skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really hope they don't kill it. Although, I never really recovered from the Red Wedding of Reader. However, I recently convinced myself to use Google Keep; it has a neat implementation of grabbing text from an image and works fairly well.

I realise that I will be training the algorithms, and appending data to the already vast collection. It is a trade-off I am willing to accept. I have generally been using it to grab text from labels for ingredients and other products to create my own notes.
Not bad - horrible.
History is not only for important events. It's also important to understand the daily lives of past civilizations. A lot of mundane stuff was simply never written down, so we'll never know in a lot of cases.

One unique problem of our era is storing things digitally. If a huge event were to occur, wiping out humanity, archeologists won't be able to study ssds in thousands of years like we can study physical artifacts today.
GPT-3 tries pickup lines - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26562845 - March 2021 (84 comments)
Feedly is great!
Same. This was my schedule too, and maybe I got lucky in my workplace, but after socializing about it, nobody had any problem with the leaving earlier part.

Was easy too, 'can we meet at 4:30' 'Hmm, I come in pretty early, and like to get out the door by 3:30, can we do it earlier?' was a typical exchange.

Also, depending on your office arrangement your team-mates just know you get in early when they always see you in the office when they get in. But, ymmv, I am sure it varies from workplace to workplace.
> hope you're not running -o compress=lz4 , because you are going to be in for a big surprise when you try to pull this emergency lever! you may be shocked to see you don't actually get much space back!

This is true. If you are replicating this, copy from /dev/urandom rather than using an empty file.
This is great. A feature request: screenshots. I've been on the hunt for a way to collect UI snippets and ideas and this is near perfect.

Dig the UI, name, and logo, too. Nice work :)
Any plans on doing this for non German cities? I'd love to see this for Dakar or New York or Mumbai
I watched some of the Michelin star chef videos. They are pretty terrible. Camera is shaky, audio is all over the place, random people come in frame and start conversations, instructions are not at all clear, etc.

They seem to have an appropriate amount of views.
3D Printed Microscope Files for Mobile Devices That Costs Pennies
Not bad at all, the next time I work on a side project I'll try to see if I can get my teammates to collab using this.

I don't know exactly how you're going to get bigger companies to bite though, the vast vast majority of companies have settled on a video conferencing solution which allows for screen sharing. To be completely realistic I don't imagine you'll be able to compete in the Enterprise space. It might make more sense for you to have a tip jar on the website for your free users to donate a few bucks whenever they find the service useful. Something super casual, for example if this helps me and my team get something done on the side I'll have no problem with giving you five bucks
I didn't look too deeply into DDR5 but I am going to guess 512GB per DIMM will be using half channel per group of DRAM Rank.

Which I assume will only allow 8 DIMM per socket on a 16 Memory Channel CPU at a maximum of 4TB Memory per Socket.
They Deserve a Fair Trial. What do you think?
Dennis and Ronald are software developers who have found themselves in a nightmare. After years of delivering successful and fine work for a software company in Groningen, they are now being sued by that same employer, even after initiating their own resignations. The former employer has filed a claim against them for a surreal amount of one million euros (1.2 million dollar). The reason? The hobby project that Dennis and Ronald have been working on.
> in-band signalling as C's standard strings

Neat analogy !

> reference count ... copies ... only then is StringB copied

You're right I should - and will - use this. But note it won't cover cases where the user modifies/copies the string from outside the API. The lib won't be aware.

> your idea is conceptually brilliant!

Oh I wish the neg offset header was my invention ! Alas it was at least used in Microsoft' BSTR and later by the famous antirez/sds (https://github.com/antirez/sds)

> no nested macros

I hear you. I thought it made them more readable.

> is all that's going on

I also (maybe naively) pretend to make mem faults occur less/at all.
Like when historians say "In this letter, Abraham Lincoln said". If the data is missing, coming generations won't know what Trump¹ said.

¹ Only using him as an example because he is an influential person who used an online medium to communicate
This says "brain", but seems to be talking about attention. Not everything works like that; I find the less I depend on memory, the worse my memory gets, the more I use my memory, the better my recall is in general - hence not using memory doesn't "free" it up at all; and this applies not just to explicit (intentional/conscious) recall, but spontaneous remembering ("Oh, I just remembered/realised something") too.
There are many others if you care to search online.
"Again, I don’t really have any insightful takeaways here. I’ve just been noticing myself slowly realizing that the best don’t always rise to the top, and these are the examples that have been sticking out to me."

The lack of insight is key here, because really this isn't a hard problem at the surface. You need a compelling story, or product, that resonates with people. The more people it resonates with, the larger your audience.

