skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a reading which suggests that an environment variable being unset caused an overabundance of files being deleted. `set -u` causes the script to exit if any variables are unset.
>Your argument is a straw man. Why should author's have a different right to provide for their children more so than other professions?

I'm pretty sure that people from other professions can leave their property to their children as well, and that property does not suddenly become a public good a set amount of time afterwards.
Which strategy? The Russian refusal to sell or the European reliance? A big part of European reliance dates back to Obama refusing to sell LNG from fracking.

Again, countries have a right to (not) sell their gas as they see fit. I'm just saying this is all pretty muddy. It's more complex than good guy vs bad guy.
Small question: what, in your opinion, is the definition of "better experience"? On one hand you can hide the hardware from users and make a limited form of success simple and easy (see windows + mac). On the other extreme you can present them with a large wiki of well-documented behaviors, and they will have to select the behaviors they want in their system; at times sacrificing one for another because of fundamental incompatibilities, nonexistent interfaces, or some hardware differences. Down one path hurts new users abilities to learn about reality, down the other path hurts users who are disgusted by reality. I think the choice of community boils down to a choice of goal, the definition of "better experience", and Arch pretty strongly does not take any stances there. You're on your own to make up a goal and navigate to it.
On Emacs 28’ context menu and Unix mouse-usage in general
"Different things are obvious to me than are obvious to you."

I think this observation, while correct, is a bit too generic, since it's something which can be said about all people.

I have close relative who's on the autistic spectrum. I notice that what I find obvious, he may not find obvious. And what he finds obvious, I may not neccesarily find obvious.

I've spent many, many years pondering over it, and I've narrowed it down to the social communication. I've come to realize that a certain part of inter-human communication is of the "non spoken" kind. This includes facial expressions, body language, tone of voice, etc., but also tiny, tiny differences in how things are said or phrased.

I think "neurotypicals" will observe and accumulate these small, small signals, and they will use the accumulated values when they pass judgement on a social situation. At least that's how I perceive the differences between me and my relative. Whenever I judge a social situation differently from him, I find that the difference usually comes down to these fine-grained cues and signals. He passes judgement without taking them into account, because he simply does not observe them. And I pass judgement taking them into account.

From his side, his conclusion is correct, because of what he sees. And from my side, my own conclusion is also correct, based upon what I see.
The gift of it's your problem now
Organised religion should be banned.
I want to say that I would stand up for anybodies human rights, but religion is just so fundamentally incompatible to our modern world and way of life, that deep down I just want it gone.
The main cost was testing. Another big cost was tooling, much of which has been lost.
I consider mine pretty long, and it's right around 30 characters.
Easily gamed: the big company creates a new, tiny company that owns assets but is buried in debt and loopholes any such regulation.
You did not pay for any page to load fast or to serve you what you are looking for. Every web-request, every click you make with your browser, can deliver you a response which is unknown to you or your browser before-hand. There is no way for you to see what you are buying before buying it if it was possible to buy page-loads.

Say thanks because you are not in the EU and get the cookie and GDPR spam thrown at you as well. Worse than the 1999 popups.
Interestingly enough this exact phrase resonated with my personal experience deeply. I always found these personality categorization quite lacking. The most obvious one was introversion/extroversion. I'm a pretty introverted person in larger groups of unfamiliar people, but very extroverted in small intimate groups. Similar, but less obvious, situations and contrasts exist for basically all ostensibly opposite personality traits. The extro/introverted one also seems quite common (think people saying "I'm reserved at first but open up..."). So that context matters seems very intuitive to me.
I am the author of this article. I’ve kept it short, some points made there could have been expanded considerably. So if there are questions, feel free to ask here.
I think no government is perfect. Probably the people making those awful plans, look now to Netherlands and think about other problems. Maybe people responsible for https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/narco-state-neth... will have problem to live with themselves because of that in the future too..
I used emacs ever since grad school days, and was reluctant to switch to an IDE (specifically JetBrains / Pycharm) but finally invested a few days to switch, and now I would never use emacs as an IDE. There are a couple scenarios where I still like using emacs:

* for quickly opening and editing a file without using a bloated IDE, especially on remote Linux machines.
* for magit (git tool inside emacs) which is honestly a super power for those who know it.

As I switch jobs and machines I keep looking for a “quick” config , and I find doom emacs suits very well.

https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs
This is not exact.
Filecoin is built on the top of IPFS!

https://filecoin.io/build/
HN discussion about it from 2018 (100 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18323938
Browsers are fast, too. Think about all of the hard work which has gone into advanced hardware acceleration, JIT engines, etc. That work deserves respect even if the median front-end developer squanders it with bad decisions.
Correlation does not imply causation ;)
Harnessing an Unusual Kind of Natural Energy: Dancers’ Body Heat
Apologies, both personal and corporate, are taken very seriously in Japanese culture[1]. They're a way of preserving honor that dates back to the samurai era. You can see this in the custom of bowing, where the length and extension of a bow reflects the gravity of the situation. The act of seppuku can be considered an extreme version of this.

