skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps the language/stack they were using wasn't condusive to this but honestly I can't think of one where this would be a problem they couldn't solve with a module/package the performs the essential business logic piece.
Is there a site like MDN for these things? how did you learn this?
Ironically, the "chart increasing with yen" this was based off of (which was later accepted into Unicode itself) is green in my device's emoji set, as well as the vast majority of other implementations. You would think that one would be the one where the Japenese meaning of the colors was used for sure.
Right but the term monolith was used in at the latest in the 80s to describe kernels (monolithic v micro) so it’s a fairly standard term in software.
Yes we can still create uc.js in 2022. MDN no longer serve the XUL doc. However we can search their archived doc repo, e.g. https://github.com/mdn/archived-content/search?q=nsIPrefServ...
specification != implementation
> The shuttle could cary 29,000kg to orbit

Sigh. Where did you get that number? Wikipedia lists 27,500 kg to LEO, but according to Guinness

"With a mass of 22,753 kg (50,161 lb), Chandra X-ray Observatory telescope launched on 23 July 1999 is the heaviest satellite the shuttle has ever launched."

And I suspect that if the flight required abort and won't reach orbit, the shuttle would have out-of-specification loads at landing, as the payload mass which is safe for landing is less than that.
someone should really port cmus to use bubbletea/bubbles

https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea

https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbles
Can you elaborate? I'm interested to learn more.
Heroku Will Delete 8m Row Database with 7 Days' Notice
Just a heads up so others can avoid similar: Heroku gives 7 days' notice before deleting databases on their Hobby Basic tier once it exceeds >10GB or >10m rows. [1]

Hobby Basic tier is meant for "Small side projects and proof-of-concepts" [2]. It's possible for a startup to spend a lot of time in this tier because it spans from tiny (10k rows, to quite large 10m rows). Many startups reach $m valuations with smaller databases.

What happened to:

> Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

If your db admin's takes a week's holidays, they could return and find the database missing.

An unexpected grown surge could push your db past its limits earlier than anticipated and an alert email could easily be missed.

Heroku's own infrastructure could go down at an inopportune time, preventing maintenance. For example heroku's database metrics page is currently not displaying database metrics for some databases - including for this one with 7 days to live. What should be displayed [3], what is actually displayed [4].

Even in perfect circumstances, 7 days is just too aggressive.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/FDF6Gu4.png

[2] https://www.heroku.com/pricing#data-services

[3] https://i.imgur.com/tAmmNx5.png

[4] https://i.imgur.com/DUdXB7P.png
Generate 1 million lines of stupid repetitive code that varies slightly with a 100 line script and you'll see it happen quickly. Same issues with swift and even kotlin to some level. I don't have specific experience but I've run into it with other people who use both languages. My personal experience is swift.

If 1 million lines sound crazy to you, you just need 200 engineers working on one project for a year or two.
I hope it is true. I have been nostalgic about old school forums and during covid lock down built a platform for anyone to host one (and hopefully make meaningful revenue). However, I'm finding it really difficult to get traction. I hope it is because of my poor marketing skills and not because no one really cares for the old internet beyond some fond memories.
> But I also don't think it added enough value that people would pay for it

There was non-commercial curation back in the day, DMOZ was the most prominent example. In general, commercialism was very rare on the early Internet. "Business" sites were thought of as somewhat exceptional, not the norm.
Do you mean leaded petrol (gasoline)?
Dollhouse, fine.
Why not then, when I switch browsers and doom scroll on Gemini I read different crap that the crap I read here.

I’m still frying my body and rotting my brain but at least it’s different content.

Yes that won’t solve anything, but does it have to?
It's a Davis Vantage Vue.
"Yes, I think this is driven by corporate friendly mainstream media to mostly drum up for support for more corporate welfare while simultaneously painting Americans as lazy and undeserving of welfare themselves."

