skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To date, C's most proximate (management-friendly, technically similar, programmer-skill-adjacent) competition has been c++. (I'm trying to lay the groundwork for the next statement: I'm not claiming this is good, and excited to see Rust and friends as serious contenders. Stay with me.)

Even in c++20, there are things you can do with macros you can't do in the language. This may change when reflection lands in c++2x, but I won't be able to use it for years and widespread adoption won't be possible for another decade.
Well, that part was sarcastic... The new space wasting interfaces are worse in many ways, and better in none.

The old ugly interfaces were perfectly good for simple software. We could use something better on the more complex kinds of software, but what he have today isn't.
I suffer from chronic anxiety and the tales of weed just relaxing you sounded like a magic pill. It was one of the most intense anxiety inducing experiences I’ve ever had. Very unfortunate, but some people seem to manage it well.

If you can barely manage anxiety on your own, weed is is a force multiplier for your fears.

However, I’d be willing to try again in the future as it becomes more available in vape form and try micro dosing it. The smallest hits to see if I can get a modest calmness.
Your reply provides a lot of context. Thanks!
Alcohol consumption is not without risk. It literally kills your brain cells and has many negative side effects associated with it. Alcohol is widely produced, distributed and consumed. To me this comes down to having the choice. Do the research, document the possible side effect, give me the choice is I want to drink/do the drug. Also, anecdotally based on my own life experience, I think overall marijuana is less harmful than alcohol.
I don't really understand your definition of need. You define a 'need' as anything that people find valuable, but I would classify 'nice to have' as also being things someone finds valuable.

How do you distinguish something that is a 'nice to have' and a 'need'?
haha let me check my numbers again
Even those may not be powerful enough. I have a use case where I was trying to read specification files to generate unicode tables. But using something like zig's @embedFile to get a handle to a []u8 in a comptime block doesn't work because I don't want the file to be embedded into the binary; I want something more akin to turing complete code generation. And I don't need it to run it on every compile, as the entire flow involves downloading said files off the internet, but only when a new version of the spec is released. I ended up just using code generation.
Are we just going to ignore the fact wildfires are a natural occurrence and the entire reason we're experiencing catastrophic wildfires now is from decades of obsessively preventing every fire? Not saying we should go around creating fire hazards but compared to efforts to mitigate fuel overload by thinning and controlled burns, burying some power lines is a drop in a bucket barely worth mentioning. Utility corporations don't do things out of the kindness of their hearts. Guarantee PG&E are doing this for some kind of maintenance, tax, social, or litigious incentive. It certainly has more to do with the bottom line and their PR department is trying to spin it as some altruistic BS. Why are we jerking them off over this when if California's forests were properly managed a small risk of fire wouldn't be a concern, and in many cases may be a boon to the ecosystem?

Piss take, I know, but nature is pressing her reset button and it's our fault. Let's not act like PG&E has anything to do with it.
Jonathon Blow – don't use fopen on windows, there's a bad bug there
I've still got lots to learn! Thanks for watching / reading
This is just globohomo Biden regime warmongering bullshit.

Can we please, for the love of god, keep the motherfucking politics off of Hacker News?
Question for you: What percentage of the US population do you think regularly (say, once a month or more) consumes hard drugs? Include prescription painkillers and amphetamines in this count, even if they are prescribed by doctors.

I'll bet it's not too far away from 20% already.
Depending on the use, the server could be immune to malware and still transmit it to their clients.
>as many don't see entrepreneurship with good eyes in Brazil.

How do they think the companies that offer salaried work started?
It's a bit precious to point to the Greek borders and say "look, there's Greece" when you're pointing to a territory in which a half million people were forcibly expelled based on ethnonationalist politics and ideology, only 100 years ago.

Likewise to "French ethnicity", a place where government policy is still actively engaged in destroying minority languages (and their cultures) and has been since Napoleon.

These "ethnic" borders you're pointing to are as much a product of political maneuverings using ethnicity as a platform, as they are any kind of "natural" product of ethnicity.
They underestimated Syria and Assad leadership, they hoped they could take over the country.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/world/middleeast/cia-syri...
In other words: "Be Afraid"
Tech pays a lot because there's a lot of money in tech. Most people in tech are underpaid relative to the value generated, in part because a lot of people enjoy working in tech.
Websites of airlines, banks, tech companies down in widespread outage
I like technology but dislike tech. Plenty of good technical discussions on here.

I'm in tech because they pay me big bucks to basically do nothing, and as I rise the ranks, I can do even less and get paid more. Can't pass on a gravy train.
Since we’re here I would like to see a study linking sugar to the increase of health problems (including mental health). Other drugs are small change compared to sugar.
I'm currently using Datatype99 & Interface99 at work.

