skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Venture capitalists not being able to profit from non-token decentralized apps.
Happiness in early adulthood may protect against dementia
Speaking of nationalising the medical industry:

Fun fact, Canada was the home of Connaught labs, a publicly owned laboratory which was the first lab to produce the Salk's Polio vaccine, and went on to produce the Smallpox vaccine.

In the 1970s, however, Canada went on a privatizing spree (incidentally, the same gov't that ratified NAFTA), and Connaught was privatised and sold many time since.

More info here https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2020/03/11/the-...
yes, you're right. I've been visiting http://twenex.org/ with a TOPS-20 system
600 Southwest Air Flights Cancelled, 700 Delayed Due to ATC Staffing and Weather
There doesn't need to be an analog analogy. There was nothing analogous about the telephone either but Bell Labs was still broken up
I still use it regularly as well. There is definitely a thriving ecosystem of users on it, which tells me that it is providing real value to some people. Either someone is going to breathe new life into Keybase or someone is going to come along and build something similar to Keybase with better execution and be wildly successful.
Yeah, that's what i dont get.. In germany they plan to filter air in classroom... Classroom are pretty big.. How big do they plan the fan to be?!?
In theory maybe,
but in practice the available translations are unfamiliar to most and few people would have a paper copy available.

I get that a translation effort from original sources used to be something only a sponsored organisation could do, but modern software approaches have shown ways of getting it done.

I would love a open source kind of project that has a full software development like approach.

Specifically I would like not just the translated text, but also easy access to the original texts and references to the attesting artifacts supporting those texts, plus embedded reference aids all under an open license.
Yeah it’s mobile-dead, works on desktop.
You know what works really well regardless of database? Regular boring old Ansii SQL without vendor-specific addins.
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I completely understand why gaming communities centralized on Discord. It has the most convenient and obvious interface for managing little communities of multiple related rooms, and the drop-in drop-out voice chat room system is obvious.

I have a lot of trouble wrapping my head around why so many tech and programming (especially FOSS) communities still flock to Discord, especially given how programmer-hostile the company is. Matrix is more than good enough to manage it now. The only things about Matrix that bother me right now is that presence is still disabled on the matrix.org homeserver, and the phone call metaphor for group voice and video chat rooms is clunky.
It's possible to go back through history and look at the front page (30 top articals) for any day in the (as of today) past 15 years, beginning 9 October 2006, when Startup News, now Hacker News, first launched as a service to the tech startup sector. A business-oriented site, focusing on the (mostly) high-tech venture scene.

5 years ago today: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2016-10-09

10 years ago today: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2011-10-09

15 years ago today: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-09

A simple shell script will automate URL generation:

for i in {5..15..5} do
echo "https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=$( date -d "$i years ago" +%Y-%m-%d )"
done

Using Algolia Search it's possible to select top stories for a longer period of time. Here's results for each of the years 2006, 2011, 2016, and 2021 to date:

2006: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1167523200&dateRange=custom&...

As 2006 is partial, here's 2007 as well:

2007: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1199059200&dateRange=custom&...

2011: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1325203200&dateRange=custom&...

2016: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1483142400&dateRange=custom&...

2021: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1640908800&dateRange=custom&...

As I read it, the top stories from 2007 were ... dominated by business / non-technical topics. Top 10 items:

Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363)
262 points|pg|15 years ago|1566 comments

Finally, voting without refresh(http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html#12jun07)
176 points|pg|14 years ago|42 comments

How Not to Die(http://paulgraham.com/die.html)
168 points|subhash|14 years ago|143 comments

Why we made this site(http://ycombinator.com/announcingnews.html)
165 points|pg|15 years ago|57 comments

Hacker News(http://ycombinator.com/hackernews.html)
150 points|pg|14 years ago|76 comments

Holding a program in one's head(http://www.paulgraham.com/head.html)
142 points|eposts|14 years ago|131 comments

Code's Worst Enemy(http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/12/codes-worst-enemy.html)
125 points|mqt|14 years ago|41 comments

CMU professor gives his last lesson on life(http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07262/818671-85.stm)
121 points|amichail|14 years ago|33 comments

Why to Apply to YCombinator
113 points|palish|14 years ago|36 comments

Absolutely, DO NOT, get a co-founder!
112 points|BitGeek|14 years ago|86 comments
Those were outdoors with plenty of room for viral particulate to disperse. there has been a lot written about this, its called the infectious dose which is the amount of virus particulate needed for someone to become ill with the virus. I recommend pubmed or google scholar if you want a deeper dive.

