skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, many are worthless but of those that are not they simply want too much money. All too often you see a ridiculous price and just accept that domain is never going to be used for anything.

I made an offer on a domain once and the immediate response was 'I already have been offered more than this'. Obviously he thought this was some great negotiating technique?

As it happened, I didn't increase my offer and, a few months later, the domain dropped and I got it for the basic registration fee.

I have had a few good experiences though where the person holding the domain was professional and would accept a reasonable offer but, anecdotally, they are a minority.
The disagreement is as to who it is easy for; the author seems to only consider programmers by trade and then blame some notion of propagating a legacy of unsafe calls.

Every language the author lists as vulnerable was intended, at launch, to be used both as a serious programming language as well as program launching glue or by non-career programmers for things that aren't production grade applications.

The only language I can think of that is explicitly an application development language is Rust, and as the author mentions this vuln is not present.

And as a note, the alternative to exec in NodeJS are keeping execFile and using these ~10 lines [1] or using spawn directly with these 216 lines [2]. I barely trust myself to reliably reproduce those.

[1] https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/df25424b9195d31224529895...

[2] https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/df25424b9195d31224529895...
Nice stuff!

I found an error in the chinese demo, with the example you provided (4th character wasn't the same). I know no OCR is perfect, but IMHO at least your own demo should be free of errors.
>If you have a medical emergency while in places like this, you may be in serious trouble. Even in places like Antarctica, and even at the top of Mount Everest, we have modern medical facilities within range and helicopters that can come grab you, weather permitting.

A helicopter has landed on the summit of Everest ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier_Delsalle ) but that was a record attempt right on the edge of what is possible. I don't think they would have had enough margin to rescue anyone.

Even when I climbed Mera Peak (~21,000 feet) we were told there was no hope of a helicopter coming for us at the higher altitudes.
It is sometimes as simple as not having tinted windows :)
I was struck by the same comment. Forgot to add that they get tenure by volume of papers, which exacerbates this farce.
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> I also think there is a difference between consoles and general purpose devices that have not being properly explored by anyone and at some point should be identified by the law.

I disagree and would say that today the difference between these devices is arbitrary. Game console manufacturers don't allow Outlook or Google Docs or whatever on their stores, but there's no reason they couldn't be there. Their absolute control over their platform is no different than Apple's except that Apple is less restrictive.

> Consoles might need to be fixed too: for some reason, digital items cost the same or more than the physical counterpart, but provide you with less (can't re-sell, can't lend). And this doesn't take into account yet the fact that digital libraries will disappear when people die (can't leave to family your account, in theory). So consoles are not a good example, they are the most abusive ones.

I am by no means defending this practice in consoles. I'm objecting to carving out an exception for them. If you believe that phones should be more open as platforms then you should also believe that the consoles should be too.
Right, so the maths works for superluminal trajectories, but that doesn’t mean it corresponds to anything physical and to get ‘there’ from ‘here’ you need to get past that singularity.
I guess you are correct, they are not e2e encrypted. So part of my reasoning does not hold up, they could do this on the server if they wanted.

That I’d prefer to be honest.
I think all that suggests is that we do poor a job of helping specific individuals pinpoint the root cause of obesity for them.

I have lost multiple dress sizes without trying to do so. I finally got the right diagnosis in my thirties, "a better name for my problem than crazy", and changed my diet in accordance with medical recommendations.

I was 245 pounds for at least three years. I haven't weighed myself in upwards of a decade but I've likely finally dropped back below 180 pounds this year. I say that based on no longer feeling like "a beached whale" who has trouble getting up out of a chair and past experience with where that point occurs for me in terms of weight.

I imagine the minority who do solve it likely don't really talk much about what actually worked for them and why they think it worked. I have gotten insane amounts of ugly pushback for trying to talk about what works for me and my opinions about my own life and body and medical condition.

If you have any sense, you find what works for you and keep your trap shut so the "crabs" don't rip your arms off. Unfortunately that means the other 85 percent don't get to hear "calorie counting might just be a broken mental model and seems largely unrelated to what worked for me" and that leaves a whole lot of people stranded behind our current broken mental models because it's not socially acceptable to say "Well, that doesn't fit my experience. Here's what I think about my own life and maybe we can work out better mental models."
I’m surprised comments are saying it isn’t a thing. I was reading another thread a few days ago and people were saying it was very much a thing still and .com names were going for insane prices and limiting opportunities for real ideas and websites to be made.

