skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
from one of the answers:

> set -f

And why does `set` use a flag with no argument after it? It's simple, just follow the rules:

Single dash for single letter flags

Double dash for full word flags

No dash for flag arguments

No dash for some non-flag arguments from ancient commands

Sometimes the dash is a "minus" prefix and has a matching "plus" prefix for a non-flag argument

Gang them all together sometimes

Git uses lots of subcommands and flags, often in surprising combinations

Not always can you gang together single letter flags

? Can you always gang together single letter flags? I'm not really sure TBH

Never gang together full word flags.

The short pneumonic "SDNNSGGN?N" is instructive here. The trouble you'll have remembering that pneumonic will remind you how much of a pain bash is.
And they have a fun interactive game you can play to defuse the bomb too! https://www.damninteresting.com/interactive/zab/
Green.ch supports IPv6, and they include a /48 when you have a static IP.

I've wanted to switch to init7 for a longtime, but Green's service and price is hard to argue with.
The message is that Techdirt is without Google Ads, Tracking Code or analytics.

This may be a set in the right direction but.....

The same page on which they posted this is running CSS from fonts.googleapis.com, as well as embedded frames from soundcloud.com & w.soundcloud.com which I also believe is google owned.

So, count me a little skeptical
I for one approve the renaming.
I was a lifeguard and I never felt very confident in it tbh. But I do win this "game" every time. So... idk, what that says.
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Ask HN: Does HN have flagging gangs?
I recently submitted a story from a well-known, reputable journalist about an important current issue that touches upon many areas of intellectual interest. It was flagged to death within seconds. The next day, I noticed the same story submitted by someone else; again it was killed within seconds. In both cases the stories had received a handful of upvotes, and in my case several comments (not a flamewar) before being flagged.

The efficiency of this organized flagging activity is impressive. The target is clearly stories that have political implications that a certain faction would prefer to suppress. I know that HN has algorithms to detect such things as voting rings. Why are flagging gangs allowed to operate?
Very good from Toyota. They take a diplomatic approach for the global society.

As they don't enforce a complete structural upheaval in a short period, but rather promise they will support old eco systems until we are really sure what works best in the post gasoline world.
>The 2022 Bolt will have a starting price of $32k with a 65kWh battery, for example.

That's still a totally different class of car buyers. A "starting price" of $32k means no one is walking out the door with one under $40k total upfront cost. When I can walk into a dealership and finance something like that at $25k total loan amount, that changes everything.
The mentors and mentees meet daily for the first few weeks and then taper off to as-need screen sharing sessions. So, plenty of human contact.
Video calls give me anxiety.

Often enough, the other party's camera is off to the side so they appear as though they're not engaged, even though they are.

I _know_ they're probably paying attention, but it's reminiscent of a face-to-face conversation where the other party is staring at their phone more than they're looking at me.

So even though I know they're engaged, my brain's circuitry keeps telling me they're not.
Ask HN: Are any modern TI calculators as reactive as the TI-84 Plus?
I have a TI-84 Plus, and had a TI-89 Titanium. I never used the TI-89 despite its feature set because it wasn't reactive. I like to turn on the calculator and immediately start entering data, and that wasn't happening with the TI-89.

I see there is a newer version of the TI-84 (CE Python) and I wonder if it handles more like a TI-84, or like a TI-89. Are there any other (modern, and preferably rechargeable) calculators that I should consider?
When I was in the army, one of my roommates drowned right in front of a bunch of people he was swimming with. He was in about 3 meters of water, got a leg cramp, went under, and never came back up. I found him face down on the bottom of the lake with his face in the mud. He was later declared dead. Took a while to get over that.
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I really hope liquid democracy can someday become a thing.

The fact that an idea can be both good and unpopular is -- IMO -- the linchpin of almost every other problem we face.
Is he? He only talked about lab leaks. You brought up the nonsense bioweapon theory.
Same setup here but my VPN provider only gives me a /128 IPv6 Net so i have to use IPv6 NAT which is possible but ugly. Which one do you use?
> Emilie travaille donc ce jour là sur des échantillons de souris infectées avec des souches de prions humaines. ll est important de souligner ici qu'il s'agissait de souches humaines et non de souches animales, la barrière d'espèce ne protégeant plus, l'infectiosité des pathogènes manipulés par Emilie était donc totale.

(In case anyone else wanted to double-check the translation.)
For the last decade or so I have been running cheap Asus routers on my home network. They support dyndns and OpenVPN out of the box. I assume that other manufacturers offer the same thing.

I haven't poked around in the guts of their vpn setup. But it's generally password protected and I would assume in the clear. So I replace accounts frequently and only leave it running if I am out of town and have some project I may need access to.

Basically you vpn to yourname.dyndnsprovider.com and you are done.