I think you are overindexing on the corporate-media outlet connection and ignoring how simple it is for a journalist to write a trend piece from personal anecdotes. All it takes is three friends of a journalist to resign before said journalist feels like this is a 'nationwide trend'.
Nah, I'm a BBS person and I think it's been all downhill since social media.

(Specifically, Livejournal was the tipping-point between blogging platforms and social media, Myspace was unquestionably downward, Facebook is the antichrist pure and simple.)

I have no problem with chronological or hierarchical content. Whatever the author wants to put out, is their prerogative.

What I have a problem with is walled gardens, stalking-as-a-business-model, and arbitrary automated deplatforming with no recourse.
> and perhaps forgiveness.

I would agree here, on the condition of rehabilitation.

Obviously our "justice system", isn't.

Edit: Speaking of the US above, no experience or knowledge about other countries systems. It appears I've found a new gap in my knowledge, anyone have a good intro to how courts work in their country?
Bingo. Effectively the only message I can take away here is that some organization funded "science" to prove their product is better than their competitor's.

Which is not news to me... nor science for that matter.
Slow to navigate, but amenable to “browsing” and finding related pages and sites. Think of it as a built-in recommendation engine.
Keep in mind that someone doing it maliciously has every reason to cover it up and pretend it’s legitimate.
Two true stories...

When my partner was pregnant, the OBGYN's office would send us small little bills despite us having paid our copay's. The bills ranged from $40-$200 and did not indicate what the bill was for, listing it as something generic "misc services" for instance. I called down there once and asked what the bill was for and the person I spoke to could not tell me. So, I didn't pay any of them switched OBGYN's.

Second story, the partner had incredible stomach pain... we ended up in the ER, paid the co-pay, etc. A couple months later I get a bill for 1k for seeing an out of network doctor. I call the insurance company and ask if that's correct and this is what they told me: That the hospital had a habit of sending out fraudulent bills, and that they had a legal settlement with them that they weren't even allowed to contact the patients directly.

It was literally just a cash grab.
Multiple Stops on the Cloud Compute Continuum – All with Their Own Merits
It says a lot about corporate brainwashing and propaganda when the comment here asking "Is it really a security risk?" is flagged dead and downvoted to hell. They really found the perfect excuse to squeeze users into increasingly authoritarian "upgrades" and gradual loss of control.

The only security is really for their profits, not for you.

Once you realise, the truth will set you free. No wonder they're scared.
We were in Townsend when I was there :)

Regardless, seriously, I don't think anybody paid any attention to them ever. I'm not even convinced they are a competitor from looking at what they do. Payments is a big space, lots of players fit into different parts of the value chain and/or target different customers. I'm speculating, but I'd guess their issues raising money came from bad messaging. They aren't clear about what they do. I'd guess VCs were confused about what they did and/or explicitly misunderstood it.
Remarks by President Biden Before Meeting the White House Competition Council
Unix: Why Not Stdlog?
Setting aside recent hipster posts about logging being dead...

I continually run into the issue when making CLI apps: where does logging go?

stdout is terrible, logging would pollute information you want piped to other programs and is noise

stderr isn't great, because log messages are more status than errors, and usually breaks error detection, handling, and processing.

Most logging frameworks I've seen belch to stdout or stderr by default. Yuck.

Most alternatives (enabled by logging frameworks) is a logfile is ... ok, but then you have logfiles polluting your FS in arbitrary locations, and the logfile location and name is going to be highly unstandardized.

So why isn't there a standard notion of stdlog in UNIXland alongside stdin, stdout, and stderr?
> you are very much an outlier
What makes you think he is?
Why wouldn't other insulin-resistant people benefit from a diet that's all about managing your insulin response?

