skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

Oh, come on. People like to get drunk. It's that simple. That "the only competing beverage was water" is some kind of argument ... get real. That's completely ridiculous. People REALLY REALLY like to get drunk. Water is no competition. Has nothing to do with what the drink tastes like.
Maybe it's because you have "one" in the file name: "zeronewline".
Imagine if nicotine, which may or may not have beneficial effects on your mental & physical health, was hyped up as much as web3. why not simply discuss the studies of these effects instead of opinions thereof?
Ask HN: Open-source project management for non-software projects?
My small, tech-savvy-but-not-tech team needs a project management system -- projects/tasks/kanban, maybe a wiki. But open-source solutions with good UI/UX seem to be, almost inevitably, designed around software projects and I know from past experience something clunky won't get used regularly.

I've looked at YouTrack, Gitlab, Taiga and others -- all fantastic, if only I could sufficiently hide some of the dev-specific functionality. Should I just give up and get a ClickUp or Jira subscription? Or have you found a self-hosted option for non-software project management?
> ZFS on Linux and FreeBSD's ZFS implementation are now one and the same.

Don't assume that this means feature parity, not by a long shot. ZFS on FreeBSD affords you native NFSv4 ACLs (hugely important in corporate settings), tight integration with jails, much better delegation support, the FreeBSD boot loader is actually updated to understand all the ZFS features, and offers boot environments and checkpoint rollbacks right from the boot loader menu (and not having to shuffle around with a dedicated /boot partition like you do on Linux).

If none of those features appeal to you, ZFS on Linux will seem very much the same. Indeed, within the limitations of Linux itself, ZFS does very well at providing every feature that Linux lets it provide.
A brilliant insight I came across once was that a low barrier to entry can prevent standardisation and quality.

The original example was that in LISP it's so easy to add Object Oriented functionality that it's a mere afternoon's work for a graduate student. For comparison, it took Bjarne Stroustrup several years to extend C with objects to create C++. Hence there are only about 4-5 such languages out there, of which only two are popular.

This means that every C++ program is object oriented in the "same way", whereas random OO LISP modules are incompatible and you can't merged them into one cohesive program or reuse the components nicely.

It's almost trivial to come up with a build system. Like you said, it boils down to not much more than interpreting a simple sequence of steps, typically doing nothing more than just triggering shell execution directly or indirectly. A basic build system is a few days work for a talented programmer! Heck, a mere shell script will do in a pinch...

Notice however how the industry is slowly consolidating on Docker and Kubernetes. I suspect that one reason for this is that these are hard technologies. Not just anyone can "whip up" a container build and orchestration system in a short period of time.

Hence, there's only a handful of container systems commonly used in the wild, which has resulted in standardisation. Precisely the type of standardisation that you (and many others) have been craving.

TL;DR: The most complex system will become the CI system standard to rule them all because it's complex.
Nit: not Kapek but Čapek, where the Č reads like "ch" in "chair".

Sounds that were missing from classical Latin are still not interoperable across languages using the Latin script.
It looks to be more like a heartfelt rant than a PR stunt, the person who posted this to HN doesn't seem to be same as the one who wrote the tweet.

But it does amaze me how often HN seems to fall for this kind of sensationalist story.
Some shapes do carry over, e.g. in SQL dumps for certain types of applications. Spending a lot of time in one file, e.g., a large Rails controller, also confers the benefit. These are just two examples.

Overall I would say that trying to notice and measure the effect isn't productive. It's just a bit of extra context I realized in retrospect.
I agree with you to a point. Infrequent wine drinkers who want a casual option generally prefer a lighter, sweeter or more fruity wine. These people truly didn't like cabernet (too bitter for many), but they wanted to be "with it" and merlot was the hotness, so it became a go to. As the article I linked above mentioned, for these people pinot noir was always a better choice, but the hotness of merlot (at the time pinot was oft considered a dessert wine) made it socially less of a norm. Sideways, and people just generally discovering that there were other options, made it an easier social choice for many, and pinot noir was on fire.

As an aside, while I absolutely agree that most wine snobbiness is absolute horseshit (there is loads of it throughout the discussion in various other threads), that study on wine "experts" who couldn't tell the difference between red and wine is just terrible nonsense. It was some students who were recruited and smelled wines, given the visual cues of color.
Bolt is huge in Eastern Europe (taxis, food delivery).

They are not exactly without controversy.

Bolt announced and defended further expansion in Belarus amid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_Belarusian_p...

What is interesting that my Google searches fail to find the offending article from Bolt's founder. All I can find is Russian and Belarus sources and Usain Bolt. Linkedin does show Bolt has an expanion ongoing in Belarus.
> 80% of people couldn't distinguish I.V. cocaine from I.V. caffeine in some study I am unable to locate at the moment, which I think involved Nora Volkow from NIH, either as PI or collaborator.

