skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Anyone Here Part of the “Freedom Movement” in Canada or the USA?
I started getting involved in the one out in Canada in Febuary and would love to meet some tech people that are also following along and interested in the space that are potentially also interested in building decentralised social applications!
The basics of the algorithms are essentially the same as for floating point. You separate the mantissa, exponent, and sign and then do the calculations in the same way.
I think there's a difference between having a support network to share your emotions with and demanding that the world change. I can't really imagine the author being any healthier having published this article.
Cancer is treatable, doesn’t mean said treatment is effective. Same with ADHD. We’re still in the dark ages.
Don’t hate the country, hate the politicians. This bill is designed for two things…to try and get favorable headlines for the democrats and to maximize big pharma profits. Most folks “affected” by this bill probably will see zero benefit from it, because the folks with health insurance probably were getting their insulin around that co-pay rate (or lower) anyway.
To slap down my lived experience: gay and on the spectrum.

And the spectrum part is definitely a disorder. It’s a deep-down and profound inability to connect. We are a fundamentally social species, to a fundamental inability to get socialization at a visceral level is pretty disordered.
Reading the URL spec, the path elements (separated by /) are allows to be void, so // is syntactically valid. And POSIX specifies that // should be treated as / .

I know that these days that they are rarely actually file references, but still I feel that web servers should accept this, especially a site like github.
A lot of people are fine with Windows.

When you ask people to change something that they are fine with and used to,

* they think you’re making them do more work by relearning everything

* they’re quick to notice faults, and they’ll jump ship just as quickly as well
The trick is to develop enough of an ego for this event to never occur.
> Except that the judge said specifically that he was sentencing him as a deterrence to show other people.

Right, that's precisely the statement from the judge that I was paraphrasing as "I'm sentencing you in accordance with the law so that people will see that if they break the law they will be sentenced in accordance with the law." The judge is not saying "you didn't do this" or "you don't deserve this." The judge is saying "you deserve this sentence according to the law, and this will show people that if they break the law they will also receive the sentence they deserve according to the law."

Argue as much as you want about the law itself, or even about the judge's specific decisions within whatever sentencing leeway he legally had, but it's just plain ludicrous to say the judge isn't sentencing based on the merits of the case or is serving a personal agenda. There's nothing even remotely hinting that this is the case.
Saying desktop is "dying" implies it will go away to the point of becoming insignificant. This is ridiculous - what would fill the gap for gamers, creators, professionals, business, and engineers? Tablets, gaming consoles and phones?

Shrinking segment, absolutely. Especially for the casual home-user segment. But leading with exaggerated flamebait is not welcome here, as I'm sure you are aware.
> and could potentially have a backdoor (like it's precursor, P-256)

P-256 is not known to or even suspected to have any backdoors.
It's not an April Fools.
What hotel is this? If you don't mind me asking.
This is not really fair. The correct way to mint RSA keys is actually pretty simple, a naive approach works fine - it's just that doing this is slow and when people try to do something fast they keep making keys which fail the criteria you listed.

The tests you've advocated make sense if somebody else picked the keys and you're worried whether they did a good job, some of these tests are mandatory for a Web PKI Certificate Authority checking RSA public keys for example (the CA only has your public key so it can't check everything), but if you are picking the keys you really can just use the naive approach. The odds of "accidentally" getting two factors that are unduly close or very smooth are negligible.
Refcounted gc means you need locking on refcounts or you can lose your tree during iteration.
Sure, why not? If you name the default branch of your repository "main", I will happily submit PRs against it. I won't be doing that in my repos any time soon though, thank you very much. Why? Because that would suggest that I have a reason to do that, while I don't. It's your cross to carry, not mine.

I have my own set of words that I need to be careful with if I want to err on the side of decency. You almost assuredly use some of them as if there was nothing offensive about them. To you, there isn't. I accept that. I'd be grateful if you reciprocated, instead of trying to impose your own cultural norms on me, thank you in advance.
“ But they don't really mean it and have never meant it.”
Ah reading millions of minds I see.
"Starving artists" have long been romanticized, for one example of there being non-money games out there.
I was searching about something to do with fiberglass today. Every article was garbage that seemed like bot spam. Was nuts. Direct quotes stolen from forums etc..
I really dislike calendar inputs, they are almost always confusing to use. Their inconsistencies moreover lead to further confusion as each calendar seems to be very different.
Ask HN: Did vacuum tubes help develop transistors?
Ah yes. Assembly. I really should get around to learning it so I can test some game designs on my model 1 sega genesis.

I don't know if it's a marketing ploy rntksi. What you are describing so far sounds very much like it has been written in something like Assembly if not actually assembly. From what I know at least. (Could totally be way off)

Assembly as I know it, is used because it's not resource heavy if written properly. And an antivirus definitely needs to be written properly.

