skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the MS Access application is backed by an actual MS SQL server, maybe. But if (and in my experience this is more likely) it uses MS Access itself with MDB files (Microsoft's Jet database engine - imagine SQLite but inferior in every conceivable way), you're probably better off writing a tool in .NET or similar to migrate the data.

In a past job supporting an industrial controls firm, I wrote an interactive merge tool for AutoCAD Electrical parts catalog files (hideous little MDBs behind the scenes)...it was an unholy clusterfuck of C#, Lucene, NodeJS, and a smidgen of VueJS on the frontend. Not my proudest work, but it sure beat the usual tasks involving VBA in FactoryTalk.
If you run your own DNS resolver for your local network, you can use a Discovery Proxy (RFC 8766) to allow unicast DNS resolution of multicast DNS records. I'm using mdns-discovery-proxy[0] (slightly modified to support a newer version of the zeroconf Python library) with bind9 so that xyz.local is mirrored in unicast DNS as xyz.home.arpa. The script (proxy.py in Git; I renamed it) is run with this systemd service (/etc/systemd/system/mdns-discovery-proxy.service):

[Unit]
Description=DNS-SD Proxy
After=network.target network.service

[Service]
Type=simple
DynamicUser=yes
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/mdns-discovery-proxy.py home.arpa 35353
Restart=always
RestartSec=30

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

And the bind9 configuration to forward the zone is (in /etc/bind/named.conf.local):

zone "home.arpa" {
type forward;
forward only;
forwarders { 127.0.0.1 port 35353; };
};

[0] https://github.com/nybble41/mdns-discovery-proxy
“My” server admittedly when I discovered this was Cloudflare Pages. I didn’t know at the time video was explicitly disallowed but when I did I yanked it. But otherwise your gripes are better directed to GitHub (with similar restrictions) and Cloudflare.
Their rivals own the search engines though.
But antibodies aren't the only thing that matters; focusing only on antibody levels without acknowledging that you only care about antibody levels _as a proxy for protection_ is the error I talked about in my comment.

There are Memory T cells and Memory B cells that last for decades. So if these cells were able to fend off the virus by themselves, you could have zero antibodies and be fine.

Some possibly useful articles:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlates_of_immunity

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_B_cell
Is no one concerned about the Black Mirror possibilities of the meta verse? Zuck is talking about how the experience will be centered around you rather than an app, and that it will carry who you are and things like your virtual goods seamlessly between different experiences. I worry that other things will also follow users around everywhere. For example things like ratings or social credit scores, even if they’re user driven instead of state driven. Or perhaps people who committed some crime can be ostracized and blocked on everyone’s VR set, as if they didn’t exist. Maybe I am worrying about nothing, but various episodes of Black Mirror have played out the horrifying possibilities of pervasive connected augmented reality devices, and if the metaverse is going to be as amazing and powerful as Zuck thinks it will be, I anticipate there will be many such issues. Ultimately I am still left wondering why we need any of this. Can humans not simply exist and enjoy their real life analog experiences?
You mean Ａ Ｅ Ｓ Ｔ Ｈ Ｅ Ｔ Ｉ Ｃ ?
Okay. So just to make this very clear: you very much do have an opinion on the practical merits (viz. "fun") of a game console you have never in your life seen or touched, let alone used for any meaningful length of time, and you very much did intend that meaning in your original comment.

So you may refer back to my original comment in this subthread for a succinct explanation of why your opinion, upon which you have expounded rather incoherently and at some length, is utterly worthless: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29032691

I'm sure you'll reply to this comment, but I doubt whatever you write will be worth any more keystrokes on my part. I think this ties it up rather nicely, anyway.
Are We on the Verge of Chatting with Whales?
An epidemic is an unexpected rise in cases within a community or region, which could mean part of a country, an entire country, an ethnic group spread across multiple countries, or an entire landmass. And a pandemic is an epidemic that has exponential growth.

