skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you. It's probably a stupid question. I've been hearing about it a bit, and if it's fashionable it must be good, right? ;)
I agree with the sentiment that morally bankrupt people are people too. The problem is that these people end up flooding and drowning out open access platforms and create a toxic environment for everyone but them.

And I don't believe it's impossible to have a platform that these people can be on without them subsequently destroying the platform. I've personally got a design for a network I think that can accomplish these objectives. I'm sure there are many strategies that can work.

But if a new social network makes a pitch and it doesn't go way out of its way to say how they're going to contain the massive influx of toxic runoff from the mainline social networks, then I can assume that if I join, that will be the environment. I can assume the only people on that board are the people too extreme for 4chan. I'll pass.
When I was an undergrad I would post all my homework assignments on Github, but I later learned this was a mistake when I interviewed at Apple and a few of their engineers went over my homework code with a fine tooth comb and found a memory leak in one of my OS assignments. Reporting this to me, they asked me "why did you code this memory leak?". I didn't get the job. Now I have removed all this from my github. Unfortunately it's one of those things where "everything you say can and will be used against you".
It's mainly web dev using .net c# and go, but other stuff pops up too occasionally! :)
You think there’s no content that needs a warning, but others may. And that’s kind of the point (people may be hurt remembering civil war and slavery and people may be hurt knowing that the content supported the construction and operation of concentration camps, etc).

I’m not concerned with being happy, I’m just trying to understand the value system that Disney is using to make these notices.

I don’t think it’s potential harm to the viewer, but maybe we’ll never know. One theory was that they were trying to atone for previous harm caused while making stuff (eg, using the confederate flag when they shouldn’t, etc).

I think it is sort of whataboutism, but only because Disney is literally whataboutisming their own content library. Usually I don’t think it applies since it’s not relevant that Y is bad for whether X is bad.

But in this scenario, Disney has stated that they reviewed and updated content. So if Disney reviewed content and didn’t find it preroll worthy, it gives a signal what Disney thinks is relatively bad.
Things I want:

1) ban the subminimum wage system which distinguishes between tipped and untipped employees

2) raise the national minimum wage to $20/hour

3) require restaurants to pay payroll taxes and worker's compensation premiums on tips

4) actually enforce laws against wage theft ... and tax evasion

5) to those who smugly say that tipping is "To Ensure Promptness" - you're a privileged asshole who clearly doesn't care about the racist, sexist, and demeaning practice they support.

This NYT article mentions the sexism and demeaning environment. For racism, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratuity#Discrimination . And it goes the other way - waitstaff tend to treat black customers less well because black people tend to tip less than white.

6) to those who don't tip as a protest because the system is rigged - you're a cheap asshole. Go places where you don't need to tip.

Things I actually do:

1) complain on HN. :(
Presumed by whom? AFAICT there is no reason to presume the protection decays rapidly or even at all (on short timescales). There isn’t a biomechanism that would cause that. It’s a conservative operating assumption just in case, but actually not likely.
Tackling big data challenges for next-generation high energy physics experiments
Not really - water, concrete, and lead all absorb radiation fantastically. There is currently no solution for hydrogen leaking and embrittlement.
Except that there are ways to get the protection somewhere else, in ways that are potentially advantageous.

The most obvious one would be to just disconnect your house from the grid whenever prices exceed some threshold that only actually happens once a decade.

Even if that means you go stay in a hotel, doing that once every ten years for thousands of dollars in savings over the same period could be totally worth it. And there are also even less inconvenient alternatives, like buying a generator for less than you save in electricity and using it during price spikes, which means you also get a "free" generator to use during ordinary power outages.

Meanwhile it helps the grid because people who are willing to do this voluntarily remove load during crunch time and prevent the need to do rolling blackouts that unexpectedly freeze people's pipes.
Yeah, except that car manufacturers started to put seatbelts into cars before regulation. Similarly with all other protection systems. Regulation made it ubiquitous and that's great, but don't mislead like this.

It's very easy to become a "victim" of yourself even in a regulated world and I assure you the number of people who do will not go down, only the means of doing so will change. Perhaps we should focus on education instead of regulation.
> Automatic changelog via push tags

Worth mentioning: we don't support generating changelogs when pushing tags. What we did add is an API that can be used to generate changelogs. This API takes a range of commits to use for the changelog. What we support here related to tags is automatically using the tag of the last release as the start of this range.
Plus, in the places in the world where they did do lockdowns, lo and behold, they tended to work.

Nothing that was done in the USA could even remotely be described as a lockdown. And none of the so-called orders came close to being effective. Without enforcement, you might as well call your "Stay at home Order" a "Stay at home Suggestion".

