skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel about the same and recently had to think about Warren Ellis's Transmetropolitan comic series which very much takes place in a future where history and precise dates as well as geographies seem to have been abolished or simply are irrelevant.

It's not only the case with literal dates but also with style. It's getting harder to tell precisely how old 'relatively new' stuff is. 'Retro'-design seems to have kind of disappeared. There's now such a flood of information that there's no real well-ordered periods any more. Even the way platforms now present information, not chronologically in an absolute sense but ordered according to personal preference kind of breaks time by design.
> I feel like I'm encountering more and more sites and articles where I can't seem to find the date.

A friend also recommended me to not write a date in the past, but I did not see the reason really. And to simply not write it, because others don't is not a reason enough for me. To me adding the date to any content is a kind of honesty and if not that, then at least useful information, that can be easily added.

> Google will return irrelevant results from today rather than relevant results from 10 years ago.

This might be on Google, not the Internet in general. However, I also miss some things, that I did not store in earlier times and that are now nowhere to be found.

> I feel it's getting worse, is it just me?

I think it is not only you. I think it is a result of how the Internet has (d)evolved into more and more walled gardens. More and more short time engagement is optimized for, rather than long term quality websites and information. Many good content sources have long shut down.

I blame society for its overall mediocrity and lust for the social media quick fix, without realizing, what is destroyed by that. There are too many people online, who don't have a clue about how the Internet works, heck, how even a single website works. They make such a big part of online communities, that it becomes more profitable to cater to them, than the people, who actually know how stuff works. And why not? It is easier for them to do so, plus they make more money from the crowd. The majority does not care about sitting in walled gardens. They do not care about being able to host services yourself. They do not care about services being served by big corp and not being decentralized and extensible. They do mostly not care about their choices being taken away, which they never knew they had in the first place. There are countries, where the "Internet" is served by Facebook. They did not get to know the Internet by writing their own HTML by hand and putting that online. Most of them will never want to learn about the web's basics anyway. Today you are a "creator", when you produce content that goes through the filters of massive platforms, which are owned by FAANG and others. This is how we end up with a situation, that is less and less what people in the know would like. This is how the many ruin it for the few.
> The poor souls who didn't managed to get vaccinated, or didn't wanted to, represent the bulk of the hospitalized population and deaths.

This is only part of the picture - it's actually the people that are unvaccinated and are very old or have comorbidities that represent the majority of deaths.

But we also shouldn't exclude that a large majority of people are dying with Covid-19 at the moment rather than because of Covid (i.e. as c20% of deaths at the moment are within a month of a positive covid test, and c5% of the population likely had Covid in the last month, we can imply that 5% of deaths would have Covid anyway if it had no impact on morbidity, so about 25% (at least) of those Covid deaths are people dying with covid. This is likely an underestimate considering Covid is probably spreading in hospitals).
For PDF you can do this in a much more subtle way. In a typical block of text every individual letter comes with its own kerning adjustment. You can adjust those in a way that's invisible to the reader but still allows fingerprinting. There's probably 1000 different options too - don't think of moving words as in swapping positions in a sentence. (I know parent suggested it, but that's silly)
> I'd blame zoning as the biggest issue here.

I blame private property as the biggest issue here. Empty dwellings outnumber homeless people at least 10-to-1 in the Global North (France, UK, USA..). The fact that media and corporations pretend that's not a problem and the only solution to homelessness is to build more housing tells a lot about what's wrong with "our" approach to problem.

If we lived in a democracy where people can decide for themselves locally, homelessness would be a non-issue. As a former squatter myself, i know for sure if we voted in my neighborhood for/against cracking empty housing to provide housing for all, over 90% of people would support it. If the people in power had the will to do anything about homelessness, by simply ordering police not to evict squats (unless someone squatted a person's residence while they were on vacation, which under french law is a "house theft" crime, not "squatting") in less than 72h we could rehouse all the homeless people and give them proper sanitation.

The problem is the political class and their watchdogs (media, police) are only interested in protecting banks, corporations and wealthy individuals. They couldn't care less about homelessness or people who can't afford to eat.
And isn't that just great? In order to verify my $1 payment to McDonalds all we have to do is acknowledge that can16358p loved his GF once. \s

I think no needing to store the whole chain while also not relying on verified shards or trusted peers will be a major breakthrough for BC-Tech in the future. Mina looks promising in that regard.
Unlike a queue it is common for events to be: Kept indefinitely for future re-consumption. Partitioned with different consumers seeing different slices of the data.
Don’t forget: “Entrepreneurs are evil!”

