skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Audio cassettes are making a comeback!

It's a tiny niche right now, but that's what people said about LPs not so long ago.

Some of my favorite bands now release cassette tapes. I don't have a player at the moment, but soon!

https://theconversation.com/audio-cassettes-despite-being-a-...
I'm not convinced yet that it isn't a net positive, given that a lot of what you described is illegal according to it, and said illegal behavior is being punished
> We've had a variety of markup formats including HTML, XML, etc. which are relatively a pain to read or write.

Right, but Markdown relies on HTML (or whatever other markup it is pre-procesing) for anything difficult.

I like Markdown[0] but surely our job as technologists is to find better solutions than a system that requires you to escape asterisks in certain situations, or rely on a preview pane to work out what it will do.

[0] but YAML front matter should burn in the fire
I lived in Canada for ten years. I biked every day. However, during that time Canada's gold medal cyclist was paralyzed by being hit by a garbage truck whose driver had been deliberately trying to scare the cyclist repeatedly (to the point he'd called the cops) and yet got off entirely.

I moved to New York City and I stopped cycling almost immediately. Vacillating between anxiety, terror and rage was not good for me. Twenty years later I bought a bike, and a month later give it to my neighbor - even with a few bike paths, it was just as bad.

Thirty years after I had come to NYC, I moved to the Netherlands. And now I bike absolutely everywhere. Cars treat bikes like they are gold. Several times, cars have hard-braked because they suddenly noticed me, even though I wasn't in danger.

Every single car that stops for me here gets a smile and a wave, because I so, so, so appreciate being able to bike again, and being treated like my life has value.
"I can use the shell" != "I can write shell scripts"

Bash is really difficult to write well (if at all) and too many people don't appreciate this. Of course this leads to instability in shell scripts. Offender number 1? Dockerfiles!
What made World of Warcraft's environments so compelling?
As far as I know vodafone uses the same modem/router for all DOCSIS connections, but disables some funcionality (such as bridge mode) for 'ex-unitymedia' connections.

It seems like the integration of both networks is quite a task and the bridge-mode feature is not a priority. How the bridge-mode is affected by the network backbone is unclear to me. IPv6 delegation also does not work for me.
I ported the rather nifty Psion 5 app called PhoneMan to the Palm pilots. It allowed managing address books and sending and reading sms messages. I never quite got around to finishing the picture message functionality.
I even had sync working with the Bluetooth module and an Ericsson phone.
To the best of my knowledge, I am the only Hetzner employee actively responding to comments on HN. We don't pay for people to make comments. --Katie
To my observation, there are no sites with more than a dram of content on them that haven't been compelled by GDPR compliance to put an obnoxious cookie banner up.

If you've found some, please share.
Wage theft is endemic in programming. Think of all those colleagues who have worked late on a deadline because somebody pressured them into it. They're reducing their own effective hourly rate and contributing to a long hours culture because of the daily ritual of humiliation at standup. It is very different to the restaurant analogy but wage theft and humiliation are still baked in for many of us.
> It's for Devs only to make sure they are not blocked[..]

If in the course of one's work one becomes blocked, would one really wait until the following day's stand-up to tell anyone about this?

If so then I think both the worker and the company have bigger issues than whether the stand-up itself is a good use of time.

The mind boggles.
Famously Henry Marsh (neurosurgeon) wears a cowboy hat instead.
I didn't really understand from the article how "Ali" made money from the scam. Can anyone shed light on that?
I just hope it's not a Megaflopolis
I once typeset an Occam assignment paper in groff, for kicks.
Where should they do it?
Hi HN! I am 16 and I am building a to-do list + CRM for Messenger (because I think the shops need this to reply to me, the customer better)

Looking forward to your feedback! :)
Hospitals seem to routinely deny mothers the right to take their placenta with them: https://www.vice.com/en/article/xd57m3/heres-why-women-are-s...

