skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>These days I find myself more so interested in the people whose minds seem to attain those 'out there' states without any external aid.

Another classic trope.
Decent advice. I originally intended for a homesite, but as I was considering what to put on I realized I would have to conjure up a lot of content for it to be worth it. For now I think it's simply easier to just have a forum, if the demand grows for a homesite I can always add that at some point.

I've actually already cut down the number of forums to what I feel are the manageable and topical ones, I think it should work for now. It's all improvised anyway, I'll see what the demand is over time and remove or add subforums as appropriate. I'm open to community feedback as well.
> The problem with pessimism is that it is usually wrong, always counterproductive, and almost never gets held accountable for either. History is chock full of wrong pessimists.

History is filled with correct pessimists as well. Has anyone ever been wrong by predicting that humans competing for resources on a frontier will come into violent and deadly conflict with one another?

I realize it’s not a particularly deep or insightful thing to say, but there seems but be an unchecked optimism in these threads, one that builds a narrative of humanity spreading to the stars and filling the universe with our light. Meanwhile on Earth Prime we have famine, genocide, war, and an unquenchable need to consume and multiply. If Corona were sapient it would be making the same argument - we must spread to the stars to continue our existence! No one really stops to ask “why?”. Why should we spread to the stars? Why is the continued existence of our species important to the universe? Doesn’t this line of reasoning make humanity no better than a virus?

Imagine humanity coming across a planet filled with sapient alien trees. Completely defenseless and they have no concept of war. What would humans do at first chance? Slaughter them and use them for fuel or building materials. Is spreading the idea and practice of genocide across the universe really what’s best for anyone? What’s the other side of it? Is there an argument for why we should do this thing that isn’t grounded in selfishness?
I am deeply convinced that the internet will be the cause of a huge uptick in violence, and porn is fighting for the #1 reason, together with social media.

Rare stuff monopolizes internet content, it follows Power's law. But that stuff being rare means that although everybody can see it and be aware of its existence, not everybody can have it, because wealth and luck also follows power's law.

This causes anxiety, frustration, FOMO, depression...eventually every guy will become convinced that they deserve a pornstar in their bed and a private jet and so they'd try to get those things or die trying.

The internet completely wiped away the process of discovery which starts in each person locality and then grows more and more the further they can travel.

Now you can immediately see the hottest girls or the fastest cars or the largest yachts.

For sure, but that doesn't mean you can actually have those things.

From a practical standpoint it's much better not to know.
I know, it just isn't as nice to read.
It certainly plays differently post George Floyd.

I'm not sure how long it took for Rent to feel cringy, but the premise of 20-somethings trying their hardest to avoid getting jobs so they can continue being artists also didn't age well.
"Fourteen" (four and ten) would have been from "scoring numbers", where you get to twenty (a score), keep track of the scores separately, and start over. Up to twelve, we used a duodecimal/dozenal system (a separate word for each number). That was also common in other non-Germanic Indo-European languages, notably the Brythonic Celtic languages (and various versions of Brythonic scoring numbers are still used in parts of Britain, depending on the pre-English dialect spoken in the area and changes over time, especially in children's games). French numbering still shows signs of "scoring", especially in the 60/70 and even moreso in the 80/90 region.
Products rushed to market tend to be poorly tested, poorly thought out and often suffer from mistakes that would have been easily identified if the schedule wasn't set by trying to beat a competitor to market.
Watching feeds of Certificate Transparency logs, and optionally going beyond those hostnames by using the newly discovered names to find additional ones, is one approach.

Google hosts a page [0] to search them, but there are other services/APIs that let you consume them in realtime - seeing certificate issuance live.

If you wanted to consume them programmatically without a 3rd party service, everything you need is in this repo [1].

0: https://transparencyreport.google.com/https/certificates

1: https://github.com/google/certificate-transparency-community...
"Undo" killed the typewriter, the rest is a bonus.

Algorithmic support will kill journals. How do you rank these apps, if one wants some degree of algorithmic sophistication?
> If we can't disable it somehow, we'll switch operating systems.

I admire your optimism. Unfortunately, once Apple has shown it is possible to prevent the playing of unlicensed copyrighted works, Windows and Android will have to match this or be treated as second-class platforms by the media industries.

Very few people will be willing to buy dedicated Linux computers (with custom Secure Boot keys) for watching torrented videos, and such devices will then become subject to more and more regulations, like having to pay an annual fee to the government.
The article specifically says that the lack of Black people there this year was a surprising (to the author) change.
Interesting, I knew Swiss said octante and my Belgian friends all say octante as well. Perhaps it's a regional thing?
Maybe it’s high risk to do mass production with untested components rather than revert to tried and tested components
NZ AZ and Taiwan have kept the virus out very well with border controls.

