skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not the point of this. You would use this for something like poor management (quite common) that had "stand-up"s on Zoom every day or couple of days that were dragging out and had too many participants listening to irrelevant updates.
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> Now the spam is on Facebook groups, Whatsapp group chats, TikTok, Twitter, Medium, Linkedin.....the list goes on

Of that list, Medium is the only one I would ever expect/want a search engine to even consider returning results for searches on "how to buy a bicycle for under $500". If I was King, you'd need to add allow:social to any google search to get any results at all from anything remotely like a social media or messaging application. I'd include LinkedIn and Pinterest and similar sites in that exclusion. If you want that stuff, you need to ask for it.
sweet, ill try it out

edit: nice app! I had to click around a lot to find the notification page, but overall seems like it does what it says. best of luck
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Out of curiosity, what do you use to automate deleting of old snapshots? I’m aware of zfs-prune-snapshots, but what’s the best way to automate it (or something like it)? Cron job, or something else?

(For anyone wondering, https://github.com/bahamas10/zfs-prune-snapshots)
> some of the Baby Bells later merged into AT&T

Kind of, the baby bells running Cingular bought AT&T and rebranded
Right. Google is the stage the actor gets to perform. Google built the stage. It's like the phrase "if you build, they will come" came to fruition.

The thing to remember as a Dev, no matter how well intended your project is, users will always find a way to use it in a manner you never thought about that is the most advantageous way for the user.
"Gross, right? But, like immigrants, it gets the job done."

fuck this guy and his blog about blogging...

(Which, in case you're easily offended, is a quote from the Musical "Blogging about Blogging is so last Decade, and also you're a Racist". I hear it cannot be offensive if it's a quote of some sort).
Just in my experience as an investor, I have never seen anything like this. And I am somewhat familiar with financial history, and I have never heard of anything like this happening either.

It isn't just all the fraud SPACs, it is GME, it is AMC. You can have a business that is overvalued based on the fundamentals, but the future is always unknown. What is interesting about now is that you have companies with huge risks, that are already doing poorly today, and the market is just ignoring it (and btw, you have started to see papers appearing, both theory and practical, that explain how retail money is pushing these stocks...this is something that people in the market already understand but there is point blank ignorance from govt, media, economists, etc.). With dot-com, there was theoretical growth there. With housing, there was structural reasons why the market didn't function. There are often fundamental reasons why these things happen. With this, it is just a wave of money crashing into this small section of the market.

The only exception that occurs to me is HTZ. There was a huge media furore about that, and it turned out that was totally wrong (people who bought at the bottom got more than 10x their money in six months).
less and less every year.

The reality of game dev life are often discussed online and at this stage if you consider the career you'd hear about it.
Congrats man, I love the book and the final physical/PDF book layout/design is amazing!
GarageBand features new Sound Packs from Dua Lipa, Lady Gaga, and top producers
There are houses built with foam blocks as the form for holding concrete (ICF) built in the 1970s that are still standing.

Make sure the foam used has the proper PSI rating, and make sure you have proper drainage to reduce hydrostatic pressure, and there's no reason these things can't last 'forever'. It's not like the foam is biodegradable after all.
Congrats! Been following you for a while and just finished the blog post...what a huge effort and meticulous attention to detail. I can't wait to buy the book so I can continue to procrastinate reading the full thing in print instead of on my computer monitor
Fun app for personal use, but it seems rather passive aggressive to display this in Zoom if you aren't the one who called the meeting. Voice a concern if you think a meeting isn't necessary. Don't quietly try to undermine the meeting as it is happening. And odds are if this is something everyone on the team wants to include in a meeting, the team probably already puts a priority on not wasting time in meetings.
So we've an "if", a "might", a "might", and one more "might" with no supporting evidence, and that's directly contradicted by the screenshots in the article. Specifically, if the goal here was to bury the good content so that people would be forced to buy ads for it *there should be some ads pointing to said good content*. There aren't in the screenshot.

