skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what irked me about it. We already have VS Code. For me the defaults there are tolerable, but not the pinnacle of ergonomics.
This is the key point. Most people fail to understand the truly impossible scale of the challenge to travel between the stars. Why would the visitors then make themselves impossible to see or find? The usual response to this is they’ll have some sort of magical way of interstellar travel we don’t understand that makes it not so hard. Meh. Doesn’t ring true.

I’ll believe aliens are here when a starship hauls in and parks.

And I’ll be very, very concerned at that point about exactly what it is they want.
A nit: it'd be more respectful to use "Near". They really wanted people to call them that and not their old pseudonym.

I never personally interacted with Near, but I've been following them and their work since the days of the zsnes forums, back in the mid-00s. I'm a huge fan - not just of their technical achievements or their ideological commitment, but also of the seeming grace with which they carried themselves in the past few years. I don't know if I'll get all the details right, but I'll try.

My understanding is that KF chooses to harass people who are marginalized, easy to bully, and on the basis of how dramatic, embarrassing, or "cringe" their response would be. Near was gay, autistic, non-binary, and involved with furry communities (though IIRC they may not have been a furry themselves - not that it matters), which made them an easy target. They were sensitive and struggled with depression - KF knew their harassment would be effective. And Near was a controversial public(ish) figure who'd, in the past, courted a fair amount of scene drama and flame wars (sometimes blamelessly, sometimes not, as I'm sure they'd tell you themselves) that occasionally got very personal. In other words: KF looks to stir shit up, and Near sadly provided an ample amount of shit to stir.

No one deserves to be harassed like this, but it feels especially cruel that it was done to someone as remarkable as Near. This is a terrible loss.
The behavior Kiwi Farms encourages seems like it should be illegal. How is this not murder?
And you can't easily get them that domain knowledge when you're only communicating via story descriptions or software requirements documents. They are looking at the problem through a thousands-of-miles-long tunnel.
Mine too, it's getting to be super concerning but I've got my own issues so I say nothing.
Isn't the point to target sparsely populated areas? I haven't seen anyone saying it will replace fibre optic networks in high density areas. 1Gbps is becoming common in New Zealand major centres and I've seen 4Gbps offered recently as well (with some minor upgrades required)

My parents live an hour out of our city (2 with traffic) and their service is around 3Mbps and it has just slowly degraded over the time they've lived there and been left behind by ISPs. They do have a great view of the sky though for their connectivity issues. I love the night sky there and soon I hope to love it even more knowing that its no longer a frustrating trade off for them.

Rural broadband and satellite providers are the ones looking to be disrupted with their low speeds, low data caps and high costs.
>getting all of the dependencies that you want.

I know it's an absolute meme but this is why I like gentoo. You already have the build dependancies for all your software so building it is literally clone,configure,make.
It’s not lying. You need to keep your customers interests in mind.

I’m happy to lose a sale when there’s a genuinely better solution for the customer problem. I’ve had conversations with prospects on multiple occasions where I’ve directed them to a company with better solutions.

I’ve found that the people I’ve had those conversations with actually will come back when there is another issue that our products can help with.
There isn't a reason because that is what Kiwi Farms does–they harass, dox, and troll relentlessly. This is not the first suicide Kiwi Farms has been responsible for.
"it's nothing" -Boeing
The parallel universe of FireWire hubs
Do people on Hacker News even use Windows? Seems like a bunch of MacWorld and LinuxJournal posters come here to talk trash.
As a moderator of a decently sized sub (215k+ or so): we're suffering. I feel like its a lot of work and not a lot of support. We're not allowed to make any money off of it and the users just throw shit at us at every oportunity.
There used to be a directory website around 10 years or so ago. That was similar to what all these lists do now days.
No way! I also created a prologue to my sabbatical from Google after 6.5 years: https://youtu.be/7vSBCZ1mnL4

Great minds think alike, I suppose.
There are protections that aren't tied to regions, called Traditional speciality guaranteed (https://ec.europa.eu/info/food-farming-fisheries/food-safety...).

The "problem" is that typically when there is a strong food brand, it also has a strong geographic association, and so TSG is available only for lesser brands.
You are not wrong. Basically everything in moderation.
It is commonplace for people to eat magnesium supplements before taking certain central stimulants to decrease yaw clenching and gurning, not sure if it helps or not, but it is a thing.
I'm going to confidently predict right now that there's no way security updates for Windows 10 will cease in 2025.
The articles are about Cuban doctors complaining about their working conditions and compensation as they are sent abroad. You used them as a way to answer your parent, who’s central claim was that that it is a well known fact that Cuba’s health care system is good actually. They provide the fact that Cuba exports doctors as an example of how successful their healthcare system is.

To me it sounded like you were using the fact that doctors complain about their working condition as evidence against parent’s claim. So it felt natural to explain that a healthcare system can be successful despite the fact that the workers in said system have complaints about it.

