skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I share your feels towards housing in aus. I've seen friends who are single mothers who left the city to try and claw out a better existence by moving to the country get priced out of their homes. One had rent go from 400 a week to >500 a week due to new owners jacking the price to cover their overextended mortgage.

They need to put some serious brakes on housing as a investment in aus. It's fucking our country. But fat luck telling half the country your about to make them feel judgement day for their shitty high risk low value house stock as it comes crashing back to reality.
Can we please stop with the circle jerk? I went to an "elite" school and majored in CS. I can literally say the same thing about most of the people I went to school with, N=1 just like you. Just because we can dress our arguments behind a thin veneer of logic doesn't mean jack shit. I'm sick and tired of this air of arrogance some of us in tech have just because we earn a lot and can code.
Utility classes are typically fewer characters, can contain multiple declarations and benefit from cascading, can benefit from responsive selectors, and can be updated in one place in the code when changes are required.
This is exactly the problem.
Are US+UK (that are ranked far above) governments all in on some conspiracy? that you are allowed to dismiss the findings to the point that Iran might actually be better in any sense?

I guess North Korea might also be heaven on earth, but it is the media that stops us from getting the truth. /s
No, arguing about political topics online is an unproductive use of your time.

If you care about politics (and you should, that's how society decides who does and doesn't wield power!) then do something about it. Call your congressman. Join or organize a rally. Knock on your neighbors doors and convince them to vote in the next election. Even just talk to your coworkers about DEI or some other topic you care about.
Which anybody could fake - literally pointless tld. What business could benefit from this?
The first guideline disagrees with your premise

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
I found a speech by Jennifer Doudna here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSrSIErIxMQ

Listening now, thanks!
At the macro scale, i highly doubt we are fscked. Some will adapt and survive while others (most?) won't but it won't be the end. As Goldblum said, life finds a way
at first I was jealous of the GUI navigation, but then I realized I don't use any GUIs other than firefox, for which there are plenty of plugins.

The Vim emulation is pretty cool, the closest alternative I can think of is https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim, but I disabled it a while ago for being kind of clunky
Further it wasn't even a bug. It was the well defined behavior working as specified.
Sports like this are generally not fair since one can predict who are able to be a top elite professional with a fairly high degree of certainty based only on genes. It is fairly rare and specific gene variants needed to take up, carry and consume the exceptional amount of oxygen needed to be at the top of human ability of speed and endurance.

It only because people genes are hidden that the sport currently feels fair. It would be much better if the sport had divisions based on actually equal genetic makeup, including those that effects hormone production. A weight class for endurance and speed sports.
You might want to check out https://www.reddit.com/r/NeutralPolitics/. It's decent and the mods are pretty strict with deleting comments that don't have source & facts in them.
I somewhat agree. Realistically I’m not sure it actually matters. In user mode they can do anything to my computer and steal any data they want. In kernel mode they can do it slightly more sneakily? Feels like one those things that sounds scarier than it actually is.
Not this again...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28833202
Comparing software released for operating systems you dislike with "rat poison" is weapons-grade flamebait and wholly unnecessary.
The important question is, what happens if everyone does what you do?
> It's not a rootkit, it's a kernel-level driver.

That's like saying "It's not a vehicle, it's a truck."
I see your point, and I'm not equipped to articulate the distinction. It is fuzzy.

> Somebody serious about deliberate practice will spend a lot of time seeking “tacit knowledge.”

Putting words in the author's mouth, he's saying that tacit knowledge is more important in areas where (i) execution isn't clearly prescribed; to (ii) perform at a high level.

The author gets into how in certain fields, there's a "missing manual" and requires figuring it out yourself or undergoing an apprenticeship, prioritizing attainment of tacit knowledge.

Leetcoding is a "missing manual" expertise path and doesn't converge, IMHO, like chess, violin, athletics, etc.
I see a fair amount of stories here where the endpoint appears to be a VPS, sometimes fronted by a CDN. It's hard to say exactly how efficient that is, since configurations vary, but it's likely pretty good. Sure, there's hungry servers under there, but the multi-tenancy spreads that out.
> HN has not descended into social-media Hell.

I'd argue the converse - it IS a social media hell, populated primarily by the elite themselves.

Shying away from hot button social issues is inherently what the capitalist class does, because they can purchase themselves out of any particular problem. And these effects contaminate most conversations here outside the purely technical.

Abortion? Find a Euro country to quietly and cheaply complete. No need to help solve it in the USA.

Medical? Med tourism for the best and cheapest docs in the world. Why demand single payer when we can travel to a country that already has single payer.

Citizenship? That too can be purchased.

Politics? The billionaires hedge their bets by donating/bribing both major US parties. You don't lose when either choice is a win.

