skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always thought the allowance system worked ok, but this might be better? Starting at around 5yo my parents would reward my chores with weekly allowance money (usually a few bucks a week). If I neglected my responsibilities, my allowance was reduced that week. They would explain the reasoning for the lower reward and I would often make it up by doing a different chore. They laid it out with an explanation along the lines of: "if you do x, you get the pay, if I do x, I keep the pay". Even to a 5yo that just seemed fair and it would encourage me to pick up extra chores in hopes of getting a few extra bucks. I learned fast that doing nothing meant I had little control over the purchase of Batman Action figures and video game cartridges.
Wordpress is a security nightmare. Avoid it if you can.
I am not technically qualified. I am a medic. I do medic things. In a pinch can open you up and fix an aortic aneurysm, and I can always make sure you're still alive when the person comes who can do those well. I am not a coder, not a sysadmin, and all I know about "web3" is that it seems to be the CrossFit for nerds.

I run my blog on a $25 (not month, overall cost) Raspberry Pi 2[1]. I use Markdown. I (ab-)use S3 for image storage. I use 11ty[2].

It doesn't take a coder to know how to do this. And it doesn't take a lot of time, either. SSL certificates are free, thanks to Let's Encrypt, nginx is an "apt get" away. That's all it takes if you want to blog(!).

If you want e-Commerce or shill your newsletter or whatever else uses blogging backends like WordPress, then $177/year is a steal. If you just want to blog, the weekend with Eleventy and a free copy of Obsidian[3] are cheaper, less hassle, and you keep your data in a format that's not Wordpress' pseudo-XML abomination.

[1] https://mikka.md/posts/supersmall/

[2] https://www.11ty.dev

[3] https://obsidian.md/
Entertaining talk not so much about Clojure, but tackling the scaling problems of software engineering in general. Great movie references throughout, had a lot of fun watching it
On the article, the author wrote:

> Earlier, there were five plans: free, personal, premium, business and e-commerce.... But at some point late last week, WordPress replaced all of the paid plans with a single ‘Pro’ plan and reduced the storage on the free plan 6x, from 3 GB to 500 MB.

> Imagine looking for a good-quality surgical mask to wear in a park but finding out that the most reliable vendor in town has suddenly decided to sell only chemical safety masks.

Yes, it contains Premium support, premium themes, commerce, payment support and automatic backups, but how many of those features you'll actually utilize? Why would you want to purchase their automatic backups when you already have a system that backs things up better? Why should you pay for their commerce system when you already using a better third-party one?

It's not "But it's loaded with features" here, instead it's "Yes, it's loaded with features. But I (author) don't need most of it".
This is very much copyright infringement, just when the franchise started going huge again.
XZ Embedded
It's not very clear, but this is a reprint likely from 1985.
When my daughters were young I introduced sardines as desert. When we would go out to the swimming pool and friends' parents would suggest ice cream, by daughters would ask if I brought sardines.

Think about how much of our preferences, be them food, politics, or religion, are learned. We absolutely could have a peaceful, productive society, if we just started teaching it properly at a young age. I do believe that the popular media has a large part to play in that.
Political candidate pages automatically got liked by my Facebook account
The presidential election in my country is coming up this May. To my surprise, my profile has automatically liked and followed around 20 pages of a presidential candidate without my consent. I had to unlike and unfollow one by one.

Has this happened to any of you before?
Are candidates paid for their time when doing such extensive interviews? Doing 7 rounds, including preparation and travel time, may well add up to a full week.
Well, we already have PCSK9 inhibitors, which came about because people with PCSK9 mutations have very low LDL levels as well as very low risk of coronary artery disease.

So it appears that you can drive LDL levels quite low without harm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCSK9
If substance X produces Z and substance Y produces Z, then removing X still gives you Z. Or, removing a substance that is produced by the body does not necessarily leads to mortality.

I'm not saying that Y exists, just that the argument is either incomplete or the logic unsound.
Does this work? https://imgur.com/0IT5zXi
Isspace takes an int (signed) and its documentation says:

The behavior is undefined if the value of ch is not representable as unsigned char and is not equal to EOF.

IOW, you invoked undefined behavior. That's one of the problems with the C standard library: it expects callers to be much more careful than the language wants you to. So many footguns. It doesn't help that the implementations of the standard library assume the callers are doing their due, mostly for speed reasons that were valid 20+ years ago.
I once read somehere that CDs are expensive when new, can't confirm though. When i was there i bought them used for cheap. Slayers' Hell Awaits, colored like egg yolk ~6€ IIRC, thank you very much.
70 years is an entire lifetime. North Korea has survived longer than that even.

