skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a bit of context:

This happens to be in the same vicinity as the most popular ski resort in the state, and a number of other popular outdoor attractions.

It's not quite your average rural economy that's desperate for any sort of new business/jobs/investment.

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A mine has to be weighed against the risk it represents to their existing economy - both in actual impacts of environmental disasters, and reputational if there's any negative stories coming out about it.

Tourists don't want to go have their destination wedding in the town that's in the news regularly because of X or Y pollution, even if they can't see it and it's not a risk to them on their visit.
What does that mean? The polio vaccine is considered 100% effective at 4 doses while 90% at 2. Does a vaccine have to hit 100% effectiveness at some number of doses to be considered a cure?
It may seem strange for younger HN readers to see an iron lung. When I was growing up they were common. I can remember going to the Dayton Hamvention, the annual largest gathering of ham radio operators, and seeing a couple dozen folks in iron lungs being wheeled past the exhibits. There was no disease more terrifying to parents than polio.

I was so young I don't remember getting the shot. My late father said the polio vaccine was right up there with going to the moon for scientific accomplishments in his lifetime.
Why on earth would anyone be "long USD". The fed has had a policy of 1%+ inflation for decades. It is designed to go down in value over time.
Yes, it's common for Amish carpenters to use lot's of modern power tools in the course of their work, but will often remove the electric motor and replace it with a belt drive that is powered by a water wheel or similar.
As of mid-day wednesday

Chrome blocking site as "unsafe" due to certificate error. Over-riding that and OpenDNS blocks it as malware.

Creators may want to investigate.
One small past thread:

The Amish understand a life-changing truth about technology the rest of us don’t - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17106823 - May 2018 (6 comments)
> but it only took me ~6 years to go from Windows power user, to almost never booting Windows up

> but I really just don't understand what people find so difficult…

Are you serious? I practically grew up with Linux, and switched to using windows partially in my mid teens, and never had to boot up linux for any reason while using windows, I switched to Mac in my late teens and never had to boot up windows or Linux for any reason. I would say it took me less than 6 days to become proficient on a Mac, mostly due to getting used to slight differences to Linux on the command line and figuring out where the damn keys where hiding on the keyboard. Eg | under the I, what the hell!?

You can’t honestly be serious that you spent 6 years being comfortable in Linux and also claim that you don’t understand what others find “so difficult” the answer is everything! If you had a toaster that asked you to search Google to figure out how to rewire your kitchen to suit its expectations before making toast you’d also toss it and buy a win-toaster that worked 98% of the time but gave you frozen toast the last 2% or switch to a Mac-toaster that “just works” but due to design concerns only had one button, and charged it’s battery from the bottom meaning you can’t roast while it’s charging. Both of those are minor things compared to having by to rewire a kitchen just for a toaster.
I don't think it's a fair characterization. I think just about everyone can infer how shields work after watching this movie. I think the issue is you can watch the film as many times with as much attention as you want, and without extended context there will be a lot which goes over your head.
They are late though. Last year I have switched to Debian because of very few DIY repair options in MacBooks. And I discovered OS superiority as well. Everything in Debian (Gnome) is so fast - opening PDF files, Files (finder), Terminal, EMacs. Debian running on i5 is much faster then macOS running on i7.
I am currently researching an long-term editor/abuser who has a rather colorful history.

He runs a couple of attack websites targeting universities both in the US and Switzerland. These are current revisions to a past couple of websites which still appear as sources in numerous articles on Wikipedia. He supposedly volunteered at one of the universities before he was dropped because he lied about his credentials.

He ran in the 2018 Italian elections. His political party was suggested by some Italian and American sources as a fraud. He had tried for several years to inject articles and tidbits about the party into Wikipedia.

The sources which negatively reported on his political party have often been attacked by him. He managed to get one online newspaper's article removed from en-wiki and it-wiki. He appeared to do this for SEO impact to push up sources which are good about him and hide those which are not.

