skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had debilitating long covid for 18 months and honestly I thought it was going to be for a lifetime, especially when I read so many success stories of others getting over it after 3-6 months and reading online wisdom about it pretty much being CFS. I'm not sure what my body did but I'm thankful it healed itself and I now live in fear Omicron, which if caught might set off another 18 months for me. My brain is not nearly where it used to be and my body tires out very easily, but the bad brain fog, intense irritability, and incredible fatigue episodes are gone and I'm thankful. I don't think people realize how common this is and what it can do to you. The only reason I still have a job is because I was able to hide this because of work from home and some creative solutions on my part and a checked-out, mostly apathetic supervisor. I think I slept 1-3 hours of the workday everyday and maybe could have enough mood, focus, and energy to be productive for a window of maybe 60-90 minutes a day.

I hope you recover soon.
As evidenced by the great curiosity of this community, apparently people are expected to just be alive indefinitely for their personal amusement rather than those individuals’ desires. Welp.
Hopefully I'm spectacularly wrong, but I don't think it's possible.

the freewheeling idea of the web to be able to
better suss out democratically truth & idea &
reason is absolute

I think most of the 1990's-style optimism about the web was strictly an illusion, based on the fact that early netizens were more educated/intelligent than the general population, simply due to the fact that they tended to get net access through academic institutions or were highly motivated tech-savvy individuals. It sure wasn't perfect, as many of those people weren't exactly amazing, but it was better than what we see in 2021.

That, and the fact that the web's reach was much smaller, making it a much less attractive target for malicious disinformation campaigns.

Once everybody's racist, uneducated uncles started logging major minutes surfin' the web things deteriorated fast.

I'm not convinced anything can possibly be done, at least not within the scope of better internet forum design, to somehow coax a better level of discourse and truth-finding out of (pardon my frankness) lower-quality individuals who are actively having their minds poisoned by disinformation campaigns.

Honestly, the places doing this best these days are some sub-reddits, and HN itself. If you spend enough time on Reddit, you can find some absolutely lovely niche subreddits with strong, caring, and active moderation teams. Most subreddits do not fit this description; some do. HN takes a similar approach; most don't realize the level of human moderation by dang et al that goes into keeping this place from becoming a cesspool.

But, we could definitely at least do better than something like Facebook which seems actively designed to reward inflammatory posts and conflict in general.
Interesting they went with this title, the initials are VLC backwards.

Coincidence or what?
Minecraft lifted it too
I am mildly horrified at how upset I am that:

* The Internet thinks Star Wars is better.

* How close the voting is for pineapple on pizza

* Sock shoe sock shoe is even a possible answer.

* I’ve now been introduced to the question, “Does a straw have one hole or two?” This will haunt me until I die.

OP and whoever made this: Joking aside, this was a really cute link. It really helped my mood today.
also interesting to think about, if people are not convinced by the health situation itself, what happens on the world stage and the distribution of power if some countries are able to protect and even improve the health of their populations while others just accept this long term degradation as inevitable or normal.
He seemed to have plenty of hard science to cite in his hours long conversation with lex fridman, MIT alum and lecturer. It’s available for anyone to watch. If later on it becomes clear I was spreading wrong information then I’ll own up to it.
Just to give you an idea of how dumb this law is, try this for a hypothetical.

Alice uses DRM to protect her copyrighted work.

Bob uses the exact same DRM to stop you from copying public domain works, for example.

You publish some code to break Bob's DRM. Is that illegal?

The law shouldn't enable Bob to do that. But if you can have tools to break Bob's DRM, the tools will break Alice's DRM because they're the same, and then the law is pointless and might as well be repealed.

But if it's not legal to break Bob's DRM, then obviously the law is ridiculous and needs to be repealed, if it isn't already unconstitutional as a result.

We should not still have this.
Someone downvoted you earlier, I imagine for not liking this situation. I don't like it either, but I worked with lawyers fighting the DMCA for a long time and many courts have interpreted it the way you describe. I wish people wouldn't downvote the proverbial messenger for reporting on the legal status quo!
> Well anyway, mostly it just sounds like the typical Rust enthusiast "How dare you have a strongly-held opinion that differs from my strongly-held opinion"

To the contrary, it sounds like "Here's a solution that gives better results in 99% of cases, for reasons X, Y, Z, and better control and guarantees in those other 1% of cases."
This is sorta what Linux distros do, though it doesn't work as well for Java as something like Python.
Actually I just remembered, I can probably use my free Oracle OCI VM, not sure if they'd set up reverse DNS, though. Will have to file a ticket or search about it to learn more.

