skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been here more than twelve years. I've interacted with you enough that I'm fairly confident you are someone who recognizes my name.

I get endless flak from the world for me being me. One part of that is that I have a genetic disorder -- which I'm quite open about -- and I'm getting well when the entire world tells me that's simply not possible and openly hates on me for -- as best I can tell -- being a former homemaker who spent years homeless who has the audacity to be so incredibly rude as to figure out how to manage my condition with diet and lifestyle instead of drugs and surgeries, thereby making doctors and scientists look "stupid" I guess and we can't have none of that, so no one takes it seriously that I know anything at all about medical anything -- and yet there is this comment about how fluid circulates in the human body with 121 upvotes for whatever damn reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25427090

And the way I get treated on HN on that detail of my life aggravates me to no end because I feel like the evidence that I'm not lying or making shit up can be found in my twelve plus year track record of posting here in that my comments are no longer routinely typo-riddled gibberish like they used to so frequently be because I'm generally in less pain, etc these days, having gotten myself healthier.

And in spite of my significant handicap, I seem to be the only openly female member who has ever made the leaderboard and I've done it twice under two different handles, yet the degree to which I get treated differently from other members and also told it's not due to my gender persists and makes me nuts, which may or may not be a factor in me spending less time here in recent months. I really don't know what exactly is driving that. There are too many confounding variables for me to sort that question myself.

Feel free to chalk this up to "Doreen is a loon imagining she is getting better when everyone knows that's not possible, so let's just say she's crazy because her experiences rudely fall outside the all important Overton Window of what people are allowed to believe. And this is one of those utterly nutty things she says rooted in her delusion." and please move on because other than "anecdote" and "I think I know stuff because my damn body works better than it is supposed to" I don't have a leg to stand on here and I am so sick of this entire thing.

With all the smart self made millionaires and people with PhDs and what not that hang here, you would think someone would be able to think for themselves and conclude "Maybe the lady is not nuts and not making shit up and in actual fact has done what she claims."

But, no, no girls actually allowed in the old boys club filled with the best of the best of the best, sir!
There's no FOMO here but when iPhone users bitch about it like it's my fault and not Apple's, I think less of them. It's a shame so many people are allowing themselves to be manipulated by Apple to peer pressure their friends into buying Apple products.
1.1% is way too high. I bet they didn't filter out all the scrapers that poll gov't websites.

Hmm I wonder if just parsing the HTML still works like it did 8 years ago when I had to scrape the USPS: https://github.com/NavinF/USPS-scraper/blob/master/USPS_scra...
As long as the USPS only allows API requests from browsers (as opposed to the much more common situation where you need to update the status of every tracking number in a database), people still have to scrape their website pretending to be a browser.
From what I remember of COBOL I would feel much safer with that than to use INT's for money calculations...
Ask HN: Have you ever coded while being high? What was the result?
I've heard the phrase "Think high, work sober" and I basically agree with the premise. I don't smoke when I have a deadline, but sometimes I like to change my perspective and mind-space sometimes. Mostly I had really good ideas about coding (or solving problems/bugs in a much different way) when I smoked weed.

Have you ever coded while being high? What was the result?
It looks like poo on mobile, no offence, but you can't see the whole page and you can scroll to the right and stuff. It's just ugly.
Could you explain this more??
You can still purchase music from iTunes. You don't have to stream. For now...
I don't think so. What I can find on this topic with a quick search points to it being outright UB.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/47622343/

https://stackoverflow.com/a/28895321/

https://blog.quarkslab.com/unaligned-accesses-in-cc-what-why...
> Ok, where is today's Whitney Houston?

In the mainstream: Adele, Sia, Ariana Grande, just to name a few.

> I even saw a documentary on autotune where a music executive remarked that they don't look for great singers anymore, because the sound engineers can "fix" it. They look for pretty people.

That was never different. Madonna is an absolute terrible singer, for instance, and that was fixed long before autotune existed. For recording, you just make heave use of vocal comping. Live, you can use a combination of (soft) playback and background singers.

But at least Pop was never about "perfect" voices, but unique, recognizable voices that can convey emotion, and that hasn't really changed. Bowie, Björk, Leonard Cohen, Thom Yorke, Damon Albarn, these are simply great voices, but they can barely hold a tone.
I don't understand why large companies ban Gmail but allow Chrome. They should be using Firefox instead.
It's been such a long time since I've seen a <marquee>
I can't say I follow your logic at all unfortunately.

But regardless, I also don't get where you see a discussion of "carbon offsetting". This isn't about "offsetting" emissions or impressing you, this is about repaying "debt" that's already incurred. Pulling down old carbon is something we have to do regardless of what we do with our current emissions, even if we drive them to 0, because the current carbon in the atmosphere is already too much. Whether we do it with trees or machines or something else, it needs to happen.
Or you could have it as a module/library that you import into all your monoliths, and save the communication overhead.