Anyways. Yeah, I am probably going to give it a look for use on my intel workstation/server. It's definitely one of the 'vulnerable' chips they released.

Oh well. So long as it does its job.

Symantec. shudders with rage
My dream is to one day see something similar, but with the compute module entirely packaged in the UltraBay form factor, and only software modifications on the host device.
The amount of wheat actually traded is quite small (few percent of the global crop), with UKR’s and RUS’s adding up to only a million tons or so. I think this year’s total production is estimated to be 3-4 Mt larger than last year’s.

There’s still the case that Ukraine itself needs to be fed but I think the overall demand will be straightforward to meet.
Patrick Gelsinger?
CAS still has a lock in actual memory.
""Considered Harmful" Essays Considered Harmful"[0][1]

0: http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9744916
Waterfowl do fly from water source to water source. Also, they migrate. Also, their bones are hollow.

I still don't see how penises have anything to do with being flightless. You've decided that since tinamous are fairly terrestrial birds that it must be a terrestrial bird thing, so you've found a way to convince yourself that waterfowl don't fly enough to be considered flying birds and then you shoehorned some theory in there about that causing them to have penises.

Chickens, even the Red Junglefowl that the domestic chicken presumably descended from, are much more terrestrial than ducks and geese. You've worked in restaurants. What kind of penis does a chicken have? You know what else is aquatic and doesn't fly? Penguins! What kind of penis does a penguin have? Loons? They're basically wonky ducks. Pheasants, turkeys, kakapos? They've all got penises, right?
I don't know now what we can't just refer to components in systems as dominant or submissive partners, so that we can dispense with the distracting and problematic language.
Do you understand how Litestream works? What's the Jepson test you'd do here, to make sure your single, statically assigned leader isn't conflicting with... itself? All Litestream does is ship WAL segments. The whole point of this design is not having the distributed consensus problems (and concomitant schema and development inflexibility) that etcd has.
That would be if you have actual physical presence in those countries. If you are online that is not feasible.

Also having an general counsel for your place of business, is not same as having an firm 24/7 on call.
Most Americans aren’t even at liberty to leave their jobs as they risk medical bankruptcy from a hospital trip.
https://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-syntax.html
Does it come with a clutch pedal?
I agree that 1 Pomodoro ≅ 1 half hour, and 1 day = 48 half hours. But does 1 day = 48 Pomodoros? Maybe with lots of stimulants.
I've thought about this a few times.

If I struck rich or won the lottery, I'd want to start doing CEO work, while funding my own rather ambitious projects. It would be unlikely to be someone else's company, but perhaps if I met the right person(s). Most likely, I'd hire a bunch of people, and they would help me with big R&D projects.

Why would I want to waste 8+ hours a day hanging out with family and friends? I mean, I like family and friends. It's nice to spend time with them. I love them, and life would be missing something important without them. But it's not fulfilling to do it all the time.

I'd really like to use my time here figuring out and building things, and the things I'd like to build are too big and adventerous to do by myself. They're also too big and adventurous to do putting in only a small fraction of the day: I'd either need to put in a lot of time, or there's no point.

It doesn't come from just wanting to do the work. It also comes from imagining looking back on life when older.

When I imagine looking back on a life of hanging out with family and friends, having fun, having big personal moments, ups and downs, all those memories, remarkable times, that seems very special, magical even. Very special!

But I have to admit, not enough by itself. Given the chance, it's also motivating to want to be able to look back and see some of my grander dreams realised in some form. I can't explain why; it feels like an intrinsic motivation, and quite a burden really, because truth is, that's unlikely to happen. But seems worth trying.

I imagine at least some well-off CEOs who are managing something big, even if it's not their own company, must be getting a similar sense of satisfaction from some internal drive to do something like that.
Related:

Why I Built Litestream - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26103776 - Feb 2021 (176 comments)
“I don’t know, I’m not really into Pokémon.”

(https://xkcd.com/178/)
>> Anyone else ever do that thing where you write some good code and it works the first time you test it, but somehow that makes you feel less confident

> I did this yesterday. I was writing a variation on a function to draw some stuff in the terminal. When I ran it, it worked fine, no crash or anything like that.

Either way, it’s just confirmation bias.
I agree completely (as someone with ADHD). But, compared to how far behind other psychiatric treatments are...

* Antidepressants are barely better than placebo.

* Benzos are a short-term bandaid, best reserved for panic attacks.

* Antipsychotics have truly horrifying permanent side effects.

Amphetamines are a borderline miracle. Again, comparatively. Nothing else available today comes close in effectiveness at treating any psychiatric disorder. They definitely have their shortcomings, but for people with ADHD they're such a huge boost to quality of life and lead to better overall life outcomes.