An epidemic usually starts within a particular country and if it becomes a pandemic it will grow rapidly and spread to other countries, but the WHO definitions are only based on the number of cases compared to normal and how fast the number of cases is rising.
Solid humblebrag there.

There are legions of engineers perusing HN that have double+ your experience sans the narcissism.
in most cases a program that invokes undefined behavior is already broken; it's just a question of how catastrophic the failure will be.
Yeah, it's not about you... it's the other people you may infect and kill. Kids are mostly fine... if only they didn't have teachers or parents.
The main problem is there is no good way to provide manpages for shell builtins, like `command`.

Man can only have one entry (per section) for a given command, but what if you're using Bash? Or Zsh? How would it know which one to give you? If they're named differently (like a manpage for `bash-command` vs `zsh-command`), how would you know to look those up? (never mind that apropos would give you so-overloaded-to-be-useless results for something as generic as `command`)

Which leaves us in the current situation where `man command` redirects to a generic `builtin` manpage, that doesn't have much info, and certainly nothing specific to Bash or Zsh.
It's amazing how often I want to use an emoji and will duck it so I can copy/paste. Half the time it's not copy/paste able either for some reason (looking at you Twitter) so I have to try again. This will be way more convenient!
They destabilize it less than other packaging ecosystems.

I tried Manjaro the other day -- out of the box, wake from sleep was broken, bluetooth was broken, and 3/3 printers were broken. I eventually got sleep working with an older kernel version, I got bluetooth working with config file hacking, and I got the printers working with CUPS wrangling -- but on Ubuntu, all of this Just Worked for me.

That's the point of it.
Can confirm. If only we had bulldozed The Mission ten years back, we’d have enought towers for everybody now.
Frankly, people buy a lot of stuff they don't need. But I wonder how the dependence on disposable items plays in. I could never understand stressing one bit about the most disposable items like paper towels. Completely non-essential items.
Facebook Unceremoniously Kills Off 'Oculus' Brand
> Also, many people are harmed by this tax treatment because a couple making 80k a year pay no tax on the dividend capital gains?

Really? I am only aware that at least long term capital gains tax applies to everyone for qualified dividends.
PostgreSQL already supports Oracle DB dialect and protocol, I thought?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_controversies_involvin...
The elephant in the room is simply hoarding tendancy. See a video of a scientific study : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3AhSNsBs2Y0
Zuck doesn't seem very self-aware.

If you are in the middle of a massive scandals (multiple massive scandals) about major issues like privacy, enabling genocide in certain countries, etc, if you really, really cared, your first step would be to stop what you are doing and fix things.

Instead of taking accountability, Zuck like always has some dumbass excuse about being "humbled". But humble people show they are humble.

If HN gets confused about why there is so much rage at people like Zuck, it's because we can actively see our lives getting worse because at 19 brolord here figured out how to get college kids to sign up for website. I mean, great idea, but I feel like that might, just might affect how you see the rest of the world and nobody in society agreed to this.

He needs to show that he's responsible, that he's grown up. Instead he's doing the next big thing and the next big thing is what any teenager that watched a recent Spielberg money would come up with. If Zuck and some of these tech savants want to impress people maybe they need to finish college so they don't still sound like high schoolers in their 30s.

We should demand more. We're tired of people like Sam and Graham and Zuck complaining about how hard it is when people criticize their work. They want to have insane wealth and have people kiss their ass.
It seems like the majority of the comments are not taking into account that this trend began approximately 70,000 years ago - slightly before the various things people here are blaming such as TikTok, Google, writing, Javascript and Twitter.

Cutting-edge (heh) technology 70,000 years ago was the stone blade as well as the earliest known primitive art.