Your comment near the end feels like you're facing information that heavily conflicts with what you're used to hearing and are instinctively reaching for the middle ground fallacy. I've yet to hear about someone on the keto diet getting anywhere near dangerously low weight. Most people just complain about plateauing at a slightly higher weight than desired before they start putting any effort into eating before they feel full.
I agree that nostalgia plays a part, but one could argue that it was at its "peak" in the "early days" and "declining" since (quoted words by whatever definitions as it is all quite subjective). Such that chronologically no matter what time a given person first experienced the Internet, they established the peak at that point since they didn't experience what was before, but they could universally agree that it became worst since their own relative point, and that can be true agnostic of nostalgia. If a given system is reliably getting worse over time for any attribute, the relative peak for a given observer will always be when their first measurement is taken.

You could also work backwards from what you stated. For someone who first experienced digital connectivity via BBSes, would they also state the Geocities "era" was better than the blogging platforms era? Perhaps?
This was visible in the very first reports out of China. I remember talking about it.
> exmadscientist

Username checks out, any fun stories to share? I find most people who've worked in lab's have at least one.
> Umbrel runs a Lightning node out of the box so you can start leveraging the power of Lightning today.

I'm at a loss for words, that's one of the worst ideas I've ever heard for out-of-the-box functionality.
I have a theory that lawyers in many ways are not unlike a security engineer:

you get the satisfaction of exploiting the system, bending the rules to your advantage, making the impossible work. and when you’re good at your job, you get paid well ( lawyer by many more times of course )

case n point: defending OJ
We have plenty of turnover and it works out fine. In fact turnover of the senior engineers who are service/project owners usually creates the opening for one of the more junior contributors to demonstrate L+1 competency by taking over.
The solution to your housing costs isn't increased payments, but cheaper housing. Housing prices are spiraling out of control almost everywhere because we refuse to build more of it through asinine zoning restrictions.

High housing costs have such ripple effects on the cost of everything else that it's incredibly frustrating to see everything else but cheaper and more available housing be proposed as a means to help the less well off (This isn't a jab at you in particular).
The F-35 has not enabled any military victories, but it has consumed so much money that we could just write $64k checks to every American instead. Which option would make this nation stronger?
I can't prove it (not an accountant), but commercial nuclear has never made money anywhere, in any country. It's always subsidised by the government (to support military nuclear).

When you dig into it they get loan guarantees, favoritism, and using accounting tricks like wishing away decommissioning costs by claiming reactors will be working for 60 or even 100 years.

The US DOE basically supports the US nuclear power industry, budget wise.

Advocates always point out the very low death rate from nuclear accidents (true) but fall silent on the cost of making 150 square km of Japan uninhabitable.

TL:DR; Nuclear has many benefits over over the carbon club but being cheaper is not one of them.
I hope this is comment is made in irony.
What a nightmare!
Doesn't that only work on the business plans? (Not the family plans that are 6 users for $99/yr)
I have been following my version of low carb\keto for almost a year. I'm down 80 lbs from 325 lbs.

I eat lots of eggs, meat and leafy greens. I use a breathalyzer to track ketones.

My lab results at 3 and 6 months show improvement.
You can gather plenty of useful feedback to keep your work focused and relevant on cadences other than one or two days. What kind of customer even wants to provide feedback that often? That sounds awful, not to mention being a poor user experience, where users are treated like beta testers, with half baked features constantly pushed out the door.

This also ignores the fact that there is a huge amount of important work that is effectively invisible to the end user, but is absolutely crucial. The workflow you're suggesting disincentives the team from working on those things, and may even punish them for it (as they are not shipping customer visible features).
Ask HN: Is there an efficient way to monitor my identity
Without _paying_ the credit companies/3rd parties/middle man.
My team of 5 has 5 services. 3 of those are tiny function-as-a-service APIs. 2 of those are Azure App Services, where our involvement in the infrastructure is minimal. And we're about to add a 3rd one of those. That sounds like a lot but we wanted the flexibility of making those capabilities independently updatable and deployable. And only one of those has an API used by other teams, so as far as the rest of the company is concerned it's like we have only one service.

