skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m estranged from my dad. I’m not sure the argument of individualism of the child is at fault, so much as the individualism of the parent.

My dad barely graduated high school and made a very nice living for himself. If anything is wrong with my life/anything goes poorly/I don’t have enough money for a house/vacation, it is because I am morally subpar and do not have a good enough relationship with Jesus.

I have a lot of older brother’s, a few who were in their 20’s in the crash of 2008 and I was in high school watching their lives go to shit. Attempting to get my dad to help me with anything (supporting me in programs/sports I wanted to take on in high school, getting money to apply to additional colleges) was met with derision.

His thought process was that education is superfluous, you need to work hard and show-up and that’s it. While both are things you need to do, it is not enough.

Myself and another sibling do not have a relationship with him, the other few do have a relationship but it is severely strained.

His rugged opinions of America and how to make it have alienated everyone around him. Even telling him these things 15+ years ago was not enough to get him to look at the world a different way.

I very much think the way older and younger generations view and experience the world are the main contributors to this massive schism.
In order to view files and folders on Windows it should be dir isn't it?

So why is it showing files when you type ls and not dir, and why dir command is not found?
I also personally like to have hierarchies of tests, where higher-level tests don't need to test specific details covered by the lower-level tests like edge cases. Take implementing a language (lexer, parser, static analysis, etc.) for an IDE or compiler.

For the lexer, I have the tests cover the different EBNF fixed string tokens (keywords and symbols) in a given token, along with the more complex tokens for numbers, etc. For the more complex tokens I have lexer tests covering the different valid number forms, identifier characters, etc. This leads to overlap in things like keywords, but not an overlap in implementing different specifications (e.g. CSS modules).

For the parser tests, because I have the lexical coverage, I can just use a representative example of a number, etc. That allows the parser tests to focus on the different paths (optional parts, loops, etc.) of the EBNF and things like error recovery when different symbols are missing. With these, I validate the AST is correct, including the AST class that implements that node in the tree.

For the AST tests, because I have the lexer and parser coverage, I can focus on the data model and how the information in the parse tree is exposed to the AST data model.

For the higher-level tests (resolving variables to their declarations, etc.) I can focus on the cases relevant to that level instead of having to also test combinations of the lower-level tests.
> All the languages in Europe descended from the Proto-Indo-European language

Except for Basque!
Inter-satellite switching (user laser links) is already happening with the sats in polar orbits. The sats in polar orbits need this, because there is no base stations on the ground within range - They need to route the signal through several satellites to a base station.

Elon Musk has said all satellites will eventually use laser interlinks, but they just don't have this ready yet (and the current generation of satellites probably doesn't have the hardware either)

More info here:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/01/space...
Surprised not to see Space Mono on the list, it's a solid one I like to use in terminals (gray/white on blue gives a nice 1960's 2001/what if IBM ruled the future of computing kind of aesthetic): https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Space+Mono
> disturbing packages, including live cockroaches.

I'm bearish on ordering insects to help your garden.

But if you truly find this disturbing try it out, it won't be cockroaches (unless you want an expensive meal for your chickens), but its kinda fun and the package will not be 'disturbing' even if it has creepy crawlies. Some will be eggs and some might be live.

If you have no garden needing attack insects, mealworms can be used in cooking.
My bad. Anyway, as a developer I think to ban anyone from using my services just because I dont like how my services are used is a stupid idea.
How to Get Rid of Warts at Home Fast – Warts Treatment
FSM surprised me too, especially how readable it ended up being even at smaller sizes. I've stuck with it for quite a while over lots of other good choices.
Grouping by hand or by ai?
current starlink satelites in polar orbit do have satellite to satellite routing capability, via laser comm links.
More info here: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/01/space...
Yes there is enough rental capacity for air travelers. But there are substantially more vacationers traveling by car. There isn’t enough rental capacity for them and it wouldn’t make economic sense to keep rental capacity around for the surge of demand around holidays. Current rental capacity works because it is matched up to flight capacity, which is stable and predictable.
I wonder how much is related to politics, religion, drugs, or prior abuse? The article doesn't really explore the causes.
Why not just reboot the read-only VM? ;-) Fresh install on every boot!
I am 42. I am still coping with a question I've had since I was young and was able to get my first office job.

Why am I paid so much money to basically do data organization. I'm organizing data.

There are other people that build houses, grow food, prepare food. Then there are others that are simply entertainers - but that does provide societal value. I mean I guess in order to have entertainment, we have to have this giant other house of cards built upon just BILLIONS of people that just sit and think all day and talk to other people.

I'm just at a huge loss why we don't all focus on growing food and building interesting structures, ponds, waterfalls, arenas.

No, instead our society has billions of organizers of data. Eh, it's late and I'm tired right now maybe I'll feel more useful tomorrow.
Sure.