Guns? It's vogue to be against guns, yet hire personal protection staff who own guns and will use lethal force.

Taxes? Yeah. Move that money around, and commit tax fraud/"creative money management". Even if caught, the bribed gov't does not care.
Sometimes, I wish I were a manager at these sort of companies so that I could fire the douchebags that pull this kind of shit off.

Then I remember it’s the C-level that allows this in the first place, with HR to protect them from any accountability.
Because those maintainers' time is free?
In the federal US courts it's usually defined like this:

(A) General Rule.—Subject to the exclusions in subdivision (D), loss is the greater of actual loss or intended loss.
(i) Actual Loss.—“Actual loss” means the reasonably foreseeable pecuniary harm that resulted from the offense.
(ii) Intended Loss.—“Intended loss” (I) means the pecuniary harm that the defendant purposely sought to inflict; and (II) includes intended pecuniary harm that would have been impossible or unlikely to occur (e.g., as in a government sting operation, or an insurance fraud in which the claim exceeded the insured value).
To prevent it from being flagged as for mature audiences and potentially getting a strike on the channel. Showing fecal matter in high, up-close detail would mark it as a "V" rating (violence/disturbing)[0]:

> Examples include real or dramatized medical footage, or depictions of disgusting or scary content in a horror or fantasy context.

[0] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/146399
This is the exact opposite of consent. People are being forced to install the anti-cheat software. While you may personally find it acceptable, you do not have the authority to consent on behalf of all other players, therefore it is not consent but simply an opinion.

Installing the anti-cheat software on your own computer will provide you absolutely no benefits. It needs to be installed on the cheaters' computers for it to be effective. Obviously if there was actual consent involved and people were allowed to not install the anti-cheat software, then cheaters would simply not install it.

There are plenty of valid reasons to be concerned about this, even for people who have no intention of cheating at all. While you may trust Riot, others may not. Even if Riot won't do anything nefarious with it, all software has bugs. It's only a matter of time until someone finds a vulnerability in Riot's anti-cheat software and actual malicious actors start to exploit it.

I hate cheaters as much as anyone else, but an anti-cheat program running with kernel-level privileges is simply a ticking time bomb and should never have been approved by Microsoft. But of course, it's easy for gaming companies to brainwash the masses who have no awareness of security and privacy risks with "you don't want cheaters in your games, do you?" These are the same people who get brainwashed by arguments like "if you're not doing anything illegal you have nothing to hide, therefore you should have no issue with your communications being surveilled 24/7 because it will help reduce terrorism".
This question really bothers me as well. I remember the time when designers came in and taught developers not to use pop ups, because pop up annoy and scare users.

I prefer browsing the web using uBlock Origin just to get rid of all the bloat. However there are several sites that are not compatible. And I’m pretty much directly closing the browser tab.

I wonder, whether it’s just me staying away from sites that annoy me to hell, because all the sites still use such pop ups. Following I wonder, whether site maintainers use all the analytics crap tools anyway. I mean, all the pop ups must have some sort of impact?
Honest question: are there any site maintainers analyzing there logs and might answer my questions?
I am not sure what you work on, but here are some resources I like to see.

* A in-depth, conceptual explaination of HTML/CSS layout and common UI idioms, so that I don't have to google something every now and then when making a website

* Back-end security related topics in one place. Various type of attacks and edge cases. (OWASP comes quite close I think.)

* Using Databases efficiently.
It was even worse than that: you often had to budget for different version numbers of the same browser, or even different versions of a single version number. I'm a little foggy on the details, but I believe IE7 would force pages into "compatibility mode" if they were hosted via intranet. I was working for the government at the time and our apps were all hosted on the agency network. It was hell.
Somebody please attach a photodiode to an oscilloscope and put it to the screen.
> ... vanilla CSS... Sounds that feasible?

Vanilla CSS is the other end of the spectrum, but the problem is there is apparently nothing between hand-crafted CSS and a full front-end framework. People, like me, who are not good at design will choose the convenience of the latter over going through the tedium of the former, even if we don't really want to.
For more details, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronization_gear .
In my experience, not generally, no.
yes. I have heard it. do not remember where. a series of interviews, fire side chat type r talks.
I say that because the GP seemed confused why pros were in favour of anti-cheat software.
Most people who are fluent in more than one sinitic language know the whole notion is bollocks. But there are plenty of Chinese who know only Mandarin; many of them entertain, and espouse, falsehoods about what they call dialects and their relationship with Mandarin. You see some of them posting such falsehoods in this very thread, and even insisting after they have been corrected.

What is amazing to me is people who know Mandarin and one or more "dialects" yet still promote the falsehoods. George Orwell called this "doublethink".
> And the source is the orwellian named freedomhouse which is funded by western governments.