Also, it never occurred to the author that DHH or Massimo don't *want" a big audience. They might want to explain their work to true fans and die hards, and not have to make it broadly accessible to the point where it could get 1M+ views. It's not about talent. It could be a choice.
Not 100% related, but can the editing capability be (strongly) protected by login/password (Microsoft AD, for instance) so that only authorized users are able to edit the website?
Building electronics that can survive under Greenland’s ice sheet
Yeah, i used qt6ct to setup a dark theme.
Only, parts of colors are applied on my arch system.
The funny thing is it looks good, while qt6ct is open.
when i close qt6ct, it reverts to a mix of colors from the theme and the default colors.
See my response to /u/temac below. I think the entire problem with your argument is that you're trying to decide what someone should do with their work.

If I decide to spend thousands of hours writing software (or building a boat for that matter) and give it away for someone to make a profit with, that should be entirely my decision. The entire discussion is so patronizing I'm having trouble believing that I'm reading this. People aren't stupid: don't assume you know what's good for them better than they do. We all have our various motivations whether or not they make sense to someone else on the outside.

> "wouldn't it be great if we had some sort of automatic distribution of credit that would somehow flow directly back to the source"

You mean like GPL2?
Should that issue be closed then?
Not really, no.

Ubuntu was broadly a continuation of the UserLinux project. A simple, easy-to-install distro, with a single example of each of the mainstream app categories. An installer that asks only the most essential questions; no software ones, no hardware-config ones, not even a root password. But nonetheless a mainstream distro with mainstream choices.

Endless is quite different.
I don't think a single study showing strong anything is of much use beyond, "Hey that's interesting, I would love to know more!"

Articles summarizing studies as described should use language accordingly. Otherwise you risk certainty-addicts swarming and shouting down reasonable circumspection.
He’s a massive creep. I saw him speak in Copenhagen once, and he was eating his toenails during the talk.

Later he couch bummed on the professors couch instead of staying at a hotel and the horrible experience of having him as a “guest” is still the key story at every Christmas party.

I don’t want to defend him. I think he’s an idiot, but I also don’t think he’s pro-pedo. I mean, you have to be an absolute fool to write what he did, but his point was clearly just to say “maybe mr scumbag didn’t know the 17 year old hooker was forced”. As autistic and unnecessary as that is, it’s not exactly being a pro-pedo.
Seems he does mac and cheese so no? Seems accessible. Maybe people don't know this guy is the best chef in the world, I didn't so I would not have searched him out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEDcWd78U1g
rqlite is a separate daemon written in Go, negating most of the reasons to choose Sqlite in the first place.

It absolutely has good use cases, but those are rather niche. You'll mostly be better off with the traditional postgres etc.
GPT-3 Powers the Next Generation of Apps
Option B: instead of cookie-cutter chains, it's health care. Cancer centers, physical therapy, and other related things. But all owned by the local health conglomerate, so prices are all obscenely high.
i do hope that you are still taking a break when the pain flares up but i can totally see the difference to being out of commission for a week just because it's to painful to get in a car, when you could otherwise work, as long as you can sit comfortably and lie down for breaks, or whatever it is you need to do to get relief.

not to mention the difficulty of finding work that will accommodate your needs, since, even if it's required by law to not discriminate, some companies still find an excuse to not hire, or are making it difficult to get your workplace adjusted to your requirements.
Remote Jobs Website
I just made a remote jobs website because when I looked for a job during the pandemic from Colombia it was really difficult. Searching through indeed or monster or weworkremotely for something relevant and then being one of the first to apply.

Anyway, TRJ is supposed to solve either. Right now I'm finishing up notifications. The aggregation is done. Check it out and let me know what you think.

https://www.theremotejob.io
Can you please stay within the site guidelines when posting to HN? You're arguably on the wrong side of at least 4 here:

"Don't be snarky."

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. 'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3.'"

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Thoughtful critique is welcome, of course, and you've got the kernel of that here. But it's important to avoid the putdown aspects and to remember how easy it is to misread others and misassess intentions. That leads to gaps in our perceptions, and we tend to fill in the blanks with crap that's actually drawn from our own imaginations (and sometimes is looking for an excuse to vent itself), which typically makes for less interesting discussion.
Good question. It is entirely free today because we wanted to make it available to as many teams as possible as quickly as possible. And to be frank, we focused on building out the first version of the app and simply didn't get to building out the billing integration yet.

