skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i think a tool that creates rss from a directory's content would help.

how many github pages exist? currently, that number is apparently 2,866,300 [0]. imagine a tool that generates an rss from all the html files collected. before pushing back with git, you run a script that generates the rss. any new html files are added to the rss. and it doesn't have to be just github pages, it can be any html/blog website. i can build such a tool but am currently working on something else.

0: https://github.com/search?q=.github.io
Plenty of unvaccinated (the vast majority, in fact) also experience mild symptoms. It's almost like you've got an unfalsifiable way to always say "it worked!"
Also see: https://github.com/steventroughtonsmith/rpi-basic

which is (or was in 2013) a minimal bare-metal BASIC for the Pi.

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8228763
A Ponzi Scheme is a very particular type of scam. A Ponzi Scheme is where the sum of all investor's reported account values exceed the total value of assets held by the institution.

It is totally valid to claim that Bitcoin is a scam, or that scammers are targeting Bitcoin, or scammers are using Bitcoin to scam people. You can say that the price is a pump-and-dump (but that's a factor of the price and promotion, not of Bitcoin), you can say that it is a low-liquidity market-manipulation scam (more a function of allowing leverage on exchanges). You can even call it a pyramid scheme, although, once again, you have to be careful because a pyramid scheme is a particular type of scam, which, on closer inspection, this is obviously not. Please stop saying Ponzi. You're besmirching the good name of a perfectly cromulent scam.
I would even say; move away if you can. Far enough away so you don't see everyone too often or the places where you had 'fun'. Moving away for school or work also helps 'breaking up' with all friends at once for a good reason in case you don't want to tell the real reason.
Why do we need a reason to do interesting, weird things?
I live in Berkeley and this is basically 90% of the people I meet, see and interact with. Btw they’re also almost all vegetarian and Soylent drinkers. I felt awkward having a sausage pizza yesterday with a friend. So my observations are at the very lease factual in my area, pretty sure factual across the Democratic Party. Progressivism isn’t what it used to be (Obama era).
Despite the rudimentary nature of the sophistication of chatbots even today, they have always been an amazing source of entertainment for me and others in group chats. Back in the late 90s and early 2000's they were a great addition in casual IRC channels, with some slight tweaking so they don't spam the channel (important!) but enough that they would occasionally speak up on their own and could be engaged directly at any time.

Some of my best memories of conversation in IRC revolved around some of the ridiculous content that the chatterbots would come up with, especially if the bots started arguing with each other. It was such a great source of background content during periods of low activity.
They have been definitely denied initially for their behavior on the flight to Cancun. They we're acting senselessly, no mask, heavy drinking, vaping , not respecting any rules. The staff on the plane had to resort to staying in the back of the place because they we're afraid of their behaviors. Police we're waiting for them when they got back to Montreal.
Have you looked at running Inferno in the browser? Granted the OS is heavily bit rotted though there are still people poking at it.

Join a plan 9 community. Tons of resources and people doing what you want to do. Check my profile for links and channels.
Reasons to Try Guix in 2022 [video]
I actually have a similar idea, at least the Tamagotchi part of it. Now that I've read your comment I feel more motivated to actually flesh it out and implement it, lol.
> My PC XT didn't boot into BASIC, I wonder why.

Mine didn't either, it booted into DOS 3.0(?) and I got to BASIC by running BASICA.EXE.

If I had to guess, it booted into DOS if you had a hard disk and otherwise booted BASIC from a ROM?
An Environmentalist’s Lessons for an Improvisational Life
The freedom/free time part is obviously the distinction!
I find the belief that 4-day work weeks are broadly supported / feasible to be a bit of the typical tech-world conceit.

If you imagine this being applied to everything in the corporate/services world (and work is not "divisible"), would you be happy to have businesses closed 1 additional day per week? The DMV closed on Mondays -- but the fees and pay of employees remain the same? How about if prices go up by 20% to pay for the cost of having a 4 day week? Your plumber or car mechanic or doctor having 20% fewer available times to see you?