I'm not a Japanophile, but find their culture fascinating.

[1]: https://theculturetrip.com/asia/japan/articles/sumimasen-beh...
Someone who might well have met some of those planners once said that "the advantages of privately owned cars are mostly individual, the disadvantages are mostly communal". AIUI in the sixties, city planners in many places tried to bring those advantages to more individuals within their societies. And how do they live with themselves? Well, they were mostly the same people who planned the traffic changes in .nl from the seventies onwards, so I imagine they're mostly quite happy.
Somethings I don't understand.
How do they cover the cost for the event?

Does the attendees pay for this and is it enough to cover the cost or is it profitable?

How is meeting people who are not authors of the paper more useful than organizing online?
He was above a safe altitude while operating the airplane though, and not operating it when it was below a safe altitude.
> The really bizarre part about this platform is that not only is the person posing the question responsible for judging the outcome

So the person posing a question can arbitrarily choose the answer that benefits themself financially? Just click the button that says the outcome you bet on was the correct one, then collect the money?

This seems like a non-starter for any platform that wants to be taken seriously. What am I missing?
It totally is. I used to write custom CSS for IE to make drop shadows work (it didn't support the standard syntax). Now I write custom CSS for Safari to make drop shadows work (there's a bug where if you remove the node, its shadow sometimes stays behind).
Big Tech Journeys into the Virtual Reality Reaches of the Metaverse
Even amongst EVs only the brand only makes 9th place.

https://www.car.info/en-se/stats/?from=2020-01&to=2021-12&vd...
Sorry if I've misunderstood but wouldn't the right to be forgotten also affect the person who filed it? Also, depending on the area of research of your friend, perhaps interst in his research has temporarily waned?
First principles can be used for more than just innovation and building rockets
I long adopted

/bin/sh -eu

header in my scripts. It's a must-have.
This is just flat-out wrong. I am sitting here in the UK and I get occasional calls from my bank, from businesses, and even from what appear to be random numbers (e.g. when my Ocado driver is running late/early and wants to update me about delivery using his own phone.) Because I do not get bullshit robocalls [0] I actually answer the phone. Yes, a lot of people have limited minutes of phone time, but since most "calls" are over IP-based comm channels I know of few people who hit the limit; it is effectively unlimited minutes here too.

Want to know the number I do not answer? My US VOIP number that I keep for business purposes. It all goes straight to voicemail and I wait for the transcription to tell me if it is another extended warrantee offer, someone wanting to tell me my computer is infected with herpes/ebola, a fake tax issue from a state I have never lived in, or if it is in the 1% of calls to that number I actually want to receive. US mobile customers have had unlimited calls for more than a decade, but I did not get a noticeable level of spam calls ten years ago.

It is not about the number of minutes available, it is simply a matter that Europeans care about the problem and prevent it from happening while US carriers do not care and their customers did not care enough to create sufficient political pressure.

[0] there actually has been a rise in one type of scam robocall over the past couple of years: the "we have been notified that you were recently in a car accident" calls are a once a month or so annoyance.
> Never found that particularly helpful if the code is structured well

IMO, all else being equal, errors detectable at compile-time should be detected at compile-time. Following reasons. (1) No matter the circumstances like time pressure, compiler errors are impossible to ignore, because they fail the build (2) Compiler errors are easier to detect automatically, e.g. many projects have automatic build systems. Even if the project has automatically run unit tests, people still need to write these tests first, i.e. the process is not completely automatic. (3) Runtime checks have runtime costs. Even if the checks are in static initializers or similar, that’s still runtime cost at startup and/or first use. Compile-time checks are free at runtime, makes the code faster.

> although surely with some minimal scripting a symbol browsing tool should be able to be taught about similar patterns

Technically, yes. Practically, two things. If you’re part of a team of developers, in particular if that team is remote, people are using their own computers, and people have varying levels of programming experience, such scripting tools are hard to implement. Another thing, the time spent making and supporting these tools is the time not spent improving the product being built.
It obviously has a shared history with the Spanish word (comes from Latin. The negative connotation in the phrase "facile piece of writing" would be "over-easy", as in: "over-simplified". ("Too easy" doesn't quite have the right connotation.)

