skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be a sign of callowness to bemoan the fact that pessimistic writers do not rate and may be reprehended in both good conscience and good company. Some critics of the pessimist often think they have his back to the wall when they blithely jeer, “If that is how this fellow feels, he should either kill himself or be decried as a hypocrite.” That the pessimist should kill himself in order to live up to his ideas may be counterattacked as betraying such a crass intellect that it does not deserve a response. Yet it is not much of a chore to produce one. Simply because someone has reached the conclusion that the amount of suffering in this world is enough that anyone would be better off never having been born does not mean that by force of logic or sincerity he must kill himself. It only means he has concluded that the amount of suffering in this world is enough that anyone would be better off never having been born. Others may disagree on this point as it pleases them, but they must accept that if they believe themselves to have a stronger case than the pessimist, then they are mistaken.

Naturally, there are pessimists who do kill themselves, but nothing obliges them to kill themselves or live with the mark of the hypocrite on their brow. Voluntary death might seem a thoroughly negative course of action, but it is not as simple as that. Every negation is adulterated or stealthily launched by an affirmative spirit. An unequivocal “no” cannot be uttered or acted upon. Lucifer’s last words in heaven may have been “Non serviam,” but none has served the Almighty so dutifully, since His sideshow in the clouds would never draw any customers if it were not for the main attraction of the devil’s hell on earth. Only catatonics and coma patients can persevere in a dignified withdrawal from life’s rattle and hum. Without a “yes” in our hearts, nothing would be done. And to be done with our existence en masse would be the most ambitious affirmation of all.
For me:

- Cross platform UI is hard. (I'm learning to use Avalonia, and that's getting better but for now it feels pretty hard to get into, especially for someone coming from outside the XAML/dotnet ecosystem)

- Downloading an app presents significant friction to users. If you can solve it with a web app, you'll get a much wider reach (though converting that to paying customers might be a challenge)

- Platforms are making it HARD (signing, lots of "run this app from an unsafe source? open anyways?") It's doable if you already have a large, established app but just throwing together little utility apps is much harder than it used to be.

- Cloud Data. Users expect their projects and data to be available on the cloud. Platforms offer good ways to do this (like CloudKit) but there's no cross platform way to do this. Also this means that you're going to have to deal with auth/login at some level, which is a pain.

- No marketplace. If you build a standalone app, with no subscription nonsense, where are you going to sell it? Build your own store page and payment processor?

- The elves have left for the undying lands. The golden days where an app could exist as a standalone thing is just over. Our world is so interconnected that apps need to be connected to lots of other things -- even standalone apps end up talking to a bunch of apis. This interconnectedness is significantly easier in a browser or server-based app, even though it's quite possible in a desktop app.
True, maybe he isn't considered a member of "team Dyalog" while still being legally an employee or contractor? He was hired in early 2020 a few months before I left, and partly funded by Dyalog before that. And he's told me he prefers to be seen as independent, but that was when he was working on his PhD and Indiana University was his primary affiliation.
I love the fast turnaround time from the report to the release of the patch.
Maybe in the moment you go along with what is correct. Like, with the git example, in the moment you believe your coworker is good at git because she helped you. But after that situational event happens, you go back to your normal state. You might be going along with it in the moment, but not critically analyzing your thoughts and seeing how they are different? My theory only holds up if you are mostly oblivious to your thoughts having been different before.

The thing is your talking about your opinions and mindsets more than your "memory". You didn't mention having typical memory issues, like forgetting what you did or where you are in a project or that random thing your boss told you to do. This might be more of a psychological thing than a medical thing. If your doctor doesn't think it's medical in nature, you might want to get a Therapist. I know people don't like therapy, but therapy can give you a lot of personalized advice on how to adjust to your own experience wayy better than random internet nerds.
I have a 1m Thunderbolt 4 cable, 2m are also pretty common at this point. Not exactly cheap for a cable that length, and the thunderbolt devices are also expensive.

When I was building out my desktop setup the rule of thumb basically became "if I'm not questioning why this is costing so much then it's the wrong component".
> When you click the mouse down outside the button, then enter the button area and release, you do not want to fire

If you're referring to not wanting the `mouseup` event to fire, you are correct - however web-pages should not be using `mouseup` / `mousedown` to detect <button> clicks in the first place: they should be listening to only the `click` event, which is not raised when the user releases a held-down mouse button anyway. And the `click` event is also raised when the <button> is activated by other means, such as the spacebar which makes it more accessible too.

When you have the page open, open your console and run this:

`document.querySelector('input[type=button]').addEventListener('click', e => console.log("button 'click' event") )`

and then do the mousedown-and-hover-and-release described and you won't see anything logged until you really do click on it.
Thanks for digging into this, awesome questions!

