skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people still do this. http://john.ankarstrom.se/html/
Opening sourcing tailwinds framework is great. But without the ui components it reduces the appeal to people who can and want to manually build components and needs a guardrail.
In judaism, we have in our morning/afternoon prayers (shacharit/mincha) a section that roughly translate as confessions (tachanun). In this section, there is a subsection called vidui, in which we confess our mistakes, to Gd (blessed be), to the empty room and mostly to ourselves.

When I started doing this part, it was quite weird to say my mistakes both out loud or quietly, but as time kept going, I found that it is such a good form of dealing with our errors. When we try to say it in form of phrases, we have to first understand it minimally, then, we can say it and see that it is not as bad as we thought (or it is even worse...), we feel shame, we try to justify it, we try to explain it, but in the end the one listening is just the person, the walls and Gd the almighty.

I've done years of therapy, but never before I have felt more listened to. There is something special, a special kind of circuit, when we say things that we don't want to say to ourselves. We break it, externalize, hear it, internalize and every day and every day. It is funny how the problems dissolve, how some become actions, how some persist.

Of course, I still talk to my parents, my SO, my friends, my rabbi and even my therapist from time to time. But I hope that someone on this forum can use this comment to try and succeed in talking to yourself.
> if you run a hidden network at home that means your phone HAS to use a directed probe request to find that network which it will keep trying to do when you are out and about

That certainly isn't a theoretical requirement; the alternative is "if you run a hidden network, your devices will not connect to it automatically". You'd have to tell them to connect.
Lucky you. I've seen it personally, look upthread.
When you start broadcasting an SSID, there's no reasonable expectation that some parties will be able to see it, but other parties won't. If you won't to keep a secret, don't share it.
Millions of people were killed by fascist regimes. Many, if not most, funded and supplied by the US gov't.
Yikes: So you are posting people's identifying information on an immutable, distributed database?
I have used mostly default keybindings in Emacs for over a decade and what hurts my wrists the most is web applications that force me to use the mouse.
Because when you are a grad student there really aren't "working hours". Your project is supposed what you are devoting all of your effort to. In part this is due to your advisor wanting results and papers, but these also help you.
If you work across platforms, and if you don't mind Microsoft stuff, then Visual Studio Code both syntax highlights Markdown and also offers a good live preview.

It's a little bloated, but is surprisingly fast - unless you load it down with extensions.
GPs second point still holds - the laptop scans for SSID, not BSSID. If all you have is SSID you can't get to location using Google's database. At most you could use it as a data point to connect someone's laptop to a location you already know.

An easy way around this would be to leave your wireless SSID on it's default (or set it to 'Linksys').
Everything Microsoft is doing for developers at the moment (WSL, Terminal, VSCode, etc) is there because they need developers onboard to sell Azure services. That these things might be useful outside of Azure is a happy coincidence.
An indictment, or just an admission that we're not generally willing to make?

What would happen, for example, if we handed the entire education budget to teachers directly. No controls, reporting requirements... just a stack of cash? Teacher decides how to spend it. My guess is that we would see some amazingly positive things. We would also see some awful things. Fraud, failure, scandal... Perhaps, probably even, the average result would be good. Could we stomach the price though? Would year 10 be better or worse than year 1?

We tend to be scandalised by bad things, and take good things for granted. Hence controls.

"Let’s do it” was then the basic attitude and we were much more worried about missing out on supporting important work than looking silly"

Fine attitude, given the circumstances. Outside of seed funding and research though... is it viable? Is it viable after 10 years of repetition? Can it survive scandalous articles highlighting blatant abuses, face up to scrutinies year after year?

There are differences between early and late stage "games." Run this as a long term program, and scams might flood in. More insidious perhaps, proposals that are not quite scams. Observers are also less forgiving of repetitive "failures." Would the director of such a fund be willing to say "we will do nothing" to questions about fraud, scandal or whatnot? Would they want to?

Google once had 20% time, for similar reasons. Let smart people do what they do on their own. It devolved. They tried to fix it with controls. It sucked and then they killed it. The attempt was earnest, but the destination was precisely what G we're trying to avoid.

I'm not disagreeing with this author or the general sentiment on this thread. Getting past or around institutional mindsets is high potential. This project sounds great. We need these to exist.

I am saying that it's unwise to underestimate something this prevalent.

I'm reminded of a Dan Ariely quote about why daughters want bad boys on proverbial motorcycles, but parents hate them. Mothers don't get to ride the motorcycle, but they do get to deal with the consequences.

