skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With BBSes you were literally dialing in to the machine via a modem. Local calls were free but long distance charges were expensive. There were even local toll calls, a number might be in your area code by far enough away you were charged to call. You wouldn't pay long distance rates but it wasn't free. Charges were also billed to the caller rather than callee.

So just by nature of tolls you wouldn't call many out of area BBSes. If you did it was brief calls for a post or to check mail but not sit around playing a door game or downloading some big file.

That all meant BBSes were very local for most people. This is in addition to the fact only a small fraction of homes had computers, a fraction of those had modems, and a fraction of those actually called BBSes. That aspect also meant the populations were relatively small. A small web forum might have a hundred users spread over a large area while a BBS would have a dozen in the same town.
Imo ORM is mostly a sign that (for some odd reason) many developers don't want to learn / use SQL.

But what actual problem is ORM solving beyond that?
Wow, I'm surprised I've not heard of any of this!

Thanks for the links
All true, but there were actual diagnostic criteria that could be used to differentiate the subgroup from the larger one.
> researchers estimate that as many as 1,216 out of the 8,475 cases of dementia registered in Denmark in 2017 could be attributed to these noise exposures ... Worldwide, the number of people with dementia is expected to exceed 130 million by 2050

Original research article: Residential exposure to transportation noise in Denmark and incidence of dementia: national cohort study (September 2021), https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n1954

> [Having studied for over ten years almost 2 million people over 60yo in Denmark, including over 100'000 with incident dementia] This nationwide cohort study found transportation noise to be associated with a higher risk of all cause dementia and dementia subtypes, especially Alzheimer’s disease

Besides/before the cognitive damages in focus,

> Transportation noise is considered the second worst environmental risk factor for public health in Europe, only surpassed by air pollution. ... Epidemiological studies have consistently linked transportation noise to various diseases and health conditions, such as coronary heart disease, obesity, and diabetes. The proposed biological mechanisms for an effect of noise on health are noise induced stress reactions, with activation of the autonomic nervous and the endocrine system and subsequent release of stress hormones, affecting several physiological functions. Exposure to noise during the night can also lead to sleep disturbance and fragmented sleep. Experimental studies have found associations between transportation noise at night time and endothelial dysfunction, increased oxidative stress, alterations in the immune system, and increased systemic inflammation, which in turn are regarded as early events in the onset of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease
Late to the party, but in my experience [1] running a private mail server is still very much doable, and a good learning experience.

[1] https://jschumacher.info/2021/05/running-a-private-mail-serv...
There are very very few non capitalist forums. If you’re heavily against capitalism, non political forums will still normally be pro capitalist to some degree. It’s the society almost every one lives under. Not sure where one would go besides hard left forums which are very few and very far between. And then those places are only political. What if you don’t want to just discuss leftist things

That’s why after the country thing I included there aren’t many options. You have to play the game.
> Impatient

> Table of contents takes 15 minutes to read
Not read whole yet but I really enjoyed "The metamorphosis of Prime Intellect" recommended by geohotz
Recently I ported a xlib game to SDL. Another option to add to that list.
It looks like kickbacks for buying Elbrus are not as great as for Xeons.
Ask HN: What's the biggest personal problem you're facing right now?
Thank you for taking responsibility for this and for the transparency.

It is good to be reminded that care and integrity can exist, even in large corporations.
This is bad. But the fact that you can post links to articles written by journalists here is proof enough that this was not okay and unacceptable.

Do you have articles about similar things happening in China by Chinese media?
Timestamp 0:45 - "It was originally designed to be a *physical* book but we realized it made more sense to be downloadable."

Timestamp 1:32 - Video shows that there are clickable links that will bring you to more detailed reference pages; so I assume that if the stylistic layout choices makes it unusable for you, you can always open up the the external reference pages.
I’ve done LSD a few times, maybe a handful, and mild doses of shrooms maybe 3 times.