Dystopias will all eventually fall. But that doesn’t mean they’ll be replaced with something better.
User End Problem: The state of not being scammed
Omicron breakthrough infection drives cross-variant neutralization
This works well to get the chore done, as a captive supply of low wage labor. If the goal is rather to instill a set of responsible habits that will serve the child in adulthood, the allowance system might fail when a “Deus ex machina” is no longer present to reward or punish.
It was of an entirely new design, so the long wait time was to be expected. And it's projected life is in the multiples that of any solar or wind installation, so there's that.
Oo, yeah; "inspired" is precisely the word I was looking for! (I'm a little embarrassed I couldn't draw it to mind by myself!)

I'm much happier with saying (for example) "Star Trek inspired the modern warp drive" (I mean, if/when a real-world practical warp drive exists) than "Star Trek predicted the modern warp drive".

Doesn't imply that Star Trek actually invented the thing, but does assign at least a certain causal link to it; not mere prognostication of it like "predicted" implies.
That's puzzling to me, there are much better options imo. Between the two I would choose C++ though. The fun and purpose of code is running it, seeing the thing you wrote "come to life" is pretty essential imo, pseudocode sounds boring.

If not limited to the options mentioned I would go with Javascript.

It's easy to learn and covers the basics, while also having a common syntax similar to many other languages. No setup or installing needed, you just need a browser that everyone already has, it's very accessible. It's also probably the easiest way to get some UI and make something that can be used, being able to introduce buttons and inputs is great for getting people excited.

Otherwise I would go with Python. Maybe a bit more setup, but similar to JS in how quick you can get to results.
It’s a very ingenious and effective anti-piracy measure!
"We" as adults at least have the mostly-capable ability to discern good from bad, whereas a child until the age of 14-18 (depending on the topic at hand) does not have the sense of responsibility, especially about the crucial aspect which is his/her own health. Therefore you could expect an adult to be able to take care of him/her-self after the ~age of adulthood, whereas a children is very rarely expected to do so, because most of the times they're not even fully aware of it (consciously speaking, not talking about almost instinctive reactions).
Is that the limit on Postgres' TEXT column?
Which is a total nonstarter and dead on arrival. Focus needs to be elsewhere (like nuclear)
I played lots of quake2-3 but that wasn't the golden age. Now you have even better selection for competitive gaming, like CS Go, valorant with their 128 ticks/s servers.
Things he is using, you definitely want to encourage the territoriality. Otherwise there is a real risk of bullying when he goes to kindergarten and preschool. But things that he is not currently using should definitely be shared.

I'm guessing that your son is about two years old (based on my three children's behaviour at that age), so he should already be in daily contact with non-family children but not yet experienced bullying. So for that I'll mention how i think about it: bullying is how humans determine who is the Alpha Male. It is natural and expected. So don't try to shield your son from it, rather, prepare him for it.
Remote work is not good for neither personal nor professional growth. In other words avoid it if those things are you main concern.
Unless you are working for a 100% full time remote company, my suggestion is to go into the office.

You'll get more exposure to people, more chances for one-off conversations, your boss will know what you look like and you'll be closer to the action - all important things early in your career.

Once you're an old hat at things, it doesn't matter nearly as much. You know who to reach out to, know how to navigate politics, know what the resources are.

My prediction is we'll see people slowly return unless their company strongly enacts 100% remote (or the role fits remote well - little to no team interaction).

Once a few ambitious people start finding out the project they really wanted to work on went to someone else who has been having lunch with the boss 3 days a week, they'll get in the office too or find another job.
Oh man, I just find the title track absolutely thrilling, my whole body is tense building up to the chorus, partly because it's so extreme. And it doesn't seem unrepresentative of what she was _trying_ to achieve - I don't know many other performers who use breaths and whispers as artfully as she does. I think it's just hard to achieve such extremes as part of a wider live set.
When I mentioned GNU, I realized that in some ways ReactOS works the same.

ReactOS relies on WINE for user controls and libraries close to the user. In this way, it is a bit like GNU that started with the user interface and worked back to the kernel.

The ReactOS project itself seems to be focussed on the kernel and working back out from there.

Perhaps this is all too simple a view though as ReactOS certainly has other components ( like the app installer ). I think there is certainly some overlap between WINE and ReactOS devs as well.
You assume that work on 0.9 and 2.4GHz with 3G modulation generalizes to 20GHz and 5G modulation. But there is absolutely no reason to imagine so.

Every single modulation scheme has a completely different risk profile than every other. But almost every study starts out assuming that only heating can have any effect at all, and modulation never any, pre-loading failure.

It is equivalent to saying, "We tried some plants that turned out safe to eat. Therefore, all plants are safe to eat." No. Details matter. Wishing is opposite of facts. Facts are often inconvenient.

