skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This website is inane, juvenile and has no real use. And for all those reasons I love it. Kudos to HN for being a place where I can find things that just bring some silly fun to my life.

I remember in the early days of the Interwebs, there was so many sites just like this one. You didn't have to go to FB, IG or some other content mill to find them. Plus, when you did find one, it had the same feeling of excitement as finding a $5 bill on the sidewalk.

Here's some other great sites.
* http://eelslap.com/
* https://theuselessweb.com/
The book makes the argument that the ideas originated especially from debates between Jesuits and the Wendat tribe, and was then over a hundred years or so internalized into the enlightenment debate.
In America anyway that's because there are only two viable parties at national scale: center-right and right
> there are in fact some people who are saying that Young and Mitchell either should not do this or should not be allowed to do this.

It's disingenuous to lump these two things together. There's a bunch of things that people should be allowed to do, but that they shouldn't do.
Do you use a computer?

Well, some of the software stuff on it is from India. Enjoy!
This is purely conjecture on my part, but a beginner-friendly web framework was a barrier for adoption for Erlang, and I'm really excited to see Nova continue to grow.

If the moving background of the Nova website is so distracting that you can't bare to explore the rest of the framework, here are some other links to explore:

- HexDocs: https://hexdocs.pm/nova/quick-start.html

- Github: https://github.com/novaframework/nova

- Erlang Forums: https://erlangforums.com/c/erlang-frameworks/nova-forum/65

- Erlang Slack: https://erlef.org/slack-invite/erlanger

Long story short, get involved with Erlang (and Elixir)! They're both awesome, can't recommend them enough.
I feel for you. Here in europe we have countries like germany where if you are non german (doesnt matter if white or not) you are basically shunned. There is little career progression after a certain level - a non german managing germans is unheard of. At least in the US there are options as its an open society.
Recently, I've noticed a trend starting with example based learning sites specific to a programming language/tool. I initially learned go using gobyexample.com and found the approach worked quite well. I've created xbyexample.com to bring these websites to one centralized place, similar to learnxinyminutes.com.
The original line, the meme after that, or this website?

The line is silly and strongly acted, I think it's easy to see why it's funny.

Then sharing it around and tossing some emojis and sound effects on isn't a huge improvement but whatever it's entertaining to throw some images and sounds onto things.

And it should be easy to see why this website is popular just as a music tool, with the line not very important and largely there to put things in a silly mood. Some people will find it funny and some won't, but there doesn't need to be anything funny about the website for it to be fun.
I use MXRoute [0] which is still offering a lifetime promo. Looks like it increased to $175 since I bought it. I haven't been disappointed and it is faster than Gmail from my experience. I host Cypht [1] instead of using their webmail which allows me to aggregate other emails and RSS feeds together in one interface.

[0] https://mxroute.com/ [1] https://cypht.org/
Economically so, yes. They tend to want to entrench their wealth and not fetter it with taxes on programs that don’t benefit their interests.
Another version of this is "don't lecture me with you and your store-bought hair cut"
I'm currently deciding between Office365 Family or Fastmail. I would prefer Fastmail, they seem modern & less headache inducing than configuring Office365 for my custom domain. But some family members would benefit from having access to the Office suite of products, so that benefit is quite nice.
from where does the donor class derive their wealth? they pay you a wage or collect rent, profiting either way. in all cases, they derive their wealth because they own the things that allow us to produce value. perhaps those things should be commonly owned instead. then these class distinctions would evaporate.
Until last month, I hadn't gotten a paid haircut since the start of the pandemic. Got a decent pair of clippers with a taper guard, and did "okay" except for the edging on the back, which I learned to just not worry about (though my wife has done it a couple of times, and it comes out decent then)
I always wonder about this re: male genital mutilation. Could it have some long-term psychological impact? Could this be one of the reasons it got selected for (although it remains questionable, I think, whether cultural phenomena really work that way)?
When it costs less than 3$/month and you can suspend it without losing your data.
Nuance is hard to convey in groups, but I believe that *a small part of the problem is a lack of design*. Many peoples' eyes glaze over when they see a wall of text in an email and they just skim rather than read. Some simple things to enhance communications can be the following.

* Use a few bullet points to put attention on the main points you want to convey.

* Without going overboard, use a tasteful amount of graphic design (bolding one key sentence or whatever).

* Break up a giant nuanced email into sections.

* If something is critical, make it visual: a picture, explainer video, or an infographic can be really useful for something key.

