skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a cousin much older than me. Everyone thinks he is weird, and he is indeed. Absolutely no one understood the things he do, why he does a particular thing but I found him pretty fascinating. Once in a particular talk session with him, we discussed about the upcoming thing called Internet. This was 1993 or 1995 — about the time Internet was a buzzword and soon to be introduced in India.

Besides all the talks, I will never forget what he told me. Something in the lines of — anyone from anywhere can do anything they want for anyone anywhere. I would spend hours reading the magazines he bought, and tinkering with his computer.

It wasn’t until 1999 that I was introduced to the Internet and (maybe) another 5-7 years for him. Well, I felt right at home on day-zero, and I knew that changed everything for me.
Theoretically yes, in reality sadly no.
> People are allergic to upfront payment.

What? People in general are clamoring and highly prefer one-time payment. Approximately nobody wants a recurring charge every month.

Companies are pushing and forcing subscriptions only because the recurring revenue stream is what investors want to see. People don't want it.
Why would it be a paid tool? I would assume it would be free.
> I have trouble tolerating soy

Trouble tolerating soy is one of the more common problems with food tolerance.

> Someone I trust suggested to me it might not be soy per se that I have an issue with. It might be GMO soy that is an issue for me.

It's theoretically possible that this could be the case, even though GMO foods are much more extensively tested for general safety than crops developed through means that aren't technically GMO (including ones that produces larger and less predictable genetic changes, like modifying the genetics by mutagenesis), but it's kind of a weird thing to suggest, given how frequently soy is a problem (which has been true longer than GMO soy has been on the market) without some very strong reason to believe it's not just a problem with soy as such.
Same here: WhatsApp for group discussions and whatever the default message app uses otherwise (SMSes or iMessage; does not matter much but we use iMessage features when we can). And Discord for the guild mates. And Facebook messenger for one group, but I don’t quite remember why we went down that route.
I probably have a lower food budget than most while living in a very expensive city. I mostly eat:

- Nuts, seeds, vegetables. Some fruit.
- Vitamin B12 and D3 supplements.
- Water

I save money by not needing chronic medication, feel very calm, have no trouble with my bowel movements, eat when I want to, and have lost body fat despite leading a mostly sedentary lifestyle.

I also save more time than most in eating this way.

I sometimes eat ice cream. When I do this, my heart rate picks up dramatically and makes me feel uncomfortable afterwards. But hey, I love ice cream.

----

Going on walks, and hill climbs with a weighted backpack seems to fix my back pain instantly.

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I recently learned that I can take all the leftover vegetable ends and skins and boil them to make vegetable broth.
> The overwhelming majority of Texas homes are outfitted with electric heaters that are the technological equivalent of a toaster oven. During the most severe cold fronts, residents crank up those inefficient units[..]

What does this mean? I thought all electric heaters were essentially 100% efficient, due to conservation of energy.
Static typing is just another form of static analysis. However, it's static analysis enforced by the language rather than a third party tool. That allows me to be confident in my dependencies too if I see them putting the type system to work.

Protobuf is moving us that way with microservices too. Since they're a strongly typed message format, it's harder to make mistakes in the interface between two services.

I also like that languages can have complete local static analysis. Sure, the business requirements might be large and spread across many areas, but I will break them down into smaller chunks and encode invariants into the type system so that if the small chunk compiles, I am confident it does exactly what I expect, and I don't need to remember exactly where it fits in the larger picture
I see many issues with weather modicifation. I would love to see the coral reefs, and it starts a lot closer to the ground.

Weather modicifation has been a dream military tool, with some unprecedented applications. They are as far away from saving the environment as you could get.
> Music is not like a new phone. There are no "upgrades".

Disagree. Listen to "I'll Be" by Edwin McCain, then "You and Me" by Lifehouse.

Ed Sheeran upgraded "Thinking Out Loud" with "Perfect."