He recently tried to incorporate a dating website promoting himself and his search for a wife. He tried to present the site as a "mirror" of Wikipedia.

He used to run a service to circumvent anti-plagiarism tools like Turnitin. He did this while volunteering at the university mentioned above. There are several places where his service and his LinkedIn stories come up in the history of Wikipedia articles.

He wrote a book about Second Life and a couple of faux academic articles. He tried several times to integrate his book as a source on it-wiki. The faux academic articles were uploaded to Commons, and they were even cited in a few legit academic publications.

He operated a school in Second Life. He created articles about the school on Wikipedia, and one of the faux academic articles was about it. These were eventually discovered and removed.

He also created several articles about himself on en-wiki, it-wiki, simple-wiki, and ja-wiki. These have all been removed because several of his accounts had been blocked for sockpuppetry.

The story grows crazier the I dig deeper.
This is impossible to answer without the details of your car insurance. It entirely depends on what your insurer’s rental car policies are.

There are two issues at hand: accident liability and damage/theft.

For liability, it’s typical that states require rental companies to purchase stare minimum or sometimes a higher liability level than the state minimum as a base.

For damage/collision, there’s no requirement for anyone to hold coverage, so that’s on you. Many travel credit cards offer damage/collision insurance as a feature, and some individual car insurance plans extend coverage from your personal car insurance to rented cars, but don’t assume this.

You can generally rent a car if you don’t own a car and don’t own your own car insurance, and in most states you wouldn’t be obligated to purchase additional coverage from the car insurer.

A Tesla is no different than any other expensive car rental, the fact that it’s electric is irrelevant. It’s no different than renting an Audi Q7 from a rental car company.
Bigger screen and better lighting make for a nearly perfect Kindle Paperwhite
We're still using commercial software on W10 that was compiled for XP and shipped on CDROMS. The backwards compat on Windows is unreal and continues to be the major reason why I tend to stick my neck out for MS to the extent that I do. The OS is solid too, so hundreds of days of uptime on my desktop certainly doesn't hurt :D
Maybe we were just younger and had friends who did cooler things?
Not the parent, but the irony is that to bring good fortune, you bring incredible misfortune (extinction, even) upon other living things.
Why are people not bothered by privacy concerns in this case?
I put some thought into that naming https://github.com/c-blake/lc which I think is basically uniformly more capable than exa.
Technopoly was published in 1992 but still holds up quite well. Postman was something of a prophet.
I'm probably the only person who started learning UWP in 2020; when the pandemic hit and I suddenly had a lot of time on my hands, I spent months building a UWP application for my own use.

I think this is the right call on Microsoft's part. UWP has been semi-abandoned for a while now and it's nice to get some clarity on its future (or lack thereof).

UWP had many pain points (the .NET Native compiler, installation, filesystem access, sandboxing, longstanding XAML limitations), but it wasn't all bad. You can tell that the Windows team spent a lot of effort trying to make UWP/WinRT/WinUI successful, and it's a little sad that most developers never got to see the good parts of UWP. Among other things, UWP made it remarkably easy to build interfaces that "just work" with both touch input and keyboard+mouse.

It's unfortunate that UWP was hobbled from the start with so many restrictions. I think it would have seen much more adoption if it had been built with an escape hatch from the draconian distribution+sandboxing requirements.
>So I'll change it up and say: the lack of keyboard-driven functionality taken into account.

Note to self: take this into account. Related to issue about accessibility.
I’ve never had any consequence from this except now my headphones also dont have the option of being a wired headphone, which means I have to ask the flight attendant for headphones to watch a movie on their screens. Everyone else is in the same situation though so its commonplace. Dont know if you’ve flown anywhere in the last year but a lot of people have.
How to Stop Procrastinating and Losing Motivation (For Good)
There will likely be some form of confidential agreement with another party who supplied the info to MSFTIC, however, I also agree with your statement.

