skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't say anything good about AirCanada and refunds. Had my flight rescheduled due to covid (and changed from direct to one-stop) so they offered me to cancel with full refund. Did that and they only refunded one of the two tickets. Then they refused to do anything for 90 or days or so. Then still claimed they refunded both. Ended up having to involve our credit card company. They told us they usually don't refund airline tickets but in this case the found the airline clearly in the wrong.

Glad they're now getting fined for this. Cheers from BC, Canada
Seems like low level programmers finally getting an enjoyable, modern, free language and are getting a bit loose with it!
But be aware that Nietzsches Zarathustra has not much in common with the original Zarathustra.

Rather the opposite, the original Zarathustra is considered the one, who brought the dualistic thinking of good vs. evil into this world.

Nietzsche wanted to get rid of it, to go beyound good and evil, so he lets the creator of this (in his and my opinion) harmful philosophy negate this philosophy.
Is the brain the only organ where everything is assumed to be idiopathic until proven otherwise?

Of course all organs sometimes just break by themselves, but for organs other than the brain, the immediate reaction seems to be to look for external causes. Is there perhaps a bias against that in psychiatry?
I wonder if the pipelining could be added to a regular shell to get its advantages - the cost for me from moving from Bash is too high.

Basically a "cols" command on steroids - making that have some kind of context aware column names (I'm not sure how) and then support expressions would make it work in any shell.
I spent a couple of years writing firmware/tests for custom radio transceivers. I found bugs all the time. Probably about half my job, find a bug, document and figure out a work around.

Last week I found a bug in an older version of gcc. When particular function was called exactly once in the program the compiler generated bad code that messed up the stack. Other programs using it called the function in a couple of places. Worked fine.
A bit of A, a bit of B.

The modern diet is also very processed and refined. White bread and white rice were not available for mass consumption until industrialization.

Japan's navy solved an issue with beriberi disease after changing the rations from white rice to barley. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/rice-disease-mystery-e...
Having women and children on board isn't necessarily incompatible with the idea that the drive for the insanely risky exploration was fueled by testosterone.
Did you seariously share the whole wiki article as the source? :D
I thought the same thing. If only there was a novel way the two could connect. I was expecting it to say something like ‘then twist the two pencils together until they click’ but nope. Glue. :(
I suspect this "no comments" movement (which roughly argues that comments are hard to maintain, and you should avoid comments in the code, as writing clear code, and naming things properly, is enough, and if you have to comment, you should do it in organized doc strings) ultimately came from the idea that we will have "code refactoring tools" that will modify our code to be better and cleaner and it will increase our productivity. Such refactoring tools might understand the code itself, but they have a hard time with human language of comments.

I always hated that sentiment of "no comments", although I share the wish of computers understanding our code better. I think the refactoring tools didn't really live up to the promise, because they require the discipline of writing everything in the code in computer-readable format, otherwise they will leave fragments of wrong documentation in their wake. One of the benefits of human language is that you can easily create a DSL (concepts and terminology), and the refactoring tools usually cannot handle custom DSLs (much less vague ones) very well (seems like a strong AI problem).
i get a 502?
The old Freenode has been closed
I knew but had to confirm. Bfilliant.
Heck yah - Very NICE! The demo is what hooked me.
> I’m not aware of any incentive for hosts to report damages that aren’t legitimate

Money... Plenty of people lie to get free money. Also other things can happen as well. Lets say the housekeeper that cleans up after damages something, but doesn't admit to it and says it was already there.

If it was legitimate, I'm sure he would get charged.
My only gripe with those new unix tools is that many of them don't come with a man page, even though they have essentially the same information elsewhere

So, perhaps, take a look at https://github.com/rust-cli/man or something
There's an additional detail in the apocryphal story. The king and the Parsis didn't have a language in common. The king was reluctant to allow them to settle. To communicate this, he dops a few pebbles into a container full of milk which promptly overflows. The implication being that the kingdom was full. The Parsis then mix sugar into the milk implying they would assimilate.
Pre-revenue businesses with no product fit "I learned a lot so your startup won't fail trust me lol" and no references

But yeah they won't care about the crappy products since all the companies you interview with are doing the same, honestly the real followup question would be what do you do about references
This is a fascinating find.