Everyone realizes that there's no way to keep it out without ultra-strict controls with most nations do not have, but, they can delay the virus - hopefully until after the holidays, they can smooth out how quickly it erupts, and they can buy time to further understand it's impact.
I think, car manufacturers are installing them to reduce manufacturing costs in the long run, because instead of building plastic parts, you install a module and get infinitely more ways to exploit the customers in various ways you see fit.

Also, it looks good on paper, and allows some useful controls while is backwards in many ways.

I'd rather have physical buttons which I can operate blindly rather than a touchscreen though. They're really dangerous when it replaces the physical buttons.
> what relevant software have they actually written

I think Fitnesse [1] is quite relevant. That said, not a lot of FOSS work from someone like him, to put the things he preaches in large and complex projects that we can look at the source and learn from.

[1]: https://github.com/unclebob/fitnesse
All of the affected models have physical buttons, literally nothing changed.
I assume you're exaggerating as a joke, but I don't think we should talk about HN like that, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. I've learned to shrug and scroll past the unconstructive stuff, and still manage to learn a lot from other folks in the comment section.
Since we're talking about driver's dashboard here it's a very marginal case.
How long should a protocol upgrade take? I cant help but feel that IPv6 has a flawed upgrade path.

It would be so much better to upgrade to a protocol that is directly compatible with IPv4 and does not require deployment and maintenance a second network in parallel to IPv4.
> e: apparently the avatar and account name was changed in response to transphobic tweets by notch, at least according to a random twitter user

That’s an overstep on the part of the admins/mods IMO. Either ban someone if you don’t want them there, or leave their stuff alone. Don’t go editing other people’s names and profile pictures. No bueno.
If you have the opportunity to work in the US definitely do it. Its a great change from Europe, esp if you like business & tech. Once you're here Europe really feels like its heading for relegation.

After that I'm not so sure, we got citizenship and now feels a bit like a trap. I like the land, people and climate (though too hot) but it seems a bit shallow and corporate. A lot of people from other parts of the world make huge sacrifices to bring their kids here to the land of opportunity, I worry there is too much materialistic reward and not enough culture.

Interestingly dont have a problem with the inequality, I think the rich here are almost to be pitied working non-stop to buy an even bigger 2nd house and a more luxurious car? I'm not even sure why they do it.
Of course I am familiar with Microsoft's history with IE and perhaps this will be a bit controversial but I believe the EU got this one partially wrong. They could have simply forced Microsoft to allow IE to be uninstalled without also forcing them to ship a version of Windows without a browser altogether.

After all, if you're okay with banning IE and OneDrive from being pre-installed where does the slippery slope end? What stops the exact same argument from being applied to every single other application that ships with an operating system? Now you've banned solitaire, paint, file explorer, media player, photo viewer, pdf viewer, disk defragger, etc. etc. and created a crippled operating system that forces the user to hunt down and install all these third-party applications to get functionality that should have been included in the first place.

Is the end user really better off under such a scenario? Not in my opinion.
The real answer is I'm nostalgic for phpBB. :) I also think it stood the test of time. It may feel clunky at times but it's familiar to most of us that grew up around the early 00s.
Here it is on top of a piece of printer paper 8.5x11"
https://i.imgur.com/Hg5nl3O.jpg
FYI multiply canvas width & height by window.devicePixelRatio so it won't be blurry in high res screens
That's also why we should be caution about reports that this variant attacks mostly the young given that the population in the areas where it has been identified is itself mostly young.
We need an improvement, not a regression.
$7.40 in beer can deposits. I win!
Even non-tonal languages have melodies, for example English people use a lot of intonation compared for to my native Polish. When I was in UK everybody sounded like they were talking to infants or dogs :)

You don't normally use it for numbers but you certainly can, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab8GtuPdrUQ

Another useful mnemonic that for me works even better than melody is rhythm. I noticed that I have about 20-notes buffer for last-heard rhythmic phrase even if I wasn't paying attention at the time. So for example after I ran down a flight of stairs I can count them by remembering the rhythm of my steps and adding them. My friend who has way better short term memory than me can't do this, but he can see the image he was looking at recently. Now that's cheating :)
Having kids or not will make a huge difference in that calculation. Childcare, excellent public schools, and college that cost a couple hundred Euros easily cost tens of thousands in the U.S.

Also, internet & phones: I have friends who keep their French cell phone contract because even though used from the States it is still much cheaper than any local contract. Internet is mostly a monopoly in the U.S., resulting in easily 5x European prices at much worse performance and service.
Biking doesn’t do much for bone mass retention or upper body strength. Bike all you want, but also lift.
Eschatology
Yes, I remember the primary way to buy tickets was as packs. Invariably, you'd have leftover A and B tickets (which couldn't be used for nearly anything) and you'd have to buy extra E tickets because the pack came with just one.
This does not even rise to high school level discourse. All of the points you bring up have been discussed more critically and insightfully on Body building forums.
I’ll start with that you seem to be hung up on that the only thing money can be exchanged for is property.
You are not really the target audience for Disney. My 6 and 8 year old daughters are Disney park's target.