All this tells me is that I'm clearly consuming caffeine incorrectly in the form of coffee and/or tea.
Thin PostgreSQL Clones
The simplest quines have the form:

1. Construct encoded string
2. Decode string
3. Print decoded string

Once you get that up and running, you can stuff anything you want into the payload.
Better than I.V. coffee you say?
>80% of people couldn't distinguish I.V. cocaine from I.V. caffeine in some study I am unable to locate at the moment

That is complete bullshit.
We Built Whimsical (2018)
>Frankly I completely fail to see where am I being emotional. I thought you are. I guess having totally different cultural background plays a role here.

How do you know we have a totally different cultural background when you don't even know my background?

It's obvious emotions play a role in your thinking because your conclusions are illogical. If your conclusions are not based on logic then they are based on emotion. Observe this quote:

>you feel that pure FP is underappreciated and it hurts your feelings.

How do you know what I feel? How do you know it hurts my feelings? You don't. I honestly don't care whether or not FP or OOP is popular. But I do think OOP is over used. That's it. The fact that you can (wrongly) assume something you have no information about displays how emotions are overruling your rational judgement.

>I come here mostly for entertainment and unless I read some story about horrific abuse of human I could not care less. Too bad if I make different impression.

What does this have to do with anything? When I tell someone to be more rational I'm not telling them to become a logical automaton or become a savant. You or most people attempting to do this is a form of lying to yourself. You're human and you feel emotions. That's that. What you can do is allow less emotions to influence your judgement and bias. That's all I'm suggesting.
Again, I think there's an underestimation of what it takes to make a country, especially in a world of organized hostile players.

You're far better off with spreading ideology.
Yeah, it's just that I don't know what the columns are called. The namespaces (databases and tables) are what guides me to the columns, not vice versa.

I can think back to projects / companies where this may have been different, basically just with fewer different distinct schemas, but it just isn't my recent experience.

(I appreciate your magnanimity in these later comments by the way.)
It's possible but unlikely. You physically cannot sleep on these drugs without something like clonazepam. So I have no doubt a series of bad decisions could lead to someone being up that long.

However,

psychosis usually sets in around ~96 hours of sleep deprivation. It is however possible that this individual is unique or resistant, or maybe just his youth helped him. When I was 16 and MTV still played music-- I could survive on 2hrs sleep a day for weeks.
Maybe great for research, but not very useful for application at inference time.
A Rare Brain Mutation Spread Across America
There's one more thing I need to ask you:

Now, since the end of the Cold War, Russia has lost quite a lot of territory. This territory has all been snapped up by NATO, even though the Cold War was apparently over.

Which "Russian territory" are you referring to as being "snapped up by NATO"? It would have to be the Baltics (and perhaps Poland), right? As "Russian" territory?

Please do clarify.
Tektronix introduced some nice LA units 20+ years ago that could be configured with analog mux outputs to pass probe channels over to a scope. The instruments could be cross triggered if you wanted to but it was fun to cycle through a whole address and data bus in real time and look for SI problems.
> Humans, in general, needed these words in our vocab to reason about these things. Just as adding words in our language helped us reason about higher-order concepts

Except that words for concepts nobody's ever bothered to consider don't just appear in the language. That can only happen when somebody tries to think about the topic and is forced into making up some new words.
This such a bad take, too many things comment on but one thing to note is that I’m not even sure how much Stripe competes with Bolt. Bolt marketing pages mostly talk about e-commerce checkout. It’s probably something Stripe does as well but the reason Stripe became a SV darling because it was easiest way to integrate payments for your software startup. Probably 95% of YC startups are not e-commerce sites, and have no use what Bolt offers. He mentions Lyft who I don’t think could be their customer either. So SV software companies “collude” by using the platform that offers what they need.

There are dozens of e-commerce payment platforms, often integrated already on the product like Shopify, so probably the investors just weren’t excited about the market and likely though Shopify/PayPal/Stripe will eventually eat that market.
I don't see how your second paragraph follows from the first. Everyone works for the company, from the most entry level all the way up to the CEO and is thus "staff", and there is thus no indication in that sense of the word as to what its level is. So in a title it must mean something different than just "works for the company".
You might want to consider sampling a broader source of news or discussion. HN is prone to insulation and echo chambers like any other social media. I can tell you that there is a large contingent of Twitter, for example, fully on board with "Web 3" -- generally in the context of NFTs and the latest coin offering.
Brave is big tech.
The founders repeatedly promised (and in at least one case I know of, convinced someone to work there based on that promise) that they would not sell. Perhaps the implication is that we should not believe the promises of founders.
The top HN search result for Stripe is, by a considerable margin, the post from two months ago, about Stripe ghosting candidates and retracting offer letters: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29387264

On the first page of top-ranked results for the word “Stripe” I noted two other articles as well that appeared, on the surface, to be critical of Stripe.