> In humans, blastomere formation begins immediately following fertilization and continues through the first week of embryonic development.

They (Nick Szabo?) are posting about this on July 23, 2008 and trying to shill for Bit Gold. The Bitcoin white paper was released on August 18, 2008.

> Bit gold was one of the earliest attempts at creating a decentralized virtual currency, proposed by blockchain pioneer Nick Szabo in 1998. Although the bit gold project was never implemented, Szabo's attempt is widely considered to be the precursor to Satoshi Nakamoto's bitcoin protocol.

People often try to peg Szabo as Satoshi but I have never felt it is him. Satoshi’s writing tone seems less blunt than Szabo’s. Satoshi is to the point, but Szabo always seems aggressive and confrontational.

Shilling for Bit Gold when you are about to launch Bitcoin a month later would be an odd move. Or is it just advanced subterfuge? I guess we will never really know.
This is the biggest pain for me with discord. Third party clients have tabs for specific channels u can use but it's still not as easy to monitor multiple places like it is in irc. And also it's against TOS
Why do you describe something like bucking hay or stripling tabacco as 'manly' when it was a common activity for women as well in traditional society?
Nit: if you're actually running multiple CPUs to mitigate data corruption, you need a third CPU to break ties.
What is a faulty machine? How do you find one? Some of the failures experienced happened with specific data and workloads assigned to specific cores of specific machines. How do you identify software bugs vs hardware issues? Given a suspect machine how do you figure out if it's actually the machine's fault? Is it the CPU? RAM? Motherboard that's faulty?
Forgive me, because I still am unsure: can a bot in Slack be given permission to create channels, read from, and delete only the channels it creates?

Or must one give the Axolo bot permissions to all public channels in a slack workspace?
Friendly, good faith hint: dont fall in to the trap of feeding trolls. Take a look at comment history to see what I mean.
>>Then you extrude the thread cross section along a spiral, subtracting that from the cylinder, to cut the threads.

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! No Helix geometry in this office, are you trying to get us all killed?!
Backwards compatibility can be a heavy burden for a programming language. C++ could be a much simpler, ergonomic language by eliminating features and idioms that are no longer convenient to use.

Achieving mastery in C++ requires a lot of work. C++ projects require a coding standard. The decision space you have when working in C++ is much larger than when working with Rust due to the proliferation of language idioms.

Rust in the other hand, as a newer language, can benefit from the experiences working with languages such as C++, and provide a better experience right from the beginning. In fact, Rust was created by Mozilla as a response to the shortcomings they perceived in C++.
when you see an asset plummet are you really going to invest in more of it? people thought it was a toxic asset and many home builders went out of business
That falls under "if you know what you're doing."
Kishan's Podcast
This is an idea so simple that just stumps me in awe. For entire life I was looking pencils being thrown as they are short to write with. Simple amazing.

I like ideas as such, where someone rediscovers long standing problem everyone forgot or they are not noticing anymore as a problem, and then they make potentially very successful product.
It’s the new C/C++ but also you can write Rust like you’re writing Golang.
Au pair can be cheaper that the day care. Middle class people from much poorer countries than the USA have au pairs.
I used to think so as well till I read more about it. Asuras are equivalent to lords and divine beings equivalent to devas and not inherently evil. Even more interesting is how Asuras are treated in Budhism and in Hinduism-like religions that are prevelant in various parts of SE Asia.
Concealing doesn't work if you communicate in public or semi-public settings (e.g. a WhatsApp group). I think that's a deal breaker for many if not most people.
The older I get the less wisdom I find in any philosophy that means to teach how we should live and particularly how to avoid pain and unhappiness.