What can I say? Everything goes well, nothing critical has appeared soon, my coworkers are able to understand the code.

Regarding macro-based eDSLs, I would not resort to them for needs other than abstractions to be considered as a part of the language (ADTs, interfaces, etc.), since they are like languages on their own; when you try to understand/contribute to eDSL-based code, you have to understand its syntax and semantics, aside from how does it actually solve a particular problem in the problem domain.

In fact, as for now, I don't see much need in something like Metalang99 except for Datatype99 & Interface99 (and probably my feature request to libmprompt [1]).

[1]: https://github.com/koka-lang/libmprompt/issues/8
Exactly this. I am tired with fake official correctness, and that people get back to racist/homophobic when they are off.

I am French and we have a history (and culture) of parody, and freedom of doing it and being offended by it. This was the case when I was a kid and up until some 1( years ago.

Now criticizing or making fun of some groups is *dangerous* - you cannot publish a picture of the god of Islam without literally putting your life in danger. Yes, I know that this is a small minority yada yada yada, but I have only one head.

At the same time you can make fun of Catholics. They are not happy, but also somehow "protected" by the culture and history of France. This is similar to Jews, though they became more offendable recently.

The worst is that the people who are going to officially claim how much everyone is equal will say in private that someone is a "tapette" (I do not know the English word for that: derogatory expression for gay), or that Muslims are middle ages savages, or that Blacks are dumb (we had a few cases on TV where the invited person thought that they were off when they were not).

I do not know what the solution is - it certainly does not help the normal part of the communities above that people are afraid to put them in the same bag as Catholics (in France). They would not be officially immune of criticism/fun, but they would be perceived as "people like us".
That includes clearly political pieces like this.
I don't know about schizophrenia and marijuana use, but a ER Dr. friend of mine always complains about the amount of people she sees that have a condition where their body can't handle the weed they regularly smoke. The symptoms are always the same, extremely belligerent, violently sick(constant vomiting), and very nauseous. She says that sometimes its the same people as they just don't get that weed is making them really sick(stopping smoking makes the symptoms go away). For some reason the media never reports on this but if you know someone in the medical field(ER etc) ask them and they will tell you the same thing. I found this medical paper about the issue:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5330965/
Zuckerberg on why the social network is becoming ‘a metaverse company’
My first and only paid subscription on one product I built was from a user who never used the service, and also never cancelled their subscription. It had no free trial, so they knew they were paying money from the get go. After a while I cancelled their subscription and sent them an email saying they could re-enable if they wanted to keep using the service. I felt bad for taking their money.

It was definitely motivating and I would say it was part of the reason I kept working on it, but unfortunately no-one else subscribed, and it wasn't to be.
(The sad dumbfucks downvoting this shit is clearly from a hatefull breed lol, fuck em and their hate-based ideology!)
Glad you enjoyed it! I've meditated on that point now for a few months... it's an important distinction in the maker community. Building a product vs. building a business.
My own lesson is to crunch the financials, always. Truth is when I crunch the numbers I almost always end up with the same result: if I am going to invest my own time and money, I must go b2b and charge >=100k per client. I can never find a way to fund myself and the marketing/content experts by charging a few dollars per subscription. Of course you might have a big existing audience or might find a cheap channel to get your product across quickly, I am just saying I find it easier to convince a few companies to pay tens of thousands euros than thousands of people to pay one hundred.
I agree, there's just too many variables here.

The drug itself also changed over the years with current breeds having way more active ingredients than the ones used decades ago.
That's not what bricked means. These PCs could be trivially fixed by anyone who can follow simple instructions. A brick means a device is beyond repair. A literal brick that has no function
Yeah holy shit. The dude has obstructions and then writes a review about it? It's like putting bad gas in your car, then writing a review about how bad it was... Admittedly getting rid of the obstructions was a TON of work. It took me a few weeks of moving my dish around, and fiddling around with different mounts and options. I even topped a tree. But once I got rid of the obstructions, the service improved dramatically. Now with the launches that we have had of new satellites and other updates, I don't see hardly any drops at all. The most common annoyance with mine right now is the router/dish crashing. This happens maybe once every two weeks. Not much worse than the shitty Comcast-supplied modem. My next step is to use my own router and I think that'll take care of a lot of it.
Guess you didn't hear how they sued the govt because they lost the NASA contract?

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/26/22404528/nasa-bezo-blue-o...

and they have already taken tax payer dollars
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-awards-launch-servic...
Well, 9/10 is still a fraction, just not as small as I thought it was. ;-) I must have fallen behind on launches, not realizing they were this far along.
interactivebrokers also was down
My experience is opposite.

My experience with cannabis use using a simple activity.