I would suggest that you didn't really think this through. You've decided who the villain is, spent 10 seconds coming up with a illogical narrative where that is true, and then just state it as some obvious fact. Just like the author of the original article.
People don’t know about you that much. Give them a trial and they will all leave their existing tools as those are outdated
Well said. It's projection. Many of those complaining about others being captured by memes are they themselves captured by groupthink. That the institutions are failing so badly is, understandably, causing great distress and cognitive dissonance for people who desperately want to trust an authority.

It's easy to forget, but all of this and more came from public health professionals and the media:

Two weeks to flatten the curve.

The flu is the real pandemic.

Get out there for Chinese New Year!

Wuhan Lab Leak is for crazy racists.

Masks don’t work.

No Lockdowns Anymore!

So is it any wonder that people are confused and angry?
Hmm, well currently all my machines, phones etc backup to a nas (zol) which I then reclone up to an encrypted b2 bucket, but tbh the restores suck and they charge for traffic so I was contemplating just throwing em on rsync.net, you recon Borg->rs.n is the way to go instead of zfs send? Under 2tb..
Wasn’t Moderna funded by the government? And they also got government contracts before they had a final product.
Here's the big Japanese tsunami that devastated Fukushima arriving in California.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdMDCLwblkY
Not OP, but happy fish user too.

For me, yes I still write my scripts in hashbanged (ba)sh scripts; the only fish I write is my config.fish. Fish might be an objectively better language, I don't want to learn it and prefer keeping writing (ba)sh, as

1. (ba)sh is an evil I know...

2. ... that I must know anyway to work on servers (while fish's "utility" is low as used nowhere but around the fish shell)...

3. ... and shellcheck makes it (a bit) less of a footgun.

When I do need to write a bash one-liner, I just run it in bash :) . But it's a once-in-a-blue-moon occurrence, since pipes are the same, and fish added syntax for && and || a few years ago (before that, they didn't exist and you had to use and; and or;), and added support a few months ago for `FOO=bar ...` direct env.var setting (before that you had to `env FOO bar ...`). So, your typical `thing --blah | grep stuff | awk stuff | whatever && something` generally works in fish.
Inmarsat Challenges Musk and OneWeb with New Satellite Network
They used to. In the era of quantitative easing, governments just pump money into any failing major player.

edit: I see I rustled some jimmies. Feel free to have a look yourself at "modern capitalism".

https://money.cnn.com/news/specials/storysupplement/bankbail...
Ah, the old "Step one: create a general purpose artificial intelligence."
This is exactly why frontends are orders of magnitudes more difficult to build if equal quality standards are applied to both back and front ends.

A front end is a state machine that relies on a bunch of enormous framework layers. Give me an app, mobile or web, and I'll find a glitch or two in the first few minutes of using it.

Backends on the other hand, like you said, only ever talk to other programs. And that means building a 100% correct and bug free backend system is not such a fantastical goal.
Hence the need for a meritocracy.
The reviews are usually somewhat accurate but only include items found on Amazon. So I'm guessing they hire people to write the reviews.
This is why keeping good, linear history is so important. The software isn't magic. It won't be able to tell you where the bug is in that giant commit that touched every module in the codebase. Good history is your input to git bisect. It's the only reason (but an extremely compelling reason) to care about your git history.
I would love to see a feedback feature (not necessarily for this app but just in general) where meeting participants can answer: 1. Did I learn anything new at this meeting? 2. Did I talk at all during this meeting? 3. Would I have gotten the same value from some asynchronous shared doc, etc etc.

So many meetings have so many people that just lose time by going to the meeting and provide no updates or don't receive any new info just because the meetings are big and unwieldy
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Have you ever watched Arthur? They cover current events in every season, and have done episodes about social media and the Internet.

There's a value to staying current, even when your target audience nearly completely refreshes every few years.
Exactly.

Dig around in C land and you’ll find 100s of opinions, even more libs and toolkits that came and went out of fashion.