The idea of the 4 day work week where people can do all that they do now, but be more efficient about it in 4 days instead, is something exclusively a privilege that white collar workers can even consider.
There's actually a whole lot of people who have never died, so the data isn't in on that one quite yet.
Uh so I guess a bunch of Canadian reality tv stars charted a jet to Mexico, and posted on their socials about partying on the plane. Gasps.
"battling Omicron"

Can you give us some indication of how severe your symptoms are? Mostly we're hearing that if you've been vaccinated and/or you've had covid in the past that omicron is relatively mild.
That's the point. It's often a mild cold for the vaccinated
I, too, think that Omicron is the beginning of the transition back to "normal" with Covid becoming endemic. Everyone is going to be exposed to Omicron if they haven't already.

I expect that for the next year or two, boosters will be recommended as a yearly "flu shot" to give you a decent chance of being minimally affected if exposed. Omicron will continue to be the dominate strain, finding hosts in both the vaccinated and unvaccinated. The difference will be that we will have a myriad tools at our disposal to prevent serious illness and treat it when it does happen.
Ditto 1922 medicine compared to 1822.
A proper solution to this problem requires a completely new perspective.

I made a client side firewall-esque library for Transcend Consent Manager so that site owners can load trackers immediately and locally quarantine tracking events for replay once consented.

This makes it possible to track like before but move the annoying cookie banner into an integrated UI so that site owners can ask for consent when the user is more invested in the site (e.g. during signup/checkout).
I'm happy it's not a battle for you, but it is for my wife.
I love and miss RSS as much as the next hacker, but it's weird to see an increasing trend of technological nostalgia starting to emerge.

To be clear, I also think the web has gone wrong and miss coherent and useful web search, exploring interesting user created content (people have mentioned the return of web rings) and curating my own news feed via RSS.

But it's strange to me that when I started everything was about what we were going to do in the future, and increasingly the conversation is about going back to the past.
I had bought a bunch of different pens a year ago. Different brands and different models. My goal was to find a good pen for notetaking and basic diagram drawing.

The first thing I learned was that most of the fancy pens are more suitable for drawing, not writing. One I liked that may work for me is Micron 03. But in the end, I stopped with Pentel Hybrid Technica 0.5. It's more like a high-quality mechanical pen that is comfortable to handle and smooth to write, without dirty marks on paper, etc.
Something I'm really not surprised about, but it's nonetheless interesting to see how the discusson never touches points like "is this enthusiasm founded?", "what are they doing right?" or "where do we lag behind? What could we learn from them? Where can we improve?". Gates just immediately jumps to "how can we kill it?".

That itself explains so much about even today's state of computing in a simple e-mail conversation.
Will births in the US rebound? Probably not
Yes! It actually runs games from the BBC Welcome disk pretty well.

https://www.bencollier.info/projects/electronics/emulation/f...
Perhaps I'm missing something? I don't understand the issue. If the machine you're logging into (running sshd) is already compromised, it's... already compromised. I don't recycle passwords, so what is the risk?

And if the device on which you're running your ssh client is already compromised, it doesn't matter whether you use a key or password, its the same thing.

Can you explain the threat a bit more?
I think you should read more on what happened in the plane going there, they are getting what they deserve. There is a reason the police were waiting for them at the airport when they got back to Montreal!
I’d love to see some evidence because my guess is there is an order of magnitude more Java code in banks than COBOL.
I don't think this logic is correct. Viruses can not become infinitely transmissible/deadly; clearly there is an upper ceiling. Second, people gain immunity after infection. We'd expect the first variant that infects most people to win, effectively closing the door behind it.
Same here! I had an article on Longreads [0] open in another tab when I saw this headline and felt like I'd better hurry to finish it!