An interesting guide whenever you're trying to put this kind of thing into context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_prehistory
Alan Guth explains inflation theory (2014) [video]
That wasn't the claim. The claim was about the effects of domestication on cognition and at least for dogs it is very obvious they are less intelligent than their non-domesticated counterparts. Same is true for rabbits. So, at the very least, in at least 2 cases it is clear that domestication has lead to a decline in cognitive abilities. It doesn't take much to infer the same is true for people, domestication has reduced selective pressures on cognitive abilities.

If you know of cases and studies where the opposite is true then I'd like to see the research.
I would be concerned, but I don’t really know if Facebook, umm, erm, Meta has the follow through to actually make this a reality.

How many times have they had Mark Zuckerberg come out talk about some future product or idea that never came to fruition?

Remember the faked home automation personal assistant video that Mark did a few years ago and how that was the future?

This is what this company does. They unveil an idea and faked tech demo before they even know if they can execute upon it in a meaningful way and then never talk about it again, because it ends up they can’t do what they promised.

Now I am sure they will do something here since they have the VR tech, but I just don’t believe they are going to create anything more than second life in VR.
I ran this on a server with a 5950X (same CPU as this test was run on), but with 2666MHz memory (128GB) instead of 3600MHz memory (32GB) and I only got 41GB/s.
> It’s all ethanol

I used to believe that. It seemed obvious to me and a phd chemist friend of mine that - as you say - the different reputations were a cultural/social creation. The drink itself was just different amounts of ethanol.

Then one day that chemist friend of mine decided to get a bottle of Hornitos Reposado. We usually preferred a good bourbon or weird herbal stuff[1]. We drank most of the bottle, but that wasn't unusual for us at the time[2]. We were intending on a normal evening of video games. MTG, and/or VtES. Instead... we ended up spending the evening having the stupidest, most aggressive, pointless, childish, "macho" argument of our lives. It was shockingly out of character for us. The amount of ethanol consumption wasn't large, and we drank it at a normal rate. Both of us had been a LOT drunker in the past. The only significant difference was our unusual choice of tequila.

While I agree that the cultural preconceptions are probably responsible for most of the effect, there is at least some truth behind the reputations of different types of alcoholic beverages, because the actual drink isn't just ethanol. The different brewing/distilling/aging processes produce different amounts congeners[3][4]; their psychological effects might be small, but small effects amplified through social mechanisms are how "culture" is created.

> In many ways that makes these rumor filled, science light, unsubstantiated media stories about “this is the most dangerous drug ever” incredibly irresponsible.

Hear, hear!

> moral panic over Four Loko ... amaro and coffee

Yah, people have probably started putting whisky (Irish or otherwise) in their coffee the morning after they invented the whisky. Also, you probably have to drink the entire giant can of Four Loko to get the same caffeine in a typical cup of coffee.

> Yet it never caused moral panic until the “wrong type of people” started consuming it.

It's disturbing how often this kind of bs ends up just being a fancy form of racism/sexism/${targeted_group}ism

[1] e.g. Pernod, Herbsaint, Chartreuse

[2] Yes, we were regularly drinking WAY too much. 375ml/day/person minimum. WAY WAY WAY too much...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congener_%28beverages%29 "These substances include small amounts of chemicals such as methanol and other alcohols (known as fusel alcohols), acetone, acetaldehyde, esters, tannins, and aldehydes (e.g. furfural)."

[4] Also, the different amounts of sugars means different effects on bloodsugar/insulin/etc. The resulting effects are probably complicated and difficult to explain, but their contribution to the different reputations might be larger than we expect.
> But my point is that people do not find realistic opinions that interesting. Saying "I don't know" or "both sides have merit" is sometimes accurate but never interesting. Society selects for this.

I completely agree with you, and "Society selects for this" is a decent explanation (I would add in culture) - but isn't it strange that there seem to be so few outliers? And I'm not talking about disinterested centrists, but more like people who are interested in the meta aspect, the fact that approximately no one is interested in what is actually true (that they do not know, that both sides typically do have some merit), especially when compared to how people really are (they do not know that they do not know, they (commonly) cannot realize or even consider the possibility that each side usually has some valid points....rather, a very common phrase I hear nowadays is "I've had enough of this 'both sides!'").