A lot of this relates to high risk, high reward stuff. Research, startups, etc. Employees, even CEOs are never compensated (including non money incentives) in a way that reflects true risk/reward.
Habits are hard to break !
It is not annoying to use, no. Even if you descend to the ntapi level.
Thank you all for sharing so many valuable insights and resources. I truly appreciate your input.
> The best way I can describe it is like this: in the UK (and the US), the default position is that things are allowed unless they're specifically forbidden. In continental Europe, it's the reverse: everything is disallowed unless it's specifically permitted.

Only in rural North America, otherwise, everybody has the mentality as the Europeans. Otherwise, I wholeheartedly agree. Europeans don't know the meaning of the word "Freedom".

The only difference with the Uber and such is that people have no fear to break the Law.
SpaceX ignored last-minute warnings from the FAA before December Starship launch
And the implication isn't even true: the rate of change in new housing starts and total occupied units is relatively low after 2000. [0] The median occupied unit age also increased over this period [1], so unsurprisingly, A16z is just pulling things out of thin air that feel right.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=ELEk [1] https://www.housingwire.com/wp-content/uploads/media/images/...
I had one of the flu variants (tested positive for flu) from 2019-20 in December, followed by a really bad cold (no tests) in Feb, followed by COVID (confirmed by tested contacts, an antibody test and a fully checked "weird COVID symptoms" bingo card) in March.

2019-20 was definitely a season for nasty colds/flus, not just COVID.
The Old Freenode Network Has Shut Down
Andrew decided at about 1600 EST on June 15th that he'd close down the Old Freenode down prematurely, and forcibly move everyone to the new network:

<kn\> when is freenode classic being turned off
<rasengan> kn\ looks like soon
<rasengan> i didnt realize it was such a swamp
<rasengan> gotta drain it asap
...
rasengan places a new sign in #freenode: THE SWAMP WILL BE DRAINED TODAY!
<rasengan> Decision has been made.
<rasengan> We have to drain this swamp.
rasengan sets #freenode +m moderated
rasengan unsets #freenode -z
<rasengan> We are draining the swamp.
<rasengan> Classic tried to go on for the sake of the community, but the community has made it loud and clear - they want freenode classic to end, today!
<rasengan> #MFGA
rasengan adds !@* to the #freenode +q founder list
<rasengan> Everyone thinks they can just say whatever they want. Lesson #1 for IRC: Think before you type.
<rasengan> Consequences are real. Treat things you care about with respect. Appreciate it. Help it. Cultivate it. And don't try to destroy it - because if you wish for its destruction, you're going to get it.
<rasengan> Classic Freenode had a special part in my heart and everyone else's. It's the saddest and hardest thing I've done, in a long time - but I
<rasengan> am giving the directive to shut it down.
<rasengan> Goodbye freenode classic.
<rasengan> This is your queue to go to libera and oftc if you dont like waht we're doing.
<rasengan> Do it. If you don't like what we're doing - go do it better.
<rasengan> They need help.
<rasengan> So does OFTC.
<rasengan> I hope you'll all contribute hands. If you hate me so much anyway, it's a good use of energy to try to do everything ya'll can to cultivate other IRC networks to cause freenode to not matter.

(Some unrelated discussions were trimmed; see https://0x0.st/-L59.txt for a slightly-less edited version.)
If only there was a way to know the location of an SSID! /s
Currency is something that isn't a store of value. Cash should be thought of as a depreciating asset like a car. We do need bubbles though - it just a way through an investment cycle in something new. In January 2009 NVDA was below $10 and the investment community certainly didn't appreciate the longer term future there. Coinbase (COIN) is a very interesting idea these days. It's not easy to see the long term but that was true for NVDA and FB at the IPO when the shares tanked to $18.
Most powerful magnet ready to ship
Bars around the beaches usually have good shade and cold beer.
Do you know why there aren't military coups in the US?

Because in the US there isn't embassy of the US.
They can take pictures of my backyard from satellites, planes and distrubute and sell them them to anyone like it's theirs. And i can't opt out.

I am a little worried when politicians will start making laws to control them. The reaction might be "let's just go with the other party" which creates the basis for a 1984-esque future...
> How powerful is the Central Solenoid? Its magnetic force is strong enough to lift an aircraft carrier 2 meters (6 feet) into the air. At its core, it will reach a magnetic field strength of 13 Tesla, about 280,000 times stronger than the earth's magnetic field. The support structures for the Central Solenoid will have to withstand forces equal to twice the thrust of a space shuttle lift-off.
Putin wasn't put in power by the FSB. He was put in power by the oligarchs. Certainly during the unstable period between 1991 and 2006 more or less the FSB had considerable influence however, but that has since been resolved. Beforethen the KGB was not afforded much lattitude. The only time I can think of where the KGB attempted to go against the wishes of the government above them was in 1964, but even then they needed support from within the Politburo and still failed miserably.