This is harder than it looks. A quote attributed to Mark Twain is "I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead." It's a lot easier to go overboard than to distill what needs to be conveyed into the core elements.
If you've got a lot of domains, but need the `admin@<domain>.<tld>` registration emails to work correctly, you can route them all through SES + Lambda for nothing, rather than having to add hosting to all the domains. Impl works well for some use cases.
Because governments of any size are largely run by bureaucracies. This is both positive and negative in that it's stabilizing, but also can become anti-democratic and parasitic.

The politicians in the modern Western world mostly just give speeches and make deals and go to meetings. Sure they can guide policy to varying degrees, but implementation is through the bureaucracy.

I have to imagine when a new leader or parliamentarian comes to town (if they haven't been in town for years already and know "how things work") they are immediately set upon by a plethora of advisors and "experts" who explain reality and what must be done.

The politician then most likely see the light, but if not, they proceed to run into massive difficulties and very probably won't be there long.

I'm only familiar with the system in the US, but I think this explains why people vote for something, then none of it happens, even the reverse.
What’s the best way to transfer or archive your gmail in a way that keeps it searchable?
As an educated black person in tech who grew up in America, I'll stick with voting democrat. I'd rather get lip service, be ignored, with some mostly superficial policy here and there than have policy that actively targets the community I grew up with and my family.

I'm constantly told the conclusions of the article and how I'm much better off getting my taxes lowered, but there are just plainly obvious differences between living in a red or blue state. I grew up in a red state that is purple now and the back and forth major policy changes depending on the party in charge are palpable. Even with my increased salary and status at work that has me going to fewer of the places I grew up going to and being around a variety of people, I know voting Republican has a much greater chance of hurting cousins, aunts, childhood friends that maybe didn't get the chances I got in my immediate family.

I also know no matter how well I do in life, I'm just one traffic stop away from death or disaster and I'd rather side with the party that at least occasionally tries to hold police accountable for their actions.

I'll differentiate between democrats and third party candidates but I'll never cast a vote for anyone with R next to their name, unless there's some great switch like a massively racist candidate like Barry Goldwater.
Visual summary of the 20M log lines your stack generated yesterday?

Sure,

- Select sources of data
- Take a quick look on logs but don’t try to read them all. You can’t
- Click “Patterns”. Somebody grouped your logs for you, by pattern
- Errors and warnings ? filter in
- What the heck is this “internal server error”?! zoom in to see the problematic logs
- Done
I think it's a GREAT one; if the company engages in practices that are borderline illegal and immoral (considered so even by their supposed beneficiaries [1], and rejected by one of the most left-wing states [2]), it's probably a toxic place to work.

The entire DEI industry belongs to Golgafrincham Ark Fleet Ship B. It's good to know in advance if a company is taken over by this malignant growth.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/02/25/most-americ...
[2] https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_16,_Repeal_Pr...
Question for the more EV knowledgeable people out there.

Is there anybody pursuing the idea of charging stations where one swaps your EV’s battery for a fully charged one, and pays a fee proportional to how expensive it was to charge that battery at the local electricity rate?

Specifically, what are the barriers? Legal? Technical? Patent-related? Capital? Or is it not worth investing in this vision, because there’s reason to believe we’ll reach ubiquitous availability of charge stations with <5 minute charge times for a 350 mile range (i.e. equivalent to a full tank fill-up at a gas station) in the not distant future?

To understand the use case better, we own a car and only use it to “get away” (i.e. 200-600 miles over the course of a day into somewhat remote locales). We’d love to have an EV, but the idea of pausing to take a long charging break in the middle of an already long drive is very unappealing.
> why Postgres and not rabbitmq or redis?

I chose postrges for our mq stack over rabbitmq and redis. Since our team is small, we are trying to be efficient in our use of manpower. our architecture is as dirt simple as it gets. (loadbalancer -> api-server-nodes -> aws aurora).

adding another external dependency just adds one more thing that can potentially go wrong. Thats one more thing we need to watch and maintain accross staging and production envrionemnts and one more thingto get running on developer machines.

There may come a day where we switch over to rabbitmq or kafka but postgres has proven to be fast enough. when writes are too much of a load, we can shard the writes to its own dedicated machine and buy more time. When our traffic is sufficiently high that even that isn't enough, we'll have enough revenue to pay someone to configure kafka/rabbitmq and deal with the configuration and maintenance fulltime.

Until then, if you want to survive as a startup, KEEP IT SIMPLE. Any complexity you adopt needs to justify itself by providing a competitive advantage.
They run the top most visited by developers website. Which means the supply is already there.

Companies would do basically everything to reach the developers, so I this would be a perfect match.
I dont even have the energy to make it through this article
Continuing your racist tirade against India, I can see, with your false anecdotes.
Seems like Fastmail is extremely popular here, based on the other comments. What are its advantages compared to say, Protonmail?
Maybe one could use shannon’s demon strategy?
No, the practical result in the US is a huge Federal bailout every few decades, labelled "Infrastructure."

