skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There used to be an old restriction for the (official) mobile apps to sync 1 year in the past. I don't experience this anymore, so appears to be lifted. Maybe using some legacy client?
No need to racially charge it - sexually exploiting servants is a universal.

Curiously, you said “rich white people” forgoing the one prejudice that actually does predict sexual exploitation - men!
I'm in the minority of the HN crowd who has very little issues with Google search quality. (although I do see some spam in my native language) My account is getting adolescent old, so it might have learned a thing or two about me how to serve me best.
The prestige provides access to jobs/promotions, invitations to talks, and higher scores on grants. The tangible benefits are more than $10k.

Not saying this is right, but nothing will change until scientists stop ranking other scientists by the number of publications in prestigious journals/conferences.
Also see:
https://10kbclub.com
https://0kb.club
There's a reasonable argument that we're actually in a golden age of forums. Subreddits have allowed many more niche communities than before and even traditional style forums have prospered in plenty of cases. There is definitely migration to newer platforms like Discourse and others.

If you think about it with an archivist mindset there are definitely plenty that was lost to time. But that will happen just from natural churn, even if the total is still healthy. And in this case as far as I can tell it is healthy. People talk about all kinds of things in hosted forums of various kinds. I'd be very surprised if the total forum traffic on the internet hasn't been on a steady rise forever, it just rises slower than the total.
"But we (rich white people) don't exactly have a good track record in these types of situation"

I do not think that behavior is or was restricted to skin color.
What about nuclear energy? Say we move robotic productions to areas we don't want to live, with nuclear plants, and keep renewable energy just for humans in cities. Or the idea from Bezos which I liked: move robots to a different plant, ship everything to Earth.
Scaling an on-prem first SaaS company to tens of millions of ARR
Sorry, I don't understand the analogy. Yes, TS allows some bugs through, and that's a problem too. But that's also a far cry from "always rely on humans to run complex processes in a consistent way."
Doctor: "Now, most hearts couldn't withstand this voltage ... but I'm fairly certain your heart..."

Pig: "What was noise?"

Doctor: "The sound of progress, my friend."
> neeva

A website that requires me to sign up to see what their premium account may cost ... this sounds pretty scammy to me.
I am not making any claims about digits of pi, however, one can take an arbitrary bit string (eg: an image of Nelson Mandela's representation), treat it as a number and extend its digits to generate a prime number or a perfect power. See: https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/reso/015/10/0941-0947

So, one could in theory create a list of primes (or perfect powers) populated them with hidden content using the aforesaid method and claim they are only a list of primes (or perfect powers).
These probably wouldn't survive extraction of the pure text, would they?
What is its real job?
There is a setting in one's Google account to keep one's data forever or automatically delete it after a certain time period, perhaps they changed it?

(side note: the title of this post is a little sensational imo. the past has always "disappeared". Don't forget that you will die some day and eventually there will be no trace of your existence)
Yes, that too! I'd like to see how different Postgres techniques compare in general.
Completely agree with this, getting variety into your day is also really important for your brain to properly rest. I can't remember where, but a few years ago I read that the brain rejuvinates not by doing nothing/sleeping/watching tv but by switching contexts and working on something new.

If you've spent all day in university with a heavy day of lectures (sitting, listening, staring at a screen / whiteboard) you're probably not going feel ready to sit down and crack out an essay or project in the evening. You need to spend some time doing something that takes your mind in a different direction, getting active is a great contrast to lectures for instance.

You need to be well rested for motivation to take hold, and if it doesn't you'll at least be rested enough for discipline to get you going.

>> I've found myself sitting at my desk each evening
>
> Wait, isn't that what daytime is for?

