skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those struggling with alcohol - I can recommend the Sinclair Method. The idea is to take an opioid antagonist, naltrexone, before drinking -- this helps reset the association between drinking and pleasure, since drinking on naltrexone is devoid of any pleasure, while the downsides of alcohol are still felt by the body. Do it a few times, and the desire to drink wanes. Also, when under the influence of naltrexone, it's hard to drink a lot, since it really is not enjoyable. It allowed me to basically stop drinking alcohol, but I can still go out with friends and have a drink if I want to, as long as I take naltexone before, there is zero risk of this ending up in a binge. Good stuff.
So, why the hell does WHATWG want to treat \ as /?
There's nothing new about America being a tax haven. It's always been one of the strong selling points. Some states are better at this than others though.
They might have different formulations, but they don’t have any justification for preventing ink from one area from even being usable in another.
Great to hear it's been used to some longer term success!
Interesting. i will have to check. We have CA employees, but I don’t k ow if we post jobs there. If we do, we’ll likely stop.
Jackpot Watch
To drive their honesty, anti-dog whistle nature and the inexperience of many of their colunist’s, you’ll often get a needlessly shocking but otherwise well argued column. Like a teen having fun shocking staid middle aged people; this is un-conservative, of course so I disagree.

(Declan, Im looking at you. You’re too intelligent to act like a shock jock)
This article has nothing to do with wealthy families losing their wealth after two generations. The 70% number is a complete fabrication, they couldn't even be bothered with coming up with a more believable number like 73%, or even defining what amount is losing it.

This article serves two purposes. Puffing up currently wealthy people as only being that way from pure grit and determination. No inheritance here. If you're wealthy it's because you've worked hard for it because we've already established that inherited wealth is a losing proposition.

Secondly, it tries to establish that there is no generational wealth which reinforces the first premise that all wealth is due to hard work. It's a wonderful bit of circular reasoning. All wealth is gained through hard work, generational wealth might exist but it's fleeting, so the multigenerational wealth that you do see must be due to multigenerational exceptionalism.
Haha, coincidentally, I clicked on this thread because I plan to uninstall Dota in a couple months.
Another option I've been considering for a change away from Confluence is Gitbook. Curious to hear if anyone has done an in-depth comparison of these two.
Yeah. That’s likely what we will do.
I prefer the people who only comment when they have something useful to say. Either way the responsibility for the correctness is with the code author, not the reviewer. Writing whatever and hoping for your coworkers to correct it is equivalent to asking them to do your job.
Yeah, I don't remember when it was added and I think the interface to that option has changed over time. There is also an option (SysPref->Users) to authenticate a Mac password change with your AppleID. Different option but the net effect is the same.
'Don't know what is the current status. Audi started dipping the bodies in zinc since 1987."

Fancy way to say galvanised?
Income is very personal information. I’d rather have naked pics of me on the internet than my income.

I’ve had friendships ruined because one party earned significantly more/less than the other and this was accidentally disclosed.

For a government to make this highly valuable and personal information available to the public strikes me as utterly dystopian.

In every society, there’s a tradeoff between the individual and the collective, and I think it all works better when it’s heavily skewed towards the individual. Society has no moral right to nose around in one’s bank account.
I 100% agree that metadata like timestamps and machine IDs, if you care about them, should have their own columns.

I only disagree with:

> It'd be much more orderly for each node to have a sequential ID

I've outlined some reasons above why a random ID has advantages over a sequential one.

I run Postgres in prod so I can use purely random UUIDv4, but for those running mysql or mssql, UUIDv6 and the like are a useful compromise between sequentiality and randomness. The fact that they happen to use timestamps as the source of sequentiality is only an implementation detail.
I can highly recommend this book! I even own a signed copy :)

There are many other great Lisp books, but this has been written in more recent times by an author who has before written books about other languages, e.g. Java. As a consequence, I think it is much more hands-on and easygoing for people who had learned some of the mainstream languages first and the examples are also more of this age.