We conducted the analog, 2G, 3G, and 4G experiments on the general public, and they appear to have turned out OK--to the extent anybody has checked. Cancer is far from the only public health problem. Is anybody even looking at others? Auto-immune illnesses are way up, and could be caused by any of thousands of untested chemicals, or non-ionizing radiation, or hygiene, or some unholy combination. Who is even checking?

We will now run the 5G experiment on the public, and see again. Or, fail to see, for not looking even after the fact.

Does anybody even have a use for 5G, besides the telecomm companies hustling equipment? 4G barely works for me, most of the time. But I will certainly end up being made to pay for 5G, useful or not, because what I need is the very last consideration.
Battery costs are already going up due to demand far outstripping supply and the exploding costs of raw materials ( nickel, copper, lithium, etc.).
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sento builds technical infrastructure to automate exchange of structured B2B data such as orders, delivery notes and invoices to replace traditional EDI connections. Almost all products we consume on a daily basis are digitally processed via such connections: from manufacturer over logistic service provider to retailer. We are a small, funded team with a solid customer base - our goal is to automate 1bn supply chain messages by 2026. For this, we need to make our infra rock-solid, get data insights and scale customer onboardings. Team wise, we're looking to build a WhatsApp (small core team working on infra products) rather than a Salesforce.

If that sounds interesting to you, please reach out to me (Nimar, CTO) at: nimar@sento.io and mention HN.

Finding smart, driven and nice(!!!) people is a priority to us which is why we move fast in the recruiting process :)

Tech stack: Python (type annotated/pydantic), FastAPI, RabbitMQ, Celery, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Typescript, GraphQL, React, TailwindUI, GitHub Actions CI/CD, MS Azure, k8s
> That suppressed smile worries me.

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1995/05/06/
He meant something like "Rhymes would be cool, but that's not what I'm telling you. I want to see ideas related to what I'm writing about."
> allowing for the total output to be bigger than the free space on /tmp. I could not do it.

This is an unreasonable standard when you do not know in advance how big the output is. What do you imagine GNU parallel does? Use `df` on every host it knows about to fill every disk partition it can? That sounds like a pretty system-hostile behavior to me.

Meanwhile, putting your temp files somewhere bigger is obv. as easy as $TMPDIR or such.

Best wishes/luck. I only have 5 minutes to explain why nothing can do the impossible like read a user's mind about disk free space management or the value of partial results. All software makes some assumptions... :-)
> Nothing stopping from these guys getting at least some of that data.

No mate. "some" won't cut it.

What would you say if I presented you with a pen and paper and said I was challenging Microsoft Excel ?

If we took your line of argument then I should be taken seriously because I am providing "some" of the functionality, and so what about the fact that a sheet of paper has no formulas or macros or anything else that a serious Excel user might want.

If somebody is launching a product claiming to be the next "Bloomberg killer/challenger/$insert_word_of_your_choice", then the product need to provide an equal product. Otherwise the product is, by definition, NOT challenging Bloomberg.

I mean, there's a whole ton of so-called "Bloomberg killers" that do little more than provide the same old US-markets data that any man and his dog can get hold of cheaply. And even then, they are only providing a small subset of US-market data, so they are not even competing with Bloomberg on US data.

I'm not going to repeat what I've said already here. If a product does not have data/feature parity on Bloomberg or Refinitiv, then don't waste my time.
IMO what works best is to get 1 or a very very small few people and hop on a zoom and share screens and ask questions.
The Inertia Variations is fantastically uninspiring.
> So why not just keep it as an option? Is it because 90% of current users would just do that?

They do offer it as an option, that's what the Classic Editor plugin is. It's provided by Automattic and automatically suggested when you open the plugin directory.
So what do you think the answer is?

Odious as I think this feature is, I would hope that the local tv channels would not have a leg to stand on (same reason I can run an ad blocker — the sender doesn’t have the right to control how I watch). But they can whip up local opinion.
yes, thank you for the kind words.
The interesting part is that gambling profit is a pure externality.

In theory you could run a fair casino where the very small house edge is only there to pay the staff and rent, not the profits of the company.

With conventional monopolies at least you are getting a service or a product that is worth paying the profit. Gambling is designed to manipulate you into thinking it is worth the money, when it mathematically can't be worth it.
Kids have been exposed to multiple consecutive years of social isolation due to the pandemic. They haven't been going to school or seeing their peers in person. That's kind of the obvious hypothesis. To just completely write that off, you really have to have axe to grind against social media.

As you said, "kids are glued to their phones anyway." That was already true before the pandemic. Which, again, suggests to me that the extreme factor here is the isolation, not the phones.