But then, I'm firmly in the old-skool "don't split the monolith until you absolutely have to" camp.
I have a bunch of users from our university's computer club going years back where the club provided emails. For 15 years it was hosted on a qmail installation on a personal box of mine.

A few years ago, as my time got more expensive and I didn't want to manage it as closely, I moved it to the free gsuite account that I had (with some headaches, as free gsuite didn't support email routing, so qmail aliases couldn't transition over, as "-" is not a traditional alias character).

So, this is screwing with me a bit. What will probably end up happening, as I have a personal 1 user gsuite account already, which does support routing rules, I will just make the old domain an alias on my personal domain and use multiple routing rules to forward mail the matches regex ^username(-.*)?@ to whatever is their personal email account.
The whole website is nothing but nostalgia bullsh*t :D
I understand the appeal of unusual voices (Stevie Nicks), but they aren't what I'm talking about.

Madonna has great tone.
as a working class kid growing up in a German village of 800 people I credit the internet for a lot of the stuff I learned. From coding, to learning English, to talking to people from other walks of life, and so on. That together with the fact that I could go to a good school with a healthy mix of people from other backgrounds I'd credit with 90% of what got me to university.

Today there's a lot of negative discourse about the internet and the post-truth world it creates, but people have to keep in mind on the other hand it had and has an incredibly liberating effect for a lot of people.
This use case is totally foreign to me. If I can't concentrate, I stop the show and continue some other time. Someone wants to check their phone or visit the loo? Pause the show. Linear television is history after all.

That said, other people can obviously have their own preferences. Just sounds so weird to me.
I'm not sure any consumers ended up paying those rates in the end.

That said, the pay-go market rate plans do make (it's in the electricity facts statement) it abundantly clear that you'll pay more, potentially a lot more, during extraordinary times.
I find this with a lot of Apple shows actually. Like 'Invasion', great concept but man the strained romances were hard to get through.
Nokia N900 was my best instant messaging experience ever.

I had Google Talk, Skype, my country's Gadu-Gadu and later Facebook chat in the same app! The same uniform interface with SMS. I had one simple button to switch protocols. I could also easily see online status of my contact on all of these (and fall back to SMS if they weren't online).
I hear a lot about how Texas is going to descend into Mad Max style powerlessness, but the data is not nearly as grim as the media seems to imply: https://www.mroelectric.com/blog/most-least-power-outages/

Between 2015 and 2019, Texas didn't even make it into the top 10 list of power outages; and they're in #10 spot for outage hours per outage. In a state with extreme temperatures and large, unpopulated areas, this strikes me as extremely good.

I have no doubt that their power grid isn't perfect. No power grid is perfect. I just like basing my opinions on the facts and, currently, Texas isn't doing badly.
"Us" is humanity. Not every "us" is against a "them".
Yep, and 1x1 gifs for sizing certain unsize-able elements.

I'm building a web site currently, after a looong break from web development. It's almost unbelievable how much cleaner HTML, DOM and JS have gotten. It's more of a pleasure (only relatively to the previous eras) building pages and you actually don't need frameworks.
Chinese satellite in near collision with debris from Russian explosion by 14.5m
> However it couldn't tolerate cellular network blackouts for a minute or two.

No shit. QUIC is great but doesn't work when the Internet is unreachable.
I think this outdated distinction of "tech-savvy" consumers needs to die. Something as simple as using ad blockers is not really a "tech-savvy" thing to do, but a practice that's almost essential for pretty much everyone nowadays. I am an Indian college student and even the least tech-interested people I know (barring the elderly) regularly use ad blockers and Vanced for Youtube on Android.
Isn't it part of just about every bignum library out there?
Being able to attain high academic achievement IS privilege itself, a far far more real one than most privileges people jaw on about. Your standardized test scores to a large extent determine your quality of life.

On some level it’s positively shocking that gifted classes have lasted as long as they have. Looked at from a thousand mile out view a TON of the woke agenda is direct and indirect attacks on those that perform well on standardized tests.
> they aren't even sure if it is rap or country music

To be fair, "Old Town Road" is sort of both.
Show HN: Kerneltool – A Ubuntu mainline kernel installer
I have no idea why, but it is always interesting and inspiring to read about how known figures of historic interest were related to each other and how their (normally seperatly told) stories intertwined. Thanks!
I believe it’s a stylistic choice suggested by the Long Now Foundation — https://longnow.org/
A personal file based wiki that uses Markdown
Are you saying that it was a mistake for Mercurial to make their software easy to use? That's a strange thought!

Mercurial didn't lose because it was too easy to use. It lost because it was too slow and because GitHub became too popular. Those are orthogonal issues.
So true. If you want to build an oldschool website do it the oldschool way! Otherwise it's kind of lame...
Tailscale
How are the rest of the band meant to practice when the drummer can't hold time?