Currently, in the state of California, 99.8% of the population is in the purple (aka Widespread) tier [1]. Yet if you go out of your house and look around, you'll see people carrying on, horsing around, and not taking anything seriously. It's like "back to normal but with masks." And this is reportedly one of the more "locked down" states! It's a total farce, and the result of a cowardly government that makes rules for show but is unwilling to enforce them.

1: https://covid19.ca.gov/safer-economy/
I still think this post is insightful, because it shows a subjective and presumably rather honest perspective on reviewing CVs. Sure, it's no big deal that a recent graduate points to an unmaintained GitHub profile with only assignment code on it. But these applicants make whoever is considering hiring them look at something that's both irrelevant and boring. I wouldn't blame them too much, though. They've probably heard somewhere that you should have code on GitHub and link to your GitHub account in your CV, and they lack the experience to take this advise with a grain of salt.
Granted, after centuries of written works, we still don't have "the way" to take hand written notes. Everyones brain works different, and people have total different ways to take notes.

I don't think this is 100% of the reason computers don't have a universal note taking system, but it is definitely a part of it.
You want a benchmark that shows that one >>, one &, two [] and a + are going to be fast?

The test loop that wraps the lookup code will likely take as much CPU as what's being benchmarked. Even if you are to use RDPMC and even if you are to use it very sparingly.
The Skycrane: Maneuver was once considered a crazy idea – even within NASA
Unless you're competitively _desirable_ to work for then your hiring strategy should be something close to: _hire literally anyone you can afford_[0].

This industry too often overlooks the enormous value that can be harvested by training under-skilled hopefuls into fully productive team members. There's often an associated fear that, once trained, the individuals in question will jump ship for greener pastures. The answer to that problem should be obvious: be a green pasture.

0: http://arches.io/2016/01/hire-literally-anyone/
Definitely! I suppose there a tonne of pointers (not sure if your pun was intended :p). What are you building at the minute?
Gitlab is not terribly resource hungry? And not very latency sensitive either, so you can put it wherever you get the cheapest/best hosting.
I went to highschool with Tim and remember when he was writing this in his parents basement while going to UMD. Little did we know what would come from his tiny shareware business.
This is fantastic.

Could you please provide alternative shopping links? Amazon.com links don’t resolve for Amazon.ca customers
Totally makes sense !!!
Isn't that just pagination with a different granularity?

You'd still present the user with a set of results (a "page") and would let them seek forwards/backwards to the adjacent subsets of results.

AFAICT cursors can't support this.

And even if you go halfways into the list you can't display all subsequent items, so you'd still have to paginate in some way.

The page metaphor is there for a good reason.
i have found BIND to be troublesome for running large(r) scale workloads.

Also, dealing with zone files just gets annoying, especially compared to DNS servers that support database backends.
Just curious, what kind of 3-year informatics grant not being completed ends up with a team brought in to fix the situation? Multi-million dollar grants don't sound big enough to be a dependency for any major customer (like defense or pharma), so I imagine if fraud was detected, they would just demand a reimbursement and ban the PI.

But I think you're both right in some sense. The cases of intentional major fraud is probably a rare edge case and they make the news when they're uncovered. But there's a lot of grey-ish area like p-hacking as you mentioned, plus funding agencies know there needs to be some flexibility in the proposed timeline due to realities. Realities like you don't necessary get the perfect student for the project right when the grant starts, as the graduate student cycle is annual, plus the research changes over time and it isn't ideal to have students work on an exact plan as if they are an employee.

But I totally agree that maintaining software that people are using should be funded and rewarded by the academic communities. A possible way to do this is have a supplement so that after a grant is over, people who have software generated from the grant that is used by at least 10 external parties without COI, should be funded 100K/yr for however many years they are willing to maintain and improve it. Definitions of what this means needs to be carefully constructed, of course.
Thanks for linking that.

Some noticeable differences between my script and theirs are:

1. Mine is a zero dependency ~20 line bash script.

2. Mine dates your files like YYYY-MM.txt for easy access later on and then appends to the file for a specific month.

3. Mine is designed to be used from the command line with the least amount of effort possible while giving you the most flexibility you can realistically ask for. Mine has no sub commands. You can add 1 line notes by just typing `notes hey this is my cool note` or run `notes` without arguments to open this month's notes file in your $EDITOR. It also supports taking input from stdin so you can save the output of programs or your clipboard into your notes.

There's no built in things like searching because you can grep your plain text notes at your leisure, and since the files are dated that means you can go in there and delete your notes as needed too. There's also no git integration built into the tool because your notes directory is literally a directory of plain text files. You can choose to `git init` a git repo in there if you'd like. The note tool works the same with or without it being a git repo.