Because you know, entrepreneurs aren’t an integral part of who helps shape the future. They’re evil capitalists. And in the future they’ll be evil space capitalists.
Same. Kafka might be better for larger datasets/throughput but a much harder to maintain and manage. Redis is much simpler if you know you aren’t going to scale that much
Because with kafka you can do (almost? exactly once delivery? transactions?) everything you can do with RabbitMq and a lot more, and everybody wants a piece of the action, but not everybody is prepared to pay the costs.
He was also a jazz musician (the clarinet), a somewhat accomplished juggler, a devoted unicycle enthusiast, and left behind a basement full of contraptions he was building in various states of finish - like the electronic mouse navigating a maze, a chess playing machine, and all other kinds of curiosities. His papers are coherent and still relevant to this day and follow the birth of each of these fields like information theory and artificial intelligence. Who knows what else he might have been working on at Bell labs that we may not be privy too.
I was literally in a rut a few days ago. Super lethargic. Didn't want to reply to email, didn't want to make plans for the business...

Then I started surfing amazon books because, you know, anything to procrastinate working.

I came across one of Tim grover's book (Michael Jordan' trainer) and I downloaded the sample to read.

It's a little OOT but something he said rang a bell. He talk about humans overthinking especially in tough situation and gave a pep talk on being relentless. My takeway was "don't think, just do". Suppress the negative voice and just work on it. Nothing is easy. If you want something bad enough, don't think. Just do it.

I think it triggers my inner motivation on why I started my business and being hyper aware of the negative self talk.

So I put myself in robot mode and just started doing things.

I'm not sure how this is healthy for my mental health but it worked.
Housing prices vary inversely with interest rates. Monthly payments are and always have been between 1/4 and 1/3 of income. This is actually up right now due to the bubble which cant last.
Yes.

I personally don't use any other social media site. But if I wasn't reading HN, I'd probably do something else that has less value or that would keep me busy longer (like playing the guitar or cooking stuff).

It does keep me up to date on most things tech (which I am expected to talk about socially, cause I am the tech guy among the people I know), plus it has a bunch of really interesting articles on random subjects which is refreshing.

My wife's in the art world. And because there is no HN of the art world, she has to check facebook to stay connected professionally, and that's a really bad thing cause she keeps being tempted by these algorithmically-optimized crap content.

HN is somewhat addictive, but it's one of the only ones that doesn't need to monetize your addiction.
"Toughen up, son" let me know when something bad happens in your life so I can swoop in and give you a bit of your own advice.
Yeah tags can imitate them on some level. But what about folder workflows like “I want to copy this whole project across 100+ files exactly so I start changing it without losing anything”

With folders it’s just copy the base folder.

Now I know as devs some of us would suggest version control as the solution but keep in mind with folders my non-technical 70 year old dad can do this action and understand it completely because of the tactility a folder provides.
I'm surprised that you never used it ?

This is pretty much the only reason why I still sometimes used Google - because Duck Duck Go only added this feature recently.
I don't have anything against meme GIFs: they are short and meant to be repeatable, so all good.

But, as I wrote in the post, I came across too many GIFs with demos, tutorials or animated diagrams on GitHub and NPM. This was the motivation to create GIFSane, as sometimes you want to stop in a frame, or go back to check a detail.

> The software engineering world adopted them for a particular use case: recording tutorials and demos.

Besides, the whole thing was done in the name of the hacking spirit hehe Perhaps, one day, GitHub will convert any GIFs/WebM files into video components (similar to what Twitter does).
A log keeps and protects everything it receives in a list, a broker just distributes things and do not keep a record of what it sends/receives
Doesn't confluent offer a JMS client for kafka? So certainly you can use kafka as a queue.
> Today, America's poor have a better quality of life than medieval kings.

That's definitely not true. That's a bias with some social researcher focusing on certain metrics such as income and education level. But in many societies (especially prior to that period), quality of life was rather unrelated to anything measurable: mutualizing resources on a local scale provides quality of life improvements which cannot be measured by looking at commercial activity (money).
Universities often limit what you can spend on OA, and even if there isn’t a hard limit, that money comes at the expense of other research items like student salaries and equipment. Funding agencies don’t write a blank check for publication costs.
You may be thinking of NATS Streaming which was a predecessor to JetStream. It was indeed a standalone thing that used NATS under the hood. JetStream is now baked into the NATS server.
That's why The Guardian is a pretty great source for news, they add a banner on all old articles saying it's X years old, so beware, information might be stale.
This December I used Google maps for a ~2hour car drive. The selected route sent me through mountain pass with lots of curves. Being below -10 degrees I didn't think it was the best alternative so I decided to look at the map myself.

There was an alternative that used mostly highways and decent roads that only took 10 more minutes.

I still don't understand why the curvy road was the default option.
> Easy access to having sex with the most beautiful woman in the world

Which can give you any number of incurable dick-rotting diseases (because no antibiotics) or give birth to an unwanted heir (because no birth control).

