skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To second what the other commenter said to you: I have seen someone with terrible handwriting fix it. He decided he cared, found pens and notebooks he really liked, and started using them attentively. People treat pens like they're all the same, but the drying time, line thickness, weight, drag across the paper, etc. all vary enormously, and if you care, you can probably find the right tool and get your handwriting to a point where you're happy with it.
> Opening a high-latency or even missing network share on Windows (still?) causes explorer.exe to hang

It's not like Windows doesn't have good APIs that allow you to do better. explorer.exe (or at least the file explorer part) is just an objectively bad product. It wasn't that long ago that it didn't allow you to create files starting with a dot, despite that being an entirely legal path name. And it still doesn't support long paths or alternate data streams, making it pretty easy for software to create files that you can't view in explorer.

I'm kind of surprised that it doesn't seem to have any popular alternatives, considering how consistently bad it is (outside of small subsets, like compression or file copying)
What's wrong with double or triple-height drives?
Do you have a source that says covid did not contribute to the death of the UK patient?
> - Pfizer data shows that its COVID-19 pill is effective against severe disease

This seems the most relevant piece of news to me. Do you not care about it?
Fair-code: the future for sustainable open source alternatives
Omicron is apparently very unstable and as such may not be with us very long before another variant emerges from it:
https://twitter.com/_b_meyer/status/1470124417749557248?s=20
I've tried the discord thing and there's a lot that turns me off of the experience. It seems to desire that you always be on it, for one, and of course the whole thing is under the control of one company in particular, the client is closed source and bloated, etc. Not to mention that I certainly haven't had the experience you describe community-wise regardless.
Web 2 is centralized big tech serving ads. You are the product and you own nothing. They own your content and can change the rules at will (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/13/technology/instagram-hand...).

Web 3 is nothing like that.
I think that the basic severity-lowering gradient still applies, but now it happens in two dimensions. Furthermore, it seems plausible that the sequence of variants "Original" -> Delta -> Omicron follows such a pattern.

First, evolutionary pressure will select for a lower dormancy period, i.e. a lower time to contagion. This is because a variant with a shorter dormancy will spread faster than one with a longer dormancy period if both are present in the same population. This is also exactly what happened with the Delta variant, which is asymptomatic generally for a shorter period[1] than the original variant, because it replicates faster.

Second, the usual process occurs for the usual reasons. This may be happening with Omicron.

[1]: https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/...
A long time ago, I used to work at one of the search engines.

We had a problem where the server would OOM after about ~10K search requests.

Solution: put in a counter and exit(0) after 9K requests (a config option).

Time goes on. Server starts OOM-ing again.

Solution: change the config to exit after 8K requests.

Time goes on. Server starts OOM-ing again.

Solution: change the config to exit after 6K requests (daring move, one would say).

Time goes on. Server starts OOM-ing again.

Solution: change the config to exit after 4K requests.

That's around when I left the company
All things are transitory. Amusingly, current inflation being (depending on your industry) most intense for transport gives the label a new significance.
Someone out there is doing a study on meta-communication during COVID. The internalization of dominant narratives on social media is such an unspoken axiom, that merely SUGGESTING optimism results in a flurry of "we can't be sure!" finger-waves.

One could hypothesize that those who derive greater self-esteem or self-worth from social dynamics would engage in behaviors where the long-run probability of increasing self-esteem is higher. In other words, the most adaptive posts on both sides of a social media debate would be those which: A) maximally increase self-esteem via ingroup loyalty, and B) cause the debate to be prolonged or not resolved, thereby increasing the duration of A. The "we can't be sure" defense in response to optimism is B.
That does not sound in any way more accessible than the current situation.

HTML? FTP? People just want an online presence.
It appears you are correct, this was revealed in 2018:

https://voicebot.ai/2018/12/27/wolfram-alpha-makes-alexa-sma...
> Most news sites seem to have a severe allergy to linking to original sources, but often the original sources have a lot of value.

Omg, so true. A while back i found out about Axios and thought they were really cool. A nice way to skim news, keep up to date... but the lack of sourcing made the information worthless to me. Difficult to tell what is opinion, reality, how they got to a summary of a quote, etc.

Axios has the right idea for me, but they need to pair it with detailed sources, quotes, etc to drill into. Reality is often too strange these days to trust a summary, i need sources.
Understood. Where do you stop!

BTW your personal site is superb. A really impressive balance of design and usability.
Why? There are seemingly plenty of different ways that people are wired. Assuming everyone is wired the same seems like a preposterous null hypothesis given how varied we are in every observable way.
plenty of fucks, no solutions. should probably lay off the porn/television/alcohol.
Are you in the EU or the UK?
> This is the type of role blockchains will fill: provide uniqueness and portability where necessary

What does portability mean in this context? I assume he just means it's a digital asset so it is inherently easy to move around.