Microsoft has been quite lax lately with a lot of things, you only need to see the stuff Kevin Beaumont is posting (ex-MSFT employee - senior cyber) about them knowingly hosting malware in OneDrive (standout as a OneDrive user), and knowing about a lot of issues and potentially being rather passive about fixing them.

I love MSFT products, but lately from what I’ve been reading, their attitude to a lot of things security lately is a bit worrisome to me, I could be completely wrong as i don’t know what’s happening internally, but it’s also slightly worrying from one of essentially, the most powerful cyber security firms around.
Ask HN: I'm 10 years into CS career, but rarely code anymore. Is this normal?
I graduated with CS degree in 2012. Worked as intern doing web dev, then moved to enterprise Java shop at large corp. Then, spent 4 years at consulting firm coding in variety of technologies.

I now work at another large enterprise, and find myself being more "architect" than "developer". I spend time discussing vendors, high-level design, architectural decisions between domains, and just more overall "steering" strategy than coding.

Is this normal? And further -- is this "OK"?

Some more context:

I enjoy my work; I especially enjoy being involved in the higher-level issues and strategy. I enjoy working with other decision makers, and might even enjoy it more than the hands-on coding work I used to do.

However, I worry that I'm losing my edge. If I want to job switch, I'd be fucked on the LeetCode stuff. I could study it no problem, but I'm curious how much pure coding skills impact my career trajectory. As it stands, I'm not entirely sure where I'd move next but I want to ensure my skills are valuable (e.g. I don't want to become stale!)
According to Wikipedia, Facebook had a news feed in 2008; it was added in 2006, before which it was necessary to view a user's profile to see their posts. The switch to an algorithmically generated, rather than chronological feed started in 2011.

Facebook's decline, for me was not due to the feed being algorithmic. I think it got better around that time; showing original content from people I like to interact with first is a positive experience. What's not positive is showing me most things other than original content from my friends.

I'm not sure why the change happened, but at some point it did. Most of what I see posted on Facebook now is not original content from my friends. I mostly don't want to see third-party content. The share button was there long before I noticed this trend, but people are using it a lot more. I just went and cataloged 50 algorithmically-chosen posts. Here's the distribution:

Shared third-party post or link: 24

Original text: 9

Original image: 9

Directly-posted image of third-party content: 3

Promotion of a physical product by a page I follow: 2

Promotion of media by a page I follow: 2

Promoting own event: 1
That's a very pessimistic (and I'm afraid self-fulfilling) position. Costa Rica abolished their army in 1949 and hasn't been invaded since. Why shouldn't an Amish Nation fare as well?
ESC itself doesn't cut it for me. With my resting hand position on the keyboard, my fingers touch the touch bar, and it always causes something either catastrophic or very frustrating. On a similar note, I'd gotten used to pressing Fn keys without looking at the keyboard. With touch bar, I have to carefully analyze the touch bar before doing anything with Fn keys. It's a very problematic experience overall. If it was a separate bar, I wouldn't have any of these issues.
Ask HN: Those who use self-hosted chat platforms, why not Slack?
We’re currently using Mattermost as our self-hosted chat, but outside of cost savings, there doesn’t appear to be a good reason why we don’t switch to a SaaS like Slack which has more features, integrations, better app, etc. What are your reasons to use Mattermost/RocketChat/other tools instead of Slack?
It was an offhand. I was thinking to keep them in the same order as the group-by while still keeping the field in front for the initial filter, but given a moments thought I doubt it would make any difference, besides wasting some space in the index.
This year it saw... 3? 6? Who knows. Also, not what I was referring to!
Same happened with nutrition (fat vs sugar) and smoking. Putting out misleading propaganda works. And a lot of political decision makers don’t really care about facts as long it gets them votes and donations.
There is no way 33% of code is written with Copilot. I want to see the data backing that claim up.
tl;dr three major pain points:

(1) no native async

(2) small library ecosystem

(3) CL community NIH syndrome:

> I think the straw that broke the camel’s back was when a few people started making copycat projects that added no real value (other than benchmarking fast) but stole mindshare from all the work I had put in.