> beheading people I don't like

Thus making enemies that will hunt you in your sleep (because no rule-of-law).

> fixing laws I don't agree with

Then having to keep fixing them to repair unwanted side effects (because no law-making experts).

> having people willing to do anything to please me

And having no way to know if those people are really on your side or are just biding their time until their turn to do you in and take your place (because no quiet suburban lifestyle).

If you thinks these are perks, you are watching too much Fantasy.
Maybe I'm missing something but this setup sounds like a re-creation of Beanstalkd. https://beanstalkd.github.io/
Interestingly, I just realized another sphere where this occurs: management. A manager sees some perceived problem, comes up with a policy to "solve" it, and then requires their employees to follow the new policy.

Wonder what this sort of approach would look like for management. It seems like the employees are the "customers" in this arrangement.
Simply find a new girlfriend who hates the blockchain.
Whoa! Best advice I ever received: accept everything. Here’s why:

(1) Editors will not send you garbage, but they will try at first

(2) You, in turn, torture yourself to find a path for the worst papers in your field (see “garbage” above) to make it through to publication—as in you do sooner of the work for the authors—anonymously of course, and you package it nicely in your review letter

(3) Editors still think: wow, that’s incredible—still going to reject this paper but this referee has skills

(4) Letter writing time you say? Good news, there’s a stack of editors that think you walk on water

(5) Tenure earned

(6) QED?
I have no idea what it is you just said
Why would they spend capital for hardware when they can wait for cloud gaming technology to mature, making the console industry obsolete?
https://www.macrumors.com/2021/10/18/apple-considered-launch...
I agree with your argument. Wuhan strain may not be the first one which jumps from animals to human, but surely the first one to cause widely spread infection.
In that case, how does it distribute the data?
Very easy solution which I'm using when searching for something with expiry date is to look for date first and if it's not there then immediately leave site and not even bother to read anything there, if this is regular practice and domain frequently is at the top then after few times I'm just not visiting it anymore.
This is a very valid addition that I've skipped for clarity. But rental prices are very location-bound, and we can build only that much houses in a given location.
motivation gets you started, discipline keeps you going. ;)
The recipient is a non-Muslim, so no Sharia-related problems in his case.

AFAIK it is not forbidden for a Muslim to touch pigs, only to eat them. Pigs and dogs are impure, but you can perform ablution afterwards. Muslims normally own hunting and guarding dogs. That would actually be a common problem for Coalition soldiers in Iraq when they tried to enter a village by stealth - lots of barking.

"This impureness nevertheless doesn't imply that one might not touch a pork, but that one might need to wash his hands and maybe even re-do the ablution to be able to pray after touching it."

https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/48791/is-it-haram-...
No. Companies are desperate for slaves.
It looks like the proposed Covid-19 antibody find for Italy from 2019 is not uncontested among the science community, here is a comment from virologist Marion Koopmans [1], who was trying to validate the study's results:

"Yrs, we tried. Sofar have not been able to confirm. Serology in low prevalence situations is challenging so our criteria are stringent ( triple antigen positive and neutralisation). With that no positives pre march 2020 in our country and sofar not in panel from italy"

[1] https://twitter.com/MarionKoopmans/status/141665264260494541...
You're talking about the functionalities shown to the user.

I'm pretty sure Facebook tracks what you look at and what you scroll past, wouldn't be surprised if Twitter did too, for example.
The FIDO2 two factor auth portion is pretty seamless. It’s plug into USB port when the two factor prompt comes up, it will light up, touch the button, and good to go.

Everything else - good luck. Proprietary apps. Each one is slightly different. I haven’t bothered to use it for key generation. To be fair, there are hardware design constraints (no clear UI) so it would be hard to get around the learning curve.
I don't know how many Muslims you're friends with but I wouldn't assume without some indication that this was difficult for him. There is a huge variety of beliefs in a population of over a billion adherents. Most of the ones I know have no issue with, for example, picking up a pack of bacon from the store as long as they're not the one expected to eat it.
I hate that not all scientific papers include a date by default
The argv[0] as program name isn't required? Programs run fine without it. Command line options are a bit archaic for controlling initial state anyway.
This is exactly what I do. I recently had a really awful rut that didn’t end until after I dropped acid. I don’t do enough to get hallucinations but it really does help break me out of whatever pattern of thinking / behavior I’ve gotten stuck in.

I actually completely forgot about how much it helps me until I did it again that last time, and it gave me the strength to completely change my life around. I’m sure everyone’s experience is different though and if it isn’t proven in countless journal articles or endorsed by enough VCs, I don’t think the majority of this site would want to try it out.
There's a fallacy at play here. Some kings died due to lack of knowledge how to treat them. In the US, poor people die from diseases we know how to treat but society refuses to treat them because they don't have money.