But in these days and age of webmail I am not sure 70% of people have a mail client.

I don't really understand the argument of pitching mass adoption against something that doesn't exist yet.
It's all fun and games until you get a requirement that requires you to code. Now you have to code anyway, but using something that has 0.001% of the support online in terms of docos, solved problems, stackoverflow answers, and ongoing support from Oracle/MS/Facebook etc. of mainstream frameworks.

Bubble is great if you can't code and you want to save $5k on a developer (if the project is >$5k then its probably already too complex for no code!)
I'd love for all IDEs to support notebook style computing where comment blocks just turn into proportional font prose, perhaps with optional markdown rich text. Tables, lists, etc. look way better as proper HTML instead of ASCII art intermingled with code.
The hash input could just be a generic description of the bug, minus any sensitive info, plus some salt.

All report hashes would have to go public as soon as the report is accepted. The hash input could go public once the bug goes public, so the duplicate reporters can then finally see proof that the bug had already been reported.

In what cases would companies be unable to publish generic descriptions after the bug is public? I'm not in the industry so I have no idea about this.
Wasn't it Norton Ghost?, you could replicate drives.
Is the increase in beetle kill related to the suppression/reduction in small scale cooler fires? Would be interesting to understand.

In Australia it is only now becoming widely understood that stopping of the indigenous peoples burning of the bush has lead to an increase not only of large destructive bushfires but also a changing of the nature of the plants growing in an area. We are seeing more weeds and certainly more fire prone species which is leading in turn to an increase in the flammable fuel load. With the widespread 2020 bushfires causing so much destruction there has been an increase in appetite for looking at other options for land management, including trying to tap the fading knowledge of the indigenous elders on there traditional practice.
I've worked extensively with Microsoft support on deliverability issues, and I don't think it's a case of the right hand not talking to the left, it's a case of support wanting to close out issues as quickly as possible due to misaligned incentives. Microsoft has zero incentive to help small-time senders like the OP, since recipients are much more likely to blame the OP for delivery issues than Microsoft. Plus, Microsoft has no way of knowing for certain whether the OP is legitimate, so if they choose to help them, they might accidentally help a spammer. Therefore, Microsoft support is incentivized to simply ignore complaints like the OP or give them the run-around, which has been my experience.

The only part of the article that surprised me is the fact they actually got the issue escalated. I've never succeeded in doing that; talking to Microsoft support is like talking to a brick wall.
I wonder which countries do a better job with managing technical debt, both in digital and bureaucratic systems.

How much research and experimentation is being done in those areas?
Same here: "Why there are so many files? I only need the .exe to start my game." After deleting the "unnecessary" files the game woudln't work.
I read and write all my Python code (and all my code in every language) in a proportional font.

You may be thinking of Python's "significant whitespace". But all that does is indicate nested blocks.

This works exactly the same in a proportional or monospaced font. The only thing Python cares about is how many spaces or tabs you have at the beginning of a line, and that you don't mix the two.

There are coding styles that don't look as good in a proportional font, such as this kind of "column alignment" or "hanging indent":

def function_with_a_long_name(first_param_with_a_long_name,
second_param_with_a_long_name,
third_param_with_a_long_name):
pass

But you don't have to code like that!

The most popular Python code formatter, Black, only uses indentation and no column alignment. Here is how it formats that code:

def function_with_a_long_name(
first_param_with_a_long_name,
second_param_with_a_long_name,
third_param_with_a_long_name,
):
pass

This indentation-based coding style is just as easy to read and write in a proportional font as it is in monospaced.

https://black.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
People invoke Aum Shinrikyō all the time to draw conclusions about the condition of Japan at the time and the wider sociological forces that led to its rise. People invoke the existence of the tiniest, most fringe right-wing groups to draw conclusions about Japanese attitudes as well.

But I'm not even claiming the NSU, or even its allies in the state apparatus, are representative of the attitude of the average German, which are of course very liberal by historical standards—what I'm saying is that despite Germany being a country where the police forces are penetrated by Nazis operating in coordination with murderous terrorists and where right-wing groups were able to mobilize a riot with thousands of participants in Chemnitz alone, none of that stops millions of immigrants from leading peaceful, happy lives in Germany, despite the real, even violent, dangers that some of them face.

In comparison, a stranger not wanting to sit next to you on a train sounds like a very trivial problem—a very first-world problem. And yet, it's enough to cause you to dismiss Japan entirely as some inhospitably xenophobic society, even though there are immigrant communities in the countries that you've lived in who can complain about much worse. I'm sure you've seen the videos of people screaming racist abuse at passengers on the Tube—would it be fair to conclude that Britain is so hostile to immigrants that I shouldn't even consider living or working there?