if you are having trouble visualizing how this works, imagine a perfume dispenser jetting out a fine mist, that's your covid positive person exhaling. In an enclosed small room, the concentration of that particulate mist is much higher than in a large room, and unable to disperse quickly without any ventilation. Over time, you will inhale more and more of this particulate in this room at this concentration, and you will hit the infectious dose level eventually. If you are outside, or in a larger or well ventilated room, concentration of the particulate is much smaller since its either dispersing into a greater volume of air or being removed from the area due to ventilation, and it might take you a long period of time to inhale enough particulate at this comparatively lower airborne concentration in order to become sick. Outside, even in a protest, the volume of air is so large in which to disperse particulate that the risk of getting an infectious dose is negligible even with someone yelling right next to you.
They're setting up restrictions on public (and private) transport [0]. Work is being done to support using OHS as a lever to push vaccination [1] which is going to require centralised databases integrated into business processes. Toronto is setting up systems to verify that everyone is vaccinated at gatherings of 1,000+ people [2].

This is setting the infrastructure to implement a social credit system. It is a small step from here to to full thing. The intent is the same and the tools are similar.

[0] https://www.canada.ca/en/transport-canada/news/2021/10/manda...

[1] https://www.ohscanada.com/opinions/mandatory-vaccination-pol...

[2] https://www.hrreporter.com/opinion/canadian-hr-law/the-movem...
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The Bystander Effect
I wish Little Printer had taken off and we could get such devices with built-in wifi. It's convenient to have some things printed automatically via API, e.g. TODO lists and QR codes for upcoming travel. There's still some things where paper makes more sense.
I have mixed vaccinations since I'm in BC. Hopefully I get a third booster shot so I can be considered fully vaccinated in the states.
A number of specialists in the field of databases got together and designed a DSL specifically for working with databases. It's actually a pretty good fit for its domain and is reasonably well designed. It's also pretty simple (it's even right in the name).

Then a bunch of non-specialists said "we don't want to use more than one language" and came up with some hacks to write DB queries in languages that were never designed for that. The hacky stuff actually ends up generating the proper query language behind the scenes, poorly.

One would wonder why would anyone prefer the hacks, but the appeal of using one language for everything is strong. This is also why DSLs never took off in general despite promising to significantly lower the cognitive load due to being a better fit for the problem domain. At least with most DSLs there are usually additional reasons not to use them: the implementation is usually not as good as the popular languages. This is not true for SQL, and yet is suffers from the same problem.
Far more absurd is the idea that there are useful government programs.
I have found that imgur can sometimes work without JavaScripts (and even without HTML) if you have the direct name of the picture; you can add the file name extension and it will work. If it ends with .gifv then will be HTML; if you delete the "v" at the end then you will get a animated GIF file. However, this will only work for names that refer to single pictures, not for anything else they may have (galleries and I don't know what else; I never use the HTML interface of imgur at all).
Nothing to do with my morals, it’s good old realpolitik/fate of nations type stuff. I stay out of these type of games. If you think anyone who IS into those games cares much about morals or ethics instead of ‘national interests’, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.

That doesn’t mean I don’t understand it or why it is the way it is.
Don't tell me what I am and what I am not.

People understand the "Olympics" in terms of sport, but they don't understand the exact same logic when applied to a craft. If you start early, if you focus on incrementally improving and you spend a very long time perfecting your craft, you can be a very, very productive programmer.

I have no idea why, but I'm seeing more and more people doing these kind of articles. I suspect they are coping mechanisms of the authors.
Location: Oregon, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Rust, JavaScript (React & Node), HTML, CSS, Java, C# (ASP.NET MVC), SQL, C++

Résumé/CV: http://agamecoder.com/resume/

Email: andrew.bowers@agamecoder.com
Remote Workers Can Live Anywhere. These Cities Are Luring Them with Perks
Can you link a style guide that captures this norm? I usually consider pseudonyms to function like a pointer to the real person when the real person is in scope. If my HN handle was JaneAustism and I was being referenced in a discussion about things pertaining to my meatspace identity and I was a male, I would expect to be described with masculine pronouns. If the discussion was not related to my meatspace identity, I would, in a pseudonymous context, not expect to be referred to as she/her just because my handle contains a female name. My gender is likely irrelevant (or at least unknown) in that context and I would expect they/them.
Both old and new Reddit play the video in Safari on iOS for me. iPhone X with iOS 14.7.1
I'm actually on V. 92.0.1 on Mac OS, in the US if that helps. Maybe they are AB testing this and gauging fallout. Here's a paste of what I have in my settings > privacy and security menu under address bar:

Address Bar — Firefox Suggest

Choose the type of suggestions that appear in the address bar:

Browsing history

Bookmarks

Open tabs

Shortcuts

Search engines

Contextual suggestions (this was checked when i became aware of these settings and went to look)

Learn more

Include occasional sponsored suggestions (this was also checked)

Helps fund Firefox development and optimization.

