skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's surreal.

It's also most certainly not the only example of such behaviour.

My personal favourite to use on people with an IT background is IPv4 exhaustion.

Global warming is related to the finite capacity of the atmosphere to absorb an excess pollutant, which is growing exponentially thanks to a burgeoning human population. Address exhaustion is due to a finite resource being exhausted due to an increasing population of people with networked devices.

Both are slow-motion, global-scale disasters.

Both have no clear deadline or dramatic event.

Neither has any immediacy, it's all just graphs trending the wrong way.

Just like how no individual or enterprise profits from fixing global warming, nobody profits from fixing IPv4. If you make a personal sacrifice to give up IPv4, nobody will reward you.

In both cases, the incumbents are hoarding resources, and trying to stave of the inevitable change that will devalue their accumulated capital. IPv4 has become a commodity resource traded on markets, to be hoovered up by mega-corporations to fend off smaller players from competing head to head with them. Do you think Saudi Aramco will just let go of their trillion dollars of unexploited oil fields? Do you think Azure or AWS will just give up on their millions of accumulated addresses?

There is one key difference however:

Global warming has some legitimate debate about its exact course: what specific path the curve will follow, and which model is accurate.

IPv4 exhaustion had no debate whatsoever. The exhaustion of each regional pool was predicted to the week, years ahead. Each one occurred exactly on schedule.

What have YOU done to "save the world"? What have you sacrificed, personally to enable IPv6-only networking?

You have no excuses, you can't even say you didn't see it coming!

So:

Have you forced your company to upgrade to IPv6?

Have you written your software to work flawlessly in an IPv6-only network?

Have you made it a hard requirement for all networked products you purchase or use to be IPv6 native?

No, no you haven't.

Azure doesn't support IPv6 in any meaningful way. Neither does any other major cloud provider. It's an add on. An optional extra, that may or may not work.

Kubernetes, the "future", does not support IPv6 right now, 21 years after it became widely available, and years after several regions dropped below their last /8 of available address space.

"It would be a lot of work to add IPv6 support" I hear people complaining.

Oh... oh wow. Gee. Golly. I didn't know! I take it all back. Let's just stay on IPv4 forever and use NAT five layers deep. I hear Global Warming is going to take a lot of work to fix also. Let's just all buy air conditioners and never venture outside again.
What incentive is there to explicitly influence dreams versus other means of driving engagement and ad revenue? How do you measure 'dream influence'? Sure, it could be a bi-product, but I doubt this is something TikTok is trying to do.
That’s the second version of the writing section. I’m talking the one given in 2005 which was different.
I agree. And actually shipping a game that anyone will pay for puts you in very rare territory. The world is full of game designer wannabes.
Open Source WhatsApp Clone for Android, iOS and Web
You’re supposed to say “we should mandate all producers to only make organic food to achieve equality” and then only once you’re in power do you quietly ban organic food because your goal is impossible and it’s preferable to your ideology that more people suffer than to accept any kind of inequality. Especially if the right kind of people suffer. The ones who had it too good for too long.

But you’re not actually supposed to say the quiet part out loud. For the revolution to succeed it’s important that the misery, hatred, and sadism that spring from a constant and torturous sense of injustice is hidden behind a smile, otherwise people might resist the takeover, and then how will people like you ever get powerful enough to ban healthy food for the greater good?
Houston to investigate allegations of hot, humid weather, flooding.
I haven't really had a problem getting anything done in Big Sur on my 2017 Macbook. Before my Macbook I had a Lenovo X1 Carbon with Arch and KDE; I really loved that setup but there are several conveniences with Macs. I prefer Excel to LibreOffice for example, and I like messaging integration with iPhone and all of the applications I use are really nice; I always felt like there were a few apps on Linux that were not well designed and I had to use them anyway. But, Arch has such a great package management system. You can easiy revert to any previous version of a package, you can quickly do a binary search to find which package broke you after an update etc. Homebrew is a total garbage fire. A couple weeks ago I typed "brew upgrade git" and it upgraded the version of every homebrew package on my system. My Postgres database wouldn't start because my databases had to be upgraded. I had a deadline... Also for some reason I'm more likely to run into build problems with certain native packages. I'm really on the fence about what my next computer will be.
What is the difference between this and a file called pieces.txt that you can save and grep? I file is more useful because it can be in its own repo and used on any system.
Flagging because this is just advertising for UltraEdit.

The app doesn't exist, the CTA is a Typeform link.

The site says that UltraEdit is the first app that is supported. UltraEdit is a 99$/year subscription.

This is just advertising for UltraEdit. There is no actual product.