Web stacks are “computing” to industry right now. In the 80s and 90s it was OS and database.

If low-level had the old economic attention, we’d see the same activity and mess as we did in the 80s and 90s. Everyone has a compiler to tell you about, and a build system DSL that’s just right for your problem!

But big corp largely controls that and so a new layer of abstraction was added via web, and we’re seeing a shift now to less UI, and machine driven decision making that just gives us the next step in the recipe.

Frankly I don’t mind technology for navigating human society; buying stuff and literal navigation.

I still unplug with musical instruments and the forest.

The addictive applications we’ve built in technology; games, social and multimedia, got really banal for me a long time ago. If I hear things like “Itsa me, Mario” or something about Halo I recoil at the cringe.

I guess I don’t want my psychedelic noise wrapped up in branding and consumerism.
Those are generally at the top of the structure.
Sponge-like fossil could be Earth’s earliest known animal
Digital Surveillance of US Caregivers
Agents of Alienation (1995)
Prion diseases aren't airborne. Yes, you can aerosolize them mechanically and get them to infect mice in a lab. There has never been a known case of airborne transmission between two animals. The shed load just isn't remotely high enough, being a brain plaque and not a respiratory infection.
This always seems to be such a controversial view here, but if you think a meeting is pointless and that you have nothing to gain from it or contribute to it, just don't go. We're all grown-ups at work, and are ultimately responsible for our own productivity. Be prepared to articulate exactly why you feel some other use of your time is more appropriate, in case someone asks, but nobody is holding a gun to your head telling you to join the meeting. I'm double-booked for meetings all day, so I'm constantly making judgment calls about which one (or neither) is more important. It's not a big deal, and you don't need an app for it.
> Am I missing something?

If the foam blocks are buried, it's less likely they'll make it into the water cycle. (That's not to say they won't cause other problems.)

Also, all the samples collected are not biodegraded, but rather the actual molecule of plastics that's simply gotten smaller and smaller. See "microplastics":

* https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/microplastics.html

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microplastics
> But the alternative to geofoam is usually clean fill, like sand, which weighs about 110 lb/cf.

Why not aircrete?
I've always assumed that this is a bug in their A/B tests, because I cannot even imagine how utterly degenerate their product design process must have become to come up with this on purpose.
You confuse the causes and the consequences.

And this is very very dangerous for us, because you are not the only one like that, but a lot of policy maker push for these fake arguments as it is very convenient for them to support their policies.

There was an excellent article in HN that explains why you are wrong:

https://www.cigionline.org/articles/disinformation-its-histo...

(Discussion link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27923933 )
There are unfortunately a lot of people who are put in a bad situation by bosses despite having multiple people explaining the time is a waste. Including them.

So a little bit of passive aggression when someone is in that situation might help them fight out of it and give them a little breathing room. And the reality is that many jobs like that, if the manager reacts badly, it might actually be a relief for the person to finally move on to another job.
The job posting is actually real.

Web: https://nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NYT/job/New-York...

Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20210728020438/https://nytimes.w...
which would depress prices
Congratulations on completing this long journey. I just bought a copy, mostly to reward your effort, but also to satisfy my curiosity on an aspect of how the PDF sausage was made. I notice that the PDF version of the book doesn't include the semantic tags required for accessibility. Now, please don't take this as a criticism; I know that people (like me) who use a screen reader or other accessibility tool can go with the EPUB or online version. But, I wonder, did you consciously decide to turn off tagged PDF, or were you just going with the default in InDesign? Thanks!
Bosses also want you tied to a location. If you could change job without moving city then that is a threat to them.
The number of Tesla haters on HN is bizarre.
Personally, I find that I procrastinate so much more effectively in print than on a screen. Being able to hold the material in my hands... and yet still failing to actually do so, really makes a difference.
Still cheaper than AWS!

* AWS in July 2021: 0.005 USD/hour = 3.65 USD/month.