Even once we start charging, we're intending to enable most users to use it for free up to a certain threshold and feature set. We're planning to charge 18 USD per user per month for the Pro version and any feedback is welcome! Details: https://www.coscreen.co/pricing

Last but not least and to be clear: we have never sold and will never sell your data. Here's our policy: https://app.termly.io/document/privacy-policy/f8dd1607-7755-...
It's common in the mid-west. In much of the far west, it stops because lots of land has insufficient water and can be too rugged to be developed with roads at the road-every-mile level.
Laminated wood basically doesn't combust, so the fire hazard is comparable to most modern construction materials. Also, the way it's processed makes it extremely structurally sound.
In Rust there is smallvec https://docs.rs/crate/smallvec/
Well they don't "have to", but completely non-hierarchical / flat organisations have a habit of either (1) descending into anarchy, or (2) developing hidden hierarchies.
Isn't that how all backups work? If you need to prevent data loss then backups probably aren't your tool of choice. And if you're paranoid about data loss then any replication lag is also unacceptable.

* I'm worried about my server blowing up: Transactions have to be committed to more than one DB on separate physical hosts before returning.

* I'm worried about my datacenter blowing up: Transactions have to be committed to more than one DB in more than one DC before returning.
OpenBSD has a help command that’s basically just an alias for man, except without arguments it opens the manpage for help(1)¹. GNU help is a bash builtin for help with bash builtins, but does redirect to more general help.

GNU bash, version 5.0.17(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
These shell commands are defined internally. Type `help' to see this list.
Type `help name' to find out more about the function `name'.
Use `info bash' to find out more about the shell in general.
Use `man -k' or `info' to find out more about commands not in this list.

¹https://man.openbsd.org/help
My go-to for that now is python -m http.server, with nginx if i need anything more complicated.
This is clever. Our shaky version of this, historically, has been to run ncdu and hastily delete the first large log file we see. It’s not ideal.
For some reason, this site is being blocked by our corporate security software

"This site is blocked due to a security threat."
Show HN: Pixeltex – a fun little LaTeX and emoji pixel typesetter
A real-time LaTeX typesetter that outputs downloadable pixel art! The custom MINIGENT font consists of an extensive set of letters and symbols, including the whole greek alphabet, most used math and logic symbols, and even emojis!
Incredible that he was only 25 when this was recorded...
On the contrary, we should probably medicalise everything to a degree. If someone is abusive because they are schizophrenic, that doesn't make the abuse acceptable, it makes it understandable.

The inclination to pile on angry judgment of people amounts to failing to understand why people are the way they are. The anger is valid to the extent that it is a call to STOP bad behavior, but when it goes past that into retribution, it's counterproductive.

Dangerous people shouldn't be put in positions to cause harm, but they might as well fairly be medicalised.

And RMS isn't actually dangerous, more like overall exceptionally outlier-level of ethically consistent and moral combined with some sexist cultural baggage and extreme (autism most likely) social awkwardness. Dealing with his position is not a simple black-or-white issue, it's not simple. It should be addressed, and it might be best done with sympathy to understanding his likely autism. That does not make it an excuse. Any non-autist who is creepy is creepy for some other reason that we should also wish to understand.
The Firebird database can run both as a separate server and in embedded mode. I wish more databases works design for this sort of flexibility.
I'm constantly amazed at how the mainstream population uses phones.

Most people tend to have phone with alarming-notifications, so they get informed that they have a message, or email or whatever. The phone interrupts them and directs their attention. They train themselves to be controlled by their phones.

I'd go crazy trying to live like that. I have no audible notifications, and vibration only for actual calls. Everything else: I'll see it when I see it. I tend to think of it as receiving a letter -- I'll see it when I check if there's any post, I don't need to be interrupted right away. Personal space and all that.

It just seems so mentally unhealthy. The same applies to sleeping with your phone in the same room.
You may find this paper by Kristin Neff more palatable:

https://academic.udayton.edu/jackbauer/PGSG/Neff%2003%20self...

From the paper:

"Some may fear that having too much self-compassion leads to passivity, but this should not be the case when feelings of self-compassion are genuine. While having self-compassion requires that one does not harshly criticize the self for failing to meet ideal standards, it does not mean that one’s failings go unnoticed or unrectified. Rather, it means that the actions needed for optimal functioning and health (and having compassion for oneself means that one desires well-being for oneself) are encouraged with gentleness and patience. Thus, self-compassion should not imply passivity or inaction with regard to weaknesses observed in the self."
> So… arguably the best chef in the entire world. On YouTube. Showing you how he cooks. How he thinks.

> Yet his videos only get 10-20k views. That might sound like a lot on the surface, but pay attention to view counts on YouTube and you’ll find random housewives consistently getting hundreds of thousands of views for their cooking videos.

Most people don't want to cook at chef level. They want to learn easy recipes to cook home, often with little time investment.

Even now that I know this guy exists, I have no interest in watching his videos. But be sure that when I am looking for an answer to an easy cooking question, I'll be finding one of those "random housewives".

> My core point is that there are people like DHH, like Massimo, who should be getting way more views on their videos, given the quality of the content they’re producing and what they’ve done to promote that content. Do you disagree with that?