Change preferences for search engine suggestions
Canadian pharmaceutical R&D and manufacturing is almost entirely gone at this point.

A big part of that was little interest in supporting the industry from the government.

Apparently a vaccine manufacturer approached the government a while back and got a tepid response so decided to invest elsewhere.
Yes but he only has to make it so that there are dozens of people who might plausibly be Satoshi. Which, as far as a decade of scrutiny could uncover, he managed to do.
Just some lurker of that early mailing list, absorbing knowledge that eventually culminated into the code and paper. The number of unknown great programmers is a lot. What I think is interesting is that it was both code and a paper, not only code. So at least a grad student. And likely someone that starts many projects, because they left after only one year. Something else could have gotten more interesting.
> everybody needs to know who is famous

Citation needed.
For now. Six months from now you'll need another booster.
> A large organic hass avocado is between $2 and $4.

This is pretty outrageous. In the 1990s, we would shop for avocados in Mission district Mexican grocery stores, where they would average four for a $1. People don't realize that everyone had an abundant number of avocados in every Bay Area home back then because they were so cheap and plentiful.

Something happened, and by the end of the 1990s, the drug cartels had taken over the avocado market and raised the prices by a considerable amount. One wonders how much the average consumer of avocados contributes to the criminal cartels by keeping them flush with cash.
It isn't Zalgo (Zalgo is abusive use of Unicode symbols, not for their intended purpose). It's using a unicode symbol (combining overline) for its intended purpose, repeating decimals.[1][2] Is there a better, built-in Arc md way of displaying a repeating decimal?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeating_decimal

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overline
How can you trust a news source that interviews everyone and selectively pushes back to construct a narrative, often in an artificially limited format that obscures nuance?

The media companies don't have any special domain experience, they've got no clear idea if what they are reporting on is true or not.
CI/CD/CF? – The DevOps toolchain’s “missing-link”
You mostly sleep between 9pm and 4am?
> Science has been put in service of extracting maximum profit and maximum growth. One small part of that is efficiency in production. That efficiency has given rise to the broad material wealth that we enjoy today.
But Science has not been put in service of understanding what is good for humans psychologically, spiritually, or even biologically

What is profitable is what is good. That's the beautiful thing about markets and prices: they force people to be honest about their preferences. When someone pays money for something, that means that what he's getting in exchange is good for him. Who are you to argue otherwise? Why should your aesthetic ideals of humanity's future override the actual preferences of real people as expressed through their market behavior? This idea that we can distinguish what is right from what is profitable is moralistic arrogance.

> anti-biological system of roadways, electricity, and food production

When I say that a certain strain of environmentalist is anti-human, I'm talking about people who would write about roads and electricity as if they were grand mistakes and should be undone. That's absurd. People who think this way can never be allowed to have power. If they got it, they'd ruin billions of lives.

> And then we get comments like yours, thankfully and rightly downvoted.

If your ideas can be supported only by censoring those who disagree, your ideas are weak and deserve to fail.

> The cost we exact on our planet is enormous.

The planet is there for us. We have no obligation not to impose costs on "the planet" any more than we have an obligation not to inconvenience the air we breathe or the dirt we stand on. This idea that we need to trade off interests of "the planet" against those of people is absurd. Ecological preservation might be justified in some cases in the interest of people, but we are under no obligation whatsoever to negotiate with Gaia for human welfare.
I'm running 92.0.1 on Mac OS.
Canada's two biggest suppliers by far have been Pfizer and Moderna. Canada doesn't dictate where they supply the product from.

The US nationalized production in that government decree made it illegal to ship to anyone else unless US contracts had been satisfied in full (NOTE: I am not judging this at all. The merits of it are arguable, but it does point out a weakness in a reliance on free trade). The change of government didn't change this an iota.

The defense production act dictated that 100% of production was for the US until the government said otherwise. Moderna and Pfizer were both forced to supply Canada from the European factories as a result, even long after US vaccine manufacturing far exceeded consumption.
Poincaré, Heisenberg, Gödel and the limits of scientific knowledge
And then you send the laptop and your two week notice. People seem to forget or not take advantage of the employees' market that's been going on for several years in this field.

Use it to make the world a better place.
They’re the modern public square, as are all social media platforms. You could have made the same argument about the telephone or ISPs, both of those are neutral for a reason
Time for solar!
Telemetry of settings usage would tell that there are no users who care to enable it.
The biggest gotcha on Mac is using git on the default case-insensitive volume. I always create a separate case-sensitive APFS volume for all my git repos to avoid subtle mismatches between the filename git knows about and the filename macOS knows.
I am running version 92.0.1 on Mac OS by the way, so it still wasn't opt in on that version either.
Tyler and Alex (of Marginal Revolution) have been right about every major piece of advice they gave, and often many weeks before anyone else said it.

