skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes Oil is the only shell that's a graceful upgrade from POSIX sh and bash :) If it were done the other way around, that would have been impossible.

As long as the implementation makes enough progress, I have no doubt it will pay off. I think this is "obvious" if you look at the history of technology, but I guess I have to publish this blog post draft called Don't Break X (Why Oil is a Long-Winded Project)

- Don't Break Windows apps. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost...

- Don't break JavaScript and the web. From HOPL IV. https://hopl4.sigplan.org/details/hopl-4-papers/10/JavaScrip... . Wirfs-Brock and Brendan Eich discuss whether the JS standards committee did the WRONG THING for 10 years.

- Don't break the Linux kernel interface. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/235335/why-is-there... (there is probably a better link for this one; there's one with a lot of profanity and insults from Linus Torvalds that I'm not sure I want to use)

Similarly, Oil doesn't break shell, and we definitely need a shell like that.

Other alternative, incompatible shells are valuable, but there's absolutely no question that there needs to be a compatible upgrade. Just like C++ has made huge leaps while Rust was being developed. (Crucially, Oil is different than C++ as it actually deprecates some legacy with parsing and runtime options.)

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There's a distortion where all the people interested in Oil now are by definition interested in new stuff. That is, in reality 95% of people are more interested in OSH than Oil, because they don't care about new languages and they just want things to work. But the people I hear from are the 5% who care about new stuff. (which is good, but it's not representative).

A similar distortion is that there are probably 10x to 50x more people working on C++ than Rust (e.g. at least 10,000 people at Google alone; I'd surprised if more than 100 or 1000 do any Rust for work. Also consider older companies like Oracle.). But if you were to go by this corner of the Internet, you might think Rust is the more popular language.

In reality C++ is the far bigger and more capable ecosystem, if you care about robotics, embedded, AI, GPU, native desktop apps, information retrieval and data structures, etc.
This is what I don't get at all about autopilot. It's fantastic that it can do X, but if I have to supervise and also take full responsibility, then what's my benefit? That I get to babysit the latest shiny tech? It either takes off the mental load of me paying attention to the road, or I'll drive myself.
You'd need to emulate macOS hardware, not iOS, to do that. In that sense, what you describe is already possible (running Xcode in a macOS VM on commodity hardware).
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> Kristen McMains, a 25-year-old lawyer in Louisville, Kentucky, first became suspicious that John Ganobcik was stalking her when she traversed the skywalk connecting her office building to the parking garage across the street. She felt her fears were confirmed when she boarded an elevator and the suspicious man followed -- but did not press a button. When the doors opened on the fourth level of the parking garage, she bolted for her car, and Ganobcik sprinted after her.

> Before McMains could get in her car, her attacker caught up, slammed her head, and jabbed at her with an eight-inch rusty serrated knife. He forced her into the passenger seat and said, “We’re going.” Fearing rape and murder, McMains fought viciously to escape, tearing off all 10 of her fingernails in the struggle, but she was unable to escape. Desperate, she told Ganobcik that she had just cashed a check and could offer him money. When she reached for her purse, instead of money, she pulled out the .32 Beretta Tomcat her father had bought for her.

> At first, it failed to fire, but McMains kept pulling the trigger and ultimately she shot Ganobcik in the neck and the buttocks. He fled, and a passerby called 911. Eventually, Ganobcik pled guilty to robbery and attempted kidnapping, receiving a 15-year prison sentence. McMains’ use of force was immediately recognized as justified.

https://ccwsafe.com/blog/the-kristen-mcmains-case-pt3
That's a shame since I think that Youtube can be really amazing.

My main (practically only) use for it is to watch amateur-produced special interest shows that are done on a regular basis. Usually it seems to involve automotive bodywork or subsurface mining with the occasional computer show.

The channels that move to having sponsors or getting a lot of free stuff are for the high jump (although it's absolutely a riot to watch Heather Heying shill for some sofa company, hating life all the while). I think the best ones are done by pure hobbyists.

Otherwise my current plan is to build a library of worthwhile videos via youtube-dl and DVD transfers. My guess is that the ad environment and much heavier copyright policing on youtube will make much of it unwatchable over time.
The real test is in now, index server is reconstructing its index. It does this every 6 hours if there is new pages. Takes half an hour or so usually.