This is also a really great thing to pick out. I started doing a lot better at university when I treated it as a 9-5/6 thing. I'd spend the day on campus either in lectures or doing assignments. At 6pm at the very latest it was time to do something different. I broke that sometimes if I had a nasty combination of assignments, but on the whole this gave me most of my evenings and weekends back in my final year while doing my dissertation. It was a huge quality of life improvement, far bigger than anything else I did during university.
Auschwitz Museum:The biggest task is to combat indifference
So many dark patterns on that site
Apparently they have recently granted permission for these (type of) pigs to be sold for meat so those who suffer with alpha-gal syndrome (and are thus allergic to regular meat) can eat it. So I’m guessing by not.
Mastering the subconscious is definitely a top trait for attention management / discipline and quality of life in general.

I noticed this pattern not too long ago: was reading a technical book, felt compelled to drop it and browse Twitter or similar. I "dug" into my head internally to find out a reason why (much like you do in meditation) - I wasn't tired or bored, the book was interesting and I didn't really want to quit it - and I simply couldn't rationalize a reason. It was purely a dopamine-driven habit which I was simply not in control of, it was automatic.

You hear a lot of talk how humans are just as programmable as anything else, and that was one of my personal come-to-Jesus moments.
Thanks. From the press release:

Rundt 500 prøver per måned er blitt testet for antistoffer mot SARS-CoV-2, og det ble funnet ett positivt utslag i desember 2019, to i januar 2020, og ett i både februar og mars.

Av de totalt 6520 kvinnene som ble undersøkt gjennom hele perioden, ble det påvist antistoffer hos 98 kvinner.

Det må tas høyde for at en viss andel falske positive utslag kan oppstå, men forskerne konkluderer med at funnene tyder på at viruset sirkulerte i Norge allerede i 2019.

So one sample from December 2019 and two from January 2020 tested positive, and they may be false positives.
You mean pre-commit to the maximum parallelism by setting the number of partitions or am I missing something?

In that case, sure, theoretically with JMS you can spawn as many parallel consumers as you want and with kafka you're limited to the number of partitions you've configured your topic with, as you can only have one partition per consumer.

But you get so much more out of kafka with consumer groups and partitions when you do complex message processing that would be a lot harder with traditional queues (if you partition based on the same key).
That's my point. We're more or less forced to spend resources doing things to a higher standard.
Kept indefinitely for future re-consumption.

Are there any stories of this saving someone from a potential disaster? My experience has been that this only causes bugs, such as resending hundreds of thoudands of out-of-date emails.
The desperate search for monetization. Twitter is free, so it will get worse until you stop using it or they somehow manage to get you to click on an ad. Same with Reddit.

Sometimes this is the desperate attempt to neutralize a competitor by cloning it. That's why Twitter copied "spaces" from Clubhouse, and Youtube and Instagram have copies of Tiktok in them (mostly hosting content with tiktok watermarks on, hilariously)
Love your book covers and your book Lisp From Nothing was a fun read. Thank you.
in the west buying stuff usually requires no human interaction at all, even the cashiers are getting replaced by automatic checkout. But, on the other hand, you do need negotiation skills, be it in career, private live, or elsewhere. So maybe we all just need to do a year of backpacking and learn how to haggle
> Pretty typically libertarian—freedom as long as nothing gets more dangerous. Kind of like rebellious children.

Or, as this guy[1] put it, like house cats. “convinced of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they don’t appreciate or understand.”

As a former Libertarian who luckily grew out of that phase, I love this analogy.

1: https://twitter.com/jspauldingphoto/status/14615069981183303...
It's been the case for quite a while. I often find myself peaking at html source or even HTTP requests to try to retrieve dates. It's super strange.
> Nobody is selling "Falcon X rockets". Space X sells rocket launches, because that is what other people want to buy.

You don't need to be so nitpicky.

> And JK Rowling could most definitely afford a couple rocket launches if she were so inclined.