The short of it is: nothing is good or bad, but things can be too much or too little. Where the line is depends or circumstances and is different every time. And the correct answer is mostly only available in hindsight if it is at all.

Pain is useful. We know physical pain is because there are people who don't feel any and they injure themselves all the time. I find no reason or evidence emotional pain is any different.

I saw perpetually and unconditionally happy people. In a mental asylum. Enough said.

Trying to give up desire? Then what would motivate you do do anything at all? "money, health, sex, or reputation" are good things. You might exaggerate in these desires but that's a "too much of anything" problem, not a desire problem.

Taking examples from the article: getting angry with a service provider can convince him not to try to wrong you in the future and save you unhappiness this way. Getting angry with people on the street giving you dirty looks doesn't work because they are many and different every time. But still, that anger can convince you that you should move. And maybe you should.
A good concept, though I think the game name need to be more unique.

Additional idea, make some variety of maps for fun.
There is a solution to this problem, known for a few decades now: the vital coded processor. Basic idea: each operation can simultaneously compute a result and an arithmetic « signature » that can be pre-calculated for a program. The length in bits of the signature defines the probability of missing an error in the underlying hardware. Think ECC but the error correcting code defines the correct _execution_ of some machine code.

For some reason, it does not catch up with the mainstream but it truly would make sense for such application, albeit at the cost of a computational overhead and more work for the compiler.
Mars-like runaway temperate scenario

Mars got cooler over time. Perhaps you meant Venus?
One of the most severe S3 outages[1] was triggered by a single NIC flipping bits. S3 maintains (at least back then) the routing table (object to node mapping) in a Merkle Tree data structure and it keeps getting updated via gossip protocol. This bit-flipping machine however, would spread misinformation about the routing table forcing all its neighbours and their neighbours (and so on) to sync their Merkle Trees. So a large number of machines spent more time gossiping than serving the customer request.

I vividly remember the outage as I was at Amazon during that time, in fact I was in AWS group but a different team. I guess the ticket was escalated to sev-1 as large number of tier-1 services had begun depending on S3. The COE action items took months to get rolled out.

While it's one thing to say be ready for all kinds of failure, including hardware, it takes massive failures to internalise the lessons. AWS is now paranoid about being resilient against all kinds of failures including earthquake and lightening.

[1] https://status.aws.amazon.com/s3-20080720.html
.gg? Stands for "good game". Haven't seen it get much use.
Microservices are typically thought to be standalone applications that only cover part of the business domain, and then communicate with other services over things like JSON HTTP APIs, message queues, RPC calls, etc.

In a monolithic architecture these would run in the same address space, be separated into modules by the language's own means of abstraction, and the communication between them would be done by function or method calls.

I don't see what HTML files have to do with it, what do you think microservices are?
Isn't this conflating Hindu with Indian? Yes, Indian tradition has always been syncretic. But etymology aside, Hindu and Indian do not mean the same in modern usage.
Oh cool! Much more than I would've suspected. Thanks for sharing
> What are the alternatives?

The main alternatives are IGES and STEP files. STEP is an ISO standard CAD interchange format, and the most modern of the bunch.
The possibility of having contracted it crossed my mind since I had a bad "cold" on January 2020. But a year later I got an antibody test that showed no prior infection.

Like the nice song from They Bay be Giants "Put it to the test" says:

A fact is just a fantasy
Unless it can be checked
> I’m actually surprised that Slack hasn’t tried their hand at an email service to combat this.

This either shows that Slack's "email is dead" marketing strategy was very effective (did an important job during a specific period of early growth and they have now moved on) or very ineffective (their main proposition completely passed you by).
It's actually a big reason we gave everyone and their dog mortgages before 2008. Too much foreign savings not being borrowed so the government made it easier to get mortgages.
Just design an API and a front end in 10 minutes and throw it up in AWS bro. Free tier. Super easy, or at least thats what they tell me
It's not difficult to learn to do that, though, and regardless this is just speculation of what may happen.
Lightspeed briefs! As seen in your dreams!