Ideally these workers should be paid a fair share for their labor (particularly when their boss—the Cuban Government—claims to be a socialist). But regrettably that is not the world we live in. I wouldn’t be surprised—if the numbers were crunched—that a doctor employed by a for profit hospital in a capitalist country also only received a tenth to a quarter of the profits they generate, after their bosses take their profits and their governments take their taxes.
After 4 years of being available as an early access title, Rust in Action has been released. Thank you to everyone has supported me through this journey. Writing a book is as hard as they say!
Total guess, some of those managers probably do appreciate what software engineering is, and what it needs, but they're pressured by their managers to cut costs and expertise.
If I remember from a Dr. Rhonda Patrick podcast, vitamin D is unique because your body converts it to calcitriol which is a steroid hormone used to treat hyperthyroidism among other diseases.

From that angle, I can understand how they arrive to that conclusion, while perhaps still disagreeing. The interplay within the human body is almost mind-blowingly complex to me
Schools in the US are usually required by state law to provide a baseline level of content filtering and auditing on any school operated network, device and accounts. The school district has the right to choose which proxy service to use, but not wether to uses one or not. To get this fixed it has to be done at the state legislative level.
I'd add, the "on this day" photo library feature is amazing as your kids get older and memories fade. Little video snippets (and live photos: priceless) from when your kids were 2, 5, 10 years younger. Searching for keywords from image/face recognition when you remember something and getting a real memory back.

Of course, there's a balance with living in the moment too, but as someone who forgets what happened yesterday, I try to document as much as I can.
A couple of years ago where was a very long draught in northern europe. The only fields that weren't burned brown was the new ecological farms that reinvented farming the old way. Their soil is kept alive deeper into the ground and can hold water much longer. So while their neighbours had to buy feed for their cows, the eco farmers could keep using their grass for feeding.
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Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. That's exactly the wrong direction for the kind of discussion we want here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes, this is all much more about the journey than the destination. For me that is a detractor, but it's interesting nonetheless.
I might have cared 2 years ago, but I'm not about to drop forty hard-earned American dollars to try a text editor that I might end up hating. Hell, I probably wouldn't even buy Sublime if it was $40.
Gave up:
- alcohol
- marijuana
- ecstacy
- coke
- amphetamines
- cigarettes and vaping
- all animal products (meat, leather, etc)
- gluten
- videogames
- porn
- social media except reddit/hn
- working

Started:
- lifting weights (sent on for two years before stopping due to covid gym closures)
- running
- reading recreationally (discovered I really enjoy sci fi), prior to that only read learning material like textbooks and documentation.

The list goes on. I am in a constant state of reinvention. Deep down I am also miserable and always have been, hence the self medication, the constant quitting, and being in a seemingly permanent exploratory phase. I'm in my 30's and thought things would have made more sense by now. I can only superficially relate to others, even conversations with my 'best friends' are basically just small talk. I thought I was depressed but despite repeated visits to mental health professionals, none have been able to help: sessions amount to them just nodding and go 'wow... Well guess we'll see how you feel next visit' untiI I eventually stop going.

Sorry if my post seems negative, the previous paragraph just sort of... emerged as I was reflecting on the things I've quit over the last few years.
How do you ensure that feta in Australia is made with the same ingredient and recipe as Greek feta? And how do you ensure that the same happens in China, Vietnam, or any other place which would like to compete for the international feta market? It's not like the Greek can go and check what they do in China (or Australia).

Just call it Australian feta-style cheese, and if consumers like it, they'll buy it. But at least they'll be able to choose if they want the "Greek feta as in from Greece" or a different thing, with different guarantees.
Not everyone can afford a good doctor, so experimenting on their own might be the only way to fix something. People have been hacking their CPAP machines for awhile even though it could kill them.
Using a simple infrared thermometer changed how I cook so much for the better.
I wonder how nutritious edible weeds are? I assume a lot of the loss of nutrients comes from rigorously farming the same monoculture land for things like shitty iceberg lettuce. Maybe a little unfair to single that out when corn and tomatoes are especially greedy plants.

As I watch the edges of the woods get overtaken with garlic mustard and tearthumb, I'm thinking why not eat them? I realize this isn't going to work for those in a city but I do wonder about the nutrition of things growing wild on land that isn't typically farmed.
Boeing management used to be grown from engineers. The person promoted would have been practicing "engineering in the large." I don't know if that's still true.
Craving for the future: the brain as a nutritional prediction system
Are you seriously claiming that processes ignoring or handling signals rather than dying is an ill defined hack? That's a well defined, long established, normal way of doing things on UNIX and Linux systems. Also, that really isn't a good way of detecting frozen processes, since in your world, the only answers you'd ever get are "it's frozen" or "it wasn't frozen and now it's dead".