> Dr. Kristal pointed out, with slight hesitancy, that research hospitals could have a financial motive to keeping women's placentas given that "a lot of bigger hospitals have—or, at least, had—contracts with pharmaceutical and cosmetic houses to sell the placentas." The hospitals I spoke with denied this allegation, but it's perhaps worth noting that Baylor Hospitals—which is notorious for refusing to let moms take home their placentas—is also part of a national study to evaluate the efficacy of using cells derived from human placenta to treat Crohn's disease.

Or another report:

https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/8273...

> One of the most widely used products for lower extremity wounds, Lantis said, is EpiFix, which is made by MiMedx. It is synthesized from "dehydrated human amnion/chorion membrane" -- placental material -- according to the company's website. In 2013, the FDA warned the company about marketing the product without approval, which the firm eventually obtained.

> If women knew more about the money, power, and scandal behind their donations, they might see donation differently, Turner said.

> "What if women were given the full account, that some biobank is going to acquire it, process it, assign it value, and then it's going to be marked up and sold again," Turner said. "Some women might think twice."

These are just in the first page of google results. It's shady but not exactly illegal (apparently) to ask mothers on the operating table to sign off on "donating" their placentas.

If such donations are regularly solicited, I don't find it that surprising that hospitals profit off of them one way or another. I do agree the CEO should back up her claims.
This resonates with me. Like GP I find going full nomad too lonely, so I just started experimenting with spending maybe 60% of the year in my “base”, and taking 2-4 week trips here and there. So far so good!
and Privacy Badger
> One of the few times I get to remember that English is only my second language.

Most native speakers aren't aware of the terms. They'll call anything by any name.

There is a significant constituency for "curly brackets {}" and "square brackets []".

Anyway, there are mistakes you could make that would give you away as a nonnative speaker, but that wasn't one of them.
I'm sure it had an effect, but they were already reading your email and making targeted ads out of the content before that.
You are ignoring the big questions!

Will it improve everyone's life to have more cyclists and less cars?

How are we going to deal with the climate emergency without getting rid of cars?

> Would cyclists be able or willing to fund the construction?

Jesus, man. I'm not a parent, but I willingly pay for schools for children.

This perennial argument against any governmental spend at all has been debunked so thoroughly that at this point I believe that most who make it know it's wrong, and use it anyway.
> Developers never look beyond Markdown when writing documentation or articles and are thus blissly unaware of the much richer writing possibilties of using HTML (which is simple to learn, unlike CSS).

HTML is wolf in sheep's clothing though. It's deceptively simple to learn the basics, but the nested nature of it is something that will allow one to shoot their semantical or representational foot off, even before trying to apply CSS. Take, for example, humble P tag. The thing that trips up most people, for example, is that ideally you'd need to contain text blocks in paragraphs, not just have it free floating in the document. In theory. P tag is simple. Except that end tag is optional. When writing HTML, that is. But not always, as per standard:

"A P element's end tag can be omitted if the p element is immediately followed by an address, article, aside, blockquote, details, div, dl, fieldset, figcaption, figure, footer, form, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, header, hgroup, hr, main, menu, nav, ol, p, pre, section, table, or ul element, or if there is no more content in the parent element and the parent element is an HTML element that is not an a, audio, del, ins, map, noscript, or video element, or an autonomous custom element."

But in XHTML end tag is always required. And you shouldn't have block level elements like images within P. And you can't nest them. When outputting DIV with a block of text that DIV should contain a P, not just text. DIV's are cool, you can nest DIVs. And they need end tag. Simple? Well:

"Authors are strongly encouraged to view the div element as an element of last resort, for when no other element is suitable. Use of more appropriate elements instead of the div element leads to better accessibility for readers and easier maintainability for authors."

But who does that nowadays? It's DIVs all the way down usually.
So no, HTML is not simple.

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/
> We don't have software driven vehicles, we have software driven humans.