Not to mention that they are subsidised within their own municipalities by commercial property and what little climate friendly housing is not NIMBY'd, typically by loud car sewers.
I don't think it's good science to say that every difference comes from discimination. For example, the poorer you are, the higher are your chances of dropping out. This is not discrimination against poor people. But, at least to me, this is a problem that we should try to fix.
Speaking of eelslap, another slap-happy nugget from those days: https://www.addictinggames.com/funny/spank-the-monkey
Yep, i think you got it right.

Autonomy used to produce this thing called DRE (dynamic reasoning engine), we used to use a ton of them as search engine well before elastic search was a thing. And of course we used to spend a metric fuckton of money in licenses.

Later Autonomy was sold to HPE and they renamed the core product to IDOL IIRC, as in "Intelligent Data Operating Layer".

Afaik Autonomy/IDOL was great as a search engine, however the whole market was pretty much cannibalized by ElasticSearch.
I have a weak intuition that adding lanes to Alma and El Camino made the traffic problem worse, independently of the possible increase in traffic in the road. This is because it became impossible to do left turns into or out of the road, nor cross the road, without a traffic light, so they had to be installed at every intersection. Before the lane doubling, there was a slow-moving flow that was easy to navigate across, but after the lane doubling, there was either four lanes of high speed or a quadruple wall of cars. It also removed visibility because cars used to be able to pull out a bit before merging, but now they sit behind trees and pray nobody is coming in the right lane. Realizing this, the town tried to reverse or prevent Junipero Serra from being used as a fast double-lane road by installing a concrete serpentine across the middle and bike lane, with the obvious consequence of turning Saturday morning drives into a trolley problem. Good intention, but… maybe some paint instead. Sometimes I think Palo Alto might be a nicer place to live if the town lacked the budget to entertain new ideas.
The Matrix team had already confirmed that e2ee with XMPP is a 'contradiction in terms'. That's one of the reasons why I believe working on improving existing Internet Standards is better than switching to another trendy, non-standard protocol.
Agreed.

Especially since usually the entire point of an interrupt triggered by some hardware-related event (vsync, hsync etc) is that the main thread is not yielding or doing anything at all to cooperate.
For Python, you can use py2exe.

https://www.py2exe.org/
Quite timely to see this discussion here. I got to a point on a home project last night where I need to implement a scheduler and was thinking 'man I dont want to setup Celery for this', that can wait for tomorrow.

In the past I have actually written my own very little scheduler that borrows the app database. Really just table that is a job queue and a script on a loop that grabs the job when it appears in the table. But it did have the occasional hiccup.

I can't wait to check this out and some other suggestions in the comments.
> Indira, typical Indian can't understand semiconductors and behaved like an uncivilised tribal... is what you want to convey?

No... Indira indeed understood semiconductors, and "what those thinking machine thing is" way batter than most of her contemporaries. She was very educated.

In fact, she was promoting computer education heavily, yet her vision for the computer was complete opposite of business minded Americans.

She seen computers to be powerful, and heavily restricted machines in the future, gated behind the elite "oracular class" to prevent proletarians from computing something wrong (like finding out cong fudging economics figures.)

For her vision of computers, mass manufacturing was not needed, and, worse, it was dangerous. She didn't mind computers costing millions of dollars, or being the size of a mountain, and only available few pieces per country as long as the owner would be her/the government.

She later conceeded on this towards the end of her reign once she seen the industry choosing the Fairchild's path irreversably, but the ship has long since sailed.
Yeah, that's why I never put WAN on a shared interface.
HP DOES THIS TOO. At least, they did. For example, on some g6 servers iLO/LO100 physical interface was optional (a small but costly add-on card) and, when not installed, iLO was shared with normal eth.
If someone manages to hack a server enough to reset the shared iLO, at least it shouldn't immediately pop up into internet.
I read it and felt kind-of bitter.

On one hand, yeah, may be nuanced message doesn't work at scale. However, when saying literally two things (vs one) became nuanced. I wound understand if it was a speech talking about a dozen of different things and their interplay... These were literally two things - create a solid product and let's move forward fast. That's it.

Also, why the hell whole hierarchy of middle management exist in such case? The only reason for it to exist is exactly ability to execute at scale (when things which are coming from the top are propagated properly).
The Mushroom Song
Firewall and NAT are orthogonal. You need both.

