skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was much younger I once wrote some random person, whose email I found in newsgroups, about my troubles getting Linux to compile. They responded politely and quickly, with a fix.

That person was Linus.

I've found my share of trolls and assholes, but likewise I've found that being forthright, polite and respectful tends to yield answers.
PP isn't wrong about communication about vaccine risks being abysmal (in the US at least) or about the erosion of trust in public health agencies and officials. Even those awful "ask your doctor for a reason to take it" drug ads have a lengthy disclosure list of (often serious) potential side effects. Most of the "get the vaccine" ads I've seen have no such disclosure.

It's disappointing, because being forthright about, for example, how many people have died from the vaccines vs. how many lives have likely been saved by them could help the public to assess the overall benefit without discounting the risks. And this should also be sliced by risk groups, such as young or old or people with secondary conditions.

Moreover, vaccine mandates should include compensation for lost work (or school) time not just due to rare side effects but also due to feeling ill after getting the vaccine (or booster, which seems even more likely to make you feel unwell for multiple days.)
I'm on my phone so can't dig as easily, but you can tell from the item IDs that the Stripe post preceded the Bolt one, and we never change those.

Edit: internet archive links are now at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30070287.
> Many of Gemini's adherents can be described broadly as left-anarchists or left-libertarians. [...] Their alternative is human-scale technology and human-scale communities: a protocol so brain-dead simple [...]. It's a philosophy that users should have a close relationship with and understanding of the tools and platforms they use, which should be built and run for free (one can think of many real-world organizations analogous to this). [...] Could you build these tools and communities on HTTP? Sure [...] but it's a more radical separation to build an entirely separate "place" for them.

I used to consider myself a left-anarchist, though now I might better be considered a post-left anarchist nowadays. More radical, perhaps in PLA style, is to do away with this silly idea of "human scale"; we have computers, so let's do some computing, and get something interactive like the Web, but from an axiomatic design that is implementable in your lifespan, and ensures privacy and security properties from such axioms.

https://applied-langua.ge/posts/terminal-boredom.html is a longer form writeup on this line of thought.
It's just comparing to see how far you get, how you do vs that other guy.

Which is a BS rationale, of course. If you (at lease claim to) respect the candidate's time, then you don't give out slippery-slope assignments with fake / unknowable goalposts, period. There is no benefit to this tactic that can possibly outweigh the basic insult and the egregious waste of their time.

Startups just have an infinite blob of things to do and need those who can deal with that.

Which, face it now -- you will not be able to measure the capacity for in the interview process. And the fantasy that you are somehow able to is no justification for willfully and knowingly burning through their time like this.
No, Apple Did Not Crowdfund:Focus-Visible in Safari
Charging money to submit free removal requests has been a thriving business since at least the early days of Web 2.0.
I guess I’ve been out of YC a long time but I have a really hard time believing they are torpedoing investments in any company that competes with one of theirs, both because they wouldn’t want to and because they couldn’t. It’d make a lot more sense for them to just invest in potential disruptors, and in fact they do that all the time.

This sounds like all the same shit I (and most founders) went through even when there was little to no competition.

I can totally see that somebody could easily misinterpret the craziness that is raising money, an endeavor I can only liken to online dating. I’d need some pretty compelling evidence of this sort of collusion and there’s nothing given.

Also I haven’t talked to Patrick in a long time but he always seemed like a really good dude and I can’t imagine he’s doing that either.
Do you like your steak well done or more rare? Overcooked is rubbery. If you're eating rarer steak that's turning out rubbery, it's a shitty cut of meat.
It really depends on a lot of factors such as technology, amount of traffic, etc. My server handles about 200 simultaneous users on a few % of cpu. I think most startups will have a smaller load than this unless they become incredibly successful or pour tons of cash into growth.
I've had much better luck drinking IPA's than red wine. Most red wine is too acidic for my taste. And particularly in the PNW, IPA is still where it's at. If you go look at grocery store, they're stocking IPAs more than other kinds of beer here.

That said I've appreciated drinking red wine more after drinking an IPA, as it seems to help me get past the tannins quicker.
What's wrong with telling someone to seek the answers in the documentation that provides those answers?
People tend to view drug use as a lazy alternative to healthy living, but I think it might be better to flip it around and say that drug use (ranging all the way from caffeine and nicotine through to heroin and meth) is a symptom of something wrong. Schizophrenics, for example, are known to self-medicate with nicotine prior to their diagnosis.