> They can easily register a user service and continue running there.

So systemd came in and broke the 50-year-old way of doing things, and now the programs that got broken should all have to add systemd-specific code to work again?
They changed the URL to https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-57628658
I like their ultra-cheap scientific calculators (their markup is 100% from the Alibaba high volume price, but still cheap) and art supplies. I bought a metal ruler from them once, only to find that it had a misprint on the scale.
> The “Sandia Cooler” architecture simultaneously eliminates all three of the drawbacks of conventional air-cooled heat exchanger technology

... and replaces them with brand new drawbacks that we aren’t sure how to mitigate
Pound Shops, a similar idea in the UK, seem to have several different economic strategies in every store.

In some cases they are selling (for £1) a product that your supermarket pays 70p for and sometimes sells for £1.50 and other times "discounts" to 75p. If you bought it from the Pound Shop when it's £1.50 at a supermarket that seems like a bargain, if it was 75p at the supermarket it seems like a rip off. But it's the same product either way.

In some cases as you described they have a 300g version of a 450g product, theirs costs £1 and the "ordinary" version is £1.40 from many retailers. So they are more expensive on a "per-unit" basis. But let's face it, you were going to eat the entire product even though the manufacturer says it's for "sharing", so maybe they did you a favour.

In some cases the manufacturer is engaged in simple price discrimination. The pound store has the exact same quantity of the branded product, but it's wrapped with a label explaining that it only cost £1 whereas the version in the supermarket is unlabelled and costs £1.50. The manufacturer guesses that many people who can afford £1.50 will choose not to visit a Pound Shop, so any sales at the lower price are extra sales and don't cannibalise supermarket sales.

In some cases they're End of Line goods. The supermarket doesn't want to stock a product with a finite supply, especially out of season - it looks desperate, but a Pound Shop can put boxes of "Santa Shapes" candy on shelves in January for £1 (original RRP £2.50) and customers will buy them because candy is candy, who cares if it's Xmas themed when it's so cheap? Or after supermarkets pull the £1.85 "barbecue flavour" chocolate assortment you launched because it doesn't sell, bundle them two for £1 at a Pound Shop and they disappear. Do the Pound Shop's customers eat them? Who cares.

The final category that's most interesting to me is bulk electronics. If you stock sixteen different adaptors in an electronics shop, they move so slowly you probably have to charge £2.50 or more for them even though they're quite cheap to make. But a Pound Shop can pick one adaptor they think sells (say, USB A to USB C is plausible) buy an entire container of them, put them on shelves for a few weeks at £1 each, and they vanish. Want that USB A to C adaptor a month later? Too bad, now they have a GU10 LED lamp, and a month after that maybe it's a laser pointer. Could I get these products on Amazon any time? Yeah, but either the postage kills the deal, or it's "free" and the price is higher.
I disagree. Zuckerberg got a $500k investment from Thiel when he has little, promised 10% week on week growth. This doesn't just naturally happen; it needs epic selling skill. It was a loan that was later converted to an investment - this shows that Thiel wasn't entirely convinced at first too but gave the money.

The investments that came later probably didn't need as much selling skills.
Yes, many of David Gerard's criticisms have been said before. But, the entire crypto currency industry is devoted to gaining adherents based on dubious reasoning.

What's a writer to do with what many of us view as the biggest financial bubble in modern history? Write one article then stop, and walk away as people invest their life savings?
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I could see this as an ecosystem thing; Microsoft is maybe trying to push OEMs into using "more capable" hardware for some definition of "more capable"?

Reminds me of the issues Vista had where it seemed to implicitly require higher spec devices. This could be a different approach to the same kind of pressure.
I don't think people necessarily have an intuition about sound waves reflecting on material density transitions (the obvious one is air vs water but I guess unless you grew up near a lake or slow river you wouldn't know much about it), and I don't think it's clear how such an intuition - if present - would transfer from sound, which has a transmission medium, to light, which doesn't.

Sound is transmitted by waves of compression and decompression in the medium. In the reflection scenario that's is ultimately molecules of air and water hitting the boundary and transmitting some kinetic energy into the other medium and bouncing back, to some degree. You can visualize it as marbles hitting each other.

It's much harder to do the same for light.
I’ve been saying this since my nutrition lecture said it in 2003, and he’d been saying it for at least two decayed before that.

If you don’t get enough chromium and molybdenum your body can’t properly regular blood glucose control via insulin sensitivity, protein, carbohydrate, and lipid metabolism.
Please keep canned arguments like "whataboutism" off HN. It's a form of name-calling in the sense that the site guidelines use that term, and also a shallow dismissal.