I encourage performing your own search and assessment rather than trusting my brief skim, but it’s certainly enough for me to recommend further research along those lines if you’d like to contrast the historical data with moderation concerns.
"Classes would still exist, but as implicit patterns."

Classes are not a design inevitability, but just one way of managing state. Languages that mostly avoid mutable state don't tend to have object systems, for instance.
Star Control 2 is the best video game of all time, period. If you are a newcomer, play it without internet spoilers, that's part of the fun. Finding a rainbow world gives such burst of joy, you just can't compare it to anything else.
Every time I see a bolt post from this company, I keep thinking it's Bolt the hardware incubator.
This seems to get downvoted a lot, and I don't know why. Regardless of whether you think this is a good/useful idea, it's certainly leveraging technology (and scientific knowledge) that has only become available recently.
> Frankly, your bias shows and you might have a case of EverythingLooksLikeANailitis. The copyright industry may be "protecting" jobs in some ways, but it's also destroying jobs in others. It's halting progress in so many cases.

No, I have a case of "I'veSeenWhatHappensWhenCopyrightIsIgnoreditis." A blind man could see that copyright needs serious reforms, but it's absurd to pretend like other systems produce the diversity and scale of works that the current one does.

> You also need to look at who, in practice, is protected by copyright.

Believe it or not, I do every day.

It's crazy that your solution to "small creators get ripped off" is "make ripping them off legal." The actual solution is to reduce the cost of enforcing copyright - right now it takes a court case, which obviously is a nonstarter for anyone who isn't making bank off of their copyright.

> A world without copyright is a different one. IP lawyers and copyright enforcers might be out of a job, but it doesn't mean it'd be one without music or art.

As long as there are humans, there'll be art and music. What there won't be are people who make a living off of it, and we'll rewind to like 300 years ago when the only people who could afford to create art were born rich or willing to find a rich person who'd individually sponsor them. When people have more time to spend on art, they produce better art. I really hope that isn't controversial.

> We'd find a different way to make it work, hopefully a way that doesn't drive the next Aaron Swartz to suicide.

I'd really rather we didn't use a deeply individual instance of suicide as a political talking point. It's kind of tasteless and you can find plenty of examples of suicide for virtually any problem.
Self-deprecation used to be a social norm.
To be fair this "worse is better" thing permiates all aspects of tech: c++, java, python, wasteful text based protocols...
Whatever opinions you have, the legal system was designed by lawyers in such a complicated fashion that only lawyers can keep track of it. Like that or not, it's the way it is.
Also: Steal is Steel with an A, Rob is Rub with an O, and ShopLyft is Shoplift with a Y.

Why PayPal for it when you can just Swipe it?

In the same vein, BooKing.com is BooQueen.com with a penis. That kind of majestic insubordination can get you a €400 fine and a few weeks of jail time in the Netherlands where their headquarters are located, but I wonder what problems they had with the harsher Lèse-majesté laws in Thailand because of their name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9#Netherl...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thai...

>With penalties ranging from three to fifteen years imprisonment for each count, it has been described as the "world's harshest lèse majesté law" and "possibly the strictest criminal-defamation law anywhere"; its enforcement "has been in the interest of the palace". [...] Even attempting to commit lèse-majesté, making sarcastic comments about the King's pet, and failure to rebuke an offense have been prosecuted as lèse-majesté. [...] The courts seem not to recognise the principle of granting defendants the benefit of the doubt. [...] The longest recorded sentence was in 2021: 87 years imprisonment, reduced to 43 years because the defendant pleaded guilty.
Thank you for confirming. I was a bit aghast at how few light houses the US eastern seaboard had, to the point I doubted the accuracy.
I use modafinil occasionally if I know I have a lot of work to do that day, particularly if I'm low on sleep. I have to take it as early as possible, though, otherwise I won't be able to sleep that night until about 2 or 3. It gives me a focus and clarity I wish I have all the time.
By comedown you mean sleep debt or have you been using it like caffeine, got your required 8 hours but when you didn't use it one day you felt lethargic?
This might not add much to this discussion in particular, but I find it interesting how much I want the big billion dollar company to be evil. This guys post and the other Stripe hate really draw me in and then of course lots of the arguments fall apart on further inspection. Is that a natural thing? Maybe a sort of robin hood feeling, like we're sticking it to the big bad rich guys?

I do still have some negative feelings towards wealth in general from growing up so poor, even as I pull in a comfy "HN reader" level salary, so that probably doesn't help.
ooooh this is fun, time to archive this CEO's post, doesn't seem like it'll last for long
Promises don't mean anything unless contractually obligated. One should always look out for oneself in terms of what's actually written down, not what's said or implied.
Intro – Modern Bash (Zsh) Scripting
FreeBSD release notes[1] include pointers to EC2 AMIs, Google Compute Engine deployment, as well as links to download generic virtual machine images. I personally run a FreeBSD vm on DigitalOcean, but I suspect they should work most places.