Sober, I can clean my office without much thinking and if I had to repeatedly do it, I’d probably do it the same fashion every time.

On cannabis, I’m able to see what I believe to be the more or most efficient way of cleaning my office, garage and rooms. I could probably come up with a few ways or road maps for doing so.

I don’t know what it is. Maybe there’s a higher level of dopamine from using cannabis that influenced me to have so much attention and focus on such a menial task.

I have been told that I’m usually not there mentally and never arrogant; and my friends are pretty outspoken.
Websites Hit by Global Outage
Instinctively skeptical of mainstream news orgs that report on scientific studies without linking to the actual study.
Presuming that a large part of those 100 W go to the power amps for uplink transmissions, it seems that it should be possible to make at least that part scale with how much outgoing data the terminal is actually sending. But that may require new hardware, and it may conflict with the ambition of reducing cost per unit.
"One of her doctors insisted the cause was marijuana..."

"I knew for sure he was wrong, but he refused to even consider it... [even with family history]."

I have seen stuff like this a few times, and it is usually the sign of a bad doctor. If there isn't a positive test for something and you're ignoring other evidence, how can you say it absolutely is one thing or the other. This is extremely common with vaccines when providers say it is completely safe and write off adverse events as unrelated without any evidence to support the claim. Vaccines are generally safe, but adverse reactions can occur. If you have doctors underreporting to the VAERS system, then the system will not catch the rare events because the data is too incomplete to show significance.

Edit: why downvote?
Here's a paper acknowledging limitations like under reporting. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15071280/
In defense of Dark Reader, you can switch its mode for all or just some sites. There's a mode, where it does not parse existing CSS and just injects its own.
Is threat analysis mostly quant or is there a demand for qualitative analysis?
I’ve been trying to track my “wins” since Solarwinds - times my verbal advice was ignored and a severe issue resulted.

From my perspective (having mostly worked in academia or nonprofits with w brief stint as a sandwich artist), the focus seems to be on highly quantitative solutions. Folks gather extremely large datasets of quantitative data when sometimes just a couple Twitter lists combined with the HUMINT of attending conferences for over a decade has primed my gut so I can make pretty good guesses.

My concern is that access to these large datasets is gatekept - that good threat analysis could be done with extremely simple exploratory data analysis often done in the social sciences… basic graphs and summary statistics not full on Edward Tufte style graphs.

I’m probably poorly articulating but are there any entities that take a more qualitative approach to threat analysis?

(For example, I’ve gotten in the habit of taking a 5s video of someone’s mutuals with me when I follow - it feels like sometimes there’s an odd focus on “open” source intelligence when someone at a large company could probably do much more with the same data.
There's also libCello[1] which provides useful abstractions. Though, at this point I think choosing Zig[2] programming language which allows to write compilation-time logic in the same language as the runtime is preferred.

[1] http://libcello.org/

[2] https://ziglang.org
I'm definitely curious if you have references to negative health effects of nasal breathing. I've seen quite a bit on the positives, even with strenuous exercise. I maintain nasal breathing when riding fast, during kettlebell workouts, and sandbag workouts.
Frankly I don't think anyone should be extradited to the USA. I just have zero confidence in the US legal system.

Prosecutions seem politically motivated. Punishments are unreasonably harsh (I suspect to drive plea deals over actual trials). The quality of your defence depends entirely on how much you have to spend. And there seems to be a weird bias making prosecution and conviction of foreigners more likely for no reason beyond them being foreign. The US also seems to like extradition for people who's crimes didn't even happen in America.

This case seems very much to fit that last criteria. If the deal was subject to British law, why isn't any accusation of fraud?

It doesn't help that our (I'm a brit) extradition agreement with the US seems filled with its own issues (extradition requires no evidence and doesn't seem to allow the usual defences). That's without getting into the humanity of us prison system.

Edit: Being down voted on HN is really annoying because it won't let you reply if your down voted. Even to replies to your comment. Thanks for your comments, I'll try and reply tomorrow!
Configuring two NS entries is pretty standard, so surely most resolvers try one of the two, and if it's down try the other one? What else would be the point of having multiple nameservers? Then you just have to get two nameserver providers and make sure their settings stay synced, and point your domain to one nameserver from each.

Of course that requires the server to properly fail, i.e. stop responding to requests. That doesn't seem to be the case here
Take iOS apps offline – LetMeBe app
I've just built a small tool for people who want to get rid of delivery receipts on messaging apps or want to take some apps offline. Enjoy!
nah. it’s not a common sentiment.

people talk about set and setting + harm reduction over and over again.

If you’re gonna do a drug and be reckless you’re gonna have a bad time.
Google's API Explorer (Filterable list of all Google APIs)
If you live somewhere with FiOS, Starlink is going to be a non-starter. FiOS requires high density. High density kills Starlink connections.