Not that social media is good or healthy. But the way it's scapegoated reminds me of the way television and video games were demonized when I was a child growing up in the 90s. It was over the top.
I had a twitter account once upon a time and never really used it. After a couple of years I logged in to see if it was still active and, low and behold, I was following a bunch of random celebrities and bands.

Hasn't this kind of thing been going on from the outset?
Yes it does? If the ads disappear and they leave an empty space, then again this is a case of a misconfigured ad blocker.
Using this logic, you could quickly dismiss all criticisms of any company. It's not a very compelling argument, especially because no one is arguing that individual, atomic, anecdotal comments describing negative experiences with Amazon represent a statistically significant evaluation of Amazon as a company.
The only smart TV I used is a Bravia 4K from 2019 and I was able to install Kodi and side load additional extensions. It was good for me. If Sony stops updating it, I think it’s fine to add a dongle to extend its lifespan. But yeah I was thinking of more expensive pieces like Apple TV.
sounds like a duck, quacks like a duck, ..

https://twitter.com/sumlenny/status/1510168073831165956?s=21...

(recent russian technical standards for digging and maintaining mass graves amid wartime)
I lived in an even smaller town in NZ, it was a holiday village, only 2 places had a phone, the only people I knew were on the same party line - this one worked slightly differently - on a pole was a relay - it could switch to either party, we couldn't hear the other people on the line .... but we also couldn't talk to each other (the only 2 people in town with phones couldn't call each other)
How the West Got Russia’s Military So, So Wrong
Collaboration for Software Engineers
The tech is not the law.
No. This is just yet another attempt to monetize social interactions so it’s pretty much going into the wrong direction.

All of the things GP mentioned were just open, free, ways to communicate without attachments. This is why they have been beautiful and exciting and often of higher quality and honesty.
Yep, that's what I meant by plenty of facepalms to go around. The entire class of functions is "unsafe at any speed." Code which seems perfectly safe on one compiler will blow up on another, literally without warning.

I do wonder why they didn't have the function take an unsigned int, or at least do a simple bitwise AND with 0xFF before the table lookup.
Everyone sane understands that unfettered exponential growth hits limits quickly.

Exponential is a short hand. We're on an S-curve and during the ramp up, the curve looks exponential.
Yes, the neutron flux would be very low. But it doesn't take much activation to exceed the limit for hands-on maintenance of the innermost part of the reactor.
Apple TV 4K starts at €199. $100 was an average
How to run a city-wide wireless network from a drawer
I recently considered using Kaitai for a project but I am not sure whether it can handle the following:

Certain parts of the binary I need to parse are compressed using some custom algorithm. I do have an implementation for compression and de-compression in C++. Is it possible to provide this to Kaitai? Maybe via some C FFI mechanism. From the looks of it, Python Construct can cover this; however, I'd really like to use Kaitai's IDE and therefore Kaitai directly.
Kids have less freedom today than they eve did - my parents roamed the city freely, i only walked to school by myself, kids today hardly leave the house alone
Everything is getting more expensive these days.

My electricity price increased 50%. I did not get any extra features.

>>For me the problems are the massive reduction in storage from 3GB to 0.5GM along with this new notion of maximum views, set quite low. I think those two combined will likely drive a lot of people away.

>> Me too I am only seeing my storage as 500mb and I have had a free site since 2013.

Those people are whining because they have used service for almost ten years and never paid a penny for it. People should understand that things are never free forever.

500MB is enough for free plan. If you use more then it is reasonable to get premium plan or host it somewhere else for cheaper.
Subjective. Judge for yourself: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/parallel.git
> "We" as adults at least have the mostly-capable ability to discern good from bad

Do we?

Suicide rate among adults in all age ranges is way higher than in teens and pre-teens.

Anecdotally, there are plenty of day to day examples of adults not having their crap together. The historical state of the world is one of them.
A simpler explanation is that your computer has an unstable grathnode installed.
Step1: Don't buy their products
If isspace is a function designed to take a character. And if the default type of a character is incompatible with the argument to that function then that is arguably a bug in the specification.

And, given that behavior, that the documentation fails to explicitly call it out is borderline malicious. Given that the authors even knew about it, which I guess is doubtful.
I would like that too.
Been feeling lately the fatigue of managing 3-5 different services for a every single trivial project. This pushed me to explore adding SQLite support in my product [1], i think I'll wrap a Litestream [2] process in the same container and call it "Backed in a Box" :)

[1] https://github.com/subzerocloud/blue-steel

[2] https://github.com/benbjohnson/litestream

edit: typo
If you can get a few juniors together to as for a pair programming session, that could help
Costco was saying they wouldn't do it for that person any more. It's still very much their policy to take back returns for products you don't like or that broke.

You just can't abuse the policy. It may take them years to detect that abuse, but they'll stop you when they do.