The rest is DNS Setup which.is sort of up to you but you can easily configure to something like machinename.home.mydomain.net
This is unfortunate. The service maps they are using are extremely poor, being charitable. Anecdotally our area is supposed to have 25/3 and I haven't met anyone that has achieved that speed from our DSL provider. Most go with Hughes, etc. Yet our entire service area shows up as 25/3 serviced. On the other side of that there are several areas that are served with cable and a couple with fiber...none of those areas show in the over generalized 25/3 DSL service area.

This feels like part of a larger game. Someone is going after SpaceX, in the government space, is the general feel. First Bezos says that he will discount the moon contract by $2B...and now this. My opinion is that lobbyists are being employed to turn money away from SpaceX and move it back towards more "traditional"/entrenched government contractors across several fronts.
for the lulz?

fbi says there are over 2,000 serial killers free in the US

we dont know nearly enough of them to know motivations or even assume thats a prerequisite
Does it let you post content in markdown?

This is important because to me a blog is just a place to publish my writings. I must be able to write somewhere else in my preferred format and just use the blog to publish it.

As far as I can tell, wordpress only lets you write in their own wysiwyg editor, or plain html. Nothing else.

So if I want to publish to it in markdown, I have to first export markdown to html separately.
I use Kensington Pro trackballs (four buttons with a scroll ring).

I use them on Mac OS and 9front currently as my primary machines, and they're useful with both the sam and acme editors, as well as all throughout Plan 9/9front.

Chording for cut/paste, and running commands from the mouse is very fast if you've got complex things to do.

I think if I could get a reasonable chording keyboard (like Douglas Englebart demo'd or in similar spirit), I'd probably find ways to use that as well.
But with downvotes, we ensure that only popular opinions get visibility, defeating the entire purpose of sharing ideas within a community.
As an academic experiment, one could post a message here on HN and on Usenet to see how the interaction plays out on each platform. On Usenet, people can not vote or moderate your message. Messages are only removed from Usenet relays if they violate law for the most part. Anyone can reply if interested in doing so, with any text or content. Has anyone done this experiment recently?
I evaluated both Plausible and Matamo as privacy preserving analytics options for my blog, and ended up rolling my own solution for cost reasons. Cloudflare workers and Pulumi make this pretty trivial to self host.

Here's the Show HN that never picked up steam: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27175347
This assumes power grid won’t keep getting greener or more efficient. Unless we go zero carbon we are just delaying the inevitable and sometimes easy short term carbon reduction actually hampers our efforts to zero emissions.
Google's pushing advertising clients away. Techdirt started this path by at least August when they reported on Google flagging their pages (third link in this story), and it took time for them to shop competitors who are really resellers.

I would have guessed it would be most of their readers blocking easy-to-block ads, and the low payout, but it seems capricious policy enforcement is happening across Google and Youtube especially.
Your approach requires learning HTML, CSS, Bootstrap and Rails documentation in order to create a prototype.

You may as well be saying that getting furniture from IKEA isn't any simpler than buying lumber, saws, wax and paint from Home Depot and building your own.
> * Ranking, in general, creates filter bubbles. Do you really think strengthening the filter bubble would help?

Discerning between truth and misinformation is also a "filter bubble". Any community-driven system that discerns between "this is what we like" and "this is what we hate" is also being used to discern between "this is what is true" and "this is what is false".

Online communities with healthy cultures and downvotes quickly destroy misinformation. In those circumstances, the filter bubble is a good thing. People pushing misinformation should be pushed either to stop posting misinfo or leave.

The challenge is that the people who are doing the most work on this subject - like Facebook and Twitter - have chosen to make it invisible. We don't know how Twitter and Facebook rank their posts and replies. But they obviously have invisible powers as leadership to identify which voices on their systems are "good" and which aren't, and give those "good" voices outsized power in communication.

But to me it seems obvious that something that takes Reddit's simple up/down interface but combines it with the kind of credibility ranking that Twitter does (where people who've been established as harmful don't actually have as much visibility or influence in the system) would be ideal.

Give the leadership tools to establish a preference for fact, and you also give them tools to establish a preference for their particular worldview. You can't separate those.

If you want a discussion system that supports fact over misinfo, you need to have a discussion system that enforces a community bias and creates a filter bubble, and then give the leadership the tools to control that filter bubble and bias, in the hopes that the leadership prefers truth over misinfo. Otherwise the community will organically create its own filter bubble on whatever biases it develops.

And if you have no filtering at all, you get 4chan, where abuse and misinformation run rampant.
There doesn't need to be an excuse. It's enough that it's a reality. People do stuff and don't wait us to excuse them before doing them.
Per https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/gami-awarded-long-awaite..., this new unleaded fuel is currently only approved for Cessna 172s with Lycoming engines, with expansion to more aircraft types coming next year.
The Japanese car companies have done pretty poorly in the 2010's in supporting the energy transition. Toyota has been extremely slow to adapt after the Prius, which makes sense because of their ridiculously large volume of sales of basic, gas-efficient passenger vehicles.