I believe a better wording would have been interoperable.
Oof, sorry, didn't know I was linking one of those sites.
We are talking about the behavior of a species which repeatedly hunts extremely valuable prey species to economic extinction, builds houses and raises children on the slopes of smoldering volcanoes, etc. And displays neigh-zero regret - let alone long-term learning - when such antics go horribly wrong.

No way in hell will Homo Sapiens change its behavior (at anything resembling a useful scale) based tiny-looking shifts in a few climate statistics. Nor harmless-looking events on a distant and neigh-uninhabited continent.

A better question: How fast could Mr. Musk's fleet of Starships deploy enough giga-scale solar shades to reduce Earth's total insolation by (say) 5%?
I mean, we can strive for more than just existence. The Black Death didn't wipe us out, but that doesn't mean it was fun to undergo.
(1995)

I was a bit confused at first because it says:

> Americans did not even begin to conceive of Christmas as a national holiday until the middle of the last century.

I thought at first that "the last century" referred to the 1900s.
I feel like it'll only get worse as we move past covid and everything is open at 100% like it was pre-covid.
Don't forget Minio for S3.

I took your previous comment to be about on-prem cloud technology. It exists and does not need to be "cloned". If you were taking about staffing resources, we've pretty well established you're going to need staffing to manage both cloud and on-prem tech.

You need to document whether it's on-prem or in the cloud.
> Google et al where supposed to make content discovery easier. What the fuck happened?

Content explosion. It turns out that when everybody is putting everything online, a vast tract of the human condition is redundant signal. And because Google's search results are based on click-through satisfaction, and click-through satisfaction on redundant content is a positive feedback loop (i.e. if two sources are almost identical, the one that happens to sort to the top of Google results first will get more clicks than the second, which will cause it to sort closer to the top, which will cause it to get more clicks, which...), a few content sources end up being winners and the ones that are very similar in that search space rapidly become also-ran.

Imagine trying to start a Wikipedia competitor today. How would you pull it off? 95% of the search results for anything that look like Wikipedia could satisfy them are going to go to Wikipedia.
> Another hope could be that omicron is actually not as virulent as delta, but only spreads so fast in South Africa, because people can get reinfected.

It's seeing a pretty explosive growth rate in Denmark.

https://sum.dk/ministeren/sociale-medier-arkiv/2021/december...

https://www.ssi.dk/-/media/cdn/files/covid19/omikron/statusr...
Just because our economy cannot withstand further lockdowns and restrictions doesn't mean that the normalization of COVID is any more excusable. It just means we failed.
I live in a state where mask mandates are essentially gone. Very few people wear masks here and they are not required in schools so only ~5% of kids are wearing them at my children's elementary school. Everything seems pretty good so far, no marked rise in cases and almost no cases in my kids school over the last year, maybe 25 total, all mild. I am in no way saying masks don't work, in fact I think that they do. With that said, I have not worn a mask in a long time, I am fully vaccinated including a booster and essentially figure that is enough. I work from home so if I get covid its going to be from my kids.

"We have to be mindful of people like this when thinking about dropping mask mandates and such."

Not arguing with you, just genuinely interested on how long you would advocate for mask mandates? Would you be willing to accept mask mandates in perpetuity?
PyPI admins remove three malicious packages after more than 10k
There are plenty of people in intensive care, though.
Humans are still generally better than just having a robot there because they're both more flexible and capable of problem solving. Maybe for the same money you could get enough robots there to make up the gap but sending humans to Mars is sexier and attracts more money than you could get for the robot missions. Then even if we never actually go 'preparing' to go to Mars attracts ongoing money for studies on the ISS and for sending robotics missions.
> YES yes I know the rhetoric, " just find a better job".

That's the rhetoric from young people with no strings attached. People who are older, often with families, always with local connections and long-term relationships, have far more variables when it comes to making that sort of decision.

Pay and working environment (unless either are truly terrible) are rarely even at the top when it comes to enumerating the factors that go into deciding to stay or uproot your entire life and start again elsewhere. If you have a spouse with a good job in a niche area, doubly difficult.

EDIT: Unless you live in an area where you have many nearby options, of course. But those sorts of areas are sometimes harder to move around because the competition for 'good' employers is much fiercer.
Vice Presidents at large financial institutions are a joke. Coming from any other industry you'd think it's some sort of executive position. Nope, just a random senior software engineer 8 levels down on the corporate ladder. To be fair the first 6 levels (all the way to the CEO) are all "Managing Directors".
You're actually sort-of describing the original idea for Vox. They wanted to basically have like a website of things happening with explainers for everything they could easily link-to and keep updated so they could write a story explaining an event and provide context for experts and normal consumers.

e.g. Explainers on the budget process and what happened before with regulations of some kind. etc. And that only becomes relevant to readers when it becomes important and if they're interested in it.