Vindicated in their "first doses first" advice yet again.
I'm not clear on what GP's connection to vaccinations is, but for what it's worth, Australia has recently implemented some very authoritarian covid policies despite it being sparsely populated. People are only allowed to leave their homes for two hours a day and everyone is required to take pictures of themselves inside their homes at regular intervals to prove their location to the police. Violators are being shot with rubber bullets, and yet despite the severity of these measures, the total number of deaths in each state can be counted on your fingers.
This is technically true but de facto not. It's like arguing that Ukraine controls Crimea because legally (according to themselves and others) they do.

In my experience when this argument is made, I typically follow it up by "well if it's so unimportant, why don't you delete your account?". 99/100 times I've asked this in real life the person responds by saying, "well I don't have anywhere else to say things" (this is during covid).

For the past two years, social media is the only public square allowed by government fiat. Thus it must be regulated as such.
I just stick an avocado half in a plastic container in the fridge. Stays green enough for days. If it gets brown, it's a thin layer that doesn't affect the flavor anyway and you can remove it without losing too much avocado if you don't like it.
Regarding the USB hardware access, you can use USB-over-network solutions, to share devices with WSL2 VM.

I've had good experience with https://www.virtualhere.com/usb_client_software.
Israel has offered help. 8n fact, Israel is offering help even if Lebanon does not make peace with Israel or recognize its existence. Aid would be passed through intermediaries https://www.timesofisrael.com/gantz-offers-lebanon-humanitar...
> More seriously ... can someone explain the point of this?

The author's bio says "Writes kernels for fun", so that may be the primary motivation.

> The browser (JS) environment already more or less defines a virtual machine already ... why would you overlay that abstraction with yet another semantically very similar abstraction?

I had assumed that a possible motivation may have been to use WebAssembly in a non-browser hosted environment but that doesn't seem to be a specific motivation in this situation--but it could be in another situation.

> If you want to play with "kernel" concepts, why would you do this inside a browser rather than on an actual machine (or even a host-supported VM)?

I think the key motivation in this situation is explained in this quote from the "VI. The need for code compatibility between freestanding and hosted environments" section:

> As such we can make up for the shortcoming of the freestanding environment by making the code as much platform-independent as possible. This allows for a rigorous stress-testing and debugging of shared code via standardised, powerful and robust tools in the hosted environment, and safe deployment of this verified code on freestanding platforms.

So, in brief, this seems partially motivated by the fact that portability of code improves its debug-ability due to the ability to run it in an easily instrumented environment in addition to the original standalone environment.

And partially motivated by portability being a function of both runtime environment and compilation toolchain--the latter which seems to have been a factor here with lack of custom section support in the object format.

Thus, rather than being a desire to "play with 'kernel' concepts" in a browser, this seems motivated by improving portability of existing code written to play with kernel concepts in a more standalone environment.
Unless they really left… RIP.
You would think an improving reputation would lead to people migrating to a state instead of leaving.
AFAIK subinterpreters are similar to multiprocessing in that the interpreters don't share memory - but because they are within the same process, communication between them can be more efficient.
My best choice was going back to Linux. Everything is simple and fast. It's difficult to say if this improves my efficiency, but I feel a lot better.

Do yourself a favor. Go for the real thing, don't accept poor substitutes.
I was not around for the lead ban, but I remember the CFC ban and it was an utterly different era. An international plan, too. The SOx trading scheme comes from that era as well; today we have state laws against environmental plans.
Yes, Zoom is sitting on a gold mine and it is online video conferencing. Keybase is a silver mine at best. Guess which mine you would prioritize?
I request desktop version on mobile for reddit. The dark patterns break functionality otherwise. even pinching and zooming on old.reddit.com is better than that.
I'm currently paying $4/avocado at the farmer's market. Grocery store has them at $3. Los Angeles.
I don't believe this to be generally true but would believe that you have experienced communities that practice this convention. For the curious, in which communities do you find this to be the norm?
It is all about demand and supply. I think US has much more demand than the Europe.
You are revisioning history. Contracts were with companies. Not governments. Canada didn’t order US vaccines. It ordered Pfizer, Moderna, Etc. They were free to ship from wherever they wanted as long as national governments allowed it. Yes once Biden authorized it it accelerated shipment. But there was no gamble, Canada never ordered from US government.
They literally pulled a yelp with their mobile website and made it useless other than a redirect to the app store.
Because technology is basically business automation. Much less of coding is hobby or science.
Facebook is evil because it censors not because people engage in "wrongthink". That Americans can have any other take on this is frankly shocking.
It’s only inconsistent to you because your understanding of english language usage seems to also be inconsistent (at least with mine, others’ commenting on this thread, and the author’s of the linked article). I find this interesting in the abstract.