What is that even supposed to mean, besides being a content-free casting of aspersions?

> I am sure there is an Iranian funded organization that would have opposite scores.

And to do so honestly, they'd have to evaluate according to very different set of values (e.g. an "Islamic values index").
AT&T offers fiber on the other side of the road. How is this government regulation?
SQL.

I'm continuously surprised by the ad-hoc manner in which devs use frameworks not understanding what the syntax they wrote means to the database. Many are confused by joins, or vs left-joins, and if a query runs slow have little idea how to index or change their schema to be more appropriate.

While we're here I'd also say data modelling. The DB is not meant to have a row-to-screen/page cardinality matching, unless you're a startup using MongoDB (or other document store).

The third one would be about API design. There are many blog posts that discuss one or two specific aspects of a particular API type (REST, gRPC, GraphQL) but it would be great to pick one of them and have it all lair out.

There may be print books that cover the above, but certain important topics always seem to fall in the gaps, like how exactly does one bound their microservice context? Most books gloss over this with a hand-waving trio of Order, Product/Widget, Customer.
This is dumb

When giving cattle Leuceana rumen inoculum you only give it to 10% of the herd because the rest will share it at drinking locations. This was first found naturally in Hawaii in goats but now has been brought to other locations for cattle [1]

Similarity when using camels for a different rumen inoculum for cattle not for sale yet it's also at drinking locations the camel shares it to the cattle.

We know this is true in cattle, because this is done in business after multiple studies.

Is this claiming it's fecal matter based? Ok, perhaps that's not dumb, I assumed it was shared from the mouth, but perhaps I've never thought it was fecal matter because that's icky. Fecal matter will get in drinking troughs.

Is this what it's saying, fecal not saliva? Hippos, goats, camels and cows all chew their cud, so they have gut bacteria in their mouths.

[1] https://csiropedia.csiro.au/leucaena-toxicity-solution/
The https://news.ycombinator.com/active front page has a listing of "active" topics, where active sometimes correlates with controversial. I'm not going to pretend that everything in there will be "interesting" in any real sense, but it's a place you might want to look at.
(10 billion (1e9) / 3e11 ~= 3%, for those like me who don't have powers of 10 memorized.)

Does that imply that there's a good chance someone's immune system will just fail to generate any appropriate antibodies against a novel intruder? Or does the "fuzzy matching" aspect mean that exploring a small percentage of the space mean you're very likely to get at least some degree of success?
Majority of people responding to FOSS studies is paid by companies. It is biased toward Linux related open source projects a bit.

The thing is, while there are maintenaners of important projects working for free, the idea that most of major open source development is for free is mostly mythology. Large projects are backed by companies.
What about communities of gamers and hackers who get their fun in environments where everyone spends their time hacking away at game code to use against each other? This is pretty common in many Minecraft servers, for example- hundreds of people developing the best cheats to use against opposing factions in said communities.
This is one example we put out https://github.com/avantoss/vault-infra for vault that supports auto-unlock and other DR hosting features. Once you set it up you remove access to buckets, keys, and ssh and it runs pretty self contained. Upgrades are pretty seamless. One of the most stable and reliable pieces of our infrastructure. Relies on AWS but could be supported with most cloud platforms
It's been a long time since I looked at Bootstrap. I don't remember it being anywhere near as easy to create a nice-looking page with it as it is with Vuetify.
You can’t control others emotions. But setting healthy expectations goes a long way.

One of my takeaways from the log4j issue is that the log4j devs should have never accepted the patches to add LDAP urls in the first place. Or perhaps, they should have removed that feature when it became burdensome. I would have. There’s a pressure to accept whatever patches come your way as an opensource developer, but actually, you’re under no obligation to do any such thing. Open source also means the source is available - so people are free to take your code, mix in their patches and maintain it themselves. And if they can’t be bothered doing that, why should I shoulder that burden?

I think us opensource devs should get more comfortable saying no. “I hear that this feature is important to you but it doesn’t solve a problem I (or anyone else I know) cares about. Please maintain those patches in your own fork.”
Cars are the worst. Side effects include air pollution, cancer, death of nearby pedestrians, municipal neglect of sidewalks, extreme inefficiency of resources resulting from rolling around a 2000 pound hunk of metal for every 180 pound person that wants get anywhere, sprawling asphalt deserts, weight gain and death. Don't bother contacting anyone if you experience one or more of these symptoms.
You're talking from anecdotes, I'm showing you the objective statistics supplied by the state of California. One is going to give a more complete picture than the other.
In the Streaming Wars, Sony Stands on the Sidelines
How do you think scientific progress happens? They didn't just have flame wars in the past, they literally set humans alight. Even today, science is a very emotive topic (I studied economic history, people have fierce arguments around 17th century agricultural practices...humans are emotional beings).