[1] https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.0R/announce/
I liked Starflight 2: Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebula, and played it long before I heard of Star Control 2. But being from 1989, it could use a bit of a modernization remaster. I found the combat crazy difficult the last time I tried to play it, but maybe that can be fixed with the right Dosbox settings.
Different effects on different people I guess. Whoever is reading parent, don't expect this to be true for you. It certainly wasn't for me.. if I didn't get proper sleep and then took modafinil I would get super anxious, fidgeting and just plain feeling bad. Certainly couldn't work on it.
I like how the article says the film is about one guy touring wine country. I feel like the author just loathes Thomas Hayden Church and will, at any opportunity, erase him from history.
What about the part where the founders actively steered employees away from equity? What about the part where they lied?
I'm sorry, this is rubbish. One of the reasons Modafinil is useful is that it will help you stay awake and alert for long periods AND when you want to sleep you still can do. It isn't like speed.
Yeah it's better to be an enthusiast than a connoisseur. I like pretty much all wine that isn't just bargain swill. They're all great in different ways.
Same, I'm a Unity dev but we desperately need a FOSS option.

How is the inspector/menu system compared to Unity.
Is it not possible that Merlot was already on the way out, and the movie was just portraying an already in progress cultural trend at the time?
Even if totally 'accurate' to the dataset, there's the issue that a lot of 'toxicity' and offence is completely culturally based. Take 'cunt' for example. Used in casual, informal conversation here, but deemed incredibly offensive by some Americans. Or, more broadly, 'thumbs up' could mean "Good job" or "Stick it up your arse".
Sunless Sea comes to mind.
That is impossible because there is limited supply of the things you want to achieve with your education, e.g. a tenure track position, and the demand is always higher than the supply.
It's an exaggeration. But among people who actually drink wine -- the subject of this discussion -- I suspect the overwhelming majority understand the varieties, and maybe even have a presumptive preference. People who don't drink wine aren't really pertinent.
School is just a part of life, and life has limited resources. There will always be winners and losers. At least, until (and if) we reach a point where the total sum of resources exceeds the total demand for them.
It's brilliant because it prevents a small constituency - PoW
generators and client developers - from sabotaging a roadmap by simply deciding to not support its planned upgrades.

With this safeguard in place, to change the roadmap, they need to gain support of users at large, by getting them to actively switch to their fork, just as the roadmap supporters need to do.

Therefore, supporters of change and statis are on equal footing, ensuring that the system isn't biased toward stasis even when the roadmap calls for change.

To summarize, the difficulty bomb encodes the roadmap's plan to implement a change in the protocol, into the protocol, graduating the plan from having mere social consensus, which requires active participation to enforce, to having a technical one, which is autonomously enforced.
The line between leveraging networks and being a "mob boss" is really more of a matter of perspective.

Say I'm a photographer, and I know a couple good makeup artists. A client is searching for a makeup artist and I refer them to someone I know. Chances are, had I not given this referral some other makeup artist would have been chosen by this client. From the perspective of other makeup artists, I acted like a mob boss. From my perspective, I just made use of my network.

A lot of what's alleged in this thread can be attributed to network effects among YC. Startup gets referred to Stripe because YC knows them. Stripe gets more coverage on HN because YC-backed companies are of more interest to the HN readership.

Ultimately, I can empathize with Ryan's perspective. But I'm not seeing any sort of "mob boss" behavior here.
When I voted by mail in California, the government sent me updates when my ballot was received and counted. If somebody was going around stealing identities to vote fraudulently, wouldn’t they be running the risk that every person they voted for could discover that a vote was cast in their name, triggering an investigation?

Voter fraud is a serious crime, and unlike other similar crimes (like a fake credit application), the perpetrator doesn’t stand to make $$$$ for each act. They need to commit the crime at scale to change the result.

If this form of fraud were happening en masse, surely there’d be tons of evidence of it?

If campaign workers were going around trying to bribe people to vote, some of the people they are trying to bribe might unexpectedly be supporters of the other candidate, and would have a strong incentive to collect evidence of the bribery attempt and report it. It would make for some very interesting hidden camera videos and would be explosive news in the modern political environment.
I've once given it to a friend without telling him what it was exactly and he sure did sleep through it, he said he didn't feel anything at all and he was up from the night before (was in vacation). Asked him how he felt afterward and he reported no issues sleeping a couple of hours after taking it.
You know not of what you speak.
I encourage you to use Google if you want to investigate my claims, and decide for yourself. Seems like your mind is already made up though.