Unfortunately because of social media, AMP, and etc. they had to fit in the article format even though they had big plans for doing richer UIs on the website itself. They basically were forced to pivot into a blog which I think they still do a good job at today cause the mission is still similar, but the mechanics of getting people to read things which aren't articles is difficult.

[This is all from memory of an episode of Erza Klein's Vox Podcast where the founders talk about the original ideas of Vox and why they ended up where they were]
The funny thing about this adage is any profitable endeavor will have higher revenue gains so as stated it fails to convince.

"A stitch in time saves nine" is probably more relevant to security.
Arguably the history of trolling goes back to the ancient Greeks. Eris for example clearly became the godess of trolling when she threw a golden apple marked 'for the fairest' into a party she was rejected from, causing the other godesses to fight over it until the Trojan War happened.
I agree with the premise that most people are reasonable, but there is a sizeable minority that are extremely vocal and unreasonable that can make you the black sheep at family gatherings or get you fired for saying the wrong thing, etc. The rest of this reasonable population you speak of stays in their lane because of this.
You may check https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/firefox
Your question is big. The answer I've landed on is little. We're just little furry wiggly wombly tubes struggling against the inevitable pressures of entropy. This is true down to the most basic molecule than can replicate.

Objective moral truths stem from that. The unending dance with entropy. To be the belle of the ball, we also harness that entropic randomness and turn it into dances that are even more powerful.

I feel the urge to thrive and grow and improve. I find myself sympathetic to the expressions of that drive from all life. That is a priori, that emergent empathy that many of us are capable of. I see a neighbor crying, a homeless man sleeping rough, a fearful stranger, and I say to myself, "There but for the grace of God, go I." But I don't stop there, because I see my puppy, I see a bird in the sky, I see a crushed mollusk, a writhing worm, "There but for the grace of God, go I." We're many faces, but still, we're all dancing with the entropy.

Next is the question, "Will this action increase or decrease the entropy in the universe? To the many faces, is this the action of an ally or an enemy?"

Finally, we realize we could superheat everything into crystals and reduce entropy that way. The last vital factor is the synthesis of order and disorder: complexity. These are the fun dances. Art. Learning. Creation.

So, to find objective moral truths, our sieve consists of The Golden Rule, "Am I fucking things up more?" and "Am I making things more awesome?"
From a quick web search, it seems that "Vermeer: Faith in painting"[0] is an English translation of this book, and there are at least German and Italian translations as well.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2080511.Vermeer
Just the quote that says "with" instead of "from" until the data is released.
They weren't people with very different values. In general, they were our friends and neighbors who hadn't figured out how to use a web browser yet.

The apart-ness that some original netizens imagined for themselves was always fantasy and, I would argue, destructive fantasy when it crossed over to belief in personal elitism. Is being online to the exclusion of real world relationships with those physically adjacent to us building a new, better culture, or the digital equivalent of hiding out in the woods?
I absolutely get the sentiment behind Kev's post. I don't disagree.

Where it takes me, is that I think how weak minded we are - how the web was destroyed is just one example in (some of) our lifetimes.

All it takes is throwing money at whatever-it-is and you can get it. Buy design, metrics, adverts, promotions, etc and you will get what you want. Better still, be the market (appstore), the access (google), etc and you're set for life.

Content is not king.
> on this path to black mirror dystopia

A bunch of episodes of Black Mirror aren't really even about the future. They're criticism of things right now (or, rather, when the episodes were made).
Survey Finds 100M Americans See US Healthcare System Expensive or Broken
Are you arguing the equivalent of "something increasing the chance of another world war is not a concern, because previous world wars clearly didn't drive humans to extinction"?
Have you ever worked with someone in information security, only to find out they're checking off features but don't know what they're doing? Has it been scanned by this piece of software (which produces 832 fans positives) and provided a remediation plan? Has everyone taken the on-line cyber security training? Do you have a documented architecture? Are you using the approved software versions (only they didn't get the memo we've moved on from Java 1.8)?

I once had to argue back and forth with someone (circa 2008) that JavaScript did not mean "mobile code" in the sense of their checklist. I had to explain what JavaScript was, how it worked, but they were more than willing to tell me I had to remove it from the app I was working on. Which would have rendered my app and all the other apps for that client much less functional.
Just so other commenters can understand: are you saying that you haven't seen the charts with enormous spikes on them every time a place enters a cold season? Or that you find them to be uncompelling for some (as yet undisclosed) reason?
243 deaths per 100,000 in the U.S. (https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality).

The death distributions are very clear.

If you're healthy, betting that you would be OK is a very reasonable bet.
Is that due to capacity at ports being restricted by lack of downstream capacity (ie trailer availability)?
> Not intended to quibble, but to me that smacks of the dreaded "mid-level management" tier.