Wow, this is a very prescient quote. I think we will hear this repeated often in the years to come.
You can go to https://www.twilio.com/login/password and enter a fake email address and repeated fake passwords. Or one of the addresses listed here: https://github.com/dessant/buster/issues/178 Though I got pretty easy ones trying it.
Sadly the support for APNG isn't great. For example on Discord GIFs works, but not APNGs. I also know of another service where, due to internal caching (IP hiding), APNGs get broken and don't animate.
ηMatrix is a fork maintained for Pale Moon: https://gitlab.com/vannilla/ematrix
Are you referring to patient rounds? It seems pretty different to me - that's (usually/when well-staffed) multiple doctors (at various stages of training) working on a single bug (pun very much intended) before moving onto the next one. And it's (for all patients considered together) a significant chunk of the day: what's left of it is used to do the work that arose from the discussion (with some of that left to whoever's on overnight).

If we need to analogise it, I'd say it's more like sprint planning - discussing what's to do on each ticket (patient). Except it's longer and more detailed, and the work that's left is much more like grunt work in a way - book the scan, take the blood, chase results, etc.
> "Are you a human" is not something a website should know.

This is the only long term solution as ML gets closer to AI.

If your website is fucked because it can't handle the traffic, that's better solved at the source (hardware/software/bandwidth)

If your website is fucked because someone can trivially scrape the most important bits from the web interface, you need to have a business conversation, not a technology conversation.
AntiFuzz: Impeding Fuzzing Audits of Binary Executables
Hot soup: Vietnam is a country divided by a common pho
I would love to get a palm sized devices today. I think the size, weight and UI were great for everyday. I don't mind it's thick if it means that the battery could be swapped with a connector (!), something almost unheard of today.
All investment opportunities, to a first approximation, are competing with one another for capital. When interest rates drop, newly issued bonds become worse investments - but you've got to invest in something, so money flows into everything else. When interest rates go up, the opposite happens.
I think that cyclists running red lights is a symptom that most crossings and junctions are designed primarily for motor vehicles. Some countries modify traffic laws for cyclists such as the Idaho Stop and Paris has also made changes so that red lights can be treated as Give Way/Yield. However that does not excuse cyclists that endanger pedestrians.

One-way streets are also seldom designed to take into account cyclists and again, they're designed for large motor vehicles. Here in the UK, there are lots of one-way streets that have a specific cycle lane to go the wrong way, but it's a lottery as to whether local councils have bothered to examine the one-ways.
It is like saying: don't post from internet here--it is full of garbage/trolls (it is true but irrelevant unless your point that all articles are garbage or all users are trolls).

The cancel culture is cancerous.
The benefits and ethics of diversity are unrelated to this topic or anything else touched upon by your post

It seems like you're using this topic as a pretext to complain about the chip on your shoulder that is opposition to any conscious embracing of diversity

Also, you don't have to put "people of color" in quotes, they're actually people
I bicycle a lot more than I drive. But I have to say, some of my fellow cyclists are really obnoxious assholes. Like driving 2 next to each other with 20km/h in a 100km/h area. Of course all the cars that have to wait for them are going to be pissed. And especially so if those morons drive on the road even when there's a perfectly workable dedicated bike lane next to the road. And why is it that elderly men who drive super slowly always feel the need to dress up in neon-colored skin-tight pants?

One the one hand, I believe car drivers are somewhat rational in hating cyclists, because 10-20% of them really are assholes.

On the other hand, I am scared that their reaction to asshole bicycle drivers also affects my own bicycling safety.
Everything was so fragile.

You'd break things, learn, fix them for the time being, until the next thing broke.

Computing today is far less stressful-somehow reminds me of how vehicles today take next-to-zero mechanical knowledge to operate, whereas not all that long ago you needed to know a mechanic and be reasonably handy yourself to keep them running smoothly.

Now things just work. That's broadly better. But I have to wonder how many of us would be in tech if we hadn't tinkered with tech growing up.
Not just FF7. Mystic Quest (Final Fantasy Adventure) [1] was my first Final Fantasy game (I only played a little bit FFXIV ~30 years after) back around 1991/1992 on the orig. Gameboy, and it also had the tree of life paradigm. Though you can regard it as a spinoff, the Mana series, it featured things like moogles, chocobo's, tree of life, Excalibur, ...