On higher doses of LSD (> 1 tab), I tend to get a recurring fear and visual manifestation of bugs (spiders, specially). When I’m outside on a walk while tripping I tend to be hyper-conscious of bugs and the noises they’re making. Any thoughts on why and how to deal with this? It tends to have a very negative effect on my trips but it doesn’t always happen. Just stick to lower doses?
By writing “gradients/spectrum” you are begging the question here, assuming that the spectrum is a categorical variable with an underlying gradient, analogously to the color spectrum’s basis in frequency. What you have not said, so far, is what psychological variable you regard as analogous to frequency.
I've always done flat art (painting, drawing, etc.). I'm now getting into handmade books. I'm looking forward to making books of my art by hand.
The launching of this telescope is FAR more important and beneficial to humanity than an arbitrary holiday that celebrates the winter solstice.
This is conjecture/personal experience/anecdotal, just to be clear for others who are evaluating these two substances. It’s worth prefacing with, “My experience was…”
For me the key is intuition. I do what feels right. If you come across something that you like, do it.
He is correct however. There's no possibility of replacing all power with renewables energy within 10 years, so having a 5 year time scale for a working prototype is completely reasonable. We're not even going to have all cars converted to electric vehicles within 20 years even in countries with the most strict rules, let alone all power generation and fossil fuel use for other applications. (Even if fossil fuel sales were forbidden tomorrow, it would still take 20 years for the existing vehicles to be taken out of the used market.)
That sounds really appealing... I might have to try it.
> Laws and law enforcement prevent crime, not reputation

Enforcement, by definition, does not prevent crime. It may deter crime. But a bank cannot be put in prison. The damage to a bank from stealing its clients money is reputational, the loss of their business.

> Second, a bank's reputation comes from its past behaviour, not from the amount of capital it has invested

It comes from both. Past behavior, and the amount of capital invested. If a bank has $1mm in assets, would you deposit $10mm? I wouldn't.

> Crypto is not going to magically let you provide financial services without investing similar amounts of capital.

Yes, it will. In fact, it already has. DeFi provides many of the same services banks do, for a miniscule fraction of the capital investment. You can deploy a contract right now that provides services like margin lending for a few dollars. Building the infrastructure and trust to do that at a bank would take you decades, and tens of millions of dollars in capital expense.
Are you seriously going to post a speculative article from 2018 to support your position but at the same time claim that not one but two articles from 2021 are not acceptable because there 'is no fact' in those articles? I'm done here, this isn't a debate.
Your context is where everyone already is as and your example appears to be wholly unrelated to your claim.

I don't think you are having a positive influence here.
Sounds like ADHD to me, FWIW!

Hope you find some tools and understanding in the coming year.
It's just, you don't need a plane ticket and a passport to satisfy these goals
A lot of water rights are based upon “first use”, ignoring the native people that were already there. So if the farm was in existence first, it has the right to the water over people who came later. Much like homesteading.
As opposed to Asperger seen as a Nazi war criminal?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-truth-about-h...

That label seriously offends some people.
If you're like me and you think xtrlock sounds really useful, it's worth taking a moment to google how to unlock your computer again before running it.
Clearly they are mentally deranged and in need of help.
I'm shocked those questions were not read as rhetorical in response to ridiculous post.
If any of them are reading this comment section, thank you NASA engineers for launching such an awesome Christmas present. I'm looking very forward to seeing the photos of the successor to the Hubble. Hubble had already given us such historical photos, and now we'll have an even better picture. Truly a landmark in history if all goes well.
Ruby's extremely rapid iteration cycle (e.g. by embedding pry for debugging and experimentation), good test coverage, and fast search tools like ripgrep and fzf alleviate a lot of the pain you might get from the lack of static types. There are also gems for schema validation that predate Ruby's type annotations and help with runtime type checking on data coming from the wire or disk.
There is a big difference between real debate on real issues - the example egg nutrition lol. Versus trying to refute or distract with a 'debate' on reality & facts.