No to mention that managing snippets is practically a base feature of any recent editor.
Standardized tests scores help students irrespective of the high schools they went or grades they got. Getting rid of them means eliminating common testing standards. How will that lead to equality ?
How many businesses actually care? Isn’t the business a victim of fraud if a customer uses dishonest papers to gain admittance? Last I knew fraud vitiates everything.
When I was a kid growing up in Middle America (I'm in my 50s now), it seemed like people really cared about these types of labor issues. I remember most adults took interest in the working conditions at the local auto plant, even if they didn't work there. Now, it feels like, at best, people just don't care ("Pfff. I don't work there, why should I care?"), or at worst, people blame workers ("Bunch of lazy bums!", "Be grateful you have a job at all!", "Should've gone to college!") I'm sure there's a list of reasons for this shift in attitude, but I can tell you that it's real, and kinda depressing.
One of the upshots of Brexit was all the control of their financial systems that Britain would get back (I’m convinced this might be a reason the wealthy might have been for it to begin with).

I can’t comment on whether this move actually destabilizes the gold trading system (lowering reserve requirements seems like it can only destabilize, and I’m not sure “increasing liquidity” was that needed for the gold market) but I guess we’ll find out in <5 years at the next crisis. I can’t imagine having a run on gold though… actually yes I can —- in a crisis everything goes down (gold, bonds, equities) because people rush to cash.
CloudFront is also a pretty inferior product in the CDN marketplace. Why do you think Amazon's retail business signed a huge contract with Fastly to be their primary CDN for all mission critical retail images? CloudFront sucks. Not competitive on price, features, performance or anything other than "we already pay AWS so might as well use it".
> It should take more than a huge pile of money to put a person in those ranks.

It does take more. There are lots of people with huge piles of money and they’re not even part of the subject of this conversation.
what's "too much?" more than 4 liters a day? 8?
> In 2019 our own President went there to discuss peace.

From thereon the relation between north Korea and south Korea/US degraded so badly that official communication lines between north and south Korea were officially severed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea%E2%80%93South_Kore...
> maybe a company that's managed to create a massive platform where reality is massively distorted

This might explain their fixation with VR.
The post I cited is from 2015, which still describes a 3-section SAT. As far as I know, the SAT format remained the same from 2005 until March 2016.
Why should a bar care? Just do a “decent” enough job to make the cops know you’re trying.
How would that explain lab animals gaining weight?
A large portion of states contract their driver's license printing equipment (on a maintenance & operation basis) to the same company, which I believe used to be a division of Polaroid but has been bought and sold since then. So many of the norms that this article mentions are specific to that equipment and to many US states, but not to all of them. There are still some states that use relatively commodity (uncontrolled) plastic stock and transfer or sublimation printers, that you can get on eBay used for under a thousand. You can imagine that results in more counterfeiting which encourages states to switch to the more expensive and controlled equipment and stock.

Raised print is particularly variable, a lot of states don't use raised print. As I understand it, it's done by a specific machine that is especially costly (the rest of the laser features mostly come already done from the stock manufacturer).

Edit: it's L-1 Identity Solutions. I believe the ID card printing component used to be with Identix before they merged with a newer company to form L-1.
Thanks for the answer. I will be moving with my partner.

If I accept the offer I got, I'd be on a work visa, so I don't plan to buy a car and live near a subway line until I get permanent residency.

The company is in the business of IT consulting and said the bonus can be 2 months, but this didn't get paid out last year due COVID.

I'm a German citizen living in Sydney on a work visa. You are right the weather is good, worker rights are better too(4 weeks annual leave guaranteed etc.), but to me Australia feels a bit monotone and isolated. I have lived in Sydney and Melbourne, but both places are getting really expensive and salaries just don't catch up.

Canada sounds more fun! I can drive to the US if I want to and flights to Europe don't take so long. I also miss having real seasons.
I agree, this contradicts several studies that concluded the opposite. Here's a couple I found after a quick search:

There were no significant associations between coffee or caffeine intake and risk of cognitive impairment, overall dementia, AD, VaD, or moderate/high levels of the individual neuropathologic lesion types.

https://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-alzheimers-...

Coffee drinkers at midlife had lower risk of dementia and AD later in life compared with those drinking no or only little coffee adjusted for demographic, lifestyle and vascular factors, apolipoprotein E ε4 allele and depressive symptoms.

https://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-alzheimers-...
I'm afraid you're just stating how you'd prefer things to be instead of discussing (and considering) how things actually are.