I give Toyota big props for the Prius, which was the original Green Vehicle 15-20 years ago, and still is a HUGE player in the efficiency space. IIRC, The number one vehicle trade-in for TSLA has been Priuses. Was there even a car before the Prius that used regenerative braking? In many ways, Prius "primed" the market for greener vehicles.

And yet, Toyota had no great BEV follow-up. In a high-tech educated country like Japan, an island nation with extremely large amounts of coastline, I'd assume Toyota and Honda would wise up to climate change earlier.
Prions are essentially already denatured/unfolded. They are a more stable state of a normal protein that has biological function, and they interact with the "correctly" folded proteins to cause them to denature into additional prions. Often denaturing a prion means actually breaking apart the protein into fragments or amino acids, because it is already at the most stable/denatured state. This is also why they are so persistent in nature and so hard to remove from surfaces. Apparently gas plasma sterilization is a promising possibility. (this seems like an ok overview of the challenges: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21271212/). Current procedures include things like autoclaving in 121C sodium hydroxide for 30 minutes. Definitely not something that fully cooking will inactivate.
My local Toyota dealer has about 25 new cars on their lot instead of 150+, that sounds like a pretty big hit.
The article doesn't go into it but flipping things around I wonder if an individualistic culture can cause bad parenting?

If I'm from a culture where three generations are living under the same roof, I'd imagine people are socialized to try to get along more out of necessity since they have to divide the house without strangling each other. But that can also mean the parents are socialized to fight with their kids less.
Well in the case of urban areas, outside of some select locations, the charging infra is just not there for BEVs. Even if there were good EV infra in urban areas, a compelling case could be made for improving and upgrading public transportation instead which is going to be more efficient than any personal vehicle - including BEVs.
Maybe they currently don't meet all the requirements?[1]

[1] https://www.fcc.gov/auction/904/factsheet
Yes, we've arrived again at GP's question.
> a two-party system creates the divide because it encourages such a powerful "us vs them" feeling

I agree, but that's just the punch-and-judy show. The real disaffection stems from seeing how the incentives of politicians are reliably not aligned with their nominal constituents.

We have legal precedent establishing money as speech, and a steep hill to climb for any third party to win the prerogatives which the two major US parties enjoy, like automatically getting your candidate on the ballot in all 50 states in federal elections.

I decided some time ago to never cast a vote for either of these two parties again. Even speaking with people who decry the bankrupt nature of these parties, they still view casting a vote for a third party as throwing their vote away.
Sure being on the wrong end of a downvoting is not pleasant - particularly when it's unexpected or undeserved. But it's not "sticks and stones", and without it, how can anyone tell if they're wasting their time preaching to the choir?
TLDR: FCC used outdated maps to award funds. They updated the maps and are now awarding companies based on revised maps.
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This is why it peeves me when people constantly just go "hey do you have a few minutes to chat?". Just tell me what you want, there's no good reason to keep me in suspense.
Yea, exactly.

My point is not about its reputation ..

Tumblr was not designed for traditional blogging. It has no commenting system for example, just a "retweet"-like feature; I forgot what they called it.

It was aimed more towards teenagers and young people - as far I can tell.

It just happened to have these very important features:

- Post in markdown

- Good looking themes with customization

As far as I can tell, that's really it! If you make a platform that just provides these two things all the YC startups will probably use your new service instead of Medium or whatever else they are using.
VPCs exist in Hetzner and you can set up networks in Hetzner Cloud now and also even link with Robot -- they're called vSwitches and they can connect to Hetzner Private networks:

https://docs.hetzner.com/cloud/networks/connect-dedi-vswitch...
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I looked into using a diesel engine in an experimental aircraft (US/FAA definition). Unleaded car engines are fairly common in these planes.

It turns out that Jet-A isn't necessarily good for a piston diesel engine, due to lubricity and cetane number. After enough reading, I decided to stick with unleaded/100LL until the day I can afford a proper turboprop.

https://generalaviationnews.com/2011/03/17/jet-a-versus-dies...

https://www.thedieselstop.com/threads/jet-a-vs-diesel.62296/

Having typed all this, when I was in Afghanistan with the US Army, the tactical trucks with diesel engines all ran on the same Jet-A that the aircraft used. I assume there was something different about that fuel, or the engines in those trucks.
I was just about to comment on this, but in a different way. I'm 26, most of my friends are early-to-mid twenties, and all of them would get a Three Stooges reference, or at least know who they are. It almost always feels super condescending to say it like "if you're under..." as opposed to "if you don't know them, they were a staple of physical comedy and comedy of errors, you should definitely look them up". Definite "You wouldn't get it kid" vibes that I'm never a fan of.