Six flags is targeted for teenagers and young adults.
I honestly don't see any advantage to LaTeX over html+svg+css+mathml+??? for any usecase. Everything that LaTeX does the things that I mentioned do better.
Also you have to view code in multiple contexts and sticking to 80 characters per line allows it it be viewable in more places. For example, I like to look at the diffs in github and it is more flexible to read in a web browser if kept to 80 chars.
Maybe other sides of the universe is teaming with complex life but we live in an isolated island?
At what level of visual impairment is one able to still drive safely? I’m not sure touch screens would be the biggest problem in that situation.
Medium won't let me read it. Alternative link:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/25/strikesgiving/#cool-story...
South African medical association says Omicron variant causes ‘mild disease.’
“It presents mild disease with symptoms being sore muscles and tiredness for a day or two not feeling well. So far, we have detected that those infected do not suffer loss of taste or smell. They might have a slight cough. There are no prominent symptoms. Of those infected some are currently being treated at home.”

Plus: “The official noted that hospitals have not been overburdened by Omicron patients and that the new strain is not been detected in vaccinated persons.”
America has low car ownership rates compared to western Europe, possibly due to income inequality. See this 2012 article.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/08/it...

> The U.S. is ranked 25th in world by number of passenger cars per person...The Carnegie paper explains that car ownership rates are closely tied to the size of the middle class.
The question was not "are cats clean," but "how do indoor cats clean themselves?"

Indoor cats clean themselves in the same way as outdoor cats, by licking themselves.
These opinions about readability "flow" using numbered footnotes strikes me as the height of irony, but that's me.
With that logic we would all still be living on the same continent and would never have spread across the Earth to begin with.
I can't speak from experience for US, but from what I read/heard online; SW. Engs. salaries there range from 90K to 250K.
I just turned down an offer of a contract annually adding up to 220K$ roughly (total into my company before MOMS/VAT), because people are extremely antisocial here, and I ran out emotional patience/capacity. I just really can't anymore and need out asap. After 8 years here, I barely have a social circle to throw a birthday party. I moved here as a Tech Evangelist, very sociable person and my social skills has and is diminishing away.

650-900gbp per day sounds similar to southern Sweden. Hourly rates here go between 750 to 1300 sek.
What’s the probability that Martian-Terran humans will get frustrated by sending off Earth’s vast and plentiful resources in 100 - 200 years, and they wage open nuclear and biological war on Mars to wipe out all Martian humans?
Yet another thread full of confused people who have never sat in a modern BMW.

The driver has buttons for everything, the touchscreen is mostly for the passenger. There are no buttons added and removed between the touchscreen and not-touchscreen version.
I fear the day when hacker news will be gone. I will probably never again be able to keep up with developments in the tech space.
How are you liking cubase?
It's just an instagram for a young (attractive) woman who likes taking nature travel photos. If you've seen one influencer instagram you get the gist.
The thing is that cyclomatic complexity for example (most popular complexity measure that linters use), it doesn’t make sense. Most of the time high cyclomatic complexity of a method is indicative of high business logic complexity… which is fine.
And dogmatically saying that methods shouldn’t have that many lines and branches and that you should just come up with better abstractions doesn’t help anyone, whereas having closely related functionality concentrated in a single place, rather than synthetically exploded into N different files, well this does help.
This wallpaper generator was written on a Raspberry Pi running Ubuntu. Which I use because of its highly convenient desktop experience ;).
Memory allocation in particular is very hard to analyze.
> than holding two buttons at the same time, then holding one, and clicking the other 6 times, waiting 3 seconds, and then clicking through the colors.

Why can’t it be a dedicated dial? If you run out of room, maybe it’s not so important
And how much has the Flippy1 disrupted the industry? Does it unload the truck and put food stocks in the freezer? Does it make burgers to order (extra pickles and no tomatoes for instance)?

I wonder how many engineers or fast food execs ever actually worked in these kitchens because it doesn’t feel like this is all that ground breaking.

Fast food restaurants were designed from the start to produce as much food as possible with a minimum of skilled labor already; 20 years ago I worked in one at the local theme park and they already had a “robot” - basically a broiler with a conveyor belt. You stick frozen pattys and buns in one end and a perfectly cooked burger comes out the other end a few minutes later. Fries weren’t as automated but still was just a matter of dumping some frozen ones into a hopper and pressing a preset timer button. I’d say most of the labor was customer service and cleaning dishes/machines/the kitchen.