It takes a long duration of stimulus to influence our dreams and even after the influence, the dream can be in any shape.

They had people play tetris for three days straight and only 60% dreamed of it.

They plan on target specific sleep states specifically but that means that something has access to my brain waves and is allowed to make sound while I am sleeping?

I am all for more research into dreams but advertisers? Even if they get something there is no way to actually roll it out to consumers...why then?
I think wood glue is most harmless type [1], and you do not need as much as it shown in video for the presentation purposes.

On the other hand, maybe friendly (non-glue) version would be with the contra-screw or clicking mechanism at the end. But it would be very hard to maintain lock while you cut the pencil/s pass the joint.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_glue
"It is chemically similar to edible gelatin and is non-toxic if ingested."

But on the other hand you have different types:
https://impressionsofaholobiont.com/2018/09/03/non-toxic-wat...
Those aren't redwoods. They are mostly native oak species.

Kelp forest depletion was largely a result of sea otters being hunted to near extinction, resulting in urchin barrens (otters keep urchin populations in check).
Excuse my rant about this free piece of content, but this is one of those sites that render the reading experience horrifying with giant subscribe and menu bars. It feels like reading something on a smartwatch is more easier.
GameShell: A fun game played in a standard shell (used for teaching)
"Hello, is there anyone out there who has implemented Yelp in its entirety and has made that source code freely available and consumable, with no cost or obligations at all?

The reason I ask is because I would like to start a competitor to Yelp, but I do not know how to implement or operate any of the services that Yelp implements and operates.

Thanks in advance!"
I don't want popular HN stories. I want stories/comments that

1. Repeatedly gets submitted (titles could be different, which makes it tricky), but never make to front page.

2. Stories that drop faster than most of the stories that never make to front page.

3. Comments from brand new accounts.
Calling it the right name is excessive. The term is of fairly recent origin and motivated by a desire to avoid using a Persian loanword.
Yup, worked with that, was great.

Needed Envy VC for teams though.
The UX of video game tutorials
Scientists close to Wuhan virus lab break silence, push away latest conspiracies
As the debate surrounding the origins of the COVID-19 virus has long branched out as Western politicians and media's muzzle of China-bashing, and individuals' tool to gain personal fame, Chinese and foreign scientists who buried their heads in studying the puzzle have also been pushed out front, such as Shi Zhengli. They decided to break their silence, and hopefully they can veer virus tracing back to a "scientific and rational" way.

In a rare interview with the New York Times published on Monday, China's "bat woman" Shi Zhengli, a virologist from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which was mired at the center of "lab-leak" conspiracy, said, "How on Earth can I offer evidence for something where there is no evidence?" when confronted with "lab-leak" suspicions.
China is a democracy by Lincoln's definition: former Singaporean FM
As tensions between China and the West continue to heat up, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has become the target of myriad attacks of the US-led Western countries. George Yeo, former Singaporean minister of foreign affairs, thinks this is because many in the West perceive China as a threat to American dominance in the world. Yet Yeo believes the nature of China's rise is very different from that of the US - and hopefully Americans will eventually realize this. What does Yeo think of the development the CPC over the past 100 years? What are its challenges in the future? Why is China constantly being labeled as conducting "wolf warrior diplomacy?" Yeo shared his insights with Global Times (GT) reporters Li Aixin and Bai Yunyi.
I don’t think the HN comment ranking algorithm is public. I’ve seen people speculate that it’s a function of comment age (newest ranked higher), average comment score of author, current upvotes and current comments.

That said, it doesn’t make sense to add a comment to game the ranking.
Because, well, since you're not paying you're not the customer.
Gotta be careful there. What's venting for personal inner peace could easily be emotional abuse to the one who is at the receiving end of it.
This is a well understood concept in medicine, and a central part of the drug approval process.
> due to invalid instructions emitted by the JIT.