Yes, that was the point of the comment. Agatha Christie could have had a car if she wanted. Only 3 months of income, even!
> HTML has some serious problems with that regard

I think the problem is not with HTML but with HTTP as location-addressed protocol. For future-proofing, and DDOS/censorship mitigation, content-addressed storage (DAT/IPFS/Torrent) makes sense. I would love to seed my favorite blogs, if i was given the possibility to do so: in this sense, a web browser based on IPNS would be rad: too bad the only one i know of is bundled with JS (instead of operating a paradigm shift) and produced by an adware company.

> How will SPAs fare when the backend server is down in 30 years? How much value will be lost?

You don't even need to wait 30 years for SPAs to be broken. By the next API update they may stop working, and subtle changes in browser sandboxing could kill them just as quick.
What makes you think the comic creator or I haven't read Zarathustra? Yes, Nietzsche when criticizing the Stoics also engages with a lot of Stoic concepts, that's a trivial and often remarked on point.

When Nietzsche talks about Amor Fati he is making an even stronger point. People should not just assert control over their own lives and risk things, they should do so even if they know that they are doomed. Love for one's fate and love for life is supposed to be so strong that even imagining the worst outcome repeating forever ('Eternal Return' in Zarathustra), one still ought to say 'yes' and embrace fear, suffering, what have you.

And that is where he parts from the Stoics. Where the Stoics, in the face of fear advocate retreat, or moderation, or some kind of contemplation and withdrawal he makes the case that is it precisely the fear that makes asserting one's will worthwhile.
>Is it such a crime to ask for id when you vote?

It's not a crime, but the US government has proven that it can't be trusted not to be virulently racist when the opportunity to disenfranchise minority voters presents itself, particularly at the state level. ID requirements for voting are the equivalent of tempting a drunk with a shot of whiskey.
Imagine sitting and complaining about “techno optimism”, when the very thing you write your screed on, is a product of it.

Instant access to a world wide fountain of knowledge, a super computer in your pocket, never having seen hunger and the ability to travel anywhere around the world cheaply and quickly.

No, we don’t have flying cars or bases on Mars, but if you look at the techno optimism of the 1960’ies and where we are today, we’ve done a pretty good job at turning it into a reality.

Kirk’s communicator or his tablet thingie? Those are actually a real and tangible reality today.
What I don't quite get with all the certificate automation: Doesn't this all effectively just shift the "source of truth" to DNS?

Back when certificates were issued manually, a CA was also verifying that the requesting party was actually who they were claimed to be IRL - hence EV certificates and all that.

What LE and friends verify on the other hand is simply that the entity that requests a certificate also controls the DNS entry at that point in time - or at least controls some of the servers that are listed in the A/AAAA records.

For one of the infamous Authoritarian Governments, it should be no problem at all to obtain an LE certificate for any domain under their ccTLD. Just use the DNS challenge, then instruct the country's registrar to change the DNS record for the domain of interest.

Isn't that a massive centralisation compared to the old system?
Moonbounce, a persistent malware, can survive drive formats and OS reinstalls
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It may be possible to talk to it via JMS. There are also bridges for AMQP. That still does not make Kafka a queue. You can use like a queue by sugarcoating over it but Kafka itself isn't a queue.
I have a desk with a Linux rig right behind me. I use VSCode remote environments most of the time when building containers (which runs over ssh). You could do this with a VM locally too.
I take a lot of notes. The links I place in them often 404 just a few years later. I'm grateful for wayback machine. But it doesn't capture everything. Sometimes I'm just left with a link. And some links don't reveal any information about the source (e.g. a youtube link gives no info about what a removed video was). I've started adding a little more plain text to my notes to help protect against this (e.g. source: "3m20s into Bob's Rails tutorial on Webpacker") just in case it disappears I'll have something to latch on to.
I am totally stealing that phrase the next time I get in this debate. Thanks!
> You mean pre-commit to the maximum parallelism by setting the number of partitions?

Yes. Then depending on the data it can be difficult-to-impossible to scale past that. Scaling down, of course you can always start fewer consumers, but unless you have many more partitions than consumers or partitions as a multiple of consumers, the load will be unbalanced.