Disclaimer: Currently I work there, and it's true anyone can get a free VM "forever" (I've had one for 4 years).
I apologize, you are quite correct! Not quite sure what my brain was doing there, I was looking at those same numbers and somehow typed 4.
I owned a new one of these back in the day. Took it on an airplane to do some database input (bingo card leads from Dr. Dobb's) using PC-File for a MicroISV I was running at the time. Passengers looked at me like I was someone from the future. As one of my products was a high resolution (microsecond) timing library for MSDOS this thing also found its way to a few race tracks when I owned and raced a Lola Formula Ford. To say I got my money out of something like this, impossible to believe now, was an understatement.
a big gigantic crash of this entire energy wasting ponzi scheme.

Bitcoin and others are closer to 0 than 100K which was promised and predicted last year by many of the cryptobros.

they were completely wrong again.

stephen diehl says this better. [0]

https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/against-crypto.html
I fundamentally object to the idea of society treating people differently based on race. Especially when it's the government — in which case it is also illegal.

In one of the examples, it describes a craven use of eminent domain. Eminent domain is absolutely abused, and disproportionately impacts those of lower socioeconomic status. But if anything, that's a reason to make the criteria based on socioeconomic status and eminent domain — not race. There is no morally defensible reason to make whole some victims of eminent domain abuse and not others, based on the color of their skin.
It doesn't have to work for you. It's alright for other people to draw their own conclusions.
Hopefully my current flat doesn't smell like cat pee.

The only real solution may be brutally honest friends and family with decent senses of smell :-)

But I mean, if you're emptying and changing the litter regularly I'm sure it's fine! At least that's what I tell myself if my brother hasn't been around lately...
> Our work showed that reducing sleep by about four hours per night, for four nights, led to an increase in eating, amounting to about 300 calories per day

Is it just me or is this a rather extreme amount of sleep deprivation for a comparatively small caloric effect?
There's no exception to the tools prohibition based on purpose. One of many harsh features of §1201.
I was in the room with Ward Christensen when he got his later model (with a hard drive) Toshiba out of the box and realized he had no 3.5" drives on his other machines, and thus no way to get data to it. He hacked together enough of Xmodem in debug to try to download Qmodem (I think) via serial port, from another machine and after a few tries it was off to the races.

This will always sit in my mind as one of the greatest hacks of all time. Total time elapsed was less than half an hour.
Users are entitled to the project as far as the License grants them.

It does not enforce how a project is run or distributed.

If the author of is-even deleted his package who can tell him he is in the wrong?
Fantastic, thanks. Streissand effect at play, I would have never checked this repository otherwise.
When it comes to "trying to exit after you accidentally open it", they're both equally terrible...
In the GitHub you can find the dataset))) with recorded EEG signal
No it only describes malicious intent which IS required for it to be malware aka criminal.
Re: muscular artefacts, can anyone elucidate the nature of "pre-speech signals" captured by electrodes along the jaw? There was a MIT student a few years ago who built a headset shaped device that could hear his thoughts because it picked up his "inner voice" via electrodes on his face. My understanding is that the signals are the same as those produced in speech, but weaker (below the threshold of actually activating the muscle).

Edit: https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/arnav-kapur-wins-use-it-leme...

>"The headset-like device, AlterEgo, is a sensory and auditory feedback system that uses neuromuscular signals from the brain’s speech system to extract speech. When we talk to ourselves internally, our brain transmits electrical signals to the vocal cords and internal muscles involved in speech production. With AlterEgo, an artificial intelligence agent is able to make sense of these signals and prepare a response. The user can hear the AI agent’s responses through vibrations in the skull and inner ear, thus making the process entirely internal. The AI agent can also send the information to a computer, to help an individual with a speech disability communicate in real-time."
I wish there was a package manager for node.js that is made for "static" or offline usage, and is able to compare headers of libraries before upgrading them.

But here we are, 10 years in, with nobody giving a damn about semantic versioning.

Life could be so much easier with an actual package manager that isn't just some git clone replacement.
Why is CCP propaganda on the front page?
I think this touches on an issue with internet decentralization though, a large component (although definitely not all) is to do with lack of unique IP4 addresses which makes it difficult to decentralize even if you wanted to. I have no idea why the whole idea of web3 is associated with crypto now.
Cool use a lang without a developer ecosystem got it.
Once I find a secure OS for a daily driver, this could be a path back towards the fun of the 1980s, being able to try out software on a whim and sharing it with everyone, in a safe and secure manner.
Even if it was open, it's very common for spam lists like Spamhaus to block residential dynamic IPs by default
PNG was supposed to be "ping", but I've only ever heard people spell it out.
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I think Aaron Swartz would appreciate RSS being used for government transparency, but it is ironic that the same government that bullied him to death is now embracing RSS.
I'd try appending the check digit to the account number and see if that goes through. Maybe Amazon is stripping check digits, and the last digit here looks like a check digit?
> hoard of 370,000 seeds.