I think it's important to remember the hidden underlying problem won't go away just because the visible coping mechanism does. A severely depressed person using modafinil as a crutch has to treat the depression first and foremost.
Covid-19 Vaccines Don’t Cause Infertility or Harm Pregnancy Chances
https://archive.is/0V5La
How do you get such a wide range of times with such a tiny capacitor? I imagine there is some magic with multiplying this effect across multiple caps?
might help Bolt if you could actually open their web page!
SFTP Setup with AWS Transfer Family
I stand by this recommendation: if anyone reading this is near the San Jose area I can highly recommend the Tathagata Meditation Center, where I first learned the technique. It's still closed due to Omicron but hopefully not for long.
Yeah I also enjoy alcohol.

I think it is a bit more complicated than you make out. The popularity for millenia is really when the only competing beverage was water, and even clean water was hard to get until recently. In recent times, soft drinks and juices have usurped the ubiquity of wine at the dinner table in France for example (https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21929287).

Out of interest, what did you think about the whisky the very first time you tried it? Do you think it is likely that without all the notions out there about whisky to do with cachet, heritage, masculinity etc that you would have kept drinking it? That is my point. This is all quite aside from your current experience of drinking whisky, which is of course entirely legitimate and enjoyable of itself. I like beer now but the first time I had it I couldn't get one mouthful down.
Okay yeah they're overdone but I would expect a microbrewery to have something hoppy on tap they could offer.

I went to a lot of trouble to acquire a taste for those evil things you're not getting away with not serving me one at a hipster bar.
I buy whatever's on sale.
These days you can't believe anything unless an official source is provided. This is it: https://www.niwcpacific.navy.mil/marine-mammal-program/
That's true, but we can live with both buying one time experiences and also things that can give experiences multiple times.
> Like? I have an 80 column width by default. To not let my code run the entire length of screen for obvious reasons. Also, it is code smell IMHO if you have to write that much code in a single line.

There are many useful things your editor can render on screen other than code. If you've used any IDE at all, you wouldn't be saying this. File browsers, syntax tree index, class hierarchies etc. Let you imagination run wild.

> Visual cues. I can immediately know if my linter finds something wrong. It highlights it in red. Without a minimap I'll have to scroll.

Again, lack of imagination here. You only need a red icon on a status bar or something to know if your linter has found something wrong, and a counter next to it to tell you how many. If you want to go to an error, you jump from the keyboard, not use your mouse to scroll.

> or if you are using vim you would still need to ctrl+D till you find the problematic line

As an Emacs user who's seen plenty of fancy vim configs of my colleagues, I suspect you didn't even bother configuring your vim at all.

> If I am editing a Git repo, I can easily make out the additions/removals in the file. Additions in green and removals in red.

LOL. Any reasonable editor has a diff mode and allows you to zoom in and out with something like cmd +/-.

As to the breadcrumb, I wasn't saying breadcrumb was a gimmick, I was saying the minimap is a gimmick, therefore Microsoft has to introduce breadcrumb to aid navigation because the minimap just takes up space.
Okular: Signing of unsigned PDF signature fields has landed
If you do want to use stimulants to boost productivity, it probably has to be a somewhat rare thing. I've had a handful of positive experiences with modafinil when I wasn't taking it regularly. There was this one time, I had a lot of work I needed to do but I kept procrastinating on it. I cleared up my schedule for an entire day and took modafinil in the morning. I started working and just did not stop. I was more productive than ever, all the way until 10PM. At some point during the day my mom called me and I picked up the phone. I had a normal conversation with her that laster multiple minutes, while putting together a graph for a presentation I was working on, and I felt like I was doing both things at once without any loss in efficiency. Normally, I could never have a phone conversation while also focusing on a work task, I felt superhuman in that one moment.

BUT... I later got a prescription for modafinil, which I took daily for 3 months. My experience was that you build a tolerance, just as you do with caffeine or with any other stimulant. Initially, I would take it in the morning and feel very focused for most of the day. Eventually, the stimulation would only last until noon or so, at which point I would crash and get extremely irritable. I remember the guy I shared an office with telling me to "just chill" because I kept getting frustrated at a programming issue and cursing. I was getting super pissed off at really minor things. On top of that, there were also side-effects. It made my acne quite a bit worse and my hair much more oily. This is also typical of stimulants in my experience.

I reached a point where there was zero benefit to taking modafinil anymore. It just made me have annoying mood swings, so I discontinued it, and went back to coffee, which I gradually reduced to just one coffee a day, and I felt a lot better. I haven't used modafinil in years and I don't really care to push my body like that anymore.

My general advice for people who want to try this is that there is unfortunately no free lunch with stimulants. You can use them every once in a while to get an extra boost in focus and energy, but you usually end up more tired later, like you have to pay back a debt to your system. Even just taking a stimulant for one day will lead to a little bit of tolerance buildup. You'll probably feel slightly more tired and unmotivated a day or two or three later.
It’s not really clear to me if they’ve even actually sold anything…
Existential Crisis API
I knew from this image that I have sadly not yet been able to see in person.