* Hetzner in July 2021: 0.84 EUR/month = 1.00 USD/month.

* Hetzner from January 2022: 1.70 EUR/month = 2.02 USD/month.

With a 19 EUR = 22.58 USD setup fee at Hetzner since August 2021:

x * 1.00 + 22.58 = x * 3.65;

22.58 = x * (3.65 - 1.00)

x = 22.58 / (3.65 - 1.00) = 22.58 / 2.65 = 8.52 months to recoup the setup fee compared to AWS.

With the Jan 2022 monthly price increase:

x * 2.02 + 22.58 = x * 3.65;

22.58 = x * (3.65 - 2.02)

x = 22.58 / (3.65 - 2.02) = 22.58 / 1.63 = 13.85 months to recoup the setup fee compared to AWS.

It's interesting that the 19 EUR per IPv4 setup fee applies to both single IP addresses, as well as full subnets -- /24 now has a whopping 4864 EUR setup fee! (19*256=4864) Ouch!
You’re correct that they often aren’t, but all the same I find it amusing to read this comment attached to a StackOverflow link where the exact person who suggested “gimme gimme gimme” and the implementer both answered.

Obviously not the ones making the “why are you $X” comments in this case though.
I've probably personally planted upwards of 50 trees with volunteer organizations. I love trees more than pretty much anything else. I'm starting to get scared that we're just not going to have the precipitation required to sustain the forest of today. How many of those trees that I planted in Georgia will even survive 30 years? I hope all of them, I'm increasingly pessimistic.
Wait till they use it to show the cost of your time spent on HN, or gabbing while refilling your coffee cup.
Thanks for articulating this. I call them XY inquisitors. We had a couple at work a few years ago and any question directed at them was met with a somewhat derisive "What are you trying to DO?".

Of course there are cases where the question poser of Y benefits from having their X identified, an archetypal case here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2691018/decimalformat-an...
That's the June data, which was down relative to May and April. Hence "boom over".
True. Not saying it's usually practical. But still would be best to fire them.
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> I can build a decent and reliable frontend with a no code solution

Things that can be built that way are not interesting. Of course you can just assemble online stores without writing a single line of code, but that's not exactly programming. We are talking about frontends that have some sort of novelty or at least non-standard flows in them.
Thank you! It looks really nice in person, if I do say so myself. It's so cool to see the illustrations in full crisp 600 DPI.
> Does anyone think that this can possibly be at the core of Google's page rank anymore?

Yes, it is, and it still makes up the super majority of factors. It's the reason why people buy expired domains (that have links pointing to them), it's the reason why they pay lots of money to rent a subdomain or folder on cnn.com. It's the links, and it's only the links. And it works great.

The actual content on the site has little to do with the ranking. Yeah, sure, you need to have the keywords in there, but you don't need quality content, you just need quality links.
> Having experienced both system as well, the Canadian system is much less burdensome, but if I had serious cancer I’d take the US system any day. They throw the kitchen sink and more at you in the US and insurance will pay for most of it.

Of course this means they'll also push incredibly expensive but dubious interventions for all patients (even those that are clearly terminal).

I have no idea whether Canada etc are better in this regard, but all the incentives line up to treat all patients in the most expensive way possible to the "bitter end." I've seen this personally with terminal patients, resulting in them squandering their final months on brutal and ineffective treatment as they follow that "false hope" to gain some "extra time," but it also means expensive (and high risk) surgery is encouraged way more often than e.g. physical therapy for minor issues.

I guess if you're a very savvy consumer this system could work for the better, because you would only opt for the truly necessary and likely to be effective expensive procedures, but it's incredibly difficult to make clear-eyed decisions in moments of health crises.
There probably won't be a large wave of dead schoolchildren. But there might be a wave of dead teachers, for exactly the reason you mention.

Probably not a large wave, since there's only 1 teacher per ~20-30 students. We've got ~4 million teachers. Most are vaccinated. So only about 1 in 100,000 would die, so perhaps 40 deaths.