I feel like there should be some process where you have to put a real website at the domain name in a certain time period or you lose it. And I mean a real website not those godaddy placeholders. It’s just another rent seeking scam like we get in real estate without something like that.
the psychology was just described to you above. Not sure what foundation you have to "disagree" with. Human actions and thought patterns are not some libertarian utopia of perfect rational behavior based on an economics equation
Trump campaigned on doing the opposite, didn't make much of a difference though.
I suggest you mention the Sinclair Method to him. It has worked wonders for thousands who were addicted to alcohol. It is a cheap prescription that you take before drinking and over time people actually drink normally again since the brain is rearranged (the medicine takes away pleasure from the drinking). It might save his life or reduce his cravings.
I stand corrected. I was only second-hand aware of the kinds of markups you see on physical goods like toys and electronics you see in B&Ms and didn't realize that software was different.
In which case, you can simply use the binary. Zig make is easier to consume external code, why have a separate process for consuming binaries from Zig vs. everything else?
Fair enough, but I closer 50 than 30, and look so, and the same girl did the next thing the next night, it was a store near an out of town Airbnb so I doubt my first interaction was forgetton
The total size of the download seems to be 3-4MB (based on https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js/blob/master/docs/loca...), which is actually less than I expected.
Hi Jerry -- thank you for sharing your story, and for your note about donating to those organizations; they are all doing incredibly important work.

I know it isn't fun being advertised to, but I really believe that what we're building at scite.ai will be directly useful for you in staying on top of the research in that field.

I wasn't sure how best to reach you, but if you drop me a note at the email in my profile, I would be happy to give you access to our platform (and run through how you can use it to stay up to date).

Ashish
Lead deficiency makes animals both sedentary and depressed. Somebody fucked up big time.
D___, that was a long read.
I've just read "Pianojacq, an easy way to learn to play the piano" from your blog. I like it. There is a video to show everything, and a direct link to the software. The tone is what I called "plain in a good way" in my comment, it's mostly information organized logically. I wish more blogs were like yours.
Will be interesting to see if the pill the world cup off next year with this style of bullshit.
> Good green building design isn't entirely rocket science.

Agreed, I think the Pretty Good House
concept sums it up quite well without going too deep into building science: https://www.prettygoodhouse.org/the-whole-shebang-in-one-rea...
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Its alluded to in the article, one of the biggest issues is the lack of incentives to actually check whether anything is working. Energy is cheap and construction works by ticking regulatory boxes, as long as there is no incentive or obligation to check no one does it. And of course people howl at the mere suggestion of increasing energy price so forget any ‘market mechanisms’. We did a pretty in depth review of this problem https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.111253
I don't read books anymore (I read everything on my phone)
MusicXML and Percussion Notation
It seems 200 people did it so far, around 4% of all climbers (at some point of time) :https://www.mensjournal.com/adventure/climbing-everest-adria... probably more of the 5k could have done it if they wanted to do it (and prepare longer for it).
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Also, he was basically lying and saying what the audience wanted to hear.

He said multiple times during his lifetime on design and usability that you give the people what they need not what they want.
Yes, it's kind of weird, since there's no benefit to claiming false things like "Tesseract.js is a pure Javascript port [...]". Say it's WASM, since people associate that with speed and newness (and heavyweight dependencies, but there's no hiding that).
Do you have any kind of browser extension installed? Does it still happen when you run a totally fresh user profile?
I get that time passes slower for those outwith the ship, but I'm struggling to wrap my head around how long it would take those on the ship to travel large distances at close to light speed - whenever I think on this topic, my head almost bursts with awe and wonder!

Let's consider a ship, travelling from Earth, and say it somehow accelerates almost instantly to just below light speed, and travels for a distance of 1 light year. How much time would pass for those still on Earth, and for those on the ship?
The asterisk I was referring to is the fact that the E2EE keys are backed up to iCloud Backups along with your messages, and those backups are not E2EE. So the encryption of iMessages is fairly easy to get around if either the sender or the recipient uses iCloud backup.
Good point.
Yeah, I'd rather have the same rights digitally everywhere. Makes also things easier.

I vote with my wallet and avoid buying consoles (but I can't stop my wife from owning one), but there isn't much more you can do about it, sadly.

Politicians tend to be controlled by the money, everyone turns a blind eye to the idea of real digital rights.
Agreed, if you're in recovery, do not attempt moderation. That normalizes the behavior and is a slippery slope. Seriously thinking this may work for you is a probable sign you should talk to your sponsor or attend an AA meeting.
I read that the opposite. 'Not with drugs (except alcohol)' would include alcohol in the category of drugs.
I think both types of candies can coexist. If someone makes a joke, it's probably to grab your attention. If someone talks about politics, it's probably to signal something to their peers. If someone uses the last marvel as an example, it's probably a bit of both.