It is an excellent and thorough introduction into the language and in contrast to many older books also has very valuable sections about OOP and condition handling.
I think the thing that swings it for me is that I wasn’t previously aware of Jack Dorsey’s view on Web 3 and while I don’t share his extreme position on it, I did find this comment useful and informative as a result, especially given Jack’s very unique position and viewpoint in the industry.

Is linking to an inflammatory tweet the same as posting a directly inflammatory comment?

I still think the comment was acceptable. Not the most substantive, but not deserving of moderation.

I know it’s a very fine line to tread. But I come to HN to read all viewpoints - even those that might be on the outer edges.
I think it's useful to think of the FDA at operating at a "statistical" level — they need to optimize for the MOST people doing the fewest dumb things. It's like they're playing "house" in a casino, and the goal is for as few people as possible to get sick.

They'd rather us not try "crazy" things like use raw egg white or yolks in foods and cocktails, bc even though the likelihood of us as individuals getting sick from it- statistically someone's going to get sick, and they're getting the blame.
Laying it on pretty thick ;)
I’ve always heard “you make it. Then your kids take it. Then their kids break it”
My favorite is when elements jump around while they load, so you're guaranteed to misclick on links. So then you'll have to wait again (when going back), because of course the cache hasn't been invented yet.
It's specifically talking about lease cars too - car manufacturers actually already have agreements with lease companies to take back cars after 3 years, which is a key reason car manufacturers have 'approved used' car sales. This arrangement is particularly common with company cars.
be careful with upper and lower cases. some file system doesn't distinguish them.
> Are we taking Iran or Canada?

What is this? Some kind of Axis of Sanity?
This is nonsense

If everyone makes $10 more a day there is no ""mobility"" in the percentage sense, but everyone is better off.

If you ask a hobo that makes $0 a day, he certainly perceives an upgrade
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millionaire_Next_Door

This book was recommended on HN in a comment and opened my eyes to lots of things and what exactly wealth is. It touches on the same subject and comes to the same conclusion.
If we ever get to actual autonomous driving, that seems inevitable. A manufacturer can't be expected to own liability unless they also own maintenance and upgrades.
Thanks for creating and maintaining BookStack. My company has used it for around three years, and recently integrated it with Okta for SSO. It’s fast, simple to use, and the recent search improvements have really made it an excellent product.
iPhone May Be Sending Message Read Receipts Even If You Turned Them Off
Purely in terms of the comment you're replying to, it doesn't matter whether or not the consuming app should have had or done more testing. It also doesn't matter whether or not they should have checked the documentation or change logs for the dependencies.

The isolated point the commenter was making is that a dangerous breaking change was introduced without the versioning reflecting that fact.

Both these things can be true, and any failure on the part of the startup does not remove the failure of the package versioning. These things are not contradictory so yes, you can blame the maintainers (also) as the guilt or otherwise of the startup does not alter the original versioning fail.
> If the host is choosing a door randomly and it doesn't happen to contain the prize, your odds don't improve if you switch your answer.

No.

If the host chooses a door randomly and it doesn’t happen to contain the prize, the outcome is exactly the same as if the host does know where the prize is. Look up “conditional probability” for how to calculate this. The host’s knowledge has no effect other than to prevent the awkward outcome in which the host opens the door with the prize.

Even if the host did open the door with the prize on occasion, the outcomes would still be the same if the rule was that the whole game starts over if the host accidentally reveals the prize. (Well, the game would take longer to finish, but that has no effect on the probability of winning.)
I think the issue is that public policy is based around two flawed notions that omicron has brought to light:

1. The vaccines will become decreasingly relevant, unless we can provide technology to update vaccines as quickly as they mutate. Even then, it'll be like flu vaccines. They'll help, but won't stop the spread.