That's not how I understood the blog post.

> Next they needed to understand the specific sequence of instructions causing the corruption. This turned out to be as much of a nightmare as anything else in the story. The application, like most similar applications in hyperscale environments, ran in a virtual machine that used Just-In-Time compilation, rendering the exact instruction sequence inaccessible. They had to use mutiple tools to figure out what the JIT compiler was doing to the source code, and then finally achieve an assembly language test:

>> The assembly code accurately reproducing the defect is reduced to a 60-line assembly level reproducer. We started with a 430K line reproducer and narrowed it down to 60 lines.

It sounds like the JIT produced accurate (although hard to find) machine code. Then when the CPU ran that machine code it executed it incorrectly, but only when executed on core 59.
Yes, it is true that we cannot eat all the plants that animals can but it is only "technically true" in the sense that it does not not really matter.
Delphi gang here! Encountered Delphi as a kid by accident, and playing with that first form was a life changing event for me: realizing that I can make something new, real, tangible, that I'm in control. Coming from a non-tech family/background, this was big for me, I don't think I'd have gone into tech if not for it.
Another data point confirming that the advertising industry is actively hostile towards consumers.
A pencil is even 0€ at Ikea, but that doesn't make this less neat.
They tell a story of the quality of the software. A good way to decide whether to use some library is to look at how well it throws exceptions. If it's buggy and poorly documented then don't use it.
Similar to what others have said, say that you were trying your own startup for a couple of years but it never panned out. Be ready to describe what you wanted to do. That's what I did after 1 year of taking off to do my own thing. No one gave it a second's worth of questioning.
Dave Chappelle’s Freewheeling Podcast
https://github.com/nushell/nushell#progress

"Nu supports variables and environment variables"
The Last G7: Satirical cartoon mocking bloc’s attempt to suppress China go viral
A Chinese cartoonist’s political satire, which mocked the Group of Seven (G7) members that attempt to suppress China, went viral on Chinese social media on Sunday, when the G7 summit was underway in Cornwall, the UK.

Titled The Last G7, the illustration, published by its author “Bantonglaoatang” on Sina Weibo on Saturday, was painted based on the renowned religious mural The Last Supper. This G7 summit is widely seen as an attempt by the US to rally allies against China.

Similar to the final meal Jesus shared with his apostles before his crucifixion that The Last Supper depicted, Bantonglaoatang painted a vivid picture of nine animals – respectively representing the US, the UK, Italy, Canada, Japan, Germany, France, Australia and India – sitting around a table with a Chinese-map-shaped cake on it. On top of the painting is the words in quote: Through this we can still rule the world.

These animals have different facial expressions and gestures, implying that each side of the G7 actually has its own axe to grind on the common conspiracies of suppressing China and upholding the Western hegemony, analyzed some observers and Chinese netizens.
https://archive.is/Wo2IA
I'd wager it's because it wasn't nice, not because it wasn't expensive. Low end phones aren't nice to use, and people who buy Apple buy it for the polished user experience.

If they sold their flagship phone at entry-level prices then I'd expect it to do as you suggest, selling like hotcakes but devaluing the brand. Even then it wouldn't do half as much damage to the iPhone brand as a $100 Rolex would do to the Rolex brand, because iPhones have a lot of utility that makes them worth having whereas a watch is, these days, almost entirely a vanity item.
ddg.gg is duckduckgo.com. I use this all the time.
Have you used PowerShell much? The examples in the Readme make it obvious that it's very different (in a good way).
Vyommitra, the Indian spacefaring humanoid robot
The way the autoimmune antibodies or the streptococci themselves go through the blood-brain barrier does not need to be through special "molecular keys" as said in the article.

I wonder how much of this idea has been already investigated, but it may be that the concussion provided a breach in the form of a very small hemorragia in the brain.