One of my first RPG games, along with Hero Quest (a simplified clone of Warhammer Quest).

One thing it couldn't do though was walk diagonally, which you could with Zelda/Link (forgot the exact name) on Gameboy. I got stuck on that game (IIRC clueless what to do, where to go). In Mystic Quest I only got stuck once, with the palm trees where you had to make the 8 to find the dungeon. I didn't get the clue to it, but then again my native language wasn't English.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_Adventure
I've found that I don't mind cyclists on the road at all - I just pass them at the nearest opportunity maintaining appropriate distance. I don't think I ever experienced any sort of dangerous situation caused by a cyclist while driving.

I do hate having them in places meant for pedestrians though - I don't enjoy being passed at a few centimetre distance by something twice as fast as a jogger.

I've been to places that impose restrictions on cycling in pedestrianized areas. Example:

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.2688632,-2.9319466,3a,75y,28...

The experience of walking is so much better there.

Because of this I don't believe a truly walkable city should prioritize cycling. As with anything the asshole 5% ruin it for everyone else.
Repurposing the £27bn "strategic roads budget" in an age of climate change would build a whole lot of cycleways.
You can keep such logs under article 6.1.f if the retention period is 30 days or less (causing self-fulfillment of article 17) or indefinitely if you remove/anonymize PII from them. Of course article 17.3 gives you an exemption for various purposes, e.g. if you had a breach you don't need to delete the logs from that period while investigating it.
It is a good analogy. On the other hand, it would be quite jarring if I had to go through a metal detector just to buy groceries.

On the third hand, I understand US schools have metal detectors these days, and in Beijing I had to go through a metal detector to hop on the metro, so what do I know...
With law I believe it can happen, but with medicine, not really.

Most visits to doctors it is not about only about the sickness (or information about what medicine to get), but about socializing and somebody inspect you and discuss with you. This part, the machine cannot do. It is what is called the doctor-patient relationship. If you think this is not the important part, I cannot disagree more with you.

I go to doctors only when I really need, but the pattern I see around is that people have a real long lasting trust relationship with the doctors they see.
You're not exactly leading by example, arguing off a stereotype...
Atlassian co-founder wants to buy Australia’s biggest polluter to make it green
In the old way, site owners who did not want to send data to 3rd parties could just NOT insert the "send data to 3rd parties" code into their website

Now they still have that option, but users have no technical means to determine whether this is happening
The OP is asking for things that were actually better in the past, not for empty nostalgia. To be sure, you'll get a lot of that too :)
> such comments come from eastern parts of Europe, where nationalistic movements have a nice resurgence

Speaking as an American (and a Swissman), the country that has done the most to undermine the EU has been Germany. First with austerity. Next by hyperventilating over nuclear. Then by implementing the results of said hyperventilation by vacillating over Russia. Almost pathologically, it has been Berlin putting its interests ahead of Europe that has caused Brussels’ stumbles.

If these issues weren’t blocked (nor the common defence and deposit insurance schemes) nationalism in Eastern Europe wouldn’t be as pressing.
https://archive.is/j8TAU
>>> VPNs, with Wireguard

Just tried it on iOS, please scratch it from the list
Cycliq looks amazing, but buying both a front and rear cam/light would cost more than my bike! Any clones or alternatives out there?
The "Not Just Bikes" channel in YouTube makes the awesome observation that building infrastructure for cyclists actually improves driving times for a car drivers, and may be actually cheaper to implement, certainly much cheaper to maintain.

The calculation for car-saturated cities is that each drive takes as long as fastest alternative mode, and no faster. Which kinda makes sense to me - as you build more infra people chose to not drive, making driving a lot more fun for the die-hards and the ones where that's not an option.
The Lockpicking Lawyer should publish videos comparing times to break a locks vs solving captchas :)
I kept expecting to finally get to the part where this persons way of thinking about programming diverges from mine but never did. It just ended. Is any of this different from how other people think about programming? It all seemed pretty conventional.
If they need a human to solve the puzzle, it is doing its job.