When used derogatorily it also carries an implication that something is 'pretending to be easy' while not actually being so. It might also tie in with Facsimile, but that might be a false etymology on my part. Which I guess ties this back to pretentiousness, but not quite in the way you meant to :).
Thanks, didn't even know stuff like this existed
What are folks doing for health insurance at seed-stage startups?
Got an offer at a bootstrapped startup (self-seed?) that is promising and very exciting headed by a great set of cofounders. I am intrigued and thinking of leaving stable, quite comfortable job to be #5 employee with a bunch of equity, but had never thought through the whole health insurance angle. This startup, doesn't have it. What are my options? What are others doing in similar stage companies? Unfortunately I'm not married and can't rely on a partner's health plan!
Not AFAIK. In fact, there's a 日本語-language article on the front page right now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29734021 ("Japan HP accidentally deleted 77TB data in Kyoto U. supercomputing system (kyoto-u.ac.jp)")
> e doesn’t work for (subshell | commands)

That's not an argument against enabling it.

In bash, -o pipefail addresses this.

> and u is inconvenient when appending to PATHs

PATH should always be set. Try: env -i sh -c 'echo $PATH'

If you're prioritizing convenience over correctness, prepare to face the consequences.

> Every tool has its place, and dogma is often unhelpful.

Visual Basic's "ON ERROR RESUME NEXT" perhaps also had its place. That doesn't mean that using it is good advice.

If anything, I would consider the often cited wooledge etc. advice of not using -e/-u as dogma. Case in point: no one lost 77TB of data because they should not have used -e/-u.
My point was that paper letter was wireless too. Wireless, same as contactless, is a name we use for particular technology.

I totally agree that it could have been Apple Pay, Paypal Pay or whatever else Bingus Pay, but it definitely was not contactless, because there was no NFC radio communication involved.
Anyone from Paris ? I’d be glad to take part to sessions
It seems like, in your case, the publication is evidence that the rabbit hole was at least original and interesting. Students in that category tend to graduate, have a few compelling results to their name, and simply expend a couple extra semesters relative to the average.

The real question is whether they learn to focus efforts on the relevant goal (in which case, these original thinkers with innate curiosity can be fantastic hires) or continue their rabbit-hole-exploring ways (in which case they generate publications as post-docs, but generally struggle in the private sector where folks want THEIR questions answers ASAP). Which are you?

(Fascinating discussion!)
Not if it's done to actually make sure listings are viewed by a representative group of people in the industry. Don't always assume the worst.

If anything, most companies have huge biases in the way they conduct recruiting. Take home tasks excludes those taking care of a child alone in larger degree than other groups for instance, posting listings only on HN would skew the people applying heavily. Etc etc.

Making sure you've reached all groups is actually laudable.
On the other hand, the failure is generally frowned upon and avoided at all costs.
Are there ever circumstances where it is immoral to visit a country as a tourist? I believe the answer is yes. It would have been immoral to be a tourist in Cambodia during the killing fields. Can one imagine being a tourist in Krakow during the height of the Nazi occupation?

In my opinion visiting North Korea qualifies. Why give money and credence to such a brutal regime? I don’t see how one can maintain a good conscience while being a tourist in North Korea.
I agree,

Coherent NULL handling imo means also Result<T> / Optional<T>
You do still hear people speaking of a string of bits, as well as a string of characters. I think the word "array" tends to be preferred for lists of numbers, since in its original sense in mathematics it was (and is) a synonym for "matrix". For lists of arbitrary objects I guess "array" won out by random chance, more or less.
> The odds of Nordic countries fighting each other are astronomically low.

War? Sure. Political fights are not that unlikely though.

Also, Norway is not part of the EU, so they can sell (or not sell) electricity how they please.
> The last thing I want during covid is to be stuck in a metal box with 100 strangers uncomfortably wearing masks instead of in my own car blasting music with the window down.

Or you could walk or take a bicycle (e.g., Amsterdam/Netherlands).
Absurd.

Most of the time I think it is just dev laziness.

Can anyone tell us which web feature is blocking the compatibility with Safari?
My lord. I had no idea that book was so old. If that books old...I'm old.
I've pre-packed game asset data to the end of EXE files using this trick and it seems that newer neural network virus scanners seem to the the only type of scanner to pick it up. So we may even lose the ability to do that soon once these type of scanner become more popular/prevalent.
What is preventing fixes to transmission, isn't it straightforward engineering with predictable construction times that can be planned well in advance?
Similar: Microsoft LogParser (https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=246...)
James Webb telescope: Sun shield deployment is critical
In my experience, Linux, Windows, and MacOS all have their own separate warts. When switching between desktops, you will be supremely frustrated dealing with issues you Just Didn't Have™ on your old OS. Stick with it for long enough before switching back, and you'll be just as frustrated with the annoyances you'd gotten used to working around and forgotten about in your old system.
> I get the sense that it reinforces memory

Isn't it confirmed by studies that writing notes by hand on paper reinforces learning more and better than others forms of notetaking (e.g. typing)?
Most cars sold in Norway are now electric.