At one point we had twice as many teams and almost twice as many services. The team had grown too large for optimal performance. When it was time to divide the team, we were able to categorize our services in two ways by the path of the data (deep back-end data processing for internal customers vs product services). Then we were able to assign a category to each team so that we have minimal dependencies and no code conflicts between teams.
Ask HN: AWS Test Questions Annoying
Has anyone else noticed that quite a few of the associate level questions say something like "as a team lead"? I find it more pretty annoying, admittedly more annoying than it should be.

Are the people earning developer associate certs really team leads?
America's poor can't travel (it costs! even if you bus it, you need time off work, a place to stay, etc), they can't have gourmet food delivered (it costs!), they can't fetch a driver (it costs!), they often can't drive themselves (cars cost!).

They also generally can't afford medical care, child care, a wide variety of leisure activities (plays, shows, even movies cost!)

They do have access to information and music, but if I had to be a medieval king or a poor person in Cleveland, it is such a no-brainer I can't even understand how the question is being asked.
This is a bit tangential, but I sometimes wish there were a word for the mistake of thinking a convention represents a fundamental property of the thing represented.

Other examples that come to mind:

1. Maps that aren't oriented with north on top

2. U.S. electrical outlets that are "upside-down"

I'm sure there are others, but those are the two that jump to mind.
I'm sure it was! And more for your trouble you got to get really up close to a real SR-71 Blackbird out in the parking lot. The L.A. Science Center is one of the best hidden gems of Los Angeles and I used to love going there pre-COVID.
Similar reason why Jenkins CI by default uses blue to indicate success.
I had to look this up, as I (wrongly) thought the etymology was derived from the English "emoticon", but it's not, it is a purely Japanese word.

https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/the-origin-of-the-wor...

So, yes, you are absolutely right, technically I have been mispronouncing it for almost two decades. I can't stop now though, because everyone else outside Japan is also doing the same.
> the Space Shuttle was a huge achievement for its time

Agree.

> as of today there is no lift system that can match it for both capacity and reusability

Disagree. Falcon Heavy lifts higher payloads - you don't count the orbiter mass itself, do you, just like you don't count the mass of the last stage which actually gets to LEO, right?

Reusability was also lacking. SSME was made by Rocketdyne, not Pratt and Whitney, who had somewhat better hydrogen technology, so after each flight SSME had to be disassembled, tested and parts nearing faults (e.g. turbines) had to be replaced. The first stage modules, which dropped to the ocean, had to be cleaned from the sea water, which also isn't an easy rinsing. And of course thermal protection tiles had to be inspected and the broken ones replaced. X-37 is way better here.
Im sure its a multitude of factors but it is definitely the increase spending due to government intervention. Aggregate demand is several years above trend.
Nokia phones were really beautiful up until their bitter end.
>Meanwhile, "investors" pile money into.. um, dogecoin?

And why are they doing this? The trail leads right back to... government.

"Side effects include investors to dumping money into sketchy stuff because nothing else returns worth a crap" is one of the big gripes people have with 2008+ fed policy.
Huh. I actually noticed the opposite: the ESA, and Ariane seemed to be featured much more prominently than I would have expected at the time around the launch.
The stock market is an excellent point. Feels like there is lots of under-indexing (no pun intended) for the sentiment associated with 40% passive growth in one's retirement account since the start of the pandemic.
The only thing we kept from the old internet was the page load times.
To be fair, the source said 750k people fed daily, and I made a slip and wrote salads since that is what I usually get.

The calculation is then:

Compensation / (daily consumers * days) = average cost added per person fed (and, if once per day, per item sold).