Transport is included in all of our estimates, but we haven't yet done the comparison for every location in the world. We are working on a tool so we can on the fly update the CO2 calculation for each customer based on the location in our next markets which are North America and Southern Europe. That said, traditional road repair uses bitumen from oil production, or fly ash from coal power plant, which would also have to be transported from their respective source, and both oil, coal plant and lignin plants can be found around the world. Our current producer has great coverage in Europe and also in North America, and we are constantly looking at growing our supplier network.
We are also focused on transport by electric trains in the Nordics and have also ordered Tesla Semis that can help us move binders and equipment.

We are 20% cheaper than the traditional method, factoring in the maintenance interval (we have a few years longer interval). This is with a solid gross margin, so we could also go lower to increase demand when needed.

We see a lot of interest from Eastern Europe (Poland + Baltics) and also from gravel roads around the world where we have an even stronger USPs to the customers. In maintaining gravel roads - the only alternative to our method is to put more gravel on every other year, which is expensive, time consuming, and leaves a terrible Co2 footprint compared to our long lasting roads.
I'm on mobile so maybe that is why, but I noticed that I skipped over the sentence a bit. As in, I didn't notice the periods and comma at first. Would bolding the punctuation marks cause any issues?
While I choose a very different path (sysadmin) I came from a II generations of doctors, and I hear about stomach cancers increased by both artificial sweeteners and junk food for decades, the refrain was: until few years after WWII stomach cancers were common, then they almost disappear than came back when artificial sweeteners and junk food came to life.

Long story short: it's nothing new, only for many years industry needs and desire have prevailed (read also the equally recent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30793352 so to speak) now something start to pops up.

The issue I suspect it's not only Bad Capitalism©®™ but also a practical issue: we (humans) are many and natural sugar production while far expanded since the colonial era is still far from sufficient to satisfy the demand. Similarly for many junk/ultraprocessed foods: in part they exists to satisfy food industry interest, in part because we can't satisfy the demand of quality products...
They have for the most part. It comes up occasionally now, and for the most part they're still as unfocused as normal. They rotate in people all the time which is fine. The last few episodes have been weirdly a lot about Taxes but the Nilegreen episode was interesting.
That some people are sensitive to chlorine should then be scientifically studied, to expand the knowledge on that topic. Counting on individual practitioners to cook up artisanal individualized treatment on their own is both unscientific and the antithesis of what you (and everyone) want.
There is at least one vendor selling a sample of thallium in an acrylic cube as a collector's item. Unclear how much is actually present, but any perceptible amount would be pretty dangerous if removed from its enclosure.
Speak for yourself.

I was signed up within 90 seconds of seeing the announcement. That's not intended to be virtue signalling, just one anecdotal datum - and I'm confident that there are many, many people who feel the gratitude I feel.
Is there any benefit to a layman working their way through this? Or is it only relevant to studying/passing an exam?
I can't speak for others but personally I've never built up enough motivation to learn shell scripts (and related hackery like awk and sed) properly, even though I've learnt maybe 5-10 programming languages quite well and use the shell interactively all the time.

I can't explain with certainty why, but I think it's due to lack of discoverability, inconsistent conventions for flags and positionals, esoteric syntax for simple control flow, lack of errors/feedback for things like undefined variables, no scoping/namespaces, unclear type system (not asking for much, strings, bools and ints would suffice). That said, piping/streaming is amazing and often better than in modern languages.

In short, it's quite different from other imperative languages - the design feels arbitrary and the learnings non-transferable, even though I know it is useful and ubiquitous.
I encourage you to check out an app called Marvis. It’s a frontend for Apple Music (iOS only) that eliminates a lot of the default client’s issues. Until recently, I was paying for Tidal despite having Apple Music as part of my Apple One subscription, but switched back once I discovered Marvis.
The NetBSD kernel still has support for a.out. On BSD, a.out is something simpler than ELF that works without any problems.^1 On Linux, a.out may have caused problems when building shared libraries thus motivating the switch to ELF.^2

1. ELF is OK, but times have changed since ELF was created. The same constraints no longer exist. Personally, I prefer static binaries and can afford the space for them. It is good to have options for people who prefer shared libraries as well as those who prefer static binaries.

2. https://people.freebsd.org/~nik/advocacy/myths.html
Isn’t most of that stuff due to “the pandemic” lockdowns?
I had a crow that was on my back porch last year trying to tell me something, but I don't think I was clever enough to know what it was trying to say.

I could walk out on the porch and get within a foot or two of it without it flying away.

I hadn't been feeding them or anything.