There is a song by artist "Ayreon" called "The Shooting Company of Captain Frans B. Cocq" [1].

It is part of a concept album that describes the first person experience of the last human on mars that experiences artificial "dreams" induced by a machine traveling through history.

To quote Wikipedia [2] regarding the title of the painting as context:

> Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq, also known as The Shooting Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch, but commonly referred to as The Night Watch (Dutch: De Nachtwacht), is a 1642 painting by Rembrandt van Rijn.

[1]: https://youtu.be/EApiD5JQAH0
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Watch
I disagree. If you have ever been there you're getting bumped by smelly tourists left and right while someone spills water on your foot and another person tries to shoo you out as soon as possible.

Mona Lisa? Good luck even looking at it if you're short, unless you want to be stuck with your face in someone's armpit while they are taking a selfie.
>This is a bizarre analogy, because, unlike the other alternatives that the author presents (e.g. blockchain), there is no money or corporate interest in Gemini. But I do agree that Gemini is, to some degree, escapism, it does not confront the institutional problems of the web.

I don't think the analogy is super bizarre. The Left-anarchist milieu, building its own separate spaces, unschooling their kids, living in their Californian suburb and going to Burning Man has always been more thoroughly bourgeois than even the worst cutthroat entrepreneur.

I can imagine a 40 year old retired tech guy living off his stocks raising his own chickens, self-declared left-libertarian socialist going "Oh, you use HTTP? That's nice. Corporate? I'm beyond it. I blog on Gemini". At least big corporate makes stuff ordinary people can actually use.
+1. I use that SSH feature every day as my primary way of coding.
> It would work by just having a couple of standard languages so developers don't need to learn so many languages, then they spend a lot of time learning those until they are fluent and then they don't have to learn anything new about programming languages for the rest of their lives, very efficient.

Programming methodology continues to evolve and languages need to address it to stay relevant.
The Fat Lady of Limburgh
(sp?) was one of my first childhood introductions to narrative music, and has always stuck with me
I just can’t support Panic after they burned me and so many other Mac users with Unison.
Good ability to read code is what separates agood developer from not that good.

A good developer can work on any project. A not so good developer can only work in smaller not so complex projects written in their favorite framework with certain patterns.

A good developer can solve any task. A not so good developer says that the task (or the whole project) is wrong if is too difficult to do in their favorite framework or with their favorite pattern.
Debsources, Python 3, and funky file names
Same for Wangerooge, Neuer Leuchtturm.

Granted, there's a blinking thing a few dozen miles of in the North Sea instead.
Obviously importing regulated drugs may come with their own legal quandries. However, if you were to do such a thing, you would find information on what the pills and packaging should be, their ph, their coating and their weight.

Then when you receive you order, you'd sacrifice a pill to carefully weigh it, check the coating matches, packaging and so on. If you ordered a whole bunch, you would check batch numbers and sample each batch for testing.

Obviously this isn't foolproof, but if someone is going to sell a counterfeit they aren't going to practically spend a lot of time in making it a perfect one.
That is a failure of the system to adapt to the needs of students. I have adult-diagnosed ADHD and school sucked for me too... and I'm on medication now, which makes me function normally, not stay up for a week.
The non-portable part of MS-DOS essentially is implemented in the BIOS. When PCs no longer support BIOS booting then MS-DOS will not work, but until then it is sustained by a stable interface.
Sorry I missed this, yes google does index it and I have a JSON API that I am making more public, so in reality a text based version of the site can be made, heck maybe a old school terminal interface fairly easily.
Actually you should use this https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=bolt.com

Not much difference, I think 1 more and many dead/flagged
Why is it always Italians shitting on the country without knowing what they're talking about? This is absolutely not comparable. You can't ruin someone's life if you have their codice fiscale (source: am Italian).

Most countries do have some kind of id number like that, but they always have a "password" too. In Italy authentication is done by the SPID providers[1] or with an electronic id card (or physically with an id card, driving license or passport).

You can't get a credit card and spend as much as you want in their name. You need at least a stolen or counterfeit physical document to open a bank account, or a stolen password and a SPID second factor to file a fraudulent tax return. In the US the SSN is often enough unless you opt into freezing credit.

[1] for non Italians, that's the acronym for public digital identity system; it's a SAML-based authentication mechanism used by most public websites including tax returns, pension/welfare, and healthcare
Maybe school shouldn't be a competition with winners and losers.
I would also take a look at MDX which comes from Microsoft for classical analytical processing workloads. I feel that it provides a nice way to think of data in terms of dimensions/attributes and hierarchies and measures as it gives a good way to think of what to aggregate vs what fields to use to do that aggregation.
SQL is feels a little more generic and it would be nice for it to have a little more schema aware specifically for analytical workloads.
The nice thing is I can add many formats, just rewrite the JSON in a version thats better for the use case.
I use this for building system. Instead of Cachix I just set it up as an S3 bucket (it's a bit involving but also works). I needed to tweak some things but ultimately arrived to satisfying results.