Not all are vaccinated. Maybe 100 teachers will die all told.

Children rarely die of COVID. It happens, but not often. We're often reminded that it mostly kills those with some kind of predisposition -- age, illness, weight, etc. Which describes a lot of teachers, because teachers are adults, and often older adults.

Maybe 100 teacher deaths will change people's minds, especially after other teachers start noticing and pointing it out. Or maybe not. Lots of people seem to think it's a fine tradeoff, though usually not the same people taking the risk. They'll definitely notice if teachers start refusing to take the risk.
HTZ = Hertz?
Also, ebay.
>In US for something similar you can look at ICAO passports and Enhanced driver's license,

I'm not sure what you mean be "Enhanced driver's license", but my RealId driver's license doesn't seem to have a chip in it, just an excess of holographic overlays.
The Mustache template language has a bash version that is good for simple stuff: https://github.com/tests-always-included/mo
Yeah, I've thought a bunch about polyglot environments and the design I keep coming back to is a very generic object representation (almost definitely with a metaobject protocol), of which functions are just one kind of object. GraalVM does this with https://www.graalvm.org/truffle/javadoc/org/graalvm/polyglot...
What about for persistent storage? Looking for something close to free in that department

Database or key/value storage, decent connection performance
not necessarily. the assumption part is the key. If I search wild turkey, I would accept listings on the bird or the specific whiskey. I would not accept listings of other brands of whiskey or scotch or other alcohol. I also would not accept listings on birds unless there was direct mention of wild turkey in it. Assuming I was interested in something other than what was requested is where it lost usefulness to me. Maybe others found it more useful, but when I search for a term I want that term in the results when I hit search. It's an entirely different concept when I hit Feeling Lucky. At that point, I'll accept any of the previous examples
All products rely on marketing.
Obesity is culturally infectious. If you have fat friends/family/SO you will get fatter in most cases (more than 1%). It is also acutely deadly as most of thr top10 death causes are directly related to diet and lifestyle.

Important to note that obesity is excess of fat related to general bodyweight, not only total weight.
Explaining why the ESA is also underfunded doesn't justify under-funding NASA. Two wrongs don't make a right.

Across all industries the average R&D budget is around 4%. When you look at the US R&D budget it's about 3% of the annual budget with 2% going directly to Military R&D and 0.5% going to defense and other military adjacent R&D. That's not entirely accurate thought because the Military budget for R&D also encompasses Training and Exercises. So only a fraction of that 2% is used for actual R&D.

That missing 1% is 3x Nasa's budget and 1.5 the DOD's.
sure, thanks for getting back!
>Voice a concern if you think a meeting isn't necessary

Correct, I simple ask if I can be excused from the meeting.

Which I find myself doing occasionally, since a lot of people do not bother looking at anyones busy/ free calender and I end up being quadriple booked
Why do you say Duolingo doesn’t use native speakers? Their Spanish speakers for example are either native or indistinguishable from native speakers.
This should not be surprising to anyone. Arstechnica has followed Nikola's terrible and obvious fraud(s) for years now:

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/02/nikola-admits-to-making...

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/12/nikola-stock-craters-af...

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/09/nikola-patented-a-stole...

And many more...

The speculation around this stock has been insane for many years now:

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/11/nikola-stock-soars-afte...

Top quote: "The market can remain irrational longer than you can roll your eyes at it."
Like many famous people that have a massive cult following, some people like the current Tesla CEO, are allowed and able to get away with lots of fraud and can still continue to mislead their own customers. Like the dangerous and faulty 'Full Self Driving' software that is killing their customers. [0]

The villains of this week is Trevor Milton and Nikola Motors. Tesla will probably get away with [0] no matter how many people expose FSD which puts lots of drivers lives at risk.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/05/business/tesla-autopilot-...
I've even had this with mis-spelled words (i.e. "the best Bivycle of 2021" or something like that); I wonder how the f*ck those sites are being generated.