Measuring the increase in possible outcomes is irrelevant if you don't take into considerable how accessible/affordable those outcomes are. It's just like if you said "but medieval kings didn't have space travel" because you see Jeff Bezos going into space as a sign of social progress for the rest of us.
You need to pre-commit to the amount of parallelism you want, and work-stealing or any other out-of-order processing is nearly impossible. Any Kafka client bug tracker is full of people who are confused (or worse) about this.

We use Kafka as a queue because we understand it very well, but it has a lot of limitations compared to "purpose-built" queuing services.
By using these screens, you are quite literally rubbing your fingers in human waste. [1]

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/29/mcdonalds-touchscreen-kiosks...
the simplest explanation is China didn't figure out what was happening for a while

It's even simpler than that: there was no need to figure anything out. If a few people present with flu-like symptoms but appear to suffer above average from it, Occam's conclusion would be that those people may have had an underlying condition that exacerbated the severity of their flu. There is zero need to go looking for zebra's until you identify a cluster of similar cases that all have above-average severity.
I'm curious what a legal case would look like around steganography. "Trust that our system says that this string is embedded". Or would the prosecution be obliged to divulge the algorithm.
> This is news to me

How can you be so sure that the current system is so insecure when you don't know how the current system works and what safeguards are in place?

https://www.votebrevard.gov/Statistics-and-Data/Request-Vote...

] Voter registration information is public record in Florida with a few exceptions. Information such as your social security number, driver’s license number, Florida ID number, signature, where a voter registered to vote, and where a voter updated a registration cannot be released or disclosed to the public. Other information such as your name, address, date of birth, party affiliation, and when you voted is public information.

"Looking Up Your Voting Record Is as Easy as Opening an App" - https://news.yahoo.com/want-look-voting-record-options-03222...

] If you're interested in looking up your voting record, there are a few ways of doing so online. Your voting record contains your voter registration information and voting history as maintained by your state, and is publicly available.

Download NC data from the state, at https://www.ncsbe.gov/results-data/voter-history-data

] Current Voter History Data / What’s included? Files contain a data entry for each election in which a voter participated in the past 10 years. Voter registration number, NCID, party affiliation, county, and precinct, as well as voting method (e.g., in-person on Election Day, absentee by mail) are included.

The details of what you can get, and how public things are, depends on where you are. What state do you live in?

> Did you check this public record to make sure nobody voted as you?

You know that's not the way statistics work, right?

It's not "I didn't vote and therefore X could impersonate me."

It's "X is going to impersonate me but doesn't know if I'm going to vote."

It takes only a few mistakes for X to be detected.

And it requires more than a few votes to change any but a few rare close elections.

> Has anyone ever contacted you to ask if you actually voted in an election that you did vote in?

Again, that's not the way statistics works.

I know people have contacted voters to verify they voted because I've read articles about people doing that.

If impersonation fraud is rampant and systemic then it can be identified by a small random sample. Which is unlikely to include any specific person.

If it is rare, then it's unlikely to affect any election. While still risking legal consequences if caught.

And indeed, it's rare, and people are indeed caught.
It should really be compared to in person meetings
Sorry if I’m interpreting inaccurately, but this seems nostalgic, anecdotal and ignorant of the gravity of social network effects. Certainly, communities are more online and connected than ever, but the claim from the article of “old internet” coming back don’t seem substantiated here.
Someone on HN should compile a big list of top free-open journals for various fields.
Funny how the people always banging on about the evils of capitalism have never actually lived under a communist system.

And also seem to believe there’s some sort of socialist Utopia in Europe/Scandinavia, despite the fact that social democracy has been dead there for decades.

Then again, in general anti capitalists are a fairly ignorant bunch, who’ve never let reality get in the way of their dogmatic politics.
> Good heavens, no.

It's not exactly the most elegant solution, but I don't understand the aversion either. A "web server" that is only intended to serve the challenge file can be as simple as a thread that writes a static blob of bytes to a socket. That's nc -l stuff.

If you're already modifying your TLS backend to understand the ALPN challenge, I don't see why it would be that hard to add logic for one specific GET/200 OK pair.
> I do go for hikes but not really for the exercise,

I doubt that outside of 10% of fitness fanatics the rest don't have similar motivations as to yours. Just having a work out is seldom a goal for anyone. :)
Seconded. Jordan is a pretty great place as far as I experienced it too. Though I was not alone myself, but watching interactions with others it was all very decent.
Can you ABX 256Kbps AAC and the equivalent MPC?

I remember ripping a few things in Musepack a very long time ago.

Now I use ALAC for lossless (it supports 24-bit 192khz now!) and AAC for lossy, because they are standardised, use the MP4 container, and seem to be the most widely supported.