Yeltsin had no choice but to collaborate with the KGB if he wanted them to execute his machinations. The rogue elements from the KGB were the reason why Yeltsin was in power to begin with. Without the KGB he would never have been able to illegally arrest Gorbachev and execute a coup.
Converting hotels to apartment buildings would also lower costs for renters. Staying in a hotel has exactly the same effect (the hotel would not exist and might be an apartment building if there was no demand for hotels, just like airbnbs might be rented traditionally if there was no demand for airbnb)
Actually, this method was already used by Leibniz, although it was not that common at Feynman's time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz_integral_rule
Just because people think prayer will help them doesn't mean it actually will. Psychologists have a duty not to lie to their patients. Having a psychologist offer a lie that may make people feel better in the short term does nothing to actually fix their long term problems. Psychological or otherwise.

And further more, many psychologists do this already. There are many psychologists that specialize in patients of a particular religion. The LDS church comes to mind. They have no better success record than any other treatment.

"Scientific" American, my ass.
> It also makes "Hyrum's Law" pretty useless, doesn't it?

Not really. Hyrum's law is descriptive of reality and borne out of experience trying to update/change things. The point of it is to remind you that even when you think you aren't breaking things, you probably are breaking someone's workflow, and that your API surface is much larger than you think it is (performance, threading, ordering characteristics, etc. are all things that your dependencies will routinely rely on).

> Who names something like that after themselves? Well, I know at least one such case.

He didn't. Titus Winters probably deserves credit for the name. Hyrum deserves credit for the observation.
I have more "home computers" now than ever before. It all started when I figured out you can network boot the Raspberry Pi. Now I have one connected to a cheap monitor in nearly every room in the house. Because you can switch what OS they boot into just by renaming a symlink on the server, sometimes they play music, sometimes they show movies, sometimes they show live TV, sometimes they browse the web.

I'm probably a little eccentric but I really enjoy this a lot more than simply carrying a laptop around the house.
He's not saying the net result of the housing bubble was positive. He's only pointing out that there was a non-zero upside despite the heavy heavy downsides.

Honestly, comments like this make general discourse so much harder. At the mere mention of a controversial topic, the top commenter likens the experience to living in hell.
Yes, take a look at what Apple is doing this year to see what Microsoft will do next year. This has been their playbook forever.
One day I dream that OneNote will be open source
I completely forgot about them! Just looked at a bunch of them, they (and forum signatures in general) were kind of awesome.
That's true, and instead of verifying that Lets Encrypt can contact your server, they verify that you can control the DNS. It isn't compatible with least privilege though, is it?

Either every box that wants to use SSL has to be capable of changing DNS settings, or you need a central box that generates secrets and securely transmits them to the servers.

I have domain names which I am authorised to serve content on, but not authorised to manipulate DNS for (but they're all exposed to the internet, so not relevant to the limitation - but probably the reason I overlooked the blindingly obvious solution)
It doesn't make sense because there are jobs that only require one person but the impact scales with the environment.

For example, there only needs to be one president at any given time. The president didn't contribute the entire population to the country but he is compensated with power as if he did.

The idea that the person is the only deciding factor into the impact they have is absurd. Send a software developer back into medieval times and his programming skills will be worthless.
> Are EU countries not the same?

Do you mean 21 voices each with their own culture and chauvinism ?
A minor suggestion: the image for the Fitzpatrick skin type labels them "Type 1", "Type 2", etc., but the selector labels them "Type I", "Type II", etc.
Not just an empty Google promise, but really not even a promise at all. This is just some poor guy that really wants to believe his employer "won't be evil" while the rest of the world already knows they are. But hey, a few more years of making money from his stock options and more obvious moves from Google and then he'll leave and talk like he's the world's biggest privacy advocate...
People making money is not useful in the sense of creating value. That’s zero sum.
Please do not take HN threads into religious flamewar. That's a circle of hell we badly need to avoid here, and which also is particularly easy to avoid.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Neat! Wolfram alpha also does it.
Camus is rolling over in his grave
The point on API methods is incredibly important. True, "Why" is the most important kind of comment, but I disagree with the author's critique of the documentation-generating comments and agree with you.

Yes, "what" comments are a source of additional developer effort and of possible inconsistencies between code and comments, but good API documentation is worth writing and maintaining.

No matter how well you name your method and its arguments, if it's part of the public API and you don't include a comprehensive documentation comment, I'll be forced to dig through your source.
It was and I've gone back and relistened to it because it is such an important topic--this whole thread is people opining on how things are bad and how this and that should change--that Oklahoma anesthesiologist is going out there and doing something about the problems he saw in the economic model of medicine.