I think the problem today is that people are unwilling to debate emotional issues, unwilling to have their own views challenged, and confuse their own emotional response to some topics with their own feelings of safety and well-being.

It is perfectly fine to have strong opinions, but because you hold a strong opinion does not mean you have to go to the grave with it.

Also, I am not really sure that there as many flame wars as people think. A lot of what people call "flame wars" are people attempting to trigger other people. If you get triggered by what someone says online, you only have yourself to blame.
I actually run quite a few of them in parallel, but that doesn't solve the problem:

As the other person stated: charging lead acid is time constrained. And that means that you can't fully charge the battery within the time period when you have sun.

Lead acid deteriorates quickly if left (partially) discharged. This is why lead acid works so well with cars (almost always fully charged at all times).

Depleted lead acid (50% charge) needs to be recharged within 24 or serious damage will occur, accumulating over time. A week of bad weather may thus be hard on battery longevity.

Some more info:

[x]: https://louwrentius.com/a-practical-understanding-of-lead-ac...
I would love to see this higher bar for throwaway accounts on topics like CCP and other geopolitical discussion where there is a strong incentive for organized brigading & propaganda.

But I've also personally used a couple new separate accounts to comment my experience & knowledge on topics that I wouldn't want to be google able to myself, even if I share that with my IRL friends.

Maybe there could be an option for 'private post' that you can still use your main account so mods can still look at coordination across accounts etc but the public facing handle is not tied to your public profile.

Probably would still encourage the type of comments most in this thread are against though that's a hard problem.
Some chronic gastro issues like IBS and Crohn's are virtually unheard of in developing countries. There's a theory that this because people in developed countries have underdeveloped immune systems from underexposure to foodborne bacteria/viruses.

Net-net clean water is definitely more important but there's still some drawbacks.
Wait till you read documentation commercial projects have. Our one is super quick to read, as we don't document at all.
But this is not a horror or fantasy context, it’s an educational context. Am I missing something?
You're simply wrong in a way I can't succinctly summarize historically; you really have to get to know the spirit of the people who made this stuff. But FOSS is the difference between the VERY free and open (at least optionally, if not in practice, but like, basically anyone can put up a website and do anything on it) internet we have vs. what would have happened, which probably would have been slight incremental improvements in phone and TV. More" on demand," but damn sure no Youtube.
you could always post something about systemd
Yup, absolutely. I get why this is the case, but when things like this log4j vuln happen, and people at work start complaining the fix isn't released quickly enough, or in a particular way, all I can think is "you get what you pay for, and you were thrilled to pay zero, so here we are".
Backblaze restore for Personal Backup is awful
I've been using Backblaze for a few years for my home computer. You know how everyone keeps telling you, a backup is only a true backup once you've done at least one restore? Now I know why (silly me).

I just got a "Safety Freeze" error [1] - essentially some inconsistency with my backup. Backblaze will not tell me the actual cause of this inconsistency. It's possible that some data might be missing - Backblaze doesn't tell me though.

The only official solution is to manually check all files (millions in my case). I also can't download a full backup since Backblaze only allows downloads of up to 500GB at once. So my only option is to do a full hard drive restore, costing $189 + customs in Europe, so at the end probably closer to 300€. But even then I won't know if/which of my data was corrupted.

What bugs me is that the Backblaze desktop software should be able to resolve this - it should be possible to do a hash of all the files that are in the most recent backup, and cross-check it with the hashes of the files on my machine.

Not sure what I should do now.

Edit: This is the response from the Backblaze support:

> I apologize, but this [=manually checking all files] would in fact be the only sure fire way if you are concerned about any deleted files. There wouldn't be a way to compare hashes the way you describe in this case as that mechanism is simply not implemented into the Backblaze software. The Backblaze software is intended to prevent data loss. It would not be intended to be able to automatically cross reference local and server data against each other to display what is and is not backed up on our servers.

They can't be serious with this?

[1] https://www.backblaze.com/safety_frozen.html
I love this kind of stuff but am always searching for a good engineering application of it, and I can't think of too much. Anyone have some ideas?
The myth and majesty of Vangelis' timeless Blade Runner soundtrack (2017)
Point of FOSS is that you can fix exotic issues yourself, at your timeline and perhaps share your fixes with the original project, if you also want other people to distrute the fix for you via some standard Linux distro.

That's the main freedom you get from FOSS. FOSS != free support. It's empowering.
My point is: the more serious you are into a sport, the more severe measures you’re likely to support to counter cheats.

Hence why pros will support anti-cheat software while those who just play causally are more likely to find it abusive.
I agree, it's unfairly maligned and very useful.