I put out some water and ran the garden hose a bit and put out a bit of bread thinking that food or water was probably what it was looking for (it was during some very hot days in Seattle). It didn't really act all that interested in what I did though.
>and the extreme rarity of adverse affects, I don't think it's reasonable anymore

There's a major caveat here, sudden and obvious adverse effects are rare. The subtle and possibly long term ones are still unknown. It took some 5-10 years before Thalidomide was found to cause severe birth defects, for example.
Agreed. The intro to the article claims that few feminists hold positions that there is a difference in the experience of being biologically female vs identifying as female. I would disagree. From what I've observed, many believe there are differences but are tired of being shouted down and "canceled," so they stay quiet. This is especially a problem in women's sports, which has long been a strength for women but is now a hotbed of anger and infighting.
Altruism is an interesting phenomenon, but I'd argue that it's a case of adhering to norms of what is considered good, to gain both admiration/gratitude from others, and the benefit of feeling aligned with the society that exhibits them - and whose adherence to the same norms might well one day benefit the individual as well.

In short, altruism is a social contract - by widespread adherence to its norms, people form a very easy to understand from both a sociological and evolutionary perspective safety net, and by helping others, they gain gratitude and social credit(though arguably, that is a vestigial mechanism in the modern, disconnected world)

I think the easiest demonstration of altruism not being pure goodwill is invisible disability, or really - anything that's not socially acceptable to struggle with. Humans are extremely quick to judge homeless, heavily depressed, or ADHD people very, very harshly, shaming them for their struggles - trying to force them to adhere to norms of what is considered good - and achieving what amounts to abuse that you'd very quickly realize 90% of people are capable of without batting an eye, rationalizing humiliating you to a point they consider themselves to be agents of kindness in delivering it to you.
> It appears that the reaction to the virus has possibly caused so much more harm than the virus itself

Too early to know. It’ll take years before we know the full consequences of the anti-vaxx movement.
Sure, but it has a technical solution if you're using a desktop application — just keep using the old version.
You can reason and compose pure effectful programs leveraging referential transparency.
To clarify, I meant to make a point against the "has never been a good choice" claim. I agree the relative rarity of good Linux Mac models is not ideal, hopefully the current Arm model Linux activity will bring improvement.
That even Apple regularly does not follow. Yeah. Great example... :>
I think Mozilla should switch back to their old dinosaur mascot, it seems more relatable than ever.
"if you think its a raven, its a crow, and if you think its a crow its a raven" so goes the classic quote.

one recent quote i heard on the bus: "ravens are near humans, crows are in the country"
It's strange that doing potentially-dangerous things with technology is frowned upon so much more than doing 'conventionally dangerous' stuff like base jumping, huge tricks on bikes/skateboards/snowboards, free climbing, and so on
I think what OP was trying to get at is that a dark web crypto exchange would not offer any benefit over a clear web one (both need to know who you are to send cash).

Meanwhile, there simply is not clear web drug store, so dark web ones don't have to offer anonymity to their buyers
WARNING: this is serious stuff. Read https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ershdb/emergencyresponsecard_29750... and https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/thallium-poisoning...
and https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/chemist-poisoning...

I think you have to go to specialty suppliers.
https://luciteria.com/elements-for-sale/thallium-metal-9999
Yes I follow him as well. Also Astrum.
Patronage? I'm sure you can see how that doesn't scale.
In that licensing case, a mod project could dual-license with both a license that conforms to the requirements for mod distribution and an open-source license, although this would complicate the efforts of any derivative code who might want to distribute.

That being said, mod authors seem weirdly defensive and secretive about their code and ideas; I think it would be a hard sell to get most of them to use an open-source license even if it were possible.
Github can be free for teams: https://github.com/pricing.html
Well, 1 out of 2 people has below-average intelligence. And the comments you see online vastly amplify the opinions of a small few.

Heck, not long ago you'd find a lot of humans saying this about other humans.
While we all are allowed to have our own reasons for signing up, my reason had exactly nothing to do with unlocking magical paywalled features and everything to do with putting my money where my mouth is to support this incredible resource.

I have personally derived massive value (time, money, effort) from MDN and will do anything I can to help ensure it outlives me and my petty interests.
Congrats on the release - as I mentioned on twitter, your templating design is the best DX i've seen for any PG client.

> Inspired from Supabase Realtime you can now have it yourself in Node.

Very cool! We have some Node servers internally, I'll see if the team want to switch.
There's the data point that life here on Earth began as soon as it could when the planet cooled off. So it suggests life itself might not be that rare.
Yes. Think of desktop as many thin slices of the cake.
Seems very unlikely to me that it would not be a combination. We have both rational and irrational parts, conscious and unconscious parts.

I'd venture one does not have to look far in the anthropology literature to find good evidence that gifts just like other favors serves a function in building reciprocal relationships. Since it is likely so fundamental, I have a hard time believing it would not have any effect on the independence of the doctor.
Yep. Straight from one such smaller artist’s mouth:

https://www.nodepression.com/the-wrong-haul-neil-joni-have-y...
And wait for 100 years to get their free X-ray done in Canada ?
If you trust a third party you doing ssh wrong :)
By getting paid for it?
Even in consumer places like the US, this is generally illegal.