"Girlfriend" by Avril Lavigne is an improved "Hey Mickey."
Have we learned nothing from the last 30 years about the Western bait and switch policy of dangling a pretty sounding, human rights lie before the public to drum up support for wars of aggression?
No, the browser checks the call stack of the javascript function. If the play() isn't a direct result of some kind of user interaction. It will just deny you from playing audio.

So play upon you open the page is no longer possible. You at least need to wait for the user to touch somewhere on the page.
Not on Apple but Planetes is a decent space station office drama.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Planetes_episodes
So many people make websites that basically look like they are from the 90's (though without all the animated GIFs haha), and use basic features without any strictly-modern stuff. These are just a few off the top of my head:

https://cblgh.org/

https://technomancy.us/list

https://alexschroeder.ch/

http://100r.co/site/about_us.html

https://dataswamp.org/~solene/

https://rgz.ee/

https://www.bsdly.net/~peter/

https://codevoid.de/

https://www.undeadly.org

https://compudanzas.net/

http://altexxanet.org/

http://sdf.org/

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/
I had some issues with that part too. I worked with "difficult" kids for a while. And with every single kid except for one I could make significant progress. Every single one of those kids was seen as a lost cause by their teachers, parents and most often also by the kids themselves.

The one kid that I could not get progress with had a serious mental condition (probably stemming from war trauma) where he would forget all the things all the time, including his own name, what he said 5 minutes ago, etc. For him maintaining the status quo was already a success.

All the other kids also had their demons of course, ADHS, depression, manic phases, violent parents or none at all, etc. But you could make progress with them. Slower and more labour intensive than with stable kids from stable environments, but you could get somewhere with them — even on very complex issues — as long as you somehow manage to root it in their own experience and life and explain why it would be useful to them.

Kids like these feel very sensitively if you are truly trying to help or if you see them as a lost cause and just try to get the hours done with them. This is why I am dead against accepting kids as a lost cause. What should their place in society be later? And do I want to live in such an society?
You are implying the original branch holding that history will be deleted when squashed into a single commit for a PR. That's not the case (granted, that's based on settings on GitHub, Azure DevOps whatever you're using, but the option is there) because in the PR you still see which branch the changes come from. If you're not deleting the branches you're good. Even if you delete the branch when merging I think most PR views nowadays will keep that info (the commits) in perpetuity. Again, I don't think this is a problem.
Yea so originally that was my plan to be honest. I just wanted to give them something so onerous they would go away.

Then I thought it would actually be useful to me if i could hear about interesting roles so i made the questions semi-configurable to shorten the form.

It could be useful for them if they could get an indication why their role sucks (they can see which category failed in filtering).

But you're right though. So far, in general, recruiters hate it.
That vaping and nicotine is harmless (just like coffee!) despite seeing the negative effects of nicotine intake on developing fetuses.
15+ years into the job I still, most of the time, call myself a "computer programmer", i.e. I program computers to do some stuff, most of the times to move some data around. But maybe people on the dev-ops side are more on the "engineering" side, I wouldn't know.
> it bugs me the wrong way that sending a SMS is not really sending a SMS, it's first trying to do it via web and only then go the old, SMS way

AFAIK it’s sending it over the Internet, but not over the web ;)

If it annoys you, you can disable it easily in your devices’ settings. Personally I don’t care much, and iMessages instead of SMS is convenient for mates in the US or Australia.
For those looking to migrate to Gmail, a story of the mechanics of doing so: https://medium.com/@buro9/one-account-all-of-google-4d292906...

The gist: You can't move everything, you lose things like purchases on apps... but you can move email, docs, map saved items, photos... the core data you can shift, the rest you cannot. Expect some difficulties along the way.
> IMHO the Discord branding (...) is slightly off-putting for a non-geeky audience (think non-tech business types).