Edit: anesthesiologist replaced surgeon
Should not confuse spirituality with religion. They rarely meet.
I predict that the file explorer specifically will be completely replaced

I really doubt that, Explorer is a big application with a ton of extensibility and features that apps rely on.
Sure, but odds are a good number of them were motivated by three or six month buyouts more than culture. And we're talking about a grand total of like 18 people here.
They have a decent search engine in petal search:

https://petalsearch.com

This would be for a western european audience. I don't think you can get us to Baidu, however you can probably get us to use Qwant.

So maybe it is the brand they are after.
> The fact that people are making money and lots of it in crypto using traditional financial instruments is all the proof you need to know that it has a use case.

It's happening therefore it must work? That's a dangerous attitude, especially in financial markets. People have done that with tulips and lots of other things; those really weren't use cases in a meaningful sense.
and here I thought they were doing something with postgres's managed db service
The GAO being unable to audit the CIA, and the CIA still having the same incentives and structure as during an uninterrupted 60+ year spree of committing atrocities almost non-stop is a very good indicator that yes, they are still committing atrocities.

Which ones, we couldn't tell, that's kind of the point of the CIA. But in this case, the incentives are the same, the structure is the same, the unaccountability is the same, so past behaviour is a good predictor of future behaviour.
Apples to oranges.

The equivalent of training in the IT field is learning, not working.
I didn't mean to endorse the claim, just to explain what I took it to mean.
No, the users had crappy devices (terminals) which worked because they could access the compute resources of a bigger device (the mainframe)
Round trip to the server to compose your HTML feels less responsive. Else you could just do it in PHP anyway.
I studied Physics. I now work in Data Science, I'd strongly recommend studying Computer Science instead of Physics just because there are many, many more jobs in it.

It's not even about pay (as maybe you would be happy being paid less) but just the actual lack of research jobs in Physics (and the ones that exist typically have poor job security with temporary contracts being the norm).

So it's highly likely you would do the degree in Physics and end up having to work in something else anyway. In which case you might as well study something that has better job prospects.

But yeah, that's just my opinion.
I wouldn't call it a damning indictment.

You set up institutions to protect the status quo. Individuals can go ahead with risks and experiments, but you don't want to risk an entire society with someone's wild idea. For every wild idea that works out, there's many more that didn't.

Of course we should mitigate risks before potentially destroying society.
I could use the opposite:

A TODO-app which has no synchronization capabilities so I don't need to worry about leakage of private data.

Ideally it would use a very simple plaintext file format for its database so it is future proof, e.g. http://todotxt.org/

The TODO.txt format seems very nice but the Android apps listed on that site are either not fully developed or unmaintained, and one even looks like it's not open source.

Simpletask seems like the most advanced implementation, but it got kicked out of Google Play for the usual Google shenanigans, so the author says on a sticky GitHub issue that he has lost motivation: https://github.com/mpcjanssen/simpletask-android/issues/1110
I also hate hangs. If you are working with the JVM you can send it a signal kill -3 [pid] which can give you a thread dump. That's a QUIT signal if you are curious. I once found a stuck HTTP request when I did this, so I fixed the issue by adding a timeout to the HTTP connection object.

When you are designing a system or a program you should have a way to get diagnostic information to make it easier to fix issues that can arise.
Right, Joe Stalker won't get it from Google. Joe Stalker will get it from the unprotected S3 bucket of the company that got it from Google.
Well, yes, it depends on how you define demand for a transactional medium, which is not easy. You could see it as having something to do with the sum of all immediate capital obligations, like loan payments or salaries, plus consumption at a given price level, and international exchanges.

But my point is that those market factors easily dominate balance of supply and demand, such that the only thing that matters is the efficiency of the economy. So even if taxes could balance the budget, the reduction in investment would kill more demand than supply. Therefore, if correct, the only thing that matters is efficient spending.
I am a heavy one note user with a group we all sync our notes to a network drive abs it works well.

Would this be equivalent but supports iOS and Linux?
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. Note this one: "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

Your thoughtful comments are welcome.

p.s. Camus was more nuanced than that.
They really mean "un-corrupted government that cares about the concerns of its average citizens".
Someone could definitely write a book on bubbles that never popped, or the bubbles that popped, but didn’t have too.

Narratives drive what happen to bubbles, and I assume there have been bubbles that were captured by the wrong narrative at the wrong time.
I would hope the reason the GP is downvoted isn’t because of disagreement, but because the comment is a cheap potshot. Your comment says a similar thing but is much more substantial and useful to spur further discussion.

As an evil mode user, I agree there are occasions where it isn’t present or doesn’t work, but I’ve generally added mappings for those cases or just memorized the emacs-style chords. What do you mean by putting line numbers in the first column btw? Like inserting the current line number at the start of each line?
Looks like it. Some of the articles from that year point to https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/greater-choice-for-w...