The nice thing is that it sped up building by 50% and also extra bonus with things is that with merges, if files didn't change nix will finish building instantaneously.

This is similar with nix-shell, where for example with python you enter "virtualenv" like environment almost instantly without downloading dependencies over and over. Yes, you could get close to do that with CI by using some caching, but this is out of the box, due to nix understanding dependencies.

Also another great thing is that so far, I never needed to purge cache, which often happens with normal CI caching.
It's the same in Italy, actually. The poster above is incorrect.
That's the theory, but in practice the opposite often turns out to be true. Consider this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1633932

Here's a summary of what happened: Firefox got a new password database format. Originally, it would write the new database file and use it if present, but leave the old one there indefinitely. A little while later, people realized this was a security vulnerability: if you create or change your master password, the old database will still let attackers in without one or with the old one. The vulnerability was fixed by having Firefox delete the old database on startup.

The code to read and write the new password database was a new feature, so Red Hat deemed it unworthy to add to their "stable" distro. The code to delete the old password database was a security fix, so Red Hat cherry-picked it into their distro.

But now the problem should be obvious: Red Hat's version of Firefox now deleted the old password database on startup, but lacked the code to write out the new version of it. As a result, as soon as you started Firefox, your saved passwords would be completely wiped from disk. This problem was inherent to the "stable" model that RHEL uses, and would have never happened with distros that just take new upstream versions and avoid cherry-picking patches, like Arch.
I gave my sister a very nice upgrade on her first internet connection 25 years ago when the order form with the ISP had that the same feature. You could change the speed on any plans they offered. Ordered the cheapest plan but changed the form hidden speed field to maximum. It worked perfectly for many years without us ever being contacted by the ISP regarding this.
Can concur though I played both Solar Winds and SC2 back in the day. Even at the time Solar Winds felt like a cheaper cash-in on the space RPG genre. The ship drove like a car, the ship modifications were pretty limited. Though it had a great power management system which could have formed the basis for some pretty inventive gameplay if it was properly leveraged.

I've come back to Solar Winds maybe once in the past 20 years, and replayed SC2 about 4 or 5 times since UQM was released.

Was looking forward to the next instalment but the quagmire of legal issues, divided fanbase, etc, has really left a sour impression on the future of the franchise for me, which is sad given the world TFB created initially.
That's bad logic in two ways. First, this is the internet. Smoke goes a lot further than that.

Second, to the extent that the claims involve HN, (I'm being careful only to comment on facts I personally know about), they're definitely false [1]. So yes, for sure there can be that much fireless smoke.

[1] I haven't had a chance to respond properly about those claims yet. Normally I'd have done it by now, but I'm on my phone with intermittent access at the moment, so am a lot slower and don't have my usual tools. Edit: I finally got it out - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30070287.
Staff means you work for the company. If you go to a movie theatre and want to find the bathroom, you'd ask the staff (i.e. employees). There's no particular context to staff that doesn't also come with "employees." It's neutral, unexceptional, and it's agnostic to one's place in the hierarchy (the theatre owner and the ticket attendant are both staff).

So to me, it makes sense to place it below senior. Staff is a neutral modifier which does not imply a set level of experience (both trainee and veteran are staff). Senior is a modifier which does imply experience. Junior implies a lack of experience. So, staff would logically fit between junior and senior.
Did NIMBYs Cause the Great Recession?
I also forgot to add one thing that tripped me recently but I am sure a solution exists for it that I am not aware of.

In Debian we do: apt-cache search <search string>

It gives quick results.

The equivalent in nix is (correct me if I am wrong, it has been a while since I did this): nix-env -qaP <search string>

This command takes so long to execute. On a tiny VPS, when I did this, it ran out of memory. I wish things like this are improved.
https://archive.is/8URvM
I was about to comment that feet, yards and miles are not imperial measure; but I checked, and WP says they are in fact imperial units. So i learned something today.
A Look Inside China's Olympic Village Robot Restaurant
> It's not like Google or any other company training AI models are hiring professional linguists or psychologists to investigate

I had a housemate once who was an American linguistics grad and spent a year applying semantic labels for Google. I know he worked on a team, although I don't know what they did since I didn't work at a Google at the time.
Are you talking about Panic end-of-lifting a product but releasing a final free build?

I’m curious about which aspect you see as burning.
> not everywhere has this privilege, but it is very common

Lol this is not very common at all. You thinking that's common tells me you don't actually know how normal people from European countries actually live. Might be helpful to actually meet these "locals" that you talk about.