Some things shouldn't be up for debate and calling doubt on reality is a weapon used by those who have political stakes.

China is a tough one too because as we saw on a top HN post from a few days ago we know the CCP has a large, active operation to comment and engage in online forums to sway opinion.

Article gave examples of typical straw man, whataboutism, handy wavy redirection.

The kind of comments exactly like what got flagged.
I don’t buy the queue argument. It would devolve in to a bunch of churn inevitably resulting in thrown hands and black eyes.
>Google and Microsoft were plenty capable of executing, they just didn't see what the product they needed to deliver was.

Sounds just like the legacy auto manufacturers. Tesla is a great analogy.
You can use USB-C ports for charging, but it only supports up to 96W. If you want to use 140W charger, you will need to use MagSafe.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212755
This excess of egg yolks is also a strong characteristic of Portuguese pastry. A lot of Portuguese sweets are egg yolk (and cholesterol) rich: pastéis de nata (Portuguese Tarts), leite-creme (lemony custard), pastéis de Santa Clara, ambrosia, fios de ovos (the "angel hair" seen in the link above), etc...

The main reason is that many of these recipes were developed by nuns in convents. Convents were the places were the "unwanted" women would be "placed" in Catholic patriarchal societies. In ancient times a source of income for these convents was to wash rich people's clothes. After washing the linens, they had to be ironed and a common ingredient for starching and making them crisp smooth was egg whites. Because of this they'd have an immense supply of egg yolks that they began using for making pastries, after sugar plantations where introduced in Madeira island and Brazil, in the 16th and 17th centuries.
My comments are perfectly relevant. Using read() and write() still uses buffers, it's just that those buffers happen to be in the kernel. read() and write() still do the kernel's form of memcpy() internally. Truly unbuffered I/O from the kernel's perspective is direct I/O that DMAs data directly into application provided memory.

It is important to note that every time buffered I/O is used, it copies data through buffers, and touching those buffers means the memory used for those buffers being touched clearly has to be pulled into the CPU's L1 data cache. In some cases the extra cache traffic for those buffers degrades performance. Instruction caches are relevant to some workloads, but are clearly not what I was referring to since data doesn't go through the instruction cache.

glibc further complicates the matter by using mmap() in some cases to directly map the kernel's buffers for data (the page cache in the context of Linux) into userspace. This avoids some of the downsides of buffered I/O by avoiding one of the copies at the expense of page fault overhead. Sometimes it's better for the application itself to use mmap() directly.

Direct use of read() and write() makes sense for some applications, especially when dealing with larger chunks of data. Saying unbuffered I/O is bad is a gross oversimplification of the reality when writing high performance applications. Like everything in programming, it's a good rule of thumb, but there is definitely an asterisk next to it.
I don’t agree with this take. I have social anxiety and difficulty empathizing with people in certain respects. One of my children who is diagnosed has these two issues and some sensory and dexterity issues, issues with adapting to changing circumstances, and a very limited ability to regulate their responses to frustrating situations to the point where they’ll go on rants with crying and anger that is white hot (a “meltdown”). This child is what is commonly called “high functioning,” though: anybody who has not observed them long enough could easily only ever see one of these behaviors/traits, and the child is in a regular classroom and has been identified as quite gifted in some subjects.

I’m not on the spectrum, and would never claim “I’m a little autistic.” I might have before I had the kid, but definitely not now. My kid’s autism symptoms are really minor compared to many, but it’s so far beyond the kinds of quirks you’re referring to as to be obviously and starkly different.
But the current decisions were not determined long ago. They are made now. And everything indicates that they are made rationally based on data that actually affects the probability of investment returns. That is not race-based discrimination, and that is not redlining.
You don't need to know the whole codebase to understand a piece of code, just what the declarations of the names being referenced in that piece of code are (in C++, a name may be a macro, a type, a template, a variable or a function, and depending on which kind, may have all kinds of other properties attached).