The truth of the matter is that declarations of war are patently irrelevant regarding whether a nation is deemed hostile or not.
What is our option now? Rust? I love it but it is moving 5x the rate of c++. Static analysis may save us in this one. Good tools will tell you when you did something the "old" way. I'm not sure which part of our pipeline that is. Cppcheck, coverity or some clang checker probably.
IANAL but if the executive (e.g. police) can charge someone with obstruction of justice, i'd imagine they could reasonably issue an unofficial gag order irrespective so long as there is something under investigation..
Doesn't seem to be a major problem in europe, where many countries have a legal drinking age of 18 or even 16 for beer. Besides, the law doesn't stop teens who want to drink from drinking, only from going to bars and makes them jump through more hoops to get their alcohol.
I hope credit was given to Krazam YouTube channel for that hero image.
TikTok could be exacerbating this attitude in men who are already predisposed to feeling helpless in their dating efforts. I notice that I feel worse about my appearance when I've spent more time on TikTok. I also notice that I see more extremely conventionally attractive people on TikTok.

I see the issue being more so with dating app algorithms, though. Those companies/algorithms are incentivized to keep men in the dating pool and paying Bumble/Tinder for dates. The best way to do this is to make those men think that they need to pay to win the game and will lose otherwise.
If you build quality working programs that is what counts. Not that you can fly through some esoteric template shenanigans. When I being questioned by potential client we talk about what I've done and how (I design and build products usually from scratch). I also give references so people can check. If they start talking to me about can I write correct code in C++ or whatever other language right here I know I am in a wrong place. Normally such talk never happens.
Archaeologists find ancient Egyptian warship sunk near Alexandria
I share that hope, but harbor no expectation of it actually happening.

And frankly lining things up so my fam and I can live really lean. Tough times ahead.

Might be 5 years, decade, maybe two, but tough times are coming.

The scale and latency in all this point to us having past the time when we could really mitigate, amd the scale means humans taking it hard a few times before realizing a big effort makes sense.
vscode support pl0x
If you scroll to the end you need not merely hope.
> Wikipedia's page on astronaut training suggests otherwise[0] - becoming an astronaut takes a year and a half to two years of training, and of course to do science on the ISS, you need to be a qualified scientist to begin with.

That much training isn't required because the people involved will get hurt. It's required because NASA wants everyone on board to be all-around experts at space.

> NASA's requirements page[1] says you need a masters' degree in some STEM field.

The space station doesn't care if you have a degree.
Short of putting someone within a closed system vessel and counting the energy which goes into the vessel and the energy which comes out of the vessel you will never get an accurate measurement of CICO.

It is relatively easy to measure the calories you intake via food/drink since that can be roughly approximated using lab tests, but there is basically no accurate way to calculate the amount of calories somebody expends. I haven't heard of anyone counting calories running their shit and urine through a calorimeter to figure out how much of the energy in their food was absorbed by their body and this isn't even counting energy expended through heat, skin/nail shedding, and breath.

The article should have said "true CICO is impossible since measuring calories out is practically impossible" instead of "CICO doesn't work".
> The fact that people have to speculate this shows IMHO nicely not just that there are no clear borders between peoples "race" but that the concept of race seems pretty pointless.

We are talking about cartoons, so we're really talking about symbols and coding. You're taking too much of a leap by inferring that much about the underlying concept from the use of symbols. You might have a point, but you need different support.
From that abstract:

> Applying this strategy to a micro data set from England between 1995 and 2010 we find a significantly positive effect, but diminishing returns to speed.

England isn’t filled with million dollar homes.
https://youtu.be/ec-FrnaU0rs
To open unsigned software, right click, click Open, and click Open on the dialog that pops up. That’s for High Sierra and newer releases.
Fraud does not vitiate statutory rape of a minor.
"Based on our research, we rate FALSE the claim that there is an alien’s face in Bezos' neck,"

I think I'd be a little irritated to be one of the people whose money paid for this.
What would you call the 'God' worshipped by Christians, the many by Hindus, etc., if not deities?

We sentient beings are fortunately capable of discussing abstract thought, things not known to exist, and even things known not to exist; we can give them names without requiring that they 'are', and we can discuss what it means 'to be' anyway, and whether those things 'are' after all merely by virtue of our discussion.

And did you even read the rest of that sentence? Other commenter is basically 'on your side'.

It's atheism like this that makes me describe myself (dissociatively) as agnostic, frankly.
Right, but not all problems can solved with header only frameworks.
This meme is posted on r/Binance literally every day and I think it’s pretty telling:https://www.reddit.com/r/binance/comments/opzss6/facts/
What is the use of such a high frame rate if the display can only refresh at, say, 60 frames a second? Is FPS a metric worth optimizing beyond a certain number?
Hmmm. Mega-lobbyist. Brother worked for both Obama and Bill Clinton. Takes job with Huawei.

Nope, nothing going on here. At least not in comparison to Hunter Biden's art sales and Ukranian petro job.
What did Copland look like? Some quick googling seems to show me something that looks basically like how I remember Mac OS 8.
What termites and cells have in common
Avoiding the newer parts is the worst imaginable response.