This tool was created after ~20 years worth of plain text note taking. There hasn't been a commit to the project in a year because the script is basically done and works. I use it every day. There's no need to add features into it like encryption or backups because that can be handled elsewhere such as putting the notes directory into Dropbox or having a backup script reference that directory to backup (personally I rsync it with a bunch of other directories to an external HD in a daily cron job).
Some tribes regarded camera as a cursed item as they thought it captured your soul. They couldn't have been more right.
Indeed. Having the whole system in front of you, and knowing how patterns like MVC or Thing-Model-View-Editor encapsulate parts of it, makes it very easy to "reason about" wholesale changes to the system.
Schöpferstolz. Schaffensfreude.
Social and political effects aside, is it ecologically positive to introduce more honey bees to America?

(I think honey bees are fine).
Discussion when the story was published https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26167352
I've worked with a lot of research code. I agree with you that tangled code is somewhat intrinsic to the kind of code written for research.

Here's the thing. Sometimes, there's no code - I mean, they'll find something, but nobody can say, with certainty, that it is the code that generated the data or results you're trying to recreate. There's often no data - and by that, I mean, nothing, not even a dummy file so you can tell if it even runs or understand what structure the data needs to be in. No build, no archive history, no tests. And when I say no tests, I'm not talking about red/green bar integration and unit tests, I mean, ok, the code ran... was this what it was supposed to produce?

Many of these projects are far, far more messed up than the intrinsic nature of research would explain - though I will again agree that research code may be unusually likely to descend into entropy.
There might be an answer to the original question. I was pointing out, “But what about banks!?” is simply not a good one, and why it isn’t.
But now you're classifying redneck coal miners as "elites" which doesn't really work.
Ah, my favourite Youtube channel - highly recommend TechMoan!
We are so lucky we had 2020 science to deal with this rather than in previous decades. I wonder how our current efforts will seem to scientists from decades in the future!
I made the scale purposely farcical, but I wish we could actually solve for this.

I suppose the x/1000 scale would need to objectively measure the harm and suffering caused by a thing and normalize.
This one is great:

> counterintuitive

> Based on facts or evidence, rather than on magic-gut divination.
There's another possible explanation for insect decline unrelated to insecticides, a global thiamine deficiency:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/01/vitamin-...

The root cause seems to be an unknown problem with bacteria that produce thiamine at the base of food chains, as well as some invasive species (which for example caused big problems in the Great Lakes in the USA). Thiamine is pretty fundamental to life so it might explain the decline in insects as well as the other effects described in the above article. Reading about thiamine antagonists it seems sulfates can destroy thiamine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiamine#Antagonists

"Rumen bacteria also reduce sulfate to sulfite, therefore high dietary intakes of sulfate can have thiamine-antagonistic activities."

Sulfates in the environment are one result of burning coal. So it is possible that one side effect of burning coal for decades is the food chain has been interrupted at the bacterial level, reducing the amount of thiamine available. If true, I'm not sure if that would be easy to fix; at the very least it would probably require coal burning to stop immediately and perhaps manufacture of thiamine and distribution of it in the environment, which could take a decade and might be somewhat risky with side effects if done on a large scale. If it really is coal burning causing thiamine deficiencies over wide areas it should be easy to tell by looking for thiamine deficiencies downwind of coal burning plants.
The latter sounds like politically correct wordiness to not piss off the large amount of the planet that believes in intelligent design
They store the data of FIDE Online chess matches, so the officially ranked games that you can play for online titles. Not sure why they chose a blockchain - perhaps they're actually used for identity too, so there's some p2p elements of arranging matches, but as I said I didn't even know they were involved until I saw an advert one day mentioning it.
Japan has appointed a Minister of Loneliness
Running my own git remotes and infra is my personal project ;)
The reputation for BIND for a long time was that it was immensely complex because (as the reference implementation) it supported absolutely all the weird corner-case oddities that you could do with DNS. All that code complexity and flexibility came with a huge cost in terms of exploitable bugs and extra "oops, didn't know I had to turn that off" features.

I know coming up the recommendation was always "use something else if you can, use BIND if you have to". It's nice to hear they've improved things to the point that using it doesn't mean tons of extra labor for the security department! On the other hand, that reputation has allowed a lot of other good "supports 75% of everything and 100% of anything you're likely to need" implementations to flourish, which is also good.
> People would stay at home, watch TV and become depressed.