Reminds me of the classic: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/
Old man creates website to yell at clouds
I wish Stumble Upon still existed just so I could find the weird corners of the web again. This site and Reddit sort of fill that but also don't quite fit it at all.
Where I live, people pulled down AfD signs or defaced them. The unpersoning is not helpful. The ideas won't go away, and the people who think the AfD raises good questions will only feel persecuted (because they are).

The worst part is that the ones who hate the AfD don't know why they do and are unable to counter their arguments.
People are of course welcome to make their own risk assessments. And personally I'd hesitate to travel internationally (outside US) at this point given the potential for unexpected policy changes/disruption. But more generally I've certainly started traveling again and don't think people should not in general if they're comfortable doing so.
Sounds right to me. The client is too heavy, and I too wish that there was more decentralisation and ability to use alternative clients, but it is what it is. IRC hardly has the user count or the features needed to compete with Discord. The world has upgraded the expectations of what a chat client should be capable of, and IRC hasn't followed suit.
> cannot see in his mind, cannot speak in his mind, and that he didn't realize this was odd until adulthood

There are countless anecdotes of exactly this scenario across the internet. It's trivial to find people sharing their experiences of growing up without internal monologues, mind's eye, etc, and not realizing that they're different. E.g. they may have thought visualization was a figure of speech. You can find examples in this very thread.
Ask HN: Web Page Accessibility Parser
I just noticed that reader mode isn't always available in Firefox. I know there are hacks for this, and other plugins (not sure which I trust in this domain). But is/are there still any sites on-line that you can throw a web page at and have it be made more readable?
What do you mean: yawn? At the very least, you could vote for a government that lets those corporations pay for their pollution. One way or the other, you do have a responsibility here, because the way the system works right now, corporations only care about short-term profit, and right now that means they pollute. They need to feel the consequences of this pollution financially, or they'll never change.

And it needs to happen soon too, because we've already squandered 30 year of doing nothing.
It's also early days for the new variant. I would love and do hope this is true, but it's previously take weeks and months to start seeing fatalities after the first reported cases, so it may be too early to make this statement yet; waiting for the law of big numbers to kic in.
Horrifying. Chemistry has and continues to do enough damage. I hope instead for a different, non-chemical kind of solution, like massive but skinny heatsinks stretched from the poles into space, in tandem with a new carbon-negative economy bent on natural habitat restoration, along with negative birth rates. An easy fix for the planet is to eliminate humankind... but the solution really it doesn't need to be this extreme. Eliminating just the men will have the same effect. And, in fact, we can be even more surgical and merely eliminate or sterilize the extraordinarily small percentage of men that cause 99% of the problem. It's probably like only 200 guys. We should find them and stop them.
There's a cost efficiency tradeoff that's always important to keep in mind. As an example, I was working with a very experienced kernel developer on a (at the time) bleeding edge mobile phone. We were seeing random memory corruption causing kernel panics. The engineer spent weeks trying to find the root cause but eventually gave up and put in a patch. You can't lose the forest for the trees - you still have product to ship & other priorities. It's rare for any bug to be so valuable to fix that it eats up all the other oxygen in the room.
I think Urbit + Web3 (and yes some blockchain tech) is a pretty cool frontier that has the chance to fix a lot of incentives that lead to megacorp centralization and SaaS for Web2.

I don't get the dismissal. Running linux servers is too hard for people - that (and spam) is why the promise of the decentralized web (Web1) failed - and why federated systems built on this stack like Mastodon are dead on arrival.

We won't get out of the local maximum we're trapped in without the new tech. Until recently I thought we may never get out, but now I have some hope.
Except, there's not really a clear signal of "Hey, a bunch of people want this!" unless they all just hop on the torrent and hope for a seeder to join. If I go to a store and they don't have bread, I'm not waiting for their next bread delivery for them to stock the aisles...
You're probably right.

I still remember coming in to 'take over' a new product one (crazy) guy had written. It had no safe guards at all - no queueing, kept everything in memory, no retries or really error handling other than printlines. I remember pointing out 'what if x happens', where x is a really realistic scenario, and the author(and VP) kept saying 'oh thats a caviar problem.' When I asked what that meant, they said "by the time we have to worry about that scenario, we'll be so rich we'll all be eating caviar." Apparently retrying network requests or getting say, 50 requests at a time would make us all millionaires or something.

Predictably, the thing fell over multiple times per day until we trashed it and started from scratch...and I still have no idea what caviar tastes like.
I've briefly worked on an idea that was "pandora for news" when pandora was the hot music app. The app would learn from your votes and cater news/aggregations based on your preferences every day to your news dashboard. I was in love with the idea but never pursued it. Is there something like this now?
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