How often do you think the weak player will receive a pass in the sports team?

How do you think it feels for the weaker members to be always holding up the others? What does that do for their self confidence, or their long term development of skills?
Yes, I had not thought about that even.
I think a good software analogy for this would having a piece of multi-threaded code that accesses a shared resource using locks.

There will probably be some waiting involved (analogous to defects). The engineer determine wha rate of waiting/working is acceptable, and if the software actually does perform like predicted.

If it does not, as in the wait(defect) rate is higher, it might indicate a genuine bug in the system (like locks not being released in a timely manner), or a failure of planning.
And the Windows API is defined as "whatever Windows does", which Wine emulates.
Might be part of the joke ;)
I was wondering the same thing. The closest I could find to answer is this:

> The Long Now Foundation uses five-digit dates to guard against the deca-millennium bug (the “Y10K” problem) which will come into effect in about 8,000 years. As you may have noticed any reference we make to a year begins with a zero: 01977, 03012, 02000, 00521, 01215, etc.

— https://longnow.org/ideas/02013/12/31/long-now-years-five-di...
Exactly. And that also explains the difference in quantity: the author is comparing the best 1% of songs from a catalog spanning several decades, to the best 1% of songs from the last year or so.

No, music back then wasn’t better in general, we’re just not listening to the shit songs from that time. In 20 years time we’ll still be listening to all the good music from today, have forgotten about all the crap, and then decide that music from the 20’s really was better that whatever we’re producing in the 40’s.
Maybe, but what you consider bricked, and what a layperson would consider a bricked phone will also differ. Which drastically reduce the chance of a truly bricked phone. Getting an android to the point of being unrecoverable is definitely harder than an iPhone. But that is irrelevant for $MYMUM
We need a simple modern serverless hit counter image like every site used to have back in the day. Maybe a S3 bucket that hosts the hit counter image and then a lambda cron job that wakes up every few hours to crawl the S3 bucket access logs, aggregate the hit count, and write out a new counter image to the bucket.
+1 You just need a circuit breaker here. It's a classic case of resource exhaustion. At some point your system's production is just too far from its consumption and the queue will not drain.

Spare the people their money and protect your own service. Win win.
Because death and long covid disturb the comparison.

Consider long covid. The differences they report are small enough that if having long covid protects against getting covid, that's enough to explain the entire difference. But in that case the headline is nearly meaningless. In that case it says (I'm oversimplifying here) "already suffering from brain fog protects you from the disease that causes brain fog". Well, duh.

Does long covid provide 1% protection and the past infection 99%? Or is it 50/50? Or 99/1? Comparing first and second infections doesn't give enough data to answer that.

If you compare vaccinated and unvaccinated people who've both been through the same number of infections, then you have enough data to distinguish between the effects of past illness and present lingering illness. But because they compare second infections with first, they cannot.
Another big article over a simple thing. Reading these feels like people (not only the author) are focused on problems and not on solutions, and they mix everything together into the political drama.

If the problem is green bubbles being ostracized for some teen-idiotic reason, would you like to know what to do?

Make them all the same color.

Yes, iMessage is SMS. The color is there for you to see if a message will be sent over SMS or over the internet, because SMS may cost money. Specifically, there are two colored things: a message itself and a "send" button, one shows the past, other shows the future. Leave the coloring of the button and own messages intact, and make all incoming bubbles blue. Or green, if you feel funny. There's a reason to see how you send, but no reason to see how it was delivered. That's it. No more issue. End of story.
i watch only one episode per day, but i like to watch several shows in parallel. even if they come out all at once, i get to see an episode of each show only about once a week.

i discuss most of the shows i watch with my friends. when they come out weekly, then we have a discussion about the new episode every week. if they come out at once, then not much discussion happens.

so yes, weekly releases are definitely more engaging.
Huh. When I read that I assumed Blink referred to the <blink> tag, but reading again you might actually be right that it means Google's browser engine. Truly anachronistic indeed.
The nostalgia is so overwhelming I'm super sad now. Such good times!!!!
Blocked by my corporate firewall:

> Elevated Exposure
Sites that camouflage their true nature or identity, or that include elements suggesting latent malign intent.
We basically built our first startup communicating over GTalk. Slack was not a thing. Some people were using Skype but GTalk was simple and it worked just fine.
Maybe I agree with the cyber warfare, but there is no indication that these people are going to be involved in cyber warfare, let alone change the outcome.

This news is very analogous to "thousands registered to vote whatever party in the US elections".
I think there is a similar thing in modern music - lots of people listen on tiny little phone or laptop speakers, and the sound often has a lot more 'information' in the treble range. The sound is designed such that it's listenable with the bass portions basically inaudible.
According to scmp china is an autocracy?