2. Barring some technological breakthrough, Covid will never go away. We'll all contract it. Then it will mutate and well contact it again in the next year, and the next, forever

As such, our current policies are ineffective, and lockdown is by no means sustainable forever.
My read is that Toyota is trying to find a way to continue to make money from sales but without strictly producing new cars. Overall, if this program is not extending the useful life of their products, it's not a gain for the environment.

Toyotas have positive resale value up to an average of 210,000 [0]. After that point the cost of maintaining them is (theoretically) greater than the resale value.

It seems they are targeting a refresh about every 3 years, and doing that 2 times. The lifetime would then come in at about 10 years, which is right in the ballpark of 200,000 miles.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimhenry/2014/05/31/toyota-lead...
interesting but also delusional -- disease and preventable misery skyrockets among the "homeless" in the USA

meanwhile, how difficult is stability, especially in high-tech tracks?

amazingly stupid in some ways, to declare a victory with skyrocketing homelessness in modern streets
Spot on. In 2013 after a highish triglyceride test result I quit obvious refined sugar. (Have to specify exactly what I mean or I get a lot of questions like “what about bread?!!? You know there’s sugar in bread right!?!?”)

I framed it as, “I just don’t want to eat that garbage anymore.” Two weeks of cravings and then I just stopped missing it. Fruit started to taste amazing.

Triglycerides went from 263 to 113 in one year.
Yeah, this has been requested a few times. I don't come from a hosting background (Outside of managing my own VPSs) so I don't feel it's something I can personally do (at a level of service I'd be happy with) but the idea of partnering with someone that has experience is something I've though about; The tricky part is finding someone I can trust enough to send users to.
If your 10 million pot increases by 4% per year above inflation, and each generation has 3 kids, after 25 years it's 33 million, each kid gets 11 million (adjusted for inflation). They can take 1 million and still pass on 10m each to their kids.

That 1 million is $40k a year, which is enough to live. Especially when part of that 10m is a house which costs very little to maintain (compared with rent). Crucially it's a great safety blanket too, you don't have to work 2 full time minimum wage jobs to afford to live, which increases the chance of getting a good job to top up that wealth.
Debt is created by the lender to make a profit. Saying that somebody's credit history is inherently public is the same as saying their work performance history is inherently public. Nobody is forcing lenders to make loans, quite the opposite; in fact there is a great deal of statutory law preventing predatory lenders (ie deliberately lending to those who can't repay) and the megabanks addiction to junk like car loans is also evidence of the rapacious appetite for lending.

Thus, credit history is for the lenders and by the lenders, all with the purpose of maximizing revenue for the lenders. How one concludes that permanent credit history is some burden all citizenry has to bear for their lifetime is beyond me.
Discord is centralized. Yes, and? We are not in the end state of Web3 yet. Web3 is nascent and new. And we have to use some of the existing infrastructure to bootstrap it. Just as the internet was bootstrapped by the Department of Defense (via ARPAnet). Ideally we transition to a decentralized chat service at some point (some communities do use Matrix or Status), but in the meantime, we can't let perfect be the enemy of good.
We regularly salt our roads in winter in the UK even if it's not as cold as Canada.
Maybe galvanisation is a fancy way to say dipping in zinc?
Useful and Unknown Java Features
KDE on Fedora works great. I'm one of those people that has a hard time figuring out why people are complaining about desktop Linux.
My Fedora+KDE does have some problems occasionally, but they are problems of my own making, such as compiling the entire graphics stack and kernel myself so I can use the cutting edge development versions...
it becomes a master you don't think of as a master, like an institutional system like wages where you think you're in control when the power dynamic is really reversed
The first domain I registered was my employer, att.com. Since “&” was not allowed in the syntax, I had to choose between att.com and at-t.com, and that choice was mirrored in future domains. The second domain registered was stargate.com, used by the UUCP Project, the UUCP Zone (the registrar) and the Stargate project (Usenet over satellite.)