Not the solution to anything, though. The end goal should be to rid cities of cars, and make it easier for people to walk, ride a bike or take public transport. Better for the grid, environment, noise, health, communities etc.
True, but I think it's easier economically and politically to get from "aging 19th century network" to "modern network" because you can upgrade it piecemeal tackling the worst bits first, compared to starting from "basically no network".
Can't say anything about statistics, but I don't mind paying taxes, if the result is a better working society, or one at all, given whatever some people think the world would look like without nations at all.
I would just like it, if I had more influence or at least transparency at what they are used for. Like what if you had to pay x amount of taxes a year, but everyone got to choose for what branches/areas at least and kind of "vote" a bit that way. If a program is unpopular, it wouldn't receive its funding, if you think something is underfunded, you can reallocate at least your money, but unlike purely optional donations, greed doesn't stop you, because you need to pay anyway.
I heard that in Australia they print the percentage of your taxes going to what general category on your tax return. Kind of a neat idea, and probably not that hard to do, since it really is just dividing your final tax value by the official percentages. Not like ones taxes actually get used differently from another person, but it makes for good visibility of what should be already tracked and published information.
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised to find a lot of AnCaps among Web3 advocates. I know there are also leftists who think it will challenge capitalism. Both parties are wrong to think a technology alone can make the changes they're looking for.
Apparently this was written for GUIX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Guix_System#GNU_Shepherd_i... but comes from GNU Hurd originally (hence shepherd!)
There are other modes of transport than trains/cars. For example: bicycles.
Don’t crypto exchanges use payment processors to transfer cash to bank account? I’m unsure about it though.

Likely only option is pickup and delivery with cash payment or keep crypto only never cash out.
I don’t think the latter is convenient though.
The Right to be Forgotten can be (and I'd guess usually is) used selectively - you can ask Google to forget about the Twitter account you made when you were 13, while keeping everything else available.

Even if interest has waned, it's unclear to me why that would result in his website vanishing and not, for example, his profile on his employer's website (which is still one of the top results). It certainly doesn't explain why this would coincide with warnings about data protection in Europe. It seems like there's no way of finding out if those warnings are actually related, never mind contesting a takedown.
> Browsers are now so fast and capable that you can emulate whole OS with another browser in them, which you can then use to browse

Yes they can emulate a whole OS. It's browsing at what they suck. Seconds wasted for TLS handshake, seconds wasted on downloading MB of JS, then realizing content is missing, another TLS handshake, another download, then some ads, some tracking scripts and finaly the page is displayed. Of course if you don't use Chrome or Google DNS you will be penalized. And don't forget to accept all cookies.
There is a sqlite kernel for regular jupyter. Not sure about jupyterlite though.
I have a whole genome sequence and a 23 & Me test.

To be honest, neither test produced much usable information. The whole genome produces more results, but I don’t really have anything of great significance in either output.

This seems to be common. The few genome interpretation groups I’ve looked at are full of people trying to extract significant meaning from results that don’t really say much.

Unless you have a major genetic problem, the results of any of these tests aren’t hugely helpful. It’s also too easy to misinterpret the results and think that some of them are more significant than they really are. Most individual genes don’t have a huge effect on overall health, despite what some of the unscrupulous genome analysis sites try to sell you.
Utrecht only the road reverted back to canal. The rest I recognize as Amsterdam or at least not Utrecht.

They did awful stuff there like Hoog Catharijne.
https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6763
Utility has an esthetic all of its own.
How does one get government funding to make games?
>you'd apply the fact-checking to very obvious issues

Well, more simply, I would apply fact-checking to facts (versus opinions).

>Would the case of this article

I believe the article in question falls into the needs fact-checking basket as the issue at hand can be tracked back to verifiable facts. That is, this study was flawed by accepted scientific standards. I think where they dropped the ball is on the context side. That is injecting this kind of article into the current climate (that is filled with disinformation and conspiracy theories around the topic) can be itself misleading. I'm sure this is why Facebook was so eager.

So, Facebook should have been more specific in its warning, versus stating the claim was false.

>My pet theory

My take is less generous. I think it comes down to cynical politicians and adversarial nation states poisoning the well for the explicit purpose of driving this social divide.
I think Microsoft Powershell [0] sort of approaches what you’re describing. It’s not exactly table-oriented, but object-oriented such that there’s a lot more structure to data than in traditional command line environments. For example, their equivalent of ls returns an array of objects (i.e. rows) which you can filter, sort, etc. based on the properties of those objects.

[0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/overvi...