What is a virtue in a democracy is a dissident in an autocracy.
‘Final Fantasy 7’ porn interrupts Italian government Zoom meeting
Sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Starting to change though.

Personalized analytics and tracking roll-out (including on-prem) was pulled back ~2 years ago[0], they're on another try[1] currently with a heavy-handed hiding approach. Including small additions to release notes[1], short lived and hard to find feedback threads[2] etc...

Including deleting/hiding tickets that get posted on HN[3][4] and contain plans/info that users might take negatively/provide negative feedback on.

[0] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/issues/5672

[1] - https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/07/20/improved-billing-an... - "4. operational data"

[2] - https://forum.gitlab.com/t/updates-to-de-identifying-service...

[3] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/342078 - "Pseudonymization MVC Rollout Plan"

[4] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28840685 - issue submitted to HN[3] that got deleted/hidden quick.

PS: full disclosure, I've been an active opponent of these changes, as they are illegal in the EU and make it impossible to self-host the service while protecting our users privacy.
Findings on route optimization in practice
There’s plenty of great singers out there, plenty of mostly or completely acoustic groups.

But you have to look for them, they’re not chart toppers, they haven’t been for more than a generation.

If you’re not looking for them and are just waiting for them to be spoon-fed to you, well of course you’re not going to get them. It’s not what sells and majors can polish the product in post, so that’s what they do, as with movies, they have no reason not to.

And with the rise of modern tech and social medias, they don’t need to sign up to majors to make their art and a living (though they’ll often associate with such for publishing e.g. Collier is self-produced and has the personal label Haganja but partners with Geffen - universal - and Decca).
Ecosia, the search engine that sells you a good feeling by misleading you.

The claim they make is: If you use Ecosia for searching on the internet, they will plant a tree. On average, a tree for every 43 searches or so.

In reality, they plant only trees if you click on ads. If you use Ecosia with an adblocker, you don't make them plant trees. You actually increase the CO2 footprint, because they are a front end for Bing. Searching with Ecosia = more servers involved to route your search keywords, possibly less relevant results, resulting in even more searches.

Yes, "if you click on ads, we plant trees" is nothing they want to say on their landing page. It might even be problematic to say this, because it encourages click fraud. But still, I hate the misleading messaging.
Interesting claim (and subsequent debate) in the comments that Pfizer is rewriting history in order to cover up "stealing" the basis for the compound from Merck's Victrelis (boceprevir), a Hep C antiviral.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/discovering-paxlov...
About #2 our banking privacy is so deeply rooted. That nobody gets access to your wealth in case you die. Not sure if that was against Jews back then.

But you still need to explicitly allow a third party access to your account in case something bad happens to you.

Not exactly sure about #1 but Americans haven't been all welcome after they bombed down so many cultural heritages including civils in surrounding countries. It's that small part the winner decided to net get into history.
I've started to use Joplin[1] and haven't looked back. It's open source and their business model is hosted cloud syncing. I already have a self-hosted Nextcloud instance running and WebDAV is supported for syncing as well so I'm not paying anything at the moment.

They also have apps on desktop and mobile. The apps may not have the most polished UI but they work extremely well.

[1] https://joplinapp.org/
The Nokia N950 was a dream phone, too bad it got killed because of internal company politics.
I don't know if it is intended or not, but the punchline makes it funnier. Indestructible disks are useless if/when they get lost.
Got COVID around Christmas. I don't know which variant. It went as a regular flu for 3-4 days, then 2 days feeling better and thinking I am recovering. 6-th day getting fever again, lots of sweating, heart rate up to 90 from 65, feeling bad for 3-5 days. Apart from aspirin and vitamins I started taking Cefuroxime for 5 days (not sure if the latter was 100% necessary, some doctors prescribe it, some not). At day 9 got another examination. Chest x-ray and cardiogram normal, body temperature still high (38C / 100F), heart rate still high, blood pressure normal. Starting to feel much better around day 14, but still not feeling recovered and heart rate was around 80. At day 20 most symptoms were gone, but still got a bit higher heart rate than usual, and some residual coughing, esp when doing some light to moderate physical activity.

Now that more than a month has passed since initial symptoms, I still feel that my heart and blood circulation is not back to normal and I am a bit afraid to exercise. I only do some walks on a moderately steep trail and some stretching.

I don't know if this counts as a long covid, but definitely it feels a lot different than a regular flu. It looks like most of the damage is first done to your blood circulation system and then that harms some other organs. I hope that circulation system will fully recover, but I don't know how much time it would take. Other people told me that it took them 2-3 months to feel back to normal.
I wish every site worked like this. Meanwhile I wait for my expensive company notebook to barely handle the 30+ MB of JavaScript Jira downloaded to render a text form which is also completely and utterly broken.