorist.)
/s? If not, I’ll rebuild that and offer you a lifetime license for $9,999 as a hackernews discount ;)
> From the article:

>> Americans still have a profound faith that our individual destinies are in our own hands. That’s why many people who have only the remotest prospect of ever making their way into the top income-tax bracket nonetheless favor keeping that tax rate low, and why people who have no chance of inheriting money from a taxable estate passionately oppose “death taxes.”

Wouldn't you say it's a bit one-sided to attribute all support for lower income/inheritance tax rates to naïve/aspirational optimism? I'd say most people in this group are well aware that their odds of making it into the top income brackets are slim; but even so they still feel that it's fundamentally wrong to steal from people, even ones who are currently better off than they are, in hopes of slightly improving their own circumstances. I also think they understand (far better than certain political economists, at any rate) that the existence of others who are wealthier than themselves is no threat to their own well-being, and that we're all better off helping each other to improve rather than dragging down anyone who dares to get ahead.
That’s a part of the experience though. Freezing will preserve the nutrients, but risks the “mouthfeel”.

But if you’re going to blend it, who cares.
Regardless of your political views, behaviour such as this from tech monopolies/gatekeepers should be a cause of concern for anyone who'd like to keep their freedoms (esp of speech) intact.

The ideal scenario would be for people to use the web as how it was originally intended: ie, everyone having custom websites (and private emails) hosted on a VPS with an RSS feed so that your friends can follow your "feed". That way you'd own your content and wouldn't have to worry about censorships/account bans etc.

Discover-ability is just about the only downside with this.
Bain apparently believes it deserves the GDP of Micronesia for six weeks of work
Twitter was a far better experience before right-wingers discovered how to use it. After that, any sort of political discussion on the platform became an inexorable shouting match drawn out over months. Yes, I'm aware of the fact that left-wingers have learned and employed the same tactics since then. I care less about that problem because they do not have the same institutional support that Donald Trump used to enjoy.

Remember: Twitter bent over backwards to make exceptions to their own rules to keep Donald Trump and Donald Trump alone on their platform. Hell, they even exempted him from their repeat infringer policy that the DMCA mandates they have. If January 6th hadn't happened, he'd still be tweeting, and Twitter would still be coming up with new policies and arguments for why Donald Trump should remain on their platform.
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If fascism is defined as the merger of corporation and state, does a dominant political party allying with major corporations to suppress a political opponent not ring alarm bells for fascism?
What is it with Brave staffers and workout websites?

https://random.training/ (from @bcrypt!)