These are good points. (1) is a real, true problem with CL (as opposed to things that people commonly think of that aren't actually that bad e.g. syntax), and it's probably not going to be solved in a satisfactory way anytime soon - the design of the language is pretty nice, but seems to exclude first-class continuations (according to [1]), async, and coroutines. (yes, you can emulate these things using macros, but that often involves tree-walking, and results in non-orthogonal features that don't play great with the rest of the language - first-class is always better)

Common Lisp was designed for, and is very good at, representing algorithms under a very specific model of how the world works - that is, single-node and single-memory-space. Its design assumptions don't hold up very well in a multi-node, concurrent world. Yes, there's bordeaux-threads and lparallel, but they feel like hacks, and the presence of GC means that they won't be able to attain the performance of Rust or Erlang (which seems like Lisp for a distributed world - its model of the world seems to be fundamentally distributed, not a bunch of patches on top).

(2) is somewhat unavoidable when you have a small community, but (3) is not (and is highly undesirable). Ideally, the CL community would document all of their published code really well (from the library-author side), and then put some effort into learning how to use (and improve) someone else's code (from the library-user side) instead of rewriting their own 50%-complete version of an existing library, but that would require a significant shift in the attitude of the average CL user, and I'm not sure how to try to affect that.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16651843/why-doesnt-a-pr...
> These two are presumably Harkonnen slave girls.

I think they're face dancers contracted to help heal the Baron. I think it's a nice way of introducing the face dancers into the story visually.

I really liked the film despite it's length and Villeneuvery.

There were quite a few things that bothered me though, which I'm surprised were not discussed in the blog. (My memory of the book is now very old, so I could just be wrong on some of these).

1. The combat was all wrong. I saw las guns being used in various places, which would have been suicide with everyone running around with personal shields. The fact that the knife needs to travel slowly through the shield seemed as far as I could tell to only occur when it made for a good visual and most of the time was ignored. Sure, it would have been hard to make visually interesting fight scenes given the constraints, but solving problems like that is what being a genius director is all about.

2. Not showing Paul cry over the killing felt like a real Hollywood move - the action hero does lots of killing without it bothering him, and we don't want to get too depressed at this point in the film. But actually Paul is a real person, and a good person, and good real people generally don't like killing even when necessary, and this is his first kill, and the shedding of water for his victim is one of the things that gets the Fremen to start to believe that he is someone different to what they're used to.

3. I was irritated early on by people unsheathing and resheathing crysknifes without them tasting blood, (e.g. in the gift to Jessica scene), but then they do cut themselves in the later scene, so maybe there's some sort of explanation?

4. The blog post picked up that Feyd-Rautha is a key character to understanding the Bene Gesserit, so it was weird that he wasn't introduced.

5. Dune just didn't feel that hot. The planet from Pitch Black felt way hotter. They keep saying that Dune will kill you and then just seem to wander around in full dress not seeming all that bothered.

6. The timeline feels wrong. The film makes it feel as if the invasion is on like Day 2. This would make no sense.

6. Extremely cringe final line 'this is only the beginning', weird obsession with saying 'desert power'.
For posterity, here's a link to the dataset that is up-to-date.
https://console.cloud.google.com/bigquery?p=bigquery-public-...

For details on how to get it out, read this comment tree:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25075318
VS Code enable mandatory spyware if you try to use the Copilot extension. I guess they track it by that and the git extension somehow?

Or maybe they just count what share of commiters have the Coopilot extension installed ...
https://archive.md/n8LuJ

http://web.archive.org/web/20210814134926/https://qz.com/127...
Definitely. Imagine just trying to change how you sleep if you're a back or side or stomach sleeper. For most people that would be pretty difficult, I think. It seems like this is an even more dramatic change.
In silico analyses of maleidride biosynthetic gene clusters
Refer to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29017712.
Are you sure glibc versions (or libraries in general) are compatible between distributions? That's what I meant by "different versions", sorry for not making it clearer.
You're naming people that are managing entire companies.