It's legit to point out inconsistencies and/or comparables in what someone else is saying (I'm not saying the GP did that—I'm just speaking generally). If you feel that something isn't really an inconsistency or isn't really comparable, you can always make an argument for why, but trying to shoot down the entire category of discussion with a label is not an argument. In fact, in this case the label itself is a fallacy.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The l-threonate works better for sleep. I take two 50mg tablets per day. In addition I take 400 to 600mg of "magnesium lysinate glycinate chelate" per day to help with muscles.
I'm fine with school equipment and software being fully locked down, but the facial recognition and automated behavior detection (let alone correction) is way beyond the line.

Why are kids, the ones we're supposed to protect, being used as lab rats here? (Rhetorical—it's because they have no agency and the parents are kept at arm's length. Near-perfect conditions for abuse of power, however well-intentioned.)

What if the student government could declare no confidence in the school administration and have them removed? Would at the very least get more kids interested in civics.
>Requiring TPM 1.2 is sort of reasonable I guess. But TPM 2.0. You've got to be kidding me.

2.0 hardware has existed for a long time. Why would you prefer that they support 1.2?
Hi everyone, I was curious to see how many times my GitHub profile page was visited so I made a counter for it. Since I made it, I've decided to share. Thanks.
I recall someone complaining about this at one point. Their model was this:

Most of the nutrients in the fruit come from the plant, not the ground. Since we are breeding for a higher ratio of fruit to plant size (dwarf plants, supersized fruits, sometimes both), there is less to put into the fruit.

Also fungi provide most of the nutrients to plants, and tilling slowly destroys the soil life, leaving mineral soils, in which some nutrients may not be bioavailable.
This lack of "global optimization" I think is something that should be solved by a new protocol stack. (If it could be done without replacing the whole stack i'd be in favor of it, but I have no idea how)

Say you have a backend tcp http REST app that takes requests to modify a widget. To receive the request, the payload will pass over a series of networks and protocols, all with potentially different restrictions and modifications, until it gets to a load balancer, and then maybe a service mesh router, to a network service listening on the node of some container orchestrator, and finally read by the backend app.

All of the layers will have been replaced numerous times, and possibly the actual data payload modified. But the only thing your backend app knows is the final state. And then, somewhere along the way, there is an error. It could have happened anywhere along the chain, for who knows why. But you and the app server won't know when or where or why the error happened because none of the information about the changing layers (or network operations along the way) is carried along.

If the entire stack were not actually a stack, but instead a kind of commit log of transactions and instructions, we could see every single step in a transaction (ideally verified by cryptographic checksum). This would make it faster to diagnose problems and allow automation to work around known issues - in addition to making it harder for attackers to mess with traffic. In the simplest examples it would look like a stack, but for more complex paths it would look like a log. We could also potentially use this method to do away with service meshes.
I believe this is the same for Arch and its derivatives.
The problem is centralization. You need to work to make money to afford food. It doesn't matter if the house is free, if you can't afford to buy food because all of the jobs are in Tokyo.
Hey, Onivim contributor here.

Unfortunately none of the main contributors are designers. I think we end up with a very VSCode-similar look because in terms of UX that’s our main inspiration. We do diverge in some areas, though.

Debug functionality is on our radar and it will hopefully be in relatively soon!
I've been programming for a while, but can't make heads or tails of the 'simple imperative language'. What is the prereq for understanding this?
I find the explanation for the sequencing rule rather unsatisfying. Why shouldn't the following be true?

b : lb d : ld
-------------------------------
a := b :>> c := d : max lb ld

Otherwise, it seems like you could leak info by just assigning two variables, where one is always public. E.g.

x = user.firstName;
y = random()

would be "safe."

(It's very likely that I'm missing something here)
I knew one of those. He insisted on remaining a contractor, I think for his particular tax situation.

He would have to leave the company every so often because of company rules (or labor law?) about how long the company could employee a contractor. Eventually he'd get hired back in, as a contractor.
Are you on mobile? I cannot see arrival requirements
I'm sure some will disagree, but I'd argue this should be a black bar moment.

So many of us grew up in the early-to-late-2000s internet, likely on many of the forums that touched on emulation. Near/byuu's achievements in emulation/game preservation are insane and arguably unmatched, and they also posted here from time[1] to time[2].

So sad to see this all unfold.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=near
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I generally agree, but will say that’s not always easy if it’s something system level that’s being induced to be too chatty —- you’re stuck replacing the upstream unit’s Exec, which frankly kind of sucks. I’m also trusting the filter to be as reliable, which may or may not be true.

Rate limiting works, but it’s a pretty blunt instrument and can lead to losing your actually valuable entries vs capturing garbage.
Crypto people have a saying: not your keys, not your coins. It applies in more than just crypto.

Can't squeeze blood from a turnip.
And this is the last google directory version https://web.archive.org/web/20110718001820/http://directory....
Just quietly, you need to update your knowledge.

Look in to, at the very least, how chromium and molybdenum help regular homeostasis via insulin sensitivity and macronutrient metabolism.