0: https://longreads.com/2019/05/30/born-to-be-eaten/
Well, it's how people talk about it, in English. Unless they're talking about dollars or yen, where the unit comes first for some reason!
It's a wry observation that I made when I was forced to learn it by those very same researchers who hyped it up as the future of software development 20 years ago.

It was sold as the "rolls royce of testing" which I think overstated its capabilities and effectiveness.
At my company our questions are based on a set of ~7 things (technical design, code quality, communication etc.), not just algorithmic efficiency.

New interviewers are required to calibrate their expectations for the question by practicing conducting the interview on 3-4 existing employees.

By evaluating on dimensions you don't have to study for & calibrating based on active employees I like to think this does a better job of making sure we don't miss out on hiring good engineers who haven't spent hours doing LeetCode.
I added RSS to my websites, because my timeline thing (https://github.com/nicbou/timeline) uses them to retrieve posts from my websites.

However, I see the death of RSS as the symptom of a larger problem: when platforms get big enough, they restrict access to their data. RSS feeds disappear, but so do other machine-readable endpoints. If it wasn't for GDPR, there would be no way to export that data. GDPR gave us clunky one-time exports, but even those are often incomplete. Making RSS popular again won't fix that.

The industry has a strong incentive to kill RSS, since the readers can strip the valuable bits (content or data) from the business bits (analytics, monetisation). RSS users are hard to count or monetise. This might not suit every business model.

This is a battle worth fighting, but it's not one you should expect to win.
I live in PDX, and across this time-frame we've seen an explosion in homelessness, significant increase in crime/vandalism, closed/abandoned businesses, and soaring real estate prices.

I would not be shocked if much of this increase has been necessary to retain and attract people during a difficult time for the region.
I've always had side projects, but they've made very little money. Like, less than $1500 total, I think. I have no fucking self-discipline whatsoever. None. If I'm working on something, it's because I'm so into it that I cannot wait to wake up and get back to it. If I'm not in that zone, then I can't persuade myself to even open the IDE to save my life. But when I'm in that zone, there's nothing I'd rather be doing, so it is not draining, and it's better than relaxing.
I'm just shocked by Nathan Myrvold's reply back. He's a patent troll among things but his email is incredibly on point. Also this little tidbit:

> Virtual worlds could be such a thing.
> HN people seem to line up 20 interviews and spend a week doing them.

Somehow they also seem to get all their offers around the same time to leverage them against each other.
It would be interesting to know how the safety records of the truck drivers who get "can opened" compare with the average truck driver. Is this bridge an efficient "idiot detector", which might be used to help weed out the worst ~1% of truck drivers? A truck hitting it looks pretty cheap & safe, compared to a highway-speed crash...

Similar Situation: There is a 10'6" railroad overpass on a minor side-street in downtown Ann Arbor, MI. Sadly, no webcam that I know of. But it is, on foot, less than 750' from the local newspaper's new office location...
> I would hold off on eating oysters for a bit.

why? RNA detected != active virus. e.g. in room temperature, virus can survive the maximum of 5 days (on plastic 3 days, cardboard 24h). It's an impossible vector of transmission.
The law: exists, and is quite unequivocal.

Sites: implement things that are actually illegal under the law

HN, en masse: the law is bad, how can you say it's good?

EU has been very slow in going after websites, but I do hope they pick up the pace.
It depends on the procedure, somewhat.

For example, it's very tempting for a company to send out tests before doing much resume screening. Why should I spend 30 seconds looking at a resume when I could have the candidate spend an hour on a test, and save myself 30 seconds?

Or what if I set a take-home test which is supposed to take 1 hour, but also supposed to really to stretch candidates' ability and give the best candidates a chance to shine? Probably a lot of average candidates will give themselves a bit of extra time - and before you know it, I'm sending a "1 hour" test that takes an average of 4 hours.