Isn't it strange that this is the nature of the system that we live in, and isn't it even stranger that hardly anyone seems to find it odd?

> What is frustrating is that society reproduces so much of this nonsense.

It's frustrating for sure, but if you think about it: why wouldn't it produce nonsense? Like, we've been having these sorts of issues for decades - we see more of it (and I suspect more exists) because of the internet, but we haven't really changed much about the way we do things (if anything, any new tool we get is used to crank the insanity even higher), so does it make sense to expect it to improve over time?
Totally. I mean, as ridiculous as it may seem, the thing that got me into Linux was seeing a printout of a screenshot of Enlightenment 15 and just going “what is that” - and for me, the idea that a GUI could be visually exciting was revelatory - I ended up wrapping my head around SuSE 4.2 on hardware it hated, getting E16 running (hey, it took me a while to figure out X, never mind anything else), and ended up learning C, C++ and Ruby because I wanted to make more of this unbelievably cool (in a very 90’s way) stuff.

Now… Great UIs are everywhere. You can just use them. You don’t need to poke under the hood, or learn the mechanics of CRTs, or compile a kernel and a zillion libraries to get them working - you just flip open your phone, or hit up the uri.

I think there’s something quite specific about having learned the trade through that cusp, that changing of worlds - if you started with punch cards and ended with dumb terminals, your world changed only somewhat, and always had a utilitarian edge to it - we went through that Bildungsroman of growth and explosive expansion as a natural function of our environment.

I feel somewhat blessed to have been born in possibly the most interesting time since Gutenberg wrote “hallo, welt”.
Okay, but in that sense of projection, all stated facts are projected versions of the facts. In your opinion, should we just not discuss our experiences with companies at all, since the descriptions will be mere projections of what actually happened?
> Everyone is crying out for a decentralized, interoperable metaverse

No one is crying out for a metaverse.
Europe’s Digital Decade and Autonomy [pdf]
In what way did your life get worse because of Facebook?
> Facebook/Meta is a consumer company.

There's not a single consumer that ever spent 1 dollar on Facebook. It's an advertising company, doing websites and chat apps on the side.
The phones also started stagnating in additional utility for new models. Smaller and smaller portions of people gain anything going from one model to the next. A $500 iPhone SE has plenty of camera and processing power for people, and it is basically an iPhone 8.
Plus shells also behave different depending on how it's invoked (e.g. as "sh" rather than "zsh" or "bash") which can affect the output of these builtins.

My own preference these days is to explicitly use /bin/zsh and just rely on zsh behaviour (e.g. "$+commands[ls]"). It's not "compatible" in the sense of "POSIX compatible", but it's more compatible in the sense of "much higher chance everything will work on a random system", with the only downside that people will need to install zsh. I think that's a fair trade-off for many (though obviously not all) cases.
Pay young kids to install a VPN on their phone and look at what they're installing and you too can buy as well as Mr. Zuckerberg!
You're making a value judgement like "better" and "worse" as if there was a clear global optimum that you can reach. Why do you assume that's the case?

Let's assume there even is a global optimum. Why do we think this global optimum would be invariant on environment? We have clear examples of species that fail to adapt to their changing environment quickly enough dying off. If you took the survivors of a change and then changed things back, those survivors might die again. That means you are fit to the environment you find yourself in. As the environment changes, you're not "better" or "worse" than someone who's more fit to a different environment.

Humanity is not getting strictly better on all stats. It's like a video game. We might tweak improve some stats and have to give up others. We are a bit more unique in that we largely optimize for the environment we create for ourselves, but that doesn't mean humans are constantly "getting better" over time. You could maybe try arguing that the human condition has improved over time due to technology, medicine, etc, but even that's an imperfect analysis because our historical record is so inaccurate.
Apple did it before Google.