Exposing your LAN configuration for the whole world to see is insanity. (Yes, we sometimes do this, but only because we still don't have sane VPN solutions here in the year 2022.)
The battery is probably the singular most expensive component in an EV Vehicle. And batteries degrade with time and are in different states. If someone comes in with a batter that's only half working, then swaps it for a fully working one? or One that comes to the station with a fully working one and swaps it for a half working one?

Batteries would need to be a communal resource - with them being expensive i don't see it happening. Batteries need to be cheap for companies and people to take the risk of swapping their battery with a random one.
This has mostly been my experience as well. I moved my email and calendaring to Fastmail, keeping my vestigal gmail address. I use this google account for Docs and nothing else. (For academics, do not keep your writing/cv/syllabi/etc in a Google account tied to your university email address!) I still get a personal email addressed to gmail every couple of months despite a years-long process of autoreplies asking family and friends to move to my new email address. It takes a long time but it's worth it.

As I've started hosting more websites (mostly academic projects like unfold.studio or learning-machines.net), I have come to appreciate more and more the ability to point multiple domains' MX records to my single fastmail account. A nice additional benefit is the ability to handle wildcard email addresses. When I log in to ebay, it's with ebay.com@<subdomain>. When I log in to the IRS, it's with irs.gov@<subdomain>. When someone sells an email address or starts spamming it, I can cut it off. And I can hope that maybe a few less rows are getting joined in the big database in the sky.
so-called "left-wing elites" still favor privatization while public ownership is never in the conversation, so yes.
Already down xD: An error occurred during a connection to 127.0.0.1.
I mean, I can kind of understand the javascript thing as there are lots of great developers here and it can be frustrating when there are "better" languages that don't get any love.

The Elon Musk / Tesla / Bitcoin thing I don't understand. Anytime there is a link on HN about these, I know it's going to be a "See, I told you so" type of link where they try to justify their hate.

Perhaps it's because Elon Musk is the best "startup" guy and there is jealousy? I don't know. It doesn't make much sense to me.
My office ISP is a mobile phone running a wifi hotspot.

(Don't judge, it's faster than the last ADSL connection at about 80Mbit/s on a good day, much cheaper, and the office goes through about 40GB/month no problem.)

The phone has an IPv6 address but no IPv4 address.

Ironic, then, that the hotspot only provides IPv4 to all connected devices, not IPv6. As a result, all connected devices in the office can only use IPv4.

My home ISP is a mobile 4G router providing wifi.

The router doesn't get an IPv6 from upstream, just IPv4, so it only provides IPv4 to connected devices at home. I have no idea if it would provide IPv6 service if it got one from upstream. It is a little strange that it doesn't get IPv6 from upstream, because it's exactly the same type of mobile data contract as the office phone-router is using.

It's 2022. I've had IPv6 on my servers since about 2003.

But aside from my actual phone, I've never had IPv6 on any device I'm using, living at numerous homes, using many and varied ISPs, working at numerous offices, or anywhere else. Not even when travelling.

I had to turn off IPv6 on my mail server, because gmail.com was rejecting mail from it when sent over IPv6, but not when sent over IPv4.

I use LXD and Docker on some of my servers for containers, and libvirt/KVM for VMs. In theory they support IPv6 but in practice it's easier to work with IPv4 address or port forwarding with them. That means the containers and VMs are only reachable from the internet over IPv4, even when the host servers have IPv6.

All together, anything I do to support IPv6 ends up poorly tested because it's not really used, and everything has to be done with IPv4 in parallel anyway.

I still have IPv6 on my servers, and DNS configured appropriately. But as it virtually never gets used, it seems a bit pointless. Sometimes I don't set up IPv6 on a new server straight away, and nothing is missed.
Perhaps but it's a bit more complicated. Citizens United is more about money than speech per se. You can't prevent members of corporations from speaking whatever they want as they are people, but corporations acting as corporations can bankroll political campaigns and push propaganda in ways very few individuals can afford.

It gets even worse when you consider that many corporations are international entities whose interests may not be aligned at all with those of US voters. It's a bit like letting people overseas come into the US and contribute to campaigns and run political ads without limit. In fact it more or less allows this since it's trivial for a foreign individual (or state actor) to use a corporation as a front.

Personally I think Citizens United is a threat to national security. If we were still in the Cold War you'd have the USSR contributing hundreds of millions of dollars to PACs and DC think tanks after laundering it through byzantine financial relationships with US front companies.

I'm just referring to the hypocrisy of right wingers suddenly discovering the issues with monopolies (and narrow oligopolies) when it affects them. You'd be hearing nothing about big tech from the right if they hadn't deplatformed people on the right.
Are functional junkies welcome where you work? Asking for a friend.