I’m sure fast food can be made more efficient somehow or other, but it should be realized that that juice has been squeezed a lot already.
I was referring specially to the author's claim about the lack of black people at his most recent post-pandemic visit.
I’ve been looking at Gun.js for a similar use case. This will be fun to dig into too, thanks for sharing.
There really aren't common technologies that *only* work across spaces no larger than a couple feet; the technologies that normally are limited to very close range can actually be used at larger distances with proper (large, directional) antennas and more powerful radio hardware.
>So if it's long enough it assumes it's correct? Hard to see logical connection there.

Well... Yes? That's how words work, really. If enough people agree a word means something, then it does.
You still have to buy a ticket to the park so it's more like $400 per person which is still not bad if you only go once, to one park, on one day and want a special experience.

I wonder if you should tip your guide?
GOG.com: “Omicron is not a game” (2013)
I’m hesitant to participate in more game dev communities unless the people in that community are unusually serious about their projects. That seems somewhat rare unfortunately.

Actually making a commercially viable indie game takes incredible amounts of time, effort, and skill-building, but a lot of people think they can do it without that investment, and it ends up being more of a (highly rewarding) hobby. Talking to them isn’t the same as talking to somebody else who is also neck deep in their own serious project that has real stakes and real complexity

Game jams and small non commercial games are awesome though, that is a great hobby to have if that applies to any of you!
Thanks that clarifies things without me having to research privacy policies.
If it’s any consolation, I find English pronunciation very difficult, and I’m a native speaker. It surprises me that in my thirties I still regularly encounter situations where I want to use a word and realise I’ve never heard it spoken before, so have no idea if the pronunciation I use in my head when reading it is correct.

I also often hear others mispronounce words; friends, colleagues, even on TV.

I guess my point is that if you’re mispronouncing English words you’re speaking it like a native!
No. Most of the piracy sites that are public and well known are super scummy. That is because only that kind of scummy income can protect and justify the exposure. Semi-private and private piracy sites are really nice, safe, and have better organization and UI than most big money for profit sites that attempt to distribute the same types of media. What.cd was way less scummy than any large commercial media distribution company.
Also it allows nonsense where clearly things are done because they can be, not because anyone in the world thought this was actually a good idea. Look at the latest Porsche Panamera, where the middle vent is directed by using a control on the touchscreen.....directly below it. So you replaced a simple and intuitive dimple on the vent that allows you to easily direct the vent without looking, to something that's hidden under a submenu, that you need to look at to use, and that takes several seconds to adjust because there's now a motor controling the vent orientation.

Like, I honestly cannot imagine anyone at Porsche actually thinks this is a good idea - it exists purely because a team somewhere had to fill a quota for "features" they are responsible for.
> The problem with [the plan of changing the formulas of drugs so they can be re-patented, from the patent-holder's perspective] is that a reformulation doesn’t stop the old drug’s patent from expiring, opening the market for cheap generics. To head this threat off, McKinsey developed a disinformation campaign to discourage doctors from prescribing generics and to convince patients to refuse such prescriptions. The McKinsey campaign included outright lies — false statements claiming that the old formulations were unsafe. Alongside those lies, McKinsey developed messaging to convince patients and docs that the old drugs were “a step backwards.”"

Great explanation of Merck disclaiming Ivermectin (see https://www.merck.com/news/merck-statement-on-ivermectin-use... ) despite the drug being safer than Tylenol when used by humans ( https://www.thedesertreview.com/opinion/columnists/the-great... )

Edit: They specifically called out "A concerning lack of safety data in the majority of studies" and spread FUD saying "Ivermectin should not be used during pregnancy since safety in pregnancy has not been established."
This sounds like a blame shifting article. Sure McKinsey as a consulting company would advise its clients on how to do something / anything while staying within legal fringes.

But it was the pharmacy companies that wanted to price gouge while avoiding any kind of scrutiny . So they roped in McKinsey for how to best do that without attracting any kind of government attention and McKinsey advised them on that.

The author blames McKinsey for gaming the system . But what is the system - it is just a list of laws and regulations written by Congress . If Congress finds any kind of gamification-it should change the laws accordingly.

The biggest reason for higher prices for drugs for Medicare was the prescription drug bill passed under the Bush administration that prevented the government from using its buying power to negotiate prices. I understand that affects only Medicare patients but that became the springboard for other opportunistic pricing employed by all drug companies.

Also the age old practice of buying the patents of an old drug and hiking the price by 10000% or more ( as employed by Daraprim (Martin Shakreli) or numerous other companies )was not Mckinsey’s brainchild but rather the demand from the drug companies that McKinsey helped to materialize.