> I don't like when someone puts memes in each paragraph but at the same time I don't like to read "guru on a high horse" that comes like he is a smart ass because he pretends to be professional and all that.

That's fair, I don't like this style too. Which is why I like to describe what I like as "plain English". I'd say the characteristic is that the content is mostly information, and not signalling or entertainment.
Really funny thing happened to me last year. I got COVID, luckily fairly mild but with some long lasting symptoms. The odd thing is that I no longer have appetite for drink or opiates/cocaine (on top of my maintenance medication) Surprising as I’ve been on that path for 15+ years. It’s not much but at least something good has come out of (having) COVID…
> is absolutely against any form of discrimination, harassment, or unfair treatment of any kind

It's truly bizarre that any company that spews this PR canned response implies that their (likely thousands) supervisors/leaders universally uphold the company values. You can have corporate policies and virtues until you're blue in the face, it doesn't mean shit if those policies aren't aggressively enforced.

The truth is that Tesla doesn't stand for a single thing, apart from their bottom line.
> Then spread this image on the web, and incriminate everybody.

You'd still have to generate several images and persuade people to download multiple of them into their photo roll. And as I understand it there's yet another layer of Apple employees to review the photo metadata before it ever makes its way to law enforcement.
> Even when I climbed Mera Peak (~21,000 feet) we were told there was no hope of a helicopter coming for us at the higher altitudes.

Not that this isn't extremely dangerous in its own right, but at least there is the option, however slight it may be under the current conditions, of getting to a lower altitude where the helicopter or a rescue climb can get to you. This may be even more feasible if climbing with a group who can help get you lower.

On Pitcairn, you simply aren't leaving in any reasonable timeframe. If you survive a heart attack but it only gives you 2 weeks to live without surgery, and the next ship is due in 3 months and the closest freighter is 3 weeks away, you're going to die.

It's more similar to being on the moon than on a mountain.
The pandemic was not a black swan event.

However i agree with you and i think even the US govt agrees with you. Thats the reason farming subsidies exist
Have you written anything on proposed solutions? That would be an interesting read if you have.
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That makes sense! Not having variations based on neighbors is a very nice simplicity to have, except for the lengthening and doubling symbols.
I am curious, why did you never open the app again?

I am a little familiar with memory palaces, and I have used the peg system many years ago.

Maybe Anki is not the exact tool I need. I am mainly looking for a way to organize knowledge. If I take a lot of notes, they rarely get re-read. I would like a system where I get at something when I need it.
9/11 is an inflection point in modern day America, but there have been other equal/greater inflection points. Revolutionary War, Civil War, WW2… lots of war
> We all want to be happy, if for some reason happiness for you is tied a lot more to eating than to being healthy and fit, you can try all you want it just wont make you happy if you do.

The point is that overeating won’t make us happy either. Maybe it will give some 15 seconds of gratification but then most of us will feel guilt, and the long term effect has terrible consequences. Maybe the problem lies also in the fact that our simple brains can’t really understand the future. I’ve read somewhere that many asiatic languages don’t have a future tense, hence people there when facing the choice of eating something think along the lines “if I eat this I AM fatter/less healthy” and this could be a factor in the way lower obesity prevalence.
Please note that those 3-7% margins only apply to games. I never dealt with other types of software.

To make money on reselling games from Blizzard, EA and others you have to be an insanely talented buyer and have very little overhead.
The key word here being "should", and they are clearly not filtering at the network level. I can tell, I still get spoofed robocalls... The clipper chip provided end users the ability to cryptographically prove callers were who they claimed to be independent of the network operator, which is a key need of a crypto system.

Robocalling with spoofed ANI has been a problem long enough that I think we can safely say the network operator is 100% complicit with this activity now. The phone company could track down kids war-dialing blocks of numbers in the 1980's in order to make sure they were not telemarketers not paying higher telemarketing fees. Do people really think the phone company is not getting a cut of these robospoofers?
Same. I literally got addicted to exercise. Not trying to brag, I’ve also dealt with addictions to food, sleep, video games.

I also have mild OCD. And I’m not depressed, but i get bored very easily and very fast.