The problem is that somewhere along the way, we've decided that Robot⇒Evil and Human⇒Good and forgotten that evil humans exist.
It's a safety thing as well. And those bike roads last a very long time compared to car roads. It would likely cause less polarization too!
> For example sharing a flat with 6 people is sometimes half the cost of 3-4 hotel rooms (depending on how you can split)

And, again, this is the whole problem. Because that's a flat that could have gone to someone who actually lives and works in the local area, not a tourist. It's cheaper because it externalizes that cost.

I'm fine with hostels too, I see no problem with people choosing them. I'm not fine with converting residential homes into unlicensed hotels . It destroys the local community, and drives up prices for all the other people who are left trying to live there, and further feeds housing crises.
No, Russian bots convinced everyone to suspect diverging opinions to be Russian bots.
uBlock Origin solves the problem you had too, without breaking multiple sites.
> If Not Markdown, Then What?

Textile!
What's your deal with what some people wear to exercise? Is that a fetish or something of yours?
Positive impact is hard, but there are certainly terrible teachers who have a strong negative impact but are sheltered by teachers' unions. The best case is places like New York that have the notorious "rubber rooms" where they are exiled so at least they can do no further harm to students, while remaining a drain on public finances.

The problem is you can't use data science to find them. Any metric can and will be gamed. It requires a qualitative assessment, and also giving parents more power in the system, since they are the ones most aligned with the interests of students.
> non programmers telling us when we can and cannot refactor.

If these people weren't there half of the programmer population would be stuck in and endless refactoring loop.

Programmers are tools, tools need people to use them
Agreed, and maybe this is more common than may impression & experience, but if that's the goal, wouldn't you prefer to do it in the afternoon? After you've spent some time on something, but perhaps still have some time left to shift approach or have a 1:1 call with someone who says they can help?

Sometimes stand-up for me means 'remind myself what I was doing'; if not that then I've certainly not got far past it, haven't had long to get much done or be stuck. I'm unlikely to say in a stand-up that I'm stuck on something, I'll have a(nother) crack at it and perhaps ask after lunch if necessary.
No people should not run on public roads, why would you do that? I've never ran on a public road. Parks are made for recreation, not transportation. You don't do pushups on a busy sidewalk where people are trying to walk
GitHub is doubling down on Markdown

https://github.blog/2022-02-14-include-diagrams-markdown-fil...

https://github.blog/changelog/2022-01-21-allow-to-upload-svg...

Long live Markdown !!
As is his right as an artist, I suppose.

I am fond of Andy Baio's work, but looked at from the other side, Jay Maisel is protecting his work, and he's entitled to do so.

They should have asked, I think; they might have got a different response, whatever the settlement says. Maisel is an intellectually curious guy, but they pissed him off by ripping off his work.

It always troubled me that there was so much vitriol for Maisel from the exact same community of people who rightly insist that free software licences are enforceable and that non-compliance should be shamed.

(See for example, the passive-aggressive and decidedly non-neutral Wikipedia page for Maisel, which goes out of its way to dwarf the settlement sum with discussions of Maisel's wealth, which was built on hard work and protecting the income-generating rights earned from his work, and then a measure of good timing like almost everyone else with earned wealth)
It's not illegal to store such information in default logs per se, even without explicit consent, if it would fall into the "legitimate interest" category[0], e.g. you need it to operate the service and prevent abuse, and there is no less intrusive way to e.g. reasonably monitor for and prevent abuse.

However, you cannot share such logs without consent, you still have an obligation to inform users about your legitimate interest assessment and what data you store, and you still have to abide to other rights of users such as the right of users to ask for a copy of the data you store about them.

[0] Art 6.1.f https://gdpr.eu/article-6-how-to-process-personal-data-legal...
You would think legal would have put an end to that madness..