Source: I am an iOS and android dev.
Even granting him that WhatsApp and Instagram were indeed savvy purchases, I think it is fair to say that purchasing nascent competitors is no longer a tool available to Facebook. Both because antitrust scrutiny and because those competitors likely don’t fear Facebook’s copycat routine like they once did.

New product launches have indeed gone poorly. This certainly looks terrible to my eyes. Time will tell but skepticism is warranted.
Best way to make valid test emails
I'm working on a Firebase application, is it possible to to create a bunch of test emails in order to test user creation, login, data separation, etc ?

I'd be open to a low cost Email As a service solution, but I need to be able to view all received emails in the same UI
Social media selects for outrage, HN often included.
I don't know much about this off the top of my head, but roughly, the idea is that a neutrino we observe with a definite mass is a mixture of the three flavors, and a neutrino with a definite lepton flavor is a mixture of those with different masses.

The different masses mean that as a neutrino of a certain flavor travels its different constituent states evolve at different speeds, so what it is measured at have different chances of being measured based on when the measurement takes place.

Photons have no effect like this because they are not mixtures of different particles and have no concept of 'flavor'. Massive photons would be the same.
GDPR - General Data Protection Regulation; Europe's complex privacy regulations was meant to curb Google and Facebook abuse of cookies, data and power.

It only made it harder for smaller startups or other companies to compete. Meanwhile Bigh Tech, suported by expensive legal, Design and marketing teams evated all new the regulatory burden.

Overall GDPR only made Google and Facebok more powerful, and introduced a new legal barrier to challenger startups. Hence helps to consolidate even more their power.

And Finally to make it even worse now everyone has to deal with that stupid consent cookie banner in every single website..
How is J&J threatened by Facebook?

Will this Third Life be so addictive, people will let their children shit themselves and use no baby powder?
That's not true at all.

Dividends are taxed as regular income, unless they're qualified dividends then they have their own rate.
The internal leadership at Facebook are all yes-men, from personal experience.
Morons.

Renewables have failed to provide energy security and cost effectiveness.

This simply increases dependency on Russia and impoverishes millions. Governments shouldn't be in money-lending business in the first place, but the bank and lending remain, just even more wasteful than before. Watch them pour that money and then some into unreliable and expensive green projects.

The EU is sinking into oblivion.
I meant the clinician's ignorance about endometriosis.

The package will say to take 2 tabs stat and 1 after each loose bowel movement. Not hard to go through a dozen+ each menstrual cycle.
419 error is a Rick roll? Ridiculous. It obviously has to be a once in a lifetime opportunity from a Nigerian prince.
How does it validate that the understanding is correct?
> The problem you're describing is political

This is my experience as well. At the end of the day, most line of business applications can just use SQLite and be done with it. One project, one executable, one database, one model, one machine. Very rarely does the business actually need the kinds of fantastical things that are routinely bandied about on hackernews. Now, that isnt to say these things arent fuckin awesome and that we should stop talking about them, we just need to be realistic about the scope and applicability of our tools.

In terms of a universal API, we are kind of doing this in our shop. We are building 1 unified domain model, which is approximately in 3rd normal form. All of our software is required to use this model to represent the facts/state of whatever is happening. Changes to this model go through a semi-formal review process, just like you would expect with an old school SQL setup in a big shop. Our model can be mapped one-way to SQL for purposes of online business rule evaluation or offline reporting.

The benefits of having 1 standardized model are really cool after its been in place for a while. You will notice your non-technical project managers developing an awareness for which top-level types may be implicated in certain matters. Having one slow-changing way to represent the business at hand makes it really easy for people to start picking things up. When its scattered to 50 repositories and 10 different languages, this is a bit trickier.
I haven't been on YouTube today, but I literally JUST got out of the shower and I was thinking about FizzBuzz while there.

But yeah, frequency illusion.
Bought and killed by Google, all the Brazillians migrated to WhatsApp.