The key for me is also habits, diversion, and moderation. I have an easy time forming habits because of OCD so I just have to prune bad ones, easier said than done. I also keep track of how i feel, and just naturally feel bad if i eat too much or sleep late, which seems to subconsciously make me not want to do those things, so i don’t have to use as much willpower.
To avoid confusion for future readers: the second part of the post, the part which contains the quote, talks about VS Code `ShellExedution` API. This API is unrelated to node’s `child_process` module. The absence of clear docs on `ShellExecution` is one drawback of the API which is called out.

Separately from the factual response, I want to explicitly say that I don’t endorse such style of communication. Please do not blindly assume, and then pick on, on the lack of knowledge of other people (be it author of the post or abstract lot of developers).

Even when you actually find the lack of knowledge (rather than assuming it), do not scold people for it. It’s OK to not know things, we all learned them for the first time once.
It's definitely stuff profitable if you get lucky but maintaining a portfolio of 100 .com's will eat up your potential profits on a nasty slow burn.
I tried to use the twitter api with bubble and failed (not just authentication). I'm sure I'd have figured it out with plain code.

There was a badly documented plugin for twitter and it could do a subset of what the API was capable of, but I didn't see how I could extend it meaningfully.

I really wished API usage and low-code would get a bit more love.
There's one in the English demo too: "hail!" -> "haill". They're both pretty bad images though. In practice I've found (command line) Tesseract very accurate on 300dpi scans of printed documents, with colour/greyscale, not binary.
Tho, $145 can be a lot of difference if you are tight with money.

The other thing is that it the average abuser and average account have likely quite different profiles. Average account will have much higher amount of passive accounts that owner don't care about anymore.
Have you ever been obese and lost a lot of weight and kept it off for a long period? I'm wondering if you are speaking from personal experience, or just repeating things you have heard from other people.
How much of the HN bubble is already comfortably employeed by these giants at golden handcuff level salaries? I don't think I'd look for disruption to come from here.
in my personal experience, laziness is absolutely a thing. As an example, many friends in college would go party or hang out far more often than I did. Its not that I didn't like hanging out, its that I valued the long term payout of good grades more than my current suffering.

I've also ran through the mountains until I literally couldn't stand from a pile of stress fractures. Even though very stupid, its an example of mind over matter.

To me laziness is an inability to mentally force action over the brains signals to not incur distress or effort.

I feel pretty confident that there is a large overlap of "lazy people" with people that would have a hard time taking cold showers in the morning for a month, if hot water was available.
Tesseract is decent for scanned imagery, whether in actual images or in PDFs but definitely not for text in the wild.
As an user, you would be really stupid to use RCS.
It is like giving control to Google over your messages that are usually handled directly by your Telco.

Also, currently sms is the fallback that works without internet and connectivity.
But if you want a real feature full efficient and encrypted messenger, use a dedicated one that has no "relation" with your Telco (and eventually google).
I hate this idea that addiction is someone just getting high so they don't have to feel bad feelings, which seems to be the underlying assumption of most discussions.

My dad drank heavily for a lot of years. I grew up hearing tales of his legendary drinking. Mom would buy him a case of beer on Sunday and if he ran out mid-week, he would drunkenly accuse her of drinking his beer -- which makes no sense because mom is a tea totaller. He would go on a bar crawl on nickel night and hit dozens of bars with his buddies. Etc.

He was in the army and he fought in the front lines of two wars, WWII and Vietnam. He retired when I was three and apparently began tapering off.

I don't recall him having the DTs. I don't recall him drinking heavy in my lifetime. I recall him having a beer as part of dinner when I was four or five.

When I was seven, he was diagnosed with a heart condition. He blamed it on the alcohol and never touched the stuff again (except for a few sips when my brother hit drinking age while talking to him about what made for a good beer, I think).

By then, he had been out of the army for four years or so. He had time to taper off for a few years before making his dramatic announcement that he wasn't drinking again.

I think he drank to suppress his nightmares from serving in two wars. I think he didn't need to actively suppress his nightmares anymore after he dropped his retirement papers and no longer had to live in fear of being sent back.

I think people drink and drug for a reason. We just mostly don't bother to try to figure out what the reason is for this specific person and we just act like "You are a badly behaved child who needs a spanking and you need to just try harder." And then blame them when that stupid idea consistently fails to be an effective solution to their problem.

Edited. Cuz typos and auto-corrupt.
Article was posted April 2020.

The numbers today are probably much higher with little change in overall proportions.
It's not an unnecessary queue… Do you even know how this system works? “Bureaucracy” isn't always (or even usually) a mere obstacle; it has important functions. Queues usually come from not enough of it, not too much.
To reduce server side burden/costs