Yes, you need to look at the declarations of names to know what the resulting type of expressions involving those names is. I don't see that as being surprising or unusual. The same is also true in C.
This is veering to the meta, however, one of the best things came out of my HN experience is how to converse and discuss better. Actually I strive hard to not to be a knee-jerk person. I always take my time while writing something and try to back-up with actual events and/or facts.

The point I was trying to make that for companies like Microsoft, reaching for the pitchfork is not always a knee-jerk reaction IMHO. For all the things they have done, my initial reaction is always Oof, not again..., which is actually sad for a company of this size.

It's actually unfathomable to me for a company like Microsoft to not test these flows adequately and allowing this to happen.

For a change, I want to see a more open computing platform, a less intrusive Windows version, or a longer maintenance window for CentOS, but we all have is a brawl.
Open the gates, I say. Everyone can be anything.
Shades of Michael Paloma and his New York Blues, featuring Richard Grieco!

There are some strange "partnerships" that happen with local sports teams, who will literally take any money for any reason from anyone.
heavily agree with this. completely orthogonal, but most people i know that have worked in a kitchen (myself included) have, at some point, mentioned their initial shock with how disturbingly gross kitchens are. after reading orwell's down and about in london and paris, i suppose things have gotten much better, but still, i don't think most customers understand this. he goes into some great rants about this, if it's of any interest to you.
I mistakenly thought that I was better off not eating gluten because I felt much better after going gluten free. I am now fairly sure that the real benefit I experienced came from reducing my sugar intake. Cutting out gluten tends to cut out sugar in tandem: breakfast cereal, cookies, cake, and so on. I wonder if this explains why so many people who aren’t celiac think they see a big benefit from a gluten-free diet. Lots of Americans are flirting with diabetes if they aren’t already diabetic. (And lots of sugar isn’t great for a person even if they are completely healthy.)
Direct links. No (gratuitous) Javascript needed.

Useful, e.g., for users who prefer clients that cannot run Javascript.
How utterly mundane though.

According to Sumerian Mythology (and a bunch of others) humans were created in much the same way to be used for hard labour instead of the 'Gods'.

Imagine back then, someone creates a new species and it gets a few likes and comments on their version of HN, and no-one really pays any attention, then a few thousand years later this new species is doing philosophy and wanting to know the 'deep meaning of life' lol
Israel Found a Way to Make Soldiers Invisible
Reginald Lewis: Bootstrapping Buyouts
For a private mail server operator, Amazon SES is somewhat annoying because if your mail server is down, they're only keeping mails in the delivery queue for something like eight hours or so, which is way too short if you're not a big provider who can commit to round-the-clock support for the mail server.
One big clue you have that the reactions here were knee-jerk is that they all turned out to be totally wrong. There's a lot of corncob dot gif happening in the aftermath.
Amazon Promotion Extension
I like this, but it won't auto passed Dec 19. A 'load more' prompt would be nice
Out-of-sync brainwaves could be another reason videoconferencing is such a drag
Wikipedia is not the best source of information.

There is a difference between "strong" copyleft and "weak" copyleft. An example of "weak" (non-viral) copyleft is the CDDL. In fact, the CDDL's Wikipedia page talks about strong and weak copyleft.

You can read [1] for a breakdown of copyleft by an actual lawyer. Suffice it to say that Wikipedia's Copyleft page is woefully inadequate.

[1]: https://writing.kemitchell.com/2018/10/24/How-to-Speak-Copyl...
Christmas is literally Christ’s mass. If there’s a widespread religious celebration it’s that.
>Amazon didn't invent AWS because they were more forward looking.

>Amazon invented AWS because they had idle computers most of the time to handle peak load, and they thought it would be a good way to monetize them.