There's a chance pharmacological depression treatment will catch up to where ADHD is at if/when ketamine become commonly available. Same with PTSD and MDMA. The future of anxiety treatment looks a bit more bleak... but there's experimental stuff out there with HDAC inhibitors and I think some other stuff causing fear extinction.
38 here, and really started to make headway with my spectrum issues in my early 30s.

And I think you are absolutely onto something about having “analog” activities. I started playing sports in my 30s (oh god my joints), and learning to move through real 3D space and real the subtleties of other people’s body language and movement was a real breakthrough for me.

Now…that does present a bit of a chicken/egg problem. Because I had just terrible proprioception growing up. Awful. Clumsy as all get-out. Which tends to go along with spectrum disorders.
Arnold has a really good quote about this:

"A well-built physique is a status symbol. It reflects you worked hard for it; no money can buy it. You cannot borrow it, you cannot inherit it, you cannot steal it. You cannot hold onto it without constant work. It shows discipline, it shows self-respect, it shows patience, work ethic, and passion. That is why I do what I do."

Really makes you think. Not a whole lot of things out there with all of those properties
It doesn't require any special software to get in the beta. You sign up, get invited, log in and search.

I quite like it, but the price tag will not be justified if it's just a Google frontend. This is another universe in itself, but I'd much rather have them develop their own indexer.
This is great! I built something similar on itunes here https://apps.apple.com/us/app/timeyet/id1613447823

I feel like tools like this are extremely valuable to those with time blindness from ADHD, Autism, etc...
Ah yes, Lightning, the system where you have to establish an escrow fund between you and anyone you wish to pay. Sounds wildly practical.
I did this. I can't recommend it enough!!!
Everything was a hipster fad. A few didn't fizzle, and matured. Not every hipster fad is taught instead of mature tooling.

Rust might not fizzle. It is too early to say. Ruby seems to be fizzling after what seemed like a promising start. C#, as a walled-garden language, does not even count.
Yeah ACA was great. I saw it first hand within my own family provide an older quote wealthy family member with some obscenely cheap insurance, compared to young blue collar family member who had to opt out and just pay the tax fine because it made health insurance completely unaffordable for his family.
Wow this is probably one of the nicest TUIs I've seen.
they've already had to migrate twice due to questionable technology decisions. having to migrate again due to needing to change cloud providers seems a lot less likely than having to migrate again because their outside the box technology choice didn't pan out.
They don't have a multi-tenant database problem! This is the second weird thing you've said about this design (the other was that they'd need to run Jepson simulations for it). They're not a database hosting provider; they're the single producer and the single consumer of their database. They have a single writing leader, and read-only replicas. That's how Litestream works; it's the only way it works.
Nice attempt there. However, I've been a user of Linux since circa 2004. (I think it'd be hard to exist here on HN long without doing so.) No, using Linux is not straightforward. Nearly every user-facing element has something broken about it.
...wut? Is this about stopping voting rights suppression, supporting civic involvement, transparency, facts, science?

Asking for a friend who still understands that vast conspiracies by humans are absolutely impossible even when it is comforting, and yet still wants to encourage healthy debate and freedom of expression.
Yes but you will be paying the third parties to handle all the data issues.

If you cannot afford Bloomberg's fees then you dont have a choice and go with the cheaper option.
I was thinking the exact same thing, most likely that'll be the move.
I believe using a large JSON file is not half bad, but you do run into the problem of how do you index and query it in meaningful. I actually ran into this problem when building a game because a document doesn't provide a great model..

The relational model is... JUST... SO... GOOD. And, it is a shame that most of the relational systems are so complicated.

A document within Adama (https://www.adama-platform.com/) is basically a giant JSON file held within memory with clients connected via a WebSocket. I'm basically building my own indexing since I want the indexing to be reactive, and I've got exceptionally fun optimization problems.

Litestream, in my opinion, is a great way to get started. Actually, it's beyond fantastic if you maintain the 1 server to 1 database because migrations become so easy. So, I applaud the team for taking this simple approach.
"Hexagons are the bestagons" according to CGP Grey. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thOifuHs6eY

Personally I prefer fractals. A 6-sided hexagon is just 2* 3-sided triangles. Or 6 of them, depending how you prefer to tile the plane.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c9/44/99/c94499bb9a0057f8573e...

So how about a day schedule organised by Sierpinski triangles? Lots of space in the middle for resting.
It seems the only option available is the Lg $700 monitor.