If you write C code in C++, you will only have C code, and nothing better than C code. If you write Java code in C++ (which you can, and some do) you will only have Java code, and nothing better.

Leave the C parts behind. Leave the O-O parts behind. Lean into Modern C++, and reap the benefits of all the work put in to make the language better than C, better than Java (i.e. pre-C++98 plus GC), better than C++98, better than C++11, better than C++14, better than C++17.

Pointer arithmetic and inheritance are still occasionally useful; you can still wrestle in the mud. But if they show up in more than a few places in a program, you are Doing It Wrong.
"This is (merely) an excerpt from today’s subscriber-only post. To read the entire article and get full access to the archives, you can subscribe for $5 a month or $50 a year."
What makes it necessary? “Necessary” suggests import. What significant thing comes of this change or what negative thing come of not making this change.

It’s only purpose is to create exclusivity that then implies that government, bureaucrats and employees, are more important to space activity than private industry. Which is BS. What this really is is ensuring government can still pat itself on the back.
Damn. Now I'm worried. Consuming less than 6 coffees a day is more unusual for me.
ridiculous take. even if they blew all their billions on poverty aid it would not matter in the end. what reduces poverty is actual work and good economic policies, that much should be clear by now.
Will robots ever control the world?
Old enough for the draft, old enough for a draught!
I had one in 2020. The interview process was completely misguided anyways. I had applied for some flavor of developer role, but received a completely unrelated data science take-home.
NYC mental health response teams show better results than police
It's a problem in the US even with laws making it difficult for teens to get alcohol.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/drunk-driving#age-5056
It does not have to mean a loss of jobs.

It would mean different jobs, and it means valuing work differently right along with things.
GtkInspector – built-in interactive debugging support in GTK
I'm still waiting for a coder's VR IDE, but the pixel resolution isn't there yet. I want to be surrounded by my code and use gestures to run it, simulate it, explore it, debug it. I want to be able to "feel" a keyboard under my fingers and see them typing on it. I want spatial audio cues so I can hear my chokepoint inner loops grinding. I want a live gource-like [0] tree that lets me fly through my repo history.

I want 3D emacs.

[0] https://gource.io/
the NASA has been blowing dozens of billions in the past 20 years and still has no rocket to show and certainly nothing reusable.
Cloudflare does multiple petabytes of traffic on their enterprise plan for ~$10k/m.

Disclosure: $NET shareholder
I do most of my collecting by being old and not throwing things away. From experience a good vintage computer to have is a 1999-2000 era Pentium III with Windows 98 on it. It's old enough to recognize 5.25" floppies in the bios, but also USB drives. Put Windows 98 on it and you can run old software from pure DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 9x. I've put a big enough hard disk in it to suck up all my files and software from my older machines and floppy disks.
there are other billionaires who do nothing relevant at all with it.
+1 One of my most impactful "ergonomic" changes I've made!
So when stuff is pasted in from Word or whatever other weird Rich Text Enterprise application - what's actually doing the heavy lifting of translating all that \\rtf\\section\\block\\blockend\\secondend garbage into HTML? Is it the `sanitize-html` library here? Is it the browser? My first intuition would be "pasting a bunch of formatted stuff from Wordpad into an HTML document surely doesn't result in anything reasonable, right?" But then seeing the direct jump from "alright, stuff was pasted in, now we only want to allow these HTML tags" makes me think somewhere in here some magic happened to convert it.

I think that's probably the most interesting part here. What happens for images? Do they get converted into an <img src="data:base-64;..." type thing?
A great - and chilling - read is Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voices_from_Chernobyl). It had a very strong impact when read in original Russian.

Couple vignettes from my memories of this disaster.

My physicist grandfather lived in Gomel during this time and when this happened during all the May holidays, he barricaded his entire family in his apartment for a month, sealing all the cracks around the windows

My parents skipped sending us from Moscow to Grodno, Belarus for the usual summer holidays because of the direction of the plume (NE) which I remember not liking one little bit. They and grandparents also forbade collection of any morel mushrooms which we used to pick in the forests all the time. I think the mushrooms also became considerably fewer in years past.
> is if you share publicly available information, how have you done any harm?

Even if your assistance adds low-value, it's still assistance.

Moreover, I don't believe it's reasonable to ignore the fact that a renowned Ethereum dev providing assistance to a hostile regime, regardless of how lame, does have a goal of conveying credibility and help push public acceptance. As a similar example, see for example how Snowden was blindsided by a guy trying to leverage Snowden's attendance as a way to buy him credibility.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epndnz/the-bizarre-case-of-s...
It’s easy to say that because they’ve failed twice they’ll fail again. But I could just as easily see that in a few years the success of the meta verse was due to these failures.