It's supposed to be able to handle searches at the same time, but jeepers, it's gonna have to chew through nearly 400 Gb of data while dealing with over 1 request per second.
Discord|Slack, are the best all-around tools if you had to make a decision around one tool, and one tool only for a group of people. Discord being stronger for games, and Slack having insane integration capabilities and enterprise-enterprise communications provided the business partners are also on Slack, via their own corporation workplace or GRID plan.

However, Slack|Discord individually are vastly inferior individually to:

A Wiki (Take your pick)

Text Based Chat (IRC/XMPP, you choose a client)

Forums (Take your pick)

Voice Chat (Mumble&Murmur/Teamspeak)

Video Streams (Twitch/Youtube/Others)

Mapping Strategy Apps (Take your pick)

Tying this together with a common directory or identity service makes it really integrated, so you don't have 5k identities, but you may have credentials per service. This is what you see many mature gaming organizations doing. Of course, this is serious gaming and less accessible so less idea for a completely open "just join our discord" type community.
Great to hear.

I'm actually working on an consumer facing website with Flutter. I'm sure their is a way to make it look nice, but I'll probably get to that later.

For now it's basically a simple crud application
> All of them consider themselves extremely lucky that they landed a job at a great company and believe that if they had to re-interview for the same position, odds are much more likely they'd utterly fail it.

Hmmm... this makes me wonder if these kinds of interview strategies aren't promoted at such companies precisely because they make candidates feel more grateful and therefore less likely to leave, less likely to refuse overtime work, less likely to protest anything, etc.
> Plus who wants to have 5 different email accounts for 5 different mailing-lists? And why would I respond in a manner that allows the world to see my private email address

You seem confused. Signing up to multiple mailing lists won’t require you to have multiple email addresses, and at the same time they don’t require you to subscribe using your main email address either. Many email hosts will give you as many mailboxes as you like, either using plus–addresses or just new mailbox names.

> And then how do you link to users or messages from your email client?

Every email has a unique message id. Simply include a message id in the body of the email, and your email client should turn it into a link (provided you happen to have that message available). If your email client doesn’t do that, perhaps you need a better email client.

> They are unbrowsable and who likes getting their inbox spammed in order to follow a discussion?

It really sounds like you need a better email client, or you just need to learn how to use the one you have better.
Of course, a downside is a person can set out to invent something entirely on their own, succeed in doing so, and then find out what they've done is illegal. That's a big downside.

Paul Graham said if you're successful you will be sued by patent owners. How many are discouraged from even trying?
> It didn't pay off to be optimistic in 1930.

It depends on the timeframe. First, you got a lot in dividends (which were much higher rates than today’s dividends on average). Secondly, by the end of the war, you were at least break even, and by the early 1950’s you probably more than doubled your money.

Now, if you had been patient and been optimistic in 1932/3 at the very bottom of the market, you would have made a killing, nearly 10x your investment by the early 1950’s, plus all the dividends!

But, I get your point and agree with the rest of your comment.
You're downvoted but in my experience I have never really been burned by this Google-decline
That is an extremely naive view of the world.

Many places in the world have long response times for police. A home invader is now going to wait patiently for the police to come save you.

Revolutions against tyrannical government are quite difficult for an unarmed population.

Many poor families feed themselves via hunting. I personally grew up in that situation and know many people who still experience it.
I agree with the OP, but I am not in America. Sadly, my nation definitely wouldn’t be considered a developed country (we are in the 60s or 70s by GDP).

So maybe instead of the OPs thoughts only applying the one country, maybe your thoughts only apply to one continent: Europe?

Now with respect to the article, my sisters are very interested in gun ownership because in their own words “no one needs guns just to protect against robberies”. And I agree, for peace of mind when it comes to bodily safety it’s better to trust yourself instead of being forced to trust crime statistics and police response times.

To correct one fallacy, brandishing a gun is largely unnecessary. If you brandish, you might as well use. However, knowing that you are armed can give you the courage and confidence that puts off attackers. For the most part these guys are opportunistic, and only escalate when they are sure someone is defenseless.
Tested with the first person to settle on Island: https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=Ingolf+Arnarson

and it worked surprisingly well.