> But you get so much more out of kafka with consumer groups and partitions when you do complex message processing

Well, what's "complex message processing"? If you mean the stream topology is complex or the operations benefit from key sharding I agree. If you mean that some atomic operation is complex, no, it's irrelevant or even bad e.g. the complexity means you need a DLQ/OOO retries, or load per item is so unpredictable you want to work-steal.
And fired at will when you do not deliver. So it is basically not a thing. But if you do perform you can get quite some days. If you do not perform, you are fired and have no vacation maybe.
Yeah, you missed the point. You don't need to solve the problem in 5 minutes. You need to be 5 minutes in a state where you have no idea what to do next.

Why would you want to be sitting there spinning your wheels? Most people find that feeling of helplessness demotivating and stressful which is why I created the rule.
It'd be amazing if some HNers who vibe with this article would teach online courses that teach people who have no idea how to "decentralized" their web life by running servers and their own sites (not nec on the blockchain). There's a lot of us out there who need the very basics, and would love to participate!
It's your standard us vs them scenario. Humans love us vs them scenarios, we're a tribal bunch
As kid I had a reprint of the Boy Mechanic from the turn of the 20th century. Sooo many of the activities involved going to a pharmacy and getting X dangerous compound or element that I doubt most pharmacies today even carry let alone would sell to a 12 year old kid.
Nah, I see it too.

YouTube is especially bad.
A film "The Bit Player" featuring "contemporary interviews, archival film, animation and dialogue from interviews with Shannon" was released in 2019. [0][1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7WmMSAxq8s

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Bit-Player-John-Hutton/dp/B08D2N2MPH/...
I don't know much about Sweden, but in the Netherlands (my own country) poverty levels are reported at 0.3%, even lower, but this tells a very incomplete story as many people are struggling to make ends meet.

For the record, the U.S. is reported at 1.7% poverty levels; not much above Sweden's levels.

I don't know you or your background, but I think of people who are relatively well off (i.e. programmers and the like) don't quite grasp how much harder everything is if you're working low-income minimum wage jobs. It's perhaps not "poverty" by some measured standard, but it sure isn't easy sailing either.
Can you give more details? In such discussions there are always a lot of people who struggle with this but very few who actually succeeded in fixing their sleep.
Funny you mention L-tyrosine, it "Tyrosine promotes cognitive flexibility"
- Source: https://www.grelin.net/post/ztwmC7c43thoriuAFVaC
This relativism isn't good for anything. They are poor and also underdeveloped in every sense. That's a fact.

If you romanticize them you are not doing them any good. You simply cannot understand what being in their position is like. Any slight inconvenient to a modern society is a very serious event for them, eg. disease, drought, famine, etc. while you have most conveniences in life and most problems solved.

As I said in a previous comment, if you consider yourself a Marxist or a leftist you really aren't. Societies do advance, humanity goes forward. Going back 200-1000 years is not progress and it surely isn't any good. Stagnating isn't either.
Have you considered some form of light therapy ? (Very bright lights in the morning, no artificial light in the evening)

I hope there's something out there to help you. Not for the sake of conformity to society, but just for the benefits of high quality sleep.
My god you people are everywhere now...
Discovery is an existential issue for the net now, it wasn't back when it started, because there are 100000x more places to go these days.

The old web was simple, but it was also small.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_therapy
I still can't wrap my head around how you can say that all stoics advocate retreat especially Marcus Aurelius says that you need to asses if the fear you have is rational or irrational and if it's rational you have to act. The monster under your bed will not eat your feet when they tangle over the edge not one stoic would say curl up in a ball and ignore it. Except Seneca who would say "What are the chances?" they would all say look if there is a monster and if there is not ignore it.
As an aside, apparently there is a technical difference between “candidate” and “student”. A PhD candidate is one who has passed the qualifying exam, which occurs 2-3 years into the process. This usually coincides with the point at which all required coursework is complete, so “student” is probably a suitable label during that initial period.
But Stenography does; just in ways that are imperceptible to humans.
I have experienced that too and I wonder why that is...
For some reason I didn't expect you to list them from right to left.
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I recently dropped caffeine. For about 3 weeks, I have been drinking decaffeinated tea and coffee only. Fortunately I wasn't dependent on caffeine. I like the taste of those two beverages, but my body does not crave caffeine.