Would you? I sure wouldn't.
If you want to get in touch my site is https://revitt.consulting happy to have a chat and see if I can help you on your journey!
Yes, because most died before they could even be admitted.
I'm now waiting for the complainers to be all like "But I wanted to see it in VR, this sucks"
Scrapinghub/dateparser: Python parser for human readable dates
If the Town of ZZT holds a special place in your heart, I _strongly_ recommend the Town Remix.
If curious, past threads:

The Reconstruction of ZZT - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22609474 - March 2020 (39 comments)

Museum of ZZT - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17656822 - July 2018 (14 comments)

The Last ZZT Disk - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6772696 - Nov 2013 (6 comments)

zztmmo - classic zzt game engine + node.js + jQuery - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1323888 - May 2010 (6 comments)

Others?
Link is broken but article is at https://web.archive.org/web/20131126130033/http://www.hiwill...
Word is that their manager has stated that the annual Trash Fence show is the only thing that'll continue, as it always has.
That's already what I'm doing with a job so I'd honestly prefer to be able to do it without having to work
Agree. It hasn't changed, it's still what Microsofts C# style guide recommends.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-g...

It's also what VS Code autoformats even C++ to by default.

Also I wonder if the other commenters reflexively saying "SQL injection" realize that is just the symptom; the underlying problem is that LINQ is not used. Even if the SQL injection was fixed, a literal SQL query is usually not the right tool in C#.
Developing this technology on "cute" species will make it cheaper and easier (both technically and politically) to perform on ugly or ignored species. Gotta start somewhere.
You might like this https://www.berglas.org/Articles/ImportantThatSoftwareFails/...
It’s a response to tho who seem to think our every waking moment must be sacrificed to the progress of ... not sure what, but they feel quite strongly about it. You can see that sort of mindset all over HN and anywhere else.

Be 10X. Always Be Doing. Hustle. Have a Side-hustle. Be More than You Are Or You’re a Failure. How Not To Be An Introvert. Influencers.

The Casey Neistats of the world who seemingly are productive and marketize in their sleep (example only, he might be an OK guy).

So, no one seems to outright say “walking in silence is bad”.

But they sure imply it.
Ooooh the guy with the degree in communications has decided what is useful and what is over the top in regards to mid tier vocabulary usage.

I think you’ve missed the point of this whole website my friend.
I have a handful of Indian pens, and the article is pretty spot on. If you’re interested in something unique, custom, and/or hand made, Indian pens are by far the best value out there right now. Ranga is increasingly popular in that community.

A big part of it is that a custom pen from a small US manufacturer might run ~$800-$1k; a comparable pen from a small Indian manufacturer will likely be <$200.
In your thought experiment where your mind is transferred into a simulation and simultaneously ceases to exist in the real world, I don't think we need to update the concept of "you" for most contexts, and certainly not for the context of answering the question "is it okay to kill you?"

Asking if it's "still you" is pretty similar to asking if you're the same person you were 20 years ago. For answering basic questions like "is it okay to kill you?" the answer is the same 20 years ago and now: of course not!
Have you looked into doing drops for pets? Both of my dogs get bad seasonal allergies. Their paws get so itchy they will lick the fur off unless we get them help. The allergies start up in July and persist until the first frost of the season (late October or November).

We have done both shots and medications from our vet that help alleviate the symptoms, but they don't have any long term solutions. We've moved while having our pets, so we have had two different vets for this issue and they basically say the same thing and have similar treatments. They also say that it's a huge problem to the point where during a bad allergy season over half of their patient visits in a day are related to allergies.
Yes. Capitalism is not a viable survival strategy for a species.
> C/C++ isn't a programming language, rather the abreviation for C and C++.

Maybe the abbreviation should be `C & C++` then :-). But I'm not sure if infix precedences allow it to work.
Only the programmed end result in code would be legally binding. Lawmakers would have a big interst in making sure the code is correct and provide incentives/change procedures accordingly.

The inmates in this article would be released immediately after the code-law is implemented; you could apply new tax laws (i.e. as a config file) to your accounting software.

Why maintain an obfuscated legal text when you need it in software anyway?
I did quite some. It's an investment type with very little downside a quite some upside if you buy in near NAV. Just don't hold them post-merger, you typically end up bagholding.
Not sure about gyrocopters but fixed-wing pilots who later transition to, or add, a rotary wing license are intensely counseled to resist the baked-in urge to push the nose over to counteract a stall or imminent stall.

In almost all single-rotor helicopters, pushing the nose over — fixed wing style — runs a high risk of causing the tailboom to rise and collide with the main rotor. The rare rigid rotor ships (BO-105s, mostly) are less likely to have this happen.
Tooting my own horn, Emacs’ csharp-mode[1] is undergoing a rewrite to be 100% based on tree-sitter rather than regexps.

The new code runs way faster and is so much nicer to work with.

Once all the kinks are gone, I can’t imagine going back.

[1] https://github.com/emacs-csharp/csharp-mode/blob/master/csha...