I strongly dislike Discord because it is a proprietary platform. But the off-putting of "business types" sounds like a great feature!
That’s not true. People in industry commonly refer to the consequence of their misguided decision to embark on a microservices adventure as a “distributed monolith”.
Magnesium is essential for the immune system, including in fight against cancer
Agree. A good structured blog post but it feels like a conceptual scenario more than a real life experience
Likewise, I’m in the UK and everyone I know uses WhatsApp aside from one or two who use iMessage for whatever reason (but I am sure are also on WhatsApp). I’m quite happy with it, it works well, shame it’s a Meta product
I had excellent reading and listening comprehension by the age of 12, and could speak fairly fluently by 16. I don't think geopolitics had anything to do with that. The kids in my class that didn't watch foreign TV had significantly less skill in this regard.

German kids watched TV with dubs because their network execs deemed it worth it, I don't think that was very political either.
The first time I see an ad on a YouTube video, I close the app. It's become a habit and I don't spend hours on the platform anymore.
Europe considers new Covid-19 strategy: accepting the virus
Slack, Twitter, Mastodon.

Reddit, to some extent.

Mailing lists for various open source projects.

And HN of course
Is it really that far fetched that those who get more exercise and burn more calories are healthier and live longer?
Fastmail works pretty well and it's priced from $37.20/year/user. Still a bit pricey if you're not a heavy user and the mailbox is just for random website contacts.
Ah, interesting. In that case, if I want some, I guess I’ll just have to wait until I find a cone myself!
I can see the alert() debugging already.
once I actually add a bit more content to my site I'm planning to add my site to the merveilles/XXIIVV webring! https://webring.xxiivv.com/ :)
“Especially poorer countries” does not mean “only poor countries”.
And syndication means that all theaters are playing exactly same movies all the time. And those movies are so similar to each other, that they are virtually unindinstinguishable. And then there is separate group of movies, lets call them indy, that are special and you wont ever fined about them. Oh, and the whole business is super dependent on who you know in that one center and if you piss that one powerful person, no other studio will take you. Ripe for abuse.

That was movie production for decades. Same script, same characters, same ending all the time, to the point that suspension does not exists.
> The capacity to handle that rarely gets used, but you still want to have it. So the price you have to pay to the person who can provide it is really, really high, but (and because) it's only paid for a short period of time. Or nobody will bother to build that capacity and when that situation happens there won't be enough power at any price.

There's a lot of economic theory pointing to the economic efficiency of marginal cost pricing. But the wholesale electricity market is a pretty "synthetic" design, and combined with the technical limitation demand must match supply exactly every second, marginal cost pricing leads to huge volatility.

I'm not really sure what the solution would be, though. I'm not aware of any workable alternative (competitive) market model. There's of course ye olde regulated utility model, but, yeah, maybe we don't want to go back to that.
It missing the rotation @ logo for email us.
Also: "Alexandre Emile Jean Yersin (22 September 1863 – 1 March 1943) was a Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered as the co-discoverer of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague or pest, which was later named in his honour: Yersinia pestis."
> So what if I do know some discrete math and I do know what it means for a language to have a formal semantics?

We were discussing whether the average software developer can be said to 'do math' in the sense that aeronautical engineers do. I think it's plain that the answer is no. Whether it matters is another topic.

As I said above, in terms of market forces, it's fine that most software developers go their whole careers doing no proper math. It's also true that some highly skilled software professionals are expert in the relevant math.

As to Are software developers engineers?, I hope it's uncontroversial to say Some of them are, some of them aren't. What's less clear, and less obvious, is where the bar should be set. Personally I consider only a small minority of software development work to be anywhere near engineering, but like the article notes, I don't have experience in any 'conventional' engineering field.

Given that router-installation technicians are called engineers these days, software isn't alone in its collision with the word.
Why not create a new branch (let's call it B) from your messy branch (call it A) and squash everything in B before raising a PR from B -> master

That will solve your problems if you're the messy type.
Oh also I did not see a table with border=2
Oh man, you're right!

https://www.zombo.com/

(Defeats the whole purpose of the site hehe)
Hey! Yea it's just too much work for a free thing to write a completely custom question/filter generator thingy :) The backend is all hardcoded and nasty for MVPing. I might revisit that at some stage but it's not possible right now.