More about this effort is in the Stargate Internet Museum web site.

https://maryannhorton.com/mary-ann-horton/a-career-in-comput...

and

https://www.stargatemuseum.org/
> I’m so used to the relentless negativity (much of it, unfortunately, justified) that comes from posts that start with “My experience at …”.

I’ve helped with some mentoring programs on and off over the years. Most students and grads actually have very positive experiences in their internships and first jobs.

There are exceptions, of course, but they’re more rare than you’d think from reading Reddit CS career advice forums and trending stories on HN.

One recent quirk I’ve been seeing is occasionally a junior person will have a good job but for some reason or another become convinced that they’re working for an abusive company under terrible conditions. It sounds strange if you’ve never seen it, but some young people come into the working world with a lot of weird misconceptions they pick up from Reddit and other social media. For example, I’ve seen multiple young developers have near crises because their companies have code review and their seniors have a lot of feedback and changes in their code reviews. We spend a lot of time mentoring about what’s normal and why getting feedback at work is actually a good thing.
I’m interested to go down this route - I remember they had Prius plug in kits in the 2000s but they were third party
> "Any decade now we will have PoS" Almost every blockchain already is.

You know that's not relevant. Nobody cares about the number of blockchains having one or another attribute. I could create and launch a billion new ones, and it doesn't matter.

> Ether will move to PoS within the coming 2 years.

I truly hope so. I'll believe it when I see it.

> There's a few hundred million people using crypto.

Estimate I found is one, not a few. But that could be wrong.

But yeah. I know of several people who tried, some successfully, to get paid in bitcoin. They didn't want to pay taxes.

Everyone wants everyone else to pay their fair share. You can't point to someone saying "Well I don't want to pay my fair share" as a contradiction, because that's a completely different statement.

Everyone wants only sober people on the street, but come on, it's me and I only had three beers and it's like a 10min drive.

> Singling out ransomware is equally lazy.

Lazy because it's not hard. "Pointing out murder is wrong, is lazy". Uh… so what?

> A recent study showed that the portion of criminal activity in the crypto space is lower compared to cash.

Speculation is by far the biggest, yes. Studies have shown that much or most of that speculation is market manipulation, too.

> Yet you'd never comment on cash being a criminal invention, would you?

I didn't say that about blockchain either. I said it's a scam generator. Cryptocurrencies are more like the scam of being paid in company credits in the company store, if you want to make comparisons to cash. It's not a great comparison, of course, because your whole question assumes that "cryptocurrencies are just like cash" which they are very much not.

Partly because what I already said. But partly... well I don't think you're interested in hearing anything anything, so what's the point?

If you've gotten this far, and are this invested, then you'd need to get over the cognitive dissonance of that, and a HN comment won't help.

> you're the "intellectually honest" one.

Yup.
What percentage of individuals lose the wealth that they gain? 70% might even be a LOW estimate

I find this article totally unremarkable
> even if someone managed to become a professor at a chartered university without a doctorate it's just irrelevant at that point

There's quite a few professors without doctorates - doctorates didn't used to be the done thing until relatively recently. Typical example on HN would be Simon Peyton-Jones who is a professor but doesn't have any kind of doctorate.
This blog post is over two years old, that 3 vs 4 error is inexcusable.
And I'd argue that the need for manuals on Linux is greatly overstated.
Does not support this at the moment. Currently rebuilding the editor with a vision to potentially support that in the future although there'd be some hurdles to jump over to get to that point.
There are plenty of EVs on the road with batteries at 8 years old, some of which have seen minimal range degradation, like most Fiat 500e owners.

For those cars that do suffer from range degradation (eg: 2011 Nissan Leafs), battery swapping has become common, and at a reasonable $3500 and up price point: https://evridesllc.com/battery-upgrade-service/
Straw man argument there.
Can anyone with experience with multiple wiki platforms compare this with XWiki and/or MediaWiki.

I may be asked to update $WORK's wiki, which is currently MoinMoin (IIRC), and am looking for anyone with more experience so I don't have to start testing from scratch. I've run MediaWiki before, but am not beholden to using it just because of past/current familiarity.