Yes.

The Massimo Bottura has a total of 13 videos from months ago, with random titles that mean nothing like "Let's burn the house down". DHH has 12 videos published years ago, and they are not even all about software. Why should I watch those? Because he is famous?

Most of Bottura's videos are live, produced with a hand held phone and no preparation. I'm not disputing his knowledge, but is presentation is dismal. Where is the quality of the content? Where is the effort in promoting? I see very little of both.

It's also quite ironic that the two people he takes as examples raised at the top of their respective professions, invalidating his point. They are just not the best teachers/presenters, which is not their core skill, and that's why they are not at the top of that hierarchy. Being good at something does not automatically grant you the right to be revered in every other field.
AES67 Stream Monitor – Open-Source Audio over IP Monitoring
Isn’t using LVM and holding some space back a better solution for this?

Also I keep databases on their own partition so that nothing else can accidentally fill up the space and lead to data loss.
Yeah, the algorithms are meant to keep you online more, and are not there to give you good content, as in entertainment, let alone things that you need to know. It is ironic, given how much data is hoarded about us.

In the article meritocracy is mentioned. Meritocracy is a joke in America. People at the top basically have it rigged for their kids, even worse than what aristocracy brought (which offered a leisurely life).

The Meritocracy Myth by Yale Law Professor Stephen McNamee is a good read regarding this. It is shocking, as in the statistics.
I started waking up 2 hours before work for avocational activities, and that gradually became 4 hours before. I feel as sharp as a razor once I wake up. Granted, I have to be asleep by 10, but I don't stress about working on my side projects after 9 hours of work. I can fill that time with audio books, cooking and working out.
(that's actually how I solved the original issue that I reference in the post, and how I got the idea for this silly solution)
Or that. And beyond that, different people learn different ways.

If your target is to teach programming 101, you’re probably going to have more views than someone teaching people how to do banking related cobol.
>article based on a study showing strong evidence

You mean a blog that loosely cites two papers of unknown quality and draws novel conclusions not from the papers?

Yes, it absolutely should not be stated as fact.
Steve Klabnik published a blog post about this library (and some controversy surrounding it) a few months ago, "The CXX Debate": https://steveklabnik.com/writing/the-cxx-debate
Am I the only one here who remembers Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing? https://philip.greenspun.com/panda/

OK, looks like my memory isn't that good. panda came out in 1998. At the time I was working for a company that paid Y2K bonuses to dissuade us from quitting and moving to the Bay Area. I often wonder how different my life would be if I had done that.

Who am I kidding? I was having way too much fun writing motion control software to do any of that Web crap ;-)
I'm excited about Zig and I've spent many evenings looking at Andrew's streams. I haven't gotten the time to try it out properly myself but I'm looking forward to it.
> Is it arrogance to say that medicine is far better than it was in the past?

Irrelevant. Medicine and Software Development are not correlated, just because we want them to be. That's the point. Software Development results seem to have devolved (quality metrics such as binary size for equivalent reliability, functionality, and notably time to release), despite improvements in almost every aspect of development tooling.

Also interesting to note, these quality metrics follow along expected curves (accounting for development tooling) when DUPLICATING (sometimes with small improvements) working software. This tells us a great deal about what is a large problem with modern software.
Also, another issue when not in WAL mode is that a long read will actually have a write lock and block writes.
Fine, I'll call you cynical... ;P

There are certainly (often larger) nonprofits with a tendency of overpaying their leadership and/or pushing policies favored by their corporate funders. I would in this context however not conflate "most visible" (ie largest advertising budgets) with "most". Most nonprofits I have worked with are ran and operated by hardworking people on minimal budgets.
Sqlite is also an EXTREMELY well tested database.
Last time I checked test code was about 2x productionncode.
This is also good indicator to spot software that is not a toy.
Debugging .NET 5 apps on your M1 Mac
Endless is a rather interesting distro. It's aimed to be suitable for non-technical users on fairly low-end hardware, with an internet connection that might be intermittent at best.

Some salient but unusual features:

• A desktop that is GNOME adapted into a non-desktop metaphor, more like a smartphone: a full-screen app browser, and an app switcher that's loosely like the Windows taskbar.

• A read-only root filesystem, with no package manager.

• All apps are Flatpaks.

• OS upgrades are atomic, whole-system-at-once, like Android or iOS upgrades on a smartphone.
What I learned promoting my first side project as an engineer
> Copy commands and even deletions can fail or take forever as memory tries to swap to a full disk

That's only a problem if your memory is full as well, and even then, I've never encountered a server that uses a swapfile instead of a swap partition.
My problem with KDE has essentially been the same now for years. To me, it feels too fragile.