Take-home tests are a lot less objectionable if you can properly guard against these problems.
Good points. But language models are usually then fine-tuned for specific tasks. Contextual reasoning in NLG is a specific area of research that attacks some of the points raised and certainly BERT wasn't pretrained to solve all tasks in NLP/ NLG area of research.
It's expensive, no one wants to pay for it, and our general political leadership is inept at best and corrupt at worst and is incapable of managing reasonable infrastructure projects.
That's pretty terrifying.
Or they have just given up, and turn into mindless Hollows. The overarching philosophy of the series being that you will become forgotten dust in a world even the Gods have abandoned, yet you keep fighting with every ounce of your what little soul remains in you.

This oppressively nihilistic atmosphere has given many players solace during difficult times.
If the government is "bad" it doesn't make everyone who stands against it "good". It doesn't make everyone who is against the government unified body with one positive goal.

You don't need all the "protesters" to be thugs. 1% is enough to make cities dangerous place for everyone, including other protesters.

You know nothing about the country or the people who live there or what exactly going on right now, but automatically side with one of the part of the conflict based on your feelings.
One thing I've noticed with podcasts, is that my reader will download the full RSS every day, listing hundreds of episodes, just to see if there's a new one.

I get why they do this as a new listener will want to start off with a full list of episodes and may want to pick up a show from the start.

It would be useful if an RSS could specify a separate URL to query that will only list new episodes, returning an empty RSS (or a standardized HTTP status code) until the new episode is available.

The original RSS with the full list would still be the primary URL for the podcast, the one I get when I right-click and select "Copy RSS URL".
Yeah, and where not available Java probably uses BSR instruction which does the same thing but introduced in i386 (1985): https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/bsr
And all of the businesses can proceed to ignore that setting. At which point you're back to where we are now - an issue of enforcement.

All of these garbage cookie banners are just as noncompliant as ignoring that setting would be. You wouldn't have cookie banners to deal with, but at least clicking through those now supposedly results in less data being tracked.
Yes, it was called Google Sidewiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Sidewiki
I think perhaps Google had too much skin in the game already.
If you ask me, its actually to their advantage to offload it to an independent party for the sake of neutrality.

Ah yes community is also another reason!
It is tricky to build a community, at least I wasn't sure what community to start with. That's why I chose to create a private sphere where its just you and your friends discussing and sharing links privately in. a chronological feed, and was hoping that could create enough pull for a public community to develop.
I read as “the Atlantic” and got scared a bit. They are one of the last few places doing real investigative journalism. Luckily I misread
I got the impression the entire thing was pushed by Slack probably by way of some PR firm.

I utterly despise how mindlessly faddish this field is. For a field supposedly so full of smart people who often pride themselves on being "contrarian" (sometimes to a fault), people sure do bleat like sheep when the next fad comes along.
If you can capture the candidates ability to setup a BTD (build-test-debug) loop, their ability to find and fix bugs, and that they know enough tooling to get it into production (and troubleshoot deployment), then you have successfully checked 80% of the job requirements for...almost every programming job out there.
It's pretty important to determine actual severity rates.
to me, a self flying plane is a lot easier problem to solve but i don't hear about anyone getting into a plane without a pilot (and co-pilot) at the controls. I know we have auto-pilots but there's always a human and backup in case something goes wrong. Flying a plane is a lot easier on a computer than navigating the ground and ground traffic (IMO). I would think we'd see self-flying planes before self-driving cars.
Why are you still in Spain then? You can move to Cyprus tomorrow, legally. Then you'll pay 20% less on your tax bill.
Sure. And that applies here, if you regard your own people as terrorists for being mad at the failures of the government. But if you buy that premise, you're excusing a tyrant who has figured out a new buzzword to justify his tyranny.
People have been talking about how hospitalization numbers are lagged since before Thanksgiving. It's been almost two months. It's time to stop hoping for doom and gloom and accept that it's over.
The stress can be particularly bad for those that had no choice but to retire (due to health, job loss, or other reasons). Moving from working for money, and potentially being able to increase your income if needed, to a fixed income is tough for most people. Particularly if it was a sudden retirement and they realize the full implications of that after they retire.
Never buy v1 of anything- you basically pay for the privilege of "beta testing"
I would say that if all facts point to the fact that Russia did nothing wrong, perhaps Russia did nothing wrong. And junk articles in NYT, WSJ, Guardian or BBC are not "evidence" that they did something wrong.