I'll see about adding those questions you mentioned though!
> Backstreet Boys

It's probably because this guy wrote it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Martin
As long as the sample is recognisably the original piece, you’re technically in violation. Samples of single-digit notes count are supposed to be permitted.

So yes, legally speaking you’re supposed to pay royalties for playing 20 seconds of a song, or even 10, or 5. The only time at which you don’t have to is when there is no way for the rightsholder to confidently state that you’re using the piece they holds rights to.
I wasn't aware of such a study of quicktests in Germany, thanks for the info! The website works well on my mobile.
Hey man, Obama had 8 years to start a pullback. Otherwise I agree though. America probably seemed like a rainbow painted boot stomping on a human face forever.
Another anecdotal UK experience: all contact with humans is via WhatsApp except one older relative. My SMS inbox is 99% 2FA codes, appointment reminders and delivery updates
And I refuse to watch movies/series without English subtitles, even if the original language is English. I too often miss something the actors say and get majorly annoyed. Could well be something about my hearing.
Placebo effect disproves Nyquist–Shannon Theorem.
iCloud+ ($0.99/month in US) allows custom domains with 5 emails. I set iCloud to forward by creating a on addressed to rule. Configured the "Accounts/Import" in my gmail account with smtp (I always used this with my vanity emails). Not exactly the same as before for your usecase perhaps (everyone will need a free gmail), but about as cheap as I could find per recommendation elsewhere in this thread.
You would need a gambling license for that which is quite expensive. My site doesn't facilitate gambling, I'm not a bookmaker, I just give tips.
Using marijuana may affect your ability to think and plan, study says
In case anyone needs the best GIFs for their website, you can peruse GifCities! https://gifcities.org/

You know you need that Netscape spinning-cube GIF.
> Do you have any international sources on this?

Sources on what? What did you disagree with?

> I'm open to the idea that B'Tselem are unreliable

You linked an article from organization B'Tselem claiming Israel is an Apartheid state.

I dont like the "angle of their post" to use your words.

> note they're essentially from a rival Israeli political outlook

Yes, my that's my point. B'Tselem is a political organization, simply linking to their political rant is not helpful.
Unless you want to debate out what you found so convincing that B'Tselem said that PROVES Israel is an "apartheid" state this conversation is going nowhere.
I cannot prove a negative. You are insuating Israel is an apartheid state, it's a bold claim with no facts.
You have to have concrete reasoning to assert so, I don't have to scrum up some "international sourced" articles to shoot down propaganda from B'Tselem.
Yes, dubbing is the worst of both worlds obviously. But parent's point apply specifically to English subtitles over English content.
This is addressed in the full text, which you can find on a certain hub.

>The inverse association persisted in the subgroups defined by age, geographical location, follow-up duration and devices used for counting steps, as well as after adjustments were made for important confounders including body mass index, alcohol drinking, smoking status, step intensity, and pre-existing comorbidities
It's a shitty website, but still uses like 500mb of node_modules to build, that's not the way we should be going to.
I think by Blink they meant <blink>

... wait... I hope!
Hey,

Thanks for the comment.

Recruiters on linkedin ignore the "I'm not looking" setting and spam candidates anyway. Linked even gives them tools to do this! So linkedin doesn't fix this issue unfortunately.

You can reply to linkedin spam messages with the filteredreduced link. It's just text. Thats what i do.

Unfortunately linkedin don't offer an api to let me automatically respond to messages on their system. Now that would be awesome if they did!
> it doesn't reflow when the device orientation changes

Does anyone design sites for landscape any more?
Current anecdata says what smoker's lungs are more 'trained' for an abuse so smokers are less susceptible for infection.