My contention is simply that the experiences you've described are hardly adequate to demonstrate that Japan is uniquely or exceptionally xenophobic, and it's bizarre to conclude from that alone that it would be difficult to establish a happy life there.
Although some say their trial fonts used for non-commercial works. most foundries doesn’t actually have a seperate license for NC usage. For instance Input have a free (as in free beer) non-commercial license but you have to pay for it if you want to use it in commercial stuff.

(btw, font licensing in general is a mess)
Aside from the monetary gain of simply not paying. You keep posting this but it’s simply not true, there is always a gain in not paying debts. Money is money, The making of which is Google’s cute business. Chill on the loop-aid consumption.
Security update for Google Drive (make file sharing more secure to stop spam)
I don't wash my jackets or jeans that often either. Laundry was not "extremely uncommon" thing. It was thing that needed to be done in every household.

The switch to washday as in once a week washing cloth happened in period we talk about - after 1800. That is when you would spend one whole day in the week doing laundry.

Before that, you still had to do it, less often, but it took even more work due to lack of soap.
Turn the camera for one team?
The median is specifically the mid point of the data set, so it won't be "any number between 0 and 2", it will be one specific number depending on the data set.

If you look at ten people with 2, ten people with 0, and one person with 1, then the median will be 1.

If you make it twelve people with 2, still ten with 0 and one with 1, suddenly the median is 2.

Across an entire population, I would hazard a guess the median would be 0 or 2 unless the difference in numbers of each sex is small enough that people with 0<X<2 testicles might fall right in the middle of the distribution.
Systemic extrajudicial murder, making the evidence top secret, ignoring the rule of law and jailing any people who have enough of a conscience to whistleblow.

It's getting harder and harder to claim the US are still the good guys.
He was not a secessionist. He was a loving person who was with other loving people, and he was just trying to give the police officer a high-five as he drove by. He wasn't attacking the police. They are wonderful people.
I hope with $100m they can solve this. I think the only way to solve this is to hard-code so many different use cases into the gallery of controls, workflows and repeaters etc. that anything you dream of is easy to build.

They also need to invest heavily into UX and the ease of figuring out how to do something. I've used Bubble and similar tools, and they share something in common with coding - you need to watch/read a bunch of tutorials to figure out how to do what you need.

What they save is an initial headache of devops / authentication / wrangling which is bad enough as a programmer but extra hard for a non programmer to contend with.

Here is another idea for someone - a yes-code tool that lets you write everything in code, but handles devops/authentication and some common stuff for you. Basically Heroku + some NodeJS starter kit that is meticulously kept up to date.
New Qualified E-Signature Platform by Signius and Cryptomathic
Porn working similar to drugs, especially heroin, and many people underestimate it. There are few interesting research papers about.
Yes that’s the one. I wasn’t aware it expired this year but that’s good news!
The CMX video editor I learned to edit on used these. By the time I was learning on it in '92, it was already an old system but still the top system. All it held was text based EDLs, so it didn't need a lot of space. Once the smaller hub based tapes like 30min BCSP/Digibeta were available, the floppy holding the EDL was bigger than the tape holding the image data. I kinda miss the old tape based edit rooms.
I'm wondering what type of fires these were. There is a vast difference between a forest crown wild fire, and a cooler one that mostly works burning undergrowth and leaf litter. Still fires, still covering the same amount of ground, one can destroy the forest and anything else in the vicinity, the other can help plants germinate and seeds the forest for the next period of growth.
Peugeot 403 cabrio

https://www.cartalk.com/blogs/jim-motavalli/columbos-car-it-...
I had exactly same experience as author, however I didn't have enough perseverance to go that far. Changed IP and it worked.

Not sure how things are organised in microsoft, but it's one of worst support ever happened to me
no such thing as appealx or not, ceptuxyuax, any s perfx nmw https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27569631
I’m only seeing one sealed Windows 95 floppy retail box on eBay at the moment, and even though it’s sealed it looks to be in poor condition. Plus I am skeptical that it’s even the original sealing. Could have been resealed. And they want about $200 for it plus shipping.
What kind of forum is this? Super cool perspective
Yeah. PCs which consume high power when in idle state.
Reinstalling Windows XP SP 2 on my computer growing up was one of the first things that got interested in what was going on at the operating system level. I found Windows XP Inside Out around the house, read it over so many times, and eventually re-installed it on my computer for fun.

I was floored to realize how much faster things were. No wait time for a Windows Explorer window to open. Everything was snappy, even after reinstalling games and antivirus. It blew my mind.

I still think it helps, but with a much longer tail on the frequency required. Windows XP definitely grew slow over time though, whether that was due to installing programs, caches I could’ve cleared with CClearner, or more incremental updating. We leave a lot on the OS over time.
no such thing as chill or etc, monex doesnt matter
To reduce emissions, they've started targeting the gaming industry? The meat industry emits orders of magnitude more pollution (even relative to the number of users of each)! Obviously, politicians would lose favor for targeting the meat industry, and thus have avoided fixing measures which would actually reduce emissions.