The person in charge of design, for a company that has a handful of physical products, is a completely different situation. It's reasonable to blame them for top level product design decisions. What happens in that specific realm is what they want. The top priority of their job is those few dozen decisions. The opposite of a CEO that's overseeing ten thousand different things.

Be a little less stuck on the word 'pushing'. The fact is, when it's one of the main things you're in charge of choosing, and you allow a decision and then stand by it for a long time, you are now pushing it.

Also, wait, you're the one that inserted the word 'pushing' into the conversation! If you're upset with that wording, you're upset at a strawman.
And code that just is kinda vanilla and so would be something that co-pilot would actually generate...
Technology makes it impossible to start over to walk away from bad events, there is no “Gone To Texas” I can’t leave behind bad debts and truly start over. Everything is known about you.
Ive seen enough f these such cases that i cannot believe that anyone spends money in a casino anymore. If the casino can claw back winnings even if the person did in fact "exploit" the game they can do it for any outsize win. Basically nullifying the reason anyone plays games of chance.
QuickcCheck-type tools (generators for tests that know about the edge cases of a domain - e. g. for the domain of numbers considering things like 0, the infinities, various almost-and-just-over powers of two, NaN and mantissas for floats, etc.):

* QuickCheck: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/QuickCheck

* Hypothesis: https://hypothesis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

* JUnit QuickCheck: https://github.com/pholser/junit-quickcheck

Fuzz testing tools (tools which mutate the inputs to a program in order to find interesting / failing states in that program). Generally paired with code coverage:

* American Fuzzy Lop (AFL): https://github.com/google/AFL

* JQF: https://github.com/rohanpadhye/JQF

Mutation / Fault based test tools (review your existing unit coverage and try to introduce changes to your _production_ code that none of your tests catch)

* PITest: https://pitest.org/
> 1GbE became synonymous with "good enough" and got so thoroughly stuck in a rut that now it's very typical to see 1GbE deployed alongside a handful of 10 gigabit USB ports and a NVMe drive that could saturate the sad, old 1GbE port many times over.

This has a few reasons:

- 10 GbE was, until quite recently, pretty power intensive and it still is more expensive and hot than gigabit

- Devices in LAN, especially those with high bandwidth usage, have become far rarer. A lot has moved to the cloud and the bandwidth of most people can't saturate 100 Mbit, not to speak of Gigabit.

- LAN as a whole has become rarer. A lot of people now only use WiFi with their phones or laptops, up to the point that most people now have (theoretically) faster WiFi than LAN.

Combined, there are few reasons to take the expense of putting a high-speed ethernet port on a device. Luckily, the introduction of 2.5GbE and 5GbE has decreased the jump a bit and you see those ports on a few consumer devices now.
Yea I assume poachers shoot elephants, not trap them. So they only want to shoot ones with visible tusks.

Edit: I found an article[0] describing some poaching methods and apparently they do use traps! Including snares and a spiked board. But that it appears homemade shotguns and rifles are the most common method.

[0] http://www.open-earth.org/document/natureR_main.php?natureId...
Likely to be the case within the scope of “consumer sites/apps used most frequently by users”. But I don’t think that encapsulates all the technology of ‘this era’, as the OP referenced. I don’t think it even encapsulates all of the supporting infrastructure that the consumer sites/apps lean on to provide their services.
Ok, we've replaced the baity title with the opening sentence. Thanks!
I've been using Copilot in VS Code and it's been surprisingly useful. It makes suggestions pretty rarely, but when it does I accept about 50% of them. Generally these are few-line functions and it just gives me what I would have written after thinking about it a moment.
I use slack and have never used those alternatives you’re talking about but there is a case to be made that self hosted tech offers better privacy.
Okay, what's the alternative for the medieval measures? Vaccine mandates? Let it run, live with the survivors?