Anyone else has good examples?
This is true but I think there's also a question about the difference between VC as in huge amounts of money trying to build the next unicorn versus traditional business startup loan levels. I think a lot of startups would be better getting _some_ investment but with a target valuation in the millions rather than billions range. The founders can still do well in that range but they won't have hundreds of employees and expensive offices in NYC.
Could give the librem 5 or PinePhone a big boost. But it would not help with battery life.
We are talking about following well understood and published standards, such as TCP and IP. The people implementing those stacks were either negligent, or were consciously cutting corners and safeguards that those open standards had already in place. The result: lots of network pipes can be subverted by crackheads into flooding innocent netizens.

No, I got no sympathy for the people who built and sold those devices.
Perhaps a counter example, something that is interesting. Anecdotally. This, of all things, is the top result in my search: https://tft.brainiac.com/archive/0303/msg00037.html. Which is strange to me because I don't recognize tft.brainiac. I click, it's a list of biological relationships among Hymenoptera, including a reference to genus of the wasps I studied, presumably in a biological relationship (host/parasite) context. I cataloged every relationship known at one point, so my brain wants to know where this come from, is it something I caught. Then I go look for more context, and find it's part of a thread about D&D(?) and hymenoptera, and it's epic, and a chunk of my morning is lost figuring out why and how this came to be.
This kicks ass!!
Archive link to the story the author is talking about

https://web.archive.org/web/20160304065420/http://maneatingr...
Yeah and our child had none of those things. When needed, oral antibiotics can be a lifesaver. When overprescribed they are wrecking people's gut biomes and causing all kinds of issues, some of which can persist for a lifetime.
Police will never protect you. If you want to be able to defend yourself and your family either be rich enough to have private security or train to use a gun, if you have the right. Many of our offices are guarded by guys with guns and many of the anti-gun advocates you see on TV have bodyguards with guns.
Anyone using Deno in production? Would love to hear how it's going for your team.
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That first photo of Yangshan Deepwater Port in Shanghai is incredible, there's only a dozens of staff operating in a computer room somewhere, everything else happening in the port is fully automated.
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Thanks for the update, guessing this is the round 2 submission?

Despite being sidelined in NIST's post quantum standardisation project it's interesting to see their Streamlined NTRU Prime algorithm still being the main real world adoption out there right now. I'd be interested if anyone knows of a more utilised post-quantum algo irl.
That is a terrible analogy.
Architects are the same way, a couple draftsmen to all the design and construction documents. Then, while on the way out the door to lunch, the architect gets their stamp and a sharpie out.
Do the bands have the rights to the lyrics?
> The last century has been painful for children as every venue of leadership has been used for abuse...

I'm going to preface this with "I have no hard data to back this up", but I have a feeling that this isn't a matter of the last century as being more of a problem than previous ones. Rather, I think it's the globalization of communication that has brought it to light in that time. This sort of thing has probably been going on since there have been positions of power (pretty much forever) but in the last century it's become much more easy to report on cases when they're found. And now thanks to the internet, with the ease of communication between people that you may never meet in person otherwise, corroborating stories and figuring out that there's a problem is an easier process.

It does a lot to highlight the dumpster fire that is the terrible side of the human race, and many positions of power are still powerful enough to evade consequences too much of the time, but maybe one day it will give voice enough to the oppressed and abused to be able to start making a real difference. (Not that it should be _solely_ their responsibility, but in order for the process to start, they have to be able to speak and be heard.)
Hey, thank you. There is no self-hosted version as such, but there is Ilograph Desktop (https://www.ilograph.com/desktop/index.html), which is non-SaaS and works with local diagram files. You can then check your diagrams into e.g. GitHub.

A self-hosted version of what you see on web is probably a 2022 feature, after Confluence support. Real-time collaboration like Google docs is probably the same timeframe. Thanks for this feedback!
Yep, that's the one I was thinking of (along with GNOMAD, which IIRC uses ADAM or some similar tech). My main complaint with ADAM was that they came up with their own file format (which had some flaws). But the general idea is the right one.
> Lord knows what sort of magic they stick into 'Energy Star' appliances.

I had a phase a few years back where I monitored all my appliances and office stuff to see how much solar I needed and I found the energy star ratings to be more or less correct with my appliances except for my moms Samsung stove
I'm not trying to optimise hiring, I'm just pointing out that from the developers point of view it's not a big issue.
I've ended up having to explain the difference between Li-ion and NiMh batteries to people a bunch of times, and why lithium batteries often seem to have a longer service life, and have started to describe the general situation as "The penalty for a poor charge controller design with NiMh is the battery doesn't work for as long, but for lithium ion the penalty is that the battery catches on fire. So more design effort goes into lithium battery chargers". This is independent of other differences in the tech, such as power density. NiMh can last a long time with a good charge controller.