Another relatively neutral source on reporting on Central Asia is https://www.indianpunchline.com/about-me/ if you are interested.
They have also enabled commercial banks loaning other people money irresponsibly and getting obscenous bailouts when the loan takers default because "the banks are too big to fail".
What a great world to live in.
Every year you'll be a year older though, which eventually results in being in a different (higher) risk category.
I’ve worked with “code like prose” people and found them pretty difficult to work with. I’ve also found most of them to be not that great technically or they have exclusively Ruby on Rails backgrounds and can’t seem to function on any other technology or approach.

I don’t think the sales guy needs to be able to read channel handling logic or care about how the react code is organized.

Engineers should write good code that can be easily understood and modified by other engineers. Are engineers going to cold call people or run the financials? No their job is to build systems and keep them running.
Richard Feldman (Elm) analyzes why programming languages become popular and says Java is unique. It became popular because Sun spent 100's of millions of dollars promoting it, even after the dot com crash. Others like Ruby, had a killer app.

His thesis is object oriented programming wasn't inevitable or is the best way to program. It was an accident of history that OOP became so popular.

Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? – Richard Feldman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyJZzq0v7Z4

Another Java tidbit is that Miguel de Icaza (Gnome, Mono) really wanted an open source higher level language on Linux so he approached Sun about Java and they wouldn't work with him, so he settled on C# and is probably the man most responsible for the move to cross platform C# and .NET (dotnetcore, v5)

https://tirania.org/blog/archive/2006/May-11.html
This looks really cool, nice job.
It can be quite useful in a weird way. While everyone else is stuck on the chatbot going round in circles, usually typing something like "human" or "talk to human" will make the chatbot connect you with an actual human representative (or ask you a few basic questions first and then connect you).

I've used the trick on various large company's websites when trying to get support and it seems to be quite 'universal'.
> though she was pregnant, which might have made it worse.

Being pregnant does dampen the immune system.
There were labs with BBC Micros that were more accessible, but they only had Basic. If you're learning Pascal, C, Modula 2, etc that's just not good enough. There was a Unix machine but I didn't do any courses that required access to it.
They often do actually! The pelican cases are quite popular for that purpose. But, like all things, they aren't totally fool-proof. Leaks happen. Even a small air-leak means moisture has an opportunity to condense and penetrate into the container and accumulate. Cracks happen, debris along the gasket, etc. etc.

Actually, a more common failure mode than rotting or rats is... simply forgetting where you buried it!
Automation can put everyone out of a job, for all I care about jobs and the economy. They are potentially mutually beneficial, but usually extremely unfavorable to labor in terms of sharing profits. No jobs means no unemployment.
> Inflation is a flat tax of a few percentage points

Flat tax on cash holdings, which poor people don't have.

It's a negative tax on debt, which poor people tend to hold. It doesn't apply to assets.

Now if wages don't keep track with inflation, that's not a tax, it's an employer reducing wages.
The last time I did more than 2 interviews during a job search was 1999.
Big companies are opening Portland offices as places like California and Seattle become less attractive due to rising prices.

levels.fyi salaries should be viewed more as the upper limit for top 5% developers, though, not necessarily the average across all jobs in the city.
The fuck. Its actually searchable!

I tried googling this -
summer is butter on your chin site:https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/

found it instantly.
I’m just discovering this site even exists and it’s shutting down… Are there similar sites out there people recommend?
The discovery of DNA may well be the Maxwell-style foundation for the next game changer. It hasn't been a century yet, and we've just deployed the first mRNA vaccines last year...