The effect on sleep is very notable. I wake up spontaneously between 6 and 7 am, even though it is dark in January in CZ and we have massive exterior blinds in our bedroom which make it completely dark. And I feel very fine and productive throughout the day.

I tried melatonin before, it sort-of works, but the effect of dropping caffeine seems to be much stronger.
Interesting episode from Tim Harford's Cautionary Tales podcast about Claude Shannon and his various other interests:

https://www.pushkin.fm/episode/fritterin-away-genius/
My neighbor has a Galaxy S21 Ultra. It had ads last week.

Out of all sucky Android devices and due to my work I probably touched at least 3/4 of models sold via non-grey market channel in the US the only phones that are functional are Pixels, which sucks.

My wife has an iPhone 12. Pixel 6 today is either in the same class or beats it. Of course it is highly unlikely that it will beat it in 2024 given Google track record of refusing to reiterate.
> I also miss some things, that I did not store in earlier times and that are now nowhere to be found

Same. So much content disappears over time and even if it still exists it can be difficult to find again without knowing the exact search terms used. Or search engines just don't list it in a visible spot because 200 links to Pinterest and other networks are ranked higher.

I now have a habit of downloading or at least screenshotting anything I find interesting. Which of course leads to the problem of organizing & finding the data locally.
Sure, but that’s not what he is known for.

The fact that Guardian’s person referred to him as one just shows that they lifted the whole thing off Ars, including the most irrelevant bit of Eric’s bio.
It can also be harmed - GDPR is not easy to comply with / stay on top of as an example
It's all been downhill ever since the eternal September started.
Exercise, even just walking. Do it in a chain of 7 days in a row. It makes a huge difference.
Hi, the newsletter looks great.
I have a similar thing, just that I use a pip package - markdown to create the html
There is also [Dominate](https://pypi.org/project/dominate/) incase you want to edit the finer details.
I quite enjoyed using it since it deals with the tags by using a context manager which makes code look clean especially when you need to generate lists with li tags (which is what most of the newsletter is)

I actually have a different question for you:
Once, you're all set and done with the tech and it works flawlessly,
How exactly do you go about marketing and making your newsletter known?
Currently I have my friends and family on it but that's about it. I have posted it on twitter once but that got me only about 3 new subscribers.

This is where I am stuck at the moment. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
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On the Baumol effect, I recall that the renowned composer Philip Glass worked many jobs apart from composing, even after he became well known:

“While working, I suddenly heard a noise and looked up to find Robert Hughes, the art critic of Time magazine, staring at me in disbelief. ‘But you’re Philip Glass! What are you doing here?’ It was obvious that I was installing his dishwasher and I told him I would soon be finished. ‘But you are an artist,’ he protested. I explained that I was an artist but that I was sometimes a plumber as well and that he should go away and let me finish.” [1]

He also says "I was careful to take a job that couldn't have any possible meaning for me." [2]

In contrast, people stick at Bullship Jobs, which are unsatisfying and unproductive, because they come with self-referential status [3].

I might argue that is we eliminated a lot of bullshit jobs then labour would be cheaper.

[1] https://improvisedlife.com/2014/06/11/phillip-glass-world-re...
[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/interviews/...
[3] https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-bullshit-jo...
Yes, how wonderful that a medical doctor would make an exception over his superstition. Truly a man of science!
a hash in meta might be news, but such behavior is not unique to Elsevier. Years ago journal based on Highwire platform add the date, the institution, or maybe ip address to the side boundary of pdfs.