So at 24” 4K does everything looks nice and smooth without scaling like a built in Retina display?
The biggest risk is that you signed a contract saying you wouldn't disparage the company you worked for in perpetuity or for some time frame after employment. I would speak to the press about previous employers, but they could have grounds for a legal dispute combined with a larger budget for legal than you can afford.
False dichotomy, it usually does. One day you will die. You won't be thinking about bills.
I write applications that use Postgres, and don't use Docker for testing. I just create a database based on the name of the test case, delete it, create it, explode the schema in there, and run the tests. The reason is because I don't want to pay Postgres' startup costs every time I run the tests. Tests are run thousands of times a day, while you're in the mindset to rapidly iterate. Any delay is unacceptable.

At some point, migrations were taking too long, so I just started caching the database schema. I have a go generate thingie that creates a fresh database, applies all the migrations, and dumps the schema to a file that gets checked in with the code. (CI checks that the migrations actually result in the database state that's checked in. Yes, there is something that regexes out the hostname from the sql file, since Postgres dumps that in there by default and that results in spurious diffs.)

I have learned that people often put up with really sub-optimal developer workflows. My test is that you should be able to add "print hello world" to the top of your main function, and see that printed on your screen in less than 5 seconds. (Yes, even if your application is complicated. I have a hacked up copy of K8s that starts that quickly, so that you can write an app that deeply integrates with K8s and not have to reuse a cluster between tests, or pay a long cluster creation cost. All obstacles must be removed!) If it takes longer than that, you are just throwing your developer's salaries into the toilet. (If it takes 6 seconds, you open up HN, and there's an hour gone!)
Clearly you’ve never tried to update nvidia graphics card drivers, add a webcam, a printer, or run a 32-bit application on linux.

Compared to Windows/Mac these simple tasks are hellish — and for nontechnical users, nearly impossible.
Ahem. Allow me to introduce you to the most fun you can have with a single monitor and shared keyboard.

https://dosgames.com/game/tunneler/

Try it out with a physically proximal friend.
MIT-0 License
> $30k now, $70k over the next 10 years, and to keep 5% share

This is not a large amount of money and seems very, very fair for giving up 50% equity.
> How many people in European states will openly speak of certain groups, like gypsies, muslims and so forth with extremely derogatory words, but barely be called out on it by anybody?

It might be hard to find statistics, but I think we shouldn't just give up and rely on anecdotes. For example, a 2017-2019 Pew Research Center survey[0] found that people in the U.S. were somewhat more willing to accept Muslims as neighbors and family members than the Western European median.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/10/08/in-the-u-s-...
Which technique gives you the sex of an egg after 3 days of incubation? I'm reading on this and I'm seeing methods that get down to a week. It's testing for hormones as well and unless you consider being able to read a test AI, I'd also be interested to hear how that is being utilized.
Since we already warned you not to post slurs like this, I've banned the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30631047 (March 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24512955 (Sept 2020)

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Funny how people who get wound up about singular 'they' don't have the same issues with singular 'you'.
In my early 20's, I would have agreed 100% with your stance.

But, you know what really gives people freedom and liberty? The freedom to fail without worrying about how they're going to keep a roof over their head and a meal on the table. Without worrying that they're one medical emergency away from losing everything they've worked for.

You want people creating small, lifestyle businesses? Give them a safety net and let them take that step without risking everything.
if they're this talented, is their time really best spent on dba work rather than improving the product?
dog food is my fave example, adding 409a to the test list!

& if we're listing out search engines, here's what it 409a search results look like on Breeze, https://breezethat.com/?q=409a
I second this, one of the best courses available on the theme.
Nice pace & content and a fair price.
How to Hear Through Walls
Tailscale engineer here.

Unrelated.

We just haven't worked on it much. A bunch of other stuff has been a higher priority. But better ACL management will happen.
Someone being quiet in personality doesn't mean they're mute or incapable of communicating.

Personality types is an area that has been researched, and I balk at the idea that only a small subset of personality types can be leaders.

I have witnessed energetic optimistic leaders before, and they can people crazy, because they never actually address problems in concrete ways. People experience this all the time in companies: managers getting promoted up the ladder of management, leaving unsolved problems in their wake. The Enneagram personality system address things like this.
Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express: Setting Standards for Chiplet Ecosystem
Oh, finally, a SMBC mystery thoroughly explained! (https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/pokemon)
Are you sure you aren't just visualizing how many bowling balls a bat is in length vs how many bowling balls in length you estimated a bowling pin is?

At least to me if you are even just imagining the lengths you are still visualizing.
Anti-cheat software, even those that run in ring 0, can always be lied to by another program, even without a VM. Just look at how deep the Sony root kit [1] buried itself into systems and was still easily circumvented by other software. If anything gaming in VMs makes cheating harder and if NVidia, intel and Microsoft worked together they could help publishers ship secure VMs to run games reducing support tickets and cheats.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Copy_Protection