That is forward looking.
For someone who claims to be social, you are quite intent on misinterpreting what people said to you. Given that you lie and misinterpret the comment I can see right here, should I really trust that you live in such different environment from the rest of us?
I'm actually quite worried about this problem as someone who had an Asperger's diagnosis as a child. I've heard that there are medical procedures to allow one to specify which egg they want fertilized and where one can choose an egg which is certain to not have genetic disorders we can test for. Is autism something we can test for in the womb? If so, than this shouldn't be a problem for those with money (and my understanding is that the procedure I am describing costs about 20K).

More broadly, I consider autism to be a strong net negative in my life, and I find folks who really embrace Asperger's as part of their identity to be alien to me. I'd love to eradicate this condition from the earth to spare future humans from the pain that inability to socialize will cause.

I'm sure that some people who like their autism will be upset about "eugenics", but frankly, we don't have to be God damn Nazis to acknowledge that acting eugenicily is good and advocating for disgenic behavior is bad long term.
> Didn't stop folks from flaming and trolling.

Definitely not but the prevalence was far less. The local nature of BBSes inspired a lot of prior restraint we don't see a lot on the Internet anymore. That's not to say anonymity or pseudo-anonymity is bad. It just creates a different environment than what you'd typically find on BBSes.
Tf.function is largely morally equivalent to Torchscript, which he does discuss.
What is the "options" section in the block diagram? Does that represent the debug functionality you mention on unexposed pins? Anything else interesting that someone could do with these chips in a different package?
Science doesn’t need to be scared to acknowledge religion. It’s a humble, enduring relic of our past, a part of our shared history, and it helps to punctuate the magnitude of our growth and accomplishments as a species.
I don't think the idea of reverse logic is even clear. Exactly what aspect should you choose to reverse? A better name would be unintuitive logic, but we already know some things are unintuitive.
I kind of don't like gift giving... I feel stressed trying to like gifts that were given to me that I don't need (In general im bothered by unnecessary plastic and consumerism, im kind of minimal) If i do want something I know what particular thing i want and just get it my self. i get stressed by gift giving, trying to pick something worth while and something someone wants.
Which is better than thinking you know what you don't know.

The most important thing impatient programmers need to learn is TO NOT BE IMPATIENT, not how to learn a programming language in X minutes.

Learning patience will help you in all aspects of life.

Do you really want to share the road with somebody who learned to drive in 5 minutes, and doesn't have the patience not to speed, tailgate, run stop signs, red lights, and pass you on the right by driving on the sidewalk?

More "real" advice: Read LOTS of other people's code.

Need to use a library? Then first read the documentation, then read the source code, so you actually understand what it can do, how it does it, that it's not magic, what its limitations are, how to use it, and if you actually need it.

I've been working on learning and reading the D3 data visualization library for several years, bit by bit. It's a wonderful library, there's a whole lot to it, the code is brilliant and expertly written, and I've learned a LOT about JavaScript programming in general by reading different parts of it again and again.

https://github.com/d3/d3

Mike Bostock: 10 Years of Open-Source Visualization:
Did I learn anything from D3.js? Let’s see…

https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/10-years-of-open-source-v...

>In honor of D3 1.0’s tin anniversary, I thought I’d reflect on lessons learned. This isn’t intended to be too comprehensive or serious — just a handful of observations as I look ahead to the next ten years. But I hope a nugget or two will interest you, too.

HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26240339
Plenty of people forego equity markets and take that money to the housing markets. It's true that leaving it in savings is a non-option though.
I will stay with the 2 USB-C output power source for my travel, as I don't want to think about charging speed.
People have different opinions and are free to voice them. I’m not pro ccp (but here I feel the need to clarify up front), but it’s not hard to understand that some people view china more favorably than most in the US. At the very least it shouldn’t be hard to understand why some people would reject the more extreme anti china stance.

edit: long way of me saying, I don’t think anyone that defends china should automatically be labeled ccp propaganda.
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