> They list consoles with taking a bulk of the emissions at 66%, and desktop computers at 31%. In spite of this, consoles are seemingly exempt from the bill.

My guess is the exemption is to tend to corporate interests? Absurd.

This bill does nothing to target Bitcoin mining (these people custom-build machines anyway).

Thoughtless bill through-and-through.

Perhaps this will make more kids build their own PCs, and thus fall in love with computing. Pointless hurdles like this kickstart a hacker's journey. A silver lining at last.
If you measure the pressure at the bottom of two bottles containing different density liquids the same shape as the two stacks of different coins you get two different pressure readings.

In case it was not clear in my analogy a "penny" (it can be anything solid and incompressible) is representative of a water molecule. If you want to compare the pressures of stacks of pennies and quarters because for some reason you are fixated in these specific physical coins rather than what they represent then I will make it explicit. Imagine pennies represent water and quarters represent mercury. Two different liquids, two different coins, two different pressures. I don't get what you guys don't get.

Can you explain to me why you think it is intuitive that the downward pressure of a liquid at the bottom of a container should vary for equal depths but different volumes? E.g. you seem to intuitively think that if you have a big pan filled with 1 inch of water the water pressure at the bottom of the pan is greater than the pressure at the bottom of a 50 ml flask also filled with one inch of water. This is false but I am interested as to why you and the others think it is "intuitive?" Where does the additional force come from to increase the pressure in the bigger pan? Gravity pulls straight down.
Unfortunately the talking heads are what most people listen to. When they get it wrong, it allows the general public to claim the science is getting it wrong.
That's fine if the infrastructure is there, and your range isn't diminishes by temperature. It's honestly acceptable for many people.

It doesn't really suit my needs (I venture further out), but I concede that plenty of people would be just fine with this.
I did not mention social media, but I know things about Chinese influence in e.g. academia. It's not overblown at all; we are not talking nearly enough about it.

See, I already mentioned polling in totalitarian society does not make sense - it's quite simple really - and you are still using it as an argument. That's not a good way to have a discussion.
How to Reduce the App Development Costs Without Compromising the Quality?
You make it sound like you work in a filing department and that you're being figurative at the same time.
This sounds similar to my experience with Microsoft based email (Outlook, Hotmail, Live, custom 365 domains) I eventually decided to route Microsoft hosted emails over Amazon SES instead of a VPS hosted Postfix setup. This did help a bit. The fact that all other email providers work perfectly fine and Microsoft is the problematic one I think signals an issue with their spam filtering.
Pfizer Manufacturing and Supply Agreement – Albania
macOS 12 Monterey: Masterpiece from Apple yet to Hit the Internet
False: Seven figures trumps six.

Think like a mercenary.
> I'm sure they built a lot of stuff that fell down

Survivorship bias is the favourite catchphrase for HN these last few years.

I think you overestimate the importance of academic theory over practicality.

"Moar rocks" is a perfectly reasonable way ro fortify a structure. Because 1000 years from now engineers will be wondering how any of our stuff survived ("moar cement and steel rods!")

So yeah, I have a healthy respect for practicality.
I fail to see how a progressive residential energy tax wouldn’t have been the better option but I’m super jacked to see progress being made, even if it is a tad misguided.
All of those aren’t going to make humans extinct though. Are we potentially ruining the earth? Yeah probably. But the human race could certainly survive long term with no soil and no ocean animals.
It feels wrong to ban the sale of a product on the basis that "it might be used on the electrical grid".

There is nothing stopping me from buying a PC and running it on my own off grid solution.

If the power companies don't like my power consumption, they should simply implement solutions on their end, like charging me more money proportional to my usage.
It's not real Windows 1996.
Kingston Releases New Fury Memory After HyperX Brand Sold to HP
Kingston have released the FURY Memory, coming after the HyperX brand was sold to HP.

Kingston was originally the Parent company for HyperX branded gaming products, though they had ended up selling their Peripheral division to HP recently, with them keeping the storage and memory divisions.

As stated in the press release, the series includes the Renegade, Beast, and Impact based on the users needs. Renegade is recommended for gamers who want 4600 MHz2 and CL15-CL19 latencies for the highest frame-rates and smooth streaming.
“Email is so unreliable. Have you tried Teams?”

Just ignore that it’s Microsoft breaking a legacy standard to advantage their other products that compete against email. I think they should start fining companies in stock. Dilute the shareholder value by 5% and see how quickly things change.
There must be a few general equations that capture all these behaviors in fluids right? That is, aren’t all these just “emergent” aspects of some fundamental physics?