I suppose Starlink can support a small, negligible, percentage of customers in an urban (or even suburban) area. (Same total number as a rural area.) So, if you think they are going to cutoff registrations as oppose to oversubscribe when they hit that point you may want to sign up right away.
Slashdot still exists. Why did the internet go elsewhere?
No understood method that marijuana could possibly cause the condition check. Trivially comprehensible in terms of increasing usage or increasing admission of usage check.

> our findings will have to be replicated elsewhere

Check

> "long-observed association between cannabis and schizophrenia is likely partially causal in nature,"

Weasel words.

If they had printed their article on toilet paper at least it would be good for something.
Keep downvoting you fucking dirty liberals.

I hope you all go to jail along with your lord and saviour Fauci - he's going to fucking hang!
I would love if Microsoft replaced the contents of that menu from being Windows Registry entries to being contents in %USERPROFILE%\Templates. So one could not only easily manipulate those oneself if needed but also add actual templates to create, i.e. not only truly empty documents. The menu entries would share names with the file names.

Certain other operating systems/distros do it like this and I always found it a better idea than the current Windows way.
ahhh yes...you were working with an infamous "idea guy" where you were expected to do all the work while he sits back and just thinks of new ways to crack the whip with you.

that sort of thing is very rarely a good way to structure a business. the people who do the actual work almost always need to be the ones who decide on new features as only they know the proper work/reward ratios.

if i had a nickle for all the proposals i've seen from the "idea guys"...well i sure would have a lot of nickles.
I think other companies do this too, just not so brazenly.
/tmp often is a RAM based file system. Not the best destination for data intended to be permanently saved. (n)vi is primitive enough to insist in copying the whole file (usually not a problem with files meant to be edited interactively), but nothing stops a more sophisticated program to store only changes (transactions) and consolidate on request. Most software, certainly all interactively used, ought to be "crash-only" software [1].

[1] https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotos-ix/crash-only-softwa...
There's a reason the constitution of my country grants me a right to privacy...

And before anybody claims that it only restricts the government (it doesn't, it tasks the government into guaranteeing it), we have enough evidence that this kind of business model will be exploited to create an all encompassing gatekeeper for our society's communication, and at this point those companies are really paragovernamental entities, what no country should allow to exist.
How to create a product with sophisticated internal features but a simple?
Most tech jobs pretty much demand your entire life's focus. Partially due to the mental demands, partially due to office culture.

Luckily with remote work, it's becoming easier to do 10-20hrs for the same pay 40-60 (accounting for commute and other incidental costs) used to get. So I can finally use my technical skills to benefit myself way more than what I'm selling to my employer for the first time in many years. In a way, this transition to remote work is making it so I can clandestinely get a BigCo to finance my longterm career & personal software dreams ;)
All major Canadian banks were down.
For what it's worth, Linux 5.6 introduced openat2 [1] which accepts some additional flags controlling path resolution.

For example, RESOLVE_IN_ROOT "is as though the calling process had used chroot(2) to (temporarily) modify its root directory (to the directory referred to by dirfd)".

[1] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/openat2.2.html
To be honest, one-on-one Facetime calls and Zoom are almost perfect now, with few bits where it would pause and come back. Group calls were even less of a problem, because we're all used to one or two people having connection issues, and it's easy to work around that.
one word: edibles
They are approved in the real, English language sense of the word. They are actively monitored for safety. If the FDA did not believe they were safe and effective, they would be withdrawn from the market immediately.
> Is it really realistic to build something people "need"?

I don’t know about B2C, but with B2B it’s fairly easy — just solve problems that cost them money, either in terms of actual money, time saved, or delivers new value.

If you can’t easily express the value a customer gets from your solution (especially if you have competition!), chances are you need to think again about the problem you’re solving.
So how do they reset status? The number of queries going down signifies return to normal status?
The problem is our legal system has become something where everyone is violating some law somehow all the time. So everyone is a possible criminal.
Bitbucket has been... not good lately. And that's putting it kindly. I don't know if anyone from Atlassian reads HN, but please... Don't force us to migrate away.
The core issues with Twitter are the Retweet feature and the short character limit. That's also what defines the platform, so that's unlikely to change.

The problem with the retweet feature: Person A starts talking about a topic and post a few tweets. Person B sees one specific tweet, retweet it (with or without comment). People who were following person A see the original tweets. People who were following person B see the reactions to the retweeted tweet, without the original context. Every time the discussion is split with two crowds isolated from each others and everything taken out of context.

The problem with the character limit: given that people link to or retweet a single tweet (120-240 characters I believe), that can only contain a very limited, and often dumb down, version of the actual message being communicated.

That's of course worse given their feed algorithm.