> it used to be that any society used to have fairly consistent cultural references that could be rely upon for analogies and such.

I wouldn't agree with that, or at least I wouldn't put this nearly as recent as you make it sound. I think that idea fell away when we stopped having folk tales. In America, I would point to the fall of the tall tale, like Paul Bunyan or John Henry. As someone who grew up adjacent to Appalachia, story-telling was a big part of my cultural education. I think it's something I was to pass to my kids too.

As a side note, in making this comment I came across the wikipedia page for "American Folklore" and it's actually a really interesting read.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Folklore_of_the_United_States
A defendant was compelled to use their face to unlock their computer in a recent case (2021) [1]. The reasoning given by an analyst:

> requiring a defendant to expose his face to unlock a computer can be lawful, and is not far removed from other procedures that are now routinely approved by courts, with proper justification: standing in a lineup, submitting a handwriting or voice exemplar, or submitting a blood or DNA sample

Contrasting the logic used by a judge in a similar case in (2019) [2]:

> If a person cannot be compelled to provide a passcode because it is a testimonial communication, a person cannot be compelled to provide one’s finger, thumb, iris, face, or other biometric feature to unlock that same device

Ars has a summary of more cases [3]. It looks like in several instances state courts allowed the devices to be unlocked using biometrics, but the rulings were reversed at the federal level. In many cases a warrant was required.

1. https://archive.is/i2Bx9

2. https://archive.is/px2Qz

3. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/indiana-supreme-...
Other thread mentioned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27957471
That's not all he makes you do
I (the guy two comments up) am in Canada through another provider. Whether the address range just isn't as well known and documented on whitelists, or one of my neighbors (IPv6 wise) runs botnets, there is no doubt that it is treated as much more suspicious traffic when I'm going through IPv6.

And this is well known in the industry. The IPv4 world has had enormous mapping and trust ratings and understanding -- coupled with a scarcity that gives range owners or operators a higher incentive to care about what happens on it -- while a lot of people are still completely in the dark about IPv6 and still treat it like some scary unknown.
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Is SoundCloud owned by google? I looked it up, but it didn't seem to be.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=google+owns+soundcloud&t=brave&ia=...
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You can disable it from the settings app.

The icon in the swipe up control center is for temporarily disconnecting it…which it literally tells you when you click it.
> With AWS you can deploy services to billions of people.

Yeah for tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars per month. You can do the same for free or a fraction of the price with other services (Cloudflare, etc).
I agree with @dahart.

The political threads were a special beast, where any comment that revealed your political leanings would get a deluge of downvotes from the opposition. The Tesla and Apple threads sometimes get a bit of this too. But the vast majority of my experience is that the downvotes I've received were well-deserved. Maybe I was just misinformed and propagating misinformation. Maybe I was trying and failing to be funny - and thus didn't contribute to the conversation or cultivate curiosity.

Low effort / incorrect comments don't bother me a great deal. Usually someone else comes along and downvotes those. If it's a thoughtful comment that I disagree with, I'll attempt to engage, if I think there's some value in putting the effort in.

With experience, you do get a feel for when comments just are not worth bothering with. If they are low effort / failing to contribute, downvote and move on with your life.

A community is very much the sum of the contributors, with spirit that stems from the guidelines and moderation. Without individuals putting something in, something more than what detractors try to take away, it couldn't exist and thrive.
I'd like to see that because it would be a nice big middle finger to all the brain dead fanboys who insist Toyota can never do anything wrong but being a big national company in Japan no matter what they do or don't do they won't be allowed to fail for the same reasons VW or Boeing won't.
One problem on HN is, that downvotes aren't limited to the comment but include the commenter.
Pretty good summary.

Clarification: for-profit users pay a percentage of end user revenue. non-profits and individuals pay nothing. Automated auditing envisioned.

This is a proposal, not nearly ready for roll-out.

The concepts are interesting, but only a rough framework exists at this time. The ideas are worth discussing. I wish there was a succinct blog post or something about them rather than this painful video.
Yes but the problem with "never been shown" is how it's often used to "take advantage" of people's interpretation like what you list above.

For example dropping a 27.4 kg ball on someone's head has never been shown to cause injury. We've dropped a 26.3 and a 29.5, but we've never studied dropping 27.4 kg - and as a result, "dropping a 27.4 kg ball on someone's head has never been shown to cause injury".

Frequently "never been shown" its used as a weasely way of saying "we've never looked at", or "we don't know if"
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When the unpopular opinions are things like "COVID is just the flu" and "climate change is fake", both of which have a substantial contingent that will support them, those ideas getting downvoted into oblivion is not a bad outcome.
Good news: Tesla's basic Autopilot is fantastic for that. Just don't fall asleep.