How many man-days of food is that?
I too thought sock shoe sock shoe was absurd, but I just now realized there is one circumstance when I would do this, which is when getting dressed after swimming at a public pool. Generally not much dry floor to stand on, so makes sense to get the shoe over the sock asap. Perhaps folks who wear shoes inside their house all day would feel the same way about their own floors!
Another interesting comparison is Matrix’s Pinecone, which originally used Yggdrasil but eventually wrote their own custom version. See why in the README. https://github.com/matrix-org/pinecone
Thank you! I had discovered it when I was playing around with it but forgot to mention that.
> these trillion dollar corporations just take and take and never give,

Which trillion dollar corporations are these?

A quick google says "Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Telsa, Meta, NVidia, and Berkshire Hathaway" are the the only trillion dollar companies

Except for the last one all of those companies give back vast amounts of open source support. All you using VSCode for free, that's Microsoft's payback. Oh, and Microsoft pays for NPM hosting and github, also Typescript, C#, F#, .NET. Hardly not giving anything back. Apple gives Swift, Clang, LLVM, Webkit to name a few. Alphabet, Go, Chrome (which also means Electron on which VSCode is running), Android, and plenty of others. Meta provides React, Redux. Not sure what open source Tesla gives back but they have given their patents (https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you). Nvidia gives away tons of open source as well (https://developer.nvidia.com/open-source)
> To take remorseless, infinite action against someone who may be having a bad day, or who may feel strongly against something: it's a drastic drastic overreaction. But we have literally no choice; on most sites blocking/muting are the only options available to us to de-espouse incoming comments.

Even if they were, they aren't inherently infinite or remorseless; they aren't permanent and irrevocable. (And, on some platforms, they aren't even total when in place.)

And, as most algorithms require a certain level of positive engagement to retain the baseline visibility even of something you aren't actively following, most platforms have at least one more, less extreme, negative signal—don’t positively engage with the content you don't like.
What you describe isn't exactly the law in the U.S., but it gets at some real things:

(1) there is a separate "right of petition" in the first amendment in parallel with the rights of freedom of speech and press; the right of petition relates to asking the government to change its behavior;

(2) the courts have a notion of "core political speech", which is some of the most strongly protected speech; and

(3) the courts have a different notion of "commercial speech", which is some of the least-protected speech.
Many teachers spend their money essentially replacing the role of 1) parents and 2) administrators.

I know a lot of teachers spending money on hygiene products:tampons, deodorant ect, because it is distracting if students are bleeding at their desks and smell like garbage.

2) they also spend money on basic supplies, pens pencils, as well as heaters and coolers for the room because the administration blew the funds on some bs like a marble facade for the school
Aaron was known for circumventing systems.
Wow that's annoying.

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This can help: https://github.com/mdempsky/maligned
Sorry, it is not my device, but I know author , I will report to him
Start a listening service, portforward to it if you're behind a NAT router, then use one of the online port scanners or some other host you have access to from somewhere else on the Internet to attempt connecting to it.

Yes, mobile internet has AFAIK always been behind a NAT --- I'm not sure if you can even get such a service with a publicly routable IP, since there's not much interest in e.g. hosting a server on your phone while you carry it everywhere, as useful as that could be.
It feels like a less comprehensive look at the Japanese concept of "Ikigai", at least the version that has been popularized in the west. The "prestige" and "what the world needs" sections could probably be substituted, though the concept of prestige feels more self centered to me at least.

Here is an example graphic describing this interpretation of Ikigai and its components:
https://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/ikigai...
https://zeroknowledge.fm/

This is excellent, listening to the Flashbots interview now: https://zeroknowledge.fm/168-2/ (urls dont have podcast title)
Repost, main discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29860849
My guess is it’s cause checking account string length is variable, the system that stores the info gets it all. But when read by the process generating the ACH batch file it’s dropping the last character. I can’t be specific but I feel like I’ve seen this occur with raising an exception in some language/environment.

It’s essentially reading a full varchar(17) into a varchar(16) so the last character gets chop’d.

I think, while possible, 17 character account numbers is quite rare. If it were more common it would be a massive problem and surely Amazon Pay would be well aware/compelled to fix.
Proper transactions, like the ones that aren't closed by create, alter or drop table, proper rollbacks, statement timeouts so that a single stalled statement doesn't block the table until you kill it, subscribe/notify among other things. My issue is primarily with performance under load, where you'll eventually end up with lots of blocked queries and an unresponsive database and the only way to solve it is to throw hardware resources at it.