However, for cars it seems like the need for marketing to push range numbers as far as possible led to compromising the safety envelope. I've got two first-gen Honda Insights (2000 and 2002), which of course was a battery-assist hybrid with a small NiMh pack in the back. The OEM charge controller does a poor job of managing the pack, they often end up unbalanced, and most cars had the pack replaced once under warranty at about 10 years of service. The DIY community of course stepped in and produced aftermarket plug-in chargers that we wire to the pack to trickle charge- individual cell status isn't managed since you're just wired to the whole pack- the strategy is to just trickle charge it until the whole battery voltage gets to a certain level, which means some cells in good shape are still being charged that whole time and that excess energy gets dumped to heat. But of course unlike with LiIon, they don't catch on fire ;). Of course all-electrics have batteries much larger than the original Insight, and require the power density of LiIon. It's just an interesting contrast between the battery types with respect to battery management strategies.
I use the Apple Lightning to USB dongle to attach my camera to my phone and then edit the photos in Darkroom to be able to quickly share with others the photos I just took. The hassle of memory cards and sorting happens later.
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From the linked blog post:

> No devices emulation: screen, touch, wifi, BT or anything else.
> Mullvad VPN is here to stay, and we are not interested in ever selling it

Yeah we don't want another Kape Technologies acquisition[0]. Kape already own Cyberghost, PrivateInternetAccess and Zenmate. If they bought Mullvad, I would immediately stop using Mullvad since Kape is Israeli and could possibly be tapped by Mossad (I keep an open mind about that however).

[0] https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/kape-technol...
I suspect that those women are realizing they can't reasonably rely on men for any kind of protection, as any kind of physical protection is basically illegal, taboo, and effectively bred out of the middle class now anyway, so it makes sense more women would take responsibility themselves.

Gun purchases also correlate to perceptions of changes in social order as well, where there's a "get 'em before they're gone!" cycle in the political climate. This change in numbers is probably not significant compared to other gun purchase bumps in front of political threats for additional restrictions.
If I follow this it would take me 9 months to build a signup form.
The thing that stopped me from using Duolingo in the past is that I couldn't even start the app without giving full access to my contacts.
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Tell that to a home invader who just kicked in your front door at 2am.
I concur. Compassion seems impossible without empathy.

If you can’t imagine how someone feels (or why), how can you feel sorry for them?
Do you have a family WhatsApp group or similar? Maybe you could post the pictures in there after you've been on a trip.

The opinions of strangers are not worth chasing.
Technically the UK (and Spain and France) conquered and colonized several native American nations, almost wiping them out. The US didn't even exist as a separate nation state until 1776.
Like you say yourself it is possible that non-state entities can have their travel documents recognized in some cases. I don't see any reason why that non-state entity couldn't potentially be a US non-profit. Obviously in this particular case, this agency's documents are not widely recognized, but that has nothing to do with their legal status in the US.
> if investors withdraw funds the company goes belly up in a day

Investors can't withdraw funds from companies by design. When you sell shares in a public company it's another investor buying it from you.

Runway is runway, it can be looked as a glass half empty ("running on fumes") or half full. If a company runs out of time/funding rounds it can cut costs. It's easier to make a profit when you have high revenue, brand recognition, fewer competitors. That's why growth companies run for years on losses.
10 years ago Germany announced they were ending nuclear by 2022.

Discussed on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2599099
> Genius is really useful no doubt.

I imagine only a tiny portion of people care about what lyrics mean. I can play a song in Apple Music and it shows me the lyrics, as I am sure the other streaming services do also.
This is true of any PHPbb-style forum as well. If the site goes offline, there will be no statically generated archive available.
Whenever I hear about how the rest of the world doesn't need guns I always think of the Mexican avacado farmers who used (highly illegal) guns to protect their farms from cartels because the government can't protect them.

Always funny when a European corrects an American that the rest of the world is not America, as it is obviously Paris.
I really like when some random program or service I am trying to use has a Discord, cus I can just go on, ask my dumb questions and immediately get help in realtime from a human who knows about this stuff.

As opposed to a forum, where u have to make an account, wait X amount of time (days maybe) for your account to be allowed to make a post, make your post, then wait more days for a single response, and so on.