They would not be able to refuse warranty service without showing that your use of the SDK was the reason the camera failed (and the burden would be on them).

IE they can't say "Yes, the lens popped out because it was defective, but you used the SDK so tough crap"
The Secretive US Company Building an ‘Unbreakable’ Internet Inside Russia
My issue with X-rays is that they are massively overused and rarely help the diagnosis. 99.9% (an estimation) of X-rays are used to rule out diagnoses. Sprain your wrist? Need an X-ray to make sure it's not broken, which your orthopedic already knew. Unless there's a broken bone or cancer, all X-rays do is pay for the X-ray machine.

Tip: never X-ray your pet (unless there is a broken bone or cancer is suspected). Trust me, it is very unlikely to show anything. If you're very concerned, go right for the ultrasound, which probably also won't show anything. Vets are generally awesome individuals, however, veterinary medicine is a business for profit quite unlike the health system, and most vet X-rays merely serve to pay for and justify the expense of the machine.
I had a very odd experience calling Ally Bank recently in which the first time I called I was given completely unrelated options.

Upon dialing a second time, I got the normal prompt. It was the exact same number.
I’m not building yet another general chat platform. I agree that there are plenty of those.

Instead, I’m building a niche socialization platform which has chat as one of its core components.
Author here. Like I said in the article, "... I've picked up more than a thing or two when it comes to Linux sysadmin". I did harden my VPS here and there, over the years. And there never was a successful attack on my VPS - not that I'm aware of, at least.

But that doesn't change the fact that I simply don't want to manage a VPS anymore. Like I also said: "However, I've learnt what I have, out of necessity, and purely as a means to an end. I'm a dev, and what I actually enjoy doing, and what I try to spend most of my time doing, is dev work. Hosting everything in SaaS land, rather than on a VPS, lets me focus on just that."
That devdocs as a PWA is really handy, thanks.
> Desktop apps do have to adhere to the same system security permission that the browser provides. WebApps can be even more intrusive than a desktop app because you're constantly sending signals to a central set of servers with a unique browser fingerprint. You also lose control of updates, and would be completely unaware of new tracking dependencies being injected. The data you create with a web app is and always will be property of the company that manages it.

A browser is just an arbitrary binary, a desktop app is going to be capable of anything a browser is, but much much more.
> VSCode, an app that makes a herculean effort to mitigate the latency and performance problems that Electron apps usually have.

Can you point to the parts of the program (source) that implement such optimizations? I'm curious, in particular, about how other editors solve the performance problems.
Practical and sensible solution --- don't use an advertising company as your cloud provider.

Google has not proven itself as a dependable source for anything but advertising ... and even that is debatable.
Electric Vehicle Checkpoint: Will the Apple Car Be a Porsche?
Migration from Bugs.python.org to GitHub Issues
True, but I think we're talking about different ages of kid here :)
Indeed, I first learned about xor-swap from an example in the IBM System/360 Principles of Operations manual, circa 1968. (For some funky reason I don't understand, the Programming Examples section vanished from later editions of PrincOps.) I can't see any reason for wanting to use arithmetic instead.
Locking Down Kubernetes Containers with Vcluster
Anyone can start using Linux as part of their product or environment, and so today there are literally billions of resulting end users effectively using Linux systems with uncountable configurations.

Unless you want at least every developer and system administrator in the world to subscribe to that mailing list and regularly read it, I don’t know how this can really solve the problem.

Add to that the fact that the classification of a “feature” is rather fuzzy…

There are already announcements and discussions through various channels, but at the end you can never be sure. Fortunately systems don’t have to always be updated immediately (aside from for security concerns).
The average user and use case typically has internet connection so you're talking about edge-case scenarios. In a regular scenario, a native app can send whatever it wants about your system to a server, including your sensitive photos and private information.

> Anything I click on that loads a new resource sends data to the server about what I'm doing.

Nothing stops native apps of doing that. Plenty require you to have internet connection and coerce you into telemetry. The difference is that one can only send data that the browser will allow it to have, while the other can read all your sensitive data on disk.
Dear MDN:

Congratulations on the launch. I hope that your best days are ahead.

Thanks, from the bottom of my cynical heart, for the thousands of times you've told me exactly what I needed to know.
Server components aren't going to fix the problem you're worried about. IMHO, Remix.run is the way forward for React towards a simpler, saner future.
Why is the asking price the "shifty" eyes emoji?
Write a wrapper project that changes your location before any left-pad or right-pad function calls. Or just fork both and fix them how you see fit if they're open source.