I find this slightly amusing, considering what there are multiple cases where otherwise healthy non-smokers have a very severe symptoms.
The Pixel line is the first Google flagship. Nexus phones were budget vanilla android phones.
Hey,

Thanks so much for the constructive feedback. I'll see if i can make all of this better!

dar
Deep Learning for Recommender Systems: A Netflix Case Study
Just out of curiosity, why are you writing all years with a leading zero?
> I thought all electric heaters were essentially 100% efficient, due to conservation of energy.

Well, gas heaters are a lot more than 100% efficient in terms of heating per unit of electricity consumed, so better for the grid.

(Before anyone else points it out, yes, electric heat pumps are usually more than 100% efficient, too, but that's not relevant here because in severe cold, they are less efficient than direct heating.)
Hey thanks so much for the suggestions!

I've added all this to my list!

dar
How do notifications for services like HN get triggered? Or YouTube/Tiktok/Twitch? More than half of online communication is video and less than 10% is "public" in the sense of tweets and reddit comments. (napkin math estimate)

I don't think anyone in marketing and PR believes social listening companies actually catch even a significant minority of mentions. The things you get an API or a scrapeable feed out of are drop in the ocean.

Or maybe such services are out of my budget?
I do bet myself. I think there will always be enough people who just bet for fun without any system to offset such effects, but it's a good point.
You could work on the aesthetics and increase your prices by 10-100x.

There’s a decent market for vaguely similar artworks,
https://shop.madgallery.ch/products/clockclock-24

https://shop.madgallery.ch/products/nixie-time-zone-clock-v2

https://qlocktwo.com/us/qlocktwo-large-creators-edition-glin...

https://clockforward.com/etch-clock/
License: AGPL

Repo: https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron
One of the funny things that pulls me to web3 is that their websites already kinda look like this and I don’t have to do a lot of design work. Plus most of those apps don’t support mobile so no app dev!
> Do you even look at Swedish mainstream media ever?

These matters are definitely not widely discussed in "mainstream media" - I'd be interested in some citations if you think I'm wrong. I'd say they are known and discussed in certain circles, but they're definitely not taught in the school curriculum, in spite of being a large and intrinsic part of recent Swedish history.

For instance, the country's largest home-rental organization (HSB) was reporting 'misbehaving' occupants of their apartments as candidates for sterilization long into the second half of the twentieth century.

So sterilization was hardly a fringe issue, and yet I would be very surprised if Swedes under 20 have even heard of it.
What a beautiful, well written article. Good for you OP!
> I really doubt that there are measurable health benefits of artisanal bread. Do you have any studies to back up that claim?

There are clear health benefits of artisanal foods: they costs more, you buy less (for the same weight), you get less calories - you aren't obese.

/s
Good. One decade of free service is enough.

This will motivate me to get off my ass and use my personal e-mail server, maybe set up roundcube for webmail and spamassassin.
That steven universe gif: 2016
That's the most profitable system. It certainly doesn't produce the most quality. Just like making a tool that lasts a lifetime is not as profitable as making something that breaks. Maybe crowdfunding media content is the way to go for quality but I can certainly understand how public companies make decisions in their search for infinite profits.
Probably depends on who your friends and families are but iMessage is super popular in parts of Australia. Facebook messenger is also quite popular with a lot of people I communicate with. WhatsApp is third for me, where I am in one group as well as individual messaging to to one or two people. It seemed to be getting more popular here over time but some people switched to Signal when WhatsApp made their privacy changes a year or so ago. Seems to have lost some momentum here, but again maybe that’s just my circles.
orgmode? https://orgmode.org/
You can have more than one Main function, just pick which one to use when you compile. In our case it’s PHP, so the API entry point uses a different index than jobs, for example. They can be deployed differently and scaled differently, but operationally it’s just deploying the same code/configuration everywhere and the only difference is routing. When you are writing code, you very, very rarely have to worry about which context you are writing for.
Some APIs require contact info in the user agent header. For example, all calls to the reddit API are supposed to contain the dev’s reddit /u/username in the user agent.