Importing from MoinMoin would be nice, but not absolutely required. LDAP integration (at least for authentication/LDAP binds) is mandatory, but LDAP group integration (authorization/permissions/roles) isn't mandatory: that can be internal to the app. Wouldn't mind it though: either Unix-style or AD-style (memberOf).
Awesome to hear. Especially happy to hear good feedback regarding the search improvements, I spent a good amount of time on those and this is the first feedback I've had since.
Regions like "Americas", "Western Europe", etc often have far more variance within them than is worth accounting for in a printer ink formulation. I can travel within just the state of California and have more humidity variance than could possibly justify region locked printer ink.

It's for price localization - sell at what the market will bear, and different regions have different price points.
Linux audio has been great IME. I’ve never had any of the weird problems I have using the Windows audio stack.
Same place 83% of statistics come from!
This is not.

They are testing a shitton of variables so it's highly likely that by pure chance something "statistically significant" would appear. But not even that happened (there was NO significant change at all), so the recommendation of a "more powerful study" is absolutely baseless.

If anything, the conclusion should be "we wasted our time so you don't have to waste yours in the future". Nothing to be ashamed of.

Otherwise this is how you start another bunch of "science reproducibility crisis!".
Well, you probably shouldn't cluster on a UUID, but it's not really a great idea to blindly cluster on a sequential id, either. You should cluster based on how you query the data to minimize I/O.
I agree with you, but I think it overstated the value of schooling as the only source of this development. There are so many free online education sources it is truly amazing, and yet for some reason our society’s answer to the pandemic was to have Zoom school at home which no one is happy with, rather than embrace different delivery methods that are actually engaging. Khan Academy, Duolingo, etc etc. I don’t think my kids are behind at all as a result of utilizing these technologies.
Electrical is a huge problem, as complexity skyrockets we need mechanics to diagnose and repair. Mechanics will adapt, not disappear.

Brakes are dead simple to replace and cheap to do so. Regenerative braking is insignificant in the scheme of refurbishing vehicles.
Thanks for these refs. I read [1] carefully and I take your point that it’s ok to strictly report whatever the data says.

On the value itself, we are quibbling about the meaning of ‘arbitrary’: Fisher certainly could have chosen another value, but not all values would be considered useful. Some expertise about the nature of real world data and the minds of statisticians is encoded in the chosen value.

If I propose that we change the convention to use 1e-12 instead and you think ‘that’s too small, I prefer it the way it is’, then it’s not arbitrary in the sense I mean.
The disclaimer at the top of the benchmark section - https://github.com/FastVM/minivm#benchmarks - seemed pretty reasonable to me.

It's very clear that microbenchmarks don't tell the whole story, and that whole application benchmarks to give more real results will be desirable later.

I mean, I agree these benchmarks don't mean that much except for being a useful way to verify that the core code is working and reasonably performant - but they're up front about that fact so calling it 'benchmark-gaming' seems a trifle unfair.
Both have their place. I agree that for complex queries, nothing beats raw SQL. However, for simple, straightforward queries fetching data from a single table without JOINs/etc, the ORM is generally easier.
Better support for local ebike use would go a long way to filling the gap.

Things like good, secure parking and segregated paths.
When I used to write code, especially SQL statements I would:

"put"
, "Commas"
, "first"
, "to"

avoid these kinds of things.
Seems like you already have the most important part settled from the start: you care about the child :-)

And, since you mention it: like a metronome is a good way to think about it. I used to use a digital timer or a phone but anything with fine grained resolution is fine I think, the point seems to be to be predictable.

Also I try to remember to point out that I go back also if the kid doesn't cry.

Some people think if the kid is silent then they are about to fall asleep and we should not wake them.

In my experience if the child feels safe they fall asleep with no problems even if I walk in and out.

On the other hand, if they haven't fallen asleep that will teach them that if they don't cry I won't look after them, at least that is what I think.