This allows us to ignore the price per item or total revenue, which might be misleading.
I haven’t heard about that. I’ll reach out to CS and see what’s up. We haven’t made any forced updates that I know of (and I should know). That said phone updates do sometimes break or lower the reliability of our Bluetooth connection, and radio updates are sadly forced on people’s phones all the time.
Of course google, and everybody else, wants us to throw away the phones and other products after 3 years, I don't know if anyone noticed but USD 100K cars start to break a lot after 3 years (the usual warranty) so you have to buy extremely expensive replacement parts (10x price of the new one) and get dragged into a "subscription" or buy a new car. The planned obsolescence is real and everywhere, from cars to light bulbs, software, hardware, and now is even easier for them with internet connected devices, even if the device works they just pull the plug of the service and render it useless.
the government should not legislate software updates. no one is forcing you to buy a google phone
Sounds like you are describing syslog. Writes to /var/log/messages by default, but you can edit the syslog config to log programs to a specific file, conventionally somewhere in the /var/log folder
We're going to need some evidence or at least more development on these ideas.
there was an entire website (picwin.tk) devoted to demos (demoscene) and games doing some really wild shit
F-35 research, development & maintenance employ a lot of people and move science forward.
This is in large part due to poor luck and changing phones a lot, but I managed to use Android for around 4 years without ever receiving an over the air system update.
> I don't think the old internet ever went away,

Most of it did. It was dropped from search engine indexes and died from starvation.
> OpenBSD is not exploitable, because its kernel
refuses to execve() a program if argc is 0

Sounds like they made the right choice. Why would other kernels allow this?
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> Modern languages and tools have made programming much more productive, and now there are lots more programmers and they get paid more.

Well not really. Computer industry pay is increasingly becoming bi-modal at least for a decade. The highly paid programmer is just a US phenomenon and that too in few major IT hubs.

There are lot of programers/IT admins who would make pretty decent money in late 90s to 2000s. And they make less than they were 20 years ago and yes all hadoop/big data training did not really make any better paid.

Inflation adjusted IT salaries have gone down in lot of places in the world. Of course 1 percenters of IT in FAANG+ make it sound like IT salaries are going up heavily for everyone.
> Sigh. Where did you get that number?

From NASA: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/pdf/584722main_Wings-ch...
The joke is about reliability. If you threw a computer that weighed a ton into the ocean it should sink 100% of the time.
Somebody who'd lose if they try to get too much of a limelight? As both those organizations depend on governments way more than SpaceX.
I think part of it comes from believability, or the inability to make a mental model of what is going on under the hood. If something seems magical, you don't really understand what is going on, it can make it hard to work with because you can't predict it's behavior in a bunch of key scenarios. It basically comes down to what people are comfortable with what their axiom set is. It gets really bad when the axiom set is uneven when your teaching it, and some higher abstractions are treated as axiomatic / hand waved, while other higher abstractions are filled in. This is also probably an issue for the experienced, because they have some filled in abstractions that they bring from experience, so their understanding is uneven and the unevenness of their abstraction understanding bugs them.

Like limits in calculus involved infinity or dividing by unspecified number seems non functional or handwavy in itself. Like how the hell does that actually function in a finite world then? Why can't you actually specify the epsilon to be a concrete number, etc? If you hand wave over it, then using calculus just feels like magic spells and ritual, vs. actual understanding. The more that 'ritual' bugs you, the less your able to accept it and becomes a blocker. This can be an issue if you learned math as a finite thing that matches to reality for the most part.

For me to solve the calculus issue, I had to realize that math is basically an RPG game, and doesn't actually need to match reality with it's finite limits or deal with edge cases like phase changes that might pop up once you reach certain large number thresholds. It's a game and it totally, completely does not have to match actual reality. When I digged into this with my math professors, they told me real continuous math starts in a 3rd year analysis class and sorry about the current handwaving, and no, we wont make an alternative math degree path that starts with zero handwave and builds it up from the bottom.
You're comparing Winamp's music library browser to non-library players, of course they'll come up short.

Itunes and MusicBee seem like they would fit your requirements.
I remember some boards where you had to wait for what seemed like ages to get to the actual main page because you had to wait for some fancy ANSI art to do its thing.