Do yourselvs a favour and pick Postgres for new projects. If you properly vacuum your tables you'll probably be fine.
A couple people (assuming they are telling the truth) out of the hundreds of thousands of people who have presumably rented from hertz over the year or whatever makes the risk too high?

Seems like the risk is in fact quite low. Like come on from a practical/risk perspective this should be the last thing on anyone's minds when renting a vehicle from hertz.
The SQL one is different. It was originally "Structured English Query Language", or SEQUEL. When IBM released it into the public domain, it became SQL, but retained its pronunciation. That's not to say that spelling it out is incorrect—it's at least as correct as "sequel"—just that the "sequel" pronunciation is not arbitrary.
IMO they are kind of different things. The dispute about the code itself seems to be more of a licensing thing whereas the GitHub itself seems to be a property thing.
But "vetting" is still relying on the free labor of other and really doesn't change the business model and rectify the underlying problem with open source.

You really need an organization which sponsors and directly hires coders that are maintaining critical infrastructure.

(Of course the npm world is a bit insane where stuff as trivial as leftpad can be critical infrastructure. Don't really think someone needs a $200k/yr salary to maintain just that)

There's an interesting bit of social psychology here where the top reaction to this isn't "lets try to sort out how to pay all the people who are doing all the free work" (and I'm really thinking more the log4j and openssl people and the whole broader ecosystem problem this highlights) and instead it is "how do we keep being exploitative and just outsource the hard job of vetting everything?" I'm pretty sure Google will probably get some AI people onto the problem though, there's clearly a business model there.
Perhaps you are referring to Fon, though their idea was quite different (‘democratized public Wi-Fi hotspots’, basically), and despite the name I don’t think they did anything re: phone calls. I think I still have one of their Fonera routers lying around somewhere (long unused by this point).

Looks like they’re still around, but these days they partner with telcos rather than individual consumers [1]. One of the largest Dutch ISPs (KPN) used to provide access to their network on all their consumer modems until 2020 [2].

[1] https://fontech.com/fon-success-stories/

[2] https://www.kpn.com/internet/wifi-hotspots/gratis-wifi-met-f...
There has to be a meaningful liability for sending defective DMCA notices. But there won't be, wrong times.
Antiwork started as a positive place to support employees that were ill treated. Now it has become a bit more than that, and has taken political form.
There are tools for Go that detect non-optimal struct alignment. I use golangci-lint, available at:
https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint

The struct alignment linter is not included by default. To enable it, run the linter with this command:
golangci-lint run --enable maligned
Those seem like different things since a computer virus "user" never consents to or accepts the license, whereas someone importing the library into their package.json has.
Maybe the sock-shoe could instead be like "what's the right way to eat a steak": cut off a piece and eat it or cut everything first before eating.
I think the intention is to cause downstream users to spinlock.
I think it's disingenuous to label it as "malware".
Here I am browsing all of this cool content via the WayBackMachibe. What a good repository of goodies!
Build some wind turbines then.
One pound of uncooked rice contains ~29,000 grains.
It does seem like a footgun the Democrats would deploy. Kill off the only real domestic automaker that seems competent when it comes to innovation and electric cars.
Pretty easy to look up: apparently uber drivers earn a little less than $15/hr after tips so that comes out to ~20hrs.

Seems pretty pricy for an uber driver, but could make sense if they're not driving as a full-time job and instead are on some weeks and off others.
I will happily provide this service to you. In fact, I already created a Linux distro specifically for rolling back all the brain damage and misfeatures in mainstream Linux that have crept in over the past 15 years. It contains just over 1,000 packages, with not a few patches/bug fixes by myself and others.

If you want to use this distro in your own company with full time support and continuous upgrades by yours truly, my yearly salary will be 220,000 USD, please--not counting any donations you decide to make to individual software authors to ensure your use case is covered by their software, as the above amount covers only my personal salary and considerable expenses.

A large discount is potentially available should other corporations avail themselves of this opportunity and also help cover my salary and expenses. Contact me at [email redacted].

I'm not holding my breath that anyone will take me up on this opportunity, so this distro will just have to remain for my exclusive use only, I'm afraid.
Makes sense since it will avoid cannibalization into its other devices

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalization_(marketing)
I get the point, but getting past "this is ridiculous" is quite hard in this case...
This particular event is a type-2 supernova.

Type-2 means that hydrogen is fully present in the emission spectra, which implies that this is not a type-1 detonation of a white dwarf.

Type-2 means the end of "silicon burning" and the collapse of an iron core. Iron is the ultimate "ash" of a stellar core.

This explains the final stage of silicon burning, which lasts hours.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon-burning_process
Decoded: GNU Coreutils (2018)
How many years before those new models are available at scale? Less than 15?